Morphie @locallepidoptera - Tumblr Blog

hey i've said a lot of dumb shit on this blog. but i don't wanna delete it all and also i cant cuz its my main. i'm turning all notifs off and moving to my otherkin blog. @robot-blogging-angel-blogging if ur interested. thank u so much mutuals 4 ur service. even though the kingdom hearts SpIn wore off y'all were cool. you also scare me though. becuz ur so cool. and we have nothing in common anymore so.

shitpostingkats

(for the record. i love the aj trilogy. i'm not trying to dunk on anyone here. just calling it as i see it) one very funny thing about aa4 and aa5 and their active conversation with one another is aa4 is a game about defending criminals. all of whom are at least a little sympathetic but still. committed crimes (but it's still your job to defend them because they still deserve a fair trial and a shot at a better life). and its also a game that's like "hey evidence is cool and all. but like sometimes :) its not enough :) sometimes the law is wrong and sometimes you lie and you win and no one finds out you lied that's just for you to think about at night" (it wasn't even your choice. you didn't even know what you were doing). with that in mind. it's then really funny to play aa5 a game which is begging you PLEASE DO NOT DO BAD THINGS FOR THE SAKE OF A GREATER GOOD. PLEASE FOLLOW THE LAW FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. YOU CAN FLIP COPS BUT THAT IS IT. and with that in mind it's absolutely hilarious to me that one of these games was sponsored by the japanese government and it WASN'T aa5.

Oh definitely. I personally wasn't very grabbed by aa4 as much as I would have expected, partly because I was spoiled by playing the great ace attorney games first, and apollo justice brings a lot of things to the table that get further refined in that duology. (Everyone should go play tgaa if they haven't already- *I am dragged forcibly off the soapbox*)

But I find it interesting that in aa4, you are defending criminals, and that's a very good thing. You are Apollo Justice. All your clients are criminals, yes, and through investigation get found out and are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. (Aside from Phoenix, couch cough). The Kitaki's leave the business and become honest buisnessfolk. Vera's forgeries are discovered, preventing further pieces from being sold on the black market. Machi actually hands himself over to the Japanifornia courts because it is viewed as more benevolent and trustworthy than returning to his home country. They're all sympathetic criminals, and the court is sympathetic to them in turn. The judicial system is painted as something that reforms people and finds answers.

Meanwhile in aa5, the courts are a mess. There's a whole case dedicated to blatantly showing how legal professionals are being trained to disregard actual facts and the one person trying to root out corruption is murdered. Your client goes behind your back to indict themselves because they don't trust the system to not blame an unrelated innocent party. Multiple times. Aura kidnaps and threatens half a dozen people as a direct response to knowing her brother is going to be executed for a murder he didn't commit. There's multiple discussions of not just copaganda, but actual propaganda for the courts as well. It makes everything about the judical system come of as shady, dishonorable, and in desperate need of reform.

Aa4, the game sponsored by the japanese government, is the story of how guilty people come into contact with the court system and stop doing crime, while aa5 is the story of innocent people coming into contact with the court system and immediately doing so much more crime.

#chewing on this response like taffy also #i really appreciate your takes on the trilogy and i'm excited to see your thoughts on aa6. also excited to play it with friends soon.#there's so much to be said about the aj trilogy that doesn't get said because the fandom has a hate boner for 5 and 6. and look.#i personally like 4 more than 5 but as time's gone on i've come to understand just how much of that is subjective. i've come to respect 5.#i think dd makes a lot more sense if you see it as a reply to aj more than a sequel to aj. it's two takes on the same general idea. which i #understand is frustrating to the people who just wanted a direct sequel. but i can respect the decision. it's really not our call as fans.#i think a lot of people. myself included. like aa4's take on the system reform more because it feels like a more humble take on it.#people call it a plot hole but the truth is it's key to aj's message that phoenix changes things not as a lawyer but as Some Civilian.#and it's key to aj's message that apollo is Just Some Guy. he's caught up in a plot much bigger than himself but not by choice.#he complains about his clients being kinda hard to work with but. he also Understands that they're for the most part. Just Some Kids.#and i think that's why some aa4 stans get so. irrationally angry over the later backstories. i'm not one of them i find them very charming.#whereas aa5 is. still a story about flawed people coming together to better the legal system. but they're framed as Heroes of their Time.#them fixing the system is very explicitly their Responsibility and their Destiny as The People Who Caused This.#their clients aren't just Random Civilians. they're their close friends. and/or relatives of friends. that's why they Can't be found guilty #going straight from aa4 to aa5 it can feel like we abruptly shifted from a story about Lawyers Fixing the Legal System to a story about #Heroes Saving their Friends and Saving the World. it's certainly a whiplash. it's maybe not what people signed up for after playing aj.#but i think the mistake a lot of diehard aa4 stans make is upon getting that whiplash they go. oh this is beneath me. and they quit.#the key to being normal about aa is understand every game has it's diehard stans and diehard haters and all of them Have Valid Points #not every criticism is in good faith and not all praise is deserved but these ARE real people with reasons to think the way they do.#some people like stories about heroes revolutionizing the world through the power of friendship the fuck are you gonna do about it.#laugh? laugh because unironic anime bullshit is beneath you? as an ace attorney fan?????? like okay. sure. believe that.

