#by burstfoot

[enomie]

This is so good, I feel some tears. I don't have the time to spare and read the story in the game but this! This gives so much, I wouldn't say context, its more like a framework, a lens of perspective, to the story and would definitely enhance the experience when actually reading it. It's so good. The emotions captured are perfect, their thoughts and their headspace when moments that matter to them happen and the powerlessness they feel as they think there is nothing they do about it.

Your name is Kristen Wright. You’re barely 10. You’re at the outdoor funeral for your parents, a pair of genius scientists that Terra will never see again. You’ve spent the last two weeks giving false smiles to women and men who pretend to grieve them while spending every moment they think you’re not looking lauding them for their ‘foolishness’ and ‘hubris’. Sitting amongst a crowd of these intellectuals, your feel nothing looking at their crocodile tears, knowing they’re just happy there’s less competition for next year’s grants. Your new guardian grabs onto your hand in an attempt to grant you a modicum of comfort. You stare blankly at the sky above.

You’ve never felt so alone. You don’t think this feeling will ever go away.

Your name is Joyce Moore. You can hardly communicate anymore. Your best friend killed herself trying to replicate the experiment that gave you permanent brain damage. Every scientist at Rhine Lab now treats you like a child at best, and an animal at worst. Your parents have not come to see you. None of your colleagues seem to understand that you are still you, with a sense of humour, good taste in TV shows, and fucking feelings, god damn it.

You’ve never felt so alone. You don’t think this feeling will ever go away.

Your name is Ferdinand Clooney. You’ve lost everything you’ve ever worked for in a futile grab for power. The department of defense has you by the dick after saving you from a group of Pioneers who (justifiably) nearly beat you half to death. It’s playing fiddle to their whims or the rest of your life in prison - or, most realistically, a tragic accident report. Your aspirations aren’t within your reach anymore, and you know that it’s your fault. You will never be Kristen Wright, and it’s eating you alive.

You’ve never felt so alone. You don’t think this feeling will ever go away.

Your name is Parvis Ahrens. You’re not that old. You’re only 58. But you’re losing your mind. Every day, a little more slips away. You rely more and more on encyclopedic entries for information you took immense pride in knowing from your heart. You’ve spent the last few years focused on the pursuit of progress of all else. As part of this, you manipulated your star pupil in an attempt to permanently get her under your wing, outside of the influence of the Defense Director, a weak-hearted woman everyone else seems to think is cold as ice. She has years of life to change Columbian science. You don’t.

You’ve never felt so alone. You don’t think this feeling will ever go away.

Your name is Jara B. Wilson. You feel like you don’t see the girl who lived for you with so long in Kristen anymore. You’re a washed-up movie star, working for her cause above all else. Do you have anything that you’re working for for yourself anymore? She’ll be gone soon. You know that.

She hasn’t even left yet, and you’ve never felt so alone. You don’t think this feeling will ever go away once she leaves.

Your name is Nasti Londrey. Your people have never had a home. They might never have a home.

You’ve always felt alone. You will always be alone. That’s fine.

Your name is Justin Fitzroy Jr. Your dad died a week ago, and the cure has just been found for the hereditary illness that threatens to cut your lifespan in half. It was found by accident.

The sword of Damacles no longer hangs above your neck. Why then, do you still feel so alone?

Your name is Loken Williams. You reach out to a girl you tortured, who you know can’t remember what you did to her, because you’re going to die soon, and you need someone to remember what you did with your life.

Even if she kills you, at least you won’t die alone.

Your name is Trevor Friston. It’s been thousands of years down here. You just want to see your daughter again, and it will be another thousand until you do.

You’re very familiar with the loneliness that wraps around every single nanometer of your circuit board.

Your name is Dorothy Franks. Your whole family was killed in a Catastrophe. You name is Elena Urbica. Your whole family, besides your twin sister, has disowned you. Your drive yourself head-first into the sciences to distract yourself from the loneliness.

Your name is Ho’olheyak. Centuries of ancestral memories swarm around your mind. Because of this, your lifespan was cut to a fraction of the life you should be living. You are obsessed with the history of your people, and you resent them from tearing your life away from you. You tear over books and tomes of history to find all means of unspeakable knowledge, hoping that somewhere in there you’ll find something that you can connect to.

You don’t even know you’re lonely.

Your name is Muelsyse.

You saw the writing on the wall. Saria and Kristen just had a massive fight. You’ve been drifting apart since college, but the only two people who you’ve felt a real connection to on all of Terra will hardly speak to each other anymore. Do you try and mend what happened between them? Can you? You don’t know what to do besides take all means to protect yourself in the fallout. You wish you weren’t so paranoid, so self-centered, that all you know how to do is ensure your own safety.

Is there anything on Terra for you besides loneliness?

Your name is Ifrit. It’s cold, and quiet, and you’re pretty sure you’ve killed everyone around you. Your eyes are blurred, you hands are shaky, and shards of black crystal stick out all over your body. Before you pass out, you think one thing:

Hell, you might be alone, but at least those bastard whitecoats got what was coming to them.

