#I think I'm back to my aa phase...

[karoo-o]

"Don't panic Justice, that's just prosecuter Gavin"

[frost-faerie]

so spirits are real and canon in ace attorney right. we're past the non-believing stage, let's get straight into business. ghosthunters OBVIOUSLY exist in the aa universe, and that leads me to my next point.

where. the FUCK. are the ghosthunters AU's.

I need a fic where the aa4 gang (apollo, klavier, trucy, ema) all hunt a ghost together. and holy mother i will write it myself if i have to

REGARDLESS!

here is what i think they would all do under the pressure of Death by Ghost:

Apollo- he's seen enough spiritual shit to get out of his "ghosts aren't real" phase, but he's still fucking terrified. he only came along because klavier told him they were getting eldoons. it's like telling a dog they're going to the park as you pull up to the vet

Klavier- he's very, very dramatic about it. All "i'm too young and hot to die!!" and "herr forehead save me!!!!! please this mascara cost 80$ I DON'T WANT TO WASTE IT BY DYING"

Trucy- she is jealous of the ghost. it's throwing plates around and scaring everyone and she IMMEDIATELY starts brainstorming ways to add it all into her acts. "Polly can you call daddy? I need to ask him if it's okay that I get a ghost in the wonderbar for my performance"

Ema- the only bitch who's taking this shit seriously. look me in my eye, look back at ema doing all her sciency shit, and tell me she WOULD'NT be into reading EMF levels and evaluating temperatures. it's like forensic science took a step up

[ivyial]

RIGHT SO

after my previous reblog, i feel compelled to write a "short" post (love letter) about (to) this game

so for those of you who haven't played it, or never even heard of it, professor layton vs phoenix wright: ace attorney is a crossover game between the two franchises (you'll have guessed it from the title) and it is PAINFULLY underrated :,) (i also hear that it is now hard to get physical copies of this game at a decent price so i'm glad i kept mine)

essentially used to be my favourite game of all time before it got dethroned by the resident evil 4 remake (but i will forever remember it fondly). i remember my parents gifted it to me for easter back in 2014 (so i was around 12 back then) and i don't think they realised how much this would change me. like this is one of the reasons why i started thinking about studying law later LMAOO.

essentially layton and phoenix both end up helping this young girl, espella (i played it in french back then and her name is aria so their english names are a struggle for me) who is being hunted by witches and then put on trial in london for the assault of a ship's crew member. then the wildest thing happens and they get sucked into a book and are sent back to medieval times. yes it sounds insane. but in this small town called labyrinthia, witches are real, and so are witch trials (DOESN'T IT SOUND COOL AS FUCK??).

they've all forgotten who they are, though. phoenix doesn't remember being an attorney and layton doesn't remember anything either. they find espella again, and she's put on trial AGAIN, for witchcraft this time. the game alternates between the usual layton riddles and ace attorney's investigation/trial phases. the odds are high this time around, because those found guilty of witchcraft are shoved into a metal cage and plunged into a pit of fire. they're not messing around.

of course, it wouldn't be layton or ace attorney without a massive plot twist at the end. i'd argue this one is probably the most insane out of all layton games (it's even a bit far fetched tbh, but just saying, you do not see it coming) (okay it's even full of plot holes and i haven't revisited the ending in years but if i did, i think it would be detrimental to my mental health).

the art style is amazing - i'm in love with the later ace attorney art styles, starting from dual destinies and this game, and particularly the latest great ace attorney chronicles. here are a few of my favourite character designs from the game:

but overall, one of the best things about the game has to be the soundtrack. it is the perfect mix of both franchises' music and it is a CRIME that neither level 5 nor capcom have released this on spotify (capcom i know you have all other AA soundtracks on this app. add this one. i am begging you). if you've never played an ace attorney game before, then you do not know the sheer adrenaline of phoenix shouting OBJECTION and the music speeding up. here's one of my favourite tracks:

tell me this doesn't make you immediately want to confess to 47 crimes you haven't committed.

it's kind of the perfect crossover game if you're into the genre, it's perfectly balanced between riddles and trials. the stakes are also a lot higher and there's actual executions. maybe i shouldn't have played this at the age of 12 actually - at some point (spoilers ahead), maya is wrongly executed and the scene will forever haunt me for some reason:

(go to 18:06 if the youtube timestamp doesn't work) i chose the french version of the cutscene because it's the one i played back then and i find that the french dub is a lot more compelling than the english one (somehow? the french haven't produced a good dub in decades so). also maya's screams are downright heartbreaking and the scene was traumatising asf when i was a kid

ANYWAY. please play this game, it's so much fun. for the AA enthusiasts, there's an edgeworth cameo at the very end. i very much fear that this game will be forgotten eventually, but it warms my heart to see that there are still people talking about it on the internet.

[the-bar-sinister]

Have you played the AA Investigations games? If yes, what did you think of them? Sadly I was only able to play for myself the first one (I couldn't make the translation patch for the second one work :( ), and let's just say that the novelty of playing as Edgeworth wore off quickly lol. The second one was much more ambitious with some stellar character arcs and a memorable final villain, but of course it's still stuck in "only in Japan" limbo...

Yes! We played both Investigations, and Investigations 2 (fan patch) about 10 years ago. Currently, we're in the middle of watching a letsplay/fandub of the games because uh, yeah. We're not going to play through them again. They're the worst 'games'-- NOT the worst stories– in the AA series.

I definitely can't blame you for saying the novelty wore off quickly. Investigations has some serious flaws as a game and in structure. Which is an absolute shame, because the characters and stories are some of my favorites.

I absolutely adore Detective Badd, Agent Lang, Shih-Nah, and Kay Faraday from the first game, and Sebastian Debeste and Justine Courtney from the second game are some of my favorite characters in the whole series.

It's also absolutely fantastic to get to see more of Miles and Gumshoe together. I just love them as a mystery solving pair. They have such delightful energy. It probably helps that I'm a gumworth shipper from way back of course XD

But frankly, the fantastic characters, interesting worldbuilding and good stories absolutely can't save the Investigations series from its faults.

