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ic ✷ bluewingwind

[pharmapharabackup]

trying to be more reblog—proactive on tumblr instead of sheltering away my thoughts in the cardiovascular clutches, have a good day, shoutout to all the folks i mass liked stuff from, one day i will reach you but for now you have put up with my barrage.

[leeeeeeef]

im still thinking abt 3-1's impact on phoenix as a character. because in 3-1 he's so trusting and open and unabashedly friendly until he realizes the truth abt dahlia. and just before dahlia is apprehended, she says this to him:

and after that he.. just doesnt tell anyone anything??? he never did get to tell mia about larry and miles and why he became a lawyer. and he doesn't tell maya either until she literally stops him and forces him to tell her. and he didn't tell maya about miles's disappearance. and he didn't say anything about his involvement with iris at the beginning of 3-5.

and in aa4, that secretiveness is only exacerbated after not only his client but the entire legal system suddenly turned on him. right out of the gate in 4-1, phoenix is very selective with the information he discloses, like when he chooses to plead the fifth and refuses to elaborate on his game with shadi, or when he lies to the judge about his locket (through omission, but a lie nonetheless). and even throughout the game, he never tells anyone about his work on the mason system and he doesn't tell apollo and trucy about their mother.

and not only that, but he works as a poker player!! the entire point of poker is to be secretive and misleading!!! and he keeps up this facade throughout the game, projecting this character of a sleazy, shady poker player, even leaning into the rumors of him forging evidence. all when he's trying to enact generally positive legal reforms!! it's as if he's keeping up this poker face throughout the game, and it only makes him even more secretive and cryptic.

my point is, there's such a stark contrast between the bubbly, emotional, and forthcoming college student phoenix wright and the mysterious, closed-off poker player phoenix wright. and even lawyer phoenix is secretive to a degree!!

and i can't help but think that dahlia's last words to phoenix before she was arrested contributed to that change at least partially. do you think dahlia would have never resorted to murder if phoenix didnt tell anyone abt the necklace? do you think he blames himself for doug swallow's death? he was just innocently gushing about his girlfriend!!! how could he have known it would lead to something like this!?? and if this much harm could have been caused just by telling people about a little necklace, i'd understand why phoenix wouldnt want to talk about his life at all!!

but as much as he's been betrayed or weathered down, no matter how many walls he builds or how he changes, there's one thing that has stayed constant throughout his life as we've seen it, and that's especially apparent with his beanie and locket. his beanie, likely a gift from trucy with the word "papa" stitched onto it, and the locket with a picture of his daughter. both symbols of his love for trucy, just like how he wore the bottle necklace and the sweater made by iris as a sign of his love for her. and if there's anything to glean from these parallels, it's that there's a part of phoenix that never faded away after all those years, that still cares for people so ardently and so strongly and with all his heart. and that's something that will probably never change.

[pharmapharabackup]

don't reckon i know how old this post is, don't find myself caring to check when the instinct is more powerful then the mind to reinstate it's call, apologies anyways for uneeded onslaught of gibberish.

onto the point, i was rewatching some playthroughs of the ace attorney series and this specific interaction within AJ has my psyche equally screwed over — we've seen a fair share of his cynicism throughout the whole game, it ain't nothing new, but this specific brand of surreptitious suspension found in these interactions stood out a lot to me and thought fit the OP.

it's the matter of which this defeathered attorney laughs off his daughters biting remarks, a matter of trying to assert his willpower to change, he knows better, his daughter is a keen one to his tells so he shouldn't have no reason to keep “secrets,” but he cant relent to change just yet, wide eyed jocose woes subject to a narrowed nihilism right after he's smudged out by reality with apollo's inquiry.

‘s hard for me to word it here when the screenshots speak more then i can, i know AJ is much more bashed on then quite a few other novelties but it's just so interesting to see such a different side to what we once were familiar to.

did he want to save his own skin from being naively disadvantaged once more? keep an apprentice he barely mentors for out of his troubles? “how can any woman ever count on you for anything,” — phoenix translating that to “how can anyone rely on you,” why should anyone rely on him? the same man who keeps digging his own holes, who couldn't save his mentor, who almost got him and his mentors sister ‘erased,’ and then straight up subject to offensive galvanism that came from barging in with evidence blazing.

it's intricately depreciating how he's built by reliance to his own whims, he's danced that dance even before being disbarred, before entering the office, when he grabbed not a dahlia but a rose by it's thorns and thrust it in peoples faces to acknowledge the petals, didn't care about the digging into his hands, glass in his throat.

he's always done his best to keep others safe, not just himself, but he's not letting down walls, he's just opening windows in them, trying to deceive as illuminated by OP, to be able to disengage people with sleeze but don't seethe, make others seethe.

maybe he would've taken apollo on more then sparingly pre a.a.4 like he did with maya and pearls, perhaps our attorney of justice would've known as much as skye did had wright felt like he was competent enough, because for all the infelictous informality he trudges apollo through, he doesn't doubt em for one moment, instead prophesying as the one who shouldn't have guidance sought from.

makes me wish we could've gotten more insight into his childhood the way we got that wrung out of edgeworth's, trust has always been a large part of wright's choreography throughout the games and it would scratch my brain to see his own experienced development of bonds before stumbling on any of the ones in his school age.

