#just the right amount of forward

[probablygayattorneys]

So I just heard someone say that some promotional material for Layton confirms that Unwound Future takes place in 1963. If this is the case, I’ve attempted to do some math (as someone who never learned to count, quite difficult, and please grant me some room for error) and I think I have some numbers that are interesting.

He’s 34 in Last Specter. If we add four years for the events of the trilogies and say he’s 37 in '63.

Then if we add thirteen years to get him to 50 (how I got fifty for that number is a sidebar that involves Luke’s ages so I’m not going to get into it now) when he goes missing and we’re up to '76

Add eleven to account for the time he’s [redacted for spoiler purposes] and then that’s when Kat’s game occurs, and for the sake of simplicity, say Alfendi’s is set either concurrently or right around the same time, then Mystery Journey and Mystery Room take place in 1987.

Which gives us birth years for the Layton’s as Kat was born in '66, Alfendi was born in '58, and the professor was born in '26.

We can also use this math to do a really interesting thing which is place the flashback sections in Miracle Mask as '43, meaning that all of that happened smack dab in the middle of World War II.

So….. do with that what you will, I guess.

#professor Layton #Layton’s mystery journey #layton brothers mystery room #Layton family #Hershel Layton #Alfendi layton #Katrielle Layton #I mean it’s all agreed it’s an alternate universe right #I mean if you take the crossover as being canon than that forces the timeline forward by a very significant amount #I’m also still not entirely sure what promotional material the person was talking about #but these are the numbers for if they were right #idk exactly what history looked like in England but #thinking about Layton as having survived the Great Depression #and the mental state that they all would have been in as teenagers #having just survived the blitz #man. #queue takumi defense squad

[quietwingsinthesky]

thinking about lucifer post-cage, in pieces from it because nothing could come out of that isolation whole, begging sam to let him in. and it doesn’t sound like a voice, obviously, it’s a whine of tv static and the creak of a window opening and crunching glass spilled on the floor and a knock on something hollow and the last echo in a cave before it’s all silent again. but sam hears him, and he hears him saying, help me help me help me. you spend a couple million years in a locked basement and remember more words than that, and then you can talk. day in, day out, everything sam hears is lucifer, all the rumbling, hissing, coughing, crackling noises of the world, lucifer’s in them. no vessel means that all he can do is surround sam (is it suffocating? yes. lucifer would like to be suffocated. he would like something, anything, to press itself so close to him that he can’t breathe, but nothing does, so he does it to sam instead.)

a wounded animal. and sam is so, so human. he can’t just leave lucifer like that, in pain, not after weeks trying to block him out. weeks where lucifer just got more desperate, louder, screaming at sam because he couldn’t tell if sam heard him at first (if sam was even real, if he was even free at all.)

he’s got to let him in. if he can’t do anything else right, maybe he can stop one being from suffering. just one.

#lets him in and lucifer. is not gentle. gentleness does not survive hell. but he loves sam. chokes him with it but loves him all the same. #tries not to hurt him (can’t see all the ways he is but the ones he does. the ones he understands. he tries not to. he tries.) #sam catatonic on the floor for a week straight while the devil tries to settle inside him and he tries to. help isn’t really the right word. #it’s more like soothe. while lucifer slowly learns from him how their nerve endings work. #the first thing they do is drag themselves across the floor. drag. lucifer hasn’t figured out how to walk yet. #but. crawl on his belly? he can do that. sam helps. hands over lucifer’s at the controls. moving them forward inch by inch. #until they reach the small bathroom beside sam’s room. curl inside it. cut themselves on broken glass from the mirror lucifer shattered when #sam said yes. #cutting their palms up lifting shards high enough to look at themselves. #and they stay like that for another few days. at least. the amount of effort it takes just to see themselves is tremendous. #lucifer spn #sam winchester #spn #samifer

[fallingforfandoms]

Out Of Context Lines

The Rules: If you're tagged, make a new post and share one or two sentences (or lines for artists) from your most recent unposted WIP with zero context.

Thanks for tagging me @all-my-worlds-a-stage <3

Sie konnten sich immer noch daran erfreuen, wie grandios das Orchester diese Stimmgewalt untermalte und vorantrieb - aber sie konnten eben auch ihr Herz beieinander ausschütten. Und das hätte Boerne zu Beginn dieser Nacht absolut nicht für möglich gehalten - aber nun war es so und er wollte es nicht mehr missen.

