#theres so much more to being an ‘adult’

[mrpsychokiller]

i am actually so suspicious of this god damn moth post but i cant find any concrete evidence to prove theres something wrong with it other than my gut feeling and i feel insane

like of course first of all this post is from 2013 and im not really willing to believe any given post from 2013 is true specially when the post is this amazing coincidence of this person coincidentally finding those two coincidentally aesthetically pleasing moths and managing to get them coincidentally snuggling together for a picture. yknow. it does feel too weirdly good to be true

BUT SECONDLY im so weirded out by these two moths specifically.

ok bear with me. the little one is very obviously a rosy maple moth. (which is also coincidentally one of the most famous moths specifically for being pretty)

but im willing to believe any given english speaking tumblrgirl at the time could find one considering they live seemingly accross the united states and canada. fair enough

BUT my problem is the big one. of course everybody even in the notes seems to be classifying it as a luna moth (ALSO a famous moth species for being pretty) you can also feasibly find them in north america, ok.

theres also the point of their lifespans

luna moths as adults live only for about 7-10 days, and i had a harder time finding info for adult rosy maple moths but it seems its about the same

the source of this is an old article from someone actively breeding maple moths x but i believe its the same with moths in general, since they literally dont have mouths and cant eat so they just mate and die.

SO youre gonna have a small time span to find one. both moths are also mainly nocturnal, which makes even weirder that op found both of them during the day.

theres also the point of WHEN are they adults. aka maply moths seem to show from from may through the summer

luna moths though, seem to vary in when they show up depending on place. some do include late may or early june on northern regions, ans a generation in july in central states.

which means you could, feasibly, have a span of about a week or so in may, june or july where both maple moths and luna moths are adults and alive at the same time.

BUT THE POST IN QUESTION IS FROM APRIL 16

thats NOT when adult rosy maple moths show up, much less both of them.

though maybe im just being too pedandic with specific dates and theres margin for variation, but its, again, some real big coincidences

BUT FINALLY theres the fact im suspicious about this luna moth IN THE FIRST PLACE.

i might just be going actually crazy here, but for this we've been assuming the luna moth is the species that exists in north america (otherwise these two wouldnt be in the same place at all)

and like this is what the luna moth looks like

(pictures from wikipedia)

and you see how theyre kinda weird compared to the one in the pic.

the luna moths are mostly green, with much less of this pretty pastel pink of the one on the tumblr post. you could argue they have pink markings but in most pictures i see they seem more like a dark red/brown with a remarkable very thick marking on the wings

you see how the moth in the pic just looks kinda weird. but that can also be from filters or editing to make the photo prettier making the colors different.

(i also think the tail looks weirdly long, but there seems to be variation in the tail length in various luna moth pics ive seen, so i cant speak for sure about that)

(i also cant tell you whether the sizes in comparison to each other are right cause i suck at visualizing size comparisons and its not like theres any other pic on earth of the two together so.)

CONCLUSION: i dont fucking know. i spent an hour looking moths up online and didnt get any reasonable answer to my doubts. i guess in the end THERE is, even if small, a chance of you finding both these boths alive at the same time in the same place so i can fully discredit the op. i give up im going to have breakfast

#🧃

[joseigamer]

Patalliro! is fascinating to me because of stuff like this. It's unapologetically gay - even within its anime which aired during primetime hours in 1982 - in a way that many later BL manga would never be, like the ones from the early 2000s which would never dare to call their characters actual homosexuals. Patalliro has actually aged quite well in this regard, there's something comforting about how campy it is.