[pharmapharabackup]

first post on here and it's my dragged back hyperfixiation of epithet erased ever since 'prison of plastic' came out. [the background on my drawing was taken from the official animated series of e.e, the rest was done by me]

image description : a watercolor like drawing of a smug faced pink haired character in a furred hood looking as if he is about to swing a bat with a knife taped on it at a oblivious blonde haired man in a green floral shirt in order to beat the deadbeat out of him

[iraprince]

it bums me out to see (esp younger) artists talking abt quitting in the wake of this dumb ai shit or worrying that there will be no place in the world for their art in the future... i know it's hard but u HAVE to trust other humans to care abt art. u have to trust ppl to give a shit

i've spent the past few weeks near-constantly simmering abt this shit but then i spent literally one weekend seeing the artist/fanzine alley at a convention + going to a screenprinting fair and my soul is healed tbh. u have to zoom out. ppl have always given a shit and they always will

it's one thing to have the courage to make art. it's another to have the courage to trust other ppl to respond when u are vulnerable enough to share it. i know that most of the time the latter is way harder, bc it's not rly in ur control. but u have to!! sorry!! or uve already lost

u have to have a high enough opinion of humanity as a species to recognize that we love creating art + we love experiencing art + we always have + we always will. it's mandatory. scream abt it if u want but after ur done screaming u have 2 go back to the hard work of loving the world

[pharmapharabackup]

this is something seriously vital for artists upon this platform to graze on, it is hard enough making art that's not posted but seeing so many of the artists that publically post art being so discouraged due to some imbeciles with lackadaisical technical whims?? that's what's really depressing.

we must not lose our creative dues, i may not a twitter user but i have certainly heard about people coming up with techniques to counter ai art vs real art, people will look for art that amounts to time and effort and realize there's an abundance of errors with AI, they already are.

people will bore of AI amassed art like every other trending thing on this social existence and we will be entwined ever tighter in the art community, i love every last art piece here and you better not let this stand in your way.

[surprisegents]

quick and dirty guide to recognizing stolen content on tumblr

there is RAMPANT art and photography reposting on this stupid website, and it occurs to me that folks might not know how to recognize it. here are the mental gymnastics i go through every time i see a sus post

1. is there a caption? most creators tend to leave one. maybe it's so their url is prominent, or to express their thoughts about the piece, link their shops/websites, etc. most reposters leave the captions blank

2. look for credit in the picture. is there a name, handle, or watermark? does it match the url?

3. check the original post. often you'll find that the original poster actually linked the artist. go forth and reblog that version!! for some godforsaken reason people keep REMOVING CREDIT on this website and i will MANIFEST INSIDE YOUR HOUSE IF YOU DO SO

4. check the tags of the original post. beyond the main fandom/character/subject tags, creators tend to have a #my-art tag or something similar. photographers often use #photographers-on-tumblr/lensblr. sometimes they'll also have thoughts about their work there. this doesn't always work, but personally i never see reposters adding tags like this

5. look at op's other posts and bio. is there anything about being an artist or photographer in the description? does the art they post look the same? usually this is where you'll Know if it's a serial reposter, because their blog will be FULL of reposted shit with no captions that all have different styles. also half the time their blog description straight up admits it

6. check the notes to see if someone added the proper credit. at this point, if you know it's a repost but still wanna reblog it, at least give credit where it's due. see if someone else already did the work for you

7. reblog and add a link with creator credit. if you know it's a repost, and you can't find credit, consider doing your part to help creators get their well-deserved recognition. usually you can just google the watermark in the picture. otherwise reverse image search on google or tineye is your friend

8. if the original creator is on tumblr, reblog their version of the post. if you've gotten this far it's not hard to search their blog for it

9. consider letting the artist know their art has been stolen and send them the link. this way they can take action and file whatever claims they need to get it taken down

10. finally, support original content creators! look at the #artists-on-tumblr and #photographers-on-tumblr tags, follow your favourite creators and reblog their work. seriously it can make a huge difference

if you read this far, THANK YOU. making sure content creators get their credit is literally the bare minimum we can do to be respectful of the countless hours they spend on their work. especially when that content is freely accessible

[pharmapharabackup]

y'all stay safe and informed, especially all you twitter artists coming in ♡

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hello darlings, funny how this is my first post and it's just about me talking about being on the grind for redesigning the disappointment of the starter evolution line —

i understand that the pokemon the designers put a lot of effort into many of the designs but come on, crocalor and skeledirge could've been so much more unique, why must they do my son fuecoco like that.

[belmeran]

posting my first owl house comic from this summer to reintroduce my art to tumblr!

[pharmapharabackup]

I HAVE NO WORDS THAT I COULD SUMMON FROM MY LEXICON TO DESCRIBE THE UTTER LOVE I HAVE FOR THIS

[toorurii]

Lovely cupid, Agape

[pharmapharabackup]

y'all one of my biggest inspirations has flocked to tumblr please show this divine artist some love their coloring is a tango of vibrant colors that all blend as uniquely their range of characters 🙏🏼

[annabelle--cane]

"tumblr doesn't have an algorithm so likes are WORTHLESS they do NOTHING" well actually likes tell me that people liked my post. they have worth because they show me people saw my post and enjoyed it. that's still interaction even if it doesn't give an extra boost to make Number Go Up even more. yeah I generally get more out of written feedback in tags/replies but likes are still Something, they aren't people telling me "fuck you I'm not sharing your post" they're people telling me "hehe I give your post little a like as a treat."

[pharmapharabackup]

this sums things up perfectly, while it is good to be able to interact with peoples content on a more significant level to spread it, sometimes it's substantially difficult to do it for every post out there, even if we aren't reblogging it like wildfire we enjoy saving everything creators provide us, heck we are probably sharing away at images and links even then

[talesfromthecrypts]

Attack the Block (2011) dir. Joe Cornish

[pharmapharabackup]

late to this but not only do i have in my brew the perfect inspiration for a character inspiration from these cyanic jaws, but after reading more about the film itself i now feel inspired to watch

[southpauz]

They’re dating, your honor

[pharmapharabackup]

love how this is gonna be my first reblog 😭 but the varied face shapes are so good, 10/10 best ship honestly