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I have no one to tag because everyone I know are people you've already tagged. LOL But okay here we go.

isekyaaa - I like otome isekai, so I wanted something that played on those words. That blog was originally supposed to be a writing blog, but ended up as my personal diary blog instead.

andersdotters - Named after Anya M. Andersdotter, code named M in the Hexenzirkel group. She was the author that wrote The Boar Princess. I just thought it would be fitting to name my Genshin analysis blog after her.

painom - I like cute sounding urls, so I went with this for my new Hoyo writing blog. It's made switching the m and n in Paimon. Granted, I have been severely slacking on writing anything for this blog, but.... haha.... I'll get to writing soon.

nenjuu - This word in Japanese means "year around." As my original writing blog, I wanted this to be something I would regularly update throughout the year with anything new my brain takes hold of.

ok i saw a thread of people explaining the story behind their URLs, so i wanted to hop on and explain my URLs. tagging @andromeda-nova-writing @mimi-cee-genshin @perpetualcynicism @woofwoofwolf @strxnged @nenjuu / @andersdotters @akimind @dkniade

no pressure!!

milkstore -> i really love milk. i like the image of my blog 'selling' bottles of milk. it is a metaphor for sharing things i really like.

thomine -> although it's just thoma + mine, the reason why i wanted to merge 'mine' with his name was because of the lyrics "you weren't mine to lose" from taylor swift's song, august.

malovedaptive -> i found the term 'maladaptive' through maladaptive daydreaming. added 'love' to spice it up. (ultimately, unhealthy or not, it was an adaptation to survive and i'd say there is love within the will to survive.)

firestun -> fire (lighter's element) + stun (lighter's type).

shoyosh -> a play on shoyo and the 'yosh' noise he likes to make. also 'yosh' as a onomatopoeia whenever he gets the zoomies.

xiayz -> yizhou is caleb's chinese name. i thought it was funny that if you abbreviate his full name, it is just xyz. xyz is not available as a URL and wont make sense so i used his surname bc i like summer.

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Wanderer mention?

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OK…. do u think zhongli could have actually been feasible as a wangsheng parlour director? my personal opinion is no because fire/pyro seems to be a very central element in eliminating fetour so… zhongli and his geo powers literally can’t do anything. but personality wise i also don’t think he’ll do well because he probably hates paper work. excited to hear your thoughts! — @milkstore

I don't see why he wouldn't be a good parlor director. He's a smart guy that knows a lot of techniques having been alive for so long. He understands the importance of old rituals and ceremonies.

Personally I don't think that pyro plays a huge part in eliminating fetor? If it did, that would require all Wangsheng Funeral Parlor directors to have been pyro vision holders. Not only are the chances low to have a vision, they are also low to have pyro out of them all. As long as they have fire and do the technique properly, all is solved imo.

That being said, if Zhongli did become the parlor director, I can't see him sticking with it. I can see him training someone to take Hu Tao's place. I don't think he would be comfortable having such a forefront position in the lives of humans, especially when he wanted to retire and take a backseat. I can see him hiring someone and lowkey like.... training them without them knowing. Dropping hints on where to find procedures to old rituals and ceremonies. Then having them perform the ceremony. LOL Just lowkey gaslighting them into the position of parlor director. LOL

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Genuine question. Why do reader-insert writers use y/n or weird cringe pet names than "First" or "Last"? For me, the first two options are very jarring. I feel they disrupt the flow of a story. The last option is just easier on the eyes.

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I've been trying to find some way to put this, and I did at one point but forgot to post to it right after, but like... Overall the way they decided to handle Arlecchino is just.... Disappointing. She was set up for so much, but took the bitch way out and made her a cliche. Like that's just so sad. Like don't get me wrong. From what we knew of her, the way they handled her actually honestly makes the most logical sense. But it's still disappointing.

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I see why they did it, but it is a bit of a disappointment that Arlecchino being insane and ready to betray anyone is based solely upon an intentional misunderstanding.

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I still fail to see how the current House of the Hearth is any different from the Shuumatsuban. They both gather young orphans to brainwash them into loyalty, train them to become child soldiers, and send them on missions where they can possibly die. Where's the difference?

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@neariscool EDIT: I just watched the 4.6 trailer and it's looking very interesting. We'll see the things it reveals!

Where is the evidence Ayato let's the Shuumatsuban live their own lives? Likewise, where is the evidence Arlecchino doesn't treat the orphans with respect? Where does she show that she's keen on removing their humanity? Where does it reveal she isolates and dehumanizes the kids? Where even does it say that she sends young children on missions? Where does it say Ayato sends only older teens and adults on missions?

When I'm saying these things, I'm not disagreeing with you. Arlecchino is an objectively bad person. But there are a lot of things being said about Arlecchino that have no proof as of yet. There are a lot of things being said about the House of the Hearth that are based upon the old methods, but not the new.

What we do know of the Shuumatsuban is that they specifically take in orphans at a young age to indoctrinate them and train them. They do this so that the members are as loyal as possible. They're trained in ways of not only espionage and intelligence gathering, but also assassinations. Their job is not safe for getting killed is not unheard of in the Shuumatsuban. These are vulnerable children getting taken in and brainwashed to become killers. On paper, that sounds a lot like the House of the Hearth to me.

I mean technically speaking, aren’t Ayato and Arlecchino basically the same? Raising child soldiers for their own benefit and all, I mean…

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I mean technically speaking, aren’t Ayato and Arlecchino basically the same? Raising child soldiers for their own benefit and all, I mean…

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What I don’t really get about the people that say, “Arlecchino doesn’t actually care about the orphans and is only using them,” is what she gains from emotionally manipulating them. If she only cared about those things, what’s the point in changing the way the House of the Hearth is run? If you only care about results, the previous Director really had it made? That person’s way of running things is the most logistically efficient. There’s no logical reason to change what isn’t broken and works so well.