#i still dont really understand how they got away with this kind of thing honestly #female VAs i get that - but first m/m kiss in an anime in episode THREE????? #theres also the maraich/thomas episode where they are *Both* voiced by women....advanced yuri #patalliro #i love how bancorans gender expression is pretty much explicitly to attract only bishounen #you blushed - so you must not be a girl #etc #i also love how joyful it all is #theres never anything sad or tragic about being gay - only that bancoran is forced to kill the bishounen spies/assassins/etc #when bancoran finds out that gay sex feels good after demian; in the manga he is elated. its basically a positive thing #he awakens to his true power...lol #also notable is that while bishounen youth is glorified maraich is still 18. #besides making the show more palatable; this means it portrays being gay as an adult as normal #according to the NYT japan's psychiatric body called homosexuality a mental illness until 1995 #im not going to say patalliro changed that or anything lmao but its just significant to me that banmara get to live their lives happily #especially contrasting that with kaze to ki no uta and other manga of the time (no shade intended) #yaoi #<- for tagging purposes #obviously it also got away with a lot by being a gag manga. but still!

[piplupod]

sorry i need to vaguepost real quick (its not about anyone here) bc i am sdgjkl so nauseous from this fucking up my nervous system on another account but GODDD i wish ppl wouldn't assume that if ur criticising a spiritual practice u must not know what ur talking about :'''))))

also the fact that ppl seem to think "well, it's a spiritual/religious/etc practice, so that means it is above criticism :)" drives me up a fucking wall,, with the huge rise of new age spiritual practices and belief systems, that is such a garbage way of thinking

so much of new age spirituality is based in racism and/or encouraging maladaptive thinking patterns and behaviours that can easily push a person into psychosis and/or white supremacy and im just...... head in my hands.

i know what the fuck im talking about bc i was deep in that world for years lmfao and it can be extremely scary in there. i still dip my toes in every now and then bc spirituality and religion and the bit where they intersect is fascinating and oftentimes very beautiful, but I have to be so careful to not fall in too deep or I'll end up in a very fucking bad place yet again lmfao. i just wish ppl wouldn't assume that "oh u said xyz spiritual thing is bad, so you must just not know what you're talking about" BRO TRUST ME. I KNOW FAR MORE THAN THE AVERAGE PERSON, AND I ALSO HAVE A VERY OPEN MIND. if i am criticising smth it is with good fucking reason !!!

#and im so careful because like. no not everyone who does xyz thing is stupid or in danger or whatever #but i think the Vague Concepts being so public is dangerous when the Actual Info is not as public. #because it encourages a lot of young people (teens and adults) who are desperate to escape their reality to feed into these things #and they do not do the proper research !!! they also do not know HOW to do the proper research oftentimes!! #so its just encouraging ppl to get into shit that encourages bigotry and poor mental health !!! #theres so much more i could say but i've already said too much probably fdsjkl im just. genuinely shaking #i hate this nervous system i hate this body i am so tired of things making me turn into a nauseous chihuahua #pippen needs 2nd breakfast

[dennisboobs]

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#absolutely do not want to argue because i get where the post is coming from with but im gonna give some thots #re: dennis autism!!!! ok!!!!! #ive talked about it before but there is WAY more to him being autistic than just the buzzer noises. when i first watched that i was like #is THIS really why people hc him as autistic. :/ and i get it! i do! i think he has misophonia inherited from glenn personally #its actually why i captioned the noise sensitive den gifsets as that rather than just. autism. #but personally i see his scripted social interactions and i go. yeah. me. me fuckin too. #and his outbursts. which are VERY personally relatable to me #i have uh. basically the same triggers? very similar triggers at least #i think dennis' neurodivergency presents itself differently because of his upbringing and thats why a lot of ppl go ???? when you say. #'yea i think den's autistic actually' #and like i said i was absolutely like. what the hell are people talking about. he's not autistic #but uh. on rewatches? hm. #dennis quite literally masks almost 24/7 #charlie has no qualms about being perceived as like. weird. but dennis masks SO hard. SSSSSSOOOOO hard #i once saw a post like. charlie has boy autism and dennis has girl autism which honestly fucking hate that but its... kiiiind of true #ASD presents itself differently in adults depending on early social conditioning #mac fights gay marriage. group dates. new wheels. dee day. celebrity booze. all the big ones. all the hits. #look how he acts when he goes off script and is forced to speak off the cuff #the way glenn describes him as being very emotional but unable to adequately express his emotions too like. yeah. same. #theres so much more than the noise sensitivity #i could go on and on about how many fucking boxes he ticks but i honestly hate that shit. i know how autism works and that bitch is autisti #im going to refrain from commenting on the reasons why i feel charlie is more acceptably hced as autistic vs dennis because mmmmm but #dennis being 'hypersexual' (not about the sex. at all) and socially adept (has scripts/systems. charlie is more emotionally intelligent) #smells a lil stinky. smells a little bit like infantilization on charlie's part. #ada speaks #ok ill spare you guys. someday ill write a proper meta on this. ive talked about it before but.

