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i hold on until theres nothing left to hold

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it's tragedy🎵

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I’m playing TGAA 1-4 case and I can’t find the words to explain how i feel but this. THIS. this is just so so so good i-

this is just brilliant actually. Ryunosuke (and me by extension) just won our first trial in England. We got Mcgilded acquitted even though we knew deep down that it wasn’t right. He betrayed our trust in him and we didn’t have the evidence to prove that. That "not guilty" verdict felt so bad, i genuinely wanted to turn off the game bc of how unfair that was. We got a probably guilty guy technically free. What feels even worse is that if you’ve played all the others AA games before, this is such an especially painful situation bc with Phoenix, Apollo, Athena and even Edgeworth every time you defend someone, they are innocent and you are right to trust them from the beginning, you never doubt for one second that the defendant might be the criminal (except for the matt engarde case). we implicitly trust everyone we defend, it’s a status quo if that makes sense.

Ryunosuke doesn’t know what to believe in anymore, he doesn’t know if he can be an attorney anymore. He’s in a new country, he doesn’t know anything about, in a new system he hasn’t learned to trust and the first person he fights for turns out to be a manipulative as hell. How could he trust himself to defend anyone anymore ? what if they’re like Mcgilded ?Ryunosuke lost that trust in himself to do the right thing and therefore lost the trust in others too. He can’t trust that system, it is rigged especially to those in power, able to play with the rules, especially rich people like the Mcgilded.

So having Sholmes telling him this, reminding him of the words of Kazuma felt like a slap in the face, like a wake up call. You can’t know for sure if someone is guilty or not, however you can choose to believe in someone and trust yourself to have made the right choice. Ultimately if you’re wrong, it’s like Sholmes said, "an elementary error of judgment" and anyone can make those, it’s only human.

And isn’t that what relationships are all about? You trust your friends, family, lovers etc to love you and be there for you. That requires to trust yourself to trust them. Maybe people will betray you, maybe not, you can’t know that, but you can’t blame yourself for trusting someone, if they betray you it was a lapse of judgement and that can happen, you can only learn from that error and try to make better judgement next time with the other people you will meet.

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save me characters doing fucked up things out of self-preservation…..characters doing fucked up things out of self-preservation save me………..

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Once a little boy went to school. One morning The teacher said: “Today we are going to make a picture.” “Good!” thought the little boy. He liked to make all kinds; Lions and tigers, Chickens and cows, Trains and boats; And he took out his box of crayons And began to draw.

But the teacher said, “Wait!” “It is not time to begin!” And she waited until everyone looked ready. “Now,” said the teacher, “We are going to make flowers.” “Good!” thought the little boy, He liked to make beautiful ones With his pink and orange and blue crayons. But the teacher said “Wait!” “And I will show you how.” And it was red, with a green stem. “There,” said the teacher, “Now you may begin.”

The little boy looked at his teacher’s flower Then he looked at his own flower. He liked his flower better than the teacher’s But he did not say this. He just turned his paper over, And made a flower like the teacher’s. It was red, with a green stem.

On another day The teacher said: “Today we are going to make something with clay.” “Good!” thought the little boy; He liked clay. He could make all kinds of things with clay: Snakes and snowmen, Elephants and mice, Cars and trucks And he began to pull and pinch His ball of clay.

But the teacher said, “Wait!” “It is not time to begin!” And she waited until everyone looked ready. “Now,” said the teacher, “We are going to make a dish.” “Good!” thought the little boy, He liked to make dishes. And he began to make some That were all shapes and sizes.

But the teacher said “Wait!” “And I will show you how.” And she showed everyone how to make One deep dish. “There,” said the teacher, “Now you may begin.”

The little boy looked at the teacher’s dish; Then he looked at his own. He liked his better than the teacher’s But he did not say this. He just rolled his clay into a big ball again And made a dish like the teacher’s. It was a deep dish.

And pretty soon The little boy learned to wait, And to watch And to make things just like the teacher. And pretty soon He didn’t make things of his own anymore.

Then it happened That the little boy and his family Moved to another house, In another city, And the little boy Had to go to another school.

The teacher said: “Today we are going to make a picture.” “Good!” thought the little boy. And he waited for the teacher To tell what to do. But the teacher didn’t say anything. She just walked around the room.

