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pangyham · 3 months

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been thinking about the liyue gang and how id draw their physical builds so here are some thoughts i had for xy cy and gm in particular

- xingqiu, unsurprisingly, would be quite lanky. i like to think he has broad-ish shoulders, like a thin athlete's build? hes a long boy to me haha, long face, neck, limbs, fingers etc, so naturally hes stands (comparatively) tall at 5'6" or 5'7"

i like to think hes most physically attractive one and has that handsome princely and boyish charm to him because it adds a lot to his fuckass duality LOL

- chongyun is a lot like xiao imo! short stature but with muscular arms. he seems nimble and flexible because of his normal attack animations (which bears a lot of similarities to xiao's actually! this + the fact that chongyun's normal attacks create gusts of wind further reinforces my hc that xiao trains him). sometimes i watch high energy choreography vids on youtube and some dancers look incredibly light on their feet, almost like their body is inherently bouncy? and i imagine chongyun to have that agility to him. chongyun has a delicate face and aura and i let that bleed into my hcs for his fighting style and physical capabilities hahaha. hes kind of like a cat who's deceptively strong. as for height.. just a few inches taller than xiao, so perceptibly short at 5'4"

- ga ming my new beloved. pretty much similar to chongyun but more muscular and stronger just because he wields his claymore with ease. theres a noticeable weight different between cy and his claymore the way he lugs it up after he swings (or even other claymore users like razor who, on his last hit, bounces from impact). meanwhile ga ming literally slams his to the ground LOL. i love his movements though hes very swift and expressive and radiant.. if cy has delicate movements then ga ming's is fierce and (charmingly!) assertive

ga ming is wonderfully charismatic though, i know hes not well known in liyue harbor yet, but he seems like the type to gain a reputation from his friendliness. how could no one adore him hahaha. 5'5" for height! just between xy and xq

#tangy talks genshin #chongyun gets analyzed most my bad #this was super fun though #while thoughtful ; genshin chara designs will always look distinctly gacha and flashy so a lot of the designs kinda blur together in my hea #this is why i really like looking into their animations particuarly their normal attacks #i think it conveys their personalities really well! it's always something to look forward to when new characters release #i gravitate towards swords polearms and claymores most though because i like the act of swinging and slashing hah. it also requires a lot o #body movement and reflects a lot of irl martial arts fencing and other combat techniques #sword users are always really fun to watch because theyre inherently graceful hahah. i will admit it gets kinda repetitive #i think my favorite NA animation has to be albedo's.. very simple clean and refined. he stands elegantly and puts his arm behind his back o #his 2nd attack which ive been transfixed by since be first came out in 2020 LOL. i love albebo #wow these tags are long as hell #but anyway i actually have more thoughts on xq's physical appearance but its just me rambling about how i think hes funny as fuck #im a proponent of dashingly pretty princely xingqiu not necessarily because i want to bestow upon him desirable traits #but because i think its funny knowing hes just a bit of a loser under all that #hes well known (mr worldwide one might say) and the heir to a prestigious guild and chivalrous talented and prolific #but he writes self insert novels hates carrots had bad handwriting sings really bad #hes just a teenage boy #as always i will 100% have more to say about chongyun but ill save that for another post #ga ming on the other hand.. i dont have anything substantial to say but hes super fun to think about #hes such a likable character #wow these tags are LONG as fuck ill stop now.

