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Th times you correct people on EiMiko and Inazuma mischaracterization/misinfo I applaud you for whatever patience you try to have. you’re stronger than me because I woke up to a wri0r1nde thread that mischaracterizes Clorinde and wow it just straight up says lies how “Clorinde is more carefree at the fortress.” & how she’s emotionally distant. Tell me you don’t know her character without telling me, she keeps her emotions in check at her job! & saying she’s closer to that man than her childhood friend.
i saw that thread and have been pushing off this ask bcs honestly? didn't even bother to read the thread + didn't wanna get involved in the discourse
i wish people just. accepted not all your ships have to be close in canon to be shipped. that's not what shipping is about really and you don't need to mischaracterize your faves for the ship lol
now blatantly lying like that about clorinde tho... not in MY HOUSE
The moment Ei/Inazuma detractors use waifu date for anything is when you know their opinion is not worth listening to. It’s like fucking clockwork that I can’t help but wonder if they all have a script they all just pass around. It’s so weird that they use the same arguments as those Ae harems turds.
it's so uncomfortable honestly and just feels. weird
why doesn't zhongli get this treatment? a chunk of the liyue archon quest was us shopping with him, no? and yet people can recognize the text and don't call it a husbando date or whatever lol
it's just ei & inazuma that's never allowed to exist in peace. this weird hate boner people have for ei & inazuma in particular should've been left behind ages ago, and if someone can't realize what tf ei sq1 is about despite even the quest titles spelling it out? tough luck, not worth my time anymore
Me yesterday:people are finally starting to see Kafka as bi
Me also seeing it’s not because of her canonical thing with the TB, oh…
Just when I thought people were finally moving on from the she’s the TB’s mom it comes back full force. And funny enough someone who’s dead set on pushing it got mad because of a thread that calls the possibility of captain being Mavuika‘s dad. How the tables have turned…
this is like 2 months old but asjsj well people love to find any and all excuses to deny kafka's very open and very important relationship with the trailblazer. there's two things those people usually do:
1. they disregard their relationship entirely or claim kafka as being abusive
2. they mischaracterize them and become ableist (this is currently the most common phenomenon but 1. used to be a big thing). the infanitliazition of the trailblazer, of their relationship with kafka etc does so much damage to not only the trailblazer (the literal mc) but also to kafka. the (very much explicit thank you) romantic subtext of their relationship is like. literally one of the best in the game, it's part of the greater narrative, it's so important to both characters. turning them into a mother & their child is not only homophobic and shows a lack of literacy, it is also just awful for the characters and 99,9% of the time ableist.
trying to paint kafka being bisexual as coming from anything besides her relationship with the trailblazer is also quite unserious as the whole "franz kafka is bisexual" is not a confirmed thing and never will be most likely. it's a theory and you can not take franz kafka as evidence for kafka herself. it has been, and will always be, the relationship with the trailblazer that gives kafka a status as bisexual character.
to no other character does kafka (so far) show any kind of romantic or sexual attraction. her dialogue and the subtext doesn't change depending on the TB's gender.
trying to frame her being bisexual coming from something else just seems like a deliberate attempt at erasing the ship (& thus actually erasing her bisexuality lol) from the discussion when it was us who pointed the fact out that kafka is bisexual. it's us who dug into her character, pulled the lore apart and found the evidence, and it's us who continue to pay attention to her romantic subtext within the story.
you don't need go like kafstel, but let's not act like kafstel & kafcae aren't the reason kafka is bisexual. this is the same thing hoyo has done with xiao, ayaka, lyney etc lol
4.0 of Genshin happened almost a year ago I think and we still have people genuinely believing that Navia hasn’t forgiven Clorinde. They blame her for Callas’ death but surprisingly gloss over the fact that Nuevi knew he was innocent but still let the duel happen. I love (sarcasm) when people like that call shippers lore skippers when more of than not, around 90% they’re the lore skippers. Or straight up don’t read. But what do I expect from ppl who call a ship who had 5 minutes together implied ovr clorvia
I find Aether harem weirdos so funny thinking every named female character has feelings for him when in reality it’s like two, then Xiao who’s feelings are very blatant gets dismissed as oh he only sees Ae as a friend. So like all the other women sans Ayaka then? Then they bring up Lumine, yknow the one who these weirdos always say isn’t the canon traveler. They sure like to bring her up when a male character has heavily implied romantic feelings for Ae.
