#apollo x5

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[vonlipvig]

Causes of death in the Ace Attorney franchise

Because I'm bored, and what do we do when we get bored? We MAKE LISTS! I went through every character dead character in the canon game universe (so AA1-6, AAI1-2, and TGAA1-2, sorry PWvsPL) and jotted it all down below, so let's see what the most common (specified) cause of death in Ace Attorney is:

Stabbed (x15)

Shot (x15)

Hit by a blunt object (x14)

Impaled (x5)

Poisoned (x4)

Fell to their death (x3)

Hanged (x3)

Car crash (x2)

Strangled (x1)

Electrocuted (x1)

Crushed (x1)

Suffocated (x1)

Asphyxiated (x1)

Heart Failure (x1)

Burned (x1)

Full list with character names all color-coded by game and more specific data below! (Beware of SPOILERS for the whole series!)

COLOR CODE: OG Trilogy - AJ - DD & SOJ - AAI1 - AA12 - TGAA 1 & 2

(AAI gets two different colors since a lot of people probably haven't played AAI2 yet. Sorry, DD and SoJ, you have to share. 'Why don't you do one color for the whole Apollo Trilo-' No <3)

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Stabbed (x15)

(Bruce Goodman, Misty Fey, Rex Kyubi, Constance Courte, Clay Terran, Metis Cykes, Inga Karkhuul Khura'in, Byrne Faraday, Manny Coachen, Horace Knightley, Di-Jun Huang, Mason Milverton, Jezaille Brettª, Odie Asman, Klint van Zieks)

Shot (x15)

(Gregory Edgeworth, Robert Hammond, Turner Grey, Pal Meraktis, Romein LeTouse, Magnifi Gramarye¨, Dhurke Sahdmadhi, Buddy Faith, Oliver Deacon, Deid Mann, Mack Rell, Ethan Rooke, Pop Windibank, Genshin Asogi, Tobias Gregson)

Hit by a blunt object (x14)

(Cindy Stone, Mia Fey, Russell Berry, Kane Bullard, Zak Gramarye, Candice Arme, Paht Rohl, Archie Buff, Jove Justice, Dumas Gloomsbury, Ka-Shi Nou, Isaac Dover, Jill Crane, Jack Cameron)

Impaled (x5)

(Jack Hammer, Neil Marshall, Manov Mistree, Puhray Zeh'lot, Tahrust Inmee¨)

Poisoned (x4)

(Glen Elg, Terry Fawles¨, Drew Misham, John H. Wilson)

Fell to their death (x3)

(Dustin Prince, Jack Shipley*, Akbey Hicks)

Hanged (x3)

(Joe Darke°, Celeste Inpax¨, Dahlia Hawthorne°)

Car crash (x2)

(Ini Miney*, Selena Sprocket*)

Strangled (x1)

(Juan Corrida)

Electrocuted (x1)

(Doug Swallow)

Crushed (x1)

('Di-Jun Huang')

Suffocated (x1)

(Taifu Toneido)

Asphyxiated (x1)

(Duncan Ross)

Heart Failure (x1)

(Azura Summers^)

Burned (x1)

(Magnus McGilded)

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ª: She was stabbed, right? Like, she was poisoned first, but she died from the stab wound first, if I'm correct. Do tell if I'm wrong, lmao.

*: Accidental deaths

^: Natural death

¨: Deaths by suicide

°: Executed (Joe Darke's method of execution isn't mentioned, but if we assume Japanifornia goes by Japan laws, then hanging is the only method of execution used. Probably a higher number of deaths by hanging then, whether you believe some people got executed or not. Also, a lot of the killers in TGAA probably got executed, too? I just jotted down the confirmed cases, but yeah.)

(Also, von Karma died of 'Something'. Who knows. Of being too ashamed, maybe. Sucks to be him).

I probably missed some characters/omitted them, because who knows, it's my list I guess. If I forgot someone important do let me know!

[human-antithesis]

Play Me

[Nas:] Everybody's an Enemy telling me lies and it's killing me why they all want to get rid of me Everybody's my enemy Several try to disguise the devil in them Wanting to get into my cerebellum but I'm Ready and willing to tell them that I can't f with them Exhale so hard it got my chest swelling like my dick does when watching nikkid women do sick stuff on my porn collection on television

[Nas:] Trust nobody I don't know who to call a friend they all just pretend to be Fuck Everybody this is to all of ya'll cuz everybody is an enemy [x2]

[Nas:] Watching my own back strapped in chrome, to my homies where the tombstones at, where the hoes at? Cuz to many didn't act like dikes, hermaphrodites with benzene, amen Look at the trash they biting The life in times is kinda weaker like the time and life of the sandman on Apollo theater imagine that another black with a hook who pulls the wack talent off the stage I'm enraged

[Nas:] Trust nobody I don't know who to call a friend they all just pretend to be Fuck Everybody this is to all of ya'll cuz everybody is an enemy [x2]

[JD:] You fill your lies around me and you think you've won You feel you can control me with the things you've done

[JD:] You think that you can take me you think that you can play me you're going to start to hate me I feel that you disgraced me [x5]

[Nas:] Trust nobody I don't know who to call a friend they all just pretend to be Fuck Everybody this is to all of ya'll cuz everybody is an enemy [x2]

[ashthenerd]

Also, all contraband from the hermes cabin is free when you have cramps and Chris has broken people's noses for being judgy about it.

Cecil installed the "If you make shitty comments then all contraband is x5 times more expensive. This was when his sisters realised that he is actually more than an annoying fucker who won't shut up.

