#such terrible tales

[howlidae]

So like. That new such terrible tales chapter huh. @attorneytrash

bonus:

[yukiakarii]

Fanart for Such Terrible Tales Chap7！

All the clothes and hairstyles are from my imagination🥺

[mlomp12]

Such Terrible Tales - Simon Blackquill, the Jackdaw

go read Such Terrible Tales by @attorneytrash! You don’t even need to know much about any of the characters to be able to enjoy the story.

Something that stood out to me was definitely the way characters behaved! Especially Simon’s expressions. Wanted to capture that here!

Do read it, it’s a genuinely good read even without the ace attorney dressing on top of it.

Oh also it’s blackmadhi.

[yourbenevolence]

I've got some tricks up my sleeve

Takes one to know one,

You're a cowboy like me

Finally posting again for a piece based on @attorneytrash ‘s fic Such Terrible Tales !! Been all I’ve thinking about for so long🫶🫶😭

[rbccrchrds]

When you want to draw fanart for your fave fic but the only thing you can draw is flowers.

Might post the other final version later, can’t decide if I prefer with or without fish. This is also the first drawing I’ve done in at least a year. I really am considering trying to illustrate more of this story but I might need to teach myself how to draw people again first!

Such Terrible Tales by attorneysgeneral

[meowizard]

its just a bodyguard au. it's just a ace attorney fantasy au. it's just your average fanfic

[spyres]

[demaparbat-hp]

On your most recent From the Couch post... is that a dragon tattoo I see poking out of Zuko's collar? ...................may we see more of it?

You may see all of it.

[hellsite-hall-of-ex-girlfriend]

it is with a heavy (cryptid) heart that i inform you all that @/hellsite-hall-of-fame and i have decided to go our separate ways

details under the break

we are no strangers to love you know the rules and so do i a full commitment is what i am thinking of you would not get this from any other guy

i just wanna tell you how i am feeling gotta make you understand

never gonna give you up never gonna let you down never gonna run around and desert you never gonna make you cry never gonna say goodbye never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

we have known each other for so long your heart has been aching, but you are too shy to say it inside, we both know what has been going on we know the game and we are gonna play it

and if you ask me how i am feeling do not tell me you are too blind to see

never gonna give you up never gonna let you down never gonna run around and desert you never gonna make you cry never gonna say goodbye never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

never gonna give you up never gonna let you down never gonna run around and desert you never gonna make you cry never gonna say goodbye never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

we have known each other for so long your heart has been aching, but you are too shy to say it inside, we both know what has been going on we know the game and we are gonna play it

i just wanna tell you how i am feeling gotta make you understand

never gonna give you up never gonna let you down never gonna run around and desert you never gonna make you cry never gonna say goodbye never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

never gonna give you up never gonna let you down never gonna run around and desert you never gonna make you cry never gonna say goodbye never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

never gonna give you up never gonna let you down never gonna run around and desert you never gonna make you cry never gonna say goodbye never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

april fools btw hehehehe (please do not hate meeeee)

Madame Curator i love you very very much ♡ ♡ ♡

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

[riddlerosehearts]

♡ Once Upon A Studio (2023)

[gingermintpepper]

In my Zeus bag today so I'm just gonna put it out there that exactly none of the great Ancient Greek warrior-heroes stayed loyal and faithful and completely monogamous and yet none of them have their greatness questioned nor do we question why they had the cultural prominence that they did and still do.

Jason, the brilliant leader of the Argo, got cold feet when it came to Medea - already put off by some of her magic and then exiled from his birthland because of her political ploys, he took Creusa to bed and fully intended on marrying her despite not properly dissolving things with Medea.

Theseus was a fierce warrior and an incredibly talented king but he had a horrible temper and was almost fatally weak to women. This is the man who got imprisoned in the Underworld for trying to get a friend laid, the man who started the whole Attic War because he couldn't keep his legs closed.

And we cannot at all forget Heracles for whom a not inconsiderable amount of his joy in life was loving people then losing the people around him that he loved. Wives, children, serving boys, mentors, Heracles had a list of lovers - male and female - long enough to rival some gods and even after completing his labours and coming down to the end of his life, he did not have one wife but three.

And y'know what, just because he's a cultural darling, I'll put Achilles up here too because that man was a Theseus type where he was fantastic at the thing he was born to do (that is, fight whereas Theseus' was to rule) but that was not enough to eclipse his horrid temper and his weakness to young pretty things. This is the man that killed two of Apollo's sons because they wouldn't let him hit - Tenes because he refused to let Achilles have his sister and Troilus who refused Achilles so vehemently that he ran into Apollo's temple to avoid him and still couldn't escape.

All four of these men are still celebrated as great heroes and men. All four of these men are given the dignity of nuance, of having their flaws treated as just that, flaws which enrich their character and can be used to discuss the wider cultural point of what truly makes a hero heroic. All four of these men still have their legacies respected.

