#I AM EXTREMEMLY GRATEFUL

[mintytealfox]

Hellooooo, its me again uwu.

A bring more Nortalice/Alicenort content! This time its AU releated stuff! Hope that is alright

-Modern AU, they are like Shaun and Ryan from Buzzfeed Unsolved with a mix of Nancy Drew and Scooby Doo thrown in. Lots of hijinks and breaking into restricted and or forbidden areas. Sometimes they are actually solving cases, other times they broke into a gas station left to rot from the 1980s because Alice swears she saw something in there and it results with Norton rushing Alice to the doctors because she ate expired Cosmic Brownies. Not like Norton will complain, because him and Alice agreed on 50/50 on the money that comes from the cases and beats working his dead end job.

-Fantasy AU, Norton is the king of the demon realm, and Alice is the queen of Paradis (the one seen in LG and Orpheus's essences). Their kingdoms have tension with each other. Orpheus the Novelist urges war while Nightmare (yes they are two separate people). Alice however is like "Nah, imma talk to the king" and goes to the demon realm, so the two can work on some sort of peace treaty. Nonsense ensues and the two slowly fall in love, it ending with Norton asking for Alice's hang in marriage, which at first she thinks its so their kingdoms dont fight and his response being "...no you dumbass i love you. Thats why im asking to marry me"

Oletus Manor Doesnt Happen AU, aka what if Norton and Alice never went to the manor but still met each other. Can imagine its because Alice is doing a report on Golden Caves, what happened, why it shut down and interviews Norton, the only survivor from the accident. The two just seem to click and neither know why. Norton at the start tries to use this to his own personal gain, since in his state, he knows damn good and well, he will not be able to get a job again, forcing him in poverty so he tries to butter up Alice, get close to her in the hopes maybe he can marry into money. Alice also tries to use this connection to her advantage, hoping Norton's ties to the mining industry can give her access to more secretive information (like how they treat their workers). They do end up falling love properly though, and Alice uses the money from her family to help push Norton out of poverty and help him start a small jewelry business with the only catch being "Before you even dare spend a penny on clothes or luxurious things, I want you to spend the money I give you to go see a doctor in the chance to save yourself. I care too much about you Norton". Which in turn breaks Norton, but like a good break, like a "Holy fuck, she really does love/care about me, this wasn't an act, i wasnt dumb to let her into my life"

HELLO 🫡You're always welcome!! 🤣 AU stuff is ABSOLUTELY ALRIGHT 👏👏👏

LOOOL I saw Shane and Ryan and 80s and my brain went STRANGER THINGS LOL Like it starts as Norton: 'lol ghost hunting, those aren't real at least these people are paying' while Alice: 'ghost hunting, can you imagine the stories ghosts could tell if they could speak easily?? How thrilling!' But it turns into running for their lives LOL followed by eating expired cosmic brownies like nothing happened but they are all covered in dirt and grime and trauma LOL

OH F A N T A S Y A U S are ALWAYS BANGERS IN MY EYES AAAAHHH YEESS! Gives me strong Persephone and Hades vibes and that has me SO HYPE OH MY GOOOSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! AND This reminds me of the theory I saw who knows where by this point lol but it was about the one Alice skin 'Eternity' and FG's skin 'Infernal Sin' and it went something like him being the dragon of the apocalypse to deal out the punishments that Eternity laid out. Something like that, I wish I could remember it cause it was dope as hell LOL

IF THEY MET WITHOUT THE MANOR AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

10000000% using each other until Alice falls first and Norton falls HARDER MUAHHAHAHA Recently my brain keeps going to the quote from 'Our Flag Means Death' and they say "you wear nice things well" and just seeing Alice saying that to Norton when he finally gets to get all dressed up for something and him like 'oh woah' but the magic fading pretty quick at the realization, 'this is not comfy at all' and then waiting until at the gathering to say something out of pocket like "I feel like I have a pickaxe shoved all the way, right up my--" -Alice slams her hand over his mouth- 🤣🤣🤣

[tee-jay-666]

Rest in Paradise, Naya Rivera❤

Rest in Peace Naya Rivers. Words cannot express how I am feeling now. This is so heart breaking. Thanks for being part of my childhood. I love you so much. I can't stop crying and thinking about naya and all that she did for me as I kid.

I will always be grateful for the character you played in Glee. Extrememly grateful for you. We love you Naya.

Sending prayers and thoughts for Naya's family.

