#strange lil magician girl

[ind1c0lite]

Twucy <3

[Image id: A coloured digital illustration of the character Trucy Wright from Ace Attorney. She's grinning, and winking at the viewer with her right eye. She's wearing a red handkerchief around her neck, a blue cape ending in multiple points, white gloves, a short black dress and tall white boots.

In her right hand she's taking off her blue tophat, while her other arm is stretched out behind her. She's standing on her left leg with her right leg bent behind her.

She's roughly silhouetted by a light beige outline against a blue background.]

[vintagegeekculture]

Archie meets Betty for the first time in the very first Archie story in PEP #22. 

It’s interesting to remember the original context Archie was published in. The reason Archie’s life seems so bucolic and Little Rascals-esque is that, really, the idea of a teen-ager (an in-between state, between being a child and adult) is something of a post-1945 idea. You were either a kid or adult. Prior to that, children were considered adults very early on in life, and were also expected to work for the family and take large responsibilities. There was also no culture unique to them as of yet, which is why what we would call “teenagers” in movies prior to the 1950s listened to the same music and dressed the same as their parents did. This is also why, in that cultural context, superhero “kid sidekicks” were not considered as strange as they later would look (e.g. unconscionable child endangerment). In other words, Archie Comics mostly predate the cultural idea of a teenager. 

Of all the major, valuable comics from the Golden Age, PEP #22 (December 1941) is the rarest as only 22 issues are believed to still be in existence. A new one has not been discovered in some time, so for that reason, it’s hard to give a real price on what one would be worth, since it doesn’t change hands too often. One of the most startling things about the golden age is that comics sold in the millions, but they were so disposable, there are issues that no longer survive today, or issues that only have a single existing copy. 

It’s interesting to have a look at the cover of the first Archie comic. Interestingly, as 1941 was right in the middle of the wartime fad of patriotic superheroes, the debut of Archie did not take the cover of the comic at all, but was buried in the backup and wasn’t even mentioned on the cover, which had the Shield Interestingly, the Shield looks like a Captain America copy or rip off, but surprisingly...the Shield came first. Captain America’s shield, originally a medieval one, was changed to a round disk by the second issue, as it evoked the design of Archie’s Shield too much. 

If you’ve ever read comics from the 1940s, you know that they usually had five or six stories, not all of the same genre. There was the superhero story that got the cover, but also usually a detective, or magician in tophat and tails, an aviation action strip, and usually, somewhere in the back, a strip about a friendly skunk or other cartoon animal in white gloves, and last of all, almost as forgotten as the advertisements, there was the strip about the funny kid, like Sugar n’ Spike or “Lil’ Sis.” 

Later on in the decade, when Yankee GIs and soldiers started reading comics as well as kids, another standard strip in a 1940s comic would usually also be a hot girl story (like Bill Ward’s Torchy, Canteen Kate, or Katy Keene) which are essentially about a gorgeous fantasy woman who, in 8 pages, encounters an extremely mild and easily resolved life problem while standing around in pin up poses, and usually showers in the middle of the story or takes a bath. Considering the audience for this was soldiers overseas, we’ve only recently started to acquire the language to describe the appeal of the good girl comic: parasocial.

I cannot emphasize enough how surprising it is that, in that context, the “funny kid” comic in Archie not only dominated the book, but changed the name of the company, to the point that nobody even remembers that Archie Comics published superheroes or detective/aviation comics. Most comics had a “funny kid,” but nobody, not even fans, keep track of them. I once tried looking up if there was a master list of funny kid comic backups of the 40s and 50s, and I couldn’t find it, just...nobody takes an interest in this, even in the comics and collector world. The one other great unlikely survival of a funny kid comic from the 50s to the present was Sugar and Spike, who got their own comic that was published for decades. 

As a collector, I always get whiplash whenever I see a Sugar n’ Spike comic from the 1970s. Like Katy Keene, they were a coelocanth-like survivor of the mass extinction of kid comics and hot girl comics. 

[queenlua]

Ace Attorney case tier list

so, in the past year, i finished replaying games 1 through 5 for the first time in forever, and also played game 6 for the first time ever

so here’s where i ruthlessly rank each of the cases based on that most scientific metric of all, My Opinions:

OPENING CASES

S-tier: Turnabout Trump (4-1).  I already knew this case, and I still gasped with surprise when Phoenix showed up, and when Kristoph showed his true colors, and when Apollo realized OH SHIT OH FUCK I REALLY AM ACCUSING MY BOSS OF MURDER HUH... what a wonderful, splashy, shockingly concise case to open up the post-O.G. trilogy world.  Marvelous.

A-tier: Turnabout Memories (3-1).  Seeing Mia Fey (finally!) in action is a long-awaited delight; seeing Phoenix being a total dumbass was an unexpected-yet-perfect and fitting delight.

B-tier: The First Turnabout (1-1).  Solid lil’ case with some conventional-but-well-executed humor.  I’ve got a soft spot for Larry Butz.

C-tier: The Lost Turnabout (2-1), The Foreign Turnabout (6-1).  The former’s fine but a little forgettable; the latter has some fun gags (Payne’s ridiculous new outfit, dude absolutely shredding on the mandolin, etc) but is marred by how uh... kinda silly the game’s core conceit is, lol

E-tier: Turnabout Countdown (5-1).  The context surrounding this introduction is just sloppy (badly handled in media res + let’s lowkey retcon game 4 isn’t a great setup), and also the case itself is just. irksome. ted tonate is just fundamentally irritating to look at

FINALE CASES

S-tier: Bridge to the Turnabout (3-5), Turnabout Goodbyes (1-4).  No explanation needed.  God they fuck so hard

A-tier: The Cosmic Turnabout + Turnabout for Tomorrow (5-4 + 5-5), Turnabout Succession (4-4).

The former two cases are what makes AA5 worth it, and they make for a tremendously fun ride.  It fumbles the execution in some notable ways (Apollo’s sudden j’accuse moment feels a little forced/awkward/inadequately foreshadowed, and damn it sure would’ve been nice to know Clay Terran at all before he died, and also The Phantom’s final meltdown could’ve used a bit more emotional heft)... but okay let’s be real, I’m here for Simon Blackquill, and this case gives me so much of him so who gives a shit.  (And Aura!  Condescending obnoxious engineering queen!  I love her!)  

As for Turnabout Succession... while I earnestly wish the game had explored more of Klavier’s feelings about this whole setup, and some more emotional beats for Apollo, the case still makes for such a satisfyingly twisty and fun investigation overall (the poison stamp! what a ridiculous murder method! I love it!) that it’s a more-than-worthy finale.

B-tier: Turnabout Revolution (6-5), Farewell, My Turnabout (2-4).

The former does some cool stuff—I particularly like the opening half, where Apollo’s being real snippy and coping with Frankly Bizarre Dad Feelings, and giving Apollo a chance to finally throw down against Phoenix is a blast.  The latter half of the case starts feeling a little... ridiculous? cramped? idk? like, they didn’t do nearly enough foreshadowing about Nahyuta’s whole deal for me to care about his drama, this justice system is so obviously silly and the manner in which the revolution is playing out strains my already-suspended-sky-high disbelief... fun, and flashy, but more noise than signal in the last part, I guess.

As for Farewell, My Turnabout: of course I love Edgeworth rolling back into court goin’ through SOME kind of bizarre emotional arc of Hey I’m Totally Healed Now and obnoxiously preaching about Truth TM.  And it’s cool that the game set up a case where you want to lose.  But the net result is a bit strange tonally—it’s trying set up some kind of message about It’s Not Just About Winning, It’s About Pursuing The Truth, but it feels really muddled when that’s combined with Okay But Maya’s Literally Being Held Hostage Like Right Now, Surely A Reasonable Justice System Has A Process For Dealing With This Obviously Complicated Situation, Right?

but also Franziska takes a fucking bullet (how did I forget about that) and then gets to roll in like Ms. Save The Day so, really, lots of good shit here

FILLER CASES

S-tier: Reunion, and Turnabout (2-2), Turnabout Beginnings (3-4).  Look, the first one gives me all the Fey family drama a girl could ask for, and the latter gives me young Edgeworth being a total shit in an obnoxiously shimmery outfit.  The whole enchilada is here

A+ tier: The Magical Turnabout (6-2).  DELIGHTFUL!  MAGICIAN!  SHENANIGANS!  Like you get to guess the trick behind a magic act as part of the case, how fucking fun is that, and also the Apollo & Athena duo’s chemistry is perfect, the villain is a FANTASTIC bastard, and even the bit characters you meet during the investigation are total delights... Probably the best “standalone” case in the series, in that it doesn’t rely on any emotional connections to previous cases (unlike 2-2 and 3-4) to still totally and completely rule.

A tier: Turnabout Samurai (1-3), Turnabout Reclaimed (5-DLC).

For Turnabout Samurai, I remembered before this replay how delightful the TV SHOW STUDIO investigation and actor-fandom stuff was; I had TOTALLY forgotten Vasquez calling in her mob connections to try and wreck you.  What a fantastic villain; what a fun case.

Turnabout Reclaimed is just good solid goofy nonsense.  Probably receives a boost for me in particular because, yeah, Simon Blackquill.  But then again who isn’t giving cases a boost on that account; they are MISSING OUT

B tier: The Stolen Turnabout (3-2).  Ron and Desirée are so great sighs into hands

C tier: Listing roughly in order of preference: Turnabout Academy (5-3), Turnabout Serenade (4-3), Turnabout Sisters (1-2), Recipe for a Turnabout (3-3), Rite of the Turnabout (6-3), Rise from the Ashes (1-5).

Four of these (5-3, 4-3, 1-2, 3-3) are perfectly solid cases; I just don’t love them quite as much as “thievery hijinks” or “Hollywood hijinks” or other such particularly delightful flavors.  Everyone has a favorite flavor of Jolly Rancher and all that.

Rite of the Turnabout is interesting and connected with the larger themes of the game in a cool way, and makes good use of the divination mechanic.  However, the last bit gets twisty enough to actually be kind of confusing, and said larger themes of the game are... kinda hard for me to take seriously... which, yeah, leads to it feeling a little stilted when it really should be singing.