Why can that same mindset not be applied to Zeus? Zeus, who was a warrior-king raised in seclusion apart from his family. Zeus who must have learned to embrace the violence of thunder for every time he cried as a babe, the Corybantes would bang their shields to hide the sound. Zeus learned to be great because being good would not see the universe's affairs in its order.

The wonderful thing about sympathy is that we never run out of it. There's no rule stopping us from being sympathetic to multiple plights at once, there's no law that necessitate things always exist on the good-evil binary. Yes, Zeus sentenced Prometheus to sufferation in Tartarus for what (to us) seems like a cruel reason. Prometheus only wanted to help humans! But when you think about Prometheus' actions from a king's perspective, the narrative is completely different: Prometheus stole divine knowledge and gifted it to humans after Zeus explicitly told him not to. And this was after Prometheus cheated all the gods out of a huge portion of wealth by having humans keep the best part of a sacrifice's meat while the gods must delight themselves with bones, fat and skin. Yes, Zeus gave Persephone away to Hades without consulting Demeter but what king consults a woman who is not his wife about the arrangement of his daughter's marriage to another king? Yes, Zeus breaks the marriage vows he set with Hera despite his love of her but what is the Master of Fate if not its staunchest slave?

The nuance is there. Even in his most bizarre actions, the nuance and logic and reason is there. The Ancient Greeks weren't a daft people, they worshipped Zeus as their primary god for a reason and they did not associate him with half the vices modern audiences take issue with. Zeus was a father, a visitor, a protector, a fair judge of character, a guide for the lost, the arbiter of revenge for those that had been wronged, a pillar of strength for those who needed it and a shield to protect those who made their home among the biting snakes. His children were reflections of him, extensions of his will who acted both as his mercy and as his retribution, his brothers and sisters deferred to him because he was wise as well as powerful. Zeus didn't become king by accident and it is a damn shame he does not get more respect.

[stormsandskies]

something about how an albatross was seen as a good or bad luck sign depending on how you treated it and the riptide pirates ship being named The Albatross

their friends and allies being excited to see it cut through the water, their flag blowing in the wind, the crew standing on its welcoming deck and knowing that stepping aboard feels like coming home in a way

their enemies see it cut through the water and know chaos is about to be unleashed, it’s sails look menacing and dark as it sails towards you, the flag proudly displayed despite all that it represents, the crew standing on the deck with looks of determination and to them stepping aboard feels like going to an early grave.

[hypewinter]

The Young Justice learns about a new experiment going on at Cadmus once again involving cloning and decides to go rescue the clones. They expertly break into the facility avoiding all alarms only to find out that they trigger anyway. Instead of a voice coming on over the intercoms announcing intruders though, it instead announces an escape. What?

The team continues navigating the base until they come across two kids. The older boy can't be older than 8 while the girl being tugged along behind him looks around 5. The boy narrows his eyes and his body tenses up.

"You're definitely not guards. Who are you?" He questions.

It's Superboy who steps up and says "We're the Young Justice. We came here to rescue you."

The boy doesn't seem to believe them but the girl immediately gets excited. Apparently she couldn't wait to meet real life superheroes. Especially Superboy. That means whatever Cadmus was doing with the kids, they'd already implanted knowledge of the outside world in them. That didn't bode well.

The team decides to push that to the back of their minds for now and focus on the mission. They manage to convince the boy (with the help of the girl) to come with them and they get the two out of the facility. Of course this is after they take all the information they can from the servers (Thanks Robin).

As they get both kids to the medical wing on the Watchtower, the boy introduces himself as Danny and the little girl as his sister Ellie. Connor's never seen clones with such a close bond before and he can admit he's a little jealous that he and Match don't have that kind of relationship. Still he's just happy they rescued the two.

Now to find out who they're clones of and what Cadmus wanted to use them for.

[clockworkreapers]

I'm just making stuff up at this point, same day as the stop by the side of the road

So like... who is gonna go out there to get Gaston after he chased off one of those things in the grass? Nose goes?

[essektheylyss]

Okay the Bright Queen is probably not going to talk to the Hells (they don't have a beacon after all) but who else from the Dynasty is here. Is Abrianna in attendance. Who was that unnamed diplomat in the comics who was high enough up to tell Leylas off. That seems like a person who'd be with this delegation. Was it Deirta. Please give me Deirta Thelyss right now, Matthew. It would be so funny.

[ahkaraii]

You thought you were long since past caring about shit like this-- what is shame to a dead man, after all?-- but, fuck's sake. It still hurts, somehow.

In your mind, you rush him-- sever his dominant hand at the wrist, puncture his armpit and lop his pretty head right off-- but the reality is you just wilt a little, and take the insult for what it is: the spittle of a bad owner, kicking at their dog for lack of a better target.

"Do you have anything to say for yourself?"

Go fuck yourself, Raven thinks. "No, sir," Schwann says. "My apologies, sir."

Alexei sighs. "A poor show, today. I expect better, tomorrow."

"Yes, sir," Schwann says, a swift fist to his blastia heart as he bows. "It shall be as you say."