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plounce · 2 days

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Whats your ace attorney fic recommendations? ^_^

HMMMMMMMM well i am a klaviergirl so this is mostly klapollo/aa4 but here are my recs :3

turnabout toast is a lovely post-aa4 nrmt fic with background klapollo. great "people trying to fix their lives" stuff and WAHHHH edgeworth... also a lot of lovely socal setting stuff (<- socal native, weak for it). phoenix being kind of a bastard but not a bad guy, which i think is fun, because it's interesting.

dirty sympathy, also by the above author. CW for abuse: the premise of the fic is that it's a retelling of aa4 where klavier and apollo are behind the scenes of all the cases collaborating to get rid of each other's abusers (daryan and kristoph, respectively), and trying to keep everything secret. it's a suspenseful read and it's like. crazy. auuughhh. makes me crazy. it's prob my fave aa fic but it takes so much out of me to reread

about him - last rec from this author. the only piece of clay terran fic i have any time for. post-aa5 klapollo sweetness with the outsider pov. so cutes

jamais vu - post-aa6 klapollo get-back-together fic where they hook up at nrmt's wedding

turnabout toilet brush - SO FUN. office farce where WAA argue over who broke the toilet brush. good phoenix pov with fun athena & apollo banter. nrmt and background klapollo

in better light - pacific rim au! trucy & apollo siblingisms, with angsty not-married nrmt, a bit of klapollo, and swag k-scientist ema skye

say it to the crowd - various minor character outsider povs on pre-relationship klapollo. i looooooove outsider pov

notes from the underworld - canon-divergent epistolary bad end aa4 au where MVK kills phoenix and maya with his taser in aa1. only reccing the first in the series since the others weren't to my tastes but the first one. wagh

turnabout from within - an aa5 prequel case! really fun. tries to be a bridge between aa4 and aa5 and is a very fun written version of an AA case. aura is there!! minor klapollo! fun aa pun names!

the thing about forgiveness - trucy and klavier talk post-aa4... wah... performers...

youngblood - daryan pov about his and klavier's relationship. very good... sad bc it's from the pov of a guy who sucks and how the love of his life deserves better than him. good stuff. klapollo endgame bc klavier deserves a decent guy as a bf

turnabout runaway - WAGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH it's about post-OT pearl dealing with like. the trauma of all that shit with her family as best an 8yo can - by trying to run away to protect mystic maya :( babby... (this one is written by a good friend of mine :3)

there's some more in my bookmarks but it's been a few years since i read them (my aa hyperfixation was spring/summer 2020) so while they're probably decent reads i can't write blurbs

HAVE FUN HOPE YOU LIKE THEM

(anti-recs under the cut. can't resist some complaining)

(also i genuinely have so much hatred in my heart for the fic with the most kudos in the klapollo ao3 tag, it's tagged for them but they don't actually happen in it, it's a nrmt fic that wildly mischaracterizes klavier and makes him into like. an asshole sexual harasser, and the fic barely even takes the sexual harassment seriously? don't read that one. <- DONT LEAVE MEAN COMMENTS ON IT EITHER, the fic's like 10 years old or smth, don't bug the author)

(also i don't like the 100k word fic "custody" bc iirc 1. i didnt like how they characterized thalassa? 2. white ginger klavier??????????? girl)

#chirps #aa

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justsigma-bsd · 1 day

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A Blank Page, Torn From A Book Without Name

Well, I ended up trying to put the word salad in my head into actual, coherent words after all.

First of all, everything here is just my take on things. The theories and thoughts I've had on certain things. I don't think any of it is official, but if anything of it is, in fact, confirmed to be true or false, feel free to tell me!

Some of the panels were taken from a YouTube video, which I'll link at the bottom!

TW for: Human trafficking, dehumanization

Ok, so first things first, some of this stuff I've already written down a while back for writing reasons. I found some of my old notes, and noticed that, after rereading the panels, they make more sense than I previously thought.

Let's start here: what stands out the most to me isn't that he's in the desert, not even the ticket. No, it's the simple »[...] or even who I was«

Because who, indeed, is Sigma? Sigma does not have an identity. He has no history, no nothing. Just the clothes on his back, a ticket that seems to be useless and earrings, for some reason.

Without a name, you don't have an identity and without identity you don't have a name.

Then there is this, too:

»I gave myself a name. Sigma. A man of the casino«

I don't believe he had a name upon being created. I don't think he had one for a long time, because in the same panel that he mentions giving himself a name, he also mentions the casino- which came much, much later. Sigma existed for three years by the time the series started. However, the timeline is wonky as heck.

