( Chapter 377: Staring In The Dark )
the lair area is actually near the Park, not the black goat woods. I think I just included it before the Filth pool because it felt like something important to include and I wasn’t going to have it pop up again—except now it has, so now it’s non-euclidian with two different entrances far away from each other and absolutely no explanation. Random non-euclidian geometry is perfectly in-character for this game.
Also almost named this Outside the Story, but the next chapter’s title is more concrete, so I thought I’d go for contrast.
( in the rain )
Phoenix you and Edgeworth are entirely made of dramatic gestures
Main Points:( parallels )
‘you know, people should be allowed to have squicks!’ okay, go on, I’m listening, but that’s a weird thing to have to say. ‘I mean, some people overreact when you tell them you’re not cool with writing something’. Yeah, sure, there are entitled people everywhere. ‘People have called me an anti!’ As long as you’re not doxxing people. ‘People get really upset when you tell them you’re not willing to write pedophilic content!’ aaaand there goes the mask off moment I was waiting for watching the thread. Gee willickers, I have absolutely no reason why people would be upset by that accusation. No one, not even a fortune teller, could have seen that one coming.
You’re on the Ao3 subreddit. Just slap a ‘no underage’ on the prompt. Or specify which teenagers you’re cool with shipping with each other. Calling it pedophilic is not much better than calling it CSEM, and yeah, I sideeye some of that stuff, but I don’t interact and I most certainly do not tell people to their face you think they’ll commit pedophilic acts through writing.
Desmond would have known that Krieg was in Solomon Island if he’d listened to the Sheriff complain about the number of calls she’d had to go on because the guy was getting drunk again.
Hide & shriek is a goofy spinoff that I honestly wasn’t going to mention except for the fact that lore-wise Carter would absolutely have played it and I realized it was the perfect opportunity to actually make Desmond talk about something. And he didn’t drag his feet this time, so hurray, he’s actually learning.
( a few leads )
I also wonder if the strong ‘opt-in concrit’ stance goes alongside the heavily minority-based nature of Ao3 writerbase. Because yeah, if you’re getting a lot of unsolicited ‘you’re living wrong’ criticism in real life, you’re hardly going to want that from your escape.
( i'm a doctor, not a psychiatrist )
for those of you who make fun of the idea that all lowercase fiction is an artistic choice, I would like to share the reasons why I did this for a few stories, because I suspect others might be doing it for the same reasons but be unable to articulate why. And yes, I had to do it deliberately, because the word processor I was using kept capitalizing letters so I had to delete the letter and uncapitalize it or undo the autocorrect. For the few fics that I did it for, it was an artistic choice. In my case, the few it made sense for were dreamlike or dissociating, so it communicated a feeling of being unmoored from reality or the usual standards of reality. I can also point to the culprit as to who gave me the idea in the first place: E. E. Cummings, though the ‘common knowledge’ that he never used capital letters might have been a misunderstood exaggeration.
( Chapter 375: 21st Century Schizoid Freak )
Warning: this might be a feels chapter.
Main Points: Assassin's Creed/The Secret World( back in London )
This will be...a long time in the future. But. One of the reasons I definitely ship Shaun and Desmond is, well, first tsundere characters are, like, my jam, but. In AC3 specifically Shaun mellowed. A lot. Still snarky, but he softened a lot and actually made time for Desmond and was quietly supportive about Bill.
The moment I knew The Secret Histories wasn’t going to stay 100% gen was when Shaun got really soft to Desmond, and Desmond was doing it back with a little teasing. (I probably should’ve known before, maybe when Desmond was having his panic attack and probably when Desmond was thinking ‘you know what sounds nice being back in London with Shaun buying me a sandwich’, but, uh, I can be dense about crushes in real life too, so.)
Andrew briefly considered buying Xander a pack of smokes and went ‘that’s not going to help’.
Main Points:( i kinda hope this isn't how it's supposed to be )
( he might be slightly distracted )
( 'tis a silly place )
This quote is original and it’s such a good line from Wolf I had to include it. He’s good people. “You look for evil in people, sooner or later, you’ll find it. Even when it wasn’t there in the first place.” (also the ‘it’s a cold place’--I forgot that line was actually in there)
actual line from the game from Nicholas: “I’m still not convinced he’s not here, somewhere, feeding on the ghosts of lost children like some kind of bogeyman.” He knows intuitively what was going on, even if he didn’t know the specifics.
Main Points:
Star Trek (the 2009!movie verse) Cambion AU (New Genesis)
Summary: Kirk lets his crew in on what's going on.
Word Count: 980
Rating: Gen
