#to a degree

[a-cat-in-toffee]

i found some old art of my civilian!dakota au so i redrew it

[dozecoin]

concept: stuilly as poolverine/deadclaws

[leggalese]

Gonna make a seperate ASKS OPEN that are more related to headcanons, opinions, AUs and some other stuff like analysis and design about the Ace Attorney games. However I can only answer asks regarding the games I did play. :)

Games I played: The original Ace Attorney trilogy, The first Ace Attorney Investigations game, Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney (first game)

ART REQUESTS ARE CLOSED! ( I am too tired :( )

[chris-spacehere]

guys guys guys, today rubius showed luzu and quackity some images to make them think they got married

and this is the original image

AAAND if you look closely

so TECHNICALLY SPEAKING cwilbur is canon to karmaland because i say so

[moss-abyss]

The world paints an apostle in.

You are destiny incarnate, the world decrees, eyes curled into crescents and hands shaking with glee.

But the world is young, rough and unskilled; the world does not realise his creation was not an 'it' but a 'him'.

The one favoured by god, fallible and unloved, saw what he was and reached past and above. I am afraid, he thrums but cannot scream; so with an ire so wired and sired bleeding down, down, down through the body and into this barren empire, he screams himself bloody and raw with his eyes, fists, and jaw.

He is deemed a traitor.

Fighting back against his title and creator, what foolishness -- what folly. Chains. Ball and chains for the sinner until he is sorry.

I don't understand, the world gripes, aggrieved and all-powerful.

I don't understand, his creation snipes back, scarred and resentful.

And time moves on sluggish and dull until a chance, a miracle, fell upon the ridiculed.

With a heave of fresh air, limbs and mind light, free,

I am destiny incarnate? Then my namesake, I will be.

[ovaryacted]

I need to scratch the itch of domesticating Logan so bad. Like we got glimpses of the calm life he could’ve had in Origins and the fact that Stryker literally took that all away from him and he loved Kayla so much he didn’t even care about her betrayal.

Anyways, I just want to write about him being all soft because he deserves it. Slow Sunday mornings, cooking in the kitchen, snuggling up with him as he reads a book and taking a nap on his chest cause he’s so warm, sharing a beer with him and watching some shitty reality TV show. I need the yearning and eventual thawing of his cold heart as you weave your way into his life and he taps into something he thought was long forgotten.

PLEASE PLEASE I NEED IT SO BAD PLEASE.

[gemidoriwillbarelyusethisaccount]

"...Say that this "script" was written by a tree, wanting to stand tall.

The critical reception isn't good...they say, This came up so short, the director is gonna dialogue!~"

Wanted to have both my AU Sifs meet so have Playing One knock over tall boi Squibbin just to bully :3

[twistedtummies2]

"Awwww...I can feel you shaking in my coils. What is it, my little friend? Don't you trussst me? Are you ssscared? Or maybe...it's more that you don't trussst yourssself? That cute little grin tells me you're excited! Sss-sss-sss-sss! Ssso cute...I don't even have to hypnotize you! That'sss right...jussst relax there. You're jussst in time...for sssupper..."

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More art of Nakoda and the MC/Anon, this time full-size. Once again, the artist is the marvelous @whiteswarmart. 'Nuff said.

[shortbreadly]

making my way through the final destination franchise and all i can say is that i appreciate the running theme of saw 3D actors making appearances

[angstphilosophy]

ducktales x gomens scribbles

text reads,

Panel 1: "You're on your own with this one." Panel 2; "By the way, word on the street is, anyone involved with Gabriel's disappearance will be erased from the book of life. 'Extreme sanctions,' or whatever."

Panel 3: crowley's screaming ANGEL in the background

[ff7-has-taken-me-over]

(Au where Daniel comes to West Valley a year or two before he does in the movie)

After the beach the guys give Daniel a chance because he’s stubborn as shit and they find he’s not into Ali. Not even into girls but that’s nothing new around their part of the country. They find he’s actually really funny and annoyingly nice and loyal. Daniel gets so fucking worked up and angry when people say shit about them, even if it is true and the guys find it both amusing and kinda nice to have another one of them.

Daniel sort of becomes the baby of the group, both because he’s the youngest (both in age and in terms of being apart of their group) and because the guys all think he’s adorable. Not that they tell him or each other that, because that’s kinda gay.

