#maya makes notes

[almosttenaciousmoon]

If I ever watch succession it would be because I need a character to project onto and obsessively analyse so I don’t have to look to closely at my own problems

#this is about shiv roy #shiv roy #siobhan roy #succession #maya makes notes

[florenceafternoon]

The fact that I have followers is proof that talking about things you like attracts people who like that same things as you.

Like you have really niche characterisation and only really care about a few blorbos? Cool, I do too. Can we be friends now?

My ask is always open, so long as you’re respectful, I’m happy to talk

#maya makes notes

[characterssaythedarnestthings]

Here we go again...

Reblog for a higher sample size

#lets see who wins #Luke Triton won the professor layton one btw #inspirational #quotes #poll #ace attorney #phoenix wright #apollo justice #miles edgeworth #aa #maya fey #dick gumshoe #nintendo #gaming #if this gets 150 notes I'll make an artistic piece depicting the winning character saying fuck #if it gets 100 I'll make an objection.lol

[sapirserket]

Trials and Tribulations is weird because it's a masterpiece in storytelling but it's also the Worst game in the trilogy at handling its female characters

#i love bridge to the turnabout i love dahlia hawthorne as a villain but they did not have to make her so young. #maya had so much potential but from the second game onwards she's so one note it's painful #i cannot bring myself to like godot when he talks like he invented alpha bro youtube #at least franziska is better in this one than in jfa #ace attorney

[chlorophyll-tints]

PHOENIX LOVES HIS LITTLE SISTERS SO DEARLY!!!!!

#on another note i never did understand the ladder stepladder joke #but they are both so silly so i still laugh #also i cried real tears when phoenix was trying to make pearls feel better by promising her juice #HE IS SO BIG BROTHER UGGHHHH #ace attorney #phoenix wright #maya fey #pearl fey #aa trilogy #my doods

[sundewa]

same

#maya fey #ace attorney #ok the words are written on sticky notes was bc SOMEHOW i thought it was ‘caught eating macking cheese from the michael wave’ ??? #and then i was like no…. that literally does not make sense #AND I WAS RIGHT. it WASNT that #macking cheese #sundewart but on paper #my art

[metabolizemotions]

... and the association of Vic with Beckett...

There's this thing about associating a woman with a man. Whatever happens, there is like a transference of hate to the woman and love to the man.

Men already get less hate doing something worse than women and more love when doing something minimally decent. The way the narratives are framed on the show don't help.

The choice to - make Maya give Beckett the bottle shifted the blame to her, absolving him. Somehow to some, she became the worst person on the show and whatever she did was her personal unique moral failings. Beckett's long list of poor choices made throughout his captaincy that endangered himself, his team n civilians... The resolution was merely his voluntary stint at rehab. Oh and quietly demoted. No mention of his wrongdoings again. Everyone's just fine with him already. Just like how they accepted his bad behavior right from the start.

The choice to - make Vic to not notice maya's distress and say those words about her, a longtime friend and teammate while being hyper aware of Beckett's state and being especially empathetic towards him.

I hope the speculation isn't true. It'll be a disservice to Vic as a character. It's the use of a well-liked female character to redeem a disliked male character.

On a show where already

... the men don't really need to work on themselves - the characters around them simply lower their standards to accommodate.

... toxic masculinity is conflated with addiction/ mental health issues,

... the men's addiction and wrongdoings - related or not to the addiction, are systemic issues - of the healthcare system failing Sullivan or an inter-generational alcohol problem trapping Beckett

I'm all for the empathy for the struggle with addiction n underlying issues but against using them as excuses to not hold people accountable for bad behavior.

