Same energies

Through it all, nobody gets me like @vaptainhammer

I have officially finished the first game in the Another Code duology, and while I’ll throw a post with my general thoughts into the queue sooner or later, I also just wanted to let everyone know that I am totally down to talk about it or answer any questions anyone might have, particularly in how it compares to the original!

This is just what Ace Attorney is like.

the scandal was contained

the bullet just grazed

at all costs, keep your good name

you don't get to tell me you feel bad

(Who's Afraid Of Little Old Me?, Taylor Swift)

Missile/Ray’s final farewell before he ceases to exist hits different when you know he was named and modeled and used the audio of and was entirely based off of Shu’s actual dog, who is also dead now.

So, according to my text log, today marks my third Ace Attorney-versary (well, of rediscovering it, unfortunately we'll never know exactly when I originally got into it). Hard to believe that in just three years, I've played 22 puzzle games (and am in the middle of two more), made friends, got back into sharing my writing and have posted 31 fanfics for a total of 326818 words publicly (and that's not even counting my trio of secret fics that I published anonymously, or the ones I'm still working on), made a semi-successful blog dedicated to puzzle games of the early aughts (I'm sitting at about 400 followers, which is not nothing!), moved (twice!), watched my nuclear family start to fall apart (my mom’s receipt for the divorce lawyer’s retainer is on the fridge, being held up by a magnet of the attorney’s badge), even gotten a tattoo (and am in the processing of working with someone to design a second one), and got semi-engaged and my temporary engagement ring (unfortunately my man has the AUDACITY to live on the other side of the country so I have a different ring than the one he'll actually propose with to signify that I am officially off the market) is even based on Wrightworth colors.

I'm not going to lie and pretend all of the games were incredible feats of the genre (they weren't) or that I've had the best time (in fact, the lowest lows of my mental health have been in the past three years), or that everyone I've met has been so wonderful and welcoming (you asshole anons and certain characters know who you are) but considering that I didn't plan any of this, I basically just stumbled into owning a switch and then @vaptainhammer, knowing that I used to love Ace Attorney, bought me the switch port of the originally trilogy and shoved me down the rabbit hole in the process, I'm grateful I had the experience. Here's to Phoenix, to the Laytons, to Ashley and Kyle, and to Vivian, Abby, Zieg, Ash, everyone else that Sissel dragged in, and of course, my love, my first and my last, my alpha and my omega, my number one puzzle assistant, my personal google, the one who started all of this is the first place and has stood by my side through all the ups and downs that life has thrown at me over the past three years, Blayne. I love you so much, forever, and I can't wait until we're able to bring the government into our relationship and I can start the rest of my life as your hersband, Mx. Vaptainhammer.

Can't promise I'll be helming this blog for another three years, but thank you to everyone who had climbed aboard at any point, and welcome to everyone who will, I hope you've enjoyed the thoughtless shitposts and the thoughtful and deeply cared about edits and meta posts, and are ready for more because I've got a full queue that grows every day. I may not go down with this ship but for everything else, I've had the time of my life fighting (the Defiant) dragons with you.

Hotel Duck lives forever!!!

Thank you to @vaptainhammer for really driving home the absurdity of this typo.

It’s a good thing that Ghost Trick didn’t let me get too attached to Lynne before finding out she shot a man. We very well could have had a repeat of The Emmy Incident.

I am once again deigning to self-promo (well, and I promised @frogs-in3-hills that I would announce when I started this story) to inform you all that over on my Ao3 page, I have just posted the first chapter of Requiem of the Emerald Reaper, a crossover between Netflix's Bridgerton and The Great Ace Attorney!

If you've ever wondered what would happen if Barok van Zieks sought Eloise Bridgerton's hand in marriage, then boy do I have a story for you! If you have not and instead are wondering how I am marrying these two stories when they're not even set in the same time period, then I do not have a story about you because the main answer is just I don't care about historical accuracy and this is a love letter to the TV show, the game, and being anachronistic.

If this sounds up your alley then come along for the ride, I highly suggest both Bridgerton and GAAC and I've been writing this on and off in my head for probably about two years now, so I'm excited to finally release it into the world!

As usual, the art was provided by my amazingly talented friend Zieg, please go check them out on twitter!

You locked a woman and a butler in a basement for six months just to manipulate and control her husband and his employer and allow him to let you destroy his town, but go the fuck off I guess

Someone should let Apollo know Taylor Swift is writing songs about him again.

As long as you come around behind the desk to the one blindspot that the security cameras don't capture, I don't see how this could possibly backfire for either of us! :)

For the vast majority of my shift at work, I’m the only employee in the building so my manager told me where they keep the taser so excited to announce I’m entering my Manfred von Karma era!

For the vast majority of my shift at work, I’m the only employee in the building so my manager told me where they keep the taser so excited to announce I’m entering my Manfred von Karma era!