satanfemme

ok enough is enough. whichever one of you virgins invented instagram starbucks recipes, die 1000 deaths. I had a customer come in today holding out their phone (full brightness) and looking all shy and Im immediately like 🙄 fine ok, what does the instagram user want me to make for them this time. well this time it's a cringe harry potter themed frappucino. excuse me??? "can you make this for me?" I said excuse me??? -- I mean *customer service voice* "yeah it looks like I have all the ingredients, haha sure!"

ok cringe instagram harry potter frappucino drinker. ok. die. "Ive never had this drink before" yeah I can tell due to the fact that it didnt exist until someone posted a #aesthetic photo of it to instagram 14 hours ago ok. ok,

but whatever, Im paid to put up with this shit. so I add the ingredients all up on my computer and congrats! ur harry potter cringe social media drink has $10 worth of syrup in it. are you happy??? is this what you wanted??? a $10 frappucino??? $10. for a drink. you doubled the price of this drink for ur off-brand "harry potter and the legend of the overpriced starbucks drink" drink. you doubled the price!!! is this how u imagined spending ur day? is this what u wanted to do when u woke up this morning? $10 for a 24oz drink?

and u know, you KNOW the influencer making this recipe doesn't even work at a starbucks cause when it was all said and done the drink looked like shit. my blender was straining against the weight of your sins (and syrups) and Im sweating, Im an animal, Im losing my mind and my blender is getting watered down frappucino syrups everywhere -- u put so much shit liquid in this blender it doesnt even fit in the cup btw. it's making a huge mess. but is it instagramable? no, its fucking ugly. #trending #foryoupage #cringe $10 harold potter drink for adult children,

so are you happy? is ur social media influencer bestie happy? I made ur stupid $10 drink for u. does it taste good? no? well I hope instagram shuts down tomorrow. I hope you read a different book. I hope I never get sober. there is no sign of land. I hope you die. I hope we both die.

world-heritage-posts

world heritage post

satanfemme

I made this post in August of 2021 while unwell, depressed, and misanthropic.

today is September 22nd 2024. I am still unwell, but I am also more mature. I am no longer misanthropic. I am a dog who loves people and is full of hope. and as such I no longer stand by the cruel tone of this post! every day I try to be nicer than the last, and every day the "me" who wrote this post is further and further in the past.

this post has 130,000 notes and gains more notes on a daily basis. but the person who wrote this post is gone! the person who wrote this post sleeps inside my heart - and is healing!

I am not better than the person who reblogs this in 2024 to vent frustration at the average starbucks customer. and I am not better than the average starbucks customer. and neither are you. it's our first time being alive. we're learning social conventions as we go. we all have off days, we all have missteps, we all have needs and wants that conflict and annoy each other and make each other "cringe".

well, on September 29th, 2024, I will turn off reblogs for this post and leave it, and its angry tone, in the past for good. say goodbye to your world heritage post, and learn to forgive the petty transgressions that come with communal living.

Thank you for for 3 years of this haunting post and goodbye. it's a beautiful treat to live an alive life, ok?

#needed to save this

locallepidoptera

i live for the unique thrill that comes with running away like a little baby

locallepidoptera

coming back to this post a year and a half later to announce. op got good at salmon run. eventually. fucking took me a year and a half.

#coming out of my hiatus 2 say this also

joeyclaire

i’m this person

joeyclaire

post has been up for like ten minutes we’re at twenty notes and it has ALREADY BEEN TAGGED JOHN LENNON!

locallepidoptera

@imgonzoingrightnow

#you with doc me with gala.#came out of hiatus to say this.

febuwhump

FEBUWHUMP 2024 PROMPT LIST

this year's prompts were chosen through a suggestion poll (in which we recevied 2,281 prompts) and a subsequent vote, where over 1,000 people voted for their favourites. the top 29 make up the core prompts, and a mixture of the next most popular - and this blog's personal favourites - have become the alternates

i’m so excited to see what you all create with these prompts, and hope they’re inspiring enough to trigger a whole month’s worth of creativity for you! if you have any questions, please check out the blog's faq before sending an ask, or check out the previously asked questions on the blog!

please note: this year, notifying the blog of completionist status will happen through a google form that will be released closer to the end of febuwhump.

full write-up of prompts and rules under the cut:

#to do. later.

rosie-kairi

Someday in the future there's gonna be people commenting "this gives me so much nostalgia" and "😭miss being 14 and playing this game" in the comment sections under the Daybreak Town field theme, just like how people do with Lazy Afternoons and Destiny Islands. And I think that's beautiful

rosie-kairi

There's a non-zero number of people who played KHUX (and it's previous versions) when they were in the single-digits or just barely in the double digits, who lied when the game told you to input your age and that you had to be 13 or over to play (I know I did). They played for the cutesy visuals and probably mostly for the Disney characters.

