What's crack-a-lackin, homie?

Hey, I'm Hope! (she/they) I have like 20 different side blogs, so if you get followed by me and see that I'm nothing but AA trash on this blog, then don't be alarmed.

[theblackquillz]

hello! this is my main account for a bunch of other random side blogs that I have - I like a lot of things, so don’t be alarmed that this main is a mostly-dead ace attorney blog.

if you have any questions, dms should be open! otherwise, i’m just here to chill :) and i’ve been here for a while i’m just revamping all of my old stuff lol

[samthecookielord]

ghost trick phantom detective

[aa4zine2026]

GOTCHA! 🫵☀️⚖️

Wait right there, because Here Comes Justice! is finally out! We truly cannot thank everyone enough for their support.

Kristoph Gavin has been arrested, Apollo Justice unemployed, Phoenix Wright punched, and our zine published… Let's celebrate with some cold, hard, grape juice!

Please find the zine available for free at our itch.io page!

The mods are going to take a long, long nap now...

And as always, thanks for your support! ☀️ @aafancalendar @open-zines @all-zine-apps @anizines

[soppsop]

finally deciding to post my Ace Attorney emotes i made ages ago

SoppSop's AA emotes

SoppSop's AA emotes album hosted in ImgBB

free to use if anyone wants them 👍👍👍👍👍 (sorry that its on imgbb and you cant bulk download 😭)

[polarlightszine]

❄️ POLAR LIGHTS 4 Now Live!

Polar Lights 4: Eventide is a digital charity anthology featuring original art and writing from 73 creators in a collection of 67 illustrations, 4 poems, 8 short stories, and more.

All proceeds will benefit the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition, a global coalition of environmental NGOs working for the protection of species and marine ecosystems in Antarctica and the surrounding Southern Ocean.

Grab a digital copy of the zine for as little as $2! 🩵

Shares greatly appreciated.

[theblackquillz]

Item: A New Address Rarity: ✦ Uncommon

If you could choose a game to live in, what would it be?

Feed your dashboard by answering my question, blogger.

Ace Attorney, all you have to do is stay away from the harbingers of tragedy (lawyers) and you’ll be fine! Alternatively I can make myself into a quirky assistant or be The Only Witness To Ever Not Lie

[theblackquillz]

Item: The Map Rarity: ✦ Uncommon

What is the most beautiful world you've played on?

Feed your dashboard by answering my question, blogger.

like in any video game? probably a professor layton world like Folsense, Misthallery, or one of the cute villages in Azran Legacy. alternatively, I’m a sucker for the Toon Link worlds- Wind Waker, Phantom Hourglass, Spirit Tracks. and BOTW is stunning obviously, that’s basic but it’s true

[theblackquillz]

Item: The Screen Rarity: ⏶ Common

Console or PC?

Feed your dashboard by answering my question, blogger.

I’d MUCH prefer a PC but the convenience and experience of a console is all I’ve ever had, so it holds a special place in my heart

[theblackquillz]

[jaronofthebored]

The second Asinine Attorney case of The Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve was not officially localized or ported with Chronicles. While a video of the Japan case is online with subtitles, the only English version of the England case is a let's play style video, which isn't exactly optimal.

So way back in 2024 I decided to take it upon myself to make a transcript of that video, change to the localized names, and workshop it a little to feel more "natural". Keep in mind, I am sure plenty of people could do this better, but this was really just for fun and because I was annoyed by the state of things.

Here's my """""localization""""" of Asinine Attorney: England, or as I like to call it, The Discourtesy of the Hallowed Chalice! Iris has been arrested for a crime while Ryunosuke is disbarred, so who can defend her in court!? Surely not... oh no... it couldn't be...

Asinine Attorney: England - Transcript ~ The Discourtesy of the Hallowed Chalice

Unofficial dialogue is in Italics. Drop down from headers on testimony to press statements. Date Unknown, 9:52 PM – The Old Bailey – Defenda

I tried my best but it's really just a Google Doc. There are almost definitely a couple inaccuracies in here, and since it's been so long since I made this, I don't know what they could possibly be. Also, I even added some lines for blind spots not in the video, specifically item checks and one testimony press. All of this text is in italics to clarify it is just for fun. Oh, about the testimony! You can read the press dialogue by dropping down the headers!

