#but this year's results were interesting :)!

[marshmallowgoop]

no thoughts just Heiji Hattori (HD)

#detective conan #case closed #amv #my amvs #eye strain #heiji hattori #harley hartwell #conan edogawa #shinichi kudo #funimation english dub script #video #happy two-year anniversary to 'no thoughts just heiji hattori'! #while it's not my first amv (it's maybe my... fifth?) #it was the first one i made with davinci resolve and the amv that really got me into editing amvs for real #it's the amv that made me believe i could make amvs 🥺 #and in remastering it i deeply understood how ambitious it was! i thought i did a lot of audio mixing for 'messed up' #but that's not even close to all the audio mixing i did here--cannot believe that i did all this for my first big amv project #it took about 20 hours *just* to remaster! #which is something i've been meaning to do for a while now so i'm very happy to finally share the results! #to make this a 'remaster' and not a 'redo' the only changes i tried to make were to the source footage and audio #video now uses almost entirely hd remastered footage from my blu-rays or netflix rather than my dvds #but oh gosh was it *hard* not to touch anything else! i'd do so many things differently now #but this video will always be really special to me (and i can't believe i did it at all tbh!) #i hope seeing it in hd is fun too! i'm so blown away by all the love this vid's gotten #and that it helped increase interest in funi's old english dub is amazing and 100% what i was trying to do with it! #thank you everyone for all the support <333 i wouldn't be the video editor i am today without this vid or your encouragement for it <3333 #like the original the sources used are mostly from what funi dubbed (but mixed in hd by me!): eps 48-49 57-58 77-78 117 and 118 and movie 3 #but i also used episodes 141-142 174 189 239 263 277 291 293 345 479 491 517 and 522 #and ova 3 and tv special 6 (episode one) and movies 10 and 13 and ops 27 31 and 33 and the funi 5.2 dvd blooper for the one line lol #i'm sorry i've been so absent lately! i hope to be more active now... and there are 2 completely done amvs that i'm just waiting to post...

[mblue-art]

sans au sexyman polls doooodle

congrats to the kings<3 🫶🫶🫶

#utmv #cross!sans #error!sans #uf!sans #underfell!sans #fell!sans #sans au sexyman polls #no talk error angy #m rambles #after this tag #unfortunately i was not able to join in on the fun in xtwitter (or tumblr even) during the polls' duration 😔 #but this year's results were interesting :)! #i super love all of the grapehead / lightbulb-head glowing blush cross art so much why is he so cute and handsome and rrhrfgrhgh #squeezes him like a stress ball /j #cross deserves it bc hes HOT theres no denying it tbh #he is everywhere and ppl like him and angst enjoyers like him and he has an ANIME (animation) so hes like. an anime boy. kinda. yk #/ hot - / handsome - / cute - / charming - / goofy - / sweet --- he checks some other boxes i wont mention them all bUT #HHELLOOO DO YOU SEE WHY. HE LIVES IN MY HEAD RENT-FREE. EVERY. DAY. #he is SO easy to put in Situations and ppl have fun with that and /puts head in hands/ anyway. #me looping strings around the pins i tacked onto their pictures and looking for their similarities (insert that one meme) #(if anyone wants me to actually go insane feral weird and simp/info dump/ramble and be annoying abt my beloveds in a post lmk 👍)

[nashvillethotchicken]

Reconstruction ended in the US in 1877, and during that year, as well as the years immediately post civil war, there was an especially huge push for black people to find loved ones who were sold off the other states or countries during slavery, especially those who had children fathered by their masters as their masters were the ones who sold off the child/ren or had the best information on finding them. People would send letters, put ads in newspapers, even take trips themselves to go find loved ones that they had lost due to the scurge that was slavery. And I keep thinking about Louis du pointe du lac, sending all those messages to find his daughter that was sent out of state by her white father

