queercoding in genshin is so silly bc it will either be like two women doing everything BUT eating eachother out on screen or like queer coding and symbolism that is sepcifically there FOR queer history fans and design fans/media analysts. but somehow BOTH get called crazy. and i think thats the trouble with sharing a fandom with so many different people bc if they cant see sandbina then like. how am i suppose to explain that this may be the gayest most dykiest homosexual lavender menace birthday art ever invented by the minds eye.
that one time someone pointed out ningguang's fingernail guards on some guys stream and how they are specifically not on her two middle fingers (a WELL KNOWN messenger for femmes forever)
and he went "erm actually they are Chinese nail guards its this super niche detail!! take that gays!!!"" and then was so confident he turned it into a youtube short. I think about that sometimes because he truly cannot think of two things at once. it still shocks me to my very core. rant to say in a fandom full of anti intellectuals please stop trying to waste your BEAUTIFUL brains away trying to speak to people who refuse to think things have meaning and that the people who make these characters are all professionals who love these types of things in the same we do and have the same passion for it as we do.
like. im pretty sure "are you a crazy fucking insane nerd?" is the first question on the hoyoverse hiring sheet. even for the janitors.
