Ghostofreach

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Intro post

Hello! A post like this is long overdue but whateverrrr

Call me ghost, or whatever you want. I’m a single celled organism who feeds on hype and aura

I do a lot of genshin impact character design and worldbuilding as well as making comics mostly centered around Diluc and Kaeya.

I am very very ragbrospilled and the worlds biggest diluc glazer

Dni if proship, conservative, zionist, terf <-really anything of that sort.

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I have nothing to post. Enjoy a diluc with a switch axe from monster hunter that I drew a while ago

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A doodle of a ragbros headcannon I have where diluc speaks snezhnayan and kaeya speaks Khaenri'ahn and they both kinda translate for one another on occasion and never ever talk about it

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I know everyone is celebrating the 4th today and wanting to have a good time despite everything. However, the indigenous, black, and immigrant communities that this country is built using the blood and labor of are still here.

Speaking specifically on the indigenous communities, we’re still persisting and fighting for our right to exist here on turtle island, our home.

Every day I see irl the growing erasure of these groups to make a white ethnostate paradise for racists. Silence is still support, and ignorance will not stop the progress being made by the white supremacists in office.

TL;DR There are no illegals on stolen land, and we should think critically about what we are actually celebrating today. Thats all I want to say.

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I made some Arcane prints/cards 🫡

You can get the photocards on my ko-fi shop ! (I may upload the prints later)

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well i didn't plan for this fic to coincide with the snezhnaya trailer but you know what, i'm not opposed to a little serendipity

🌨️ childe/lumine

🌨️ surprise kissing

🌨️ T-rated

🌨️ 1.9k words

🔗: https://archiveofourown.org/works/87225016

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A page from a comic I’m working on. A bit of a sequel to my other comic, ghosts and shadows.

Anyway I’ve found the secret to not having any more abandoned wips…just have like 4 projects you’re working on at the same time and every time you get bored or frustrated ROTATE through them. Makes everything I do take far longer but I have no more abandoned wips as of late

^^visual representation

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Some wips and other things

A picture of jean’s office that I’m working on for a world building post of mine. Trying to do a small series of sights and scenes throughout mondstadt to go along with the rest of the art. It’s serving a dual purpose of helping me improve my backgrounds too

This is my oc yeva snezhevna. Big fan of this girl even though I don’t ever draw her

In honor of everyone getting played by hoyo the other day I thought I’d drop this tsaritsa design from February of last year (featuring some improved descriptions) It’s pretty interesting but definitely needed refining.

Some old vs new(ish) art. Waow

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if i had a nickel for every purple-clad oddball wreaking havoc in mondstadt i would have *checks notes* quite a lot of nickels actually. where do they keep coming from

🟣 prune & rosaria (and prune & barbara)

🟣 in which prune has two different dinners with two very different nuns

🟣 G-rated

🟣 4.2k words

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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This Juneteenth I want people to know and remember Alfred Irving who was finally freed from chattel slavery in 1942 and Mae Louis Miller who was finally freed from peonage slavery in 1963.

Slavery was not "200 years ago," the last living former enslaved african american passed away in 2014 at 70 years old.

Chattell slavery in America did not go away, it adapted. It became peonage, sharecropping, vagrancy laws, "chain gangs" or convict leasing, and continues into the modern day prison system and the systematic incarceration of black and brown people and expanded to forced detention of immigrants in modern day America.

Do not believe the common narrative that the emancipation proclamation freed every slave. There are many more who were unable to tell their stories out of shame or fear of harm.

I reccomend that people read Slavery by Another Name by Douglas A. Blackmon or watch the 90 minute documentary / film adaptation

If nothing else please remember the names of the two people that American society wants you to forget.

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Mississippi Police Officer Shoots and Kills 1-Year-Old Child in Response to Shoplifting Call

A Mississippi police officer shot and killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley at a Walmart while responding to a shoplifting call.

Mississippi, the US state with the highest population of Black citizens, is no stranger to racist violence, gerrymandering, and deeply ingrained segregation. this week, on July 12th, a police officer in Senatobia, Mississippi shot and killed a ONE YEAR OLD CHILD

Kohen Wiley should be alive. he should be playing and growing and learning. instead, his mother now has to navigate trauma and grief, all while trying to seek justice for her baby and her friend

if you want to help them, the family is currently asking for calls to demand the body-cam footage be released. You can find the link for relevant numbers here

the officer who killed this baby has been placed on administrative leave and their name is being withheld from the public. they also tear-gassed protestors who showed up the next day. please take some time to make phone calls, put pressure. speak about this loudly.

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Finally finished my Kaeya design

Kaeya has always been difficult for me to design, and that’s mainly because I have a lot of trouble getting into his head. I love him but sometimes I get so frustrated because I feel like everyone else understands him better than I do😭😭 still my 2nd favorite character though. Notes below, as always.

