#this will be the base I use

[reginrokkr]

Although I've already been flirting with this idea before in petit comittee, the confirmation we got from Mavuika that there are indeed other worlds outside even in the smaller Genshin microcosmos as well as the Abyss is striking other worlds, this is when I want to make out of this an official matter for how this blog will operate with crossovers.

Using the Imaginary Tree as a base for the universe at large and where every leaf is a world —explained as per both in HI3rd and HSR— and where time flows within its trunk —as stated in HI3rd—, back when I first began to entertain this idea I used my ravings of establishing a connection between Irminsul and the Imaginary Tree. Granted that Irminsul works as Teyvat's Axis Mundi and is also titled as Tree of Time, to this day I believe that it can work as a plausible link to the Imaginary Tree.

Secondly, it's important to note that every power that caused a substantial change in Teyvat has always been a «power from beyond», starting first with the one that is attributed the Heavenly Principles (be it the light blue or black-red palette, it doesn't matter) and then following suit with the Forbidden Knowledge as one of the potential branches that the Abyss is composed of. Dain himself talks about this power in 「Travail」 and given his vast knowledge as well as what little was shown of his sentience and powers, I wouldn't put it past him to be in the possession of such power of his own, which I coined it as it being [A]ether (as it was already mentioned in a book alongside the Void, presumably another way of naming the Abyss).

In order for him to obtain the power from beyond he uses, there is the implicit need to search it outside the boundaries of Teyvat like the Heavenly Principles came from outside, or Nibelung went out in search of Forbidden Knowledge before. And this is precisely where the door for crossovers opens for Dain: in using his own wide connection to Irminsul, he finds a way to trace a way out of Teyvat by understanding that there is something even bigger that acts as a point of junction for Teyvat and other worlds. The time frame-scenarios that his journey outside of Teyvat apply will be as follows:

✧ During Khaenri'ah days when the kingdom hasn't fallen yet as a mistake in the process of figuring out why he's able to have visions of the past or the future as per a loose (or yet to be forged) connection to Irminsul. In this scenario, his corporeality is more likely to be ephemeral and spiritual at best because of his lack of mastery over what he can do as per Irminsul's concession.

✦ Post-Khaenri'ah fall, when he's learned about the truth of the world and he came to the understanding that if he wants to provoke a change to defy Teyvat, he needs to find a power from beyond. Given the more properly acknowledge connection he has with Irminsul, as long as a significantly greater mastery over everything he can do, his corporeality can be either spiritual or material.

✧ Post-canon in which he leaves Teyvat and roams to different worlds until he expires his life doing what he wants without any sense of duty weighing heavy on his shoulders. Because of the journey he has gone through for his own mission and the headcanoned release from the curse and thus broadening of his own personal capabilities —reaching the Gnosis as per the Gnosticism, not to be confounded with the draconic authority turned into a divine item—, this scenario will make his corporeality fully material.

Lastly, the most prominent thing to take note of is his ability to connect with the world he finds himself in as per how he can in Teyvat, this time extending it to said world being linked to the Imaginary Tree. Unlike in his own homeworld, it'll take him time to figure things out on his own until he does in order to see a larger picture of the world, as well as to extract information from it for that purpose and others that may be of use for him. The second one is his foresight, its clarity variable the more he learns about the world he's presently in (due to the understanding he may have of such providence based on his knowledge of the world and the connection he establish in resonating with the world).

[starbuck]

“…to me” is one of the most powerful disclaimers we have on here… is this character analysis accurate? debatable. but it’s real… to me.

