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no i don't think those characters are siblings i think they're friends. I don't think that's their mom I actually think she's their friend. I don't think they're related actually I think they're friends with each other.
I know this might make people mad, but absolutely refusing to even attempt to treat your mental illness, and instead just endlessly inflicting your unmitigated episodes on the people around you, is abusive. Your loved ones are not stress toys that you can just squeeze every time you feel bad. It is bad if someone says your repeated behavior is hurting them, and you take no steps to change. I know damn well that you can’t always help how your brain acts, but I’ve also spent a lot of years trying to stop my spiraling brain in its tracks, work on strategies to calm down, and consider the impact I’m having on others, because I grew up in a household with people who have the attitude of, “I have the right to consume all the attention in the house and drain your energy every single day because I feel miserable, and you’re the bad guy if you say that I’m making you feel bad and that I need to get help. I can treat you however I want because of my anxiety.”
Long time no postcanon Diego nonsense from yours truly
I don't have much else to offer so I'll ramble a bit about the au itself below
Okay so I mentioned some things somewhere in some past posts but whatever
I'm kinda sorta writing a thing with this whole premise but I don't think I will ever post it anywhere even if I finish it because it is a very self-indulgent thing that is also incredibly long
Basically the main idea is that Diego gets out of prison 6 years after aa3 and slowly gets his life back on track, makes some friends and has a more or less peaceful life (mainly because I want him to have a happy ending)
So, he gets out of prison, and Maya takes him to Kurain village to stay while he figures his life out. He has a lot of self doubt, still feeling guilty for what happened back in Hazakura, and doesn't really feel that he deserves anything good in life. He mostly helps around the village for a while, but Maya asks him whether he wants to get back to law again from time to time, but he always refuses. He feels like he did too much wrong to step back into the courtroom again. He also visits Hazakura Temple to apologize to Iris to at least start trying to make amends for his past actions. I feel like he and Iris can really bond about their shared guilt and become good friends at some point, but that's for another time
And then he gets a call from Edgeworth who offers his help for Diego to get back to law again, since the Dark Age of the Law lead to a severe understaffing of lawyer and Edgeworth wants to have someone who he knows cares about the truth around. Diego still doesn't feel worthy of this, and decides to leave the village to stop bothering everyone around him with his inability to decide how to proceed with the life he didn't know he would have after what he's been through. But before he does, he goes to visit Mia's grave — something he couldn't bring himself to do in a long time. And there he meets... Mia herself. Maya is channeling her, hoping that her sister can talk some sense into him. And they talk. About regrets and the time they didn't have. And Mia asks him to keep living, because he is still there and he still can build his life anew. And then they say goodbye.
(On the sidenote, I think Mia and Diego should probably have had one last talk about everything that happened, and then say farewell to each other, because Diego needs to learn to let go, and Mia needs to have peace as a spirit)
After that everything gets a little bit better as Diego decides to try to become a defence attorney (I really don't think he would want to prosecute again), gets his badge back with Edgeworth's help, and — also with Edgeworth's recommendation — starts working at Edgeworth & Co. Law Offices along with Eddie Fender. Just for funsies. Because I think they would get along.
And well there's some other stuff going on next — like him meeting with Phoenix, meeting Apollo and later Athena, reuniting with Blackquill after he is freed (because they're cellmates in my heart of hearts), but I'll probably stop for now
I know this is very messily worded but I digress
Maybe I will post some more stuff on this in the future
some of you weren’t around for the fan fiction dot net purge of 2002 (when they banned explicit content and mass-deleted thousands of fics) and the livejournal purge of 2007 (when they deleted hundreds of blogs, disproportionately targeting queer & kink content) and it shows
it fucking sucks being a disabled person who can't work and having to see these fuckass posts where someone's like "ahaha jobless people have no life and that's why everyone shitty online has No Job" and everyone and their mother reblogs it joyfully onto my dash for me to see. yes unemployed and unemployable people are truly without exception dogshit people with no hobbies and no redeeming qualities. you're so right. anyway if you'll excuse me i have to start my shift at the I'll Never Be Employed Because Of Permanent Disability And I Love Knowing How You Really See Me store
btw this isn't solely a disability rights issue or an issue about people who are entirely unable to work. you should also be thinking about the people who are regarded as unhireable. transfems are hugely discriminated against in this way, people of color are passed over for less qualified white people, anyone who has any difficulty playing the interview game is less hireable... frankly anyone who made the mistake of pursuing the things they love and now has a degree for a niche field. if you still joke about Jobless People it's because you've fundamentally connected the worth of people to their labor, and specific labor, work that you see as valuable. and while i'm at it stop making fun of people who still live with their parents. asshole.
I work with kids and sometimes we have to do safety lessons with them about like, not telling strangers on the internet your home address or something. And sometimes the kids wont understand why, so you have to impart upon them that, well, some adults want to hurt children. And thats kind of difficult to do, because you have to beat around the bush, both because you dont want to scare them (while still making them understand how serious it is) and because you might lose your job if you explain it too straight forward.
Luckily, for some reason, the villain of one of the most popular franchises with children for the last 10 years happens to be a serial child murderer. So when a kid asks why they shouldnt trust strangers, instead of hand wringing and humhawing my answer out, I can just say "we dont always know when a strange adult has good intentions with children, or when they are William Afton."
saying this as a lesbian who loves women's boobs--sexually, even! but i don't think that we as a society should consider breasts inherently female or inherently sexual. a flat chest should not be seen as the "default" for gender neutrality but instead just one way a person can present. boobs should be normal. anyone of any gender can have boobs
we have to thank our brave soldiers in fandom who write gen fics. we have to thank our brave soldiers in fandom who write character studies and stories with no focus on romance or sex. we have to get on our knees and thank the brave soldiers in fandom who write about minor characters and friendship and family with no focus on romance or sex. i know it’s hard to care about characters in a world that seems to only revolve around ships but i see you. and i love you
Not to be a bitch but sometimes people engage with fiction in the most boring way possible, and nowhere is this clearer than in videogames. Like what you mean you hate a character just because they were kind of abrasive when speaking to the player character? "They were mean to me" and it didn't occur to you to wonder why? Like, what might their attitude toward you reveal about the world? About the social dynamics within it? About their own perspectives and backgrounds and personalities? Does it even occur you to ask? Would you only have liked them if they bowed to your presence and talked about how great you are? Like I'm sorry but you're so boring. How boring fiction would be if it cathered to you
this disability pride month lets be kinder to folks with moral ocd . no more “if you really care about this minority , you’ll reblog this post” , “someone will die if you don’t reblog this” , etc etc , and all other kinds of guilt tripping reblog bait . at the VERY LEAST tag your reblog bait so we can filter it out and avoid unnecessary spirals . it’s 2026 , we need to move past using guilt to get engagement .
