#coincidence of life

[psychopomparia]

So, the Gourmet Gastronomy card trailer dropped and I noticed something...

Artem's dish is crab roe tofu. A dish that's a recipe you can obtain in Genshin Impact.

Some characters have special dishes depending on what recipes they make. Do you know who makes a special dish using crab roe tofu?

Yanfei.

YANFEI WHO IS A LEGAL ADVISER. AKA.

A LAWYER

[starcurtain]

Teyvat's "Most Down Bad" Award Goes to Alhaitham for a Second Year Running

Seeing everyone making fun of Alhaitham for his "stalkerish" tendencies in this event is funny, because I feel like a lot of people missed that "Be literally everywhere Kaveh is" has been Alhaitham's MO from the day Kaveh appeared in the game.

From only grabbing his house keys after Kaveh returned from the desert (he couldn't have had both sets of keys at the end of the Archon Quest unless he went home and got Kaveh's copy) to ditching conversations to get back to his house only after Kaveh came home, to showing up without any warning or explanation in Kaveh's hangout with some ridiculous excuse about hearing his voice through noise-cancelling headphones... Refusing to offer any help in the Temple of Silence story quest other than staying in the library with Kaveh...

Since when does Alhaitham willingly cover anyone else's duties?

But this trend of "Be everywhere Kaveh is" didn't start when they were adults. It was already in place when they were still Akademiya students--and it's a trend that didn't end even when they had their fight.

Even when they weren't speaking, Alhaitham dogged Kaveh's every step through published responses to Kaveh's research articles in academic journals. He insisted on keeping a line of communication between himself and Kaveh open, even if the only way to do that was through very public ideological clashes. Pulling Kaveh's pigtails to get his attention lolol. It's implied that, for at least the few years between their fight and Kaveh moving in, this was the only communication between them--Alhaitham's refusal to allow their connection to entirely fade away. (And the fact that this is revealed in Kaveh's character stories--through his precious journal that records the moments of his life that had the most impact on him--shows just how deeply he values the fact that Alhaitham didn't give up.)

Another relevant side note: Alhaitham never asked Kaveh to give up his half of their house. Knowing half of it belonged to Kaveh, knowing that Kaveh may one day want to reclaim his part of it, knowing that it was listed as theirs, Alhaitham moved into the house and made zero effort to change its ownership. He was completely fine with living in "his and Kaveh's house." The stories suggest it was only months later (or even longer) that Kaveh even noticed he had the house, and he transferred away ownership of his portion without Alhaitham ever asking him (or even seemingly wanting him) to do so.

Please, let that sink in. Alhaitham actively left his grandmother's (presumably comfortable) house to move into "his and Kaveh's house," with no apparent explanation for why, and after doing so, he made no attempt to change that "his and Kaveh's" label. He moved into the house with no promise that Kaveh wouldn't show up on the doorstep the very next day and move in too. It almost feels like another deliberate provocation--I've moved into our house, are you going to come stop me? LBR, if Alhaitham had had his way, Kaveh would have been living there with him from Day 1...

There's also the fact that Kaveh literally can't write on a single message board anywhere in the entire nation of Sumeru without Alhaitham hunting his messages down and responding to them (which absolutely no one else does, by the way).

"NUH-UH!" "UH-HUH." "NUH-UH!"

Alhaitham's own character stories tell us explicitly that one of Alhaitham's defining character traits is "He is never where you need him to be," yet somehow...

Shot, and chaser:

Any time Kaveh is in the slightest bit of need or danger or just wants Alhaitham near, Alhaitham is "coincidentally" exactly where Kaveh needs him to be, whenever Kaveh needs him to be there.

Alhaitham didn't just "happen" to run into Kaveh in Port Ormos, an entirely different city from where he was supposed to be working. He didn't just "happen" to read the same terrible book as Kaveh when we know he otherwise would not waste a moment of his time on poorly-written literature...

He didn't just "happen" to appear when Kaveh was upset and needed a distraction in the House of Daena during Kaveh's hangout. He didn't just "happen" to be sitting around waiting when Kaveh needed answers after the Archon Quest. He didn't just "happen" to find Kaveh's academic publications and every single message board posting and respond to them at length and in public.

Which is exactly what Kaveh's mother told Kaveh he needed.

What level of down bad is "Abusing your powers as an Akademiya employee to keep tabs on your crush's library loans"? Just asking for a friend.

The only person for whom Alhaitham just "happens" to be available is Kaveh, over and over and over again--because he is very deliberately making himself a constant presence in Kaveh's life.

(Like, out of all things, I think people really underestimate the devs deliberately paralleling the romantic relationship between Kaveh's mother and father with Kaveh and Alhaitham's relationship. If you want to point to one thing that says "These two characters are intentionally queer-coded," it doesn't get any more obvious than this.)

Alhaitham, are you not embarrassed to be this transparent??? 🫣

[150en-main]

Etho: "There's a zombie horse!" // Joel: "Etho, follow! C'mon!" // Etho: "Coming, uh sorry, distracted by green horse."