Problems with Ace Attorney Investigations

the need for the narrative to telegraph to the player how to solve problems, and forcing the player to painstakingly go through each of Miles' thought processes as a game mechanic has the opposite of the intended effect. Instead of making the player feel clever it makes Miles Edgeworth seem, very, very stupid and slow.

logic chess (from the second game) is agonizing. It's a great character bit for Egdeworth, having him conceive every logical problem as a chess problem, but its a fucking agonizing game mechanic.

circular reasoning. Every case is way too long, and it goes around in circles. I feel like this is a result of the "trial" phases being outside the court and thus having no real mediator. It's very true to life because people are going to "nu-uh" for as long as they can, but, realistic or not, t's agonizing to explain the same things to characters over and over and over.

connected to the above, all of the cases are too long, and also some of the logical leaps that the games expect you to make are some of the worst in the series. From Apollo Justice onward the games got a lot better about having a clear line of logic for where you're supposed to present evidence. Investigations and investigations 2 are just fucking guesswork.

So yeah while I definitely think these games are fantastic lore and character wise and worth experiencing, they are absolutely aggravating to play. My personal suggestion for anyone who wants to experience them is to pick a lets play/walkthrough video of their favorite variety (commentary, dub, no commentary) and enjoy them without having to worry about the terrible fucking gameplay.

[callonpeevesie]

Do you mind if I ask your top 10 favorite characters (can be male or female) from all of the media that you loved (can be anime/manga, books, movies or tv series)? And why do you love them? Sorry if you've answered this question before.....Thanks...

Hi, thanks for the ask! It's hard to pick top 10 because my feelings about characters keep fluctuating and I'm also kind of out of touch with fandom these days, but here are 10 characters I've blorboed in the past or recently.

Pyala from tenida - I have posted about him before, he's my childhood fave from a series that's very dear to me. I grew attached to him when I first read the stories when I was about eight. I was quiet, constantly zoned out, chronically sick and couldn't Maths, and I really saw myself in him. But what sealed him as my favourite character is his sort of quiet courage,, he's scared of many things but he has this integrity and is brave enough to be honest with himself. I've had so many other favourite characters since, but that connection never really went away. As I grew up and reread the stories I discovered more layers to his character and unpacked just how much he had impacted me in my childhood. He's just really important to me.

Héctor from coco - I was absolutely obsessed with coco for a very long time, this blog even started as a coco blog. It's a beautiful movie and héctor was always my favourite character. He was understandably very popular and I love him for his adorable personality and angst potential, but another reason I'm attached to him is the pushover aspect of his personality. It's something I myself struggled with and it was super cathartic to see him stand up to ernesto. I used to wonder a lot how things would have gone if he had lived longer and got to grow more.

Mia from ace attorney - she's just *chef's kiss*. I got into aa a couple of years back and fell in love with her from the beginning. She's so beautiful and badass but also so much more. She impacts the story so much even though she was present for such a short time, it's fascinating to think about. And she feels more and more layered and flawed and interesting the more I think about her. I'm very normal about her

Grover from pjo - it's safe to say my pjo phase has completely faded, but I have a sort of nostalgic attachment to Grover. He's so soft but brave and adorable and grew so much over the series. I do feel his potential was underutilised in the books. But in a way I like that his backstory and personal journey is left so vague, it makes him more intriguing to me. Part of the reason I like him so much is because his bravery and potential are so overlooked in the fandom and I guess I'm defensive of him, lol.

Sokka from atla - tbh I only watched atla for the first time as an adult, during the pandemic, and sokka just grew on me during my first watch. He's just such a guy, the way he's shaped by the protective role he took on as a kid, by growing up during a war, how calculative and ruthless he can be in spite of his goofiness and how much he cares about Katara, I just,,,, ughhhh. I love chewing on him so much and I find it fascinating how well he was fleshed out even though he's not the most narratively important character

Matsuda from death note - another more recent favourite, got into death note a couple of years back. I enjoyed how silly and goofy he is and he grew on me, how he feels worthless compared to everyone else and wants to prove himself. He's also such a madlad for his yotsuba stunt (and telling mello he was L. wtf was that). His conflicted position and eventual reaction to light's betrayal make him an interesting one to figure out, but what stands out to me is how he seems to use humour to cope and tries desperately to liven things up. It's especially obvious to me that he puts up a facade in the epilogue of the manga

Anne shirley from Anne of green gables - this one is a childhood favourite. She's!! So good!! I became obsessed with her when I first read the book because I related so much to her imaginativeness and her way of admiring beauty, I felt like she was putting into words things I've always felt deep down. As an adult I've ceased to relate to her so much, but I still love the way she interacts with the people and environment around her and how she deals with her flaws and strives to be better. Also demiromantic icon fr

Shen from kung fu panda 2 - truly one of the villains ever. A++ design, actually compelling story, how his struggle with his past and identity reflects and contrasts with Po's,,, it's thematically so GOOD. I just love how he never truly gets over the past even though he claims to tend to the future and he's always terrified of the prophecy even though he acts confident that he's escaped fate. And how po succeeds where he feels,, I think shen can only be fully appreciated in relation to po and that makes me a little insane. I love my drama queen genocidal freak birb

Hobie from across the spiderverse - i think he's my favourite thing to come out of atsv, he's such a guy <33 everything from his design to how well he was executed in spite of so little screentime is top tier. There's a lot to say about his narrative significance, but what i love the most about him is that he embodies the idea that kindness is punk. He's not punk just for the aesthetic, although it seems like he is and that's probably at least partially on purpose; his beliefs are punk and he does not believe in the conformity and suffering that Miguel encourages. He watches out for gwen and miles not just because he doesn't agree with the spider society but because he cares about them. And his kindness doesn't take away from his punkness, compassion and caring IS resistance and I think that's beautiful

Obelix from Asterix - Asterix is one of my all time favourite media I've loved since childhood and it's hard to pick one character because I love all of the main cast so much, but I have to go with the autistic king. He's Wonderful, he's genuinely so funny, his thinking is so straightforward and he feels left out because no one bothers to explain things to him but he cares about Asterix and dogmatix so so much I just. I could cry. And the backstory in how obelix fell into the magic potion adds more to him and his bond with Asterix, like,,, yes

Once again these are 10 characters I thought of now, I might have a different answer later because my feelings about my favourite characters change a lot. But that's my answer for now and sorry for answering so late. Thanks for asking!

