#i know a lot are without explanations

[allastoredeer]

Sir Pentious: What about the pipe bombsss I sssent to your houssse?

Everyone within earshot: Alastor has a house?

Turns out, Sir Pentious is the only one who actually knows where Alastor lives. Not even Vox does. And Sir Pentious just...never questioned it. He didn't even realize he was the only privy to this knowledge, he just does shit without explanation (that's what Alastor likes about him :3)

Everyone else kinda assumed Alastor just lived under a bridge or a bog before he lived at the hotel. He just popped up one day and never left.

[endothermic-rain]

So I made more.

[raddest-laddest]

i love when people headcanon hollow to be this sweet lil child who likes to take naps and pick flowers and loves their family and wants to make their father proud

and then ghost is just a fucking cryptid

[clumsypuppy]

ive made myself more wet and pathetic

[doctahchang]

would like to know the lore of my own oc that i have had for like ten years

edit: found an old sketch of her... i basically drew her for the first time eons ago and haven't changed her design ever since (sad that i won't be able to find those drawing again)

[suave-hogan]

☀️

[longagoitwastuesday]

Kusakabe, dear, you're too beautiful to be saying that kind of stuff

[katsdynam1ght]

i was going to make some post talking about sexuality and queerness, but i decided that’s way too much work. in truth, i don’t care about sexuality. not even a little bit.

you want to know what’s really attractive to me? passion. fervor. determination. willpower. women or men i can go either way but someone with a brain and drive? there is nothing more appealing to me than ambition—someone who knows what they want and will fight for it with everything they have. that fighting doesn’t have to be in response to a threat or fear, just… the desire to obtain, y’know? to achieve, accomplish, whatever. to get what they want. that’s the most attractive thing in the world.

and yes, this says a lot about the characters i’m drawn to as well—i am a very passionate person myself. i have a lot of strong opinions and i do not bend easily. i take a lot of time to think about things, but once i make a decision or set a goal, i stick by that and i work toward whatever it is that i want. this is a quality i appreciate in myself and something that is unbelievably appealing when i see it in other people.

“ok kats, what’s the point of this post?”

full transparency? there’s not one. i don’t know. maybe i’m just telling you that it doesn’t matter how you look or how you dress or what your gender is or your aesthetic and maybe your identity is completely irrelevant as a whole. i’m not saying this to invalidate anybody but i am saying sometimes i think we focus too much on what we are and not who.

let me just say it plainly—the what doesn’t matter so much. but are you fierce? are you loyal? are you shy? are you strong? do you endure quietly or do you fight loudly? have you ever given up? will you try again? do you stand by your beliefs or is performative activism enough? how hard will you work for what you want? are you empathetic? are you kind? how much love do you have for those you don’t like?

and i don’t say any of this to judge anyone, because whoever you are, whatever qualities you have, the only person that should matter to is you. you decide who you want to be, now and always. you are not a fixed entity set in stone—you are malleable; you can change. if you haven’t yet succeeded at developing a trait you want to have, that doesn’t mean you can’t continue to try.

or you don’t have to listen to me at all. i’m just a stranger online. nothing i say really matters, and that’s fine—that’s how it should be. but give it a thought or two, maybe. all i’m saying is that i think people will be drawn to you based on who you are, not necessarily what.

[shaykai]

I need them to kiss (after several extensive talks djdjdjjd)

[silverstrying]

My thoughts toward the actual r-word itself are nuanced... I think the defense that is used - that people the r-word actually describes aren't going to be offended by it because they literally can't be - aren't wrong! People who cognatively cannot take care of themselves and need a caretaker (strict defintion: "an IQ of 70 to 75 or below that is accompanied by significant limitations in social, practical, and conceptual skills"), aren't going to care because they aren't going to understand. It /is/ different then the n-word and faggot because those people can defend themselves, and r-word descriptive people cannot.

Which is the whole point!!! Of not saying it!

I do not see saying the r-word itself as bad because the people its categorizing! Aren't going to care! What actually matters is that you are following a social convention.

You say the n-word or faggot without being one of those populations - you will get beat up. This strongly encourages people not to say those<3. But there will be no consequences in saying the r-word because they can't fight for themselves.

It's a social convention /because/ they can't defend themselves. The point is that you are being respectful to someone that you don't have to be respectful to!

But if you aren't going to follow that social convention - if you won't be needlessly nice to a random person - what other conventions won't you follow? When else will you be needlessly cruel?

It's less about the word itself and more about the signifiers it has.

