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not now thrall there’s a hurricane

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Road 96 in Gifs

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Terry Pratchett

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sirin doodle

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Me: wow after over a year's break I'm actually getting significant chunks of fic writing done for this project I kept delaying (55k and counting!). I can't wait to finish it.

My pelican-like brain: fran-maya-simon v polycule perfec t size for put new fic in to w/rite! inside very easy and fun fic to write put fran-maya-simon v polycule in new fic. Put fran-maya-simon v polycule with trans Maya discussion of gender in kurain In new fic. no problems ever in new fic because good real plot and Ideas for fic words because fic writing hard. Mew fic yes a place for a fran-maya-simon v polycule put polycule in new fic can trust fic for giveing good time to writing. Not distraction.

Me: okay. You can stop that now

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What’s she doing in court at 10am on a Thursday in October. Girl your classes.

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thinking about how apollo’s life is only so tragic because he was so loved. the people who left him didn’t do so by choice, and even the one that did was always so torn up, so haunted by it. jove, dhurke, clay—all of them loved him until their last dying breath. he might’ve thought he never had a family, but he has so much of it now, in two different corners of the world. he was so loved. he still is. the cost of love is the chance of loss, but he’s not unlucky—every loss has given him something back, too, and made him grow.

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shows up 20 years late take a load of this fuckin guy

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5-5 is great because it has this one moment where the camera pans to apollo and athena for like a couple frames and they just look at the camera like this

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Shelly de Killer seeing how the woman he literally just shot in the shoulder keeps walking towards the courthouse as if nothing happened:

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The armor stays on during sex because it takes like five people to help me take it off and put it back on again and I’d rather not call them at this hour

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back in business

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recently remembered these two

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5 & 8 for the book asks pwease <33

5. Crowd Pleaser: Book you would recommend to almost anyone

Crowd Pleaser is probably not the most accurate title, but the one book I would recommend to basically anyone from this year is Kindred by Octavia Butler. The scifi elements are interesting to fans but not offputting to non-scifi people, and it was not an easy read emotionally but a very good one. The themes about race, how we communicate things that are so difficult to understand except in person, and the things people may be pushed to do to survive are still horribly relevant.

8. Blorbo Of The Year: Perhaps not your favorite of the year, but contains The Character

Sticking to stuff I read new this year, it's gotta be older Hester Shaw from Infernal Devices and A Darkling Plain. She's so bad at being a good person and it somehow makes her incredibly likeable. Morally ambiguous protagonist and Mother of All Time, i love you

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I totally agree, I think public image and perception (and to some extent the performativity that comes with that) are really important to Edgeworth - and as a theme in aa in general.

Actually what your reply made me think of was Franziska, who has a similar upbringing and issues and who speaks about this a few times.

She's referred to as a prodigy by herself and others - which of course Edgeworth also is. But for both of them I think it's really significant that they are both hothoused and to some extent have never really had a chance to experience life outside of their image and work - which causes them both a great deal of harm when they can no longer fulfil that expectation.

But I think what most makes me think about this is Franziska's insistence that defeating Phoenix and specifically having that defeat be published, public knowledge will get revenge for Edgeworth.

She literally refers to it as a dream come true - to her the only way she can get revenge is to defeat Phoenix and rehabilitate Edgeworth's public image. It's a way of trying to protect those aspects you mention above - his idea of himself and the public perception of Edgeworth as a prosecutor.

^^^ 'You ruined his reputation as a prosecutor! You effectively killed the prosecutor in him.' I think that statement says a lot about how Edgeworth thinks and how Franziska who has been his sister for 15 years thinks about him. I think a lot of her arc is about wanting to connect with Edgeworth, and it's interesting how the best (and really only) option she sees for that is to take it to the courtroom and try and redeem him publicly.

This morning's AA thought is that people who argue about whether or not Edgeworth actually made a suicide attempt post-AA1 have always confused me. I genuinely don't think the details of his disappearance matter more than the fact of it in itself, which is that he was in a bad enough place to go M.I.A about it through a combination of the recent devastating events in his life and the fact that he was publically under fire (<- and I think the latter is underdiscussed when talking about Prosecutor Miles Edgeworth Chooses Death but. anyways).

I imagine the debate is a case of sort of... trying to negotiate sympathy that Edgeworth may or may not deserve for the disappearance, especially considering the effect it had on Phoenix and Franziska? Which is also confusing to me because even in the case that he was so affected that he made an attempt on his life, the impact of his actions remain and you're still going to have to work with the reality of the absence (which hasn't even been apologized for) hurting the two people closest to him. Which doesn't in any way remove the fact that he was in a very bad place when he did it, for very sympathetic reasons.