#on a minor note #kate as a plot device ch #seems to be very hated #like dixon-level hate? #cos she speaks unfiltered n inappropriate tots? #doesn't read the room? #cos theo chose to cheat with her? #cos travis neglected vic partly cos of her? #hot take i guess #kate randomly popping up to react to situations is sometimes quite funny to me #like calling out sullivan #or when she called carina bishop's wife #n maya's glaring at her #is it worse than when beckett called carina italy #when he spat mints and ordered maya to clean them up #sometimes it's like she's making meta-commentary #when the show is sometimes #so self-serious #n unserious #station 19 #comments

[she-posts-nerdy-stuff]

Daughter of the Rain and Snow

Concept: Around ten years after the events of Crooked Kingdom, 25-year-old Captain Inej Ghafa frees Maya Olsen from a pleasure house in Ketterdam. Maya is looking for revenge against the man who put her in her position, a man who she knows nothing about except his name: Kaz Brekker.

Tags: @wraith--2 @lunarthecorvus @just2bubbly @real-fragments7 @ethereal-maia @cartoon-clifford @origami-butterfly @lady-a-stuff

Content Warnings: in more general terms I want to remind people to be aware of the nature of Kaz and Inej's experiences and relationship since even if I'm not directly addressing these things they tend to be implicit in any writing about them, but specifically to this chapter there's death, gore (including burning bodies), descriptions of dead bodies, blood, ptsd references/responses, loss of a parent, implied abuse, and sorry I don't know how to word this but if you don't like/are specifically squeamish about eyes there is a reference in the gore that is specific to eyes so I thought it might be worth mentioning.

Chapter 21 - Maya

Maya was twelve when she first discovered she was Grisha. Little things started… happening. Things she didn’t mean. Or at least, they started happening much more frequently than usual. It wasn’t until then that Stephen Olsen had taken his daughter by the hand, and told her the truth.

Maya hadn’t cried, when she learned her mother had been Grisha. Had been killed for it. She didn’t know how to mourn a woman she’d never met. But she cried when she learnt that they had burned her.

“You told me she was with Djel,” she’d said, “That she died in childbirth and you buried her, to take root,”

Her father had looked down.

“Because I cannot think of the alternative,”

“Is that what will happen to me?”

He had wrapped his arms around her.

“Never,” he’d whispered, “I would fight a thousand armies before they reached you, little wolf,”

Her father hadn’t known that she was Grisha, he told her, or he would have got her out sooner. It didn’t occur to Maya, at 12 and in what was soon to become a perpetual state of fright and shock, to ask why her mother hadn’t been able to get out. To ask the entire circumstances of her loss. The next thing she knew they were making plans. They moved to Ketterdam, and the world ended before her eyes. 

That fucking ledger had set the wreckage on fire.

Maya tried to imagine the feeling of her father’s arms around her shoulders. She was his little wolf, and Djel had given her a gift to make him proud. But it was an untouchable memory, sinking beneath the waves just out of reach, tangled and bleeding and mixed up with the messy scrawl that set the last thing she clung to ablaze. 

Maya had left Inej telling herself that the ledger was a lie, but if that was true then why was she still thinking about it? Like the words were scarring her. Like they were smoke and she was choking on them.

The world was buzzing from a great distance. 

Maya didn’t know what she was doing.

She could feel the shadows of Aimee and Kiada’s hands throbbing across her own. It wasn’t quite pain, but it was excruciating. She heard everything muffled through a barrier of rushing blood, her head spinning and her stomach threatening to empty its contents into the canal. Real pain split her shoulder, pain worth feeling, piercing through the din of everything else. The kind of pain that meant you were alive. Her vision blurred, just for a moment.

Maya was realising what she’d done.

Kiada was on her knees, holding herself up with shaking arms. She looked at Maya like a rabbit staring down the barrel of a gun. There was a graze on her cheek. Maya felt herself choke, stumbling backwards and shaking her head.

“I don’t-”

The girls looked at her in silence.

Djel, what had she done? She was meant to protect them. She was meant to be brave for them. She wanted to be brave for them. 

“No, I didn’t - I -”

She stumbled a little as she stepped backwards, and she saw Aimee inch towards her before freezing in place. 

