#don’t trust the author

[thisanimatedphantom]

YOUR EVIL FOR GIVING MICKEY THE INK ILLNESS😭

Why, yes! Yes I am! I am pure evil in fact.

[youngyoo-apologist]

Angels have brown hair

[magpie-trove]

Reading History is so funny the ways contexts change. Anyways was anyone going to tell me the Greeks said Amazons invented iron and also pants (because pants were invented by the steppe nomads east of them for riding horses and women were very prominent in that culture, which is who the Greeks were talking about when they talked about Amazons) to the point where Greek men wouldn’t wear pants even when they borrowed other eastern Scythian fashions because pants were considered effeminate

[creative-caramel-coffee]

REBLOG IF YOU NEVER STOPPED SLEEPING WITH YOUR TEDDIES EVEN IN ADULTHOOD

(Calling myself out here lol)

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

@dollsuguru pspspspps……….. the teeniest tiniest sneak peek just for u ………………..

[pa-pa-patato]

……why do I have a feeling that bendy will be kidnapped and the only way they would be able to find is because of that weird connection between cuphead and him

[whirlybirbs]

it’s 5:20am i cannot sleep i am consumed with thoughts and yearning for keigo takami i need to be euthanized

[atalante241]

About Genshin Impact and the technology of Teyvat

We get a kamera at the start of the game from Xu for the “Snapshot” world quest. In it Xu remarks that the kamera is a new invention from Fontaine.

Xu shows surprise at the Traveler knowing what it is, this supports the idea of the kamera being a new invention meaning it’s pricey and rare to have at this point. Later on, on the Traveler’s journey, we get quests to take pictures of things. This could mean that the kamera is becoming more widespread a time goes on, or just the knowledge of it.

During the 4.3 Fontinalia Festival the focus was placed of films. This was an attempt by the Fontaine Film Association to introduce films to the populace, making the main point of the festival the films produced for it.

This would give idea to films still being a new invention, as they aren’t widespread, just like how the kamera was at the start of the game which was about 3 years ago. And based off of Furina’s Character Demo “Furina: All the World’s a Stage” we can assume that the films recorded were black and white in quality. Unless, we assume that the mini-games during the 4.3 “Roses and Muskets” event were canonical in the way they showed the film quality. No noise was shown in either, but one was in color the other not.

This gives us an estimate of where — technological advancement vice — Teyvat is compared to our world. Films started becoming a thing at the end of the 1800s and start of the 1900s. Colored film started showing up around the 1930s, but became more accessible and profitable later on. Films started getting sound added to them around the mid-to-late 1920s. This gives us an estimate of around the start of the 1900s placement vice.

Now I’d like to bring up Khaenri'ah. It was heralded as “the pride of humanity” as said by Dainslief. Khaenri'ah has more than one notable scientific aspect linked to it, one of these being the “Field Tillers” aka Ruin Machines. Ruin Machines vary from “simple” Ruin Guards to a Ruin Serpent(s).

Ruin Machines seem to have been around for a while, since the Archon War even given the Ruin Hunter stored by Guizhong in a domain. This means that the technology may have been around for 1000s of years, likely being used as a defense method during the war and preserved thereafter. The knowledge of this technology didn’t spread much beyond Khaenri'ah, this showing through how the people of Teyvat started calling the Ruin Machines “Ruin Machines” after they spread globally after the Cataclysm.

Around Sumeru there exist three giant Ruin Machines called “Ruin Golems”. These were giant mecha style machines were piloted by a crew of people, and — get this — include a colored screen. By screen I mean the type of screen you’re viewing this through, footage from outside the Ruin Golem being broadcasted to the screen to allow the people piloting to see where they’re going or what they’re doing.

During the “Vimana Agama” world quest that was apart of the Aranyaka quest line we can go into the Ruin Golem in Devantaka Mountain by Port Ormos. There we can use the actual screen and see through it. This being a machine that has sat unused for hundreds of years. And its screen is still in working condition.

So, simply put. Khaenri'ah was very mechanically advanced.

BUT!

I have yet to mention the Terminal Viewfinders in Fontaine. You know, those eye ball machines you use to transfer energy to terminals in puzzles in the Fontaine Research Institute area. You know, the machines with working colored screens. Mind you this isn’t technology you’re able to find all through out Fontaine, only in certain areas usually accompanied by a researcher from the Institute. So it would be more comparable to machines found in laboratories and not accessible to common people.

But still. At the very least Fontaine is near the mechanical advancements of Khaenri'ah either a few hundred to thousands of years ago.

And I have yet to mention everything going on in King Deshret’s places in the Sumeru desert. And I’m not going to go into more than this mention because that is a headache I have yet to even get around to in game.

TL;DR Khaenri'ah was very technologically advanced to the point of hundreds of years later working colored screen technology. Fontaine is around that point with the Research Institute while normal day to day people are around silent movies in advancement, while I have no idea what’s going on with the Sumeru Desert.

