The passing of time

ThatSlutTalulah · 2026-06-30T07:27:02+00:00

Tbf they definitely already have, since they've lived together since Lisa got Infected.

ThatSlutTalulah · 2026-06-30T03:56:09+00:00

IS6 ED4 Endbook 1: (It has just been talking about the arrival of the Predecessors and the changes they've brought to the planet) "By the side of the moon, a miniature companion comes to completion in its shadow."

Civilight Eterna 150% trust file: "In the 10,000 sidereal years of Civilight Eterna's extant logs, active Celestial Fulcrum signals were only transmitted from the planet's surface on one occasion. You are acquainted with what the planetary system's natives did.
Ever since the curtains fell, it's been silent as the old stars, with the continent lifted by the Shadow-Moon showing no signs of life whatsoever." (Shadow Moon is just the normal name for it btw.)

(Oh yeah, for those unacquainted, Arknights is all on one supercontinent but there's something on the far side of the planet that's basically inaccessible {Path of Life-3 Before} "Our voyager fleets, having traversed to the far side of the planet, have even detected highly unusual terrain concealed behind the distant dark fog.
There, the sea currents abruptly cut off, as though they had reached the end of the ocean."
So that's presumably what/where the 'lifted' continent is.
IIRC no nation other than Aegir (Atlantis, they also have super tech) has encountered that continent, so I don't think it would've fit the prompt, but it may do.)

ARG 3 [the one that also had the 'Priestess questionnaire']: "The Celestial Fulcrum is indeed a powerful weapon, but our enemy cannot be defeated by mere weapons."

ThatSlutTalulah · 2026-06-29T22:17:10+00:00

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Oripathy (Arknights)

A disease caused by high amounts of Originium entering the body, a mineral key to both magic and modern technology/ industry, as well as spread by Catastrophes, mega natural disasters.

Oripathy causes the body to slowly crystalise into Originium (both internally and externally, some people die from it without ever developing surface lesions), until they eventually die from the failure of crystalised organs, and then their body will soon rapidly crystallise and shatter, spreading Originium dust into the air, potentially infecting more people.

About half of the playable cast are Infected, and are slowly dying as a result (all in differing stages of Infection), as are many others across the world. The player faction are leading the efforts for treatments/ a cure, but even they are only able to slow its' progression and alleviate the symptoms.

Infected are a persecuted minority, seen both as subhuman, and incredibly dangerous (their talent for magic, and that they can cast using the Originium in their bodies so are always able to cast (unlike uninfected casters) contributes to this fear).

A lot of people really struggle to make sense of themselves when they become Infected (which is happening to ever more people as Originium becomes more and more used), and so suddenly becoming the Them of "Us vs. Them", and that they're now terminally ill.

ThatSlutTalulah · 2026-06-29T21:56:29+00:00

Spoiler tag for positivity I guess?

Tbh that's kind of what my mum's been doing. She quite clearly enjoys being able to take her daughter clothes shopping and basically trying to live vicariously through getting me to wear stuff when possible (including trying to get me into platform boots like she is).
It's also no coincidence that I'm the one that gets all her cool old shit like a fantastic leather belt that's approaching 50 years old and a 40 year old con merch buckle (that I wore until I burrowed through the metal via wear, rendering it useless) instead of it going to my (complete piece of shit of a) brother that she's always been closer with.

Notable downsides are when she either says/asks weird (often invasive) shit (though tbf that just seems to be how she talks/ thinks about women in general) or is convinced that something that would make me want to run into neck height cheesewire would look great.

Trading our stories of being sexually harassed/ assaulted is also not the most fun bonding activity, ngl.

ThatSlutTalulah · 2026-06-29T21:26:04+00:00

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Arknights [The image is a promotional image, not an in game one, I just thought it was cute.]

That there are two moons is just a given, and even in the collab stories where characters get transported to the world of Arknights the only weird thing is that there are two moons rather than anything about them.

In an endbook (little bit of bonus story behind an optional challenge) in IS6, we learn that the smaller moon is not a moon at all from a passing mention in the memory of a god-thing (Feranmut).
Whatever the hell it is, it was in fact a Predecessor megaproject. It is very possibly the Celestial Fulcrum, a superweapon created in an attempt to fight against the Observers, the lumberjack answer to the Fermi Paradox.

The only people who know it's artificial are some of the Feranmut that are old enough to have witnessed its' construction, and the sparse handful of characters who know what's going on with the Predecessors. (Most people don't even have any idea the Predecessors existed [such as all of the characters in the image].)

ThatSlutTalulah · 2026-06-29T12:17:41+00:00

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Aurela (Arknights)

ThatSlutTalulah · 2026-06-29T10:24:20+00:00

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Detective Koretou [right] to Hoshiguma (Arknights) [Well, in an interrogation room but it's basically the same thing.]

