That feeling when you clean up your room and change your image for your crush, and then it turns out she’s an even bigger, more shameless slob than you ever were.

Not sure what happened, but non nuked their Pixiv account recently, and their Twitter account is completely empty. Does anyone have a link to Iruma's blogpost that talked about it?

I'm a bit surprised that it took this long for Yuriwhale to do a Fire Emblem thing.

Also lmao at Rhea's reaction to Sothis on the last page. Turns out the title was foreshadowing all along!

Well I did get a few 4*s including a Shaw today from the Shift tag. Hopefully my luck is improving. The next problem I have is that while I have a lot of operators most of them are unleveled or low leveled. I was able to get Amiya to max level and have enough mats to E1 her... however I'm lacking on money to actually do so. Unlike QP in FGO this game is quite stingy with money.

Yeah, money is pretty rough in Arknights, especially when starting out. That’s generally why it’s recommended to progress through the story so you can upgrade your base. With my current setup, I can make ~40,000 LMD a day

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/84223403
Texas x Lappland NSFW

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/84085298
Jessica x Snowsant NSFW

Do I have good news for you. Provence is in the Distinctions shop and will be there until next week Friday so should be enough time to get the yellow certs to get her. As a new player, you should get enough from clearing Annihilation 1 and 2.

Nice. I'm not strong enough to clear Annihilation. That and I wasted some on stupid stuff. So no Provence for me. I need 15 of them before she leaves the shop and it. Any other ways to get them (besides paying?)

Gold certificates come from either getting new operators for the first time, or from higher-rarity duplicates of higher rarity operator. There's an in-game guide to it but it's a bit confusing; just know that the most reliable way of getting the yellow certificates is through the 4* operator tokens from Recruitment. 4*s aren't particularly rare from Recruitment since there's several tag combinations that guarantee them, like Sniper+Slow always gets you Shirayuki or AOE+Guard gets you Estelle (or Specter if you're lucky). Gamepress has a tag filter you can use to check.

Note that you can only trade them in if they're your 7th copy; you have to get the 4* operator to potential 6 before you can trade them in.

Also WTF top Jessica

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@Poxwen Why do you say that? Honest question; I know almost nothing about Railgun.

I really like AO3's cheinsaw's short fanfics featuring various ships from this game, FGO, and a few others. Am reading one of their fanfics on my desktop pc while I wait for my phone to recharge.

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/84232815
Schwarz x Ceylon

Thanks, I'll check those out later.

Also thanks for reminding me to look through Ao3 for Arknights fanfics. I really shouldn't be surprised, but there's significantly more M/M fanfics compared to F/F fanfics - there are 1412 M/M ones and only 897 F/F ones.

Similar energy: https://dynasty-scans.com/images/15129

It just now occurs to me that Ch'en is shipped with quite a few people - arguably even more than Texas. There's Hoshiguma, Swire, Amiya, that one bad guy, and even Bagpipe. And of course there's female Doctor. I'm hoping to find some nice Ch'en x Swire and Bagpipe x Ch'en art to do an upload request for.

Here's one of the latter I just found

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^ Huh, you're right - there is a sequel pic: https://twitter.com/OmyChan2/status/1300938145337421825

This is a pretty cracky ship, even for Touhou. That said, Seiga getting caught off-guard and flustered is always welcome.

I thought we would never see it since it would have been subjected to criticisms.

Still, I loved it and this is a masterpiece.

Thankfully, it seems every single comment has been positive (outside of the people asking to see the painting lol).

I have to wonder what Himari's pouting for, especially in this position.

Wriggle's mesmerized.

Just the two of them, alone in the ruins of the world.

The lewd pink strikes again. Nemo already has her hand ready, too!

Just recharging her Tsugumi meter. Though aren't they in pajamas? You'd imagine Sayo would have a lot of time to recharge while in bed.

Eyy, more lesbians. I'm imagining this somehow ends up with Wanko accidentally bragging about her own relationship to them.

Any popular Male/Male ships besides Male Doctor and male operators?

The one I've seen the most fanart for is Executor x Flamebringer; as far as I know they don't actually interact at all but they were introduced in the same event and look good together so people ship them. Other than them, Mephisto x Faust is pretty popular for story reasons; it's a bit of a spoiler but they're very close.

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Wait Scavenger was in a same-sex relationship before the game started?! Now I really need to put her in my team.

It was more of mutual attraction than an actual relationship but yeah, she has the big gay.

Guards are pretty whatever for the normal content. There's probably no situation where you absolutely need to have one (vanguards can do as well usually), and if not, then Melantha is perfectly sufficient.

This is untrue considering how people always joke about how Arknights is basically guardknights. Once you get higher rarity guards, they're basically the most OP class in the game. Once you have your 5/6 star guards leveled, you can pretty much have a team full of guards and clear most of the content. Examples of OP guards being Silverash, Hellagur, Blaze, Lappland, Specter, etc etc.

I think it's less guards in general and more duelist guards (ie the ones that have high HP, high attack and block 1 enemy) that are considered a bit meh as far as late-game, hard content is concerned. It doesn't help that there are DP-on-kill vanguards can often do their job as assassins just as well. That said, it's not like they're terrible or useless or anything, just not as "meta"; they're still definitely useable in most levels.

Also, I finally found that one Exusiai x Mostima picture I was looking for earlier.

This artist really likes Nian x Lava. Just now, they were squeeing over how in the English version Nian says "I really like my li'l Lava."

I love Shuninta

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Very nice story; I definitely agree with the afterword and credits page about how it's a good thing that Shizuko did not die at the end.

Also, whenever I see an age gap this big I can't help but remember this one-shot.

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I think this is my Friend name: Altina#0527. My assistant right now is Jessica.

I added you yesterday; I'm Esouil5#3191

By the way, it looks like the skins for Zima, Gavial and Hoshiguma are coming up soon. I sadly only have enough Originium to get one, though...
Unsurprisingly, the KFC collab skins seem to have been skipped.