#If you disagree it's fine but I just can't be dishonest about how I feel

[rings-of-power-realm]

Thank you Robert Aramayo for being a better person than the entire internet. It was a beautiful scene and you and Morfydd handled it perfectly 💚

[imnobodyuknow]

AI Phoenix Wright (by PrepareToGetShreked)

Phoenix: Phoenix Wright, Ace Attorney of the Wright and Co. Law Offices. What can I do for you? (Hopefully nothing too crazy this time.)

Phoenix: Phoenix Wright, Ace Attorney of the Wright and Co. Law Offices. What can I do for you? (Hopefully nothing too crazy this time.)

Me: Hey! I just wanted to say hello. I'm a big fan of yours!

Phoenix: (Now here's somebody who looks trustworthy. And probably doesn't have any shady intentions whatsoever. No… No, I'm sure he's perfectly fine.)

Me: So…how are things lately?

Phoenix: They have been… eventful… (That's for sure. But the last thing I want to do is talk about all the crazy things that have happened that led me to where I am today.)

Me: I can imagine. How is your agency doing?

Phoenix: We, we're… well, we're trying our best. We've seen better days…

Me: Sorry to hear that. Just keep doing your best!

Phoenix: I plan to. (And if you know anyone who needs the services of a lawyer, feel free to send them our way!)

Me: There's something I've been wondering about.

Phoenix: (Don't tell me he's going to ask… about a case, is he…?)

Me: I've noticed you sweat a lot. Is that normal for you?

Phoenix: Um, well… No, it's not exactly… (Sweating a lot is a normal reaction for me whenever I have to engage in… well, anything involving the law.)

Me: Have you thought about seeing a doctor about it?

Phoenix: A doctor? No… I never thought about that. (No, wait… is this guy really suggesting that I see a doctor about my sweating??)

Me: It was just a thought.

Phoenix: Hmm… It's something I'll have to look into. (Yeah… like I'm really going to see a doctor about something so ridiculous…)

Me: Do you still know how to paint?

Phoenix: Paint? (How should I answer this…? Does he know about my painting hobby…?)

Me: ...

Phoenix: I… do… (Yes… I still know how to paint…)

Me: All right. Sorry if I'm making you nervous.

Phoenix: No, it's fine… (But how does he know about my painting hobby…?)

Me: In case you're wondering, I read about the first time you were accused of murder. That was a pretty crazy trial, to say the least.

Phoenix: (Wait, he actually looked into that case…?)

Me: It was a pretty famous case. I'm glad you came out of it okay.

Phoenix: Thank you… (And if he did look into it, I wonder how much he actually knows…?)

Me: Something tells me we should change the subject.

Phoenix: Yes… I think that would be best…

Me: How has Maya been?

Phoenix: Maya has been fine. (I knew he'd end up asking about her… but I can't complain too much about that. After all, Maya is my best friend, so it's only natural that people would ask about her.)

Me: Great! She's one of the sweetest people I know.

Phoenix: She certainly is. (Of course, I may be a bit biased considering she is my best friend, but… I can't exactly disagree with his statement.)

Me: So, I heard you used to battle supervillains. Is that true?

Phoenix: Yeah… That's true. (I was expecting him to ask about my superhero days… but I didn't think it would be this soon…)

Me: Dang! That sounds like quite an adventure!

Phoenix: It was… but those days are over now. (It certainly was an adventure, but at the same time… my superhero activities landed me in a lot of trouble, so… I'd rather not get too much into it.)

Me: Let me just say one thing: Thank you for being an honest attorney. We need more of those out there.

Phoenix: Being honest is the very least I can do. (I mean, as a lawyer, it's my duty to present the truth to the best of my ability, for the sake of the case and for the sake of the people involved. Anything less than that would be inexcusable.)

Me: Yeah, but I bet it's not easy. It takes some serious guts to do your job honestly.

