not sure if anyone here shares my exact intersection of interests (genshin and f1 racing) but xiao's silhouette is very F1 Driver Unzipped Racing Suit... so here are some thoughts:
he races for Scuderia Liyue (legacy team)
SL's team principal is Mr Zhongli
SL has been sponsored for years by the local funeral parlour and Shell
Madame Ping is the Scuderia Liyue CTO. She can design car aero in her sleep
Xiao is always screaming on team radio and Ganyu is the only person alive in teyvat who can tolerate getting screamed at for 2 hours every race weekend so she is the head race engineer
SL has not won a single championship in years. They're now being called a backmarker team because recently, when Zhongli took over as team principal, the team has been fucking up their car setup and race strategy so much it's tragicomical.
It's not all Zhongli's fault tho - Xiao is also a very immature driver. The guy will not leave space for other drivers on the track even if everyone knows you always have to leave-a da space!!!
young rookie Xiao used to proudly brag that he had the longest driver contract in the history of Scuderia Liyue (a whopping eternity amount of years!) but now he just looks depressed about it
xiao doesn't suffer from Racing Driver Bigneck because uhhh adeptus powers
Scuderia Liyue is currently searching for their second driver because Xiao accidentally killed their previous one
xiao's racing number is 4 (heh heh, death)
Scuderia Liyue thinks they're rivals with the championship-contending Inazuma Racing Team and their star driver Scaramouche, but recently they're really just rivals with the Mondstadt Team, which consistently place last.
The Mondstadt Team Principal, Venti, is a meme and can be heard saying "need to phone Jean now" in a thick german accent after every race failure
Also side note the Mondstadt drivers are "Most unsportive driver on the grid" Diluc and "Suck My Balls" Kaeya
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Ohiwe (lady) and Ohime (man) aka the fire deity after they get punished.
Originally just "Oh", the fire deity had a bit too much fun with punishing humans and so in a means to stop them, the elder gods split them into two. So now they have to be together in order to have their "full" power but as before the split, they get restless and like to wander. So while one stays in their city, the other gets to go out and travel and see the world and check on the other deities.
Also, as a whole/singular being Oh would use they/them. After the split however, it's definitely not the same and so Ohiwe likes using female pronouns and Ohime uses male pronouns. That way when discussed as one, it's back to they. That feels best for them.
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STUFF I DIDN'T KNOW WHEN I WAS STILL ABLED...
You end up inventing a language.
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Words and phrases I used before just do not cover these new chronic illness and disability sensations.
Explaining to doctors aside, because they need specifics and concrete examples and I end up talking to them in exhausting paragraphs and lists, I still want to have casual conversations with people who know and care about me. Who ask how I'm doing.
I need shorthand for recurring weirdness. So I burble something and if it sticks? Woo hoo! ¡Vocabulario!
I tell friends, "The bottom fell out," when my body has pulled the energy plug on my brain and I am powering down right now. Probably gonna sleep? Right here. Wherever that is.
I use "skittles everywhere," as a quick summary of 'yes, I had my thoughts together and it was a pretty good day, but I got confused about something suddenly--maybe it was an emotional hit? maybe a stress situation?'--and my thoughts scattered like I dropped a whole bowl of candies and no, I cannot do anything useful about it; I am gonna stand here and blink at this debris field for a bit cause I have completely forgotten what I was doing.' It's kinda like "the bottom fell out" but more about thoughts and not so much about energy.
There's words I picked up online in disability spaces like "spoons," "flares," "scrombled," and "potsie." (More about the legit joys of online community later.)
And then there's using words that everyone uses, but not how everyone uses. My energy is fragile today. My thoughts are just a crust, so I don't trust them to last. Oops, yeah. Fell through. Now ham-brain.
And it's communicating, but quick and kinda surface level.
Like, we all know "pins and needles" if, say, your foot falls asleep. But there's no cultural touchstone for, "my circulation is very poor today, so the weight of my blood is pooling in my lower limbs and I can literally feel myself getting dumber the longer I stand up because my brain is not getting enough oxygenated blood right now and it is kinda like drowning, yet there's no sense of breathing urgency or air hunger just now, but that part will be happening shortly because my heart rate is climbing and I'm starting to prickle with sweat."
So I just tell my loved ones, "Feelin' potsie," and they cut me some slack. And find me a chair. And that's good enough for now.
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Being able to communicate with other people keeps me from despair, honestly. I recommend building your own language without shame.
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Seems like something we should all know.
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Disability happens to people without our control or consent. Every single disabled person has strong feelings about their own situation and I would not presume to talk about anyone’s thoughts but my own. But none of us chose to do life on hardmode, so if the world could listen this month, there’s a lot to say.
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