Rise from the Ashes landed awkwardly for me.  I know it was added well after the first game’s release, and it does a good job of continuing some of the cool stuff from that game—it’s neat, in isolation, to see Phoenix and Edgeworth working together (while still sniping at each other!), and some of the DS-specific mechanics are neat.  However, I just didn’t feel like I learned quite enough about Ema and Lana to care about them like I should, and retconning “(almost certainly true) rumors that Edgeworth was involved in Shady Shit TM” into “actually Edgeworth was totally ignorant of Shady Shit TM, like at worst his crime was willful ignorance / incuriosity, he was just been manipulated by the Police Chief”... makes Edgeworth less interesting to me!  Like, it’s cool to see Edgeworth caught off-guard and under pressure, but I wish the circumstances had been different?  Also Gant’s theme song is annoying as shit, which is petty but hey this is my blog post so

D tier: Turnabout Storyteller (6-4), Turnabout Corner (4-2), Turnabout Big Top (2-3), The Monstrous Turnabout (5-2).

Turnabout Storyteller has some fun gags with My Dude Simon and also Taka, but was heavily marred by Everyone Talking Down To Athena The Entire Fucking Case Oh My God Can You All Just Shut Up.

Turnabout Corner has... lots of fun elements but... look the fucking stolen-panties setup just grates ok

I don’t think I hate Turnabout Big Top the way most people seem to, but I did find the final murder setup more annoying that I remembered this playthrough—bro you were really sure the dude was going to conveniently stand right there and the heavy statue was definitely going to strike a killing blow and not just give the guy a concussion?  ok lol

The Monstrous Turnabout suffers mostly from poor puzzle/investigation design, being too hand-hold-y, and also having a core gimmick/setting that just wasn’t really my thing.  Alas!

[sleepylixie]

The Twilight Renegade- Spellcaster! Lee Know

Word Count: 1.5k

Genre: As fantasy as it can get!

Beware of violence(a mild dose of it), mentions of an unhealthy household. Minho is a tricky lil shit and I loved writing him-

A/N: THIS FIC DOES NOT REFLECT THE CHARACTER OR LIKENESS OF THE REAL LEE KNOW IN ANY FORM OR MANNER. ONTO THE FIC!! I enjoyed writing this wayyy too much 💀😂😂 The idea of having Minho be a dark wizard was so appealing for reasons i am yet to comprehend. ANYWAYS. ENJOY!!

Requests are open for SKZ and BTS! || Masterlist

The Twilight Renegade.His name is passed from ear-to-ear in hushed whispers, his story told at children’s bedsides, the bard’s bonfires and old wives’ kitchens.

There’s so much known about the legendary dark wizard and yet, his existence remained shrouded in a cloak of mystery.

Where did he come from? Was he mortal? Did he sell his soul to the Devil? 

It was said that the Twilight Renegade travelled the world cloaked and under disguise, sometimes not as a human, providing justice and retribution to those who couldn’t find it for themselves.

Where the Renegade came a- knockin’, treachery went a-runnin’, chorused the old song that every travelling musician worth his salt knew the words from memory.

Some said he was a poor orphan who died and was reincarnated by a magician hunting for a protegee.

Some claim to have known him as a child, a strange little boy who grew up with blood on his hands and bones in his pocket, he was always a strange one until he ran away from his family to never be seen again.

Some swear up and down to have seen his true face, singing praises of beautiful eyes and seductive lips like a maiden but a dead smile that betrayed his true nature. 

If only they knew his true nature.

Said Twilight Renegade went by the name Lee Minho when he was off the job and was nothing more than a cat parent with a penchant for goodwill trickery.

In the spring days, a smiling young man wandered the marketplace with fresh game, bartering pleasantly with the baker and the butcher, greeting the maidens with a wink as they cooed at the 3 cats frolicking at his feet.

Of course, it was all a pretense-

the maidens only ever had eyes for Minho’s angular jawline and his sharp nose, his strong shoulders and lean yet built frame

sigh

He was an oddity, the sweetheart of the village. 

Lee Minho lived in the corner of the village by himself for around 1/3rd of the year, then leaving on work trips the very day autumn begins to set in

He only reappeared again the morning summer awakens in their village, after almost 10 months away.

He’d bring back exotic spices for the old wives, pretty gemstones for the little girls and daggers for the little boys- 

he was generous, the sweetheart of the village.

He’d always laugh away the questions thrown at him about his work trips, surrounded by hot-blooded young men in the crowded bar.

“Nothing interesting, I promise you,” He’d smile his mystery smile, tipping back his beer. “A lot of trading and a lot of travelling. You meet a lot of new people. That’s pretty much it.”

He was mysterious, the sweetheart of the village.

Little did those hot-blooded young men know how truthful, yet false his words were.

Lee Minho was a 400 year old dark magician, born into a small home of supernatural oddities.

His father was the last dark magician of a lost cult, his mother a necromancer from a family of elementalists.

He grew up with a rocky childhood, a shattered home where fights between a power-drunk father and alcoholic mother raged more often than not. 

They had nowhere to go but home, they told Minho every night, for they had no family left but each other, and of course, him.

This young boy with lilac eyes and a penchant for spell-casting grew up more in the wilderness than in his own home, finding the crickets and owls safer than breaking glass and raging screams.

He found himself a love for animals-particularly of the feline type, cooing at the kittens in the ditch and unabashedly playing tag with the panthers over no-moon nights. 

Minho’s parents were united in one front, however; they knew they had to leave their son with all the magical knowledge they’d ever gained over their years.

So Minho became his parents’ apprentice-He learnt to harness dark energy, to reanimate cat skulls and then cat skeletons, to bind the shadows to his bidding, to build incantations that would suck out his enemy’s power,to read minds, break minds

The more Minho’s power grew, the darker his eyes got- by the time he was 20, his eyes were bordering a deep royal purple.

He was his father’s pride and his mother’s joy, the apple of their eyes despite the hate they harbored for each other. He could almost believe that they were a normal family if he spent as long as he could out of the house with his feline (dead and alive) friends. 

It was on one such night that he made his way back home just before sunrise, only to scramble back into the bushes and watch in terror as a battalion of humans tore his house apart with pitchforks and fire,

Drag his mother out by the hair, chanting WITCH. WITCH. WITCH. WITCH. 

Watch his father be overwhelmed by the sheer brutality of mortal weaponry, succumb to age and fall, broken and very, very dead, from the way his head hung off his shoulders 

Watch his mother burnt alive in front of his house’s doorstep, left to die with her husband.

And felt something crack inside him.

//

There were limits even a necromancer couldn’t cross, even after the loss of their loved ones. 

Minho was distraught, understandably so. Having to watch his only family be butchered by a senseless mob had him bristling in a mix of emotions he couldn't differentiate.

He stayed in the woods with the owls, crickets and assorted felines, hunting game and satiating his human hungers.

He wished he wasn't human anymore. He wished he didn't have to be associated to a race of people that killed and let kill without a second thought, under the name of humanity.

Weren't his parents human too?

It was that exact thought that had him pulling together all of the magic running in his veins and perform his possibly last, potentially dangerous spell-

Nobody knows what happened in the Twilight Woods that night, but nobody would forget the raucous screaming that emanated from there for hours, like a young boy's screams of pain

And nobody would forget the piles upon piles of bones that laid at the edge of the woods

Human bones.

Every pitchfork wielder who had turned up at the witch family's house to burn the inhabitants were reported missing that very day.

//

Turns out Lee Minho had a skill other than feline whispering and spell-casting: he had an uncanny knack for staying alive

That final spell he cast in Twilight Woods was an incredibly dangerous spell that involved sucking out surrounding life forces- enough to make the caster virtually immortal

And of course he chose the people in the mob, not the sweet animals in the woods.

His new immortal status gave Minho a purpose in life.

He decided he was going to rid the world of all the lowlife scumbags that felt privileged and entitled to things and people who didn't belong to them.

//

Word travelled fast, even in thise times, of a dark wave that swept out from Twilight woods into the surrounding towns in a matter of months

Woman abusers and rapists found without genitalia, slave traders dead of uncurable disease

Cheating nobility hung by their coattails in town squares for their victims' amusement, their rightful money returned to them

The dark wave had a sense of humor.

When one of the stragglers of the dark wave swore that the dark wave was a person, a man, dressed in twilight purple and a dangerous smile

Townsfolk took to calling him the The Twilight Renegade

Minho took the name to heart, for what was he if not a newly immortal spell caster with a sense for the dramatic

He wore purple all the time, a mockery of the colour scheming nobility claimed for themselves

What a nice twist of irony would it be, to have your fate decided by a lowborn magical spellcaster who wore the colour of luxury better than they?

Everybody knows the story of the magical Robin Hood who came from questionable origins, but lived life with a love for trickery, feline companions and an unflinching sense of good.

[velmashaircut]

Sims 4 Big Brother Challenge

(Under the cut because this is long)

I’ve never done a challenge on the Sims before so when my brother introduced me to the Big Brother Challenge, I was quite intrigued. I’ve decided to give it a go because it looks fun and I have nothing else to do.

My brother sent me this format to use which is great because I have no idea what I’m doing and this page basically explained everything I need to know. I don’t have any mods or cc so I’m just going to stick with eight sims and I’m going to be doing all the challenges suggested in following order. So the line up will be: painting, chess, social, athletic, music, outdoors and then the grand finale. And the winner of the grand finale will be rewarded with 500,000 simoleons!

Anyway, here are the contestants! I gave them all a backstory to add some flavour to them. I also tried to make some of them as eccentric as possible just for the fun of it. I play on Xbox so I can’t take screenshots of the sims and put them into this post so please excuse the low quality of pictures I’m taking on my phone.

Contestant One: Fall the Designer

Fall entered Big Brother because her fashion company was going off the rails after a few bad investments and being recorded falling off the runway during her own fashion show. After being mocked by half the internet through memes, many of her models and designers left Fall’s company Falltastic. Big Brothers prize money will be just enough to salvage Fall’s career, PR manager!

Contestant Two: Levi the Yodeller

Walmart Yodelling Kid all grown up. Levi is a professional yodeller and every Friday at 5:23 you’ll see him on a small hill in a nearby park yodelayheehoo-ing to his hearts content all whilst disturbing all morning joggers in the vicinity. Levi joined the show so he can use the prize money to move to Scandinavia where he can live in the woods with all the reindeers he desires.

Contestant Three: Nathita the ‘Vampire’

Nathita has convinced herself she is a vampire after deciding Edward from Twilight is her comfort character at the ripe age of 15. She drinks tomato juice and pretends it’s blood of her annoying neighbours. She went on the show as a final, desperate plea to convince Stephenie Meyer to write a Twilight spin-off in Edward’s perspective. If Nathita wins, she’ll use the prize money to hire her favourite fanfiction author to write a 100,000+ paged twilight fanfiction starring Edward and herself. And yes, it’s oc x canon.

