#sort of ig

[malcontentonline]

The lyrics here are from Alex G's Gnaw which I feel very strongly is their song.

[crazylittlejester]

I love how you have Warriors, an incredibly intelligent strategist and well respected captain in the army, Twilight, who is incredibly fierce, strong and loyal and an absolute force to be reckoned with, and Sky, the man who killed the demon king with his bare fucking hands at seventeen years old, who’s arguably the best swordsman in the entire chain and most likely the father of the royal bloodline, and you have these three incredibly powerful heroes who you’d THINK together would be some kind of powerhouse who could take down anything they put their minds to, but the reality is when you stick em in a room together they become the gods’s biggest morons and can’t accomplish shit

[66sharkteeth]

some art for the void btw

[zero-is-nebulous]

Uuuuh I've been harbouring this new intrest for a while and now you're getting content for it

[badscienceman]

Tbch I've seen some takes various places that make me wince. It feels like people are not examining Jimmy's perception of the people around him and instead falling into the trap of his unreliable narration. Especially in reference to Anya.

For example, people reiterating that a nurse shouldn't be upset by the sight of blood. I've been somewhat confused by this point. I thought it was pretty clear she's nauseous because she's pregnant. Not to mention, I might be forgetting, but I don't think blood was what she expressed discomfort with? It was Curly's sounds of pain, right? If blood is specifically mentioned, please let me know because I feel like I must have missed it, it's brought up so much.

Back to my point, though: If she's under- or untrained that's thanks to the company. She wanted to go to med school. Jimmy even says so, though he frames it as if she couldn't get in due to some fault of her own when it's clear it's due to her financial position and the company not giving a fuck about its workers.

[bi-chimneyy]

when did teenagers get so squeamish about kinks? like did I miss something, when did the rest of you stop making dirty jokes all the time

[arachnidsims]

doomed yuri :(

[radioactivedotcom]

so what do we gotta do to get those plant bots and robochicken items from your simblreen modules set post ?

check my downloads tag. ya might have to go through a few pages but it's there somewhere.

[nathanialhowe]

my silly rabbits wtf is this

[20w14a]

I love this stupid thing too much I need to show it off NOW

[demigirl-demigod]

Soooo I have a crush (for the first time in 5 years) on a guy (for the first time in 7 years) and he’s another interpreter that I work with twice a week at the college where I work.

So I just accepted a job as a substitute interpreter for a class tomorrow morning and I hate to admit it but it was half because I knew he interprets that class so there was a 50% chance that I’d be working with him (it’s a 3 hour class so two interpreters are assigned and take turns, so either him or his team called out).

Wellll I know I’ve got it bad because I got the confirmation and I’m going to be interpreting with his team and I am…very disappointed. I hate this, crushes are so stupid. And like, why do I care so much ugh. But also, like this guy is the reason I’m getting my life together because he told me I was anal retentive (not in a mean way, just as an observation, it didn’t sound mean in context) and I was like oh dang he’s right. I’m ruining my life trying to do everything right all the time and make sure everyone likes me and no one is ever mad at me and I could just. Not do that. And he also told me I was a good interpreter and encouraged me to accept more work in more different areas and figure out what I like doing and he can be brutally honest and he’s a really good interpreter so I actually believe him and so I’ve started pushing out of my comfort zone and doing more work and trying to be less worried about what other people think of me and just be happy all because I have a stupid crush on this stupid boy

[malcontentonline]

More Necron doodles :3

[whiteboardartstudios]

Has anyone considered what it would be like if Xingqiu had a villain arc?

[EDIT: If you do not like death, scary things, villain/corruption arcs etc. DO NOT READ THIS like I did not intend for this alternate universe to end up this way but it did so umm yeah sorry about that]

So I was thinking about Christina Vee's cover of Wolf In Sheep's Clothing and thought, "wait what if that was Xingqiu" (Christina Vee is Xingqiu's EN voice actor)

Like, maybe Traveler and co. went into the Abyss, something went wrong, Xingqiu was left behind, and everybody thought that he was dead.

Of course, everyone was devastated. But the Abyss is too powerful for them to be able to do anything to save him, so the only thing they could do is continue on with their journey and defeat the big bad, for Xingqiu, and for all of the other people that had been negatively impacted by said big bad (whether it's the Tsaritsa, Celestia, the Abyss, or something else, you decide). They beat the big bad and restore peace to Teyvat, and everybody begins rebuilding after the climax of the story.

Then time skip to years later, after the main story of Genshin, a mysterious new vigilante-like character appears in Liyue. Dangerous criminals are found dead in deserted alleys in the middle of the night, with reported sightings of a shadowy figure going to/exiting the crime scene (because come on, someone was murdered. Even if said someone is a dangerous criminal, it's still murder) moments before/after the supposed time of the crime. Not just dangerous criminals either; robbers, treasure hoarders, bandits, and other similar groups are attacked as well, by the same shadow.

