#at least DEFINITELY not outright

[calamitys-child]

Hornyposting in tags skip if u dont wanna see

#like wrestling collar matches right. idk. yesterday i was trying to explain my Deal to a friend when they asked if i was a puppy #and i was like. im not a puppy. because im not cute sweet baby boy . im a fucking Mutt. #im a grown ass dog with teeth. #and im a werewolf. im scared of the part of me with claws and teeth and no self control #and i love the part of me with teeth and claws and no self control #i dont want head pets sit up and beg good boy #at least DEFINITELY not outright #i want to be chained up and slapped and only when ive broken myself against my leash and am too tired to fight is it safe to pet me #i want reassured that i cant bite people because even when i get twitchy or scared or snappy the muzzle keeps me from hurting anyone else #and I dont want degradation i want seen as an equal being worthy of respect #and pro wrestling collar matches. i feel more resonance with that than i do with almost any pup play content ive ever seen #i want a fight. and maybe i want to lose. just to prove to myself that im not the threat im scared i am

[savimatteo2810]

Why I have beef with Wild - a totally legit and 100% serious presentation by Savi

DISCLAIMER: I do not actually hate Wild and only like 3 points in this are even semi-serious, please don’t take it too seriously my hatred for Wild is mostly just for shits and giggles

He’s…. He’s okay I guess /lh

#linked universe #lu wild #satire #not entirely serious #don’t hunt me please #like 2 of these points are actually serious the rest are just jokes #I don’t actually hate him #at least not much #he’s definitely my least favourite #but I don’t outright hate him

[starberrywander]

I'm gonna create a new religion because I feel like it.

Planets or maybe just celestial bodies in general are the deities. Earth/Mother nature is our Deity. The Earth will have dei/deim/deir/deimself pronouns because why not, planets don't need genders we can just emphasize their deityness. Dei created humans to watch over deir creations and embody deir spirit. Dei made us intensely social creatures so that we could connect with and care for the rest of deir creations. Dei is quite disappointed with the things we are doing to our planet and environment right now. Our purpose is to love and care for deir creations, which also includes ourselves and our fellow humans. We should go back to our purpose and honor Mother Nature as we were meant to do.

Yeah, I think that's a religion I could actually follow. Anyone got any name suggestions? That's the one thing I'm really blanking on.

Or practices, both spiritual and practical. I'm gonna start brainstorming those and maybe make some mythologies as a creative writing project. Or a conlang? I love conlangs, I'd be down to make one for it that's super nature based if even a single other person would be interested in learning it.

#neopronouns #new religion #earth love #conlang #creative writing #philosophy #vegan #or at least vegetarian #I'm still on the fence about the moral stance of veganism so I don't wanna outright say veganism would be a tenant of this religion #but vegetarian would definitely be #I should probably go learn more about veganism

[laundryandtaxes]

I think it is so bizarre that liberals are really arguing en masse that the administrative state doesn't need to have its hand slapped away from the candy bowl of pulling outright bad faith interpretations of the law (set out by the representatives elected by the people to make those laws) out of thin air, while at the same time they are arguing they're the side that's looking out for the strength of American democracy. In no way is it reasonable for Americans to have to put up with decrees, enforcable at gunpoint as if they were law, made by unelected beaureacrats that have granted themselves the power to intentionally twist the law toward their own ends, especially given the existence of agencies like the ATF which deal directly with personal rights set forth in the Bill of Rights. The most reasonable argument they could make is that preventing judges (who are often political appointees or outright elected officials) from interfering with the administration of those agencies' duties should insulate those policies from the instability of the political process. That is at least a practical argument- a poor one, because if that was going to work then it would have already and there would be no case before the Supreme Court attempting to relitigate this. But I think it is specious to make the claim that there's really nothing to see here wrt the power regulatory agencies believe themselves to have despite never having actually been granted it, and if the government falls apart as a result of reigning in that power, that is the fault of Congress for failing to actually make laws which those agencies could then utilize if needed.

