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WE ARE SO FUCKING BACK BAYEBBYEYYYYY

girlyaoi in lungmen? closer than you think. tune in next week on october 20th for hot dragontiger g (dragged into the slums before i can finish)

#arknights #bentotexto

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YUXIA BONK

the beginning of the skin flavour text is something like 'replica of a Lungmen VIP's childhood dream' do you think she larps in her spare time

#arknights #bentotexto #learned a new cn meme today 如意如意，按我心意 快快显灵 #maybe add more musings later bc #wanting to be a 仙人 with her background thats so crying emoji

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Because I have a parasocial relationship with this gamemode (I like it very much) I collated all the Reclamation Algorithm resource and hunting zone maps on prts.wiki so I don't have to load the site every 5 minutes to see what the map actually looks like

Also uhhhh some beginner tips ig

Recycling Crab Sashimi (3x Crab Leg) gives you 60 Isotonic Units that's 2x the amount you get just feeding the isotonic machine 3 Crab Legs!!! IIRC if you eat too many crab legs a certain giant enemy crab raid will appear

There's a safe space at the bottom of your HQ to put your wheat planters instead of around your core

Food effects last the entire run

Building and placing a Transregional Communication Station will let you escape your current run with some tools/food so you can carry over harvesters/OP food to have a better start on your next run

Skills that stop attacking like Suzu and Gladiia S3 will delete their vision too when their skill is active...

#arknights #bentotexto

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my new dog

If anyone was curious: I got it from xianyu which is like the mercari of CN, it was normally a group order thing that people do often to make plushies in batches but I very luckily found a second hand listing of this while looking for custom bnuuy clothes lmao

Never used the app before and was malding because while you can make an account via your taobao acc you can't pay with gaijin cards UNLESS you copy the link and paste It in your taobao app and It somehow lets you pay there (funnily enough when I downloaded the app through the app store it wouldn't open up the menu with the copy link button so I had to install an older APK and thankfully that one did let me copy the link) set the shipping address to a 3rd party warehouse though idk if the taobao warehouse service would work here and didnt want to experiment then

Also it was 100 rmb before shipping

Crinkly plastic sound when you squeeze it yourbodyisfullofmicroplastics.jpg

#arknights #bentotexto #Day 3 without my pc I miss it so bad

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more Reclamation Algorithm posting (early game? recommendation)

I forgot to mention this yesterday but I highly recommend unlocking this project ASAP that gives your ops epic gamer 360° (3x3) vision

Also just mentioning here since the game never tells you but you can also turn them into Outpost Nodes too (there are also 2 projects unlockable by upgrading nodes to these)

#arknights #bentotexto

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Reclamation Algorithm site

KINOS BACK ON THE MENU

there's not much rn actually you basically click ‘begin analysis’ and watch a 3d object rotate before it tells you something about the game mode

new stuff they might have mentioned in the stream back then:

-no day limit

-progress is periodically saved and you can basically reload from an earlier state if you're stuck

-there's a time-limited space independent of the main map to explore (prob like monthly/seasonal missions)

-capture creatures and bring them back to your base for a little farming sim (prob generate more supplies or something)

more info to drop on 3rd feb (i THINK that should be the stream date too if not the day before since its exactly 1 week before CNY)

#arknights #i should tag all these tl posts under something #bentotexto

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LIN'S SKIN ISN'T QIPAO

I BELIEVED IN YOU YYB

#arknights #bentotexto #extremely amused by the giant backscratcher looking thing

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Rhine PR vid from CN 4th anni stream

very belatedly realised the narrator in this and the Lone Trail 3DPV sound real similar it's not just me right.. right

#arknights #bentotexto #so this is kristen right h-haha #LONE TRAIL KINO IMMINENT

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IL Siracusano Toiletkino Localisation Musings

nothing big here im just mostly shitposting...unless(gets hit by lappy's truck)

So this is what EN went with

Which is not wrong at all, CN does use 厕所 for both lines, but when I did a bunch of fan TL last november I took a little ~artistic liberty~

(On hindsight it should be washroom)

And now I'm feeling very unnecessarily vindicated that the JP Loc did something similar

Like yeah they mean the same thing but 手洗い being more formal and トイレ being a much more casual term, which I think, gives you that little subtext for each character and their relationships between them (I saw a post that said 'basically you use the former when on a date and the latter when talking to your friends which I know is a very JP-centric cultural thing but like TEXSORA REALNESS)

This part is also not wrong but I like to think my toilet-related pun was very good tehepero

I wish they kept the walk though its very…..oldmanyuri-core if you understand me also the CN is really cute

哈哈。走走？ Haha. Walk? 走走。 Walk.