At first, there were some mixed opinions about this new person; some people think that they are a hero trying to keep the people of Liyue safe, but others are suspicious and think that there's something fishy about all of this.

Then things start to escalate. The murders become more and more frequent, and people begin to get targeted for even the smallest of crimes. The Qixing had been secretly investigating this mysterious vigilante previously, but the new turn of events forced them to take more drastic measures: curfews are set, Millieth patrols increased, and a special task force, led by Lady Yelan herself, was assigned to track down and potentially deal with this new threat to Liyue.

But no matter what the Qixing tried, they couldn't stop the mystery person. They evaded and overpowered everything the Qixing threw at them, and are strong enough to defeat even Vision holders with ease. Witnesses and survivors report that the figure fights with no mercy; and yet they possess an unsettling, otherworldly element of grace and elegance.

Panic and fear are at an all-time high, nearly on par with the effect of the crazy series of events that occurred during the Traveler's time in Liyue. Whispers on the streets told of a vengeful swordsman coming back from the dead, having lost their humanity, returning only to subject the world to their own twisted sense of justice.

Coincidentally, this is when Chongyun decides to visit Liyue Harbor for a little bit and take a break from his training with either Shenhe or Xiao in the mountains (I've seen this in some age-up AUs and I really like it, so it's here now. Also, I feel like the supposed death of his best friend would have impacted him quite heavily, so he might have retreated into the mountains to make himself stronger so that he can better protect the people that he cares about. Maybe we could have some interesting parallels to the Xingqiu Abyss "death" scene as well, maybe Chongyun lost control of his Yang energy or something, and now he's doing everything in his power to make sure that he won't fail anyone else like how he failed Xingqiu. So much angst potential.) (Also it's up to y'all if you want to see this as platonic or romantic, personally I like the idea of platonic soulmates quite a lot, mostly because I'm not the biggest fan of romance haha. But if people want to read this as a romantic story that's fine too :D At the end of the day, we're just all people who enjoy Genshin Impact, and I think that's pretty cool :D). Anyways, Chongyun gets the entire situation explained to him by his friends, and Chongyun being Chongyun, he of course decides to help out (despite everybody telling him repeatedly just how dangerous this mystery person is). In the end, though, they couldn't convince Chongyun to stay put, so they join in to hopefully have a better chance of surviving their investigation. I think some of his friends (Hu Tao especially – she's actually a lot more emotionally mature than what she lets on, and I feel like she would've gotten some experience in how people deal with grief due to her job as a funeral parlor director) might have figured out that he's getting Xingqiu flashbacks from all this, not only because of Xingqiu's whole chivalry and justice thing, but also because of the remaining survivor's guilt and other angst that could have come from Xingqiu's supposed death.

The group gets in contact with the Qixing, and since they already know some members (like Ningguang, Keqing, Yelan, and Ganyu) from their adventures with the Traveler, plus the fact that they are all Vision users and therefore have a higher chance of surviving an encounter (I'm imagining Chongyun, Xiangling, Hu Tao, perhaps Xinyan and Yun Jin, or even Yanfei. Normally I would include Xingqiu as well, but...well...yeah.), the Qixing allows them to assist the special task force in charge of investigating the mystery person – but not without warning the group repeatedly about the dangerous nature of the assignment, to which Chongyun replies by saying that they know what they're getting themselves into, and that they want to help protect Liyue.

Que a bunch of investigation scenes where they try to track down the mystery person with the other Qixing officers. Strangely, after they narrowly escaped a run-in with the shadowy figure, the number of new murder cases dropped significantly. Instead, their opponent started leaving messages at the scene of the crime, containing threats, taunts, and riddles, all elegantly worded in a way that is... very familiar.

(The messages were also almost illegible to the average person. The Millieth had thought the messages were some sort of special cipher at first, but the friend group, having experienced Xingqiu's dreadful handwriting on multiple occasions, managed to decode it.)

What's more, the messages seem to be targeting Chongyun and his friends in particular.

It is never a good sign when such a powerful foe takes notice of you.

Despite the many dangers, they press on, and eventually, the messages led them to an old, run-down warehouse.

It had once belonged to the Feiyun Commerce Guild, but was abandoned after repeated reports of spirit sightings and strange happenings around that one specific warehouse, a few months before the mystery person arrived in Liyue Harbor.

It didn't help that the warehouse was originally used to store special strands of silk flowers, as well as the various other silks produced by the Guild. After Xingqiu's death, another member of the Guild had been assigned to oversee the silk trade... but it had never been the same since.

All this time, the squad had been slowly connecting the dots between the many clues left behind by the mystery person. A swordsperson, with enough skill and power to best Vision holders, enacting their own view of justice upon wrongdoers? The gracefully composed messages, written in barely decipherable script, and now the warehouse?

This can't be purely coincidental; their opponent had carefully laid out a web of connections that only a few select people can understand.

There is only one person that could be behind all of this.

...But even if he is alive after all these years, why would he do this?