Contestant Four: Aden the Privateer

He was originally a full blown pirate guilty of multiple smugglings and pillages against small Caribbean countries. However, the producers of Big Brother told Aden he had to stop committing these heinous crimes if he wanted to be on the show. Therefore Aden became a privateer so he could do the previously mentioned legally. Why Aden audition for Big Brother? So he could hide from a pesky pirate hunter who’s been chasing after him for the past four years. And money. Don’t forget the 500,000 simoleon prize money too.

Contestant Five: Taz the Performer

If you’ve been to any bratty nine year olds birthday party in the past three years, there’s a good chance you saw Taz there, as she is, undoubtably, the best kids magician money has to offer! Both kids and parents love Taz and her magic tricks. However, instead of spending every Friday performing for spoilt kids in some public park, Taz has bigger dreams, like becoming the next Houdini! The prize money from Big Brother will be enough to show the world Taz’s true potential - pulling the coin behind the ear trick!

Contestant Six: Canto the Sound Cloud Rapper

Canto was a kid every teacher would have dreamed of teaching. Smart, kind, creative and well-behaved. However, after he discovered SoundCloud, those attributes were thrown out the window when Canto dropped out of high school to pursue a music career. If Post Malone can get famous off of SoundCloud, why can’t he? His SoundCloud name is: Can To a.k.a. Notorious Top. He changes it every week to stay ‘fresh’. He entered Big Brother to launch his career and finally be able to collab with Lil Pump, his dream.

Contestant Seven: Vikky the Cowgirl

Don’t let her title fool you, Vikky hates everything about the ranch life. Its so stressful and tiring, she feels like she’s about to have a ranch-induced heart attack. Every since she was a girl, her parents dreamed that Vikky would take over the ranch when she was older and pay their debts, which contrasted with Vikky’s dreams of travelling the world. As much as this sounds like a stereotypical horse girl film, Vikky’s struggle is real. So much so, she has to win Big Brother so she can use the 500,000 simoleon prize money to not fund her dreams; but instead save her families farm so she can be free. Hopefully this story ends the same way as those horse films do…

Contestant Eight: Kenji the Time Travelling Butler

1873, England. Kenji was a humble butler to the affluent Lord Black who resided in Liverpool. One morning, Kenji discovered a mysterious package on the front doorstep of his masters home. The package was made out of a material Kenji could not identify, and the label was even more difficult to comprehend ‘For the Lord of time and space’ Kenji pursed his lip, whatever could that mean? Curiosity got the best of the butler; he opened the package to see a small, jewellery-like box. Kenji’s curiosity only grew as he removed the boxes lid to see only an expensive looking pocket watch inside. He picked up the pocket watch and as soon as he did, there was a blinding light and - “Where am I? Is this Lord Blacks mansion? It looks a bit more rustic than usual…I’ll have to notify the builder about that…Who is that strange man, and what is he wearing? Am I contestant for Big Brother..I...what does that even mean…? Where is Lord Black, this is his property! Get your hands off of me - why are you taking me inside the mansion? Is Lord Black in his study? I demand to know what is going on this instant!” Somehow, Kenji has been sent to the 21st century and forced to participate in Big Brother! How and why he got put into this hell hole is beyond him, all he knows is that he has to win the prize money so he can get this now broken pocket watch repaired so he can go back to his time, and find out what Lord Black has been up to…

The first competition to be held in the Big Brother mansion is the painting competition! Which of the eight contestants will win? And which will lose? I’ll post an update soon.

[immabethehero]

Hero’s Writing Masterlist!

OK, so it occurred to me that I should make my own writing masterlist in case anyone wants to read my work. So, here it is, from oldest to the newest!!!

JACKSEPTICEYE AND MARKIPLIER STORIES (mostly Jack)

The Time JJ Swallowed a Clock - Chase is haunted by a strange noise (my first ego story!!!)

A Little Theory - A general JSE theory I had way back when I was just getting started, that I put in story form

Shaky Hands and Flowers (Whumptober and Egotober) - Jameson finds pretty flowers....

Caught In an Explosion (Whumptober) - Marvin investigates a suspicious note

Pose (Egotober) - Chase prepares for CHASE

Wilford Saves Dark (Whumptober) - Wilford saves Dark, but at what cost?

Whump - Ransom (Whumptober) - An old enemy of Jackie’s has taken his younger brothers… will an new ally be able to save them?

Snipped Strings - You Rescue Jameson from Anti, but at what cost???

How Long Since You Slept? - Chase needs sleep after a long day of work

Jackie Defeats Anti (Old Version) - How the glitch bitch came to be

The Aftermath of Anti’s Lair - Chase explores an abandoned building

Cozy - Chase and Henrik spend a night together

Relax - Jameson recovers from a fever

Chase Laughs in His Sleep - A ghost haunts the egos with its terrifying laugh… or does it?

Jack VS Jackie - Jack and Jackie fight over the last cookie

That One Fish Girl’s Rescue - A little birthday gift for a friend, where her OC, Sei, rescues JJ and the egos from a storm

You’re Safe Now - Jameson is almost killed by a fall

Magnificent Spell - Jameson learns how to use slides for the first time!

Chase & the Treasure Hunt (Multi-chapter, on-going) - Chase receives an extra special birthday present

1, 

Static - While stuck in captivity, Jameson muses and receives an unexpected visitor

The Good Doctor Returns - Jameson comes to a revelation, and Schneep returns

Robbie - A day in the life of Robbie the Zombie, from squirrel chasing to a bubble outburst

Jackie’s Late BDay Present - A special fic written for Jackie, also a rewrite of how the Glitch Bitch came to be

And JJ Makes Three - Marvin’s birthday fic! Let’s see how Jameson escapes Anti’s wrath... and how Marvin finds him...

Schneeplestein Apparently Has a Heart - Henrik’s birthday story. Concerns how Chase joined the JSE egos.

Egotober #2 - Marvin must sing to break the stony spell on his brothers.

Marvin - A little drabble about the mysterious magician

Chase Returns! - Chase returns from a vacation. Henrik is a little too excited.

Henrik is Baymax - A new AU where Henrik is a robot. A personal healthcare companion, if you will ^u^

Hero Fever - Marvin wants to give Jackie a great birthday, but a cold and living furniture stand in his way

MegaMarvin - A glimpse of my newest au: Megamind but the JSE egos! - The Malevolent has a ghastly plan for the superheroes of Brighton City! If only the rest of the world was actually prepared for it.

Anti’s Halloween is Ruined - First story in my swap au! How Dr. Antisepticeye’s latest invention goes horribly wrong

Egotober:

Ink (2022)

ENCANTO

Watch Out For That Tree - A writing prompt where Mirabel tries sledding down a hill for the first time under the eye of Bruno.

Viva La Pancita de Bruno - A lil birthday gift for some friends

Encantober:

Caterpillar

Tragedy

Hugs

Casita

Present

Animal

Door

Miracle

Otter

Gift

Rat

Book

Parents

Milk

Rocking Around the Christmas Bruno - Bruno Madrigal has the colours of a tree... could he be the key to saving Christmas in Casita?

The Wake of a Miracle - A stranger who threatens Bruno inadvertently awakens Mirabel’s magical rage. My Encanto Big Bang story! Complete with lovely art!!!

How Well Do You Know Alma Madrigal? - A lil Mother’s Day fluff featuring a game show and a secret present

HAMILTON

Eliza and Angelica Kidnap Alex - Eliza goes to desperate measures just get her husband to take a break

ORIGINAL WRITING

The Little Mermaid - My own retelling of Hans Christian Andersern’s The Little Mermaid!

This will be updated of course! But here is my magnum opus for the mean time!

Here’s my Ao3! Might upload some Encanto stories here as well! - https://archiveofourown.org/users/PinkPancakeQueen/works

Here’s my Pinterest for those who read my bio: https://www.pinterest.ca/catherineleis16/_saved/

[truth-and-lies-drv3-imagines]

Hiii Can I get a lil au where shuichi,rantaro, kokichi are all gods of some type of power (you can make up whatever power they have!!) and they have a priestess s/o who fell in love with them but then one day the men of the village decide to sacrifice her and they kill her but what’s the boys reaction to it?? (btw I love your work you guys are amazing!!)

Wow, that was very fun! I’m a sucker for fantasy rpg-like settings, so I’ve outdone myself this time. I didn’t make the guys exactly gods, I just gave them unusual powers. Hope you enjoy reading! I also hope the angst at the end hits you hard, but we’ll see.

Kokichi Ouma

He is the greatest magician the land had ever seen! Smoke bombs, pies, you name it and he has it. Sometimes he even likes to use cards to confuse his enemies. He’d been wandering for a really long time and certain rumors of his demon descent started to surround his strange way of fighting; Kokichi always won, after all. 

After a while, hegot bored of his usual shenanigans and decided to try something he read in a book; he would pretend he’s hurt and reward the person who helps tend to his injuries. Except, Kokichi thought it would be better to give them somethingnegative they could think about. That’s how he earned his reputation and even more rumors circulated around his existence.

One day, a young priestess met the lying Kokichi and helped him, despite the rumors. He would deliver his punishment after she healed him, only to be burnt by the holy magic.

Kokichi was incredibly angry, but his fresh wounds wouldn’t let him act. The priestess backed away and ran; that was fairly unusual, he thought. What he didn’t expect was for the girl to come back, holding a few herbs.

“These will help with your burns,” she spoke confidently and Kokichi had no choice but to believe her in his current predicament. Lo and behold, it actually worked! Yet the priestess was long gone… or so it seemed.

She would visit regularly, ask how he was doing. In the end, what other choice did he have but to answer to her questions? He was very bored; their chats were pleasant. Kokichi might have slipped a bit of his life into their talks, but who cared? The priestess had stories of her own to tell too. Deep down, he just couldn’t believe someone had the courage to stand down and confront him like that.

Then she stopped coming. He waited and waited, but how much more could he wait? He headed to the nearby village; if only he could turn back time, why did curiosity curse him that way? 

“Please, you’re mistaken! I’m not a witch!” The villagers did not listen. They could only hear the girl’s excuses, she was a demon, a demon in a human’s body!

Kokichi closed his eyes and heard her screams of terror. What good would it do to save her now? He’d outlive her anyway. He’d just have to forget her name, forget her stories and everything else. It was much easier than to deal with humans.

