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“How is that daughter of yours that’s been trying out new hairstyles and doesn’t like being in photos?”

#YEAH THIS ART #living in my head rent free #ak #congrats logos 'i thought banshees were all girls' 'yes but we move'

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irregularly scheduled arknights doodles dump! recent lingering echoes rerun has turned me into a full time goat liker im afraid (+a few other sillies)

#ebenholz' fuckin rapunsel lookin ass SKJDHFKSJDFH #also 'hope +8' HELP #yeah i'll chose to believe thats what happens when you pick up a banshees kiss in IS. akljhfalkjflkajshflkjsh #ak

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His stupid emo boy haircut... he looks like Kris Deltarune

#i know the much likelier option is just that his mother was expecting a daughter (arent banshees all female etc etc) #so she just bought dresses in advance then boom. son #but like... ftm logos tho #ak

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Just Ivan being silli :P

#freak /affectionate #ever seen a guy with such incredible dogboy tendencies #alnst

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Hate it when cis people ask unnecessary and invasive questions like “are your experiments ethical?” And “where is that screamimg coming from?”

#medicine pocket reverse 1999

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this is!! iberia's destreza...!!

#look at him go! #saw someone say somebody should edit his ep over this #ak

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i have two exams i haven't studied for tomorrow but the only thing i can think of right now is logos transgender (??????

#asto speaks #anyway saw the countdown art 👍 i'm very normal #ak

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The Beast that Bothers

#the one of the cat just HOLLERING into the guys face #im laughing but what the fuck

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Always love how much folklore especially creature folklore emphasizes that there is a way for you to win. These are the steps to ensure the dead don't rise: take them out through a hole in the wall and give them iron shoes. Vampires cannot abide sunlight. If you hear a dog howl on a churchyard path turn around and get home as fast as you can. Iron and salt and the colour red. None of this doomed idea, the world is incomprehensible but if you're a bit clever you'll survive it just fine, there's always ways out.

#something something yun tianmings fairytales from the last three body problem #using fairytales to hide crucial secret to scientific advancements because of course the heros always find a way! #ok *objectively untrue* in the case of the last one but you get the idea

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Arknights and stars

On that topic, Arknights has always had a connection to the stars and its own star map is a bit wonky if compared to earth now but makes sense if you see it in the great scheme of things.

From Astesia's file on, it's been implied that the dome that surrounds Terra is fake, and Kristen is the first one who has gone beyond it so far (traveling from Terra to beyond the dome). It's also said that the reason people cannot navigate the sea reliably is because the stars themselves aren't reliable.

But it's also a bit more concrete that the stars are a bit off, or, it would look like that.

Remember Children of Ursus? Everyone remembers its dark story but few remember the map layout.

This is the Big Dipper, part of the constellation Ursa Maior. Fitting for an event that features bear characters.

But wait! Doesn't the Big Dipper look like this?

It does. But the Big Dipper over 50,000 years looks like this...

Like I pointed out in the previous post, the stars are always on the move. It may seem slow to us but if you take a large enough timescale then the sky sure does shift from what it's now.

Remember this skin of Astesia's?

It sure is a pretty skin. But zoom in on the star chart and you'll find something...peculiar...

Several constellations look...off. Like Leo, Virgo, Hydra and Gemini. And...

The star that's marked as the North Star (i.e the star in the middle) is not Polaris, but Vega, the largest star in the constellation Lyra! Don't see it? Here, I'll make it a little more clear:

And Lyra how it is now, which is, again, slightly different from how Lyra is depicted in the above image:

Vega is not our current North Star, it's the star Polaris (duh). But Vega was in about 14,000 years ago, and will be again in about 12,000 to 13,000 years in the future. So not our current North Star.

The celestial globe is also tilted at 45 degrees instead of 23,5 for earth.

So! A huge misser on the part of the artist, right?

Wrong!