Because how long did he stay with the traffickers? How long was he on his own after escaping? How long ago did Fyodor find him? Questions upon questions, but since I've already mentioned the lack of a name and the traffickers, let's get to my thoughts on that, specifically:

»They captured and enslaved me« along with »And once they knew that I had a skill [...]« makes me wonder: how long did it take for them to find out?

I haven't researched anything about human trafficking, but it's basically slavery, from what I've gathered through the previous things I've heard and read. And he does say so himself, too.

Sigma, three days alive, spent his early life a slave. It's confirmed that he was shackled, seeing that he is wearing them in the panels.

(As a side note, I do believe that he has scars from the shackles around his wrist. He wears a tight, wrist-long turtleneck beneath his coat, and I think it's to hide the scars. Both from others and himself.)

His first human interaction was plain horrible. Did he know and understand that? Did he understand that this wasn't normal? I don't think he knew how wrong this was at first. I don't believe that he understood it immediately. If he didn't know who he was, why would he know that being treated like this is wrong?

I believe that he realized it at some point, but not as soon as it started. I think he lived like that for a while, thinking it was normal, before getting some sort of wake-up call. Perhaps through his ability, or a fellow prisoner. Maybe both, or neither.

He must've gotten whiplash, once people genuinely looked up to him when he was the manager at Sky Casino.

I also think that he, probably, does tend to forget that being treated like that is, in fact, not normal or okay. Our upbringing leaves some sort of mark on all of us, experiences define us, give us habits and a feeling of what's normal and what isn't.

Which means that his "normal" is skewed and he expects being used rather than kindness, probably even after learning that some people are genuinely kind. I'm guessing that his mindset is, due to that, a simple "If I'm alive I'm alright".

I don't think he'd complain about being treated wrong and or left behind, or admit when he's injured. Or at the very least attempt to keep it a secret as long as possible- especially from those he sees as authority figures.

However, I also think that he was isolated, as per this panel:

Not only the text, but also the background paint a picture that causes me to believe that.

I almost skimmed past this panel while making my analysis, before pausing and taking a closer look. I thought this was in Sky Casino at first, until I looked closer and realized three things:

1, the background does not match Sky Casino in the slightest

2, he isn't wearing shoes or his current outfit, but the old clothes he had when wandering the desert

3, the shadows aren't from the light of a window, they're bars from a cell

While I did believe before that the traffickers kept him isolated from others (due to wanting to keep him unaware of the wrongness of his situation as well as to make sure he doesn't learn things he should/other prisoners finding out things that Sigma got to know by accident), this sort of put the final nail in the coffin for me.

But, at some point, he did realize that it was wrong. Perhaps he'd had a bad feeling from the start. Maybe he hated being treated like this. Who knows? Point is, he escaped. This brings us back to this page:

»No matter how kind someone seemed, they used me and then tried to kill me for knowing too much«

Sigma, after escaping the traffickers, after escaping the life of a slave, probably still didn't know much about living.

And I firmly believe that Sigma is smarter than even he himself thinks. There's just one issue: Sigma is naive (at least in my eyes), and it's not even his own fault. He simply tried his best to survive, and what was the reason the traffickers kept him around? His ability, most likely.

Problem is that his ability truly is something people would love to exploit, and it seems as if they did. Which makes me believe that he has a talent for running into murderers thinking they're nice people, only to get a not-so-nice surprise.

»The last one to use me [...]«, this specific line is the reason why I believe Sigma to have been used a lot. We don't know how often, exactly, his ability was taken advantage of. But we know the latest person who did.

Fyodor was the last one to use him, which means that, at that point, he was probably used to it. Used to being treated like a pawn, and used to people trying to kill for knowing too much. And I believe that he was, quite plainly, exhausted.

Imagine, your entire life consists of being forced to aid others with crimes, with being shackled. You don't know the difference between working for someone and being used by someone.

If you were offered what you wanted most, wouldn't you accept, too? Even if you know that you're once again being used? I mean... this time around, you gain something for it. Doesn't that make it worth the risk?

It's a gamble Sigma took... and lost.

This page involves two quotes that give me pause:

»Don't you wish for a home?«

We don't know why or how he knows what a home and a family is, but he does. And he wants it. He says it was never within his reach. But it is perfectly clear to us, while reading the Sky Casino Arc, that he wants it. He wants a home and a family.

He'd rather sacrifice his own life than see Sky Casino fall. »Home« and »Family« are, to him, more important than staying alive. Because it's something he never had, and something he clings to. Simply because he doesn't have anything else.

