Bloop

now, your computer inside the bunker has a game-inside-a-game on it which is a charming farming sim of undeniably greater quality and scope than the survival game you're playing. therefore, the object of the game becomes to keep your bunker secure so you can play the farming game more.

now, once you achieve the highest rating in the farming game, a secret shop inside it unlocks, and one of the novelty items you can purchase is a game console, giving you access to games-inside-a-game-inside-a-game. most of the games for it are typical mobile shovelware, but one of them is a highly polished, extremely brutal precision platformer with amazing level design and production values exceeding that of the survival game and farming sim combined.

Nav: Photoshoot Duo/Esther/Tara // Shoot & Styling Background // Macaron Design Background // Ferghana Design Background

Pt. 3 of our AAPI series: Meet Tara, our model for the Ferghana set! 🐎

Another born-and-raised Bay Area resident also born in the Year of the Horse, Tara is of Persian & Han-Taiwanese heritage and studies fashion in San Francisco. She enjoys pilates, yoga, sewing, and ice hockey, and is a member of the ice crew for the San Jose Sharks! We chose Tara for this look because her heritage beautifully reflects the cultural exchange between Central Asia and China — almost like the Silk Road embodied in one person. 

The Ferghana set is named after the namesake legendary horses of the Fergana Valley, known in premodern China as “heavenly horses” and famed for their speed and stamina. Its Chinese title, 君馬黃, comes from a Tang dynasty poem about friendship despite differences in origin & background — a fitting phrase for both the multi-ethnic Tang world and our AAPI Month theme of diaspora. 🐴

The robe itself is inspired by a Northern Dynasty predecessor of the Tang round-collared robe: a high-collared, narrow-sleeved silhouette suited for the cold winds of the steppes and introduced to the Central Plains by the horse-riding Xianbei peoples. The print features a linked-bead pattern with confronted horses inside pearl roundels, a motif associated with Persian, Byzantine, Greco-Bactrian, and Central Asian art that became popular in medieval China through trade, migration, and cultural exchange.

For styling, we brought this East / West remix into California: blue jeans tied to San Francisco’s Gold Rush history, red cowboy boots, and our cowboy-weimao hybrid — a red cowboy hat reimagined with the veil of a Tang-style 帷帽 riding hat. Tara’s makeup draws from historical recreations of Tuoba Xianbei styling seen in cave murals and figurines, including the red forehead mark, while her braids are another nod to the long history of braided hairstyles among many nomadic steppe peoples.

As we close out AAPI Month, we’re honoring identity as something layered, diasporic, and always in motion. 🐎

XD Well, you're certainly welcome to ask, although I can't say I'll have the best advice, XD. I'm still trying to grind for better artifacts for him myself, but I tend to run him with Bennett, Xianyun, and Zhongli, because that's what feels comfy and fun to me.

Here's my build for him right now, which is kind modge-podge XD. To be fair, I only started playing Genshin in like 3.2/3.3, and I'm pretty casual about it. (I am... Not caught up on story right now, I have played absolutely 0 Nod Krai, and just haven't played much in general lately - Star Rail's Amphoreus has about eaten my brain lol)

I got pretty lucky with my artifacts tonight, which was really satisfying! (even if I did use two of the reroll feathers to reroll the flower and the feather but we don't need to talk about that...) I haven't really tested him since doing this since I'm headed to bed, but I'm pretty excited nonetheless - especially at that Crit DMG increase!!! And the fact that it's a 4-piece set!

Quarters only, please [x]