like., the boomer af 'shall we take a walk' juxtapositioned with the casual and almost.....childish (as in how its so simple and makes me think of how they might have been when they were kids) way of communicating DO YOU GET IT

#arknights #bentotexto #i should tag all these tl posts under something #il siracusano #also ty/sorry to the friend i nicked the top screenshot off

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SPARKLE ON! ITS WEDNESDAY!

bonus:

bonus bonus:

kino frame for me and a handful of people shes not even the one that's narrating that line but

this line of hers in 5-7 END it's '命最重要' in CN which is like 'life is the most important' I get why they would localise it to read smoother but my delusional juxtapositionalkino... fwiw that line in the CN dub is 性命是非常重要的东西 do you understand my vision

#arknights #bentotexto #i wanted to shop the blingee text on it but i got lazy and this is the compromise

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Lappy fancam animatic blogging/production notes

now that wolfgirlyaoi is out on global its rambling time about my powerpoint presentation

Concept

Originally I wanted to do an (Tex & Lapp) animatic with the boss theme (broken wall/Signore dei Lupi .mp3) ever since the event dropped but I thought 1) by the time I finished anything someone else would have probably already done it first (lol, lmao even) 2) I remembered the song exists and how much i looped it then while listening to the group's new album drop and thought the lyrics fit Lapp a little too well and also doesn't end abruptly like the boss theme + was shorter so yea

initial stickman storyboard where i put down the lyrics with event dialogue/happenings that i felt would fit nicely together > hastily scribble the images that form in my head

storyboards were basically what i wanted to see (same rule as my comics) lol especially if they weren't shown in the event CGs, eg. there's a CG of the truck crashing into the courtroom so I didn't do that but they didn't mention her physical acting in that scene + the song I used has a bow/salute at that exact part in their live choreo with the very similar line so I wanted to do a homage even though-

-I was like it's going to be such a pain to figure out an economical hand twirl and bow but I have to do this I need to transplant the image in my brain onto the screen because official media did not do a—

Honestly still don't know if its a common phrase and action combo because I was having so much trouble finding external references that wasn't just scrubbing the live video over and over anyway

part of the storyboards were 'recycled' from comic drafts I did (of the chocolate scene because ofc) when the event was running on CN

Originally I wanted to draw Lapp feeding Texas for The Girlyaoi Funny but I wanted to reference the plaque you get which is a Creation of Adam reference right but I also saw people saying it's referencing the scene from Silence of the Lambs lol so...peel the layers to your liking!!

(The chocolate flavour choice was from asking my Columbian friends what the worst chocolate flavour they ever tried which was white coconut)

my sorry attempt at colour keys > final spreadsheet to keep track of progress and paste all the dialogue i put in

Art Direction

A bunch of shots/colour schemes are references to Måneskin's stuff or other media tehepero I'll just put a few here

At first I was going to limit red/blue to tex/lapp respectively but since Omertosa is blue I just did away with that rule and lapp gets to have both (and more!) these two colours have pretty obvious emotional readings I think but also

red = self blue = society Siracusa or: red = yaoi & blue = yuri

for the others:

Purple = Alberto/Saluzzo, its not orange like the fruit he keeps holding because see below; I needed the colour for something else LOL Also the Saluzzos are iirc nobility or whatever and they have purple hints in their clothes so I think it was a good fit anyway

Yellow/Orange = Its supposed to be representing the last word in the story which apparently, yostar went with 'Savagery' which is Correct I guess but (laments again about how nuance is lost in localisation because imo savagery has a more derogatory kind of connotation while I think 蛮荒 in context of the story also has a 'nature/untouched by civilisation' side to it) which is why Texas setting the house on fire was not (entirely) red but orange (and it complements the blues both visually and thematically) and it's yellow at the end when they're frolicking(?) in the wilderness lol

(these colour rules don't apply to the penglog shot and technically a few frames like the shot with shocked penance, the one right after and 'im just lappy' because...i forgor my own rules lol)

The greens/teals were just a reference to the shades in the 3DPV I think

The silhouette/general style was inspired from the 3D teaser thing they had at the beginning of the 3.5 anniversary stream and the card suits that I..forgot to move to the other layers which is why only the green one had them (supposed to be 1 per set 💀)

The clash bit is basically the same as the event CG but with a flipped camera/POV sorry for world's worst screenshot lmao. Couldn't imagine the poses in my head so I ended up posing 3d models in CSP pretty good posing practice

These shots got rendered extra because..they were the first frames I started on and I was still figuring out how much to simplify lol

I also posed the chairs shot for some inexplicable reason…my file was lagging so bad

Headcanon part (kind of)