No-pressure tagging @mordsfesch @cinnamonbunsinmyhairr @krejong @karin-in-action @thotstochter and anyone else who feels like it :)

#... this wip in a nutshell. #we're currently at .... oh god. 103k by the way. what the FUCK. #this is as niche as it gets. and as long as it gets. #the amount of research i've been doing for this wip. the hours on wikipedia etc. and for what? man idk. wild. just wild. #also particularly looking forward to my weekend in münster and my week in dresden. for reasons which i do not want to explain to my parents #but yeah that's ... my life right about now lol. #tagging game #jo schreibt

[firestorm09890]

hey it's that anon from the other day about meursault. I am also an autistic individual with low empathy and can therefore only partially sympathize with Meursault. I think that you've done a reading of The Stranger that is very sympathetic and that there is value in that, but I've always read The Stranger as both a story about the absurdity of connection and a story about a Frenchman in colonial Algiers who doesn't understand himself or his own biases. You mention heat stroke but I think it's worth considering: is Meursault's perception of events realiable? Could he be unconsciously struggling with his complicity in oppressive violence against a colonial subject?

You raise very good points. I will be considering this. It’s a bit late to change the wording on that og post though

#that’s about all I have to say #you’re right my reading is a bit skewed #up til now the only commentary on race id really considered was the way the life of the murdered man #was so thoroughly swept aside #nothing but an epithet #and that’s about as far as i got on that angle of analysis #why am i still talking i said i was done #never expected to have a real literary analysis discussion on tumblr dot com #l'etranger #meursault #ask #i guess i could edit the wording but any version already reblogged is gonna have the original #okay yeah it didn’t spread very far so i’ve changed it #oh oh oh also if youre wondering how i can simultaneously be low empathy and empathize way too much with meursault it's because #the amount of empathy i have likes to swing from not enough to way too much at random #it's as irritating as it sounds #lol there are probably people following the meursault tag just for limbus company who will see this #hiiiii #i wonder what sort of crime that meursault committed #looking forward to finding out when his chapter happens in uh #two years #probably a doozy if they put him right before the likes of outis and faust

[pepprs]

i had a scarily bad depression moment (if you catch my drift) at work on thursday during a meeting where the topic of conversation and the things ppl were saying were directly (and slightly intentionally?) contributing to my distress and im past that moment now but i feel so haunted by it. by the thoughts i was having and the fact that i had them and the fact that i was witnessed in that moment but they didn’t know how bad it was. and im also feeling vulnerable to being back in that place again

#purrs #it is kinda amazing the amount of triggering things that happen every day and any one of them knocks the wind out of me but this is like. #4-5 a day at least and then like 5-6 hours of sleep in between another round. it’s not a good way to be in the world. but i am going to say #one positive thing which is that im proud of myself for enduring it and pushing forward even though it’s painful. like i am very strong for #doing that especially when i don’t have the emotional safety / resources i need and technically have never had them and will never have them #it’s important to remember that. and yeah it’s kinda like i shouldn’t have to be strong through all of that but the one positive thing i can #hang onto in this… well no actually 2. 1) i am very strong for surviving right now even though it’s just scraping by 2)one day it might not #be this hard. one day i might feel better. and even though it doesn’t feel like it and i keep having setbacks i am making progress towards #that moment. even thougu im scared to take some leaps im still inching towards the jump and that matters a lot. and other people can see it #even when i can’t. just not the people in that meeting apparently LOL #delete later

[itspileofgoodthings]

teaching has just truly driven me away from tumblr discourse because I’m still talking to people who are wrong about literature and have bad takes but now there are valid and understandable reasons for that (adolescence) (new to life in general and having opinions at all)

#akksksjejeje this is so mean I mean the wider problem of tumblr discourse!!!!!!!!!!! not any individuals #well maybe some individuals whose blogs I have come across over the years #who are spewing heresy and nonsense #but anyway on a more serious note all patience for discourse and discussion is simply used up in my teaching #that’s where it all goes #I got nothing left! #I mean I have lots left for one on one discussions #but I just mean in terms of interacting with a group and all the work that comes with balancing the humors (lol) #of a group setting so that there can be the right amount of harmony and forward motion #that’s just used up in teaching #It’s the right context for it! #I should really just leave here. it would be better and fairer #but I still kind of need it as a dumping ground #(Anyway if you read my posts and reply to them and are kind I appreciate it so much <3 I do not mean to disparage you at all) #(I am just also trying to be honest about why the format and the space here is one I’ve grown beyond/can’t use in the same way I used to #and it’s something I still need to occasionally work out in a text post on tumblr I guess! #which is ironic #to say the least.

