Free-range Excitement

[tablefourtyone]

I'd like a 1:1 scale model of the Earth if it's doable.

[tablefourtyone]

My Sony Walkman GX100, in all its stickered glory

(logo was modified for OC branding lol)

[tablefourtyone]

I need Alien!Harry to wear a T-shirt portraying a cow, almonds, and soybeans. There's a giant red X each on the almonds and soybeans.

And the text below all of them reads: "There Ain't No Udder Way".

[sealsandlacenet]

hiyori and kyoro wearing eachothers sunglasses, furthering the fact that they are GAY!!!!

[no-bucket-required]

“Why is there no fanart or fanfic for the ship I like??? Why is all the fanart and fanfic for the [evil] ship????”

Umm idk because you’re sitting here spending all your free time writing thesis essays about why we’re morally bankrupt for shipping the fictional radiation cowboy with the fictional corporatist good girl instead of writing your damn fanfic.

Get to it bud, you have a lot of catching up to do

[tablefourtyone]

Chapter 8, part 2

Fin 🙌

And it ends here. For testickles lol.

I wanted to keep this going for another 17 chapters of just einsla on beta, the girls on group chat, one on one chats and so on. Welt also deserved better than 2 minutes of chat but you can't have too much cool.

Consider this chatfic a precursor for future work. I'd like to go back to writing paragraphs. Hope y'all enjoyed these. ❤️

[tablefourtyone]

Chapter 8, part 1

[tablefourtyone]

Chapter 7, part 2

More something foreshadowing and then some lmao

[tablefourtyone]

Chapter 7, part 1

Something something foreshadowing something

(had to cut into 2 parts)

[tablefourtyone]

Chapter 6, part 3

This chat is a hint of something I'm trying for a future project, something I sat on for 3 years and drafted before posting anything.

To keep up with birthday mail tradition/GGZ continuation, Kiana's birthday will always be Dec 7 for the game and Dudu's stuck with a placeholder birthday that has no meaning or relevance or proper/respectful acknowledgement of the fact that she was even born smh. And I'm going to "fix" it lol

Timestamps are hilariously off just by the chat flow and the number of times Bronya will ghost Kiana, but mostly chalk it up to buggy chat app

[tablefourtyone]

Chapter 6, part 2

Bronya being unhelpful for the good of humanity

[tablefourtyone]

Chapter 6, part 1

WOW it's been 2 years. Sorry about that. I let this one sit for so long because the app updates made the interface "awkward" for recording. I won't stick with the format tbh.

[tablefourtyone]

Zibai at hearing the name "Liyue": "Liyue"? The peaks adorn...the clouded moon...

In the original Chinese text she says this:

岩間瑠璃⋯雲間月⋯ (lit. glaze among mountain peaks, moon among clouds)

There are similar expressions in the game describing Liyue with the words "瑠璃" (glaze/lapis lazuli) and "月" (moon). Liyue is spelled the same way in Chinese as "璃月". The NPC Qingzhou in particular explains the etymology.

Qingzhou: [...]There is a saying about Liyue's name[...]: "As man hides Li in a box, so nature hides Yue between the clouds," Li being a precious ceramic ornament and Yue referring to the moon.

Of all the translations it's "the peaks adorn the clouded moon". Looking at the literal translation, the expression makes sense as Glaze and Moon are one and the same subject of adornment by the mountain peaks and clouds.

Afterall, the translation for Liyue itself is "Glazed Moon".

[tablefourtyone]

If you need help with Ghoulcy feels, listen to this

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=pXyUUUFtNJc&si=Kt51s-sTnz_MS5ND

AAAAAAA

This is so Ghoulcy I can't

THANK YOU SO MUCH AND GOGG BLESS YOU.

[tablefourtyone]

There are strong feelings between them. So much history. Seriously, the history.

You can see it in the way their reunion in Lantern Rite is framed. The camera intentionally blocks Traveler and Paimon from the frame by panning just so that only Zhongli can be seen. The framing of just him and her is particularly intimate.

(Notice those two on the right take a step forward just so they can capture this romantic moment where neither of them can be seen and only Zhongli and Zibai are in the frame?!)

[tablefourtyone]

Zhongli talking about anyone: Zhongli noises

Zhongli talking about Zibai: One laments spring nights, how short they last, and autumn days that quickly pass. a steed that bolts and swiftly flees, a candle shivering in the breeze.

[tablefourtyone]

Thinking about that interview quote from Purnell that "Lucy feels lost without the Ghoul" (courtesy of @realityisforpplwhocantdream 🙏❤️)

Antis will look at that and go "SEE?! They're father/daughter coded, we told you so!"

Implying that Lucy needs the Ghoul like a child needs their parent to survive.

But our girl didn't need her actual dad around to traipse the wasteland initially by herself. She didn't need her dad's help when she had to use a hacksaw on a dead man's head. She didn't need her dad to advise her to wedge a tracker up the head's nostril so she'd never lose it. Lucy was self sufficient before getting ghoul lassoed, after leaving the Ghoul his drugs, and before meeting Max a second time.

Because Lucy's a grown ass woman who can take care of herself, with or without Coop around to guide her. (and she didn't exactly heed his advice to go around the Kings and the Deathclaws anyway lol)

With that context in mind, Purnell's quote is unrelated to father/daughter feelings, and the subtext becomes a matter of missing someone Lucy trusted once, got betrayed by, then got saved in a genuine act of kindness and concern before giving her a literal friend pistol and shooting her dad in the ass (something he got pissy to her about at the start of s2).

Seriously, she may as well have said "Lucy misses the Ghoul like a missing finger limb".

I don't make predictions because they're scary for me whether they're accurate or not, but I do believe that Season 3 will take Lucy's separation from Cooper into account. Losing someone she trusted with her life and wanting to keep on trusting him even after he left, is a pretty big deal if you ask me.