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[kaedehara--kazuha]

My problem with the writing around the Traveler and the Lyns isn't "the Traveler is mad at characters I like" it's "when and where did we suddenly start considering Childe a close friend"? We threatened to kill him in front of his little brother in his story quest and last time he appeared in the lore we were only keeping the peace with him because Xinyan was there. Why is Paimon suddenly calling him an old friend? When did we start trusting him? That's a lot that suddenly happened off screen that you're asking me to believe, Hoyoverse. This game has too many scenario writers and it shows. I can understand being angry at the Lyns for lying, that's not an issue, but when it's contrasted against calling a Harbinger we've tolerated at best up until this point "old friend" it really doesn't hold up. These scenarios are written by completely different people and you can immediately tell by the fact that we had absolutely nothing to say about him handing over his Vision to us and relying on his Delusion after everything we saw in Inazuma. As if that never happened. As if someone didn't die in front of us from Delusion overuse which was treated like a really big deal at the time. If we're supposed to care about Childe this much all of a sudden wouldn't we object harder to that after what happened to Teppei? It's just another facet of Genshin's wildly inconsistent writing which unfortunately is par for the course with gacha games.

And don't even get me started on how Scara's retcon isn't even being touched on despite having multiple other Harbingers running around here.

[radinclusnicorobin]

Aroace Headcanon of the Day: Monkey D. Luffy from One Piece

I've had planned on doing One Piece Pride icons for a bit, and I decided that today's the day to do it.

I've heard that it's been implied that Luffy is canonically Aroace, or at least Aroace coated. But all I know is that he's the embodiment of "no thoughts, head empty."

I used to hated One Piece before I started watching it. I started watching it last year sometime before the live action show came out. I guess I can say that my past self clowned themselves badly, lol.

On that note, I decided to do something different. I've been using Picsart to make Pride icons and noticed that there was a feature where you can create a shadow in the background of a photo. I might do more icons like these to see if it's something I want to continue doing.

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[riotparty]

Sky and its growing hostility toward the disabled.

I love sky game. I adore the idea and the cosmetics and I love the friends I made in the game. Its been a wonderful experience.

But also one I struggle with a ton. Cause this game is actively hostile toward the disabled.

With the new update on the ui for friendship constellations, I find it harder and harder to turn a blind eye to this.

To start with that, the ui i find is much harder to visually navigate. I genuinely have a hard time telling who is lit and who isn't. I cant easily tell who has lit me back either. Not only that but they recombined the buttons for both the realm ui and the friendship one. And instead added a switch. Its honestly a mess this new change that disregards people with visual issues and processing issues.

And also to continue, the idle timer is also a horrible change. I get they want to promote more interactions but they are actively excluding people with this change who are too busy or just unable to actively play sky for long. Having the idle timer makes these new idle spots they keep adding useless!

Many of my friends have burnout from sky from having to actively play. I have burnout too. And I know I and some of my other friends also struggle too due to mental illness preventing us from trying. These idle spots would be amazing for us if we didn't have the idle timer.

Another issue is graphical options! There's barely any! No one can adjust how much bloom they want. No one can adjust the brightness. Some areas are so horrifically dark I have to turn my brightness up only to turn it back down in others cause the bloom and light is searingly painful. Not to mention the issues with flashing in dark areas with firework staff and spells and certain emotes. (And worse yet from hackers spamming bright effects)

As a side issue to tack onto this: there is no way to report unlit people either so we have no way to report hackers who are smart enough not to let people light them which is a legitimate danger when one of them decides to spam bright effects.

I could list more issues like the unavoidable camera spin toward a spirit when you unfortunately get stuck into the memory process you didn't initiate, the inability to adjust the ui in anyway to accommodate for that specific person, that fact they don't even have a proper feedback center and urge to to dump whatever you have to them on their socials where it could very easily be ignored or drowned out due to the nature of socials.

On one hand sky is such a wonderfully lovely game where you can make life long friendships and can bridge the gap between distances, but the other is that this game is growing more and more harsh toward people with disabilities. There is nothing in this game that is accommodating EXCEPT like the audio sliders they added which should have been a thing from the start.

So again dont get me wrong I love sky game. I made such wonderful friends in the game and the seasons are fun. But im tired of i and other disableds being thrown under the bus with these updates. Literally all of these (aside from the hacker issue) could be fixed if they allowed people multiple options of adjustments that they can use to better their own experience with the game. And also removing the idle timer altogether.

So there is that! Pardon is some parts dont make sense or dont seem right or seem disconnected. Im trying my best to put my thoughts together for this.

Ok to reblog but ableds dont fucking clown on this post. And I mean both physically and mentally abled cause disabled accounts for both.

EDIT: I encourage you guys to read the notes and whatever additions I add cause there are good additions about this. Thank you.

[kaedehara--kazuha]

Disabled Genshin Impact Characters

Chongyun - Yang energy abundance has parallels to bipolar disorder; spicy food intolerance

Baizhu - Chronic pain and weakness

Beidou - Missing an eye

Childe - PTSD (It can be inferred that Kazuha and Ei also likely have this, but Childe is the only one who it’s explicit for)

Xiao - Karmic debt has parallels to chronic pain

Signora - Loss of control over her fire magic has parallels to chronic inflammation; cryo Delusion is an assistive device

Aether and Lumine - Missing limbs (wings); wind glider is a mobility aid

Lisa - Curse functions like a terminal illness and gives her symptoms similar to chronic fatigue

Sayu - Implies she’s an adult or young adult with dwarfism however people with dwarfism are divided on whether or not it is truly a disability similar to deafness

Venti - Alcoholic (addiction is a disability despite how society treats it)

Qiqi - Chronically stiff joints

Collei - Elezar is specifically called a chronic illness and has parallels to ALS and leprosy.

Layla - Either chronic fatigue or narcolepsy

Alhaitham - Misophonia as implied by his one sticker, he made his own headphones to deal with this

Wriothesley - Protanopia (red-weak colorblindness)

I just think it’s really awesome of this game to have so many canonically disabled characters who still get to be cool and badass and useful and play major parts in the story. You don't see that often in epic fantasy settings.