#Louisiana especially new Orleans was often peoples last or first stop if they were being sold bc people would take the MS river up and down #you could get a slave from nola to brazil in 2 weeks or vice versa. #white men and their families fleeing the haitian revolution often set up shop in NOLA and restarted plantations there #so there are literally thousands of black people being sold through NOLA every day and Louis is looking for his baby #interview with the vampire #iwtv #amc iwtv #louis de pointe du lac #iwtv 2022 #ldpdl #the vampire claudia #like louis was born during the last year of reconstruction and thats when we see the shift from free people of color to just black #its so interesting how much of what could be his identity is stripped from him in the span of two years when he wouldnt even know it #like how much family do you think louis lost from slavery aside from claudia? #cus either Louis and his family are the result of placage relationships or slave owners forcing themselves onto his ancestors #and here is louis who is currently in either position circa 1937-1940 #with nola being that last or 1st stop it is extremely like youd never see loved ones again

[wolfgirlfloof]

Something I appreciate about Hortus de Escapismo is how it portrays the Laterans and non-Laterans, especially in contrast to each other. Guide Ahead already gave us the angel ethnostate vs multi-racial heretics, which made for a pretty effective if blatant commentary on Laterano. And while it might seem Hortus is kind of repeating the same formula, I think it's got something subtler going on with interesting implications.

On one side we have the abbey's inhabitants: sankta, sarkaz and all other races--hell, even a seaborn for a moment. Are there cracks here and there? Of course, that's a whole plot point. But it can't be denied there is genuine camaraderie and self-sacrifice going on between these people who are simply trying to survive together (which is what makes those cracks all the more volatile).

Contrast this with the Laterans, who are dysfunctional as hell. Lemuen, Oren, Richele, and Spuria; I can't say I fully parsed everything happening between them on a moment-to-moment basis, but it was overall apparent that none of these people trust each other. Even though they're friends and classmates and colleagues, even though they're working for the good of the same state, even though they're sankta who can literally read each other's minds. There's just this constant mess of cahoots and conspiracy and treachery and bitter friction, and it takes the threat of an Innsmouth-Jonestown crossover event to get them to finally work together.

I thought it was a nice way to show more of Laterano's flaws. It's one of their core themes that they aren't as great as they say they are, but you'd think they would, at the least, have blessed harmony thanks to their literal hivemind. But evidently that isn't true either. And again, these are agents at the highest levels of the government. If they're this dysfunctional, what does that say for Laterano as a whole?

Which leads me into thinking about what the future of Laterano might have in store. I've seen some folks point out how these events have these greatly compelling premises that don't actually resolve any of the issues they bring up. Laterano only remains Laterano. And this is true! But I think it's intentional, setting up a slow burn of a regional conflict. The Lateran state is holding together, the status quo remains unchanged, the Law is content. But for how much longer? Guiding Ahead introduced us to the divide in Laterano on a broad level, the state vs heretics. Hortus de Escapismo shows the cracks within the state, narrowing in on individuals who nominally should be on the same side but aren't. The next logical narrative step would be seeing the state finally cracking apart from whatever looming danger the Law sainted Federico to deal with.

Some sort of schism, perhaps; that seems like the sort of existential threat that would directly threaten the Law's directive of preserving the Sankta. Law's awareness of it would also imply it's an internal threat, something festering in the hearts and minds of Sankta and thus one It's able to sense (at least that's what makes sense to me. We don't actually know how the Law works, so it could very well just have random magic prophetic abilities). And especially with the constant background pressure of trying to legitimize their Summit of Nations, what better way to drive that issue to the forefront by throwing Laterano into utter political chaos?

#arknights #a genuine schism would probably result in. so many fallen huh. would be interesting seeing laterano's community struggle with that #maybe the threat has something to do with the iberian church and seaborn? considering those were elements that appeared in hortus #and they were discussing a potential reconciliation between laterano and iberia too. reads like setup to me. #reaching out to iberia would be ripe for a widescale collision of ideologies that could lead to another schism #and for iberia it'd also be thematically relevant given their other estranged relationship w another glorious near mythical country #also i want to see the sankta face the seaborn. they're not so different if you think about it. #precursor tech hiveminds dedicated to the group's survival. one is hyperadaptive and ever spreading the other is conservative and insular. #so the ideological threat of a schism and the physical threat of the seaborn #...or maybe also the ideological threat of seaborn? they have their own church too after all #PAPAL SCHISM ARKNIGHTS EDITION. 3 POPES 3 POPES. LATERANO IBERIA WE MANY #oh uh and again a schism would result in so many fallen which could tie in the whole. yknow. thousand year race war w the sarkaz. #that's kinda super duper really important for laterano's themes #sorry i'm just writing a whole other post in these tags :P

[doodleodds]

A quick xanlow comm for @honeydots! :) Laslow stop that, he's trying to concentrate!! Those notes are important!!