#the atf outright declaring that a piece of plastic that is not a gun is somehow legally a machine gun #even though it does not fit the clear definition of a machine gun put forth in the law #is a problem. and everyone would recognize it as such if you subbed in whatever rights or policies they personally care about #but they didnt just decide alone that they could act that way there has been a culture of allowance of this misbehavior #for my whole living memory at the very very least

[pinkseas]

people who say death to america have the right idea

#i tried making a list but it became Very Long and i knew i was forgetting things too #but fucking hell. its definitely Never been great but the way things have continuously gotten so much unspeakably worse #and the way we are MAKING THINGS worse for others spending billions upon billions of dollars funding actual fucking genocide #among the other countless horrific things we have either completely enabled or endorsed or outright done by ourselves to the world #actively ruining not only ourselves but also at least half the fucking planet and doing so so very purposefully #people who can actually be proud of living here both terrify me and make me sick #alyalyoxenfree #hope this doesn't get me put on some list god only fucking knows at this point

[lisbonsteresa]

knees weak, arms are heavy

#listen it's too late for me to be very articulate about it (and i'm only on s3 now; the rest of the show is kind of hazily blending) but #one of the things i find most interesting about the red john plot...or jane's pursuit of red john maybe #is how ...individualized? it is #obviously the characters have different opinions on it - is his mission right; is it justified; would it help him; would it condemn him #and you as a viewer can side with one opinion more than others (and the opinions change as the show goes on -it's dynamic #which is another interesting but separate train of thought) #but imo/iirc the show itself - the narrative i guess - never makes any outright statement/judgement/comes to any definitive conclusion #on the matter #idk it's just even this - obviously everything's part of the larger narrative but at the same time #his asking does illustrate at least some level of doubt that he didn't seem to have in the last two seasons #is it because of lisbon; and the team; because of kristina; because of the strain it's putting on himself #(probably not the last one; he is demonstrably cavalier when it comes to his own wellbeing) #and he just happens to have the perfect man to express those doubts to right in front of him #(and that man just happens to be noah bennet alskdfja) #had winter said no what would his reaction have been? would his doubts have gotten worse - led to him taking a step towards giving it up? #would he have doubled down? we have no way of knowing because for this man; for this character it was worth it #and that helps shore up jane's belief that it would still be worth it to him too #idk i'm not making sense but it just feels like there's a level of grey area/audience interpretation to this story #rather than a hard line being drawn (by the story itself) on whether the actions taken in it are good or bad and i appreciate that #character-focused vs a morality tale maybe but that's more of an extreme phrasing #anyway ignore me i'm - #tm

[vulturereyy]

as a huge Dark Souls fan who honestly loves the games more for their lore and themes than ooo big boss fights, i wish i was coherent enough to make a big long beautiful dissecting post about the themes of DS and HK, but honestly. I just like that there is a possibility of 'saving' Hallownest. Not the kingdom itself perhaps but. All isn't so totally lost like in Dark Souls. There's still room to rebuild, there's still folks who haven't given up, there's still most of the infrastructure and even groups of bugs like the Mantises or the denizens of Deepnest (the creepy noble ones I'm talking about with the bench) that thrive (?). In Dark Souls, there is... Nothing to really 'save.' The best ending options, in my opinion, are to just let everything *rest* at last. Let the fire fade, let the cycle begin anew. You won't survive, nor will anyone you've met, but existence itself will, because you let everything be burned away at last.

But I don't feel that way about Hallownest. Society still hasn't fallen... *That* far, compared to like, Lothric and Lordran, and hell even Drangleic. I can't quite think of one character in HK who even mentions just waiting for death at this point because that's the only good way anyone is getting out of this (not in a self-death way but like, the world of dark souls is very much converging in on itself because it's been kept in stasis for *so* long to try and preserve Gwyn's Age of Fire. It's not sustainable.) I think Cornifer is a great example for this. He hasn't lost hope, he's got a clear purpose, and yes, he takes your geo (as does Iselda), but both of them take it with the future in mind. They both look forward to the day Cornifer can come home and they can just settle down together. In Dark Souls, there are merchants, but many of them are just kind of... Taking money for money's sake, really. There's not much to *do* with it, there's nothing to look forward to with it. They're getting it for the feeling of power that comes from wealth. There are a few exceptions (Shoutout to my man Domhnall of Zena the best character in DS1) but on the whole, it's a very different vibe. Even Sly, who says himself he just likes to be rich, doesn't seem to be taking it to die rich. No one is waiting for Hallownest to fall.

I don't know. Dark Souls will always be my favorite series, but there's something to be said about how Hollow Knight took a similar path and I prefer the feeling of the endings much more. Sure, in the case of the endings like Dream No More, you shed your shell and *you* return to the void, but Hallownest lives on. Not only does it live on, but it lives on WITH NO (or very, VERY little) CHANCE OF THE CURSE/INFECTION COMING BACK! And hell even your self-sacrifice is viewed as a good thing for you, the Ghost, and the Hollow Knight, because you get to finally *rest*. It's not even painted in a horrible light for the ghost personally.

