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@ fic authors what do you personally consider a successful fic? What’s the bar?

#lol

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#hsr #accurate

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#hmmm

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hunger

#dunmeshi

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I FOUND SAMPO CONCEPT ART!!!!!!!!!

https://twitter.com/sl110s10/status/1783260491948933463

Here is the translation from Google:

This is huge:

it confirms that Sampo’s design is mean to be snake based

directly talks about some hidden powers of his and describes him as dangerous and someone who hides their true thoughts

also he’s a KEY FIGURE!!!

And he is the one changing the outcome of the war, confirming that he kind of is orchestrating Jarilo-VI’s events behind the scenes

#sampo koski my beloved

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"is sex with angels monsterfucking" forum thread shut down by moderators after 300 pages of fierce debate, 26 banned accounts and 8 doxxed members

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Chilumi alive and kicking, I'm dreaming with you!

This is also a very interesting case because it would be the first time our guy has done anything for the Traveler.

He relies on us a lot, sure, but it's never the other way around (well, he generously offers to kill someone for us in the birthday celebration line but that's about it). Him suddenly deciding to be of help and doing so unprompted it just precious. <3

Siblings just seem to be his topic of choice when he needs to give a 20m lecture unprepared but he doesn't actually talk about them *that* much!

Also he used a monologue about Teucer to provoke thugs in 4.0. After which he immediately switched to other themes, implying it was't really what he wanted to talk about. So he has a track record of doing something similar.

The boy is a lot more intentional in both his words and actions than the fandom gives him credit for.

@chickenparm mentioned it and now I have to write about it (I had the same impression too but wasn't sure I wasn't imagining things. I guess at least I'm not the only one).

In that Arle conversation Childe seems to have picked up that we were trying to stall her, and that's why he launched into all that monologuing about his siblings.

He helped us. He didn't know why we needed to distract Arle but he helped us anyway.

At least that's how I want to interpret it. So he does care, huh.

(or maybe he cares about the HoH kids and Lyney asked him to distract Arle as well)

Arle seems to have noticed that too, she later jokes "how are you going to distract me now that Childe isn't here".

#childe #tartaglia #chilumi

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I'm actually very curious! Gaming questions as requested-

7: a game you'll never forget?

16: character you've hated the most? What game?

7. Tyranny

Incredible worldbuilding and lore, 10/10, I still use concepts from it when I come up with stories.

Bronze age setting, beliefs shaping the world, the whole concept of fatebinders (a government official who is a conduit for a spell of a god-ruler), law and magic being inseparable. The way you defeat The Voices of Nerat.

(I am so not spoiling it if you haven't played)

"I do not recognize the authority of this court to judge me" is still the quote.

I think everyone who enjoys Genshin deep lore should play it, these are stories of similar nature.

16. Now this is a very hard question, it's hard for me to hate things that don't cause lasting harm, especially video game characters.

I remember a moment of extremely strong anger though, it was Elidibus in FF14.

Throughout the story you meet a certain blood knight and you get to fight him a few times. He completely obliterates you the first time (I was a newish player so it felt like hitting a wall after being used to cutting through enemies like they are butter), eventually you get stronger and defeat him and then a guy possessing his body shows up. And fights you, of course.

And to me it just felt so wrong.

Yes, technically he was using the same attacks but they were slow and heavy-handed, no familiar chaos in them. And it's not like I liked the original body owner either but the new one was so pathetically boring.

I was seething. He insulted my favorite enemy's good name by pretending to be him.

I still think it's an excellent example of storytelling-through-gameplay.

#rinn talks to people #ff xiv

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#hsr #aventurine #sampo koski my beloved

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#*screams*

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#columbina

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But also ok, if this is theory is indeed not that crack imagine how insane Her Majesty might be. If she's anything like The Lover

I'm the anon that asked about the world quest. Question no longer needed, actually, yes it was about the Uther Doul crack theory jshdjssj

On that note, thanks for introducing me to China Mieville's works back in... November? So that I could have this absolutely surreal moment in genshin

Asdfgh :D Crack theory isn't so crack anymore, is it?

I'm always happy to expand Mieville's fanbase!

#all sorts of things can be turned into love #even those that really shouldn't be #tsaritsa

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I'm the anon that asked about the world quest. Question no longer needed, actually, yes it was about the Uther Doul crack theory jshdjssj

On that note, thanks for introducing me to China Mieville's works back in... November? So that I could have this absolutely surreal moment in genshin

Asdfgh :D Crack theory isn't so crack anymore, is it?

And I'm always happy to expand Mieville's fanbase!

#rinn talks to people #the power I represent cares not for new crobuzon

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Making long-form webcomics is like

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What Arlecchino backstory made me thought is if or if not Childe was an adult when he became an harbinger. I mean, the time Arlecchino spent in jail between Mother's death (where she should have 17/18) and the Tsaritsa forgiveness is unclear, but shouldn't be too much since we would have know if the house were without a director for too long. So it's okay to theorized that Arlecchino became an harbinger between 17 and 19 at most.

If I remember correctly, it was mentionned that Childe is the youngest to ever become an harbinger ? But, at what age did they put him there so ? 16/17 ?

Now I'm having thought of a ginger teenager giving orders with his voices breaking between his boy and man voice and it's both cute and hilarious.

That Arlecchino animation really messed with several timelines (Freminet's story now makes little sense), so maybe it's best to consider it semi-canon. Someone's retelling of events rather than what truly happened.

If we do consider it canon, I want to see Childe appointed Harbinger at 17, as that was my headcanon anyway. Not even old enough to get drunk and celebrate properly.

(I also hc that he is 19 during the events of Liyue)

"Now I'm having thought of a ginger teenager giving orders with his voices breaking between his boy and man voice and it's both cute and hilarious."

Yes! And also deeply sad, a kid is not supposed to handle this amount of responsibility, no matter how talented he is.

Also this would explain why is he so full of himself. Of course he is.

#childe #tartaglia #rinn talks to people #there was a tiny detail #when you just meet him and he says “come with me” he does it in a voice of someone who is used to ordering people around #triggered an immediate 'who tf you are/who tf you think you are' response in me so I remember #beidou says the same phrase differently if you need a comparison #she isn't annoying

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from what I hear about the new world quest, there is indeed a fellow China Mieville fan in Hoyo and the paralellel still holds

Back to the "Childe is inspired by Uther Doul" crack theory because it still haunts me.

I'm looking at this item:

Threads of fate, all very sweet. The connection to music is... interesting

Mieville's novel had a thing called perhapsadian, a instrument allowing a musician to navigate between different versions of the world. Playing possibilities into reality, if I may.

If I remember that right, music and musical metaphors were important to Remuria, but what if they weren't exactly metaphors.

Wouldn't it be nice to have a quest about an instrument like that?

I'll leave this to people who, unlike me, have dug into Remuria lore.

(oh, and did I mention that Uther was also hunting a whale. as a means of travel though, not as something he wanted to kill)

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i glance at my tumblr mutual reblogging from me again.. blushes and looks away..... my trasured mutual, you mysterious and charming being.....what are we? i hope... maybe someday, we could be something more... something like..discord friends

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