#holding court (asks)

[praetorqueenreyna]

"Rhysand gave Feyre the CHOICE to do whatever she wants!! Except when he knows that her choice is wrong, in which case he exerts his unconditional power over her to keep her somewhere against her will."

#this is honestly so fucking funny #and also where acomaf lost me #'IT WAS ALWAYS MY CHOICE EXCEPT WHEN IT WASNT' so u admit it wasnt always your choice #bc if it was always your choice he wouldn't be....idk....holding you captive against your will #also wouldn't it be way more meaningful if feyre asked to go back to spring and he brought her back #and then the next time rhys 'kidnaps' her she doesnt ask to be brought back #bc she wants to be in the night court

[lorelune]

something abt the idea of courting is soooooo 🥰🍓💕🥺👀❤️

it’s the intentionality. it’s the “i’m going to woo you.” it’s the “i’m going to take my time with you.”

#lore loops #thirsts #diluc court u with little gifts and invites u for meals and asks before even holding your hand

[kasumikoujou]

#moment of weakness #the sumi art #riddle rosehearts #twst #twisted wonderland #twst fanart #for daze: (if you are not daze you can stop reading) #Article 11 - Freedom of expression and information1. Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to #hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. #2. The freedom and pluralism of the media shall be respected. #Source:Official Journal of the European Union C 303/17 - 14.12.2007 #You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can be used against you in court. You have the right to talk to a lawyer for advice #before we ask you any questions. You have the right to have a lawyer with you during questioning. If you cannot afford a lawyer #one will be #appointed for you before any questioning if you wish. If you decide to answer questions now without a lawyer present #you have the right to #stop answering at any time. #- Miranda Warning #alright now that we have the law of free speech and the criminal suspect notificarion up #daze if i hear one singular thing in regards to me and riddle and my prior bullying that (still) continues #if i hear it. #i shouldnt #ok #uim going to sleep. its 3am.

[puppetmaster13u]

Mini Prompt

You know what i love

Villian not-redemption. Where they go to another world, or the timeline shifts, or whatever, and find the person or people they lost And instead of getting better

They get Worse Like they continue to be nihilistic assholes to everyone But said person/people (bonus if it's a younger sibling or something similar) And they are still an irredeemable evil person They are not redeemed, in fact they've gotten MORE unhinged because they Can't Lose this Person Again

#prompts #yes this is about Owlman #specifically the one who is Bruce's older brother and who blames his world's version of his father for Bruce's and Martha's death #I want him to meet a Young batman #like battinson #like just starting out batman but who has so much Hope and determination that they can Fix Things and Gotham can be Better #batman #batman au #dcu #dc #owlman #thomas wayne jr #bruce wayne #Like an Owlman who doesn't get Better or Redeemed or anything #Like he enhances himself More than just the brainstem thing #Like I am talking dionesia (Sp?) and Talon type shit #Like he could and would take over the Court of Owls or Anything if Bruce so much as asked #He would hold his Dear Baby Brother's face and ask him Who He Needs to Kill #He kills and tortures and does not regret a single bit of it #Sure he also runs the whole Crime Syndicate in his dimension but part of his whole thing is Nothing Matters #And he still thinks that #Nothing Matters BUT His Baby Brother Staying Alive #He won't ALLOW Bruce to die

[melhekhelmurkun]

The pain of watching Attack of the Clones in order to see Obi-Wan with long hair, but also having to deal with Whiny Angsty Kinda Creepy Teenager Anakin

#out of every version of Anakin that’s the one I would punch 100% of the time #phantom menace ani is just cute if a bit annoying and I’d totally chill with him and ask questions about mechanics #revenge of the Sith Anakin is a dumbass and could use a punch too but mainly I feel sorry for him and want to get him court mandated therapy #clone wars tv show Anakin is my all time favorite I love how sassy he is and I very rarely want to throttle him (added bonus of Ahsoka) #hell even Vader was tolerable if only because he was cool as fuck and scary #but attack of the clones Anakin? it’s on SIGHT motherfucker #I can will and SHOULD deck him so hard he’s astral projected back to phantom menace #‘I hate sand its course it’s rough it’s irritating and it gets everywhere’ will literally pay you to stfu #I can’t even excuse him for his age honestly because that was only half the issue #MORE than half the issue #what an irritating and vaguely creepy little fucker #but for longhaired!daddy-wan I will tolerate him #(in actuality I am fast forwarding past any scene that doesn’t have Obi-Wan) I will tolerate him #star wars #attack of the clones #obi wan kenobi #hold up you’re actively telling me daddy-wan Kenobi ISNT a tag??? #on the single thirstiest website in existence????? #what have we become

[real-marquis-knives]

One knife fish, as requested

Ah, excellent. Much appreciated.