Michael shot Ellis in the dick for making fun of a stain when Kayla got her periods for the first time. It was only fair that he got a bloody stain down there too. All of the Apollo kids refused to heal him.

i was thinking about that taboo around menstruation and how fucking sick i am of it here u have headcanons of the chb boys actively trying to make it easier for the girls when they're on their period bc lmfao who the fuck is gonna stop me

the apollo cabin always gives free pads and tampons to whoever needs them. no matter the day. no matter the hour

percy recalls sally once told him exercise and movement helps w cramps, so whenever annabeth's on her period and they go to swim in the ocean, he makes calm waves just trying to soothe the pain

when piper's on her period leo makes a cup of infusion tea for her he learnt from his momma

thalia rarely visits camp but jason still keeps a kit of pads and tampons for her in their cabin's bathroom, just in case

will asked lou ellen from the hecate cabin to teach him some herbal infusions for his patients' and sisters' period cramps

he came back w plenty recipes of infusions after spending evenings w her

hazel, being freshly out from the 40's, was horrified when she first got hers

she woke up in a stain of blood on her pajamas and sheets in the middle of the night

nico got woken up by the muffled sound of his sis crying while aggressively cleaning her sheets

"...hazel?" "gods, nico! u scared me!" "why are u crying?"

when he tried to get close she rapidly covered the spot on the sheet w a pillow, and what was going on dawned on him

nico knocked on to the apollo cabin's door at 2am

a sleepy will opens up

"she got hers?" "yeah" "let me get u some"

nico comes back to cabin 13 w a little kit of pads w cute lilac flower design in his hands

he calmly got closer to her, hugged her and kissed her forehead

"i'm so sorry" "you've got nothing to be sorry about"

the next morning annabeth and piper calmly explained everything to her. warm hugs and cheek kisses included

no more disgust, no more discomfort, no more shame

the first time nico finally saw a pack of pads unapologetically just existing on hazel's night stand, he smiled

and left a little chocolate bar on her pillow

percy still bickers w clarisse. a lot

still that never stopped him from lending her a sweater to cover the back of her stained jeans when she needed it

leo knows piper has a irregular cycle so he always carries a bunch of tampons for piper in his bag whenever they go on long quests

"fuck i need a tampon" "got'cha"

grover learned to sew and started to make reusable pads

he made a pair for annabeth w little dagger designs on them

and then left a bunch in the apollo cabin, so there's a lovely bunch of handmade washable pads in the period kit for anyone to claim

bonus

percy often went to the store to get sally pads when he was younger

and also used to sterilize menstrual cups in the kitchen

so when estelle reached puberty boy already knew what to do

[geneticpawn]

♟  –– tag dump.

[soleil-in-retrograde]

THE TROGS ARE EVERYTHING I COULD HAVE HOPED FOR AND MORE!!!

Update: No, seriously, I was expecting the Disenchantment-style of Trogs and RIORDAN DELIVERED.

Update to the update: Lesterpollo going into EMT mode is waaaaay too relatable given the last few years.

Update to the update to the update: I wonder if Apollo slowly regaining his powers/godhood independent of Zeus is because of people having faith in him as a person? This is a verse where belief can lowkey shape reality so ot would make sense as his kids, friends, the readers, and companions believe in him he gets things back.

Update x4: Nothing like a good Magicant sequence. 8D

Update x5:

"Probably won't, but it'll look cool."

Ah, so Lu is where Meg got the Audacity.

Update x6: I like to think Artemis would be unsurprised by the lengths Apollo is going to for Meg. "He sees you as a sister. He does that."

Update 7:

a young man in a hand-powered wheelchair, his muscular upper body clad in a racing shirt, his driving gloves studded with spikes. His wild black hair flew in every direction, and as he turned, blades jutted from the rims of his wheels, mowing down anyone who dared to get close

I KNOW AT LEAST SIX PEOPLE RIORDAN COULD HAVE RIPPED THIS FROM THE BRAINS OF. COMBAT WHEELCHAIRS FTW!!

Update 8: SO THAT'S WHERE THE COWBOY NICO MEME COMES FROM!!!

Update 9: ....ngl, I wanna see Rachel v. Python instead of Lesterpollo v. Python now.

[konnichiwamybitches]

Completed games

Just a list of video games I’ve completed and how many times I have for my own future reference.

Turning this into a pinned text post so I can update it when I need to lol

999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors

A Story About My Uncle (x3)  

Among The Sleep  

Assassin’s Creed (x5)  

Assassin’s Creed II (x2)  

Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood (x2)  

Assassin’s Creed: Revelations (x2)  

Assassin’s Creed III  

Assassin’s Creed: Liberation  

Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag (x2)  

Assassin’s Creed: Rogue  

Assassin’s Creed: Unity (including Dead Kings DLC) (x2)  

Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate (including Jack the Ripper DLC)  

Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: China  

Assassin’s Creed: Origins  

Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey

Bear and Breakfast

Blind Men (x2)

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons

Bully: Scholarship Edition

Canis Canem Edit

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night  

Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow (x2)  

Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow  

Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin  

Coming Out On Top

D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die

Deadpool

Doki Doki Literature Club

Dragon Age: Origins (x2)

Dragon Age II

Dream Daddy

Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture

Far Cry 4 (x2)

Football Game

Game of Thrones (A Telltale Game)

God of War (2018)  

Gone Home  

Graveyard Keeper (main story + Stranger Sins DLC)

Hacknet  

Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone  

Hatoful Boyfriend (x2)  

Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star  

Heavy Rain  

Hotline Miami (x2)  

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number

I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream  

ibb and obb  

Infamous: Second Son  

Kill The Bad Guy  

Life is Strange  

Life is Strange: Before the Storm  

Life is Strange 2  

Mafia II

Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain  

My Friend Pedro  

Nevermind  

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (x3)  

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Justice For All  

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations (x3)  

Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney (x2)  

Portal  

Portal 2  

Prototype

Quantum Break

Ryse: Son of Rome

Saints Row: The Third (x3)  

Saints Row VI (x2)  

Shelter 1

Singularity

Spec Ops: The Line (x2)

Stardew Valley (100% completion)  

Syberia

Syberia 2

Syberia 3

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (main story + all DLCs)  

The Fall  

The Last of Us  

The Novelist

The Stanley Parable

The Wolf Among Us  

Titan Quest Anniversary Edition  

Unpacking

Watch_Dogs 2

Wolfenstein: The New Order

Wolfenstein: The Old Blood

Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

[kaitlyncrossing]

Animal Crossing Sales! 

