(twirling my hair) I'm going to be sooooo normal about sunday honkai: star rail in approximately 10 days #hsrtweeting

#hsrtweeting the past cannot be changed, but, even so, by taking lessons from their own pasts, they can realign karma. I'm struggling to find the right words for this, but it stirs up memories of elio's act of bearing witness in 3.8. perhaps all redemption is a cry to change the past

#hsrtweeting there's something beautiful about how both yaoguang and sunday see in planarcadia an echo of their own pasts, a stage which has been laid with the same events—each seeks in this so-called paradise an opportunity to rewrite past events, to redeem themselves, to do things right this time

#hsrtweeting this in win #11 in a row for those counting (I am) (someday I will lose again) (probably)

#hsrtweeting I put literally all of my luck into winning hsr 50/50s so I have to work my ass off in genshin and endfield to get anywhere

Successful gacha pull screen for Cerydra (Honkai: Star Rail), a Wind Harmony character.

#hsrtweeting also I got cerydra but this should surprise no one. I am god's favorite child and I will never die

A Quora question reads, Does Aphrodite’s appearance change based off what you’re attracted to? The answer, given by Tom Mac, reads, This is one of those more recent ideas that has become very popular, that Aphrodite is essentially a chameleon to mirror our own desires, and for what it’s worth it’s very poetic, since Aphrodite does come from the sea, Aphrodite is naturally associated with mirrors, and logically it would help reinforce how she can remain always attractive to everyone at all times. Despite this, based on Aphrodite’s temperament, I don’t think Aphrodite herself is personally changing to accommodate us — we are all simply responsive to her divine self as she is. We respond to her magic, not the goddess responding to us. Aphrodite is simply too in love with herself to continuously shift herself to us. Now maybe we as humans cannot fully grasp seeing the divine embodiment of Beauty, so when we look at her, we can only glimpse what we find to be most attractive ourselves. Maybe it’s a trick of the human experience trying to grasp the infinite, so she appears to change from person to person. But Aphrodite herself is not doing anything. She simply is who she is.

#hsrtweeting modern interpretations of aphrodite where she appears as whatever you find most beautiful/attractive are very cyrene to me. cyrene possesses infinite gender

#hsrtweeting writing aventurine is kind of like gutting myself but there's something cleansing about it. like breaking a bunch of windows with a baseball bat. ykwim

#hsrtweeting it's been almost three years and finally I have pulled yanqing (from the standard banner so I didn't even have to lose to him)

Gacha pull screen for Character: Yao Guang (Honkai: Star Rail)

#hsrtweeting also, my 50/50 win streak has still not collapsed under its own weight yet. I continue to be the aeons' favorite child

#hsrtweeting I can only guess that a truly horrific amount of development crunch went into making planarcadia as intriguing and thematically interesting as it is, and god I hope they never have to do it again, but I was worried that it'd be messy and it's really not. they did a really good job

#hsrtweeting I know from leaks that the plan to go to a "theme park" sort of place was a change made very late in the development process, but gun to my head, if I hadn't known that, I would have never guessed. what they're doing with the setting thematically is very cool, actually

#hsrtweeting ...and what place does art, does the "unreal," play in that survival?

#hsrtweeting it is a story about: this world (both within honkai: star rail and our own) is a horrible place. why do people fight to survive even when the cost of survival is often more adversity? why do people continue to live when everything is so hard?

#hsrtweeting to put it more (or less, maybe) simply, it is a story (a series of interconnected stories) about why people choose to love and treasure what is "unreal," and, relatedly, a story about why the "real" world is difficult to live in, to even survive in

#hsrtweeting this has taken me far too long to put into words that make sense, but I think honkai: star rail is a story of false/true (or not-real/real) dichotomies and the shades of not-quite-true and not-quite-false that lie in between them, as well as how differently people interpret them

#hsrtweeting sunday made a friend... I'm so proud of him..........

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broke: 2/14 is a day about romantic love
woke: 2/14 is a day about celebrating loving people in whatever form that might take
bespoke: 2/14 is a day to think about how much cyrene loves everyone in the world

renaming valentine's day to cyrene day so I like it now #hsrtweeting

#hsrtweeting I just want it on record that I'll calling ashveil of the galaxy rangers a follower of the voracity right now, about two seconds after I saw his splash art, because if I turn out to be right about this it'll be legendary

#hsrtweeting I will no longer be dhil-less... come here my sunheng team from superhell

#hsrtweeting so is there something in sunday's contract that says every time he leaves the train, a woman has to beat him up? it's beautiful. no notes

#hsrtweeting (WHOOPING AND HOLLERING) AAAAAAA
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#hsrtweeting it's not even an exaggeration to say that whenever I talk about cyrene in any serious capacity I just start crying. it's not usually a lot, but I cry at least a little 100% of the time. it's entirely possible that I have never been so deeply moved by a character before

#hsrtweeting being sad about cyrene is a competitive sport and I'm winning

#hsrtweeting (sticks yaoguang in my Pocket For Birds with sunday and robin) I mean what

#hsrtweeting #hsrspoilers hsr 3.8 ⚠️ and this is what I think this game is truly, unfailingly REALLY good at—world construction which mirrors the game's themes and the character's state of mind. the dream of gnawing oak is a masterpiece in visualizing gopher wood's state of mind. it's delicious

#hsrtweeting #hsrspoilers hsr 3.8 ⚠️ the dream of gnawing oak, in its construction, all but screams that he has to believe he had no choice—that choices themselves are meaningless. different roads lead to the same place, the hidden-by-perspective memories of mikhail, the accusatory text

#hsrtweeting #hsrspoilers hsr 3.8 ⚠️ sometimes the choice is die or hurt people, or let people continue to be hurt, and gopher wood not only chooses to hurt people but doubles down and refuses to regret hurting people. I think most monsters are like this. we all want to believe we're not one

#hsrtweeting #hsrspoilers hsr 3.8 ⚠️ he excuses mortal fear as lack of choice, and though to a degree it is, he defends himself through that "lack of choice," demands that others bear the consequences of his "lack of choice," and deprives himself of moral responsibility through that "lack of choice"