it's very funny because xiao is the most blatant and consistent in terms of writing, he's guaranteed annual content twice (lantern rite, birthday letter) and then some if he makes other event appearances. and i think it's great!! their writing is really great and it's not affected by the traveler's gender, so pretending it suddenly changes based on which twin you picked is just being a plain hypocrite. funnily enough it's those people who try to force aether with jeht despite the text drawing a simple difference in dynamics here, which is exactly what they pretend is going on with xiao/ayaka
do you think ayaka and ei can be friend?
so happy to see xiaoae getting celebrated lmao they're the reason i played this game again after a year. and if you have any eimiko fics recommendation please tell me i've been reading the same one over and over again
xiaoae is so dear to me 😭 zhongli and xiao were actually the ones who made me start playing, with eula locking me in (i got zhongli initially only bcs he was good for eula otherwise i would've skipped him) so xiaoae is super dear to me !! i think it was my first actual genshin ship
re: recs lemme know what you've read and ill look!!
So many yaoi ships in hate but absolute tolerance for anything straight. I always knew you don't care about straight shippers being homophobic and you just pretended to hate ittosara. Smily person
hiii can I ask why you’re not particularly interested in shipping tartaglia/lumine and cyno/tighnari considering they’re both quite popular? and why you don’t fw any itto ships? i would love to know your thoughts because i feel like we’re aligned…
hey sure!! remember these are just my opinions & experiences everyone
well for starters: cyno/tighnari
i loveeee cyno, loved him way before sumeru came out and even before inazuma, i think as early as 1.5? however i don't really gaf about tighnari lol usually i'd just be neutral on such ships but the blatant mischaracterization, racism and ignore within this ship's fandom back during the sumeru patches turned me off really badly. i also just don't find their dynamic particularly interesting and it doesn't suit my tastes. but yes, the racist shit etc is the thing that made me actively hate it!! now im not gonna block someone for shipping it or anything i just do not fuck with it
for tartaglia/lumine the answer is simply: not very interested in the ship, do not care all that much for childe ships, and i play as aether so the ship is kind of lost on me? the latter one sounds perhaps more like an excuse as i do indulge in lumine x ayaka but in those cases i often also ship aether with the character and i just. don't really care at all about the childe x traveler relationship (romantically) dunno
no hate to the chilumi shippers tho they got insane fanart from what i see occasionally and i do rt it occasionally but it's just. not my tea
re: itto ships
the one with gorou? hate it and anyone who was here during inz patches knows exactly why
the one with sara? ive softened up for one moot (& out of spite) but just don't care for it at all so i dont engage with the ship content
itto is like. a very unshippable character to me and i hate what hoyo has done with him since sq itto and event itto are very very different people imho
i think that covers everything?
mavuika is ei bff im suree ughh please , im sure they can relate each other or atleast i want to see them as spar bff
like how Ei just being depicted with sweets is enough to make people mad. “ can they stop making ei sound like she's age regressing with her "waow sweets and candy yay" ass lines whenever she shows up in promo content” sure they’re mischaracterizing her while the way the way they think all Raiden variants are is dommy horny sex beasts 24/7. Fuck all the way off with that. “Oh they’re flanderizing Ei.” Coming from a person who flanderizes all Raidens into something they’re not is very funny and hypocritical.
Every time I see people writing Stelle as child like I cringe and roll my eyes so hard, yes she’s silly and stuff every now and again but people legit writing her like she’s a five year old on the internet. I was reading a very good clorivia fic and Stelle cameos in one of the chapters and reading her say skibidi and sigma is just so…. I can’t even find the right word to say it. I usually find silliness exaggeration from a certain camp of shippers and I don’t want to point fingers but I’ve seen patterns..
Well she always was biphobic even before you started dating her. You can look that in her past tweets, rts and favs( before they were private). This is why is better to just date other bi people. I not blaming you for dating somebody like her, is not your fault. Im kinda sorry for never telling you about this. (Is not necesary to post this in twitter i just wanted to tell you)
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