four catgirls and lumine with a laser pointer

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[nekotonbo]

Nyahida 🍀

[nyahida]

i hate seeing aether in dresses in an "embarrassed, flustered, sexualized" way but i love seeing aether in dresses in a "confident, happy in it, the twins dont really abide by human gender norms" way.

and i would love to find more of the latter without seeing more of the former.

[genshinimpactresources]

Genshin Impact | Character Fun Facts | Nefer

[nyahida]

im honestly not sure how i feel about the "paimon really is the ship ai and the heavenly principles and was making teyvat suitable for the twins" theory. i feel good things and bad things at the same time.

the heavenly principles in the proxy of asmoday have forced them to stay when they wanted to get out of here. in the ai/heavenly principles' pov, it makes sense because this will be their world. however, in doing so, they hurt the traveler twin (and the abyss twin for sure). they lost their wings, they had their power sealed, etc, most of all they were separated, and in total they lost so much of themself that they renounced their own name and hid it from the world. all in all, it is an act for 'their own good' that hurt them more than it helped them.

and i hate it because i am a survivor of that kind of """love""" and hate when its positioned as "oh turns out it was actually for their own good and justified!", but i also love it because i can explore it, i dont have to play it straight like that. i can imagine paimon, possibly without memories, getting to know the traveler as a person, a friend, and not just a specimen in the repopulation program (which i personally find creepy as hell, has anyone actually asked the twins if they want to dedicate their lives to breeding as many children as they can from a genetic vault of people long gone that they might not have even known? has anyone especially asked lumine?*) and witnesses firsthand all the pain this has caused to the traveler. paimon is there for almost all their lowest lows and doubts and breakdowns and everything. so will one day the memories of paimon and ai/heavenly principles merge, and they realize how much they messed up with all of this?

the travelers are such curious people. i think they do love the traveling and the exploration and learning about the worlds and their mysteries, they dont stay in one place, theyre always off to somewhere. i think this is what they want to do (but together, of course, not like here). i would love to see it explored if their wishes for their life view of their own good actually differ from the view of what constitutes their good by the program of re-founding the civilization, and how much someone elses "your own good" might not actually be good for you.

*in the case she is cisgender and their reproduction works like human reproduction does

[nyahida]

though tbf i take everything that is said about the travelers from now on with a grain of salt. in dialogues with paimon, traveler mentions their experience of the worlds they have been to, contradicting the idea that the entire time the travelers were asleep and only the ship ai analyzed the planets. there was an emphasis placed on the role of the traveler as the witness of worlds (i think zhongli brought it up first) contradicting the idea they just were looking for one world to endlessly reproduce on. maybe these contradiction cause me to view it as a conflict of the twins and ai.

nod-krai was never there in the initial plan and got introduced to set some world lore in order before snezhnaya - was the spaceship originally there, or was it made on the spot as a reason for the traveler to be there? everything about the spaceship is entirely contained to the nk plot and the previous dain quest to introduce the idea of it. from nk being the first landing spot (when it wasnt even in the plans), to finding the ship itself conveniently on the moon via moon shenanigans.

so i take it all as a byproduct of a possible retcon, stand by my travelers who are Actually world travelers, and to be fair, i was always ready to have to make up an ending myself because they might endlessly stretch the game for profit.

[nyahida]

i straight up cannot stop thinking about the "has anyone actually asked the twins and lumine especially" part. the fact that their lives and their living bodies are still beholden to the wishes of people who are long dead that they might not have even known to continue their bloodline! i cannot stop seeing this from a reproductive violence angle. and if the ai that rules over the execution of the 100 baby challenge repopulation program, protecting their survival but also holding them in line, and the heavenly principles trapping them within teyvat, because they found it a suitable place to execute it, are one and the same, then holding them there by force is in fact an act connected to reproductive violence and sort of an indication they do not actually agree on the matter. and in that case, stripping their wings and powers becomes not only an act symbolic of all the parts that do not fit into a single world that the travelers have lost, but also an act symbolic of asserting ownership over their bodies. (it has never even been stated whether the wings are a part of them or a device, but i always believed the former for the "loss of part of self" symbolism reason, and now it feels even more physical and bodily.)