Traps and Trial Chambers! | Wild Life | Ep.6 [27:34]

So they're all in on it then, the puppy thing. What. I can already imagine Etho whipping his head around, ears up, and following with his tail wagging.

[claraoswalds]

This is a brand new science for me, and I love it. The language of luck. 'Cause what is a coincidence but a form of accident? Two things bumping together unexpectedly. Like you and me.

[art-soboro]

wearing thin

[mimefish]

So you're telling me that Scar naturally got the permit for sand, giving him the coveted monopoly, and didn't even want it anymore, whereas Grian has wound up with the permit for red sand and does actually want to use it. Red sand. Red. Meanwhile the end of third life involved Grian killing Scar and staining the sand with his blood following a conflict fuelled by a hopeless monopoly. And it's still following them years after the actual murder. And I'm supposed to be normal about this how exactly

[litwtcpilled]

so about that mcr announcement huh

[notsogoodangel]

"Martyn and Philza are twins/clones," jokes aside. Do you ever just think of how 2 blood related, crowns wearing furries (who created a very iconic axe that was gifted to someone else) bonded with hyper-loyal blond British men and decide to get brainrot about the odds of that happening?

[journeysfable]

reasoning for everyone's ability

Pearl: can fly and has hermes hat (is ths postmaster on Hermitcraft and Esmp death related goddess)

Martyn: (Can listen in on anyone) Was called a listener by the watchers

Gem: (Astral projection) Canonically a celestial being that can hop between worlds whenever she goes to sleep according to the Empires and Hermitcraft crossover... kinda like the concept of astral projection.

ZombieCleo: (Can raise the dead) She's a zombie

Ren: (Impersonation) Putting his theater kid abilities to the test ig?

Scott: (Animal shapeshifter) ??? Well, in lim life he turned into some kind of sea creature and now he's turning into a creaking, so maybe it's a reference to that?

Grian: (mimic) it's his series he can do whatever he wants. Also gets to show people what their powers are like he did with Pearl so it's a practical ability for the game master of sorts to have (also fits with eyesandears!Grian wanting to help his friends)

Lizzie: (can blind people or summon shadows idk I've only seen glimpses of it in Martyn's pov) She's LDShadowLady and she makes everything turn dark

Bdubs: (can control time) is obsessed with making sure the sun rises immediately in Hermitcraft and is the god of the sun according to Empires and Hermitcraft crossover

Bigb: (summons creaking) He's a creaking

Scar: maybe it's a reference to the lion king and can go "long live the king" and punch someone off a cliff or do "I can show you the world" bits dfk

No idea about everyone else

[qiu-yan]

actually the funniest moment in mdzs was when wei wuxian started yelling at su minshan at the guanyin temple for ruining his first life (by casting the hundred holes curse on jin zixun that led to everything going to shit), only for su minshan to hit back with the "actually not everything is about you. loser"

[mumbo-jumbo-facts]

Mumbo kinda got revenge for Jimmy laughing at his wild life grave, an iron golem named bloop after him killed Jimmy

MUMBO JUMBO FACT #238

MUMBO REVENGE JUMBO

[psychopomparia]

Artem?? Do you watch MDZS, perhaps?

[ricky-mortis]

Redrew my Owen in The Jacket™ drawing from about eight months ago.

(Original here)

[rui-drawsbox]

guy giving himself too much credit vs girl too blunt for her own good/s

my girl was upset not bc baxter leaves her. but bc she wanted to date again and the ghost of her charming-first-boyfriend didnt leaved her alone

[myokk]

She hears him calling her name as she flees down the spiral staircase, almost tripping over her feet in her rush to get away from him, but he catches up quickly, reaching out to grab her arm in an attempt to slow her down. She stops running immediately - she supposes her traitorous body wants to see what he has to say, or maybe it just wants to bask in his intoxicating proximity. He crowds her space, and she sees that unfamiliar look in his eyes again. So very different from the cold disdain she had seen the last time she had been this close to him, during the argument that had ended their friendship.

Oh, Merlin, he's getting closer to her, and she can now clearly see the freckles dusting his cheeks and nose and forehead and then before she knows it, his hand is sliding up her arm, leaving goosebumps everywhere he touches and then he's caressing her jaw with his rough thumb and he pauses. Her eyelids flutter closed as her head tilts towards him - she couldn't stop herself even if she wanted to (what does she want?). She can feel his warm breath ghosting over her lips and she has the improbable, ridiculous thought - how is he remembering to breathe? - before he speaks. His lips brush against hers with every soft word and a deep shiver runs through her body.

"I," she hears him say, his voice so, so low, "haven't been able to think since last week."

That's all she needs to hear, the brush of his bottom lip against hers all she needs to feel, to push her into closing what minuscule distance there is between them and then his lips are on hers and it's better than anything she's been imagining. His mouth is soft against hers, insistent, and her hands go up to grip the collar of his plaid jacket to make sure he doesn't go away or disappear on her.

from my oneshot💘

[lorelxlz]

sickeningly ironic how grian’s contraption is called the spider’s nest, what with the whole widow’s curse thing he’s got going on