Illustrations For Chapter 8 And 9 Of "how To Save A Crane (and Other Tragedies)"

some lestvika for me and the other 3 shippers

The sevika i write is not the sevika that i know would exist

I know she'd be an egotistical asshole who fucks every single dyke she can get her hands on

But shes just a soggy kitty who needs love 😞😞😞

I feel like Sevika kept the giant chompy claw arm. She'd never admit it, but that thing is sacred to her now. It's all she has left of Jinx. She could get a new arm with much more practical articulate fingers, and maybe she does for day to day, but the claw arm feels like it belongs to her in a way no other prosthetic ever has.

And you know she wears it to Council meetings. Just to remind everyone - that she's Zaun, that she's dangerous, that Jinx may be dead as far as anyone knows, but she's not gone. She's never gone. She's a symbol of Zaunite tenacity and ferocity and always will be, the same girl who started the war with a fiery fuck you to Piltovan oppression ended it by saving their asses and the Pilties had better never forget it.

When they're pissing her off, Sevika shrugs off her cloak and thunks that big claw on the table, still covered in Jinx doodles, and taps the claw tips and it echoes in that big stone chamber and every other Councilor goes pale.

When they're really pissing her off, she lets it play Get JINXED.

She long ago figured out how to game the slot machine mechanic to get what she wants. But she pretends, oh no, sorry, it's so random, glitches all the time, I don't control it. With the biggest smuggest smirk.

It's what Jinx would've wanted.

Silco and Sevika hurrying from one business meeting to another.

I've so far shown only early moments but this is later in the sugarisnotacondiment AU, when he and Vander need to take care of two kids, and Silco goes full business mode. He tells people Sevika is his secretary, which she is but she doubles as bodyguard.

This post implores you to give some grace to Mel Medarda by considering what it's like to grow up in a household where achievement and success are valued above all else, and where virtues like kindness and generosity are trivialized at best and outright discouraged at worst. If you grow up in that kind of environment, even when you're grown and you've done work to unlearn the worst of it—even when you've gone low or no contact—there is still something viscerally frightening about slipping below that parent or caregiver's expectations.

For example, when Elora points out that Mel is the richest person in Piltover and she immediately responds with "but I'm the poorest Medarda," that's not coming from a place of greed or arrogance, but one of fear that she'll never measure up. I'm not saying she's perfect, or that other characters didn't have it way harder, but it's important to remember that every time she chooses kindness or diplomacy or compromise over force, she's going against a lifetime of conditioning—exposing herself to the threat of failure, which couldn't have been be easy.

You don't have to love her, but please give that woman a break. I am begging you.

she accidentally became important at work

ouu i love her

I think fandom will be immensely improved once people manage to internalize that 1) racism and misogyny in fics and in fandom culture are not necessary evils to sustain a thriving fandom ecosystem and 2) if your thriving fandom megalopolis has racism and misogyny as load bearing walls then it deserves to be destroyed.

It should be a way bigger deal some other party figured out how to construct their own version of shimmer, and by some other party, I mean Noxus.

The only person who had access to new shimmer was Lest, and Lest's people belong to a branch of the vastaya that live within Noxus' territory.

The most worrying aspect of this version of shimmer is that it's been modified to create tattoos on its users.

We've already seen Viktor's own experiments with runes and shimmer in the first season.

And now we know from the Ambessa book that not only are rune tattoos a real thing that mages use to modify their magic in Mel and Rudo's case, but the Black Rose is also actively trying to create their own rune warriors out of mages AND non-mages. In fact Jinx’s shimmer altered body shares a lot of similar abilities as the rune warriors in the book, right down to the super speed, enhanced strength, and improved endurance, with side effects more reminiscent of the chemtank soldiers.

This kind of development is such neat twist to the finale, because it all comes back to what Ambessa said, "weapons cannot be unmade and they are always used". Piltover may have forcefully dearmed Zaun from its shimmer and even put it's own hextech on the back burner, but that isn't the end. The arms race is still going on, Piltover's just put itself and Zaun out of commission.

trying to write a slowburn melvika fic fundamentally Does Not Work, I tried but I’m having to remove the tag because they’ve literally reached insane codependency at oympic speed