#sq moments

[kandismon]

redrawing swanqueen screencaps to practise the characters part 2/∞

(i love them so much someone needs to stop me please)

[swanqueenelmaxshadowhunters]

[daeley]

[lotsofsq]

sq my sweet boy. i like his brain empty face :]

[ID copied in alt text: a drawing page with four drawings on it. the first is sq in his executive uniform, he’s tilting his head and smiling happily, he is surrounded by hearts and emphasis lines. the next is a close up of his eye, it’s squinting in a smile and he’s got thick eyebrows. the next is just his head and neck, his face has a blank smile and is slightly walleyed. he has far away birds next to him. the last is a drawing labeled “Makeup! on SQ!” and it is exactly as described. it’s his face but with grey tones indicating makeup on his eyes, cheeks, and lips. he has sparkles around and is smiling.]

[genshinmp3]

All Passed With the Rain from The Shimmering Voyage Vol. 4 Dimeng Yuan, Qian Ding, HOYO-MiX

[sophieswundergarten]

Things I think the MBS kids would dress up as

Reynie - Sheet ghost. Simple, easy, silly, and you can take it off whenever you want to actually play with your friends. Miss Perumal helps him and thinks it's the cutest thing ever

Sticky - Very specific book character or historical figure. Puts a lot of effort into it, but he talks about it so much his friends know who he is so he doesn't care what anyone else thinks

Kate - Milligan. He isn't sure how to bring Halloween up the first year and ends up putting it off until the day of and when he finally does ask she's like "I've got this" and races upstairs only to come back down in a hat and jacket and boots she stole from his closet

Constance - Says she doesn't want to dress up, but later Rhonda finds her going through her disguises. So she helps her pick out something she really likes, but whenever someone asks Constance replies that she's. Like. The abstract concept of thought. Or something

SQ - He does one of those closet cosplay things where it's not hugely complicated and is an explorer or a naturalist or something where he basically wears slightly fancier clothes (Or thrifted ones if he went with Mr. Benedict) and carries his art bag as a prop

Martina - A famous tetherball player of some kind (Sorry, I don't know anything about sports adfjk)

Jackson and Jillson - Each other :)

[c6jpg]

4.6 yes 👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌

[nekoning]

i'm liking qian qiu so much i can feel the hyperfixation coming

[bi-demon-ium]

i think constance calls sq kid/kiddo even though he's definitely older than her by a not insignificant amount. she thinks its funny. he thinks its... weirdly nice? baffling, though. very baffling. mr benedict thinks its adorable.

[baeshijima]

i dont think anyone understands just how mad i am at the fact i just missed the roses and muskets event, all bc i didnt finish furinas story quest 🧍‍♀️

[narwhalandchill]

yknow as much as the (deserved) inazuma backlash has clearly changed hoyos writing for the better i do think there v much is one completely wrong lesson theyve taken from it and thats incorporating story quests into the AQ sequence (and specifically how theyve never attempted it again)

the concept itself was Never inherently bad. in fact it unironically has a ton of potential bc you could lessen the need for sudden character specific exposition in the AQ AND pull off way more high-stakes and timeline-specific plotlines in the SQs by ensuring players will experience it at the intended place and time.

the issue was that they introduced a bleak depressing inazuma in the middle of a fucking civil war and then went omg AQ on pause!!! lets go to a festival with ayaka and u will be her first friend ever OwO yoimiyas is at least vastly better written and actually involves the VH and sakoku decrees so its always been a favorite of mine but even then im sure theres things worth criticism in there its just been 2 years so i cant analyze it off the top of my head. but the greatest offender has always been the way ayakas comes with such a complete tonal dissonance it just takes you out of the atmosphere they spent the entire act I building up.

and it rly makes me sad bc i Know hoyo took the backlash about interrupted pacing and disjointed tone as "ok story quests bad as AQ requirements" when its like. no the one you wrote just sucked

