#from cyanide

[troublemakergalaxy]

spy being the last one to leave pauling after seeing her mentor / essential idol turn to dust infront of her, while she is holding the very thing she could have used to prevent her from dying, means Something to me. oh my Lord.

[mr-payjay]

hi can i,bgg he he

what the fuck was that my keyboard just had a seizure. ok. i was trying to ask for tacojay content i guess my keyboard really didnt like that.

you dont have to draw tacojay thoug but can i get a hello (i think you’re really cool n stuff and your art is awesoms)

smiles nervously

i hope you don't mind if it's evil tacojay where she's trying to kill him

og meme^

thank you so much also :) im really happy you like my art, i always super appreciate asks about it like this!!! very kind and makes my day <3 so Hello to you rottkitt i hope you're having a lovely tacojay day

[captain-price-unofficially]

[oscarwetnwilde]

A happy 67th birthday belated because I spent all day and night on this post post for James Wilby.

[zones-spinterest-corner]

V1RUS 4L3RT!!¡!!11!1!

Small experimental thing with Daughter™

I love her so much chat

[mugzymiik]

[deathgripping a paper pulled out of an envelope as i sigh]. its joever everyone /sillyj

TPC SHOWDOWN [RESULTS]

The winner is . . .

CYANIDE!!!

ok everybody go home im so upset (/j i promise im not LMFAOOO)

anyways. bonus round Gold vs Bug yes or nGETS SHOT

[youhavethesun]

keep seeing princess bride on my dash and it’s making me soo happy!!

fun fact about me is that as a child I was ridiculously obsessed with the film to the point where my dad would tell me bedtime stories when I was like 5 about wesley and buttercup and how they were getting on after the movie ended…

and my favourite story was this one where there was a fete going on in the village they were living in, and wesley and buttercup were helping to organise it, there was meant to be a lot of food stalls for the village to enjoy and they were in charge of a bunch of them, and so they had to delegate their milk and butter stall to andre the giant, he was in charge of keeping an eye on churning the butter and keeping the milk cool in the castle cellar, but he was distracted by the town poetry competition and the churned butter and milk were left in this cellar for weeks until they spoiled. somehow (by the magic of bedtime stories for five year olds) the spoiled dairy products turned into cheese all on their own! so their dairy stall and the town fair was still a success :) the end. also I cannot remember if andre won the poetry competition but l’d like to imagine he did

[tpc-bugverse]

hi guys .so for BugVerse i have a thing for it thats

and i Still Need To Figure Out Those Connection Items. i have a poll going in 2 different discord servers for Bug & Hexalace's but i need suggestions for the other Heroes & caretakers-

ones i got:

Pyrare and Gold's is a cool rock (suggested by Lantern HEGSHEHSH ITS SO CUTE)

[trashcanwithsprinkles]

I just wanted you to know that CN altered my brain chemistry so much that now whenever I try to write my own god!Ajax fics I always end up using a similar ascension concept(the whole getting too powerful and the universe basically deciding that you need to either be a god or to die thing)

My brain just accepted it as canon and I do not know how to get it to stop/j

LMAO my condolences?? hahah

given genshin takes quite a lot of inspo from xianxia, and that method is xianxia based, i honestly wouldn't be surprised if that's how it works in game. i mean- do we even know how one attains godhood canonically? i can't recall rn. there might be multiple means, too. who knows

[vimflam]

why is "temporary secretary" so good when it isn't

[d3m0n1c-cl0wn3ry]

“oh haha thoughts about my special intere-…..I’M GONNA END IT A”

[carnage-cathedral]

love seeing "you don't know the violence it took to become this gentle" on the page of the most toxic person you know lmao

[thegreatyin]

Important question that's been bugging me all night: What fnaf fan song do u think fits The Scoundrel? (idk why but to me Die In A Fire feels like it has her vibes)

FASCINATING question. i uh. i haven't actually listened to a lot of fansongs so i don't actually know

[qedmirage]

Episode 14 clear!

And there we go. The climax to our Arc 2 plotline, finished. As usual, gameplay thoughts above the cut, story thoughts below. I feel like there isn't actually much to talk about with the gameplay in chapter 14. The new mechanic of Active Orignium storms is interesting at least; tiles will have Pollution, and a nasty storm that gets stronger and larger each time it touches them circles the map. Plus, some enemies benefit from being in or crossing the storm. The Beacons being used to steer the storm is neat, but the deployable beacon only shows up in 3 stages, so outside of puller/pusher strats there's not much interaction with it. There is a very cute moment in 14-1 where a large number of Originium Slugs look at the Originium Storm and just run away. An 'even speedwagon is afraid' moment. The second half of the mechanics, dealing with the Revenants on the airship and in the Assimilated Universe, doesn't stand out as much to me. You basically have swarms of lil' baby units you want to keep separate from the main units, or they'll eat the small guys to empower their attacks. Works well enough in the main stages but frustrates me in HI-2 because of the sheer quantities of mans they start out with; it ends up feeling like something that really WANTS you to have massive AOE DPS. Special mention to the new flying Chalice enemies, which absorb a portion of the damage suffered by all enemies in an aura around them, have giant HP pools, and 0 defence. And you know what that means:

On to the story. Spoilers abound!