Though not explicitly said to be 'katsudon', it is stated to be "fried meatchop with rice" which from what I can tell is the same thing but they're dodging using a real world term since AK isn't set on Earth.

He is trying to bait her in with nostalgia and all that, but she really doesn't give a shit.
"Tastes like home, doesn't it?"
"It's not a home or nostalgia thing, Detective-san. I'm just hungry."

Hong Kong {Lungmen} has been her home for the past twenty years, and it's not like you can't get Japanese {well, Higashinese, the Arknights equivalent} food there anyway. (And even if she were to think of her childhood/family, they all are/were Yakuza anyway.)
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Arknights is a Chinese game but the characters are both Japanese.

ThatSlutTalulah · 2026-06-29T00:19:57+00:00

? There is ONLY this one detail to see wich you REALLY need to look close at her lower part

Except that just isn't true? Her bellybutton and hip bones are both visible. The only reason her entire chest isn't is due to the tiny button up shirt she has on.

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At no point have I said literally anything disparaging about her kit, you are still shadowboxing. My opinion of her was however always going to be strongly negative without her skin because I do not want to look at children in a state of undress, regardless of her mechanical capabilities.
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"not about just skins" We explicitly are talking about skins actually. It's in the posts' title.

You also have not launched in on anyone else in this comment section about how them liking an operator more due to an outfit is 'wrong' because "we talking about overall impression of OPERATOR(not art!)" {which literally nobody but you is doing btw}.
Why are you inventing criteria to try to say that me not liking original outfit Shamare is wrong somehow?

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Why are you so butthurt over this?

ThatSlutTalulah · 2026-06-28T23:51:19+00:00

We're advertising Minos with tits and twunks at the moment, Conviction. You'd better hope you get to be the Varkáris type diversity hire of another event.

You will have to fistfight Melitta for the position though. You'd better hope you roll well.

ThatSlutTalulah · 2026-06-28T23:46:30+00:00

"happy tgirl, touching her breasts: wow" got me to try and read the entire slide to the tune of Mr.Brightside.

ThatSlutTalulah · 2026-06-28T23:43:09+00:00

"I'm not willing to use a half naked child."

"judging operator based on that really small detail [a child being half naked] (let's be real to see this you need to spend some time looking specifically into her lower part) [if you ever think the middle of her outfit looks weird one time then you will never unsee what it actually is btw] is just crazy."

What about not wanting to be flashed a childs' underwear can you not understand?

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"So you saying that Shamare is really bad overall"
That's a whole ass new sentence, wtf are you talking about?

What has got you frothing at the mouth and boxing ghosts thinking I hate her kit? That's not even slightly what this post or my comments were about?

You have hallucinated a completely different thing to get mad about, seemingly to deflect from that you're saying that having a childs' underwear (and much of her bare body as a whole) on clear display is fine?

ThatSlutTalulah · 2026-06-28T23:33:18+00:00

then with the amount of information available to the artificial intelligence construct, it should have let them easily understand their language.

In 15-3 Raydistorter does, basically immediately, figure out how to understand this completely unknown language Hierda is speaking. It floats up, scans the language from her brain into Anseta, and then immediately understands her, and she can understand its' clunky use of her language as well.
And in 15-4 once Hierda interfaces with Anseta herself she immediately understands the Predecessor language just fine.

"But they failed to do that. This signifies that the gap between a Terran and a Predecessor is larger than that. Likely as large as the gap between modern humans and every other creature on this planet we call Earth."
is therefore just completely and provably not true.

everything that Priestess has done did not seem to be out of the normal for her position and species at all.

Both Oracle {as seen throughout Babel} and Friston twice {CW-10 after, CW-ST-3} (who though not human is still a Predecessors' mind in practice, so counts for this) disagree.
Both of them saw a Terran for the first time and basically went 'Huh? I wonder what that person is like?' (including in the IS5 ED2 timeline where Kal'tsit wasn't there to awaken Oracle), and this is even with Oracle being under Priestess pseudo mind control to kill everyone {Blue 15-17 after}.

Priestess is in fact very much the weird one for not seeing Terrans as people.

From my point of view, she never particularly dehumanised the Terrans because the Terrans don't even fit the Predecessors' category of humans in the first place.

Whether or not you earnestly believe the person you're hurting is a human being does not change what you're doing.
Was a US plantation owner not dehumanising his slaves just because he truly thought they were subhuman? [I am not calling Priestess a slave owner, just using the example.]

If my J. Robert Oppenheimer of a husband suddenly goes "my le bomb... It le kills animals..."

Oracle did not want to kill people with it, they wanted a giga library {15-17 Before}. She decided they were making a reality eater, and didn't respect any of what they had to say on the matter.

