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industrial scum manager

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I’m noticing a pattern in my favorite locations in Genshin: Enkanomiya, Tsurumi Island, Sal Terrae… they’re all places that are so disturbing and unnerving to be in.

Enkanomiya was haunting because there was nobody there. There was no survivors, there was no help coming, this place was abandoned by gods and mortals alike and the remnants were tainted by rot and sin. There's shades everywhere of spirits who dont realize they're dead and are full of life and you just have to interact with them knowing they die. You have to find the graves of the Sun Children and mourn them because nobody dead or alive will. You have to fix the artificial sun but it really doesn't matter because nobody will benefit from it. When you get the book that caused the downfall of this civilization and their god you just kinda have to deal with the fact you carry the catalyst of their destruction now and Celestia for some reason has yet to kill you for it. In any other game, Enkanomiya would be a survival horror.

Tsurumi Island and Sal Terrae match this as well. All these places are isolated locations that exist as the preserved remains of pain and suffering, so infected with sins of the people and the divine that neither will set foot in them. When you finally do enter you're just surrounded by the dead. Nobody remembers this place, this tomb. Nobody will save you if you succumb here.

You are alone, surrounded by the remnants of people who drove themselves to their own destruction. The shades of those who tried to survive in a land with no sun, where their children could be taken from them and incinerated as fuel for hubris. The memories of those trapped in a fog, lost and unaware that they are just living out their final mistakes over and over because this island is all they’ve ever known and it will continue to be all they know as it drags them down with it. The petrified pillars of salt shaped as people trying to flee, their desperation to survive a war between gods trapping them here forever as followers of the salt when they turn on the divine. I’m sure Khaenri’ah will be similar when we finally access its ruins.

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How does Sunday sleep??? Vote now on your cellphones

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I swear, Dottore was written by a former STEM graduate. People don't normally write mad scientists this way.

Whenever I try to dig into deep lore, his research repeatedly turns out to be among the most useful data I have.

I know a good study when I see one. I've been on both sides of the academic hiring process, I've written grant proposals and I've reviewed them and I've seen better scientists than me discuss them, so please understand how much weight I put into this: these are very good studies.

(except for, you know, ethics)

His research topics seem random but he actually pokes at the most fundamental questions of Teyvat with each one.

His Eleazar studies dig at the relationship between forbidden knowledge and dead gods (surprise: these are different things. I might have lumped them together if not for his notes).

Cloning himself pokes at the difference between machine and man, and also it's the technology of Eclipse Dynasty, Teyvat's main historical enigma. Have you ever wondered whether all ruin guards were men once? Or why did they switch from alchemy to ruin machines so abruptly? Or why they were cursed.

(I have a suspicion it also pokes at the nature of time and stories, the way he talks about a need for an ideal observer, and also the way Khaenri'ahn history went)

Delusions answer the question of why does Teyvat need Archons for Visions to appear and for humans to be able to use elemental magic. We don't know the answer but Dottore does.

I'm eyeing his artificial god because I don't think that what we saw in Sumeru was the final project. He seemed so nonchalant when it failed.

This is theoretical science at its finest. As a cherry on top, every project also yields practically applicable results.

He's a dream of every grant commitee.

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It's me and my obsessions with blonde boys against the world.

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Luocha, he's so pretty 💛

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Cleanup crew of 1 (luocha)

Second clothing practice

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Sounds about right

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Luocha with lilies!! Still one of my favourite pieces

The quality here vs insta is insane

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Did it hurt when you fell from heaven?

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Even after “Death” the Family will protect Penacony

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when a character is written inconsistently because nobody thought about it that hard and you're like it's time for me to get in there.. and think about it that hard

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im starting to think you guys dont like it when stories make you feel things

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i want to eat their hair...

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love me, love me; pretend that you love me 🌱

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Suppliant my children's murderer to implore, And kiss those hands yet reeking with their gore

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