[reitheist]

I would pay exorbitant amounts to see a live action, adult-oriented show with all the agony, heart, and hilarity of ourgoodshadows surrounding queer women pretty pleaseeeee

#yes i know all about the cartoon lesbians they're excellent #but an explicitly queer show geared toward adults about a sapphic relationship would be nice yknow #theres older shows but they dont really align with the vibe i like #plus im a fan of vamps pirates and demons. sue me. #the only adult woman-centric queer show i know with the same sort of fantastical life-or-death will-they-wont-they vibe is utena #which is excellent but theres only so much utena in the world unfortunately #if anyone has any recs please feel free to share im desperate here #because being a lesbian with my main obsessions almost exclusively surrounding masculine queer expression feels lonely sometimes #dont get me wrong masc queer expression is great! #in fact i tend to relate to it more than femme lesbian stories since im butch/genderfluid/whateverthefuck #i just want a show that examines feminine queerness with the same complexity that o/fmd does #and the women get to try to kill eachother as a treat <3 #tldr; old man yaoi is great but i also if someone did a old woman yuri romcom i would explode on the spot #um. essay over. #personal

[always-a-joyful-note]

Enstars is like being impaled with a spear with the words "you can and will love these characters and hate yourself for it" while Idolish7 is like hanahaki in the way that you gladly let these comforting weirdos into your heart and suddenly found flowers choking you to death

#fandom spamdom #note's notes #idolish7 #enstars #ensemble stars #i know hanahaki is a lung thing but the vibes are the same #still rotating the i7 cast in my head btw #why do music related media - whether its anime or musicals or stage plays - hurt me so much? #also i7 is so different from the likes of bsd and enstars in the way that theyre actually all more or less relationship goals??? #i mean yes theres a bit of mutual obsession link click style but it really is overall wholesome #thinking about mezzo and their development as family to each other when their own family abandoned or dropped them #thinking about momo and yuki saying the most insane things to each other and yelling that what the other is saying is unhealthy #thinking about iori being lowkey obsessed with riku and riku finding unwavering support from iori #thinking about yamata and nagi and mitsuki fighting as they try to be adults and work through their traumas #thinking about trigger and their reluctant friendship confessions #thinking about tenn and riku's severely complex relationship #and aya loving her brother but falling under kujos manipulations and tenn being overly self sacrificial and and and #it lured me by being so slice of life and threw me in a world of pain