[comradekarin]

hey do you guys remember when “being who you are” and “not caring what others think of you” applied to l fairly innocent things like hobbies, traits, or activities you like to do? and not despicable, misogynistic men so insecure abt themselves they’ll humiliate, degrade, manipulate, and abuse women (and then play it off as if they don’t really mean it in that way)?

#andrew tate #he makes me sick #a lot of men just do not care about the safety and livelihood of women and it’s sickening #and when you bring it up it’s the leftist being sensitive and not being able to take jokes #god forbid a woman talks about tate being bald and they’ll be an army of men like that’s why he hates women #and the amount of young men who believe in his words or just casually support how “cOnFiDeNt he is #what the hell is going on right now #and even if he is joking and isn’t serious it’s not fucking funny??? no one’s laughing??? #y’all take the word sensitivity and just run with it sometimes especially when it comes to what is perceived to be unfunny #kudos to the victims for coming forward and trying to make their voices heard #and im sorry that their voices were silenced and treated so inhumanely by tate and his supporters #he deserves every bit of punishment he gets and MORE

[banschivs]

                                    𝙷𝙸𝚂𝚃𝙾𝚁𝙸𝙰 𝚂𝚃𝚁𝙸𝙶𝙸𝙳𝙰𝙴

An extensive and detailed look into the infrastructure and constant movements of our Court.  This database serves as our primary source of information.  Secure,  and entirely impossible to tamper with,  every letter stored here,  every face,  every name,  every location,  is ours and will forever be ours.  Only the most trusted eyes are offered this source without strategy.  Those who are not deemed dependable may only find themselves in the very beginnings of a trap.

We,  the lure.  We,  the snare’s teeth. 

                                                        𝙱𝙴𝙶𝙸𝙽…?

#^(𝐎𝐯𝐎)^ #no biggie just an impossible amount of hours from jessie and i #culminated right here #on dataclaw #enter said dataclaw at your peril #or not like..... just enter it and soak shit up like a sponge bc #this was insane time and insane brain power and #we really did this shit #take it use it for us roll around in the owl poop #god speed to your muses frankly cause we're all fucked the owls have it #/you/ may have an in as all-seeing writing lords but..... ya muses don't #OUR muses don't #god speed to all of them the poor bastards #it's going to keep growing too so..... eyes peeled it's a constant wip #it'll grow and change and adapt as we move forward #shit's living and breathing...... and always watching #👀👀👀 #twit twoo

[thethingything]

I'm supposed to be resting and trying to relax but what am I doing instead? trying to figure out more medical shit. the horrors truly never fucking cease

#personal #thoughts #🍬 post #vent post #I'll be fine in a minute I just need to get some emotions out #unfortunately we happened to realise a bunch of shit about this one incident of getting fucked up by a medication #while already stressed to all fuck and ill enough that it's probably gonna give us more PTSD symptoms later on #and I'm not looking forward to the amount of shit I'm gonna have to unpack as a result of any of these things #but after writing this I am gonna try and do something relaxing both because I know that's the best thing I can do for myself right now #and because if I don't someone else is probably gonna front and make me anyway lmao

[thebeautifulfantastic]

<3

#been thinking a lot about how whenever i have a dream or an idea marinating in my brain for long enough it then becomes something that i am #determined to pursue. and that no one can really dissuade me from #it simply becomes a permanent part of my creative direction in life #i guess you could say that's kind of the same thing as having a special interest but not QUITE #like for example. what i'm thinking of right now is my desire to start a band #and i come up with a lot of crazy ideas on a day to day basis but a good amount of them end up being simply fleeting or dictated by my mood #the ones that stay though... those are the one that actually HAPPEN #i've wanted to sing in a band for at least a year now #to be honest it's probably been longer but it's been at least a year of me being consciously aware of it #and it just made me realize. this desire has stuck around in my brain for quite a while now #and i think that means it is going to happen someday #i don't know exactly how yet because the way i originally thought it might happen (me going to music college) didn't work out #but it's been a year and i'm still thinking about it and keeping my eyes open in case i meet the right people to make music with #i know from experience that when i put my mind to something i WILL get it done #in the sense that i will surprise myself with how stubborn i can be when it comes to not stopping chasing my dreams #and i've had big goals in the past that i did achieve because of this #i'm also like. surprisingly adaptable??? i only recently learned that about myself but i be pulling Plan B's out of my sleeves #so that's all to say -- i'm choosing to believe that i will start my band someday and it will be better than i can imagine right now #and in general i'm choosing to believe that the things i truly love and truly want in my life will only become more clear over time #even if i'm confused and lost at times NOW... if i keep moving forward in time it will all make sense #and a lot of times situations do work out exactly the way they were meant to but in the most unexpected of ways #i don't know how coherent this all was but yeah #starting a band is only the most recent example #belle speaks

