scarletrecords
ella mae. she/her. in her 30s (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧
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today marks my second month in my new workplace and all i am is glad that i am where i am now in this season. ( ᵕ̤ ‧̫̮ ᵕ̤ )
i try to be grateful for many things, but the most grateful i’ll always be is for my hands. as an artist, my hands are definitely something i can’t (and don’t want to) live without. my mind conjures, and my hand creates. it is with my hands that i’m able to keep dabbling and rekindling my love for art making.
(kind of a shameless plug about some of the things i’ve done, but who else should celebrate my works but myself, right? right! ♡ॢ₍⸍⸌̣ʷ̣̫⸍̣⸌₎)
another H that i am grateful for is my friend, whom i’ve kept in touch with regularly since i left one of my previous workplaces. not a lot of my friends have witnessed my most depressive state (and honestly, i wouldn’t be comfortable with most of my friends seeing me in that state since i know not all of them can fully grasp or even have the headspace to try to see things from my side just because of differences in our stages of life), but this friend has seen it, and still chose to remain a friend up until now that i’m beginning to heal from my previous season. i’ll always be grateful for her presence, support, and friendship, and i’m glad our paths ever crossed.
whenever our schedules aligned and we have time to meet up, we catch up over food, drinks, and art.
Daily Gratitude
September 25, 2024
What are you grateful for today?
Welcome to my gratitude support group! All are welcome to be a part of the gratitude crew. Re-blog, write a note or send an ask as often as makes sense for you (just once, every day, twice a year, a few times a month— doesn’t matter!)
I tag parts of the crew almost every day. If you’d like to be on the tag list let me know.
All posts will be tagged ‘resiliencewithin’s daily gratitude group’.
Prompt (if you want): Show gratitude for something that starts with the letter H.
i loved linkin park in high school, and i love them even more with their new vocalist (ㅇㅅㅇ❀) i am and might probably always be a sucker for rock bands with female vocalists especially because it’s a high school dream to be part of one but my singing voice is not of the rock kind.
perhaps i’m really biased towards kaveh, but i want—demand—him to participate in a summer patch because i feel like it just suits his creative nature, and being someone who practices design and art, it only makes sense that he’d find the time (and budget, i guess) to travel around and enrich his knowledge and appreciation even more. yes, i’m probably just biased, which is why i toured most of the simulanka realm with kaveh.
(also, i could’ve cropped the genshin watermark on the photos, but i guess that’s just for another time. i do wish they can do something about that since hsr has an option to hide the game’s logo when taking photos. that said, i do think that between the three current popular hyv games, genshin’s camera option is the most optimal since it captures the scenery the way you last framed it, where as with hsr and zzz, i’d take a few minutes to set up the scene i want to capture just to get the desired composition.)
this summer patch isn’t really something that i was super excited about compared to the previous summer patches, but i really liked how the simulanka world was designed, especially with the origami characters of the forest of blessings! actually, it’s because of the realm itself that i kept on coming back every time i log in because i just like going around there and taking photos. in spite of feeling nonchalant about this, i do feel that sadness i always feel after summer patches because even in games, i am bad with goodbyes (T^T )
natlan patch is tomorrow, and i can already see how busy my week will be as a hyv games enthusiast (not sure if i should be proud of it because gacha is another form of gambling, and i play genshin, hsr, and zzz so what does that make me, right?).
i’ve been meaning to post a lot here, and use this more than i used this before, but life has consumed me lately, though i’m not complaining. i’m actually in a much better headspace now, but also in that perpetual state of being neutral with life events recently.
anyway
in two days, i’ll be officially a month in, in my new workplace, and though this was supposed to be the last resort of all the last resorts (since i told myself i’d like to take a break in teaching), i’m glad that it turned out this way.
