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[starcurtain]

Teyvat's "Most Down Bad" Award Goes to Alhaitham for a Second Year Running

Seeing everyone making fun of Alhaitham for his "stalkerish" tendencies in this event is funny, because I feel like a lot of people missed that "Be literally everywhere Kaveh is" has been Alhaitham's MO from the day Kaveh appeared in the game.

From only grabbing his house keys after Kaveh returned from the desert (he couldn't have had both sets of keys at the end of the Archon Quest unless he went home and got Kaveh's copy) to ditching conversations to get back to his house only after Kaveh came home, to showing up without any warning or explanation in Kaveh's hangout with some ridiculous excuse about hearing his voice through noise-cancelling headphones... Refusing to offer any help in the Temple of Silence story quest other than staying in the library with Kaveh...

Since when does Alhaitham willingly cover anyone else's duties?

But this trend of "Be everywhere Kaveh is" didn't start when they were adults. It was already in place when they were still Akademiya students--and it's a trend that didn't end even when they had their fight.

Even when they weren't speaking, Alhaitham dogged Kaveh's every step through published responses to Kaveh's research articles in academic journals. He insisted on keeping a line of communication between himself and Kaveh open, even if the only way to do that was through very public ideological clashes. Pulling Kaveh's pigtails to get his attention lolol. It's implied that, for at least the few years between their fight and Kaveh moving in, this was the only communication between them--Alhaitham's refusal to allow their connection to entirely fade away. (And the fact that this is revealed in Kaveh's character stories--through his precious journal that records the moments of his life that had the most impact on him--shows just how deeply he values the fact that Alhaitham didn't give up.)

Another relevant side note: Alhaitham never asked Kaveh to give up his half of their house. Knowing half of it belonged to Kaveh, knowing that Kaveh may one day want to reclaim his part of it, knowing that it was listed as theirs, Alhaitham moved into the house and made zero effort to change its ownership. He was completely fine with living in "his and Kaveh's house." The stories suggest it was only months later (or even longer) that Kaveh even noticed he had the house, and he transferred away ownership of his portion without Alhaitham ever asking him (or even seemingly wanting him) to do so.

Please, let that sink in. Alhaitham actively left his grandmother's (presumably comfortable) house to move into "his and Kaveh's house," with no apparent explanation for why, and after doing so, he made no attempt to change that "his and Kaveh's" label. He moved into the house with no promise that Kaveh wouldn't show up on the doorstep the very next day and move in too. It almost feels like another deliberate provocation--I've moved into our house, are you going to come stop me? LBR, if Alhaitham had had his way, Kaveh would have been living there with him from Day 1...

There's also the fact that Kaveh literally can't write on a single message board anywhere in the entire nation of Sumeru without Alhaitham hunting his messages down and responding to them (which absolutely no one else does, by the way).

"NUH-UH!" "UH-HUH." "NUH-UH!"

Alhaitham's own character stories tell us explicitly that one of Alhaitham's defining character traits is "He is never where you need him to be," yet somehow...

Shot, and chaser:

Any time Kaveh is in the slightest bit of need or danger or just wants Alhaitham near, Alhaitham is "coincidentally" exactly where Kaveh needs him to be, whenever Kaveh needs him to be there.

Alhaitham didn't just "happen" to run into Kaveh in Port Ormos, an entirely different city from where he was supposed to be working. He didn't just "happen" to read the same terrible book as Kaveh when we know he otherwise would not waste a moment of his time on poorly-written literature...

He didn't just "happen" to appear when Kaveh was upset and needed a distraction in the House of Daena during Kaveh's hangout. He didn't just "happen" to be sitting around waiting when Kaveh needed answers after the Archon Quest. He didn't just "happen" to find Kaveh's academic publications and every single message board posting and respond to them at length and in public.

The only person for whom Alhaitham just "happens" to be available is Kaveh, over and over and over again--because he is very deliberately making himself a constant presence in Kaveh's life.

Which is exactly what Kaveh's mother told Kaveh he needed.

(Like, out of all things, I think people really underestimate the devs deliberately paralleling the romantic relationship between Kaveh's mother and father with Kaveh and Alhaitham's relationship. If you want to point to one thing that says "These two characters are intentionally queer-coded," it doesn't get any more obvious than this.)

Alhaitham, are you not embarrassed to be this transparent??? 🫣

[dinosaurcharcuterie]

Hochdeutsch is an artificial language, and I will fucking die on this hill.

I've been living in Germany for 10+ years, visited Austria, hung out with germanophone Swiss people--none of them speak it naturally. They can, when asked or forced to, in most cases, but all I've seen it used for is reporting the news, use as a lingua franca when English is not an option, teaching the concepts of German to native and non-native speakers alike, and, oddly, mocking the fact that regiolects/dialects/evolution and changes in language exist.

And don't give me "but written language!"

