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personally I'd blame the writers over the character but i like the spunk

some day HG/Yostar will recognize us!

kid please this isn't a band this is a pharmaceutical paramilitary

that's the spirit!

#arknights #bassline #i'm choosing to believe that bassline plays a euphonium because of the fourth button on the slide with the pennant #its okay i'm a euph so you know i've died on dumber hills

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#Degenbrecher #Blemishine

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ayo wtf he calls it a tuba. i guess this one falls into the "obscure brass instrument" category 😢

As a euphonium player, I get excited every time I see a euphonium/baritone show up in pop culture. Someone finally recognizes us! Though I feel like it's always a coin flip between "hey we need some sort of obscure brass instrument" and "we actually want a euphonium". I'm looking forwards to see which one this turns out to be.

One of the telltale signs that someone is familiar with euphs is that 95% of us fit into a personality type that I think of as "go with the flow". We don't 'choose' to play euph, but rather pick it up as the path of least resistance. Maybe all of the other instruments were already taken (like Kumiko from Sound! Euphonium), or it fills a hole in the ensemble's instrumentation (this was me), or there is less competition during auditions (maybe a third of fellow euphs/tones from my school years). Usually our laid-back nature extends beyond music as well - the only time you'll find a euph as an instigator is when it involves dancing to the music or planning where to go to lunch. There's a reason why we all show up to Tuba Christmas but don't care that our instrument isn't in the name of the event :P

I have no idea if they talked about it on the stream, but I'm hoping to find that Bassline is the chillest of the Leithanian ops. Like Noir Corne levels of chill. Or Elysium in beach mode.

I hope that lore for how their callsign was chosen is included too. I can already imagine the conversation;

"It's a Euphonium, I use it to channel my arts... Maybe you've heard it called a Baritone? They're pretty similar... No, I don't sing. Though if you were singing I guess it would be in the Tenor range... Well, a saxophone is a woodwind, this is more like a trombone... Yeah, it does look like a small tuba... *exasperated sigh* Yes, I do know how to play Seven Nation Army... sure, 'Bassline' sounds fine."

#THIS IS EUPHONIUM ERASURE

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I love all of these little dioramas a lot but when looking at this one I was really struck by one detail in particular

Look at the target in front of Cardigan, you can clearly tell who’s hitting it based on the type of damage done. Two round holes, one in the shoulder and one in the head, likely from Adnachiel practicing both a debilitating and lethal shot respectively. A big jagged blast in the side from Steward probably a little off from aiming center mass.

But then there’s one more hole, a triangular one.

Right over the heart.

Who there would make that kind of puncture? And in such a vicious locati-

Oh.

Cardigan the fucking heart taker apparently! Look at how her arm is cocked back for a punch, this little puppy will end you

#arknights #cardigan #puppy got teeth #well at least one tooth

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chocolate chip cookies are so yummy~

#arknights #blemishine #whislash #arknights 5th anniversary #nearl family chocolate time!

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Made a lyric video animatic of Peak Fiction Lone Trail for the Arknights (CN) 5th year anniversary birthday party with a Synergistic Hyperbeam Amplifying Focus on the saria/mumu/kristen trio

#arknights #bentodraws #Lone Trail #mumu :'(

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#fluff fluff

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so many animated outfits wow. but why no blemmy... :(

anime season 5!

uncle goes to get smoothies???

dungeon meshi!!!!!

#arknights #arknights 5th anniversary

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#glaucus #blue poison #bloopy

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Happy birthday, Saria!

#arknights #stalkiwiart #olivia silence #saria #ifrit #look at iffy she's so proud #using the sunset to transition from gloomy gray to happy colors is a nice touch

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I tried out a new recipe for Chocolate Crinkles tonight. It's been a while since I've been so happy with just how pretty the cookies turned out!

(yes they taste delicious too)

Next time I might try adding choco chips or nuts or something with texture.