Some of them never got into kingdom hearts deeper than that, simply played it for the Disney stuff and moved on and forgot about it as you so often do. One day, they're going to be struck with the memory of That One Game They Played as a child, and they will be filled with nostalgia. They will search high and low for it but will not remember the name, they will wonder upon some wiki article or what not about it and go down the rabbit hole that is kingdom hearts. They'll look up videos about it and be filled with nostalgia for it. One day.

locallepidoptera

@imgonzoingrightnow :33

#i was originally just gonna vague you in the tags and then suddenly remembered you had a tumblr. anyway yeah its me i'm the wiki article.

greentrickster

happy almost christmas. means it wasn't christmas :)) i had been listening to a new aa1 playthrough to pass the time and it reminded me that. unfortunately. i do think edgeworth is cool (i talk in jest. about it being unfortunate. lol. i'm just not into "cool" charas usually) and it reminded me that i. really need to catch up with saturation. hell maybe reread it once i'm done. i'm in need of good fic. i'm not really a quality snob usually but i've found i just don't have the energy right now to search through the main tag. and your style of writing lets me turn my brain off. < - positive connotation. if that wasn't clear.

^U^ Thanks, and Merry Actually Christmas! ;D And XD, no worries, I get it - Edgeworth is very much one of those "Unfortunately, I'm into it" characters in regards to his everything. And I say that as someone who's writing him one of the world's longest love letters in the form of a fic that's going to break 300k when the next chapter goes up and a tidy (if tiny) little AA merch collection that I'm quite proud of, if I do say so myself. ;)

"and your style of writing lets me turn my brain off" Good, wild as it may sound for a slowburn mega!fic, Saturation's meant to be a nice comfy read, so that you're able to switch off and just enjoy the fic is good. Like, I'm trying to ensure that there's plenty to be found on a deeper read, because I enjoy doing that, but if it's not enjoyable to partake in on purely the surface level, what's even the point? Anyway, thanks for the ask, and I hope you have fun on the catch-up/reread! ^U^

locallepidoptera

i've since finished my catch up. and now i'm both happier for it and incredibly sad there's not more. such is life. man. fans' fiction fucking rocks. and i needed a reminder. i'm on my way to reread. wishing you so much luck in all your endeavors!! thanks for being an inspiration!!

#hey warning i talk a lot in the tags about personal sorta feelings. so.#aa fanfic. always a hit or miss for me. i say that with no ill will! its really a huge fandom nd i have vv specific tastes i've discovered #not so much in quality but in subject matter. nd besides. i'm neutral on a lot of fan favs and in love with a lot of generally hated charas #phoenix and edgeworth are both exceptions to that. i like them a lot. but i. naturally. dislike fics that dunk on my favs. even offhandedly #and it can be hard to find fics that i know won't. or hell. just artists that i know won't. so ace attorney is a fandom i tread vv lightly #this blogs always been an escape from that and i'm happy for it. number 2 reason i'm so excited for the in-universe time to pass is #i'm really excited to see the second trilogy adjacent plot-lines approached with. genuinely anything but total hatred. delights me #the glimpses we've got so far r some of my favorite parts of the fic #number 1 reason. is. you write good. i don't know what else to say #if i had a nickel for every time i've written down rambly tmi posts about why i love saturation i'd have two nickels. which isnt a lot but #last one's more than a year old and had a billion grammar mistakes #but i look back on it fondly anyways. i like getting my feelings out #since that last post! i've actually written fanfic! its not aa and it isn't posted anywhere but ao3 (even then. nothing but a fandom tag)#cuz i'm embarrassed. but i'm happy i wrote it down anyway. you + lots of other fic writers have changed me forever and it shows and #i'm happy that it shows. i love creating and i love others creating #online writers have bettered my writing. online visual artists have bettered my visual art. online poets have bettered my poetry. and #i wouldn't have it any other way. life is fun we r young etc. yknow

fiendfluff

The newest member of the DJ crew! A... Furby?

#fnaf #art #favs

corishadowfang

12 Days of Fic Recs - Day 8

There are a couple of fics I put on the "Honorable Mentions" list last year, and they really need sections of their own. So to start, we're going with one of my favorite series: Moon Out Of Phase verse by Beastrage (@beastenraged)!

This series starts with the premise of Isa traveling back to the past and waking up as Saix again. Using his knowledge of the future, he has to try and avert some of the horrible things that happened in the past, while surviving living with the Organization in the process.

Watching how Isa gradually changes the timeline is fascinating, and his growing relationships with Xion and Demyx are incredibly sweet. The worldbuilding is also super fascinating, and there's a lot of tension as Isa tries to avoid drawing the ire of Xemnas (who is terrifying here).

The main story has a sequel that involves Baldr eventually joining the organization. Plus, there are several additional short stories in the series, so take the time to give them a read!

#prev is incredibly correct these fics changed my brain chemistry forever I think 👍