iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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coolchulainn @coolchulainn.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

stubborn right until the very end #fgo #oberon #lb6

FGO comic. Castoria Mash and Gudao form a human chain off the side of the storm border to catch Oberon-Vortigern right before he falls into the abyss, leaving them all dangling precariously.
Vortigern, mad and shocked: You-
Gudao, also mad: Don't fuck with me Oberon! I'll save you too, asshole! I'm definitely saving at least one person here!
Vortigern's eyes soften a little and he reaches his free hand up to peel Gudao's fingers off.

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coolchulainn @coolchulainn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

heres monchcopium which I drew a while back because I was surprised it didn't exist yet. free to use wherever idgaf #arknights #アークナイツ

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coolchulainn @coolchulainn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

heres monchcopium which I drew a while back because I was surprised it didn't exist yet. free to use wherever idgaf #arknights #アークナイツ

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coolchulainn @coolchulainn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

normally don't link my actual videos here but I worked hard on this one please watch it. 44 minutes of Non Stop Swire Gaming youtu.be/arDcbvPnDAY #arknights

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[Arknights] The Spectacular Swire Tower!

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coolchulainn @coolchulainn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

normally don't link my actual videos here but I worked hard on this one please watch it. 44 minutes of Non Stop Swire Gaming youtu.be/arDcbvPnDAY #arknights

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[Arknights] The Spectacular Swire Tower!

YouTube video by caliginousinsight

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coolchulainn @coolchulainn.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

he's just saying what you want to hear #arknights #shalem #phantom

Arknights comic. Shalem is carrying Phantom out of the castle.
Phantom: Abyss-
Shalem, interrupting him: Shalem. Anything you want to tell Abyss should have been said 10 years ago. It's Shalem now.
Phantom, relieved: I see, that's good... Thank you for rescuing me, Shalem.
Shalem, expression unreadable: ... Don't mention it.
Phantom: Shalem... are you angry with me?
Shalem: There would be no point to that.

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coolchulainn @coolchulainn.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

this time he's really gonna do it #arknights #アークナイツ

drawing of shalem arknights hunched over with a dangerous expression and a knife in his hand. he says "I will not make the same mistake forever. Unlike you, I do not have the time. This time, I will cut off your head and pull out every last thought that man has put into your skull."

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coolchulainn @coolchulainn.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Supernova Caster that I painted last year #arknights #アークナイツ

acrylic painting of a pink sheep with a witch hat on its head and a magic wand in its mouth

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coolchulainn @coolchulainn.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

shalem #arknights ＃アークナイツ

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coolchulainn @coolchulainn.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

191 cm 70 years of combat experience 50 pounds of metal on the end of her tail #arknights

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coolchulainn @coolchulainn.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

i like having astgenne as assistant because when I leave the game idling while drawing it feels like she's covering for me slacking off on the job #arknights

Astgenne picks up the phone and says "the Doctor is resting right now, please call back later" while Doctor is in the background working on a digital canvas with the word SEX on it

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coolchulainn @coolchulainn.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

and other things to never tell a living soul #arknights #shalem

Comic of Shalem Arknights listlessly rambling. The text is arranged in a kind of flowchart with no clear single reading order.

Well, our relationship is... complex, to say the least. No, sorry, that isn't quite right... His relationship to me is fairly straightforward, all things considered. He would enjoy and appreciate my continued presence in his life. He has not given me need to speculate on his feelings towards me.

To be specific, it is my feelings towards him that are complex. Insofar I possess such a thing as feelings that are my own, and insofar there is such a thing as "I" who could possess such feelings, of course. He is... I ave always considered him my best friend. We grew up together. Our childhood was... troubled. I have no memory of a life without him. We are both irrevocably shaped by the Crimson Troupe, after all.

That is to say, I do not exist outside context of him.

That is not metaphor, it is the truth. It is as true as anything about me can be. Which is not much, of course, but I digress. My past and present are both inextricably tied to his. Everything regarding me has to do with him. But although I do not exist beyond him, the reverse does not apply to him in turn.

He enjoys my company, but he does not need it. My existence is of no true consequence to him. He is my friend, I love him, I want to be with him...

Not once have my actions done anything to change the trajectory of his life. I hate him, I want to lash out at him, I want him to understand that he hurt me...

Even if such sentiments are indeed mine, wouldn't anything I feel towards him be little more than the self-preservation instinct of something that has no existence of its own?

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coolchulainn @coolchulainn.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

aoidos and benjamin from all the way back in 2020 (can you believe the doss was that long ago...) #gbf

aoidos gently embraces his past self as they're stabbing each other

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coolchulainn @coolchulainn.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

aoidos and benjamin from all the way back in 2020 (can you believe the doss was that long ago...) #gbf

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coolchulainn @coolchulainn.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

morning routine #arknights

shalem applies his eyeliner in the bathroom mirror and thinks to himself, with the text bubbles aligned as if he's having a conversation with his mirror image.
mirror: "I deeply resent how little input I have had on anything pertaining to myself throughout my life."
shalem: "That much is obvious."
mirror: "I wish I were born a woman so I could be a man as intentional choice rather than having it simply happen to me."
shalem: "That's insane we are Not examining that thought."

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coolchulainn @coolchulainn.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

i switched programs since i last drew him so i gotta redo the brushes i made for his coat patterns... #fgo

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coolchulainn @coolchulainn.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Unrealized Realities thumbnails and Rose Salt #arknights

zuo le floats in the air with two balloons, he can hit air now

the big ugly beats the fuck out of a floating tree enemy

rose salt proudly offers you her s2 icon, captioned "never die again"

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coolchulainn @coolchulainn.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

i switched programs since i last drew him so i gotta redo the brushes i made for his coat patterns... #fgo

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coolchulainn @coolchulainn.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

wonder if i shouldve put my thumbnails all in the same thread but at this point it's whatever

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coolchulainn @coolchulainn.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

it's awesome how they just let you have the actual holy grail after all that #ffxiv #aura #dawntrail

A male Au Ra casually holds the magic cup from Dawntrail as he sits on a couch and talks.

