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@shinyopals Couldn't stop thinking about “I can't begin to express how grieved I am to learn this” so have this 2 am quick sketch.

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18, obviously. Break the silence 😂

18. Least favourite assistant?

lmao choosing violence. Alright well first let's decide who constitues "an assistant"... obviously Maya, Trucy and Kay, but there's more ambiguous ones like Ema, Athena who should really not be one but functionally is fhkglhg... I'm not including Susato because I haven't played enough of her game yet.

Anyway it doesn't really matter bc by pretty much any definition the answer is Kay. Sorry Kay. I liked you alright in AAI1, but the story really never did enough to justify your continued presence nor did it take any pains to actually build a relationship with Edgeworth, it just kind of declared one to exist after a week and that it was the super specialest. Fundamentally I think the concept of a teenage lawbreaker thief paired with straight-laced Edgeworth could work, but in reality they never let Kay do even the smallest amount of crime, or thieving, despite 90% of her dialogue being about how she's the great thief.

A lot of the emotional core of AAI2 hinges on me believing they have this deep meaningful relationship but they've known each other for a week. Moreover with the Yatagarasu plot out of the way, they lose track of what to actually DO with Kay in AAI2, so she just kind of ambles around talking about crimes she'll never commit and then is amnesiac for a while. "Wow our lawyer dads were BOTH murdered in this same courthouse" is also a pretty lazy way to try and create a narrative bond. It's like they felt the formula of the series demanded Edgeworth have a Maya of his own but they failed to comprehend how to build that believably, especially in the ultracondensed timeline. It just feels like a knock-off.

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Saint. Best beloved. Give me number 8 in the spicy takes meme. Obviously for tma. Be correct about sth. You know you want to. 😘

8: common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about

ough............... ok at the risk of this being like. legitimately combative (and with the disclaimer that i love him he is me i am he and i would not ever change a thing about him in either a watsonian or doylist sense).

i dont think jon did Literally Nothing Wrong per se? i think, esp in like, s1-3, he chooses what is essentially the best and most sensible option from where he's standing at the time and i fully understand and under similar circumstances would act in accordance with his actions. but i think the aspect of jon-related conversation, jonversation if you will, that i really don't agree with, or at least find any personal interest in, is that which kinda suggests that he's never acting in a selfish or misguided or even dysfunctional way? because i don't think that's true.

to be clear, i think he's a deeply, deeply caring character who does genuinely want to do things to protect and strengthen and help other people. one hundred percent. but i think one of the conflicts at his core, regardless of what one may think of as the reasoning behind it, is the conflict between that great capacity for caring about and loving others and his frequent inability to go about it in ways that do actually benefit others, or even that do keep him safe, whether we're talking physically or psychologically. i think he, like a Lot of people, especially those with early traumas, learned at some point in his life that an apology must demonstrate remorse, and the optimal way of doing that is by flagellating. so it's truly not any sort of wilful, or even knowing, malice or dysfunction. he is, as he almost always is, doing the best he can with the information from which he's working, but i also think that doesn't mean he's never done wrong or done harm, just that it isn't driven by any sort of desire to hurt.

also (i didnt mean for this to be this long but i had another thought wah) i think a further complication is that when he is acting in an intentionally (or at least, not unintentionally) self-sabotaging or self-harming way, from what we see he feels and enacts the self-loathing after the fact in quite a similar way. again, this is a pretty huge extrapolation, but i think he probably grew up in an environment where all his wrongs were treated as exactly equal, and so he actually feels comparable levels of guilt regardless of the finer points of the infraction itself. that could reasonably explain the consistency in him but. i guess what im saying is my man contains. multitudes. and to me personally the times he falls short are some of the most intriguing.

#asks #shinyopals #he's so. oh man this has got me thinking about him #is this the bit where opal Kills Me. I accept this

I reread victorian vampire!Jon au earlier (again) and I just thought you should know that entire fic and universe continues to HAVE A HOLD ON ME. I adore jmart's handwavey undefinedness but also it makes me SCREAM. AND THEIR BACKSTORY. MARTIN FINDING HIM. I want to print it out just so I can physically chomp on it.

OPAL SHINYOPALS!!!! You've made my day, I am ALSO deep in the clutches of that au and am constantly thinking about is 24/7. I think I've said it before, but I'm a huge s3 jmart fan.....like yes we are a thing but no we're not. But we're in love. But no we won't talk it about it. But I'd die for him. But no <3 but also yes <33 so I just...really like playing with that kind of dynamic in aus too where is SO CLOSE but SO FAR..... they'll figure it out eventually I'm sure 😌

Anyway here's a little part 2 jmart bit to hopefully tide you over:

#ty Opal for giving me an excuse to talk about this au....I have.......soooo many thoughts about it #very normal men that make me feel very normal emotions about them #ask #shinyopals #this next part is v tim and jon centric but I'm already playing with a part 3 and I'm DEEP in my jmart feels about it

jay! i am late! but did you answer the wip game about martin and food fic? because i am interested in that one if not!

I did! I answered it here, but I'll copy and paste it here, too!

content warning before we go any further for disordered eating!

Martin & Food is less a wip and more a collection of thoughts I have about Martin, his relationship to food, and how that is informed by poverty, food insecurity and being responsible for resource management when you have no control over those resources. Many of these thoughts are informed by my own experience with food, poverty and being white working class

I’m still hashing out a structure, but I have a few emotional beats or core ideas I know I want to explore:

anxiety over affording food, and whether he will have enough of it with a corresponding fear about “wasting” food

anxiety about social engagements that involve food, especially in situations where the social rules are less well definied - splitting a bill vs. paying for your own, sharing communal food e.g. in the break room, outings that may or may not involve food of varying expense levels - and compensating by avoiding those situations or by controlling them (because then he knows exactly how much he as spent and that he doesn’t “owe” anyone anything in the future

shame around not having tried certain foods or flavour profiles, and a lack of experience with preparing or cooking food because it’s hard to experiment when you know burning or not liking someone means going hungry

I have begun gathering evidence from canon that might go into these, though! At the moment I am thinking specifically about how he had enough food in his apartment for two weeks captivity, and his reaction to Jon’s birthday party. But I still have notes to make on the Vibes from a few other episodes, especially Recollections!

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Hello! I need help for a fanfic that I read not long ago on ao3: Crowley and Aziraphale had to hide into a church because one of them sensed deamons around them. Crowley gets carried by Aziraphale bridal-style. I vividly remember Crowley standing on a desk and calling the ostia: Spicy Jesus Creackers (or something similar). Thank you so much for your work!

That sounds like this one, dear!

Quiet Reflection by shinyopals

‘This is- put me down,’ Crowley demands, more forcefully this time. He attempts to roll out of Aziraphale’s arms, and the grip on him only tightens. Aziraphale is like iron, except with an extremely cuddly outer layer that smells like a sea breeze and expensive cologne. One of his arms is under Crowley’s leg and gripping his thigh. The other is around Crowley’s back, holding him close enough to- well. Close.

The phrase “bridal style” flutters through Crowley’s mind and he attempts to clamp down on it furiously.

After the Apocalypse, Crowley senses Demons coming, and manages to hide himself and Aziraphale inside a nearby church for safety. He probably should have thought this through.

~Mod P