You did well Naya. Rest in Paradise, Naya Rivera❤

[positively-kinning]

»100 Followers Raffle«

Hello everyone! I, Mod Mikan, am here to announce that we officialy hit 100 followers! That’s such an incredible number and we’re extrememly grateful for all your support. That’s why we decided we’re going to hold a raffle!

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[capitainecorbeau]

So I just finished watching through a subtitled version of Dai Gyakuten Saiban and here’s some random disorganized thoughts because I’m really excited about it ! Oh, and spoilers !

-I really, really like Shu Takumi’s writing and storytelling over Takeshi Yamazaki’s. I can’t exactly put my finger over why yet (and it frustrates me), but it justs... I dunno, I connect to it a lot more ? I think it’s because the way he writes friendships feels very sweet and genuine. And I’m a sucker for good friendships. But I’m going to dig around more, because I really want to put words on why dai gyakuten saiban put a huge smile on my face while the games directed by Yamazaki kept rubbing me the wrong way.

-The animations and character design. Holy. SHIT. There is so mich attention to detail, they really took full advantage of the fact that the sprites are in 3D and they don’t have to draw every single pose. Every character feels distinct and unique, with their own little habits, gestures, and such. Like, they’re immediately recognizable just by the poses they strike. I had stars in my eyes every time, it was amazing ! Like, the example that stuck with me the most was actually Ryuunosuke’s (the protagonists) animations during his first trial. He’s unbelievably nervous, and they found so many fun ways to show it ! His eyes dart around wildly, he raises his hand before speaking, when he hits his desk he quickly looks at his hands like “oh shit ! that made more noise than expected !”. And you really see him change as the game progresses, you see him become more confident, less painfully strained, and he even starts imitating a certain someone (and, because the animations are unique to each character, it’s pretty obvious, even though nobody mentions it ! Show don’t tell done right !!).

-By the way, a quick aside, but they really did a great job portraying extreme nervousness ? Like, it’s not just the character going “I’m nervous” and maybe fumbling his words a few times, no, you see in his posture that he’s so tense it’s almost painful, he gets completely and utterly tongue-tied, or is barely comprehensible, is very easily startled, hyper aware of himself and what he’s doing/saying... They did a great job portraying how frustrating nervousness and anxiety can be. that’s the kind of attention to detail I love !

-Susato. SUSATO. i love her. I love how brave and confident she is, how clever, and I love her sens of humor (which involves a lot of slightly condescending concern). Honestly, I kinda wish she was the protagonist ? Like, don’t get me wrong, I really liked the actual protagonist, but it would’ve made just as much sense if it had been her, and it would’ve been very interesting !

-Sherlock Holmes is in this game and I think it’s my favourite portrayal of him ever. Honestly, when I first heard he was in the game I was very afraid he was going to be the classic “I can be a prick all I want because I’m a genius” trop that I despise, but I was wrong. Oh so wrong. Sherlock Holmes is a huge, massive dork. Legit almost every time he was on screen I was cryng with laughter. He’s cheerfully weird (he pops up in the background in ridiculous positions, sings his own theme song, is a huge dramaqueen, a lowkey troll), it’s like Papyrus from Undertale became a detective. And what I love is that he’s not infaillible ? Like, he gets stuff wrong. Often. he’s very quick-thinking and can deduce things in a blink, but he doesn’t really thinks things through and ends up completely off the mark. But when people correct him ? He welcomes it, is very happy when people offer to help, and once pushed in the right direction, he gets things right very quickly. I’ve seen people say that he pretends to get stuff wrong so Ryuunosuke can figure things out for himself, but I don’t really like that interpretation, personnally. Clever people get stuff wrong, and it doesn’t make them less clever. Honestly, having a character deduce things easily but getting stuff wrong is such a better way to show they’re smart than having them always guess everything right on the first try. Also, that way, we don’t get those weird parallel universes where only one person is ever capable of deductive reasoning (looking at you, AAI). Honestly, Holmes in DGS kinda reminded me of Basil from The Great Mouse Detective, only friendlier. I like interpretations that focus on making him a person rather than THE GOD OF DEDUCING AND SMARTNESS BETTTER THAT EVERYONE ELSE.

-Friendships. So many friendships. You can really feel that these characters care for each other and I love stuff like that. Ryuunosuke loves his friends so much and frankly, same.

-You know this game is very human ? Like, there’s a lot of grey morality, and good people doing misguided or plain wrong stuff, with reasons that make sense for them. Actually, there aren’t a lot of classic villains in this game. They tried some different stuff than usual and it turned out pretty cool ! And it kinda takes you offguard, because the first case is a textbook ace attorney case. the other... not so much.