Everybody loves an omnipotent wish-granting mechanism in theory, but things that get called wish-granting mechanisms are on average really just a directionless mass of immeasurable energy at best. If it can't grant the wish by itself that's hardly omnipotent, it's hardly even a wish-granter, it's functionally no different from any other tool people use to achieve their goals. If an aspiring farmer picks up a hoe that's your wish-granter right there.

People who know how to fulfill their wishes by themselves don't turn to wish-granters about it, they use methods that actually work. The wishes left to wish-granting mechanisms are, by process of elimination, usually along the lines of saving the world. That's the kind of stuff that people never really know how to do themselves, so they want something else to do it.

For something to be a true wish-granting mechanism, it has to be able to fulfill the wish independent of the wisher. But a "wish" is inherently something born from subjective desire, which in turn is born from subjective experience. Everyone wants something different out of life, you can't expect a wish-granting mechanism to properly fulfill something as subjective as a wish without giving it some kind of personality that can subjectively understand wishes. If it doesn't understand the wish it's granting, that's still just a tool you point in the direction of your goals and not a miracle.

And there you have the problem. Either you have a glorified tool that will only be able to grant your wish if you already knew how to do it yourself anyway, or you have a true wish-granter that will understand exactly why you can't and won't do it yourself.

Anyway, you can mix some crazy drinks in this thing, it's pretty cool.

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coolchulainn @coolchulainn.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

[bondage & gag] not a sound from you today 🐍🐈‍⬛ #arknights #アークナイツ

phantom arknights on his knees having a mask with a dildo gag put into his mouth. he's also wearing a collar with a chain on it

phantom arknights getting fucked from behind by shalem. he's still wearing the mask and getting his face pressed into the mattress. his hands are tied behind his back with cuffs attached to the collar and he has the symbol for the silence debuff above his head

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coolchulainn @coolchulainn.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

a pointless little test #arknights #shalem #phantom #アークナイツ　＃シャレム　＃ファントム

Arknights comic. Shalem and Phantom are having tea. Only their silhouettes from behind are visible. The first four panels are identical save for the text.
Shalem: Lucian. There is something I have been meaning to tell you...
Shalem: I really hate you.
Shalem: Do you believe me when I say that?
Phantom: (after a pause) Yes.
Shalem moves to drink his tea and miss Christine jumps onto the table.
Shalem: Well, that's no good.
Phantom now pets miss Christine.
Phantom: Was that the wrong answer?
Shalem: No, never mind. Please forget I said anything. I shouldn't ask questions I won't like any of the answers to.

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coolchulainn @coolchulainn.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

shalem's tail ring are you kidding me are you kidding meeeeee #arknights #shalem #アークナイツ #シャレム

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coolchulainn @coolchulainn.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

ulpianus in the seaborn nest acrylic on 24 x 17.5 cm canvas #arknights #ulpianus #アークナイツ　#ウルピアヌス

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coolchulainn @coolchulainn.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

to be observed is to exist #arknights #shalem #アークナイツ　＃シャレム

fanart of shalem arknights. he is monologuing about his mental state with an empty smile. the text around him is too long to fit in alt text. the short version is he talks about how it's common for actors to start viewing even their most intense emotional breakdowns from a third person perspective so they might repeat the motions later for a hypothetical audience and that's for the ones that aren't from a murder theater cult, so he can't be sure how real any of his traits are nor can he trust that his desire to escape from the troupe is actually his own because the personality that retained a conscience was assigned to him by the people who wanted him to surrender that conscience, so even after running away his life and self continue to be defined by what the troupe thinks that self and life should be, and that's not even getting into how if he really didn't want to hurt anyone he could be a desk operator but he applied to be a combat operator because he's hopelessly drawn to violence in spite of himself

single page comic of shalem and doctor arknights. shalem says "doctor don't you ever want to go apeshit" and doctor says "I don't remember" to which shalem repsonds "I suppose you don't"

fanart of shalem arknights. he is monologuing about his mental state again, this time with more visible frustration. the text is again too long for the alt text window. he's talking about how rather than having a certain sense of distance from himself, his specific identity issues instead make him excruciatingly aware of himself because his 'self' is a role he's quite literally rehearsed for all his life, but this also means he is unable to trust any of his desires even if they seem harmless because the 'self' that has those desires was assigned to him by something of which he knows the intentions cannot be trusted, so instead of acting on or acknowledging any of his actual desires he instead continues to fall back on the inoffensive persona he'd been assigned in the first place

fanart of shalem arknights. he glares over his shoulder towards the viewer and angrily asks "and what are you looking at?"

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coolchulainn @coolchulainn.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

shalem doll joints repost #arknights #shalem #アークナイツ　＃シャレム

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coolchulainn @coolchulainn.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

logos comic 🖊️ #arknights #logos #アークナイツ＃ロゴス

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coolchulainn @coolchulainn.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

I think this was the first AK fanart I did. global server delayed phantom's banner a lot so I made it as a good luck charm #arknights #phantom #アークナイツ＃ファントム

fanart of phantom from arknights. he is surrounded by smoke and mirrors, and out of one of the mirrors leans a copy of him with a mocking smile. their faces are close, and neither have their eyes visible. the copy holds phantom's mask in one hand, and takes off phantom's hood with the other. phantom has pointed his dagger at the copy. an upside-down organ is falling apart in the background, and two cats with two tails walk on top of the mirror frames.

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coolchulainn @coolchulainn.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

normal skull useage

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