Photo 1: Furuta Chocolate Egg Figures

Timmy & Tommy: $14

Villager Boy (x2): $14

Fang (x2): $12

Apollo: $14

Photo 2: Furuta Chocolate Egg Figures

Bunnie: $15

Rosie: $15

Goldie (x2): $13

Peanut (x2): $13

Molly: $15

Photo 3: Animal Crossing Kuji Items

Water Bottle: $35

Larger Towel: $15

Hand Towel White Multicolor: $10

Hand Towel Red: $10

Bell Bag Zipper Resealable Bag (x1 in package): $5

Tom Nook & Nooklings Zipper Resealable Bag (x1 in package): $5

Isabelle Resealable Bag (no zipper, x5 in package) (x2 available): $8

I am currently only shipping within the US because of the trouble with the post office!  I take Venmo & PayPal.  Will offer discounts for orders of multiple items. Shipping is included in some items but not all, so message to inquire!  

Send me a chat message to order!  

[murasaki-murasame]

I kinda feel like a broken record at this point, but the reveal that all of the Fire Emblem collab units would get put on a single banner made me way more interested in going for it, so here we are again, lol.

TL;DR: Unlike my last few summoning sessions I had to actually spark on this one, but I’d still say I got pretty lucky with how it turned out.

Realistically I think that at this point the FEH units in general would mainly just benefit me as backline units, or on auto solo teams, so I might end up regretting this, but I figure that having all six of them on one banner when I don’t have any of them was too valuable to pass up, even if it means potentially not having the resources to go after a Gala Leonidas rerun or something later.

Either way, my spark target going into this was Peony, since even just as a backline unit I think she’d probably do more for me than the other FEH units, but Tiki was a close second place.

I ended up having to spark for Peony, but along the way I got:

-Chrom [x2]

-Fjorm

-Veronica [x5 . . . . ]

-Tiki [x2]

-Marth

-Lily dupe [ . . . . . . ]

-Nadine dupe

-Mid0 dupe [now at 1UB]

-Horus dupe [now at 1UB]

-Apollo dupe [Already had him MUB before this]

So even though I had to spark Peony [after like six different fake-outs along the way], I somehow managed to get all five of the other FEH units. Which makes me really appreciate that they all had the normal featured appearance rate in spite of there being so many featured units on this banner, instead of their rates getting lowered to compensate for it. I didn’t exactly expect to walk out of this with literally ALL of them, but it makes me feel a lot more justified in doing this in the first place, lol. It would have hurt a lot more if I didn’t get any of them and I still had to do a full spark for Peony.

I also decided to finally bite the bullet on using most of my moonlight stones on the 4-star dragons I got from this spark since I was running low on eldwater, so now i think in total I’ve gone from 270k eldwater to 600k eldwater, so that’s nice. I’m gonna save some of that for Gala Mascula, but at least this’ll make it easier to invest in some of the FEH units.

I think after all of this I have about 270 sigils worth of summons saved up [which includes diamantium], and I haven’t fully grinded out the FEH compendium events yet, or gotten all the tickets from the Apostles event rerun, so I should definitely have enough to spark Gala Mascula at the end of the month, so that’s nice.

[hi-spot]

2021.01.17

Sunday mix for Planisphère records on Radio Sofa

Mix

TRACKLISTE : 0:00 LEE GAMBLE - BMW Shuanghuan X5 01:30 ANDREW PEKLER - Description of the Rain (Over Frisland) 04:48 EXAEL - Room of veiled lights (2020 mix) 09:36 BJORK - Tabula Rasa 13:34 THOMAS D - Recherche B 18:25 YMO - Mars 23:14 AIR KREW - October plate 25:42 CLARO INTELECTO - Quiet Life 28:48 PERILA - Transient 34:08 DLGHT - Avant de dormir (unrelease) 36:54 BILL FRISELL - Over the rainbow (photo book) 39:20 DLGHT - Le vide (ABRI CATALOG) 41:08 LOTO RETINA - Coeur d'alene 44:15 MNDSGN - Exchanging 48:54 MU TATE - Safeguard (Art Crime Remix) 51:26 APOLLO NOIR - 48.851580, 2.345941 - 03 48.826663, 2.367673 59:45 PROTHESE - La visite décennale 61:30 THE BRIAN BLADE FELLOWSHOP - Reconciliation 62:57 ULLA - Smile 67:10 DLGHT - Unison (unreleased) 72:27 TELEPOPMUSIK - Brighton Beach 74:30 VORACE - Ortniglzston feat. TOFIE (ABRI CATALOG) 76:40 PONTIAC STREATOR - Triz cohors pt.3 84:40 ONEOTHRIX POINT NEVER - Format & Journey North 87:14 CARLOS NINOS & FRIENDS - Calimayan (feat. Nate Morgan & Yaakov Levy) 89:28 PICNIC - Cipher 91:52 ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ - Equilibrium State 97:00 JAX. - No time like 98:40 TIM HECKER - Analog Paralysis 102:00 NOXIN - Metalic sea creature (AASC) 104:34 DLGHT - Au dessus (unreleased) 106:15 TWIGS & YARN - Mermaid wetness 110:14 ASHTREY JINKINS - Snwoscope (Leaving records) 113:28 DLGHT - Loum (unreleased) 116:08 SELA - Loop for dream (intermission) 117:54 SEGA BODEGA & OKLOU - Komodo

[archive-assassin681]

