pls i need to provide updates

hey would you terribly mind sharing your fav barry pics 🙏 signed a newcomer to the barry church

nooo omg haha not ANOTHER excuse to look at barry pics for two hours straight this can’t be happening !

anyway starting with some beautiful body pics that drive me a little bit insane<3

welcome to the barry church!!

GQ (2022) / Wonderland (2023) / Document (2023) / Alasdair McLellan for Homme+ (2022) / Document (2023) / Harry Lambert for Homme+ (2022) (x) (x)

i tried getting back to posting fanart on twt but i completely forgot how different the etiquette is over there (in a bad way)

i may not be able to open posts from my notes or messages or get more context on posts via looking at the notes, but at least i can make fucked up coffee properly now

Literally the same ppl/j

social media just hate me i fear

why wont tumblr let me view my asks or direct messages

The idea of "irredeemable media" is very funny because usually the line between what counts and what doesn't is entirely up to whoever is saying it.

ok not to randomly go off on a somewhat negative ramble But. (general genshin story direction worries basically)

while there are a bunch of stunts i fear the genshin story slash lore could end up pulling that would serve as not only disappointments but to varying degrees also just retroactively ruin a lot of games writing for me. i dont think theres anything that im as genuinely concerned about as the possibility of like. completely losing their narrative marbles to an overdone time travel/temporal manipulation in one way or another like just the thought of that shit haunts me

bc like. while i dont find them particularly compelling as an argument for that to be the case regarding Everything in the narrative in current lore/theory circles (like. makoto n ei teaming up w istaroth once doesnt automatically establish universal time travel). it is unfortunately true that in canon lore there are many of the kind of lore pieces present that you could use to set that kind of reveal and complete restructuring of the story up. istaroth and the sacred sakura and some shady things said by various characters and how you could argue Any time loop or travel adjacent is just hidden by the irminsul 5head (another piece of writing whose potential misuse seriously alarms me, mind you). and so on.

and i am just. Not about any of that shit. like. for me absolutely any plot device or element that has the risk of fundamentally fucking up a storys continuity and coherence sideways to the degree BOTH the

"genshins gonna turn out to be ALL time travel/time loop/simulation to make [sudden endgame twist X heavily at odds with what was established in the central lore prior] appear sensible"

and

"celestia just irminsuls away all evidence for [that twist X again] so achsually it was always genius and compatible with lore"

tier of nightmare scenarios will have. is just. Not fucking worth it. this shit has ruined countless stories with vastly better writing and way more competent authors because its just. not the kind of stuff you can just insert in a massive fucking story willy nilly to explain away the mystery box you didnt bother to set up together so it ultimately comes together in a cohesive way that Doesnt need to be broken on multiple levels to scrape together some conclusion. and its just hhhhhhhhhhhhhh

and like ive never expected some massive masterpiece out of genshin like at best its gonna be one of those stories that once finished gets some really fucking banger fanwork as its community expands upon and explores a solid but flawed canon groundwork. theres fundamental flaws and limitations to its storytelling and format and that cant be helped. so im expecting no miracles on that front.

but the one fucking thing i dont want them to fall for is that misguided at best and outright pretentious and disrespectful at worst allure of. SEE! we outsmarted the audience! the theories! we broke our own story continuity to force a twist because our established worldbuilding technically makes it an option! isnt this smart!

like just please. no. no clue how unpopular this is but im already quite conflicted on the established use of irminsul in sumeru and how it arguably voided a lot of important characterization (nahidas inferiority complex) and narrative potential (scara literally becoming a non factor in the grander story more or less) for good but like. for now. fine. it hasnt become overused yet. i dont think its inherently bad as a factor of worldbuilding. i like how it recontextualizes fact and fiction and the significance of stories that appear mere fables in the world of teyvat. but as it stands the irminsul is still a deus ex machina. and thats a dangerous tool for any writer to have in careless use. and when combined with the sprinkles of lore involving the possibility of time manipulation and such to be further explored. its like powder and keg. two tools that can absolutely gut a story of its narrative cohesion and the weight of its stakes in an instant. its really fucking worrisome.