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

#its so weird. i feel like march 5th went on for more than a day somehow. i guess that's just bc we were awake for just abt all of it #my dad wanted to start doing things immediately so he was calling and scheduling all day. we went to the funeral home we went to the store #and it was weird bc as we were moving around it was like wow we r a 4 person family now. this is it. and theres so much to do after a person #dies. or at least there is when they were loved so much and jesus christ my mom was one of the best ppl a LOT of ppl knew. she did so much #for so so many ppl. and with her childhood she had every reason to b a fuck up but no she was kind and selfless and amazing. her mother is #trying to bask in the attention of her death when its like: truely go fuck urself. her being such a good person has nothing to do with u. u #treated her appallingly. fuck off. and fucking everyone knows it. god. she is a product of her grandparents kindness. and it sounds like her #dad was amazing like her. but he tragically died in a car wreck when she was 3. she was in the car. no one in my mums family believes in a #god now. too many bad things happened to the shining gems in a collection of wild alcoholics. but its not all bad. my family's staying close #my dad is taking it hard bc this means hes alone now and my mum took care of so many things bc she was so smart and he feels so dumb. he #feels he didnt deserve her. hes working on giving more hugs now. and hes using us to anxiously talk things out the way he did with mom #which is good. i cant imagine if this happened when we werent 3 adults and he was windowed with 3 kids to raise himself. and its funny. were #saying things we never would have told her. we looked thru pictures of her and she was so so beautiful. a total smoke show. my parents were #a cute couple who produced cute kids. and my mom had trouble communicating and being affectionate tho we knew she loved us there was #distance. theres a pic of my dad pulling her close and shes being tippef towarf her while standing away and thats indicitive of their #relationship. they were 2 partners who lived together independently and that worked but its sad bc my mum couldnt b vulnerable in her #expression. ppl r being so kind tho. ill be in ohio now for like 2.5 more weeks as the funeral stuff shakes out. we have to have 2 bc she #grew up away from her and so many ppl loved her in both locations. she was a popular lady. its so weird to b here on pause. but i feel clear #in my head. i think this will change a lot of my outlook on life. its nice to focus on the person she was and not the horrible 12hrs where i #saw her half dead. i cant imagine how awful it was for my sisters and dad to see her downslide into death. she didnt expect this to b The #Fever that killed her but it did and now she'll never finish a million things. and the house is full of pill bottles and all her junk and #unopened amazon packages and a truck with the fuel left on empty. bc she was an absent minded goofball. ay. well miss her so much #unrelated

[blueskittlesart]

what are your opinions on the themes of age in botw (or loz in general tbh). bc i think botw is incredibly interesting in the sense that it seems to be somewhat concerned with the theme of age, possibly as an extension of its theme of passing time, while also having so much incredibly weird age stuff (like, implying link is 17 by not allowing him to drink alcohol and his only retort being a joke about how he’s actually ‘over a century’, but also constantly making adults hit on him) that at this point i don’t even know what the game is even like, trying to say about this theme. or why it even bothers bringing it up as a theme in-story

I think that age in botw, specifically link's age, is completely dependent on its theme of destruction and reconstruction. link's age is somewhat muddled in dialog and never actually stated outright because he doesn't KNOW how old he is. Who he was 100 years ago has been entirely lost to him along with that version of hyrule, the version that exists pre-calamity. When link's age is brought up, it's either as a joke or to draw attention to the fact that he has essentially lost 17 years of his life and is being forced to rebuild himself from the ground up. I've mentioned this before in my analysis of botw as a whole, but it's important to the overall cohesiveness of the game imo that link's character arc mirrors hyrule. pre-calamity, hyrule was well-constructed and thriving at first glance, but upon deeper analysis there were a ton of internal problems, specifically the way link and zelda were treated as the supposed saviors of the kingdom. (this isn't even going into some of the implied narrative with the sheikah, but that applies here as well.) But when he wakes up, link finds that hyrule has been destroyed by the calamity and rebuilt all over again, and in the absence of any real government, its people have still managed to come together, to form tightly-knit communities, and to continue to grow. link, similarly, wakes up a blank slate, essentially in the "destruction" phase. His journey through hyrule in botw is the rebuilding. it's him finding himself and learning to grow around the wreckage of his old life, just as hyrule has grown around the wreckage the calamity wrought in his absence. In this way, i think the idea of age becomes sort of... unimportant, i guess? when analyzed in terms of the story as a whole, because link's hundred-year loss is less about him actually aging and more about a metaphorical destruction of his past self that allows him to grow anew.

#and i do think this is kind of a strange choice in tandem with other games like oot & ww where age was SUCH an important facet of links arc #but for botw link age is just kind of... a nonissue imo. especially when you remember that he was ALWAYS considered a prodigy #and so was pitted against people more than twice his age on the regular. like even pre-calamity i think he didn't care nearly as much about #age as some of the other links who were noticeably kept out of certain circles due to their age (cough cough oot) #like. it just genuinely isn't something he thinks about i don't think. age has never been a limiting factor in his life #which actually might explain the whole alcohol thing. he's so used to being treated like an adult that his first instinct upon being denied #alcohol is 'but im literally 100 years old.' even tho theres no way that would work lol #asks #zelda analysis

