On the topic of your fav gay ships per region, I remember you mentioning zhngthm while reading JG and I'm honestly curious what brought about this pairing- I don't think I'd ever heard about it before, though I could be remembering wrong, I'm not known for having a good memory hahaha-
Also, is Faelight... Flins and Illuga? I know I've heard the name in the past but I'm unsure who it refers to lmao
I'm a bit surprised that there's no pairs for mondstadt since I've seen so many different pairing for that region, is there a reason?
On another note, I've been rereading cya these past few days!! I (for some reason? because I'm just weird like that and seek specific scenes lol) started rereading from the celestia infiltration and have been having a blast reading some of the scenes I pass by less often (cause I always end up reading my favorite scenes then deciding to read from the start getting distracted, stopping the reread and then repeating that and just ending up so familiar with the start that all the other scenes I never reach become blurry in my mind </3)!! It's been really funny seeing some of my rare comments in the earlier chapter from before I'd switched to tumblr asks for my 'per chapter update' excited ramblings LMAO
The fic is just as good as I remember <3 I'm at chapter 53 right now and I can't wait to keep going, though it'll have to wait a bit since I have to start working now *siiiiigh*... WHICH BTW!!! IS BECAUSE I SIGNED A CONTRACT FOR AN INTERSHIP!!! IN THE DOMAIN I'M STUDYING IN!! I started this monday :D Cya has helped a lot in calming me down from the stress so thank you Sprinkles!!! I'm very grateful!!!
I think I'll move to your most recent zhongchi fic once I'm done with my cya reread!! I'm honestly pretty excited for it, it looked really interesting from the summary!!
Anyways! As always, thanks a bunch for all your fics! I love ya! /p
omg congrats!!!!!!!! that's so cool, i hope you enjoy it and that all goes well!!! getting to do any semblance of work in the field you study is such a flex esp these days
i think i've mentioned before but zhngthm came about in my head from the thought that hthm must've traveled around teyvat to fill the 20 languages quota at some point, and so must've absolutely stopped by on liyue. 20 languages is a fuckton however so we have to assume that either they mean scripts or some of the regions have antique languages that got lost with time. now that nod krai is a thing that does kinda facillitate the maths here but before that it was like. 7 regions + let's assume the desert has at least like 3 scripts. that still leaves us w 10. maybe give inazuma two more for tsurumi and enka. fontaine 1 more for remuria. 7 to go. uhhhhhhh give mondstadt 1 more for sal vindagnyr. back then we didn't know about the 6 natlan tribes situation so those would solve this problem now if you assume it's natlanese + 6 regional dialects. but if you count natlan as 6 flat that would still leave one. which now could be liyue lan-gang but from the very beginning could've been liyue anything given we know shockingly little.
but i guess the main thing there was how, besides sumeru, liyue is probably the one with the best record keeping of them all, so if hthm goes to liyue and asks anyone for where he should go to learn some obscure dialect, people will have answers, and the answers will likely be mr zhongli.
i also have the tradition to re-read a specific bbcsherlock oneshot (don't look at me) that's SO fucking funny and the last time i reread it was around the haikaveh craze? and i had the thought that the premise could be haikaveh, but the more i thought about it, the less funny it was. they just didn't lend themselves to that specific plot.
but zhngthm absolutely does
(the plot being hthm(in this case) is very open about the fact he has a boyfriend and that they met online but absolutely nobody believes him because of course. and then the boyfriend actually shows up and then everyone has to reconcile w the fact that not only was he telling the truth the entire time, but that the boyfriend is as smart as advertized, and that such a smart hot man has somehow been dating hthm for several years now bc they met on the internet)
