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mannentake @mannentake.bsky.social · Dec 29
incidentally, my thoughts on canon compliance lmao — it's important for as long as there's a canon that makes sense, but if the writer of the source material proves to be an idiot, that doesn't mean i have to go along with the idiocy.
I reserve the right to do what I did with the Elden Ring DLC and say "blatant stupidity that contradicts extant text is not relevant to what I write and shall be dismissed," lol. I can't stop writers from making terrible decisions, but that doesn't mean I have any reason to respect them — I'm less a fan of 'death of the author' and more a fan of 'murder of the author if the author proves to be an idiot,' you see. While I generally try to aim for a high level of compliance with the canon up to the point at which I began writing any given fic, if something bafflingly terrible enough (in a narrative/consistency sense) happens I'll simply stick to the preexisting text instead, from before it got stupid.
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Gloomspiral @gloomspiral.bsky.social · 7d
This is the first time I’ve been awake in like a week so have some #Friskarm (who are also my beloved despite me never talking about them)

#liskarm #franka #arknightsfanart #gloomspiral
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Gloomspiral @gloomspiral.bsky.social · 15d
Belated Eblana & Reed birthday 🐉🍰🐉

Its such a sweet day if you forget canon ❤️

#eblana #reed #arknights #gloomspiralart
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mannentake @mannentake.bsky.social · 20d
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mannentake @mannentake.bsky.social · 21d
the more things change, the more they stay the same...

the last piece was a birthday in the past, so here's one in the present! i hope they can have many more together...

(commissioned from a friend who would prefer to remain anonymous!)

#红龙骨
Eblana is laughing as she feeds Loughshinny cake, which actually means smearing frosting on her cheeks with a fork. Loughshinny looks cutely grumpy. There is text saying "Happy Dublinn Sister Day" with a heart. Eblana is licking the frosting off of Loughshinny's cheeks.
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mannentake @mannentake.bsky.social · 21d
sometimes if you want a birthday treat, you need to take things into your own hands... a very happy birthday to eblana and loughshinny!

(yet another comm from my wonderful friend @arcaeayuri.bsky.social)

#红龙骨
Eblana and Loughshinny, in their child designs, are executing a raid on the cookie jar. Eblana is sitting on Loughshinny's shoulders and reaching up to grab it, while Loughshinny cutely struggles with her sister's weight. In the upper-right are two little chibis of them post-raid, with Eblana shoving a cookie in Loughshinny's mouth.
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mannentake @mannentake.bsky.social · 22d
The Taran War of Independence if Eblana were more proactive about corpse collection...

(yes infected corpses explode but we know eblana's fire prevents that)

Commissioned from the wonderful @potettoe.bsky.social!

#明日方舟 #アークナイツ #Arknights #红龙骨
Eblana is riding on the left shoulder of a zombified Patriot, looking smug and waving at a horrified Duke of Caster and Harold. Loughshinny is sitting in her lap, Eblana's arm around her waist, looking sort of like a confused kitten staring at the camera.
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mannentake @mannentake.bsky.social · 22d
Priestess treating her dear wife to a day out...

(commission from the excellent @megalateo.bsky.social!)
Priestess and the Doctor (female) are sitting on a bench in a beautiful flower garden. One of the Doctor's hands is held between Priestess's. The Doctor's wrist has heavy rope burns and her neck has marks of strangulation.
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mannentake @mannentake.bsky.social · 27d
loughshinny's ambience synesthesia dress was just too beautiful, i wanted to put eblana in a suit to match...

but is this just an invitation to dance? or maybe a proposal...?

(comm from a friend who prefers to remain anonymous!)

#红龙骨
Eblana, wearing a suit, is holding out her left hand to Loughshinny, who's placing her hand in Eblana's. It looks like either an invitation to dance or perhaps a marriage proposal.
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Gloomspiral @gloomspiral.bsky.social · Oct 6
Family portrait

#reed #eblana #arknights #gloomspiralart
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Gloomspiral @gloomspiral.bsky.social · Oct 3
“Tch, how dare that little bunny boss me around. She thinks I'm gonna go along with it and be her errand girl, just 'cause she gives me that gentle look? Drop it. No one can be a second Theresa. Even that bunny does have some... some... Whatever.”