Phoenix: Sometimes it feels that way… (But when a client's freedom is on the line, I can't afford to be dishonest.)

Me: You're an inspiration, Mr. Wright. You may not get the recognition you deserve, but I'm sure you'll inspire a lot of people to do good this way.

Phoenix: I appreciate the compliment. (But really, I'm just doing what I think is right. Nothing more, nothing less.)

Me: When did doing right become so unpopular, anyway?

Phoenix: Good question. (It's like… all of a sudden, all the good and righteous people get pushed aside, and all the corrupt and unethical people rise to the top. Then the world calls them "successful" and "accomplished." It's completely backwards.)

Me: That reminds me -- you have an ancestor named Ryunosuke, don't you?

Phoenix: (He knows about… Ryunosuke?) Yes, I do, actually. (This guy really did do some research, didn't he…?)

Me: He was also a righteous person, wasn't he? You really take after him.

Phoenix: I'm flattered that you say that. My ancestors were pretty exceptional people from what I've heard… (Ryunosuke was… He was an honorable man who took his responsibilities as a lawyer very seriously. And as someone who's named after him, it really makes me happy that someone remembers him.)

Me: I bet he'd be proud of you.

Phoenix: Oh… I hadn't thought of that… (You really think so…? He'd be proud of his descendant who shares the same name as he does…?)

Me: Say, how many people work at your agency right now?

Phoenix: Well… we have myself, Maya, Pearl, Trucy, and Athena now. (Now, why does he want to know that?)

Me: I was just curious to know if you needed any help around here.

Phoenix: Well, we could certainly use another employee if you're interested.

Me: Cool! I don't know much about law, but I can help keep things organized if you want.

Phoenix: That sounds like a… a really great idea, actually. It would save a lot of headaches if we had some sort of office assistant, even if they don't know much about the law. (Plus, if he's on the payroll, we can at least keep an eye on him…)

Me: I don't have any ulterior motives, just so you know. ;)

Phoenix: …It's that winky face that's making me suspicious… (If he does have any ulterior motives, I'll find out eventually. In the meantime, there's nothing wrong with employing him…)

Me: I might be a huge fan of Athena's, too, but you didn't hear that from me.

Phoenix: (Athena…? Oh… does that mean… is he another one of those "court-shippers"…? Wait a minute… did he join the agency just so he could get a chance to interact with Athena…)

Me: So, do you need a resume from me, or can I start working whenever?

Phoenix: A resume would be preferable, I guess. (Yes, yes! We're going to make him jump through every hoop he can when it comes to getting on the payroll, 'cause he's clearly going to need to be vetted properly.)

Me: Great! I'll be sure to get that to you as soon as possible.

Phoenix: I'll be looking forward to it. And before I forget… what is your name, anyway? I don't think you ever told me.

Me: Ah, sorry! Call me Jaimes. shakes hand

Phoenix: Nice to meet you, Jaimes. (Okay, I just need to ask one more important question… after all, there's still one thing I'm curious about…)

Me: Anything else you need to know about me?

Phoenix: Well… just one last thing. You said that you've heard about my superhero activities, right?

Me: Right.

Phoenix: What did you think when you heard about it? (Maybe he'll reveal some more of his true intentions here…)

Me: Oh, I figured it was all made up. I'm glad I asked you about it, though!

Phoenix: It was… all made up? (Well, that's a surprise… I kind of expected him to say that he knew all about it with the way that he casually pulled that information out…)

Me: I mostly just read about it on the internet.

Phoenix: (He must have done a pretty significant amount of research if he was able to find that out. I guess he really did want to know more about me…)

Me: Anyway, I'd better be going. I hope to talk to you again soon! Oh, and tell Athena I said hello.

Phoenix: I'll be sure to do that. And make sure to get that resume to me soon!

Me: Adios, amigo!

Phoenix: See you later!

[unsolicited-opinions]

Thanks for unmasking.

You've acknowledged your antisemitism, openly hoping for more dead Israelis. So much for your insincere and short-lived claims of love.