Cut to the group arriving in the warehouse. They knew very well that they are very likely walking directly into a trap, but this investigation has become about more than just protecting Liyue from a new threat; there are now personal stakes involved.

Of course, they were ambushed. Pieces of the roof fell in at random intervals, support beams collapsed of their own accord, and the air was filled with dust and smoke. All that stuff.

Chongyun was separated from the rest of the group and was trying to find his way back to them when a familiar voice rang out from behind him.

This is where the Wolf In Sheep's Clothing cover comes in; I just imagine Xingqiu singing that angrily while Chongyun just freaks out over what the heck happened to his best friend, because not only is he alive and very much not dead, also went on a deadly rampage throughout Liyue just murdering people???

So the story from Xingqiu's side goes like this:

Back when he followed the Traveler and co. into the Abyss and they thought he was dead, NOPE he's actually still alive, trying his best to survive and hoping that someone would come looking for him. But they never came.

The Abyss has a way of changing people, twisting their minds and turning them into something much more dangerous. And to Xingqiu, it appeared as if his friends had abandoned him, left him to fend for himself in the dark, unyielding Abyss. It corrupted his sense of justice, and despite his best efforts to stay true to his past ideals of chivalry and valor, not even the strongest of mortals can resist the power of the Abyss.

When he finally emerged from the depths, he returned to a world that had moved on without him, forgotten him even. Wiped him away like an insignificant speck of dust.

He slipped back into Liyue Harbor in the dead of night, and scared away the workers in the warehouse. At this point, I'm not sure if he's even human anymore. Childe was in the Abyss for 3 Abyss months and look at him. He's Childe. Need I say more? And in this alternate universe Xingqiu was in there for like at least a year? Or more?

Anyways, Wolf In Sheep's Clothing is just Xingqiu being angry and stuff at Chongyun (who was actually there when Xingqiu was separated from the others in the Abyss, so Xingqiu's like extra angry at him and probably the Traveler too). As of now I can see two ways this could end: one is that Evil Xingqiu gets "Magic of Friendship"ed and gets a redemption arc, and the other ending is while Evil Xingqiu and Chongyun fight, Chongyun is eventually forced to come to the realization that the person that he is fighting is no longer Xingqiu, and that his best friend isn't coming back. So in this ending he defeats Evil Xingqiu (maybe using his Pure Yang thing or a cool exorcism trick he learned from Xiao/Shenhe), and maybe he exorcises the Abyss energy out of the ghost or something, and the spirit passes on in peace (perhaps helped along by Hu Tao).

I just realized that a lot of this is like REALLY out of character (even for Abyss-ed people), and honestly, this turned out to be WAY darker than I originally imagined. Like, the original plan is just "Xingqiu gets Abyssed and now he is angry and decides to become evil batman and Chongyun is confused" and we ended up with this. How has this post gone so far off the track. Like, what.

IDK I still spent like 2 hours writing this tho so I'm still gonna share it

If there's any trigger warnings or content warnings that I missed in the tags please tell me this is my first time writing/posting anything that comes even close to warranting a tw or a cw so help would be very much appreciated. Like especially if you compare this to my last Genshin post which is literally just "what if Alhaitham insults Kaveh in flower language and Kaveh has no idea and just puts the flowers in a vase".

I sincerely apologize for the word wall that I have unintentionally summoned.

[EDIT: Also while I was tagging this I just realized that I left out an important point from the main post so here it is:

If anybody is like SERIOUSLY uncomfortable with this post, I WILL take it down (please tell me if that happens). It doesn't matter if I spent two hours writing this, I would rather not make anybody uncomfortable. Honestly I'm also quite scared of what would happen if I post this (if you read the tags you'll see me panicking over this lol), because while I know the fandom likes angst or something, I don't know if there's any underlying themes in this story idea that will seriously unnerve some people. This is not proofread or betaread, so I don't have a second opinion on this post. So yeah please tell me if there's something I need to say. But please don't be toxic in the comments or anything because words can hurt a lot (even when it's not directed at you) and if you hate this post just like block me or something instead of making a long rant in the comments. Thanks :)]

I have no idea if I've gone overboard with that edit up there (most of it is probably just me overthinking lol) but idk this is my first time posting something like this so I just want to make sure we can still maintain a safe space in this little corner of the internet ig. And I think it's also because the Genshin fandom is very big and I have no idea who would see this, so... yeah.

That said, have a nice day/night and I hope that this post does not offend anybody or make anybody seriously uncomfortable in any way because holy heck am I scared to post this–

Like, this started as a "Oooo what if villain arc??" to whatever THIS is.

[disconnected-dragon]

i should start collecting nendroids again, that was fun.

[docsfallfromgrace]

being mentally ill is do exhausting

no im not "shy" im depressed

you stopped talking to me so i stopped talking to you. suddenly im the bad guy

yes i know im "wasting my potential" but i have very few reasons to even get out of bed

the day i can leave this house to be on my own is the day i will start to feel better i think

[daftpatience]

haruhi is forever in my heart a sort of boy thingy