#Co Mod essays left: 3

[danpuff-ao3]

Writing Rambles

...cuz I'm a writer and I feel like talking about writing 😄

Under the cut for easy avoidance!

Fics in the Oven:

Super Secret Mystery Project: closer and closer to being done! I'm estimating I have about 25% left to write? But let's be real...numbers are not my strong suit. I'm not entirely sure words are my strong suit, either, and yet here we are! I'm still hacking away at it. Pulling my hair out over it, the usual. I basically spend the work week sobbing and whining about it on my lonesome so that I feel refreshed enough to actually write on the weekend. So yeah. It's a nightmare but I see the light! (Also: I love it so much.)

Snarry Kinkuary fic: 1 done! To be posted on the 14th if I don't chicken out!

Riddledore Kinkuary fic: rough draft done. Just needs a bit of a shine, but I've got time. To be posted on the 27th!

Snarry Kinkuary/Kinktober fic: potential sequel to Obscene in the works! I'll post it for the nearest kink-event whenever I finish it. With luck that'll be this month, but I really gotta minimize my stress!

Other Kinkuary fics: tentative ideas for a Draco/Sirius fic. The barest scribbles of ideas for Ginny/Gwenog, Ginny/Rolanda, and/or Hermione/Lavender fics. But again, no stress allowed! (Or so I tell myself over and over and over just in case it actually sticks one day.)

Year of the OTP: no firm plans, but a determination to write a Snarry for each month of the year, per the YOTP prompts. If I can't actually manage, I suppose it will be okay. But it's very low stress I think! Surely I can manage at least a drabble a month, right...? (Let me not hold my breath on that one.)

Snarry Bang: a few ideas I need to compile and run by my teammate...cuz I'm not really sure I can resist the allure of Snarry Bang.

smile with sweet surprise: really need to work on chapter 3, but I'm not letting myself think about that too much until I get Super Secret Mystery Project done. This year for sure, though!

Lavmione: I really wanna write a Lavmione fic this year. A work with more character and meat to it than Kinkuary is really calling for. I don't know that it will be long, per se, or what it will be about, I am just having a lot of Lavmione feelings rn and I think they'll have to come out sooner or later. Potentially Maytime for a few events...

Magic in the Stars: need to edit a few more astrology essays to post on AO3 around the start of April! Not a high priority, but definitely on my to-do list. (Realistically once I start I won't want to stop until I finish.)

Other stuff...maybe I'll finish my Dralbus fic this year! And the sequel to The Christmas Prince. Oh and my Scarry fic. And another Yes, Daddy fic that's been a WIP for way too long. And Merlin only knows what other bright ideas I'll have before the end of the year...

Events: Oh yeah I'm running events, aren't I?

HP Chan fest: set to wrap up at the end of winter! It's been pretty chill and it helps to have an awesome co-mod! And on March 7 my 2 very questionable/problematic fics will go out to my poor subscribers, mwahahahaha. 😏

HP Fruit Fest: and as one fest ends, another will begin. Currently working on getting HP Fruit fest set up to run through spring! Doing this one solo (unless anyone wants to volunteer to help.) Another one designed to be chill because we all deserve a nice chill fruit I mean fest, right?

Okay since I have one wintertime fest and one springtime fest...do I need to come up with fests for the other 2 seasons, too? 🤔 Oh no why did I have to have that thought? Someone stop me!

[let-them-fight]

omg I didn’t even realize someone left a whole fucking essay for me

“certain types” thanks buddy ol pal

didn’t know “not liking a show and finding it problematic” = “I align with terrorists” but cool

“That involves you aligning with terrorists which is what the story framed them as (and there is no such thing as activism that involves violence towards innocents) with a psychotic co-opting piece of shit as the one that led to extremist swing in the organization.” Fun-Fact: aside from being a blatantly racist trope I’ve also been told by a handful of Jewish people that the trope of “The minorities wanting to not be oppressed and fighting against oppression are actually just wanting to take over the majority/society/the world” (which was actually the part that made me uncomfortable enough to not want this show anywhere near my blog) is actually an antisemitic conspiracy theory too! One that was extremely prevalent during the time this volume of the show was going on.