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merakiui · 6 months

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I would love to read more about your Octavinelle aquarium captivity idea, if you were to ever turn it into a fic 🥰

Aaaaaa I would love to!!! I'm happy to know you would be interested in reading more of this concept. Funnily enough, that plot is loosely based on the plot for a yandere merman oc of mine. <3

#sweet messages #has it really been three years since that story omg???#also why did 2020 meraki not want to write 'merman'??#oh wait i think it was because hybrid sounded cooler to me at that time ^^;;;#also also!!! i need to post mr. sharky on 224terminal hehe #i would love to ramble about him <3 he's annoying and i love him #2020 was pandemic era but 2020 also gave me mafumafu's 'saishuu senkoku' and i think about that a lot #this was the story that had me looking up great white shark mating rituals T_T #i have come full circle now that i'm deep in the octavinelle sea trench hehe

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onebizarrekai · 6 months

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*bangs my fist against the table*

KAGESHU

yeah

#it's been so long since I've done anything for them #I kinda phased out of dr about a year ago #I think of them very fondly #it's a little sad because I have so many old kcu wips and hardly posted any of them #I was all like 'I'll save them for when I write so-and-so' and then I didn't write so-and-so #honestly. I have so many dangan sketches and unfinished wips in general from 2020-2021 #SO many #I love kage. so I'm sure he'll make more comebacks #I. very comically. went from drawing him as a joke to unironically loving him #asks

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astranauticus · 8 months

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a handful of chinese songs that give me big robit energy

translating cpop songs is like my second favourite hobby so it's frankly surprising I haven't made this post sooner

Him - Floruitshow (马 - 福禄寿)

I've talked about this song on here before but this is the 3.7 song for me

the second chorus is definitely MR-SN but i like to think of the first chorus (Let me take a good look at your visage as we count down the time till the curtains’ close. Forgive me for holding back my voice so soon, do you know, in your graceful escape, all I see around me is disaster?) as VR-LA during the flashback sequence

specifically 'all I see around me is disaster' because yeah not wrong

'This time I’m not here to bring you home' just kills me like the please please take care of yourself because I can't be there with you anymore of it all

'Oh spring, oh warm sun, please come sooner, grant him a smooth and safe journey' same point, just the desperate plea for the universe to protect VR-LA because he can't do it himself anymore

How can I make you stay - Floruitshow (我用什么把你留住 - 福禄寿)

(conveniently I have actually done a full translation of this song!)

definitely one of the Maxim songs of all time

"You’ve believed that you can let your life pass in numbness, but [...] why do your tears fall in the moment of letting go?' YEAH because we've seen so many times how Maxim keeps trying to convince himself that he can stop just caring but it never works

'You say don’t fall in love, yet you’re unwilling to let go' same point, this man is in such denial about how he just can't stop caring

specifically the second verse feels a lot like Maxim waiting for VR-LA to return from Tu'narath

'You stay silent, holding onto starlight as you wait through your darkest hour. Your mind is struck, when familiar murmurs pierce your ears once more' aaaAAAAHH

the bridge (?) as a conversation between VR-LA and Maxim, VR-LA inviting Maxim to see the beauty and wonders of the world ('Do you want to see the sea of flowers blooming?', very 4.5 wedding invite honestly) but Maxim's trauma just would not allow him to take that risk ('If none of them come back, then who should I live for?')

fun fact the second version of the bridge in my translation ('You must stay to see the flowers bloom' onwards) is exclusive to that live performance of the song so it's not in the spotify version i linked here. as for which version you think fits Maxim more.. well.

Borrow - Mao Buyi (借 - 毛不易)

finally banging out a translation for this song was kinda the inspiration for me to make this post actually

the tldr of this song is that it's an unnamed/unidentified speaker asking to borrow various small things for the sake of somebody else (like 'an inch of frozen sunlight' to provide warmth in a cold world) so you can probably see where i'm going with this

'A simple ‘we have plenty of time’ etched into the soul to prepare for the chance of forced separation' ouch ow okay

'Those blown apart by these winds will say that they never loved deeply' / 'There is a sincerity that cannot be blown apart by this wind' DX-TR betraying the old crew vs VR-LA fighting through so much just to get them back

'There are tears that cannot be washed away by this rain' this line just haunts me. like in general

'An acre of land for him to call home, an ordinary life for him to live' as MR-SN watching over the old crew like I can't be there for you but I hope you will find peace and a home...

