#the ace up their sleeve

[myriad--starlings]

You can be asexual if your disability caused your asexuality, and you can be asexual if sexual trauma caused your asexuality, and you can be asexual if you lose your sexual desire later in life. The asexual community should be there to help in all these cases. You don't have to be part of the asexual community forever, but the lesson that a happy life for aces is possible, regardless of origin, is one that is important and one that includes you too. It's for you even if you don't identify as ace.

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

#ace book #ace up my sleeve #aspec #asexuality #local birb reads books

[doctorsiren]

im regards to you’re defense attorney edgeworth au. do edgeworth and franziska ever reconcile?

After the events of AA2, there’s that scene in the airport, and this is sort of how it goes down in this AU

They do reconcile and work on rebuilding their sibling bond, especially now that von Karma can’t control either of them anymore

#doctorsiren #ace attorney #ace attorney au #miles edgeworth #franziska von karma #defenseworth au #yeah I guess that’s the name I’m going with 😭 #art #digital art #my art #fanart #procreate #I hope you realize by now that all of my AUs involve ridiculous amounts of hugs and comfortings #CRYING HOW IN THE LAST DRAWIBG BECAYSE OF FRAN’S SLEEVE BEING THE SAME COLOUR AS THE BG IT MAKES MILES LOOJ LIKE CAKED UP JERMA IM DEAD

[thereigning-lorelai]

#nancydrewedit #ndcentral #nacesource #userrobin #userbbelcher #chewieblog #cinematv #cinemapix #tvarchive #smallscreensource #filmtvcentral #nancy drew #nancy drew cw #ace hardy #*mine #*nancy drew #*ace hardy #*gif #find me using this particular text post as inspiration for all my male blorbos #it's just. give me a man with rolled up sleeves and i am a changed woman #the outfit in this episode was absolutely tailored to all my needs #they just gave me rolled up sleeves and ace in a suit in the span of two episodes. what did i do to deserves these delicious treats? #thanks nancy drew costume department

[crazy-dane-art]

Luci is trying. Al is just tough to crack

#my art #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel art #hazbin alastor #hazbin lucifer #lucifer morningstar #radioapple #guess you could say he has more than just an ace up his sleeve HAHA

[code31-onthedancefloor]

Post-RCM Kim (steals but no one is there to tell him No) keeps the kineema and runs a taxi service out of it. Feedback is mixed. You will always get where you want to go To The Second but will be subjected to the craziest Italian-on-crack-style roadrage driving imaginable. You will see god whether you’re religious or not. Kim is always polite and is basically silent the entire time. Some love him, swear by his skill, and rely on him when they’re running late. Some will vomit in the provided vomit-bag Kim keeps in the back seats and never call for his service again. Joyriding incidents decrease bc the local teens just get this one taxi guy to take them home from their party as fast as possible. And believe me when I say. As. Fast. As. Possible.

#I’ve seen bus driver Kim but I think he prefers agility. #Kim is the ‘iykyk’ ace up the sleeve of ppl who are late for Very Important events #Kim keeps a mental track of his passengers and eventually memorises their usual routes #how would taxis work in post-retour revachol? #leave questions like these to people who actually have time to read theory #txt #disco elysium #kim kitsuragi

[ominouspuff]

pov u are overworked and under(not) paid but at least you’ve still got ur teeth

Accompanying this au where Fox and Fives fake a death, make up a new Corrie, and everyone else in the Guard is kinda unwillingly inducted into unhinged-conspiracy-theory-bro-hood too

The Corries: the chancellor needs to die

The rest of the GAR: loolll ikr haha

The Corries:

The GAR, frantically punching in Coruscant’s coordinates: …LOLLL ikr HA, RIGHT??

#fan art #artists on tumblr #star wars fanart #star wars: the clone wars #commander fox #WIP #sketch #hc: he’s looking at Fives in corrie armor and already envisioning the takedown of the entire republic that is now possible #hc: Fox realizes the republic is corrupt long before he’s educated on Palps’ real identity #when he finds out Palps is a Sith he is gobsmacked but in a deadpan ‘this is my life’ kinda way #Fix-it AU where ​Fox names a newly-Corrie-fied Fives ‘ace’ because he’s the ace up his sleeve. Fives is not impressed even a little by this

[fluffytimearts]

Presenting the alluring, the fiery, and the hypnotic....Majesty Mirage!!!

