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Do you think its bad that I am still mad they made Zerum x Sebastian canon even though it won't make sense in the Pressure story?
Nah, it’s valid to be upset. Considering how the lore is, it just seems weird.
It wouldn’t have been much of a problem if Zerum was introduced from the start? Kinda like with painter and what not. Just as an NPC that you’re oh okay they’re together.
Idk what her lore is, but having them be a married couple from the start seems interesting and ima tell you right now a company like Urbanshade who kills people if they aren’t profitable so they wouldn’t have him wear any thing that is remotely from their past. (Aka the ring or like any piercings or anything like that)
But! That being said you can be angry but you need to be respectful. Zerum is a human being, and she did create Seb so whatever they say goes. So we need to be mindful, and kind. Don’t attack her cuz she made him married.
That’s why fanfiction exists. It’s not canon, and we can play with their toys but we also have to be respectful of these toys. Okay?
#spottie speaks#yeah I don’t care for it#I don’t like it when lore is just dropped at other site or something and the average person wouldn’t know it because they don’t constantly#go on the wiki or whatever#Hazbin hotel is notorious for it and I HATE IT#don’t make me go to a secondary location to learn about your characters#ITS BAD STORYTELLING#but that being said I am neutral on this#I don’t care#but I think it wasnt a good play to have her just be in the background#if you’re adamant on them knowing that this is Sebs wife#bring her in from the start#make her an actual character#be it a file#or something#not just be like oh yeah he’s married#and you can’t ship him because he’s married look he has a ring!
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this is how teachers who insist i always do the homework look like to me
#today my maths teacher assigned a multipage worksheet to do. due tomorrow. less than 12 hours to do this. ok#wiki rambles#my biology teacher also told me i had to catch up or whatever after i told her i was overwhelmed and#dealing with shit declining mental health 😭😭😭#yes making me do more work on top of the work youre assigning that day is going to make that better! great choice!#schools will pput up a pin board that says “mental health matters” but the moment u have a mental health moment they dgaf
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oh boy !! ! ! ! !!! ! thANK y0u all for the kind words on my last art posts. you all get it and i was/still am so happy about it
as promised, here's some close-ups of the comic for image quality's sake, and other screenshots i rescued from the community whiteboard (and something else)
first up another sketch of mystery gender-ambiguous being. (please send me more name ideas for them if you got one- i like to hear em! (reminder it's the side character that appeared for <10 seconds in AvM Ep. 30))
a few fav scenes
emotional support cwab
they weren't meant for this purpose exactly, but i do have countless "fluffy sticks" loose in my notes and homework sheets from the school years.
papery critter.
even when i wasn't confident in fur or feathers, they helped me practice posing and create some satisfying gradients/flowing poses. (im a sucker for good tail poses) (oh yay! i found a good pic...)
and finally, little sneak peak for you for reading so far ;3
i realized that whiteboardfox is pretty great for my working needs. simple and to the point and all. feels nice with the mouse and the tablet.
so i started hashing out a big project idea just to see if it holds up and
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several hours later ...
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oh
oh man
it's a little bigger than i expected
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#--/ art#alan becker#animator vs animation#animation vs minecraft#Minecraft bed#ava the dark lord#ava the chosen one#me when the project that obviously wasn't going to be done in one night isn't done in one night: D: !?!?!?!?#kudos to whoever routed the Speedrun actual short because that one is so fun and clean and savvy#clever made up time-savers? includes orange's TNT shield-jump?? nonlethal dragon dispatch??? sweet#ithink you can see where i tried to head with this#turns out that turning up the complexity 98 notches higher makes things trickier to parse hmmmmmm?#in fact i might need some help with this one ;>v>' like a lot.#i had a bit of a story and route set up already i just... wanted to make sure everything was at least kinda there...................#we'll see#the pie joke. i was trying to categorize which foodstuffs chosen should be able to make on the fly. with their flame hands.#ex. cooking meats makes sense because flint and steel works for the same purpose (you can kill a burning animal to get cooked meats)#but baking bread or drying kelp seems way more involved or whatever -> needs a proper furnace environment#HOWEVER... i noticed that Steve can just summon pumpkin pies from his bare hands if he wants to without even a workbench. so. sure! lol.#this is scraping the surface of the minutiae i want to consider#(ALSO KUDOS to everyone who RUNS/works on all-advancements. of course. riding on your shoulders here)#final joke is that chosen didn't know how crazy this undertaking would be to learn#but dark is very literally programmable. so you could maybe just plug some TAS instructions into him and off he goes#or even more open-ended than that just give him the list of advancements + stipulations + the wiki and similar result#it'd get done but. i dont think he'd find that fun at all. prefers to write his own instructions if you see what i mean#i might be forgetting some context. it is rather late you see. please ask me questions about this! ;P#tco aa
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#oofuri#ALL THE MOMS W THE BABY PICS!!!!!!!!#kind of horrible that sakaeguchi is left out bc his mom is dead....like what abt a pic of his dad w a baby photo :(#if youre wondering why tf some of them are clearly scans and some r clearly photos let me take you on a journey#i saw these on the wiki and i was like I NEED THEM ALL IN ONE PLACE. NOW!#so i started saving them all. but then 1. oki's mom was missing. and 2. the scans are kinda fuzzy#but i was like w/e I'll just go grab my volume and take a pic of oki's mom#but the line quality is a lot higher so i was like ah whatever I'll just take photos of all of them!#but izumi suyama and mizutani sans are all printed a little fuzzy/off on my volume copy :( so i stuck w the scans!#no one asked. anyway. here!