𝑴𝑨𝑰𝑵  𝑽𝑬𝑹𝑺𝑬  :     (    ᴬ  ᵀᴵᴹᴱᴸᴵᴺᴱ .   )

her mother was paid by manticore to be a surrogate prior to the lab being destroyed and the beginning of the breeding program starting up.   she was paid to carry her to term,   abstain from drugs and alcohol or any other behavior that would be deemed   “  dangerous.  “     a contract was signed and if any of the terms were broken it would result in execution.  a stipend was paid weekly and once she was carried to term,    she was paid a larger sum.     

she immediately left town and resorted back to her old behavior after giving birth to selene.   selene   does see her again   after she escapes,   but never engages in contact.   she believes she’s abandoned by her birth mother as it’s a lie that’s told to her in manticore.   she doesn’t know the truth until manticore is exposed.  by the time she realizes the truth,  it’s too late.

sent through different missions,   her primary focus was   combat and gathering intel.   she was never entered into the breeding program after the lab was destroyed because of her dna being severely damaged and the trauma made it so she was no longer able to produce children.

one of the missions that sticks out due to the emotional trauma surrounding it was the mission involving   juliet emerson,    the daughter of her target.   she was the first person that she developed a crush on.  disguised as a foreign exchange student from france,   selene  (  under the alias  sophie marseille  )   befriended juliet and continued to gather as much as she could on her father.    it was her first and only mission where she was sent under disguise  ––  once given the order to execute the target,   selene was in a compromising position as she had fallen for juliet and didn’t want to hurt her.    because she had a mic on her at all times,   the hesitation was fed back to manticore and the entire family was killed prior to when she was supposed to execute the target.    she was returned to manticore and thrown into psy-ops.   

selene remembers bits and pieces about juliet,  but she does not remember all of the mission.   it’s forever a missing piece inside of her.

the failed mission involving juliet was the tipping point for her to join the rest of her unit  ( max,  zack,  apollo,  etc.  )   in escaping manticore in 2009.   when initial plotting began,   x5-681 and x5-485 each gave the other a different name to go by:    selene and apollo.   she has always looked up to him and she couldn’t see herself being without him.   she remembers reading about greek gods and goddesses and thinks the name suits him.  

selene ends up being one of the transgenics who manages to escape in 2009.    she leaves apollo behind after he takes out a guard   to ensure she survives   and gets to be free.   she stops calling herself 681,  and does what she can to shed her old life away.    she escapes the gillette,  wyoming facility and starts towards seattle.     she’s a squatter in abandoned buildings as she tries to survive on her own.

when she gets close to seattle,   she finds an abandoned home and chooses it for herself to stay in.   it’s far enough away from the city but close enough to venture in if she has to.  she fixes it up,   paints it yellow,   and builds anything she needs to in order to live in it.  it’s an eventual   safe haven   for rogue transgenics.  

selene runs into apollo while he’s on a mission   ––   he pretends he doesn’t recognize her  ( which she initially acts out in anger and thinks he wanted to forget her.  )   after leaving,  she realizes that the mic on him was still hot,  and that’s why he lied.   while she cools off eventually,  selene realizes that there’s a part of her that was   probably in love with him,  (  especially if she sees it in her dreams  )   but she can’t act on it.  

𝑷𝑨𝑹𝑻  𝑻𝑾𝑶  :     AFTER  THE  FIRE. 

after the fire,   an x7 finds it’s way to selene’s home.   around the age of 10,   selene finds herself becoming a foster mother to the girl,   even though she doesn’t need it.   the main hardship between the two    is that they can’t speak with each other.   as an x7,  they are only able to speak via ultrasound waves and are inaudible to those who are not in the same series.    while this was a barrier,   selene does what she can to learn other ways of communication with her and the two bond.   when she has to leave,   selene feels a tremendous loss.   she was never put into the breeding program because of the damage in her genetic makeup   ––  leaving her unable to have children.

selene and apollo meet again,   this time:   he’s no longer associated   with manticore and escaped from the fire.    while she’s relieved that he’s alive she does not trust him like she did before.   she does offer him a place to stay,   and while she’s noticeably on edge for the duration of the time,  they finally do get a chance to let all of their differences air out.   she learns that he’s had a crush on her since they were kids,  and that he still had feelings for her.    from that moment on,   the two were inseparable and selene asks him to stay. 

at some point,   they adopt a dog named    “  zeus,  “    a german shepherd.    he helps them both with their seizures and is also just a good companion for them to have.   things start to feel normal and selene thinks that they can have a chance at a good life.   she’s around   twenty-five to twenty-six   at this point   (  she escapes manticore at age fifteen / sixteen.  )

eventually,   apollo proposes to selene and the pair are considered engaged.  while she’s always thought of him as her partner,   there’s something different about the idea of being married to him.    it causes her heart to swell with happiness and she thinks maybe after everything   ––   they are both able to find happiness.

shortly after the two are engaged,   selene is kidnapped and taken from her home and she is stolen away to manticore’s new program, 2.0.   the end result is to   find all remaining transgenics   and get them back,   dead or alive.     she’s one of the first who are taken.  (  this concept is original and was created by  @geneticassassin .    it was not in the show and the credit goes to her for it.  )

𝑷𝑨𝑹𝑻  𝑻𝑯𝑹𝑬𝑬 :     MANTICORE  2.0

initially she was reluctant when it comes to participating.   although she was kidnapped,   she was not considered   “ theirs “   until she gave in after rounds of psy-ops   (  though a new and improved version. )    the visuals were more realistic,   and involved torturing the ones she cared about and watching them die for her to give in.    it took about two and a half weeks   to get through to her,   but seeing apollo tortured and killed in the simulation was what finally pushed her over the edge.    she was afraid of him hurting her,   and she tried to desperately hold onto the fear of her hurting him.    as soon as she begs for them to stop,  her memories either get wiped or re - routed  ( similar to being  “ hijacked “  in the hunger games  )  and happy memories are flooded with those of hatred or negativity.   in the end,   she is willing and accepts the mission given to her.

she’s sent to find apollo by renfro,  who supposedly survived the fire.    there’s missions she’s sent on prior to this,   but it’s the one that sticks out in her head.    she tries to convince him,   and tell him that it’s better and that things changed prior to choosing to fight him   with intent to kill.   at this point,   he’s considered one of the leaders in terminal city,  and he is the only one who manages to get through to her.   it happens slowly,  but she’s able to remember bits and pieces of her life and is pulled away from her desire to kill.

while she was able to have her memories come back in flashes,  it takes upwards of six to twelve months for her to remember everything accurately.  

she hides in terminal city  (  after apollo allows her to stay  )   and slowly starts to learn   what’s real and what is not.   

prior to leaving for terminal city,   selene burns her house down.    she can’t stay there anymore,   and the memory she has is too negative for her to keep anymore.   she takes a polaroid of her and apollo  ( to which she hadn’t remembered everything behind it yet )   before leaving the house and setting it ablaze. 