#aspec #aroace oc #drag kings #drag #fluffytimearts #artists on tumblr #my artwork #my art #my art 2024 #bro lures all the men and women but rejects each and every one #you could say he has...an ace up his sleeve >:3 #instead of a heart on his sleeve--

[chaocollective]

I think this may be among the most stupid things I've ever drawn

#ace attorney #tf2 #apollo justice #tf2 scout #chaoart<3 #the only reason scout is tolerating the suit AT ALL is because of the rolled up sleeves

[fangsandfeels]

Astarion: *tells that he seduced Tav to manipulate their feelings so Tav doesn't turn on him*

Me: *remembers that he doesn't try to manipulate Tav not even once while Tav can force him to entertain the drow's vampire fetish over the potion he doesn't even get to use*

Me: bruh

#baldur's gate 3 #astarion #bg3 astarion #i mean #technically he might be thinking that we agreed to ask raphael #and kill yurgir because he seduced us #but not really. he doesn't even use manipulation #he is just nervous when he thinks we won't do it #like he doesn't have aces up his sleeves #he dropped them all on the floor #and is fumbling his way through now

[chronicowboy]

i don't know if it will be acknowledged but i hope there's at least some kind of recognition of how well buck and eddie know each other during a game that relies on tells and the ability to hide your true feelings from the other contestants.

#sami rambles #like please please please #i just need a teeny tiny line being like 'i know you buckley. you can't bluff me' or 'eddie i've seen u prank chris i know what u look #like with an ace up your sleeve' PLEASE #911 spoilers #911 show #911 fox #evan buckley #eddie diaz #buddie #buck x eddie #911 spec

[mixelation]

In regards to Tori doing fuuinjutsu with like five thousand extra steps, is there anything that her sealing style actually benefits from her way? Is she imbuing the technique with some unknown stability or is this a language barrier thing? Is her alien way of doing this scary to people? WHEN WILL WE SEE MINAKUSHI REACTING TO YOGURT FUUINJUTSU

tori tends to overdesign because the FIRST time around when she was learning, she couldn't manipulate her own chakra. this gets talked about a little in the castle chapter -- the more discrete pieces you put into a seal, the more chakra you lose as it moves through the seal. so most of the bigger and more complicated seals usually require the user to do some manipulating themselves of the chakra within the seal, to minimize that loss (that or you need to be a chakra powerhouse or get multiple people to input chakra). tori can't do that in plasticity, and also she's designing stuff for non-experts to use, so she compensates by a mixture of getting really, REALLY good at techniques to conserve input chakra, and then by hijacking other sources of chakra (like from yogurt. or from the poor idiot she's tattooing a seal onto).

unfortunately sometimes she also ends up just adding things to compensate for weakness as she goes instead of stepping back and trying to actually fix the base design, like sticking absurd amounts of tape on something. like, this part of the seal leaks chakra and i don't know why? i'll just make a NEW thing to funnel the chakra back in. it technically works but now she's made something that so complicated and weird that reproducing it will be challenging

so the benefits are that, for most of tori's seals, you can just slam chakra into them and the seal will do literally all the work, even for really big seals. you don't have to squat over it concentrating hard manipulating your own chakra. her brushwork looks like irreproducible nightmare fuel but actually she has an incredibly good understanding of chakra use efficiency and how to manipulate it without losing anything. but also. what the fuck is going on here

kushina is of the mindset "well, if it works, it works" so she'll tease tori but not actually give much feedback besides "that is going to be SUCH a pain to make again, you know." but i think minato is the type of person who is like "okay, it's good that works, but we can always be improving and streamlining--" so seeing something with like fifty extra brush strokes makes his brain go AAAAAH. if tori was interested in defending her work, she'd point out that her way has its own benefits (more prep but easier and faster to execute, she could pass it on to chump chunin number 2, etc), and i think minato could be swayed even if looking at the seal gives him anxiety. but tori's deeply paranoid and distrustful of authority when she initially gets to konoha, so that type of conversation takes a while to happen

also hijacking non-human chakra is REALLY groundbreaking, but she is being forced to do some reinventing of the wheel, so to speak, and the intermediate steps on this line of research & design look...... bonkers. really, aggressively bonkers

