althena

stuck in hsr, genshin, and ffxiv hell ♥ video games, cute animals, strong female characters, asian web novels, and manga and anime (and TV shows when they don't kill off my favorite women) ♥

[althena]

About this account (pinned post)

My current obsessions are Honkai: Star Rail, Genshin Impact, and Final Fantasy XIV.

I love video games (especially Final Fantasy and The Legend of Zelda series), cute animals, strong female characters, anime/manga, and sometimes TV shows (TV shows tend to kill/write off my favorite female characters, so fuck them).

I write fanfics once in a while, and I collect doujinshi and merch for my favorite pairings. I used to do gifsets on Tumblr but I got lazy...

I love my cat, she's the cutest asshole in the world.

I will mostly reblog stuff about the pairings and characters I love, which currently are:

Genshin Pairings: Diluc/Kaeya (Luckae, #1 in my heart right now), Ayato/Thoma (WakaThoma) and Thoma/Ayato (Thomato), Alhaitham/Kaveh and Kaveh/Alhaitham, Zhongli/Lumine, Wanderer/Nahida

HSR Pairings: Dan Heng/Jing Yuan and Jing Yuan/Dan Heng, Blade(Ren)/Jing Yuan and Jing Yuan/Blade, Dan Heng/Stelle, any combination of the Yaoqing Trio (Feixiao/Jiaoqiu/Moze), Ratio/Aventurine and Aventurine/Ratio, Welt/Himeko, Yanqing/Yunli

Favorite Genshin Characters: Kamisato Ayato, Kaeya Alberich, Zhongli, Lumine, Nahida, Yanfei

Favorite HSR Characters: Jing Yuan, Sunday, Dan Heng, Stelle, Aventurine, Jiaoqiu

Favorite FFXIV Characters: Alisaie, Alphinaud, Emet-Selch, Venat, Ysayle, Themis, Hythlodaeus, Aymeric, but I honestly like everyone except Asahi Other Current Pairings: Lan Xichen/Jiang Cheng (Mo Dao Zu Shi), Link/Zelda (Legend of Zelda), Clive/Jill (Final Fantasy XVI), Chrom/f!Robin (Fire Emblem Awakening), Emet-Selch/WoL (Final Fantasy XIV)

[datasoong47]

[linguisticparadox]

[r5h]

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2609/

[bralsra-deactivated20250108]

theres ALWAYS a relevant XKCD for everything huh

[sarahseeandersen]

This brand new piece has been made available as a signed print! A portion of all proceeds go to Mind, the UK's leading mental health charity.

[explicitlyrics]

stained glass snoopy at redwood empire ice arena, 2007.

[memewhore]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

apparently this is a thing in Japan too, and it gets translated as “Mundane Halloween.” There are so photos online and they’re all so good?????

“Person going to work on a windy day"

“Woman who’s having her bang cut but the hairdresser is nowhere to be found"

"Zookeeper in charge of the pandas"

[rainbowismymiddlename]

Here are two more:

"Not pregnant lady when someone yield seat to her on subway"

And my favorite

"Person on thermal infrared camera"

Might share more tomorrow.

[rainbowismymiddlename]

Influencers taking selfies at a gym

Starbucks barista working her ass off on Halloween but gotta keep up that smile

Person who sits on wet paint

Person who's still loading

Boyfriend carrying girlfriend's shopping bags

[lightweightkate]

I love these so much

[dryoma-hehe]

and this

[dryoma-hehe]

some of my old kinda wonky art,,,still love it though!

[shinjyu]

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[chkn-kit]

Horsen't

Bonus:

[ohnogodpls]

How do we tell him we lost horses 4 months ago....

[bonivers]

“why do you have a gap in your resume” idk why is there a gap in your staff. worry about that

[luulapants]

If anyone has taken their eyes off what's happening to federal workers in the US right now, here's some highlights that we're hearing from our comrades across the government who have not yet been fired:

In one building (hosting multiple agencies), the locks on the bathroom were changed so employees no longer have any access to a bathroom during the workday. People are peeing in trash cans.