#rolling with difficulty #rwd starship #rwd professionals #my feel good hobby! as opposed to art: my feel bad hobby /j #im actually learning to play how can i make you stay on the guitar right now its a lot of fun but ow my fingers #ive also found a score for him but its super outside my skill level so we'll see how that goes #bmadd11 my beloathed #/also/ working on a little something based on that song but that wont... come into play for at least the next few weeks so #its an absolute monster of a project and school has started so i dont have high hopes for getting it done soon #i dont think i got to mention this on the actual post for borrow but ive literally been spinning that song in my brain since like 2020 #genuinely. i've been thinking about how to translate that song for upwards of 3 years #grammar is just weird sometimes #i was gonna include let's go wandering by bibi zhou but i couldve SWORN i wrote a translation for that song before i just cant FIND it #spent 30 minutes hunting for the doc in my drive thats 30 minutes of my life wasted #but 'lets go wandering with a smile because we carry our home in our hearts' just fucks severely #also considered including forget your sorrows when the flowers bloom by zhou shen #bc im not gonna make a cpop post and *not* try and subject more poeple to zhou shen #but like that songs vibe is too... cottagecore to really make a good point there im just obsessed with one specific line #'If my memories are stolen and I forget all my love; I'll say to you “Hello!”#post amnesia vrla to the old crew??? the 'i dont know you. id love to get to know you again' of it all????#did this instead of my programming homework :|

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paperbaldi · 9 months

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It's been 3 years since I started drawing Paper Baldi. NON STOP DRAWING HIM EVER SINCE!!#!#!# let's see if I can do it for another year

#yeah i first drew him in like july 2020. ever since ive been unstoppable drawing him #well thanks to him ive been improving on my art #nah imagine if after I said that i get bored of it. no no dont think about that 🌚#hello 👽 its kind of weird talking here #talking :0)

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vitrines · 2 months

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discourse under cut related to shubble situation

i don't think now is the time to go "why do you people always make things about men?? just support the victim" like do you think you're supporting shubble by turning a blind eye to the other women that have backed up her story?

it's not helpful to go "guess we don't know!" and choose to ignore that someone is strongly implicated to be an abuser. what happened to better safe than sorry? like. support her by giving her the benefit of the doubt and listening to what she's saying. cope privately. my love goes to everyone who's moving on

#i'm sorry just fuming #the “don't make it about men!” from the crowd that has been making it about men since 2020 is REAL fucking rich #but like. why do you think she would choose to give these details and not name a name. she says #he fucking scares her of course they wouldn't want to name him #they've seen how rabid people can get

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eldritch-crabbo · 7 months

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Dad: “You’ve never consistently walked every day how do you know it wouldn’t help?” (my chronic fatigue and perceived laziness for only doing as much as I need to and no more)

Me: “I literally walked (up the steep ass hill leading to our neighborhood) every day with 30 lbs of textbooks on my back for 7 years.”

Dad: “And you had more energy and were 100lbs lighter back then! See it works!”

like literally 1. no, I definitely did not. there’s (many) reasons I didn’t do homework and was failing every class bc of it, and a lack of energy was a big one. 2. lmao I gained like 30 lbs since I got out of high school if he really thinks it was 100 he’s deluding himself. 3. i only did all of that because i literally had no other choice. what was I going to do as someone who has a massive fear of punishment (in large part because of him), not go to school? skip class and get treated even worse? this is the man that cut off my access to running water for like 12 hours as punishment once. i can’t believe i ever thought that shit was normal