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heres yalls science teacher. have fun go crazy
#my art#dol#sirris the science teacher#sydney the faithful#i hope i drew him okay im a little weemp womp about the design but maybe its just my brain. playing tricks on me#but its so cute how sweet sirris is to sydney. so funny to me#i love to read FACTS on the wiki#oh also not intended to be ship esque but if youre into that feel free to interpret it that way i dont mind#anyways now that we have that out of the way the rest of the tags im just rambling as always#GOD its so hard to design. guys you dont understand im not a character designer#soon while we all watch me descend into the 'characters who dont actually have specific outfits'#youre going to see how bad my fashion sense is. legitimately horrible. i wear the same clothing formula every day#shirt. pants. done.#once we arrive in the They Can Wear Whatever They Want section of the characters#youre all going to be like hey. what the hell is that guy wearing#but its fine. its whatever. hopefully thisll all make me better at drawing. eventually.
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These are the guys who have total martial control over the center of the galaxy? are you sure?
#my art#spore#grox#spore game#3 foot tall fucked up alien cats#grox really just walk around like O_O . in PUBLIC#i wish spore fanfic was more popular i want to read about their space society. who said that#kicking my feet and spinning and smiling while thinking about alien biology and culture again#im not arguing with an alien with giant baby doe eyes. whatever you say beautiful#hey. gamer grox that bullies and gets bullied by other alien gamers. but that’s just a theory#they are like invader zim to me#have you guys actually listened to their voice files on the wiki#they’re sooo cool. like their voice boxes have been entirely replaced with cybernetics#with the glitches and stutters. honestly deserves more attention#if i had meds it'd be over for all of you#ignore my insane notes please#space playstation (completely normal playstation but drawn from memory)#trying to get a feel for how i want to draw these freaks#i say. like i have plans to draw them again#whatever maybe i just wanted to draw little guys. that doesnt mean im going to make a grox oc or anything#wipes sweat off brow#the internet is so crazy you can just draw whatever and post it. and sometimes people will even like it
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so i drew jay
#jay ref!! don't really like how it turned out all that much but whatever#left this rotting in my drafts for like a week and then remembered “oh shit i need to post this”#jay ninjago#ninjago jay#ninjago fanart#jay walker#lego ninjago#ninjago#jay walker ninjago#jay walker fanart#ninjago art#lego ninjago fanart#jay fanart#first time doing an actual character reference and drawing jay so go easy on me#welp time to go show wiki
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Had an itch to draw Mortifer and Nikara because I was thinking about them teaming up so now it's the annual Warlock of the Year party and the theme is fur coats (I imagine Vincent's is faux but the other two who really is to say)
I do wonder how they would interact in a situation where both of them and Vincent are all lurking around the same party. Vincent and the gang attending the same awards party as both of Van Ghoul's exes would be a fun concept I think.
#my art#scooby doo#scooby doo fanart#vincent van ghoul#mortifer quinch#nikara the enchantress#13 ghosts of scooby doo#the 13 ghosts of scooby doo#vincent & mortifer#scooby doo and the curse of the 13th ghost#The dreaded ink brushes strike again i think ive figured out that the transparent bg is the problem here#but whatever they look fine when you click them so I'm still posting them#Nikara's dress is supposed to look like she has vampire bites at the top of her neckline but it looks like jewels instead it's fine#also I have a theory that the warlocks magics are colour coded for who's magic is the strongest which I think would be purple aka VVG's#Mortifer only had like three ref images I could find so I had to go off wiki descriptions because I couldn't be bothered watching the film#again for refs#Nikara too only had about two its sick and twisted being a fan of the incarnations that are less popular#anyway does this count as a late pride post bc I was busy and couldn't draw anything for June sadly and they are the colours of the bi flag
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character ask game!!!!
John Price + 4, 21, and 22
((also I hope you have a good day ahead! :3))
Thank you so much Gomz !!! <3 Hope you have a good day as well !!
4. If you could put this character in any other media, be it a book, a movie, anything, what would you put them in?
I've actually been thinking about a little Cyberpunk 2077 AU for him and Nik so that probably :3c It's still just random thoughts, but Nik being a fixer and Price maybe in Max-Tac or something ?? I had it on my list to draw them in a cyberpunk AU so hey
21. If you're a fic writer and have written for this character, what's your favorite thing to do when you're writing for this character? What's something you don't like?