#slama cooks #cookies #baking

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every so often the gacha gods like to remind us;

they do know us

they can reward their faithful

most of the time they just choose not to

congrats on being seen! use the favour wisely ;)

also guess who I accidentally rolled on the Kernel banner when I was doing "just three pulls for fun because it would be cool if I got Siege"??

GLAD TO SEE YOU AGAIN FRIFRIT!!

and she and her mother (the wyvern one) are now both pot 5...

can you imagine? one potential away! pot 6! just one potential away!!

#gacha gods out here spiting the twitter trolls

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#arknights #blemishine #blemmy!!

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the doctor gender debacle in the recent event is so funny. legend has it that lowlight himself ran to the officers at 2:40 am, still in his kal'tsit onesie and screaming, "WHO TOLD YOU PEOPLE TO GIVE THE DOCTOR A MAN PENIS"

#congratulations Doctor for escaping gender

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I was wrong, DOS S-2 lets goooo!!!

Mountain S3 saves the early game :D

DOS S-1 might be as far as i get... my usual defender heavy squad just gets stat checked into oblivion :(

gonna have to get creative since I'm missing so many key ops (mlynar, eyalter, nightingale) and can only borrow 1

#arknights #design of strife #slama plays #i always panick and black out the middle section of the run so i only remember the beginning and the end and have to improv every time LOL

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#blue poison #bloopy #spin spin spin

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Maybe it's a hot take, but I don't think that flowey dresses are antithetical to Nearl. Sure it's not her normal fare, but I don't think there are any official arts of her wearing pants, and I'd suggest that (at least post-Near-Light) she would be able and willing to don the 'battle gear' for high society schmoozing.

I think what gets me is her expression and pose. Nearl usually looks composed, on a sliding scale from overtly confident to stone-faced mild disapproval. She's the one in control, the reliable guardian facing the world head-on. Invincible and steadfast.

The leaked promo image makes her look... off-guard, unsure, unaware? She's the only one in the spread not in a power pose. Almost like she wasn't ready for the picture.

It would make more sense to me if her 'confused' reaction in this case were to go serious and assess the situation. Surely she'd be used to it from the Kazimierz paparazzi? It makes seeing her look surprised by a photoshoot a bit jarring. So it's like a double whammy of cognitive dissonance with my idea of Nearl's demeanor.

even her swimsuit skin has her keeping her composure in a staged surprised/vulnerable pose

it's giving me the same vibes as that one cafe promo from a while ago. It's unsettling but hard to put my finger on why. For me it's hard to separate her outfit from her demeanor and "the vibes". I'll probably just write it off for myself as directions from a producer who learned about the Nearls recently from Maria/Zofia and directed Margaret in a way that makes more sense for them than for her

Thoughts on Nearl's look for Ambience Synethesia 2024... (spoilers, it's not good)

If you take away all the recognizable knightly things about her, put her in feminine outfits... who even is she? I know Canon Nearl doesn't look like the Masc Knight I draw her as, but even in her original design and Radiant Knight alt look she was still sorta bulked up with the chest plate, pauldron, arm and leg guards... remove those, and what are you left with? Especially because her being Skinny is so much more noticeable in these dresses they keep putting her in.

The vibe they were apparently going for is some "goddess of war" aesthetic, but that doesn't fit Nearl. That's not her vibe. Her vibe is Knight. And because several people confused her for Horn, makes me think they should've used Horn instead, because Horn already has her "lady of the lake" skin as a precedent.

I don't know why they keep doing this to her. It's like they're trying to push Nearl into some sort of visual box, but the box they try to shove her in doesn't fit. It contradicts her character and personality.

#spoilers #Nearl #not trying to invalidate anyone‚ just food for thought #did i just do some mental gymnastics? absolutely #give me a Nearl in a red carpet dress and also commanding the room so i can put my theory to the test #we need someone's module to have a cutscene a Kazmierz black tie event #i will always wish canon Nearl was more visibly yoked #also what's her skincare routine to get that skin despite literal decades of hand combat