#translated script

[linktoo-doodles]

Ah, yes. Sebastian is an idiot, but he's such a good boy, y'know.

[kasdim]

Working late...

[laminatednewspaper]

“Seeing that he was kind and true the Taker of Secrets did bestow one of her children to the prince Renarin”

[blackkatdraws2]

Whenever Stanley closes his eyes, he can feel the older man's aura surrounding him. [Blank Scripts AU]

[hoppipolla]

In the Fold — Talos

"Do not become a monster, Inspector Han Juwon. Juwon-ah." 

BEYOND EVIL dir. Shim Na Yeon (2021)

[transfemstarscream]

FIRST PANEL: Optimus: "Are you all right? Starscream?" SECOND PANEL: "Commander... what is this? Hey! what are you two doing?!" THIRD AND FOURTH PANELS: Starscream: Optimus... are you ashamed? Are you ashamed to be with me?

star/op manga panel edits, based off of transformers: allspark and henkei! henkei! transformers. read from right-to-left!

[folkdevilism]

"𝓣he walls of the hall are plunged in darkness from which Hutter's back emerges. He faces the motionless figure. Is this pale, ghostly creature with hollow eyes and thin mouth the lord of the castle himself?

The face twists into a polite grimace. Sharp ratlike teeth appear over the lower lip."

[kelasian]

get ready for stupid shitposting in conlangs

[gay-little-izzet]

Compleated Dovin? I feel like he would love it it would be great enrichment for him

Rest in pieces Dovin you would have loved being a phyrexian

He gets killed again because he keeps challenging the praetor’s flawed definitions of perfection 🫤

[lordoflucky]

Quick over-analysis of the ways Barok and Albert address one another, because ace attorney loves showing personality through how characters refer to each other, and I love analyzing it.

Easy one out of the way, Albert exclusively refers to Barok as "Barok" regardless of the situation. He is the only character to do this, with every other character referring to him as some variation of "Prosecutor/Lord van Zieks". This establishes their friendship from the get-go, while also being a bit jarring to the audience as literally no one calls him just "Barok". Even characters who are closer to him, like Gregson and Stronghart, still call him "van Zieks". As far as Albert is concerned, that's just his good friend Barok, not the intimidating Prosecutor Lord van Zieks.

Barok meanwhile has two major ways of referring to Albert:

Firstly, "Albert". This one's simple, he's just reciprocating Albert's first name address, and further cementing their friendship. This is used almost exclusively outside of the courtroom, meanwhile within the courtroom he almost only uses "Professor Harebrayne". An exception to this is right after Albert is forced to accept that the experiment is a failure Barok says:

"And as for you… …Albert. You can't ignore this any longer."

It's a sudden departure from the distant, professional address he's been using the entire trial. It's also a much kinder approach than Barok usually takes when referring to defendants (or anyone really), something Susato comments on directly by saying she's "Never heard him speak that way before." He's breaking the Reaper Persona for just a moment to give his friend a firm, yet ultimately gentle, push.

Back to "Professor Harebrayne", while on the surface it seems distant there is one scene that shows an extra dimension. During the "Laudable not Laughable" scene, a sequence dedicated to Barok giving Albert what is essentially a pep-talk, you would expect him to return to the "Albert" address as seen earlier. Instead, he continues to use "Professor Harebrayne". My interpretation is that Barok is specifically calling attention to the fact that Albert is Professor Harebrayne. He has a title which he earned that is proof of his abilities as a scientist. Following that logic, "Professor Harebrayne" isn't just for formality's sake, but also a representation of the respect Barok holds for Albert separate from their status as friends.

However, Barok actually has a third way of referring to Albert that is used exactly once. In the line directly preceding Albert's (false) confession to murder, Barok says:

"What's all this about… Mr Harebrayne?"

Mr Harebrayne. Not Professor, not Albert, Mr.