[inkskinned]

she's singing in another room and my dog is asleep at my feet. my grandma asked me why i haven't found a man yet and i laughed. oh, you know. i like my house clean.

my girlfriend is also my man is also "my partner" if i'm in a professional setting. yesterday we went to a ren faire and a man mimed at me - you're together? and at my delighted nod, his baffled, you're gay? made me laugh. a woman with rainbow hair said i love the two of you together. you're both so beautiful it's absurd.

my dad introduced my partner as my "..... friend. or whatever" the other day. he knows we're dating. in the same way, i was never able to get my sister's husband to stop saying that's gay like it's 2008. he still uses the word fa***t, and my sister's defense of him has always been well, he's just kidding.

my lover and i dance to old music in a tiny kitchen. we judge new music together and take food critique very seriously. we watch love is blind before we fall asleep and agree that if they had a queer season, it would be bloody but also make for excellent tv. of fucking course queer people would know someone for only 2 weeks and agree to get married. what are you saying.

at a bar with friends, a man puts his hand on my wrist. got a boyfriend? and yes, i do have a boyfriend, she's amazing. i am texting her while i wander around a gas station named after geese. i am visiting a swing state for a wedding. in the candy aisle i overhear: she's actually like a lesbian it's disgusting. two teenage girls with packaged sandwiches in their hands, giggling. no literally, like. i'm not, like. okay with her being there while we're all, like, naked and changing.

my girlfriend and i tailgate, drink gin and cider out of cups. from the frat group beside us, a man corrects himself with one of his friends: bro, i mean, nonbinary entity, and it makes everyone around him laugh, myself included. he razzes his friend the same way i would have killed for at 19 years old - like nothing happened, he continues: you apply sunscreen like an alien. he does a little sassy (and fairly accurate) dance interpretation of the motion. his friend is laughing so hard they're crying.

i am lucky, i live in a safe neighborhood in a safe state. my masc passenger princess comes up from DC. i drive her for an hour to where all the leaves are a violent arrangement of color. we walk along the trails, letting autumn into our blood. in this part of the state, there's a lot of pickup trucks and trump signs. when we chastely kiss before getting into the car, i accidentally make eye contact with a woman holding her child's wrist. she looks disgusted. she looks fucking pissed.

two hours later my girl and i are eating dinner on a patio, soaking in the last warmth of new england sun before the chill of winter sets in. we are giggling and trying to talk through plastic vampire teeth. at another table, i see a young woman sit up straighter. i watch her watch us. she blushes and takes her partner's hand from across the table. shy, like the taste of evening has just become something deeper.

it's worth it for this moment, i think. my lover is still humming the same song she's been singing for four days straight and i don't want to kill her for it. her guitar is beside my bed. her toothbrush is in my bathroom. in a few moments i will make us lunch. we are lucky enough to have found each other. it is lucky enough to be in love.

[anxeious]

i mean fuck, i like pills, i like drugs, i like gettin money, i like strippers, i like to fuck, i like day-drinkin and day parties and hollywood, i like doing hollywood shit— snort it, probably would

[keferon]

Don’t mind me I just like to see him go bananas about cartoonish Autobot rules

Maaan…..if Prowl was in tfp he would spontaneously combust at least once a day

[theshadowrealmitself]

I like to think that Vulcans who come to understand that Humans just can’t try to process emotions the same way as them, it’s just healthiest to let it out in harmless ways, decide that venting and stuff should be taken just as seriously as Vulcan’s meditation time, and will encourage the Humans around them to complain about what’s upsetting them

People who are used to aloof Vulcans who avoid Humans at all cost running into one comforting a Human

“-and then they said my cheesecake was subpar, and they didn’t even bring a dish!!!”

“The purpose of this event was that every participant brings a food item of sorts, correct?”

“Yeah!!”

“And they did not follow this rule while insulting dishes that were brought?”

“Mostly just my dish but yeah >:(“

“How illogical”

“That’s what I’m saying!!!”

