obsessed with how people in canon think sunday's a freak and the fanbase has been depicting him as an ugly baby for days. this man cannot catch a break and it's incredibly fitting
"find which are actually from our travellers" is an interesting way to say "the players upset over our very overt and unapologetic racism, colorism, orientalism, anti-blackness and lack of interest in proper representation are not our target audience"
thinking about kafblade and how spoiled we are bc we get blade in kafka's splash art, various scenes and official art together, matching nameless honor icons, their meeting and his first impression of her in his character story, their meeting referenced again in a relic set,
it's fucked up to call finding hope in her people's faith and trying to give her brother strength in the only ways she knows how while they're both children in severe distress as victims of a literal genocide an "insane mentality". ofc religious teachings and the things other
🧵 thinking about kafka's companion mission again (i never stopped) and i want to clear up a misconception about kafka i've seen a lot in regards to her being "abusive" and "manipulative" (1/9)
the women in yingxing/blade's lives are so incredibly important to his character and i genuinely cannot trust a single thing you say about him if you downplay that. the hcq's narrative has always centered their love for baiheng and kafka plays a significant role in blade's (1/6)
some of y'all should never speak on jingliu and yanqing again. i'm so serious like did you just play the entire game with your eyes closed? "as if it can be easily replicated" there's actually no way you're serious
kafblade is so compelling to me bc i interpret them as two people who gradually learn to allow themselves to reconnect with aspects of their humanity on their own accord without any expectations. kafka learns more about who she is outside of her role as a stellaron hunter (1/5)
@saigyoujiis
literally 😭😭 "you want to be oppressed so bad" did y'all conveniently miss the harassment and questions about their sexuality that sapphics constantly receive over these ships or is sending people gore meaningful activism for you?
kafblade is so funny bc it's just "i'll keep all my emotions right here and then one day i'll die" kafka vs "ik we just met and you told me not to think about anything but your smile holds such a deep sadness. did someone leave you?" blade
the way jingliu had to suffer the consequences of others being unable to accept her lover's decision and ultimately having to kill the abomination herself, succumbing to mara and being unable to hold a soul soothing ceremony after being labeled as a traitor will never not make
yeah they definitely should've permanently killed off the disabled woman who wants to experience life beyond her restrictions. that would've contributed wonderfully to hsr's plot and themes
completely normal well adjusted things to say about children's responses to genocide and their connections to their people, family, religion and cultural traditions as a 24 year old adult
it's fucked up to call finding hope in her people's faith and trying to give her brother strength in the only ways she knows how while they're both children in severe distress as victims of a literal genocide an "insane mentality". ofc religious teachings and the things other
i think jing yuan asking blade about his relationship with kafka (when they're in their denial-no-label-coworker-situationship stage and after they stop lying to themselves) would be really funny. jing yuan asks how his "lady friend" is and blade threatens to khs at the table
i really want to know why you think that i, as a lesbian who's directly harmed by the constant degrading of women characters, wlw relationships and real sapphics by cishet m/w fans, believe "mlm shippers are guilty of something mlw shippers aren't" when my post was made in
@cherry5cola
yeah that's pretty much where my distaste for the thread comes from. it's not like i disagree with what's been said in theory, but it's impossible to divorce one community from guilt while implicating another community when both communities are rife with the same issue.
thinking about how kafka's whisper doesn't require physical contact to be effective but at some point during their time as teammates kafblade discovered that her touch is calming for him and they decided to incorporate when lessening his pain
every single time without fail. and then it turns into "just make your own content instead of complaining" bc people can't be bothered to unpack their internalized misogyny. it's so ridiculous
the game is so explicit about jade's manipulation and exploitation of others for her and the ipc's benefit and you can literally see it in aventurine and topaz's lines about her like the contrast in tone is very intentional and it's not meant to be cute lol
@Starskiff
the audacity to cry about it too like they're intentionally making these harmful portrayals but they're the ones who have it bad bc people spoke up about how awful they are? they really don't give a fuck and it's crazy
they're both so consistently mischaracterized bc people can't accept yingxing/blade caring about women in any context is just tiring atp. ik i've posted about this before but i'm so tired of seeing accusations that kafblade fans misinterpret them as individuals (6/6)
awful, the worst, -100000000/10, would never recommend to anyone, literally have never hated a ship more than i hate them, if you look up kfbld anti in the dictionary there's a picture of my face, no one hates them more than i do and if you think you do then you're wrong
the xianzhou's top .01% beat you in battle and the fandom thinks that means you're a weak little baby for the rest of the narrative. did y'all skip the part where multiple characters talked about the strength of the younger generation and trusting them or what
also y'all are way too comfortable being hostile towards children, especially girls. even if she was telling him he was only born to save them (she wasn't) none of what she said was meant to cause harm and it's weird to call a child insane for turning to her people's religion
"People don't have to like Baiheng because she isn't that fleshed out!" Oh, but y'all are the same people to fall at the feet of Teppei or Kazuha's friend (who doesn't even have a name!) and write countless think pieces on how they're a deeper character. Just say you hate women.
