#this is why I find him so compelling

[transhawks]

No but like he was unhinged and weird since the beginning but no one apparently notice, or bothered by it?

He became the fastest top 10 hero at the age of 18 without high school connection to gain his fandom (while in universe that's the reason why internship is so important in UA)? No one cares how?

And apparently NO ONE know his name? Or bothered to know?

His modus operandi is by running toward enemies by himself and only using sidekicks for clean up (Not even All Might did that toward Sir Nighteye or Endeavor toward Burnin')? People thought that's normal?

He suddenly humiliated the new Number One hero and his fellow heroes only like, "welp that's just like him"?

He came to Jeanist's home, brandishing his swords, and who know what method he used to convey "hey man I am on secret spy mission right know, may I allowed to operate your lungless body so you appeared dead and can fit on this tiny body bag? And Jeanist was only like "I am in"?

He suddenly became cultist book sales to not only Endeavor but also Kamui Woods/others and no one intrigued more than "another one of his antics? wait there's doomsday message-"

HE ARRANGED SPEECH FOR HEROES PRESS CONFERENCE JUST LESS THAN 24 HOUR AFTER BEING BURNT ALIVE?

THAT MAN IS JUST TINY 23 YEARS OLD BIRD, WHAT DO YOU MEAN "We cannot disregard earnest plea from Endeavor, Hawks, and most notably All Might" WORLD LEADER GENTLEMEN? GROUPING THE BARELY ADULT WITH FLASHY VETERAN GEEZERS?

The feeling when you're so dependable so people ignored your many red flags..

(jokes aside, that's frustrated me so much as someone who has lil bro on Hawks' age. This boy should be in a club this boy should be in a club-)

I really need to update this but you might like this throwback from me:

[laurellala-comics]

Fun fact! This was the real tipping point that made Edgeworth run away after AA1, they just couldn't show it on screen because they didn't have the rights to Chappell Roan's music <3

(A spiritual successor to my "Hot to Go" joke from this post. Image description under the cut below)

[Image ID: a four page black and white comic of characters from ace attorney.

The Judge stands solemnly at his podium holding a gavel "Mr. Miles Edgeworth, you are on trial for the murder of blah blah blah..."

A cheerful Maya Fey leans over to Miles Edgeworth, who is staring straight ahead and looking very concerned

Maya: "Psst! Mr. Edgeworth! If you win your trial, can I show you Chappell Roan?

Miles: "What the hell, sure." Internally he thinks "Oh God I am going to jail"

A box saying "later" in the top corner of the next panel marks the passage of time.

The Judge smiles as he says "I declare you... Not Guilty!"

We see a full body shot of Maya dancing excitedly while Miles looks on, emotionless

Maya: YIPPEE omg you're going to LOVE this

Miles internally thinks "oh no, the consequences of my actions.

We see Miles standing in between Phoenix Wright and Maya looking apprehensive. Maya beams in excitement, while Nick puts a reassuring hand on Miles' shoulder

Miles: Alright, so what is this exactly?

Nick: She's a pop musician Maya really likes

Maya: You promised you'd let me show you, and it's legally binding because you said it in a court room!

Miles: That is not how the law works Ms. Fey

Maya: Shh just listen!

We see a panel of Miles' pensive face concentrating as he listens to "Hot to Go". He thinks to himself "hm".

Another panel zoomed in more. His pensive expression has grown more tense/confused as he listens to "Red Wine Supernova". he again thinks to himself "Hm" in a larger thought bubble.

We zoom out again to see Nick, Miles, and Maya standing together again. Miles stares forward blankly, eyebrows raised. Maya excitedly leans in.

Maya: Ok, that's her whole discography. So! What did you think?

Nick looks at him, waiting for his response

We get a panel of Miles, looking bewildered. He starts to speak "I..."

We cut again to see the three of them standing together.

Miles: I... don't think I like women?

Miles looks shocked and confused. Nick is bent over laughing, using a hand on Miles's shoulder to support himself. Maya looks outraged and appalled!

Maya: MR. EDGEWORTH! Just because you don' like her musi it doesn't give you an excuse to be sexist!

We see a panel of Miles looking stressed and confused. He leans his head on one of his hands, which messes up his hair, showing how he isn't his normal put together self.

Miles: I should rephrase that. What I mean is, Ms. Roan is clearly VERY assured in her feelings towards women. I was... unaware that anyone felt that strongly. I thought we all viewed these things with a vague sense of distaste and unease but collectively ignored it. Like how we do with climate change.

