sorry we put your morally complex black female character in a fandom. yeah they're vilifying her for making difficult decisions under severe duress. yeah no it's too late, they're already writing porn about the random white guy with 30 seconds of screentime who did all the same bad stuff that she did but for worse reasons. yeah. yeah no. not really anything we can do at this point. sorry
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i havent been able to stop thinking about this post ever since i saw it a few years ago. i couldn't stop thinking about how i would Ace Attorney-ify this otherwise average man into one of the series' over-the-top witnesses.
i'd like to introduce you to Mr. Drinkwater, minor witness in the refreshing case "Drink to the Turnabout". (With apologies to the real Andrew Drinkwater, if he or anyone who knows him in real life ever sees this).
in this case, Phoenix & friends must solve the mystery behind a drowning at the Water Research Centre, in which foul play is suspected and for which an innocent person was arrested. Mr. Drinkwater claims to have seen the whole thing.
The notes read:
Head designed to look like a water droplet
Hair designed to look like a comb-over and a 'wave'
Glasses turned fishbowl shaped
Water droplet-like nose
Coat pocket looks like sailboat
When nervous:
Hair 'droops'
Sweats a comical amount
Mouth gets squiggly
When angry:
Hair gets spiky like a lightning bolt
Tears of anger in the corners of his eyes
When shocked:
Spit take [Editor's note: after a while, I think the Judge is like "can we get a mop in here? A towel, maybe?"]
Breakdown:
Huge spit take [Editors note: straight up into the air] that looks like a fountain.
Crying comically-drawn tears.
'Dries out' into a raisin afterward.
Post-breakdown:
Mr Drinkwater's wrinkles are accentuated and his face shape has changed to make him look more 'dried out.'
His comb over falls apart, revealing he's bald. [Editor's note: I don't know if the real Andrew Drinkwater is bald or not. This isn't about the 'real' man himself, though.]
Mr. Drinkwater is mistaken about what he saw and ultimately lies on the stand to protect the deep secrets of the Water Research Centre. He's seen again at the end of the case, congratulating Phoenix & co on their victory. He offers to buy everyone a round of drinks on him-- drinks of water, that is.
Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.
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Did you used to like Mark Antony and dislike Cassius? What changed your mind ?
honestly the condensed version of events is that Antony and Brutus became uninteresting, extremely boring as POV characters to me at the same time for the same reasons, that prompted me to look closer at Cassius, and then I decided to spend two years trying to untangle Cassius from Brutus which completed my transformation into a part time Cassius apologist
like, both Antony and Brutus are still compelling figures, it’s honestly the versions of them in media and pop culture that I personally dislike and find boring because it’s not discussing anything I find interesting & frequently I feel like my time has been wasted, while their historical counterparts is more of a ‘wow I hate what you’re doing, keep it up!’
and ofc: the general passage of time. you get older. things that interest you change. being a hater as a recreational activity is fun. variety is the spice of life. people who write about Cassius are delivering poetry and I’m not immune to it. etc etc.
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okay, since Ranni is a capital H capital F High Fantasy Princess, the dramatic proposal scavenger hunt she sends the Tarnished on is *probably* Carian tradition, especially since the item description for the Discarded Palace Key says it "opens a treasure chest passed down to Carian Princesses."
Which actually just makes it funnier that to give her the ring, the Tarnished has to go through: the family dog, Ranni's senile mother, the traps Ranni has left to GUARD her senile mother, the godforsaken lake of rot ON FOOT, an enormous, creepy, human faced magic scorpion from space, and her pet dragon.
While her dad just had to go to confession and pay some indulgences to marry her mother.
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Without spoiling too much for the TOG anime only watchers, here’s my fic idea:
Khun meets Viole again at the party in the workshop battle and asks for a dance. Viole doesn’t recognize him behind the mask, but realizes that his voice is really familiar.
Somehow, he just feels like he cannot decline Khun’s offer and the two dance together slowly. Viole isn’t the greatest at dancing, but Khun is extremely talented, so every thing is really romantic.
Viole then accidentally looks into Khun’s eye for the first time and…
“Wait… I know those sky blue eyes…” he thinks as he finally starts putting the pieces together, but sadly the song ends and so does their dance.
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