#It's been so many years since I last thought of xanlow but you know what?? I missed them. i did #ooo 'quick comm' yeah sophia ok. uh huh #my damn perfectionism is acting up again. anyway these are taking me juuust a little longer than intended to do as a result xD #also brief Ferdinand update for those interested: he is at +7 currently!!! I'm getting there >:)))) #anyway!! hope this is something like what you were looking for lol :) thank you again for your support!! #also also: are you the laslow lead in feh who added me? your build is bonkers!!!! spd demon laslow my beloved

[get-back-homeward]

The following day, two of the Beatles were sitting in the Kardomah café. Their Wednesday-night Cavern residency was preceded this week by a lunchtime session, and John and Paul were still in the habit of staying in town on such days, idling away afternoons in “the KD.” This time they were chatting to one of John’s old mates from art school, who then said, “I believe Brian Epstein is managing you—which one of you does he fancy?” It was just a bit of lads’ banter, something that often came up behind Brian’s back, along with digs about him being Jewish. Nothing more would have been said about it if one of the two Beatles (or both) hadn’t then relayed the comment to Brian’s face. He was mortified. It was a stain on his character; it was combustible, in view of homosexual acts being illegal; and, because he was still denying this side of his life to the Beatles, it was a direct challenge for him to respond. Forty-eight hours later, Brian turned the matter over to his lawyer; and seven days after passing the comment, John’s friend from art school was dumped deep in it.

We have been consulted by Mr. Brian Epstein who instructs us that on the February 21st last in the Kardomah Café, Church Street, Liverpool, you uttered a certain highly malicious and defamatory statement concerning him to two members of the Beatles. We are instructed that in the course of a conversation you said, “I believe Brian Epstein is managing you. Which one of you does he fancy?” The unwarranted innuendo contained in that remark is perfectly clear and is one to which our client takes the gravest possible exception and the damaging nature of which has caused him considerable anxiety and distress. He is not prepared to tolerate the utterance of such remarks by you and we accordingly have to require that we receive by return your written apology together with an undertaking that this or similar remarks will not be made by you in the future.

The apology and undertaking arrived by return of post and that was the end of the matter—but it was another hard and damaging episode for Brian.

From Tune In (Ch. 25: Feb 6–Mar 8, 1961)

#brian epstein #eppy and the boys #john and paul #tune in #mark lewisohn #read this over a year ago and then had trouble finding it again #so i’m copying to save here #in my head i short handed it as a cease and desist letter for a rent boy joke #lawyers and the beatles #the most interesting thing is that j&p mention it to brian #lewisohn implies its pauls doing but i can see either or both using this as an early test of brian #more like brian people are saying x what are you gonna do about it #its silly lewisohn keeps up this idea of the boys not knowing when brian brings them to a gay bar in london nye 1961 #i doubt they were clueless #but even if they were cool with it telling brian means they werent cool with the resulting implication people might have #i sometimes think thats what was behind the homophobic sounding jokes john lobbed at brian in the presence of reporters #eppy and john #i feel like its always a big part of why paul will always deny barcelona #eppy and paul #kardomah cafe #reading tune in #1962 #fic bunny #spring 62 is such a precarious time #i believe this lines up with the timing of the nutting story too

[wantbytaemin]

i had a half hour talk in the presence of literally every important person in my field and FOUR people whose groups papers i read daily asked me questions after my talk and when i tell you i sat down afterwards and started shaking like a LEAF