[daysfullofdreams]

YEAR IN REVIEW: 2019 Movie Post

Awards season is over so now.....it is time (to post this post).

2019 was an excellent year for the global box with 9 films (Avengers: Endgame, The Lion King, Frozen 2, Spider-Man: Far From Home, Captain Marvel, Toy Story 4, Joker, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, and Aladdin) grossing over 1 billion dollars. This is also the most amount of movies in one year to cross that threshold. It’s also probably no surprise to anyone that the Walt Disney Company was involved in 8/9 of those films in some capacity (note that they did not distribute Spider-Man but still had involvement with that movie) so congratulations to them for another stellar year at the box office.

Although these figures are impressive, I found myself somewhat underwhelmed by the selection of films this year. I didn’t find that there were a lot of films that left a lasting impact, although I did enjoy a great many of the films I’ve seen. And as you will see below, I saw the most movies this year than any other year ever, thanks to my AMC Stubs A-List membership (which I could not recommend more if you live in the USA).

Let’s jump right in!

<CHECK OUT MY OTHER MOVIE POSTS FIRST>

Favourite 5 of 2019 (in the order I watched them):

Captain Marvel

Avengers: Endgame

Jojo Rabbit

Frozen 2

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Honourable mentions: Bombshell, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, and Official Secrets

Least favourite 5 of 2019 (most to least terrible):

5 Feet Apart - I went to see this with a friend who liked these types of movies.  I tried to keep an open mind but this must take the cake for the dumbest and worst romance movie of all time.  I hated both of the main characters and watching them make terrible decisions for the entire runtime was a giant waste of time.  I wished I was doing anything else instead of watching that movie.

The Aftermath - the stupidest, most baffling waste of time.  Loathed almost every moment I spent in that theatre.

Uncut Gems - the most chaotic movie I’ve ever seen. I don’t know why critics seemed to think that if everyone just shouts at each other while all talking at once at all times during a movie (which I believe was over 2 hours long) it makes a movie good.  Even Queen Idina Menzel couldn’t save this.

Booksmart - someone told me it was the best movie he had seen in a long time. I thought it was stupid and didn’t capture the high school experience at all. Check out my Booksmart tag for more eloquent thoughts.

Joker - as a movie about a mentally ill man who is ignored by society and does terrible things as a result of that, the movie works. As a JOKER ORIGIN STORY?!?!?!?!?!? absolute junk. The Dark Knight is one of my favourite movies of all time so I took personal offence with this one.

Honourable mentions: Queen & Slim, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Marriage Story Note: Cats was an absolutely terrible movie but I didn’t have the heart to put it on this list when I had so much fun in the theatre watching it and I had no fun watching any of these other movies.

All 2019 releases I saw in theatres (in the order I watched them):

The Kid Who Would Be King

Cold Persuit

Alita: Battle Angel (IMAX 3D)

How to Train Your Dragon 3: The Lost World (Dolby Cinema)

Apollo 11 (IMAX)

The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part

Captain Marvel (x5) (3D, IMAX, digital x2, and Dolby Cinema)

Wonder Park (3D)

Nancy Drew and The Hidden Staircase

The Aftermath

Dumbo (3D)

5 Feet Apart

Shazam! (Cineplex VIP)

Missing Link (3D)

Disneynature’s Penguins (IMAX)

Avengers: Endgame (x4) (digital x2, 3D, and IMAX 3D)

Detective Pikachu (3D)

Aladdin (x2) (Dolby Cinema, 3D)

Godzilla: King of the Monsters (IMAX)

Rocketman (Dolby Cinema)

Booksmart

Dark Phoenix (IMAX)

Late Night

Toy Story 4 (Cineplex VIP)

Men in Black: International

Spider-Man: Far From Home (x2) (IMAX 3D, digital)

The Lion King (x4) (3D, IMAX 3D, digital, Dolby Cinema)

It: Chapter 2

Brittany Runs a Marathon

Official Secrets

Ad Astra (IMAX)

Joker

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (Dolby Cinema)

Abominable

Gemini Man (3D+ in HFR)

Jojo Rabbit (x2)

Terminator: Dark Fate (IMAX)

Harriet

The Current War - Director’s Cut

Ford v Ferrari (IMAX)

Frozen 2 (x4) (3D, IMAX x2, Dolby Cinema)

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Knives Out

Queen & Slim

Jumanji: The Next Level (IMAX)

21 Bridges

Honey Boy

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (IMAX 3D)

Little Women

Uncut Gems

Cats

Bombshell (x2)

1917 (Dolby Cinema)

Just Mercy

Parasite

All 2019 releases I saw out of theatres (in the order that I watched them):

Unicorn Store (distributed by Netflix and therefore did not get a theatrical release)

Always Be My Maybe (Netflix Original)

Klaus (Netflix Original)

Togo (Disney+ Original)

Marriage Story (Netflix Original)

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

The Irishman (Netflix Original)

The Farewell

2019 BOX OFFICE RECAP

I was right in assuming that 1) Disney would dominate the global box office and 2) that Avengers: Endgame would have the best opening weekend (~1.2 billion) and total (~2.8 billion) gross of any movie this year.  It is now the highest grossing movie, and the highest opening weekend grossing movie of all time. Plus it achieved a whole other slew of records that requires it to have it’s own Wikipedia page!! 

