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This happens to me all the time lol

this game actually hates me I mean look at this shit 😭😭😭 how dare

#ffxiv #hehe :3 #gold saucer #manderville gold saucer

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This is so fuckin’ cool!!! I have to check out your novel when it comes out

Smoking cigarettes is bad for your health. Smoking green paint made of arsenic is worse~

More shenanigans involving Dante, a character from my wip illustrated novel about 19th century artists. Back then, most paints are made of highly toxic ingredients such as lead, mercury, and arsenic (for the the infamous color: Paris Green).

#painter #artist #art #cool art #cool as fuck

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Some pieces I made for my school gallery. I really love how they turned out!

They unfortunately didn’t get accepted (c" ತ,_ತ)

#I mean it was run by the fine arts department so #i have my suspicions #marlowe and the marionette #my art #my artwork #illustration #illustrator #poster illustration #graphic design

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Oh my gosh this is beautiful

snack break! (courtesy of edgeworth) (without his permission)

my piece for @aasiblingszine !! ✨

#kay faraday #sebastian debeste #ace attorney #miles edgeworth #wocky kitaki #apollo justice #trucy wright #clay terran #cool art

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Gumshoe is the best

Obsessed with this actually. We know gumshoe doesn’t know the details of dl6 because edgeworth asked him not to dig up his past, which he respected, yet from the snippets he knows (and the fact that he knows this stuff at all already says a lot about the trust edgeworth has in him and their relationship) he’s deduced… edgeworth’s big main psychological issues basically. I mean he got it in one there. Gumshoe is a himbo extraordinaire, but damn he’s emotionally intelligent. He really understands people. And boy does he understand and love edgeworth

#ace attorney #turnabout goodbyes #dick gumshoe #miles edgeworth

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You’ve been François-ed

#shitpost #my art #hehe :3 #croissant #french #art shitpost #I’m hiding this in one of my art finals lol

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Bothering the beast

#cat #gif #animation #cool animation

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I have many weird and interesting little wrinkles in my brain.

Such as the one which insists that Dick Gumshoe (Ace Attorney) and Launchpad McQuack (Ducktales) have the exact same voice.

#ducktales #ace attorney #dick gumshoe #launchpad mcquack

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My boyfriend accidentally said Olga Orly’s name wrong (you can guess how that went wrong)

He also had a mini existential crisis when he learned that Daryan Crescend and Klavier were 24 and Apollo was only 22

ace attorney fans: what are some of the funniest ways your offline friends have reacted to seeing you play ace attorney?

mine are:

1. my partner at the time shouting "HE'S 23?!?!" and going through all 5 stages of grief upon learning that aa1 miles edgeworth is not, in fact, in his 40s

2. i showed my IRL bestie kristoph gavin and mentioned he was a villain. without skipping a beat they said "well of course he's a villain. he's blonde"

#ace attorney #klavier gavin #daryan crescend #apollo justice ace attorney #apollo justice

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What is happening to phoenix and why is he unemployed

#ace attorney #phoenix wright #hehe :3

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Imagine being in the gallery in Japanifornia, the things you’d hear…

cool

#phoenix wright #ace attorney #hehe :3 #shitpost

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Kumiko Suekane's Ace Attorney Official Art Appreciation Post

#ace attorney #kumiko suekane #phoenix wright ace attorney #miles edgeworth #phoenix wright

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This

#indie animation #the amazing digital circus #lackadaisy #helluva boss #murder drones #monkey wrench

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#art tips #commission advice

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This is exactly what I love about these games so much! They’re simultaneously campy and crazy but also grounded in reality!

There are just so many charming little things in ace attorney that I love so much.

Everyone's ridiculous pun names? The fact the first guy you meet in the whole series is named Larry Buttz? The fact that Larry Buttz is a recurring plot-relevant character? People complained about "Herlock Sholmes" as a name, but I think that's the most ace attorney-ass name possible and i will defend it until the day i die

The way the same witnesses keep coming back! There are new people in each game and story, but you get to see that Adrian Andrews is doing better, that Wendy Oldbag is still the same, that Will Powers got a new job... it's so sweet. It makes the original trilogy feel like such a connected world.

The fact that the series was started 20 years ago and was meant to take place in a "distant future" of 2016? So there's this campy and ridiculous dichotomy of Phoenix using a brick phone while Athena has hologram technology in the same scene? The way they fully accept this and play it up is so funny and gives the series so much charm!

The way that the whole series is so campy and over-the-top but still grounded is just so sweet. It's about ghosts and magic and ridiculous impossible murders, but it has this core of found family and love and hope.

