iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

aniri @imagnesnutter.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

no matter how much of a hellhole twitter becomes i will probably never have the heart to delete my account of my own volition because it's first and foremost an archive of all my thoughts/interests/memories of the past six years and i love knowing what past me had to say about stuff

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aniri @imagnesnutter.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

god i'm the opposite kind of empty right now 😭 i thought about and talked about canon so much that at this point i feel like i don't have anything else (new) to say and all i'm thinking about is aus that are completely unrelated to canon 😭

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aniri @imagnesnutter.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

YES YES YES that's how they keep that spark alive!!!! they never stop teasing and flirting because they just keep wanting each other!!!!!

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aniri @imagnesnutter.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

hoyo make it make sense i'm begging you. but also i guess they have bigger fish to fry rn haha

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aniri @imagnesnutter.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

the way phainon actually gave it voluntarily but 1) it happened off screen and 2) was only mentioned in supplementary material instead of in-game. we need to set hyv hq on fire

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aniri @imagnesnutter.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

dominant mydei 🤤🤤🤤 the audience is satisfied

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aniri @imagnesnutter.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

all i saw was verlaine and i thought i was hallucinating

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aniri @imagnesnutter.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

many unholy thoughts about this.

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aniri @imagnesnutter.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

i'm also thinking about how kephale's role is all about Remembering Things & how remembering is also an act of love & how well it ties with his passion for antique appraisal. loving things & appreciating every single detail & committing them to memory even if these things are broken or imperfect

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aniri @imagnesnutter.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

he clings to deliverance but what would he become once he fulfilled this role? does he even have a Self to fall back on outside of that? can he be absolutely sure he'll find a new reason to live, a new purpose to drive him forward? cause if it's killing nanook then it's just another obsession

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aniri @imagnesnutter.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

it's a testament to his love and his will but it can also be something destructive if it's too much to handle, if the internal balance between selflessness and selfishness is off, if whatever you give away is not the same as what you receive, both in form and amount

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aniri @imagnesnutter.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

i like the thought that it's always both. the source of his happiness & strength, something that helps him stay on the right track and something he turns to when he feels himself waver AND ALSO the source of his suffering, a fixation that prevents him from moving on, changing, growing, being a Self

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aniri @imagnesnutter.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

phainon's dance practice outfits............ we don't talk about them. they're only semi-decent when they're filming

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aniri @imagnesnutter.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

also ALSO i think mydei wears a cap to all dance practices and it sits like super low and you can't even see his eyes

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aniri @imagnesnutter.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

I CAN SEE IT SO CLEARLY IN MY MIND YES YE SY ES

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aniri @imagnesnutter.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

YESSSSSSS THANK YOU FOR THIS VISION

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aniri @imagnesnutter.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

also offtop but it's REALLY funny to me how my header on twitter and other sites has been this old edited photo of a random page from some kind of textbook with the words "you are now an upright headless torso" for YEARS and now we have *gestures vaguely at amphoreus*

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aniri @imagnesnutter.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

sorry i can't be Critical about it rn because my brain has been feeling like mush these past couple of weeks when it comes to lore and theories so i can only read and like what others post and discuss but yeah you really popped the fuck off

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aniri @imagnesnutter.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

call me irontomb the way i'm headless now because you blew my head straight off my neck with this thread. this theory is just so. Elegant i think would be the right word because it ties some of these loose ends so well i can't help but sit there in awe

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aniri @imagnesnutter.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

god i can feel the yearning through the screen

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aniri @imagnesnutter.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

PAUSE i need to go back and read those aus, i left them for later and then completely forgot

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aniri @imagnesnutter.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

YIPPIIIEEEEEEE I'M SO EXCITED TO KNOW WHAT YOU THINK, ENJOY THE FEAST

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aniri @imagnesnutter.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

but madoka never had any blatant marriage imagery anywhere (except maybe the veil but you don't have to necessarily associate it with a bride outfit imo), all of it came from elysia and makes NO sense with cyrene's role in the amphoreus story

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aniri @imagnesnutter.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

the thing is, i feel like in some ways the more unique parts of cyrene's character DO feel closer to madoka than elysia, with how she stays powerless and confined to the role of an observer till like the second to last episode and how her Love is closely tied to Hope more than anything else

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aniri @imagnesnutter.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

i could've made the "it's a madoka reference" excuse for the bow but not for the veil, the marriage-themed skill zone and the ring in the ult animation 😭