I looooove writing Captain John Price acting so awkward and flustered around Nik because that man knows how to make him weak :3c I also adore writing his internal struggle with his sexuality and stuff, I think it makes him a very interesting character. His love for Nik VS the bullshit toxic masculinity he has been raised on, that sort of thing.
As for things I don't like writing about him, idk, maybe anything too technical? I keep it vague usually
22. If you're a fic reader, what's something you like in fics when it comes to this character? Something you don't like?
Looooove when people get his way of speaking + his accent right (like Rawr), always adds so much to the fic imo, and it's not easy to do. Also love him being a mess when flirted with but also him being a strict army captain is always mwah mwah mwah chef kiss. I love a good contrast so yes, all of this 🤌
Nothing I don't like really comes to mind since the fics I end up reading don't really have anything I don't like in them. Guess I don't like when he's written as a daddy dom top but again, not the kind of stuff I read anyway !
Send me a Character + questions from this ask game
#THANK YOU GOMZ YOU'RE THE BEST#I went to the hairdresser which is something I absolutely HATE doing but now I feel much better#don't like being touched so hairdresser is just vkhjfbvndkhbf sensory nightmare#fresh cut ayyyyye#feeling gnc af or whatever the kids say these days#✌️#Nik is referred as a fixer on his wiki and it immediately made my brain go CYBERPUNK NIKPRICE AU#nekro yapping#ask#cod
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There’s a lot of discourse in fandom about Sansa, Arya, and Cersei’s attitudes toward power and traditional femininity. I’m super curious to see what you think about Sansa and Cersei in particular, especially since we didn’t get a Cersei POV in Gale of Wolves. What does Cersei think of Sansa establishing power in her own right in the North? Does she still crave power for herself? I always thought that Cersei sees her sexuality as a tool or weapon but otherwise is pretty disdainful of women in general. She’s got internalized misogyny in spades.
In Sansa’s case— do you think she still dwells on what she learned from Cersei (either what she was told directly or lessons made indirectly)? I’m thinking about the battle of the black water in the books where Sansa thinks : when I am queen, I will make them love me; in a pretty stark (pun unintended) contrast to Cersei’s rule by fear. I see Sansa choosing to utilize her traditional femininity by wielding soft power that in turn becomes hard power. In your fic, she goes to each of her bannermen, she learns about them, she shows that she cares and probably uses a lot of court/ lady of the house skills she learned. Stannis doesn’t understand it at all, but Sansa has a stronger position in the North than he does anyway.
These are such great questions — I can say that the lack of Cersei POV in A Gale of Wolves was very deliberate, because she gets her own POV chapter in the next section of the story and I wanted her to be a little more opaque at this point. Because you're right, Cersei's going to have a LOT of feelings about Sansa getting control of the North while she's still just the Dowager Queen (even though in this story she's decidedly not going to the Sept's dungeons or enduring the Walk of Shame Atonement). Right now she's so convinced that Sansa murdered Joffrey that everything else kind of simmers under that, but I do think there's a certain degree of envy that Sansa can claim the North for herself and be unchallenged in that, when even her own daughter Myrcella will have some difficulties in laying claim to Casterly Rock (which will get resolved in the next section, but it's still not straightforward because Westeros And Essos Hate Women). There's also a lot of confusion there, because Cersei doesn't have a home the way Sansa does; she grew up in the Westerlands and lived most of her adult life in King's Landing, but what she craves is power and safety, not necessarily a home. So Sansa's motivations themselves are baffling — why fight for the North, a useless great vast nothing? Who could possibly love that place?
The note you make about Cersei using her sexuality is interesting, because I think that's prevalent in the books (I'm not sure since I haven't read them), but really not at all present in the show; in fact I think you can argue that Cersei's whole canonical path in the show is a slow stripping away of her "female-ness," which she hates so much — all that talk about how she should've been the man, how no one could tell her and Jaime apart when they were little, how her appearance and dress grows progressively more masculine. Which I always thought was interesting if you see it as a reaction to trauma: so much of what is done to her is because she's a woman, because she doesn't have power in her own right, and so she reaches for whatever simulacrum she can get. It doesn't work in the end, of course; it never does. But it's a nice dream.
I do agree that Cersei's a misogynist, but...so is everyone in this world, really. Even Dany, even Arya, even Sansa — the world of Westeros is predicated on the inferiority of women, and women themselves have to swim in that water even if they're swimming against the current.
As for Sansa, I think there's a LOT of fascination/repulsion when it comes to Cersei. One of the biggest mistakes the show ever made was never letting Arya or Sansa see Cersei one last time; sure, it's realistic that you don't get closure with your nemesis/abuser, but narratively it would've been so much more satisfying than crushing her with big rocks. Because Sansa's right, in the show where she says she learned a lot from Cersei; in many ways, Cersei was far more her mentor than Littlefinger ever was.