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Anyway that tweet was hilarious.

[hoipeepsimruby]

Genshin things that I will ignore in canon:

Diluc and Kaeya exchanging letters to each other during his 3-4 year revenge quest

Kid Kaeya was a perfect angel who never did anything wrong

Adult Kaeya is a perfect angel who never did anything wrong

(Let the man be morally dubious that’s when he’s most interesting. Plus his recent characterization is inconsistent with his earlier one and his bio lore)

Yae Miko tormenting every single Inazuma guy character (her silly rivalry with Itto can stay it’s funny)

60% of the Venti alcohol jokes (they aren’t funny most of the time. The only time it’s funny is times like when Beidou wouldn’t let Venti and Kazuha drink despite them both being of legal drinking age)

Paimon being the travelers voice (I’m in the minority where I like Paimon as I feel she’s the travelers annoying little sister and with that in mind she’s written rather well but I do agree with everyone who’s annoyed with how she speaks for the traveler. While I’ve never published any fanfics in a lot of my ideas Paimon ends up getting a bit shafted due to me not really knowing what to do with her because outside of being the travelers voice she doesn’t do all that much.)

Most of the Inazuma main story (if I want to I can be willfully ignorant and enjoy the story but after reading gold-rhine’s Inazuma re-write I can never go back)

The traveler being a jerk to Furina at the beginning of her story quest. (In character for Paimon but the traveler I think would at least be a little more understanding and would try to get Paimon to stop guilt tripping her)

Finally, the traveler fails to get Charlotte any scoops from the fortress of meropide. (I know why but they did waste a bunch of her money and that feels mean)

[scintillatingshortgirl19]

i just have one question which is

what in the actual motherfucking HELL

[immobiliter]

so it's not entirely clear how many of focalors' memories furina actually retained once she was separated from her divine self, and there are two pieces of evidence to suggest that she has very few, if any at all — firstly, that when neuvillette quizzes her about egeria and the stone slates at the start of act 5, she genuinely seems to know nothing about egeria or the nature of the sin that she committed against celestia ( she had no reason to really lie to neuvillette at that point, especially as this is in the aftermath of poisson and the final straw for him to put her on trial to get some answers ), where we in fact know that focalors was one of egeria's oceanid familiars, wanted to be human herself and was her successor after egeria perished during the cataclysm, and second, that focalors specifically describes to neuvillette that when she separated her divine and human selves, she "left behind only a self that was as naive and bewildered as my past self on her first day as a human being."

but furina does have the knowledge of the prophecy before focalors explains it to her more fully in the mirror, saying that it's in her head but she doesn't know why. so, in trying to reconcile all of this, i lean towards the idea that focalors left behind certain vague memories, the two key ones being that of the prophecy and an understanding that she needed to bring the hydro sovereign to the court of fontaine, but without any context in order to preserve the idea that, for the most part, furina was operating completely in the dark in terms of focalors' plan

so furina enters into her position as hydro archon with considerable gaps in her memory ( and, due to being a human with an unnaturally elongated life span rather than being a species or divine creature who is naturally long lived, has memory issues later down the line, but that's a separate meta ), and, as a result, she does an incredible amount of research into the archons, celestia and her role in teyvat. i don't think it was a coincidence or just a fun joke that, in her demo, furina imitates all of the other archons we'd met up until that point — she confesses to the traveler before her trial that at one point she had agents all over teyvat and i think some of this was intelligence gathering concerning how archons governed in other nations. furina became archon in the immediate aftermath of the cataclysm and the death of fontaine's previous archon without any memories of focalors' life as egeria's confidante and familiar, so was already at a huge disadvantage in those early years of her rule

[pandora15]

being on a food renaissance means that you want sushi but haven't had it in months. it also means being mildly nervous about eating fish curry when the fish has bones in it (even though you've done it a few times recently)

and also like appreciating all the flavors you get to have and being grateful every time you can eat properly and the food actually goes down without trouble

also being mildly nervous about dry food — like there's this coconut sweet thing that my grandmother keeps making that I say no to because the last time I had it it got pretty stuck in my throat and I had to drink a lot of water to get it down and now I'm like "hm. perhaps not" even though logically I think I can eat it

anyways I really want sushi but like what if I can't eat it for some reason

who knows I haven't tried to eat everything possible since the renaissance began so like. who really knows

[peachdoxie]

I swear to fuck this back pain-turned-everything pain is going to make me finally get a cane to walk with

[youmustfixyourheartt]

fucked up what happened to mike crew.