VENOM IS SONY??? Well, that explains a lot then

disney would NEVER give us this

do y'all also have those thoughts like "i don't think i will ever get better, but on the off chance i will, i don't know who i'd be, i don't know who i am without my [insert mental illness], and i'm scared of that" or am i the weird one

I’m so obsessed with the way you draw nrmt ;-; You draw them like actual men… it’s a huge problem among aa fans where one of the two of them (usually edgeworth) gets written or drawn as a tiny long-eyelashed hairless submissive twink and it’s like. They’re Grown Men. And no one will ever be able to convince me that edgeworth would let his guard down/let go of his control-freakiness enough for some of the shit he’s portrayed as doing lmfao 🫣 I’m certain a big part of it is that you’re gay and You Get It lmao.. I’ve sent you way too many asks in the past few days and i’m sorry if it’s weird but idk you’re my fav ace attorney artist and i appreciate you sm

Alrighty, finally free enough to tackle this anon. So, before I say anything, I want to preface this with my belief that there’s no right or wrong interpretation of a character in fandom—I love to see the immense variety of ways that characters are depicted, and I think it’s fascinating to get to see through the lens that people view them. What I will be talking about in this ask though, is my (and clearly anon’s) personal preference. I just wanted to get that out of the way, because I would be very unhappy if people read this and thought that I judge any interpretation of the characters I spend much of my time talking about on the hellsite.

With that out of the way, I do agree with you anon. I’ve hesitated to answer asks like this in the past (you’re not the first to say this), but you have put it in a way that I think fits how I feel about them. I am a gay man—I love men in any shape or form they come in, but I truly adore masculinity. Hairy belly and ass, boxy builds, square jaws and hands, receding hairlines, deep voice, the works. This is not to say that these characteristics cannot also be feminine, but I am approaching this in the context of speaking about male characters, and the things I enjoy from them—but make no mistake, I love effeminate men just as much, especially in the variety of ways that they can manifest.

Which is a good lead in to something I have always loved about Edgeworth, from the first time I played these games nearly twenty years ago: Edgeworth has always struck me as inherently traditionally masculine, even in spite (or perhaps because) of his more flamboyant tastes, such as wearing a bold pink suit, jabot, preference for frilly things and flowers, etc. He’s not what any boomer would call a man’s man, but I feel like a lot of fandom overlooks that he’s barrel chested, deep voiced, stoically cold, and prone to masking or outright shutting down his emotions. As a gay man these traits really resonate with me—I embody many of the same things, while also having a certain air of “fruitiness”, if you will.

I’m in my mid-thirties, and while I believe it’s never too late to have heroes or feelgood characters, it’s a little unusual for me to have a character that makes me feel “seen”, at least in the way he does. Being a trans man specifically, I’ve spent much of my life grappling with the inherent masculinity and femininity I was born with, so it’s always been a comfort to me (even if I didn’t quite realize it when I was younger) to see a man that sacrificed absolutely none of his masculinity while wearing frills and a bright pink suit. So I love depictions of him (and Phoenix, because I think he’s viewed not dissimilarly in this fandom) that lean away from the typical shiny smoothness of most anime, and more into making them standard 30-something males. As I said in the first paragraph of this, it's all personal preference, there’s no right or wrong way to vibe with these characters, but I appreciate you anon, because I do think that we’re in a very small minority in this fandom, and while that’s not a bad thing by any means, it’s nice to see a kindred spirit <3

Sometimes I forget I'm theory crafting and not just making wild AUs. Like if I talked about any of my theories on here I think y'all would all think I'm just a tad insane

Anyways ARs Dark Circus DLC sure is wild huh

Do you believe pedophilia to be an innate (or not) sexual orientation that some just do have/were born with or you see it in a different way ? Always made me wonder why there seems to be more pedophilic men than women though

No. There is a reason we don't (and shouldn't) call it pedosexual. Pedophilia is a paraphilia and paraphilias are divorced from sexual orientation.

I think, like with most psychological afflictions, there is a combination of both biological and environmental factors. I'm not sure there is a gene or specific happenstance that "designates" someone to become a pedophile, whether in the womb or otherwise—but I do think it's highly plausible that there exist biological markers that may predispose one to pedophilia and then personal upbringing and life experiences may further determine whether or not it actually goes on to develop.

It is also not particularly surprising that pedophilia is more common in males than in females as they tend to have both biological and environmental factors stacked against them (in favour of pedophilia). Males are more likely to develop paraphilias in general, as well as to engage in risky or criminal activity—so not only does the average female not have a biological predisposition to develop pedophilia but female pedophiles, even where they do exist, may also be less inclined to act on that pedophilia in general.

All this being said, contrary to what the length of this post may insinuate, I don't personally concern myself with the topic of pedophilia. There are other things I'd rather think about.

i like that it's a relatively popular (as in i have seen several people draw it; not many in the grand scheme of things but more than a handful!) headcanon for wanda to be chubby bcuz it feels so right to me. i need her btw

me every other day almost accidentally posting my real name on this site because for some reason i keep forgetting that y'all don't know me irl and this is supposed to be a sort of anonymous blog

You said in your intro post you like horror. What kind of horror content do you enjoy?

so far i haven't found anything that i have disliked, which is to say that just about any.

gothic literature (the strange case of dr. jekyll and mr. hyde being the book for me) was my introduction to the idea of horror. the macabre, atmospheric, subtle dread of the genre is great. generally speaking, dissections of humanity is a favorite topic of mine - horror allows for the unpleasant parts of humanity to be on full display. obsession, aggression, pride, etc etc. add some repressed feelings, rot, death, what have you, and you have a good soup.

on the flipside, i'm not picky about horror movies. i'm most familiar with is slashers and whatever you would lump recent releases (nope, the menu, or x/pearl to name a few) as.