#venting about the massive fight i just had with him. get this. because i only cut enough bread for myself when he’s not even—#—eating any tonight. as if me not cutting the entire loaf into slices is some huge moral failing #‘you do the bare minimum and only ever think of yourself’ yeah ok i fixed a nice lunch for both of us today and youre gonna say that—#—not even 5 hours later huh. fuck you.#can’t tell if i wanna die or want him to die or both but I sure as hell am sick of this bullshit #doesnt help that ive been unmedicated for months now bc we lost our medi-cal. mom got a job with enough pay that it took our eligibility #which. good for her! she got insurance at that job too! proud of her.#but theyve been separated since dec 2020 and it completely screwed us bc they arent legally divorces #ill be getting on my own medi-cal soon enough (if i can muster the energy for it) cuz imd be kicked off theirs at the end of the year anyway #since i just turned 26 #but yeah cant afford all those medications with only $12 in my bank. had to ask mom to pay for an inhaler cuz mine was out and i need that—#—for emergencies. cant be without an inhaler when i have an asthma attack #gonna stop now cuz im getting turbo depressed

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wildwoof · 8 months

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#( off the stage ) ooc #waiting on undead climax event #&& koga is the center #bc dear happy ele KOGA HASNT HAD AN EVENT 5 STAR SINCE NIGHTLESS CITY #which came out in 2020 #IT'S BEEN SO LONG FOR HIM #anyways..... i actually woke up thinking about #koga only being ok in actual collars not chokers #with select people.#i need to go back to sleep lol

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mrs-kelly · 1 year

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so fucking weird to hear Charlie talking about covid, that just made my brain melt for a second JDFKSAL

#covid tw #idk if that's necessary but ill tag it anyway to be safe c:#anyway this episode is what the gang was up to during 2020 afjklds #and Charlie's like 'yeah you know covid forced us to close our doors'#and even tho i knew they would tlak about it i was still like 😦 FJDSAKL #ive never had an f/o that lived through it before actually now that i think about it ajfklsd #or at least that talked about it. maybe rick. probably fjsdkl #but this show goes so far back and now that im catching up so much that they're in 2021 it feels so weird ajfklsd #it's gonna be even weirder when season 16 comes out i know it #if they mention it being 2023 im gonna freak out ajfklsd #just bc charlie has always been in the past since i only started watching recently #seeing him in present day will be like. so weird ajfklds #ren speaks #renlie

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firedragon1321 · 1 year

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Endless Tai- The Post

Hey remember that panel in the V-Tamer/2020 crossover manga that was basically Tai World?

Look at the babies.

From top right (mostly unofficial names)- Determination, V-Tamer (I think), Gremlin, Sanic, Yuma Tsukumo, Sunshine Smile, Winky Boy, 2020 Tai.

And of course 2020 gave us this beautiful image (not gonna name these because they’re all identical).

It’s a shame we didn’t get any mass mobs of ‘99 Tai. Closest we got was this-

That’s only two Tai. I want more. I want an army of fluffy babies.

Endless Tai. Endless Tai.

#digimon #tai kamiya #taichi yagami #endless tai #just googled digimon tai because it's been a minute since i screamed over him #there are eight tais in this panel #proving you can make a team of digidestined out of only tai #winky boy and gremlin are my favorites #i know the anime episode had other panels where they were all tied up #but no i don't wanna think about that #2020 anime gave me a new way to use the blorbo boy- multiply him over and over #more is better #i am tired can't you tell?

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nrth-wind-a · 1 year

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Skrael of the North Wind: Bio

Skrael of the North Wind was born the moment that the world developed an atmosphere—for, they were the atmosphere. He was wind given sentience, one of three guardians of the tomb of the titans.

The titans of old, beings of pure magic and chemistry, who have been slumbering beneath the earth’s surface for billions upon billions of years, only to be woken when the balance between magic and man has truly been lost.

For that is what the North Wind, what the Keeper of Flame, what the Eternal Forest are meant to do: watch over and guide the balance between man and magic. Between the mechanical, the scientific, and the arcane, the supernatural. That is, of course, summarizing it without complexity.

For Skrael themself knows as well as his peers that magic and science can never really be separated. Never in contest, never in perfect harmony—only balanced, according to what needs be done.

