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Hilichurls and "Tribal" Portrayals.
While we're talking about Natlan, I also want to mention how awful it is that a section of the fandom tried to make us all out to be crazy years ago for pointing out how racist the portrayal of the Hilichurls are.
Quick content warning for mentions of slavery, colonization, genocide, and anti-Indigenous racism. (Image description is in alt text)
Hoyo used Indigenous people as references for these in-game enemies, which we literally have video proof of, provided by the company itself (Timestamp: 1:30).
The Hilichurls were constantly belittled by Teyvat's people, with an Inazuma npc likening them to demons. I remember Paimon acting like the items they collected were meaningless or pieces of junk during the earlier parts of the game.
They become a lot more sympathetic later due to their actual origins in-game (which I'm sure @phoenix-creates can confirm for me because I know you're farther ahead in Genshin than I am right now), sure, but I always found it strange that Hoyo used Indigenous cultures to portray these "monsters" who have lost their sense of selves (meanwhile their human forms are white), as if to imply that Indigenous cultures are more "wild" or "savage."
Genshin fans of color, since 2020, have pointed out the racist undertones that Teyvat's people were perpetuating against the Hilichurls due to them acting the same way that racists irl act towards non-White cultures, but they were told that they were overreacting and this was swept under the rug as a result. The very next year, it's brought up again with more people finding out about it, and we were still being told that we're overreacting.
So now that we're at Natlan, is it seriously that hard to believe that Hoyo straight up just doesn't respect Indigenous cultures? Black (and many brown) cultures too, because it's very telling that Iansan, the Natlan character with the darkest skin so far, is given a more stereotypically "tribal" look on her design with a bunch of bones used as her accessories despite that not being what her actual inspiration looks like.
(Artist for picture on the right: vieirapx on Instagram)
Sucrose has confirmed in her "Something to Share" voiceline that she collects Hilichurl bones, which is similar to colonizers taking the bones of dead Indigenous people with this added context.
Also, please read or reread the Teyvat Travel Guide Vol. 1. Alice basically confirms that she wants to enslave the Hilichurls for labor and also feed the weaker ones to the stronger ones.
That latter point is cannibalism. I know that many people are fans of Alice, but a lot of what she talks about in the first guide is why I don't like her.
Yes, it can be argued that Indigenous cultures are not the only inspiration for the Hilichurls, as it's been said that they may take inspiration from goblins, Bokoblins from the Zelda franchise, and the Amanojuku from Japanese mythology. Answer me this question, though.
Why is Hoyo capable of referencing a creature and not a human being when it comes to the Japanese inspiration for the Hilichurls, but this does not apply to the Indigenous references? It's dehumanizing, and it feels like another double-standard that needs to be addressed.
Hoyo has casually made black and brown cultures in Genshin appear to be less civilized and more "tribal" compared to our White and East Asian peers, both with the human characters and the non-human ones. Sumeru's quests and enemy npcs had multiple examples of this, with the Traveler and Jeht even destroying almost the entire Tanit tribe with the narrative justification being that, conveniently, most or all of them were selfish, bloodthirsty, and manipulative (Jeht's profile on the wiki page goes into what happened with more depth). They had to die because the tribe was dangerous - even though the main problem seems to be Babel - and Jeht's white, blonde companion needed to help save everyone from these evil, power-hungry savages.
(Sidenote: I think this is the second time overall that Hoyo has come up with an excuse to justify Traveler committing genocide on an entire group of people, with the first being the Iwakura Clan.)
I'm sure that the same thing is going to happen with Natlan's quests and npcs because Hoyo has always been weird about the portrayal of black and brown-inspired characters. The question is not whether any of the creatures or humans from specific groups are bad, suspicious, or designed to fit a specific image. We know the answer to that. The real question is why they are portrayed like this, and why it keeps happening more commonly to the black and brown cast members compared to our lighter peers.
#genshin impact#genshin#hilichurl#natlan#sumeru#iansan#sucrose#alice genshin impact#jeht#traveler genshin impact#boycott hoyoverse#boycotthyv#fix natlan#stereotypes#also if you think about it#what hoyo did with vanessa in the manga is kind of hypocritical#they can't pat themselves on the back over a slave liberation story and portray the lawrences as wrong#but then proceed to pull all their stunts with sumeru and natlan#like honestly what even was the point of the mondstadt plot in the first place if it's ok to disrespect brown people everywhere else#and if you haven't already#look up barnabas from the manga as well#that is a non-pale swana-designed sumeru native who is made to look so comically evil and inhuman that it's painful#gold's essays
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Nimona (2023) official art
#Nimona#nimonaedit#concept art#art#*mine#gosh i just love her so much!!!#and the film was an absolute BLAST from start to finish!!!!!#please PLEASE go watch or stream it on Netflix if you haven't already!!