Her name was stuck in his mind, even centuries later.

Rantaro Amami

A skilled adventurer, who only roamed at night. His name was well known and he was often times hired as a mercenary. Rantaro didn’t care too much, he just wanted his pocket change.

One time he was hired to protect the priestess of a village. He can remember her well, even if he would’ve wished otherwise. She was always thinking of her people, it was all she would talk about. No matter how much Rantaro wished she would talk about something else, she had a retort for him, each and every single time. Then she would be quiet and stare out the window.

Rantaro never understood that side of her. Why care about some villagers so much? It seemed like they didn’t care much for her, what was the point? But of course, if he asked that he would probably get smacked.

The priestess took him by surprise one day; she asked about his travels.

“What kind of tale do you want to hear?”

“A sorrowful tale.”

He was even more surprised, but he had plenty of those. Night after night, she would ask for a new one, until he actually ran out.

“I see. Then what about tales of happiness? I’m curious, do they outnumber your sorrowful ones?”

Rantaro was curious of that as well and another batch of countless nights had passed.

The church warned the priestess; she was rumored to have become attached to the demon who was guarding her. It was no secret that Rantaro was a being of the night who vanished at dawn and once the villagers found out, they were outraged.

He was worried; what would become of the priestess? “We should discuss a plan, there’s no time for tales tonight.”

“What are you talking about? There’s always time for tales. Now sit down, you were in the middle of one.”

She never let him speak of the current state of affairs. Did she love her people that much? Did she already know what would happen?

When the people announced her execution date, Rantaro was deeply upset. What did she do to deserve that? Yet she kept asking for happy tales, as if it wasn’t real. Just what was going on in her mind? How much he would give to have the answers.

He thought up a plan and carried it out the next night. The village was no more, the priestess was safe. But the cold eyes she had given him as she took her own life… What was the point of all those tales?

Shuichi Saihara

There was not a single person in the kingdom that didn’t know the name of the legendary hero himself, but there might have been some who didn’t know of his companion, the priestess.

They lived in the same village since they were born. At first, their friendship was a little shaky since the priestess cried a lot for no reason, but some time passed and they were inseparable. As they grew, friendship turned into something more.

When word came out that Shuichi was the legendary hero, plans for his journey had been made. He didn’t have much of a choice in the matter, but as much as he tried, the villagers would not be convinced. In the end, the priestess decided to join him: “My healing powers shall prove useful to you!” 

And so, their adventure began. At first, it was just restoring peace in villages invaded by demons, but slowly it had turned into an all out war with the forces ofdarkness. It was getting more and more stressful by the day and Shuichi didn’tknow how he could handle such a grand scale battle.

“Me, a legendary hero…? Who thought up something so foolish?”

The priestess noticed his ever growing doubts; it was time for her healing powers! She didn’t join him for nothing after all.

“Ever since we were little, you’ve always been a hero. To me, to the villagers… You just don’t realize it. Should I show it to you?”

By the bonfire under the moonlight, she would retell tales of his good deeds. Had it really been that long a journey? But it was pleasant to bask in his priestess’ healing, so he stopped thinking about it.

“When you have doubts like these, please let me carry them as well. We’ll finish the demons together!”

And with a kiss, they made a promise.

Soon enough, the demon forces were defeated. It was time for the two of them to go home and finally be happy together, but the villagers had something else in mind.

“It’s the legendary priestess! We must sacrifice her so we can be happy!”

Shuichi was shaken to his core, but there was no time to feel despairful. His priestess had only a few days left to live, all because of… what? Some false superstition? Yet the decision remained firm, nothing could convince the villagers. The priestess was pure therefore she would make a great sacrifice.

She kept him sane until her last moments. She hadn’t cried in so long, yet when they killed her, she cried so loudly it would haunt Shuichi’s nightmares until the day he died.

He was a legendary hero no more.

[seacollectsrivers]

@calamitys-child

I spy 👀👀 Granada Holmes I am INTRIGUED by magic au also!!! And YES genderfluid Miranda... My life........

THIS GOT LONG OF COURSE HDFKJG thank you friendo for giving me an excuse to rant hahahaha

Granada Holmes is The Secret Fear, (trans Holmes, established relationship, he has a lil freak out), which I posted before I figured out my gender stuff (!!), and the follow-up prequel! it's been stuck on 2/3 chapters for a bit.... i do have it all planned out, the beats written down even, but here i am :U i've nothing good written for ch3 but here's some from the earlier scrapped version of the prequel! the idea is the same (confidently bi Watson comes out to Holmes, they're both crushing on each other but Holmes is trans and scared and has missed out on a lot of queer Victorian culture, so ~misunderstandings~ happen), i just scrapped the introduction.

I believe I can safely call Holmes my closest friend -- he certainly knows more about me than anyone of that title previously. Whether or not he counts me as his, I try to not think too hard on. I understand we probably view each other quite differently, if only because Holmes views everything so differently, but it does still sting if I allow myself to linger on it.

(...)

«I do believe I know Mrs. Sophie Rowe.» Holmes lifted an eyebrow, and gestured for me to continue. I cleared my throat and looked down, faintly embarrassed, although I had no reason to be. If this was the Sophie I believed it to be, our friendship was absolutely respectable. Only how we met was not. «I met her when I was younger, before the army. Lovely girl. Woman now, I suppose. I cannot quite imagine she would commit adultery.»

THE MAGIC AU. i still want to write this, but it became TOO INVOLVED. There are two versions: a High Fantasy AU and a Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell fusion.

High Fantasy AU has half-elf James Fitzjames dying of some mysterious curse, human Crozier FRETTING, an inn-owning human OR dwarf Blanky, and a vaguely defined forest-creature Goodsir hired to figure out how to break the curse. i didn't want to do a re-telling of the show but the more i planned out the more i was like... this is just a different story, this could be anyone lol. so it's up for grabs if people want it hahaha.

JSaMN fusion is a fun one! More accurately a crossover, but very few from the original JSaMN would appear, as it's set half a century before the Terror. JFJ as a magician with thirst for recognition. Crozier as someone who seems very anti-magic, but he just doesn't care for the anglo-centric view of English Magic and the arrogancy of English magicians. Possibly has some fairy-blood (i was toying with people assuming Fitzjames has fairy blood, because he's the Handsomest Man (not in the Navy in this one), and then SURPRISE it's this grumpy old teapot). they're forced to cooperate to find a way magic could help the Discovery Service. then.... plot happens hah.

YOU INSPIRED GENDERFLUID MIRANDA!! i haven't actually uh... reread it since i published it? but it's here! with a link to your post an all :D it's a pre-canon James POV! i've vague ideas to explore t more from her POV, and introduce some less rigid gender binary, but we'll see.

[shinebrite97]

Portia Appreciation Week day 5-Domestic Life

Super late on this one, but I’ve been writing it for a month or more, just a snippet from my Arcana College AU WIP. Domestic dorm life for our favorite lil handmaiden.

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“You in there?” Portia asked as the door opened. Light splashed in immediately, soaking the desk where I sat hunched over my laptop and leaving blind spots in my eyes. Had it really gotten so dark? 

“Hey, Portia…” I replied with a yawn.

“Really burning the midnight oil there, hun.” She said. 

“I know, but I’ve gotta finish this. I don’t know why I decided to join the occult club. Asra is a nightmare with the writing assignments.”

“You know you could just like, not go back. Right?” she asked, plopping down onto her bed and untying her sneakers. “It’s a club, it’s not like it’s giving you extra credits or anything.”

“Actually it’s offering two social science credits at completion,” I replied as I blinked the fatigue from my eyes. “One semester in this club and I can skip my next semester’s human intricacies class.”

“I hope it’s worth it,” Portia replied as she tugged her hair into a loose ponytail. “Human Intricacies strangely sounds more fun than some magic club.”

“Occult,” I responded. “And at least this way I can avoid the stress of that midterm and final, and on the bright side...Asra’s a major hottie.”

“Really?” She asked. “I haven’t even seen him yet.”

“He’s not actually faculty here,” I said. “He’s a T.A., about to graduate with a Philosophy major, and he volunteered to run the club with the supervisory signature from Professor Selasi.”

“So you’re basically dancing on the line of an affair with a teach…” She replied. I listened as Portia flopped onto my bed. When I glanced over, her long red hair spilled over the edge as she kicked off her shoes and stretched her arms. 

“That was the longest Econ lecture yet…” She yawned. “We should go to a bar this weekend. You game?”

“Hell yeah.” I replied. I turned back to my open document. Lines and lines of text about the major and minor arcana, what he’d suggested to be a small cheat sheet turned into basically a separate essay on each card. I’d been at this for hours now. I went back to it once Portia was settled, mindless mumbling about repainting her nails. I had been typing up my interpretation of the seven of wands when I felt a soft jab in my arm. I paused, glancing over at the sly little smirk on my roomie’s lips as she poked my arm again, unashamed of herself. 

“You know what’s weird…” Portia said after a few minutes of my endless typing. 

“What’s up?” I replied. 

“I feel like I knew you, like in another life or something.”

“Really?”

“Do you believe in reincarnation, Sarah?”  I nodded my head, finally shutting my laptop to freshen my eyes, before directing my full attention to her. 

“I feel like in another life, we were friends. Maybe I lived in a castle. Or maybe I got to live out my lesbian dream of owning a cute little cottage and a cat.”

“Maybe I was a real magician and I read tarot cards.” I grinned. My deck was sitting on the dresser, still unopened, waiting for me to bring it to the Tarot club on Friday. 

“Maybe that hottie Asra was too,” She added. “If you two knew each other then, maybe you were dating then too.”

“Maybe.” I replied with a blush. “I don’t know, I kinda hope he’s more romantic in this hypothetical version.”

“Trouble in paradise?” She asked, rolling over to lay on her stomach and kicking her feet high above her. “Spill the tea, sis!” 

“It’s not bad,” I replied. “I thought it’d be a little more...scandalous. But it seems that no one really cares. He’s not a real teacher, not being paid by the school, so he’s fair game.”

“Anything...fun...going on?” She asked with a wiggle of her manicured eyebrow.

“Fun?” I scoffed as I swiveled in my chair to fully face her. “Eh, I think he’s taking things slow... like really slow.” I replied. “He hasn’t even gotten me drunk yet.”

