snezhnaya nights

a whatever blog for me to dump genshin thoughts. anons from me r signed with 🦑 and I'm your local hu/xiao propagandist, just call me squid! i am also a tsaritsa stan. mod is 18 so nsfw is free on this blog under the tag #not osha compliant

[calimariheart]

hiiii so

basically this is my genshin sideblog bc i kinda really love the community but dont wanna clog up me main LOL anyways im squid u might have seen me do some major lurking on @yostresswritinggirl​‘s blog but i yolo’d it so now i have my own. this is probably gonna b an uber whatever kinda deal but feel free to send me headcanons ideas complaints questions theories ETC ETC i just kinda wanna hang out. take this complimentary art of me also 

thats all bye

[calimariheart]

chieula moodboard. if you are me you will understand this post

[mintjeru]

in this household we hunt the eleventh fatui harbinger for sport and beat him up a second time if he gives me anything that isn’t the shadow of the warrior

click for better quality // please don’t repost!!

[khianavy]

dad and his first generation kids

[calimariheart]

hey guys, im issuing a hunt for info [and image files]. 

so TLDR when i was doing kaeya’s trial, i pulled up his character screen and saw these artifacts. they have no set bonus attached to them, and im not sure if they have a name. however, i think that in the files of the game theres full designs for all of them (or if not, at least the ones in the screenshot) and i’d love to get my hands on them, because i havent seen this documented anywhere

if u can get it to me i’ll love u forever

[calimariheart]

eula comes from a family of slave owners? i dont think ive ever heard of an easier skip for banner in my life goodbye…

[calimariheart]

@sadsapphosquid​ and anyone else wondering, here:

again, i dont think ive been handed an easier skip in my life

[this is totally okay to rb i want people to know!]

[calimariheart]

eula comes from a family of slave owners? i dont think ive ever heard of an easier skip for banner in my life goodbye...

[calimariheart]

Tsaritsa is best girl

right so i am coming off of the absolute roller coaster that was dainquest and i have a lot of thoughts on all of it, but i really only focus on tsaritsa since i adore getting literally anything related to her motivations and character, no matter how indirect it actually is

so learning about the destruction of khaenriah has been what ive focused in on since it was implied that all the archons were present, even if the cutscene only shows Asmoday/the unknown god actually exerting force during it. 

although i previously speculated that tsaritsa held the king in terms of chess pieces, this new info really, really makes me think that she’s the one without the gnosis, and here’s why: 

there’s no way that all the archons would organize to destroy khaenriah without prompting, especially when the people there only seemed to want to live without a god over them. which really leads me to believe that whatever entity embodies celestia (most likely Asmoday) has the ability to use the gnosis to move the gods around as they please. it’s already been established that gnoses are archons direct line to celestia, so there’s really nothing that we know currently that could disprove this idea. 

so, during the siege of khaenriah, the dendro archon was killed, and the whole event is what initially motivated tsaritsa to begin mounting her plan against the divine. what i’m thinking happened is that she removed her gnosis and allowed it to be destroyed while everything else was getting laid to waste. she’s no longer controlled by celestia, but she still holds her seat since losing a gnosis doesnt mean youre powerless + she hasnt died. 

another thing i think is happening with relation to gnoses and celestia is that tsaritsa is using that line to draw celestia down to teyvat. other people have pointed out that across updates, celestia has been “falling”. however, i now think that tsaritsa is purposefully bringing it down to be able to enact her plan.

if you have any other thoughts abt this please feel free to add bc this new quest has really made me go wild

[mothsandclowns]

No more shipping discourse omg just cuz the traveler is 500 yrs old doesn’t mean you can ship them adults they’re still physically and mentally underage

[calimariheart]

Instead of working on literally anything in my drafts I'm working on a dilucrose drabble. I am a master of focus

[blood-orange-juice-deactivated2]

Ok, I hope I won’t get cancelled, but I have to write this.

Am I the only one who appreciates that Kaeya is brown skinned?

For me he’s similar to Anthy in Utena. They both are not just token characters of colour, they come with all the power of an archetype you can’t pull off with a white character.

India is the place where everything started, “the birthplace of human speech and the grandmother of legend”. Varanasi was a city of scholars back when my ancestors hadn’t even invented written language yet.

And all the Near East… I don’t even know where to start. A beautiful long-fallen world, a place of myths, poetry, and science. The birthplace of first laws (very different from the Roman law we inherited) and dark and terrifying magic.

Nothing says “old gods and things that mess with the fabric of reality itself” in a fantasy setting better than a brown character does. 

I know modern India is just as interesting as its ancient history, and I know that romanticizing skin colour is just as bad as, well… bad things.

Yet, I see his character as a form of appreciation for rarely represented cultures and, honestly, I’m in awe.

*

(also MiHoYo know what a glottal stop sound is, lol. 

apostrophe is overused in fantasy names because people think it adds an “exotic” feeling and they just stick it everywhere randomly

but in transliterations of Arabic it stands for an actual sound. the one that happens at the beginning of the word 'apple’ before the actual ‘a’ sound starts. it’s a valid consonant in many languages

and in “Khaenri’ah” it’s in a proper place where a glottal stop is actually possible)

[calimariheart]

would you all still love me if i said dottore can get it

[arkadraws]

made a genshin oc

[calimariheart]

Amber is 21 yes but she's also the kind who forgets her own age so her friends will talk about getting married and shit and she's like "what are y'all? Child brides?"

[iphellos-deactivated20210421]

After playing since release, I’ve finally decided to make my own Genshin OC ! !

*Edit: Decided to make him cryo and blue ;;

// Aleric // Cryo // Claymore // ❖ Pls do not repost / use / edit / trace

[randommelan]

[oofmilk]

[image id: the bugs bunny suit meme but the text has been edited to say “i wish all albert a very aggressive stop going near the church.” end id]

i HATE this dude