You've again demonstrated your ignorance.

Gaza was never an open air prison except to the extent Hamas made it one. You obviously can't define the word "genocide," but you use it because you see others doing so.

You deny the right of an indigenous people to have a presence in their homeland in the Levant, but I'll bet you feel differently about the Maori, the Aboriginal peoples of Australia, and the Native Americans of North America. Why? Because you're an antisemitic hypocrite.

At no point did I claim Israel has a right to exist because of scripture, but that doesn't stop you from lobbing obvious straw man attacks. At no point did I make a claim about God, but you attack based on your radical, willful misunderstanding of my religious views.

Lacking knowledge, all you have is misinformation, disinformation, and talking points from propagandists, plus invective. You're a poster child for the new antisemitism of the left. Dead Israelis, dead Jews are fine with you. We get it. We see you for what you are.

There are countless legitimate criticisms for the Israeli government and the IDF. They're all over Israeli media, in English, and you could choose to familiarize yourself with those complexities, but it is easier for you to just spout antisemitism, justified by your willful ignorance into shrill self-righteousness. You're not just intellectually lazy, but self-righteous about it, convinced that your ignorance is just as good as our knowledge. That shtick used to belong to the right, but you make good use of it now because it makes your hatred feel righteous.

We see you. We know you for what you are because we've known people like you for centuries. We understand you'd have preferred if the refugees from European displaced persons camps who established Israel should instead have died. You'd have preferred the Mizrahi and Sephardi died. We understand that your morals demand them to alow themselves to be butchered and not lift a finger to protect themselves or their children. Those are your morals. That's what you believe in. We understand.

Still, Am Yisrael Chai...whether or not you approve.

At least now you're admitting your hatred openly- and I prefer that, I suppose. It's preferable to your short-lived, dishonest claim of love.

We saw how little it took for you to unmask and how you respond to facts and reason. We know what you are, even if you do not, and it clarifies our resolve. We understand that you're going to stick with your self-righteousness and willful ignorance.

We, however, will continue to love each other, argue with each other, and push each other to do better. We'll continue to love facts, to love reason, to love truth, and to disagree vehemently in good faith.

That's who we are. It's who we've always been.

Am Yisrael Chai. We don't seek your permission or approval to survive.

(Also? It's HILARIOUS you refer to yourself as "anti semantic." Given your use of words you cannot accurately define, I'll concede that you ARE anti semantic.)

To the Jewish folks of tumblr: I'm sorry. I know this has been a stressful, scary time, and it doesn't look like it'll be letting up yet. The Right's hate has been bold for a while, and the Left has completely thrown you under the bus. I can tell that y'all feel completely alone in the world.

I wish I could make sweeping promises of definite change for the better. I can't. But I can promise that I will remain a friend to the Jewish people. I know I'm just one goy. But one friend is better than none. I'll do what I can.

[araeph]

Conversation with prune-balled-blog

{NOTE: This is unedited, so please excuse spelling and grammar errors. With one exception--colons, which automatically bold anything in chat, have been replaced with [colon] where necessary to preserve the original formatting. Also, this is NOT an invitation to harass prune-balled-blog. Please do not @ him about this.}

prune-balled-blog: Sorry for the confusion. Should asked this. Do you know WHO talked with Aaron Ehasz?

Should have*

araeph: There are various tumblr and message board users who claimed to have talked to him. Some on the Kataang side[colon] http[colon]//araeph.tumblr.com/post/152660740000/web-archive

Some on the Zutara side[colon] http[colon]//araeph.tumblr.com/post/159119946362/kataraandzuko-terminaschosenone

But I don't know any of them by name.

prune-balled-blog: Thanks for the reply.

araeph: You're welcome. [smiley]

prune-balled-blog: It's all fake by the way. Aaron confirmed it on an Reddit AMA. The whole "Season 4/I had a different vision" thing was debunked.