#it went really well they were all happy w my results and my boss was like it was so good which he Never tells people they did well lmao #but the reason i typed all that is to preface this: who remembers aries guy?? #last year around this time we started talking and we talked for a couple months and i seriously think he’s one of the most interesting #best conversation partners ive ever had like we just match so well but we kinda stopped talking because i can’t reply to texts consistently #and ive been doing the worst thing which is ignoring his existence and he came up to me and said it was a great talk and i want to CRY bc i #miss him but i messed it up 🥺 being an aqua sun and mercury is so damning (saying this so i don’t have to work on myself)

[mariemariemaria]

The new channel 4 documentary on the miners strike is fantastic. It covers different points of view, from the striking miners, to working miners, to the women in striking communities, to the police. It also shows how the Battle of Orgreave on 18th June 1984 was planned and initiated by the police, and how the media (BBC and ITV) covered this up and showed only the police's side, while positioning them as being the victims of miners' violence (which was very minimal to non existent in reality), who simply retaliated because the "restrained...traditional British policing way" (I have to laugh) didn't work.

I also didn't know until watching this that Gareth Peirce, who represented the Guildford Four and the Birmingham Six, also defended mineworkers who were victims of police brutality at Orgreave. What a woman!

#british history #working class history #miners strike #acab #im so interested in this period of history + chose this topic specifically as part of a british history module last year #so im really glad that this docuseries was made for the 40th anniversary and i hope it is never forgotten #and i often think about how miscarriages of justice against working class british people are exactly the same as #british miscarriages of justice against irish people. i was thinking this when watching #at one point an interviewee even says something like 'obviously i'd seen this happen in northern ireland but i never expected it to #happen in england!' and the way the police acted obviously made me think of what they did in the north of ireland #and the gareth peirce connection just confirmed it. but how many people saw those connections? #how many of the miners who were beaten by police saw the same things happen to irish people but didnt care? or thought they deserved it? #this isnt to blame them..they were fed lies that the irish were terrorists...but it suggests to me that this oppression is connected #also similar is how RE the post office scandal a lot of people were shocked that british justice had failed #a man in the drama even said that it was britain and he was british and that british justice wouldnt let them down #and you just think like...do you not know what british 'justice' did to innocent irish people? do you think they deserved it? #did you think you were immune because you were british? in ireland we know there is no such thing as british justice. #but british people never seem to learn this history lesson #what a better world it would be if working class british (and irish) people could recognise our similarities and joint sufferings as a #result of the british state. its quite frustrating to watch british people constantly put faith in their gov/justice system #learn from your own history!! they dont care about you!!

[grimdarkenedhope]

fucking lol at the stealth terf who accused me of Not All Men-ing her for simply pointing out that women can (and must certainly do) be as abusive and gross as men can be and that casting all women as "not behaving like that" will only serve to create more abusive evil women by absolving them of responsibility for their actions by virtue of gender.

she then assumed my gender based on my appearance by claiming im "going against my own", so i pointed out her terf rhetoric and nb erasure and thanked her for the gender euphoria, and she reacted by calling me a lunatic and a pick-me-girl

#that's gotta be the funniest conversation I've ever had with a shithead. i wish every convo with bigots could go that way xD #according to her the gma that would beat me/my mom that emotionally/psychologically tormented me & controlled my life/ #/the ex that tore apart entire friend groups w her manipulation & cruelty and opened cards in my name while hacking my Amazon account/ #/the former friend who refused to have my back when her friend kept tormenting me & my roommate then harrassed me for a month when i... #...cut her off for her lack of concern for our wellbeing and lack of spine to do the right thing / #/ the various classmates & peers (all girls) that would grope & molest me on a regular basis in elementary middle and high school / #/ the former friend who raped me repeatedly for years attempted to isolate me from anyone who showed interest in me forced me to overeat & #& get upset if i didn't finish her meals as well as my own which resulted in horrid amounts of weight gain & ran off with her new victim... #...after her attempt at revenge (getting my partner to leave me) failed miserably #all of them were just 'being a little mean' apparently. according to her. lmao. fucking loser xD

[tibli]

sorry to keep talking about this, but its so weird to me how i can like. FEEL when the vyvanse is starting to work. it always takes about an hour-and-a-half/two hours, but its REALLY noticeable when it finally does. like i suddenly feel really motivated and energized and can actually get shit done. its absolutely crazy