2020 BOX OFFICE PREVIEW

It seems that studios are pulling back from superhero movies slightly this year. Marvel as a whole has 5 total movies coming out this year: two within the MCU (Black Widow and The Eternals), one from 20th Century Studios (New Mutants) and two from Sony (Morbius and Venom 2).  DC is releasing Birds of Prey and Wonder Woman 1984.  Honestly, the blockbusters look very hit or miss, and I think the box office performances for these movies and the other studio tentpoles will rely very heavily on both quality of film and word-of-mouth.  Obviously those are factors that contribute to box office performance every year, but I think the concept of these movies won’t be enough to get a ton of people to the theatre initially in the way that has worked in the past. 

Prediction for highest grossing movie/best opening weekend: As I said, there’s no clear frontrunner this year.  Provided these movies are well-liked and well-made, Tenet, No Time to Die, Black Widow, and Wonder Woman 1984 have a great shot at this title.  A better frontrunner might become more apparent in the next few months.

2020 releases I’m most excited for: A Quiet Place 2 (Paramount), Soul (Pixar), and Raya and the Last Dragon (WDAS).

[adrasthee]

📜 x5 for every character >:3

im going to yeet to ontario and (softly) punch you (jk jk ily dav)

Alexios

He owns a mycenean armour they found on the rower deck.

His aunt married the Theban king so he had a rich boy’s education.

Why he got it because of his aunt’s husband, you may ask? Because his mother didn’t have time to raise him in between all the stuff she had to do at the temple, so his aunt and uncle raised him.

He has a strong dislike for pigs… (there’s a very valid reason why)

He’s refered to as “The son of the Lion” in the prophecy uwu.

Adrasthea

She’s our local orphan! (Other than Delia at least…)

Adra is? Very impulsive.

She’s part of the Bi team and I’m pretty sure she considered dating Amalthea at least once but they’re not compatible romantically.

She’s the most impulsive of the trio.

She’s doing her darnest to push Alexios towards having more actual self-confidence.

Amalthea

She’s the daughter of Circea (and therefore the granddaughter of Hecate!)

Just like her mother, she’s a skilled magician and doesn’t really like guys all that much. Not that she hates them or anything, she just finds their acting stupidly quite annoying.

Local lesbian, though she judges love to be something very secondary.

I wouldn’t call her rude, but she has no shame in saying what she thinks.

She can stand for herself hella well.

Delia

Our other local orphan! She was found on Delos, hence her name (which literally means “Delian”).

She’s demi and have only actually been attracted and in love to one person in her entire life, though that doesn’t stop her from being a very loving person in general.

She traveled through all of Greece for Apollo, basically working as his messenger all around the place.

She lived a good part on her (short) life in Delphi because of this, but always prefered Delos.

Apollo thought it was a good idea to teach her how to swim literally in the Egean when she was 12; she almost drown and she’s been a bit scared of the water ever since.

Ailyah

She’s Maël’s cousin!

Unlike him, she’s fully human and didn’t grow up as royalty, though she did spend most of her childhood with him.

One would say Maël and her are almost like twins.

She’s the one that gifted him his magical coin.

Ailyah wants herself to be the responsible one but… she’s not.

Maël

He’s half-human half-fae!

Maël is autistic (logic, since he’s inspired by my cousin, whom happens to be tsa too).

He’s also asexual and has frankly no care in the world about sex in general.

One of his wings got ripped off following a pretty horrible event…

He owns a magical coin that allows him to go in between two dimensions

Ian

Ian is a changeling!

He was raised in a circus by another changeling, who vanished when he was still a kid.

He’s pretty agile and a good pick pocket because, well… the circus wasn’t all that much honest in general.

Ian actually hated being in the circus because the owner was a dick.

His favourite song  is Bohémienne, from the musical Notre-Dame de Paris; he can sing it by heart.

MC

Mc is actually amnesiac, they completely forgot their past life before the labyrinth.

They’ve discovered themself strangely skilled at killing.

They’re generally pretty silent and don’t make much noises while moving around.

They have pretty good reflexes.

They’re the responsible one in the group and lowkey hate it (or at least that’s what they say…)

Alois

His first language is German.

In fact, Alois’ parents are Germans (and so he is ig?).

He doesn’t have the nationality though because they were forty-eighters.

My boi Alois is an anarchist and proud of it.

He grew up in Chicago.

Armena

Even her doesn’t know how many kids she has anymore.

She got nicknamed griffon d’or (gold griffyn) by the girls because she has golden feathers.

She’s been happily married for a whole lot of time, so long, in fact, that she forgot the actual duration.

She’s? Good at cooking though she doesn’t get to do it often because royal stuff to do.

One of her kids is a baby dragon.

Sam 

Sam is bipolar and struggles a lot with this.

They don’t usually eat much, most often because they forget, but sometimes because they don’t want to.

Sam actually had a very supportive family that never questionned what they discovered about their gender… sucks that they died a long time ago though…

Their lover died in an accident while they survived and Sam considers themself responsible for it.

Hadn’t it been for their rare friends, they’d have most likely died a longtime ago.