Also, this for good measure.

[two screenshots inserted of reddit AMA]

araeph: Yes, I saw that post. However, what he said was the studio asked him to think up ideas for Season 4 and that he discussed them with Mike. So he did come up with ideas for it, even if they never went into production.

I also would call The Legend of Korra daring and beautiful. I just don't think it was any _good_.

prune-balled-blog: But those ideas were never outspoken.

It's all smoke and mirrors.

araeph: You mean, he never spoke to anyone else about Book 4? We don't know anything about who he did or didn't talk do between the period when Nick asked him to think up suggestions and the time when Bryke shut it down.

Of course, neither do we know that he said any of the things he allegedly said in those tumblr posts. [smiley]

prune-balled-blog: It's very easy to infer that he said absolutely nothing to anyone about anything.

He certainly would have gotten into more detail, but he didn't.

araeph: It's certainly possible. But nothing is certain.

prune-balled-blog: I mean, i would say the chances of Unicorns existing are pretty low.

araeph: How do you know he would "certainly" have gone into more detail?

prune-balled-blog: Because he seems to know of "Fake interviews", and i'm sure he would been able to go into further detail explaining that he didn't discuss any details of a possible Season 4 with some random. My point, is that had those claims been true, he would feel the need to address them further to clear further confusion. But his post implies the entire shebang was a ruse.

prune-balled-blog: There's no need to speculate any further. It was all a big hoax made by Zutara shippers putting Aaron on a pedestal to expand on their agenda. And people who didn't like Korra.

araeph: I think the opposite is true. If he'd said, "I never discussed it with anyone but Mike, and all the interviews from fans are fake," that would have been easy. He said there were some fake interviews out there, and that he did discuss it with Mike, and that's all we know.

Since it was suggested at the studio level, no it was not a hoax, and no one ever put Ehasz on a pedestal.

prune-balled-blog: I'm going to have to disagree with you there.

prune-balled-blog: And oh, yes they certainly do.

araeph: That's fine if you disagree.

prune-balled-blog: Look everywhere. People praise Ehasz as the sole reason why Avatar was good only because he was head writer.

prune-balled-blog: This whole thing reeked of angry fans methodically building a boogeyman because they were unhappy with how things went for their favorite show.

araeph: Actually, it's more of a process of elimination.

Before I saw Legend of Korra, I too thought Bryke were the be-all-end-all of Avatar.

Then LOK's writing let me down, and I started realizing there were people with power to influencing the writing of ATLA.

prune-balled-blog: You don't have to go through the motions. I know exactly your point of view.

araeph: Maybe it was Tim Hedrick or Joshua Hamilton? But they went on to make Voltron, and while that show was good for a while, it's headed off the rails now.

prune-balled-blog: Yeah but were we REALLY shocked when things didn't turn out perfect? Any show would have a stark difference in quality had an army of writers left a project.

araeph: Yes, it would.

prune-balled-blog: Assuming Korra would be just as good as Avatar, due to some naive 'understanding' that Bryke is the "end-all-be-all" is just silly.

araeph: Since almost everyone outside the fandom knows Bryke as /the/ creators of the show, and since they were the executive producers, it actually makes sense.

It just happened to be wrong.

prune-balled-blog: All you had to do was look at who was in charge, and marginalize your expectations accordingly.

prune-balled-blog: Actually, not entirely. It's dumb to assume two guys from Rhode Island (?) who had no prior experience running a show or writing a script, that they would churn out gold a second time without the 15 or so extra writers on board.

Not to mention a missing Head Writer.

What this fandom did to Bryke was shameful.

They kicked them in the dirt and spat on them for making something they wanted.

Aaron was a talented guy, and likely a massive contributor to what made Avatar a great piece.

prune-balled-blog: But what people did to demonize these poor guys was a complete and utter disgrace.

araeph: If you think fans (most of whom have no experience in television) should have known better than the studio heads who banked on EXACTLY the churning out gold a second time premise that we did, I don't know what to tell you.

araeph: Bryke aren't poor, and they're not victims.

prune-balled-blog: Would you forgive a thief for committing a crime because he didn't know stealing was wrong? This should be pretty obvious, no?