i’m proud of how i’m holding up so far considering i still have unprocessed emotions and trauma from my previous workplace (counselling sessions were put on a halt because i ran out of funds to pay my counsellor, and i have to find a definite time i could talk to her once more because i’m back to working again). perhaps it’s the reasonable workload that allows me to actually have a brief moment of centering myself and reassuring that i’m not in the same workplace anymore, and that my bosses are not my previous bosses anymore when i feel a trigger start. i’m also proud that i haven’t really super embarrassed myself, and i hope not to in the coming days, of course. moreover, i’m really proud of my students this term because i can see them do their best to perform as expected, but are also aware and open to receiving feedback. if only we can show the works of our students, but data privacy, ofc.
i still don’t know how to describe my relationship with teaching since i was burnt out for the most part, but i’m approaching all of this with an open mind, and open heart, and an open spirit. anyway, among the recurring themes in my life is restoration, so let’s see how things will go from here. o (◡‿◡✿)
Daily Gratitude
August 26, 2024
What are you grateful for today?
Welcome to my gratitude support group! All are welcome to be a part of the gratitude crew. Re-blog, write a note or send an ask as often as makes sense for you (just once, every day, twice a year, a few times a month— doesn’t matter!)
I tag parts of the crew almost every day. If you’d like to be on the tag list let me know.
All posts will be tagged ‘resiliencewithin’s daily gratitude group’.
Prompt (if you want): Something you are proud of (big or small).
if there’s one small event in genshin that i find myself “getting sweaty” it has to be the short photo event. here are some of my okay pictures, and i’m saying okay because i actually had a difficult time getting the photo i want, in the composition that my head has already formed (but my hands failed to execute). that said, i still like them enough to post the ones i really like here. and can i just say that wriothesley looked immaculate in all three frames in the weeping willow area. zhongli, too, but that’s nothing new.
the requirements needed for each photos limited my attempt to make this photo event an exclusive photo shoot for all of my favourite genshin husbands. and someday, i’ll have the energy to crop out genshin’s logo on the side of each photos, but for now it will stay.
and of course, here are some goofy shots that i took.
i hope u are doing alright, my dear son chongyun!
i’m sorry neuvillette for capturing you looking so undignified in your charged attack.
once again i changed the tumblr names of my main tumblr and my sideblog, and i have come to accept that i may have username commitment issues.
i haven’t been religiously keeping up with some of the usual shows i diligently kept up during the qorldwide quarantine, but with how efficient my new workplace is with time management for everyone in the faculty, i’ve been able to get back to keeping up with shows that i enjoy watching! here are just a few of them:
tiny house nation (netflix) - while i don’t think i’d be able to live in a tiny house because i love the space, it inspires me to rethink about my spending habits when it comes to clothes, accessories, and even what i would consider as essential that aren’t really essential to my lifestyle if i think hard about it. i can only imagine the dread of plowing through an obscene amount of stuff (which we have a lot now at home sadly) when it’s time to dispose of them. i guess i’m grateful that it helps curb my spending habits while tickling my design-loving brain. (ृ ´͈ ᵕ `͈ ृ )ु
barbecue showdown (netflix) - it’s that one series i like going back to because most of the contestants are likable and each batch of contenders get better every season, and because i like watching people prepae and cook food, which inspires me to try cooking when i have the time and resources. i like learning techniques and cooking terms whenever the hosts or even the contestants get technical. i’m grateful that in spite of it being a netflix series, the people and events are not sensationalized as most reality TV shows are directed. the people in the competition don’t feel like characters, but actual people, and i love barbecue showdown for that!
cara nicole’s youtube channel - it’s not really a tv show, but out of all the videos i watch regularly recently, hers is one of my favourites, and actually something that i enjoy and look forward to watching and listening to because of the concise but meaty video essays she uploads about mindful consumption and sustainability. i’m truly grateful that there’s someone like her who could make me understand topics that i’ve always found confusing even if it has been explained to me several times already.
Daily Gratitude
August 4, 2024
What are you grateful for today?
Welcome to my gratitude support group! All are welcome to be a part of the gratitude crew. Re-blog, write a note or send an ask as often as makes sense for you (just once, every day, twice a year, a few times a month— doesn’t matter!)
I tag parts of the crew almost every day. If you’d like to be on the tag list let me know.
All posts will be tagged ‘resiliencewithin’s daily gratitude group’.