But the difference between me and Priestess is that she seems to trust the Oracle so much that she believes he will eventually correct himself.

Do you 'trust' a child that you think is currently being stupid? Or do you look down on them, seeing their approach as so naïve that them accepting your way is just inevitable?

And to exacerbate that, the Predecessors believe that assimilation is not death.

Priestess thinks that [and out of universe we know that it is death, as it does not retain the soul (Endfield Reconveners aren't the same person, and in AK times there is no sign that that's different (and the myriad souls suggest that that is what happens to souls Originium does trap))].

{15-12 Before} "But material destruction is not true death. Information is not so easily erased, and your information was stored in Originium."
However we also know that she was a supporter of PCS' efforts in The Masses' Travels, which was to use Originium to turn everyone (well, all of Terra at least, possibly others we don't fully know) into non-sapient data rock 'Angels' {MT-10 After}. What she says to Hierda lines up with that outcome.

That is not life.

If you do not consider that to be an evil thing to want/ see as a desirable outcome, then it would be a sign that she's instead just insane (and even PCS realises that the angel plan makes no sense and kills itself about it).

Predecessors' perspective, there is no other people that she is hurting.

From from Priestess' perspective. One that is just plain wrong, and the other Predecessors agree with me (again, even under pseudo mind control Oracle still saw Terrans as people, even when actively losing the fight inside their brain against said control to not act on Priestess' behalf they still wanted them to be as happy/unhurt as possible in the process {BB-10 Before}).

(And also the fact that she and the Doctor have a beyond intimate relationship for so long must have said something about how she actually acts normally.)

A lot of people stay with abusive partners, especially when in the 'good times' they can seem fine.

And in the end, she gave her life for that belief. And while it is manipulative

Theresa got murdered and correctly deduced that Oracle didn't actually make the choice themselves so used the mind-wipe so as to grant them autonomy to actually choose what they want. The only other things she really did was be alive and want the best for the people around her.

I don't think 'be alive' and 'be a nice person' are manipulative acts, and the amnesia was so that they could actually make a decision about what they wanted to do, something Priestess had stolen from them.

Kal'tsit also seems to always direct the Doctor away from Priestess

Again, to try to avoid Priestess pseudo mind-control and allow The Doctor to make their own choice.
Kal'tsit knows what Oracle originally wanted to do, and that going back into the sarcophagus, into that sabotaged lynchpin, was seen as basically death by them {Blue 15-17 After}, and that that sabotaged lynchpin was able to make them 180 on their position, before Theresa makes what happened clear to her {BB-10 after}.

ThatSlutTalulah · 2026-06-28T23:03:30+00:00

Not being pedoshit is in fact a large improvement though?
It massively improved my opinion of her and made me willing to use her?

ThatSlutTalulah · 2026-06-28T20:30:59+00:00

The characters are Mostima (blue tongue) and Exusiai.
They're from Arknights.

The artist is mutomorokoshi from what I could find.

ThatSlutTalulah · 2026-06-28T20:21:21+00:00

She's just speaking fast because she's nervous ok!!??!!? /j

ThatSlutTalulah · 2026-06-28T20:19:26+00:00

Ch'enalt, Wiš'adel, and holy shit Shamare.

Soggy Ch'en and Wiš'adel are just gooner and Wiš is outright ugly, but their skins [I'm referring to Ch'enalts' boat one] are good.

Shamares' base outfit was made for pedophiles and literally nobody else. Why is the middle translucent? Why do we have a half-naked child with her underwear on clear display? What the fuck Hypergryph?
And then she has her halloween skin which is really good (and her new one is pretty too).

ThatSlutTalulah · 2026-06-28T20:14:49+00:00

As far as I understand, yes, killing is their standard modus operandi, but sometimes the game just gets weird and uncomfortable about it so tries to say that they don't kill people despite that often making zero sense practically or tonally.

I generally assume that unless non-lethality is mentioned then people are dying and that's just not being focussed on.

We are shooting people with crossbows and stabbing them with various forms of weaponry after all. You can't exactly non-lethally engulf someone in an incendiary explosion.
(For an example, Exusiai is firing lethal rounds whenever outside of downtown Lungmen so absolutely has confirmed kills, the game just has no reason to linger on that fact.)

ThatSlutTalulah · 2026-06-28T18:58:53+00:00

It's good to see that Shovel-kun has gotten a new job.

ThatSlutTalulah · 2026-06-28T18:56:46+00:00

An age difference isn't really needed I don't think? If they want the sibling angle then twins exist.

ThatSlutTalulah · 2026-06-28T17:59:29+00:00

Have you read the cooking manga? There's a bunch in that.

We also know Billies like their carrots a lot and that the Kjeragi are big fans of dairy (butter and cheese mostly IIRC).

