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[sophistopheles]

reconsuming the source material before writing fic to pickle your brain in the characters' voices

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[austennerdita2533]

beezer81 replied to your post “So, since Jaime and Brienne were effectively playing house together...”

If they had married, she'd have written it in the white book don't you think? It's just wishful thinking because I'm still crushed by how bad D&D crapped on our beautiful duo.

Possibly but not necessarily. Members of the Kingsguard are supposed to be celibate and/or take no wives/husbands, so I could see Brienne leaving that out of the White Book so as not to taint the honorable legacy she’s writing for Jaime. So, it’s still not out of the realm of possibility that they were hitched. :-p

(In all seriousness, I realize this is mostly wishful thinking. But there’s enough wiggle room there that a girl can dream! haha)

sophblogs replied to your post “So, since Jaime and Brienne were effectively playing house together...”

op why would you give us hope like that (the word "oath" takes on a new meaning :))

Coming up with this headcanon made me think about Jaime’s weirwood dream in the books and how Brienne says she’s “sworn a holy oath” to protect him. It gives that new meaning as well. ;) Plus, you know, they have the twin swords - *ahem* engagement swords *ahem* - and the knighting ceremony was almost akin to an exchanging of vows so...they were basically married (symbolically) before the Battle of Winterfell already, yes?

They also had a loooot of cute, couple-y downtime at Winterfell we didn’t get to see. So that gives me leave to pretend they were married for realsies, too.

#beezer81 #sophblogs #the loveliest of lovely people #ashlee bree talks braime things

[lluviagf]

HOLDING HANDS: ABANDONED TEMPLE (@sophblogs)

#I thought of a kind of scary concept i hope this is okay ilov u #moodboard

[mephish]

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[sophomoreinitiative]

From One Sophomore to Another...

Hi everyone!

So it’s time for some unsolicited advice that I hope you will take to heart. I’m sure that everyone can agree that life after freshman year changes dramatically. No longer are we the excited freshman who are eager to experience everything the university has to offer, the freshman who have not yet received their first failed calculus test or club rejection. 

We are now veterans on this campus, which I think should propel us to look at our new standings with a sense of maturity in realizing that we no longer have to explore in the same way that freshman do. I am in no way saying that we should be complacent in where we are, just that it’s time for us to realize that if we don't like something there is no reason to participate in it. Freshman are constantly joining clubs or doing things they don't necessarily want to because they feel like its part of the ‘college experience’. 

As this year has progressed, I have realized that there were things that I was participating in, clubs, classes and even social events, that didn't necessarily add to my happiness. As great as these things looked on resumes I decided that I no longer needed to participate in them. This has resulted in me being surrounded by a much more genuine group of friends, taking classes that I genuinely enjoy and an overall better college experience for my sophomore year versus my freshman. So please, everyone, if there is something that is making you unhappy realize that it is your sophomore year. You are old enough and mature enough to make your own decisions and influence your own happiness, so why not do it? 

-Lauren Chojnacki, Class of 2018

#sophomoreinitiative #sophomoreexperience #sophblog #SophinAction

[sophistopheles]

Capcom says Ace Attorney "will not be stopping, so in that sense you can look forward to what is coming"!

The full quote!

#ace attorney #sophblog #aa7 in 2024 queen???

[sophistopheles]

hey!! ty for posting about the article talking about continuation of aa. I don’t know as much about the production of aa5 and 6 but you mentioned a person names Eshiro being responsible for the “no spoilers” rule being replaced. what/who is that? just in general giving u the floor to rant about aa5 and 6 beyond what u were able to say in that post and ur hopes for the future 💙✨ ok bye! :)

hiya!! (post here)

So, the story of why aa5 and aa6 are so different to aa4 basically boils down to a change in the team making it (and Eshiro was part of this).

Most people know Shu Takumi wrote and directed the original trilogy of Phoenix Wright games and then worked on Apollo Justice (although the director was technically Mitsuru Endo, people tend to think of AJ as the last "Takumi" mainline game). After that, he left the Ace Attorney team to complete and release Ghost Trick in 2010, and then he became involved in the development of Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright, which released in 2012.

While he was doing all of this, a "secondary" Ace Attorney team had arisen to keep working on the franchise - they had almost all worked on previous AA games and in 2009 and 2011 they were able to release the two Ace Attorney Investigations games.

The two most well-known members of this "team" are the producer Motohide Eshiro and the director Takeshi Yamazaki, and the fact that AAI2 is so beloved shows that they are by no means unable to make really, really good Ace Attorney games. But, with Takumi still busy with his other projects, and a good few years having passed since AA4, this team was asked to create a fifth Ace Attorney game in his absence.

This was, obviously, a challenge, and Capcom were likely in quite a rush to get a new mainline game out soon. Additionally, initial fan reception of AA4 was really not that good - many people hated the decision to disbar Phoenix in particular - and the game itself had many loose ends.