It’s not until there’s this match, they’re all competing and Daniel’s there to cheer them on. He didn’t have much interest in participating but he enjoyed watching the guys compete, found it fun and liked the post victory high they all held.

Johnny wins (again) but Dutch comes second this year and he’s absolutely glowing with pride. He usually gets disqualified after round 2, too hopped up on adrenaline and ready to fight anything that breathes funny.

The guys all come out to the parking lot, looking for Daniel so they can all head to their favourite diner and celebrate. Thoughts came to an abrupt stop when they find him in the parking lot, leaning against Johnny’s car with a scowl and some big guy from the tournament standing in front of him. He’s got his arms crossed, the guy leaning with one arm up by his head while the other keeps trying to tug at Daniel’s arm.

The Jersey kid keeps pulling away, glaring as he says something or other. The big guy laughs, hand coming up to cup Daniel’s cheek.

The guys don’t need to know what happens next since their all running forward. Dutch is the fastest and loudest, pulling the guys attention toward them before he’s tackling him to the ground. Daniel’s eyes go wide but he doesn’t get the chance to react much, Tommy and Bobby coming up to him and dragging him away as Johnny, Dutch and Jimmy square off with the guy.

So maybe they care for Daniel a little more than they were willing to admit to themselves. And maybe Daniel’s been crushing on them since he met them all a year ago. And maybe they all turn out to be a bunch of possessive, jealous assholes when literally anyone tries hitting on their baby. And maybe! They take him home to Johnny’s (cause the guys parents are gone again) and take their turns and their sweet ass times showing him exactly who he belongs to now that they’ve gotten their heads out of their asses.

Daniel shows up to school Monday, limping like a mf, sporting a shit ton of hickies (some of them just barely hidden under his clothes) and with the widest smile anyone has ever seen on him. The Cobras don’t really act any different, nor does Daniel honestly, but everybody knows there’s a change in their dynamic.

It’s in the way Dutch gives up his food even though he’s the most possessive over it. It’s how Bobby smiles at the mere mention of Daniel. How Tommy snuggles in close to Daniel in the halls or at lunch. How Jimmy quiets near instantly when Daniel places a hand on his arm or smiles his way. How Johnny hovers constantly and glares at everyone who looks a moment too long.

Even Daniel has changed around them. He’s a little softer (more tame some would even dare say) has these little tells with each Cobra Kai member to get them to do whatever he wants. It’s kinda adorable to see the baddest kids in school wrapped around his little finger.

[sentient-stove]

“Leo,” Cold, cold arms wrapped around him as Festus dipped with a wind current, wings barely moving to adjust the long glide their party of four had been sustaining for the past few hours.

Everyone felt so much more cold after the cure, or maybe that was just him burning up more. Calypso tightened her arms around his middle as she leaned into his back, her voice barely audible above the wind and flight.

“Leo, you’re not breathing again.” She murmured.

Ah.

He’d forgotten that he kinda needed to do that. Leo sucked in air, and after a terrifying second, he could feel his own heart start to beat at his conscious willing for it to do so. It’s times like these, when he feels dead still, like he’s haunting his own body despite being tethered to it and it scared him. That one day he might wake up and leave his body behind because he came back wrong.

[theworldisourstohold]

It’s the simple things in life for him 😭

[eternal-reverie]

sooooooo has anyone else imagined an amv of skuld and ephemer (everyone else too but mainly these two) during the fall of daybreak town that goes to the song “die with a smile” ???

[hamliet]

In the context of fiction and media, everything is so sexualized especially when I think of shipping. Even ships with underage minors and adults are popular and why?? Fiction directly affects reality does it not? Why is it okay to show that?

Sexuality is a very normal, healthy part of human behavior. While some people are asexual and that is also normal and healthy, the majority are not. Most people like sex, find it fun and meaningful. All human experiences should be reflected in art (what else is art for?), so sexuality should be reflected in a lot of art.

Unfortunately, we live in a culture that paradoxically both idolizes and shames sexuality, and this is as prevalent among the fundamentalist religious as it is among leftist spaces. So when art ignores sexuality completely, or ignores certain types of sexuality (see, the female gaze, or queer expressions of sex) fans will create that art themselves--such as via shipping. Shipping is simply "there's a story to be told here" and that story may or may not involve sex (most often does) and even in some cases, be primarily about sex.