[hanaaamaryam]

Not myself

In the last few months, I haven't been feeling like myself. It felt like a ghost of my old self wandering around for its home. Wanting to be a part of something. I don't write anymore, I don't feel poetic, I just feel bland. Like in a constant state of oblivion. On occasions, my mind can be extremely chaotic and complex that I can't seem to put my words right. This does not feel like the classic "oh I'm so lost, I can't find myself" this is the type where one turns the age of 24, and undergoes a transition to a phase of life where you just have to suck. it. up. Just put it all in. Yes suck it up and just man the fuck up. How can one be 18 and felt like they know everything and then be 24 and know nothing in life. It is indeed a difficult situation to be in.

I believe, as a person, I have concluded myself aa a sensitive bitch. My heart, they're wide open. I feel too much and think too much. How does one live in such an awful world, filled with cruelty, brutality, inhumanity.. and still be kind? I guess that boils back down to having Allah in your heart. Man-kind has slowly and gradually destroying this earth, this beautiful place God has given us. I have numb myself to a point that I am only floating through space and time. But who am I thinking? Sometimes I feel like I’m going insane. Every night I lay in bed thinking, beyond my capabilities of understanding as a human being, the things I cannot control in life. This is the most disorient state I've ever been in. I feel terrified. Nothing I do seems to be working. Nothing I do is making this right. I have no idea what to do. I just feel very lost in life. I feel like I'm losing grip with reality. I don't feel like I connected with anyone. I feel really alone and I don't know why and what the reasons are. I can't seem to shake off this feeling. I feel like everyone thinks I'm crazy. I looked fine, it's true, I do look like I got everything lined up in life. I understand that no one will understand you completely because you don't even understand people. I know some people struggle to give an appropriate response to expressing their true feelings.

Do I really thought that I have all the time in this world? I might not even wake up tomorrow and I talk as if I have a 100 years to live. Even with all of these happening, I still feel lost. It is kind of an unsettling feeling. The more I try to explain myself to a person, the more I sound stupid. I think this is how most of the adults feel? A mass of nothingness lingered inside. It is truly scary to live in a world feeling like you have no one. Like a hollow void feeling in the chest.

No one ever deserves to feel this way.

[rafasbiscuits]

aa tam! @tam-is-blogging yk how much I love these, thank u sm for the tag🥺

last song: flawless - the neighbourhood

currently watching: mm if it's anything then I'm watching youtube videos, like past year papers and stuff. I love exams (help. me.) if it's movies/shows I'm watching modern family but on break

currently reading: for my exams, now it's biology

currently thinking: about...my exams...(it's exam season guys its exam all the way😭) but that's such a boring topic!! so I'm also thinking about my beloved fanfictions that I have yet to continue <3

current obsession: I think my anime phase is coming back, so I have to say satosugu (jjk)

tagging: mmmm @fedalheadbands @ponderingrabbit-blog @swaggypsyduck @thefrootloopman @bwehdal @kingfisherprince @yoellglia @hubillusion (if you guys want to ofc, no pressure at all) and anyone that comes across this and wants to do it!!

[anotherghoul666]

Anon songs!

For Ghost I give you Jigolo Har Megiddo

Other than that, it's Chokehold by Sleep Token, Tear You Apart by She Wants Revenge and Here She Comes Again by Royksopp :D

Aa haaa!! I give off Jigolo vibes? I fucking love this XD I am the one lascivious! Fuck yeah! No but for real, I love this song. The lyrics are so over the top, it's that brand of pure camp Ghost does so well and it fills me with delight. It's one of the Ghost songs I made my very-much-no-a-metalhead partner listen to anyway just so we could laugh at the lyrics and she was cackling by the end of it so I count it as a win xD Plus this line: "Destroying all and make them want it again" That's very me as a dom(me) ;) hehehe

To get associated with Chokehold is an honor, this song still makes me tear up after a hundred listens. Extremely powerful lyrics that I even got in my bios on here and discord and stuff hahaha

Tear You Apart by She Wants Revenge I had a really fun time with, cause I was like, I feel like I know this but I can't recall the song, so I went to listen, and indeed I absolutely knew the song but like, from a deep deep memory. I think you just tredged back up some audio memory from my goth phase XD This is fucking rad, now I'm gonna go down memory lane and relisten to that album cause I remember loving that alternative goth rock sound with the surf rock riffs but tuned down to make them darker, man I missed this sound! I love the slow build up of the desperation in the lyrics, how one person weaves their wai into the other's mind to the point of making them near insane with love they wanna do awful things. This is my fucked up definition of romance right there, give me all of this, I vibe!

Here She Comes Again by Royksopp I'd never heard of so this was a pure discovery! While it's less my style, I do appreciate the darkness in the track and the unusual synths blips throughout kept my attention. Cool listen!

Thank you so much for leaving these in my inbox, I appreciate the music discovery (and re-discovery haha) so much!!! You're rad anon!

[turnsbouts]

NO ITS OK I LOVE HEARING UR THOUGHTS!! They are very similar to my own!!