But you're right on the money in re: how Sansa rules, which is not the way a king would rule or the way the wife of a lord would rule, or the way any of the women in power she's met have ruled. It's not feminine so much as Sansa-esque; she is feminine, for sure, but I think a lot of what she does (both in my fic and on the show) is less about gender and more about thoughtfulness. I always think about the comment she makes to Royce about lining the new plate armor with leather when the southern soldiers wouldn't have thought about it, or how she makes Jon the exact replica of their father's cloak just from memory. Sansa is very, VERY good at noticing details and remembering them for later, however irrelevant. Having someone like that in charge of your kingdom is pretty handy.
I think one of the interesting things I'm going to do with the fic is explore some of the lessons that Cersei learns from Sansa — because she'll have time in this fic to see Sansa's method of rule working, and perhaps get enough intel to find out why it does, at least in part. And I don't think Cersei is foolish enough to pass that kind of opportunity up.
#I've been reading the wiki entries for the Dance of Dragons characters and Sansa and Cregan would've gotten along worryingly well#just sitting down and getting the job DONE and then going home#it's pretty great honestly#anyway Sansa wanted to be loved when she was a child but now? I think she's resigned to whatever weird mix of fear resentment and awe#that the Northern lords and smallfolk have for her#they DO love her but it's love that's uncomfortable up close#even for Sansa#anyway this ask got longer than my dick sorry#game of thrones motherfuckers#got: bitches get stuff done
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little guys
#vocaloid#project diva#project diva extend#megurine luka#hatsune miku#kagamine rin#kagamine len#kaito#meiko#the project diva wiki lists these as "silent (insert vocaloid name/s here)'' in english so that's what i'm going to call them#it kinda annoys me that rin's on the left + len's on the right but whatever#obligatory sorry these look like ass idk how to resize them without them looking like they're from minecraft#id in alt text#my rips
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No bunal Akutagawa rp account?
Should I make one?
[When I'm done reading his stories or else there are even more chances I act ooc)]
#i'm just gonna have to go past the wiki page if i can#and also because i want to research him in general#so if anyone has them send me good links of things about him or whatever you can find#bungou to alchemist#bunal#bunal akutagawa
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From my experience, enjoyment of the worlds of Blizzard games comes in a spectrum:
Overwatch: Because the developers refused to elaborate further with the lore on account of corporate greed and mismanagement, everything is up to speculation and you can basically do whatever you want with these settings and characters.
World of Warcraft: Please, god, stop elaborating.
#Blizzard Entertainment#World of Warcraft#Overwatch#Overwatch 2#Actiblizz#now when I say 'enjoyment' I mostly mean I go 'my city now'#and play the games without paying them a cent in whatever way I can (at least in the case of WoW thanks to emulation)#while reading auxilliary lore through wikis and such#(and Overwatch I just stopped playing at all back in 2023 and I don't regret it)#I admit I don't know from personal experience what the hell is going on with Starcraft or Diablo#but I assume they still follow the same axis/spectrum#considering Starcraft has not officially had a game in like 10 years?#and Diablo IV and Diablo Immortal are...Diablo IV and Diablo Immortal.#this post was brought to you by me going 'I really want to make some WoW OC fan content or AUs or something'#and then deciding to brush up on my lore#and then Immediately Regretting It#far as I'm concerned the story stops after Cataclysm#*maybe* Legion but Legion is on thin fucking ice because they did Vol'jin so dirty#not to mention that all the inconsistent shit with Garrosh and Sylvanas?#is because two of Blizz's most notorious sex perverts were having a dickwaving contest#and then basically massacring each other's blorbo in the process of said dickwaving#like is Metzen a perfect writer? no. he's very simplistic. was his shit still better than what we got? A VERY EMPHATIC YES.#croak.txt#reblog.wank
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there's so many connections tying the moon, seelies and the jinn, but more concretely between the goddess of flowers and guizhong!!! by connections i mean they always appear associated with the moon and one another. as i was reading through the lore attempting to gather some of the moments these ties could be drawn, i ended up noticing other patterns that seemed to fit a similar narrative with other entitites as well. it quickly transformed into a post about the sun and moon symbolism in genshin. although i'm probably missing a lot of things, this is what i found while reading in-game information.
