two asks on feixiao and jiaoqiu, haha. i cannot quite place it yet, but i think there is more to it than simply healing the general. not saying his love for her is a facade, but that there is definitely an ominous undertone to it. his interactions with her face to face seemed amicable, similar to feixiao and yukong. for ships, i prefer interactions with a bit more intensity simmering under the surface that refers some shared history, secrets, or just blatant horny flirtation. i have no doubt jiaoqiu wants feixiao to heal, but i have not yet pieced together it is solely because of feixiao herself that he is willing to take every risk. there are a lot of things feixiao is besides a general he is fond of and friendly with, such as a foxian with moon rage. as of now i am more interested in their sociopolitical dynamic as two foxians working against the borisin interested in things that (might) involve breaking the rigid rules of another faction they feel they're subordinates to

im so sorry im replying to asks eight months late, but hi <3 overall, unfortunately i did not enjoy fontaine and remember very little of the world quests. i was intrigued by the atmosphere of romanticism, european fairy tales, the attempted steampunk/eighteenth century sci fi in the quest that dealt with fontaine's energy problems (early on in the region i think) and remuria was absolutely gorgeous in all the ways i could've asked, but somehow a chord did not strike and i could only enjoy fontaine visually, for the most part. i did like all the members of the narzissenkreuz, and the elynas quest. i think i liked elynas quest most, and the concept of melusines having stemmed from its dead body. i love how naturally the dead dragons across tevyat fit into its geography. something about the rot of bodies and the injustice of their death in a vibrant game like genshin so languid and cheerful, where even their blood and bones are not mourned but celebrated. horrifying and sad in a very very pretty way

i think they revealed it a little late too... but it also feels coherent to make some repeating vivid ominous imagery a whole emblem of a fallen dynasty that makes its appearance less random throughout tevyat's history of doomed civilizations. i kept myself from talking about this because i read the book and i am confused as hell about multiple things, especially with the official channel's cutscene caption so obviously likening her to perinheri when 1) while it makes sense to believe only a child who wandered in would be made to perform the ritual, there is no such distinction made anywhere between children who wandered into the kingdom and the orphans of the kingdom, and the custom is described to be for all to be initiated into the house of the hearth 2) arlecchino has noble blood, balemoon bloodfire, which is also described as "cursed" making her thus clearly stated to be khaenri'ahn, while perinheri drifted into khaenri'ah. him not being khaenri'ahn is what makes him the survivor and able to reap the rewards of hleobrant's sowing (quest for angelica's love, possible metaphor for freedom) 3) the only thing perinheri and arlecchino can be confirmed to have in common is literally the sighting of a crimson moon. any other takeaways is lorecrafting for now and must be taken with a pinch of salt. it may be that the walk through the chimney and the traversing of fire of two worlds is an allegory for her being the crimson moon dynasty's sole survivor- crossing the netherworld and seeing the sun for the first time, in which case perinheri isn't the likening to arlecchino as an individual but that of every successive generation of her dynasty? even so it sounds like a stretch. there is so little we can confirm about the khaenri'ahn curse in the first place much less how it affects her personally. pre perinheri we could point at the cataclysm and say this is when the khaenri'ahns first fucked up but now that there are two different dynasties, the previous implied to be seeking revenge on the latter, a distinction between the two curses, one that affected pure-blooded khaenri'ahns (eclipse dynasty) imposed during the cataclysm and one that affected other khaenri'ahns differently, the latter existing long before the cataclysm for every resident of the kingdom who "forsook their god", it is safe to say we know absolutely nothing about how the crimson moon dynasty was cursed specifically

the lightcone nowhere to run and the one of the passers by relic pieces about the bracers they share were some of the pre-beta tidbits we got from xianzhou so it was the first ship that took off. an awkwardly nonsensical theory formed around how sweet innocent yingxing was the one immortalized by a possessive dan feng to stay together forever, who then (?) turned against him, and the theory got so popular a bunch of people who just started learning chinese posted viral threads of mistranslations including how they were fiancees and were planning on dying together and "danmei-coded" which is basically one way to say hey hualians come look at this. now they're accusing jinghengs of stealing the danmei coding which i mean, if it was danmei coded enough it would probably be specific to the pairing? i mean if they want to win some kind of queercoding battle they will have to keep up with full blown romantic poetry with two male pronouns thrown left and right under jing yuan and dan heng's names that they like to pretend doesn't exist but all the best to them.