Eshiro, as the producer, decided that for AA5 it was better for the writers to not be held back by previous games, which manifested in what people think of now as the "no spoilers rule". This is why AA5 does not follow up on AA4, and likewise for AA6. Nowadays this decision is widely regarded as a very bad move, but on some level I empathise with it - AA has always been kind of reluctant to spoil past games, and you were always operating with the presumption that the player might be new to the series and wanted to go back to the previous games. Writing a follow-up that addressed AA4, while being acceptable to newcomers and not spoiling almost all of AA4's biggest twists, without the guy who originally came up with the story, would prove really difficult.

So they wrote Dual Destinies as a new story which followed AA4 but didn't really address it, and indulged in fanservice to try and restore the series status quo. It seems like the scenario changed a lot during development and they were pretty crunched for time, too - the final villain's models are apparently called FINALBOSS in the game files and completely broken if you look at them from any other angle.

After working on AA5, Yamazaki was apparently exhausted and didn't really want to make another Ace Attorney. Unfortunately for him, Shu Takumi was still off on his Sherlock & Souseki Victorian-Meiji Adventure, writing the Great Ace Attorney duology, and he wouldn't get done until 2017 when DGS2 came out.

Eshiro managed to persuade Yamazaki to work on AA6 by bringing him to conventions, and having seen the passion and overjoyed reactions from fans after AA5 came out, Yamazaki agreed to direct the sixth game, with Takuro Fuse (AA5 and 6's main artist) acting as co-director to ease the load. Some of AA6's cases were also created by guest writers; the SOJ artbook mentions a struggle for ideas, which explains the outlandish setting of Khura'in.

To the best of my knowledge (and I'm not sure this account is 100% accurate so anyone please feel free to correct me) this is why AA5 and AA6 are the way they are. Nobody is particularly to blame for how things turned out; there were just a couple of bad decisions along the way which has resulted in the games being looked back on by a lot of people with some contempt. Given the circumstances, I'm actually pretty impressed with how enjoyable Dual Destinies and Spirit of Justice are, even if they don't reach the heights of the trilogy.

Yamazaki left Capcom in 2019. Eshiro went on to produce Dai Gyakuten Saiban 2, and I'm pretty sure he's still at Capcom.

What all of this means for the next Ace Attorney title is completely speculation, but the short version of the story is that Shu Takumi has finally come back from getting milk Herlock Sholmes Jail writing other games, and seems to be getting hyped up by capcom as the "Director of the Ace Attorney Series". This makes it very likely he will direct and write the next Ace Attorney game. At present we have no idea what this means - he could follow up on AA4's story as well as he's able, he could write another Phoenix game, he might go rogue and write an Athena game, he might do something completely different. But the next AA game will likely be around the quality of AA1-2-3-4 and DGS, not another AA5/6 situation.

As for the producer, this comes from the November 2020 leaks (which was very real - it's where we first got the TGAA localisation confirmed), but the only thing we heard about their projected AA7 was that it would be produced by a guy called Yasayuki Makino. He also produced The Great Ace Attorney collection, and if you read his dev blogs from that release, he credits AA4 for getting him into the series initially, and generally seems to be a huge Ace Attorney fan himself, pushing hard for TGAA to get a worldwide re-release after its unimpressive initial sales (and look how well that's worked out...!)

That's basically the story. I think AA7 will be great, actually, but at this point I will literally take anything, Capcom please my family is starving

#ace attorney #asks #sophblog #dual destinies #spirit of justice

[sophistopheles]

🤨🤨🤨 whose shelves are these 🤨🤨🤨 why is Edgeworth storing teacups in the same cabinet that Phoenix is keeping bottles of grape juice and putting his locket down for the night 🤨🤨🤨

#sophblog #narumitsu #?? implied

[sophistopheles]

currently cooking up the absolute worst way to replay every ace attorney game

#sophblog

[sophistopheles]

it truly baffles me why it seems like the vast majority of women aren’t on birth control. like it’s been literally nothing but positive side effects for me, is there a reason ppl don’t take it aside from trying to conceive for some reason?

#tw birth control #just to be safe…? #sophblog

[sophistopheles]

if they end up being a similar age i think they should kiss 🥺

#ruby sunday #rose temple-noble #doctor who #yasmin finney #millie gibson #sophblog #listen i'm a simple being. i see two similarly-aged female characters i fucking floor it

[sophistopheles]

TAKARAZUKA RYUUNOSUKEEEEE (and he’s not blond!!!!)

#naruhodou ryuunosuke #the great ace attorney #takarazuka revue #sophblog

[sophistopheles]

so when are we gonna stop pretending this isn’t one of the funniest gags in the show

#doctor who #thirteenth doctor #orphan 55 #sophblog

[sophistopheles]

happy five year anniversary to dgs2, a game which absolutely fucking ruined me in every conceivable way <3

And happy 60 months since the last ace attorney game. I am biting, killing, climbing the walls even

#ace attorney #sophblog

[sophistopheles]

just learned what clussy is. day ruined. geiru im getting you out of there

#ace attorney #geiru toneido #sophblog

[sophistopheles]

i’m gonna say it, tumblr live makes tumblr look more like a pornsite than the actual porn ever did

#tumblr live #sophblog