[cabeswaterdrowned]

keeping myself from speaking too much on Adam and Ronan’s dislike of Henry here because I know I’ll go more into it and everything involving Henry when we get to TRK, but it really sucks so much that these dynamics being set up could be really interesting, like the exchange between Adam and Henry where Adam clearly sees Henry as a frivolous person who doesn’t have *real problems* is very revealing about some of his flaws in how he sees himself as an underdog but isn’t good at recognizing that in people who have very different experiences than he does, he can only for example see how Henry has privileges over him for being rich and doesn’t consider that Henry experiences forms of oppression that he doesn’t from being an moc (there’s also something there imo about the parallels and contrast in their presentation of and relationship to their queerness and how that effects both Adam and Ronan’s reactions to Henry although it’s obviously unintentional because Maggie doesn’t think of Henry as queer and doesn’t give much thought to how being queer effects Adam beyond that he’s into Ronan who said that…anyway). There are a lot of interesting things to explore re: Adam and Henry as foils (kind of going along with the Ronan and Blue as foils dynamic) and the Pynch vs Henry dynamic but the way it’s done is ultimately deeply embarrassing I will save more of my rants for later but. Yeah.

[witchlingcirce]

Every once in awhile when Cassandra releases new information about the wicked powers and it doesn’t match up with the verison I made up in my head

[batwynn]

So uh, look. I’m not a huge fan of Neil Gaiman as a person, mostly due to some things he’s said, done, or not done in the past (still enjoyed plenty of his books and a big fan of Good Omens with Terry.) but some of the shit people online are saying to him are mildly-to-extremely inappropriate and you need to reset some boundaries on yourselves. Take this from someone who was mildly popular in a fandom for a while there. It can be genuinely scary to receive threatening messages out of the blue from a complete fucking stranger. Especially when you have no point of reference about what they’re threatening you about, if it’s even a joke, etc.

Just because he’s made himself accessible to fans does not mean you can treat him like your Tumblr bestie with violent, threatening inside jokes. He’s not your buddy. You can’t lol your way out of sending threatening messages to a stranger. This is literally the reason your past faves stopped interacting with fans online. (Trust me, I was in the Marvel fandom when Loki/Tom arrived.) This will end as it usually does, with him being forced to leave online spaces and become inaccessible again. And then y’all will bitch and whine that he thinks he’s ‘too good’ for you or whatever and the cycle starts all over again with someone else famous.

Please. Please just learn to fucking behave. Be a weird (affectionate) and violent gremlin in your personal blog spaces or discord or wtfever. Don’t send it to a public figure just trying to have a good time in the fandom. Ok? Can we try to be better this time?

[spaceshipkat]

do we think this author can handle this challenge when so many other authors who tried to do the same epically failed?? suppose we’ll find out

[hcguesstheauthormessageboard]

DON’T FORGET TO FRONT-DATE YOUR FICS!!!

now, you might be asking, “tizona, what does that even mean???”

well, i’m here to help you with that!!

FRONT-DATING is when you change the internal date of when your fic was posted in order for it to show up when someone searches for the most recent fics.

generally, this is looked down upon because people that do this frequently are hoarding the top slots of a fandom or tag’s page in order to get more views.

HOWEVER, front-dating is really important if you are participating in events that involve UNREVEALED works.

why?

when you add a fic to a collection that’s UNREVEALED, the internal date of your fic will be the date you posted it, NOT the date it was revealed. this means that when all the fics get revealed, your fic will NOT show up in the fandom(s) or tag listings because ao3 thinks you posted your fic a While Ago.

so, in order to combat this, we have to front-date our fics to the most recent day. due to the fact that you can’t front-date to the future, you’ll have to wait until the final day, or until everything’s revealed.

okay, how?

great question!

first, you’re going to want to navigate to your fic and click on the handy edit button. you won’t be able to find your fic on your profile since it’s anonymous currently, so you’re going to have to navigate to the collection and scroll till you find your fic. THEN click edit.

next! you want to scroll down past the tags section, past the preface section, and all the way to the ASSOCIATIONS section. (that’s the third section, and where you typically set the language and skin)

once you’re there, scroll down ALMOST to the bottom of that section. there will be a button that says “set a different publication date” right above where you set the language.

click on that checkbox!!! there should be a drop-down for you to select a day, month, and year. set it to the most current date—AKA TODAY! (or you can wait all the way up until THE DEADLINE)

once again, ao3 does not allow you to front-date into the future, so the farthest you can go is the present. (it does, however, let you BACK-date as far as you please. that’s not what we’re doing here, though.)

once you’ve front-dated your fic, scroll ALL THE WAY DOWN and click post! that will save your changes :)

and success!! you have front-dated your fic!

(tagging @hermitcraftguesstheauthorevent in case they don’t already have a post about this)

[pa-pa-patato]

Given that Bbros, cupbros, Felix and the circus crew will all have a sleepover which is pretty harmless it’s likely we’ll get a POV switch next chapter and if we don’t then the sleepover will be angsty

[callixton]

idk i do think if i’m totally honest w myself my biggest draw to being a director is that i get to put my fave actors in situations. like it is abt that relationship and trust to me + then i get to go here’s a Situation to have fun with and for the reasons they r my fave actors they go holy shit! fun!

[ssreeder]

i never realized you were getting those rude comments I'm so sorry, ao3 has a newer feature that makes you able to block certain accounts from commenting, so if you're getting multiple comments from the same person you can block them

awwww I promise I’m just being sensitive & over dramatic because they really aren’t that bad! Im sure people get much worse & I truly get so many positive compliments I shouldn’t dwell on the handful I have gotten that I deem to be rude.

I did learn about that new feature on ao3!! It’s pretty cool they let you do that!

Thanks anon <3