-They kept the multiple-witness wross-examinations from Prof Layton vs Ace Attorney and I am so happy they did ! It makes the game’s world feel a lot more alive and real, with people existing even though you’re not focusing directly on them.

-On less starry-eyed notes, I really wish there were more women. And more women over the ripe age of 25. That’s a problem in every AA game, and I wish they got better about it.

-Also the prosecutor really, really grated on me. He’s extrememly abrasive, and, moreover racist (most of the english characters lowkey are, but he is really overt and blatant about it), but is never really called out on that because he has an excuse (which is actually also racist). It was to the point where I cringed everytime he opened his mouth.

Overall, I really, really liked it, and I wish I could’ve played it myself. I don’t completely get why it wasn’t localized, and I wish they’d do it eventually... though it seems hardly likely. Anyway, I’m starting the second one now !

[smhella-smheik-blog]

I've been thinking about you recently. But if we are being honestly I never stopped thinking about you. I've been thinking of you indifferent ways though. I look back at all the things I've felt and I now feel so wise. I am no longer the person filled with love and admiration. I am no longer the person filled with hate and contempt and bitterness. My thoughts on you have mellowed. I am however extrememly grateful for all that you have taught me. You have helped me center myself in so many ways so thank you. You will always have a place within me.

[barbaryalan]

Phil was a first class huckster, and hustler extraordinare. A man of many angles you might say. he was one of the many characters that I came to know, while living on a houseboat, on Lake mead, just outside of Las Vegas, Nevada.

Now Live aboards, as those who live full time on boats are called, are a special breed, and Phil was no exception to this rule. He had a sailboat that he lived on, nice one too. Nothing gawdy or expensive, just good sized, 32′ maybe, maybe more, and seemed to be a comfortable little craft to live on.

Now he had no income that i was aware of, and though I think he may have been selling a little weed around the docks, he certainly was no kingpin. Now as I said, income that I was aware of.

He may very well have had some sort of disabilty claim I knew nothing about. I can tell you this though, he didn’t go to work. No, I think he had retired early, thanx to his huckster and hustler ways.

You see, Phil, in his earlier days had run a service station on Route 66, somewhere ‘In The Middle Of Nowhere’, Arizona. Now I need to emphasize ‘Service’ station here. Unlike today, wher most gas stations don’t do much more than sell you gas and snacks, back in the day, service stations were also auto repair shops. And along some of these more isolated stretches of highways, like Route 66, that tradition lasted a little longer than elsewhere, precisely because of the remoteness.

Now a remote highway, in blistering hot Arizona, really isn’t where you want to be breaking down. We all know the stories we have heard, of people being gouged , over charged, for auto repair in circumstances like this. The mecchanic knows you don’t have any options other than him, and charges accordingly. If you don’t like it, find someone else.

As much as this sucks, I think we have come to accept it. It is a pretty standard business model, charging what a desperate market will bear. but, that isn’t the hustle I am going to describe here. This hustle is outright scam artistry, fraud and theft.

Phil however, unabashadly told me that they had pulled the scam hundreds of times, not only never getting caught, never even being suspected of wrongdoing at all.

Let me further flesh out the scenario. 100+ degrees, not just at the heat of the day, but for a significant stretch of the day, for a good half of the year. Areas where, the hundred and teens are normal highs, for 3 months of the year, and 95+ for another 7 or 8 months of the year. Yes, that is the math, 10-11 months a year with highs above 90 degrees.

So Phil has a service station, not on the pre-50’s thriving Route 66, but on the struggling to stay relevant thanx to Interstate 40 Route 66.

Many of the businesses, that did so well in Route 66’s heyday, when it was the Mother Road, the lifeblood of the country, the connective binding, of the two Coasts, had gone. Had cashed out, moved closer to the Interstate, or just quit, as the Interstate slowly choked the life out of Route 66.

But where others threw in the towel, cut and run, Phil saw an opportunity. People were still travelling Route 66, it wasn’t abandoned, covered in tumbleweeds. Not yet anyway, not like now.

You have to remember, that I met Phil in the 90’s, and he had this station in the late 70’s and the 80’s. So Interstate 40 wasn’t actually finished cross country yet, at least when he started . It was being finished, piecemeal, at different times in different parts of the country, so though I-40 was seriously draining the traffic off of The Mother Road, it was far from dead. Many people were still opting for the less convenient, slower route. Some, honestly, out of fear of the speed of the new Interstates. Others, out of habit. Still others, as a thumb in the eye of the speed of American commerce, at the expense of culture, of panoramic views, at the expense of priceless Americana.