#tibtalks #i havent yet had another episode like i did on day two #so i think my body has properly adjusted to it now #anyway if you think you have adhd i would strongly recommend bringing it up to your doctor #mine got me into a psychologist soon after #where i got tested and it was confirmed i def had it lmaoooo #the only reason it took so fucking long to get medicated was bc #i forgot to give the results to my doctors office and had other shit going on at the time #so i didnt get medicated until like 2 years later when my doctor brought it up again and was like #hey i just realized we never got this. were you still interested in pursuing it? #anyway she rules and im glad i got her as a doctor bc she actually takes my concerns seriously

[thresholdbb]

The apparently obvious solution to the Tuvix problem seems to be “create a Tuvix transporter clone, duh!”

Tuvix is already a transporter accident. Who’s to say he can be put through the transporter again without irreparable harm? As it is, the crew is hesitant to use the transporter until they understand exactly what happened. The orchid added an unstable element to the transporter process when Neelix and Tuvok were initially beamed up. Does Tuvix even have stable DNA? Are Vulcan and Talaxian physiology comparable long term? Will Tuvok’s ailment progress more quickly as Tuvix? Tuvix also doesn’t practice the emotional restraint that Vulcans do, so would his negative emotions be difficult to handle? We know Tuvok has a thread of repressed violent tendencies, and we simply don’t know much about Talaxians beyond what Neelix shares. Also, orchids can be pretty fussy (if they’re anything like Earth orchids) and that adds another unknown into the equation. Does the plant physiology affect the humanoid in any way? There are too many variables.

Most people seem to agree it should be a Riker-style transporter clone. The TOS transporter accidents ended up with disparate personalities, and tragically the dog clones didn’t survive the reintegration. We get “good Kirk” and “evil Kirk” but neither can function as a complete person.

Can we really say that Thomas Riker doesn’t exhibit the same kind of emotional divergence that Kirk had to a lesser degree? Thomas Riker joined the Maquis, which Will Riker would never do. With Riker we can get into the argument of nature vs. nurture, since Will got out of the situation whereas Thomas was left trying to figure out how to survive on a planet alone and isolated.

Then we look at the Boimler clones, who are Riker-style transporter accidents created in the same way and even paying homage to Riker himself. We see a similar slight emotional divergence between the two Boims. William Boimler (Titan clone) seems more self assured and an edge more ruthless, and he quickly lets Brad take the fall back to ensign. Brad thought they would both try to let the other take the assignment on the Titan, but that’s not the case. With the Boimler clones, we don’t have the nature/nurture argument that happens with the Riker clones. They are immediately slightly different. Brad seems to lose some of his confidence - is it situational or because of the cloning?

Maybe the transporter clones are exact copies of the same person without inherit differences due to the process. If it were a safe process, surely someone somewhere in the Federation would have started experimenting with transporter cloning? Even if they had, it’s ethically a bit dodgy.

In conclusion, we don’t know enough about transporter cloning to waste Voyager’s precious resources on an experimental process that might not even work. It could even make the situation worse.

#tuvix #star trek voyager #star trek voy #yes yes no one wants more tuvix discourse #it also guts the story #the tuvix problem persists because it is an impossible choice #cloning cuts off the problem’s legs #they don’t tend to develop technology that results out of transporter accidents #though they could and it would be an interesting episode #I would have loved if they were holding an orchid when they were separated #Janeway wasn’t wrong to do what she did #it wasn’t murder we lack adequate vocabulary to describe what happened #if transporters actually develop there will be a whole language that grows around the technology #how many internet related words do we use daily that weren’t around 40 years ago #it’s a better story because Tuvix protests and Janeway makes the hard decision for the good of the crew and Neelix/Tuvok #we also know much more about Vulcans than Talaxians so way more points to back up how Tuvok might affect Tuvix #seems like a dumb gotcha to say transporter clone him #I got far too excited that voyager was playing again and had to channel it somewhere before bed ok #meta