If "Professor Harebrayne" is meant to show respect, and "Albert" is meant to show fondness, then clearly "Mr Harebrayne" is the absence of both.

He's not "Brilliant Scientist Professor Harebrayne" and he's not "Dear Friend Albert", he is Mr Harebrayne and he is about to do something so, so stupid. And there's nothing Barok can do to stop him.

My chosen interpretation is that this is Barok's desperate attempt to verbally smack some sense into Albert. This is like the Barok equivalent of grabbing Albert by the shoulders and yelling "What the hell do you think you're doing???"

As an aside, this comes right before the "...Albert. You can't ignore this any longer" line. Meaning the latter can almost been seen as an apology for being so harsh moments before.

Just, Mr Harebrayne. It's such a minor change, but I adore it so much. With how much care ace attorney puts into the way characters refer to each other, I have to assume it was intentional.

[sannehnagi]

Ni guā itișa nia hișati

I hold you in my eyes.

[murderedbyhomework]

So i found an extremely interesting commment on bilibili from someone who had bought and read the entire og lhl script and also watched the show

translation: ask the director, so much fluff got deleted…. the script was filled with so much ship content, better than a lot of danmei novels i’ve read. In the later periods it was a solid reciprocal relationship, xiaobao was so top energy, and xiaohua really liked to sajiao (playing cute). When xh when to explain to xb that he didn’t kill his dad his first sentence was “i’m sorry i betrayed your trust, i was wrong okay?”. when xb went to save xh from the palace, xh was tortured for information and xiaobao helped him dress his wounds, and also broke the hand of the man who hurt him. xb felt so bad for him he started crying and xh started to sajiao “i’m very glad that you came to save me, but look (waves handcuffs), i had it under control” xiaobao also asked “how are you” xiaohua replied that shan gudao went to the palace to find the mother bug and xiaobao replied “i was asking how your wounds were”…… also when xiaobao broke out of the trap improving his original swordplay his opponent wasn’t qi mushan but li xiangyi….lastly when xiaobao gave xiaohua his qi xiaohua’s internal monologue was “the world only wants the all knowing, all capable, godlike li xiangyi, but at least someone still insists on treating me like the normal person li lianhua, that is enough” it’s all gone i’m so mad

[kingcreativityau]

Hi, I was wondering if, because you aren’t planning on working on this any time soon, you would be willing to release any notes you had on the story. I’m curious about how the story ends and so if you had anything on that it would be really appreciated.

Hi!

I'm willing to spoil a bit of the story for your curiosity, so here you go!

So what I planned to do was to do a bit of more backstory bits and the Split itself (personally one of my favourite moments)

And then to go on with the main story. Some main bits:

Virgil's nightmares terrorizing them all. Turns out baby Patton has some power over them though. Also, Janus can fight them.

King pitting Janus and Virgil against each other. Manipulating Virgil, having lots of talks with him. There's one moment where he pretends to be twins 'breaking through' and throws some shade about Jan, so Virgil (already being on the edge) actually goes to fight him.

Lo keeps staying in the middle. Being the glue to hold it all together.

There's still some doubts about our local snake though.

Then King separates them for a bit later on. Lo stays on his own with Pat and King steals baby Patton to, well, torment him a bit. Some stuff ensues. (also one of my personal favourites). Anyway, Virgil goes to attempt to rescue him later.

Let's say Shadow Virgil plays some role in there. And that kickstarts the plot of there actually being hope to fix this mess :)

And then there's the second half of the story. Which I like even more but I think that's enough spoilers for today :)

Hope you liked it!

[project-sekai-facts]

The text on the book in Tsukasa's trained Star Melody 4* card is a translation of the opening lines of the Pianist Named Torpe play from On the stage of dazzling light. It is slightly different from the official English translation later provided by Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage.

[emry-stars-art]

Oops wrong au 👀🦈🪼

[semisentientseafood]

Did another special fest lobby music band design, this time for Decksterity (artist of the Frostyfest lobby music Yule Tide!)