sideblog of a halfhearted gimmick

disco elysium probing around a corpse's soft palate up into his brain with your bare hands to find and retrieve the hidden bullet there while kim kitsuragi watches and says "mhm. keep going" sex scene you will always be famous

saw someone saying they wished the AA timeline made the gap in communication between miles and phoenix shorter and had them know each other for longer because as it stands phoenix "basically just stalked a guy he knew for a few months in middle school". sadly shaking my head. we have no common ground on which to meet, you and I.

the first three ace attorney games are about how phoenix will lamprey onto other peoples problems at the slightest provocation, sometimes against said persons will. if he had been normal about this sort of thing one time in his life there would be no game

it works out for them and all, but I genuinely cant think of anything more nightmarish than a guy I was friends with in middle school changing careers to force a meeting after I didn't answer his emails. Like all the good intentions in the world set aside, I would be running out of that courthouse screaming

since the concept of "romance as horror" keeps getting misinterpreted, id like to propose a much clearer alternative: romance as an instrument of torture