[mossy-covered-bones]

I openly use it/its alongside they/he in a queer org i help run irl. Since i figure if im open abt that other people will be less nervous abt asking people to use it/its or neopronouns and shit like that. And i wasnt really expecting people to use it for me, since lotsa people arent comfortable w that and i had other options. And let me tell ya how cool it is to see a newer member show up and just go ‘oh im like you, i use he/it!” And see one of my fellow exec, in a message where she had exactly one pronoun referring to me, use it. Its so fucking nice, let me tell you, i love being Vocally Queer :]

#esp since im in a position with Slightly More Influence (exec member) #i can make sure we’re like. being cool abt Weird Queer People like me who use unusual pronouns #and contradictory/lesser known labels #and i just Love being in a space thats so unabashedly accepting of everyone and anyone #and also having a roommate who’se also queer and each of us knowing we can talk to each other abt this sort of shit. its nice #there wasnt this level of security w the community at my high school bc we were all agencyless teenagers walking a thin line of visibility #and safety. but now im in college and an adult and people are going out of their way to find and support each other #god i dont know what id do if i didnt have this. have people like this #theres some kind of poetry i could write here. abt community and acceptance and the whole concept of pride #but im not much of a poet so ill just. do my part to help keep this legacy going for the people who show up next year #sev rambles

[chadsuke]

Comics Read in 2023:

Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard!? Vol. 1 by Yuu Toyuta (2018)

Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard!? Vol. 2 by Yuu Toyuta (2019)

Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard!? Vol. 3 by Yuu Toyuta (2019)

Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard!? Vol. 4 by Yuu Toyuta (2020)

Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard!? Vol. 5 by Yuu Toyuta (2020)

Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill Vol. 1 by Akagishi K. & Ren Eguchi (2017)

Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill Vol. 2 by Akagishi K. & Ren Eguchi (2018)

Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill Vol. 3 by Akagishi K. & Ren Eguchi (2019)

Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill Vol. 4 by Akagishi K. & Ren Eguchi (2019)

[ID: Covers of aforementioned books. End ID.]

#2023media #cherry magic is fun! #a dude is a virgin so on his thirtieth birthday he gains the ability to hear the thoughts of anyone he touches #and as a result finds out one of his male coworkers has a crush on him #idk why it keeps saying parental warning. they have only kissed #anyway its fun times and i enjoyed it but it does fall into some of the yaoi tropes #theres a side character who is a weirdo fujoshi and every time she shows up im like. can u die actually #but overall its genuinely quite fun and enjoyable and i always love when theres healthy gay manga with fucking. adults. #campfire cooking is a silly isekai about a salaryman whose isekai superpower is being able to order things online #from his usual like japanese online market and have them instantly drop into the fantasy world #he loves to cook and ends up forming a bond with a powerful god-beast who wants to eat his cooking sooooooo much #it's lighthearted wish fulfillment about being able to do what u love and found family #i like cooking manga so! #will prob also read the light novel i think #gigi.txt #i have a few more comics i read but not enough to fill a third post i read a lot this weekend

[tokyoteddywolf]

22 isn't very much at all, I think.