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One thing I dislike about the whole, "Arlecchino doesn't care about the orphans of the House of the Hearth. She's only using them," schtick is that it's heavily implied she was a child of the House before coming into power. She was subject to the same heavy abuse the previous Arlecchino put them through. She was an abuse victim that stood up against her abuser, at least that's what is implied. And when she came into power, she put an end to the way the previous director ran things. Like why do you think she did that? It just puts a bad taste in my mouth to say an abuse victim does not give a damn about other kids who were in the same situation they were.

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While I definitely agree with the Wriothesley checking on the orphans aspect, I don't really agree with the thought that Lyney did not call Arlecchino because he does not trust her and that he instinctually feels she doesn't value them.

The whole thing with Lyney is that he feels he needs to prove himself. Not only does he not rely on Arlecchino, he doesn't even rely on his siblings either. He snapped at Freminet when he tried to get Lyney to open up. Lyney feels the need to shoulder every burden to be the proper big brother, even going as far as asking to receive a delusion to properly support Lynette. Imo, the reason why he doesn't ask Arlecchino for help is because he truly believes it's his responsibility to handle everything on his own. And that if he did ask for help, he'd be worthless and not worthy of the role he was given.

I think the thing we don't know is if Lyney's obsession with proving himself is due to his life before the House, after, or both. Like it could be emotional neglect/manipulation on Arlecchino's behalf, but it could also be the perceived responsibility of taking care of Lynette as the older sibling before they had the House to call home. Or it could be both. We don't know.

Also while I don't deny Arlecchino can't be trusted, I'm not sure if I'd call her treatment of the twins and Freminet emotional manipulation or neglect. What does she gain from telling Lyney he can't have a delusion due to how Lynette would feel about it? Is Freminet worth getting on her side that much that she would know what his mother looks like, seek out his mother after she disappeared, and take revenge on his behalf? Personally speaking, I'm not really sure how to view these things. There are so many conflicting things about her.

in MY opinion... i think that aside from being a diversion tactic (to make sure the fatui dont find out about the primordial sea), wrio threatening lyney could have also been him subtly checking on the dynamic between arlecchino and the house of the hearth orphans.

like wrio knows manipulative adults Pretty Well, and the fact that he knows the fatui sent orphaned "children" undercover instead of grown agents already tripped alarms in his head.

Wriothesley: Mr. Lyney, the cards are stacked against you right now. Miss Lynette is in my hands, and Mr. Freminet is still slowly being pickled out there in the brine. You know just as well as I that he cannot last out there forever. Wriothesley: You need do but one thing to guarantee their safety. I would like you to contact your superior, and ideally invite her over for a cup of tea with me. Lyney: You want to see "Father"? Ha, but why should she bother giving you an audience? Wriothesley: Well, if she cares for the well-being of her dearest children, she should have plenty of motivation to join me for a parents' evening. Wriothesley: I've heard that the bonds between the members of the House of the Hearth are like the bonds of family. I don't see why she would refuse.

(emphasis mine)

"call your parental figure or your siblings will be in danger" would be a relatively easy decision to make if your parental figure... yknow... cared about you. but lyney insists that arlecchino shouldn't be involved in this and breaks from the stress of possibly losing his siblings. which makes ME think like... how much value does arlecchino place in the orphans if lyney refuses to "trouble" her with possible imminent torture or DEATH.

Lyney: …Was this the extent of your master plan to get to "Father"? No matter how much pressure you may put on me, I won't allow you to use us to blackmail her. Lyney: I… I shouldn't ask "Father" to do anything because of us…

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like... lyney... if she really cared about you she would willingly help you... you know...

and yes later on arlecchino is like Well he shouldve called me :/ but its way easier to say that after the fact.

The Knave: [...] It's unfortunate that Lyney's so eager to prove himself that he can't learn to rely on others... including me.

i mean lyney came to rely on the traveler pretty easily..? i think deep down he doesn't trust arlecchino.

so wrio noticed that something wasn't right pretty quickly, and could have also set this up as a sort of test - both for him, and for lyney - in a way - to take a better look at the dynamic between arlecchino and the siblings.

basically i think that specific part of the archon quest shows us that the house of hearth isn't a Found Family Despite All Odds situation and definitely has something much darker (aside from, you know. the orphans basically being FATUI AGENTS). i keep saying this but i think the fact that the previous head of the orphanage was "even worse" means that traumatized children/teens/young adults can easily justify a different kind of abuse as "well at least it isn't (x) which is even worse!" and based on the siblings' profile stories, it seems arlecchino leans more towards emotional manipulation/neglect, which, again, if compared to the physical abuse from the previous head, can be pretty easy to justify in the eyes of already traumatized and vulnerable people.

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What's really interesting as a concept is how different Rex Lapis is from Zhongli. Like they're practically two separate people. It's fun examining the differences. Like it's said more than once that he was more brawn than brain. But the Zhongli of today is seen as a very intelligent person. He has apparently destroyed a whole nation as Rex Lapis, but is more avoidant and passive as Zhongli. Is it aging that has caused him to change so much?

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a lot of people who shit on x reader could never write it even if they tried because it's genuinely very complex to write well narratively in a way i dont think shipfic with two pre-determined characters is not

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I have so many opinions on the x reader/reader-insert franchise that I really can't open up about it without sounding like a crotchety old man.

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People who write non-yandere x reader fics about Dottore are so funny like this man is not capable of normal love! He will take your love and use it against you. He will experiment in you against your will. He will Nina Tucker you if it tickles his fancy. If you view him any differently you are in denial.

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the key to not fanonizing your faves is to simply become academia-brained about it. never make a statement about a character you can’t back up with at least three references to the source material