#in the pursuit of justice

[kittykatninja321]

One thing that’s annoying about pit madness as a trope in fic is when people act like Jason killing people is the result of magic induced compulsion and not a fundamental philosophical difference between him and the other bats. Jason was already saying “well maybe she had a point” about a woman who killed a serial killer rapist when he was ROBIN

[flakops]

warrior cats hot takes be upon ye!

[leveloneandup]

📸🎥: christopher1127 via IG Stories

[feroluce]

Love how Hoyo puts so much thought into such little things. Like I don't think a single one of the numbers for the rating pistol in Herta's curio collection are random or meaningless.

Boothill's number is 44,

which is also the number of the famous .44 magnum, making this both a gun and another movie reference!

"Oops I dropped my magnum bullets for my magnum gun." - Boothill, probably

[nemaliwrites]

Chapter 17: the only one there for you is you

This is wrong, a voice in her head whispers, but she’s quick to shut it down. What’s so wrong about this? Isn’t this exactly what she wanted: a way to take things into her own hands, a way to feel like she’s doing something herself instead of just feeling like things are happening to her? It hasn’t been long since school let out. Lila can’t be far.

Chapter 17 of my @mlbigbang fic is up! Art is, again, by the lovely Neteshez <33

[bunnyreaper]

if you want to block me/unfollow then please do and be done with it, no hard feelings, just don't send me anon hate lmao

i am sorry for my failures as a mod, for what it's worth, and it's a mistake that won't be repeated. i have lots to say, but it's whatever at this point and best kept away from here, just know I see my own missteps!

[vgtrackbracket]

Video Game Track Bracket Round 3 (Three-Way Poll)

Pursuit - Gotta Corner the Culprit from Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney

vs.

A-Type from Tetris (1989)

vs.

Your Precious Moon from Portal 2

Propaganda under the cut. If you want your propaganda reblogged and added to future polls, please tag it as propaganda or otherwise indicate this!

Note: The propaganda contains spoilers for Portal 2.

Pursuit - Gotta Corner the Culprit:

Ace attorney has perfected the genre of what i like to call get their ass music and Apollo Justice has the best example of it. Makes me want to write a callout post.

A-Type:

Certified classic

Your Precious Moon:

It's the last thing you hear in Wheatley's boss fight and goes really hard

the climax of portal 2 is so epic, thanks in no small part to this song. the lightbulb moment when you look up at the sky and see the moon is just so great. hyyyype

So like- this track basically completely powers the climax of Portal 2. Everything seems hopeless, you get that classic Portal 2 menacing electronic music and it all builds up, then you hit that portal to the moon and… it all goes quiet as the music swells dramatically then once the situation sets in, boom! The music comes back at full force, reprising the dramatic electric music from before but now it’s orchestral. We’re not in the facility anymore, we’re in space, this is the epic finale, this is it. Then as it all comes to a peak, Wheatley is launched away into space and the music fades as he disappears into the big black void. Then some bloopy electronic music comes back in as you’re pulled to safety, you’re back in the facility.

[age-of-moonknight]

“Blood Moon, Blood Brothers,” Phases of the Moon Knight (Vol. 1/2024), #4.

Writer: Tom Waltz; Pencilers and Inkers: Ken Lashley and Brian Level; Colorists: Dono Sanchez-Almara, Erick Arciniega, and Antonio Fabela; Letterer: Cory Petit

[almightys]

NEW MUSE ADDED

kaname tosen! in his main verse, he survived the karakura invasion and was taken in after aizens defeat. he pleaded for an honorable death but was denied his the request [ at the request of hisagi and komamura]. he was chained in muken, but with concerns growing about the mysteries going on within seireitei he was questioned about being a cause. they transported him to the Devils Nest for precautions, almost forgetting him while the war escalated.

komamura spoke to him before achieving the secrets of his people, and kaname made a choice of being an assistance, his abilities as a vizard could damage the quincy in a way other couldn't as well. komamura told the idea to shunsui and along with aizen he was let out.

tosens feelings towards aizen are a mixed bag. he still believes in what aizen stood for and was proud on what they did. he doesn't blame aizen for ( almost ) killing him either. aizen gave him something to fight for, and even without aizen it's something he'll always believe in

[saltyfilmmajor]

I think the ethos of Ace Attorney fascinates me so much because Phoenix Wright is just a bad lawyer. And how that comes through in farewell my turnabout when he has to defend Engarde.