genshins writing is flawed but the one thing this game has going for it that i REALLY hope the writers will understand to respect is its world. how much the marriage between this massive and beautifully crafted immersive open world and the intricacies of lore and history afforded to all corners of it truly do in tandem to establish the world of genshin as more Real. as weightier. as a place you grow and remain attached to even when the main storys writing stumbles. the world is so important and to let it remain feeling real is just. i hope they understand how fragile of a gem that is.

featuring an artificial world order established by fraudulent divinity and that involving some degree of cosmic fuck-uppery of the natural order and all-encompassing illusion to maintain it is fine. this is a story heavily referencing gnosticism that theme is literally a given. but it needs to be an artificial world order imposed on a real world that remains feeling real the entire time through. and for that to be preserved it needs to remain grounded.

but the problem is that once a story truly commits to the "anything could be altered and fundamentally reversed with the right mcguffin at play with seeming impunity" there is no going back. it becomes very fucking difficult to keep the figurative feet of a narrative even touching the ground for even the most skilled of writers afforded absolute creative freedom to work with (which genshin does not have). and just that much more easier for the stakes to be lost completely. and i dont want to see that scenario become reality

i was actually halfway thru s2 of turn but i wasn’t paying enough attention during the first season because i did just put it on to have something to watch, so i restarted yesterday and now there were TWO episodes without any simcoe. that’s just rude and mean and disrespectful

comin out of my cage and i'

m goin right back into my cage. and then i'm putting the cage on neptune. and then i'm blowing up neptune with my psychic beam attack. and then i'm rebranding my blog entirely

hello!! possibly to everyone's surprise and above all mine, after taking two years to "disconnect" (ie. continue being chronically online but Elsewhere), i actually did come back!! as an adult now too, would ya look at that :)

that being said, two years is plenty of time for interests to change, and for the record, mine definitely have -- at least the specific interest to which this blog used to be primarily dedicated. i was originally going to just start over on a new sideblog, but it turns out tumblr doesn't let you transfer primacy between blogs so i guess i'm just staying here, changing my handle, and making my presence everyone else's problem instead

anyway, probably gonna give it a day or two before i change my username to re-establish my footing in the whimsical wonder of the worldwide web and give yall time enough to recognize who i am + decide whether you both tolerate the person i used to be and like the person i've evolved into enough to want to stay. (ik tumblr is still big on Curating Specific Fandom Cultures so if the knowledge that i wont be posting the same content anymore is a deal-breaker, that's totally fine, i get it!!)

in any case, thank you for sticking w me through this two-year hiatus, and for all the love and kindness y'all showed me in the time before that too. even if i dont really do fandom content creation as much anymore these days, being so supported as a content creator in middle and early high school really, truly meant the world to me. <3

Currently battling with some psychological barriers regarding posting my art on here but just know that the piece I'm working on currently is a banger and I am excited to share it w you guys

im willing to believe yellowjackets is a good show but im not sure im willing to forgive it for that title which makes me have to specify "yellowjacket BUG" if i want to see the actual bees

I got to see CrankGamePlays (YouTuber) on his tour and I had so much fun <33 I even got to take a picture with him and ask him a question during the VIP q&a!! His videos helped me through so much during quarantine, and meeting him was such a big deal to me. the show was so entertaining and funny and it was a crazy experience!!

I know most of my mutuals won't even know who he is but I just wanted to ramble about it

have a habit of switching between this and my sideblog for more personal rambles and unfortunately itll stay that way lest i decide to deactivate this account someday

is there a way to be shadow banned on tumblr? i barely see your art unless i search you manually:(

according to google there's not! i dont know why thats happening anon im sorry D:

i post between 6 - 9 pm GMT if that helps somehow!!

is any1 else having this issue??