This Is My Love Letter To Argenthill ♡

Why i think natlan's modern aspects does not make sense and cannot be compared with fontaine nor sumeru

with the release of natlan we can already see that many of the designs lack cultural representation at the same time that inacuratly portrays the characters actual cultures. But a topic that i saw many people discuss in their socials is how modern the natlan designs look compared to other regions such as fontaine and sumeru, saying thing about xilonen's dj set, kinich videogames references, ororon ripped jeans, etc..., some people tend to ind that claim quite nonsensical saying stuff like "sumeru has bluetooth" or "fontaine has robots everywhere", although those claims are in fact true i think that those cannot be compared together since they both have very different intention when wanting to put technology into a fantasy setting.

Let's start with sumeru "bluetooth". If you dont know what their reering to its the akasha system, wich according to genshin archon quest are explained to be a device that allows the people connected to the akasha terminal to grant them any sort of knowledge they desire to have, as long as they have the required credentials. The reason why it can do this is because of sumeru's lore that states that the akashas were developed by greater lord rukkhadevata by using her gnosis and expanded on by sumeru akademiya after her death while also beign powered by the dendro's archon gnosis. In relate to it, fontaine robots also have a cohesive explanation for their existence being powered not by electricity but by the arkhe system, hence magic, not to mention the act that fontaine overall asthetic is a variaton of the steampunk asthetic wich is described as "a genre of science fiction that has a historical setting and typically features steam-powered machinery rather than advanced technology", wich means that ontaine futuristic thematic is not modern futurism but an antique variation of it, this makes or a great way to incorporate technology while still keeping the mediaval setting. The difference between these two examples of tech being incorporated in a fantasy setting is that the akasha terminals and fontaine mekhas actually have a cohesive explanation for why they exist, beign powered by magic instead of actual tech, it actually is written in a way where it makes sense for said modern stuff be put into a fantasy setting. Meanwhile natlan doesnt have an explanation for why they have dj tables and other kind of modern stuff like led tvs, colored spotlight and raves (xilonen's demo).

The reason why i think genshin wanted to give natlan such modern archetypes is because they were already beign flamed as racist for making such atrocious design and skin color representation, so to not fall under the steryotype of tribal people beign so far in technology they decided to go the "give them ripped jeans and motorcyclers type of clothes" wich actually makes the more racist for choosing to represent modern cultures instead of actually representing the cultures and people natlan is based on. That could also be why the character designs look they are not from genshin and why recent characters are so strong compared to older ones cause hoyo knows they dont have to try anymore and as long as a character is meta or better then certain support or dps people will roll and will whale for their c6 r5.

in my sickly haze I somehow installed 2 tumblrs

No because if I was Viggo I’d ALSO be fucking pissed off?? Like you’re this mastermind dragon hunter that is running possibly the largest operation in the entire of the archipelago that is family owned and ran with your older brother with hundreds upon hundreds upon hundreds of henchmen to do your dirty work and whenever people even MENTION your name they get scared and you’re this big strong powerful dude in his like mid forties but then a group of mother fucking barely adult stupid ass kids show up and successfully threaten your entire business model? Everything was fine yesterday but then this gaggle of incompetent fools show up with their stupid reptiles and suddenly you’re in a war??? AND the fucking malnourished stick insect of a leader they have has the AUDACITY to steal an ancient relic off of one of your predecessors ships??? AND THEN THEY BLOW UP YOUR ONLY MODE OF LONG FORM TRANSPORTATION??? AND THEN THEY RELEASE A BUNCH OF YOUR STOCK AND SINK THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF YOUR PROFITS BY SAVING THE DRAGONS YOU CAPTURED??? WHAT??? MOTHER FUCKER HAD EVERY SINGLE RIGHT TO START A WAR. HICCUP AND HIS STUPID ASS FRIENDS SHOWING UP AND JUST TANKING YOUR WHOLE ASS LIFE??? IMAGINE BEING A FUCKING KING PIN CRIMINAL EXPERT IN DRAGON TRADING AND YOU LOSE AN ENTIRE WAR TO A GLORIFIED WALKING EMBODIMENT OF AWKWARDNESS AND HIS 5 WEIRD LITTLE CREATURES HE TAKES AROUND WITH HIM. IMAGINE HAVING TO SIT THERE IN YOUR COOL ASS DRAGON HUNTER EVIL LAIRE AND PLAN HOW YOU WERE GONNA FIGHT OFF THE LITTLE RUNT OF BERK HEIR GUY THAT WON’T GIVE UP. IMAGINE?? FUCKING IMAGINE????

WHO WOULD NOT BE PISSED??? THAT MAN HAD A VERY EXTREMELY RATIONAL REACTION BECAUSE THAT WAS LITERALLY THE FOUNDATION OF HIS LIFE??? HIS ENTIRE CAREER GOT NOT JUST ENDED BUT FORCEFULLY FUCKING SLAMMED INTO A WALL OF CONCRETE AND CURB STOMPED BY A FUCKING STEAM ROLLER RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM. I mean sure yeah he put up the biggest fight of the century and did his whole ‘I’m gonna mess with your head until you go insane and just fuck off and leave me alone you stupid little annoying boy get a life,’ thing BUT STILL HICCUP WON THAT WAR AND THE AGE OF 18. EIGHT GOD DAMN TEEN.

if baizhu has 1000 fans i am one of them. if baizhu has 1 fan thats me. if baizhu has 0 fans i DIED.

anyway heres a baizhu art from a while ago 🐍

ice cream day :3

i say he gets freckles in the sun

It’s their greatest invention as of yet

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Douktor... Invaded my journal

it's so funny how sampo was totally unbothered by ena's dream in penacony.... presuming he did, in fact, do sparkle that favor for his mask, because otherwise. that doesn't make much sense for nothing to be real. it was still real, just in a shared dream. anyway. dude took part in a terrible play that he vocally hated just to get something back from someone he can't stand, didn't say hi, and left