»I, who was originally 'nothing'[...]«

Is the second line that makes me pause. Because like previously mentioned, Sigma was a slave with no name or identity of his own. We don't know when he found out about being created by the book (and I firmly believe that he found out one way or another), but I believe he didn't see himself as a human before, and this "confirmed" it for him.

Think about it, would traffickers care about their victims? Would they treat them as human beings? Call them by their name? What about a person who has no name to begin with?

He wasn't treated like a human being in the beginning, and thus considered himself nothing. Considered his home and "family" to be worth more than hid own life.

He was literally created from nothing. His story doesn't have a beginning. He has no memories prior to being created, he had no name nor identity. How his story will end is unknown. We don't know what's written on his page.

I believe this, combined with being with the traffickers, makes him doubt his humanity. Not only because he was created through the book, but also because for the first (months? Year?) of his life, he wasn't treated like a human.

His sense of self-worth is probably down in the dumps.

»In the end I never did understand what I was born for...«

I don't think he knows the details of his existence. The content of his page, the words that brought him into existence. He doesn't know why he was born/created. He doesn't know what things were predetermined.

He doesn't know what's real and what's just writing on a page.

Sigma, in three years of being alive, went through hell. He was enslaved, his ability was taken advantage of over and over, he was used by multiple people who all ended up trying to kill him and when he thought that he finally found a home? A family? It was taken away from him.

Genuinely, he needs a plate of cookies, a hug and a ton of therapy.

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed my little analysis and theories? I never did something like this before, so criticism is welcome!

Here's also the link to the video from which I got the screenshots: https://youtu.be/KwsSvFYAKjA?si=R_IvH-S8GYut_hrG

#sigma bsd #bungo stray dogs sigma #bungou stray dogs #sigma character analysis #sigma's backstory #character analysis #bsd theories #fan theories #ooc post #I had this title floating around but it matched literally none of the os I planned #so I used it for this #I also don't think he knew what hugs were and had to get used to them first #Also he's a self-sacrificial idiot (affectionately)#sigma headcanons #my headcanons

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lavender---sunshine · 2 years

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Had a big day but I'm desperately needing more small days

#i got a lot of things done today!#got my car cleaned (and seats shampooed from my little adventure last Sunday) and got gas #a bit of shopping done at target #did grocery shopping and got the last few ingredients for my cheese board #did 6 loads of laundry! AND cleaned my bathroom #made the cheeseboard and bacon wraped dates #put away the laundry and picked out my clothes for tomorrow #tomorrow the ceo is in the office so i dont want to dress up lol i'll take a costume tho #i was so productive today but i wish i could have done this over the course of two days #and being able to rest more while getting a whole weeks worth of chores done #i feel a bit sad. its going to be like this for a while #and today is Halloween and i while i was able to fit in some seasonal activities i wasnt really feeling it this year #too much going on I think #i did do the haunted trail and a pumpkin patch which are my two big ones but didnt get any pictures #of me in a cute outfit like I wanted #and i haven't had time to watch any scary movies (or dont look under the bed)#or reread the series i like to read this time of year #i had to get rent and quarters for laundry and answer work emails in the store #and i cant help feeling that im at this final little edge to my young adulthood. not a child not a teen not a young adult. just an adult #with no time and responsibilities and trying to find fun in the gaps and romanticizing my iced coffee #also! my dad asked me for money to fix my brother's windshield and im still having feelings about that #but ah off to bed. nervous to meet my boss today. everyone talks about how scary he is #i have some time off in January. maybe I'll take a trip

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damthosefandoms · 4 months

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every week we have to wait between new pjo episodes is like reliving the year between mark of athena and house of hades. except this time we’re ten years older and still haven’t forgiven rick for that author’s note💙

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alicenpai · 5 months

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i finished reading dungeon meshi....... im.. i..............

me rubbing my dunmeshi volumes on my face using my clammy hands to absorb miss kui's skills, (both in writing and her art,)

#im emo but so satisfied rn #diary #more thots later #but first ill likely reread it from start to finish!#ive reread the first few volumes several times but #ive been following the series for 5 years now and it's crazy #feels like the end of an era but i can't wait for the anime to come out in jan hehehehe #whoevers reading this and has an interest in dunmeshi.. yall should catch up too 😏😏😏#dungeon meshi #read my other posts in my dungeon meshi tag if you wanna learn more about it

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i-like-gay-books · 3 months

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someone tell me what the fuck to do now i just finished dark heir and i need to scream and flail around but its 1am and i have a 9am class tomorrow like bruhhhhh