Elsewhere, multiple agencies have reported that hand soap is no longer being supplied in the bathrooms.

Toilet paper supplies have not been adjusted to meet the needs of a vastly increased number of in-office employees.

Employee-owned coffee and coffee makers have been stolen or thrown away without notice (it was already illegal for taxpayer dollars to be spent on supplying federal employees with amenities like coffee, so many offices have coffee supplied by pooled employee funds).

Meanwhile, many offices don't even have potable drinking water (recurrent legionella outbreaks), so employees have to bring their own water from home.

Despite an explosion in the number of workers in offices, cleaning budgets have been slashed and many offices are not being cleaned regularly enough to remain sanitary. Pests like roaches and rats are a problem.

The firings continue, legal and illegal. Entire programs are being cut. Managers have no idea when they might lose staff. Employees are getting fired at 6pm on a weekend or finding out when they're unable to log into their computer or when they receive a shipping label in the mail to return their equipment.

Through all of this, the DOGE employees in federal workplaces are enjoying incredible and expensive luxury: AI-powered sleep pods, entire dormitories so they can live in federal buildings, nurseries for their children on site, free food and beverages, laundry services, and who knows what else. They have special security to restrict access to their areas of the buildings, including armed guards.

And I'm not just saying this to lament how bad it is for federal workers. I'm saying this because, as workers are reporting this to one another, the response is, inevitably: "This is illegal." "Yes, but who would I report it to? OPM? They're a DOGE puppet. OSHA? They've cut OSHA. The Inspectors General? Cut. The NLRB? Cut. My union? No longer recognized."

There is no one left to enforce these laws, so taking away access to basic sanitation is now effectively legal. They are doing this to federal workers, who historically have been some of the best-protected workers in the country. They are doing this specifically because it demonstrates to the public sector that it is now legal to do these things to their own workers.

[theperksofbeingahugefuckingcunt]

Okay I’m currently furious that migraines are often so blindly easy to treat and I had to find this out myself at the age of 26 when I’ve been to a neurologist since I was 11 lol so I’m about to teach you two neat and fast little tricks to deal with pain!

The first is the sternocleidomastoid muscle, or the SCM muscle.

This big red section is responsible for pain around the eye, cheekbone, and jaw, as well as some temple pain. Literally all you have to do is angle your head down a little, angle it away from the side that hurts, and then you can gently pinch and rub that muscle. I find it best to start at the bottom and travel upwards. The relief is so immediate! You can increase pressure as you feel comfortable doing so.

Here is a short and easy video showing this in action

The second is a fast and easy stretch that soothes your vagus nerve, which is the nerve responsible for calming you down. The vagus nerve, for those unfamiliar, is stimulated by deep breathing such as yawning, sighing, singing, or taking a deep breath to calm your anger in a tense situation.

You can stretch this out by sitting up as straight as possible (this does not have to be perfect to work) and interlacing your fingers. Put your hands on the back of your head with your thumbs going down the sides of your neck and, while keeping your face forward, look all the way to one side with just your eyes. Hold that until you feel the urge to breathe deeply or yawn, or until you can tell there’s a change. Then do the same thing on the other side. When you put your arms down, you should clearly be able to turn your head farther in both directions. If the first session doesn’t get rid of your migraine, rest and repeat as many times as necessary. I even get a little fancy with it and roll my eyes up and down along the outer edge sometimes to stretch as much as I can.

If you need a visual here’s a good video on it. I know some of the language they use seems questionable but this is real and simple science and should not be discarded because it’s been adopted by the trendy wellness crowd!

I seriously cannot believe I didn’t hear a word of this from any doctor in my life. Additionally, if you get frequent recurring migraines, you may want to see a dietician. Migraines can be caused by foods containing histamines, lectin, etc. and can also be caused by high blood pressure in specific situations such as exercise, stress, and even sex.

