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someone: hey I noticed this thing you did in your writing!
me, kicking my feet up flirtatiously: oh??? do you want to hear my thoughts on why I did that? do you want a play-by-play of the language choices in every related sentence? do you want an exhaustive breakdown of The Themes???
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it's her . the Dark Stalker™
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Clea: “Finders keepers”
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Anakin in a nutshell
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thebibliomancer · 15 hours
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I like the expression new-fangled. I don't know what it means for something to be fangled, but I sure as hell know it was recent
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instead of calling an ‘evil’ character a psychopath, sociopath, psychotic, narcissistic  or etc. use any of these words instead:
self-centered 
violent
manipulative
remorseless
wicked
cunning
mean
abusive
dangerous
corrupt
morally corrupt
insensitive
bully
foul
vile
cruel
aggressive
threatening
brutal 
vicious
rampaging
out of control
because there are so many ways to describe someone as ‘bad’ than by assigning them a misunderstood, demonised personality disorder and if i see anyone using personality disorders as substitutes for evil then you’re getting blocked plain and simple.
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The Secret Ninja Detective Clan thing was always a little weird to try to make sense of. Nobody knows they exist but they collaborate with the police
She spends most of the game not telling Makoto anything about herself. It’d be funny if she swung right from that to telling a whopper.
While they’re both climbing an enormous ladder and he’s insisting she tell him about herself to distract him from the climb.
… Yeah, I could believe she’d embellish the story.
Current plot holes I have with the Danganronpa Kirigiri series:
1) Rei and Kyoko are roughly the same age. (Kyoko is apparently 13 and not 12. Rei is 12.) Rei became a 000 detective when he was 9. He is actually a better detective than Kyoko is, as proven by his track record. But Kyoko is the Ultimate Detective. Would Rei have been added the next year as the Ultimate Detective, like we have both Makoto and Nagito as Ultimate Luck? Or is he gonna die by the end of the series? (If he does, don't tell me, I'll get there when I get there.)
I choose to believe Jin is just playing favorites. That's more fun for me!
2) I remember Kyoko making a comment in DR1 about how she was going to be cut off from her family for making her detective identity public just so she could go to Hope's Peak to tell her dad she never wanted to speak to him again. Which is overdramatic and lovely and completely valid. We stan a petty, overdramatic Kyoko. (Perfect match for petty, overdramatic Junko. What do you mean her dad's skeleton wasn't a good present? She was just trying to help out!)
But like. The entire premise of DR: Kirigiri is that the detectives are part of what is called the Detective Library. It files them based on their primary specialty (1-9, where 0 means they are good at everything) and then their specialty within that specialty (1-9, where 0 means they are good at everything) and then their rank within their specialty (0-9). (A Triple-Zero rank, as Rei is mentioned to be above, means that the detective is the best of the best at any kind of any work, as proven by their solved cases. Kyoko is a 91-, where her specialty is murder (9), her specialty within that is impossible crime (1, which is different from locked room, which is 3), and then her rank raises over the course of the series from a 9 (lowest) to a 0 (highest).) The Detective Library is accessible by anyone who wishes to hire a detective, often including contact information for that detective (phone number, address).
Kyoko's grandfather both helped establish the Detective Library (even though he is not included in it (it is strongly implied he would be a 000 rank if he was)) and had Kyoko join at the beginning of the series. In the third book, she's literally working with the police. Obviously he does not care if Kyoko's detective identity is public or not, and she's not going to be cut off from being the heir if she joins Hope's Peak or pisses off her dad.
Which is. only compatible with her dialogue in DR1 if we assume that she was lying.
She literally says they made a conscious effort to conceal their existence (as detectives), but. -gestures- That's not concealing? That's a lot of revealing and identifying and ranking? So?????
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One of the best things about AA4 is how fucking smooth Phoenix is in this game, after spending three straight games with him flouncing about on the backfoot in every conversation.
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OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Let's fucking GOOOOOOOOOOO
He's like this for the whole fucking game. Papa Beanie Phoenix is peak Phoenix characterization and I wish the franchise let him just stay in the Magnificent Bastard Mentor role forever.
