on a scale of 1 to 10 — 1 being the least and 10 being the most — how confident are you in surviving an imposter sagau situation?
short answer: i, a non-native in terrain i’ve only ever navigated with 1) a glider 2) no fear of death 3) via a vessel 4) with a map, against various well trained armies, all hellbent on killing me? you’re funny.
now, the long answer…
the long answer, of course, depends on your preferred brand of isekai, as well as the various traits within that. i will… attempt at brevity, but cannot make promises. oh, and there’s no particular order to this list.
1) blood. i myself am more inclined to blue over gold, but that doesn’t matter for this topic. what does matter is if its present and if it manifests immediately.
2) teyvat. is the earth on my side? do the plants and animals know it’s me, or do i need to ‘prove’ it? does it resent me for whatever reason? what’s it’s level of influence (which sounds dumb, but do i have the power of earthquakes and storms or just a few animal helpers?)
3) the imposter situation itself. is there a physical imposter already there,and if so what’s their level of influence? origin? i’d rather go against a wayward traveller than celestia’s puppet. do they have powers? how does teyvat react to them, if at all?
4) speaking of, celestia. are they on my side, the fake’s(if there is one), or staying neutral? what brand of sagau are we even using here? i know i made a post about my version of sagau lore, but one of the key changes since then was celestia. what version of lore are we following?
5) teyvat’s people, emphasis on vision wielders. do they have that subconscious Know? do their visions act up? how do the people overall feel about the one on the throne, if there is one? if there isn’t, is celestia involved in their opinions somehow? what about the traveller, or my vessels?
6) my influence. what can i do? do i have creator abilities, and if so do they take time/some other cue to manifest? is it something i train, or just Click one day? what level? is it an element by element basis, like the traveller, or does that not apply to me? do i have an inventory? if so, can i access the character menus? the map? waypoints? can i move my party, still? do statues of the seven heal me, does food heal me, how do hillichurls and various abyssal beings react to me? ancient gods, such as rhodea (i spelled that wrong) or dvalin or that fucker in the sea outside liyue (yeah i. forgot his name) or azhdaha or yo(u?)kai, if i’m in inazuma? where are we in the in-game lore, by the way?
7) teyvat, again, but this time in terms of biology. i have a few headcanons about teyvat, notably that their gravity is lesser (less fall damage), weather less severe (global warming), and is overall much more temperate/cooler/less humid (global warmingx2 and also just a touch of idealism), so do these apply? this ties into the other points about teyvat, i guess: does the earth let me get cold? can i just shelter in dragonspine?
8) plot armor, for lack of better phrasing. will teyvat let me die? oh, and do i get timeloop’d, or kicked back to my world? do i die, go to my world, then go back to teyvat when i sleep/next log on/whatever? again, tying into other points about teyvat, but will it protect me from death? is my skin like impenetrable or something, or whoops, god is dead, sorry. if i revive in teyvat, is it like that one recent piece i did where the earth moves me? what happens when (if?) i die? does teyvat take revenge?
the long answer… is that it depends.
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Oh my God I'm so surprised that super persistent but consistently flawed debater on Tumblr is actually a child. I never saw that coming.
Look, there's things that adults shouldn't say/ topics we shouldnt bring up around children and should be able to create spaces away from them. If I'm being completely honest, radical feminism almost entirely falls in this category of 18+ content. We are constantly talking about sexual violence and other extremely adult topics that aren't appropriate for developing minds to be constantly bombarded with. It's bad for your young minds and it's bad for the movements that you seem to think you care about.
If you want to be a child activist then volunteer for your local community, don't get in online spaces with adults. It's simply not safe for children and creates an unproductive environment for adults. Children will learn better skills and build more fulfilling relationships and achievement doing local community activism anyways.
If you're a minor you need to put that shit somewhere so that we can tell that we're talking to a literal baby. I really don't enjoy this increasing trend of purposely not telling people when y'all are minors because you think that it's going to make people dismiss you, when you having limited life experience is a legitimate limitation on your analysis. You're being deceptive because someone placed a social boundary that you don't want to respect. It's high key gross.
On the same note, different tune, I hope this serves that is a reminder that people can literally be lying, either outright or by omission, about everything they claim about themselves on here. We, people in general, have created the online culture where it's completely normal to lie about important identifying features about ourselves for social clout/elevation. While I know there are some of us that may not participate in this practice, I know plenty of radfems do. We've caught a few doing it red-handed and all they're doing is breeding distrust amongst us in these spaces.
Can y'all not just act like normal honest people?
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facebook post from joe on christmas 2020
Well, it’s 2am on Christmas Eve night and I find myself laying in bed, thinking about this year’s Christmas Extravaganza that never was. This would’ve been the thirteenth year. It has been both deeply comforting and insanely depressing to get so many messages from people who were bummed about the show not happening or posting pics from years past. I truly can’t believe that I am part of something that plays such a huge role in the lives of so many people I know and love and so many strangers. It’s been the one constant in my own life since I first started working in this business and I have long suspected that Christmas just wouldn’t feel like Christmas without doing the Extravaganza. I was right.
People have been asking me if I was going to do a virtual Extravaganza since September. While I have not wanted to let anyone down, I just couldn’t bring myself to make it happen. There’s nothing remote about the Extravaganza and I felt like as soon as you took it out of a room with live actors interacting with actual humans, it became something else entirely.
I was desperately hoping to have Some holiday whatnot to offer and for a while it looked like we were going to get to do an Iconis and Family concert on an empty stage at a regional theater that would be streamed but, as often happens these days, it got cancelled at the very last minute. It was my most personally disappointing theatrical experience of the year! And I assumed it was the last theatrical undertaking I would be involved with until 2021.
And then. Out of the blue, I got involved producing (and performing in) the #SaveWestBankCafe campaign and telethon. And while it’s not the same as staging the freewheeling ode to Christmas Specials and Chosen Families that I’ve done for the past 12 years, it does feel weirdly connected. The Christmas Extravaganza usually involves a plot device that finds us trying “save the theater” from a greedy real estate developer or landlord or [insert classic Christmas villain here.] The whole misfit gang has to band together and pool our resources and make sure that good triumphs over evil. It’s not enough that we save the theater, we have to save the Christmas villain, save the city, save the whole stinkin’ world. I realized that I AM doing the Christmas Extravaganza this year. It’s just real life. There’s no anthropomorphic chestnuts (yet) but otherwise, it’s all the same.
t really know where this is going, but I wanted to say thanks for everyone who has been along for the ride- both onstage and off. Thanks for making me feel like this family that we’ve made is as important to you as it is to me. And promise me you’ll be there when we come back. And yes, Virginia, we Will come back.
This is the final speech that was gonna happen right before the end of that cancelled Iconis and Family show. Read along. I’ll be me and you can be EVERYBODY.
JOE
Well, it’s almost time to say goodnight. But before we go, I want to thank everyone on this stage for spending tonight with me. And thank all of you watching at home, too. I think the thing I miss most about the before times is the live connection between us up here and you out there, but I also think I learned something tonight.
EVERYBODY
What did you learn, Joe?
JOE
I learned that just because you can’t see something doesn’t mean it isn’t there. It’s not just the audience who is missing in this theater tonight, there are plenty of Iconis Family members who couldn’t be here either. But even though they aren’t, they are. I feel them. The storm’s raging outside, but we’re fighting through it. And right now, a dozen lunatics singing theater songs on a stage at a regional theater feels like more than Christmas. It feels like hope.
From all of us to all of you: here’s to Family, to home, to survival. And here’s to the day when we can all be together again.
[Music: “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)”]
Photo by Jessie Smith
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