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some ace attorney stuff (2022)

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i think everyone who carries on like “you can tell this manga/anime was made by a woman and not a man because there’s no perverted sexualisation in it only wholesome purity!!!!”

should be made to read a clamp manga. specifically chobits

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sometimes I think about Edgeworth keeping a steel samurai fig in his office and I get a little bonkers about it. this is the guy raised to be Perfect, who doesn’t even wear a prosecutors badge because it would look less sophisticated, who wears the same neckwear as his mentor so as to uphold a cohesive image for the family.

and while I think part of it is due to his stubbornness (Oldbag delivered the gift to his office and carrying it out would show that it bothers him or that he cares), I think the more interesting part is that it shows some level of growth, fledgling as it is. his office is the heart of his professional life, and suddenly he’s allowed sentimentality that has nothing to do with his career to have a place in there. immediately behind his desk, no less—one of the first things one might see when they walk in.

and once you notice that, it’s clear that Edgeworth’s stuffy formal office is full of sentimentality; he’s just usually better at disguising it as professionalism. the first examples that come to mind are the framed bratworth suit and his custom chess board. the steel samurai fig, though, is one of the first things in there that he can’t justify as a trophy of his career or an activity that stimulates the mind. it’s just something he likes, and he allows it to live in his heart.

#all other AA people go home this is the single most accurate miles edgeworth take on the site

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laios’ shirt fighting for it’s life

#Dungeon Meshi #ryoko kui had no right to literally hand sculpt the perfect man for me

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absolutely brilliant take I just had to read with my own two fuckin eyeballs

"he's neurotypical (except for the ocd)"

#ocd #begging and pleading for people to be normal about OCD even a single time #when the internet only knows two ways to be neurodivergent

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Doomed from the beginning

Unknown / Marguerite Duras / Blanca Varela / Ramona Ausubel / Anne Carson / Heather Havrilesky / Michael Cunningham / Lisel Mueller / Richard Siken x Dungeon Meshi by Ryoko Kui

#Dungeon Meshi #Dungeon Meshi spoilers

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If you didnt believe Laios was autistic before todays episode i hope it clears that up for you

we were first shown his special interest, a very autistic trait to have. We get to see him indulge in his interest, we get to see him happy.

but this episode contains the scene that makes it clear Laios cannot understand social cues, tone of voice, sarcasm, or subtlety. He actively suffers socially with other humans.

Shuro is pissed Laios didnt pick up on the fact that he hated Laios, because he was being passive aggressive (at best, Shuro bottled up a lot of feelings), and said verbally he was Laios' friend. Laios takes things at face value, if someone says "im your friend" that's what he believes is true.

He hates that Laios "gets to be genuine". I hate the way he says that "gets" as if its a privilege for Laios. It's a privilege for Shuro who is nobility and has his behavior and emotions stifled. Laios doesnt understand that others are NOT genuine. he's not from that world.

that's why Laios asks "why didnt you TELL me?" and Shuro says it should have been obvious.

it was NOT obvious to Laios, not at all.

And also, that was who Laios thought was his FIRST friend on the island. he thought he made a friend, something actively difficult for him to do.

it devastated him to learn that he was wrong the entire time.

#Dungeon Meshi #everything about this is perfect #related I'm happy to see more people calling him toshiro #I know the show/manga just present shuro to you with no other alternative #but as time goes on it does make it very clear that shuro is a bastardization of his name that he does NOT appreciate #but yeah #dungeon meshi has some of the most human writing I've ever seen #so incredibly well done

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i finished aai2 recently and i enjoyed it a regular amount like a normal person

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it would be a hundred times easier

if we were young again

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gumshoe maya !!! fun fact he actually wore that outfit on the first (official) casebook^_^

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a bargain

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if it was about 15 years ago i’d already have seen 12 different AMVs of chimera falin set to three days grace animal i have become on my feed but that just doesn’t happen anymore. because of woke

#Dungeon Meshi

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“trans men don’t have any real safety concerns to worry about” i can’t wear a mask when i go into public bathrooms even though i’m higher risk and bathrooms are some of the easiest places to get sick because i don’t reliably pass when my facial hair is covered and i can’t risk not passing when i use the men’s room, but i also can’t just use the women’s room for safety anymore because i don’t reliably pass as either binary gender anymore. so my only options are to risk getting sick, take my chances with the consequences of not passing, or just never use the bathroom in public (which has its own health risks).

and today, it almost didn’t even matter that i was putting myself in danger to ensure that i passed because, thanks to a faulty lock and a man who didn’t think to knock, i came very close to having my half-naked body exposed to a bathroom full of cis men. if i hadn’t been holding my coat on my lap because there was nowhere in the stall to put it, every single guy waiting in the (very crowded) bathroom would’ve seen that i didn’t have a dick. how well do you think that would’ve gone for me? my money’s on Not Well At All.

#I pass enough that I don't have troubles using the correct bathroom #but the mask issue still persists #I rarely mask anymore because a dude in a restaurant got weird at me about it once #and implied I was a pussy for wearing one #I live in the south I'd rather not get my shit kicked in because some chud thinks I'm an affront to his masculinity for some deranged reason #which #wildly I guess is less of a trans issue and more of a generic men's issue #but still #I'm 5'3 and have several physical health problems #I'm not taking a cis dude in a fight if he decides to come at me for some bullshit reason

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Masterpost

#Dungeon Meshi #the greys #they are canon to me

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dad dodl

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The Bitches In Media Masterlist

Hello everyone, I am ready to formally introduce you to my spreadsheet of media that I am recommending on the grounds of enjoying its female characters.

I've got my recommendations sorted by type of media, length, whether they have female protagonists, and whether there's any canonical femslash in them. I'm also slowly going through the process of adding short pitches and notes for everything I'm recommending. If you're interested in digging into more media properties that center women or do a good job with their character arcs, take a peek in here and see if there's anything to your tastes!

Along with my own recommendations, there's also a backlog of things people have recommended to me for the sake of this project but haven't gotten to yet, along with ones I've been through but don't personally enjoy enough to recommend. Between these three categories there's around 200 titles running the gauntlet of every format and genre. Enjoy!

#love to see this

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no your honor I absolutely can make my case like an adult. first things first, fuck the defendant and fuck his family too. secondly,

#every time I see this post I think about this one time at work #client calls up pissy about their case taking a while #for reference all cases take a while and this was nothing unusual #client yells at me that they're going to go down to the court house to file themselves #I strongly advise them to not do that because we're serving as their representation #an hour later I see the efile email pop up #ten minutes later angry call from judge #thirty minutes after that the client calls back #sweet as pie and thanking us for all the hard work we do #why I love law