“I’m sorry,” she whispered, the words scratching her throat, “Oh, Djel, Kiada I’m so sorry. I didn’t…”

She couldn’t breathe.

“I…” 

She was choking on the smoke. She was burning.

What had she done?

“Maya?” said Aimee, looking between her and Kiada

Maya realised dimly that Aimee didn’t know what to do. She didn’t know if she was safe to help Kiada.

Maya had done that too.

She’d made her afraid.

“I’m sorry,” she whispered, “I’m sorry,”

Aimee helped Kiada to her feet.

“Do you want to go?” she asked, staring at them, “You can. I’m sorry, I shouldn’t - I’m so sorry,”

“We need help, Maya,” said Aimee, moments before Maya thought the silence would become too much, “We have to go back. She said if you went back she’d help you,”

She shook her head.

“I can’t,”

“Inej did nothing to you,”

Maya’s shoulder screamed its disagreement, but she knew that wasn’t what Aimee meant. Still, she didn’t know that she believed it. If she was supposed to believe that her father had… no. One page of a gambling parlour record wasn’t going to cut it. She needed proof. There had to be someone she could make pay. She needed it, before it ate her alive.

And even if Kaz Brekker wasn’t to blame for this sickness inside Maya, his death would pay for Celina’s. Wonderful, wonderful Celina, dreaming of going home. Dreaming of the ice and the semla from the bakeries and her mother doing her hair for a village dance. Maya had seen the Reaper’s Barge only a few times; even from the shore the flames were high and bright enough to be visible. She imagined Celina, 6 slashes on her throat, a tulip on her cheek, lying at a broken angle with pale, twisted limbs tangled amongst a thousand others. She imagined the flames swallowing her, her glassy eyes still staring to the very last moment. Still full of their fear. Their guilt. Their blame. What happened to eyes, when they burned? Maya didn’t know. In her head they remained the longest, watching everything else burn away, and then they melted. Slow and grotesque.

She hoped that was what would happen to Yennefer. Maybe it already had. Maya thought of Yen's blood on her hands, congealing slowly beneath her fingernails. She'd wanted to be sickened by it, but she hadn't. She'd felt empowered - she'd felt high. She wanted to feel like that again.

Yen was to blame for Celina's death, and she'd got what she deserved. But Kaz Brekker was responsible for it as well. He would pay the price.

Kiada stood in dazed silence, half leaning on tiny little Aimee for support. 

“You shouldn’t trust her,” she told them, “She lied to us,”

Aimee’s little face was hard. Her arm hooked around Kiada’s waist to hold her up, and she reached to brush gravel off the graze blooming on the older girl's cheek. Even looking at it happen, Maya felt tension in her back and rushing all the way down her spine. She squared her shoulders. Holding Aimee through the makeshift blanket had been her limit - and she hadn’t managed that for long. The girl lifted her chin, a kind of shadow in her eyes that should not have belonged to a child so young. 

“She didn’t hurt us,”

That was all Aimee said before she turned away.

#side note: it’s really intrigued me that everyone immediately became suspicious of Esme in the last chapter #i was surprised by that #Anyway #it took a while to flesh this chapter out because I'm finding Maya a difficult perspective right now #her thoughts are kinda too scattered to be able to turn them into anything cohesive #I'm not sure if that makes sense lol #Maya Olsen oc #no beta we die like men #no beta read #grishaverse #six of crows #crooked kingdom #leigh bardugo #inej ghafa #kaz brekker #nina zenik #jesper fahey #wylan van eck #matthias helvar #kanej #kanej fic #six of crows fic #soc fic #fan fic #fan fic writing #my fic #kanej fanfiction #kaz x inej #kanej supremacy

[box-dwelling]

Sometimes a joke is for you and you alone

Id under the cut

A sprite trace of ace attorney characters dressed in outfits of characters from the 23rd season of classic Doctor who. On a background of the 6th doctors tardis interior

