I Draw Animals Not Tragedies

like ooooh this is going straight into the long, long, long list of blackmail he’s accrued over the years (tbf graves probably has his own equally long list on him in return it’s fine)

- this is mostly funny but I also find it kind of touching just how desperately graves jumps towards T.F. at the end there haha. turn into little creecher? go to bae he fix 

the less glamorous way to go down on one knee for your man but needs must

- (this is more of a canon-wide thing but graves always defaulting to ‘we’ like that’s how deeply he sees them as a Team/unit? also still very touching to me)

-  there’s a part of ‘on the way to piltover’ where lulu is involved and that fic just became even more amazing with the idea that this is how they already knew her fsakjdfhas (it’s a great fic series, go read it if you haven’t already!)

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 bye u gay losers

I LOVE that even after all that they’re still waving them off all friendly like ‘good luck with the dumbass husband, see ya!’. (also SO GOOD that tf/graves is the character duo the writers pull out when they need someone who’ll do some morally questionable stuff without there ever being any feeling of real threat or malice, if only because they’re too incompetent hahaha. just a pair of ineffectual bumbling comedy protagonists mostly interested in a) money and b) each other, tulio and miguel indeed)  

- interesting that this is rat town, so it’s around where graves grew up! on the outskirts/down towards a harbour, I’m guessing, most of the vibe of the rest I’ve read about the place indicates something a bit more huddled and dark and slum-like 

- fun little detail: tf is reading his cards at the beginning: 

and he’s already gathered them up and is ready to leave when lulu arrives like 30 seconds later haha. trickster boyyyy (if you pay attention to his face when he says “you got”  that is also VERY much an expression that says ‘honey we fucking tALKED ABOUT THIS already WHY do you never listen’ lol) 

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their matching movements here are so subtly amazing – first tf extending his hat towards graves with the ‘I told you so’ smugness and then graves faintly copying the same gesture towards Giant Lulu like ‘you’re helping me out here, right???’. and for all that this is so completely a comedy short and it’s not all that deep… the feeling at first that tf left him there on his own like another sort of mini-betrayal, only for it to turn out he was actually focused on saving him the entire time, and he doesn’t even care about any of the rest? such a good little emotional through line for how a bunch of their relationship works these days while they’re building the trust back up, it’s kind of sweet (like I KNOW it’s absurd to get a bit emotional over it while graves is transformed into a little comedy critter for the duration, but that sense of him just like barelling towards safety and Home in tf and them walking off together? both hilarious and also I’m like :’) that’s Partnership babey)

-  when he’s getting up graves actually gets the serape tangled over his head and he needs to shove it off with his arm ffaskdhfsd

- I know the actual reason is that riot cannot for the life of them decide how yordle lore actually works and also, again, it’s just a comedy short for the hijinks it doesn’t really matter, but I like to think that tf sees through the protective glamour yordles have around them either because he genuinely doesn’t mean them any harm or because of some card magic stuff, while graves sees through the glamour because he’s literally too dense and grouchy to see anything but what’s actually there haha. the magical equivalent of ‘that sign can’t stop me ‘cause I can’t read’ 

- nothing more to say here they just so dumb and pretty 

(graves is so Lorge tho 👀)

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