Hollow Knight lets you kill the Undead Curse and Hollowing itself (i.e. the Infection). It lets you undo the mistakes and wrath of a vengeful god who wants to keep grasping at what little power they have over the lands. A lot has been lost, but not *so* much that everything is for naught.

Hollow Knight makes the best endings the one where the world survives, and I think that's beautiful.

#i have a lot of feelings about dark souls dont get me started #i wish i could articulate myself better #i think if you have played hollow knight you should at least definitely watch like Vaatividya's videos about dark souls lore #because you will immediately see the themes #i wish i could say go play dark souls but honestly the games dont do the best job of showing the lore outright LMAO #and i love ds1 so much but its. not a good game #they are definitely games that you should co op through for funzies #dark souls 3 may be the best to start with i know thats a hot take but its the easiest to get into #and the ringed city dlc my beloved

[askthealternateakis]

Hey asking again here, hope you don't mind.

You said that Wood Aki and Skull Aki divergent wildly from Canon and the other Akis. So what's their story and how does their guardian treat them ?

Okay, now this is where things get REALLY interesting, as given how the situations surrounding Wood Man and Skull Man are vastly different compared to those surrounding the other Robot Masters, I had to get pretty creative regarding how Aki came into their possession, starting by having things diverge during the Hard Age rather than during the theft of Daini.

(Just a heads up, these dabble in some pretty dark subject matter, so trigger warning for those who’d prefer not to read about those kinds of things. Plus they're pretty rambly, and I know some people aren't really into things like that, so heads up for that as well.)

In Wood Man’s Aki’s timeline, Aki gradually obtained sentience overtime on the battlefield rather than gaining it after his first memory wipe but decided to keep it a secret and kept acting like a mindless machine out of fear of what Light and Wily would do to him if they found out he deviated from his programming. However, due to essentially being a very young child mentally, he quickly became terrified by the brutal violence of the Hard Age, with the trauma ensuing from said brutal violence gradually building up and making it harder and harder for him to properly hide his sentience, eventually culminating in him accidentally ripping a soldier’s arm off after being caught off-guard and running away into the wilderness out of both guilt regarding the incident and fear of what would happen to him. He traveled deep into the woods nearby before eventually stumbling upon Wood Man, who immediately recognized him as a creation of Light and Wily’s and intended to kill him on sight, but when the young boy responded by cowering in fear rather than trying to fight back as usual, he realized that something was off and asked him what had happened to him. After explaining everything he had gone through, Aki begged for Wood Man to take his sentience away as while he feared death greatly, he didn’t want to spend the rest of his existence haunted by his memories of the war and all the suffering he had caused during it. Wood Man, taking pity on the boy, instead opted to attempt to remove his memories of the war by modifying his systems as a way to give him the chance to undergo a fresh start and show him all the good the world had to offer. It worked to an extent, but due to Wood Man not possessing the same advanced technology as Dr. Light, he unintentionally left his Aki with some “residue” in the form of bad dreams and deja vu.

Meanwhile, in Skull Man’s Aki’s timeline, Skull Man and his troops launched an invasion of Light and Wily’s base of operations whilst Light was in the middle of erasing her (remember when I said that Brooke wasn’t the only girl Alternate Aki?) memories of the Hard Age, forcing the two of them to take cover due to being caught off-guard and woefully unprepared. The robots absolutely ransacked the place before coming across the young girl still contained within the capsule, as Light didn’t have enough time to take her with them amidst all the chaos. Originally, the robots intended to destroy her and use her for scrap metal, but Skull Man, seeing potential in the girl and potentially being of use to him, instead opted to take her back to their base and take advantage of her memory loss by training her to be fiercely loyal to their cause, resulting in her eventually becoming their espionage specialist.

These timeline divergences result in them being the oldest Akis mentally (being more around high school age compared to the standard middle school age) and changing their reasons as to how they wound up in Silicon City: Wood Man’s Aki went to go investigate the state of the outside world after the two of them spent nearly two decades hiding out in the woods and fearful of the potential current state of humanity and robotkind, while Skull Man’s Aki being assigned a mission from Skull Man himself to gain the Lights’ trust to learn the location of the Mega Key and stop anyone who might aim to steal it before they get the chance to. I'm also debating on whether this means they have Dainis/Namagems of their own, or it's just them and in a unique turn of events, it's their own trauma/internal conflict that causes them to serve as their own Daini/Namagem a la Omori.