Use of the word “psychotic” in a demonizing context as used in this paragraph is ableist. -1

“Also it not fitting how you wanted doesn't count as objective criticism, its just you whining.” Literally putting words in my mouth huh. Hello? When did I ever talk about the show “not going my way” the og post was literally me asking to not be constantly harassed lol.

“Also while the higher ups in the management chain in the past may have done "bad things"” You know like when a whole group of them made a cutesy little workaround name for f*ggot so they could call a trans woman it on camera for 3 years. Or how their specifically minority workers were horribly mistreated. Or idk how one of their ex-workers raped a disabled child

“But Riot—“ “But Aaron—“ “But Spiderverse—“ okay yes all those cases should be addressed but so should every fucking thing Rooster Teeth has done. I don’t get what ur trying so say here. “Yeah I know this company crunched its animators so hard once one of them got permanent back injuries and they also had to work through a humongous snowstorm like 2 years ago but……. Aw c’mon don’t be too mean don’t all companies do that!” Yes Many Do and your favorite of them isn’t excluded from that. Plus, this is my fucking blog. I still don’t get why it so pressed over a fucking personal preference homie

Also I’ve heard this excuse like a dozen times but whatever the hell “CRWBY” is they’re still Rooster Teeth. This isn’t a Disney-Pixar situation

“Obviously I don’t condone harassment,” then why did you write all this sheiwksndjdjsbsbdvsjwnsb

but actually no I deserve to be harassed because I. did a fucking code breaker. i tagged the main😔 mod’s a fucking sinner

TL;DR Ok Cool I still am not comfortable with this show. I still do not love it as much as I used to and I frankly don’t even think I can say I like it anymore. And I still do not want any more characters from it included on this blog. Please. Leave. Me. Alone.

dear rwby fans,

sorry I don’t like your show and don’t want it on this blog because it genuinely makes me pretty uncomfortable actually! please stop spamming my inbox to this day ty

[askaceattorney]

Dear Anonymous,

My Raymond Shields essay can be found right here, but...do we really not have an essay for everyone’s favorite ambassador?

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Hmm, it looks like we don’t.  Allow me to apologize for that with some free coupons!

As anyone familiar with Ace Attorney’s plot knows, the writers do a pretty good job of making the culprits look like innocent bystanders (except for the ones who are shown to be the culprit at the beginning).  Colias Palaeno strikes me as just the opposite of that -- the guy who looks like he could be the one behind everything (or at least in cahoots with them), but in actuality is just as innocent and friendly as he appears.

His friendliness is apparent from the beginning, when he agrees to allow Franziska to join the investigation into the death of Manny Coachen.

His willingness to cooperate with Interpol and let them investigate so quickly sounds just like the sort of thing you’d expect from the one’s actually dunnit, doesn’t it?  He also has a bit of a nervous disposition at times, which serves to make him look even more suspicious.

The only thing we know for sure about him is that he’s a proud representative of Babahl and its chief industry -- namely, tourism.

If his vest was yellow and his butterfly pin was a nametag, one would instantly assume he worked at Walmart, am I right?  Heck, he wouldn’t even need the vest or pin, probably.

His charitable attitude toward Edgeworth and Franziska and his desire to see justice for Manny’s killer seem to indicate that he’s either trying to save face as an ambassador, or he’s just that sort of person.  Could there be a hidden agenda somewhere in there, though?  Once again, this seems like the perfect recipe for a culprit who’s hiding in plain sight.

For most of the case (which changes from a murder to a double murder after the discovery of Ka-Shi Nou’s body), Palaeno stays in the background, providing Edgeworth and company with important details whenever they happen to cross paths.  The only strange thing about their conversations is how he reacts when his former secretariat is brought up.