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Essential Avengers: Avengers #313: THIEVES HONOR
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January, 1990
The ULTIMATE Super-Villain Team-Up! Plus -> Beginning -- the FATE of the SCARLET WITCH!
Plus, it's the 90s! Dark times ahead! Allegedly! Things still feel pretty 80s around here, to be honest but we've only just got here.
Also, hi, Black Widow! Guess you're here to capitalize on the more fluid roster of the Byrne run. Should we call you the Gray Widow now? Because of that costume?
(I've been a little rude to the Wizard during Acts of Vengeance but c'mon, the ultimate team-up is the Wizard and Silver Samurai oh that's the Mandarin. Still not very ultimate. Now if Thanos and Doom worked together, that'd be scary.)
Last times in Acts of Vengeance: Some Doom robots sank Avengers Island while the Avengers were busy elsewhere. The U-Foes tried to burn down the Avengers West Coast Mansion. Freedom Force attacked Avengers Park, for some reason unrelated to Acts of Vengeance. Mole Man attacked Los Angeles with giant monsters, convinced that the Avengers attacked him first.
Slowly, the Avengers have realized that someone is targeting them, using the general chaos of villains picking unusual fights as cover. But they don't know yet that the someone is a big conspiracy among top villains and the Wizard.
Also, not just in Acts of Vengeance but in general, Scarlet Witch's life has been horrible! Her husband was dismantled, rebuilt without emotions, and decided to professionally separate from her. Not just that but she was crammed full of racism goo and then her babies turned out to be Actually Satan. Then Agatha Harkness erased her memory of ever having children. So because of some or all of that, Wanda keeps lapsing into catatonia.
She's having a difficult time.
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Speaking of difficult times, on top of all the villain attacks and HQ destruction, the public has turned against superheroes and Congress is debating a superpower registration act.
Times are tough.
Jarvis, watching the unruly crowd on the security monitors, asks Captain America if there's nothing the Avengers can do to calm the crowd.
Captain America: "Unfortunately not, Jarvis. We're just great when it comes to dealing with super-villains and cosmic menaces... but public opinion is something we cant' possibly control."
That's pretty big talk from a dude wearing a flag. Who gives such great speeches that he has on multiple occasions turned a mob around!
Weirdly, Captain America is sometimes portrayed as just bad and disinterested in PR.
During Kurt Busiek's later run, Cap found himself unable to deal with a concerted PR campaign against the Avengers and turned leadership over to the Wasp.
Which. Okay. That makes sense. I can see her as the Avenger leader great at PR.
(Still though. Captain America talks down mobs so much. You don't even want to try, Cap??)
In this specific instance, the Avengers have other stuff to attend to.
Captain America, Vision, and Wonder Man are going to be diving to where Avengers Island sank to see if they can salvage anything.
I don't know why Wonder Man is here. He was just in California. I'm glad that the Avengers are being more fluid between the East and West but I can't fathom why people are coming and going.
In the meantime, Hawkeye and Mockingbird are holding down the fort in the Midwest with the Great Lakes Avengers.
Who we haven't seen in a bit? Did Byrne backburner whatever he was doing with them?
Meanwhile, the Mandarin lands in Avengers Park and is immediately met with racism.
He is a villain but geez, NYPD officer. Don't be a dick.
Also, I really did mistake the Mandarin for Silver Samurai on first glance. I guess he's upped his game with power armor to better match Iron Man.
A police officer, maybe even the same one that was racist, runs up to the Mandarin and tells him he doesn't know who he is but maybe he better take a hike before he gets arrested for something.
The Mandarin: "Amazing... Do I face a bold warrior, or a blustering buffoon? It matters not."
And then he burns the guy to death with one of his special rings.
The police open fire on the Mandarin but he blocks the bullets with a force field and then starts killing cops.
Although, really, he's here to fight the Avengers.
Back at "Prime Movers" HQ, Doctor Doom is outraged at how dumb the Mandarin is.