1. Norwegians used Danish as a written language for ages. I don't care about 19th century Denmark's hopes and dreams, it did not kill Norwegian as a language, nor did it make Norwegian a dialect of Danish.

2. I have seen actual German be written down in published works that were not academic textbooks. It's possible, it's just not popular.

Yiddish and Gothic are both oddball Germanic languages occupying unique places in the tree that get erroneously conflated with modern Hochdeutsch because of racism. Idk what to do with this observation but it feels interesting.

[jkvjimin]

#2 rap line enthusiast | for @raplinenthusiasts (part 1) cr. namuspromised

[shalom-iamcominghome]

[autixel]

Last week I made this post and I finally decided to do it. Up to chapter 143, and my criteria was that it had to be the simple line eyes, no eyelashes. Faces compliant to that criteria but have a mouth are honorable mentions because in the og post I specified the ^^ faces and no variations.

Tumblrinas of the fandom, I present to you: Sung Hyunjae ^^ face

[royalarchivist]

Richarlyson: OH TRUE TIO PHIL did you ever saw I have arms now? but apparently I have arms but I shriken got smaller

Phil: ...What? [Gasps] What the fck– you shrunk?! Wait, you are smaller– what! Wait...

[Chayanne and Richarlyson stand side by side wearing the same hat to compare heights]

Phil: Look at you! That's cute– [Richarlyson punches him] Ow! I wonder if the honey stunted your growth. [Laughs]

Richarlyson: [Hits Phil repeatedly]

Chayanne: i am taller!!! let's gooo

Richarlyson: STOP

Phil: [Loses it]

[deliciousnecks]

wwdits II 5.09

[wordfather]

learning how to be a better writer is really all about having the confidence to be shit at it!!! let yourself suck and have fun with it!!!! give yourself the permission to write the worst story in existence and then write it slightly better!!! a snail may be slow but he's still crossing that sidewalk and he's doing great and i love him

[notquitedeadpod]

DO YOU

gay

vampires

how vampirism would work?

fear AND sexy

bite

listen to Not Quite Dead, it's where podcasts

[arihi]

Feeling unsafe is not the same as being unsafe and people are unable to distinguish between the two - you always have a right to be safe, but you do not necessarily have the right to always feel safe. This is an underlying theme in a lot of issues, like judging others' kinks, queerness, race, media analysis, and more; what the real heart of the problem is is unfamiliarity, things that people do not know and thus shrink away from in fear or disgust or discomfort. It can be a basic instinct to approach change and unfamiliarity with caution, but it needs to be an intentional act to challenge that fear/world view. It is something that we owe to the people around us, and that we owe to ourselves.

[sandushengshou]

Pushing Daisies | 2x04 “Frescorts”

[chainmail-butch]

Not to be the chick with a leather kink, but nearly every article of clothing is superior when made of leather.

I started buying leather stuff (shoes, boots, jackets, belts, hats, chaps, harnesses etc) when I got well and truly sick of my shoes falling apart after a year of hard use.

My leather boots have lasted a DECADE. That's all you should need to know.

Sexy, functional, empowering. Buy leather today.

[dont-tell-my-mom-im-here]

I swear every episode with Ten and Rose is just her going: "Hi, I'm Rose Tyler. Did you know that you have rights? Constitution says you do!" And the aliens are just like: "Lady this is Fijebsisbdhakkakdbfhu, we don't have a constitution."

[diyasgarden]

bows 🎀

Tashi would let you tie a bow to her racket. You bring it up as a joke one day, saying it would be for good luck. In response, she just shrugs and ends up letting you do so. You get a ribbon in your favorite color and make a bow with it when you tie it onto the handle. You do it tight so it doesn't fall off and she plays with it the entire game! After the game, you expect her to take it off, but she never does. In some way, it does become a good luck charm for her. She keeps it with her for all her games. Even after her career ends, she still keeps the racket with the bow attached to it.

You have made Art and Patrick wear bows in their hair before. With Art, you asked him couple of times and he finally gave in. He let you bunch up his curls (braid some even) and tie in little bows. You pick a dark color to contrast the blonde of his hair, and he looks very cute. This is before his hair cut of course. After retirement he stops getting his hair cut like that and let's it grow. It's not as curly any more, but still enough that you could tie bows into it again. At that point, Lily puts bows in it at least once a week.

As for Patrick, it was a dare. You were playing truth or dare with him and Art, and of course he picked dare. As a result you made him wear bows in his hair for a week. You had asked him before (just like you asked Art), but Patrick always said no. Naturally you were going to take this opportunity to do this. You end up tying ribbons in his hair each day that week, and true to the dare he doesn't take them off. After this point, he kind of realized he liked it and then every once in a while let you do it again for fun.

[autixel]

Made this venn diagram of the ships I think about most often and realized some trends. Spoilers for tged and orv. Yes one of these ships is not like the others I'm well aware

[misspoetree]

[And then they went on the sexy killing spree anyway]

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