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walking into your inbox and making ships my only personality trait then pretending like it's your fault and leaving
throwing a brick at goro akechi in response because we each do what we were made to do
You want men in the game too because you will never not ship a woman with a man. Hating on lesbian ships too. Pretend you love women but you will be on here yapping about how we lesbians fetishize ourselves if we dare ship a sapphic ship only because its hot. May Kafka get more interactions with women.
the "we lesbians" part as if i am not a lesbian is the cherry on top but i also love the projection of insecurity assuming that i would feel threatened by kafka interacting with women the way y'all are threatened by her being explicitly attracted to blade. as if it's my fault that you are so deeply insecure about having shit taste that you've been throwing a year long tantrum because someone as smart as i am isn't telling you that you're right or acquiescing to whatever popular slop you dumb bitches shovel into your rotting traps. enjoy at least two more years of genshin with one playable dude per region and me winning because i get to enjoy the cast correctly!
They didn't do shit with making Neuvillette actually address his complicity or else you wouldn't be treating him as just a sad woobie dragon man and going off if anyone criticizes him. But sure Caitlyn bad.
the most camp part about this is that the fact that my inbox hasn't been linked anywhere for months and you are so committed to the bit that you're willing to swallow your pride and make it obvious that you are a single person that has been repeatedly harassing me for at least a year. like you are THAT upset about being validated by a person who's smarter than you
i’m so sorry to see people still harassing you for your taste in ships. even worse when they obviously all refuse to address the underlying issues of caitvi or how clorinde would be a better match for navia than neuvillette on the sole basis that shes a woman and therefore should be forcibly pushed in her arms? without a care for everything navia is fighting, and willing to die for. uh
maybe this is the wrong time to say that but i do hope you’ll love timebomb when the time comes. seeing fanarts of them makes me think of you (positively!), they’re booming :)
i don't need any apologies i quite frankly just give up on trying to ask for even the slightest amount of grace from anyone bc i don't even have this inbox linked anywhere and i'm getting heckled on other platforms now so i'm not even gonna say anything else lol people are probably gonna get on my ass again over clorinde over this so rest in pieces me!
I like how Cait is too problematic to ship but you want Nuevillette to be the prize for Navia despite him being written as a judge in a corrupt system that Hoyoverse ignores because he needs to be sold as uwu cute dragon man. And you all bought into it completely. But you're so moral for hating Caitvi for being cops and not criticizing whatever Hoyoverse wants you to find moral, even when it's a horrible message.
i literally haven't even watched arcane and don't plan to for a very long time but when neuvillette starts gassing the people in fleuve cendre and poisson and talking about them like they're degenerates then maybe we can talk about what's too problematic :) not my fault he and navia did a better job of addressing complicity in class warfare in a single conversation than caitlyn did lol
considering that i'm not the one calling myself moral i think you might just be grappling with a sense of moral inferiority on top of stalking me and scrolling through tweets of my cats just to find something to use as fodder for disliking the pairings i like for being better than yours
between genshin and star rail which one do you find yourself gravitate towards more in terms of themes, writing or just story in general?
they're very difficult to compare since i think their stories serve vastly different purposes, so it often depends on which point each game is in its story. star rail feels a lot more Dense in terms of how much worldbuilding goes into the main storyline, particularly because the divine beings are a lot more enigmatic than those in genshin, in which we interact with gods like they're regular people. star rail's portrayal of morality is also a lot more layered in my opinion, and the only characters whom we are supposed to see as blanketly bad morally are those who represent the ipc (yes, even the ones who are sold as lovable to us).
on that level, i think genshin's story is probably a lot more universally relatable, since its themes are much more representative of current social climates in ways that are (or should be) obvious, whereas star rail requires a bit more prerequisite understanding of narrative devices to truly make its points. inversely, i think star rail does a better job of critiquing macrosystems and topics like disability and capital that affect all social demographics, whereas genshin is better at highlighting social stratification on a micro level, such as class differences within a specific culture or nation (although fontaine was a categorical failure on that level). going back to relatability, i think genshin's cast often feels more resonant on a personal level, since their experiences are a lot more applicable to our lives than characters in a hyper-advanced universe spanning galaxies.
tldr tho i think both games are very earnest in what messages they're trying to send, despite being held back by both a gacha format and deeply ingrained racism and xenophobia (which isn't unique to these games but feels more noticeable given the caliber of their storytelling), so i tend to go back and forth on which i gravitate towards more! although part of me is still biased to a game with dehya in it :x
The sinophobic is a problem because people don't speak up. No one talks about how its wrong to use a govt being homophobic as an excuse to be racist when its about Chinese people. Instead people are so happy to blame their beloved companies like Disney homophobia on China because their favorite white man Alex Hirsch said so.