VICTOR VON DOOM: "Dolt! Moron! How has this fool survived so long as a foe of Iron Man... when his every word and action shows him to have the fighting sense of a novice in a nunnery!!"
Doom says that if Doom were in the Mandarin's place, Doom would have reduced the Avengers' backup HQ to a crater instead of wasting time terrorizing cops.
Red Skull comes in just in time to zing Doom by pointing out how often Doom gets ousted from his own kingdom.
Doom doesn't like being talked to like that but Red Skull persists, saying... uh... I'm pretty sure he's saying that in his time (World War II) he would have had someone like Doom (guess) tortured and killed just for funsies.
It's really cathartic when Doom backhands Red Skull and tells him off for "angering your betters!"
But Red Skull turns being slapped across the room into a flip and pulls a science gun on Doom.
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Apparently, Red Skull has been placed into a new peak-human body? I don't really know what's been going on with him but I suspect there's always something like that happening with the Skull so he can keep up with Captain America.
Red Skull's science gun must be really potent because he shoots Doctor Doom and the guy goes flying to smash into one of those big computer monitors.
Kingpin comes in at the noise and is not impressed with his fellow top villains.
Kingpin: "Well, well, well... The childre are at play again, I see."
Red Skull threatens to shoot him too but crime man has more dunking to do.
Kingpin: "Spare me your preachings, Nazi. If I have learned nothing else in my brief association with you and Doctor Doom... I have learned that neither of you understands the true meaning, the true source of the power you claim to possess. You are infants in the modern world... playing your little games of world conquest... feint and counter feint... While all the while the true power slips ever through your fingers." Red Skull: "You... dare... ?!!" Kingpin: "Yes, Skull. I dare. The Kingpin of crime dares all."
I think he talks a big game but he is consistently slapped down when he tries to reach past really powerful at normal crime. But then again, he usually isn't interested in anything beyond that. There's no profit in the end of the world, etc etc.
Meanwhile, Captain America and Wonder Man (who doesn't need a diving helmet but is wearing one anyway to be like the cool kids) dive down to the sunken Avengers Island.
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Alas, fair island headquarters. We barely knew ye.
The good news is that since Avengers Island was a floating artificial island, a lot of the equipment was water-proofed Just In Case.
Water-proofed enough to be salvageable after sitting at the bottom of the ocean for a day or so?
They won't know until they haul stuff out. Which isn't today. Today is just poking around and moving some smaller stuff.
They're interrupted by Jarvis calling on the emergency channel.
Jarvis who is wearing his eyepatch again.
The book really goes back and forth on whether he needs it or is just wearing it to look cool.
It looks very cool. You do you, Jarvis.
Anyway, he reports that some dude is trying to blast through the ground of Avengers Park to get to the sub-basement.
Captain America ID's the guy as the Mandarin and the three Avengers haul ass towards New York.
Captain America: "Jarvis is a good man, but we've left him holding the fort too many times in the past." Vision: "I concur, Captain America. And against a foe like the Mandarin I fear even one so resourceful as Jarvis may be at a loss."
I like that it sounds like Vision is saying, with his computer logic, that if it was someone less than the Mandarin, Jarvis would kick their ass.
If it was Stilt-Man, Jarvis would have him flat on his ass in no time.
In the most recent Avengers comic as of this typing, (Avengers vol 9 #11) Jarvis and Jarvis' assistant beat the shit out of the Mad Thinker. Jarvis can throw hands.
Anyway.
The Wizard is also flying towards the Mandarin.
He noticed the guy leave the very secret headquarters and went to go call him an idiot for messing up the Wizard's very well-planned Acts of Vengeance. Yup, this is Wizard's plan and the Mandarin is screwing it up by attacking the Avengers too soon!
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Then the Wizard gets tackled by Wonder Man because he wasn't watching his own ass.
The Wizard breaks free, blasting Wonder Man into the ground, while mocking that he wasted time with bluster like all heroes do.
