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tillandsia

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tillandsia

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I think I've made my peace with the ending of Amphoreus and feel a lot more positively about it than I did at 4 am after finishing it. the post-quest in the exotale is a must.

and the process of going through the eternal page to reach this end, the origin and finale of this world...cinema.

A screenshot of the nebula that will give rise to Amphoreus again from the cradle of Cyrene's memory. The text reads: This scene is the ending of As I've Written, and also the origin point of the Amphoreus in the real world: One day, it will give birth to true life. The people in the memory will be born one by one, waiting for you "tomorrow."

November 9, 2025 at 8:36 AM

tillandsia

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wow I missed these two

A flashback CG of Kevin Kaslana and Su sitting together in Honkai Impact 3rd in a past Flamechasers event. Kevin has a yellow hard hat on and is wiping sweat from his head while in his summer outfit. Su is sipping tea next to him. The text is dialogue from Su, which reads: "Do you remember, Kevin? That time you saved up your annual leave to lay bricks in winter while wearing a swimsuit? Ah, yes, that was a sight I remember like it was yesterday.

September 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM

tillandsia

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I guess this dromas is very hungry for red soil

August 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM

tillandsia

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hsr spoilers //

this description for the exomyth OST is such a perfect encapsulation of the difference between how erudition and remembrance think of stories and memory.

Mythical Axiom: Departure, metamorphosis, trials, and return... Heroes are like a sequence of numbers, their epic tales written in arrangements of zeros and ones.

August 13, 2025 at 11:32 PM

tillandsia

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you wouldn't know he was sniffling and sneezing two weeks ago

a black cat lying on its back and twisting at its waist. its two front paws are outstretched above its head.

August 3, 2025 at 3:01 AM

tillandsia

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we get it, already! you created a perfect character beloved across time and space! a love letter to humanity in anime character form! you don't have to rub it in our faces! (I am lying)

cyrene looking down at the male trailblazer. she holds his hand with their fingers interlaced and touches his cheek with her right hand.

August 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM

tillandsia

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sighs dramatically

Kevin: Many gave up when they caught a glimpse of the narrow path. The road to deliverance isn't a highway.

July 15, 2025 at 7:37 AM

tillandsia

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mwahahahahaha

Vita sitting with her legs crossed on the victory screen against Kevin's Elysian Realm boss fight.

July 15, 2025 at 1:25 AM

tillandsia

@tillandsia.bsky.social

.....yeah okay I missed this game a lot actually.

Kevin: I trampled over many dreams and many lives ended at my hands. I see the same "I can't fail" attitude in you.

July 11, 2025 at 1:58 AM

tillandsia

@tillandsia.bsky.social

I'm going to become the joker over this game and my outfit banner luck.

Vita's outfit banner with every reward claimed but the outfit.

July 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM

tillandsia

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this re-read also reminded me why the embro of philosophy's little undereye markings seemed so familiar to me haha turns out it was honkai sickness /s

Embryo of Philosophy boss fight screenshot. Under its closed eyes are identical marks with two forks that reach the eye socket and one path that touches each respective corner of its mouth.

Chapter 7 page 11 of Second Key manhua, a girl deceased from Honkai sickness lying in bed with pink and purple marks running down each side of her face and body.

July 6, 2025 at 1:08 AM

tillandsia

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hsr 3.4 spoilers //

reading nietzsche's the gay science for phainalysis and did not expect to be assaulted like this within the first paragraphs of the /preface/

"Gratitude flows forth incessantly, as if that which was most unexpected had just happened - the gratitude of a convalescent - for recovery was what was most unexpected. 'Gay Science': this signifies the saturnalia1 of a mind that has patiently resisted a terrible, long pressure - patiently, severely, coldly, without yielding, but also without hope - and is now all of a sudden attacked by hope, by hope for health, by the intoxication of recovery. Is it any wonder that in the process much that is unreasonable and foolish comes to light, much wanton tenderness, lavished even on problems that have a prickly hide, not made to be fondled and lured? This entire book is really nothing but an amusement after long privation and powerlessness, the jubilation of returning strength, of a reawakened
faith in a tomorrow and a day after tomorrow, of a sudden sense and
anticipation of a future, of impending adventures, of reopened seas, of
goals that are permitted and believed in again. " (Nietzsche, The Gay Science, p.3)

"How many and what sorts of things did not lie behind me then! This stretch of desert, exhaustion, loss of faith, icing-up in the midst of youth; this onset of dotage at the wrong time; this tyranny of pain surpassed still by the tyranny of a pride that refused the conclusions of pain - and conclusions are consolations; this radical seclusion as a self-def ence against a pathologically clairvoyant contempt for humanity, this !imitation in principle to what was bitter, harsh, painful to know, as prescribed by the nausea that had gradually developed from an incautious and excessively luxurious spiritual diet - one calls it romanticism - oh, who could re-experience all of this as I did?" (Nietzche, The Gay Science, p.4)

July 4, 2025 at 7:34 PM

tillandsia

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hsr 3.4 spoilers //

how many times have we set out on this journey.......

Venti: *Yawn* That was a refreshing sleep. Ah, Traveler, we meet again! What? You don't remember me? Ahaha, well, allow me to join you on your quest once again. I must see to it that the bards of the world tell the Traveler's tales!

A guy clutches another guy's shoulders until they bleed. The former has a desperate if deranged expression with veins popping on his hand and neck, while the latter has his back turned to the viewer.

July 3, 2025 at 4:57 AM

tillandsia

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On the left is a giant book with thousands of pages, with the text "Amphoreus" above it. On the right is a thin book with maybe 100 pages with the text "Amphoreus if Phainon and Sunday had a 30 minute conversation" above it.

July 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM

tillandsia

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....

Phainon closing his eyes with a slight smile on his face before destroying Amphoreus.

Shinki Ikari closing his eyes, with a slight smile on his face and tears running down his cheeks as he makes his wish for the new world after Third Impact. From End of Evangelion (1997).

June 30, 2025 at 8:12 PM

tillandsia

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"I've heard of stories that didn't want to end. And when they finally did, they were with but horrible endings, and everyone in these stories had their hearts broken. Those were bad stories.
"But dear Lanoire, the story of you and your adventure is still ongoing..."