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this is how y'all talk on this website

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gekkan shoujo 🎀 nozaki-kun 💌

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“It’s a handbag.”

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the green + wind elemental type guys i see on my tl

(L->R: shen qingqiu, im sobyeong, shi qingxuan)

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parasitism

poem by @growrotten

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And why did the value plummet, Marissa? Why did it plummet?

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debut or die spoiler alert: testar got a reality show offer of healing trip. the pd even say if he makes them do shitty thing, they can sue him. suspicious by nature, moondae always brace himself for any trap but the program stays boring.

for two days.

and hell break loose.

see, the currency in this show is carrot coin, which is one coin equivalent to one real carrot (this will be relevant later). at first everything is cheap and after seeing his fellow members enjoy the vacation, moondae finally thought maybe it's good to join a boring show like this.

on the 3rd day, the pd team gave a notice that all of their coins are stolen. so they need to find the culprit or earn carrot coins. every villagers refused to give them jobs and the pd team take them to a carrot field where they can get 5 coins everyday if they finished harvesting the entire field in one day. also, the goods price inflated, and the team is in trouble now.

moondae got pissed and confront the pd, mentioning about the sue promise, but the pd said carrot coin isn't real currency so they can't sue him with that. he investigated around and find out the pd team will give two message chairs to villagers with most carrot coins (thus the inflation). so moondae took his team to carrot field at night but actually they didn't go there.

they made counterfeit coins.

anyway, the pd team defeated, yadda yadda, very satisfying. moondae said there's a traitor among them who stole the coins but he didn't know who. the mystery stayed until the broadcast.

where it shows that every member except moondae are the culprits but thinking they are the only culprit, not others (except eugene who deducted about all culprits situation but being bribed by the pd team with beef to shut up).

and man, moondae is so pissed when he know about that hahahahaha.

he went, oh well, at least the rating is good, but hello unreliable narrator. turns out he is more pissed than his mind tell us the readers because other members making a plan for them to visit the hotspring moondae was waiting for when he thought the program was genuinely want to make healing show.

the reason?

since the broadcast of that show, moondae never cooks for them again lmaoooooo.

he is actually really pissed. well, he actually letting go his suspicion because he think the team need real healing trip (not that stormy island trip). but they betrayed him like that. no wonder moondae-moondae is so angry.

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Curious Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) standing upright and looking through porthole into the kitchen of arctic expedition ship M/S Stockholm in Svalbard, Spitsbergen, Norway by Andy Rouse               

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Cre: @funqi03 on twitter

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Mondstadt's freedom of choice

I've always been curious about the quotes in the Teyvat Chapter Trailer and whether there is any purpose in the featured characters of each nation.

There are a lot of aspects about freedom present in Mondstadt's lore and chapter, but this specific quote always sounded to me like it alluded to choice.

Is something that has been imposed on you still your choice? How do you know it's your choice when you don't have a say in the matter?

Venti's relationship with ruling

Decabarian, the ruling god of old mondsdadt, never meant to oppress his people when he imposed confinement from the outside world. He thought he was doing right by them because he believed he was protecting them from the cold, and interpreted their submission as a satisfied response. The rebellion caught him by surprise.

From Venti's character story 4:

"The ruler had believed that he had given his subjects a city free from the bitter cold, and to the end, he believed that they had loved him as he loved them."

With this thought in mind, Venti chose not to act as a ruling god in Mondstadt so that he (or anybody else) would never deceive himself into tyranny.

This was, of course, for the sake of his people's future, but wasn't the seat of archon also imposed on Barbatos?

Venti didn't mean to become a god, let alone an archon, he supported the people of Mondstadt because he believed in the dreams of his bard friend, who wanted to see the outside world. When Decabarian was defeated, Boreas also removed himself as a candidate, and they were the only ones fighting for the seat in this side of teyvat (aside from their already existing territorial dispute), so Barbatos became the victor by default.

Thus, shouldn't deciding when and how he helps Mondstadt be his choice, too? And not just because he owes it to his title?

Out of the archons we've met so far, Venti is the only one who exists to his people solely in his actions rather than in presence. They know their god through the way he transformed the land and through the ballads and poems about him, they do not know him in person, but they pray for his blessing and comically attribute every good thing that

happens to his doing. And yet, they act self sufficiently (and almost in a workaholic way) due to the gratitude and admiration they hold for him.

Venti isn't the god of Mondstadt just because he holds a tilte, he is their god because he willingly chooses to be; and his people recognise him as their god not because they're told he is, but because they genuinely see him as such. That is to say, this relationship between them would exist whether Venti was been given a gnosis or not.

The concept of chosen family

Rather than subjects or believers, the people of Mondstadt are the children of the anemo archon. And as it turns out, this concept of family (blood or otherwise) seems like a very big aspect of their identity as a nation, especially considering the last event in 3.1, titled "Of Ballads And Brews".