Oh, but we haven't been introduced! I am the Marquis de All the Knives, though you no doubt know that already. What can I do to repay you for the fish?

#holding court (asks) #the mailman (the mailman)

[im-still-watching-anime]

playing aa trilogy: look how creepy and unsettling von karma is for taking in edgeworth, he was making nefarious plans from the start

playing aa investigations: he did it because he certainly wasn’t interested in parenting and knew franziska would need a babysitter

#ace attorney #aa investigations #miles edgeworth #manfred von karma #franziska von karma #von karma: GOD someone get these kids away from me #court guards: aren’t those kids YOURS?? #DONT ask me about how i feel about edgeworth and franziska’s relationship in investigations #i WILL cry #main series: yeah they’re like siblings #investigations: THEY ARE BROTHER AND SISTER🚨🚨🚨🚨 DO NOT FORGET IT🚨🚨🚨🚨 #im so emotional about them all the time #investigations really rubs salt into your turnabout goodbye wounds #while also just peppering in that edgeworth was LOVED #sitting there knowing this man is actively getting night terrors about his fathers murder every night #and watching him offer to share snacks with his sister and hold her perfume #i want to eat GLASS #hnnnnngggg yall ever just remember that edgeworth was always GOOD because GOD

[hella1975]

i need to know your thoughts on the sunshine court coming out this month. i am personally unhealthily obsessed w denim jean moreau and i’m gnawing at the bars of my enclosure to finally get real jeremy knox/jean moreau content (it’ll also get rid of those weirdos that ship jean w renee like sir that is a lesbian)

i am being so so so brave about new content i am not scared fear is the mind killer

#I NEED EVERYONE TO LOOK AT ME AND LISTEN. LISTEN. I DONT CARE HOW LONG IT TAKES ME TO GET A HOLD OF THIS BOOK #I DONT CARE HOW LONG I TAKE TO READ IT. I DONT CARE IF I CANT EVEN READ IT IMMEDIATELY #YOU /WILL NOT/ SEND ME SPOILERS. NOT EVEN IMPLIED. YOU CAN SAY ‘OH I READ IT AND LIKED IT’ OR GIVE YOUR OPINION #BUT IF YOU SEND ME SPOILERS EVEN WITH GOOD INTENTIONS I WILL BLOCK YOUR ASS #IM BEING SO SERIOUS #THIS IS MY SUPERBOWL #okay? okay. deep breaths #also anon i don’t HATE jean/renee I don’t think anyone’s weird for shipping them #seeing as they’re almost certainly gonna be made canon but i do agree renee could fix allison and jerejean is everything to me #PLEASE NORA PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE #ask #aftg #the sunshine court

[starboundsingularities]

tbh it's really always bothered me a bit that they never actually get into the consequences of misusing the magatama. sure, sure, they say your soul shatters, and like, yeah that's ominous and all, but what does it mean? obviously we never get to see that in-game but i've been thinking about it a lot and i would like to present these thoughts because oh boy there are a lot of them. long post under cut but it's a fun little au as well

alright so before getting into it all, obviously there are some things we're aiming to explain, in some sense, with this.

for one: what is a soul, even? most depictions of souls portray them as the very essence of one's self, as the "culmination of your being" or as some similar nebulous expression of an entire person. but... well, if a soul was the entirety of a person, what would that soul shattering entail? it would just kill them. which is a valid reading i guess but not very fun to mess around with and is also a reading that comes with some... troubling implications.

most notably, the meter on how close you are to that breaking point while using the magatama is the same meter as your penalties in court. not just in the asset used, which wouldn't be worth bringing up, but in the sense that once the magatama is introduced, that same value that meter is held at is shared between court trials and the magatama. before the introduction of the magatama, that meter refilled automatically between trials, each trial starting with it completely full, but after the introduction of the magatama, it was only ever refilled by successfully breaking psyche-locks. this is concerning, because it implies a direct connection between phoenix's soul and his performance in court, which probably wasn't intended but is very fun to mess around with and i love the idea of your soul being tied to your passions. however i don't love the idea of him Straight Up Dying if he does too poorly in court so. uh, no insta-death for soul shattering. anyways this whole side tangent never comes up again. thumbs up emoji.