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We didn't even get an answer, and we never will (at least it's not determination)
FIRST - PREVIOUS - NEXT
MASTERPOST (for the full series / FAQ / reference sheets)
#deltarune#undertale#utdr#crossover comic#undertale fanart#deltarune fanart#art#twin runes#twin runes comic#kris dreemurr#frisk#chara#ralsei#aaaaah chara is slowly figuring out what they are#are you onto it too?#but I'm with susie let's get on with the story already!#for those who haven't picked up on it#this comic and the last one are poking fun at the whole “what does the red soul represent” debate in the fandom#especially under the last comic i've seen people viciously arguing with one another on other platforms#or people from both camps yelling at me#fact is we know that every human soul has determination due to the log entries in the true lab and the amalgamates#some humans just can have more and others less of it#that is what chara is pointing out about kris specifically#they have a red soul but less determination than most humans#the comic ends on a non-answer because unless we get toby's word on it we will never know what it is#and that is kinda a toby fox move#we will never get his answer#all we can do is theorize#personally I like to think it's love#especially in the context of this comic series
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Basically Kid in every movie when it comes to action scenes
#dcmk#dcmk fanart#detective conan#detco m27#the million dollar pentagram#kaito kid#hattori heiji#edogawa conan#i mean he just goes around helping people here and there then leaves then shows up again near the end#while the spotlight of the whole action scene is conan and heiji#kid: my job here is done the rest is all up to you guys peace :'D✌🏻#something like that#i mean it in the nicest way possible i swear#i've already said i meant it in the nicest way possible haven't i?#it's just my opinion tho and i definitely would like to see them punch at least one guy together#i mean it
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just visiting ❤ pic.twitter.com/njIiHb4HBM
— tim (@FlamingButtWind) July 14, 2024
#seems these tweets haven't already been posted many times somehow so i'll just do one myself#marble hornets#now that's what i'm talking about babey....#not the lead really but. whatever crts have going on. Particles At You#enjoying the fun facts that do get shared about various topics there (tim's twitter)#timothy on the tuscaLoosa
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Listen I know this blog is mostly Astarion but can I just-
#This man is fucking gorgeous and you need to romance him if you haven't already#he's a GEM#baldur's gate 3#bg3#baldurs gate 3#baldurs gate wyll#bg3 wyll#wyll ravengard#wyll
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Columbo and the Knight (1984)
put me in the universe where Columbo ran through the 1980s and had a crossover episode with Knight Rider. I think they deserved it, and I am not just saying that because they're my two favorite Old Shows. @telebeast wrote a little fanfic blurb about it and I HAD to visualize it into a comic (which is also the longest comic I have finished thus far at five pages...), so writing credit goes to them.
Autism W!
#columbo#knight rider#art#michael knight#kitt#comic#highlight reel#crossover#telebeast#there are two small easter eggs here. can you find them. they were somehow not Entirely lost when i resized these for the public#this is what i mean when i say I Draw And It's Everyone Else's Problem. look at my INCREDIBLY niche crossover comic boy#if the knight rider fandom has like 12 people in it. how many of y'all have seen columbo#this comic is for like 4 people and me and phoenix are already two of them#niche is my specialty lets be real. weird niche obscure shit and ships nobody's paid attention to yet#not to suggest this is ship art. columbo has his wife and michael has his car lmfao#stylizing real people is EXTREMELY hard btw sorry for when they get off model. its partly a 'better imperfect than never finished' situatio#cant tell you how much i redrew some of these panels. weeps#this took me 2 weeks but i think i thumbnailed it all in may and the ideas been rollin around in my head since march#is anybody good at editing. please edit michael and columbo into an image together like its a screenshot. NOT generated. edited.#it would be so cool#ive drawn columbo a lot but i haven't drawn a lot of michaels. i was learning things about his outfit AS I WAS DOING THE DAMN#COLORS ON THIS. all the lines done. it was too late to change anything. i did all the lines and colored page by page#i realized my mistakes on like page 3. 1 and 2 were already done. it was Too Late.#imagine it though. them working a case together. switching between the more serious tone of columbo vs the goofier#action antics of michael and kitt. columbo being so impressed by Modern Technology. there's more i could say but phoenix may write#more of this crossover and i don't want to spoil it :'3#there's opportunity here though i swear. there's gold to be dug.#i like how kitt gets shading but columbo's junker peugeot doesn't. kitt looked wrong without any. columbo's car is matte and dirty#i also applied effects to this to make it look a little film-grainy and VHS like. some CRT TV vibes#the only question left is. did they put knight rider into columbo; or columbo into knight rider 🤔
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I want it back = I drag its dead weight forward