As for how their guardians treat them, I do eventually plan on making full-length text posts properly detailing each Aki’s relationship with their respective Robot Master, but for now I’ll say that Wood Man and Skull Man have the most professional relationships with their Akis due to their militaristic natures, with both pairs having a more mentor-student relationship than a parent-child one, though both Robot Masters still serve as their Aki’s caretaker and father figure. Wood Man is more open and gentle towards his Aki whilst Skull Man is more cold and strict towards his, but both of them care for their wards deeply in their own ways and do their best to ensure that they’re well taken care of and know how to properly protect themselves.

#ooc #mega man #megaman #rockman #mega man fully charged #mmfc #megaman fully charged #fully charged #alternate akis #askthealternateakis #I feel like it's worth mentioning now that I don't really imagine any of the Robot Masters being outright abusive #Keep in mind that this doesn't mean that all of them are perfect parents by any means #Are a good chunk of them pretty irresponsible? Absolutely #Do some of them instill some frankly not-great ideals into their kids either intentionally or unintentionally? Definitely #Are a few of them outright neglectful at times? Unfortunately yes #But I can't really picture any of them beating their kids or calling them garbage or anything like that #(Minus when they're in their Mega Modes of course but in those scenarios they don't know it's them) #Even the more villainous ones I can easily envision genuinely loving their child and wanting them to give them a good life #Hell even Skull Man seems to have more of a sense of honor than either Night or Wily (to me at least) #Then again that's just me #Some people may feel differently and that's perfectly fine #You're more than welcome to explain why and I'm more than willing to hear you out #Just needed to get that off my chest

[fortes-fortuna-iogurtum]

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#I do really wish Eliza would stop using people to her own advantage all the time tho :/ #or at least that it would have consequences sometimes #she's not a psychopath; she's not completely unfeeling; and she won't harm people outright to get what she wants #but she can be quite manipulative and she definitely maintains a lot of relationships for the sake of what she gets out of them #while being annoyed if she's asked to put much into them #it would be nice if the writers would focus of developing either her awareness of that #or would begin to address how handling all relationships like this is A Problem Actually #especially given the fact that William is having to face similar situations #and it definitely seems to me as though the narrative intends the audience to feel uncomfortable about it #eventually leading to a point where he will have to decide between following orders and playing the favours game and doing what's right #and fair and just. #idk there are several different ways this issue could be addressed and handled tbh. #I just want to know that it IS going to be addressed and handled. #I don't want to see Eliza get away with using people and potentially hurting them for her own gain #and there never be any consequences just because she's the heroine of the series or bc she's a woman and she has to be sly and conniving #all the time #because the system is set up against her #and therefore it's ok #tag ramble #probably gonna delete this later dsfkjsdh

[ashtonisvibing]

welcome to summer, where flies somehow spawn in your bedroom seemingly from thin air!

#ashton is talking #i've killed... maybe 4 by now? #i've definitely killed two #the problem is i don't know if i killed the third and a fourth just spawned #or if the third is just impossibly resilient #i'm hoping there's not a hole in my window screen that i'm just not seeing #and that they're sneaking in from the living room whenever i leave my room #cuz i don't wanna close my window #fun fact: if you have a stuffed animal full of something like beans #they make excellent fly killer if you chuck it at them hard enough #it's how i've been killing all the flies so far #probably not fluff filled stuffed animals since those are softer #at the very least if you don't wanna outright kill the flies the fluff filled ones might be good to injure them #that way they're not flying around your room

[todayisafridaynight]

I may just be delirious but I kind of feel like there's something there about some of the most traumatic events in Arakawa's life arguably stemming from/being made worse by being loved too much.

Like, Toshio's death, right. The death of a parent is always always going to be traumatic, particularly when your other parent is abusive, but I feel like being there, being the first to the scene, made it so much worse. Especially when it should've been a good memory.

Non-zero chance I'm just projecting because I was there for my own father's death and I was around Arakawa's age at the time, but it's like... it did have very specific life-long effects, didn't it... the way he keeps coming back to Peking duck and talks about it like he's had it before when he can't even bring himself to eat it unless he's with family (and indeed, never did, up until right before he died)...