[crabussy]

RRARAAAAAAAAAUUAUUAAGHHHHH

#ITS 12AM AND I HAVE BIG EXAMS TOMORROW #and people are taking my lighthearted post far too seriously and claiming some pretty awful things about my intentions #???????? I'm just some 17 year old who thought housetrucks were interesting #and recognised that they're likely the only kind of accommodation I'd be able to afford once I'm an adult #like YEAH YOUR POINTS ABOUT ROMANI APPROPRIATION ARE VALID and I am willing to listen. I know its frustrating #but also I've looked into the history of housetrucks within nz and the people who first built them? #they just built them out of necessity. not to mimic or romanticise romani suffering. I can't find any mention of romani inspiration #I SPECIFICALLY included photos of NZ HOUSETRUCKS ONLY and not romani wagons or similar because #a lot of new zealanders live poorly and have to resort to that lifestyle. SOME new zealanders live in housetrucks just because they can #but I guarantee you it is a very small amount because they're extremely inefficient and dangerous to live in #the only reason I was posting about them with such excitement is because I'm ecstatic about maybe being able to afford a home before I'm 40 #ranting about this in the tags and not in a reblog because goddd dude I don't want to look like some racist prick or something #to the person who reblogged the housetruck post with the stuff I'm talking about #if you're looking through my blog for whatever reason #I understand what you're saying but man that wasn't my intention at all #I'm a burnt out mentally ill IB student who made that post to cope with escapism #I didn't make it to erase romani lives or your culture I just made it because I need a hope for a liveable future #houses in new zealand usually cost over a million dollars I literally just want to look forward to living somewhere #warning bells in my mind right now please please don't twist my words it's 12am and I'm stressed out of my mind #god I feel awful I need to sleep #sick of being on the internet I am so so careful to be as respectful and careful as I can about topics #only to be accused of using gentrifying dogwhistles to appropriate a marginalised group of people ????? #for sharing photos of new zealand specific housetrucks and calling them 'kiwi culture' #I did not mean 'kiwi culture' as in 'invented by and owned by new zealanders' #I meant it in the same way that fish and chips are 'kiwi culture'. obviously we didn't invent either of those things. they just happen to b #a regular part of aotearoa life. RARHRHGHHH #fuck man I'm too worked up over this I never meant to be shitty or appropriate anything I just like housetrucks #I'm going to be a wreck tomorrow I'm too anxious to sleep #so sorry to anyone who bothered to read all of this #just needed. somewhere to put it

[jojolimons]

hate driving in new york

#limon talks #i cant imagine ever living there #idk how millions of people manage it #i almost got hit by a truck twice #once on the highway some jackass passed me not even caring that at that moment his bigass truck didnt fit #had to slowdown #then later another truck almost clipped me when the lanes merged #god if theres one thing having spent almost a full day driving has taught me #its that people are insane on the highway #ill do anywhere from 4-10 over the speed limit #and regularly get passed by other drivers #like my guy! i'm already speeding! you want me to speed MORE?!! #i also hated the bumper to bumper driving in nyc #people will just full on stop in the middle of an intersection #only further prolonging traffic jams #like bro why do you think we're inching forward the way we are #its because some dipshits dont understand the concept of leaving a reasonable amount of space between you and the driver in front of you #anyways uh to cap off on a happier note #like right in front of where i parked was a march for palestine #that was nice #wonderful to see so many people come out in support of that

[involuntaryspy]

i should've posted this earlier, but i'm on vacation this week and activity will be extra sporadic/selective. i try to take relaxing vacations, so i do usually have some time to write, but i approach it from a "do whatever i want, no rules apply" sorta thing--meaning i'm just going where the flow is, and it usually leads to me just fixating on a few threads. nothing personal, and i actually plan on trying to send asks/reblog memes/reply to lots of things next week with all this renewed energy i feel. this week tho is just about indulging and following the fun.