this like im sorry are people this obtuse or do we really want to pretend most fanfiction is not written by men? women into women are already a minority so stats wise it means absolutely nothing that wlw fics get less engagement and have less demand than mlm fics. straight men, big enjoyers of women, neither participate in fanfiction and nor are expected to, are thus exempt (to everyone's glee might i add) once we talk about the number of trans men and trans mascs who discover themselves through mlm works they seem to be exempt from participation as well. i hardly believe straight women will write good wlw media unless paid, so for convenience i exempt them as well. then we have queer people who do like women, but not in a way good enough. "not in a way good enough" means a range of things- genderbending canon male characters, preferring male characters in general, relating more to male characters, passively enjoying female characters, spending more time in circles engaging with male characters, "well, he is woman to me", enjoying male and female characters together, having non binary headcanons, having bisexual headcanons, not wishing to acknowledge the gender of fictional characters and yet inclined towards canon fictional men. now the radfems will nod their heads and go yes! there is a problem with these queer people who claim they like women, who claim they enjoy their characters genderless, who claim they're women, and yet revolve around men. they are lying, their preferences are a product of bias, a reflection of reality, they're examples of conditioning and internalized misogyny. i mean if they had any self awareness they would recognize that anyone who feels male characters are reflections of real men to the extent they equate their real, living enjoyers to mouthpieces of misogyny, then no wonder this very large group of queer people involved in writing fanfiction wants nothing to do with them. you cannot please people you stripped of their queerness lol, and it just so happens that the more queer people you hate and allege are responsible for "mirroring" patriarchy in fandom, the smaller your community becomes. there is not a single thing people interested in male characters as well as men have done that makes them misogynistic- liking male characters more, liking them genderless, preferring to interact with mlm communities, none of these make them responsible for the dearth of wlw works. instead of getting butt hurt that people who are neither interested in female characters nor in women are not producing wlw works, get butt hurt at people who are interested in female characters as well as women but keep cancelling wlw media, neither create nor invest in wlw media. and yes that group includes straight men, like it or not. if you see a problem with wlw numbers!!!! fucking change it!!!! your omegaverse lesbians slash mermaid impregnation slash alien lactation is NOT a netflix production! feminist criticism regards widely acclaimed authors who monetize works that don't center women, not sleep deprived college students struggling to update for the dopamine! commission writers!!! commission artists!!!!! DIY!!!! i just think it is fucking terrible that not only has free media creation like fanfiction has become a moral analysis of people, but there is this concept that the only lesbians in fandom enjoy female characters strictly and the rest of us are at blame for not falling at their feet with fics im sorry who are you!!!!! on top of this most of this regurgitated discourse is shared by people who have usernames and pfps and bios and whole accounts dedicated to their special!! yaoi!!! special male characters!!!! what makes you special babe have your male characters been touched by sappho? is it a phase? are you going to grow out of it? are you better than the fetishizers? because i am pretty sure at this very moment you could be talking about equally wonderful female characters instead, right? "why am i expected to fix a systemic problem" because you think the system is us but not you!! sorry i am very mad today i kind of derailed on things i already told ex oomf. this became more of my vent than a commentary to your ask because i have not been in himedanshi spaces, but i think it is lovely and i hope that these spaces grow as much as fujoshis had the opportunity to and i would love to meet more himedanshis my doors are open !!! you're also right about the gender exploration and it's just the way queer culture has grown around activity predominantly shared by queer men and queer women, but evolved into modern interest groups that can barely be organized by their binary origins.