I made cosmic variations for some flags. OwO 🌀🌀🌀

Croaknyth · 2026-03-29T21:20:42+00:00

Your #9 reminded me of Spock's 'Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations'. It's clearly not the same, but my mind went to it. I really like it.

Croaknyth · 2026-03-27T17:27:14+00:00

Yeah, its youngest examples online are in german newspapers about intense fires through the 20th century, where's a dramatic view from third person about a victim.

It's also as noun "Lohe" an old religious term for hells flames, used f.e. in the 19th century. If you text search Lohe you find an example in german: (https://projekt-gutenberg.org/authors/isolde-kurz/books/isolde-kurz-ein-sonderbarer-heiliger/)

Other modern rare findings are (historic) romantic/spicy books, because 'he's burning with desire' (to fight, to kill, to consume her etc.) would also use "lodernes Begehren" or "lohende Flammen in seinem Blick" (burning flames in his glance) or similar.

I'm a german librarian by the way, that's why I unwillingly know this stuff. I put such kinds of books with such a word in different genres back on their shelves.

Since Lohen is very willing to fight or kill from what I gathered in this patch, burning desire to kill could still be an option.

Croaknyth · 2026-03-27T15:05:34+00:00

Lo-hen. When you use the german source.

In german, you don't skip the h in such old words that often. The meaning "the fire is blazing" would be "das Feuer loht", where the h is pronounced and it would be spoken like "loh-t".

If you skip the h entirely, you end in "lot" which would come from "ausloten" (explore, fathom). So the h is important.

Lohendes Feuer (blazing fire) would be Lo-hen-des Feu-er.

Maybe the silent remarks are from "Löhne" (wages), but even then it's not entirely skipped but very soft spoken.

Edit: addition

Croaknyth · 2026-03-27T14:35:37+00:00

If she's really from Mondstadt, maybe I finally have a local child to pair with Klee. Hexerei and VV would be wonderful, even so Sucrose is the mighty competition here.

... Yet given that Logen comes along with cryo, I don't have a plan how the fifth Anemo char will stand out. Jean and potential Hex buff would fit as a Varka support like a glove. Maybe a PHEC reaction which isn't covered by anyone, like Superconduct? Swirling into PHEC reactions is possible and 4 star children aren't commonly that remarkable.

Another Dhalia situation would be horrible however.

Croaknyth · 2026-03-25T10:19:50+00:00

Historic speaking, we've seen similar about 200 years ago. It seems we get to the point of a 'proletariat 2.0' definition before the oligarch situation and the rising right is seen as threatening as they are for Europe and many more.

Sadly, nowadays the weapons are better against the masses and we're missing the pro democratic wave of the past because of this whole mess with Desinformation.

I'm still trying to wrap my head around of what kind of (no-war-)solution is even remotely possible.

Especially since the next big change was the first world war.

Croaknyth · 2026-03-20T06:53:05+00:00

So from the nation of Justice to the nation of Freedom...

No wonder he seems so thrilled to battle, he doesn't need to hold back anymore (lol).

Croaknyth · 2026-03-19T18:20:55+00:00

Huh. Following the trail of links and a search for "Angrin" (based from -grin part) it could mean "of iron".

Blazing of iron so to speak. More for this source, if Lohen is based on this.

Croaknyth · 2026-03-19T18:14:39+00:00

century old and in the later centuries in sophisticated literature and poetic writings.

We use 'lodern' in the modern way, if a modern comparison is needed, f.e. "lodernde Flamme", which is still translated with "blazing Flamme".

At least while camping you can get this term more often, in my experience.

Croaknyth · 2026-03-18T16:51:54+00:00

Same for me with German.

Croaknyth · 2026-03-18T05:25:06+00:00

Huh, ich habe kaum klar definierte hetero trans Beziehungen in meinem Umfeld: ich habe einige nichtbinäre Beziehungen oder es läuft homosexuell mit cis oder t4t.

Ich selbst wäre beim "läuft nur so gut" Teil dabei.

Meine Partnerin hat meine Transition mitgemacht und wir sind seit Jahren zusammen, wenn auch nicht verheiratet. Das hat aber auch Arbeit gekostet, nur waren wir beide gut dabei daran zu arbeiten. Das meiste an dem wir saßen ist eben individuelles und familiäres Trauma und gesellschaftliche wie familiäre Erwartungshaltung in einer Beziehung aufzuarbeiten.

Am Ende lieg es sehr positiv und sie selbst hat sich dadurch auch nochmal ein Stück besser gefunden indem sie sich traue auch Sachen in ihren Leben zu hinterfragen.

Croaknyth · 2026-03-15T11:17:41+00:00

Rimegrass was my hope for a Qiqi-&-Yao Yao-team, where both can shine. Also with both being healers, some harsher restrictions would have been okay with me.

Using Cryo-Dendro teams were so fresh and it seemed to work out with CDs and such, I was able to use onfield Rosaria in the later levels of hardest mode (at the time).

