#imma just stop here

[th4tsj4zzy]

Idk if you've played Ace Attorney 4 (spoiler warning if you haven't) but if so can you write smth about Troupe Gramarye? Idrc if it's angsty or not I'm just starved for content of them lmao- (If you need some prompts ones I can think off of the top of my head are how each member joined the troupe, how Zak and Thalassa got together, how the members interacted with Trucy, smth about Valant's feelings of incompetence, Valant's life during/after jail, au where Zak remained alive, etc)

AGHH IM SO SORRY I HAD FINALS TO DEAL WITH THIS WEEK :,((( i have so little experience w Troupe Gramarye, so i apologze again in advance (both that it took so long and if anything is out of character and if things dont check out in canon ;-;)

A loaded gun, a letter, and two options.

One: Valant could, as instructed, shoot the sleeping man in front of him. The one that brought him up as a magician, made his life a living hell after a trick gone wrong, and brought about “a golden age in stage magic.” If he shot him, while his magic would die, the guilt that came with her death would die with him, and he wouldn’t even need to be within a mile’s reach of a jail cell. And yet, he looked at the stage pistol in his right hand with hesitation.

His second option was to put the gun down, turn around, and leave the room, pretending nothing happened and leaving magnifi to die naturally. He could just leave without blood on his hands. After all, that man would die anyway: It was only a matter of time. 

He already taken one person’s life with his hands; Whats wrong with another? Oh, who was he kidding? What kind of sociopath would think that? It’s someone’s life for god’s sake, not to mention his mentor’s life! But he knew the old man; he had no clue how to act normally, nor what was right or wrong. He lived tip toeing that line, and that rubbed off on Zak and him. They would pay the price for him on that matter, though. But he also needed to live: The fact he was chosen as a Gramarye proved that. Unless..

Do i shoot? Or do i put the gun down? Just having the pistol reminded him of that incident, three years ago. Shoot, or not? Shoot or not? Shoot or not? The room felt suffocating, as if it was closing in on him. Shootornoshootornotshootornotshootornotshootor-

Before he knew it, he was turned around toward the door, the gun put neatly back on the tray of Magnifi Gramarye’s hospital room. He knew he couldn’t. He just couldn’t. 

“That.. is the wrong answer.”

And that day, April 13th, 2018, the rest of the Gramaryes’ lives were ruined. 

…………..

Zak had always been better than valant. To Valant, all that had any personal experience with Troupe Gramarye knew this as a fact. Magnifi only confirmed it, his worst nightmare, and he had no choice but to leave with his head down and spirit shattered.

I gave the rights to my magic to Zak Gramarye. Please.. support him. Like hell he would! F or years, Zak had taken everything he wanted: The role of star pupil, Thalassa’s adoration (not that he really seeked it, but still), the skill and wit of a professional magician, and now, Magnifi’s performance rights. And the worst part? He respected him for it. For he was a good man, and that was the thing he hated him for.

When Thalassa’s husband died, she was inconsolable. Looking back, she was mentally still just a teenager. Valant knew not of the life (or lives, or bracelet) she’d left behind her in coming back to Troupe Gramarye. In his naive, young mind, he believed she would eventually get over the entire thing. With the luxury of retrospect, they really had never been normal, all four of them, he thought. and so, he never tried to comfort her. but Zak did.

In his mind, that mind blinded by the spotlight, the fame Troupe Gramarye earned would be a delightful distraction for Thalassa. She was a Gramarye at heart, had been for 17 years; all of them yearned for the stage in the beginning. They were busier than ever, and if he couldn’t support her off stage, then on stage would have to do. He was helping in the best way he could, right? But he never asked how he could help her, and so, Zak swoops in to remedy the tragedy that was Thalassa’s life.  