Mondstadt welcomes outsiders as children of Barbatos, such as Amber's grandfather and Rosaria, and so its people too can also define their own concept of family.

Like Rosaria chooses to see Varka as her new paternal figure (and Razor as a brother, by extension); or the old adventurers who chose to raise Bennett as their son; or Alice allowing Klee to grow close to the knights as her older siblings, especially Albedo, who had no ties to anyone but his teacher prior to arriving in Mondstadt.

The land of freedom is full of artificial relationships that make a point of being no less important than blood relations, but that also means blood relations are just as important, and they can be chosen too, even if they are imposed by nature. There's Razor who found family among the wolves, and at the same time still longs to meet his biological parents; there's Jean still wanting to have a relationship with her younger sister Barbara, even though they have grown apart after their parents' divorce. Furthermore, these imposed ties can also be broken, like Eula leaving her clan and their legacy behind in order to honor her own principles.

It's not that found family has the same value as blood bonds, but that the definition of "family" is independent from such ties.

Beyond family relations, there is a sense of belonging that redefines these characters' identity. Foreigners like Amber's grandfather who chose to become a part of the nation's knights and started a family with a local; and Kaeya, whose loyalty is split between Khaenri'ah, his country of origin that abandoned him, and Mondstadt, the nation that raised him.

That which is imposed and that which is chosen

I find Diluc to be a fitting character to represent this conflict.

His father imposed his own ambitions on him since he was a child, and Diluc never questioned them. Being a knight, and thus upholding what being a Knight of Favonius stands for, is his conviction because it is his father’s wish. When he gets his vision at early age, he takes it as "a sign of recognition of both his and his father shared ambition”, thinking that finally "he could make his father proud”.

After the fatal accident, he’s faced with the reality that, first, his father was not who he thought he was and, second, the knights themselves cannot guarantee their own principles to be enforced. Both were so embedded into Diluc’s identity at that point, that it is inconceivable for him to remain the same, so he leaves the knights to investigate the origins of his father’s delusion. 

It is worth noting that when he leaves the knights, he leaves his vision behind too, believing it to be nothing but a burden. He parts ways with this imposed ambition and distances himself from Mondstadt (and his home). But then, years later, holding the same grudge, he still comes back to protect Mondstadt, this time from the shadows, to still follow the teachings his father instilled in him (regardless of if Crepus believed them or not) and the principles of the Knights of Favonius that the institution once betrayed. He’s matured at this point, and only sees his vision as an extension of his own conviction and strength.

We could say then, that Diluc’s journey is one of autonomy, of proving that his original conviction is real and it rightfully belongs to him, and always did. He's still doing what his father imposed on him, still protecting the land of freedom as a child of Barbatos, but in a way that's legitimate for himself, because it is his genuine choice after all.

The same way barbatos chooses to be the god of Mondstadt, and the people of Mondstadt choose him as their god without relying on his title of archon.

And so, true freedom means genuine choice.

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Mondstat: the number one best nation in Teyvat for human rights and general quality of living

Liyue: the second best nation in Teyvat for human rights and quality of living because if it was any lower they’d have to deal with Mondstats archon pressuring the people of Liyue into starting a rebellion against his own husband

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Everyone in Liyue Harbor would agree than one Mr. Zhongli consultant of the Wangsheng funeral parlor was a kind, intelligent man who’s smile never seemed to fit his eyes, but was always polite and courteous when approached no matter who it was.

The exception was with those, who were not aware of the mistake they would be making, that approached him from behind. The lucky ones simply found themselves on the receiving end of a piercing gaze that would kill if it were any sharper. The less fortunate would often find themselves on the ground with a very strong reminder that the vision on his back was not just for show. Of course they were buffeted with numerous apologies from the normally stoic man the moment he realized there was no threat.

So when a very obviously Monstatian bard who graced the harbor with his song was seen making a beeline for the man who was occupied in a discussion with a merchant, they tried to stop him. But the bard either didn’t notice the hands reaching out to halt his progress, or he simply didn’t care. The people of Liyue Harbor quickly resigned themselves to the fact that they’d never hear the music from such a talented bard again after what was to transpire.

But much to onlookers surprise, the bard did not end up shrinking back at a violent glare, or even end up on the ground. Instead they watched in shock as the bard leaped upon Zhongli’s back, who stopped talking while he was in the middle of a discussion to laugh and place his hands where the bards arms were wrapped around his neck, before excusing himself from the merchant and made his way down the street with the bard still perched on his back.

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These fucking peepaws make me SO emotional I pour so much love for them all the time

This is for a zhongven big bang on twt!

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reunion when

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Drunk grandpas

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Aether, the adopted son