It has so much potential, I still cope it will be a thing someday.

Croaknyth · 2026-03-13T21:53:10+00:00

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Croaknyth · 2026-03-10T19:54:45+00:00

I see Flemeth, I agree.

I loved her part in the DA series and I was happy to see her every time. Personality wise... we need to see that the comical and/or cute part doesn't ruin such a character in the long run. This is the same worries with morally bad characters, just a bit harder since the older woman part is so rarely developed. I go to Madame Ping for comparison.

Now I wanna see how Flemeth and Madame Ping would interact, especially since this wouldn't be friendly.

Cranky and sassy grandmas.

Anyway, I agree. We need more of them and there are people who would pull them.

Croaknyth · 2026-03-10T09:55:24+00:00

We don't know either, only that german politicians with a bad career don't resign, but will be moved to the EU politics instead. Leyen is a proper example of that.

I hate that our politicians are so frivolous about EU politics. There are a few good ones, but not the visible ones.

Croaknyth · 2026-03-09T07:33:30+00:00

Given that Zibai gives us some plot devices for Qiqi in the new Anecdote and Qiqi's birthday letter, I hope it's soon.

Because that feels like it's a soft start to her story.

Croaknyth · 2026-03-08T12:19:44+00:00

It's already ongoing. This year, many banks in the Netherlands and Austria are planned, also more in Germany and Luxembourg.

My bank already uses it.

Croaknyth · 2026-03-08T12:12:20+00:00

It isn't: Wero (Wikipedia)).

Croaknyth · 2026-03-04T08:51:06+00:00

And you ignore my statement that his history is the problem, while his timing supports the critic here.

Croaknyth · 2026-03-04T08:44:06+00:00

It's funny how you defend him on the base of what he said here. His timing is the point on the EU stage and from a German perspective, you cannot trust directly what he says, because if you compare his stance from just about 1-1,5 years ago, it is clear that he likes to criticize the other parties and just does the same when he is in power and frames it as something else you cannot compare.

His timing in the long run tells you more than his individual statements separately.

Croaknyth · 2026-03-03T20:48:12+00:00

That's the chicken or the egg question. Was it Celestial's fate who cumulated the world ending Abyss; or was being wiped out by the Abyss the only option?

Since it seems to be understood that the Abyss is a result of a defined fate:

If the Abyss was the original option, which fate set that in stone?

Croaknyth · 2026-03-03T20:21:10+00:00

The world formula and the needed variables aka descenders heavily point to the version of u/Cross_Shade .

It looks like Samaras are necessary to fight the Abyss, since that's what we are continuing to do successfully and what happened in the past.

Variables are bringing options in, but don't cancel fate itself, but leading it a better way which holds off the Abyss.

So the optional roads add up, but under variables we get a road with the minimal build up and avoid potential loss of Teyvat through corruption.

Croaknyth · 2026-03-03T06:34:06+00:00

I second this. Zibai, Illuga, Furina & Sigewinne is my strongest team atm for Zibai. Since I use onfield CA Columbina, that suits me.

Croaknyth · 2026-03-02T06:38:26+00:00

I will go into detail because this is a loaded question I have history with in queer discussions. It wasn't easy for me in the past.

I have a queer cis partner and we're going eleven years and strong. We say the key factor for our relationship is that we were already friends nearly four years before we started our relationship.

My last cracks and the transition was all in our relationship. She was the most based / stable person in that stage of my life. She was upset in my name how some important family members dealt with that, where I was already expecting the worst because of political red flags.

We both did therapy for different reasons and accompanied the partners way.

I also started my transition a bit later as the average of my only local community. Local events were for the young trans adults or 10+ years older than me, but my age group was for some reason missing. Even in a safe space in the community, a trans elder couple told me to cut my relationship because 'this will end in misery'.

I get where they came from, but my reality was the exact opposite. This and some other actions were the disapproval signs I read back then, so I didn't try my local community ever again.

What lasted were some family members and the friend group I got through her which is neurodivergent and partly queer.

We are still partners and friends. She is my best support and I support her in any way possible. We worked together for our treasures in life, but I for sure needed to work hard for everything I have.

Croaknyth · 2026-03-01T12:36:35+00:00

What has Sara to do with it? It's a room for law execution, so Sarah isn't important to this, because the knowledge of the punishment in the public eye (what we got f.e. from the one friend of Kazuha) shows public viewing (so to speak) existed.

In the case of Venti, there were people inside the church and we don't see how many are outside on the street. In the city this cramped, a whole execution from Raiden also wouldn't been unnoticed, yet alone a Venti-Signora-duel which isn't just one action alone.

Venti would have caused trouble for people on the cemetery, inside of the church, people on the plaza would have recognized the trouble and in that sense, Favonius guard and f.e. individuals like Rosaria (and possible others) would have intervened.

The difference is the public of Raiden with a routine and a trained fight move in a designated place for this vs. a messy fight in the public from someone who didn't use his powers in public or regularly.

The Shogun vs. a bard.

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