#posted by bran

[eggs-attorney]

BREAKING NEWS!

This is a major announcement regarding Eggs Attorney's start date and the future of the project!

So... It's been a rough couple of months. On top of some personal setbacks and folks leaving the team, it's become increasingly clear that two newbie amateurs to coding aren't going to be able to make anything functional within a reasonable time frame.

So, in order to still deliver the story and characters and world we've worked so hard to share with you, we're going to take a different direction!

Inspired by the early days of Homestuck and CYOA, we'll be giving you a "mock" version of the game entirely through Tumblr! Each week we hope to post a small blurbs worth of content, moving the story along, capping off with a Scene Transition, an Investigation Phase, or a Cross Examination Phase.

Investigation Phases and Cross Examination Phases will be more lenient than most Ace Attorney Games, you simply reply with what you want to ask! This could be anything from "Press Statement 1" to "ask about her gloves, they look dusty!" to "Present the Oil Canister on account of his skirting around the subject!"

We'll do more in depth tutorials throughout the first and second case, going over each point as if it were a tutorial for Ace Attorney, of course. We'll also keep the Court Record pinned at the top for easy access.

For now though, know we'll likely be starting in / around the latter half of December. In addition, i figured we might as well ask:

[la-pheacienne]

George Martin, 2013: "In a very basic level winter is coming for all of us. I think that’s one of the things that art is concerned with: the awareness of our own mortality. “Valar morghulis” – “All men must die”. That shadow lies over our world and will until medical science gives us all immortality… but I don’t think it makes it necessarily a pessimistic world. Not any more pessimistic than the real world we live in. We’re here for a short time and we should be conscious of our own mortality, but the important thing is that love, compassion and empathy with other human beings is still possible. Laughter is still possible! Even laughter in the face of death… The struggle to make the world a better place… We have things like war, murder and rape… horrible things that still exist, but we don’t have to accept them, we can fight the good fight. The fight to eliminate those things.There is darkness in the world, but I don’t think we necessarily need to give way to despair. One of the great things that Tolkien says in Lord of The Rings is “despair is the ultimate crime”. That’s the ultimate failing of Denethor, the Steward of Gondor, that he despairs of ever being able to defeat Sauron. We should not despair. We should not go gentle into that good night".

JRR Tolkien, 1962 : "One reviewer once said, this is a jolly jolly book, all the right boys come home [...]- this isn't true of course, he can't have read the story. [...] Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death. . . . . . (He quotes Simone de Beauvoir) 'There is no such thing as a natural death. Nothing that ever happens to man is natural, since his presence calls the whole world into question. All men must die, but for every man his death is an accident, and even if he knows it he would sense to it an unjustifiable violation.' Well, you may agree with the words or not, but those are the key spring of The Lord Of The Rings".

"Lotr is all rainbows and unicorns and Asoiaf is nihilistic and grimdark". Wrong, and wrong. In all its hope and radiance, lotr often gets very dark, and despite all the death and suffering, the hopeful moments in asoiaf shine bright. The meeting point of these two is this: having hope while in despair, and even better, refusing to give up because you have to go on despite not having any hope left.

[naggascradle]

Covers for A Game of Thrones, I (Jon Snow) II (Daenerys Targaryen) III (Tyrion Lannister) IV (Catelyn Stark) V (Ned Stark) & A Clash of Kings, I (Arya Stark) II (Theon Greyjoy) III (Sansa Stark) IV (Davos Seaworth) V (Bran Stark), drawn by Ken Sugiwara for the Japanese paperback release of A Song of Ice and Fire.

[lexys]

"When she thought of seeing Robb's face again Arya had to bite her lip. and i want to see Jon too, and Bran and Rickon, and Mother. even Sansa… I'll kiss her and beg her pardons like a proper lady, she'll like that."

HOUSE STARK.

[scorpiusartistry]

Hello! This is my first post here on this Tumblr page! Hi, I'm Scorpius! I decided the first thing I'll post here is the Stark direwolves from ASOIAF

[branwinged]

seeing some prophecy discourse which has once again reminded me why i personally find the prospect of dany as the prince that was promised really compelling. and it makes the targaryens so much thematically richer. like, they only survived the doom through the power of prophecy and then the visions marked them forever and this thing, this blessing which gave generations of targaryens some existential meaning eventually morphed into a curse which brought so many of them great misery—"my brothers dreamed of dragons too, and the dreams killed them, every one." (aemon, affc) and in due course almost ended their line once again with rhaegar. but then dany happened.

almost four hundred years since the doom when prophecy saved them and nearly killed them again on the trident, dany was born. dany who carries echoes of all her targaryen ancestors within her. she's aegon the conqueror come again but she's also maegor the cruel when she promises the khals who had hurt her khalasar would die screaming. she's rhaenyra in her struggles to wield power and establish legitimacy as a woman, she shares her sense of egalitarianism with egg, and she drinks from the cup passed from rhaegar, i.e. inherits (what he once thought of) his narrative destiny to help defend the realms during the long night.

dany who is both their beginning, since she's the first targaryen created and introduced to us on page and the narrative end point of their dynasty. which reflects all the way into her arc being cyclical by design as it calls back to the foundation of the valyrian empire in essos—during the fifth war the freehold torched old ghis with dragonfire so nothing would grow there again and centuries later this girl, the last dragon, is going to help plant trees there again. it's not about retreading old ground or rejecting her house words but about redefining what it means to be the blood of the dragon. which is not to say all that came before her was meaningless since this recontextualisation is only possible through the three centuries of ancestral history weighing on her. and dany's very existence echoes back in time because the prophecy itself has influenced the lives of generations of targaryens. three hundred years of history, all the glory and the horror concentrated in this one person-point. the prince that was promised not simply as a figure of the long night but as someone who is the apotheosis of their house. dany as both their beginning and their end, because the iron throne is presently a symbol of stagnation, a world in stasis, and it has to go. no restoration, instead the old world dying in fire and a new world being born in the aftermath.

[get-cersie-an-elephant]

[atopvisenyashill]

people will say "sansa isn't a deep character, she only exists as a window into tyrion & lf's plots, you're overhyping her" as if that's at all a good analysis of her character, and then suspiciously not lob that same analysis at a single other character. like, my comrade in christ, what in the goddamn hell do you think barristan is then, if not a window into the Meereen plots? why is victarian here? what the hell is arya doing in the entire riverlands arc if not acting as a window into the turmoil there? are we saying they aren't important? they won't affect the plot? sansa foils like 3 different schemes and is clearly and obviously scheming on her own to get away from LF but i guess these don't count because *deranged mumbling about how she only exists to cause problems in the family*

[w1yre]

spot the difference

[ishouldbeoverfanficsbynow]

I always took the portrayal of disability in asoiaf to be something along the lines of "disability can be one of the most horrible experiences in the world, it can happen to anyone at any time, it does not determine their worth, disabled people are complex individuals with rich lives and deep relationships, it doesn't matter if you're rich or poor". Portrayal of disability in hotd seems to be "haha serves you right".

[eggs-attorney]

Now that we've been tinkering with Renpy we've been coming up with a more custom approach to fit the wide-screen common to the PC. We're hoping to make a more dynamic layout that im being so autistic about. I cant wait to show you all

[beneaththeshadows]

Some sketches I made in class (I'm sure that my teacher hates me, but that's okay, I guess)

[goshyesvintageads]

General Foods Corp, 1950

[asongofstarkandtargaryen]

This is Bran and Arya coded bc lately I have many feels for my baby Starks

[greywoe]

Why did I come here? These are not my gods. This is not my place.

[cringeworms]