#5am rambles #anyways ignore this as per usual im just thinking in a post that i'll delete soon. i just worry and writing it helps. #you ever wonder when you'll “grow up'? and then realize youre not even fully grown? #that theres still more to learn in life and that the mistakes you make are just that? mistakes? #that you are still so very very young in a world that is so very very old? #im almost 23. barely a quarter of my lifespan. im still a child in a way- my brain not fully formed. #you ever wonder how many mistakes you can make before you figure something out? #I dont know much of anything really. that's the sad part. and the adults who were supposed to help me learn... didnt. #i was failed. and now im a failure. at almost not quite 23 years old. Maybe i wont be a failure in another few years. #i still have a while to go before I die. I'm not going to waste time thinking about it. im just going to try my best. #I have time. I can learn. Grace and patience are not endless but damn if i dont try to figure things out #first step though is meds and therapy tho. we're done with the pity party. some things you just have to accept are okay #cuz my whole life i was taught that being emotional is a weakness. its pathetic and stupid to be upset or angry about anything. #any time i wanted to show i was upset or angry i was 'wrong'. i was 'selfish' and 'dramatic' #so i suppressed and pretended i was fine. that i wasnt weak and pathetic. that i was good and not an annoyance or burden. #i am not weak. i am not pathetic. i am fine i am fine i am fine you dont need to worry about the inconvenience at your door. #sometimes the shame is so much that i cant look at myself or even think i deserve help. that therapy is for people with real problems. #that i feel like ill just be told im like this for attention or dramatics. that im such a disappointment and selfish too. #ive been a “problem” my whole life to the point i dunno if i CAN be fixed. that anxiety eats me alive every day. #therapy is supposed to give you methods to cope #i dunno if it'll work though. I forget my appointments a lot. i struggle to talk sometimes. i may be autistic but its hard to get diagnosed. #emotions are so hard to figure out.

[fearforthestorm]

if you cant tell. im having a normal one (turning 20 tomorrow and. feeling a kind of way about the fact that im never going to be a teenager again)

#probably going to delete this immediately on account of i always try to be vague ab my age on here #i will say im an adult but let ppl assume whatever based on what else i say #but . #much as they suck theres also something a little special ab being a teenager. this informs who u are for the rest of ur life on some level #id wanted to go get a tattoo before my bday but didnt book one in time so itll be a little after my bday #as long as its still within the calendar year i think it counts tho #that is. a much more physical permanent reminder for the me that will exist somewhere down the line #that i was this person once. and that it was something special. #its gonna be a sunflower. just a little thing. either on my shoulder blade or my ribcage i still havent decided yet #just. a little piece of who i am right now that will exist forever.

[misspickman]

cassierose for the ship ask game !!

Ship It

What made you ship it? i liked them in tt03, which you know, is truly a feat considering how terribly that comic treats both of them. but their dynamic (angry homoeroticism) managed to be compelling still

What are your favorite things about the ship? i enjoy girl antagonism from time to time. i know were all sick of the trope that teen girls all hate each others guts but considering cassie has a pretty good relationship with all the other girls on her team(s) its fun to see her just go ugh i hate this one. this one can go. theyre just fun and bitchy and i think they should hatefuck about it. but beside that theres also so much potential there ! i think you know, if anyone writing that comic actually cared about cassie or rose or about their character development, it would have been interesting to see their relationship change over time instead of getting one issue where cassie implicitly calls rose family while protecting her, and then the next one she immediately she calls her a manipulative psychopath for no good reason bc they cant figure out how to make the team interesting without having some wildly antagonistic relationship that doesnt make sense if u think about it for a few seconds. theyre never going to be besties but it would have been nice to see them go from blind hate to an uneasy truce; they dont like each other but they do, unfortunately, care about each other, and lets see where we go from that. + itd be interesting to dig into cassies hypocrisy when it comes to hating rose

Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship? i guess its that i would like them to grow past mindlessly despising each other ? this is not me criticizing anyone but i feel like a lot of takes on cassierose ive seen are that they should stay in the hatefucking no mushy business❌❌❌phase which is definitely fair and true to how they are in tt03. but i do have some issues with the way they were written in tt03 (particularly cassie) and would like to see their dynamic progress from that (see rant above)

#i guess the reason im personally more interested in them sort of working through it is bc cassie doesnt have. a good reason for hating rose #i dont think its ooc but a lot of it Is supposed to be bc shes either jealous of her bc of tim (??)or thinks rose sucks bc she killed peopl #which is. she was drugged and manipulated and i think most teen titans in the superhero business should be able to handle #that sort of a not black and white situation #and idk. be more understanding. i know rose isnt super nice but maybe calling her a manipulative bitch constantly isnt the way to go #theres fun antagonism and theres cassie being just needlessly awful to her (that convo she and tim have about rose) #and i do think theyll always be bitchy to each other but i would like to imagine cassie is more considerate than this #and would eventually recognize she was occasionally just being shitty ! it would make for an interesting story ! alas #i think cassierose going from hating each others guts as teens to adult coworkers who dont really hate each other anymore #bc theyve been through so much shit together #but need to keep up the appearances of hating each other bc god forbid they admit to being kind of friends. that would be fun. to me<3 #ask #thank you. so sorry this got so long #youve given me an excuse to rant about cassierose so this is what u get<3 #sorry that the question was what i like about the ship and i just bitched about how it could be better #i guess the answer is im intrigued by the potential. also i love lesbians

