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Prompt: AU’s! Idk like my little pony, or superhero’s, or some other fandom universe!

day 20

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I’m a bit the same tbh

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Recently I had the thought... what if Angela Ledore is meant to be a play on dolore (pain) in Italian? It's a bit of a stretch though...

I think I've seen it suggested before that it's a play on French for 'the golden/gilded', and that also probably makes sense. It could also be a play on adore (or l'adore, 'I love/adore him' (i.e. Randall) in French). They're probably both more likely, but the dolore thing might have also been at the back of their minds when naming her.

I should make a post about all my Layton name theories...

I know in every language but English it's pronounced 'Des-coal', but I'm convinced Descole's name is meant to be a play on the French word désolé: desolate/forsaken or sorry.

Because he was the 'foresaken' one, the one who was abandoned and left behind. He is the desolate one, who has lost everyone he loves. But he also wants forgiveness: in the end he is willing to sacrifice himself for others.

I like to think he chose the name for the forsaken/desolate meaning and the obvious allusion to Desmond (which I'm assuming he chose before Descole since Sycamore would have needed a while to build up a reputation and I doubt he came up with a persona to enact revenge before choosing to devote his life to archaeology but I also wouldn't put it past him). But I think the 'I'm sorry' definition is just a coincidence he didn't think much about. But also Jean Descole sounds a bit like 'je suis désolé' so who knows.

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Khirav rolled his eyes, but smiled in spite of himself. He had to admit it felt nice to have people who cared for him, even if they did treat him like an infant sometimes.

@petricorah, I'm lucky this doesn't really spoil anything important. Especially considering the scene that precedes it.

Writing Game: Post the last line that you wrote with no context

tagged by @haroldtea and @transuncletaylor thank you both!!

Perhaps going to speak to Robin after as many drinks as he’d had was a bad idea, and then again, perhaps it was a great idea.

from a future chapter of my fantasy oc story!

tagging @quantomeno @frstcorinthians @lesmiserablol @paddington-two @itadorifushi

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After I did that Professor Layton To Be a Princess video, I've been thinking of who would be whom if I tried to cast all the Layton characters in it, and it's hard to decide for most of them, but one choice is certain: Descole would be Preminger

And the image of it was stuck in my head so I ended up making this with Flipnote Studios on my DSi:

(in case you're curious, Preminger was voiced by none other than Martin Short in what was possibly one of his best performances ever and I mean that quite seriously)

The original scene is here

Transcript:

Layton/Julian: Perhaps I can help you look for her?

Descole/Preminger: Why don't you stick to your books, school boy. Wouldn't that be fun? AHAHAHAHA!

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I was listening to some jazz music recently and found this song "They Can't Take That Away from Me" (sung by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong) and after thinking about it for a while I thought hang on this fits Layton too perfectly

Lyrics:

The way you wear your hat

The way you sip your tea

The memory of all that

No, no, they can't take that away from me

The way your smile just beams

The way you sing off-key

The way you haunt my dreams

No, no, they can't take that away from me

We may never, never meet again

on the bumpy road to love

Still I'll always, always keep the memory of

The way you hold your knife

The way we danced till three

The way you've changed my life

No, no, they can't take that away from me

No, they can't take that away from me

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Clive wrote him out of the will after he abandoned his family to live with Layton

S....sunny... honey.... you lived in one didn't you

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Happy Luke Lunes!

If they don’t hug I might crash out!

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get rid of the words "disturbing internet" and it's just a professor Layton game

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it was just a big puddle of mud and they kept slipping

So like...was the frozen lake near Anton's castle... real? I mean it's unusual but not fully impossible... I can imagine a world where massive amounts of a heavy gas would pool in in deeper areas of earth and cause a sharp temperature change somehow.

...but it's probably much more likely the bugs were just high out of their mind and felt like they were sliding around right

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sure you can say Makuta was originally called Mata Nui's brother because of continuity errors. or make a case for his own hubris, with him calling the Great Spirit his brother because he believed them to be equals. personally I choose to believe that Turaga referred to him as Mata Nui's brother on purpose, because it was the only possible way in their culture to convey the depth of the betrayal. not just an attack from a disgruntled underling, but as cruel and as personal as turning against your own brother. a violation of unity, duty, and destiny. if it was the Turaga Metru who called them brothers, it was because they considered what Makuta did as morally bankrupt as when Nidhiki turned on Lhikan, and with him, everything he was meant to protect.

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Just completed the greatest scavenger hunt in the history of Metru Nui!

What do you think of my Morbuzakh inspired display for the 6 Great Disks?

After finishing my Toa Mata Kanohi collection (the display for which is coming along well by the way) I decided to move on to the great disks given I already had most of them from the Kanoka packs back in the day. I tried to use parts I already had lying around to make it, with only minimal bricklink purchases once I had the design down.

The idea was to base the Morbuzakh off of the versions seen in the promotional art and the Toa Metru character videos rather than the comics, which I think I’ve done quite well on. The flat stud in the central “eye” glows in the dark too, to compliment the glow from the disks.

I also tried to match the shape of the display to Metru Nui itself.

Now I just need to figure out where to hang it…

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So I've been sketching a number of Layton memes and sending them to a friend who has said that I should share them with the wider world, and so:

How Descole should have looked after getting dunked at the end of LS:

Alternatively:

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Phantom R doodle dedicated to all 12 Rhythm Thief fans out there

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@petricorah it's missing your favourites: the em dash and the ellipsis (also em dash is my favourite too, but out of these it'd be colon or maybe semicolon)

favorite punctuation mark?

Period .

Comma ,

Colon :

Semicolon ;

Question mark ?

Exclamation mark !

Any types of brackets/parentheses () [] {}

Quotation marks “”

Apostrophe ’

Bald/Results

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#italian/australian is sich an interesting combo

It's actually decently common since a lot of Italians moved to Australia post WWII. My opinion may be skewed by the fact I know so many, but Wikipedia says we're ~4% of the population. For context, Italian was 6th on that list after, English, 'Australian', Irish, Scottish and Chinese (also the data's probably out of date but nonetheless).

But I'm glad you think it's interesting, even if I feel rather common hahaha. I do find the history and culture of Italian Australians interesting though

Also the Italo-Australian Dialect is fun and I saw the wikipedia article on it and it made me chuckle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo-Australian_dialect. Especiaaly gellafrenda, sanguicciu and Saffuguai (the Wikipedia article translates this as Woolworths (a major supermarket) but it used to be called Safeway in some parts of the country even after it got bought out by Woolworths, and so old Italians probably still call it that). Also Siddeni and brecfesta (I'd write it as brechifesta but I quibble)

Bilingual experience of googling a swearworld cause you've only heard it audibly and don't want to make a spelling mistake while swearing