#idk what to trust!!

[the-crimson]

I think something that I’ve been mulling over for the past few days is the difference between books/lore the admins want the players to find and books/lore the federation wants the players to find to misdirect them. Because obviously the admins want to provide players with information to help them figure things out but there are other times where it feels like the federation is planting information to mislead the islanders.

The main instance of this is Fred’s protected chest vs the books in his office. The chest itself isn’t what has me thinking - it’s the fact that the chest’s password is literally written down in a chest beside it.

My thoughts are this: if the admins wanted the players to get into the chest, they would just leave the chest without a password so they can crack it with code breakers or have a normal or disguised chest in a more hidden but accessible spot. But they didn’t. They added the password. Compared to the books in Fred’s office that the admins wanted them to find but were supposed to - in story - be safe.

Which either means Fred is incredibly incompetent or put the password intentionally so that the islanders could snoop. If it’s the latter (most likely) then nothing in the chest can be taken at face value because Fred wanted them to find it.

I seriously doubt Fred truly thinks bbh is innocent. We know he can lie and manipulate. He told Tubbo he didn’t know who Cucurucho was but previously he told Bbh that Cucurucho wasn’t a worker and was higher rank. Fred told Tubbo he was looking for the missing worker cuz of his boss and he told someone else (Fit or Philza?) that he’s looking because he cares about the workers.

Bbh is always checking the shack for information so it makes sense Fred would leave something to make bbh think Fred isn’t a threat. That Fred’s cleared him of suspicion on kidnapping Ron. This plus the entire month long enigma Cellbit went on makes me so skeptical of everything everyone finds.

Like the reports with Kameto. The federation wanted the players to find Kameto and knew they would tear the place apart looking for information. Why would they leave those reports unless they wanted the players to find them and become more malleable to federation manipulation?

I don’t even know where I’m going with this but I guess I’m just explaining why I think Fred’s chest and the French Reports are misdirects by the federation and shouldn’t be taken at face value. Figuring out which pieces of lore are federation planted (not to be trusted) vs admin planted is the tricky thing.

[s0up1ta]

"so grunkle ford how do you know bill?"

"... that's not important."

[madscientistenthusiast]

Personally I think that Azula should have been redeemed simply so that she can become Zuko's horrible little advisor who whispers evil little plans to him so that he can do the exact opposite

[wheatormeat]

If there's anything I've felt about ace attorney since playing through the original trilogy, it's how cheated I've felt about the fandom interpretation of it. Y'all were so caught up with your gay boys and your Miles Edgeworths I didn't realize how much of this game was about WOMEN. THE CORE OF ACE ATTORNEY IS IN ITS FEMALE CHARACTERS. From Mia jumpstarting Phoenix and guiding him throughout the whole trilogy even after her death, her presence being the primary connecter of Phoenix and Maya, Maya and Godot, heck even Dahlia and Iris and the whole lot of them. From Franziska's earnest faith and consolation of Miles Edgeworth, even begrudgingly, pulling him out the trauma of his childhood with the face to face confrontation of a bullet wound in the same spot as the man who killed his father. Lana and Ema dragging Phoenix back into the thing he does best. Lana and Ema who's tragic story lies in a pair of sisters ruined by the heinous law system and their unconditional love for each other. Dahlia and Iris with a different version of sisterly tragedy, struggling through generational trauma in separate settings and support systems. The matter of the Fey tradition looming over the entire narrative and all the legal and social terror that comes with it. CAN WE TALK ABOUT THE ACE ATTORNEY WOMEN.

[inkskinned]

we were sitting on the floor and i was cutting out tiny pictures to make a collage for a friend's birthday. you were on your phone and you laughed about something, and i was still in love with you then, so i asked what had you giggling.

"sorry. i was just..." you took a moment and went back to texting. "i was telling someone about how you're afraid of the dark."

i'm afraid of the dark because something bad happened. "oh." i felt a little slinky of shame crawl down my throat.

you glanced up, and maybe it showed on my face, because you rolled your eyes and held the phone to the side casually so i could see the group chat. "what? was it a secret?"

i looked down to the scissors in my hand. "i just..." no, it's not a secret. it just felt like something private, something serious. saying why would you tell someone that just feels like an accusation. it's unfair. i honestly am not even ashamed of it, it's just a fact about my person that i don't usually share.

what a strange experience. is this a human thing or a generational thing? for our grandparents: did they need to worry about how quickly someone can just... share your personal information? again, i didn't even really have a true objection. what could i say? i want any person in my life to feel they can be honest with their friends. it's not like i said don't tell anyone this.

i cut out another letter to complete the rainbow happy birthday, started hunting for the exclamation mark. i heard you sigh dramatically.

"don't make a big deal about this," you said.

this entire conversation was a pattern for us, and this was when we got to my least favorite part of the pattern. i would get my feelings hurt in some oblique not-technically-terrible way, and then it would be making a big deal about something. you'd get frustrated for me for being soft, but i was born soft. you knew i was soft when you pierced me. it's one of the things that made controlling me so easy.

"i'm not," i felt my voice crack. the question came without my wanting. "why are you guys talking about me?" and why are you saying that thing? why not like - i'm telling them how you're generous and kind and pretty.

you let out this low, tragic groan. "oh my god." you tossed the phone away from your body. "there, see? i just won't talk to them if you don't like it."

the rest of the hour went the way it always went, between us: i said i don't actually mind if you talk to your friends but -, you found a way to call my minor expression of discomfort "being dramatic." you got upset that i had been offended. i ended up apologizing, even though i hadn't actually done anything.

afterwards, you picked up the phone again. after texting for a little bit, you snorted. "okay," you said, "but it is kind of funny you're afraid of the dark. i mean, when you think about it."

[bixels]

I watched Starship Troopers tonight.

[hinamie]

thank u canon plant nerd megumi for my life

bonus:

[artist-rat]

some epilogue vibes (an excuse to draw some hugs. and my durge so many times)

[ahllohehn]

i do art to do bullshit like this: hephaestus kid mumbo jumbo

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[nibeul]

staff polaroids

[id in alt]

[twinstxrs]

so much happened in this whole episode but i’m still on fig infiltrating ruben’s dream, making it look like the place where his friend was murdered, and then disguising herself as kipperlilly & repeatedly saying different variants of “somebody needs to take the fall for this, and it’s not going to be me. it’s going to be you.” while adaine as the elven oracle shows up next to her. can you imagine waking up from that, the idea of a horrible truth being pinned on you by your friend to save her own skin while the personification of fate and destiny stands there, almost as a promise that this is GOING to happen to you. we don’t even know if this kid is guilty. my god.

[divineandmajesticinone]

4 MINUTES (2024) I 1.02 "Do the police normally do house check-ins."

[lucabyte]

Perceptive kid, I wonder just how much they pretend not to overhear.

[heartorbit]

CONGRATS EMUKASA ON THE MARRIAGE

[thehealingsystem]

if you ever wonder why I don't interact with the traumagenic community as a traumagenic system this is why

[thatonedudeinthecorner]

They are both bisexual but mabel is, in fact, playing the trans card on him (he is transgender)