[stuffyflowers]

justice being played backwards in trapdoor.......... justice being played backwards in honest days work............. do you get it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!do you understand !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[starry-storms]

DC: here's a comic of Bruce doing [REDACTED] to his children. Do you want it?

Me: I think I'd rather press my hand to a hot stove

[leveloneandup]

CALIFORNIA WOMEN’S LAW CENTER PURSUIT OF JUSTICE AWARDS

[isa-ah]

have there been any official statements on totks timeline bc it sure seems like it's a creation all its own with very little tie in with established mythos at all

[nemaliwrites]

Last Line Tag Game

Thank you for the tag, @winterandwords!

Here's the last line I wrote from In Pursuit of the Uneatable:

And justice can only be served when those who obstruct it cease to exist anymore. 

And here's the preceding section for context:

Enough! Stop wasting your time with these people and go find Ladybug and Chat Noir! Princess Justice laughs softly. “I don’t think so. You’ll get what you want once I get what I want.” That wasn’t the deal! “You know what they say, Hawk Moth,” she says. “Fiat justitia ruat caelum.” His only response is a growl, but she pays it no mind. Let justice be done though the heavens fall.

Tagging @tavina-writes, @hamsteriffic, @winterandwords, @panvampirething, and anyone else who wants to do it! If you see this, consider yourself tagged :)

[etruatcaelum]

On Semblances.

As this post mentions, neither Salem nor Ozma have ‘true’ ancient magic anymore: her immense power derives from the pools of light and darkness, and when Ozma created the maidens, they sacrificed their divine gifts but awakened their aura. Both now wield powers functionally identical to the aura and dust-based magic of modern humans; the sole difference between them and ordinary humans is vastly greater experience and, in Salem’s case, the interaction between her infinite aura and her grimmness.

(That is the subject for another post, but in essence grimm flesh and atrum ‘burn’ aura and this reaction can be controlled and channeled just like dust; Salem, who is grimm, uses this to her advantage to mimic ‘true’ magic.)

And, because their ‘magic’ is really just aura trained to a level beyond what any mortal could achieve in a single lifetime, both of them do have semblances.

Salem’s semblance is less an outward projection of her self than an inward one. It developed through the slow reconstruction of her mind and soul after a long period during which she had no sense of identity and was just kind of mindlessly dreaming all the time; her semblance sparked from the need to become whole and to know herself again. What it does, in essence, is immanentize her thinking.

Think method of loci, but crystallized from the imaginary construct into a real, tangible place—in a sense, the interior of her soul, her semblance, is a realm. Not one anything like as vast or complicated as Remnant or the Ever After, but quite a bit larger and more intricate than the vaults, and accessible only through doors she chooses to open.

It’s how she keeps herself sane and also why her sense of identity and conviction are so unshakable in the present: Salem knows herself extremely well and nearly everything that defines who and what she is, she made a deliberate choice to include as a fundamental part of herself. She is capable of change—and in fact capable of changing herself very rapidly and easily, once she decides to do so—but she cannot be forced or coerced or compelled or worn down or manipulated into it. Because the only way she can change is for her to literally disassemble and reassemble parts of herself and her semblance will not let her do that if she doesn’t truly want it to.

