#the alchemy of the hearts

[hope-ur-ok]

my mom greeted me when I got up from my nap to start on this audio with "hello chipmunk-cheeks" so that's where I'm at right now

[cosmicfaeriewitch]

👑💛🌟🕊️

[sombrewoodlandfairy]

the tortured poets department wallpapers

part 1 | part 2

[iwasthewind]

Venti and Diona's interaction in the alchemy event is so special to me... because Diona is someone who really hasn't had any reliable parental figures in her life at all. Her father is a drunkard who barely has any time for her. She got her vision because she walked into the pouring rain as a child, all alone, terrified, to look for her drunk father in a forest full of animals and monsters and bring him home. Her father takes better care of Razor than her. She was so lonely she talked to a spring in the hopes that the rumours were true and there really was a fairy inside, listening. And then the voices that used to answer stopped, too. Leaving her with nothing but a curse- any drink she mixed would be divine. She's only twelve at most and she works in a bar. Her employer exploits her skills for profit. There's advertisements around Mondstadt advertising Diona's drinks specifically. Everyone loves them. Diona hates them. Everyone tells her how lovely her drinks are. Diona herself, despite despising alcohol, is proud of her skills. That's so fucked up. That's all so fucked up.

There's so many jokes about "haha child wants to destroy the wine industry but works in a bar" and while I can see why people find it funny they're honestly...so tasteless. Diona is a child who villainizes alcohol because she can't bear the thought of her father being at fault for his actions because she loves him so much. That he could drink less and he could spend more time with her and he could help her with her emotions but never does. That he could spend time with her and immerse himself in her interests but he never does. That he's willing to do all this for other people instead, but not her. That he chooses to do these things for other people, but he almost never chooses to do them for her.

But Venti does. Venti chooses to do all these things with Diona. He calls all residents of Mond his children and that's Diona too. He takes the time to search Dragonspine for an ingredient she might like, he chats with her and accompanies her to the location of the alchemy event, he presumably spends hours with her as she searches for ingredients and mixes her drink, keeping her company and making sure she's safe.

He doesn't have to do this. He doesn't have to patiently endear himself to her because he knows she hates people who drink, he doesn't have to bother going all the way to Dragonspine to find her something unique because he knows she's proud of her creations, he doesn't have to spend hours in the company of a lonely child who he has nothing in common with-but he does.

So many people would think he's doing it for the drink, but they all lack reading comprehension skills because I said so. Diona wants to create a drink which keeps people sober. Venti isn't going to get drunk and he's not doing it for the drink. It isn't pity either, it's affection- he loves his child and he wants to spend time with her and make sure she's safe. That's all. They're so special to me <3

Oh and another thing that I forgot to add- the Spring Fairy Diona talked to, Callirhoe, only found the spring in Springvale thanks to "a gentle breeze guiding her." The person who listened to the cries and rants of a lonely child was also coincidentally someone guided there by Venti. Still girlie why that specific blessing 😔

[stillgotscars]

hold on… “and all at once, you are the one i have been waiting for / king of my heart, body, and soul” // “‘cause the sign on your heart said it’s still reserved for me”

[lilyslark]

“where’s the trophy? he just comes running over to me” taylor just say you wrote “the alchemy” about hinny’s first kiss

[crookedfandomquill]

Behold my masterpiece

[cuties-in-codices]

a woman with a wound in her chest holding a heart and a penis, next to her a man exuding fluids

in the alchemical treatise 'aurora consurgens', thuringia, c. 1522

source: Leiden, Universitätsbibliothek, VCF 29, fol. 58v

[prettygirlstothefloor]

“So long, London. You’ll find someone.”

[meritsv]

[torturedbitchesdepartment]

the tortured poets department as pictures of snoopy

fortnight:

the tortured poets department:

my boy only breaks his favorite toys:

down bad:

so long, london:

but daddy i love him:

fresh out the slammer:

florida!!!:

florence is woodstock

guilty as sin?:

who's afraid of little old me?:

i can fix him (no really i can):

loml:

i can do it with a broken heart:

the smallest man who ever lived:

the alchemy:

clara bow:

[imgonnagetyoubackk]

i need to go to the travis kelce school of manifestation

[meidui]

the alchemy + stevetony

[illuminating-star]

“I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.”

-Emily Dickinson

[stillgotscars]

“salute to me, i’m your american queen” // “ditch the clowns, get the crown / baby, i’m the one to beat”

[wolsim]

"She came to check up on me and tried to help me."