[anotherpapercut]

jokes where people are like "I should've bought a house during the market crash in 2008 instead of being a child" are so funny to me bc I know it's a joke but its like wow y'all really do not know what happened during that do you lmfaooo

#the only people who were buying houses were people who already had money #do yall have any idea how many people became homeless in 2008 #i feel like some people have this perception that it was primarily stock brokers who were hurt by that crash #and not the millions of families living in places with sub prime mortgages who had their homes suddenly foreclosed on #interest rates were relatively high and banks were extremely hesitant to lend. regular people werent just buying houses #anyway i was one of the 6-10 million people who became homeless for a significant period of time as a result of this #and its wild seeing people who obviously grew up with enough money that the crash didnt affect them like that say this stuff #again. its a joke and i get that. just a joke that is hard to reconcile with the experience i had as a homeless 10 year old

[frivolous-pastel]

Client: Hey, what happened with this data entry case?? Can we go over it on our weekly call this afternoon

Me to client: Sure thing! I've been going over it with my team and should have a clearer picture to give you the details in our call :)

Me to data team: Y'all what's going on with this one??? I'm so confused, I thought the client instructions last week were pretty straightforward, did something in the wording throw the third party data entry group off?? Why does it look like a dumpster fire, I'm looking through our case history and I don't get it help ;_;

#in my defense I spent roughly 8 out of 40 hours last week pouring over reports in different databases #to pin down why certain discrepancies were occurring #but ever since we switched to a new third party last year #it's felt a little like hiring the fae folk to do data entry #if you don't word things in precisely the right way #your results can be wonky as hell #but they keep getting wonky in new and interesting ways

[doodleodds]

royalty & fairy tale au’s are meant to be mixed and u can’t change my mind

Late shuake week 2022 day 3 - Royalty AU

#shuakeweek2022 #akechi goro #kurusu akira #I JUST REALLY LOVE SLEEPING BEAUTY OK #or well. i love the idea of 'sleeping curses.' idk why! they've always fascinated me #i used to be obsessed with aurora and snow white for that reason #and so here i am! as always! projecting this interest of mine onto my favorite characters :) #also for reference because i just realized how weird it reads: goro's gonna be in the tallest tower when he's cursed #that's why akira's got a reason to climb it. so. yeah #also in case you were wondering why i said 'see you tomorrow with more art' and then proceeded not to post for.....four days: #1) work decided that i'm going to be doing more hours so i now have very little free time; #2) i decided to actually try my hand at coloring again like an IDIOT and now here we are. sigh. coloring is hard #i was trying to hard not to just overdose on comic dots again lol & it resulted in this nonsense. me and my one very textured stone wall #ANYWAY lmao even though i missed like. every single day of akeshu week so far i'm still gonna be doing the prompts #just at my own pace! so. hopefully expect more art. soon. ish. hopefully not with another uhhh 2 month gap like last year lol #also quick fun fact since you made it this far in my tags! that second page originally wasn't supposed to be there! #i drew sleeping goro just cause i could and i was just gonna stick him under a read more but then i got attached lmao #and now he's in the main post! :D yayyyyyy goro #ANYWAY that was super long. thanks for reading & i hope u have a lovely day!!!!

[jvzebel-x]