But then, almost out of nowhere, he reveals his involvement in some less-than-above-board dealings.

Apparently, those in charge in Babahl wanted him to hide the fact that Babahl’s Primidux Statue (once a Cohdopian national treasure), was a replica, while the real one belonged to Allebahst.  Like many diplomats, however, he had good intentions -- the reunification of Cohdopia was the most important thing to him, even if it meant telling a few white lies.  Politics at its best, in other words.

Even so, there’s still nothing to connect him to either murder.  In fact, the only potential motive he could have to kill Manny is their...peculiar working relationship.

Another possible motive pops up when we find out that his secretariat hired Ka-shi Nou (a.k.a. Mask☆DeMasque II) to steal Allebahst’s Primidux Statue, presumably to ensure that Palaeno would become Cohdopia’s ambassador.  Palaeno claims he knew nothing about it, but can we really trust that?  Did something perhaps go awry between them when the plan was carried out?  (Yeah, I know he’s innocent.  I’m just building the suspense here.)

The suspicion suddenly shifts in a new direction when Agent Shih-na is exposed as the disappeared smuggling ring member, Calisto Yew, as well as the one responsible for starting two fires and tampering with some evidence, but the case doesn’t end there.

The real ringleader is still out there, meaning that Palaeno still isn’t quiiiiite off the hook yet.  Another scapegoat appears when Agent Lang points the finger at a possible co-conspirator with Yew...

...but thankfully, that theory is short-lived.  It’s not like we needed any more twist villains, after all.

We get one anyway, of course, but thankfully, it’s not our dear friend Colias.

It turns out the mastermind was a different ambassador -- one with the same friendliness and charm as Palaeno...as well as a lot more pride and arrogance.

To make a very long story short, Quercus Alba turned out to be practically the opposite sort of ambassador from Palaeno -- one whose ultimate goal was power and influence, even at the expense, so to speak, of Zheng Fa’s economy.

Palaeno, on the other hand, was just the opposite sort of ambassador.

Rather than fame, power, or money, Palaeno sought peace between two nations who had been torn apart, and for the person standing in the way of that dream to be thwarted.  To that end, he even supports Edgeworth from the sidelines.

And the beautiful irony of it all is this: The very position of power Alba sacrificed so many things to obtain, including human lives, was ultimately given to Palaeno, who did little more during the whole fiasco than cooperate and provide help when it was it needed.

If there’s anything to take from his story, it’s that being the nice guy may not put you in the spotlight (not to mention some bad things will happen regardless), but it can always lead to great benefits in the end.  Sure, he’s not exactly a saint -- he even sold the fake Primidux Statue to Zinc LeBlanc without letting him know it was fake -- but his friendliness, generosity, and peace-loving attitude have undoubtedly earned him many grateful admirers, as I’m sure the citizens of the new Principality of Cohdopia could tell you.

Oh, and guess what?  I didn’t realize until doing this essay that his English name isn’t supposed to be a pun -- it’s actually the species name for the Moorland Clouded Yellow Butterfly!  That’s a mystery that always bothered me, so thanks for pointing me to that piece of trivia.

-The Co-Mod

[syahirude]

My top fav moments of Y4S2

Social Innovation

That class was shit. I honestly cannot believe the amount of shit that I gave for this class - hint: it was close to 0. For the first time in four years, I did not proofread a single report - I literally couldn’t care less. Oh and also, our individual assignments? Two things happened:

1. Prof told me to redo my paper because he wasn’t convinced that my paper was about a social innovation, he thought that it was more of a technological innovation. Okay look, if you were to tell Y3 Sya this right, she wouldve done it ASAP. And prof was really nice about it - he said that he really wanted to give me an A for my paper but I just had to make it more convincing. He gave me a month to send him a short write up to argue that it was in fact a social inno BUT guess what, I didn’t do it cos I was busy traveling HAHA

2. I submitted my 25% assignment all the way from Korea and I barely checked my essay lmao dah malas

But I quite like suffering through each class cos we all had to go through a crash course on Design Thinking (an extension of what Hoon’s class was about) and I loved it. 