- I headcannon Kaeya as Romani, I think it’s very relevant to his story and his associations with Southeast Asia. But how to portray it in a way that doesn’t feel like I’m just slapping the word “Romani” on him? I tried to incorporate part of the silhouette of Romani dress as opposed to overt symbols or patterns. Subtle, but also there enough to be distinct from the way other mondstadters dress. As much as he tries right now to conceal it, his homeland will always be a part of him.

-I wanted badly for his design to direct the eye away from his face. Even though his pretty face is one of his most valuable assets, he’s constantly trying to distract people from his eyes, from what he is. So where I designed Diluc to look as though he has some sort of physical barrier in front of his head/neck, I wanted Kaeya to feel as though he’s playfully guiding people’s eyes down and away from his face, not unlike how he steers conversations with his smart use of words. Both put up barriers, but they’ve got different kinds of communication issues LMAO.

-I wanted to push his peacock motif a bit further, mainly because I love love LOVE how peacock feathers have eye shapes. It makes me think a lot about the myth of Argus Panoptes, a giant whose eyes were put into peacock feathers after he died. He’s leading the viewers eyes..away from his eyes…with eyes…yes yes I know I’m just that clever /s. I also had his second collar(?) poke out underneath the feathers like the beak of a peacock for no other reason than I thought it was cute.

-something I think about a lot is how Khaenri’ah is very revered for its technological innovation while the Ragnvindr household is somewhat associated with the arts. I started thinking about what a bridge between the two might be, and ended up at the golden ratio. I did my damndest to work with it but ended up with…not a lot changing. The hoyov designers are 3 steps ahead of me💔 maybe I’ll have an epiphany in the future at how to better incorporate it.

Honestly I didn’t change a whole lot and that’s because I like his base design a lot and I try not to fix what I don’t think is broken

Uhhh I’m done now but I’m gonna rant about unrelated happenings in the tags. Don’t take any of it seriously I’m running off of 2 hours of sleep and I’m just aimlessly thinking

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i'm sorry i never did your tag game. i love you

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“What’d the delusion do?”

A very ooc low effort comic I made to practice how I wanted to draw speech bubbles and panels. Took me about an hour

Also I kinda wanted to think about what the delusion actually did to diluc. I’ve had the thought that it fucked up his international organs for a while now.

A lot of the dialogue here is pretty nonsensical and that’s because I was trying to find as many excuses to use multiple types of speech bubbles at the same time. I think I am. Evolving. In regards to my presentation

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Do you have a design for dahlia or varka?

I WANT DARK SOULS I WANT DARK SOULS I WANT DARK SOULS

my opinion on Varkas design is that I feel like it’s kinda something I’ve already seen before. Hello wriothesley 2.

Anyway here are my big notes/changes

- the helmet is the most obvious addition mainly because I was saddened that he didn’t have more knight theming. With him being the grandmaster I was hoping for a more traditional knight. It’s also there because I think the contrast between a masked character you’d expect to be super serious and then varka’s actual personality is really funny. I like characters like that. initially i did several sketches of what style of helmet I should use, and settled on something similar to a spangenhelm because it was more region accurate. There really isn’t more to it I like helmet characters and I’m still mourning capitano

-He’s easygoing, but that doesn’t mean he’s a complete pacifist. The dents, cuts, and scuffs on his armor are there to kinda imply that he is very experienced in combat and not afraid to fight

-My initial vision was “giant dude in armor who looks super serious but is actually a lot less austere once you look closer”. I really really went with that knight theme, but my first drafts ended up feeling too professional for his easygoing personality. I tried thinking about what he would realistically do when dressing himself and I ended up giving him a pretty mismatched armor set. Like he just grabbed whatever was in arms reach and set out to do his thing. He feels kinda like someone who is more focused on seizing the day than anything. (I really wanted him to look like he was wearing a full cohesive set of armor at first, but as you look closer, you see it’s kinda mismatched). But he still has that strong sense of responsibility, so I made sure to keep his jacket to harmonize (?) things a little and keep his design from feeling too chaotic and asymmetrical.

-I really like his color palette. I moved it a lot more green in my early drafts before realizing it was NOT easy on the eyes and humbling myself by changing it to the official color palette.

That’s most of what I changed. I feel like something is just missing from his og design and kinda by extension mine as well.. idk I look back at it and I just can’t put my finger on it.

I hope these doodles can illustrate the point I made in the first bullet about his looks vs personality. I like armored guys that aren’t too serious

This was the final page I did before moving on to his final design. I was worried that his silhouette would be too similar to diluc but then I remembered that I made diluGOAT short for a reason ❤️‍🩹

I don’t have much for Dahlia unfortunately, but he is in a huge world building post I’ve been talking about and working on for months lmao. It will be done. Eventually. Anyway i felt it right to give him cat ears.