🦋

#theres something viciously... the word for it seems immature-- about the attitude of #'kindness&happiness is the result of inexperience or a total lack of bitterness at life for the conditions of existing' lmao. #maybe its bc the vast majority of the ppl ive met who openly hold these views are not only snide&selfabsorbed #they v clearly have not actually dealt w anything that isnt actually laughable in the grand scheme of things lmao. #like sorry mommy&daddy were mean to you growing up. sorry ppl picked on your or whatever so now you think its your godgiven right #to be shitty to everyone you feel didnt have it as hard as you did lmao. sorry you had to go to church for a couple years #&then when your parents let you leave the religion they didnt abandon it w you out of solidarity lmao. #sorry that someone cheated on you or whatever&now every person youre attracted to needs to put up w your abuse bc you cant #be a grown up&grow the fuck up lmao. #truly the only thing im REALLY sorry about is the fact that these ppl are so fucking loud for no fucking reason LMAO. #like if you hate everyone so much then pls by all means DONT MAKE ANYONE DEAL W YOUR LAME ASS. #trust no one is actually interested in hearing about how much more advanced you are as a person bc you tripped one time&ppl laughed #or whatever other extremely pathetic thing that you not only think gives you the right to be shitty to ppl you dont know #you ALSO think that it makes you fucking special when really if your entire identity is based off how much more enlightened you are #bc youre an asshole you dont actually have a personality or any form of depth. #youre one of those cardboard cut-outs that has preset vocal recordings that go off w motion detection #&hopefully someone puts you out w the trash to save everyone else the trouble lmao. #... ppl have not been appreciating how much effort i put into self control recently lmao. #&that isnt necessarily a bad thing or even a thing worth noting most times but like. #i have been in the mood for Blood lately&i will eventually stop choosing my own if continues to seem to be way more useful #to go for the throat lmao.

[systematicallycapricious]

[AoN] PxDN Lore Snippet: R-00 + R-01 Reactivation

Yep, I read Persona x Detective Naoto, and yep, I'm incorporating it into this story. Why? ‘Cause it’s not a bad read, and more importantly it’s got a lot of feasible world lore I can use to enrich the setting, of which I can do all sorts of fun stuff with. Also, Sousei and Sho share a lot of similarities in terms of circumstances and behaviors, so any chance for him and Sholar to cross paths has lots of fun potential as well, even if it's only once.

Anyway, this is just a little snippet from the full AoN-PxDN lore doc that I'm getting straightened-up, 'cause I'm excited about how nicely I got it to fit together. \o/

Spoilers for: Persona x Detective Naoto, Persona 3, Persona 4 Arena/Ultimax, and my fic "Apropos of Nothing" (very mildly though, otherwise I wouldn't be posting it xP)

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(For quick reference, the R-series ASSW project spanned from roughly 2006 to 2009, with Sousei's run being from 2007-2008, Ai's spanning 2008-2009, and their endings being Yūri's death and Aigis's reactivation respectively. SEES is first founded in Spring 2006 (being Mit/Aki/Shinji), and P3 happens as normal from 2009-2010. The 7th Gen ASSW project also ended with the explosion & creation of the Dark Hour on Sept 10th, 1999.)

So, several times throughout 2011, Minazuki accesses Ikutsuki's isolated server + the Ergo database server in general, with the first instance of the latter catching the ShadOps/KJG's attention. A bit spooked by the unauthorized access, everything related to Ergo (both current and old) is given a thorough security check, resulting in the discovery of 3 ASSWs sitting around in storage, among other things.

(Note: the database server access happens differently in this AU, so up until now, Minazuki had been accessing the isolated server legitimately via Ikutsuki's whitelisted computer with admin credentials, and then attempted to access the general server with an unregistered device. I still have to learn how databases work though, so I might have to adjust that in the future.)

Pretty much no one seems to know much about this mysterious 5th Gen and two R-series androids, despite there actually being a decent bit on information on-file for the latter once they decrypted it, and so, alongside a bunch of other old Ergo artifacts, the three are shipped out to the Yakushima Ergo quarantine facility for inspection and threat assessment. Some of the staff who were cited to work on the R-series are also contacted by Mitsuru to get further information.

(Note: unlike OG, the transport goes smoothly, because canon-divergence. /o/)

Mr. Tsuge Tetsuma has been employed as a researcher in the Kirijo Ergonomics Robotics Division for a long time now, but more importantly since the R-Series project was abruptly halted and its products stuffed away into storage. Now, he was nowhere near happy about having to leave Sousei and Ai in there for all this time, mind you, but he didn't have the authority nor the opportunity to get them back out of storage on his own, and so it was all he could do to stick with the company until an opportunity might arise. Getting a phone call from Mitsuru provided one such opportunity.