From left to right is

Maya Fey as Peri brown

Phoenix Wright as the 6th doctor

Athena Cykes as Mel Bush

Miles Edgeworth as the valeyard

Kristoph Gavin as the Master

#ace attorney #miles edgeworth #phoenix wright #athena cykes #Kristoph gavin #maya fey #what matters is that i think im funny #things to note. er trying to get outfit refs from grainy still images of low buget 80 television shows in very difficult #especially when they're in all black. #i think the valeyard actually wears panta but its unclear and that seems stupid so he has proper robes here #i got half the masters outfit ref from a fucking action figure because the in show images were rough #kristoph gets to be the master over miles because the valeyard needs to be a procecutor and master x doctor is way more toxic than nmts #and i am saying that about like my two otps #krisnix has like a more similar mortal enemies but gay about it dynamic but i think theyre way more toxic #which is funny because Kristoph has done comparatively way less murder #mel was going to be ema or trucy but thinking about it athena fits her way to well. red headed fitness buff that the fans hate #also tracing Phoenix outfit to make it the 6's easy as hell. loved that. putting the pattening on? actual hell #it may be messy at points but im not cleaning it up for something with a venn diagram of interest with only me in the centre #i always get scared to tag stuff as classic who because like theres so much history and i feel like a fake fan. #posting cringe in the AA tags is so unscary to me now. its just my little encosure #6th doctor #classic who #fan art #colin baker #oh in case the joke goes over anyones heads the outfits are from the dw season thats a courtroom drama. its not well liked #also lets not think about the metaphysical consequences of miles being the valeyard. hes just the main prosecutor #and also i wanted to dress my blorbo in the stupidest outfit #this was fun thoigh. maybe ill do this for other dw characters and aa ones just without any pretense or context #just for fun

[jamesbranwen]

"i've already played all those games, apollo trilogy won't reignite my ace attorney hyperfixation"

[EXTREMELY LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER]

#its soooo bad #i've always (since ive been in the fandom) been relatively active in AA fandom but i havent been THIS hyperfixated since like 2020 #i am thinking about AA at all moments #i was imagining klemapollo stuck in traffic this morning. as in. i was stuck in traffic. imagining my ot3 stuck in traffic. #ive had one fall out boy song on loop because i have been making attorney animatics in my head #my compsci notes are covered in mayas and emas #halp meh

[almosttenaciousmoon]

Wrote in my journal until my hand cramped

#I’ve missed writing entries in a physical journal but god damn is it more effort #maya makes notes #journal #light academia

[purplesimmer455]

Still in the Alternate Universe:

Iseul and Megan finished unpacking, and then Megan caressed Iseul's cheek and jaw. "Did I mention how much I love your face?" She said. "Only 8 billion times." Iseul joked back and Megan laughed. "Well, it's gorgeous Issy, and so are you." Iseul blushed as Megan kissed her. "I'm going to brush my teeth and change into my nightgown." Megan whispered into Iseul's ear. "Meet me in our room so we can test out the new bed?" Iseul grinned widely. "Yup, I'll just finish hanging the last of my clothes." Megan smiled. "Good." She said, making sure Iseul saw her take her hair out of her braid as she stood in front of the mirror and flipped it over her shoulder, since Iseul loves when Megan has her long hair open. Megan smiled as she felt Iseul’s warm gaze on her, and she sauntered out of the room.

A couple minutes later, Iseul and Megan kissed and woohooed in their room. Megan was happy that in their own private home, she didn't have to worry as much about being quiet, and could just be focused on being with her wife, and Iseul felt the same.

They got up at 12pm, and Megan yawned, snuggled next to Iseul, and kissed her before asking her what she wanted to eat for lunch. Iseul smiled mischievously and said, “You.” Megan blushed and smacked Iseul's arm lightly before smiling*. “I meant food, Issy.” And Iseul grinned. “Anything, Megs, I'm hungry as hell.” So Megan made vegetable dumplings for their lunch. Iseul smiled as she watched Megan cook and said she'd make her dad's recipe of Japchae for them soon, after she went grocery shopping and got some ingredients (he taught her and her brother Min Jun how to cook and their family recipes). "I'll hold you to it, Kang." Megan said, smiling. "You know, whenever you do make Japchae for us, I'll be the dessert." She said, winking flirtatiously at Iseul, who's eyes widened before she grinned mischievously again. "Done, I'll make it tonight." Iseul said, and Megan laughed.