#how am i meant to wait an undetermined amount of time for book 3?#im so glad ive been in a reading slump for the past three years because if i read dark rise before dark heir came out idek what i would do #i actually do think i like this series even more than capri #i cant even have coherent thoughts about this right now i am UPSET #need to maybe reread the raven boys again im in that kind of an angsty mood right now #ughghghghghghhhh #dark rise #dark heir #cs pacat #c s pacat #cloudy reads dark rise #cloudy rambles

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tea-cat-arts · 1 year

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There is something deeply wrong with Roland and I'm kinda obsessed

#vanitas no carte #the case study of vanitas #vanitas no carte roland #roland fortis #Ya I watched the first 7 episodes of this series like a year ago and then forgot about until a couple days ago. Move along #In my defense- thats all they had dubbed at the time #Anyways I watched the whole series #Maybe I'll read the manga. Maybe #I actually bought a couple volumes a year or so ago to use as art references #They're very pretty #I should probably reread pandora hearts too #Read it back in middle school and I remember liking it #But that's about all I remember from it lol

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jii-prime · 4 months

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based chilchuck enjoyer, i too love that messed up epic divorce deadbeat dad

HE'S MY SPECIALEST GUY EVER i'm doing a reread rn and like the hindsight of his divorced dad-ness is insane (the way he looks over izutsumi and scolds party members) (i JUST got to the succubus chapter again and like marcille reading his divorcedness to FILTH is crazy)

#asks #studioboner #he was my favorite the first time i read the series because i like how he goes from like just the cute innocent looking half-foot face #to his angery YOU ARE ALL INSANE face with the small pupils #this is the funniest 40 year old man ever he cares so much when he really doesn't want to #this reread was good for my soul though ive always loved all the cast because kui is sooo good at giving everyone fair share attention #marcille's failgirl ways shine so hard .... senshi becoming the caretaker he admired .... laios. oh laios.#dungeon meshi spoilers #just in case

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ottiliere · 1 year

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I love crawling out of the depths, opening up tumblr, and seeing your art. I love it.

it is quite interesting how social media can fall to the wayside, and people on the internet can just disappear forever if they really wanted to! I admit I struggle to keep up with "public accounts", they are uniquely stressful and I solute your hibernating tenacity. always lovely to see you resurface regardless, thank you very much for the lovely compliment...

I will say in case any of my dear followers were wondering where i've gone for the past month and a half, for weeks i've been pondering how to even broach the enormity of the topic that is: I made the mistake of thinking about my most favorite character for more than 2 minutes in one sitting. I intentionally go out of my way to avoid this and have many strategies to evade this occurring because every time I do enter a sort of hermetically sealed mental chamber where it's just me and him and his life and I begin to ignore all points of previously established social contact and also my health indefinitely. It's difficult to convey the emotional experience of this or its psychic magnitude. and it's hard to say "guys i really love this character!" because that's just words. you can't see it. the 10 years of obsessively thinking about some guy so intensely on&off cyclically until you've made 20 different worlds he's living in... how does one convey the depth of these without artistically depicting them as you see them to be...? i am trying to figure it out. currently planning a longform comic for my favorite and several smaller comics for others, but logically an individual can understand this takes a while... he and I have had multiple rendezvous over the past decade and I wish I had more "historical" art to show but for many of these years I have been a bit too physically disabled to draw, the past several weeks have been spent attempting to recreate his ideal form as he exists in my head. he is starting to come around!

I typed up three separate disquisitions last month to try and explain my feelings on him and none of them felt like the proper vessel to communicate this concept. which is likely for the best. the obvious answer is "just draw him". fine with this being the case, difficult when I have so many drawing ideas I'm now sitting on 100+ works in progress and they just keep accumulating since my brain generates these like an old laptop you leave in the corner of your room to mine bitcoin. in a way I'm content with this being a very "personal" experience thus far, shared with me and those in my inner social circle (really cannot emphasize to my readers enough how fandom can poison your constitution without self-checked moderation). however... I yearn to meet others who are as passionately involved with him as I am, because I think we could coalesce our ideas, and passion, into something beautiful...

^dio brando

#lucy art #might seem humorous to you that I get so emotional over dio brando every day that I get nauseated and sometimes cry. but tis my atlas #i could not tell you if jojo is actually good by the way outside of sbr which is the best part objectively #dio relapses occur ~once every 2 years and whenever they do i reread dio the invader thirty times and nothing else in the series #hes the only character ive ever bought merchandise for..I hated history until I met him now i can't read any kind of fiction but historical #sorry by the way to use your innocuous compliment as an excuse to talk about dio. wish it was not contrarian to my nature to just make #''posts'' publicly unprompted. i prefer to journal... i don't know how active I will be after this post even. will likely just go back to #sitting with him in a dark room until I finish any/all of the projects I've started #which is mildly unfortunate since I love to collaborate in the marketplace of ideas... my compatriots are out there somewhere #jojo is more popular than it was ''back in my day'' i don't know maybe some of you guys like it. asks always welcome lord knows #I've already pestered my friends with thousands of words about him already over this past month #sidenote: sasha askblog is not abandoned + never will be... it is a fun side project. like many things in life. much planned for him too

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alien-from-planet-zog · 4 months

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Something I made with my sibling today (@just-a-little-kreature) after we learned about The Sunshine Court and went insane.