I already loved ahsoka before the final season, but that final season really really made her whole character stand out even more. To me, she’s the best character in Star Wars, hands down, and a lot of that is that season.

Absolutely, I love her so much, and she was amazing in that last season. She really embodies the best of Anakin AND Obi-Wan. And that fight with Maul was.... amazing. And the END, god.

Hhhhhh it's so fucking tragic because you know anakin would have been so proud of how she handled herself in those last episodes.

Yeah! There's a lot of blond(e) people over there (all the places you mentioned.) I have heard people over there call their hair black and dark when they were clearly blonde except hers was darker than her friends. The rest of us at the table (you know, people with real actual black hair if you can say that) were staring at them like -_- Dutch blonde is slightly different from the Finnish blonde in my experience 😝 My favourite colour on some of the Dutch people around me I don't even know what it is called. Oh, TMI, the guy I used to have a crush on ( the best way to describe it) looked like a mix between Matt Smith as Eleven, Tom Sturridge and someone else. I think part of the reason among other things was that he looked like Eleven.

HFJSJXJSJDJSDB THAT'S SO FUNNY????????? i mean different standards i guess but.... lmao......... it's all blonde to me😭 it's especially weird to see blonde men coz like. women bleach their hair but i stg i knew 3 blonde men in total my entire life and they were all demons

sweet jesus don't let tumblr find that guy, he'll be torn to pieces

We are in for some heartbreak, people. Or it could be said we are in for some "Waterworks" hehe *sobs*

To summarize today's day in university:

- got diagnosed with social phobia by a class mate (bitch?!)

- heard a Very cool lecture/presentation by a guest lecturer

- our lecturer said she kinda liked our idea for our presentation

- had lunch with friends in the uni canteen which was nice but evoked some existential despair

LOVE YOUUU PANDOOOOOO

MYSTAAAAAAAA I LOVE YOU TOOO 😭😭

THANK YOU FOR GRACING MY ASK BOX IT MADE A STUPID SMILE SHINE ON MY FACE

cw for talk of trouble eating/nausea/appetite loss (in relation to chronic physical illnesses) in the tags

cw: child abuse (psychological, grooming, ect)

also speaking of parental abuse there's also this text of how Millie wants to be Tyra's mother, but she doesn't want anything that makes Tyra unique.

She started loving Tyra the moment she saw her find some dinosaure when she was dying in the cold and starved after being separated from her parents, seeing that despite her situation, Tyra was so excited about finding a Tyranosaure she was forgetting how desperate her situation was and instead loved the dino right away.

Millie saw how excited Tyra was about it, and loved Tyra right away enough to decide to make her hers.

But Millie hates dinosaurs, she finds them disgusting, she uses them as tool and keeps insulting them, hates that Tyra sees them as her family.

she used the dinos as bait to get Tyra to pay attention to her, and she used a particularities of the dino to mind control Tyra

but even now as Tyra is being brainwashed, everytime she looks at the dinos, Millie just tells her "don't look at those disgusting things, just look at me, your momma"

and it's another level of control that rings way too true on parents who """"""love""""" their children, but not for who they are -- just for what it brings them.

yes Tyra is cute. But everything she likes, everything that makes her happy, is disgusting. So it needs to be removed from Tyra's life. Her love and her excitement has to carry over to Millie, not to the stuff she actually like.

it's something way too real and it's genuinely giving me the yikes it makes me unwell.

👀 👁️ 😐😀 and 💀 for sotl

sent march 24th, step back and gaze in awe at my ability to find the relevant ask list four months later

👀what’s a fic written by someone else that you REALLY wish you wrote yourself?

thank god i left this so long because now i have the perfect answer for this question.

the DLC fic. no cap, no thought, no further questions.

👁 have you ever accidentally foreshadowed something you fully didn’t intend to happen?

can't think of any specific examples rn but definitely yes. you point out random foreshadowing in guesses all the time, i'm pretty sure you did it to nevermore like the other day. it's pretty cool.

😐which of your fics did you think a lot of people would like but didn’t?

oh, so many. i got underground fics people aint even heard of.

the gone and the gathered, i think. maybe posted at the wrong time, maybe because the main character is a very minor character in the movies or because there's no romance, but...i thought a small fandom like zombies would like something unique like that. somethin fresh but still relevant to the source material. idk.

😀which of your fics did you not think a lot people would like but they did?

the fucking??? cardboard wyatt one????? i had to work so hard to justify making him Like That when i wrote it and i still wasn't ever happy with it like it was just. just something that happened. and yet people keep fuckin coming out of the woodwork saying they love it like ????? even today you said it was one of your favourites, i was shocked. flabbergasted, even. i simply don't understand you people for the love of god let me direct you to any other zombies fic i've written xD

💀if you had to write an alternate ending to [insert fic] how would you end it?

goddammit i was just talking about this in zom mom's ask. well, you know about that night i had a small crisis about the last two parts of tsotl. i went back and reread it and your comments and i was literally struck down by anguish.

i want to. i want to. i can live with sef dying still, i suppose, it hurts me deeply but i can do it. but i want to send marwa back to masyaf. i want it to be her that kills that fucking snake, but i know she's supposed to let it go and go to egypt. i don't know. honestly i think i'm going to give her the satisfaction of reclaiming masyaf, the challenge of making her convincingly give it up when all her life she's wanted to be nowhere else was. challenging but i don't think i can do it without giving her at least a little bit of retribution.