"records of the gallant"
this book is a compilation of stories and legends of many knight-errants in liyue, the second volume specifically is very obviously about guizhong. the association starts with the title “dust”, as she was the god of dust, and goes on to her description as “a maiden in a long indigo robe”, which matches perfectly her appearance. she is very often connected with the night time and the moon, and in this specific instance with seelies as well. seelies are described specifically as having had “beautiful physical forms and (…) great wisdom” in the past in the book “records of jueyun”. this book also talks about the seelie ancestor who once met a traveller from afar with whom they swore an oath of union in the presence of the three moon sisters before disaster struck and they were punished. both seelies and the moon are, throughout the game, always hand-in-hand with each other when it comes to symbolism and references and moments with guizhong like this one are no exception. i think it’s relevant to mention that at the end of the tale when this maiden disappears, the only thing left is a pile of dust mirroring guizhong’s “death”. dust in genshin can easily be tied to life (specifically as the base of all life) through albedo and rhinedottir who, consequently, are connected to khaenri’ah and the art of khemia – one of the factors behind the fall of the nation.
memory of dust
memory of dust is a stone dumbbell gifted to zhongli by guizhong and its description is about one of their conversations. guizhong standed among a field of glaze lilies, flower associated with her, as she talks about humans and compares them to dust.
this scene also includes an allusion to her death with guizhong dissolving into dust and with her, the glaze lilies disappearing.
glaze lilies are said to transform the memories of the land into its fragrance during florescence and legend has it that the flower will open at the sound of pure, beautiful music. the interesting thing about this flower is that it only blossoms during the night time, being this way indirectly connected with the moon. this excerpt or circumstances are very reminiscent to another character in this game, nabu malikata, also known as the goddess of flowers.
the goddess of flowers
the goddess of flowers is very likely to have been a survivor of the seelie race, if not the seelie ancestor herself. this was revealed through us by an aranara, arama, who said “there was once a survivor of that race seelie deep within the golden desert who was friends with queen aranyani and the ruler of valuka”. queen aranyani and the ruler of valuka are titles given to greater lord rukkedhevatta and king deshret, respectively, and, as we know, they were both really close to nabu malikata. the goddess of flowers was also said to have horns by nilou, whose head piece is inspired in this detail, and when traveler sees her in liloupar’s memories they describe her appearance as being "ineffably beautiful”, comparable to "the totality of her jinn". all these characteristics are also associated with seelies.
the “flower of paradise lost” artifact set tells a lot of the story of the goddess of flower. the flower piece tells the story of how she was cast aside by the heavens and her kinship was punished by being stripped away of their minds just like what happened to the seelies and their ancestor, confirming her identity.
she was said to wander for a long time, her wounds gushing streams that transformed into gardens of which blue water lilies sprouted. lilies those that originated jinn, a mystical race of elemental spirits considered, just like seelies, creatures of wisdom. the goddess of flowers was also said to make purple flowers bloom wherever she stopped, more specifically padisarahs. much like glaze lilies and guizhong, padisarahs also went extinct after the goddess of flowers’ death.
nilotpala lotus
the one other flower that resembles the glaze lilies is the nilotpala lotus. they also only bloom at night and in its description, we learn of their connection to the three moon sisters.
although the moon sisters perished after the same disaster that struck the seelie ancestor and the solar chariot (that created the chasm with its fall), the flowers turned to serve a new master yet the nilotpala lotus continues to remember those happy days of the past. something interesting regarding the name niloptala is that it refers to "blue lotus" or "blue lily" and represents one of the several "attributes" or "accessories" of a deity commonly seen depicted in hindu iconography, defined according to texts dealing with arts and crafts, known as shilpa shastras. i think it’s pretty logical to parallel these flowers, that grow in the forest wetlands in sumeru, to guizhong, someone very known for her mechanisms and who is deeply tied to blue lilies.
goddess of flowers and king deshret
a long time ago, the goddess of flowers, king deshret and greater lord rukkedhevata were all very close friends who looked over sumeru (any resemblance to the liyue consortium is pure coincidence, or not). “flower of paradise lost” continues to tell the story of the gof and contains the depiction of what happened that led to king deshret obtaining forbidden knowledge. through king deshret's aspirations, she saw the possibility to transcend the absurd shackles that governed this world (heavenly principles) and so she helped him in his goal, leading to her sacrifice and consequent death. she is said to have turned into dust in the “vourukasha's glow” artifact set, once again paralleling guizhong.
she once again refers the punishment casted upon the seelie race by the heavens, warning king deshret of the consequences his actions may have. the most interesting thing to me in this passage is the fact she is depicted as being “wreathed in darkness” when guiding deshret towards discovering “all there was to know about the skies and the abyss”; this and the fact she could foresee future events. it actually makes a lot of sense as nabu (who shares a name with her) is an ancient mesopotamian god of literacy, the rational arts, scribes, and wisdom (can you see the pattern?) whose name means "enlightened" or "prophet". she reminds me a lot of sibylla, who met king remus “below the abyssal depths”. knowledge beyond what the heavens allow seems to be connected multiple times to the abyss. this comparison with sibylla gains even more strength when, in the same artifact set, she tells deshret “you seek but to chain the winds. upon the tombstone of divinity shall humanity become the god of gods”. this was also remus’ goal, something he strived for so much that he was willing to ignore prophecies of disaster as long as he could attempt to break the chains of fate.