Episode 14's story is long. It has to juggle the resolution for the Self-Salvation Corps, Siege, The Followers, the Taran rebellion, and also the RI gang going up to stop Theresa. It juggles all these plotlines...okay. I felt I came away from it all with more questions about 'Theresa' 's goals and motivations than answers. Okay, high points! First off, chapter 14-10 has an amazing cutscene in it, where the narration talks about the struggles of different members of the Exemplars to get Siege to the 'stone of the sword'. As it does so the image pans up, scrolling as Siege and the sword advance, the narration shifting to the different members of the Exemplars as it does so. The full piece is amazing:

my cinematography! A high point of the story.

Okay, since I know I get a ton of non-arknights players reading these, I'll warn you in advance that this isn't really a full summary of the story, of everything that happens in chapter 14. But I will drill down a bit on one bit, because people make a lot of memes about her and I think she's one of the more interesting parts, and that's Priestess.

Priestess was first mentioned in chapter 8, RI's ship has an AI called 'PRTS', and the map interface has 'Eyes of Priestess' written along the bottom. She (in as much as she has a gender) has been haunting the background of the game, and we don't really learn much about her until Babel and then again now. Back in chapter 8, she's someone who holds Doctor's hand as Doc goes into the Sarcophagus for the first time, and says this:

Well, we've given the writers a few more years to figure out what they want to do with her, and they've landed on some fun stuff! Priestess only appears in person after the airship contacts the originium crystal Ammannan, with everyone being almost instantly devoured by crystals. Like, doc sees this:

And then comes to rest in a dark room with Priestess. Storywise, Priestess is the only known surviving precursor other than Doctor. But she isn't out there 'in the flesh' ; she seems to exist as a digital consciousness inside Originium. And while Doc doesn't remember their past, she does - including their civilization's last struggle before its death, and the decisions they made as a result.

In Priestesses' telling (Which may not be accurate - other characters have disagreed), Originium is a record of their civilization to leave far beyond the disaster passes. The harm that it may cause to other civilizations along the way is irrelevant; it is THE solution, and all those other societies were going to die anyways.

She's very devoted to Doctor, having been with them for a long time; she describes her first introduction of herself as:

"My name is Priestess, a linguist. I am researching the final sound waves emitted by planets as they die. I like quietly spending my time alone, but I also wanted to find someone to explore the universe with."

and it's unclear just how long they were together, but their transhuman hyperspace adventures clearly spanned quite a while. Back in Babel there's a line where Doc references the 'billions of lives lost' in the search to an answer for that disaster, and we also get a firm answer for how long Doc was in stasis before Theresa awakened them: 13,021.9 years [BB-ST-2]. Priestess has been sleeping within Originium for at least that long, and this is where we get to the final neat leg of Priestess's character; her patience and supreme confidence that things will go her way. See, Priestess is an antagonist. From what we know so far, she wants to see Originium flood over the surface of Terra, converting all the life on its surface. She wants Doc to give up and retreat into despair. But Priestess is also loving and affection to Doctor, in the calm way of a long life, and she's confident she knows what Doctor will do. Her words before parting in 14-19 sum it up well.

It's calm, welcoming, caring. But there's a manipulative quality to it, right? Amiya and Kal'tsit are 'doubts'. The entirety of Doc's involvement in the surface world is 'grand rhythms and minute pulsations' destined to fall into silence. At the same time she's far from a standard anime yandere, as she doesn't actually do anything to stop Doc's involvement in the surface world, and wishes them well as they go. After all, why not? She's immortal, and so is Doctor. She can be patient. You will return to her side. ... Okay, some last notes. It's really funny that in the Assimilated Universe, the 'The Matrix' - like construct inside Originium, Logos the words and grammar wizard intuitively understands that the place 'has its own grammar' before Kal'tsit tells him to not study it too deeply. My man got put in a computer and almost instantly was thinking on how to hack it. The Follower's drama with Shining and her dad (sorry I am not copying those names over) is very abstract but I think I get it after a while. Poor Liz, I hope she can find a happy life. Also as Arknights is a game by otaku who definitely read Fate/Stay Night, if your dad is a Matou Zouken you are obligated to kick his ass with your girlfriends. It'll be really hard! But you gotta do it. Finally, I actually have this book on my back shelf, 'Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition'. A sort of study of scientists poking at ways to live in space and survive the heat death of the universe and all that, with a bit of a lens of 'aren't these guys kooky' if I remember correctly. It's been over a decade since I last cracked it open. BUT I do remember that the segment on how to survive Heat Death introduces, as one concept, creating a virtual world that would slow its clock rate down as the usable energy lowers, extending the last few perceived seconds of its inhabitants into infinity. Given the literal demons Arknights has in the form of Collapsals I think the disaster that befell Priestess and Doctor is somewhat more direct, but it was neat to see digital arks as a long term survival method again. "Until the stars fall", huh.

[hearts4golbach]

help this took so long (tagsss)

[cyanide-latte]

Tumblr what the fuck

What is happening with the mobile app???