this is also the first time to me where - again, assuming both are cisgender and reproduce like humans do, press x to doubt - there is a very strong gendered rift between the experiences of the two. so far, it has really been emphasized that both believe that if they switched places the other would make the same choice as them and understand them - proven by the fact the twins are selectable and they both fall into the role created by the circumstances they ended up in the world in. but here, one gets a very obvious shorter end of the stick. being forced to have children not by your own choice, or with someone you never agreed to have them with, is a horrible thing either way. being forced to carry many of them will destroy you. is lumine - this full of life, curious, exploration loving, powerful, capable in many areas lumine - supposed to lay down her living body to satisfy the procreation wishes of long dead men who in life felt entitled to her body even after their death??? that is evil.

and i would love it if it was an opportunity to explore all of that, but i hate it and hate everything to do with the repopulation because i know they wont explore it because i see how they dress their female characters. they are in on it.

[nyahida]

im honestly not sure how i feel about the "paimon really is the ship ai and the heavenly principles and was making teyvat suitable for the twins" theory. i feel good things and bad things at the same time.

the heavenly principles in the proxy of asmoday have forced them to stay when they wanted to get out of here. in the ai/heavenly principles' pov, it makes sense because this will be their world. however, in doing so, they hurt the traveler twin (and the abyss twin for sure). they lost their wings, they had their power sealed, etc, most of all they were separated, and in total they lost so much of themself that they renounced their own name and hid it from the world. all in all, it is an act for 'their own good' that hurt them more than it helped them.

and i hate it because i am a survivor of that kind of """love""" and hate when its positioned as "oh turns out it was actually for their own good and justified!", but i also love it because i can explore it, i dont have to play it straight like that. i can imagine paimon, possibly without memories, getting to know the traveler as a person, a friend, and not just a specimen in the repopulation program (which i personally find creepy as hell, has anyone actually asked the twins if they want to dedicate their lives to breeding as many children as they can from a genetic vault of people long gone that they might not have even known? has anyone especially asked lumine?*) and witnesses firsthand all the pain this has caused to the traveler. paimon is there for almost all their lowest lows and doubts and breakdowns and everything. so will one day the memories of paimon and ai/heavenly principles merge, and they realize how much they messed up with all of this?

the travelers are such curious people. i think they do love the traveling and the exploration and learning about the worlds and their mysteries, they dont stay in one place, theyre always off to somewhere. i think this is what they want to do (but together, of course, not like here). i would love to see it explored if their wishes for their life view of their own good actually differ from the view of what constitutes their good by the program of re-founding the civilization, and how much someone elses "your own good" might not actually be good for you.

*in the case she is cisgender and their reproduction works like human reproduction does

[nyahida]

though tbf i take everything that is said about the travelers from now on with a grain of salt. in dialogues with paimon, traveler mentions their experience of the worlds they have been to, contradicting the idea that the entire time the travelers were asleep and only the ship ai analyzed the planets. there was an emphasis placed on the role of the traveler as the witness of worlds (i think zhongli brought it up first) contradicting the idea they just were looking for one world to endlessly reproduce on. maybe these contradiction cause me to view it as a conflict of the twins and ai.

nod-krai was never there in the initial plan and got introduced to set some world lore in order before snezhnaya - was the spaceship originally there, or was it made on the spot as a reason for the traveler to be there? everything about the spaceship is entirely contained to the nk plot and the previous dain quest to introduce the idea of it. from nk being the first landing spot (when it wasnt even in the plans), to finding the ship itself conveniently on the moon via moon shenanigans.

so i take it all as a byproduct of a possible retcon, stand by my travelers who are Actually world travelers, and to be fair, i was always ready to have to make up an ending myself because they might endlessly stretch the game for profit.