#artists on tumblr#animation#in stars and time#isat#illustration#in stars and time spoilers#isat spoilers#like for real#anyway I'm still thinking about Siffrin Instarsandtime#shoutout to tumblr user jb-blunk for the words from the caption which inspired this whole deal#literally finished the game and had those words looping (haHA) in my head like 'how do I use this what can I do to match this feeling' LMAO#if you haven't played ISAT well. first of all stop looking don't glean anything from this shhhh- but also GO PLAY IT IT'S EXCELLENT#heavily based off the astronomical clock in Prague! I love that thing so it was really fun to try and make it more ISAT-like#bc the themes are already there yanno!! Stars n' whatnot! And then of course the craft types instead of the astrological signs!#Loop and the King for the sun and the moon!!#can you tell I thought about and planned this one for like. A while. Longer than I usually spend LMAO#so yeah go play it immediately come be absolutely ILL and SICK and PLAGUED about the secret boss with me#fanart#pic
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Drawing Venusaur with every Pokemon pt. Ivysaur
#if you haven't already#tell a loved one that you love them today 💚#venusaur#ivysaur#pokemon#pokemon scarlet and violet#fanart#artists on tumblr#digital painting#digital art#art challenge#🌺
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#who put my crona and ragnarok in one body?....YOU!!!(MEDUSA!!!)#crona#crona gorgon#ragnarok#soul eater#listening to “To Ashes and Blood” in the background while drawing...to draw arcane fanart? to draw arcane fanart right???#arcane is supercool though#go check it out if you haven't already... and don't mind me: soul eater's crona is just my comfort character rn
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good omens: s2e2 the clue || s1e1 in the beginning
#goodomensedit#good omens#good omens season 2#ineffable husbands#aziracrow#*mine: gifs#good omens spoilers#sorry if anyone's already done this but i haven't seen it and it's been making me absolutely insane#ah good omens gifs i missed you lol
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He hangs on the wall above my desk. Always watching. Silently judging.
"Your place is a dump" He hisses to me from the darkness, in the dead of night.
"AND it smells."
Jason Embroidery
Tim Embroidery
#Damian Wayne#Damian al Ghul#Juni Ba#The Boy Wonder#Robin#DC Comics#DC fan art#Batfam#embroidery#My contribution to the Juni Ba Boy Wonder love#snark art#go buy the boy wonder if you haven't already#batbroidery
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BLUE EYE SAMURAI
I never said I was a samurai, you did. I’m on the path of revenge. There’s no place on it for love or friendship or weakness.
#Blue Eye Samurai#animationedit#netflixedit#Mizu#*mine#please i'M BEGGING ALL OF YOU to watch/stream Blue Eye Samurai on Netflix if you haven't already!!!#like just imagine Mulan meets Kill Bill but it's set in Edo period Japan#jam-packed with spectacular choreographed fight scenes and insanely beautiful background landscapes#honestly this and Arcane are undoubtedly THE best animated series to have ever come out of Netflix#and this show deserves at least another season!!!#*I* NEED THE SECOND SEASON OF IT 🥺🥺#is2g Netflix don't you dare cancel this masterpiece after just one season...
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anyways. What
#atlas.art#artists on tumblr#mcyt#hermitcraft#hc s10#docm77#joehills#joe hills#juppet#vintagebeef#doc beef and joe just slowly fucking loosing it throughout this interaction is one of my favorite things that's ever happened on hermitcraf#also. watching his fucking gigantic hour glass slowly grow in the background of other peoples videos for the last week#why did he do that to himself so early in the season omg 😭#it literally is so ridiculously large it is insane. it looks insane next to everything else around it. it takes up the entire skyline#im thinking about keralis. who built his lake facing the shopping district so he could avoid looking at iskall's monolith while fishing#or mumbo and grian joking about making the biggest mega build in the shopping district for their wart shop. good luck with that now lmao#seriously if you haven't already y'all should go watch Wels' last video if only to see that thing grow in the background throughout the vid#wels built an entire castle on accident in that video and i still spent the entire duration going 'DOC WHAT THE HELL' it was so distracting
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Just rewatched centaurworld with my sister, is this anything?
#i don't wanna hear any complaints about mistakes guys cause trust me i already know I don't need to be told 😔#ANYWAY this line from the general's battle song is literally SO good it gives me chills every single time 🙏#if you haven't watched centaurworld RUN to Netflix (or y'know.. your pirate ship)#savor that first watch through cause you won't get it back 🙏#cole's art#gravity falls#art#grunkle stan#stanley pines#grunkle ford#ford pines#stangst#right?#idk#guys ever since i started doing those comics I can't stop just coloring sketches with grayscale#this was going to be a fully line arted piece but then i thought about just taking it easy and.... it was greyscaled before my eyes 😔
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greetings from Earth 🌍 there's no place like home!!
#definitely totally brand new art that you haven't already seen 5 times before#id in alt#earth day#nature#postcard#digital art
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