#[ general ] ooc. #[ writing hasn't been easy for me the last few months ] #[ in part bc i gave myself a massive amount of rules and pressure to do things ] #[ so rn i'm just kinda ] #[ doing what i feel like doing in the moment ] #[ one thing i have realized this week tho is that i do tend to like ] #[ mentally reply to everything! but then never. actually. physically type that reply ] #[ and it's why i end owing on things for forever--i did the mental work ] #[ i just never did the physical work to move it forward again ] #[ and my brain doesn't wanna go back to it bc we already did that right ] #[ anyway. enough tag rambling back to indulgence ]

[youarentamaybeyoureayes]

still not over rina so i dug in my camera roll to find some of my s4 predictions from a year ago because i have nowhere else to post these lol (warning, most of these are pessimistic as hell because i had very little trust in tim and s4 kept me up at night until the very moment i pressed play)

#even though these aren't mindblowingly hard to grasp i still laugh at how much i managed to get a little right #i wasn't sure if rina were gonna be troyella at the time #but a lot of these were easy to figure just based on smart thinking when it came to the stories moving forward #i also had to post the time and date to further establish how i think about this show an unhealthy amount lol #also i whited out the things i got outlandishly wrong so you're welcome #hsmtmts

[mimicteruyo]

Yesterday: “I will literally never reach the end of this draft.”

Today: “...Hold on. I’m down to the final 10k.”

#teruyo talk #it's probably less than 10k even but i don't wanna get my hopes up #due to how chaotic this whole process has been both how much there's to go #and how long the current draft actually is are both mysteries #but yeah i did go from feeling like no progress has been made #to realising how far i've actually come #ofc additional scenes and mandatory rewrites are 5k+ at the absolute minimum #but i try not to worry about that right now #at this rate i may even be done at the end of the month #looking forward to starting edits in 2027 #things will probably slow down a little bit after i wrap up the next chapter #and re-introduce my tenshi side project back into the rotation #but still! man i had forgotten just how much progress you can make just by being consistent about writing small amounts at a time #hope everyone's been well lately

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

#unprecedented emotions in this body o mine. like. this may b surprising given the amount of bitching i do on this website #but let me assure u irl i am exceptionally patient. but right now. there is a limit and that is where we now stand #and again this is prob my fault but ive come to the conclusion that fuck these custom chambers. fuck the amount of work that went into them #fuck all of this. im not fucking using them. i will sit here with this one fucking bryophite chamber if it takes me all goddam day bc at #least i fucking trust the values. that means ill have to split up measurements by 2 days but fuck u im right abt this #the solution is: u cant fucking do 98 samples at once. that it. im sorry. fuck u #and i would probably have come to this conclusion earlier if i had thr time to test but doing it all rught now with no fucking room for #grace makes it very fucking clear. so idk. im not fucking using the chambers. and im not looking forward to explaining this to my boss #bc shes so excited abt this project that i have been dreading since its conception. i started with the 3 chambers and it was somehow #even more awful than i would have imagined. fuck that. 2 or 3 fucking weeks of this #and im not even getting paid for all the extra work i do bc i don't get overtime. im not even technically allowed to work weekends or over #40hrs a week. im just doinf this bc im already so miserable why thr fuck not. #hhhhh im being such a brat abt this for real. ugh but i dont wanna meet with my boss #bc this feels like the time where i have to explain that like. listen. u know that thing im really good at and have spent fucking hour and #hours and hours and hours of time doing? well its catastrophically destructive to my brain and thats whats landed us here #where im so fucking fed up that i wanna quit. clean cut and never work with this stuff ever again #and if i have to use the 3 chambers i might die. i might just evaporate away into a million pieces bc i dont wanna deal with this #but i dont wanna explain that bc then shell feel bad and this isnt her fault. i have an issue thats out of my control and im letting it #devour me whole so like 🤷‍♂️ its my fault bleh #whatever. itll be fine. ive got a coherent argument as to why this is too much. and i kno im fucking right so there it is #i feel like that helps me make decisions: heres what has to happen. heres whats preventing that from happening #and there it is. it either u can fix it or u cant. thats it. u deal with the things in ur control #lol at least im not alone to stew in my anger. im working with 2 other ppl today. so i mean i say that im fucking furious bc im visual fine #lol bc im a patient and level headed person irl im just really whiney online bc i have no outlet. so itll b fine. decision made now we just #deal with it. ugh but how tf am i gonna distract myself from how miserable this is all day? thats the real question #brain gets Interrupted ever 5 min bleh agony #unrelated