The childhood flashback scene is probably the part I took the most liberties (headcanon) on since it's not explicitly canon like the rest...the sequence/how I connected the scenes itself to fabricate a timeline of her childhood was kind of inspired by some weibo post musing about how (iirc) texas's sweet tooth maybe came from when she was being fostered at casa Saluzzo and Lapp treating her like a pet essentially and giving her a lot of treats since...you know what happened to her actual pet hehe except maybe texas offered her a stick first and then Lappy just reciprocated endlessly because its one of the few 'acts' she knew that wasn't violence haha yeah this section was basically a stealth doujin sorry

It's mentioned that she was brought up as the ideal Siracusan or whatever and she does the cute doodle in the 3DPV so I thought she probably had the Forced Music Lessons as a kid (The music sheets are Bella Ciao and of course)

The bow choreo was the one thing i really wanted to animate but the music sheet segment (based on that one split second shot above) ended up being my favourite part even though compositing the motion was a mini hell on it's own (ended up compiling a long png to scroll by with the red doodles layered over)

Other things

I will never live down my (self-imposed) shame of misspelling the title (I fixed the title on youtube but its why the ending shot in the upload says ZittE e Buoni instead of ZittI e Buoni) don't rush your fancam in 10 days 😔

I didn't look through the entirety of the EN loc but Idk why they had Lappy say 'Then go.' to Texas when it's supposed to be more like 'Let's go.' as in, 'let's go together' as opposed to 'alright off you go to the greyhall alone' lmfao also her saying goodbye forever padre when addio is right there

I don't think I'm insane enough to do another ppt soon but man this pair really makes the 'imagines a whole music video while listening to music' part of my brain go wheee like first it was Starset's Manifest then Signore de Lupi then this and while working on this one i was thinking how Måneskin's Torna A Casa would be another good track

ok ty for reading #GIRLYAOIREAL

#arknights #Il siracusano #bentodraws #bentotexto #I was going to have this post as a reblog but tumblr broke my copypaste so here's a completely separate post #feel free to ask me about anything else i didn't cover in here

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hampter🥹

gameplay is basically you take pictures to show them on stream and there are 7 different endings to get but one of them is particularly special

I don't know how they're going to localise some parts like this CN Stream Exclusive Haimao Avatar unless they don't care about it making complete sense (since its just an april fools)

also the endings get pretty tragic

shes not useless btw you're going to be on your knees begging her to stun your units so the gopnik doesnt smash your last knight escort dreams into a million pieces!!!!!!! SEVEN POINT FIVE SECONDS OF STUN THAT HITS FLYING/HOVER ENEMIES

she's like extremely het though like she took a pic of hoshiguma and was like 'shes so handsome! and also very tall…could she (actually) be a handsome guy?' hampter please

there's this comment on the teaser post that reads like

#arknights #bentotexto

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overdue Episode 11 post

basically the chenswire part of my stupidly long twitter thread covering ep 11 with more delusional thoughts and I ended up TLing their last scene in CN I guess (scroll to bottom) i wish i had the energy to make 1morbillion gifs but i do not so.. Excerpts from my 200 image screenshot folder it is

So the ep starts off with a super pensive Swire which was very cute when will my wife return from the war energy

And then she breaks out into a super un-ladylike run whaddahell!!!! this sequence was sooo well drawn wtf. handsome

(Something here about how people were joking this part is summer chen because they call chummer 水陈 'water chen')

I like how relaxed the atmosphere was like this definitely isn't the first time something like this has happened, well I mean after all they are Professional Co-workers who do not fight 24/7 (they get into an argument immediately after)

When they break eye contact to turn towards Hoshiguma they basically don't meet each other's gazes again as they take turns to glare at each other its insane... Also Swire saying she should take over and Chen needs treatment... Chen you understand what that means right...

Another detail I love is how at the start they already show her battered jacket/clothes for us gamers to point at the screen and then later who those who don't know/didn't notice we have a whole close up of chen reacting to it...man.jpg And swire leaving right away once she knows chen is fine (and one of her good points. lol. lmao) you guys are sure so quick

Link to CN version of the PUUK GAI LUNG in Paci Plaza I love how she's like 'Chen you stay right there' at the end like she's going to idk fly over ASAP to whack her (as opposed to just 'hey, chen!')

Here's a clip of the last scene with CN dub because not only do we get 'ah chen' it just hits so different...

Hi~ Still there, Miss Ah Chen? Ah? What d'you mean by ah, huh? Aren't you a Dai Siu Ze too? Enough of that, don't you have something to tell me? What happened at Paci Plaza… I'll make sure to sort it all out and file for damages later.