Your name is Olivia Silence. You pull yourself out of the rubble in a destroyed laboratory, where you see Saria looming over Ifrit, beaten half-to-death. You beat yourself up for thinking you could trust her - that she was there to protect Ifrit, and you. You can’t trust anyone in Columbia. You run to embrace Ifrit with your entire body, to protect her from the cold eyes of Saria standing above her. You look back at her with nothing but fear in your eyes.

You’ve never felt so alone. You have to get Ifrit out of Rhine.

Your name is Saria. You’re barely 8 years old. You went your father in tears, as a group of bullies came after you and destroyed your toy car. He tells you to stop crying. You’re not accomplishing anything by throwing a fit in front of him. He tells you to fight back - take responsibility for your weakness.

You’ve never felt so alone.

You won’t ever be this weak again.

Staring up at the sky, looking up as Kristen’s ark sends her out through the hole she tore in the false sky, you know that you were foolish to believe you could bypass your own weakness through sheer will.

And you’ll be lonely for the rest of your life without her.

[arkiwii]

quercued up victorian serval busting it down abjurer style, is she goated with the sauce

[blackcurrant-juice]

Fiammetta in 13?

:D

[cerastes]

Jokes aside, the thing about Arturia is that she’s like a Courage the Cowardly Dog villain or Wario more than El Bromas.

She’s committed objectively funny crimes defined by “this breaks the penal code” more than actually being heinous. But also, she does have a body count and has lead to murder-suicides and other things on that caliber of tragedy. She’s not necessarily out to do any of this, she just makes inhibitions cease to inhibit and latent desire explode from within those affected, and whatever happens, happens. That’s how I personally understand her Arts right now, at least.

But also her wearing the make-up makes me laugh.

[clownowo]

Ace attorney characters ranked based on how well I think they dance

Phoenix Wright: 6/10 he’s nothing to write home about but he took a musical theater class or two in college so he can keep a beat at least.

Mia Fey: 6/10 no real interest in dancing but she's not bad or anything. could keep up with Diego well enough

Apollo Justice: 4/10 he wouldn’t suck so bad if he could just loosen up.

Athena Cykes: 9/10 very fit. does cardio. has taken some dance classes for fun.

Maya Fey: 8/10 what she lacks in skill she makes up for in spirit

Pearl Fey: 6/10 has the physical abilities to dance but not the confidence. also has very little reference for how she could be dancing

Trucy Wright: 8/10 performer with good dexterity for sleight of hand. Music isn’t really her area of expertise but she does well enough. enjoys playing just dance with Athena

Miles Edgeworth: 3/10 he can do one dance and it’s the Steel Samurai season 4 ending credits dance and he does it flawlessly but nothing else. took ballroom dancing classes with the von Karmas but he wasn’t particularly adept.

Franziska von Karma: 4/10 she found the aforementioned ballroom dancing classes tedious but damn if she wasn’t going to perform in them perfectly. she can’t do anything else and refuses to try

Godot: 7/10 he can do a killer tango

Klavier Gavin: 2/10 despite being an internationally famous rockstar, when performing he usually has a guitar in his hands so he’s never needed to dance. he cannot dance. he doesn’t particularly want this info getting out

Simon Blackquill: 6/10 danced with Athena a fair bit growing up. knows several anime dances

Nahyuta Sahdmadhi: 7/10 i haven't met this guy yet but my friend tells me they think he'd know a fair bit of traditional dances.

Winston Payne: 0/10 or 10/10 no in between. he's either literal garbage or so bad it loops back around to incredible. he had insane disco game in the 70s but now all the rookies laugh at him.

Larry Butz: 8/10 best dancer between him, Phoenix and Miles. he’s gotta be getting his girlfriends somehow

Dick Gumshoe: 5/10 a little too clumsy and can't keep a beat well but bonus points for his enthusiasm

Ema Skye: 1/10 doesn't even try

Kay Faraday: 10/10 incredible dexterity and physical ability. lots of whimsy and spirit.

Sebastian Debeste: 3/10 despite the baton, no real sense of rhythm

Manfred von Karma: 4/10 the one to sign Franziska and Miles up for ballroom dance lessons

Matt Engarde: 2/10 he got the jammin samurai killed so I don’t think he can jam

Dahlia Hawthorne: 8/10 she can boogie. gets down at clubs and parties. arguably the most normal about dancing

Sister Iris: 7/10 had to learn to boogie to properly emulate her sister but she isn’t quite as suited for it and has much less experience

Kristoph Gavin: 1/10 he likes watching but he doesn’t dance at all

Ryunosuke Naruhodo: 10/10 the most beautiful dance of deductions you've ever seen in your life

Susato Mikotoba: 10/10 while she's not particularly skilled with a koto, she learned to dance from the best

Herlock Sholmes: 10/10 THE dancer. THE ONE AND ONLY great detective known for his dance of deductions