[drgnflyteabox]

Fem!reader x 141

Honestly might be able to to something with the gross stuff I saw at the hardware store I used to work at (except make it hot and 141)

Imagine you're a cashier, the only one with early morning availability so you're there at 5:45am for the 6am start. It's always the worst kinds of contractors there: rude, tired, dirty, leering gazes and sexist comments

You're pretty sick of it, but you get paid a bit more than minimum wage and you're done by 11am so, you take it with a cheery smile and fast service

The 141 contracting company starts spending at your store. So much, in fact, that your manager personally takes you aside to mention just how much they do - nearly a million a year - and how no matter what, your job is to be nice and please them

Well, you can do that. You've dealt with crazy, awful old contractors screaming in your face about lumber prices at 6:30am more than once, heard them talking about your tit's or your ass right in front of you - you can handle it

Until the masked one comes in first and hes huge, dark hoodie and cargo pants hanging low on his hips. He hands you 3k in bills only there are bloodstains on them and he watches you closely the whole time you count them out

It's... not a first, but the look he gives you makes you shiver. Pale eyelashes, tall, intimidating

The second is nicer. Too nice, in fact. He charms you before you're even fully awake, and your shift goes by quickly thinking about that winning smile and the way he'd touched your fingers while he handed you a stack of bills... not to mention those soft brown eyes

The third is... intense, for 8am. He rolls on the balls of his feet, stares at you harder than the masked one. He offers to buy you a hot chocolate at the coffee shop next door and grins like you made a joke when you decline

Their boss is fucking dreamy. Even you have to admit it, trying not to look up at his mustached, frankly porno-esque face. He's huge, as tall as the others but thick, with a little pudge around his belly. He trudges in with thick workboots and a stained t shirt, pays for 24k worth of material with a lazy smile on his face like it's nothing

You might ask head cash to move you to the garden center after all...

[manzanamarim]

So I have been reading svsss here is my first contribution to this fandom

[chloesimaginationthings]

I love Michael Afton's story in FNAF..

[tawnysoup]

Their POV

[egophiliac]

can't believe that skeleman has turned on us, and Halloween Prom is tomorrow.

(what a top-tier UM...we are about to be just totally obliterated in the absolute silliest way. what possible use could this power have outside of bringing us to the brink of utter holiday disaster.)

[ink-the-artist]

house tour :)

bonus art, lossy versions of the first 2 gifs

[curiositypolling]

pls reblog for sample size etc

follow for more occasional useless polls

[sorren-sews]

benthic angel

was writing about lake sturgeon for a class assignment and showed one of my friends what i'd written.. he then sent part of it back to me with line breaks to turn it into a poem! i just had to draw something for it :]

poem text under the readmore:

lake sturgeon don't know that they're endangered. They don't know anything - other than the muck at the bottom of the water column and the occasional passing touch of another.

really touched by how my friend turned my technical writing into poetry. i haven't tried to write creatively in months, so it's nice to see i've still got it- and nicer still that i could get so inspired by my friend, since i haven't made nature art in a little while, either :>!!

[anonymousdandelion]

A general tip for students who are sending those dreaded Religious Absence Emails to your professors: Rather than asking permission to take the day(s) off, politely let them know that you will be taking the day(s) off.

In other words, consider not saying this:

"May I miss class on [date] so I can observe [holiday]?"

It's not that there's anything wrong with the above, per se. But because it's phrased as a request, it risks coming across as optional — a favor you hope to be granted. Problem is, favors are not owed, and so unfortunately asking permission opens the door for the professor to respond "Thanks for asking. No, you may not. :)"

Instead, try something along the lines of:

"I will need to miss class on [date] because I will be observing [holiday]. I wanted to let you know of this conflict now, and to ask your assistance in making arrangements for making up whatever material I may miss as a result of this absence."

This is pretty formal language (naturally, you can and should tweak it to sound more like your voice). But the important piece is that, while still being respectful, it shifts the focus of the discussion so that the question becomes not "Is it okay for me to observe my religion?", but rather, "How can we best accommodate my observance?"

Because the first question should not be up for debate: freedom of religion is a right, not a favor. And the second question is the subject you need to discuss.

(Ideally, do this after you've looked up your school's policy on religious absences, so you know what you're working within and that religious discrimination is illegal. Just in case your professor forgot.)

[puppppppppy]

renaissance dogys

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