Prompt (if you want): What recent movie/tv show are you grateful for?
writing this under a cut because i might spoil it for those who haven’t finished the genshin summer event main story.
this whole limited story quest was a riot, and i find it so endearing (nerdy kind of endearing) that kaveh annotates when he reads even if it’s only for leisure (and i say i’m endeared because i do that sometimes, too, when something in the story or the page resonated with me greatly).
of course i like this quest a lot because once again, my best husband is the highlight of the story hihihi (ृ ´͈ ᵕ `͈ ृ )ु kaveh was my favourite in the quest, but my favourite scene in the entire side event is this:
i love chaotic tighnari a lot ¡¡¡( •̀ ᴗ •́ )و!!! just look at that smug smile.
it hasn't been long since i've come around and started appreciating what i'm surrounded with in the moment but the thing i'm struggling with the most is believing that hoping and keeping in faith are still worth my time -- it takes a lot of me to really be present and mindful so i can take time to appreciate whatever small or big event i find myself in.
that said, i will say, since i have to be deliberate in recognizing the glimmers around me, it teaches me to stay in the present and practice the grounding techniques that my counsellor has taught me since, and because it gets me to develop an attitude of mindfulness and gratitude, it makes me grateful to have days ahead for me to exercise that attitude ٩(๑❛ᴗ❛๑)۶
(this is one of my favourite prompts so far as it reminded me that i can still look forward to seeing everything i've invested myself in (not money, though) come to fruition.)
Daily Gratitude
July 14, 2024
What are you grateful for today?
Welcome to my gratitude support group! All are welcome to be a part of the gratitude crew. Re-blog, write a note or send an ask as often as makes sense for you (just once, every day, twice a year, a few times a month— doesn’t matter!)
I tag parts of the crew almost every day. If you’d like to be on the tag list let me know.
All posts will be tagged ‘resiliencewithin’s daily gratitude group’.
Prompt (if you want): Think about something you are struggling with. What about that struggle could you be grateful for? If not now, possibly in the future?
spent an awful lot of time playing animal crossing today that i almost missed my genshin dailies.
anyway, it'll be a while since i'll be able to indulge my time with games since i'm finally hired, and will keep a regular everyday schedule like the one i'm used to (๑･̑◡･̑๑)
i will miss taking my sweet time at home doing whatever i want, but i welcome this new season with openness - an open mind, an open heart, and being open to new learnings and experiences ★彡
(here's to a season of being mindful and present 🪴)
reuploaded my timely kaveh fanart because i wasn’t happy with the quality earlier, though this also needs some work post-processing wise (i will say it looks closer to how it looks like irl). anyway, happy birthday kaveh, the best husband ✨
now that i’m back in my childhood home, i’d like to say that after living in an apartment for rent, i’ve grown to appreciate my room since my teenage years because as much as i love reconnecting and seeing my friends from time to time, it provides the one quiet space i need when i badly need to recharge (as an introvert, and as a type 5 used to navigating life by myself mostly). i hope to keep this for as long as i can until i move out again (if there’s a need to move out again) because having that ✨one safe haven✨ is an underrated privilege that not a lot of people have.
(i do wish that for those who don’t have a place in their house where they feel the safest, you’ll be able to look for a space that you can truly treasure and make a safe haven out of.)
Daily Gratitude
July 9, 2024
What are you grateful for today?
Welcome to my gratitude support group! All are welcome to be a part of the gratitude crew. Re-blog, write a note or send an ask as often as makes sense for you (just once, every day, twice a year, a few times a month— doesn’t matter!)
I tag parts of the crew almost every day. If you’d like to be on the tag list let me know.
All posts will be tagged ‘resiliencewithin’s daily gratitude group’.
Prompt (if you want): Name something in your home that you truly treasure. Why?
another wip on top of many other wips. hoping i can finish this in time for the ✨best husband✨'s birthday because yes
june has been quiet and turbulent at the same time so for this month, i'd like to be intentional about being grateful for the presence of the people around me this month (this season) as i'm aware that in this state, i'm not the easiest to be with (T^T ).
Daily Gratitude
July 3, 2024
What are you grateful for today?
