#this is actually horrible my day is ruined

[kingskyless]

thoughts on natlan's arc in genshin🌋

tldr: i'm pissed off!! watch me rant about storytelling under cut. please take your storytelling seriously and with love, jesus christ

this is long btw! this is what happens when you piss me off with your poor writing choices! i crave blood!

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these are thoughts i wrote on my private twitter but i'll put them here too, why not.

i really, really don't like being negative towards anything anymore, chosing to embrace the silliness of poor storytelling and just grab what i do love, but man did the final act for natlan piss me off

I've been waiting for Natlan since the game came out because we knew it was going to be inspired by pre-hispanic America. Aztecs. México. (i'm mexican for context) and it was!!! with the inclusion of Maori, Peruvian, Lakota, Hawaiian and Yoruba. and it was done Horribly

Natlan is still mostly inspired by México though, I made a whole video on genshin's mexican rep, when it comes to overworld, food, names, music and lore inspiration yeah, the Mexican rep is done well and very fun! but it's still mixed with the cultures previously mentioned which is bad!!

and it gets WORSE because you look at the characters, be it playable or NPCs and nothing about them is mexican (or any of the previous cultures) nothing at all, and that's when the issues start.

I literally made a tumblr post a few days ago how I didn't think Natlan's story was bad, we just didn't connect with the characters due to character design. And while it still holds truth, this final act just undoes all the build-up it had in the previous acts, leaving no true conclusion and, therefore, ruining the story as a whole. a lá game of thrones.

Natlan in its first 3 acts was actually really well done, presenting the different tribe cultures, character personalities and how they mix with one another, and they had very strong set up for more world building and Very Important Lore Reveals (the Abyss having a "heart", dragons, THE SHADES, FALSE SKY?) I really enjoyed myself playing the first acts!

But the marketing makes you distance yourself from the characters, devs decided to push back the culture of the tribes in game and delay the next acts of the story, and you disconnect!!!

going back to the first acts and it's wonderful set up, then what is the point of having all this beautiful set up, only to just - not explore it in the CLIMAX OF THE ARC. and it was very very important lore and conversations to move the story forward and raise the stakes!!!

and they ignored it or barely mention it!!! yes having all the answers shown at you is not fun, and they can totally explore these aspects of the lore later on, but by the way Natlan was written from the start it was 10000% expected to have those conversations in THIS arc.

there's also the set up that's been there since the games release. None of this is explored, we don't know who "he" is, who's the crossed out name, what was the secret of the god of war. there's nothing, this is never explored.

NOTE: that it is true the story was revisited or straight up rewritten way after this material was released, it is something that can happen during production, it partially happened with sumeru already. the thing is when you make changes like these, if you already established in previous trailers or manga certain lore, you have to be extremely careful, as the audience is already expecting something like this to happen in the story. when you rewrite this and there's no pay off it causes confusion and frustration among the audience, as you are no longer following what you set up and it creates plot holes a throw away line about the muratans or murata would've done to connect the manga with the current natlan, but there's not even that.

They establish very important new characters, but don't explain their true role in the story beyond "evil" . What is Gosoythoth? why can it become a dragon? why are there voices around it? why are the former archons so negative? . Sure, we as an audience can make headcanons about it (and some answers were partially told, not nearly enough though) but it's information that needs to be talked about in the story, but the characters never question this and it's never explored.

and we KNOW they can write compelling characters and stories because Fontaine is right there!! it explores very important lore and intertwines it perfectly with the cast and their own personal struggles, what the fuck happened in Natlan.

it just pisses me off and makes me very sad, I was excited for natlan for many years because, for better or for worse, that's my culture they're taking to tell this story, and seeing them fuck up both frustrates me.

i'll keep playing because i still want to see how they wrap it up but aaaaa, i haven't been this mad since Inazuma, and i dont think Inazuma pissed me off this bad.

the following is things that bothered me personally and not something i can criticize from a storytelling standpoint:

the entire traveler parade after beating gosoythoth made me uncomfortable to no end. really really giving white saviour. it draaaged and everyone was kissing their feet and i was PRAYING for more depth in that but no! fuck me!

if you wanted to have the corny ass parade, okay, have it, but maybe show the traveler not being as happy? or carrying mental wounds after the battle??? GIVE THEM DEPTH OR SOMETHING?????????

you couldve expanded on the four shades, expanded on the abyss, expanded on the angels, expand on xiuhcóatl, expand on fucking gosoythoth since it was literally right there???? flesh out paimon, flesh out the main cast????

and totally flesh out capitano, he did absolutely nothing and he's the first of the harbingers, we just saw him get his ass beat by mavuika in the first act and then nothing??? (cutscene was great!) im not mad at the ending he got, it was very in character, i just wish there was more to him

natlan was set up as a nation of dragons and we learned nothing of them in the main arc, it set up the abyss having a personification and we learned nothing of it

this is mostly something i wouldve loved, but they set up the shades and time manipulation as we saw from mavuika, and no mention of istaroth??? hello???????????

also how did ororon know about nahidas power????