And then there's his former patriarch. Of course, he seemed to see Arakawa as more of an object--fully under his control and something to be thrown away at the first sign of autonomy. But I feel like, before then, Arakawa must've been his "favorite," if he was willing to arrange a marriage between his daughter and Arakawa. Which I expect is what made his reaction when Arakawa told him he was (technically) having an affair with Akane and wanted out of the family that extreme in going as far as to send men after Akane and Ichiban.

The last one I can immediately think of is not exactly traumatic for him, though it is traumatic For Me so I'm counting it, but it's of course what we were talking about with Jo hesitating so much at the thought of killing Arakawa that he passed up the chance to save him.

I Dunno I Am Delirious but... there's a pattern somewhere in there... Anyway. Uh. "Happy" Father's Day am I right

happy fathers day :]]]]

#snap chats #I HAVE NOTES DOWN HERE AS ALWAYS I PROMISE JUST. no better way to cap off a post with a smile :) #plus yk. i dont have any major notes to add thats not restating but i do enjoy Restating so in the tags we go #also ngl im a lil tired so if im gonna look right silly cause my brains functioning like a bowl of cereal ill do it down here as per usual #totally waited to answer this when its technically fathers day my time and i didnt just stare at a wall #listen if someone has a proejcting problem its me alright. its ok if someone else has a turn at it esp when its within fair grounds 🥴 #in any case Yeah.. everyone loves patterns ones a coincidence two's a pattern three should incite murderous intent #i definitely wouldnt call it delirious thinking Thats My Job right LMAO #in all seriousness the importance of at least one positive adult figure in a trouble child's life cannot be understated #im pretty sure i talked bout that already so i wont give the whole lecture again LMAO #in any case its not unreasonable to want to assert love being a theme with arakawa- if not a detriment in some way #it was arakawas intense love for akane that inadvertently fractures their family to be #it was arakawas love for masato that didnt allow him to be harder on him when he should have been and caused both their eventual downfalls #and of course- as mentioned- while not a result of arakawa's own feelings #it was ultimately jo's. //vague hand gesturing// towards arakawa that stopped him from killing him outright #yet jo's love for masato that didnt allow him to lie and go directly behind his back #so yeah love just. works against arakawa unfortunately. an especially sad thing for a troubled child #because as a troubled child that's all you ever really want isnt it- to love and to be loved without worry #so its a cruel irony in that despite arakawa's childhood and general growing-up it didnt stop him from trying to love his family #it makes me wanna throw up (depressed) #in any case i have to stay up a little longer so i can steal water for later SO im gonna be up to uhhhh idk :) Stare At My Wall

[cosmicallyavg]

thasmin really is The most ship ever for me because its like.. i can see parts of myself in both of them that i dont often see in any other characters if at all?? let alone two of them at once and they actually love and care for each other despite everything???? me and who

#some of it is definitely projection lbr #but also some of it is like.. canon or at least implied by canon yknow #or headcanons that make a lot of sense so they may as well be canon #every time ive written them there are bits of me in each of them #psychoanalyze me idc #the evidence was willingly given you cant hurt me #but yeah #i love them a lot and i will never get over them #i was gonna write this as a whole analysis post but like i said #a lot of it is hc and projection #plus i dont want to just give out my insecurities like that #read my fics and figure it out for yourself but im not telling yall outright #anyways #thasmin #eli dont look at this

[musical-chick-13]

Idk, like on a general level, I like messy female characters who fuck up a lot and even do shitty-to-downright-terrible things because I think it makes them interesting and feel more real, but also having OCD and specifically grappling with The Scrupulosity™ means living with a pervasive fear that I’m Actually A Bad Person and that some inherent evilness within me will eventually overtake me and I will do something heinous that I can never come back from; so seeing female characters who kind of embody that, who HAVE done those things and kind of represent what the realization of that fear might look like, but still being remembered fondly or being seen to have a positive impact on someone’s life, to be presented in-story as still being worthy or love and support and narrative weight, to be presented as someone whose story is still worth telling, TRULY does wonders in helping my recovery process. Even if I DO fuck up (though I’m uh. relatively confident, when I’m not having An Episode™, that I’m not going to do so to that extent), EVEN IF I BECOME THE WORST VERSION OF MYSELF, I still deserve to be treated humanely, I can still get love and support, I can still matter in some way that doesn’t involve ruining someone else’s life. Like that really does help balance out The Intrusive Thoughts in a way that I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to fully articulate.

