Robbie's Journal

Challenge #6: Top 10 Challenge

Picking my favorite 10 of anything is hard! That list changes every time I find something new, and I'm never good at filtering it down. (This happens every time I mention reading as a hobby and a new coworker asks about my favorite book, too. Well, right now it's the really fun new one I just read, and also the new-to-me one I read last week, but what about all the ones I could re-read any time and still love...) So instead, here's ten random selections from my very long list of Ace Attorney Fic I Really Like. Some of these I've probably recced before, and a lot of them are explicit rarepair fic.

Like A Record, Baby: Klavier/Daryan PWP from the kink meme. I like basically everything this author ever did (their Klavdar first time fic is amazing), but this one in particular is a lot of fun. Ambidextrous Daryan showing off in the bedroom. (Or, well, the kitchen, technically, but you get the point.)

on the perils of babygays and underage drinking: Anybody who's been following my Dreamwidth knows how much I love genderbent lesbian Klavier/Daryan, and this is an excellent version of it. 10/10 disastrous teenage pining.

Leaves from the Vine: Mia Fey-focused Ace Attorney/Pokemon crossover in which Charley the office plant is a Bulbasaur that she brought with her from Kurain Village. This one made me actually cry. Absolutely gorgeous, very nicely meshes the two canons together.

Turnabout Skeleton: Larry Butz is arrested for allegedly murdering a man with a twelve-foot artisanal injection-molded plastic skeleton. Edgeworth's life gets weirder from there. Absolutely hysterical casefic, mostly gen unless you want to read subtext into things. Some of the best pun names I've ever seen in Ace Attorney fic, and that is saying something.

Like A Sinner Before: Lana/Mia PWP where they have sex on a motorcycle. It's fantastic. I'm a big fan of all Mia stuff that incorporates her motorcycle from the early concept art into canon, and this is both extremely hot and my favorite characterization for both of them.

Mediation: Klavier/Daryan/Apollo kinky PWP (and I strongly recommend the sequel linked from the attached series, too). I don't usually go for sub!Daryan, but this one is fun, hot, and about my OT3, so I'm sold!

The Music Our Collisions Make: Franziska/Ema PWP, one of the fics that originally convinced me to give the pairing a shot. Ema's voice is fantastic here (both of them are, but it's from her POV) and it's exactly the kind of messy it's-complicated situationship I love for them.

#DaryanCrescendIsOverParty: Social media fandom reacts to Turnabout Serenade and Daryan's arrest. Hilariously accurate fandom meltdown, 10/10 read if you enjoy social media fic and/or fandom drama with zero stakes (because the drama is not real). #anyway stan Jangly Justice

we go together or we don't: And speaking of Jangly Justice, the Daryan/Apollo AA5-bad-end AU that's mostly porn but also has the fantastic subthread of Daryan being obsessed with this one random indie musician as a teen, only to find out, well, about that Justice guy that sent you to jail... Also extremely fun.

Anyway, Here's Guilty Love: And the longest fic on the list: Klavier/Apollo with past Klavier/Daryan, AA4 college AU retelling. Okay, so, listen. I don't usually read college AUs. I don't usually like college AUs. But this is the one college AU that not only worked for me, it worked for me well enough to convince me to give Klapollo another chance after reading some fic I Did Not Like. And the Daryan characterization in this is fantastic - I'm always down for fic that lets Daryan and Apollo begrudgingly work together. I'm not saying I'm headcanoning an eventual threesome way in the future, but...the fic doesn't rule it out. Linking to the full series because the prequel and tie-in are also great.

Challenge #4: Rec The Contents Of Your Last Page. Any website that you like, be it fanfiction, art, social media, or something a bit more eccentric!

Have you ever wished you could listen to the exact sounds of the scene you're trying to write? Add some appropriately themed ambiance to your D&D game or art project? Or just find some soothing rain noise or birdsong to listen to while you work, no, not that birdsong, a different bird, why doesn't this ONE BIRD exist on Youtube -

Anyway, try MyNoise! It's a collection of different soundscapes, from basic rain-and-thunder noises to settings like a medieval library, medieval village, or creepy dungeon. It's pretty much always open somewhere in my tab collection; I use it for writing, relaxing, blocking out annoying equipment noises at work, and when I feel like listening to something but not music per se.

No, I didn't wait until I could guarantee I had something cool in my tabs before I did this prompt, why do you ask?

Challenge #2: Pets of Fandom
Loosely defined! Post about your pets, pets from your canon, anything you want!

It's like this prompt was made for me! All of my cats for the last couple decades have been named after robots. Here's the current two:


This is Mirage, named after the Transformers character. She thinks her name is Memes, because that's what her nickname morphed into over a couple of months. She's very sweet, very shy, and got her name by vanishing into a pile of stuffed animals so well I sat next to her for twenty minutes and didn't realize she was there.


And this is Springs, named after Springer from Transformers. Her shelter name was Pogo; when the staff asked if I'd be changing it, I said probably, all of my cats are named after robots, so while I was filling out paperwork they were looking up Transformers to name her after, and that's who we picked. It's fitting; she can go from floor to the top of the cat tree in one bounce. My one single surviving houseplant may have to come to work with me.

As for pets in canon, there's a few to choose from. Transformers canon has Thundercracker's dog Buster, and I'm fond of Apollo Justice's dubiously canonical cat Mikeko from some of the Ace Attorney extras (someday I'll write the Klavdarpollo accidental kitten acquisition fic). But I think my favorite mostly-canonical cat is Meowgatron.