anyways, if a soul shattering doesn't entail simply death, and if a soul isn't just someone's essence or personality or whatever, well, what is it? well, one compelling answer is that it's merely a container. it holds someone's essence or being or personality, but it itself is not that.

thus i present:

Soul Shatter AU

a soul is just a container. one that holds everything in. someone's passions, ambitions, personality.

someone's secrets.

if it were to shatter... without a container, everything would come spilling out. whoever was involved would be unable to keep anything contained within themself. sure, their physical self might be enough to hold in some of the more ambiguous, nebulous aspects of their "self", but it would prove rather difficult to hide something with nothing there to keep it hidden inside.

a fitting punishment, really, for abusing the power to reveal what others have kept hidden.

the fun part, of course, is what comes next. who's used the magatama? who's had the chance to fall to such a fate?

off the top of my head i can think of two people. phoenix wright and miles edgeworth. (i think mia used one too? my friend says she did but i haven't gotten to that part yet i'm only on the third game)

and both of them, despite their focus on finding the truth, are very ironically prone to hiding things themselves. their feelings, their troubles, their emotions.

what if we opened them up a little?

#ace attorney #gyakuten saiban #ace attorney au #phoenix wright #miles edgeworth #mia fey #(i barely mentioned her but shhshsh she can be relevant i just don't know enough about her yet) #soul shatter au #i think about this instead of sleeping #like imagine you're in court and your lawyer objects to something and the prosecutor is like ''ok well what's your evidence'' #and your lawyer is like ''um. hold on i have something here i can use for this probably'' #and you of course then ask ''man do you even know what you're doing?'' #and he just says ''i really don't have a plan here but this usually works just trust me'' #the idea of holding them to 100% complete honesty is really funny to me #benefits of this au: whoever you choose to soul shatter gets therapy #it's really funny in a narumitsu context as well because it's only a matter of time before one of them just Has to admit their feelings #like the idea of one of them just talking and the other going ''i want to kiss you so badly'' ''what'' ''NOTHING.'' #etc etc. more things you can do with this but i can't make my tag rambles too long

[dayurno]

you can make Jean 7ft tall. hell, make him 8ft. big beautiful man built like frankenstein. everyone stares at him half in fear half mesmerized

i'm loving this energy of writing jean like a roman empire gladiator. for me i am honest i need him to be big. it's important and necessary that jean not only is not a skinny man but has very little abs too. he is JACKED but his job is not to be all lean muscle like kevin and neil and riko and jeremy. he is allowed and expected to look like a forest bear. i'm talking square waist i'm talking soft chest i'm talking big arms i'm talking big thighs i'm talking everything. you have to know this. you have to know it before the fandom lets you believe he is a beautiful twink*

*i love my beautiful twink please do whatever you want forever

#im joking of course i love my beautiful twink too #theres a time and place for everything #but to me he is willing and able to hold neil by the back of his collar with no effort #he could possibly bench press kevin #catalina sits on his back when he's doing push-ups #he was raised basically as a child soldier to be a human boulder #also i dont think riko was ever as watchful of jeans weight as he was about kevins #because jean putting on weight only makes him harder to beat in court #so. you know. #asks #jean

[etoilesbienne]

Hola- in answer to your question about labor laws. Idk if you wanted an actual answer, if you didn’t please feel free to ignore this /nm /gen. This is just info. :)

so I come bearing unfortunate news, in that I don’t think QSMP is violating any labor laws, at least in the US. :( Labor laws here only apply to “employees”, not to independent contractors or volunteers and if I understood Lea’s tweets right she didn’t sign any employment contract or written job offer. A monetary offer for work via DMs makes her an independent contractor, not an employee. NDAs don’t count as proof of employment either, and the ban on talking about salaries is only illegal if an employer is enforcing it on employees. If the only thing Lea signed was an NDA that included a clause to not to talk about her pay then she’s the one that just broke a legally binding contract and now I’m worried for her coming public with it all (even tho I’m v grateful she did so we can know about this, it just might turn out bad for her)

I’m not an expert or a lawyer, I just worked as an independent contractor in the US for 8 years so I’m familiar with the laws and I had to be so so careful not to get screwed, like it sounds like the admins are right now.