I had considered Apollo and Athena being sun/moon breathing duo because of their names/themes… but getting more creative with it is always a plus. I do love the idea of Metis being the moon breather. I had absolutely planned Athena’s attacks to be heavily emotion based too… psycho-breathing? bahaha. Or maybe we can call the moon breathing offshoot “lunar breathing”. related to the moon, and usually used to refer to lunar phases… many phases aka emotions

Apollo could have Sunflower Breathing, to have both the fire and the plant theme. Offshoot of the original flower breathing of course, as is Flytrap Breathing. Apollo’s perception can act like a type of “Total Concentration”, really. Apollo probably could learn multiple breathing styles LMAO

I imagined Blackquill as a demon slayer with Hawk Breathing… him turning into a demon to protect Athena is VERY good… that, OR he was accused of Metis’ death, as there was no sign of a demon attack (Phantom is trickyyy), and lost his position as a slayer as the Corps couldn’t figure out how to get around that. He admitted guilt etc, the story plays out similarly. He’s let back into the Corps later on in the equivalent of the DD timeline so he can help Athena.

Yes!!! MVK was a Hashira-turned-demon like Kristoph, and amidst his corruption, turned Edgeworth as well. Not sure yet when Gregory dies in this timeline… maybe MVK and Gregory (both hashira or similarly highly ranked) had a duel, MVK was going to be punished for killing Gregory, and then encountered and was offered to be turned into a demon. Edgeworth would get turned later on after being offered (so it was ‘consensual’), while Franziska remains a human.

I don’t think MVK is going to be Muzan, maybe just an Upper Moon… but to be fair, I haven’t decided on who exactly Muzan would be replaced with yet. Phantom was another concept, but i’m not sure about that.

The Judge is the Master equivalent though, as leader of the Demon Slayers. heh

Ohohoho Apollo and Thena as a sun/moon matched set yessss

I LOVE both lunar and sunflower, especially how sunflower can work both as flower/fire and flower/sun.....

Ahhhh I love Blackquill both as a slayer and as a demon!! Hawk breathing would be so cool!!

I think Phantom could work as a demon without any major changes lol. His thing would be less physically impossible as a demon than as a human. But he could have some fun illusion magic to make it look like Athena killed Metis and force Blackquill to take the blame

Also I've been thinking if anyone would fit as a demon eater... my top picks would be Phoenix (already eats weird shit. like glass), Blackquill (for the ostricization themes), Athena (same reason but only Blackquill knows about it), Nahyuta (I just think it could fit the themes) but idkkkkk

Ohhh the DRAMA of Edgeworth being a demon and Franziska being a human and MVK in all of this!! Was Franziska a human training under a demon and waiting to be turned?? Or did she know MVK only as a human?? Does Franziska become a slayer???

Mmmm I don't thing AA has a Muzan equivalent of a Big Bad Source of Evil, unless you're willing to substitute Muzan with like. The entire penal system of Japan/Japanifornia.

I've been thinking what the Feys should be... maybe they can still be mediums, but I'm wondering about a more explicit support role, like the swordsmiths or ubuyashiki clan (minus the authority part)... or would the detectives work better as the swordsmiths??

Also the Paynes being a family of really weak demons <3 And Larry being a civilian with a rare blood considering how much he attracts trouble

[au-tumn-al]

It's my 8 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

I uaually wouldn't post smth like this, but I'm honestly so appreciative for Tumblr these past 8(??) years. I was a very lonely kid growing up, and didn't have any friends, & wouldn't until going off to college in 2020; I didn't ever make friends on Tumblr (i had amino apps friends 💀💀💀😭😭😭😭😭) but for a long time, it would give me things to do. I had an outlet for literally every single fandom that I got into, especially Ace Attorney. I'm so, so happy that the series has matured with me, and even if we never get AA7, the localization of DGS 1 & 2 was an amazing note to end on. They are probably the best-written games in the series and I loved finally being able to play them after so many years.

When I was still making original content for Ace Attorney, I was kind of sad to think that when I grew up, I would stop my real-time playthroughs of Ace Attorney. I played through the entire first game in the original time that it happened back in 2016 (which is when the first game took place, canonically), and I knew I probably wouldn't do that by the time AJ rolled around in 2026.

Now those years are in reach. 2026 is only 2 ½ years away, and yeah, I probably won't play AJ like I did the first game. But I'm really happy that I never really grew out of my "phases" that I went through on Tumblr. I still love Ace Attorney, and it has remained my very favorite video game franchise through nostalgia alone, and have gone back to the series over the years. Getting into the series because of the announcement of PLvsAA was such a magical time. I had no idea that AA would become such a core part of my teenage years. I got into the series when I was 11 or so, and so I have literally spent half of my life alive loving Ace Attorney than not. And tbh, I'm really happy with that.

I've come a really long way in these past 8 years, and I can better appreciate how the 7 year time skip in AJ did so much to Phoenix lol. I was a very lonely 14 y/o, stuck in an abusive home. I lived day by day, and my mom insisted that I be homeschooled K-12, despite having such an unstable household & her deteriating health so she didn't even get up out of bed most days so I rarely left the house, except to go grocery shopping with her.

But now? I graduated college an entire year early, earning summa cum laude this past May. I met some honestly amazing people, and finally started making friends for the first time since I was 9. I had some fabulous mentors during my undergrad, and not being their students anymore was the hardest part about graduating so early. I'm still actually at my college now, since I'm working a residence job over the summer, but once it's over, I'm finally moving out. I have no idea what's going to come next, but I'm tentatively looking forward to it all.

Tumblr, for its bad reputation, never actually negatively affected me in the same way other apps did (amino was fucking traumatizing 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭), and for me, was exactly the kind of platform that it promised to be. I have loved growing up with it, and coming back to this blog every so often feels like coming home.

I know some of the followers of this blog have really been with me from the beginning, and I really, truly appreciate you. I still recognize your @'s, and they make me happy when I see them in my notifs every so often :) unlike literally every other social media, I have not thought once about closing this account, so I'll be here a while longer.

Who else is going to reblog my yearly Amathatober 5th XC2 post? 🤭

But that is to say: thanks, Tumblr. This platform has been good to me, and I'm so glad I joined it.

