I make art somtimes

ohhhhhhh yeah I think I see what you mean. it probably looks like fanart because I'm actually the one who drew it

My thought process for a hypothetical new Ace Attorney went as such:

Ace Attorney will not spoil the twists from their other games, even if it leads to weird/unsatisfying characterization and dropped plot threads.

As much as I wish it weren't true, Ace Attorney will never have a game without a young, female character in the main lineup.

If they make an AA7, even one year of timeskip means all the younger teenage girl characters (Trucy, Pearl, Athena) will be "too old."

That means AA7 will have a new teenage girl character.

However, I have a hunch (wishful thinking) capcom will return to existing popular characters again, since adding a lot of new characters in AA6 and TGAA (which I have still not played) led them to having more niche popularity than the older games

Also, the AA4 version of Phoenix scored way higher than the AA5-6 version of Phoenix in the 2024 popularity poll, and Trucy scored #4

So... if AA7 will probably have new characters, but we want a game with returning characters, then why not make a game that takes place during the 7 years timeskip?

If a game stars Phoenix during that time period when he's not currently a lawyer but canonically still helping solve cases, wouldn't the Ace Attorney Investigations format fit perfectly?

So, in my hypothetical AAI3, it would involve Phoenix and Trucy helping Edgeworth solve cases & creating the MASON system a year before the events of AA4. Instead of Edgeworth's "mind chess," there'd be a mini-game where you'd interrogate people under the guise of poker. You'd meed a young girl in Europe named Athena and help her out of a sticky situation. And of course, the AAI games all feature a flashback case, so in this game you'd play as Mia Fey, with Phoenix as her new apprentice.

I enjoyed designing the costumes for this! I even consulted a friend living in Japan so make sure the fashion wasn't too influenced by my western bias.

I gave Phoenix the blazer/hoodie combo because allegedly a lot of men in Japan do wear that, and there was a similar design in the AA4 concept art. And I gave him crocs because I thought it was funny.

one with TADC reference

Traveling Troupe (놀이패) AU

chemists: don't think they know enough to be an authority in other fields

biologists: aren't even sure they know enough to be an authority in their own firld

take these tags, on somebody else's post (condolences pip)

the thing is. this is what i would call an inside thought. nobody would have known you didn't get it if you didn't tell them that. if you recognised that it was important but didn't have the headspace to process it, you can reblog without commentary for others, or to come back to later. or you can save it somewhere and wait until you DO have the capacity to read it over a few more times, ponder it, consider what it might mean, figure out how to understand it, and THEN reblog it

but no. rushing to reblog while it is still opaque. rushing to admit to ignorance rather than spend the time to achieve understanding. perhaps hoping that somebody will break it down for you more simply, though to my mind it was quite simply phrased in the first place. never stopping to take the time first

comprehension is not always instant! sometimes it takes a bit of time for something to percolate after you read it; sometimes you need to read it a few times; sometimes you realise you don't have the context for it and either go and get the context or accept that it's not for you right now

I wanted the birds to look like they were actually in the space so first thing after doing the draft was to do a lighting study

after that I covered the walls in letters in lieu of a projector/vr headset bc i have neither of those :) Then i take a picture of the section of wall and superimpose the lineart over top of it so I can pencil in the lines

et voila

GIVE IT UP FOR BIRD NUMBUH 5, THE CANADIAN GOOSE, Branta canadensis!!!!

bird 5/14, Bluejay, Cyanocitta cristata

birds 6 and 7: American Goldfinch, Spinus tristis, male and female

BIRD NUMBER 8, (yellow shafted) NORTHERN FLICKERRRRR, Colaptes auratus

genuinely made me start questioning my sanity around day 3, it's half the size the of the goose, WHY did it take me 4 days to finish??

Bird number 9: Red-tailed hawk, Buteo jamaicensis

my chains are broken i am FREE. although i did have a great deal of fun with this, the barring on the wings itself took me like four days and i am READY to move on

this was a week and a half of continuous work so please excuse me for getting a little emotional in the bg 🙏

BIRD NUMBER 10!!! The Male Mallard Duck, Anas platyrhynchos

the male and female ones are gonna be posted separately bc they're taking a lot longer lol but yea! super happy i was able to capture the iridescent green of the head, i found metallic green and blue paint at a craft store that really made his head POP. it looks better in person i promise

ALSO!! As this is the 10th one, BIG announcement. The end is in sight!!!!! I plan to finish within the next 3 weeks and there will be a small dedication ceremony/ unveiling happening at the library to commemorate its completion on the 16th of May. If you live in the Western New York region and want to check it out for yourself shoot me a dm!

aaaand another one bites the duck,

we're movin right along with bird numero 11!! The lady Mallard!! Anas platyrhyncos

power couple that they are, here's bird number 12 and 13,

the Northern Cardinals, Cardinalis cardinalis

and NOW that they are complete, ITS GO TIME, in the next five days (library's closed for mother's day 😭😭) i need to have the GBH fully rendered, the names of the birds vectored, weeded, masked, applied to the wall, and then painted, plus additional cattails throughout. I may be able to get away with just getting the GBH done in time for the unveiling and then just have the names and cattails added later, but i'm gonna really try to get it all done in time. BUT, i have a plan. Part of why i take so long on these is because i really am just figuring it out as I do it lmao. there have been many a time where i am sitting on top of the ladder googling "how to paint birds" but I think if i take the time tomorro to do all that figuring out how to approach it beforehand, this will go a lot faster. I may also recruit some of my artist friends to help with the placing of the names... hrmm we'll see.

Anyways, shout out to the librarian who tracked down exactly the thing i needed so i could figure out where to place the highlights in my birds eyes, ur the real mvp

Bird number 14 out of 14,

The Great blue heron, Ardea herodius

thank you to everyone who reached out or got excited about this project, it genuinely gave me the fuel i needed to keep going. In total, the 480+ total hrs it took me to cover this wall pales in comparison to how long its expected to spend on there, hopefully imparting a sense of beauty and love for the natural world to the next generation and here's hoping i'm only getting started with these.

the failure(s); the many loves of the vampire lestat

Well I don't like how it feels. I don't feel cleaner without body hair. I don't prefer not having body hair. But who will advocate for women like me, but me? For women who do like hair removal, they are advocated for every time they step out of the house and see 99% of the female population also conforming to that standard, or when they watch a movie and see all the shaved actresses, or view an advertisment, or open a magazine, or watch a music video, or scroll through social media, or walk down the streets without receiving insults and glares for having a completely normal bodily feature.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

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