oasis garden's mourning
this ascencion material with the image of a flower in the center tells us the goddess of flowers and king deshret built ay-khanoum together, also known as “city of the moon maidens”, for the jinn. it’s this material that tells us padisarahs went extinct after the gof’s death and that these gem discs lost their original “glad purpose”, much like what happened to the padisarahs as depicted in the artifact set mentioned earlier. yet, there’s another version of this story told in “the shepherd and the magic bottle”. in this book (told by a jinn) it’s believed that king deshret learned about the jinn's story as well as the story of the “dismal moon and the driving morning star” (likely connected to the seelie ancestor, the three moon sisters and the solar chariot) after capturing them and, afterwards, built ay-khanoum as a gift to commemorate them; in return, the jinn built the entrance to the mausoleum of king deshret. according to liloupar, deshret had deceived the jinn to gain their servitude, telling them that the goddess of flowers had not perished but was instead locked in a deep slumber in the orchard of pairidaeza (created by deshret as a cemetery for the gof), and that he could awaken her with the jinn's aid. there’s an interesting detail in “the shepherd and the magic bottle” where the jinni says that at the end of the city of the moon maiden’s play “everything was reduced to dust”.
sun and moon dichotomy
guizhong’s color is, as referenced earlier, blue like the moon. whenever there’s a deity associated with the moon or the moon-sisters (gof and guizhong) there’s also one that symbolizes the sun (deshret and zhongli), usually coming to form a duo. this traces back all the way back to the solar and moon chariot, their gods and the disaster that led to their separation. it’s interesting to note the fall of the solar chariot, as i mentioned earlier, was what led to the creation of the chasm. although according to what we have access in game the text implies this entity to be different from zhongli, there’s actually a lot of things tying him or creating that parallel between him and the sun or the sun god (who might have been a shade of phanes). we can also consider traveler and paimon as another example of this constant duality within the story, as the traveler is almost literally the morning star and paimon is symbolically connected to the moon and seelies too.
“before sun and moon”, that tells the story of enkanomiya, includes an interesting parable.
this parable clearly references the sakura tree in inazuma’s story but it also intertwines with the heavens and the entities related to the primordial one. tokoyo ookami is istaroth and she’s referred to as the king’s priest. if the king is the primordial one then it makes sense the king’s gardener would be another of the shades. it’s hard to interpret some text when everything is told in metaphors and sometimes information isn’t actually that reliable but the concept of love here reminded me of the solar and moon chariot as well as the seelie ancestor and traveler from afar from the kingdom of light (descriptions in “records of jueyun” and “the pale princess and the six pygmies”). it’s also a bit impossible to read of a tree spirit heavily linked to time and planted by the heavens and not think about irminsul. this concept of gardener or protector of the tree is also somewhat recurrent and can be linked to sibylla as well, a prophetess.
the triquetra has a lot of different meanings but it’s usually connected with three goddesses, three sun positions or three moon phases. another item that has a triquetra on it is mora, that also can be used for alchemy and transmutations. we also know mora was, at least in the beginning, created from morax’s own body so it’s interesting this symbol appears in the coins. “earth is where the alchemy gets its name” and the art of khemia (alchemy from khaenri’ah) literally meaning “art of black earth” in chinese also seem to point to a connection between the terms.
khaenri’ah connections
guizhong had a particular interest in mechanics: the guizhong ballista was one of her handiworks, built with the aid of the adepti, and she apparently collected khaenri'ah technology such as ruin machines for research. as i mentioned before in regards to her (god of dust) “death”, dust can easily be connected with both the art of khemia and concepts such as birth and life. as albedo says: “soil and chalk, the universe and earth, pure dust and the birth of human life”.
in the hidden palace of guizang formula domain, the challenge called voyage to the sanguine sky has the description: "this is the realm of clouds. guizhong, its former ruler, acquired several ancient and evil artifacts during her research into mechanics. the adepti created this realm to contain them." curiously, the fight in this domain is against two ruin guards and a ruin hunter. guizhong was presumably researching khaenri'ahn technology before she died in the archon war. considering ruin guards didn't start wondering teyvat until after the cataclysm, we can propose a question of how exactly she got them. mentioning remus again, the golems he created with the souls of his people within the golden ichor are hinted to be what referenced khaenri’ah to create ruin machines. the link between having the want to defy the heavens and the fall of nations is something we’re already aware, but the way these nations or people connect with each other is also very consistent.