“Well, you’re not even twenty yet, I can see why he wouldn’t.” She smirked. “Got’churself a nice guy there, sis.” I blushed, feeling the depth of the red on my cheeks while Portia laughed out loud. Unsure if I should go to the extent of my new fling’s lack of respect for laws, the dude smuggled in more spiked grass than any frat boy could dream of.

“He invited me to his apartment this weekend,” I said instead. “Friday night after accounting, I’m going over for dinner and a movie.”

“Ooh, okay honey. I won’t wait up.” She smirked. 

“Are you gonna call up Nadia?” I asked. 

“Wha-...huh...w-why would I do that?” Her confidence was now gone, and before me was a sputtering red-faced mess of a girl. 

“I don’t know.” I replied. “I thought maybe you might have grown some lady balls and asked her out.”

“Not yet.” She sighed, hitting me with my own pillow. “Let me know how things go with Alnazar this weekend, and I’ll consider it.”

[minijenn]

Got any previews for the next chapter of keys? (also, will there be macabre limb removals?)

Lol no limb removals (disappointingly, I know) but there will be some... permanent damage hahah. Tho so far most of the chapter is kinda par for the course for the Toy Story part of KH3 (it is only the second disney world in the story after all, I gotta dip my toes in lightly, plus there’s not a ton of overarching plot in these chapters to begin with). Plus Im sorta rushing just to get the chapter out since its been so damn long since Keys has had an update to begin with. As for a preview... mmmm here’s a lil bit towards the beginning that i happen to like ;) 

***

Without warning, the monster reared back, almost as if something had struck its mechanized backside even though none of the other toys had launched so much as a single attack against it. However, the force behind this attack soon became clear as the momentous action figure continued to thrash about until the much smaller toy standing tall and triumphant atop its back.

“Yeeee haw! Looks like this critter’s gotten too big for his britches!”

“I-it can’t be!” Buzz exclaimed, absolutely baffled.

“But it is!” Woody chimed in with a growing smile as both him and Buzz heralded the new arrival excitedly.

“Jessie!”

The new toy, Jessie, swiftly glanced down from her perch high upon the action figure’s back. She shared very much of the same western aesthetic as Woody did, though her bright red yarn hair easily made her stand out. Somehow, she had managed to wrangle the monster down by stringing up the mechanical barns on its back with a small yet sturdy rope, a restrain she was holding steady even as she looked down to the group on the ground with clear elation.

“Woody! Buzz!” she shouted brightly. “It’s about time I found you two! Where in the great green prairie have you boys been?!”

“We could ask you the same thing!” Woody exclaimed incredulously. “How did you-”

“Oh! Hold that thought, sheriff!” Jessie interupted sharply, glancing up towards the ceiling briefly. “Now, Rex!”

The others quickly realized exactly what she meant as they noticed Rex, fearfully clinging onto one of the several toy planes rotating from the ceiling. Perhaps by chance or perhaps thanks to the dinosaur himself, the plane suddenly detached from its clip, sending it plummeting fast towards the ground below. Jessie made sure to leap off of the action figure just before the plan crashed into it, hitting it hard enough to knock the Heartless that had overtaken it clean out. And in turn, Rex landed squarely on that dazed Heartless, equally as dazed himself.

“Ah! Did it work!?” he asked frantically, still pinning the Heartless down. “Did the plan work?”

The dinosaur didn’t receive much of an answer as the Heartless roughly shook him off of it, though it didn’t get much of a chance to retaliate before Sora rushed for it, Keyblade at the ready. It only took a single swing to defeat the creature entirely, bringing a much-needed air of peace back to the area as the now lifeless action figure collapsed to the ground with a heavy thud.

“Whoo!” Jessie cheered as she made a solid landing before reconvening with the others. “That almost got a bit dicey there. You boys sure were lucky I was here to rush to your rescue, huh?”

“I’ll say,” Buzz said, offering the cowgirl a warm, if not affectionate smile as he stepped up to her. “Jessie, it’s grea—ahem, i-its… very relieving to see you safe and sound.” The space ranger quickly took on a formal tone, though clearly, he wasn’t fooling Jessie.

“Great to see you too, Buzz,” she joked wryly, patting him on the cheek and easily flustering him even more.

“Uh, not that I’m not excited to see you too, Jessie,” Woody interjected with a frown. “But… how’d you end up here in the first place?”

“Boy, wouldn’t I like to know!” Jessie huffed, hands on her hips. “One minute I’m back in Andy’s room with Slinky, the Potato Heads, and everyone else, looking for you fellas, and the next, I’m here, fighting off a whole bunch of those strange lil’ shadowy critters. Then I bumped into Rex and we saw this one causing a ruckus,” she nodded towards the downed action figure. “And, well, you know the rest.”

“Hm… that certainly is… bizarre, to say the least…” Buzz mused, shaking his head.

“Looks like that whole ‘world splitting’ thing might not be too far off from the truth after all…” Woody theorized, though before he could press Jessie for anymore details, her attention was already diverted somewhere else instead.

“Golly! Well, aren’t you three fancy?” the cowgirl grinned as she sized Sora, Donald, and Goofy up. “Have you fellas been helping my wayward sheriff and space ranger out around here?”

“Yeah, we have,” Sora grinned cordially before introducing himself. “I’m Sora.”

“I’m Donald!” the magician chimed in.

“And I’m Goofy!” the captain finished off.

“Much obliged to meet all three of ya,” Jessie nodded. “I’m-”

“Jessie,” Sora interupted with a knowing laugh. “Believe me, we heard.”

(KH3 snubbed my girl Jessie so I said “nuts to that” and fixed it, you’re welcome) 

[coffeeandcalligraphy]

Sleight of Hand | Short Story Update

Hey People of Earth!

I was initially going to group this into a FOSTERED update when I realized it would probably make more sense to give this story its own update! 

What’s it about? 

Sleight of Hand is about two sisters who get caught up in a murder, and the decline of their relationship as it gets Very Bad. 

You might be wondering... doesn’t this sound kinda similar to Water Babies (the last story I wrote an update about)? Well...

Conception:

SLEIGHT OF HAND was a story I wrote out of sheer panic. Like I mentioned in my last writing update, I was taking a writing class (took the exam a few weeks ago so it’s done now thank HEAVENSSS). This class’ final project included culminating a writing portfolio consisting of two of your best pieces from classwork, and one brand new piece ‘ready for publication’. 

Seeming as though I spent almost all of December writing a *horrible* stage play for the final unit of this class, I hadn’t had very much time to work on the story (in between the rest of the requirements for the portfolio). I’d wanted to start at least two weeks in advance, however, ended up starting a week early (PANICKED). 

I tried really hard to come up with an idea for this story, however, was suffering a major burnout. I hadn’t written anything since November (it was literally January), so needless to say, I was panicking *slightly*. I toyed with the idea of finishing Candle Wax/Music For Poltergeists/whatever that story is called at this point lol, however, it was just so structurally wrong, it felt like more impossible of a task to write that than to write something brand new. At this point in the semester, I’d written three ‘short stories’, so I felt a lot more comfortable with the form than I did when I initially wrote the above. 

I wasn’t really panicking about this story to begin with. I honestly thought I’d come up with an idea, and be on my merry way writing. At the beginning of the week, I’d started brainstorming a list of potential ideas (thinking I’d use an idea about a witch doctor, sort of like the original concept for The Light When You Close Your Eyes). But nothing was clicking. Nothing was working. 

I word vomited two openings to two very different stories (one in second person that was Not Good, the second about a boy who accidentally kills a nest of birds). I didn't like either. Nothing was clicking with me, and at this point, I’d only have a few days left before the end of Christmas vacation (my deadline was to finish it beforehand in order to hand the portfolio in by the tenth, vacation finished on the fifth). 

In my previous short story writing update, I spoke about how I was working on a short story called WATER BABIES. In that update, I mention how I’m expanding that short story into a full-length story, since the submission for class was flash fiction. I had an epiphany

Yes, I’d already handed WATER BABIES into this same class with this same teacher, BUT

I COULD change the names of the characters?? and it could work??

The rewrite of WATER BABIES started in a completely different place than the original I handed in, with a completely new plot thread to guide it, so it wouldn’t have been strange to my teacher/come off as too similar (the murder plot thread wasn’t at all in the original). So I sat down. Picked names for the characters, made Pluto a girl to have a sister x sister relationship for a slightly different dynamic. 

(***Also I wouldn’t exactly go about doing this again for another class because it was a little *stealth* on my part, however, I was tres tres paniqued, and bein a lil resourceful loool)

The writing bit: 

I’d renamed Bea (the MC) to Edith, and Pluto to Joan (tho she doesn't have a name in this third alternate version of the story and Joan ends up being Pluto-Joan’s mother?)

Initially, I’d just changed the pronouns of Pluto to she and changed his name. However, it really wasn’t feeling right. It literally felt like WATER BABIES, and I didn't want it to. So, I changed the point of view, which definitely helped. 

However, I was still not clear of struggle with this story. After making about 100 words of progress (the story had to be 3-5 pages in length), everything sort of halted. I tried to continue on, but I couldn’t. I just couldn’t understand why this story wasn’t working. I’d changed the characters, I’d changed the POV, what more did I really have to do? 

After making an attempt for hours one evening, I made the panicked decision to scrap writing a short story for the portfolio, and instead, write a poetry collection (which you could also do: 3-5 free verse poems). 1) I’m not a poet 2) I’m a bad poet 3) I had no idea what to write a poem about 4) I’m very very not good at poetry. This for some reason, also seemed way more feasible. (The desperation was real.)

After climbing under my comforter and sobbing for 30 minutes (lol) @sarahkelsiwrites came to my rescue. Bless her heart.

She gave me some incredible advice that really made the story click.

A) She suggested thinking more about WHEN Edith was telling this story of her and her sister. I hadn’t actually taken this into consideration, as the original POV of WATER BABIES was a very close first person to add a sense of immaturity to the narrative. I had changed the POV, but hadn’t budged the tense. By changing the story to past tense, everything made sense. This was excellent advice.

B) She also helped me write a beginning and solidify the story’s idea. I dunno where I’d be without Sarah! Probably failing this class oops.

So after some maneuvering, I sat down and pumped out the story in one sitting. Granted, it isn’t very long (2k words), but this was an incredible accomplishment (seeming as though I hadn’t written in months)!

Sarah also named the story based off a line about a magician in the story! I’m not sold on the name but it’s growing on me and I definitely think it fits. It seems a lil too familiar but for now I don’t mind it! 