TTHEIR FAVORITE WHITE MAN ALEX HIRSCHHHHH i'm sobbing like people are out here calling gacha games and the mcu queer and losing chess to dogs
The tweet about Sunday 😭 I remembered going through that quest thinking 'Damn, and here i thought Aventurine's writing is the most heavy handed shit ever'
to be clear i don't think his writing was bad he was genuinely an effective antagonist and good character, much better than aventurine, but my thoughts relate more to how the audience responded to him lol
You are too obsessed with het because you can't handle one wlw ship being flawed but then ship a lesbian coded character with a man she stands next to. You think only men can love women and that lesbians being flawed is bad, so a basic het ship is more radical than canon lesbians.
anyone else want to try explaining to me what this means like genuinely
Anon from earlier, I'm really sorry to ask you that here and I would totally understand if you don't want to share this publicly but I don't have any link toward your Tumblr blog and I would love to check on you there as well! Would it be possible to spare one here if you don't mind? Thank you so so so much <3
you don't have to be sorry at all my baked booming apple, i think i have my tumblr linked on my carrd but it's bubtans.tumblr.com!! i'm trying to be more active there when i need a quieter space and i love being able to actually tag/organize my posts! ily
Hey, I feel like I'm always reaching out to you this way but I still feel so incredibly shy but it's the Sub-Saharan Neuvi x Navi anon again. I was wondering if you ever considered talking at length about Arcane and if so, would it be on Twitter, Bluesky or somewhere else? I'm actually extremely interested in your opinion on it since I hold Ekko, Jinx, Mel and Viktor very close to my heart and it would mean a lot if I could read anything you have to say about it. I'm sorry if I sound weird! But I just adore your prose and really enjoy knowing how you envision many things, from very serious topics irl to those I'm not interested about (such as HotD for example) because I find a lot of pleasure reading what you have to say. Therefore, I would be extra excited to see you tackle Arcane, especially if you're not going to solely focus on Caitvi. As usual, I don't have a public Twitter account and only follow you from afar, so please tell me if you're going to talk about it, even if it's not for now. And kiss Pinky and Boo as well! I wish you well <3
my dearest pie you never have to apologize to me for sounding weird i'm so touched and moved and hiding bashfully in my blubber and neck fat. if i do end up watching arcane it likely won't be for quite a while, since i don't trust myself to not get argumentative or heated when it is still as popular as it is and thus has so many #Takes floating around. when i do, i'll try my best to share my thoughts either on twitter, bluesky, or tumblr depending on which feels safest for me, but you'll definitely know if i'm watching it bc i never know how to do things quietly.
again i'm so so touched and i didn't think anything i say has that much impact but i'm so glad the impact has been positive. i hope you feel the same confidence and love for your own thoughts and words as you enjoy ekko and all of the chungi :')
"the Chinese hate gay men" there needs to be a convo about the Hoyoverse fandom racist tendency to paint all Chinese people as homophobic piece of shits to gaslight people into believing that your gachaslop yaoi ships aren't "canon" because Xi Jinping is going to throw Dawei into the Huangpu river.
This behavior is actually pretty disgusting and I Wish people just dropped it, however sinophobia is so ingrained in people's mind that I guess it's impossible.
i feel like i've had the convo before, either among friends or publicly, about how much discussion around chinese media on here is limited to either tokenism, orientalism, or explicit sinophobia (i.e. any sort of narrative subtlety immediately identified as censorship + needing to validate one's own interpretations of text and symbolism with "my chinese/chinese-speaking friend said this so i'm right). but i'm also the mean fujo bully who is a fake lesbian and can only enjoy fictional women if men want to fuck them but also all the yaoi i don't like is actually yuri but also i'm a liar whenever i call a pairing i like yuri but also ALSO i'm biphobic if i don't pair certain women with men so. my plate is full at this point and people would rather be mad that i'm not using my words/knowledge to validate personal tastes lol
bitching about fujos lmao when we hate kevin because straight obsessed people keep shoving every single lesbian with his ugly ass pleaseee i wish the chinese didn't hate gay men so there could be one just to stay away from the lesbians if they actually must include men in their slop
thanks for the dick fight island lore i don't bitch the way y'all do but i hope he dies in hsr too, godspeed and all that
You calling people male centric but then you always pair every single woman with the nearest man she doesn't give a fuck about. Herta doesn't care about Ratio, YOU just don't think wlw are interesting because you think women are only validated when men want to fuck them.
hm. i never said that herta cared about ratio so i'm curious as to who's really being told on here but lol
you really are so het obsessed because why can't you even respect that robin is a lesbian, you absolutely can't like a female character without shipping her with a man and lying to say it's yuri.
me still getting these is great because i don't even have my inbox linked anywhere anymore so y'all are actually typing it in and putting in all that effort but yes i am a het obsessed lesbian! i love god-honoring well-baked protestant missionary sex between men and women or however it goes!
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