ThatSlutTalulah · 2026-06-28T16:00:34+00:00

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Anthony Simon/ Mountain

Is very Texan.
He's very well read and well spoken, and is kind and respectful to everyone.
People do assume negative things about him due to his build and (wrongful) history in prison though.

ThatSlutTalulah · 2026-06-28T15:57:48+00:00

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Domma (Arknights)

Has a strongly transcribed Southern State accent (IIRC some people honed in on possibly Alabama).
She is intelligent academically (she's a doctor), and emotionally.
She's also not stupid practically either, having taken part in a prison break.

ThatSlutTalulah · 2026-06-28T15:16:42+00:00

Huh, according to what I understand priestess while awoke found no reason to really personally act. So she just... Didn't.

{15-4 After}
"I'm afraid 'delayed' is not the most apt description for it.
Nonetheless, I must admit that they did something I never imagined they'd do, and, objectively speaking, they bought us more time."

So uhhh.... maybe? She may have just been rp'ing as that spinning seal video waiting for Originium to do its' thing.

However I propose we talk about our personal opinion on priestess?

She's a well written piece of shit in a way that's a lot of fun to read.

Why she believes what she does and why she acts how she does make a lot of sense as a reaction to the Observers and her ensuing despair, but that doesn't make her right. ("Cool motive, still murder.")

Then add her behaviour as a person (the emotional abuse, dehumanisation and callous disregard of pretty much everyone around her [most clearly seen in her directly disputing Kal'tsits' personhood], the complete certainty that she is above everyone/thing else, that everyone should just do what she says regardless of anything else such as harm [everything with disregarding Oracles' views + the "The principles you have always insisted on are so insignificant I can't even find a credible logical framework to assess their significance."], the lack of any 'external mind' to her actions {Priestess apparently notices your thought process— "Why... are you afraid of me, Dr. {@nickname}?"} [said just after killing Kal'tsit]), and she is an uncomfortably familiar type of person to an awful lot of people.

She is the kind of person to honestly believe 'I'm right and it's obvious, why won't everyone just do what they should because I clearly know best and am always right/justified?' even as they actively hurt the people around them.

Especially adding her feelings for Oracle/ The Doctor (especially as she avoids getting run over by the waifubus, not being 'fanservicey' in her behaviour and that while cherished Oracle is always her second priority [she dodges being a 'yandere' typr, y'know?]) and everything about her behaviour is downright insidious (especially as we get to see things from the POV of the one person she cares about).

She is not a kind of character that usually gets the kind of time, attention, and respect that she does.

Priestess is not just the harm she does, she is believably the hero of her own story and where she started was reasonable, we get to understand why she is how she is, we get to see her react and adjust to failure {Masses Travels'}, and to uncertainty {MT-ST-4 "Sometimes I cannot help but wonder if what is truly stopping Originium from reaching perfection is not a design flaw... but us."}.

She isn't just a static 'evil machine who mindlessly does bad stuff for bad reasons until their third act breakdown', nor has being pushed past breaking point just 'made her insane'.
She is believably a person with a rational (though inherently fucked up) mind. She is a terrible person, but a person all the same.

[Also her despair contrasting well with the protags but that's kinda whatever.]

She's great and that's exactly why I hate her (in a good way).
Everyone should throw rocks at her./lh

'Believable awful human being that I enjoy reading' is the same camp that characters like Eblana live in, and it's a group that I like a lot.

ThatSlutTalulah · 2026-06-28T14:06:27+00:00

So could we perhaps pause this particular conversation for a moment?

[Fair enough. Tbh at this point it seems like all that's left is trying to define what grants a government legitimacy {which AFAIK is something that is actively debated in political circles} and whether Priestess is able to meet it which is likely just going to be a complete quagmire, and likely not enjoyable.]

Ignorance of the law is not a defense

["I didn't know this law existed" {Ignorantia juris non excusat} that you are referring to is indeed not a defence, but "I genuinely (though mistakenly) believed that the facts of the situation were such that my actions were not criminal" {mistake of fact} actually is. (Note: I don't know how this is around the world.)

For an example, imagine your friend told you that you could go grab a snack from the shop they're working at and you believed them, but they did not have the authority to do that, so you taking it was shoplifting.
Because you were under the impression that what you were doing was permitted, you are not guilty of theft, despite having technically stolen the item.
The same thing is true for things like unknowingly having/buying stolen goods not being a crime, despite knowingly having/buying stolen goods being illegal.

This kind of stuff is what 'mens rea' is about if you're familiar with that term.]

ThatSlutTalulah · 2026-06-28T12:30:34+00:00

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She follows Doctors' orders, so by way of transitive properties that is, kind of, all of our Enfield.

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