Welcome to my gratitude support group! All are welcome to be a part of the gratitude crew. Re-blog, write a note or send an ask as often as makes sense for you (just once, every day, twice a year, a few times a month— doesn’t matter!)
I tag parts of the crew almost every day. If you’d like to be on the tag list let me know.
All posts will be tagged ‘resiliencewithin’s daily gratitude group’.
Prompt (if you want): Set an intention of something you want to be grateful for tonight, tomorrow, next week, next month, or next year.
Or, check in on an intention you’ve set in the past.
for genshin, it has to be wriothesley because i’m not known (by my friends and even family, i mean) for having great interest over manly and muscular men, but as cringe and maybe tmi? as this will sound, this 2D man ✨awakened✨ something. like i hear rihanna’s only girl (in the world) in my head when i see him on my screen. his character and personality endeared him even more, which propelled him to the third spot of my favourite genshin husbands (my top 1 is kaveh, and my top 2 is thoma).
as for star rail, it’s sampo koski. normally i don’t like it when i’m confused by someone, but sampo is an exception, and i will not deny that a huge chunk of why is because i actually like the way he looks and how goofy he is. yk, as a simple girl, i see someone with a face i like in whatever media i’m consuming, he becomes a candidate in my husband collection.
in anime and manga, i think the most that sticks out like a sore thumb in my husband collection is levi ackerman simply because i don’t usually like the popular characters, but he’s such a well-written one that you can’t help but root for him and pick him as a favourite. some may think he’s a little overrated, popularity-wise, but i guess he is for a reason.
Who’s the “odd” one in your blorbo mansion?
Like the one where all your favs are like “girl why is HE here?” And you’re just like “idk I think he’s neat…”
I've added other types of blind box to the shop!! And the new ones are on sale for this weekend!!! we're so close guys, just €2000 more to go 🩷 thank you for your help reblogging and donating 🩷
some of kemeroot’s outdoor baths by the beach featuring different kinds of baths and a couple showers, too! i kind of want to make another outdoor baths area in kemeroot that’s inspired by the visuals of watatsumi island (mermaid set is one of the prettiest furniture sets we have in acnh), but i’ll finish working on cleaning up my island from the influx of flowers last few days because it’s been raining nonstop (almost) in the game.
in the middle of running around kemeroot, i spotted these two chilling at the plaza, and it’s just so precious (TvT )
changed kemeroot’s island flag from usagyun pixel art to kaveh’s friendship namecard earlier, and i realized i wanted to make more of these when time permits me (i’m already thinking about making one of thoma’s and wriothesley’s because next best husbands also deserve slots in my custom designs!). anyway, i’m happy with the way it turned out.
maybe i’ll change my island tune, too, when i’m feeling a little hardworking with the changes in kemeroot. something sumeru music related or klee’s character demo song, whatever i’m in the mood for.
so my life is once again in danger
I'm a venezuelan refugee in Spain since 2019. My focus was entirely on escaping and staying in a safe country. When I got here, I got the help of an accountant/manager to start working legally.
He committed fraud in my name without telling me and refused to take responsibility. I was penalized to pay €8600 for his mistake.
I'll add the whole explanation after the read more because you need context to understand what he did.
And now if I can't pay this thing, my residence will be taken away. I will be deported.
I've tried so hard to raise this money. More work, more marketing, preorders, asking for a loan, but nothing has worked.
I have until next month to pay it so I can renew my residence.
All I wanted was to do things right. I thought seeking a professional to handle the legal aspects of my business was the right thing to do. I thought I could finally breathe after being treated like a criminal for years in Venezuela, when all I want is to make my silly little figurines in peace.
I need to take care of my babies (cats) and my parents who are still stuck in Venezuela. I only make enough to live + take care of them, and it's become clear that I can't raise this money by work alone.
So please, any help is appreciated. Reblogs, orders, commissions. I'm so incredibly embarrassed to make this post, but I'm desperate. I don't want to be deported. I don't want to be an illegal alien. I don't want to live in constant fear again.