If any of this information helps you I’d love to hear it btw! It’s so so fast and easy to do. Good luck!

[mushroomsandteeth]

*currently suffering from a horrible migraine. Tries this*

Are you fucking shitting me it works!?

[gothiccharmschool]

What. The fuck.

[suppermariobroth]

In Mario Party 4, the main group of hosts (Toad, Shy Guy, Koopa, Goomba and Boo) are using the power of the mysterious Party Cube to celebrate the player characters' birthdays, including gifting them presents. At no point during the game is any malice or selfishness attributed to their motivations.

However, the 2002 official guide for the game instead slanders several of the hosts by claiming that they are using the party as a front for obtaining money (ignoring the fact that it is the hosts themselves that give the players the money as part of the game to begin with) or that Boo's minions steal from the players (ignoring that Boos only steal from players on behalf of other players, and do not keep the money or stars stolen).

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[thelocalmuffin]

Hey everyone, I know it's going to be a busy day for a lot of people, but Google enrolled everyone over 18 into their AI program automatically.

If you have a google account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off.

Then you need to go to myactivity.google.com/product/gemini and turn off all Gemini activity tracking. You do have to do them in that order to make sure it works.

Honestly, I'm not sure how long this will last, but this should keep Gemini off your projects for a bit.

I saw this over on bluesky and figured it would be good to spread on here. It only takes a few minutes to do.

[yeahwrite]

Writers: It's asking to read your Google Docs and be able to 'summarize' things from them and such things. I just turned all mine off.

[cumaeansibyl]

I was just browsing around here at random and I think the current generation of social media users need to re-learn a certain truth:

the Secret Service will investigate all perceived threats to the president or top government officials, even if they are clearly unserious.

Now, they aren't going to arrest you for joking about it. They are going to show up at your house with printouts of your tumblr and other social media and ask you some very pointed questions and it's going to be extremely uncomfortable. They want you to know that they know what you said, and that if you were planning to do more than talk, you should stop that, because now they have their eye on you.

And yeah, in the back of their minds they're thinking "what if this seemingly harmless poster actually turns out to have a gun and a plan, and we dismiss them because we think they couldn't possibly be serious?" But mainly the first thing.

Let me make one thing clear: I am expressing neither approval or disapproval of this practice. I am stating the fact that they've done this for decades -- it's not a particular feature of the new administration. And given that their one and only job is keeping some very unpopular people alive, it makes sense that they're being damn sure no one slips through the cracks. Because it only takes one.

Oh, and just for the record, if you use common censorship techniques to talk about "unaliving" or "k*lling" someone you shouldn't, they can still find you. Some of these people have been on the social media beat for years by now, you know they speak fluent TikTok.

Be safe out there, okay? Don't get put on a list for a dumb joke.

[yogi-bogey-box]

yeah, I remember when this happened to anniesj on LJ. she wrote a satirical post about George W. Bush and said some stuff the FBI did not like. the post itself was taken down (naturally), but Annie wrote about the FBI visit and gave some tips about staying safe. This was 2004.

the post is still up on LJ if you're interested in reading it.

also, someone IN FANDOM turned her in to the FBI or secret service or whatever because of fandom politics. Don't do this shit, either.

[saywhat-politics]

Keep your messaging simple:

“Trump fired everyone in charge of airplane safety, and a week later planes started crashing into each other.”

That’s it. That’s the messaging. Don’t get bogged down disputing Trump’s false claims. Just blame him, in short and repeatable sentences.

[queerculus]

Trump removed bird safety regulations in his first term and now bird flu is killing so many laying hens that eggs are $5 a carton

Trump removed food safety standards his first term and now we have recalls every few weeks

Trump cut the subsidies for the solar farms under construction so now electricity costs more

Trump disbanded the pandemic response team and we now we have bird flu and tuberculosis outbreaks