Grad Tripin’

So I spent 3+ weeks overseas and I left immediately after recess week (cos no finals lmao yass).Took forever to convince my mom that I wanted to travel to Korea all by myself, but it worked and I’m so thankful for it. Really.

I spent 9 days in Seoul + Busan, 5 days in KL with my krew and 6 days in HK with my gal pals. Tbh, the trip was quite impromptu cos I booked all of my tickets a few days before I left and I barely had any concrete plan, besides the fact that I’ll be meeting some of my friends here and there.

It felt like a healing trip for me and I think I managed to heal the wound that was the bane of my existence since Y4S1. My close friends knew it, you knew it and my parents knew that I was hurting - but somehow, I managed to convince myself to look past the pain until I got back from the trip.

And I knew that the wound was completely healed when I had nothing to say to you, even though I knew that I was never going to see you after that night. We had a damn good run but we shouldn’t continue pursuing something just because of nostalgia, you know? 

Getting a job before graduating (!!!!!)

Ok hun listen, if you’re truly my friend, you would know how thirsty I was to get hired by AbbVie. But you would also know about my love hate relationship with that god forsaken place. Okay, yall need to understand that the fact that I got to intern at an MNC was a huge deal to me because they never once looked at my grades and they took me in when I had nothing to offer. Is this how Taybae felt like when she had her first break??? 

Anyway, they hired me on a part time contract basis from Jan till March (aka I was no longer an intern and I was earning twice as much heck freaking yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!) but what I did not know was the level of commitment. I barely had the time for anything else - I came home late almost all the time because I’ll either be from the lib (trying to salvage my grades) or out partying w my friends (and by partying I mean catching up with friends that I don’t see as often cos work lmao). Like if I’m not in school, I’m in the office and even when I’m at school, I’m working. It was hella intense and I cried almost all the time because I was stretched thin. (Protip: I still recommend my dear juniors to do part time internship if that’s the place you wanna work at after graduating because the market is so shit right now that none of my friends are hired and honestly, the ones that are hired were interns from that place) 

It was also extra intense because I knew that they were gauging my performance and I needed a solid reason for why they should hire me after graduation. I was scared shitless when I first stepped into my director’s office to ask for a job. 

This was how the conversation went: 

Sya: *knock knock* Hi Indi, are you free for abit? 

Indi (big shot director): Yes yes Sya come in! 

Sya: *closes the door* So I wanted to talk about my future with AbbVie 

I legit went for it - and that was how I got my first job guys. You know how long it took for me ask? Close to 5 months cos I was genuinely scared of rejection. I had to go through so many pep talks from my friends, seniors, parents, colleagues etc etc 

So yessss, I managed to tick something off my dream list - Get hired before graduating 

Haribo

Imy xx 

“I leave you in the care of Allah, the Most Gracious because anything in his care will never be lost" 

Crying/Raging sesh with my S(mu)oulmate - Nadiboo 

I don’t know where life will take us once we’re both no longer in the same institution but one thing is for sure, I willingly take up the burden of taking care of you until kau dah tua and nak mampos (Insya allah la eh I will try my bestest) cos I know you’ll do the same for me too. 

You know what you’ve done for me so I’m not going to say it here so yeah thank you ugh also tell Mummy I need to meet her asap cos I’m honestly not getting younger like its June aka 3 more months till my birthday 

Nyonya Museum 

Dok, one of the bestest mods everrrrrr - this mod got me shook. Knowledge is so important !!! Knowledge is power !!! 

M2M lepak sessions

S/o to my homies for bringing me out till morning to lepak hard :’) and thank you for being there the whole time and making sure that I’m home safe (I will never look at hot milo the same way again)