“perinheri”, a book very obviously about khaenri’ah during the crimson moon dynasty, was the talk of the town for multiple reasons but one of the surprises in it was the mention to deus auri (zhongli) by angelica. her nation was defeated by deus auri but she refused to submit to the new god. the orphanage in khaenri’ah – that ties itself with the house of the hearth – seems to have collected children that could classify as descenders, looking for some sort of potential. khaenri’ah anticipated the arrival of "beings who could transcend the gods" and this seems to relate to the concept presented to us during one of sumeru’s archon quests that the traveler’s twin isn’t a descender despite traveler being considered one. it also fits rene’s description of a descender being those with “wills that can rival an entire world”. i can’t make a connection between these concepts but zhongli’s mention is definitely intriguing.
deshret was depicted in genshin animations as an 8-pointed star and the speculated door to khaenri’ah, below sumeru, also has the same star on it. there's two stars that could be in association to this symbol, the star of lakshmi and the star of ishtar. in both cases, the 8-pointed star is associated with the goddess venus, who was worshipped as a symbol of fertility and love. the star can be seen as a representation of the eight phases of venus, which includes her appearances as the morning and evening star.
lakshmi ('she who leads to one's goal') is one of the principal goddesses in hinduism. she’s associated with maya (illusion) and along with parvati and saraswati she forms the tridevi of hindu goddesses. the tridevi are considered consorts and auxiliary deities to the more eminent masculine trimurti gods (brahma, shiva and vishnu). saraswati is the goddess of learning, arts, and music, and the consort of brahma, the creator; lakshmi is the goddess of fortune, fertility, light, and material and spiritual fulfillment, and consort of vishnu, the preserver; and parvati is the goddess of power, war, beauty, and love. she is the consort of shiva, the destroyer of evil.
lakshmi, as his consort and divine energy, accompanied vishnu whenever he descended on earth as an avatar; she's the supreme goddess in the sect and assists vishnu to create, protect, and transform the universe. lakshami is associated with the lotus flowers, in reference to spirit liberation, and her iconography also depicts her with four hands, representing the four aspects of human life important to hindu culture: dharma (moral values), kama (pleasure), artha (prosperity), and moksha (final liberation, humanity’s ultimate goal).
the tridevi are the manifestations of mahadevi, the supreme goddess and the primordial power behind the creation of the universe (creator and destroyer). all hindu gods and goddesses are considered to be manifestations of mahadevi and she’s known by many names, some translating to ‘she who is primordial matter’, ‘the great illusion’, ‘the life force in all beings’, ‘she who is supreme knowledge’, ‘she who transcends the universe’, and ‘she who destroys’. mahadevi's is also called ‘night of death’ and ‘she who is death’, reinforcing her destructive nature.
the star of ishtar or or star of inanna is usually used in association with the heavens and is specifically connected to the planet venus. the eight-pointed star is sometimes shown alongside the crescent moon, which was the symbol of sin (god of the moon) and the rayed solar disk, which was a symbol of shamash (god of the sun). the morning star may have been conceived as a male deity who presided over the arts of war and the evening star may have been conceived as a female deity who presided over the arts of love.
inanna (or ishtar) is an ancient goddess of love, war, and fertility and her primary title was "the queen of heaven". many of her myths involve her taking over the domains of other deities. she was believed to have been given the mes, which represented all positive and negative aspects of civilization, by enki, the god of wisdom. she apparently took over the eanna temple from the god of the sky, an. alongside her twin brother utu, inanna was the enforcer of divine justice. in the standard version of the epic of gilgamesh, ishtar asks gilgamesh to become her consort. when he disdainfully refuses, she unleashes the bull of heaven, resulting in the death of gilgamesh’s friend, who has a subsequent grapple with his own mortality. inanna's most famous myth is the story of her descent into and return from the ancient mesopotamian underworld, ruled by her older sister ereshkigal. after she reaches the throne room, the seven judges of the underworld (whose function was to decree the fates of humanity) deem her guilty and strike her dead. three days later, someone pleads with all the gods to bring inanna back. all of them refuse, except enki, who sends two beings to rescue inanna. they escort inanna out of the underworld but the guardians of the underworld drag her husband down there as replacement. he is eventually permitted to return to heaven for half the year, while his sister remains in the underworld for the other half, resulting in the cycle of the seasons.
as genshin is a bit of a cocktail when it comes to mythology and any historical references, it’s hard to say if the stories of ishtar or lakshami can even be a straightforward parallel to the higher beings in genshin. but i think if there’s one thing to take from everything so far is that there’s a very meaningful recurrence of trios or the number three (e.g. triquetra, three moon sisters, evil trinity), as well as the constant appearance of sun and moon elements together and dependent of one another (either in regards to their roles or their personal connections), the sun always being the masculine and the moon always being the feminine. we know there was a time in which these elements co-existed together in heaven, although they seem to be fated/doomed to separate from one another (the tragedies referenced in this post being an example of that).