With the aid of Tsuge, the three ASSWs are reactivated and inspected, and once Mitsuru learns that they're not threats and are sentient beings with "hearts" of their own, they're given official rank as auxiliary members in the ShadOps to keep Public Safety from trying to confiscate them on the grounds of being "highly dangerous weapons". And… I guess I haven't figured out the specifics beyond that point yet, like if they actually help out the ShadOps or not. I feel like they might given Sousei’s determination to prove his usefulness and Ai’s desire to help out overall, but Sousei’s determination to have a combat-type Persona might also undermine that? Anyway, Tsuge is also brought into the fold as an official ShadOps researcher and tasked with being the supervisor of the Kurogamis due to his past experiences and relations with them and their creator.

(Fun fact: the reactivation order goes Ai, Sousei, Labrys because they have more information on, and familiarity with, the R-series units than the 5th Gen unit, so there's less risk involved with activating the Kurogamis than there is with Labrys. (Plus, in the event that Labrys ends up being hostile or out of control, the Kurogamis could be called in to help suppress her.) Also, Tsuge knows that Sousei will be rowdier than Ai, so as one of the chief specialists on the team, he's making the executive decision to give the team the ‘easier’ one to start with, lol.)

A year passes (which is what makes up a lot of Sousei's impression of "smoldering away at a lab, not yet fulfilling his mission as a suppression weapon"), and in late 2012 the National Police Agency entreats the KJG for technological aid in civilian safety and law enforcement measures. With the Kurogamis’ robotic physique and Sousei’s Past Reading in mind, this opportunity gets presented to Tsuge and the Kurogamis, of which Tsuge eventually gets Sousei on board with when he learns that they can be stationed at Yagokoro's PD, where Aoi Touko works. Ai didn't really need a ton of convincing, being content to be wherever Tsuge and Sousei are and determined to help out where she can.

(Note: part of the "last year's brutal crimes" is influenced by the Inaba kidnapping and murder cases, as it caused quite a stir across the nation, though the other part is probably more mundane, non-magical crime. Also, other technology and robotics were implemented in other PD's across Japan, but Yagokoro was the only one to make use of ASSWs specifically.)

And from there, PxDN happens more-or-less as normal, although certain events may or may not have Naoto meet the Kurogamis and/or Tsuge before PxDN occurs. It depends on if they end up staying on Yakushima for the whole time or if they go to an Ergo or ShadOps facility on mainland Japan, and furthermore if it happens to be the one Naoto visits or not. Most likely, if they do cross paths at all, it'll be brief, or else an off-handed mention of them by someone else, but I'll have to see as I solidify more of that part of the timeline. P:

Also, Tsuge’s employment with the ShadOps lets him distribute Evokers to Touko and Naoto during PxDN’s events, perhaps special models more recently designed for use outside of the Dark Hour/CoUn, because they really shouldn’t be able to summon their Personas so casually in the conscious world. It’s somewhat believable for when Naoto Awakens to Amatsu Mikaboshi and when she’s trying to save Touko, given the circumstances, but outside of that. :P

#Sholar System AU #Persona x Detective Naoto #Persona series #Lorecrafting: Capricious Style #if something doesn't make sense or is hard to read lmk and I'll see what I can do #The past year solid of research is finally actualizing into cool stuff #I went through so many Persona IPs because there's like no substantial info on Ergo #At least that I can find/access #But at least I can do interesting stuff with all of that info now #Also I guess to clarify; the reason this 'nicely fits' is because the general events were already going to happen to Labby #Of the server discovery and resulting security inspection; plus some other Ergo timeline factors unrelated to Labby #And then I realized that I could apply it to the Kurogamis too given it's not well-clarified what happened to them post-Yuri death #(Or like how Ai was made and fits into this at all...) #And the ShadOps are meant to work with the legal police so the Yagokoro collab could be right up their alley? #So then I started connecting it to other given canon details and hence //gestures #Labby has her own arc to undergo so that'd be why she stopped being mentioned after a certain point #She does work with the ShadOps though but it's in a more passive position? #She's (planned to be - still working on it) stationed in Inaba to keep an eye on things after the lv4 Shadow Activity reading #But it's also kinda Mitsuru being sneaky in giving her a job that lets her live a somewhat more human-style life #Especially because Labby has only been reactivated for a few months #And then later down the line she might take on a more active role but that's super-WIP