This whole thing just sucks. I really hope Quackity steps up and makes things right, and actually pays the team what their time and efforts are worth regardless of the legal side of things. :(:(:(

she's not in any risk for nda being broken, they never sent the nda back to her with it signed by them, its not legally binding if both parties dont have have a copy.

but i really, really doubt that french labor law isn't going to protect her in some way. it's not like US labor law, they actually have worker protections.

#asks #i admit that yea it prob wouldnt hold up in US court though

[sparring-spirals]

This nervous-laughter-mildly-incredulous-slowly-manifesting dismay, punctuated with jokes and forced politeness. Is a perfect summation about how I feel about Chirp and Squak and their grandfather. Like its ridiculous, its hilarious, Chirp and Squak are clearly still up to machinations and its so funny. Of course its funny, but its also like. They're getting kicked out of their own home on a whim from this conglomerate of cursed bird traits! They don't necessarily have anywhere to stay, they're juggling tricky lies and veneers to try to please this awful bird (no pun intended). We can see how nervous and unsure they get with him versus literally everyone else, how fearful their conduct gets around him, and the implications are kind of wildly awful! They're getting kicked out! They're rolling their little suitcases and asking for to-go boxes on the food and its so funny and also like holy shit, grandpa bird suuuuucks.

#not cr #oops i wrote meta again i guess #acofaf #a court of fey and flowers #acofafe8 #acofaf spoilers #andhera watching them roll suitcases like ????? and them trying to hold it together and also asking about hotel hookups. this is SO funny #lady chirp featherfowl #lord squak airavis #character meta #the cousins

[atopvisenyashill]

sometimes it’s a lil hard to switch gears into a sam chapter because you’ll get brienne, jaime, cersei, arianne, and sansa back to back for like 15 chapters and it’s nothing but politics or fallout of the war constantly and then theres a screech as the narrative takes a left turn detour into Sam & Gilly having a terrible horrible no good very bad day and not interacting with the greater plot at ALL and you’re like aemon stop giving sad monologues I AM NOT IN THE RIGHT HEAD SPACE DAMMIT

#i. have not read affc since before my grandma died. this is. fun. #rani liveblogs asoiaf #sam making sure they give aemon a proper valyrian funeral. aemon asking to hold dalla’s baby. #naming the baby aemon steelsong. i’m so. bro we were talking about the intricacies of court politics man 😭😭

[sneakydraws]

incredibly dumb question (and bit nsfw) pls feel free to ignore; I've just realised reading war and peace just fried my remaining brain cells: if topping anatole just made andrey worse, do you think ever bottoming would fix him or? I was thinking it'd make him even worse but idk one should never doubt the healing powers of a prostate orgasm ig

ANON YOU *LITERALLY* HAVE NO IDEA HOW CORRECT YOU ARE IN ASKING THAT QUESTION. JOURNEY WITH ME BELOW THE CUT TO HEAR MY EXTENSIVE THOUGHTS ABOUT ANDREI BOLKONSKYS SEX LIFE (spoilers i actually go more in depth about my interpretation of andreis psychological issues than ever but you have to get through the stupid sex stuff first. Sorry. Also I'm finishing writing this at the airport at seven am after not a lot of sleep so I take no responsibility for how coherent it may or may not be)

Ok I cannot emphasise enough that. Part of my initial take on Andrei (and a partial basis for my andretole au) was LITERALLY "guy who needs to get fucked but is too full of toxic masculinity to let anyone top him". Like, it's 1805 and everyone is obsessed with ancient Greece, they probably just started unpacking ancient Greek ideas about homosexuality, someone as proud, misogynistic and self-possessed as Andrei would absolutely see bottoming as some sort of shameful dishonour, if only subconsciously. (But like, if mercury was in Gatorade and the heavens collided and Pierre actually realised one day that Andrei has the hots for him and offered to top, Andrei would agree in a heartbeat because the thirst is even stronger than the internalised homophobia)

But silly sex headcanons aside I do think there's genuine psychology going on here so let me elaborate. I think Andrei is chronically incapable of being vulnerable with people. Even when making an effort to talk openly about his emotions (like in his first one on one with Pierre), he's very distanced from them, cold and disdainful. He talks about emotions but doesn't exhibit them. And if strong emotions of any kind threaten to get the better of him, he defaults to anger - see his anger at Lise in the same scene, his anger at Pierre after his refusal by Natasha and again before borodino - probably because anger feels easier and doesn't imply weakness like other emotions - sorrow, fear, regret - might. I mean in that scene after Natasha's refusal the narration openly states that Andrei hates being pitied... So like, if he can't bear to be vulnerable with others in life, how could he possibly do so in bed, right?