Skrael of the North Wind has lived for four billion years, and with those eons upon eons, his heart, once open and full, has, as his magic, his element, his namesake might suggest, become cold and frozen over. He is not without ethics or morals, but when one lives forever, they of course look different than what someone who only lives for a century might recognize.

He is not chaos for chaos’s sake, but he does not hold in his heart the same detestation for mischief and harm that others might, and so he is a trickster, akin to Loki or Eris, in that he strives for entertainment, even at the expense of humankind.

On the other hand, however, ice is slow and patient and unforgiving, so as loose and playful as he might be, he is, too, rigid and solid and cold. He can lie in wait for lengths of time unbearable to anyone else, if only to gain the upper hand and serve what he knows to be justice.

This is why he pursues Myrddin so unhurriedly—the damn fool will face the wrath of the Order in time… but there is no hurry. There is nowhere the wizard can hide that The Arcane Order cannot find him.

Not even death saved Morgana from their machinations, after all.

The Arcane Order formed the moment that vegetation and greenery began to overtake the earth—and Wind, Fire, and Leaf, took each other’s hands and stepped into their power, their vocation, together.

And for time unfathomable, they were happy, the world was balanced, and the realms lived in harmony.

But then man became a scourge upon the earth, imprisoning or killing those who could perform magic, or those who were born of magic, such as trolls, goblins, or gnomes. Wizards and witches were punished, and many creatures were forced to take shelter in the shadow or beast realms, forcing Skrael to rapidly learn how to traverse the various planes of existence, just to keep an eye on the children of magic.

But though things were frightening, magic was not entirely at risk, yet. That would not occur until Arthur Pendragon, having sat for years upon Camelot’s throne, become a widower—when the Lady Guinevere of Cameliard perished to a nest of Stalklings.

Magic became public enemy number one, and only the king’s pet sorcerer, Myrddin Wylt, and whatever young wizard was his apprentice of the decade, were given amnesty.

All over the land, trolls, witches, wizards, goblins, gnomes, druids, and all other creatures of magic were rounded up and held captive. It was not until the king of the trolls, Gunmar the Black, negotiated the terms of a truce, that the reign of terror slowed to a trickle—it did not end, but trolls were given underground territory, and their diets were adjusted to no longer include human flesh.

Unfortunately, tensions remained, and so a war brewed on the horizon, lying in wait, until the death of Morgana, Arthur’s sister, pushed the human king off the edge. The trolls and the humans went to war, and through it all, The Arcane Order sat and watched the outcome—that was, until the humans started to win.

When it became clear that the trolls would lose—helped by, in Skrael’s eyes, traitor trolls who joined the side of man—The Order entered the fray. Skrael would take many human lives that day, and Bellroc would claim the life of King Arthur himself… At the price of their own sight.

After killing the king, The Order all received a reminder that they were not impervious—the hardest way possible.

For, Myrddin Wylt, the tricky bastard, had given magic armor and a sword to match, to a troll who he made into his champion. This champion became known as The Trollhunter.

The first Trollhunter was known as Deya—and Deya was the one who claimed Bellroc, the Keeper of the Flame’s sight. As Bellroc launched an attack on the troll, she swung true and blinded them, causing the entire Order to fall back, thus failing in their mission to use the war to save the balance of magic and man.

Man prevailed. The Arcane Order lost.

And so, the balance of magic and man has been holding on by a thread, since. Especially as the world dies of pollution, and as technology grows, and as a few elite run the world’s commerce.

For Skrael, there is nothing that redeems humankind anymore. There is no point to them, at all.

He does not want to kill all of humanity; that is not the solution he believes in. His solution, as is Bellroc’s, is to raise the titans once more, for with their power, they will be able to right the world again, make it anew, and create what needs be created. Destroy what needs be destroyed.

Nari of the Eternal Forest disagrees.

And so she has been on the run from Wind and Fire since the twelfth century—since the war that went wrong.