[tea-cat-arts]

Your rant about honkai's characters looking generic when compared to WfM's character designs (which i fucking love too) reminded me how a while back genshintwt accused honkai's male characters of all looking the same and honkaitwt lost their fucking mind, and as much as I love our honkai bois I'm not going to sit here and pretend their designs are revolutionary (especially since they made Carole's mom look more masculine than 80% of the male designs they've created, and I still haven't forgotten Kiana describing Himeko as a "valkyrie with beefy arms", what a joke)

Genshintwt accused honkai men of all looking the same???? Genshin???? The fandom that lusts after the 20 dudes with almost the exact same body type/shape and absolutely looses their minds over the slightest bit of muscle/booba???? Oh that's hilarious.

Like, the honkai men also look pretty similar for the most part (minus Siegfried and sometimes Welt depending on who drew him). I just think that's a bit of the pot calling the kettle black there.

But ya, hoyo has a running problem with describing characters bodies as one way and just... not modeling it. Aside from the Himeko example you brought up, there's also a bunch of characters going up to Kevin and going "woah! You look so athletic," Baizhu being described as looking sickly, Beidou being described as tall and buff, Ganyu gaining weight easily... I'm pretty sure there's more instances, these are just the ones I remember off the top of my head. Idk man, I just feel like if your fandom is surprised that one of your main characters is canonically scrawny, there's a bit of a design problem

The whole thing just makes me find Witch from Mercury's character designs incredibly refreshing. It's just nice to see a series that takes a pretty typical anime art style and use it to depict so many of the different ways people can look.

#honkai impact #honkai rambling #i like twinks and fem boys as much as the next bisexual but come on mihoyo- give us some variety #i spend so much time drawing my headcanon appearances for these characters that i genuinely forget what they look like in game #see: literally any drawing of Kevin I've done #theres also a tone of practical reasons its better to have a variety appearance for large casts #it help create a more unique silhouette. it helps the characters look more visually distinct. and most important for mihoyo probably- #it means you can change the hair and outfit while still making obvious who is who #theres panels where i genuinely cant tell the difference between Kallen Theresa and Kiana #side note but if mihoyo gives us any more “they look young/like a young adult but there actually really old” characters #i will blow a gasket #i don't even want GILFs- I want studio ghibli old people #I want characters like Dola (Castle in the Sky) and the elderly pirate lady from Yona of the Dawn #dont questions both my examples being pirates #but ya: variety good

[proonv]

i feel dizzy

#likw im just floating in water #i guess it doesn;t really matter and yet we do it all anyway #and we all die in the end and yet we try to live fully #thats ok i think. i think #its okay. theres nothing we can do about it anyways #and ill have you for a little while at least #that will have to be enough #vent #and yet i dont believe this. i want to live forever #go back to being 14. have so much of my life to live #now its just 3 years till im an adult. 4 more and im out of college. 3 more and its been a decade and everything has probably changed #hasnt it? #how awful. what a terrible thing this life is #to be human and to always want more and yet the same #to be human and humans must die #no one gets happy forever #it all comes and goes #like waves. drifting back and forth with my mind #it will all be over soon wont it. it doesnt matter at all #none of it does none of it ever did. i wish the world were that foolish #that happy endings werent just a thing of dreams #but i guess theres always gonna be a book. i can always just say that their story ended right there #where they always have the rest of their life to live #its nearly november ive lived life in a blur and that is no way to live life and yet. and yet.