enkanomiya
there are three very interesting achievements with interesting names you get in enkanomiya. one is kairos' constancy, and is the one you get from completing time trial challenges. kairos, as we already know, is one of istaroth’s (god of time) names. this name is based on the greek god kairos, the god of moments. the other two achievements, which also have greek names, are hesperus' boons, for opening chests, and phosphoros' guidance, for following seelies. if these are names of deities with close relations to phanes or at least celestia, as it would make sense because it would follow the pattern for istaroth, then would it be that out-of-pocket to think these might be the names of the other shades or of the moon sisters? phosphorus (bearer of light, often translated as lucifer) is the god of the planet venus in its appearance as the morning star. hesperus (son of dawn), on another hand, is the evening star. (planet venus in the evening). venus, as mentioned before, relates to the eight-pointed star and we know this shape is also used as the symbol of istaroth in enkanomiya (light realm sygil).
which, by the way, are used in hilichurl camps. the hilichurl camp in front of the thousand wind temple in mondstadt was already a hint that they worshiped istaroth but i think it’s safe to say that with certainty. it’s just curious that they don’t really recognize the archons, thinking of the elements as that which is deserving of worshiping, yet recognize (at least one of) a shade of phanes. the name istaroth is derived from astaroth, one of the three demons in the "evil trinity" alongside beelzebub and lucifer, connecting istaroth and the morning star once again.
i don't plan to drag this any longer as this is already way too long but to finish it off, and summarising these ideas: i'd say the one of the biggest patterns present in the game is the constant mention of entities in heaven seemingly converging into the duality of sun and moon, the moon sisters and the sun god. i haven't properly dwelled on this to come to a any sort of definite idea but there’s too many details creating a consistent pattern for my brain to disregard these ties as non-intentional. obviously, all these characters i have mentioned throughout the post aren’t going to all be the same handful of beings, and that’s not what i’m trying to say, but i do believe the repetition of the same themes has meaning. maybe the same way mahadevi manifested herself as three other feminine gods who worked together with male deities, the heavenly principles or phanes also created the shades as a manifestation of the sun and the moon. or maybe ishtar, alongside utu as enforcers of divine justice, taking over the god of the sky's (ishtar's father) temple could mirror the twins and their journey. maybe kairos, phosphorus and hesperus are indeed the moon sisters or even shades of the primordial one. maybe guizhong isn't meant to be more than a parallel to other entities, but maybe she was truly more than what was originally presented. i don't think it's impossible that even if she isn't one of the big figures - goddess of flowers or a moon sister - that she could have originated from one or be related to one (nabu malikata having seelies as her people and jinni or khvarena as her daughters). similarly to how venti is hinted to have originated from istaroth (as he was originally "a single thread of the thousand winds", istaroth's title). or perhaps not. regardless, it’s fun to notice that many theories in the fandom sort of intertwine together to make a fuller picture based on scattered information across the game. i'm not sure if i'll go more in-depth regarding some of these "theories" as there's still a lot to expand but i hope all of this made at least a little bit of sense. thank you for reading this far!
#the day we get to know more about guizhong i'll be so happy i didn't even go through the contradictions regarding her death that are so sus#anyways a random click in my brain while going through the genshin wiki led to this mess of a post#i write posts because i'm really forgetful and i want to put my ideas into the same place so i can come back to them. i don't even know if#these were obvious things or not but i thought it was interesting. maybe someone else will too.#still brainstorming about whatever is happening in the havens what's up with the primordial one and who the twins are#the answers are probably right under our noses and yet my single braincell is about to explode lol#guizhong#goddess of flowers#zhongli#deshret#genshin impact#genshin thoughts
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I want your sydney and harper carnally.
Have a nice day :3
WAAAAAH thank you!!!!! 🥺🥺🥺 im so glad you like my designs im honestly so surprised so many people like them. i hope you have a nice day too :) here i made sketches for you
#i wanted to do more but that wouldve made me take even longer to answer this so i didnt :(#i was drawing the harper one and i was like hm. do you think itd be overkill if i finished this#and i decided yes so now im not finishing it#because im lazy and drawing is hard#but i hope you like it anyways#im so surprised people like my designs#im gonna be honest guys. the only reference for the characters i have are the ones on the wiki#and sometimes whatever i see on my dash when i go check#whats going on#oh i have to tag#asks#my art#anonymouse#dol#harper the doctor#sydney the faithful#sorry it took like a day or two to answer :( wasnt at home
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kaiser and ness. thoughts?
#txt#ask#as a duo i am both compelled and disturbed by the toxic sludge of a situation they've got going on#i think it's awful for them both to be like that with each other. but they're like a candle and brother im a moth#as characters though#ness is legitimately one of my favorites. his attachment and hysterical behavior have enamoured me since day one#he's very charming to me i like characters who devote themselves to highlighting others#i want to see more of him#i want him to get an awakening since therapy isnt real in the blue lock universe#actually i wish his backstory had gone more in depth abt how his family treated him early on#i feel like what we got was kinda shallow#but then maybe he woke up one day and decided to be a loyal freak. i respect that.#...michael kaiser is a prodigy ng11 striker who plays for bastard munchen or whatever. sorry i dont know that guy#i could talk more abt kaiser but i dont feel like it so thats his wiki entry
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