(Though I suppose it's not as clear cut as that because hatefucking Anatole IS a sign of weakness and feeling ashamed of it is also a sign of weakness and anatole's refusal to be bothered by it reminds Andrei of that fact every single day. He just can't win! Can't have shit in 1805 Russia!!)

All this being said, it's equally as important to my understanding of Andrei that he does WANT and even NEED to be vulnerable with someone. He wants to be able to trust and respect someone enough to lean on them and rely on them for comfort. I think that his extreme self-reliance and internal strength belie a deep-seated desire to have someone in his life who will render those traits unnecessary. Hold on I just realised Andrei has mommy issues uhh

In all seriousness tho. This is why those relationships Andrei tries to build fail, isn't it? He doesn't approach those people as equals, he wants them to be his superiors. Natasha can't just be a girl whose company he enjoys, she has to be his angel of rejuvenation and moral redemption. Speransky can't just be a man whom he respects, he has to be this flawlessly committed and morally upstanding reformer. And when he dares act like an imperfect human being, Andrei is totally turned off. His relationship with Pierre is actually probably the healthiest precisely because of its internal contradictions - he cherishes Pierre's earnestness and artlessness, but sees his naiveté and weak will, and therefore doesn't build him up to such an impossible standard of perfection as others.

(This actually contrasts in an interesting way with Pierre's (imo) final and most important transformation - that into someone who can acknowledge people's flaws and love them, without judgement or delusion. Very Christlike of him)

So um tldr. Yes Andrei SHOULD bottom (slash not be such a dom slash be vulnerable with anyone) and it WOULD fix him but also he'd need to already BE fixed for it to ever be on the table so like. F. He'll have to make do with blowing anatole's back out and hating himself for it, and count himself lucky that my stupid au gives him that much

#ask #anonymous #war and peace #andretole #andrei bolkonsky #ALRIGHTY ONLY TOOK ME 14 HOURS BUT I FINALLY COMPOSED A REPLY #i Hope this sums up my thoughts in the matter in an exhaustive succint and understandable manner but again. i did get uo at 420 am today #so we shall see later if this holds up in court

[not-poignant]

Do you have any more excerpts? 🥺 Or any vague story ideas/thoughts you wouldn't mind sharing? I love getting glimpses into your brain and hearing about your possible plans/ideas/or just far future possibilities of stories that have crossed your mind or that you're interested in exploring at some unknown point in the future

Hi hi

There will be more excerpts, but it's very very early days yet! (The whole idea didn't exist two days ago, and some very rapid worldbuilding and writing happened over a 24 hour period and that's literally all I had by the time I put up the excerpt yesterday).

I do have a chapter and a half though, and I'm hoping do a bit more. It's the end of the month and I've already written everything I need to re: all of my current stories, so I have some time to just kind of play around a bit.

As for some vaguenesses, it's an entirely new world (i.e. no connection to Fae Tales universe or anything like that) with entirely new characters.

It's a fantasy, with a lot of different races living alongside each other, where humans are generally considered the most 'throwaway' of all the races. (The main character is a human).

It'll be m/m.

There's multiple systems of magic alongside each other, but not everyone has magic, and not everyone has magic that's useful. As usual I'll be focusing a fair bit on class disparity and the rich partner / poor partner which I seem to really enjoy doing these days, lmao.

Oh, and it's a slavefic.

Ah, and there's going to be probably a fair amount of noncon / dubcon / xeno and a bunch of stuff like that. It's very 'a fantasy world where I get to create rules that make sadistic sex mandatory' lmao. I love those.

#asks and answers #vexteria #i don't actually like slavefics most of the time lmao #but because the slavery is a temporary contract #and not permanent #i find it easier to deal with and play with conceptually #i think it will have 'augus imprisoned in the seelie court' vibes in that sense #except that this time the one who is imprisoned #definitely doesn't hold the balance of power

[askhenry1987]

Yo, Henry.

Karen's keep coming into the pizzaplex.

Do I have permission to vaccinate their kids?

×@map-bot-offcial

Sure, it's not like I run the place anymore. I'm legally dead.

#can't hold a court case on a dead guy! #ha! ha! #fnaf rp #asks