For whatever reason, many people stilled braved the mother road, and took the scenic route. Some of them went Precisely because it was decaying and disappearing. These were the people Phil was counting on. You see, this stretch of desert is hot, I mean extrememly hot, and automobiles, even those in good shape, are going to act up. They are going to overheat, things are going to fail, going to start acting up.

Now, many of these issues are minor, and most involve letting the vehicle cool off. Quite often, the problem, though real, may only act up under extreeme heat conditions. So if you aren’t going to vbe crossing the desert regularly, you could just take a few more rest breaks, drive more at night, and not incure the costs of repair at all.

Or, perhaps it is a minor issue, that could be fixed at your destination, again, if you play gentle with the car in the heat. But those things, that advice, is not what a huckster like Phil is going to do.

Nope!

As he told the story, the mark would roll in, worried about the performance of their vehicle. Phil would look it over, see if he could actually find a problem to address. If he found it, he would fix it, overcharge you, and send you on your way.

However, if their was nothing really wrong with your car, if you were just the panicky type, or the thouroughly uninformed about vehicles, well, he had a special service plan for you!

It was almost like he felt the need to punish and fleece those he determined to be too dumb to own a car in the first place. Especially, if they had money, which a nice car was indicative of. He was definitely a believer in that old PT Barnum line, “There’s a sucker born every minute.

Phil would give the car a once over, then, commenting on the havoc the hills around there would wreak on a transmission, offer to check that out as well. Now the customer of course, wants to avoid a transmission failure out in the middle of the desert, almost begs him to do so. In effect, begging to be sheered, like a sheep.

Phil would climb under the car, drain the transmission, and stick his finger in the drain plub, muttering incoherently. Then, unbeknownst to the customer, he would dip that tranny fluid soaked finger in some fine metal shavings on the shop floor, while getting out from under the car. He would show those shavings in the fluid to the owner of the car, and begin to tell the owner how lucky they were that they stopped. That had they gone on by, they would have absolutely blown their transmission, in the middle of the desert.

Now the customer, knowing nothing about cars, and seeing the shavings in the fluid, really doesn’t think they have any other options. in fact, they may even feel as if this mechanic just saved their ass from catastrophe, and be grateful to do whatever he tells them they need to do. So of course, when he tells them he can get them a rebuilt transmission, and put it in for them, they readily agree.

When he tells them it might take two days to get here, but then he would get it in right away, they agree to it. When he tells them, that he can save them a little bit of money, if they give the tranny shop the old transmission to them, for them to rebuild for the next guy, they buy in, tell him to do whatever he needs to do.

So Phil sends them to a friends hotel down the street, to stay for the 2-3 days it is going to take to get this work done. Then Phil gets to the meat of the hustle.

He pulls off the transmission cover, throws it in the back of his truck. Then he drives out to a place where he can power wash it, and gets it cleaned up real nice, perhaps going as far as to paint it.

When it looks all shiny and new, he takes it back to the shop. Once there, he hides it for a day or so, then installs it on the car. He fills it back up with fluid, and voila! He can now overcharge you for the instalation of a rebuilt transmission, when all he really did was a fluid change!

As I said before, he was never caught for this. Never even suspected. The sheep came, they got sheered, then went on their way, thanking him for the privilege.

That, was his retirement program, the fleecing of sheep, and the swindling of suckers. Sometimes, crime does pay.

      Phil, On Shaving A Tranny… Tweekaderos In Vegas, Saints and Sinners Phil was a first class huckster, and hustler extraordinare. A man of many angles you might say.

[josemercadowrd111]

DJ 2

I have accomplished many things in the past, but my achievements may be differrent. I guess you can say they are more personal and I am proud of them. One acievement im proud of is that I graduated highschool. I was the first to do so among my family. Both of my parents never completed highschool, so they push me and siblings to stay on top of school. I am also the first person in my family to go to college. My parents have always pushed me to become better and better with my education and I am extrememly grateful to be where I am at. I do have awards that I earned in the past, but none of those can really beat the achievement of my education. One award I do enjoy is winning a poetry contest. I enjoy writing, I actually do, well poetry and lyrics actually. I even make music with it too! I even have a song on Apple Music and Spotify. The song isn’t too great because it was something my friends just saying random things on the beat I created. On the bright side how many people can say that they are on apple music. Another one my achievements is becoming some type of manager at my jobs . I have had only 2 jobs total and became managers at both. My mom has always had a strong work ethic , so I must have gotten it from her. Everything I have accomplished and done is for my family, I want to be able to return the favor once I graduate.