[maskenjager]

Last minute preparations

[layton-heritage-posts]

I think Level-5 forgot about us

[vaporwavesimulator]

hey followers. have you ever wanted to know how it feels to be inside a bag of cornflakes

[officialtokyosan]

ye

[vaporwavesimulator]

enter the cornflakes domain

[runby2]

I fucking hate this website because not only did I click this goddamn link expecting it to be a joke of some sort, but it wasn’t a joke and I sat here spinning the screen around enjoying myself in a stupid bag of cornflakes like the dumbass monkey I am on Tumblr.com, enthralled by being in a bag of corn flakes in

[theblackquillz]

you see, Miles Edgeworth was released into Among Us to coincide with the release of the Ace Attorney Investigations Collection, and as such we have a past history of specifically an Among Us outfit being used to accompany a game release. this means that Ace Attorney 7 will be announced independently of the Nintendo partners showcase because there will be a separated Ace Attorney-dedicated livestream to celebrate the anniversary and the concurrent nature of the Apollo Justice game. therefore there will be at least three Ace Attorney games announced within the next two months, two of which will be Ace Attorney 7 and the PLvsAA remaster, as well as merchandise such as artbooks being revamped and perhaps even printed and smaller items that can affordably be made in the US, which is done so because Capcom Cafe will open 10 new locations in every city within a reasonable proximity to the majority of US citizens and we will finally get Ace Attorney cafe. In this essay I will

[catssautumn]

The Reaper of the Bailey

[squid-ink-on-toast]

Me: Man I have something I need to be at but i only need to be there in like 6 hours

My brain for 6 hours straight:

[theblackquillz]

A Revisit to an Infamous Pain - The Silver Eyes by Scott Cawthon and Kira Breed-Wrisley

I was walking around an Ollie’s one day when I found a huge pile of the same book, common to see at Ollie’s, but it surprised me when I saw that it was The Silver Eyes of all things! I had only heard things, never read it for myself, and I found myself overtaken by a morbid curiosity. Most of the FNAF lore has exited my mind by now, but I still remember the basics, and unlike when the first book came out, I have a college degree related to literature and a lot of free time on my hands.

So, let’s get into my academic, unbiased, spoilery review of Five Night’s at Freddy’s: The Silver Eyes.

Weird Choices

“It had only been ten years; there was no reason it should have changed at all.” Pg. 4

The beginning of this book is agonizingly slow. We follow Charlie as best as we can with some incredibly disjointed and disorganized narration, scenes and memories jumbling together confusingly. For example, Charlie has a memory involving Ella the doll emerging from her closet, and it’s virtually indistinguishable from the moment that Ella emerges from the closet in the present day. Which, by the way, is never explained, and none of the stuff in her house is possessed or anything. It’s also very hard to get an understanding of the layout of the place, and even harder to know what is there in the present and what isn’t. Charlie’s memories of the animatronic in her father’s garage had me thoroughly confused about its whereabouts until it was explicitly stated to be the beginnings of Foxy much later on.

Charlie herself isn’t particularly special as a main character, but I don’t have any huge complaints. She serves her role as best as she can to what the writers wanted her to be, which was for her to conveniently remember things when it was convenient for them to have her remember them.

“They were, in a sense, both insiders and outsiders.” Pg. 22

Charlie’s core group of friends is boring at best. Carlton is probably the most endearing one by the end, which isn’t what you want to hear when you have John as a very prominent character and love interest for Charlie. Unfortunately, John is quite bland and just plain affable. They all are, really - Jessica has a personality for a little bit and then it just goes away, disappointingly. Lamar and Marla suffer from their late arrival (a confusing choice), and Marla also suffers from brief but unnecessary commentary about her being overweight and a sloppily rushed B-plot about bonding with her brother while Lamar suffers from an unexplored dynamic with him and John, and him and Marla, and him and Charlie.

The middle of this book is agonizingly slow. It’s a repetitive nightmare of “go somewhere mundane, go to Freddy’s and do like one thing, go sleep, go somewhere else, go to Freddy’s and do like one thing, go sleep, go somewhere else, go to Freddy’s”. This might be because they tried to stretch it to make it literally be five nights, or this might simply be a side effect of nothing at all happening the first two times because it’s just exposition central, twice - once for the initial group and then again for the group + Marla and Lamar. Either way, it was very lame.

The end of this book is pretty okay! It picks up for sure, we learn who the killer/kidnapper is, and it's of no surprise to anyone who has played the games. The main thing that would be confusing compared to the games is that Afton has marks on his body from a spring lock suit that were stated to be fatal, but he's out of the suit, and then he also gets re-springlocked by Charlie at the end and that actually seems to kill him? It's confusing for sure, and not explained in the book nor in the games to my knowledge, so. Oh well. The ending was overall fine as well, with some choices that I appreciated that I'll get into later with my compliments. It can get pretty easy to get lost in who is where in the final confrontation, since people move around and shuffle groups and it's sometimes unclear whether they're being attacked by a robot or Afton, but that's potentially purposeful. The wording affords no grace, is what I can say on that.

