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To put it very bluntly.

You will always make a better impact helping people who need it than trying to hurt people you think deserve it.

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kabedon

#klapollo #apollo justice #klavier gavin

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UR-1 Incident

#uGH so good #simon blackquill #athena cykes

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I subtitled the first track of the AA 456 drama CD! Please give it a watch :)

#my god the ending was so gay good for them #phoenix wright #apollo justice #klavier gavin #ema skye #klapollo

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I think it’s hard to say since we don’t know what their relationship is like, but I suspect he wouldn’t be outwardly patronizing toward Ema given he has a, uh, history of protecting weird little girls (who are now grown women), even if in his own way.

I think “Skye-san” makes the most sense. If they’re friends or at least friendly, maybe “Ema-san” or just “Ema.”

I want to know what the people think: what do you all think Simon would call Ema Skye (or I guess any detective that isn't Fulbright, who he just directly insults). "Dono" doesn't really work, as it's a completely different and "lower ranked" occupation, so to say. Would he just say "san" or would he somehow use an honorific that sounds patronizing

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unfortunately he was very serious

#oh my god I LOST IT laughing at this #klavier gavin #apollo justice #klapollo

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Every single time I see a take that amounts to "if you write about X happening, or like fiction where X happens, you like X" I'm reminded of this one time I was at a casual friends house as a young kid. We were in her room, pretending to "be orphans" escaping from an evil orphanage and having to take care of each other and fend for ourselves. It was all very Little Orphan Annie/All Dogs Go to Heaven and based on the 80s pop media.

And this girl's mom comes in, hears what we're playing and gets all MAD and UPSET. She says that if we play act something, it's because we want it to happen. So her daughter must WANT HER TO DIE.

First off lady, we were 6 year year olds, so take it down several notches. We barely had a concept of mortality for fucks sake. She made us feel so guilty and ashamed, because she was taking our game personally.

Now I have a 5 year old. And sometimes she looks at me and says "pretend you're dead, and I have to -" Whatever it is. Some adult task she's assigned herself.

And it's just so transparently obvious that she's practicing the idea of having to do things on her own. Which is exactly what 5 year olds are supposed to do. I actually find it very flattering that the only way she can envision me not being available to help her is to be literally deceased. Otherwise, obviously, she wouldn't have to do scary hard things alone.

It's a natural coping mechanism. She's self-soothing about what would happen if I wasn't there by play-acting independence in a perfectly safe environment. She's also practicing skills she needs, and making up excuses for practicing them on her own, without taking on the responsibility of being able to do them by herself all the time yet.

Humans mentally rehearse bad this in their brains all the time. We can do that by ruminating- going over worries over and over again, which tends to lead to anxiety and helplessness and depression. Or we can do it with a sense of play- by recognizing that the fiction is fiction and we can dip our toe into these experiences and expose ourselves to bad things without actually being injured.

My daughter does not want me dead. And I don't want bad things to happen in real life. But fiction and pretend help me face the horrors of the world and think about them without collapsing or messing myself up mentally.

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I understand why people think Manfred would be bigoted but honestly I think it would be significantly funnier if he just. Wasn’t. Someone calls him homophobic in court and he’s immediately like “I?? The great prosecutor Von Karma, blinded by the biases of lesser men? I fight only for justice and the holy fire of retribution, how dare you insinuate that I am beholden to the fallacies of the wretched” and everyone immediately tunes out his self-aggrandizement bc they’re just flabbergasted by von karma supporting gay rights

#this made me laugh so hard I started hacking #manfred von karma

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i have a lot to say about the ace attorney fandoms obsession with morphing every single character relationship into nuclear family dynamics but ill always think the weirdest example is people acting like phoenix is a father to apollo. id honestly even call him being a mentor to apollo to be a stretch. it feels like apollo barely tolerates him half the time, and definitely doesnt trust him. the first time they meet phoenix tricks apollo into using forged evidence and then continues to antagonize him and deliberately keep him the dark about stuff that involves him for the rest of the game and beyond. the only reason phoenix even hired him was because he thought his perceive ability would be useful in his big 5d chess bullshit with kristoph. he never even apologizes and we dont actually see their relationship improve very much from this. most of the aa4 plot threads were ditched in aa5 and even in that game apollo had a whole arc about not feeling like he could trust his coworkers. their relationship is really “annoying boss that can be kind of cool sometimes” at absolute best. it also just generally feels really infantilizing to have a man in his 20s be “adopted” by someone only about a decade older than him and it really removes apollos agency to completely ignore how he actually feels about phoenix to service some sort of fan narrative

#I hate the AA fandom’s obsessions with trying to stuff all sorts of relationships into a nuclear family box fr

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Here's my contribution to Klapollo Minibang 2023! @klapollo-minibang

I had the pleasure to make an illustration for @turnaboutnerd's lovely fic — Swifties Got Nothing on Trucy Wright — which I heavily encourage you to check out on ao3!

Summary:

Several years after the Gavinners break up, Klavier embarks on his much-anticipated solo career with the release of a heartrending new album. It’s emotionally raw, deeply personal, and a completely new sound for the former lead of a law-themed pop-rock band. It’s also totally about Apollo. This is obvious to everyone except Apollo.

#hi I wrote this! #thank you SO MUCH to Mike for his wonderful illustration

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Bread Bank at the Prosecutor’s Office (Volume Warning)

You may think this a low-quality shitpost, but it is actually an elaborate metaphor for Klavier, Simon, and Nahyuta’s dynamic whenever Nahyuta consults on cases in LA and they have to work through cultural misunderstandings.

#still my magnum opus

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Heavy snow???? Public transportation???? Walkable cityscape???? IN LOS ANGELES??,??

I love reading Ace Attorney stories set in Los Angeles written by people who have very clearly never been to Los Angeles.

#I mean I get it #I had a friend from NY and we were planning a trip together to LA #and I mentioned we needed to get a rental car #and she SO EARNESTLY said ‘well why don’t we just take the train or subway to get around instead? I don’t mind walking’ #and I fucking busted up laughing like ‘GIRL THERE IS NO TRAIN OR SUBWAY THIS IS LA IT IS YOU AND TRAFFIC ON THE SEVEN-LANE FREEWAY’ #we ended up getting the rental car lol #anyway I don’t live in LA or even California but I’m in a state next-door and have taken sooo many weekend roadtrips there that I #might as well be a resident

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I love reading Ace Attorney stories set in Los Angeles written by people who have very clearly never been to Los Angeles.

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72 hours remain! Check here for the prompts list. Remember to tag your works #KlapolloWeek2023 so they can be archived on this blog.

#three days!!

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Sunday, July 9th, 2023: Confessions

Monday, July 10th, 2023: Weakness

Tuesday, July 11th, 2023: Domesticity

Wednesday, July 12th, 2023: Family

Thursday, July 13th, 2023: Nicknames

Friday, July 14th, 2023: Long Distance

Saturday, July 15th, 2023: AA4 Sequel

Use the hashtag #KlapolloWeek2023 so your work can be archived on this blog! Check the Archive Criteria page to read the requirements for archival and see the FAQ.

#1 week :)

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“Take my hand” a comic for NaruMitsu Week 2023

day 1 - lies & secrets

#oh man I love this #wrightworth #phoenix wright #miles edgeworth

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Writing Athena Cykes like:

#athena cykes #ace attorney