Here's my Ko-fi link, thank you for reading
https://ko-fi.com/marlikesunicorns/goal?g=0
and this is my shop
There's some context needed to understand what happened, so here it goes.
In Spain, you need to pay a monthly fee of €300 in order to run a business. This goes to the Social Security.
The fee is mandatory, but the government realized it was unfair to charge it from the beginning to a business that's only starting. So they established a reduction of €240 for new entrepreneurs, for 1 year. After that, they'd slowly raise it.
They also gave benefits to people living in certain areas, especially small towns. The fee reduction extended for 6 extra months with this, but only applied as long as you continued to live there for 4 years.
I lived in a small town for 1 year. Then I moved to the closest small city.
But this accountant guy asked for this 6 month extension in my name without my consent.
So then the government demanded I pay the whole €240 for each month ever since I started my business. I went through all the legal processes to ask them to review this thing but it was impossible. They ignored everything. It didn't matter that I only received the benefit for the 1 year that I would've been given anyway for being a new entrepreneur. It didn't matter that I would never be able to afford to pay this in the 15 days they gave me.
If that wasn't enough, I got sick with covid twice, and missed 4 months of work in total, months I got 0 income because they also won't ensure me until I pay the thing. So those fees were also added to the debt + late fees that continue to grow.
Summary: Basically he promised the government I'd live in a small town for 4 years, and when I moved before then (because I had no idea he had done this) they demanded I pay back ALL the benefits they had granted me in the past year.
one of the things i spent so much time, and really enjoyed working on during this entire penacony arc is the sticker book that comes with the dreamscape pass. i love collecting stickers, journalling, and making collages so of course i spent a good amount of time doing my best to collect the stickers for each page when time permits me, and whenever i don’t feel like finishing the backlogs (the number is a ridiculous amount as a somewhat casual hsr player) just so i can curate each page dutifully.
anyway, some of the pages aren’t complete with all the stickers yet, so have some that i’ve completed and truly like a lot!
i’ve only started the most recent trailblaze mission a few mights ago, but ended up falling asleep in the middle of the mission (T^T ) that said, my goal is to finish it before the week ends so i can once again check on my soc med accounts and not spoil myself about how things will unfold.
teapot times, fun times: husband realm 1.0 update
i’ve finally (forrealsies) reached that point in my teapot building where i’m happy with the facade of my mansion.
say hello to my first husband mansion! i really love the sumeru teapot realm the most (as a biased sumeru girlie, and because of the dreamy atmosphere it has with the falling leaves and all, and the pretty flowers that bloom and close depending on the time of day), but the liyue mansion is the most ideal for me in terms of filling in the interior with enough furniture to make it look homey and not too spacey.
the original plan was for kaveh to have one separate island for his work area, which i already finished a few days ago, but decided to forego that because of the weird teapot load that i’ve yet to understand (as a self-proclaimed teapot main) and work around with. i made a small workshop for him on the right side of the mansion instead. i figure he’s really the type to forget his meals when he’s in too deep at work so i figure, the ideal place for him to have an outdoor workshop setup is just a few steps away from the mansion, where thoma (who’s standing inside the mansion, ofc) can simply remind him to eat his meals.
and yes, i know they’re only pixels, but i think about these things in games. sometimes i wish i can normal about it, but this is my normal, and this will stay my normal. anyway,
the hot spring/bath area is located behind the mansion. this was also supposed to have its own section in the realm, but the purpose of baths is for cleaning and relaxation, and if they had their baths situated far from the mansion, then what’s the point of taking a bath when they’re just going to sweat right after, yk, from walking? i really wish i can be normal about it since they don’t sweat OBVIOUSLY as in game characters, but my design brain refuses to let things be. so we’ll keep the bath there, and well, it’s also practical for it to be just behind the mansion so they can simply go there anytime.
the left side of the mansion contains some of their food supply that can be stored outside, plus some wine (i realized that kaveh’s probably the only one who drinks in this realm since thoma is bad with alcohol, and wriothesley doesn’t really strike me as someone who’d enjoy drinking alcoholic drinks), and a cooking spot, too, for some outside quality time when the husbands just want to chill together.
