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Need to contribute to the Clive Renaissance… Stay tuned

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My helpless male secretary that I scald with hot coffee & blow smoke into his face whenever he is working.

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One of the greatest gifts my 20s have brought me is the ability to exchange my confidence with others. I don’t mean hubris, I mean genuinely loving yourself in a strong yet relaxed manner. That secure tranquility radiates to others, especially when you make an effort to share it. Because confidence isn’t something that is felt only on an individual level, but a communal level as well. Think of how it feels to have an insecure teacher or parent. Those emotions always trickle down in one way or another.

Confidence isn’t something you simply give others, you model it too. It’s hard to feel secure in a relationship when you can feel the other person’s constant hesitation. I don’t mean this in a “insecure people can’t be in relationships” way, I just mean that confidence is felt both in a personal and collective scale. When you don’t have enough of your own, uplifting others can be draining, while secure confidence is only strengthened by watching others be infected by yours.

It’s also way more rewarding to uplift others when you have enough security in yourself. It’s a matter of applying to yourself the same things you believe about others. I would never think one of my friends is worthless, and so how does it make sense for me to be the one exception to this rule? It’s because I’m not. There was a time period where I could ignore this fallacy, but at one point I couldn’t outrun it any longer. My 20s so far have been all about truths catching up me.

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Clive Week Update:

I am considering everyone's prompts!

I have an art piece I'm working on for an art contest, it's taking all my creative time and is due on the 16th, once that's finished I'll be making a post with all the info about Clive Week (with the rules and prompts) - it'll be uploaded by the end of the month

Any prompt that was suggested by someone else will be credited in the post and any anonymous submissions will be credited as Anonymous

Thank you for all your ideas, they're really helping!!

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So so SO fucking obsessed with Unwound Future from Claire's perspective (spoilers for all of this game):

Imagine you're a scientist. You have a wonderful dorky boyfriend who's recently been appointed professor of archeology, you have an ass kicking job at figuring out time travel and you decide to give your boyfriend a bit of a fancy silk hat to celebrate his achievement, because you think it's appropriate for his new fancy position.

You go to work, today you're testing out the the time machine, but things go wrong. Despite that fact, you're transported through time before the explosion can hit you... To ten years in the future.

This is AMAZING at first. The time machine worked, your team's work achieved something previously thought impossible––

And then you discover you're dead. Not only are you dead, your death messed up several people's lives SO BAD that they've never gotten over it. One of those people is the guy you worked with in the lab who had a crush on you. He's built an entire fake version of london underneath the real one in order to trick scientists to think they're in the future JUST so he can get them to build a time machine to go back in time to save you.

You talk to him, reveal who you are, and BEG him to fucking stop, but this only makes him more determined. Shit.

He also discovers you will eventually return back to the time of the explosion, so you have to very quickly make peace with your own death.

You ALSO discover that Dimitri kidnapped your other ex-lab partner to here (who became the prime minister in the meantime somehow???) Since apparently the guy had been pushing to test the time machine so much because he'd made a deal with a powerful company and decided to risk your life over not having results to show them.

You feel... betrayed. But you still don't think it was right to exact this revenge.

Also also, this guy who was a kid when the explosion happened and lost his parents is here and is suspiciously funding everything while smirking evilly, and you really don't trust him even if Dimitri does.

Then you discover, not only are they tricking those scientists into thinking they're in the future, they're also tricking YOUR BOYFRIEND into thinking he's in the future, some future where an evil version of him is creating the time machine; because YES, he's here, and he's somehow found himself at the center of solving this entire mystery.

You discover several new things about your boyfriend:

He's some sort of detective on the side now apparently. Everyone keeps talking about all those mysteries he solved and he's weirdly familiar with the officer from scotland yard who is also here for some reason.

He has kids now? One of them is a boy called Luke and that suspicious guy is pretending to be a future version of him. The other is a girl named flora. They both look nothing like him and are above the age of nine so you assume they're adopted.

He has very much taken your comment about being a gentleman to heart because he lives by it, despite it just being a suggestion you made in the moment. You realize Luke isn't his kid but just his apprentice who's there to learn about how to become a gentleman too. Everything about it is as heartwarming as it concerns you.