[thegildedbee]

I second @totallysilvergirl's emphatic cri de coeur :-) Post-2017 there have been amazing fics (and plucky commenters and kudosers), and stunning artwork, and vids full of ideas, and, here at tumblr, a dandy set of humorous, and brilliant, and clever posters and rebloggers -- which all means that the bbc sherlock fan community still has a beating heart.

but it is smaller and very different from the magnificent dynamics that existed when the show was a still-alive series. that it is smaller, tragically, isn't even because there was a normal kind of attrition -- the wrenching horrific mess of 2017 meant that so many people just slammed the door shut, in horror at the progresson of the series, and/or horror at the internal harshness that roiled the community. I am still haunted by beautiful works-in-progress fics that were silenced . . . not because of why wips often remain wips (quite understandably so) but because their authors were so sick at heart by s4 they just couldn't bring themselves to keep going with them. I still can't re-watch the series, even though I've remained active in the fandom.

emp would be wonderful, and I love that it exists as an insightfully-analyzed and perfectly reasonable universe (whether for real or alternatively), but I'm afraid my opinion of mofftiss is that they got mean after 2015 -- I think they were incredibly jealous of how BC and MF became such huge stars, and how their on-screen chemistry came to overwhelm interest in the authors of the episodes (and I suspect the fact that Gatiss was also actually in the show made experiencing what happened even more anger-inducing). [Plus I don't think they could handle the fandom being as smart as it was, but that's another story.] It was okay when they could explain to themselves that BC and MF's high profile was down to them, and that they were in control of it -- but after 2014, it was a different game in that regard. I think that's one of the reasons s4 is as it is -- both to turn the spotlight back on themselves, but to also de-emphasize BC and MF, hence the Eurus plot and the continued "presence" of Mary and the ridiculous last episode, especially. So, I'm not sanguine there was a logic to s4 other than pique and getting their own back, abetted by a hermetically sealed writing environment that meant there was no push-back regarding quality of the narrative.

(I also think they tried to shoot AA and SB into the stratosphere like BC and MF had done, to show that it was their god-like powers of authorship that allowed that kind of lightning to strike, and, again, to de-emphasize what BC and MF had created through their acting.) I say all of this, because I've tried for several years now to guess what may happen next, both as a fan of the show, but also as a fan of the fandom. I don't think we'll get a s5 -- I think s4 was meant to put paid to that idea. But I do think we'll get a movie at some point, one that likely won't even reference much, if at all, the series, but will have the series as its motor. If that's true, I think there could be another swell of interest that could enlarge the fandom, and could, perhaps, after all the time that's passed, entice some of those who left to return. It would be a fascinating phase if so.

But even if none of that transpires, there are really wonderful riches in today's fandom -- not just in a compensatory sense, but in a continually-renewing powerful sense -- and astonishing creativity and, I think, a sense of the importance of caring for each other on the part of many, because of 2017 and its aftermath. It is a lovely fandom. xoxoxox

And, there are new people who find their way here, because of their own finding of the series in their own time. And that is exciting also!

I am grateful to all of you! :-)

Is the BBC Sherlock/Johnlock community here still active?

[brandybradyrandyandyndy]

Mark Forster's role in the Ace Attorney franchise

Okay, first off:

I'm not a fan of Mark Forster's music, please don't take this post the wrong way

There might be some aa trilogy spoilers

Also, I admit this title is pretty bold for what I'm going to say on this topic, but I watch The Voice of Germany with my sister every week and one of the coaches is Mark Forster who I only know like five songs of in total, but his song "Au Revoir" (which is actually a terrible song btw. It's so catchy, I've had it stuck in my head since I woke up this morning and it ruined my day.) kind of reminded me of the whole "Prosecutor Miles Edgeworth chooses death." thing, because the only thing I knew about this song was the refrain:

which would be roughly translated to:

"There is nothing that's holding me back, au revoir / Forget who I was / Forget my name / It will never be the way it was before / I'm off / Au revoir"

But as I looked further into the lyrics I found out there is a "rap part" which tells you about the places the lyrical I will go to when they're away and it contains a passage that adds a beautiful twist to my theory/headcanon (I'm not sure what to call this yet).

"I'm sitting on the Mayan throne in the jungle / [...] / The phoenix is taking off now"

You see where I'm going with this? I know, it's not Phoenix who's leaving and I know the lyrics refer to the Maya Civilization from Mesoamerica, but I thought it was a funny coincidence, that not only does the word "Phoenix" appear in the lyrics of this song, but so does "Maya".

So when I first saw this part of "Au Revoir", I started imagining how Miles Edgeworth would listen to this song and like dramatically sing along to it and start crying or something, but this only posed another question:

How could this scenario happen? How and why would he even come in contact with this song?

My first guess was, Miles probably went to Germany after he left his note, because he grew up there (I think), when he had been adopted by Manfred von Karma as a child, and he heard the song somewhere in the radio because in Germany they blast Mark Forster's music in almost every public space, so there is no escape from it ever. I tried to find out, during which timespan Miles left America, just to make sure if there was a chance that he actually could have heard it on the radio.

In the Ace Attorney wiki this timespan isn't clearly mentioned, but since the last case (Rise from the Ashes) from the first game is set in February 2017 and Edgeworth returns to America in March 2018 I'm guessing, this is exactly the time window in which he's in Germany* (minus some days/weeks of course, because I don't think he'd just leave on the exact same day he had his last trial in America). *to make this easier for me I'm just assuming he spends the entirety of his travels in Germany

But this brings me to my problem, the German Charts of 2017/2018.

As you can see, the only songs by Mark Forster that were in the charts while Miles would be in Germany are the ones above. This means that it is highly unlikely that he knew of "Au Revoir" from the radio, because why would they play this old song if they could also play Mark Forster's more recent songs that are popular right now?

But when exactly was "Au Revoir" popular enough to be in the German Charts?

During my research I looked up these years, too, and it came down to 2014 (the year "Au Revoir" was released) and even a year later in 2015. So there is no way he could have known of this song if his most recent stay in Germany was in 2017, right? (I mean, unless the German people he met then, had literally no taste and forced him to listen to it.)