children, especially family members, say/do can be traumatic so i'm not saying her words have no weight on his mentality and pain. that being said it's incredibly bizarre to have hostility towards a literal child for holding onto her faith bc she wants her brother to live and
life as he trusts her enough to ask and consent to her controlling his mara through altering his thoughts and emotions. she plays an incredibly unique and necessary role in his life and yingxing's love for baiheng was so great that it ultimately led to his demise. the only (2/6)
why you should vote for acheswan
- they've both dedicated themselves to a larger cause while losing parts of themselves. black swan abandons her physical form to dedicate her life to preserving people's memories as "memories are our sole companions" and she can
like genuinely can someone explain to me why is it my fault people are twisting my words far beyond their original meaning and intent and blaming me for their own assumptions? is it your fault if i make assumptions about you or does this logic just apply to me lol
"there was nothing like that in the original" they're right actually bc the original is even more personal and sickeningly affectionate that "bladie" doesn't compare
@dailyjazzTF
oh absolutely. istg people open this app, recycle the same few sexual comments/jokes and say "that's enough feminism for today" considering how often their appreciation of women characters ends at commenting on their attractiveness and how much of a girlboss they are
the qrts on this are horrid and y'all prove time and time again that you didn't actually pay attention to the game or any of her canon content. but thanks for outing yourselves i guess
months ago, before penacony released, there had already been leaks regarding many of the characters, yet one of them always stood out, and garnered an odd amount of hatred towards her—even since her first conception.
why do people hate firefly so deeply, to weird extents? 🧵
part of why i think kafblade have such a compelling dynamic, platonic or romantic, is bc whatever they may call their "worst" isn't even perceived that way by the other. kafka's an assassin with a 10k billion credit bounty, she kills blade when they first meet and her grief is
when people talk about kafka and blade's dynamic they forget that hsr has so many instances of characters working together for mutual benefit with no deeper connection and/or ongoing tension from distrust and/or different motivations. i see people argue that blade doesn't have
idk how y'all are walking away from this thinking i'm talking about people who actually enjoy wlw pairings when that's not who i'm talking about at all. like did y'all just not read this part or what
hopes to reunite with their murdered parents. she's not saying any of this for him to "lower his head and live with a sheep". she's hoping he can find comfort in parts of their people's culture and carry the sense of security that can come with faith and community as he ages when
reason he's fixated on dan heng is bc he can't separate him from dan feng. he's overwhelmed with and driven by his resentment for dan feng bc of a sin they committed following baiheng's death. kafka keeps him grounded to the present but his contempt towards dan feng (3/6)
some of u guys desperately need to understand that sometimes two characters are so intertwined with one another that it’s almost impossible to properly talk about one without mentioning the other. and that’s okay. even if you hate a ship you need to be able to recognize this.
