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This is what happens when you let me loose on GIMP when punchy.

One icon, but behind the cut as it is a) animated and b) contains sprites from Ace Attorney Investigations. (Not a breakdown sprite; just a standard one for a new character who is introduced in Case 3.)

( but it can't hurt to have a spoiler cut )

I did finish AA:I this morning, and I do have an incoherent running log of reaction bullet points, but I have not had the brain to format it. But at least I am spoiler-proof. I'll post the actual thoughts later.

If anyone posted interesting meta or reactions, feel free to link them.

(SPOILERS ALLOWED IN COMMENTS. ANYONE STILL PLAYING, AVOID.)

I'm still under the weather, but this evening had started being more awake and stir-crazy, so hopefully I'll be back to 90% or so tomorrow. And now to bed, in hopes of ensuring this.

Trains good. Sleep good. Missing snowstorm in Boston, sadface, but at least it's pretty here too.

I'll be scarce online though not hiatused from game stuff -- checking email but not booting up AIM.

Also, I have a zillion of those $10 off coupons. Many people who are not me have already much more eloquently said that this is lame on the scale of holiday promotions, but if anyone wants one, I cannot envision running out of them.

Also, am replaying PW1 for the first time in ages and I'd forgotten how much fun it is; the only GS/AA game I'd played lately at all was running through 4-4, which is one of my least favorite cases. Enough that I replayed all of Turnabout Sisters despite really only needing to see a couple of lines, all of which are in the script I have.

D---- leaned over on the train and said, and I quote: "emo lawyers?". Pfft.

lady_angelina tagged me with Spark Brushel, so here goes.

( Not terribly long, but cut anyways )

Title: Lighter Than Air
Fandom: Phoenix Wright/Gyakuten Saiban
Pairing/Characters: Ema/Maya
Summary: Everything can be explained by the power of SCIENCE!
Rating/Warnings: G-rated. Unbeta'ed, straight from the meme. It does fill the prompt, so if that squicks you, please just skip it.
Prompt/Kink: Maya/Ema....body inflation plz. oh god don't hurt me I am just a poor anon
Word count: 446
Author's note: Okay, so writing this was a bit odd. There was bitching and wankery on the meme over the request, and my initial response was something along the lines of:
Huh, a kink I hadn't even heard of. Weird, wonder what it is....hmm, that's as weird as macro/micro to me in that it's just so unrealistic. Wouldn't that leave stretch marks? ...Come to think of it, why doesn't Maya (or Pearl) end up with stretch marks... Ema: "SCIENCE!"

So I wrote it on the train home, and then I didn't out myself on it because I didn't want to deal with the possibility of wank. But I changed my mind, since people are being obnoxious again on the meme -- so here it is for posterity, and for some sort of solidarity.

( Lighter Than Air )

So I was dithering about buying Apollo Justice immediately, and then hit the end of Minish Cap just as the train was pulling into the station last Wednesday. (And there's a GameStop in the mall next to Back Bay Station.) So I caved and bought it. It was that or Advance Wars, and I wasn't in a wargame mood.

Also, because I forgot to post it earlier: the MIT Mystery Hunt was awesome, even if I caught the flu from it. The puzzles were, on average, harder-than-usual. But one easy-and-fun one that I solved solo except for a little fandom-IDing help, was the one made up entirely of bad fanfic.

Hack Writer, click on the "Check Answer" in the upper-right to see the solution. If you've never seen a mystery-hunt style puzzle, the page there is all we got, but we knew the answer was either a single word or a short phrase, because we'd need to call it in to headquarters. Almost all the hunt puzzles have that sort of answer -- one word, a famous name, or a short phrase.

( Spoilers through midway through 4-4, will post again when finished )

With all the random slamming of acafen I've been seeing lately around (metafandom, why do I read all your links?), I'd been feeling kinda down on fandom.

Then Kotaku linked this, a mostly-fluff but still fun piece on how RPG/MMORPG quests parallel classical oral epics. *hugs* the internet. I miss being able to be a recreational classicist. (It was my minor in college; those classes kicked my ass up one side and down the other and I loved them to pieces.)

And for the PW folks reading this, I really ought to write up how closely the games follow several patterns in classical tragedy. Video games *are* a literary form, and thankfully some bits of academia have started to see that.

From the cross-examination of "Five Years Ago" to just before the last testimony + cross-examination.

( cut for length, surprising no-one )

Title: Hardware Solutions
Prompt: Lisa Basil/sexual electrocution. Because even though it kind of squicks me out, it won't get out of my head. Bonus points if it's solo or takes place in a closet.
Characters: Just Lisa.
Warnings: Electrical play, also other pain-causing activities. I wasn't sure if the OP actually wanted electrocution or just electrostimulation; this only contains the latter (no death or injury).
Word count: 1495
Summary: Sparks fly.
Author's note: Don't try this at home. I mean that very seriously; while I did do some research to determine that the gerry-rigged equipment in this is remotely feasible when compared to the electrostimulation units used by doctors for physical therapy, it's also ridiculously dangerous. There ARE safe ways to play with electricity; this is not one of them.

( Hardware Solutions )

From where the previous one left off until just before the first cross-examination of Dahlia (5 Years Ago). This is long because there's two paths through a large chunk of it. And a really adorable Diego&Mia failure scene; it seems the makers really like to reward you for screwing up the MOST OBVIOUS prompts.
( tl;dr. )