When she came to the little boy She asked, “Don’t you want to make a picture?” “Yes,” said the little boy. “What are we going to make?” “I don’t know until you make it,” said the teacher. “How shall I make it?” asked the little boy. “Why, anyway you like,” said the teacher. “And any color?” asked the little boy. “Any color,” said the teacher. And he began to make a red flower with a green stem.

~Helen Buckley, The Little Boy

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Do you have any shading/coloring tips?

Shading:

For starters I use my sketch as line art and then I color a gray base

I then turn down the opacity of the line art to 50%, change to overlay, and then mask to the grey base (the object in the darker gray is in a separate folder)

(Note: I draw with ibispaint just in case that important)

I redraw the eyelashes on a separate layer and color a reddish fade in the corner

Then I create a folder, mask it to the gray base, and color with ether a pen or a lasso fill and I recommend to color anything that is in a different color and touches each other on a separate layer so it’s easier to change later

Also put it all in a folder(or anything equivalent to it) for organization sake

When I start shading I first hide the color so I can see what I’m shading then I identify the light source and paint in something simple

I use the flat watercolor mix 2 brush with the opacity that turned down to about 20% it really depends It gives me more control on how I want the shading to look

With said brush I go back and add more to the shading or erased stuff if needed and also do not worry about keeping perfect or in the line it’s honestly more of a stylistic choice

example:

Also coloring some parts of the line art to lighting color can help make the light look brighter

Some time I add a random splash of color in the shading to make it look more interesting

If the shading color is a cool color, use a warm color and if the shading color is a warm color use cool a color

Coloring:

After I finish shading and lighting and adding background I add a gray scale filter to check if the colors is to similar value if it is I either would darken it or make it lighter to add contrast

When I want the colors to look more brighter I add a overlay layer on the very top and with an airbrush paint over the object with a brighter color of what ever I want brighter

I also add a hue and saturation filter and turn up the saturation a little bit usually about 10% or less

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jeez i love this man and his perfect logic

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Jinx as a spider themed witch

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like i'm sorry but we as a fandom have to stay firm on our anti-AI values. we cannot suddenly start giving AI a pass when it's something we "want to see" like destiel kisses. it's not suddenly fine. we're not going to start using AI to make fanfic scenes come to life or audio AI to make characters "say" stuff we want to hear. you have GOT to be firm on your anti-AI stance. if you start making exceptions then suddenly anything will fly. fandom is for real art and creations made by real people. no AI fanfics. no AI art. no AI rendered "bonus" scenes. no AI audio. none of it has a place here.

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HAPPY ANNIVERSARY ACE ATTORNEY!!!🎊🥳🎉

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remember when jkr went full mask off and started acting evil and hp fans were like "ok we need to think carefully about the stuff we consume, how can we justify enjoying this series, how can we love it without supporting the author? should we try to separate art from artist or should we leave it be? isn't showing solidarity to trans folks more important? if we remain openly fans of this series will it show trans people we aren't safe or trustworthy?"

and then they decided that none of those questions really mattered and they continued to uncritically consume their stupid badly written children's books, and jkr has only gotten more nasty and hateful, and people only hate trans folks more, and now the answer to the last question is invariably YES. I don't trust any goddamn person who still loves Harry Potter in 2024 bc you've decided your nostalgia about a mediocre story written by a bigot is more valuable than the safety and wellbeing of trans people 🫶🖕

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Revenge

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edgeworth and franziska trying to rationalize what they are experiencing as not being a clear-cut example of abuse. he doesn't hit me, so it cannot be abuse. he wants me to be good. he wants me to be as good as him. he is so intelligent, so sharp, it is a great honour for him to have these aspirations for me, to have measured me by the ruler of his house and found me adequate enough to vie for a position under its roof. edgeworth wonders at where his letters go, why the emptiness inside of him grows year by year. franziska gets pulled aside for little conversations: he is not even a von karma and already he has surpassed you in his studies, fool of a girl. years later, they both tense up when they hear the rhythmic tap of a cane. but it cannot be abuse. he is my teacher, my mentor, my next of kin, my father, my emergency contact. he is doing this because he only wants the very best of me. and why should he not? it is not abuse.

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real estate agents taking the piss why even bother uploading a 75 pixel wide floor plan

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