#gina the machina

[twopoppies]

Hello Gina, i’ve sussed out a few things about “reaching out to strangers”

the http://rots.world domain was registered on a 28th (28.08.24)

If you click on the different elements on the site, you get access to various sections: a Spotify playlist, a radio station, a book list, a sign-up space, and a “coming soon” section.

The radio station has a muffled sound, but it seems like someone is talking. At exactly 0:28, a conversation starts and it sounds like a phone call. The rots.fm profile replied to a comment that said, “where are the tunes?” with “listen closely.”

Everything seems tied to space-related conspiracy theories (?), many of the films suggested are about space or hacking. Like Matrix, E.T., Independence Day, Ex Machina, Interstellar etc etc. 

Maybe it’s one of Joshua’s projects, but this constant recurrence of the number 28 makes me think of the lover of iPhone conspiracies, Mr Louis Tomlinson. Even though many believe it could also be a Harry's promo.

Well, it does look really interesting. Although it seems really related to Joshua at the moment, the 28 details always makes me suspicious, too.

[jaggedwolf]

Still trying to figure out why TGAA2-4 and TGAA2-5 set off my "man this is a lot of dudes dudeing" hackles when the other Ace Attorney final cases do not - I thought my baseline expectation of AA was that it's dude-centric while having rad female characters, but apparently it might've been higher, because those two TGAA cases meet that bar.

I kinda see the difference once I iterate through every other installment's (AA1-AA6, AAI1-2, crossover) finale. There's two levels to it.

There's the backstory level, where if you exclude TGAA all the other finales' have at least one major female player figuring into the drama of the backstory, often more. Misty Fey was nowhere near the elevator on DL-6 but she is inseparable from the case, for instance, and that radiates out to Mia and Maya.

Sithe comes closest, with her role in the Professor coverup, but she gets uninterestingly shuffled off in 2-3, her daughter relaying her reports in a way that dilutes both their presences. Even in the finale with the biggest similarity to this - dude-heavy conspiracy with only one female participant, we see more of that participant than we do Sithe, and there's another woman invested in exposing the conspiracy.

Then there's the present-day courtroom and investigation. Which sounds odd, given that if we're playing a male character as we usually are, we almost always have a female assistant around. There's a lot of room for variety here though. I'll take 1-4 again, both because it is the most-played finale case and so I hopefully won't be spoiling anyone, and also because it's a case where the victims were dudes, the arrested suspects were dudes, the only people within five feet of the both crime scenes were dudes, the only living people with previous direct connections to those dudes are dudes (we haven't met Franziska yet), so you know, it has as much of an excuse as any finale to focus solely on the dudes.

But Maya holding onto the bullet is what clinches us the case. It's not the biggest thing Maya ever does, but IDK, it's more interesting to me than Iris's part in the hologram deus ex machina. Heck, even comparing the finales of TGAA1 and TGAA2, in TGAA1 Susato's and Gina's decisions change how the incident and case play out, while in TGAA2 they each get bummed out for different reasons but don't do anything uniquely instrumental.

Anyway, I mostly like the puzzle-solving and emotional logic of TGAA2-4 and TGAA2-5, but I also would not have minded either Klint's widow (dead from childbirth) or Genshin's widow (dead from grief) surviving to the present day to have some feelings of their own and/or cause some drama of their own instead of being one of the three dead wives.

[aroundthewaygirlao3]

I saw your post about how you would have Portwell get back together, and I wanted to know how you would write the story in case they don't get back together and Gina stays with Ricky (which will most likely happen). What would you do with both EJ and Gina's personal arcs, their friendship and friendships with other characters (existing already in the show and also your own original characters), and EJ's love life (won't ask about Gina's for obv reasons)?

I'll be honest... I have a hard time envisioning any kind of satisfying arc for Gina if she stays with Ricky. And I KNOW people will think that's me being a bitter shipper, but it's not. I just don't see how they compliment each other long term. Ricky needs to learn to grow for HIMSELF, not for Nini or Gina, so the idea that he would somehow be ready for a life in New York or LA (which he expressly says he doesn't want in the S3 finale) BECAUSE of Gina feels a little toxic. I want him to have growth independent of his romantic pairing. And while Gina's arc is about learning to trust, I don't want her compromising what she wants for him. They just don't seem compatible to me long term, and so I don't really know where I'd have Gina go if she remains in that pairing. And while in the end, I would love it if Portwell gets back together, I'm also ok if Gina ends up with a new love interest or no love interest at all. I just don't want her and Ricky to magically "fix" each other, because there are REAL issues there that I don't have faith that they'll address because they're just going to make R*na the centerpiece.