The protagonists are always the only ones that notice it too! It's so funny to see something ridiculous happen and then phoenix or apollo thinks "Wow that's fucking weird." and then keep moving on! It's so fun and I love these games so much.

And the setting!!! This is exclusive to the U.S releases but the weird Japanifornia setting is so funny and charming? It's ridiculous, but it works and nobody bothers questioning it anymore. Why is there a Yakuza in California? Why is there an ancient spirit medium practice? Well why the fuck not?

and little things! Franziska calling Miles her little brother? Trucy and Phoenix effortlessly yes-and-ing each other and confusing Apollo? Simon Blackquill being a fucking medieval samurai for shits and giggles? Maya looking at empty bowls and saying "damn they sure ate a lot of burgers here!"?? The fact that in-universe a legal system-themed rock band is incredibly popular? The way the blue badger is just fucking everywhere, for some reason? The fact that the translators keep making people german even though there are no german characters in the original Japanese version? The Breakdown sprites In general?!?!?!!!!

Ace attorney is so ridiculous and funny and it makes me cry. it's such a good game please play it if you havent

#ace attorney #ace attorney meta #phoenix wright #apollo justice #campy #funny #also the gay subtext #can’t forget about the gay subtext #meta #aa #hehe :3

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I love it when people actually analyze stuff like this omg this is so good!!!

There's lots of gay subtext in Ace Attorney. 

But when looking specifically at subtext that might be intentionally put in the narrative by the creators with the intention that the character in question is actually gay, I think the main character with the most evidence behind this is actually Apollo Justice.

Our other main characters, Phoenix Wright and Athena Cykes both have obvious subtextually heteronormative romantic partners. To an adult, straight, culturally normative audience, Phoenix Wright and Maya Fey read normatively as an obvious romantic pairing. This is also the case for Athena Cykes and Simon Blackquill. In Great Ace Attorney the same can be said for Ryuunosuke and Susato. 

I repeat– to an adult, straight culturally normative audience, the romantic subtext between these characters is clear. If you showed these games to an American movie going public, that would be the obvious read by the audience.

Yes, each of these characters, Phoenix, Athena, and Ryuunosuke also have strong queer romantic subtext with another character. (Miles, Juniper, and Kazuma respectively).

However, that's not my point. It's not significant that each of the other three characters has homosexual relationship subtext.

It is significant that Apollo Justice does not have a character with whom he has heteronormative romantic subtext.

The closest thing Apollo Justice has to a "heteronormative romantic subtext" is Trucy Wright– whom we, the audience know is his sister.

And yes, you can make the argument that there is deliberate incestuous subtext between them– a kind of Luke/Leia style relationship with which the audience is teased by the narrative. Dhurke brings it up directly in Spirit of Justice.

However, this is still not a heterenormative subtext, because of its taboo nature. More taboo, culturally at this point, than homosexuality.

On top of the lack of heteronormative romantic subtext, Apollo also is on the receiving end some of the strongest and most overt of the homosexual subtext in the series.

There is of course the famous "meet cute" introduction between Apollo and Klavier– 

“I must say, I'm used to being inspected by the ladies... but this is the first time I've felt this way with another man.”

This is without question overt homosexual subtext.

However, there is another, even more subtextually clearly defined moment in Dual Destinies. Honestly, the subtext is all over Dual Destinies in the way Apollo reacts to Clay Terran's death (basically completely losing it) but there's one particular moment that deliberately draws your attention to the relationship in a queer way.

In one of the last cases of the game, everyone is delicately trying to explain to the judge that Aura Blackquill was in love with Metis Cykes (who was murdered) in a queer way. It's a big “they’re lesbians, harold” moment.

And then the conversation immediately turns to Apollo Justice and how he’s just had someone who was “important to him” murdered, too.

The narrative specifically draws you attention to the relationship that Aura and Metis had, and compares it to the relationship between Apollo and Clay.

You are specifically invited to speculate about what kind of important relationship Clay and Apollo had, and why Apollo has been affected so incredibly deeply.

So yeah. Between Clay, Klavier, and the lack of anything resembling a heteronormative romantic relationship for Apollo in the games, I think he has the strongest narrative evidence that he's actually being written deliberately as gay.

#apollo justice #klapollo #claypollo #ace attorney #ace attorney meta #queer subtext #queer reading #queer media #media analysis #media literacy #I love the deliberate queer subtext of these games #they’re gay your honor #aurametis

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By god, you’re right Σ('◉⌓◉’)

I rest my case

#ace attorney #fire emblem #xenoblade #lana skye #edelgard fire emblem #morag xenoblade #I haven’t played xenoblade yet lol #I’ve actually only played a little bit of fire emblem too #it’s the same picture #shitpost