Fiction is both shaped by reality and can shape reality, but that's not the same as saying it's a 1=1 mirror of reality where you can exactly correlate A cause with B result. Like, look up the anti video game movement of the 90s, the Satanic Panic and the way emo music was blamed for tragedies like Columbine, and ask yourself why people who like detective mysteries aren't murderers.

Yet, there is nuance here for sure. Like, I'll just bluntly state moral policing is a boring way to engage with art and fandom, and that goes beyond just sexuality. However, that isn't the same as saying take off your critical thinking hat, anything goes. Criticism is a very necessary part of fandom and engagement, and must be allowed (shakes fist at toxic positivity). But criticism as a field is designed to open doors more so than close them. It's a discussion more than anything else (note: discussing does not mean conclusions can't be drawn; they can). I have called out the real life implications of different stories before, and I'll do it again.

Me saying "moral policing stories is boring" also isn't me advocating for amorality. Not at all. Ethical questions posed by works can elevate a work to the realm of a masterpiece. There's a reason The Brothers Karamazov is considered top-tier literature. But ethics and morality are best explored not through statements, but through examination of what someone means when they say something is wrong or right. Fiction is a fabulous way to do this.

Let's use the example of minors and adults. Sad face, because "minor" in fandom can mean anything from "short person" (yes, really, I've seen that argued that someone who is short is "minor coded") to "17 year old" to "five year old." Shipping a 17 year old and an 18 year old is way different than, say, a preteen and a person their parent's age.

Like, in real life, people do not have a magical switch in their brain when they turn 18. An 18 year old dating a 17 year old is normal. It's not ethically dubious. An 18 year old (legal!) dating a 40 year old? Is ethically suspect to me, even if it isn't illegal. Ages are the best ways we have to protect children and keep them safe, but there's a reason most laws allow for an 18 and a 17 year old to date. At the same time, no one in their right mind would object to the moral statement "minors shouldn't date adults" (unless you're Matt Gaetz) with a "WELL WHAT ABOUT" because basic guardrails can't be built around exceptions, and the alternative is so horrifying that the guardrail exists for a damn good reason. But real life or fictitious, an 18 and 17 year old is not really sketchy.

Plus, I caution that the portrayal of a thing isn't necessarily the endorsement or "normalization" of said thing. Framing matters. A story can be used to powerfully show the pain of entering a relationship in which a young person is in way over their head. In fandom specifically, the shipping "story" people are interested in, regardless of ages or whatnot, might not be a happily-ever-after one, and might be a way to process their own abuse. I think there's a famous queer author who got "cancelled" for this, but she was processing her own experiences and framed it as negative, which is very sad.

There are other considerations too. For example, the medium of a story also matters. Film (and theater) inherently muddy the fiction and reality discourse dilemma in a way that written or drawn mediums do not: they use real people, so there are multiple layers in which this discourse can be discussed. Fandom and shipping, however, does not (on the whole) use these mediums.

I also know some people age up characters or de-age them to ship them at the same age, because they like the dynamic but do have ethical concerns about ages. I personally feel squicked out when there's a power dynamic like minor/adult (as in the paragraph above), teacher/student, or mentor/mentee, even if both are adults. And yet despite this I still like stories like Scum Villain's Self Saving System which are literally designed to provoke questions about shipping and fandom and morality, because they make me use my critical thinking and are aware of the problematic aspects of their works and precisely explore what makes it problematic, and what makes it not. SVSSS approaches it like:

A teacher who abuses his pupil enters into a relationship with him when they are adults, no grooming when kids. Sounds ethically suspect, right?

What if it's set in an ancient fantasy world where people fly on swords and live as immortals?

What happens to the idea of age (past a certain point in development) when you're immortal and stay physically young? (We don't have a real-life starting point for this.)

What if said teacher is literally no longer the same soul, but has been swapped for another soul?

What if the new soul is forced to be unkind under pain of not just death but soul obliteration?

What if age becomes speculative because the new soul isn't necessarily older than the pupil?

You see, there are a million angles from which SVSSS approaches this question, and ties these questions in with themes about individuality and presuppositions (essentially: see the individual more than the "type" of character). It's not mocking the questions. It's genuinely exploring them.

So, ethical questions can be very interesting in stories, and in terms of how fans interact with fiction as well. But not in terms of preaching, but in terms of interaction, in terms of making you question things--which is not the same as tossing aside all principles of morality.