Zak-no, Shadi- and Thalassa were always a little bit closer than Valant was to the latter. It took years, but slowly and surely, Thalassa got better with Enigmar’s help. And what followed was Trucy Enigmar, who literally and figuratively brought new life to the Troupe. As if it was a fairytale, everything had seemed to start looking up for them again. But of course, it all went wrong. With the same gun as the one on the tray and a singular bullet. BANG.

Zak lost his wife, Valant his dearest friend, Magnifi his daughter, and Trucy her mother. And worst of all, they couldn’t blame the other for her death because it could have very well been themselves that pierced Thalassa Gramarye-Enigmar’s head.

So, for once in my life, let me be the one who’s better than him, Valant thought as he stood upon the sleeping man that would no longer wake.

At least he can be with his daughter.

im sorry if its really shitty :,( i wanted to add more tidbits on how the troupe treated trucy after thalassa’s death, but i didn’t think it’d fit super well with a valant-focus piece. maybe ill get back to that one day bc i love trucy and wondering how little her had to deal with so much tragedy back to back makes me sad :)

[lynxfrost13]

I’m sorry Holt.

[governmentmandatedryujinstan420]

releasing this from the hj discord dungeon because the public populace was in agreement also i'm chronically offline on tumblr and need to fix that for my chronically online ahh

[generalsmemories]

every time i see someone shit on the xianzhou story quest on twitter i die a little bit inside.

[keideez]

Idolatry

Please click for better quality

[gildedmuse]

Drunk!Law who, anytime he uses his powers, somehow "accidentally" ends up with a lap full of Zoro.

[aioliravioli-69]

Heyoo!

I've been hooked on nomads recently so of course I just HAD to draw something

I know the series is pretty angsty right now, so here ya go!

the quartet (I don't know what comes after trio💀) riding on one of the turtles in the sea kingdom

I was admitedly very lazy with the outfit design and honestly I'm not even gonna try and hide the fact that that turtle was 100% traced💀

I wasn't in the mood to do ANOTHER study, which uh... probably explains a lot

Oh wow, I wonder how long that took me to-

[dykedvonte]

why do you hate Joshua Graham or Honest Hearts so much?

This DLC and character represents a bigger issue with fandom spaces I have but particularly fallout fandom in general.

Fallout tends to tackle a lot of topics controversial and not. The first two games it’s heavy cause they are the most satirical and direct with how anti-war, nationalism and etc… they are. 3 loses this as it’s very clear once you play or learn about all the games that Todd and a bunch of guys at Bethesda just liked the 50s post apocalyptic aesthetic and refuse to actually critique the ideals of the time period like the earlier titles.

New Vegas is the game that really gets back into it a degree it almost seems like it’s taking too much on. There are things done exceedingly well while other things are done horribly wrong . I’ve made posts about it before and plan to make a big series of posts (it’s a lot of writing) but my biggest gripe is with Honest Hearts and all the gross and white savior esque depictions it has of indigenous peoples. The entirety if FNV does not do the injustices faced by indigenous people correctly on any count. My two biggest complaints are with the Khans and the tribes in Zion but I’ll talk about the former on a different post.

Both characters of Daniel and Joshua are the most accurate depiction of white saviors I’ve seen and I hate how the DLC tries to justify and defend them. The DLC treats Joshua like this man who has repented for his past actions when he is just retracing his steps after his cruelty bit him in the ass. He was one of the worst parts of the Legion and it is all but explicitly stated that if you don’t force him to be non-violent he will turn the tribes of Zion into the legion 2.0. The Dead Horses and the Sorrows are horribly infantilized by both Daniel and Joshua who both use them for self serving purposes guised by religious duty. The White Legs are the horrible stereotype of violent and savage indigenous and I personally think a lot of their interlinking with Ulysses, his hair and Ulysses character in general are distasteful and very telling of how BIPOC or POC where involved.

But outside of the game it’s the weird obsession people have with these characters ideologies and trying to make them seem more interesting/philosophical than they are. Tumblr is an echo chamber and many fans of Fallout are not the people on this site. Many people are not educated in the issues these characters convey and how poorly they do or used these characters as a poor introduction for their takes. Contrary to what a lot of people believe in, fallout has a prediomeny white cis male fanbase. More importantly a large portion of the fanbase is white.