He hasn't taken that hat off. Basically ever. And it's also in pristine condition. Which is pretty cute, because he was so hesitant about wearing it at first, but it also kind of HURTS how much he cares. It's almost painful to think about the fact he spent ten years in your absence living exactly how he thinks you would want him to.

He's definitely incredibly traumatized by your death. You can tell, because between the two times you walk past him and his apprentice, he freezes up like your mere presence alone is causing him flashbacks. You decide to maybe not tell him you're you when push comes to shove and you need his help.

He has an archnemesis? Apparently Paul from university also had a crush on you and was so mad about you dating Hershel he swore vengeance. He's also a master of disguise now. You have to reevaluate your own self image and start wondering how many more people had crushes on you you didn't know about.

Eventually you help your boyfriend escape from being gunned down and he asks who you are and you just make up something about being your own estranged sister Celeste who you never told him about. He somehow buys it, and you get the feeling he's had to accept much stranger facts.

You two meet back at The Thames Arms, and within a couple of minutes he relays everything he's discovered about the truth of the matter to everyone in the room. You're starting to understand that thing about the mystery-solving a little more.

That suspicious guy (his real name is Clive) kidnaps your boyfriend's adopted daughter with him onto a gigantic moving fortress he's been building and of course your boyfriend is gonna want to rescue her. Him and his apprentice drive up there in his car, and you somehow manage to convince Paul to let you use his helicopter to follow them.

He breaks out his daughter, you meet him and head to the heart of the fortress to shut it down but the prime minister's heartbeat is attached to it and if it stops the fortress self-destructs. You replace him with the pocket watch your boyfriend gave you (you make up something about finding it amongst your sister's old possessions when he looks at you weird) and all of you haul ass out of there with the prime minister.

Clive is close to dying though, and you convince your boyfriend to let you go back for him because you feel terrible about the experiment you partook in taking his family from him. It was a big mistake to try and mess with the flow of time, in the end.

Everyone is brought back to safety. It's over, finally... No more suffering in your name.

Just in time, too. You can feel the minutes you have left slipping away.

Your boyfriend is informed that you are, in fact, you, and you can barely hold yourself together.

The two of you move to somewhere less crowded and you're forced to explain to him that you can't stay, and kiss him before you say goodbye.

Your boyfriend, in a move that stuns you quite thoroughly, ABSOLUTELY refuses to say goodbye to you. In fact, he yells that he won't fucking do it. You have never seen him this passionate or broken up about anything, and it dawns on you that he's pushed all of this down for years. It also dawns on you just HOW much he loves you. You can barely hold back your tears but you want to be strong for him, you don't want his last memory of you to be of you bawling. The both of you grieve the future together you lost for a few moments longer, and you try to encourage him as much as you can before eventually your time is up.

You turn the corner so he isn't forced to see it happen.

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One of the most important things to unpack and unlearn when you’re part of a white supremacy saturated society (i.e. the global north) and especially if you were raised in an intensified form of it (evangelicism, right wing politics, explicit racism) is the urge to punish and take revenge.

It manifests in our lives all the time and it is inherently destructive. It makes relationships and interactions adversarial for no good reason. It undermines cooperation and good civic order. It worsens some types of crime. It creates trauma, especially in children.

Imagine approaching unexpected or unacceptable behavior from a perspective of "how can this be stopped, and prevented" instead of "you’re going to regret this!”

Imagine dealing with a problem or conflict from the perspective of “how can this be solved in a way that is just and restorative” instead of “the people who caused this are going to pay.”

How much would that change you? How much would that have changed for you?

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WAIT WAIT WAIT WHAT IF ANGST CLIVE FOR THE CLIVE WEEK THIBNG WHAT IFWHATIF RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHGHGGHHG

Thanks for the suggestion!

It would be nice to have an angsty prompt, although I feel the word angst itself might be too vague

Perhaps something like 'grief', 'fragility' or 'manipulate' would work... they all have an angsty vibe about them and fit Clive well in my opinion

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Clive Week (Jan 6th - 12th)

Expanded to two prompts a day:

Dove / ?

Hope / Letter

Tea / ?

Thames / Clockwork

Past / Reporting

Future / Redemption

Smile / ?