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aniri @imagnesnutter.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

(unless, ofc, it's people who only scream about waifubait which is like. also present, i can't lie, but far from being the only/main issue with cyrene. also i don't think cyrene the character (or elysia) should be catching strays for hoyo's writing/marketing decisions)

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aniri @imagnesnutter.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

also yeah the cyrene-elysia problem is getting more and more noticeable and i'm tired of people reducing it to "you just hate this character cause they're an expy/cause you're misogynistic" and "how can you hate something so pretty" like IT'S NOT EVEN HATE, IT'S GENUINE CRITIQUE OF HOYO'S WRITING

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aniri @imagnesnutter.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

also!! it would be in hoyo's best financial interest to make chrysos heirs real and set them loose in the universe just to always have the option of making already beloved characters return as sps in later versions

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aniri @imagnesnutter.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

now that i think about it, i feel like maybe one of the reasons for evernight's presence in the story was teasing the possibility of alternative solutions and reinforcing the idea that this is NOT our answer

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aniri @imagnesnutter.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

tldr KILLING OFF THE CHRYSOS HEIRS INSTEAD OF FIGHTING FOR THEIR FUTURE AS REAL PEOPLE WOULD GO AGAINST EVERYTHING TRAILBLAZING STANDS FOR

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aniri @imagnesnutter.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

and if we end with them sacrificing everything, amphoreus included, to stop irontomb and they will end up forgotten by the world and only living on in our memories, then what was the point of everything we did. herta could have just nuked the scepter and called it a day, just like march said lmao

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aniri @imagnesnutter.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

the whole point of amphoreus story is rebelling against fate and gods and calculations even if you feel small and powerless. we spent 8 patches watching the chrysos heirs throw their lives away for the sake of saving the world

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aniri @imagnesnutter.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

and this understanding is precisely what makes this outcome so heartbreaking but it also just /feels right/

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aniri @imagnesnutter.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

so seeing it get destroyed for the sake of saving the world and them giving it their all once again was devastating because elysian realm was ALL that was left of them but we know how they are and that they would never hesitate to throw it all away to save humanity

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aniri @imagnesnutter.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

i feel like the reason why it hit so hard with hi3 is because we KNOW that elysian realm is a tomb/memorial for fallen heroes, that they have already died for their cause and we're here to witness what they were like and honor their sacrifices

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aniri @imagnesnutter.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

i'm starting to get anxious about the ending after seeing some 3.7 leaks but i feel like the cathartic ending for amphoreus WOULD be everyone getting to live their lives without being bound by fate or duty anymore, i don't think seeing everyone sacrifice everything AGAIN would be satisfying at all

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aniri @imagnesnutter.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

THE WAY I STARTED CRYING THE SECOND HE SHOWED UP + the fact that phainon sounded EXACTLY like the hero within, very lighthearted and optimistic and encouraging in a way i don't think we've ever heard phainon speak before was soooooooo *clenches fists*

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aniri @imagnesnutter.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

no cause why is he the ONLY hp-scaler who couldn't take advantage of the hp meta for the entirety of v3 because it was aimed at remembrance and/or tied to hyacine who doesn't synergize well with him 😭 bro got zero dedicated supports HE'S JUST RAW-DOGGING EVERYTHING

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aniri @imagnesnutter.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

but also. all the "it's believable cause they somehow managed to give absolutely nothing to mydei" jokes are frying me

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aniri @imagnesnutter.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

i legit can't take these leaks seriously, like it does NOT sound like an actual kit of a real character, what the hell am i even looking at 😭

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aniri @imagnesnutter.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

i actually finally built tingyun (yes, the 1.0 four star) just to be able to play a low-cost phainon team with her, bronya and rmc in case i'll want to run anaxa with sunday, cerydra and dhpt, i just need to figure out the proper speed-tuning and learn the rotations 🥴

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aniri @imagnesnutter.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

having ruan mei or tribbie or robin as the third slot DOES give you more damage but sometimes comfort is more valuable + cerydra allows you to free up those generalists for your other team

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aniri @imagnesnutter.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

best part about cerydra + phainon is that she makes the rotations feel sooooo much smoother, it's always a headache when your third harmony is a generalist buffer who doesn't give phainon any stacks so you have to improvise and/or rely on enemy rng but her spd buff and stack generation really helps

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