But I have a pretty simple and logical explanation on how he could have still known of this song, even though he probably wouldn't have heard it in Germany in 2017.

I tried really hard, but I couldn't for my life find real data on Mark Forster's demographic, so just believe me if I tell you that his demographic is mostly preteen and teenage girls. Also, it's worth mentioning that Mark Forster's music is pretty much only known in German speaking countries like Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Now, let's take a closer look at the years, in which Au Revoir was most popular: 2014 and 2015

Who could Miles Edgeworth possibly know, who in 2014/2015 is 1. German, 2. a teenager and 3. a girl? The answer is quite obvious:

His younger sister Franziska von Karma.

Considering that she was either 14 or 15 when "Au Revoir" was released, she fits Mark Forster's demographic perfectly and although I'm not 100% sure if she was in Germany then, I still believe, she must have had at least some connection to Germany in some way, maybe a German friend who she still was in contact with or maybe she had access to German tv, maybe German YouTube channels or social media. And don't get me wrong, I love Franziska von Karma and I wouldn't wish anything bad on her, but at the same time I strongly believe that she'd be the kind of girl who'd have gone through a Mark Forster phase as a teen.

Now remember that I, myself, have a sister. I know what siblings do to annoy each other and I just know from the bottom of my heart that if Franziska really was a fan of Mark Forster's music, she would blast it on any opportunity she'd get. Or she would at least talk about him and his songs with her brother. Believe me. If Franziska really listened to Mark Forster, Miles would have known of him, too. There is literally no other way. (For reference, I know every 1D member's name, birthday and relationship status, although I literally do not care about any of them at all, only because my sister is obsessed with them and talks about them 24/7. Meanwhile the only MCR member I know, is Gerard Way, even though I listen to their music on the daily.)

So here is my conclusion.

Miles Edgeworth definitely listened to "Au Revoir" by Mark Forster on the plane from Japanifornia to Germany and he also definitely cried, after he made sure nobody could see him (especially during the part "Der Phönix macht jetz 'n Abflug"/"The phoenix is taking off now"). Also, he probably listened to the song multiple times during his stay in Germany and you literally can't prove me wrong on this. I mean you could try, but I invested way too much of my time in this to actually care about another person's opinion on my shitty headcanon.

Also, the moment Franziska met Phoenix and Maya, her memories vaulted her right back to her Mark Forster phase and her hatred against Phoenix wasn't solely based on the fact that he was accountable for the conviction of her father Manfred von Karma, her hatred was also ignited by the fact that she probably had "Au Revoir" stuck in her head because of these two for the rest of the day and I just know that this must have completely ruined it for her.

Also, unrelated to anything I've said prior:

Klavier Gavin would definitely collaborate with Mark Forster on at least one song and however severe Franziska's Mark Forster phase might have been, I am convinced Klavier would have outdone her by far. I haven't played AJAA yet, but as much as I've gathered from the fandom, he's like a weeaboo but with Germany, I think? I'm absolutely sure, he wouldn't ever miss a chance like this.

Finally, here is the song this whole post is about:

[memorymessage]

but most of the time, i do enjoy expressing femininity.

i don't know if it's insensitive to say this, but my experience recently feels moreso comparable to a trans woman. i don't feel like an afab person re-discovering femininity, rather i feel like i'm discovering it for the first time.

it does feel liberating. i remember the first time i was transitioning as masc, it felt exciting—like an adventure. but there were also moments of dysphoria that was so bad, i felt like punching the mirror.

it feels a lot like that all over again.

i can't otherwise explain why getting my period makes me feel valid. or why buying a bra feels special to me. maybe due to the years of dysphoria-fueled ED making me lose my period, and throwing out all my bras in place of binders.

i don't even hate my breasts anymore, which were always my main source of dysphoria. i always said, no matter what gender identity i aligned with, i either wanted top surgery or a A-AA breast reduction, and now i don't have any desire for that.

(tbf, though. the weight loss kind of gave me a natural breast reduction, so idk what my thoughts would be right now if my breasts had never gotten smaller. even before i had transitioned, when i was still an afab 15yo, i really wanted to wear A cup bras. i could never explain why. and it seemed like a far off goal for someone that wore a C cup straight out of puberty.)

but, i also need to accept that this representation that i'm embracing now could shift at literally any time. it's happened before.

during summer 2015, during the shopjeen cyberpop Y2K era, i had a feminine phase. and i absolutely hated myself for it. this phase coincided with a major depression, and my self-hatred was at an all time high. the only thing i could do to cope was to split identities. i believe i called myself claira back then.

when that phase ended after a few months, and i returned to masculine expression, i thought of it as coming back to the "real me". the worst possible way to label and reflect on that experience.

part of this growing and learning process is coming to terms with the fact that, as said above, i'll never be done transitioning.

life is a constant progression and regression. it's cyclical. i don't need to split identities just to be who i am. it's been the most difficult thing to accept—that just when i think i've found myself, i "lose" myself again, and have to go hunting for the pieces once more. those pieces always return different to the shape i lost them in, and that used to be devastating to me. but i'm learning to be more accepting.

so, if a day comes where wearing a bra or having my period brings dysphoria instead of validation, i hope i'll be ready to turn that new page, instead of banging my head against a wall in frustrated confusion

i was writing a notes journal about how i've been enjoying rediscovering femininity after denying it and only representing as masculine for 10 years, then... i got disgusted and deleted the whole thing.

like, lol. sometimes i'm so frustrated by feeling like i don't belong to the feminine or masculine representation. if i embrace one side too much, i start to reject it with a nauseous disgust, like an expected clockwork.

i've been presenting as majority feminine for 2 years now, but it still feels foreign. it's the reason i will never accept the implication that i'm a de-transitioner, because my rediscovery of femininity doesn't feel like i'm returning to the beginning, but finding something new—a transition in itself.

i keep telling myself it's okay to feel how i feel and present myself however i want, and that i don't have to explain my identity to anyone. sometimes that helps me feel more free, and sometimes it makes me feel more confused.

i'll never know who i am, and i'll never be done transitioning... i guess.