every time i see anyone say any variation of "(mlw ship) is okay bc she pegs him" i lose a year off of my life and currently i have two hours left to live. how many times do i have to tap the "reversing gender roles is still adhering to the binary" sign
haven't done the quest yet but y'all are always so weird towards child characters. no consideration whatsoever for how children are and no respect for the fact that children in hsr haven't been given opportunities to live under ideal conditions for development
prevents him from recognizing dan heng as a separate person. blade calling him by his title IL reflects that the weight of their sin and his disdain for dan feng takes precedence over any personal attachment he had to him prior. his current identity and life center the (4/6)
stellaron hunters and his trust in kafka is explicitly portrayed in canon as she helps reduce his suffering through dulling his senses to focus on her presence with her touch and voice being calming for him. irdc if you interpret kafblade as platonic but the way (5/6)
kafka's cm revolving around caring for him, her using a nickname for him that indicates a close relationship, voicelines for each other and for when they join the team, blade texting her in a lc, kafka in blade's introduction video, kafka being described as his "his partner in
crime during the 1.2 livestream, the web event, the luofu wanted posters, the go bladie achievement, the cosmic refreshments event and possibly more 😭 it makes me so happy seeing them together so often
@Starskiff
i cannot wrap my head around "if you don't like them/find them interesting you're arguably a fake fan" when you don't need to feel either of those to be knowledgeable on the ipc's nature and how it hurts both characters
i open twt and immediately see oomf being jumped for fqiu being "pro ship" y'all cannot be serious omfg this happens every single time y'all don't like a mlw pairing
the amount of people being explicitly transparent about how they wanted sam to be a "hot daddy" is crazy bc y'all are admitting you don't care about sam's story or personality. you just wanted a robot man to post sexual comments about lol
also i think it's worth noting how prompting the exploration of internalized misogyny is often met with "let people enjoy things how they want to" as if dismantling your biases is something that lessens enjoyment when i've unquestionably had the opposite experience
something i've noticed about the genshin/hsr fandom is that in order to act "above" the waifu shit in the game people take a hard turn into misogyny when talking about female characters
@freedomxbird
i've seen multiple sapphics receive anonymous harassment questioning their sexuality, insisting they must like men and wishing violence on them bc they enjoy m/w pairings and i just cannot imagine believing that's doing anything good for anyone
kafka's whisper is currently the only way to control blade's mara, which includes lessening and increasing its potency as deemed necessary. given how the stellaron hunters, especially kafka, operate through scripts provided by elio based on future possibilities he's seen (2/9)
do y'all remember the from firefly's trailer about the length of her hair being "proof of her experience" meaning she hadn't died from combat or her inherently shorter lifespan? on a completely unrelated note haha isn't it sooo crazy how long feixiao's hair is
can we please get into the habit of not going onto people's posts to talk about how much you dislike the thing they like if there's nothing harmful about the content bc i promise you op and their followers don't need or want to know
hey idk where or why this phenomenon started but i keep seeing people say this to defend/justify kfbld and idk if y'all know this but 1. you don't need to do that bc genuinely no one cares and 2. turning to sexual dynamics to justify a ship will always be bizarre and pointless
i am so glad there's plenty of kfbld art on here that's just portraying the characters as they are without an added layer of cisheteronormativity bc the shit on ao3 is so disturbing like there is a lot of merit to people not liking kfbld shippers and popular kfbld
it's implied that kafka's whisper is used at elio's instruction more often than not rather than something i've seen many people suggest she uses on a whim to fulfill her personal desires. instead in canon we see her adjust his mara's power preceding and following combat (3/9)
kafka karma is so real bc people have been making "single parent blade" jokes since 2.2 only for firefly to explicitly say "kafka takes good care of me". hoyo loves dropping stellaron hunters found family content after kafka erasure/mischaracterization
while kafka herself doesn't believe in free will, her interactions with the tb show that she still gives people space to make what they believe to be their own choices. she doesn't force the tb to help her nor does she attempt to use her whisper to sway their emotions or (7/9)
@kiya_z0
considering electricity is used in police brutality and other institutional harm towards people of color i don't think this is appropriate since boothill's story directly parallels the violence towards native americans
"is this a safe space" and posting the same sentence people get hit tweets over every week is genuinely bizarre and obsessive behavior and the way some of y'all talk about hating women like you're proud of it is insane
kfbld, achswn and now feikng all getting the "the masculine one is sexually violent and dominant and only their partners can tame them but their partners actually like it so rough sex is their outlet" accusations. send the flood
bringing up "borisin's pheromones" and saying yukong is in trouble when feixiao herself is a foxian with a mixed bloodline bc of sexual violence by the borisin is beyond disturbing and the fact that y'all get away with this same bs every single time is insane
there's no way some of y'all genuinely believe that blade is stronger than jingliu... like y'all have to be joking. "but he's immortal" yeah and he's still getting his ass kicked so how's that working for him? 😭
to strengthen and weaken it respectively, with blade's consent and even at his call (as seen before the battle against yanqing), in response to instances of combat that have been foreseen by elio. kafka and sam's joint efforts detained blade but she only used her whisper (4/9)
@kokom7ne
this turned out much longer than expected but you're so right and i believe it always circles back to people refusing to meaningfully engage with women characters as individuals and instead prioritizing men and their relationships
@S0uIz
doesn't matter what percentage of players are upset when multiple storylines and characters are so heavily rooted in racism and the company knows damn well they're hurting real people intentionally for years