We zoom out again to see the three of them. Miles stands in the middle looking deeply uncomfortable and lost in thought, vibrating with unease. Nick and Maya exchange deeply concerned glances across from him.

With lingering unease, Miles begins to walk away.

Miles: Well, I should be going then. Goodnight.

Nick hesitantly raises a finger to point out an inaccuracy in that statement

Nick: It's four in the afternoon-

he gets interrupted by Miles who repeats firmly: I said Goodnight

Nick looks in the direction Miles walked off in.

Nick: ...He'll be ok, right?

Maya reassures him: Of cours Nick! I mean, what's the worst that can happen?

Jump cut to a closeup of Nick's hand holding Miles' letter which reads Miles Edgeworth chooses death in all caps. Then, below in smaller font, it says Also femininomenon was really good, thanks.

We see a panel of Nick glaring wordlessly at Maya as he holds the letter in his hand. Maya leans against the wall and looks away, whistling, trying to look innocent to avoid blame.

As a bonus, we also have a page that takes place a year later. Miles and Nick stand talking. Miles looks calmer now, and Nick smiles encouragingly.

Miles: In my time in Europe, I've been examining myself and my approach to law. Ultimately, the most important focus must be justice. We owe it to ourselves and to the people we serve

Nick: Wow, that's really inspiring Edgeworth. And, uh, hows the... the other thing going?

We get a zoomed in panel of Miles glaring menacingly at a suddenly nervous Nick

Jumping out again, Miles turns his back to Nick as he continues to talk

Miles: So as I was saying, justice is truly so important...

Nick nervously rubs the back of his neck wearing an awkward expression as he sweats nervously. He thinks to himself internally "Ooookay then, clearly still working through some things there"

/.End ID]

[elfcollector]

solas stans are so crazy to me. the man shows up in ur life, uses you as a tool in his plot to execute a plan that — by his own admission! — will result in the vast majority of living beings and entire RACES of people dead, MAYBE comes to respect you but not enough to back out of or reconsider the genocide plans, perhaps DATES YOU under these false pretenses, then abandons you entirely

he thinks people like dwarves and qunari and hell anyone who isnt an elf mage are not people. he calls all qunari savages not based on their religion or culture but their phrenology. he rejects the entire idea of growth or change

like i LIKE solas hes a really cool character i cant wait to see what happens with him i think solavellan shippers are awesome etc etc. but TO PRETEND HE IS SOME NOBLE HERO WHO'S NEVER DONE ANYTHING WRONG and no one is allowed to dislike him or talk about him as an antagonist is DERANGED. YOU ARE DERANGED !!!

[adimouze]

i dont personally care if VB gets the cadillac seat. the thought of never seeing daniel in an f1 car again is enough to push me away from the entire f1 thing all together

[aroanthy]

i love how fraught and complicated discourse around various utena characters ‘dying’ is when anthy is literally stabbed to death eternally by a million swords imbued with human hatred. and then utena gets stabbed to death by them also. like. ‘death’ is incredibly interesting in rgu because most of the time it’s this ambiguous figurative thing that has interesting implications re: ohtori as a closed-off world one can escape. we are all trapped in our coffins. mamiya is the only named character with a grave. nemuro memorial hall functions as one all the same. ruka is implied to have died in the hospital— was he dead all along? who was the boy we saw for these two episodes? is this dead boy the same boy, or is this just another coincidence from the shadow girls, cutting like a knife? it’s heavily implied that akio and anthy murder kanae by poisoning her, adding to the previous implication that they were poisoning mr ohtori too, but there are no perceptible consequences of this. kanae’s absence is not felt. she’s fed an apple slice. what happens to the bodies? we know what happened to the 100 boys, but what about everyone else? and so on and so forth. ‘death’ is a tricky thing in utena, i think it’s constantly functioning on figurative and literal levels in very different ways for very different purposes. dios died. dios was dying. dios didn’t die. he grew up. etc etc

[niklausie]

hehehe… coming to a dashboard near you this friday 🥰

[my-thoughts-and-junk]

i can't tell if i'm just not paying attention or if mouthwashing just doesn't make any sense

[mira-likes]

When Fan Xian first sees the words on the monument his mother left behind, his reaction is awe quickly followed by: "I get why she died now." He reflects on how she was a great, brave person who wanted to change the world, and effectively goes, RIP to her but I'm different. I'm not that brave. I just want to be happy and live a good life. I'm not here to transform the world into a better place.