Iris Wilson: 10/10 raised by the aforementioned one and only herlock sholmes

Yujin Mikotoba: 10/10 took to tap dancing incredibly well during his time in britain

Kazuma Asogi: 6/10 he's not particularly good but he somehow makes it look cool anyway

Barok Van Zieks: 7/10 used to be much better, before the professor kililngs he actually enjoyed dancing a fair bit. took classes growing up. retained a lot of the muscle memory

Gina Lestrade: 6/10 she doesn't have any training but if she did she'd do fairly well

Tobias Gregson: 2/10 he's the best investigator at scotland yard according to Sholmes, so you can imagine how bad the rest of the yard is at dancing

Maria Gorey: 8/10 she can dance just fine she just has no interest. the one time they got her to dance Herlock had very courteously offered his body up for dissection. "AFTER I'M DEAD, WOMAN!"

Albert Harebrayne: 1/10 he can't. he tries. Barok tried to teach him. he understands the theory! he knows the steps! he can't do it. he can't.

[mokadevs]

“The more time passes, the more I'm sorry about it. We shouldn't have done it… We did not learn enough from this mission to justify the death of the dog.”

- Oleg Gazenko on Laika, the first dog sent to space.

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Saria justifies a world post-Kristen.

[bentosandbox]

Assuming someone hasn’t already sent it in, 41!

this only means i get to talk about more fics ehehehe

41. Link a fic that made you think, “Wow, I want to write like that.”

yeah its a CN one sorry (yeah its a chenswire one sorry)

reposting from my containment acc i will also add: they write swire soooo 'tch-core' if that makes any sense... feel like people usually characterise them aggravating each other very directly (me included) so it was very refreshing to see a more subtle approach

its kinda like crunchy fried eggs with runny yolks vs the half solid half runny ones that are (imo) perfect for sandwiches/burgers because theyre still somewhat runny but they dont make a mess thats what the writing/characterisation feels like

Her good mood was still stranded in an argument that happened a few days back, so Swire fiddles with the ends of a hair curl, waiting for a tide of pedestrians to separate them into strangers.

ok translated like 1 line lol i realise i like writing that i find difficult to effectively adapt into comic/visual form

[melfiiis]

Hello yaoi blog. Does Gnosis or Silverash top

umm lol, silverash tops because he's the dom in the relationship? thanks for asking!!

[brave-symphonia]

Re: your lack of pink cat, if the shop operators stay consistent to trends, Goldenglow should be in the yellow certs shop in august or september, so save your gold certs for then!!

Wait, August and September?

My birthday is at the end of August, I can only take this to mean Arknights is personally giving me Goldenglow as a birthday present!

I am not spending a single gold certificate until she shows up in the store.

Thank you so much for this information. I really hope they stay to their trends in this case. I want the pink cat, I love her so much from what I've seen of her and the many times I've used her.

[anomalouscodex]

Hi I've given up on my hunt for the flying slug so far but I'm so curious where you found it, does it spawn at the start of the Pompeii stage or at some point in the middle like pompeii does? I was trying to decode the map on prts.map but couldn't quite understand it

It's been a little bit since I ran the map, but if I remember correctly it can spawn when you use the craftable slug lures, same as Pompeii and some of the elite variants of slugs. Most of the time I used two of the level 3 ones and two of the level 2 ones on the grassy tiles. Most of the spawned slugs come from the lower of the two boxes at the top left of the map, but the flying ones come from the upper one. Good luck when you start hunting for it again!

[leithanienwnt]

Couldn't get your tags about Leafs Fan Passenger out of my head

Holy shit that's amazing

Also I cannot imagine how incomprehensible this would be to my 90 year old leafs fan grandpa

[lizzy-frizzle]

Oh yeah her (Mama's Rebel Girl) stage fucking sucks it's a rush of a bunch of really strong enemies in 3 lanes so you can't actually buff your units before you get them set up and by the time you've actually protected yourself from the rush of enemies she starts draining DP so you can't stack new units to scale with the enemy buffs as the stage goes on (not even to mention the undestroyable turrets that make putting down anything other than a defender or high def guard at the front entirely unfeasible)

Yea ;-; my strategy ended up having Saria and Qiubai cover the top lane, Reed alter, irene, mountain, and chongyue covering the bottom three lanes, with nightingale healing everyone

and I still leaked 2 ;-;

[heretichromia]

Goldenglow, suggested by @burstfoot!

[blackcurrant-juice]

✨️😁👍

[cerastes]

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[clownowo]

Ship ask game - Ace Attorney, Gina/Maria!

tbh. they barely know each other. if they know each other at all?

and im not entirely sure they'd actually like each other all that much if they did LOL i think Gina would find Maria unsettling. at least at first. and Maria's one true love is internal organs. but i don't think its impossible either! so. they cute so it gets a pass <3

i know i spent a bit explaining why i don't think they make sense but. compels me anyway.