#wis’adel #wamiya #gloomspiralart
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mannentake @mannentake.bsky.social · Sep 22
nah eblana's fine with collateral damage but deliberate friendly fire isn't really her thing, she considers that wasteful — more like dragging loughshinny to the bedroom for several hours lmao
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mannentake @mannentake.bsky.social · Sep 17
🐉💛🐉💜 (truly an answer as shocking as the ocean being wet)
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mannentake @mannentake.bsky.social · Sep 17
i cannot beg you enough to please read the content warnings for this. it's eroguro! (the bamboo was the only safe thing to thumbnail)

内容警告にご注意ください。この絵はR18Gです。（竹だけが安全にサムネイル化できるものだった）

#terumoko #てるもこ #R18G

poipiku.com/11715162/122...
A lovely bamboo forest in which horrible, violent sex is occurring. The sex is offscreen, as it's too visceral to display without copious content warnings and an opt-in.
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mannentake @mannentake.bsky.social · Sep 14
another comm from my dear friend @arcaeayuri.bsky.social!

eblana loves her sister very, very much... and those poor zombies definitely have to put up with a lot 😅 they aren't paid nearly enough for this...

#红龙骨
Eblana is bridal carrying Loughshinny, who's covering her face with her hands and blushing. A pair of Eblana's zombie minions are standing in the background, thoroughly exasperated with their unlives.
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mannentake @mannentake.bsky.social · Sep 14
comm from a friend who prefers to be anonymous!

poor loughshinny, her sister can be extremely embarrassing...

(yes i know those are originally noses not mouths on the plushies but they were so cute when my friend sent a sketch with it misunderstood that i kept it 😆)

#红龙骨
Eblana is smirking and wearing a T-shirt that says "#1 Loughshinny Fan" on it and holding a tiny plush of Loughshinny as well as the dragon plush modeled after Loughshinny from her module. Loughshinny is in the background blushing at her sister's embarrassing siscon tendencies, but she's still holding the dragon plush modeled after Eblana (also from Eblana's module).
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mannentake @mannentake.bsky.social · Sep 10
of course!!! i swear i've spent most of the day thinking about them every day since elegies finally hit global... hahaha
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mannentake @mannentake.bsky.social · Sep 10
i'm glad you enjoyed my analysis haha i really love poetry (and the dublinn twins...)

this poem tells me i really need to get on wrapping up one of my extant longfics so i can start in on the one i have planned for them, the oneshot i did back in march when elegies dropped on cn isn't enough 😆
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mannentake @mannentake.bsky.social · Sep 10
yeah i'd love it if they were on other platforms too, i'm only still on twt since that's where the artists who do eblana/loughshinny stuff are 😭 i had been too sleepy to port the thread here this morning but i just did, and it's also on tumblr here! www.tumblr.com/mannentake/7...
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mannentake @mannentake.bsky.social · Sep 10
anyway this might be slightly incoherent since i originally wrote it at 4am and all but LIKE. this poem, and the way eblana and loughshinny continue to perceive what comes next differently, has me rabid

eblana please go to your sister already she misses you so much
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mannentake @mannentake.bsky.social · Sep 10
with elegies they wove a beautiful, tragic story...

but it is indeed "just a story." their future need not be decided by it — and certainly won't be, because eblana would never allow herself to be limited by such a thing.
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mannentake @mannentake.bsky.social · Sep 10
"This is just a story, not a map of our future."

eblana is rejecting the idea that this is truly the death of their romance, and in asserting that loughshinny need not cry is all but promising to return to her.
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mannentake @mannentake.bsky.social · Sep 10
the blurb on the node is from eblana to loughshinny, and reads "This is just a story, not a map of our future. There's no need to cry, Loughshinny."
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mannentake @mannentake.bsky.social · Sep 10
eblana herself, though, gives us a hint of a more positive future for them. the story node where she entices loughshinny to kill her, EA-ST-2, is called "Death of a Romance" — which aligns very much with loughshinny's poem. but what does eblana have to say about that title?
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mannentake @mannentake.bsky.social · Sep 10
given eblana's deceit, few remain who know both of them exist. eblana can't have a real grave, and even if one were made for her it would need to be secret and likely tended only by loughshinny. all loughshinny has left, now...

is brushing the dust off of the grave of her love.
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mannentake @mannentake.bsky.social · Sep 10
"To brush away all the / Tiny, tiny dust upon the gravestone"

eblana is dead. loughshinny believes that eblana, in her new state, won't want to see her again (a belief i think is flawed, more later in the thread), and so all that remains is the 'gravestone'
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