u/JosieRBookworm

All right, you all probably know me as someone who enjoys Zhongli and makes memes and posts them sometimes in out-of-place subreddits like this one, but...

In real life, I do ballet which is why I was quite happy and excited for Odette. Usually, my fellow dancers do look like I grew a third head when I start talking about anime or gaming, alas. I can count only two other people I do know that play Genshin and also do ballet, one being a good pal of mine (she is off playing other games now) and Viridian, a YouTuber.
I've been a huge, HUGE fan of Khoreva for a long time and even had the honor of taking class from her a little while ago (I still can't believe it :D). I remember walking out of that class going, "hmm, it'd be really crazy if she did a collab with Hoyo about Odette, no? Maybe if I get motivated I'll even send Hoyo an email..."

Anyone that shares the memories here of being a fellow dancer and also plays any games? :D

In my region, I can’t see the eclipse but I managed to catch a few good shooting stars :D
A pal got a cool camera and captured this, and I couldn’t stop thinking about Starlight…
Though, I may be biased that Starlight was looping in my head since I do love that song, maybe Ad Astra would be a good one too?

See, I got all of these different frame rates in my sequence and some of them be acting weird/choppy. Searching online tells me to "interpret footage", but so far that isn't going very well...

Considering all Khaenri'ahns are descendants of the Tsaritsa...

Y'know, if you like Dain, I guess your family gatherings got much more interesting. Hey look! Isn't that the third descender? And the Cryo Archon herself?!

Source: Recreating Memes in Arknights: Endfield

real cool sword, dull sword, cooler sword, that one sword we used in narzissenkreuz, cooler sword, all swords...
...wait, that's not a sword bro

Chen is memeable, but even Pengmin and Aradashir are XD

(hopefully)
as much as a lore nerd I am, I have to admit to sometimes dialogue-skipping
feel free to correct me in the comments, I'll make the meme better <:D

As not only your resident Hoyo game noob and Zhongli simp, I myself am a ballet dancer, though my glory days are far in the past...

I see a lot of people criticizing Hoyo for putting Odette in heels, and that's valid lol. But, I think the devs still did a tad bit of research, and if you'll stay with me for a few text walls, I can explain.

I remember actually doing this for a research project in high school (for AP World History, no less, good luck on your AP scores tomorrow, folks!) and I presented to our class on the topic of Romantic Ballet.

Before the Romantic era (16-17th century), ballet was mostly in courts and elite and very elaborate with stiff dresses and such. King Louis XIV was a huge fan of ballet and that's him as a teen being the titular role of the Sun King, if my memory serves correctly.

During the Romantic age (18th-mid 19th), well-known ballets such as Giselle (my favorite!) and La Sylphide innovated pointe shoe, gas lighting (not gaslighting, lol), and Romantic tutus. Swan Lake, surprisingly, was a flop when it first came out, but don't worry, the new-and-upgraded 2.0 version did much better!

I based most of my research of that presentation off of one source (don't tell my teacher lol), if you'd like to read up (it's surprisingly fast, I finished in a day): https://repository.lsu.edu/gradschool_disstheses/6012/, thank the person that wrote this XD

Additionally, I think another great point(e) of Hoyo making her in heels is to minimize cosplay accidents if cosplayers wanted to actually cosplay in pointe shoes. Honestly, if I did have the time, guys, maybe I should cosplay some characters on pointe, eh? (I'm thinking Odette, Columbina, and Furina XD, tho cosplay does take hella long time and I dunno how to get started)

Thanks for reading up on the Zhongli simp's ramblings, hope you learned something!

and now I feel sad for all the lil cryo slimes I've killed for materials...

I am merely a newbie cosplay and new to all this stuff, but I do think it would be cool to make mask inspired from this (more from this link).

Step 1: there ain't very good reference image, any tips for finding/making your own?

Step 2: how should I make this? I dunno if a masquerade mask (like, buying a plain one and then customizing it) or 3D printing one would be better

Step 2.5: if 3D print, how do I make sure this stuff actually molds to my face?

Step 3: securing this stuff too... how is it gonna stay on my face?

Any tips or ideas appreciated :D:D

As a ballet dancer, I'm really happy and impressed with Hoyo with the three seconds of a ballerina they showed. Usually, if you don't show the lines of a dancer very well, it will look awkward and wonky instead of graceful... yay Hoyo for doing ballet justice!!

Now, my primos... er...

You might know me from my infamous GPT car wash problem, but I’m back with another one…
I guess it isn’t wrong, but alas… I just wanted a walkthrough to check my thought process…

Okeh dokes, this was for a math assignment which is why Lace got a lemniscate. Still can't figure out the shading so the background is white, but overall, I guess this is what waiting for Sea of Sorrow does...

The original file was hella big and Desmos only allows saves for stuff less than 5MB, so sadly it ain't saved ;(

You can view some parts of it, though! Here's the whole thing, Hornet, Lace's head, Lace's legs, and flowers. :D

Ok so
Downloaded new Windows update, my PC spits out error

The long version—
- downloaded 5/13's new Windows Update
- device had a blue screen saying it ran into an update and needed to restart, update failed
- model is Yoga Slim 7x Snapdragon, if you want more detail I can try down in the comments, but I can’t open Task Manager rn to double check
- is this b/c of ARM vs. x86 difference? I suspect so since my device crashes at some x64 stuff that probably isn’t compatible, like Unity and Sandbox and I needed to find workarounds

- I was prompted for some kinda security key (the one that's super long with six digits followed by a dash and then six digits followed by a dash and then six digits… you get my point)
- afterwards, you get prompted with a "Choose an option" with options "Continue", "Troubleshoot", and "Turn off your PC"
- hitting "Troubleshoot" will give you the option to reset this PC, or go to advanced options
- resetting this PC is my last option so in advanced options you have options, some of which are cmd and uninstall updates but ig if I don’t find a solution in a few days I’ll have to bid farewell to my Screenshots folder and factory reset
- uninstall updates apparently failed, continues to blue screen, restart, and update fail
- cmd actually can let me open registry for everything EXCEPT for the folder that contains the updates
- also using cmd obv I can see where and status of update package, but I can’t do anything about
- I ain't that big of a techie so I only know some basic stuff (didn't work)

anyways AP CSA tmrw, am I cooked? sucks without my best laptop as moral support, now I’ll have to use a shrunk-down keypad with bad screen brightness and lag worse than ranked games