#thinking about my favorite dark-haired anime lady but also this is about cersei and to a lesser extent rebecca #(because I think she's the least ''''bad'''' (in the sense of 'generally objectionable' of those three)) #tbh river too. although her messiness is a) more related to the fact that she kills people as opposed to how she carries herself or a #complete lack of self-control/emotional regulation and b) definitely more 'morally grey with some Good™ tendencies' than 'outright horrible' #and lizzie! although she's definitely 'abrasive and messy' and not a bad person at all #once again mc13 screams about her personal relationship to fiction via oversharing when nobody asked

[roobylavender]

Cassandra

this is a good reminder for me to reread contagion / legacy / no man’s land so i can finally sit down and read her volume let me get on that tomorrow..

#am genuinely so fascinated by the idea that people think cass is the strictest person in the family when so much of her moral worldview #while definitely defined by logic. also has a lot to do with her personal projection #which is something dick comparatively does not have factor into his worldview #he’s way more strict and he will condemn people for killing or at least the closest you can get to outright condemnation #i am very curious to see their interactions with each other #though it’s a shame they’ll be from dixon era dick bc i mean.. that dick is a shell of who he should be lol #outbox

[helladventurers]

You know, one thing I'll say that I appreciate that this game does is that the story missions are very much a "hey, look at all this cool stuff you can do, we'll introduce it to you now but you can come back here on your own if you wanna explore and learn more" kinda thing

I always appreciate when a game leaves it up to the player to act up on their own curiosity, instead of forcing them to interact with everything the game has to offer

#gui plays toukiden 2 #the game was literally like 'hey here's a cool dungeon you can explore but we're just gonna kill a boss rn' LOL #i didn't expect a monhun clone to have dungeons so this is a surprising development pff #and the open 'interact with whatever you want on your own time' structure works well with a monhun style game #since what you explore and interact with will determine stuff like what gear you unlock and all that #it's a good structure!!!! i was struggling to separate this game from being a monhun clone but it having such a wild progression style #is definitely helping making it more of a fun unique game with similarities to it over a outright clone #honestly it's a bit more similar to Final Fantasy Explorers when i think about it #but this is WAY better than FF:E #at least so far

[rubys-domain]

i cannot even begin to express my disappointment at how chongyun's likeness is used as cover art for the combat event. i know it makes sense, but i don't like it.

#⇢₊˚⊹ 🩷∥ruby∥yo，ide yo !! #genshin spoilers #and at least for this first day of the event #the only reason he showed up was because xingqiu dragged him there #and obviously he's not gonna be a bitch about it #but he still didn't seem the least bit happy to be there the whole time #okay he's not outright sad or anything. but he's definitely not at his best either #i hope he gets to enjoy himself in the next day. because my god #today was kinda painful to play through ngl #obviously i want to see my main boy happy and having a good time #after he told us about his encounter with the weird maybe-a-spirit thing，i just wanted to give him a chair in the shade and maybe a popsicle #some mint jelly might even perk him up #since i'm talking about the event anyway，i'm just gonna say this here too #none of the event minigames are interesting to me #i haven't played the combat one. but quite frankly i don't need to #at this point i know that no matter what little variations they add，i'm still not gonna like it #the photo minigame is okay. other than walking around being kind of annoying #but they can only make a photo minigame so interesting so i'm still meh on it #i had the highest hopes for the dart one. but idk it just fell kinda flat for me #the dodoco minigame that lisa made is honestly way more fun to me than all three of these #i was really expecting some kind of riddle game. i know it's already part of the story，but #i expected smth like that guessing game in parade of providence. which i feel would've been more thematically fitting than the current ones #like... what does throwing darts have to do with poetry....... #i saw the previews in the livestream. i should've known it was going to be like this #rn i just hope that name-dropping chongyun in the livestream actually means that something interesting will happen with him as the focus #otherwise if he's just gonna stay like this the whole time，then i don't understand why hoyo would put him back in the banner for this event #who's gonna want to pull for him if he's not at the very least vibing in the story? #im still gonna pull for him regardless obviously. i need all his damn cons. but yk. i dont think this is doing much to endear him to anyone #maybe to other chongyun mains this is all copacetic and i should just be grateful that he gets to play a prominent role in an event at all #i just... hope the writers let him have a good time