#ts4 #mysims #Kang Family AU #Megan Liao #Iseul Kang #*Random note: This is actually how flirty I was going to have the original posts for Maya and Kaitlyn be like #Like the flirting and innuendo and such like Kaitlyn was going to be the flirty one and Maya too #But then I got not shy but awkward I guess and was like oh man is it too spicy? 😅 #But now I'm like eh they're two grown adults also it makes sense that Megan and Iseul would be very flirty and make these jokes #Not to overshare but I grew up Pakistani and Muslim so we didn't even *talk* about sex so it's always been an awkward as heck subject

[lorillee]

its very funny how nosy maya & phoenix are like theyre literally snooping through sorin's journal for funsies

#lorillee liveblogs aa6 #this + in the maid cafe case where phoenix makes a note to gossip with maya about gumshoe's thing later. hysterically funny

[annadoglover1]

Okay I need more Trucy and Maya content that isn’t family based? If that makes sense? Cause with Narumayo stuff involving Trucy Maya is like a mom but in stuff made by Anti-Narumayo people they go out of their way to say that Maya is Phoenix's sister so she becomes a goofy aunt.

I wanna see more of a friendship without those kind of connotations if that makes sense. Maybe she just looks up to her and doesn’t have to call her mom or aunt or anything. Like we do this so much in fandom and while I get it I am also lowkey tired of it and I want a different dynamic. 

Same for Miles I guess. I feel like I only ever see people prescribe “extra dad″ for him when you could do so much more with that dynamic. Also she’s gone though like 2 dads already I feel like maybe she’d struggle a bit to attach to a third one even if he is in love with Pheonix. Just saying. 

#Should I tag all the ships to make this happen? #but narumitsu people are gonna cancel my ass for liking both narumitsu AND narumayp #so maybe not #random rant #ace attorney #Trucy Wright #also side note people that really emphize with maya being like a sister make pearl like a sister to him too THEN ship her with trucy as well #hypocritial as fuck #you sickos are shipping her with her other aunt #I don't hate that ship it's just something I've observed

[perenlop]

back to working on ask blog refs and icons and man. yknow im gonna be making all kind of excuses to avoid drawing cheri’s legs

#echoed voice #i love mantis pokemon (struggles w basic cartoon mantis anatomy) #side note im mostly done w necessary icons i think! just need to make more for maya #but since she wont be seen as often til her arc i dont need to start on her immediately #so im gonna focus on a buffer instead and maybe i can start earlier than i thought hopefully ^^

[illdothehotvoice]

Okay I understand why people don't like / finish Spirit of Justice but I think we really need to talk about the fact that it's made canon that Phoenix's "grape juice" is actually grape juice and it just makes him feel better to drink it when he's upset and stressed more because I am really sick of people making jokes about Phoenix being an alcoholic actually-

#idk i don't like the way Beanix is treated a lot in fan content #also like tag that shit??? if you're that insistent on it???? #alcoholism is a very serious and potentially triggering topic and seeing it reduced to a joke to make fun of the depressed character #idk it really upsets me lmao djdhfhshf #anyways uuuuh on a lighter note!!! fun fact! #in the anime there's a scene where Phoenix and Maya are sitting on a bench together and Phoenix is drinking the same grape juice! ^^ #also in the 1st intro when he's avoiding drawings on the sidewalk there's a doodle of trucy and one of the robots from Dual Destinies qwq #mimi rambles #ask to tag #negative #I do want to add real quick: you can write stories that involve characters with addiction issues lmao but like #i'm specifically talling about people joking about it fjsncnsf