You see, the ecliptic and equator in the artwork do obviously not align with our current ecliptic and equator. But our equator and ecliptic looking like in the skin can only happen if the precession of the earth's axis is tilted towards the south...which will be the case in 12,000 to 13,000 years from now. At that time, the constellations look will 'off' compared to how the look now (I was talking about the stars shifting over time in my previous post) and Polaris will no longer the be North Star, like in the artwork.

The kicker?

Lone Trail reveals that Terra is at least 13,000 years old.

#OH HELL YEAH #ak #neat…. #wait so did hg tell yuji like. cuz this skin came out at least some months before lone trail #you think yuji submitted a draft for the skin and hg was like GREAT but can you change the star chart to the positions of the stars #in several thousand years time #edit i got this skin confused with the idol skin which means yuji just Knew like YEARS in advance???

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logos has an infinite duration skill, a delta module, and necrosis damage, he'll compete alright

It's so fucking funny that they came up with a skillset that includes

1) An infinite duration skill that bounces on kill with an instant kill mechanic

2) RES increase to self (survivability on a core caster for some reason) + Amiya S2 style machinegun except it's actually focused on 1 target + slow

3) Attacks reduce targets RES

4) A slow on enemy projectiles which is a unique ability no one else has

5) Doubleshot mechanic

6) [Unseen on this image] A fucking delta module, on release, where he gets Necrosis damage like Ebenholz's 3rd module

HG on their hands and knees praying pleading and begging people to please god please use another Core Caster if the intern in charge of stats sees 90% Eyjafjalla usage one more time they're going to blow up the office.

#'survivability on a core caster for some reason' #so caught up in the euphoria of playable logos that for a minute i lived in a world where new core casters didn't have to compete with eyja #i feel like he'd be fun on is tho all his skills are interesting wildly different ways #ak

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finally e2ed andreana and glaucus recently which means i can finally start doing iberia squad challenge clears woohoo (yeah i'll do is3 next. the actually thematically appropriate one)

#asto speaks #ak #mvps of this run: hand of purification and children's plaything #also tulip showing up was so funny. like yeah she technically does... follow.. the assignment... #on like my last combat before the boss fight i think i got a guard ticket with a free skadi on it which #VERY funny given the context. but anw #very famous last words but iberai squad is3 shouldn't be too hard cuz im pretty sure someone on bilibili did a lumerene solo is3 clear befo #like with lumens monthly squad that lets you start with hand of purification

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Kind of hilarious to me how poorly the title "Mob Psycho 100" localized to English-speaking areas. To someone whose first language is English, it scans as:

Mob (Yakuza, Mafia)

Psycho (violent person with "crazy" behaviors)

Thus: a particularly violent member of organized crime.

But in Japanese it scans as:

Mob (background characters in crowd scenes in manga or anime)

Psycho (short for psychic)

Thus: a psychic who looks/acts like someone you'd never pick out of a crowd scene in a comic.

#'maximum murder' AKJSDFHKASJFD #yeah i figured psycho didnt mean what i think it meant but i would never have guessed that its referring to psychic..

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simply cannot ever resist what i call the little mermaid or the tin man or the pinnochio plot, the one about a character who is either inhuman or human but outside in some way, constantly searching for whatever it is that they consider to be the quintessential proof of humanity, preoccupied by it so deeply that they fail to realize the proof is in the act and fact of the search itself

#yeah #writing inspo #yoo joonghyuk my beloved....

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so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

#i would like to get that dorm room next semester so i wont be homeless please n thank you

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this video has been going around for a while but the English subtitles didn't match the energy of the spoken French at all. i had to fix it.

reblog to spread this version

#'oh shut the fuck up' #im laughing but what the fuck #but also 'and youre happy?' augh

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i was cuddling with my boyfriend last night when his shoulder started tensing up (like he was readjusting or gently pushing me off) and when i asked him if he was okay or needed me to move or something he went “no you’re fine, i was just imagining myself pulling a large rope. i didn’t even realize my shoulder was doing that lmao” then refused to elaborate and i have never been as attracted to him as i was in that moment.

#im laughing but what the fuck #not gonna tag a ship but i feel like one of my ocs would actually do this