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    When I Win the World Ends by

    Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types  

    12 Oct 2024

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    Once a year, the world's best trainers compete for the title of World Champion. Toril, the favorite, has dedicated her life to battling. Aracely, the underdog, has not. In fact, she barely knows the rules. She didn't even build her own team. She's a mockery of the sacred bond between trainers and Pokémon, one Toril swears to eliminate.

    But Aracely makes plays that shouldn't be possible. She reads opponents as though reading their minds, predicts exactly what they'll do. And now, she's made another prediction, one far more unsettling: "When I win, the world ends."

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    24 Nov 2024

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    masterpiece! every single moment spent reading this was so much fun. so many exhilarating battles with such careful attention to detail about how competitive pokemon 6v6 singles is played. lots and lots of references to canon as well as smogon-type stuff, some overt, some subtle, the latter kind made me feel the type of joy i imagine a rodent does when it tears apart a cardboard tube and finds sweet potato inside every time. toril's final, mystery pokemon was my very favourite twist, executed with aplomb as was everything else about this work, and made me very happy :-)...

    there's no other game like competitive pokemon. i feel that many resent its extreme amount of luck-based elements, seeing them as obstacles barricading the way toward a game where the more skilled player walks away with the win every time, but even though it's kind of ass as a competitive game i wouldn't want to live in the world where hydro pump never misses and shadow ball never drops spdef. well, maybe i could bear to live in the one where scald doesn't proc its 30% burn. hahaha. i haven't played or kept up with this scene in a long time now, but this fic made me remember what i loved so much about it

    this story's words sing and sing and sing. please give them a listen. where will you be when the world ends?

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    Selected Citations from Motions in Limine Filed in U.S. v. McCormick (C.D. Cal. 2019) (unpublishable) by

    Fandoms: 逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney  

    05 May 2015

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    “Federal court?” Phoenix said, blankly, for the third time, and this time, Edgeworth, sounding distinctly less sympathetic, said, “Surely you’ve heard of it.”

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    16 Nov 2024

    Bookmarker's Notes

    fic is tagged with 'Forgive Me' even though it is fucking brilliant. what did the author mean by this?

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    good loser by

    Fandoms: Dragon Ball  

    12 Nov 2023

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    Gohan says, “I want one month.”

    They both stop. As one, they turn pale blue eyes down to where he stands in the wreckage they have made.

    They’ll never agree to one month. It’s too high. Seventeen is going to take the offer back and they can all pretend this never came up.

    But it would be one month to train Trunks in safety. One month for Bulma to do her work without the threat of death from above.

    They’ll never, ever agree.

    Seventeen comes up with new games to ease his boredom. Gohan tries to give Trunks, and the world, more time.

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    29 Aug 2024

    Bookmarker's Notes

    fantastic fic that captures the uniquely very grim tone (amongst dragon ball media) of The History of Trunks OVA/future trunks' timeline in general and expands on it with heavy themes of struggle for autonomy against the expectations of you that your predecessors have set, intentionally or otherwise. the experience of reading this feels much like observing the behaviour of three starving rats trapped in a small enclosed area with only each other for company. 17 is highly entertaining both to watch and just to think about, and despite his actions it's easy to feel bad for him too. terrible situation for everybody. please give this a read

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    A Single Selfish Act by

    Fandoms: Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu | Legend of the Galactic Heroes  

    27 Jul 2016

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    Alternate ending to episode 55, wherein Yang and Reinhard's first meeting goes in a slightly more personal direction.

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    18 Sep 2023

    Bookmarker's Notes

    my very favourite logh fic. the characterisation is impeccable. in particular i like the way that reinhardt's flirting game is so bad because he'd known his only boyfriend since they were both like 8 so this is actually still new for him. if logh allowed its characters to have the gay sex we all know they're having, this is exactly precisely how i imagine reinyang would go

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    Personnel File by for queenlua

    Fandoms: Fire Emblem: Soen no Kiseki/Akatsuki no Megami | Fire Emblem Path of Radiance/Radiant Dawn  

    17 Sep 2022

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    The company keeps changing. Shinon would tell you it's all for the worse.

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    17 Sep 2022

    Bookmarker's Notes

    talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show-stopping, spectacular, never the same, totally unique, completely not ever been done before, unafraid to reference or not reference— i will not complete miss gaga's quote here because the rest of it is rather too crude to say to or about a stranger('s work) but you understand what im communicating here.