#fix sumeru

[outivv]

SMALL WINS SMALL WINS SMALL WINS

Now change the rest of the natlan and sumeru cast 😚🫶

[drfirefly08]

hii guys sorry, but im not really keen on reblogging or talking about hoyoverse positively rn due to their acts of whitewashing characters based on actual real poc and mispelling names of real deities

i do have a few hoyo stuff i wanna post but please know its because of my own interest in the games and not in support of a company that fails to do proper rep and also has collabed with zionist brands 🫶

i encourage the small following i have to boycott, which means no buying merch and going f2p, im already f2p and intend to stay that way 🩵

anyways back to my vacation-

[degenerateshinji]

I have this immense urge to surround him with living things

really like the sketch to this one too

[rari0516]

Forgotten Muse

old comic with old art i made from a long time ago while thinking about them. i wanted to imply in it that this could either be a reunion or a first meeting :)

[g0ldgauntlet]

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.

[lyss-sketchbox]

Everyone say thank you wuwa for getting genshin to step up

[kavehater]

I am actually so sick of my tl on twt being flooded by complaints like be so freaking for real if you hate the game just leave stop playing it I promise it’s okay

[peonnes-art]

(Oh no… Madam Faruzan’s gonna challenge me to a rematch, isn’t she? Well, the more volleyball, the better.) —Traveler

[jibbly420impact]

Okay so I’m on a mission to mod every single Sumeru and Natlan character to have more appropriate skin tones because it’s the only way I can keep playing this god forsaken game.

I currently don’t have working mods for Layla, Kaveh, Nilou, Dori, or Cyno

(some of this is lack of skin color mods and some are my lack of computer skills sooooo)

But anyway here’s Kachina

[aha-chuu]

On one hand I'm sad that I haven't seen Alhaitham and kaveh and the whole Sumeru gang in months but then I remember that, canonically, while we were all crying with furina and fighting that whale with Neuvillette and Childe, the 4ggravate guys were still going out for meals and Alhaitham was probably reading and kaveh was staying up too late to work on projects and Scara was working on a poli-sci thesis and Layla has probably realised she's queer by now

[sprinklina]

💥💥💥 NEW MUTJAL HELLO

HI!!!! HIHELLO !!!! does a gay little wave

^ kaveh for your troubles

[outivv]

Another fresh reminder is that boycotting Hoyoverse/ mihoyo ≠ quitting any of the games!!

Play the games, unless you are literally so uncomfortable with it that you can’t even bear to play which I can completely understand, but to further cost Hoyoverse money- it’s smart to play the game while not spending any money. Server costs will go up for Hoyoverse by more people playing the game for longer, while the income they roll in will go down due to not as much money being spent, which will land them in shit as a business and slowly cost them more and more and more money!! So, if you’re boycotting that doesn’t mean you have to quit, just stop spending any money or supporting hoyoverse!!

[the-commonplace-book]

Using the Sereniteapot to design some cozy reading rooms based off each nation in Teyvat. Going to use these are references to make video backgrounds (mostly static with some basic loop animations like the fireplace or steam rising from the teapot) for a series project I'm working on.

Look forward to some cozy Genshin storytime videos in the future! (I'll be reading through all the in-game literature, one story a week)

[everlastingdream]

So, before Sumeru relize I had this cool headcanon about Sumeru goverment. It was supposed to be nation of ultimate knowledge, so it was highly belivable that after the Archon the highest human position should belong to the smartest person. And guess what?? In Mondstadt we have the best graduate in 200 years - Grand Mage Lisa Minci! I loved it, and even had the draft of the fic when something happens in Sumeru and someone came to get Lisa right in the middle of the meeting. And then everyone like: you are the Head of Sumeru??? And Lisa: well, yes. I tried to decline, but they made me do work even in Mondstadt, so I'm constantly tired.

[lupicalled]

me any time razor is somewhere outside of mondstadt: he needs to talk to god about fixing his mentor's timeline, thanks.

[asheepbyanyothername]

My number one opp at the moment is whoever came up with the Adventure with Aranara Quest in Genshin Impact. I will fist fight you, it's on sight.