#reborn au #i think tori downplays wtf she's doing for a while bc the key to her survival for YEARS has always been only being juuust useful #enough to keep around. if you play all your cards up front people WILL fuck you over #you have to keep all your aces up your sleeve so that when they get bored with you you can go WELL ACTUALLY-- #and it takes her a while to trust minakushi #but in general once she gets them to think of her more as a peer than a chaos gremlin student there's a lot of mutual benefit

[unganseylike]

“ace up my sleeve,” lord huron // The Raven Cycle

this was originally going to be a story about gansey but he and blue are the same, so it became about them. so its about being born just to die then live then die again curses destiny and free will and endings and defying all that anyway

#dangling comma is intentional #handing her mint leaves is taking a drag off cigarette to me #basic guide to julia quote posts: everything is supposed to connect between lyrics and from begnning to end #AND u gotta listen to the song #its important to me u know the ace up my sleeve lines are like sad and hopeful not like cocky #also so u can imitate the experience of me playing it on repeat two hours straight while finding quotes #the other rule of quote post is that i gotta use the it was beautiful here line #really wanted to use the i’d take all of you with me quote but not bluesey #will have to post all the other quotes i wanted to include #i died a million deaths trying to forma t this no one knows my pain #ughhh the beginning of song is so ganset and i just cldnt find right quotes for it

[poorgay]

son can you???? smell??? metal???

#childe genshin impact #childe ajax tartaglia #childe what the fuck #what #going through old childe event dialogue and being taken the fuck out #what is wrong with him😭 #why is he secretive over this is this like #an ace up his sleeve what #♡ genshin ♡

[stingrayextraordinaire]

Aesthetic Moodboards // “Ace Up My Sleeve” by Lord Huron

I've been known to look up at the sky. I feel lost in this world, and I want to know why.

#lord huron #ace up my sleeve #lord huron moodboards #moodboards #aesthetics #my moodboards #my edits #the starling girl

[the-judicial-assistants-notebook]

So quickly do we forget the most impressive AA characters. Cody Hackins, who met Edgeworth at his most insufferable and shut him up twice in a row no problem at only seven years old, you will always be famous

#im replaying the steel samurai case and he's so funny!!!! i miss him so much #cody hackins #miles edgeworth #ace attorney phoenix wright #i forget that edgeworth is technically gentler with cody than phoenix is. edgeworth doesnt know how to behave around cody but phoenix just #rolls his sleeves up and lowers hismelf to cody's level. he had REAL beef with that 7 year old

[science-lings]

after getting the shit beat out of him on multiple occasions, confronted by the mafia, also on multiple occasions, multiple instances of attempted murder, I think that Phoenix deserves to be forced to be a little kickass. Like he worked at a shady restaurant and wins poker games against people who are drunk and probably more than willing to kick the shit out of him all the time, there's no way that he wouldn't be able to defend himself in some way. Maybe Trucy taught him how to throw knives or something and I know he's a funny indestructible punching bag of a guy but come on... I think at least for his daughter's sake he should at least know how to handle a gay little knife or something.

#he doesn't seem like the type to carry a gun but having a knife hidden up his sleeves? that feels more like him #this also ties into the whole thing of him being really strong for the plot but weak for gags #he's only pathetic when it's funny #otherwise he's actually pretty fit yk? #this guy bikes everywhere and can kick down heavy doors with no problem but he can also get the shit beat out of him by a 9yo #also i want him to be a little badass bc I want to be able to write action scenes for aa #my guy is in a fighting game and he's not good at it but I want him to be a little capable when the situation calls for it #phoenix wright #ace attorney #beanix #this is mostly for 7yg phoenix he goes back to being pathetic when he gets his badge back #I just think he should be strong enough to carry pearl and trucy in his arms on a daily basis