[nyahida]

im honestly not sure how i feel about the "paimon really is the ship ai and the heavenly principles and was making teyvat suitable for the twins" theory. i feel good things and bad things at the same time.

the heavenly principles in the proxy of asmoday have forced them to stay when they wanted to get out of here. in the ai/heavenly principles' pov, it makes sense because this will be their world. however, in doing so, they hurt the traveler twin (and the abyss twin for sure). they lost their wings, they had their power sealed, etc, most of all they were separated, and in total they lost so much of themself that they renounced their own name and hid it from the world. all in all, it is an act for 'their own good' that hurt them more than it helped them.

and i hate it because i am a survivor of that kind of """love""" and hate when its positioned as "oh turns out it was actually for their own good and justified!", but i also love it because i can explore it, i dont have to play it straight like that. i can imagine paimon, possibly without memories, getting to know the traveler as a person, a friend, and not just a specimen in the repopulation program (which i personally find creepy as hell, has anyone actually asked the twins if they want to dedicate their lives to breeding as many children as they can from a genetic vault of people long gone that they might not have even known? has anyone especially asked lumine?*) and witnesses firsthand all the pain this has caused to the traveler. paimon is there for almost all their lowest lows and doubts and breakdowns and everything. so will one day the memories of paimon and ai/heavenly principles merge, and they realize how much they messed up with all of this?

the travelers are such curious people. i think they do love the traveling and the exploration and learning about the worlds and their mysteries, they dont stay in one place, theyre always off to somewhere. i think this is what they want to do (but together, of course, not like here). i would love to see it explored if their wishes for their life view of their own good actually differ from the view of what constitutes their good by the program of re-founding the civilization, and how much someone elses "your own good" might not actually be good for you.

*in the case she is cisgender and their reproduction works like human reproduction does

[nyahida]

every time i put lumine back on my team and she goes "there's still a long road ahead" i am reminded of "the woods are lonely dark and deep but i have promises to keep and miles to go before i sleep and miles to go before i sleep"

[genshinimpactresources]

Genshin Impact | Character Fun Facts | Lauma

[pain-tool-sai]

been maining geo traveler for way too long but this outfit 100% totally justifies it lmfao (jk) (watercolor on mixed fiber paper, also added some sparkly paint in the detail shots)

[mayopocket]

cat's out of the bag

[nyahida]

oh how absolutely i cannot stand it when people go heart eyes over how dottore interacted with the traveler and think thats hot or romantic and he is a dreamboat, (or heaven forbid ship them,) because how. how are they not seeing it as code for sexual harassment.

i have unfortunately lived the experience of being sexually harassed by a superior at work. (i couldnt really do anything but bide my time because of stupid stuff that forced me to work there for a mandated time - well at least that arrangement beats having student debt... in theory). and it was like that. just getting into my personal space in an inappropriate way, sitting too close and touching my body, with still keeping plausible deniability that nothing that is a Big Deal is happening, as i can do nothing but try to move away for the 500th time. when i saw those scenes i could feel that same atmosphere in the air.

and it means total sense - dottore views the traveler as an object, as material for experiments, and sexual harassment is rooted in objectification. and yet it still needs to be depicted with plausible deniability because this is a childrens rated game and nothing too explicit can be shown.

and i just cant stand to see people go heart eyes over this because its watching them all fail a media literacy test. if they failed to recognize this in a fictional example, im afraid they will fail to recognize when that same sexual harassment is happening to their friend, when they need to step in and help get their friend away from the assailant. and they might not even recognize it when they themselves face it and not realize they need to push back or get out. i did not recognize that what happened to me was harassment at first because it was intentionally kept plausibly deniable and it is just... so normalized in the culture.

[nyahida]

the biggest disappointment of this lantern rite was the fact that none of zibais alters who didnt want her resurrected said anything about beating a dead horse

[nyahida]

can someone please help me id all the melusines in this stamp?

i wanna color them, but i can definitely recognize only mamere and... maybe kiara? the 🥺 one?

[genshinimpactresources]

Genshin Impact | Artwork from paimon_genshin7

Machine translation of caption:

"We're taking all the horses with us for the expedition." "

Oh, for transportation, huh."

"..."

"...For transportation, right?"

[wovi]

[nyahida]

corporate needs you to find the difference between this and this picture

[cocomelow]

Doing this with my horrible english, enjoy people