Vision tries to tangle with Wizard next but he also made the mistake of loudly announcing his presence.
You'd think his computer brain would have told him not to do that.
Wizard easily dodges away from Vision's grasp and then Russian reversals by fisting Vision instead of vice versa.
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Alas, Vision. Turns out losing your emotions has not made you a more efficient fighter. You get punked basically the same as always.
Meanwhile, thousands of miles away in California, the Avengers West Coast Compound and specifically Wanda's house.
After getting back from the Quinjet crash, I guess Hank and Wasp just propped Wanda up in a chair and left her to Agatha Harkness to watch.
Because that's where she is.
Propped up catatonic in a chair and being watched by Agatha Harkness.
Agatha Harkness: "*Sigh* It is still no use, Ebony. My former pupil is utterly unresponsive. She has suffered too many traumas in the past few weeks even for her to bear. Her robot husband, kidnapped, dismantled, reprogrammed... Her beloved children revealed as nothing more than figments of her mutant imagination. And, most recently, having her mind stolen from her by the Deviant known as Ghaur, part of his plan to turn her into one of the Brides of..."
I notice you conveniently left out where you magically wiped her memories of ever having children.
And I feel that very well could be related to whatever is going on with her brain.
Agatha.
Anyway, Agatha gets distracted. She feels like someone is coming up to the house but none of the proximity alarms are alarming.
She goes outside and sees no one, not even with her Special Eyes.
(Special magic eyes)
Then the house launches into space, without her.
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Surprise, it's Magneto.
(Also surprisingly funny, it's implied that launching a house into orbit was his anti-magic contingency for getting one over on Agatha)
Magneto: "Now it is time for a long delayed reunion. Good afternoon, daughter. What a pity you cannot express your joy on seeing me again."
I don't know that she would if she could.
Although, I guess in the Vision and Scarlet Witch Vol 2, she did sorta reconcile with Magneto.
But in these circumstances, I don't think she'd be thrilled to see him.
Especially considering how he continues that thought.
Magneto: "But soon enough will come a time when you will know joy beyond your wildest dreams! The joy only absolute power can bring!"
Go home, old man.
Anyway, back over in the A-plot, Captain America arrives at Avengers Park in a Quinjet. Hellcat and Black Widow also arrive, but by leaping and swinging over rooftops.
Cap promptly gets shot down by the Mandarin.
Right when he was telling the two to hang back since they don't have superpowers.
Mandarin: "You worry so much about others, Captain... When it is you who are most at hazard!"
Ya burnt.
(Also, c'mon, Cap. Black Widow doesn't have powers, maybe, but Hellcat is wearing a suit that jacks her up to superhuman levels. C'mon with that. C'mon.)
Also, also, god damn, another Quinjet going down? Not to mention all the ones that fell into the ocean when Avengers Island sank? That's a lot of damaged and destroyed Quinjets lately.
This has to be hurting Tony in the bank account.
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Mandarin tries to chop Captain America. An honorable death for an honorable foe. I mean sure, he's passed out after a plane crash but definitely an honorable death.
Black Widow and Hellcat jump Mandarin to save Cap. They punk him a bit but he manages to toss them away and blast them.
But this gives Cap enough time to recover and he bonks the Mandarin in the head with his shield.
It makes a WHONG! sound against Mandarin's helmet.
Love a good sound effect.
Captain America: "You must be really tired of being corrected by now, Mandarin... So I won't bother telling you how wrong you are. You're quite bright enough to figure it out for yourself!"
Burned.
The Mandarin uses his rings to freeze Cap's feet in a giant block of ice. And then Wizard swoops in to blast Cap.
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Captain America flips out of the way, even with the ice weighing him down.
And Wonder Man recovers enough from his earlier attack on the Wizard to fly in and pop the guy in the noggin.
Even looks like he dented his helmet. Nice.
Mandarin complains that the Wizard's interference ruined his plan, which was clearly going so well before.
Then he gets hit by Mjolnir and his day gets worse.