It was so painful to write, but after just sitting down and really putting my mind to it, it eventually happened (thank goodness). 

The aftermath:

I actually don’t have any comments from my teacher for this story because it was a part of the portfolio, so I’m not sure what she thought! However, she gave me a 100 on the portfolio which was supaaaa nice and generous! I like the story for the most part! (Maybe I’m just scarred at how it came to be LOL.) In other news, I used a solid chunk of the poem I panic wrote in replacement of this story in my latest chapter for REWIRED! In this house we reuse reduce and recycle folks. (So you’ll see it soon!)

But yes! This is how Sleight of Hand came to be. Would I do it again? I don’t think I have the willpower, but did it teach me a lot? Heck yeaaahhh. If I can give some advice to those of you also struggling: push through. Change something (like the POV, or the characters, or the setting, if you can). You can do it!

Thanks for reading this update, I’ll be back with another very soon! :)

--Rachel

[depressinglyanxiousdevil]

Asian Drama Recs

So below is a list of all of the asian dramas I have finished watching. I am not including the ones I have started in this post - maybe in another list. I need recommendations from people please.

List of Asian Movies & Dramas I Have Watched

Chinese Dramas

·      Detective Sweet

·      Master Devil Do Not Kiss Me

·      Master Devil Do Not Kiss Me 2

·      My Amazing Boyfriend

Chinese Movies

·      Love You You

·      So I Married an Anti-Fan (DVD)

Filipino Movies

·      24-7 in Love

·      All You Need is Pag-Ibig

·      Beauty and the Bestie

·      Diary of an Ugly

·      Everyday I Love You

·      I Fine…Thank You… Love You

·      Just the Way You Are

·      Must Be… Love

·      Para Sa Hopeless Romantic

·      She’s Dating the Gangster

·      Talk Back and You’re Dead

·      You’re My Boss

Japanese Dramas

·      A Girl and Three Sweethearts

·      Minami Kun No Koibito – My Little Lover

·      Itazura Na Kiss: Love in Tokyo (DVD)

·      Itazura Na Kiss 2: Love in Okinawa (DVD)

·      Itazura Na Kiss 2: Love in Tokyo

·      Ouran High School Host Club Anime

·      Ouran High School Host Club

·      Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon

Japanese Movies

·      The Black Devil and the White Prince

·      Heroine Disqualified (DVD)

·      Kurosaki-kun no Iinari ni Nante Naranai

·      L♥DK

·      Orange

·      Ouran High School Host Club The Movie

·      Wolf Girl and Black Prince (DVD)

Korean Dramas

·      38 Task Force/Squad 38

·      Age of Youth/Hello, My Twenties

o   Season 1

·      Angry Mum (DVD)

·      Another Miss Oh Hae Young (DVD)

·      Arang and the Magistrate

·      Bad Guys (DVD)

·      Bad Thief, Good Thief

·      Baek Hee Has Returned

·      Beautiful Gong Shim

·      Big

·      Birth of a Beauty

·      Boys Over Flowers (DVD)

·      Bridal Mask

·      Bride of Habaek/Bride od the Water God

·      Bring it on Ghost/Let’s Fight Ghost

·      Cheese in the Trap (DVD)

·      Cheongdamdong Alice

·      Chicago Typewriter

·      Cinderella and The Four Knights

·      City Hunter (DVD)

·      Criminal Minds

·      Cruel City/Heartless City

·      Descendants of the Sun (DVD)

·      Divorce Lawyer in Love

·      Drinking Solo

·      Ex-Girlfriend Club

·      Faith/ The Great Doctor (DVD)

·      Falling for Innocence/Falling for Soon Jung/Beating Again

·      Fated to Love You

·      Fight for My Way

·      Flower Boy Ramyun Shop/Cool Guy Ramen Shop

·      Flower Boys Next Door

·      Flower Grandpa Investigation Unit

·      Full House

·      Gap Dong

·      Goblin/Goblin: The Lonely and Great God/Guardian: The Lonely and Great God

·      Go Ho’s Starry Night

·      Good Doctor (DVD)

·      Gu Family Book

·      Healer

·      Heartstrings/You’ve Fallen for Me

·      Hero (2009)

·      Hi School – Love On/High School: Love On

·      Hong Gil Dong

·      Hotel King

·      Hwarang

·      Hyde, Jekyll, Me

·      I Can Hear Your Voice/I Hear Your Voice

·      I Remember You/Hello Monster (DVD)

·      Iljimae

·      Joseon Gunman/Gunman in Joseon

·      King of High School/King of High School Conduct/High School King of Savvy (DVD)

·      Lie to Me

·      Lookout/The Guardian

·      Love in the Moonlight/Moonlight Drawn by Clouds

·      Love Rain

·      Lucky Romance

·      Man to Man

·      Marriage Not Dating

·      Mask

·      Masked Prosecutor/The Man in the Mask

·      Master’s Son

·      Meloholic

·      Memory

·      The Miracle

·      Modern Farmer

·      Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo

·      Ms Panda and Mr Hedgehog

·      Ms. Temper and Nam Jung Gi

·      My Father is Strange

·      My Girl

·      My Girlfriend is a Gumiho

·      My Love from the Star/ My Love from Another Star/You Who Came from the Stars (DVD)

·      My Only Love Song

·      My Secret Romance

·      My Sweet Family/My Sweet and Boody Family/Sweet, Savage Family

·      Naked Fireman

·      Noble, My Love

·      Oh My Ghost/Oh My Ghostess

·      Ojakyo Brothers/Ojakyo Family (DVD)

·      One Well Raised Daughter Ha Na/A Well Brought Up Daughter Ha Na

·      Personal Taste/Personal Preference (DVD)

·      Pinocchio (DVD)

·      Playful Kiss (DVD)

·      Reply 1997/Answer Me 1997/Answer to 1997

·      Romantic Doctor, Teacher Kim

·      Rooftop Prince

·      Sassy Go Go/Cheer Up!

·      Scholar Who Walks The Night

·      School 2013 (DVD)

·      School 2015: Who Are You

·      School 2017

·      Secret Garden

·      Sensory Couple/ The Girl Who Can See Smells (DVD)

·      She Was Pretty (DVD)

·      Shut Up Flower Boy Band

·      Smile, You/Smile Honey

·      Smile Again (DVD)

·      Something About One Percent/One Percent of Something

·      Spy Myung Wol

·      Strong Woman Do Bong Soon

·      Suspicious Partner

·      The 1st Shop of Coffee Prince/Coffee Prince (DVD)

·      The Best Hit

·      The Flatterer

·      The Innocent Man (DVD)

·      The K2

·      The Legend of the Blue Sea

·      The Man Living in Our House/Sweet Stranger and Me

·      The Master’s Sun

·      The Strongest KPOP Survival

·      To the Beautiful You

·      Trot Lovers

·      Two Weeks

·      Vampire Detective

·      Vampire Flower

·      W: Two Worlds

·      Warrior Baek Dong Soo

·      Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo

·      When a Man’s in Love

·      Who Are You? (2008)

·      Who Are You (2013)

·      Yong Pal (DVD)

·      You’re All Surrounded (DVD)

·      You’re Beautiful (DVD)

Korean Movies

·      100 Days with Mr. Arrogant

·      A Frozen Flower

·      A Werewolf Boy

·      Fashion King (DVD)

·      The King and the Clown

·      Love 911

·      The Magician

·      My PS Partner/Whatcha Wearin’?

·      Seondal: The Man Who Sells the River

·      Special Investigation Unit

·      Steal My Heart

·      Twenty

·      You’re My Pet

Taiwanese Dramas

·      Bromance (DVD)

·      Drunken to Love You/Love You/Love You While We’re Drunk

·      Fabulous Boys

·      Fated to Love You/You’re My Destny

·      It Started With A Kiss

·      Love By Design

·      Love Cuisine (DVD)

·      Miss No Good

·      Moon River

·      Murphy’s Law of Love (DVD)

·      Refresh Man

·      School Beauty’s Bodyguard

·      Someone Like You

·      The Prince of Wolf

·      They Kiss Again

·      What is Love?

·      When I See You Again (DVD)

Thai Dramas

·      2 Moons The Series

·      Bad Romance: The Series

·      Cinderella Rong Tao Tae

·      Cubic

·      The Cupids Series

o   Kammathep Hunsa

·      Diary of Tootsies The Series

o   Season 1

·      Full House

·      Kiss: The Series

·      Kiss Me: The Series

·      Leh Ratree

·      Love Sick The Series

o   Season 1

o   Season 2

·      Make It Right The Series

o   Season 1

o   Season 2

·      My Bromance The Series

·      Once Upon a Time… In My Heart

·      Senior Secret Love Series

o   My Lil Boy

o   Puppy Honey

o   Bake Me Love

o   My Lil Boy 2

o   Puppy Honey 2

·      SOTUS: The Series

·      Stupid Cupid

·      Together With Me: The Series

·      U-Prince the Series

o   The Handsome Cowboy

o   The Gentle Vet

o   The Lovely Geologist

o   The Badass Baker

o   The Absolute Economist

o   The Foxy Pilot

o   The Playful Comm-Arts

o   The Extroverted Humanist

o   The Single Lawyer

o   The Crazy Artist

o   The Badly Politics

o   The Ambitious Boss

·      Ugly Duckling

o   Perfect Match

o   Pity Girl

o   Don’t

o   Boy’s Paradise

·      War of High School The Series

·      Water Boyy The Series

 Thai Movies

·      30+ Single on Sale

·      Crazy Little Thing Called Love

·      First Kiss/Love at the Next Stop

·      Love at First Flood

·      My Bromance The Movie

·      Seven Something

·      The Bedside Detective

Water Boyy: The Movie

[asktemmie-frisk]

Poltergeist Parents (Lost and Found Arc)

It was two days after Chara and Frisk were admitted to the hospital. Everyone became restless and scared for their lives, especially Sans and Asriel, who sat at their beds, crying and trying to wake them up.

"Please, Chara. Just wake up, please." Cried Asriel.

"I did this. It's all my fault." Sans cried, blaming himself.

Suddenly, Frisk and Chara's parents came inside the room.

"Sans, Asriel. I think we need to give them some time alone." Toriel said as her head hung low.

"No! I'm not leaving unless Chara wakes up!" Asriel said, desperately clinging to Chara.

"I put them in this mess, Tori! I gotta help'em get out of it!" Sans said, begging to have some more time with Frisk.

