not to be "guy who did her undergrad thesis about online confessional sites" but so often those come out of needing a social release/emotional safety valve. like gossip is part of that slash dming a friend and going "hey can i be mean for a second" like you can try and be charitable when you're venting + gossiping but beyond gossip being a social networking process, it's also just important to be able to release a valve on feelings you've got in you, so that then if you do need to face someone, you're not going having let those thoughts fester.
also like. better to go over that with someone you trust, as opposed to anonymously (or not!) putting those feelings out there sans context where they can start more bullshit
idk!! as someone who frequently calls her best friend like "hey i need to whine for a minute" (and does the same in turn, because a) i car about her and b) it's important to cultivate the spaces you complain in so that it's both give and take (so that it doesn't collapse)) i genuinely can't stress how important it is to just have a private space to quickly complain or gossip
its prosecutor jiang wanyin!!!! oh fuck!!! / gifs + au rambling below the cut / follow for more mdzs x aa crossover stuff :3
all the gifs i made (poses traced off franziska):
hes so similar to franziska when you think about it. theyre both deeply insecure tsundere adoptive younger sibling of successful main characters. who carry whips. something something edgeworth choosing death and wwx actually dying also
his share code is HWFEFF if you wanna use him in a trial! you can't share backgrounds but heres the scenery from the donghua i used.
the easiest way to put custom stuff into objection.lol is to send it in discord and then use the link from opening it in your browser :)
a whole lot of AU stuff
the art im making is for if mdzs was an ace attorney game, playing from WWX's POV to solve various mysteries/cases over the course of the plot. so this scene would be from turnabout goddess, which would loosely cover the dafan mountain mystery.
cases include:
Turnabout Revenge (Mo Manor, quick introductory first case)
Turnabout Goddess (Dafan mountain, the good times flashback)
Turnabout Saber (the man-eating castle (omg hiii nhs))
The Blind Turnabout (Yi City arc)
Turnabout Deviation (the Koi Tower conference, Empathy on NMJ ala turnabout memories or beginnings. opening cutscene is his qi deviation)
The Blood-Soaked Turnabout (second Burial Mounds siege, flashbacks: Xuanwu, Sunshot, YLLZ, Nightless City massacre)
Turnabout Lotus Seeds (testimony about JGY, tree scene, golden core reveal, bathtub scene. opening cutscene could be JGS' death but that would make it canon rather than ambiguous)
Turnabout Confession (Guanyin temple)
the problem with splitting novel!mdzs into turnabouts is that flashbacks are a huge chunk of the book but they don't have mysteries/ cases to solve so they've gotta be lumped together with present day stuff. imo? many of the flashbacks would likely have to be abridged so they could be retold ala DL-6, SL-9, or the fourth grade incident, where characters talk about it over some pieces of art. this is really difficult when theres a metric ton of unspoken, complex, and signifcant history between every character lmao
there's not as much of a problem with the cql timeline but i have not finished it. so.
the opening cutscenes in ace attorney always show the murder and/or the murderer plotting. the first cutscene of the game would be MXY summoning WWX, muttering about getting revenge on his family (it would also be good for him to mention the yllz being dead because that's how the novel starts.) cut to WWX's POV as he wakes up covered in blood and the investigation segment begins.
for investigations of monsters (goddess, saber, etc) the cutscene would be a scene of some poor throwaway cultivator getting their shit wrecked.
it would be cool to make a breakdown for JGY but again I need to review that scene cause I don't know who I'd base him on. maybe Vasquez or Dahlia.
tell me your thoughts!! i'm working off of a mdzs summary/ skimming the novel because i don't remember it too well so if i get anything wrong please yell at me
Jin Ling's sprites & Nie Huaisang's sprites / masterpost
just thinking out loud here but i feel like a lot of popular perception of kon esp in online fandom spaces is colored by his joie de vivre and all the times he's silly and goofy. which i do of course adore!! i love when he's silly and goofy. but comparing that perception to, that of like, clark or kara, i feel like kon gets shunted into the box of "dumb comic relief character" a lot more easily. lots of factors probably contribute to that (sb94 having a bad rep, while no other kon comic really goes into a lot of his tragedy; conflation with the side of the fandom that doesn't read comics; the fact that comparatively postcrisis kara doesn't have a team the way kon has yj and clark is seen as a more capable adult, so other characters in the jl get the "dumb comic relief" short end of the stick more often; etc) ...
... but what really gets me about him is that he does embody a lot of the same traits as the rest of the kryptonian superfam. he's so extremely kind. he's got that same noble heart as the rest of them; he cares about everyone and he wants to protect everyone. and he's so, so lonely. he struggles between cultures and worlds where he feels like he doesn't belong to either. he is so strong and capable and holds so much power that it scares him.
cradles him gently in my hands. he contains multitudes... come closer don't you want to love him 🥺
do you know how difficult it is to be a taylor swift fan who doesn’t enjoy looking to the past/dwelling on a history that never existed…. eras tour and the re-records at the same time has me in the TRENCHES like if we don’t have a cleansing Leaving It All Behind To Move Forward moment i’m gonna go crazy…
absolutely wild to me that the horror and the wild is three years old now cause like . i remember waiting for it to drop and listening to it on the bus home from school and when the first lockdown happened its the album that kept me sane and . wow listening to welly boots as a fifteen year old definitely changed my brain chemistry somehow
fuck dude im thinking about archie shadow’s weak “goodbye, maria” like man. man . seeing someone you love one final time, being able to say a proper farewell when you never could before
but there are lots of fish left in the sea, there are lots of fish in business suits that talk and walk on human feet & visit doctors & have weak knees ...Oh Please Let Me Join Your Cult..!!! Ill Paint My Face In Yr Colours!!!!!!! (u had a real nice face, i had an early death.)
Is Gary keeping in touch with any of the Blind Bilbies. He mentioned a friend he had not spoken to in a long time. Does he have any friends who knew them as James&Gary? Or everyone just left him in his misery. Or Gary left them, more like.
Gary's not keeping in touch with The Blind Bilbies. The band kind of, well, disbanded after James' death, and Gary was never super close to the band members in a 'one on one' kind of way.
I think one of the most shocking betrayals he had re: people selling information about he and James came from one of the band members, and the others left to join other bands and keep a lucrative career going.
And yeah, he does have at least one friend who knew them as James & Gary: Michael Henton.
This is covered in the story too as well ->
"They hadn’t spoken since James had passed away." (This is the friend he hadn't spoken to in a long time).
Which puts his trust in Mike in context more with the latest chapter. And also makes Henton potentially more terrifying/threatening as a future villain.
I'd say Augus was one of the first staff members to come into Hillview, so he also caught a lot of the aftermath while it was happening.