[flojocabron]

12/05/18: It was a bittersweet day today. I found the usual great things at the local fleamarkets and Mexican customs found me too, as I tried to make it home. Lemme show you the goods and then the bad news at the end. You tell me if it was just timing or bad luck. The first get was Dark City on bluray for $3.00. After that, hidden under some table, a casefull of X-Men comics! I looked through them and the guy initially said, 4 for $1.00. But he changed his mind and offered $10 for it all! Of course I bought them! A quick trip to the car and it was back to searching! The next stuff was scattered all over, but I searched thoroughly. 11 manga, a big mousepad, that ps2 game, apollo 13 DVD, a gamegear baseball game and some more magic cards. I got a great offer for everything, $10 dollars! It was an impulse buy, but I found a little baggy of Lego dimensions blocks for $2.00. In the next stall I found a big binder full of 90s PC games, original and backup copies. I saw some familiar logos, and for $4.00 I found disc only copies of sewer shark sega CD, Supreme Warrior sega CD, and Blood Omen legacy of Kain ps1and thrown in for free to the lot was that ninja turtles toy! As i was getting ready to leave and pay for Dark Souls 360 for $4.00, I got a call from a friend who wanted me to find him a cheap tablet. I didn't see any there, so I went to the other fleamarket. I didn't see any there either. But I'm glad I went! As I found a dreamcast with a power cable for $8.00! And after that, I found taped together: Megaman legends and Megaman x5! I snatched that up real quick! I peeled them apart, and sadly MMX5 had a metal gear game in it. But Legends was complete! I already have at home MMX5 disc only, so I could use the case. I asked how much for both. $10, The lady replied. Sold! It was already midday and after getting something to eat, I went back to the first fleamarket again. Towards the end, they pretty much give stuff away. I found a place with a $5.00 bag deal. The bag was a good size and so was the stuff. I found some DK bongos and gamecube dance mat. A new/old CD burner, some DVDs, games, and other random things and junk. I was giddy and pleased with my haul. That is until I made it to the Mexican border and got the red inspection buzzer! Damn. A customs officer told me to open my trunk. I could see his eyes light up with money signs as he did his job. He gave me the same scare tactics of people caught importing too much goods. I knew then and there, I was fucked. They had to call their supervisor and give me their estimate over the value of the goods I had. I told them, these are used goods and I didn't pay retail. But they didn't care. They slapped me good with an $800 peso ($41 US) fine. They said my stuff was worth $247 US dollars and taxed me the equivalent of 16%. Fuckers. I've gotten buzzed in the past with more things them this and they've let me go no problems. But since its the holidays, they know they can get away with charging people whatever they want. They just want their cut. And cut me they did. And so ends another day for this collector.

[genetictraitor-a]

STUDY    :   X5-681  /  SELENE.    TAGGED BY    :   @geneticasset​.

—    BASICS.

▸     IS    YOUR    MUSE    TALL    /    SHORT    /    AVERAGE ? i  would  consider  her  average  at  5′5″ ,   but  to  some  that’s  considered  short.

▸      ARE    THEY    OKAY    WITH    THEIR    HEIGHT ? she  doesn’t  really  care  about  it  if  we’re  being  honest.  she  does  wish  she  was  a  little  bit  taller  since  her  interactions  with  other  people and  those  in  manticore  usually  lead  to  her  being  shorter,  but  she  also  tends  to  use  it  to  her  advantage.

▸      WHAT’S    THEIR    HAIR    LIKE ? while  she  was  in  manticore ,  it  was  per  their  orders  for  her  to  keep  her  hair  long.  it  was  easier  for  them  to  grab ,  and  for  others  to  grab  if  it  came  down  to  it ,  and  it  was  drilled  into  her  head  that  because  she  wasn’t  incredibly  fit ,   she  had  to  have  her  hair  down  in  order  to  at  least  pass  as  looking    somewhat    desirable.  when  she  escaped ,  the  very  first  thing  she  did  was  cut  it  short  ,  falling  right  above  her  chin.   she  kept  it  short  for  a while ,  mostly  as  a  big     fuck   you     to  the  organization ,  and  for  herself.   she starts  growing  it  out  a  little  before  the  fire ,  so  it’s  to  her  shoulders  when  she  meets  with  apollo  again.

▸     DO    THEY    SPEND    A    LOT    OF    TIME    ON    THEIR    HAIR     /    GROOMING ? she  tries  to  when  she’s  escaped ,  at  least ,  combing  it ,  putting  some  sort  of  product  in  it  to  help  her  natural  curl.  she  wants  to  look  presentable  ,  and  it’s a  thing  that  was  drilled  so  hard  into  her  head  that  she  finds  herself  spending  a  lot  of  time  on  it  out  of  habit.

▸      DOES   YOUR   MUSE   CARE   ABOUT   THEIR   APPEARANCE   /   WHAT    OTHERS    THINK ? she  does  to  an  extent.   she  always  wants  to  look  good ,  due  to  that  thought  of  never  feeling  like  she’s  enough  being  drilled  into  her ,   and  it  really  is  a  driving  force  in  her  development  and  her  as  a  person ,  but  she  tries  not  to  let  it  get  to  her.   but  struggling  with  her  body  image ,  and  the  constant  telling  of  her  being  very  average  and  basic  looking ,  it’s  hard  for  it  not  to.

—    PREFERENCES.

▸     INDOORS    OR    OUTDOORS ?    indoors. ▸     RAIN    OR    SUNSHINE ?    sunshine. ▸     FOREST    OR    BEACH ?    beach. ▸     PRECIOUS    METALS    OR    GEMS ?   precious metals. ▸     FLOWERS    OR    PERFUMES ?    perfumes. ▸     PERSONALITY    OR    APPEARANCE ?  personality. ▸    BEING    ALONE    OR    BEING    IN    A    CROWD ?     being  alone. ▸    ORDER    OR    ANARCHY ?    anarchy. ▸     PAINFUL    TRUTHS    OR    WHITE    LIES ?   white lies. ▸    SCIENCE    OR    MAGIC ?     science. ▸    PEACE    OR    CONFLICT ?    peace. ▸     NIGHT    OR    DAY ?    day. ▸     DUSK    OR    DAWN ?  dusk. ▸    WARMTH    OR    COLD ?    warmth. ▸     MANY   ACQUAINTANCES    OR    A    FEW    CLOSE    FRIENDS ?   few  close  friends. ▸     READING    OR    PLAYING    A    GAME ?   reading.

—    QUESTIONNAIRE.