*edit: apparently Jean going to therapy is already canon?! Good for him.

#it’s the fourth book in the AFTG series that will come out sometime in 2024 #the third book came out like. 10 YEARS AGO so this is WILD #aftg #aftg jean #aftg jeremy #jerejean #I think there is like…greater than 50% chance it’ll end up being canon #which is so fucking funny #I don’t actually care either way #no matter what happens it’s gonna be a fun read #and the lesbians!!#time to reread the series in preparation!!

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k1rishiki · 4 months

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there's so much manga i have to read it's unreal 😭

#for physicals i have 13 volumes of yona of the dawn. all of the rose of versailles. the first volume of the illustrated guide to monster #girls. and i need to reread tbhk or at least the first volume bc i told one of my kids at work that i'd let him read it while he's at the #program and i need to brush up on it bc it's been over a year.#and then for manga i don't have physicals of. i desperately need to reread and then catch up on kuro. considering everything the fact that #don't own the full series is a miracle probably prompted by how much my parents hated it up until the last few months when they suddenly #chilled tf out. i should get caught up on yuri is my job and finish killer in love. also i've sat down to read cocoon intertwined like 24 #times and gotten distracted and didn't every single one. i've been meaning to reread ohshc and pick up kamisama kiss. fruits basket.#vampire knight. nana. the apothecary diaries and chainsaw man. and i should give goodnight punpun a proper read too #then there's all of clamp's works in release order bc i have two volumes of tsubasa but haven't touched them bc i need to go in #release order or i'll die. and now that i think about it i'm really behind on oshi no ko #+ i have a full google doc of manga i need to get too and this is just what i can think of off the top of my head so god knows #what else is in there #romeo.txt

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capillaryspice · 4 months

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Few things more crushing than finally getting back into a reading stint and rereading/finishing books I really loved as a teenager and just being.... wildly disappointed and left feeling hollow by them. Almost back to back (read Dune and God Emperor of Dune between the two, but that was more self assigned homework than genuine want and love for reading a story lol)

Reread the Night Circus the other month, and after the Dune break I finally reread the Shades of Magic series, finished A Conjuring of Light after having never read the last 2/3 of it. The growing dismay of realizing I actively put down the book from boredom or disappointment years ago instead of just getting busy and forgetting was upsetting with every page I read, but I did finish the damn thing.

The aggravating part is that they both left me feeling betrayed and hollow in the same way; worlds and characters that are innovative and colorful and fascinating, and writing that's evocative and beautiful and that captured me when I was younger. But both stories drop the ball in the sense that if you hold them up to any thought or scrutiny, it's a bunch of flashy words and neat concepts the authors are showing off with and fail to deliver on a satisfying plot or romance or true worldbuilding beyond flavor that seems deep but more or less equates to smoke and mirrors. And in the case of shades of magic, there's actually incredible characters that are CRIMINALLY underused, literally only get significant and needed character work in the LAST 2/3 OF THE FINAL BOOK, and end up with unsatisfactory or hollow resolutions at the end. And yes I said characterS, plural. Alucard and Holland deserved better from the writing room damn you, and Kell became kind of a Nothing character after leaving the city, all he does is pine for Lila now and it's criminal.

I wanted so badly to reread these books and fall in love with them again after so many years, but I kind of just feel betrayed. Especially since both Night Circus and the Shades of Magic trilogy have such high ratings overall, I'm just disappointed. They both overstayed their welcome at some point and felt like the authors were posturing and padding (sometimes SIGNIFICANT) time with unnecessary fluff and drama and resting on laurels they truly have not earned.

Anyways, sorry for the rant, I just stayed up til 7am finishing ACoL and needed to get the disappointment out of my system. Holland fucking deserved better.

#books #rant #I've got a bunch of other books on my to read list #I just wanted to reread some books I hadn't read in YEARS because I remember liking them before I dipped into new series #boy was that a mistake #twice #somehow dune the notoriously complex and LONG ass series bored me less and caused me less distress than these books did at times

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