AQ incorporated story quests need to have a damn good reason to be mandatory at that specific point and while its far from perfect i DO think yoimiyas fulfills that! but ayakas doesnt! at all! and like im realizing the issue is also in how genshins made it a standard that a character must receive a story quest Instantly on release. so i guess ayakas had to be in between acts I and II for plot reasons but like. that being the case then the story quest itself shouldve focused on a completely different theme as opposed to her very predictable tropey personal problems that werent even explored properly imo. like im sure plenty of depth and nuance in her characterization was lost in translation but i almost cry laughed the first time the restaurant vendor went "oh ayaka is lonely because she is so perfect that no one sees her as a friend but instead an aspiration" like what in the 3rd grader writing mary sue self insert fic tarnation 💀 you couldve worded that exact same concept in 12 different ways to make it actually sound poignant and you did That SHAHSKSJSKDLJH

(and a quick addition before i get accused of being a blind hater hater lmao. here goes: "the burdens of miss ayakas position as the public face of the kamisato make it difficult for her to shed the mask of practiced perfection. i think people struggle to see her as a person whod enjoy simple things in life like friendship just like everyone else when theyre so used to viewing her as an unreachable figurehead." there. now its way more clearly nuanced. this took me 3 minutes and is far from any fluid writing yet. the difference is staggering)

but like. as a result this ambiguous timeline limbo most story quests end up falling into is genuinely a shame bc i do think theres potential in attempting the ayaka n yoi thing again but with characters for whom it makes sense and actually enhances the AQ experience by necessitating it. and yeah yeah ik genshin wants to be casual friendly so they dont want to force ppl to do quests they dont like for AQ so its unrealistic to expect them to ever try it out again but man

as long as they pick the right place and time and characters for it they could massively alleviate the issue of some story quests contents ending up feeling like somewhat empty fluff bc they cant assume what point a player will be in the main plot could be so they lack actually impactful lore and or character beats.

obviously im not a writer at hoyo and idk how much backlash the ayaya/yoi situation got them but like. idk. taking the lesson "never do anything like inazuma again" isnt rly what id consider the full picture. inazuma does suck and has clunky moments throughout but like in 2.0 people were still hype! inazuma had good ideas and concepts and attempted sth that couldve been great the issue isnt inazuma bad on all levels its that they never delivered its potential and 2.1 was an incredible letdown.

[kalpalatas]

getting indirected on twitter for not being immune to firefly brother i wasn't even immune to xiao

[welcometoteyvat]

leaks rumoring a cyno sq 2.... 👁️👁️ temple of silence lore when

[lotsofsq]

a variety of sq doodles, the ten men one is super funny to me because i just imagine them having the most strange workplace relationship known to man

the other two are just me going insane because he’s so adorable i just cannot stand it

[IDs copied in alt text: three drawings of sq.

a drawing of sq, who looks happy but is beat up. it is labeled “the trained with ten men” with is spelled “w/”. sq is saying “ i got crawlings this time! in the head!” and offscreen someone says “he can throw a punch!!”

a drawing of sq being pet on the head, from the perspective of the petter. he’s looking at the viewer, neutrals pleased, and saying “what?”. one hand is pushing his hair back, making his eye squint on that side, sq is leaning into the hand. the other hand is on his shoulder. there is a small doodle of myself with my face in my hands saying “oh my god”

several drawings of sq with a tooth gap. he is grinning in two of them and one is just his mouth, grimacing. there is a note that reads “i need to draw his tooth gap more I NEED TO,,,,,” this is above a small face drawing of a deranged little face outstretched a hand saying “hnnghnn….”]

[themyscirah]

Started thinking about the Amanda Waller + Ben Turner relationship again.... fuck, I'm gonna need a minute

[orchideae]

Uncle Tian. The importance that is Uncle Tian. ... With a "cameo" of Yelan in the second half, exactly at 1:00, which is incredibly so very important if you really want to get a proper glimpse into her 'professionally'.