Vision melts the ice block off of Cap's legs so now the full team of Thor, Black Widow, Wonder Man, Vision, Captain America, and Hellcat confront the Mandarin and the Wizard.
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The Mandarin decides 'fuck this, actually', uses his black light ring to befuddle the heroes, and then ditches.
Ditches the Wizard to be caught by the Avengers.
Hah!
They think he's just one small fish in the conspiracy but Wizard loudly insists that he's the mastermind.
Captain America: "And you're going to tell us everything you know. We've deduced this current madness is part of some overall scheme to destroy the Avengers. We also know, courtesy of Cloak and Dagger, that Doctor Doom is somehow behind it all..." Wizard: "Then you know nothing, Captain. Do you really think a blustering charlatan such as Doom could craft a plan so ingenious in its multifarious texturings? This plan is mine, and mine alone! The others who I have recruited to my needs may well believe each move they make is of their own devising... But it is the wondrous Wizard who conceived the scheme... and it is I who shall enjoy the final victory!"
Definitely Loki is scrying this interrogation and laughs at how Wizard thinks he's the mastermind when, actually, Definitely Loki is the one pulling the strings.
But Definitely Loki gets interrupted from his favorite hobby in this event, watching things and being smug about it, by the noise of his pawns (the Prime Movers) bickering again.
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Red Skull is yelling at the returned Mandarin for ditching the Wizard. Also, he throws in some racism. Because, Red Skull.
Mandarin shoots back that it was Wizard's own fault he got captured, for being stupid.
Definitely Loki points out that maybe they should spring Wizard before he spills too many beans, out of spite.
The Mandarin takes issue with Definitely Loki's presumption and Kingpin implies that he's the mastermind, confusing Red Skull who thinks he's the mastermind.
But then Doom explodes.
Revealing that the Doom that Red Skull easily punked was a Doombot.
(A very Byrne move)
Doom was never directly involved in this plot. He sent a Doombot because he didn't feel like the scheme was worth his attention.
So when this inevitably falls apart, it doesn't reflect on Doom at all!
Kind of a weak point to end an issue on but I love the drama of Doom blowing up from the earlier tussle, revealing it was just a robot.
Next time, Avengers West Coast #55, Acts of Vengeance concludes.
It has felt very bearable, covering only the Avengers parts.
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thebibliomancer · 17 hours
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Just putting it out there that by the end of Phoenix Wright's second case, he'd been on trial three times. Twice for murder.
Are we really sure we can trust a lawyer this shady?
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thebibliomancer · 18 hours
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You know, it's funny. Vegeta likes to boast about being Prince of Saiyans but there are only four Saiyans left in existence and they're scattered to different planets. It's kind of like Leia being Princess of Alderaan. It's an important title to him personally but it doesn't really mean anything anymore on a political level.
Bulma, meanwhile, is heir to the largest billion-dollar megacorporation on the planet. Having invented shrinking tech, Capsule Corp now makes everything. The world is filled with Capsule cars and Capsule homes and Capsule guns and Capsule submarines. They've completely reinvented the very nature of what products are.
They have enough money to effortlessly burn resources on private space ventures and build gravity machines into their palatial estate. Even as a child, Bulma was important enough that when a small boy showed up asking to see her, he was given a police escort to her home just to make sure she really did know this kid and everything was on the up and up.
(And when Bulma tells the cop that she cut school, he just meekly responds with, "Oh, you shouldn't but okay." He has no authority here.)
Now they live together in Bulma's giant house surrounded by Bulma's immeasurable wealth and luxury, with their family supported by the family's servant robots.
Basically, the funny thing about Bulma and Vegeta's marriage is that Vegeta is the one who married into royalty.
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thebibliomancer · 18 hours
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Iiits Avengers Wednesday, Also Acts of Vengeance!
The Vengeance Acting continues and the Avengers may have never found out who is leading such a massive, organized and secret scheme to destroy them if two of the “masterminds” didn’t get bored and show up to the Avengers’ front door to cause trouble personally.
Look for the post on Avengers #313, this afternoon at 6 PM EST!
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