of course, if kaveh gets his wine, wriothesley will also get his tea. (ृ ´͈ ᵕ `͈ ृ )ु
i’m thinking about finishing wriothesley’s training area before the week ends. hopefully i’d be able to do so, so i can begin working on the gardens and fountains that kaveh is gushing about in his teapot voiceline (ृ ´͈ ᵕ `͈ ृ )ु maybe i’ll also post the finished areas inside the mansion later.
natlan hasn’t been released yet, but i’m excited to see the teapot realm, and possible structures and furniture we’d get from it. as a teapot main.
almost panicked 100% when i couldn't login on my ao3 account, but all's well now thankfully ❀.(*´◡`*)❀
in my animal crossing era but genshin teapot edition
i really have no idea what came over me suddenly—maybe it’s the amount of serenitea teapot showcases i’ve been seeing at hoyolab every time i do my daily check-ins and companionship things, and my recent moving back to my parents’ hoouse that caused me to clean, organize, and rearrange me and my sister’s room—but last night and up until about half of today, i had the urge to start things over with my longforsaken teapot that i told myself i’ll turn to a husband realm of sorts. however, this time i decided to work on the interior of my mansion first.
i really wish hyv could also do something about the watermark of the game’s title when taking photographs just like they did with star rail’s remove the game logo option because it can look tacky at times. but i also need to work on my angles when taking photos in-game hehe. anyway, i have some cat furniture like this one positioned around the mansion for mr. pouncealot! ♡ॢ₍⸍⸌̣ʷ̣̫⸍̣⸌₎ but this’ll do for now for documentation. i do have a library behind the large cat bed, but i’ve yet to learn how to document it properly with the angles and all, so i’ll just place here a medium close shot of my favourite corner; those diona mini-soafs are really cute that it’s a pity we can’t sit on them. (~n~ )
the receiving area also holds the dining and drinking area (tea drinking for wriothesley my beloved, and okay for kaveh’s use, too). i was going to put thoma here originally, but because the teapot has a weird loading system (that i’m still trying to figure out myself since 2021), it won’t let me place him in there, though that’s another problem to solve for another teapot session.
(every time i see neuvillette’s handmade ladle, i can’t help but gush in the sheer cuteness of the ladle, and neuvillette, too. he’s the kind that can be both cute and badass, and i love him for it.)
besides the main hall in the first floor, i was also able to start working on the individual rooms of kaveh, thoma, and wriothesley (nothing is too tedious if it’s for my 2D husbands), but i’ll finish the entire room first before i take the photos. i know it’s also ridiculous that i’m thinking about their bathroom situation, but really: why do some game developers neglect this biological aspect? it’s probably not going to contribute anything major or even useful in the plot of the game or better gamer experience, but if we’re including furniture arrangement in games why is there neglect for bathrooms and bodily functions (i can’t allow my husbands to pee or poop in the wild even though nobody in the game does that actually, i know)? so anyway, i plan to make a makeshift washroom then since genshin won’t be doing that anytime soon or ever. at least they created baths when the inazuma teapot realm was released.
i did manage to start with the facade and the surrounding area of my mansion, as well as kaveh’s outdoor workshop and wriothesley’s outdoor pankration ring-slash-training ground, but i’ll do the documentation some other day, when i’ve figured out the angles to showcase the outdoor build.
someday i’ll join the ranks of those awesome teapot mains, but for now, i’ll finish redesigning and redecorating the first of my husband realms. ( ᵕ̤ ‧̫̮ ᵕ̤ )
anyway, have some adorably nerdy conversation screencaps with kaveh inside the teapot:
he is so cute gushing over architecture and design like the kshahrewar nerd that he is. ू(ʚ̴̶̷́ .̠ ʚ̴̶̷̥̀ ू) truly my best husband ( ๑॔˃ ॢ‧̫˂)ॢ♡̷˚๐
the recent limited event in genshin reminds me a little bit of honkai's aetherium wars and man how i dislike aetherium wars with a passion (⊙︿⊙✿)
(still finishing aetherium wars over at honkai because i started late and i just want to work on my honkai backlogs (⊙︿⊙✿))
second part of my casual gamer diaries, and it shows that i'm either obsessed with hyv games or i am showing gambling behaviour (so aventurine of me amirite). while gacha isn't technically gambling (or considered as such in many countries), the tendency to develop gambling behaviour is there so...hehe? 🥹
(on a more serious note, the experience of gambling and the emotions it can evoke can make it addictive so i guess if one wants to try, it's best to approach it with caution and a lot of wisdom.)