▸      WHAT    ARE    SOME    OF    YOUR    MUSE’S    BAD    HABITS ? she  is  really  bad  about  not  letting  people  close  to  her ,  with  the  exception  of  a  few  close  people.  it’s  hard  for  her  to  trust  anyone ,  and  this  is  usually  caused  by  her  demeanor.  she’s  always  been  a  little  outspoken , and  it  really  does  hurt  her  in  the  end.  that  ,  and  because  a  lot  of  people  tell  her  she’s  not  worth  it ,  when  someone tells  her  that  she     is   ,   she  usually  trusts  them  way  before  she  should.  she’s  a  little  shallow  that  way.

▸      HAS    YOUR    MUSE    LOST    ANYONE    CLOSE    TO    THEM ?      HOW    HAS    IT    AFFECTED    THEM ? 

the  first  big  loss  she  had  was  parker  fields ,  a  girl  that  knew  too  much  about  manticore ,  and  served  as  a  threat.  her  instructions  were  to  get  close  to  her ,  use  her  body  as  a  weapon  and  sleep  with  her.  it  was  her  first  experience  with  a  woman ,  and  her  first  time  falling  in  love  with  one ,  and  it  ended  with  her  being  ordered  to  kill  her ,  and  to  take  her  time  in  doing  it.   she’ll  never  be  able  to  get  her  screams  out  of  her  head. the  second  was  apollo.   when  there  was  a  plan  for  them  to  escape ,  she  took  it.   he  ended  up  helping  her  out ,  and  even  took  out  a  guard  for  her.  if  it  wasn’t  for  him ,  she’d  probably  be  dead  or  worse ,  going  through  a  heavy  amount  of  psy-ops  for  her  traitorous  ways.

▸      WHAT    ARE    SOME    FOND    MEMORIES    YOUR    MUSE    HAS ? 

being  that  for  the  majority  of  her  life  she  was  in  manticore ,  and  wasn’t  really  her  own  individual ,  any  fond  memories  are  what  happened    after    the  escape  in  2009.   finding  herself ,  finding  the  people  who  she  can  trust  and  piece  herself  back  together?  those  are  the  things  she’s  fond  of.

▸     IS    IT    EASY    FOR    YOUR    MUSE    TO    KILL ? it’s  easy  physically ,  but  emotionally  it  tends  to  be  a  struggle  for  selene ,  especially  after  she  got  too  attached  to  one  of  her  targets.   from  then  on ,  it  became  more  and  more  difficult  to  follow  through ,   so  much  so  that  she  was  pulled  from  solo  missions  altogether. 

▸      WHAT’S    IT    LIKE    WHEN    YOUR    MUSE    BREAKS    DOWN ? 

when  selene  breaks  down ,  it’s  usually  from  the  aftermath  of  a  nightmare  and  from  there ,  everything  else  is  too  much.   she’ll  begin  to  repeat  herself ,  stutter ,  or  shut  down  altogether.    when  this  happens ,  she  typically  just  either  needs  someone  to  remind  her  that  she’s  a      person ,      or  she’ll  need  them  to  leave  her  alone ,  and  not  say  anything.  

▸      IS    YOUR    MUSE    CAPABLE    OF    TRUSTING    SOMEONE    WITH    THEIR    LIFE ? it’s  very  rare  that  she’ll  trust  someone  with  her  life.   but  there  are  a  few  that  she  will ,  and  this  goes  into  her  long  term  relationship  with  them.   other  than  her  few ,  she  does  not  trust  anyone.   for  her ,   it’s  hard  to  trust.

▸      WHAT’S    YOUR    MUSE    LIKE    WHEN    THEY’RE    IN    LOVE ? when  she’s  in  love ,  she’ll  usually  start  it  out  by  freaking  out  and  feeling  overwhelmed ,  mostly  because  love  isn’t  a  thing  she’s  used  to.   so  when  it  happens ,  she’s  extremely  cautious ,  but  also  incredibly  loyal  to  whoever  she’s  with.   once  the  initial  shock  wears  off ,  that’s  when  she’d  be  more  cute  and  into  the  relationship  in  the  sense  of  not  wanting  to  run  immediately.

TAGGING:    any  of  the  friends  who  wanna  do  it !!

[my100hiraeth]

Bio stuff: Circe: Dark Angel Verse 

Quick rundown: Manticore is an organization that has been experimenting with splicing human and animal DNA in an attempt to make Super Soldiers. They currently have nine generations of these experiments called Transgenics, X1-X9, with the majority of the show’s characters from the X5 generation. They are trained as super soldiers and assassins and are very good at what they do. 

At one point, members of the X5 escaped and have been on the loose since. Apollo @geneticassassin​) was not a lucky member of the escape. 

Circe is a part of the X4 series, close but not quite what Manticore was hoping to achieve. Unlike earlier fails that had distinctly animal features and weren’t at all passable as human, Circe is mostly human to the naked eye, save a few details.

Circe’s DNA was spliced with that of an inland taipan snake, and she has both sharpened canines ( think fangs or vampire teeth ) and perpetually dry, almost scaly skin that she hides under long sleeves and gloves almost continuously. 

Circe is one of the last ( idk if I can say the last so moving on ) living experiments of the X4 series, kept alive for her killing potential and experimentation purposes.

Circe grew up in complete isolation as a child. When she was young, she was unable to control her venom, and in addition to the venom coming through her fangs, it was also potent in her sweat and saliva glands. As she matured, her sweat and saliva become non-lethal, though no amount of experiments ( and there’s been dozens ) have been able to explain why. But because of this lack of control, no one was allowed to be near her without protective gear, and aside from various experiments on her, her reaction to the DNA, and her venom, she was left in a three walled room, the fourth wall being made of pexiglass so her handlers could keep an eye on her without having to be in the room with her. 

Her bite is still incredibly deadly, with effects of paralysis, cerebral hemorrhage, renal failure and anaphylaxis and will kill in approximately 30-45 minutes.