#kind of? because this is from the end of sigewinne's story quest

[boilingrain]

fruits, both of them

[chenyuvale]

violence 1-25

the character everyone gets wrong

-diluc

a compelling argument for why your fave would never top or bottom

-[redacted] cant top bc 1) he doesnt have the self confidence for such and 2) He Is Not Straight in anyway shape or form so even if he is with a woman That Woman is Topping Him.

screenshot or description of the worst take you've seen on tumblr

-it wasnt on tumblr but i saw this zhongchi take where it was a mini comic of them, on a bench, childe doing the adhd leg bounce as one does and the second panel was zhongli forcibly stopping childe's leg from bouncing (one zhonglis the lord of geo so even if childe wanted or NEEDED to keep his leg bouncing itd be near impossible that cannot be a fun sensation and two Literally dont do that. Dont do that.) the third panel was childe looking at zhongli with hearts surrounding and all the comments were like "me and who 🥺" and good GOD. PEOPLE.....

what was the last straw that made you finally block that annoying person?

actually they blocked me first bc i commented smth along the lines of 'stop worshipping mental illness....' ive yet to block myself on tumblr at least

worst discord server and why

[answer is found in another ask]

which ship fans are the most annoying?

.. short answer: all the Popular ones

long answer: zhongchi, kavetham, neuvithesley, kaeluc, thomato, chiluc and chaeya are also up there goddamn,,, andddddd most lumi ships too tbh,,

what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them?

-i actually dunno, kujou sara maybe??? shrug, all the characters i hate are bc of my personal takes of canon

common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about

-diluc, thats it.

worst part of canon

-end user license agreement

worst part of fanon

-almost everything i hate it here

number of fandom-related words you've filtered

-at least ten but most likely more

the unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them

-baizhu. WHY DID KAVEH THE FOUR STAR ON HIS RELEASE GET MOREEEEEEEEEE ATTENTION AND LOVE THEN THE GUY WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR SINCE FUCKING LAUNCH I AM SALTY.

worst blorboficiation

-,,diluc

that one thing you see in fics all the time

-baizhu being there in the Having a Baby fics

that one thing you see in fanart all the time

-cishet takes on baizhu + diluc im sick of them

you can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc)

-neuvithesley bc ... they have No romantic chemistry at ALL worse than zhongchi and also neuvi is. like so much older than him and yall treat this like you would as if they were the same age and like i get the appeal for ships like that dont get me wrong i liked venkae for a time being BUT treating it the same as if they are both human and both mortals where as one is not is just Wrong. also neuvi sent wrio to prison! neuvi has personally Known Wrio since he was a kid and neuvis always been and always will be This "Age" (in a physical sense) ALSO SIGEWINNE ISNT. THIER DAUGHTER....

there should be more of this type of fic/art

more baizhluc pls... im starving

it's absolutely criminal that the fandom has been sleeping on...

baizhu,,,,, and his shippability with literally anyone who isnt zhongli,,,

you're mad/ashamed/horrified you actually kind of like...

wrioney sdjhgsd i guess

part of canon you found tedious or boring

most of the quests

part of canon you think is overhyped

abyss its too focused on and sure i get focused on it too but like,, theres more to the game,,, care more about hte story and characters orz

your favorite part of canon that everyone else ignores

the way he says these specific lines

diluc is a smug ass sly ass motherfucker

ship you've unwillingly come around to

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i dunno

topic that brings up the most rancid discourse

kaeluc! :3 <- guy who believes the two of them are exes. you can imagine how that goes for me

common fandom complaint that you're sick of hearing

"The rewards are too little" bitch stfu we arent here to get spoiled and you know that

[chronosdawn]

Finally managed to catch up with the Fontaine Archon Quest now that I'm back from holiday. Going to put some thoughts on it below the cut (and fair warning they will include spoilers).

I have somewhat mixed feelings overall, I do think they were able to lay down some very interesting story threads that I trust Genshin's writing team to deliver on in the next update but I thought the gameplay aspect was kind of meh. Maybe I'm missing something but the latter part of chapter 3 felt like a bit of a slog to get through because the Fortress of Meropide was completely lacking in exploration or enemy fights to break up the story and I don't think the investigation of the "hidden rules" had nearly enough payoff to be worth doing.

On a more positive note, I really liked that the traveller was able to see what happened to Childe through his vision as the connection between characters and their visions is definitely one of the more interesting parts of Genshin's worldbuilding to me. I did also enjoy getting to see Lyney and co again and, putting the gameplay aspect aside, I think the look and graphics of the Fortress of Meropide are splendid.

In terms of characters, I ended up liking Arlecchino's introduction way more than I thought I would. At the moment she honestly seems like one of the more reasonable Harbingers we've met (although the competition isn't exactly strong on that front) but based on Childe and Wanderer's voicelines about her, I'm going to reserve full judgement until after the end of Act IV.

My opinions on Neuvillette and Furina haven't changed in that I'm fond of both of them which I honestly wasn't expecting from the very first trailer we got.

As for the new introductions in this patch, I'm not entirely sure what to make of Sigewinne; she seemed nice overall but some of her lines were er... interesting.

This might be a somewhat unpopular opinion but I didn't warm to Wriostheley much at all, which is a shame as I was expecting him to be one of my favourites from Fontaine when I first saw his promo art. It might just be that I was so sick of endlessly running around the Fortress by the time he got a lot of his big moments that they ended up being wasted on me. I may revise my opinion on him after his story quest gets released but I think I may need a while to recover before I willingly enter the Fortress again.