at the time of the release of cyno's second story quest, i still had chiori's and arlecchino's story quest to finish, but because i love sumeru and the men of sumeru (actually i can say i'm ✨biased✨ towards sumeru characters and the nation itself), i went straight to cyno's quest ofc (*•̀ᴗ•́*)و ̑̑
one thing that i like and amuses me about cyno is how he talks as if he's always going to be in a legendary battle of sorts or as if he's a protagonist in a shounen anime about duels and friendships u make along the way ✨ i think sethos mentioned his manner of speaking in one of his voicelines? i agree 100% with sethos.
he's one of my favourite characters in the game -- reliable, responsible, intelligent, and i do enjoy his sense of humour because mine is just as broken as his.
i'd like to write more about my thoughts on his second story quest, but i'll save that for another entry, and when my head is not as convoluted as it is atm.
also alhaitham is such a mood here. his lines always resonate with me as an introvert. i think i had a lot of screenshots from his story quest simply because most of his lines there are truly quotable.
i did finish chiori's story quest the day after i finished cyno's!
let me begin by saying that hyv did improve gradually in writing female characters, and chiori becomes an instant favourite because of her no nonsense approach to a lot of things. this is also one of those story quests that focused a lot on the character, which really helped in making me appreciate and understand why chiori is the way she is. my girl really made her dreams a reality! (TvT )
i will say her story quest falls easily as one of my favourites, but it hasn't beaten yoimiya's second story quest which currently sits at the top spot.
anyway, i loved her story quest and i'm glad i won the 50/50 on her banner (•́⌄•́๑)૭✧
the most recent patch had me going back to playing tcg just so i can secure a ✨kaveh tcg card✨ that i'll use as much as i'm using him in game as my dps (which is everyday except when fighting ridiculously strong bosses).
first of all!! he is so cute, handsome, and pretty at the same time. just look at him all proud about his tcg deck, and i love him for it 😌
i lost the first round and won the rematch with my inazumen deck (ayato, thoma, kazuha), so i got to see both endings. it's cute how he's trying not to goad about his win, but something in me hurt when i won the game. how ridiculous amirite, but such is the life of an ✨average kaveh enjoyer✨
kaveh being 2D is a sin!! why am i not a playable character in teyvat too??
it's time to fight his demons (himself) today.
his idle thought about the interior design of this place is so in character (ofc), and yk what, i agree with kaveh each time i invite another character to play tcg with me.
anyway, i love kaveh that my friends who are aware of it are probably tired of me having to talk about him in the most random moments. speaking of kaveh, i should upload the photos i took of him in-game for the kaveh goes around teyvat photosets i started.
i still haven't started arlecchino's or clorinde's story quests, but i went ahead and did the archon quest on the day of its release to keep myself from being spoiled ( ｡ • ᴖ • ｡)
i actually got shocked when caribert first appeared on screen, but let me just say: caribert is one of the most good-looking NPCs we've had in genshin.
i haven't really read or watched other people's opinions about it, but i'm okay with it. i'm not mad about it, and i actually liked that we got to sit down and talk with the twin. it made me tear up (hoyo has been doing well making me cry since focalors' appearance) especially when caribert managed to sneak out a memento of the twin's reunion (｡Ó᎔ ก̀๑)
i was also cheering atossa on, but ( ｡ • ᴖ • ｡) caribert u hurt me as well.
i was supposed to include my hsr diaries here (since i've been playing it more frequently to catch up with a lot of the missions), but i'll just put it on a separate entry instead.
when i have a clearer mind and in a better headspace, i'd probably spare some time writing about my thoughts about the game. like a reflection paper of some sort?