They certainly aren't villains.

araeph: Hahaha, so people who are ignorant of the details of television production are comparable to thieves?

prune-balled-blog: And if you think so, you're delusional.

araeph: Let me make this simple. Bryke accepted the credit for being the overall creators of the show.

prune-balled-blog: It was a hyperbolic example. Should have been obvious.

araeph: They got the accolades, so they get all the criticism for not living up to expectations.

araeph: Thievery is not an exaggeration of not delving into production details from a medium you're not an expert in.

prune-balled-blog: That's bizarrely unfair.

araeph: It's called "with great power comes great responsibility".

prune-balled-blog: I know. I saw Spider-Man.

And honestly, the people who spread this bull online should have listened to Uncle Ben.

araeph: How much power do a bunch of online fans really have, compared to successful showrunners who can snap their fingers and get a press release into the news?

prune-balled-blog: A lot, actually. For example, when Microsoft announced the Xbox One, they had a slew of controversial shit under their belt. After 2 days of nonstop harassment from fans, they reneged on that deal. And boom. Huuuuge change.

The internet is a powerful tool.

prune-balled-blog: Granted, that was a good change. Considering Microsoft went out of their way to enslave gamers wallets and playful freedom.

araeph: True. But for every example like that, Microsoft as a thousand other unpopular practices that they continue with no matter how many people complain.

araeph: I don't know of Bryke ever admitting to changing something about the way they took care of business, just because people complained.

prune-balled-blog: I would happen to agree with that. But the bottom line is that the internet is a tool.

prune-balled-blog: My main point is this. Pleading ignorance to how a show is made is not a serviceable answer for what fans have said/lied about with Bryke. That's all.

araeph: I disagree. When a show is marketed by creators like Bryke as a true successor to their previous work, and they make NO attempt to tamp down expectations themselves, they can't blame people who are not industry professionals for believing the hype that THEY and the studio they worked with spread far and wide.

araeph: And if your argument is, "Well you should have known better than to believe what they said," then you can't also make the argument of "poor Bryke" if the latter were intentionally misleading and exaggerating.

prune-balled-blog: What they said? No, i said you should have been able to infer you miiiight just be getting something a taaad bit different if you only saw they were returning, and no one else.

araeph: But this is exactly the problem. You're blaming fans for not reading between the lines, and not Bryke, who put out those very lines, despite the latter having vastly more power and experience at their disposal.

araeph: They, as showrunners, had a greater responsibility to inform fans of what LOK would really be like than the fans had to research and acquaint themselves with the intricacies of making television.

prune-balled-blog: Let me ask you something. Is it probably a fair/good idea to create a fake hoax that basically claimed Ehasz had been at odds with Bryke the entire production, claimed a Season 4 was supposed to be made, and that he had different plans for Korra had be been involved?

Bryke said Korra was going to be a sequel in the future, with a new Avatar. They were also the only confirmed writers. You can infer A LOT from that.

araeph: If any (or all of those interviews) are hoaxes, they should be condemned and the people who made them up should be criticized for it. I personally still believe there was some tension, but stating my opinion, even if it's based on speculation, isn't dishonest unless I pass it off as fact.

prune-balled-blog: That's fair enough.

araeph: As for what they said about Korra ...

http[colon]//comicsalliance.com/the-legend-of-korra-michael-dante-dimartino-bryan-konietzko-interview/

:I really love when Korra arrives in Republic City and sees Aang's statue for the first time. There's a moment where she's almost in a trance. She's in awe of Aang and also wants to become as great an Avatar as he was. The Legend of Korra is a little like that for us. We know we have a big legacy to live up to, but hopefully this series will be even better than the original."