"Listen. I know you're both worried for them, but they need some time alone so they can heal." Erica said, putting her son and Chara before their siblings.

"The more we bother them, the longer it will take to heal. If you keep messing with them, they may never come back to us. So please. We need to leave them alone right now. Alright?"

Sans and Asriel guiltily let go of them. Before they left the room, they gave the two their blessing.

"I love you, sis. Please don't die." Begged Asriel.

"I love you, lil bro. Sorry I couldn't be a better one. Please come back to us." Begged Sans.

All of them left Frisk and Chara alone to rest, returning home. Sans and Asriel cried all the way back to Toriel's house.

As Toriel opened the door, she sensed something off.

"Huh? That's strange." She said.

"What is? What's happening?" Asked Erica.

"You cannot feel it? It feels like...something with magic and determination. But that should not be possible. Frisk and Chara are back in the hospital. What could possibly be in there?"

"A ghost?" Guessed Soichiro.

Everyone got spooked by Soichiro's guess. Even Erica was unsettled by her husband's estimate.

"Well, that's a oddly specific guess, hun." She said.

"Well Soichiro, maybe not a ghost specifically. More like a poltergeist. But that is still rather unlikely." Said Toriel.

"Did you say 'Chara'?" Said a voice from inside the house.

Everyone immediately went on high alert the second they heard that disembodied voice. They went inside to find the source, looking in the living room first.

"Who said that?" Toriel asked with her jimmies thoroughly rustled.

"It was me."

They all turned around to find two ghostly figures. One looked human, and another looked like an astigmatism.

"Excuse me. Who are you?"

"I am Laura. I am Chara's mother."

Toriel gasped in surprise that she was meeting Chara's real birth parents.

"Wait. You are Chara's mother? Then that means...sir, your name is Charon, is it not?"

The ghostly astigmatism approached Toriel, holding his hand out.

"Indeed. I am Charon. I am her father, my queen." He said.

Everyone was amazed. They were meeting Chara's real parents. Toriel tried to shake Charon's hand, only to forget that he was oddly incorporeal, which actually begged a question from them all.

"Wait a minute. I thought a monster soul can't persist after death normally." Asriel said, confused as to why Charon was here.

"How are you able to speak to us, and why are you a ghost?"

"Actually, we are not ghosts. To be honest, when Laura and I merged our souls together, Laura's soul gave mine the ability to persist after death, which, in turn, allowed me to remain with her forever in the afterlife."

"We have been watching Chara from above for years now." Said Laura.

"However, even with the ability to see the world from the sidelines, it was impossible for us to be with our daughter. But then, we were given an extremely unlikely, and very short, opportunity. Ironically, we have our daughter's boyfriend to thank for it."

Everyone wondered what Laura was saying. They didn't know Frisk accidentally gave them a way to see Chara again directly. They wondered why for a moment. Suddenly, it came to them.

"Frisk. When he brought Gaster back...he gave you a short window to come home to her entirely by accident."

"Correct. Now we are fully a part of this world again. Even though he sealed the hole completely, that only means no one else can access that point again to come to the material plane. Thanks to Frisk, we can be with her now. Unfortunately, she couldn't see or hear us for a while. I thought she saw me in her dreams, but it was actually a nightmare, for she remembered how I was burned to death at the stake. I felt the sensation in her dream, and it reminded me of when it actually happened. It was beyond painful."

"Wait. You really were burned at a stake?"

"Yes. It was mostly for being a magician, but Charon was also killed by the villagers because he was a monster. I didn't want him to die so easily, so I went to him as fast as I could to try to protect him. It worked for a while."

"Then, the villagers crossed the line." Charon added.

"They went after our daughter trying to use her to get to us. I didn't want her to die, so after I killed that human that threatened her, I locked her soul, and told her to hide. It broke my heart that I had to tell her goodbye. Laura and I, we love our daughter very much, and we would do anything to protect her. You know how that feels, don't you?"

"Yes. I do know what it feels like." Toriel said, smiling at Asriel.

The boss monster knew what it's like to have the desire to protect your child at the cost of everyone else. She couldn't help but feel guilty of how things went. Suddenly, she had an idea.

"I know where your little girl is. She's in the hospital."

Laura and Charon were scared and confused.

"What is this 'hospital' you speak of? And why is my daughter in it?"

"She tried to kill herself."

Laura and Charon were at a loss of what to say as they gasped in horror.

"Why? Why would she try to kill herself?"

"Come with us. We'll tell you along the way."

The Dreemurrs quickly brought Frisk and Chara's birth parents to Toriel's van. Laura and Charon were surprised at what they were seeing.

"What is this horseless carriage, my queen?" Asked Charon.

"This is a vehicle that is formerly known as a 'minivan' by the humans that built them." Replied Toriel.

"We will need you and Frisk's parents to come with us immediately." Asgore said, ready to save his daughter.

"I have a feeling that you may be able to talk some sense into your daughter."

"But Asgore, how is that possible?" Asked Laura.

"Neither Charon nor I were able to engage with her previously. How would it be different now?"

"I believe you did not want to scare my child. That is why you hesitated to reveal yourself in the real world. In addition, it's possible that you may have simply used your magic to communicate with her. It works perfectly in dreams, but when both magic-using entities are awake, it's best to make physical interaction, for sometimes one person's magic will cancel out the other. Because your daughter is a hybrid, her determination may cause her perception of you in her dreams to distort somewhat, causing memories to show in its place."

"That explains the nightmare she had of Laura." Said Asriel.

"Correct, Asriel. However, Laura and Charon, your daughter needs to see you now. Are you willing to let yourselves be seen by her?"

Laura and Charon thought it over for a moment. They were somewhat scared to see their daughter again. If she tried to kill herself, then wouldn't seeing us make it worse, they asked themselves. Ultimately, they decided to stop asking questions and be with Chara.

"Yes. Absolutely. We need to be with her now." They said in unison.

"Very well then. Asriel, come with us. Sans, you stay here. Erica and Soichiro, are you ready?"

"Yeah. Let's help our kids." Said the magician and temmie.

"Good. Everybody get in! We've got family to save."

The Dreemurrs and Frisk's parents got inside Toriel's van and buckled in. Seeing the way they did it, Laura and Charon imitated them, forgetting that they didn't need to, for they were incorporeal.

Toriel quickly drove back to the hospital after Sans wished them luck. Then he locked the doors and went to the living room to sleep, due to the absolute lack of it for two days straight.

"Hope they can save'em. It's all in their hands now." He said before nodding off.

It was indeed the right thing to leave it up to them, for it was their last and final chance to bring Frisk and Chara back from the abyss.

[faecries]

All of them. I dare you to do it by tomorrow night. (That would be 11/5/17)

thank u!!!

the fool: do you have any nicknames? lil! 
the magician: have you ever written a poem or song about somebody else? yes to poem :) 
the high priestess: what is your dream date? moving to paris 
the empress: do you think you will ever get married? I genuinely don’t know. I’d certainly like to have a wedding, and I’d certainly like to be married to u, but fuckity fuck there’s a lot of life that can happen in between now and then. 
the emperor: what are some names that you like? lucia/lucy, will, imogen, margo, isaac, rose, sophie. 
the hierophant: do you believe in ghosts? this question remains: unsolved (*wheeze*) 
the lovers: do you have a crush? yup u kno who u r 
the chariot: thoughts on astrology? I don’t particularly believe in it, but it makes me and lots of ppl happy and isn’t doing any harm so who cares if it’s ‘real’ or not, so fuck it let’s all find out which spice girl we are based on the way the night sky looked when we were born. 
strength: what is your dream occupation? artist/writer/witch/muse/traveler/hermit 
the hermit: what is your favorite soda pop? root beer 
wheel of fortune: first three songs that come on shuffle? what we have (to change) by lucius, cuckoo by lissie, symphony no. 5 in c minor op. 67 by beethoven 
justice: favorite color of rose? aLL of them, but probably a classic dark red 
the hanged man: favorite movie soundtrack? the secret garden (1993) 
death: what are three things you want to do before you die? live on an island, visit italy, be a mother 
temperance: can you describe a strange dream you’ve had? last night I dreamt that my friends and I were staying in a fantastical jumbled european city and then my friends were my little cousins and our hotel was an old train and each room was full of circus-y decorations and after searching down every corridor and around every spiral staircase (yes this was a train with spiral staircases) we found our room, number 16, that was all peacock blue with pops of pink and orange and white. 
the devil: do you enjoy thunderstorms? yes yes yes!! I like being inside and feeling passionate and cozy and inspired, or going out in them and raging at the world. 
the tower: favorite colors to wear? russet and orange and gold and red. or black. 
the star: have you ever seen a psychic? not yet. 
the moon: have you ever written a love letter? yes! 
the sun: do you believe in magic? I would like to, and I think that’s enough. 
judgement: do you enjoy school? not as much as I used to or I want to. 
the world: do you like waking up early? when it happens naturally I love it, but by alarm? no way.

look at me go!!!! finished well before deadline!!! ha!!!

[tony-loon]

MARVEL FALLS

My idea of a crossover between Marvel and Gravitiy Falls….

The twins obviously had to be Wanda and Pietro Maximoff- since their not-so-interested father Eric would send them away to some sketchy uncle he vaguely knows… and well, Xavier said Fury is a reliable guy that ows him a favor, so off you go, kids!

Wanda would be in Dippers place, with her affinity to magic and all, while impatient Pietro with his many colorfoul varying outfits would get in Mables place… and I think the personalties (calm and serious vs extrovert and colorful) suit as well!

Fury as Gruncle Stan?

Yes! The many identity changes suit him, like the eyepatch… he would not have SHIELD behind him- ANYMORE - and act dead- but investigate the weird happenings in the area… and search for the guy that replaced the actual Stanford… they would not be twins anymore but have worked together on some hard mysterious and outer wordly cases…

Thor as Soos because I just could see that… kinda xD

And Vision as handy replacement for Wendy… related to Wandas and Visions relationship, but also him being the quiet cool guy, who is capable of way more then it looks like!

Of course with Vision as Wendy, Ultron became Robby,  acting cool having a hard crush on that smug cyborg….

Wendys friends had to switch to, and for the texting girl, always researching secretly working with SHIELD, and keeping tab on Fury, is Natasha…. yes, she would never date Ultron and all… but it’s a different universe, so the storylines would change anyways xD

The slightly desperate but extroverted and attentionseeking buddy had to be Wade Wilson- lovely but derpy and always fun to hang around! Also, with Wade, the desperate part would disappear, Wade is never desperate, he knows exactly when he’s making a fool of himself, and has no regrets whatsoever about being called a clown!