Skrael and Bellroc have thus been on a journey to get her back, to make her see sense, see their side. But she has aligned herself with Myrddin, and that cannot stand. To Skrael, he must have filled her head with deception and manipulation—not that Nari cannot protect herself, of course, but Myrddin is devil-born and persuasive—and so, he still believes that if she would just listen to him… Just hear him and Bellroc out…

Maybe they can all be together again. An Order. A collective.

Friends.

In the world that Skrael will fix, by whatever means necessary.

Some Quick Info:

Skrael of the North Wind is a bonkers powerful wizard, whose powerset is insane, but in order to avoid even the very possibility of god-modding, I will of course tone him down, and ask before Skrael does anything to your muse.

That said, his power is off the charts, so if your character is in tune with magic in any way, he may seem like a black hole, or a supernova. He frequently tries to hide this by masking his own abilities, or by trying to goad someone into underestimating him. None of this has to fool your muse, but it is the general magic aura that he gives off.

They also use he/they pronouns, so I will be switching in their narration.

Skrael is mischievous on the outside, and they love to tease or frighten others, but they also have a lot of interiority, and a great deal going on beneath the surface that they would like to keep hidden.

He is deeply mistrusting of others, and he is a pessimist in action. But he is also a secret optimist, far, far beneath his surface, at the core of him. He really does believe that things can be fixed. It’s just that now, it’s time to take drastic action, in his mind.

They have an eons-long grudge against Merlin. They despise the Trollhunter.

Skrael is a neutral evil, though, rather than the deceptive chaotic evil that Skrael wants someone to think that he is. Skrael does not act without reason most of the time, and he is not evil for evil’s sake. In fact, the only reason we think of him as evil is because of what Merlin says about Skrael/The Arcane Order.

Other than being a dickhead sometimes, Skrael generally isn’t cruel just for fun. They have a mission which they believe to be given to them from the only entity that they might ever view as a deity or a being more powerful than them, and so their main concern is enacting that plan. This often means that they really don’t even interact with humans much at all. This is partially why The Arcane Order has been so silent for most of the TOA canon—they didn’t need to torment humans, so they didn’t. They just looked for Nari and Merlin, in relative secrecy and quiet.

Skrael’s main powerset is Ice, Wind, and Realm-Walking, but he is adept in all forms of magic but for fire and nature manipulation.

They have a sweet tooth.

He does not need to eat, though, nor does he need to breathe, blink, or sleep. In fact, if he does take a breath, it’s more to be dramatic, than anything.

They initially started as pure wind for their form, but over time, evolved with the times, until they were given a humanoid form by the titans, which they can change via glamours, but not structurally. In this humanoid form, they have white hair, the horns that we can see in their concept art, and all of the black markings on them appeared as part of the form. Their skin does glitter like snow. In fact—when they bleed or cry, they also bleed or cry snow, similarly to how Bellroc bleeds lava.

If we need to plot anything to help us get our characters to interact, I am more than happy to do that! If it helps, though, Skrael can fit in pretty well in crossover canons, and I can put them in just about any setting, as they have the ability to teleport via shadow and ice.

I have a LOT written about them on this blog, as this blog used to be a single muse for Skrael only, so if you want to learn more about him, feel free to peruse the archive before winter 2021.

Writing Samples, and Helpful Characterization Links:

A lyric-based drabble about a possible future of Skrael’s, where the titans do rise, but it turns out that they do not care about The Order, insofar as, they were just means to an end

Skrael’s honest thoughts about changelings

A nightmare/strange dream that he had, in a rare time where he actually slept

A one-shot where his backstory is discussed a bit

Some ooc meta about how Skrael thinks, via the question: how would Skrael treat a child?

#[oooof i don't even think i managed to cover every last detail about my skrael since there's SO MUCH THERE]#[i've been writing him since 2020 so two years of blog history here]#[i hope this has been summarized well but ofc if anyone has questions please do come and ask them!]#{isen be bejstrum}

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