You can joke how FNV made you trans or see the numbers on post/fics or diverse headcanons but these are kiddy numbers compared to the millions that consume the franchise and aren’t in those more aware spaces or don’t engage in the spaces the same way someone like me does/has to. Their views shape a lot more than people realize and it’s exhausting to be in a space where people don’t correct the more subtle yet toxic aspects of it but also adopt them into some weird quirky view point on the characters or issues. Some people don’t realize and some people don’t care.

My main issue is just the idolizing of these sort of thing in this fandom space and people try to acts like a game like fallout whose tagline is “War never changes” and has never had a game not revolve around political or militaristic factions issues isn’t that deep or doesn’t relate to real issues. I think it’s mainly caused by how over powered you can become and how you can strong arm your way past these learning moments as majority of people who play this game do play it as a power fantasy where they can do so as they please (which of course, go ahead it’s fun) but never take in parallels or lessons in the story as if it was just another first person shooter.

Also like another personal gripe is Cazadores spawn like hell whenever I’m there and I have not found a mod that works to mod them out so I have to play Indigenous Racism the DLC while getting jumped by giant wasps WHILE helping Mormons. Like I cannot catch a break.

[aheathen-conceivably]

Today’s throwback Gio appreciation post brought to you by @auspexsims who called he and Jo “two tigers pacing around each other waiting for the other to lay down to show a white flag” and I love it so much I need to make y’all read it too. That is all thanks 😙

[honorthysalad]

feel like you could make a great nature documentary about impurities

[pcktknife]

accidentally left the house to pick up my sister an hour earlyyyy 😁

[lunarsolar1]

This isn’t what my blog is about and I usually try to avoid making post about things not related to the tv show fandom I’m in but someone needed to call this people out because going to this tag and seeing war everywhere is so tiring and exhausting so imma make this post and HOPEFULLY PEOPLE WILL READ AND LISTEN!!!!!!!!

Buddie shippers needs to seriously CALM DOWN:) and back off!!!! (This also applies to BUCKTOMMY shippers)

Going to the others tag just to HARASS and bully people over FICTIONAL characters is so ridiculous and stupid and people need to stop. It’s a TV SHOW!!!! YOU aren’t the ones writing this, the writes are and they’ll know how they want to finish THEIR story because that’s THEIR characters!!!! Not yours!!!!! People (both sides) need to stop harassing one another and just stay in your tag and enjoy the ship and the characters. There’s no need for hatred or war, especially since in the tv show all 3 are FRIENDS (so fighting about it is so???!!!) just stop. Y’all acting like babies, get some manners and learn how to respect each other preferences and continue enjoying yall ships in PEACE!

And please leave the actors alone as well, they’re just actors they cannot decide what they’ll do next seasons. There’s literally no reason to harass and bully people over people that doesn’t exist. Just enjoy the SHOW and enjoy the SHIP and LEAVE PEOPLE ALONE!!!!!!! And stop using the incorrect tag please, I know some yall are doing it on purpose but please stop that is so annoying. (And I know yall KNOW how that feels like so stop!)

[sunbunnyyy]

i know i just got here, but seeing all of the laughably bad takes from both sides of the spectrum is convincing me that no, i don’t actually need to be on social media again.

[saintlioncourt]

watched Logan (2017) for the first time after watching every single x-men/wolverine movie this week and lemme tell you-

I am NOT okay. what the FUCK

[papirouge]

There's a new restaurant opening down my street!!!

everything to make me in the mood for The Bear S3 🤭🌟🐻🍽️

(if you look closely you can see the tables 💗)

[nono-uwu]

Gonna post these scribbles rq before the next chapter drops since it might fuck up my meticulously crafted batshit stupid ideas (that I don't even explain)

Og for the meme