[fallinginaforest]

OKAY WHO WAS GONNA TELL ME THAT NEWSIES ISN'T ON DSINE7 PLUS ANYMORE AND WHO IS GONNA HELP ME BULLY THEM INTO PUTTING IT BACK

[deus-ex-mona]

funniest thing they could do for the lxl announcement is to expand on either their marriage, their divorce, or their remarriage

[opikiquu]

aventurine pl. Plea s e . PLLEEEEEEASE

[guhhhhhhhhhhh]

Oh little people in my phone, we're really in it now 😔😔

[spineless-lobster]

I never grew up on Horrible Histories but them updating the Monarch’s Song with a shitty deepfake of charles iii has actually affected me mentally. It’s like seeing your childhood home decay in front of you

[silverselfshippingchaos]

I fucking HATE how the fandom treats m.ine. it's so bad 😭

[halamshirals]

you see the thing that's driving me crazy today is that her hair was long. when they first met.

[emelinstriker]

tfw you're just checking on a blog you enjoyed casually looking at after a long while cuz someone reminded you about it, looking for anything new that might catch your eye, only to then read a rant about yourself/your blog/your content with accusations that just prove they glanced over your stuff w/o actually looking at it properly-

again, just about the entire branding/servitude thing and the either baby reader or baby mk that's literally not even more than fun little what-if ideas.

and there was me thinkin i might wanna audition as a va for them if they ever needed help or anythin, but that idea sunk and the amount of respect i had for their own work went down the drain.

now excuse me, i gotta go back to work cuz i just wasted my lunchbreak typing this out.

just like my disclaimer from my old rant post, i'll be deleting anyone's messages if they try to argue with me about this shit again, cuz as stated before, this type of drama is literally giving me genshin twitter vibes.

it ain't my fault if my stuff got recommended to you and you don't like it. i already stopped using the lmk tag as much because of those anons from a while ago.

idm it if peeps have more of a weaker tolerance level towards others wanting to have a good time playing with literal legos in a way they don't like it, but i also don't want people to talk smack about others' work and call it disgusting just because it's not their cup of tea.

let people play with their legos while you play with your own legos, simple as that-

i'll just leave it at that. don't go after anyone involved either as i hate seeing this type of shit get dragged on. especially if it's all, again, opinion-based.

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

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[jvzebel-x]

🦋

[m00ngbin]

Last year was actually the worst year of my fucking life

This is just me complaining you don't have to read it but I need to get it out yk

[biolums]

does anyone know when life is supposed to calm down. does anyone know when it all ends

[staliaz]

Since when do you ship stalia?

I ship them ever since I watched the show back in 2017.

[yikes-ajax-thats-sad]

People really think trust issues are just "aww they're scared of love" and it's like bitch no. Trust issues as in I'm deeply in love and the issue is I'm waiting for you break my heart after undergoing periodic abuse in relationships. I'm not scared of love I'm scared of what you'll do with it.

[hwanghyunjinenthusiast]

take care

✘ pairing. c. seungcheol x reader ✘ tags. smut (18+), d4ddy kink, oral (m receiving), pet names (baby) ✘ w/c. 590+ ✘ a/n. for @cheolhub my beloved :3 i feel bad bc it's rly short so i may or may not have another one for u in my drafts >:c

seungcheol likes to think he's a pretty well composed man. he's polite and mannered; knows when to bite his tongue and knows when to speak up. he keeps his temper in check, never loses his cool, and always seems to be quick on his feet—always thinking, always calculating, always making the right decision.

again, seungcheol likes to think he's a pretty well composed man. when you're grinding down on him (pressing your lips to his neck and he thinks he might just lose his damn mind from the way your tongue swipes over his skin) he's still got a hand on your hip, squeezing so tight that it reminds you just who has control.

so yeah, seungcheol is a pretty well composed man, but of course, everyone's got an achilles' heel, and this just happens to be his.

the 'this' in question being his sweet, sweet girlfriend sinking to her knees between his legs after a long, hard, no-good, very bad day.

"baby—baby, you really don't have to—" he'd try to protest just moments earlier when you pushed him onto the couch and pressed your thigh against his crotch. his words told you one thing, but the growing hard against your skin told you another.

"but i wanna ..." you said, moving down his body until you were finally settled on the ground, resting your cheek on his thigh.

"you don't want me to?" you now jut your bottom lip out and hope he can see it's slick with your growing drool. and fuck, cheol does see it—you know he does, from the way his pupils dilate and the veins of his arms inflate from the way he's fisting his hands so tight.

"i j-just—fuck," he groans when you cup your palm against his growing erection through his sweatpants, "don't want you to feel like y-you have to."

you frown, shaking your head as you hook two fingers at the waistband of his boxers and pants. you two share a glance, and when he nods slightly and lets his head fall to the back of the couch, you yank the barriers down.

cheol's cock is fat and heavy when you wrap your cool hand around the base, shuffling your face closer so the thick, angry tip smears sticky precum all over your cheek. playing around with his length in your hands for a moment, all you hear is the shaky breaths of your boyfriend above you, and you can't help but pout when you look up at him with wide eyes.

"let me take care of you ... daddy."

that does it for him.

cheol doesn't even have time to curse when you wrap your mouth around him almost instinctively, tongue lapping at the slick tip as you drink in his whimpers from above you.

a bit of a dirty (dirty) move, the two of you can both agree on that. using his biggest weakness against him when he's already so desperate, but you figure that everyone needs that last little push.

so after you bob your head up and down his cock, pumping the rest you can't reach with your hand, you pull off of him with a loud pop. "oh fuck," he moans, settling a large hand in your hair, gripping the crown as you send a few kitten licks over his tip.

"feels good, daddy?" you pant up at him, liquids dribbling in a sloppy mess down your swollen lips as you continue to pump his length with his hand.

"so good baby, so, so good," and the words come out in a broken whine so needy and so depraved, you nearly grin because this is going to be a fun, fun night.