Ozma doesn’t know that they even have a semblance, because their semblance fluctuates from one life to the next; they believe the permutations of their own semblance have all been semblances taken from the lives they steal. What’s actually going on is that their very fragile sense of self gave them a semblance that lacks clear definition because it has yet to be fully-realized. It warps and bends and molds itself into the hollowed-out masks of every host, then loses that shape once those masks crumble again to expose Ozma.

There are, however, some constants:

The base essence of their semblance is remembrance and accretion of time. It’s the grasping for another chance and the tearing pain of almost and the venom of what if and maybe then and it wasn’t supposed to happen this way all rolled into one. It’s the aching possibility on the trailing edge of a mistake. Often, it takes the form of small-scale temporal manipulation: with Ozpin, it became an ability to ‘skip’ a second or two here and an idle moment there and ‘save up’ that time to spend all at once, squeezing several minutes worth of action into a single fraction of a second. (<- Ozma still has this ability and Oscar can tap into it for a while, but after the events of V8 it fades as their self-identification as Ozpin disintegrates.)

As themself—once freed from their curse and restored to live as their own person—their semblance is effectively only half-formed: not quite latent, but not truly manifested either. They will need to find themself and know themself before they’re able to fully bring it out. In its true, unalloyed form, Ozma’s semblance is unbinding: the breaking of chains, the opening of doors, the snipped thread of fate to unleash boundless possibility.

In less poetic terms, they will be able to reach back and bring forward the moments when what is now became inescapable. Nothing can be undone, nothing erased: the past cannot be unwritten, but what they can do is create a second chance to rewrite the future, whether by literally making a new possibility that didn’t exist before or by cutting through whatever beliefs or rationalizations a person clings to to pretend that they have no other choice.

Their fully-realized semblance will turn inward and confront them whether they like it or not; toward other people it is entirely under their control. (<- It is also quite likely the one thing capable of reaching into Salem’s head and shaking the foundations of her self, by drawing out her line of reasoning for committing to those choices and asking her to walk those paths anew, decide again.)

Oscar does not have a semblance and will not have a semblance until he’s separated from Ozma. If the integration were completed he would eventually produce a new permutation of Ozma’s, but it wouldn’t in any meaningful sense belong to Oscar, because Oscar as an individual would, for all intents and purposes, be dead.

But once he’s separated from Ozma, and once he sorts out who he is and who he wants to be outside of the looming existential dread of becoming Ozma, he’ll be able to discover his semblance.

(<- Also his aura, when not subsumed by Ozma’s, will turn out to actually be orange. Like a pumpkin. Because his Ozian allusion isn’t Tip OR Dorothy, it’s Jack Pumpkinhead)

Oscar’s semblance is… essentially, a hyper-specialized form of empathy: he can take the words people say and unfold them to reveal the things they mean, the feelings they’re trying to express but can’t communicate clearly, and then find the words to articulate those things back. He’s an interpreter, not of language but of emotions. He’s able to very quickly talk through to the heart of a problem, and he’s preternaturally good at listening in a way that makes people feel seen and heard. It also has the side effect of making him almost impossible to lie to.

Even with Ozma in his head, there are traces of this latent ability eking through to the surface—his determination to connect with Ironwood throughout V7, his intuitive sense for what to say to Hazel and Emerald to earn their trust, and even earlier, his realization that Ozpin is lying and his ability to break through long enough to spill Jinn’s name: these are all inklings of what could be, if not smothered by Ozma’s curse.

That sort of rising-to-the-surface is very rare among Ozma’s hosts. With Oscar, it’s happening partly because he’s fighting so hard to hold on for as long as he can, partly because his upbringing gave him a pretty strong sense of identity to begin with, and partly because the nature of his semblance itself resists falsehood and obfuscation. Latent though it is, it still gives him a firm place to stand when he pushes back and asserts himself against Ozma’s resignation. This struggle also has the effect of deepening the potential of his semblance—in effect, training it before it even properly manifests—so that once he’s free and it emerges fully he gets in tune with it fast.