Peter and Sam got in there… well… I don’t recall exactly why, expect for being in need of some not loud or noisy characters here that still stood in contact with Vision… and…. since I already planned most of the Avengers for other rolls… it came down to them ;p

Of course Pietro makes some friends with his colorful and outgoing personality… Wanda is not sure about those two, but… they seem… kind of… okay…. … … inspired by X-Men Evolution of course xD

No question who’s Blendin Blenjamin Blandin, the time-traveller: Cable!And for Waddles… I was a lil troubled … but then I choose a Bamf- because they are adorable!!! ♥ 

Pacifica had to turn into Emma. For obvious reasons of similartiy. … Rogue and Raven… well… … … it just kinda happened…

Old Man McGucket, having a Family and bein part of a big Project, loosing his Memory... ... of course he became Old man McHowlett... and his son Daken really does not need any further contact, even if McHowlett sometimes aggressevly tries....

Who else but Victor von Doom in Gideons place? 

An evil magician, who crosses Wandas path, and poses in various ways with different schemes, always acting surpreme…. yes, that was what went through my head….�� There is not much I have to add here except that he would probably not have proper parents, but some Doombots in their places... 

…. and yes, he’d fall for Pietro and romance him… … not Wanda… nope… ;D

Ultrons Parents- Janet van Dyne and Hank Pym, happily burring failed experiments and robots in their graveyard… als also Sentinels…

First it seemed more fitting to go for Dormamu… but then again- Mephisto and his deals, demons and monsters from another dimension, posessing people, making tempting offers…. … perfect!

And travelling to paralelle universes or communication via dreams- Strange!!! Absolute Dr.Strange!!!

The obvious similarities between Quentin Trembley, the 8 1/2 president and Steve Rogers, aka the very First Avenger kind of made it impossible to not do it xD

[pinksweatergettingbetter]

//siblings bein’ siblings :’)

-

boy theyre really piling on the dick with roger. and yet, it somehow feels kinda forced. not quite as goofy-forced as ‘matt swirl my brandy and show off my scratched eye engarde’ but still... 

he’s so obnoxious that i wanna hold up a hand like “chill, chill, youre the villain, you dont have to try so hard. yeesh.”

-

In spite of everything, it's still (Tr)u(cy)

-

Did Godot also ghost write the gramarye creed?? We didn't need this man 

-

I love that she's "magical girl Trucy"

-

That is a HUGE ASS SWORD. Trucy must be ripped to balance that shit with one hand 

-

(Cries) the judge bravo’d her my heart

And Apollo asks her to be careful I fhfhfhggg 

-

JUDGE! Don't call her a butt!! - Bonny: a fan of mine took some footage of the me in the show. It's kind of creepy but it might help.

Me: ok well it can't be any creepier than the normal show footage which focuses on her quite a bit anyway---

(Footage is shot from backstage)

Me: BODYGUARD. DEMAND A BODYGUARD IN UOUR NEXT CONTRACT.DO NOT PERFORM WITHOUT ONE.

-

"What a waste of time"

I know, sadmad, it is a waste of time hinting And blabbing on when the contradiction is SO PAINFULLY OBVIOUS

-

To this games credit, I actually looked thru the footage to check for the edit and it's actually there. You can see the screen skip ever so slightly. I mean it's a little improbable that Trucy was still in the same position after twirling but that's a neat little detail. Not bad, SOJ, not bad at all.

- (Snerk) sexy pan up shot for mr retinz

- I know everyone loves the 'what's crackalackin homie" line but it stinks of pandering to me

It's like mr grossberg saying his hemerhoids were doing the Harlem shake. But I don't even think they were referencing the meme back then.

Also something about the way they write Nahyuta feels like the equivalent of a foreign character saying "it is-- 'ow you say..."

-

Burger barn sounds like the shittiest restaurant on earth. I wonder if it was the Ramen Ranch in the Japanese version...

-

"It's pretty long so I'll just show you the part with.." OHHH NO. We learned our lesson in dual destinies. We watch ALL the footage, damn it.

-

That must be Trucy! ... Six seconds after she runs in the opposite direction, also shown rising up into the rafters. ‘kay. Sounds legit. Prosecutor sadmad, please call me a moron and threaten more insignificant reincarnations...

-

"It threatens to disrupt the karmic course of this case" You mean it's so bullshit that you're obviously going to lose, right? It's ok, you can just come right out and say it. Nobody will mock you.

-

huh. retinz just called sadmad ‘pretty boy’

gee whiz guess theyre gay for each other now. c’mon fandom work your magic.

-

I'm starting to really not know what the victim’s last rights actually are. could you be a lil more clear on that sadmad

-

“My OBJECTION.... is NOT FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMENT!!!”

but it sure is for mine [snicker]

also gr8 excuse there, roger

-

“every industry has its own way of doing things, just as we in the legal profession focus exclusively on evidence and testimony’

really? for some reason i thought you were more interested in The Magic Pool and The Screams of the Condemned.

-

i can see theyre trying to write sadmad funny but its just not.... funny???

even with roger’s obnoxious persona i find him funnier. his texting sprite is hilarious. he just looks so fuckin pleased with himself.

-

Lang Zi says... Nahyuta needs a different schtick.

-

( well this numbskull has a thick skin, so there )

-holds back tears-

-

phoenix, drunkenly, from the gallery: DEAD PERSON... PUNISHING SOMEONE THROUGH A SURVIVING FAMILY MEMBER..? APOLLO GEDDOWN THE FUCKIN GHOS’S ARE COMING AAAHHH

-

“not bad for a shitty soap opera twist”

yeesh, that was a very sudden bout of self-loathing from the writers.

-

poor manov. somehow i feel more sad about his death than the entirety of the victims in DD (apart from Clay that is)

i mean he was just some magician tryna make it big.

-

(sigh) they tried to do the ‘are you high’ joke again and yet they still dont understand what made it funny in the first place.

-

“Strange are the karmic threads before me...”

is that Koorahneese for ‘shit, I'm losing!!’

-

NOW I FEEL EVEN WORSE FOR MANOV

-

i love when villains do that thing where it’s obviously fucking them and a jury would haul their ass to jail in 2 seconds but since it’s the bench trial system theyre like :3c I'm not admitting to anything! I just revealed something incriminating and suspicious as fuck but since my name isn’t carved into it you cant punish me~~~

im not being sarcastic either, at this point its just funny 

-

apollo: AHH, HOW DID YOU READ MY MIND?!

roger must have assistant’s blood in him; all of them can do it 

-

ohhhh. ohhh. i think. i see how he did it. if so, shit bro; that’s fucked up. but actually a pretty good sneaky murder method, with some pretty good foreshadowing that really stuck in my mind. 

Not bad, SOJ. Not bad at all.

-

‘do you think the audience will let you get away with the twins schtick twice in a row?’

alright writers, your self deprecation is making me a little uncomfortable now.

-

i like picturing manov’s soul sitting on he judge’s head.

“could you hurry it up? I'm tired of listening to butterfly over there banging on about last rights. i just wanna see retinz get his ass kicked.”

-

wait did i completely miss something 

what the fuck is with the random tuna boat joke

did i miss a reference to it before

is it a joke on turnabout: tuna-boat ??

-

hang on. is this a half-case? 

they did this in dual destinies with the two last ones. i guess they can’t fit five full cases into a game after all... for some reason.

-

i was right! well done. thats a well written twist. anyway, most importantly:

IM STILL CRYING OVER MANOV. HE DIDNT DESERVE THIS

-

as much as i appear to like ragging on these games, i really hope the rest of the cases are as good. 

-

sadmad: you f––

writers: [shake heads vigorously and make cut-throat motions]

sadmad: ..! ..uhh... [opens up a thesaurus] dim-witted... ignorant... imbecilic?

writers: [nod and sigh in relief]

sadmad: putrid red pepper. 

-

“just some good old fashioned logic”

oh look at that they just admitted the ‘rethinking the case” mechanic is just an off brand logic rip-off.

-

wow that was the most over-the-top prosecutor breakdown I've ever seen. how did that even work? physically, i mean

maybe the soul butterfly is getting its revenge

-

NOO!!! NOT VALANT!!!

also holy shit that was one helluva hallucination. I'd like to think Magnifi was responsible from beyond the grave for one last feat in dickery. 

-

Trucy’s absolutely right and murder is 99% never justified, but Magnifi is heavily implied to be a bag of dicks. 

-

“Wow trucy, i never knew that being the best could be so tough good for your dating life’

-

“do you think I'm a naive greenhorn?” “No, she's not...”

don't use the ‘smile in spite of everything’ thing, don't use the ‘smile in spite of everything’ thing, don't use the ‘smile in spite of everything’ thing––

Ff fffffuuuuck

god dAMNIT

what is japans obsession with smiling thru shitty times??? its, like, ok to cry when you feel down, you know? its admirable to be strong in times of distress but your worth isn't based solely on how well you can pretend not to feel like shit

why not present that quick-ass thinking she did to get around Bonny’s mistake? THAT is the mark of someone who’s ready to be on stage. somebody who’s ready for any eventuality; that’s the mark of a clever performer. she kept a cool head and let the show go on; thats impressive!!!

get this shoe-horned in shit outta my face.

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alright alright... theyre trying to have an emotional moment between siblings. ill calm down... for now.

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Apollo: You’ve really changed Edge––– eh h I mean, Nahyuta.

Nahyuta: fuck you. 

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trucy: you don't like to talk about your past, do you? because you always change the subject!

apollo: its not so much that i don't like to talk about it as that it’s constantly being rewritte––– 

[shotgun cocking sound from capcom]

apollo: I-ITS PARTY TIME, ITS PARTY TIME, EVERYBODY’S GETTIN DOWN BECAUSE ITS PARTY TIME

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phoenix: you're a full fledged lawyer, apollo

apollo: aww gee thanks

phoenix: do you know the definition of full-fledged, in the bird world

apollo: uh

phoenix: it means they fly the coop. leave the nest. go to a completely different country, shall we say

apollo: ah

phoenix: just putting that out there apropos of nothing.

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PHOENIX TALK TO YOUR FUCKING DAUGHTER. CHRIST. shit. sigh.

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apollo is now fucking dead, and living up to the title “Spirit of Justice”