[curseofaphrodite]

guess which bitch is back

✨me✨

lmao sorry for not being active lately. moving on w shitty life story i fell down the stairs while coming from tuition yesterday. my back hands and legs hurt like a bitch. i think i traumatized the guy who was behind me. bc he was like "bitch tf you did??" he was literally shook deadass was in trance and he stared at me like i'm some alien (probably i am-) me 🤝 traumatizing people since 1989 bc yes i told my guy friend about it and he was like "shit why wasn't i there pls can you fall tomorrow too? xoxo" BITCH OK I THOUGHT WE WERE FRIENDS BUT CLEARLY NOT he was joking i hope for the sake of our friendship

SYDNEY SWEENY IS SO BEAUTIFUL 😍

today we had "blessing ceremony" and nyasa and my other friend ditched left me alone to deal w tina #sad but i j said her hi and then ignored her so hehehe girlboss

anyways i don't need alcohol to be chaotic moi makes bad decision without drinking 🥱💅‼️

i brought a teddy bear and it's pronouns are he/they. he's name twins w nyasa s teddy both of them are called andy 💗👼✨ ofc they're named after the loml andrew garfield just remembered i never told you my pronouns lmao i use she/her and i'm a raging bisexual you can tell i'm a ✨material gworl✨💅💋

ANYWHORE MY BF IS SO HOT LIKE WHAAAAAT???? we were randomly hanging out in his room my family is friends w his family since like forever so they don't care if we're alone in a room or not #coolindianparents itna trust i could never- moving on out of no where he's like "garmi ho rahi naa?" (translation: it's getting hot in here?😼" and he proceeds to remove his t shirt and omg so seggsy?? mf was shirtless (he does gym mf has abs but not very muscle-y? my mans a skinny legend lmao do you get what i'm saying probably not) and j wearing *drum rolls* *dramatic pause* 🥁🥁🥁 ✨GREY SWEATPANTS✨ istg he'll be the death of me

i think i'm in my ✨bridgerton✨ brothers phase antony and benedict omg so hot

i love you tori mwah mwah

goodbye lover i swear i don't do drugs

🔮(pretty emoji)

girl you need to be cellotaped to a human sized pillow. i do not trust you with walking anymore. omg yes stop traumatizing the poor dude 😭😭 hehe your friend better be joking or im taking out my knives. jjk.

AAA SHE IS SO FUCKING BEAUTIFULLL. omg noo not tinaaa. GOOD FOR YOU THO SCREW HER SHE SUCKS.

believe me bestie i know. still i dont think alcohol would help w your decision making either djsk 😩😩 [ jk we're getting drunk together 4 years from now when im out of uni w hopefully a job ]

HAHA YOURE NOT JUST A RAGING BISEXUAL YOURE A CHAOTIC BISEXUAL. dude i love the teddys gib one to me 🔪🔪

OMGG GOOD FOR YOU ISTG HE DID THAT ON PURPOSE HE WANTED TO GET A COMPLIMENT OUT OF YOU THAT SMOOTH FUCKER.

i still need to watch that show and i oop. i should probably start likr ern.

AA THATS SO BEAUTIFUL

i love you more

omg i dont have any color pallette coordination fml.

GOODBYE LOVE YOU SURE YOU DONT DO EM??? WHO KNOWS ANYMORE

[rubiaryuplays]

There's Definitely Some Kind of Devil Worship Going On Here

(Case 4, part 7)

So I've recently acquired the complete scripts for both English and Japanese versions of this game up to this case and I have noticed I missed a lot, which is to be expected, but I will get into those missing details at a later date. In the meantime, please bear with me and my petty attempts at humor.

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There's a bit I missed capturing in the beginning, where Soseki greets them and talks about the saying, 'The early bird gets the worm' and ensues an amusing conversation about how Soseki didn't sleep a wink to avoid eating worms. In the original, he speaks of a similar Japanese proverb that goes, "Early rise brings a little fortune", worth of 3 mon. Mon was the cheapest coinage in Japan of the time, though by the Meiji era, much of those coinages were being phased out for the modern yen. The saying often translated to the same thing, though the ensuing conversation is different due to the mention of money. Soseki hoped that by not sleeping a wink, he could save it up to a whole yen from that 3 mon.

Mind you, a whole yen back then would likely be worth hundreds of yen these days, but certainly not enough to buy any of his books.

He mentions wishing having nine lives, like that of a cat. I also appreciate all the occasional nods this case gives to Natsume-san's "I Am a Cat", even if much of the moments were the English insulting him about his "cat-like" features.

In the JP, he speaks in prose about the abrupt end of one's life to end in an exclamation, "嗚呼不安ッ!" (aa, fu'an), or "Aah, so trepidating!" Or, literally "uneasy". Take your pick.

Ha! I catch even the subtler alliterative prose too, no matter the format! Though, it seems they could only afford an approximate alliteration for this one. In the JP, he likewise summarizes Naruhodo's bad luck as "the worst since the founding of our nation." Ouch.

Ahahaha! Yes, he addresses her with her full title as in the original, but the localizers took a step further by giving her the "Non-Locum" and "Esquiress". Perhaps I should earn myself a title of nobility, as a "Royal" myself! "Lady Rubia the Top Pomeranian of Ace Attorney Encyclopedic Esteem!"

...No, scratch that. Just Rubia is fine.

Anyway, onto the trial and Gregson's testimony...

The names of the places on this map are all true to what they were originally, except the shop that Soseki went to. Thanks to my ineptitude, I failed to catch the actual screen where "Yore Books" was located on the map. It was originally known as "Boro Books", for a pun with boroboro, meaning "tattered". Fitting, I'd say.

