#like OH??? hoyoverse???

[iridescentmirrorsgenshin]

Alhaitham labelling his conversation with kaveh in a ‘secluded’ place as ‘private’ is such a small detail but it’s something deep and profound to me

the fact that we get fragments of Alhaitham and kaveh’s private life in flashback scenes, with their shared domesticity of their home in cyno’s second story quest, and now their conversation where they serendipitously ran into each other, just alludes to this greater intimacy as a whole that is unknowable to the player

I think this is greatly exemplified in sethos’s voice line about Alhaitham and kaveh, where the two are paired together as a set, and any potential eavesdroppers cannot fully overhear, or know, of the conversations between the two, or what the privacy they share consists of – only that Alhaitham and kaveh are inextricably linked, and are integral to the other

I just love the writing for these two and how this voice line is relevant to the progression of their in-game relationship, as always I’m so interested to see future interactions <333

[ri4naaa]

oh my DAYS. cw for slight nudity ig . i guess.

[chimeya]

couldn't afford her skin, might as well have my own !!!

[ironunderstands]

Genuinely I think headcanon edits are extremely fun, I just think people should stop trying to fight against the original art style like their life depends on it. Some great ideas get absolutely ruined when this happens. Like at least personally, I think drawing a semi-realistic nose on a cartoony face just won’t look good or make sense no matter how nice that nose looks disconnected from the whole drawing because it doesn’t suit the proportions of the original art.

Like be confident, make your own fanart! Your style is great, and trying to glue it to a different one does not do it justice at all! I understand drawing is hard, trust me I’m ass at it, but like, yall have talent, stop weighing yourselves down by the limitations of the original piece. Fuck it, redraw the face entirely, you can do better, I know you can :)

[blazingblorbos]

It’s.. fascinating in a brand new way (a terribly disappointing way) to see HoYo fumble the bag this fast.

I was contemplating making a post about this a day or 2 ago, mostly about the Natlan explosion, but then Moze’s drip marketing happened… and suffice to say I think there’s a bit more substance for me to comment on 🫠

I’ll start with Natlan and try to articulate the thoughts properly, since both my own thoughts and my intake of others’ views has had a couple days to settle in my mind:

I wanna preface with the fact that I love Hoyoverse. I really, really do (I desperately wanna work for them, actually, lol. It’s a dream of mine). And I think that’s obvious to people who have seen a couple of my posts.

But it’s precisely because I love them so much, hold them in such a high regard, and respect mostly everything about them, that their recent performance has just left me deeply…. Disappointed.

Sheer, RAW disappoinment makes up the bulk of my feelings and attitude towards what they’ve been doing recently: which is not listening to their community where it REALLY matters. I was present when the uproar over Sumeru happened. I was disappointed then too, but at that time I more-so existed as a confused outsider observing what was going on (I am a poc but not SWANA). Everything about it — from the large-scale disrespectful mix of many cultures, to the 💀 TERRIBLE idea to not pronounce Tighnari’s name correctly AT ALL, to the abhorent lack of melanin in characters (that are DIRECTLY inspired by figures hailing from African countries) — was… bad. REALLLYYY bad. But I’ll be honest when I say: the way I rationalized it in my brain was “Well, they did add more dark-skinned characters to the roster! I guess this is just their version of ‘darker skin’ ” (which, by itself is already a terrible thing BECAUSE they take care to try and represent real world cultures faithfully).

So the fact that it’s happened again. And worse (SOMEHOW⁉️⁉️) is something that’s making me realize how lackluster it was before. And I am desperately rooting for a change. Fool me once, shame on me type shit genuinely.

Now.. in regards to Moze (Star Rail)’s EN VA 🫠. Everything I know about that man I learned in the past 24 hours. So all I will say is that EVEN if he’s worked to better himself, having been BLACKLISTED from the industry (BECAUSE THE CRIMES WENT ON FOR A DECADE!! MIND YOU) means it is way too fuckin soon to hire someone like that again 💀. They took action against Tighnari’s original VA, so that they’ve done this now is… weird…??? I’m just really confused, yo.

Edit, as of July 25, 2024: Chris made a post on his twitter claiming he has chosen to step down as the VA. 🫡 Step 1 is a W, congratulations everyone 🎉

[gaydexvocaloid]

ngl this one is a “target audience? me..”

[hahaoatmeal]

That is NOT Skirk. That is not Skirk #affirm oh my god why does she fucking look like that I mean genshin designs have been pretty boring for a while now but oh my god. What the fuck. I thought she was gonna look cool and abyssal. Why does she look like generic anime girl #283 that you’d find in any other piece of media. Oh my god she was supposed to look COOL

I saw the beta design leaks and I was just ignoring them and hoping the final design was going to be very different and unfortunately it Was but in the wrong direction. Why does she LOOK LIKE THAT

[revalito]

30 min monday sketch with @mitchmotch !! (I ran out of time again)

stop looking at me with them big ol' eyes

[beeholyshit]

Me when I make a second hsr oc to kiss my man

[zhongscara]

haterisms below

i dont think any male hsr character post dan heng il has been appealing to me in any way 😭 maybe gallagher but he looks a little too much like mccree and Well

[iridescentmirrorsgenshin]

thank you to an odd textual mystery for kaveh hangout fulfilment!! kaveh and alhaitham dually creating a conspiracy because of their teenage habit of writing in books is something so deep and personal to me

kaveh initially circles the killer's name out of habit of annotating, but does so in permanent ink, not beating the urchin of kshahrewar allegations, creating a spoiler for the next reader

but without a second circle to create a red herring, courtesy of alhaitham, the conspiracy wouldn't have been started, but,,, alhaitham only draw the circle in the first place because he looked at a book that kaveh was interested in... this sounds.... familiar....

we've come full circle?? but now the two graffitiing in books is silly and doesn't have the potential to create a fall out because they can now talk it out!! <3333

[babyloniastreasure]

genshin players are suffering from the Astolfo Effect for the first time and it shows

[nightinngales]

sometimes i just wanna message someone i’ve been following for a while like “i am Fascinated by whatever is going on with your blog” because i feel like i’m watching them descend into a new hyperfixation in real time but even if we were mutuals that seems a bit too forward

[endlessolo]

I am once again going insane over the idea that focalors was very likely erinnyes because wdym furina's birthday is on the same day as fontanalia, “the festival of the fountains” in ancient rome? AKA what the fontaine film festival was inspired AKA the very same festival that celebrates erinnyes and the lochknight? wdym furina's weapon and mats are directly related to erinnyes? wdym "erinnyes" is not actually erinnyes's real name?

[m1d-45]

KAEYA IS SOOOO THE GUY EVER. he’s my boy girlfriend. my scrimblo. my eep glorpy. if/when that kaeya ai gets released i WILL be losing my shit. i will simply cease to exist. oh god i need to write ideas for kaeya now. perhaps a princess tutu-esque au with reader as duck. but then again diluc fits a bit more into the fakir role… but that doesn’t matter if i just mash everything together and pick out the bits i like

ANYWAYS. kaeya alberich the world - teddy anon

you’re so real for all of this, and i don’t even know the reference. you 🤝 me : “mash everything together and pick out the bits i like”

[hungnitan]

Holy sh*t HaiKaveh feels like chaotic version of Thomato 🤣🤣🤣

I really can't wait to play Haitham story quest !