Had a feeling they would go with the JP loc's 'aren't you an ojou too' since you know, anime, but keeping the 'ah chen' and that 阿什么阿 response the unparalleled casualness

You… Remember the Cha Chaan Teng at Sheung Wan? Trying to change the subject? The one near the LGD HQ, right? I used to stop by there on my patrols sometimes. Let me treat you to something there next time. Hmm~ If we go there… I want a steak tomato and egg burger! Wait, no! Like hell I'd want you to treat me to a meal!

the longer pause after 'you...' like she was considering something else before she decided to go with her 茶餐厅 MENTION!!!!! gives this a whole different flavour... chen outright offering the meal instead of swire guessing??? THE WARM SMILE CLOSE UP i feel like im intruding on something

Then send your bill to Chief Wei. I'm hanging up. Wait, don't hang up just yet! I heard you ran straight out of Rhodes Island in the end. What are you planning? Weren't you looking for their help? Ugh, stay down! Take a nap over there! You sure sound busy. Guess I should hang up. Tch… I'm not done speaking with you yet. Was leaving the little bunny (and the others) over there weighing on your mind? Well, whatever. (We'll just do this) Just let me help you clean up the mess over here.

It just sounds so much more casual in CN than the JP dub (which is excellent ofc) >let me do it for you instead of 'ill do it' (head in hands)

the opposite lighting and angle and chen looking away vs swire looking straight #KINO

Don't talk like you understand me very well, Miss S. Enough!!! How many times have I told you not to call me that!! Got it, got it.

You don't seem to get it, so I'll be nice today and explain it to you. Life is extremely precious. You're always risking your life chasing what's right in front of you. Stop doing that. Got that? Your advice… I'll take it.

That exasperated 'Enough!!!' i (turns into a plane and flies away) and the last line... it as 'thanks for the advice' which technically isn't wrong but you know the nuance of uh. kind of, almost, somewhat, accepting a... confession... (of her concern ofc) also CN chen lets swire finish speaking instead of interrupting which hehe... like i said..the flavour hits different. also that subtle movement as chen like eases in more and more between those lines aaaghhhhhhhhhh

their earlier argument was so explosive and quick, but now their banter is so tender and slow like bruh. what. even the act of chen putting down her sword to sit down in a comfortable position (loved that she sat like that One leg sitters rise up!!!) was so ??? the normally yolo speedrunner chen being so leisurely like damn. ok. ok. From 'you think you can order me around' to basically agreeing to an order (Londinium cannon vine boom) I thought Chen being this warm was more or less a delusion that I inferred through in game as subtext (since in game her expression then is usually like her default rbf face...) and seeing it here as 'text' in the show is like 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 holy shit can't believe i got FED after four years incidentally i've been obsessed with a certain CN writer's fics lately because the way they write chen like a sad wet dog while showing warmth is crazyyy maybe i will blog about it next time because i was legit taking notes lmao

#arknights #chenswire #bentotexto #speaking of chen smiling that ep 12 shot huh. huhhhhhhhhhh

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Reclamation Algorithm 2 blog(???)

damn i wish i took down notes on what i did every day but i didn't so point form it is (currently on day 16)

the game calculates your score every 3 days and you get the node upgrade points to upgrade your tree and the shop currency to buy kestrel then so you can get her around day 10?

tutorial is much better this time and the little cutscenes inside the map are so cute (btw kestrel here gets attacked by a bunch of enemies after but her hp doesn't go below 1 lmao)

there's a quest tracker now lol

you have to upgrade your base ASAP from 1 to 2 to unlock the harvester so its 60+ wood you have to manually chop (+ because you also need 5 water)

crabby pumpies now have an expiry timer, you can upgrade them to last longer

everything generally is more expensive to make (like im only making my first wall on day 15, prob skill issue though) i've only fought a raid at base like... once and i was trying to finish them off before but i fumbled hehe. anyw my base is literally just 4 rice planters (you start with 1 and my current cap is 4) and like.. nothing else other than a platform atm its so dire

you can use crude gold to repair your base, it's easier to get them now but repairs aren't super cheap anyways

they really want you to use ALL your ops/raise more, the new stamina system basically requires you to have 2 'bottles' that are 60 units each for every battle you enter, and you can bring 6 units, or 12 units if you have 3 bottles, and you can only use a unit once every day

also they killed off some recipes (but apparently they added a LOT more so you'll get mystery (failed) dishes that give you 60 when you recycle it for juice (eg. triple rice isn't a recipe anymore)

there are now 3 outposts? around your base that enemy raids will pass through before reaching your base which is nice but also one of their layout looks like

i need walls man

my game crashed on day 9 upon entering a map and it basically forced me to day 10, but i could rollback to day 7 which was nice

these new rodent enemies are so cute

#arknights #bentotexto

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OP YOU GET IT YOU UNDERSTAND

#bentotexto #PEOPLE ARE SLEEPING ON THE SHOUNEN RIVALRY OF IT ALL

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LOVE IS LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#arknights #bentotexto #sorry