I mentioned how he wasn't taking anything seriously at the start and was feeling like he was outside it all, and his reaction is in line with that. He's like, wow, this vision is so objectively impressive. Good thing it's got nothing to do with me.

The next time he talks about the monument is after Teng Zijing's death. He furiously demands from Zhu Ge if anyone even reads the words written there--the words of how people are equal, and how therefore Teng Zijing's life doesn't matter less than anyone else's. Suddenly, these are not just words too brave for this world to bear; suddenly, he's furious that this world isn't like that--that nobody's even trying to live by these ideals.

He still says he's not ready to become the person who makes this vision into reality. He keeps saying that he's not brave enough. But he keeps coming back to this monument in time of crisis or after a brush with injustice. He gets angrier and angrier, over time, about how few people care; he doesn't want to be the person who cares, but he can't help the outrage that bubbles up in him, either. He wants the world to be better. When an injustice leaps out at him, he's got to fix it. And he oscillates between incandescent rage and the voice in his head which reminds him that, in order to live in this world, he has to play by its rules.

Isn't this why his mother died? Didn't he himself say the world wouldn't tolerate someone wanting to change so much? Doesn't he just want a quiet, happy life?..

He still tries to have that good life, is the thing. He doesn't want to be the one man standing against the crowd, as he says during the examination arc. He doesn't want to challenge the emperor. He spends season two trying to live within the system while it becomes increasingly apparent to him how ill the system fits him--how little it serves anybody except those taking blatant advantage of it. And Fan Xian has immense privilege; he could cruise along easily, if only he could turn off that pesky conscience. It's what most everyone wants him to do. But when push comes to shove, he can't. And it's pretty clear that this will usher in his eventual confrontation with the emperor, however little Fan Xian looks for it.

[weirdbabs]

she just wanted him to say that it was fucked up for scabs to make her head into a giant dobermann to bite her arm!! shes got ptsd!! and instead she was met not only by him telling her to suck it up and ignore her bodys natural response, but him revealing he TOLD her about it. bc it would make her a better fighter

[merlins-strawberriesandroses]

Personally I have not forgotten about the post-finale golden age!!! Merlin is planning continued diplomatic visits with magical beings (a picnic with Freya) 😌

[arsenicflame]

the thing is, right, if izzy WAS evil i would still absolutely love him. hes a fictional character, i don't care about his morals if hes compelling.

but the frustrating thing is that hes not evil, hes not even the antagonist anymore by a long stretch, hes arguably more liked by the crew than ed at the moment, but people still insist that we are reading the text of the show wrong and its going to completely 180 and turn him into a cartoon villain when there is absolutely no sign of that in the show, from the cast and crew, anything!!!

its so ridiculously annoying that i feel i have to defend my stance on a character because some people are so determined to cast him into the roll of a villain he is not, and think that we are the wrong ones for simply reading what the show is putting out

[fae-morrigan]

hilarious being a Jon Kent fan and seeing people who don't like him have takes I 100% agree with.

[jam-packed]

thank god im not a journalist cus the amount of eye contact would kill me

[lilacerull0]

you know that episode really fucked me up this morning

[faksyan]

In hindsight it's. not that surprising that my anxiety is really bad since I had the night hallucinations that make me see Creatures in my room since I was like four. For the longest time I was like ah yes part of it are the nightmares I had as a child and only now I'm realizing that oh yeah. probably the Creatures as well. that was a thing.

[duckydrawsart]

What is it about Shane do you like and does he even get a job when you marry him?

Not me listening to Heart Worth Breaking while drawing Shane and then receiving this ask hours later lolol

For starters, he is the Ideal Shape (round tummies my beloved). And I found it charming that he's cold towards the farmer but you see him attend every town event, dance at the flower festival, hang out at Gus' bar every night (when he could just as easily drink alone at home) and even dress up at Emily's silly fashion show. It gives me the impression that he's actually quite warm and social once he gets attached to someone (you’re not fooling anyone buddy!) And his relationship with Jas and his love for chickens - precious!! my endearing little guy!!!

His story is also very moving. I think anyone who picks themselves up from a very dark place are incredibly strong and admirable. I know Stardew is kinda a silly little game but Shane's story genuinely encourages me to work more on myself.

As for work, I like to imagine him getting back into stuff like video recording and editing (he helps on the farm too but prefers less physically-laborious work lol). Plus recording really helps him recognize the beauty in simple things. Maybe he uploads some videos of the chickens online and they pop off!