Overall, I want the core friendships back that made the first two seasons feel like my own theater kid experience. I want to see Carlos and Gina together, and Ashlyn and EJ. I want to get away from the 'ship wars' the third season fed and focus on the rest of their lives, too.

And for EJ, all I really want is someone to acknowledge how hard he worked over the summer and how unsupported he was. Ideally in my mind, it would be Gina because a lot of what happened with them was just poor communication from them both and I KNOW they're capable of better, but I would also appreciate it from Ashlyn or Carlos.

I don't mean to be a downer, LOL! But yeah, I'm not sure I can figure out how to work within arcs that I don't feel make sense for these characters without some MAJOR ret-con or deus ex machina type resolutions.

[squadron-of-damned-writes]

Angelus Ex Machina (4697 words) by Tolpen Chapters: 1/3 Fandom: 大逆転裁判 | Dai Gyakuten Saiban | The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles (Video Games) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Gina Lestrade/Original Character, Sherlock Holmes | Herlock Sholmes/Mikotoba Yuujin Characters: Gina Lestrade (Dai Gyakuten Saiban), Sherlock Holmes | Herlock Sholmes (Dai Gyakuten Saiban), Mikotoba Yuujin, Original Characters, Other Character Tags to Be Added Additional Tags: Mystery, Original Character(s), POV Alternating, Romantic relationships are background, Other Additional Tags to Be Added Series: Part 3 of Clockwork Heart Summary:

Yuujin Mikotoba had visited the United States of America as a guest lecturer for two years, and now he returns to London. Upon reaching the English shores another passenger disappears. Her enigmatic older brother, and her fiancé recruit the greatest detective to find her. Who is this mysterious Miss Minerva, and who would want her to disappear? Meanwhile Inspector Gina Lestrade searches for a missing mother of her close friend and colleague in a hardboiled fashion. But of course, nothing is ever straightforward, and the unofficial case quickly spirals into something more dangerous.

Enoch Drebber would like to remind everyone that none if this is his problem, please stop getting him involved, he is not a key to either of those mysteries. He is, of course, completely right. He is not a key. His is the lock.

Obligatory Excerpt:

Well then, gentlemen,” Holmes sprung to his feet again. “Mr. Foeward, good Father, we shall call upon you in your hotel the moment our investigation makes progress. I assure you that I shall see poor Miss Minerva safely returned to her family. Do not fret, do not worry; these kind of things do take time, especially when there are so few leads.” With such reassurances he ushered them out of the door, and only once he checked through the window that they had truly left Baker Street, he turned to Mikotoba: “Well, what do you think?” “I think,” Mikotoba said carefully, “that I am going to call on a mason to extract the remaining pieces from the wall. What on Earth have you been doing with them, Sherlock?” “I was playing shogi with Iris’s friend. Leave them be Yuujin, I shall put it upon him to get them out,” the man threw his frame back into the armchair upside down, lanky legs thrown over the headrest. He maintained that it allowed him to think better with more blood pouring to saturate his brain. Yuujin Mikotoba, who had his educated medicine thoughts about it, was content to leave him like that, because it meant the detective would be quiet for at least an hour and wouldn’t get under his feet. Yuujin thought that he could finally go and unpack his belongings for the stay, but Sherlock called out to him: “I still want to hear your thoughts on the disappearance of Miss Minerva. Doubly so, for you have met her.”

[kinley-cafe]

@gina-the-machina

You received a candygram from A Secret Admirer ! We’ve also included this Kinard (Hershey) Kiss with your candygram. ♡

😊❤️

Enjoy! Happy Valentine's Day!❤️

[squadron-of-damned]

gina giiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiina noir also fuck, ghost valley. no beta we dying like cindy stone AIDGFHFUHD

Gina Noir is just the old name of Angelus Ex Machina. My original plan was to write it from Gina Lestrade's POV in the style of a noir crime story. The first section even adhers to that.

It's actually supposed to be a yet another Eeny story. This time it features Drebber's family and some grave robbing, and potentially angels.[1]

[1] They are not real.[2]

[2] They are also not angels.

Ghost Valley was an "Afterlife is actually Stardew Valley" fic, but I deleted it. Or orphaned it, idk. It was bad.

[colourfulgreyscales]

Just watched Annihilation and... It's a lot to take in. I can't make up my mind about whether it's better than Ex Machina. Amazing cinematography. Oscar and Natalie killed it, but I also liked Tessa Thompson, Gina Rodriguez and Jennifer Jason Leigh in it.

[iamdangerace]

Gina the Machina, New Kind of Kick from ShePunk Fest 2020 Live (2021).

