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Having a small community with trusted people really does wonders to you mentally as it motivates you to be productive for your small circle of friends and there’s a sense of security where no one would suddenly criticize you or make you feel like the worst person on earth for loving something.
It feels bizarre when you came from a huge but utterly toxic fandom. Where everything you post must be done with caution because some no life will barge on your account even if the tweet wasn’t for them or about them.
you are very right, i think it's the only way to engage with fandom nowadays without stressing too much. i think after the recent twt update of the block feature it will be more difficult to do so, hopefully with time we will all move to bluesky.
idk which fandom you were in before but if it was worse than hyv ones it must've been crazy lol. my only experience worse than genshin is identity v fandom bc despite being small toxicity is very normalised and theres a lot of antis
What do you think about jing yuan x yanqing as a ship? Haven’t seen a single person like them lmao
Do you know people can ship without wanting ships to be canon? That's the entire point of fandom for some of us. I don't want ships to be canon in Hoyo games. For me, the fun comes from the different combinations of characters that can be made and all the different tropes you can explore without being constrained by canon. That's how people used to ship, anyway, until fandom became obsessed with canon validation.
Something that I’ve noticed with hyv games like Genshin and HSR is that, because there is almost never any actual canon romance between the playable characters, fans become hyper sensitive to literally ANYTHING that implies two characters are close. Like we’re so starved for genuine romance we take whatever scraps we can get and call it a feast.
yeah i think this is a mix of looking for it in the wrong place (there will never be a canon romantic relationship between playable characters in hyv games) and simply fandom being fandom. also the belief that intimacy = romance which i understand is the norm in society in general.
there's nothing wrong with starting with the crumbs hyv gives us and creating your own content, the issue is when people insist the fanon in their head is canon and also impose it on others.
im personally not starved for romance bc it's not my main preference for shipping, what i'd like more between characters in genshin is intimacy and conflict, seeing their development and not just the wholesome aftermath of it. i think hsr is slightly better at this.
I consume plenty of canon gay and think there is some queer coding in Hoyo games. You just want to dismiss them because you don't want to feel bad for shipping m/f, which you can just say a ship is boring to you. You don't need to do borderline homophobic rhetoric like "these idiots want to see themselves in media, how awful" and implying "those dumb CHINESE would never agree that gays exist". It's not corporate pandering when marvel does it, only when those dastardly Chinese do it. There's no gays working in companies there of course, only in America.
at this point you're literally making up a person to be angry at lol.
i don't feel bad for shipping m/f (i dont even understand why someone should feel bad about enjoying m/f. projecting much are we?)
which ship is boring, what are you even talking about?
"these idiots want to see themselves in media, how awful" no one said that except you right now. that's how you completely misenterpreted what the previous anon wrote and felt so personally attacked now you're whining in my reteospring about things nobody here said
im not racist thank you so i would never say or even think "these dumb chinese"
i dont know anything about marvel and the only films ive watched were those someone else made me watch bc i dont like action and heroes at all
i never said the last thing either
not replying anymore after this, bye
ngl some of your asks come off weirdly aggressive towards people who have queer headcanons - discussing coding in hoyo games doesn’t mean somebody has never watched other queer media and thinks their games have the best queer rep ever lol it shouldn’t piss anyone off just seeing someone talk about queercoding and if it does you need to question why tbh
once again taking things out of context, it is some of you favourite's hobby.
they didn't say you cant talk about queer-coding, they're obviously referring to annoying ppl who think hyv is a queer ally and see queer-coding everywhere and force it on other people, calling them homophobic if they disagree with their theories.
i agree the anon was too aggressive for my likings but people on here always are about everything so ive given up, im not their mother nor i care
A lot of H0yo's 'the best at queers representation' defenders will def cry watching a show with actual gay or lesbian relationship on screen because the best they can say about 'representation' is their headcanons of their ships
Aside from acting for 500 years she fails at everything else (unlike Neuvillette)
Most people including y'all don't like to see powerful women in charge so you prefer "girlfail" shit like Furina because God forbids a woman is as powerful and competent as a man 🥴
I am not even against women being normal and just existing but Furina being a "girlfail" was only written to prop up Neuvillette. Focalors was literally fridged and forgotten.
did you like copy paste this in random retrosprings bc me and all my moots literally hate that term used in regards to furina so i think you're in the wrong place lol. also shes not written as girlfail, she literally didnt fail it's the opposite. im hoping you're bored and this is supposed to be bait or something
“nvfr always make neuvillette a stalker!!! 😡” oh my god! that’s disgusting!! where??
Found family includes spouses and romantic partners tho
thoughts on the fat fuck named meowvillette?
Coding has become another term for stereotyping. I miss the days when coding simply meant writing codes on a computer to create cool programs
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