#im rly goin thru it

[reverera]

genshin 3.3 scara spoilers bc im crazy and literally CANT get my mind off of ghis shit

disclaimer i havent played through the patch but i HAVE read up on what i need to know and i probably wont be playing it for a while. im really pissed off. i don’t think this patch was given the respect and care it deserved.

my problem is literally this: things don’t add up. and not just in an annoying ‘something is off’ kind of way. no. in a blatantly misleading way, like the rug is being pulled from under my feet and i’m expected to stand there and let myself hit the ground. facts don’t line up. the timeline of events isn’t consistent. the characters involved and their motives don’t make sense in context.

before i keep going, i want to say this. i’m obviously giving the devs and writers their due credit. these jobs arent easy and, especially in a story with as many characters and moving parts as genshin, inconsistencies here and there are inevitable.

that’s NOT the issue here.

as u go back and read what we had on scara’s past before 3.3, ull start to see how confusing and contradictory the 3.3 version of events is from what existed in the aged notes on tatarasuna and the ‘husk of opulent dreams’ artifact set descriptions. note that this information on scara’s life, as well as scara’s overall design and personality, has been in development since the game began. his first appearance was during the unreconciled stars event. thats version 1.1. 3.3 feels like it’s telling a completely different story, some wacky dream version of what we first read about, and it’s… it’s bad. to the point where i was stunned by the amount of detail and clarity lost. i puzzled over why hoyo would make it harder for themselves like this. because that’s what this does- they had a timeline already. it fit into the overarching plot just fine. the added and altered details, like niwa, like dottore’s inexplicable presence literally everywhere, don’t contribute depth to the existing story. they don’t give us clarity. at all.

for example: the katsuragi/niwa being two separate people situation. it can be funny, sure, but yall. niwa was not in the notes. he didn’t exist before the irodori festival. and if the notes were a witness’ (kinjirou’s) record of what happened within the tatarasuna group during that time, why wasn’t their freaking superior and kunikuzushi’s closest friend mentioned in any of them, while a supposed nobody like katsuragi was? according to 3.3, niwa was one of the sources of scara’s betrayals… but the old notes heavily imply that the trigger was the murder of katsuragi. why was katsuragi’s conflict with nagamasa cheapened like this? literally what was the reason, aside from finding some way to drag dottore into it?

tbh i personally believe that there’s a chance katsuragi was always meant to be the trigger/kunikuzushi’s closest person/the one behind the unique brown-haired npc character. katsuragi was too involved in kunikuzushi’s life and the incident at the furnace to be just some guy, while niwa… barely makes an appearance before 3.3. i wonder what the reason was for bringing niwa so high up in importance. just because he’s a kaedehara? (honestly i’d assumed katsuragi was the kaedehara) btw, if scara wanted revenge for niwa ‘leaving’… why did he ultimately spare the isshin art along with amenoma? why did he even wipe out the other sword arts, like- if we take these events to be the truth, what purpose did that serve him? am i missing something here?

‘he was erased from everyone’s memory’ reads to me like a cheap excuse to get away with being inconsistent. “oh the timeline is just fucky” no. time and memories can be really interesting themes to explore… but not when they’re misused at the expense of the characters involved.

i know a lot of people came out of 3.3 enjoying it. and that’s fine. i’m not coming at yall.

through my understanding, tho, it’s obvious that this is not what was originally intended for scaramouche. it leaves a bitter taste in my mouth. he was (is) a beautiful character… he deserved attention and care. he deserved his story faithfully told.

did the individual(s) who initially created and helped develop scaramouche leave the company? did the new writers hired for sumeru not have enough information? did they decide to just say fuck it and do their own thing? did they dislike what was established for scara before? was it management meddling with the creative process? was it crunch and an impossible deadline? was it some lazy way of tying up loose threads for the next act? was it spite? is there more to it? i think it must be a mix of multiple things.

doesn’t matter now. all i know is i don’t care for whatever it is. it’s already been difficult to find the energy to play through the story given how depressing sumeru was for me in general, and this definitely didn’t help. i’m going to be here blissfully creating my own content following the original sources and ignoring this patch ❤️

anyway who will even read thjs far thanks if u did i guess

[kaspers-kanvas]

hiii i decided to animate the urusei yatsura meme ft the Guys,,, this took soo long and i had to learn like 10000 new things butttt im rly happy w it!!!

[vampiregerard]

past lives // ls dunes

[majorasnightmare]

once i get to malenias phase 2 with regularity its OVERRRRR

[lottieratworld]

how the hell do u meet ppl irl. how do ppl do that shit

[lesbianboyfriend69]

my sexual desires are morally neutral and asking people to participate in them is morally neutral and people saying yes or no to those requests is morally neutral. my status as a caring and responsible sexual partner is not compromised by my desires or by people's reaction to or participation in them !!! my desires can exist without being reciprocated and fulfilled, and this doesn't mean i'm wrong for wanting those things. my desires can be reciprocated and fulfilled and i don't need to feel shame about involving another person. i can trust people when they say yes or no and i can take their engagement with my sexuality at face value and in good faith. my desires don't need to be justified and i don't need to apologize for wanting things. as long as i prioritize consent and kindness in all my sexual interactions it'll be ok !! it'll be ok !!!

[rinhaler]

the fall of the house of usher AU with the todorokis

[irl]

google search results for how 2 stop bein INSANE ovr a crush tyty

[orcelito]

Now two nights in a row, when left without a fan for sound padding, I have set IAMX music on shuffle to do it instead

My own personal lullaby... the really depressing and often quite sexual music that is just low-key enough to be Perfect to put me to sleep.

My stats for this artist at the end of the year are going to be insane. I don't know if I've ever listened to any one artist this extensively.

[soupkiddo]

y'all ever feel like you don't have the bandwidth to be a human? I feel like my brain was mean to be in some form of deep sea fish. I am not built to make phone calls and check emails. I am meant to swim around and subsist on marine snow and the occasional whalefall. it is cruel to make a snailfish schedule appointments.

[sleephearts-archived]

knowing dat oreos hav been purposefully engineered 2 be yummy + addictive (salt + sugar + cream [fat] combo is actually like drugs 2 ur brain) doesn't make me want them any less !!!!!

[bonyato]

Sorry abt the occasional digiposting as of late, im coming to terms w/ the fact that it's starting to grow on me orz

[monsterbisexual]

things have been scary n hard n a lot but i do feel good sometimes..theres good things too they might not seem like big things or as meaningful but it still matters n makes a difference! things might get scarier n harder etc overall n probs will at least sometimes.. even when it feels like things shld be easy theyre usually not but im trying ! n thats smth i suppose

[xoshepard]

at one point whenever i would make picrews of myself i would make them with one single tear like

and like. mood.

[yumenosakiacademy]

every1 has a story. every1s lived their own life full of happy memories n disparities both. but do u ever think of how many tales r never told? how u will never kno the joy some1 felt at their 1st baseball game? or their miraculous successes in their high school yrs? their somber yrs whilst their loved one had an illness? the sheer love n light of their 1st love? the highs n lows of human life, but sometimes their stories dont get told at all b4 they die. u never can kno everything abt every1 who u meet or see, n sometimes ppl jus fade in2 the background. or there's no1 left after them 2 pass down their accomplishments, their memories, their story. n isnt tht jus so sad? tht sometimes a person's storybook just ends, n is shoved in2 the corner of a metaphorical closet, never 2 b read or known [again]?

[pctaldrunk]

hnnn emo for no reason again but like good? bad? idk??