Live from ShePunk Fest in Aurora, IL. Recorded with a condenser mic to cassette tape 3/6/2020.

  https://ginathemachina.bandcamp.com/album/shepunk-fest-2020-live

[icecoldtea]

My fave cast announcements for Critical Role’s The Legend of Vox Machina

(I am THRIVING)

[aspiringsophrosyne]

The Legend of Vox Machina S1: Review Master Post.

Just to keep everything organized.

Episodes 1 & 2: The Terror of Tal'dorei.

Episode 3: The Feast of Realms.

Episode 4: Shadows at The Gates.

Episode 5, Part 1: Fate's Journey - Banter.

Episode 5, Part 2: Fate's Journey - Travel And Chase.

Episode 5, Part 3: Fate's Journey - Magic.

Episode 5, Part 4: Fate Journey - The Sun Tree.

Episode 6: Spark of Rebellion.

Episode 7: Scanbo.

Episode 8: A Silver Tongue.

Episode 9: Tide of Bone.

Episode 10: Depths of Deceit.

Episode 11: Whispers at The Ziggurat.

Episode 12: The Darkness Within.

[fjordstan]

i gasp as if we didn't already know that

[moghedien]

UNMM DID YALL SEE THE CAST THO

[geekcavepodcast]

The Legend of Vox Machina “The Legend of the Cast” Featurette   **Some Language**

The original cast from Critical Role -  Matthew Mercer, Laura Bailey, Taliesin Jaffe, Ashley Johnson, Liam O’Brien, Marisha Ray, Sam Riegel, and Travis Willingham, who will all also voice characters in Amazon Prime’s The Legend of Vox Machina - gush on the other voice actors brought on for the series adaptation. Also we get to see some character models and here from many of the voice actors themselves about their characters.

Additional voice actors joining the crew for The Legend of Vox Machina include Sunil Malhotra  (Shaun Gilmore), Khary Payton (Uriel Tal’Dorei), Felicia Day (Captain of Emon), Bobby Hall (Palace Guard), Eugene Byrd (Captain Jarett), David Tennant (General Krieg), Tony Hale (Sir Fince), Anjali Bhimani (Head Cleric), Esmé Credd-Miles (Cassandra De Rolo), Mason Alexander Park (Tavern Keeper), Tracie Thoms (The Everlight), Max Mittelman (Desmond), Stacey Raymond (Bryn), Gina Torres (Keeper Yennen), Dominic Monaghan (Archibald Desnay), Stephen Root (Professor Anders), Rory McCann (Duke Vedmire), Kelly Hu (Dr. Anna Ripley), Indira Varma (Lady Allura Vysoren), Stephanie Beatriz (Lady Kima of Vord), Grey Griffin (Delilah Briarwood), Darin De Paul (Kerrion Stonefell)

The Legend of Vox Machina hits Amazon Prime on January 28, 2022.

[youwillfindilluminating]

“hell, I don’t even know if I woulda said no,” says gina torres’ character about another woman as my bisexual heart explodes

[squadron-of-damned-writes]

For the writing ask game... How about 10 and 82?

10: at what point in the process do you come up with titles, and how easy or hard is that for you?

I usually come up with the title after I write the story (if it's a one-shot) or after I finish the first chapter (if there are chapters). I then have a staring contest with the AO3 "Work Title" box, coming to the realisation that the fic is named [fandom abbrevation] - [inside joke/up to five word summary of what's going on] such as "aa - cursed larry" (that's Starfury) or "aa - gina noir" (that's Angelus Ex Machina)

So I and the box are exchanging looks for a minute or two before i pick a line from the work, twist it around and make it reference something. For example Lapse in judgement/Dodge a bullet is named that because the kick-off is Manfred's, uh, 'lapse in judgement' and Gregory literally dodges a bullet, as in he doesn't get shot. The Real Feeling of Sharing series started as a parody-with-a-twist on self-insert Modern Girl In Thedas fics, and it felt appropriate to use lyrics from anime opening as a title. Me being out of loop of anime for years, I asked my salty beanpole boyfriend, and he referred me to Reinai Circulation from Monogatari. Original Feeling of Sharing because Origins. Unexpected Feeling of Sharing because nobody expects the (Spanish) Inquisition.

That being said, it's taken me 13 years to do it in under 2 minutes.

82: “proper” punctuation or all lowercase?

I am going to be real with you: You show me to a fic in all lower case, and I show myself to the close tab button. That's not to say lower case doesn't have it's place, when you are writing something like online messages etc. I also don't see the appeal of naming the fic in all lower case. It's a name. Names deserve at least one capital letter.

[booasaur]

Annihilation (2018) - Teaser Trailer