POV Roulette

Confusingly, when we get to Chapter 4, they introduce one of the perspective changes that happens across this book. Some of these are fine, like changes when the group splits up, but some of these are unnecessary and weird. These perspective changes reveal crucial information to other characters, or to the reader, and yet Charlie will never hear it and it comes across as a loose end rather than something deeper. Here are the perspectives I speak of that I take issue with:

Jason, Marla’s half brother, who is narrated to discover that the drawings are being eerily changed to follow the narrative of Bonnie kidnapping a child. We also get POVs from him later regarding Carlton getting kidnapped, and no one ever believes Jason about these things, which is mildly frustrating but purposeful, supposedly. We also get a brief scene of Jason interacting(?) with Foxy, in which nothing happens, literally.

“Dave”, who is promptly revealed to be the kidnapper and murderer by page 190 (there are 389 pages total), mere minutes after he is introduced to us. Aside from that, there is one other flash to him that is completely useless, because it briefly implies that Bonnie attacks him, but then Bonnie is just. back out with the others, and then he shows up completely fine to try and grab Charlie.

Officer Dunn, who we get to see get killed by Dave. I don’t fully get why we have to see this, or why Dave would want to risk killing a police officer when he’s in the middle of his kidnapping plot, but whatever.

Carlton, but not every moment with Carlton! I appreciate a lot of his POV while he is in the spring lock suit, and interacting with Dave. What I do mind is this quote, which is in the context of Golden Freddy - aka their dead friend Michael - speaking to Carlton:

“The eyes in the dark were intent on his face as the voice went on, speaking secrets to Carlton in the ringing silence, telling him things that he dreaded, things that someone had to hear.” Pg. 295

Yeah sure that’s great and all - WHAT things?? We literally never get to know. All Carlton ever says afterwards is that he thinks that Michael is in the Golden Freddy suit. That’s it.

Carlton’s dad, Chief of Police Clay, who has a single fairly long sequence of him looking back through case files and magically realizing that Dave is William Afton. I take issue with Carlton’s dad in two ways - his weird stupidity and weird conflict with his wife, and then his existence to purely provide exposition to the reader and no one else. It’s very frustrating, especially since you know that the actual mystery of “the kids were stuffed in the suits” would have realistically been solved within the hour in real life, and tada, Carlton’s dad was the one in charge! They try and say that he cared about it a lot, but clearly it wasn’t enough.

Any Compliments?

“Before him stood someone who had spent so much of his life fighting like a cornered rat that he had taken on the mantle of bitter sadism as an integral part of himself.” Pg. 266

While a lot of the word choice and sentence structures in this story are monotonous and uninspired, I do find myself enjoying certain narration quotes, such as the one above about William Afton.

If there is one thing I had to say that they did well here, it would be to note that they did a good job with specific people haunting the narrative. Charlie in particular feels genuinely haunted by both her father and by Michael, and while Michael can sometimes be underutilized due to people skirting around the fact that he's super dead, there's a lot of good stuff with Charlie seeing her father in things and being disturbed by what he did. I also quite liked the revelation that, unlike in the games, Henry killed himself by having a faceless animatronic kill him rather than by doing it himself. We'll ignore the horrifying implications of her aunt just casually pushing her by that scene and the "expanding" pool of blood, meaning her father was still actively losing blood even if he was already dead, and yeah you can get the idea of why that's not great with the timeline of her aunt checking her out of school and getting her to grab her stuff. Sorry- compliments? Right.

Last thing I would note would be that they did well with restraint. I fully expected at least two of Charlie's friends to die by William Afton's hand, but the only one to die (in present times) was Officer Dunn. Charlie also didn't fall drooling into the lap of John, which was nice, because yeah- that's trauma, not romance o'clock! So I appreciated that very much.

My overall opinion is that this book is... fine. Not good by any means, but it's not so vehemently horrible that it has to be burned. It's just fine, it can exist and that's fine. It has its high points, and it has several low points. If anything, I recommend it to beginning writers to try and find literary mistakes and see if they can learn a lesson from it, because it's a treasure trove, I'll tell you that. So yeah! That's my review. If you were a fan of this book when it first came out, now that some time has passed, I highly encourage you to reread it and see what your thoughts are now. Chances are, you might find that it's not as incredible and compellingly lore-filled as MatPat may have accidentally led you to believe.