On God, I'd forgotten just how funny this case was. That wine must be fiercely bitter indeed because this man is spitting savage! (This is from after Ryu finds out where said bookshop was.)

After some more savagery from van Zieks addressed to the jury and the entry of our new witnesses...

Noting this here: I'd like to make a minor correction from a previous post about Soseki's receipt. The book titled "The Lion's Mane" is this fourth book shown here, but for copyright reasons, its name was changed to "The Lion's Pride" here. The other three books have been retained from the source, except for "A Meal for Gaboriau". That is, Emile Gaboriau. (Silly me!) In the JP, it was originally "The Sea and Gaboriau", which I'm trying to remember what famous novel that may be referencing, and all I'm thinking of is Ernest Hemingway's famous "The Old Man and the Sea". Maybe it's a parody?

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I've finished the case, but the rest of the pics are from the latter half of the trial. I've skipped much of this trial segment because the rest of the snapshots from here were just me capturing van Zieks' prayers and other musings, lol. I swear I'm just doing it for research; not obsessed with him or anythi...

Oh, who am I kidding. Everyone simps for van Zieks.

[animanightmate]

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"Remember when girls were just tomboys?" I see this talking point a lot, and I call BS.

No, actually, no I don't. What I do remember is parents being paranoid their girl was a lesbian and trying to force them into ballet classes instead of boxing and football like they wanted.

What I remember is the DSM-IV explicitly calling a refusal to wear dresses and an interest in video games symptoms of a mental illness. I remember girls begging their parents to let them have short hair and their parents putting them in Bible camps over it.

So, no, ads run on my feed by Texas Conservatives, I don't remember when girls were "just tomboys," because you creeps didn't accept that either in the '00s and don't actually accept it now; you just find it less objectionable than a single-digit percentage of Gen Z being trans.

Like, if the image of a girl kicking a boy's ass on a playstation is supposed to be "the good old days," why'd I have to smuggle Pokemon on a game boy to girls I was friends with because that was "for boys?"

Why'd my partner's parents only ever get games for her brother and never for her? Why'd they never accept her masculine interests in fighting, or engineering, or mathematics, or contact sports? Why'd they police her body and food intake to make her more feminine?

Any way you slice it, gender non-conforming girls never did get to just "be tomboys," because you assumed their "masculine" interests were a phase and wouldn't let them get better at them than the boys were and would insist they let the boys win to spare their pwecious feelings

This narrative they're trying to spin, that they were fine with gender-nonconforming kids, is just a bald-faced lie to anyone who actually remembers the last 30 years. They weren't fine with lesbians, and they weren't fine with hetero tomboys either, and they still aren't.

Because the second they've successfully rolled back queer and trans rights, they'll start looking for any sign of closeted trans and queer people, and suddenly they'll start policing expressions of non-traditional femininity YET AGAIN, because that is how this always worked.

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Source: here.

Hi! 47yo nonbinary Brit here, cackling at the idea that being even the teensiest bit tomboyish, even in households like mine that prided themself on being "progressive" was anything other than policed to fuck in the 80s.

Sure, I was allowed to climb trees and wear trousers at the weekend, when we didn't have company, but my hair was long, and I was expected to wear dresses/ skirts for every other occasion. After the age of 13, I was expected to get into makeup. I was berated for "walking like a boy" and for cutting bread (man's job) or carving meat (guess what). My father, who taught me these radical habits, plus various DIY skills, still insisted on dresses, e.g. at his wedding, so my expression was still being policed in my 20s, after I'd left home.

(Terrified that he'd queered me, my father's third child was brought up extremely femme in case she developed The Gay. She and I both think this hilarious, now she's in her 20s. As far as we know, she's straight. She's also rejected her parents' fears and is one of the staunchest allies I know.)

Ironically, even in the androgynous 90s, my gender expression in queer spaces was seen as proof of being straight, despite being extremely bi. I'd have to disguise myself aa butch enough to pull/ not be barged on the dancefloor, because I was too indie chick for the butch lesbians - neither masc nor power femme enough for the scene.

But that's another story for another time.

The huge moral panic over femme boys and butch women was a problem even on parts of the queer scene, judging by the sheer number of "straight-acting" self-descriptions in gay dating ads. And do NOT get me started on how bi people were treated. I'm afraid I can't tell you much about how trans people were treated as I met a total of two out trans folk, and watched another transition angrily (her, not me), but mostly, if I'm honest, trans identities were pretty much ignored, definitely unsupported, and that breaks my heart to remember.

I want to boost everything this person has said and add on.

The reason I call myself a tomboy now, despite it being seen as a childish word and having had someone swear at me over it because ‘tHeRe’S nO suCh thInG as BoY thInGs anD giRL thIngS sHut uP’ is because I couldn’t call myself that or be like that when I was a kid. It was seen as a negative thing and I was already bullied enough. “Looking like a boy” was the worst thing that could happen to a girl.

And I’m not even 26 yet. We aren’t talking 30+ years ago, we are talking 2000s and even 2010s. It’s only since trans people have become more accepted in the past few years that gender nonconformity has too.

And the people who helped me accept my gender nonconformity more than anyone else? Were trans people. They taught me, “there’s nothing wrong with how you feel. You’re still a valid woman no matter what you wear, how you have your hair or what you’re into ❤️”

And don’t even get me started on how people treat gender nonconforming men. JK Rowling has a lot of nerve to be like “uwu boys can wear dresses and only us gendercrits accept that!” when she has, even in recent works, made femininity in men a negative trait, as well as making masculinity in women a negative trait also.

A lot of people still don’t accept gnc people even now. Just last year I had someone tell me they’d never let their daughter “dress like a boy”, and I’m always terrified to walk into a bathroom in case the next JK Rowling is in there, sees my gender expression and pepper sprays me or worse.

“There’s no such thing as boy things and girl things.” I don’t need to be told that and I’m sure 99% of trans people also don’t need to be told that. Tell that to the society that hates us both instead of actively encouraging that hate.