We're getting there!

Any other prompt suggestions welcome, just comment or send them to my inbox!

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so glad were finally talking about how bitch ass randall was

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If WhatsApp was in Professor Layton

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honestly i agree with your fags on the post abt randall. even tho im not a fan of him i think ppl are too hung up on his actions as a teen versus the issues with him in the actual present day story. it would be interesting to see more of your take on him bc i agree hes one of the more complicated cases even if my opinion on him is pretty negative

Cracks my fucking knuckles. I want to preface that my take on Randall is heavily influenced by someone else and that I haven’t played MM in forever. I’m going off my shit memory and vibes here.

Randall, as a teenager, is incredibly emotionally immature. He’s reckless, selfish, doesn’t take other’s feelings into consideration, etc. That much is true. Personally I think he has audhd which contributes to his lack of awareness on other’s feelings unless there’s an outright display. He’s passionate and wants to display and get others into his interests. He drags Hershel along on adventures, gives him puzzles, etc. We don’t know enough about their relationship to say exactly how this all started or anything, but Hershel notes in his journal that he does actually like adventure. Even if Randall is forcing him to come along, it’s not entirely one sided.

Hershel has his own problems with self expression and his identity, none too helped by The Trauma. He seems pretty weak willed, backing down when Randall presses, but we do see him speak up for Angela. He is capable of saying no and being stern, but he does usually go along with what Randall does. Because he likes it. He likes adventure and puzzles and exploring.

At first going to Gressenheller was a tribute to Randall’s lost future, but if he truly hated it, he wouldn’t act the way he does in the present.

I think Randall has a tough time with boundaries. Give him an inch and he’ll take a mile. That, I believe, can also be attributed to his childhood. (Disregarding conflicting information), Randall is an only child that grew up in a wealthy household. His father seems to be somewhat cold with him, and his mother (at least during MM), seems to be coddling in the way Angela and Henry turn out to be. He grew up with Henry as his best friend. Henry his servant who isn’t allowed to do anything but what Randall wants.

He’s got a one track mind, and everything else gets pushed to the side. Other people included. He doesn’t consider that Angela might be upset with him until she’s breaking down and comparing Randall to her brother. Even then, he comforts her just enough for him to return to his task. Hershel calls him out here, because he’s being an ass. Henry stepping in de-escalated the situation, but I don’t think he was planning on actually stopping post-Akbadain. Impulse control is at an all time low at 16-18 years old, and he hasn’t stopped attention seeking behaviors. Adolescents also have a personal fable, the belief that consequences won’t apply to him. He thinks that he will be the exception.

This again brings us back to his father. A good portion of Randall’s desire for greatness stem from feeling insignificant. He wants to prove himself, whether that be to his father or others in town, not mentioning that Dalston feeds into those feelings. His feelings on Henry (that his father likes Henry more) are totally fucked, but it’s just how he perceives it. He wants to be worth it, and he wants other people to see him as worth it.

I think even if he got out of Akbadain alive, the glory wouldn’t be enough for him. Once you attain your goal you’re always going to be dissatisfied etc etc. He’s the kind of guy to always want more.

I’m going to put the present day stuff in a rb I think. This was pretty long already

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Prompts: (work in progress)

Dove

Tea

Thames

Past

Future

Hope

Smile

If you have any other prompt suggestions, please comment them here or send them to my inbox ^^

Oh and I forgot to say last time, any creative medium will be allowed!

(Hypothetically)...

Clive Week

January 6th - 12th (2025)

SFW

Prompts: Somone's already suggested 'Clive being happy'. Open to more suggestions!

Is this looking ok so far?

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(Hypothetically)...

Clive Week

January 6th - 12th (2025)

SFW

Prompts: Somone's already suggested 'Clive being happy'. Open to more suggestions!

Is this looking ok so far?

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If I was to (hypothetically) make a Clive week, when would it be....? Do you think people would actually participate

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You're right, right now it's not the time for Clive week...

But, you know... this year was the year of Shadow...

2025 must be Clive's year

Just imagine it

Timeless: Year of Clive

(the professor layton x sonic ideas are consuming me, sorry)

wait

2025.... The Year of Clive

it rhymes too........