#ace up your sleeve

[undead-knick-knack]

Always good to have an Ace up your sleeve 🖤🩶🤍💜

[pekabloooop2]

spoilers for chp 2 episode 16 drdt

also tw: images of blood, guns, violence, and death

HOLY

MOTHER

FUCKING

SHIT

WHAT

THE

FUCK

i dont know if i can emotionally recover form this

holy shit this was insane

[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.

[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

[cukrkandl]

aces wild is my one of my all time favorite books and guess what made its way all the way to the czech republic 🥹🥹 and there's an ace pun!

[microwaving-tesilid-argente]

i think i've talked before about how amazingly normal (and respectful) tesilid is towards Ailette for an OI male lead (ie. despite being utterly obsessed with her for aeons, he would never cross a line with her and would ask for consent), but i think we also need to give Reed credit for being pretty normal and respectful too. with regards to Ailette's consent, anyway. for all that he's a homicidal crazy guy trying to destroy the world.

he asks ailette to join him in the abyss and when she says no he's like aw okay, see you next time then <3 he offers ailette a chair and when she says no he doesn't force her. (tesilid doesn't get rights though). ailette goes i already said no i dont want to join you and he's like wait i can change your mind, and when he runs out of time he goes aww okay, i hope you change your mind next time though, ciao <3

like if it were any other OI ailette would be fighting off a confinement arc right now, but reed is just 😭 he just wants to chill with her.

[missmako-chan]

AU WHERE KIRIYA GETS SENT BACK TO THE BEGINNING OF EX-AID BUT EMU NO LONGER EXISTS AND HE'S THE ONLY ONE WHO REMEMBERS HIM

Yes I am aware that Emu not existing literally breaks the whole plot but SHUSH.

I wanna see known liar Kiriya Kujo try and fail to convince the other Riders that Emu ever existed and then go on a mission to stop the Dans from pulling their bullshit and also find a way to bring Emu back. PLEASE. THE ANGST. I WANT TO SEE THE SAD PATHETIC WET BIKE

[wildest-wildcard]

Mod mod mod what if I say it

If it's about the wormies, forget about it /j

[aturnoftheearth]

i like to imagine that i’m spongebob and my destiel mutuals witnessing my 3 year wait for a new lord huron album followed by another 4 month endless yearning and pleading spiral is squidward

[the-radio-cg]

hi daddy!!! ive been drawin and watching a movie (the phantom tollbooth) and coloring and i drew us and the hotel :D

@dreamy-puppy-xo

This, this right here! This is oh-so precious!

I love your art, little fawn!

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

FOR YOUR "MOTÖRHEAD MONDAY" -- IT'S THE THREE AMIGOS AT IT AGAIN...

NOTE: I didn't know which one to post, but one is more saturated than the other, if that's what you're into. Stay HEAVY!

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on English rock 'n' roll band MOTÖRHEAD performing live in Bremen, Germany during the Musikladen TV show on January 15, 1981, from the band's "Ace of Spades" Tour.

"EVERYTHING LOUDER THAN EVERYTHING ELSE!!"

Sources: www.picuki.com/media/2425235435229802012 & Pinterest.

[shubaka]

via beamspy_ on twitter

[shysheeperz]

[dormiloncito]

but i'm a creep.... i'm eduardooo...

[cukrkandl]

happy international asexuality day from marauders and co. in my all-asexual au 💜

on ao3: An Ace Up Your Sleeve, Ace in the Hole, Hold All the Aces, and Other Fitting Asexual Puns

[kenobihater]

AND WHO SAYS GRAVE ROBBING DOESN'T PAY?? THIS BITCH IS SERVING CUNT AND SLAYING ABSOLUTE PENIS!!!!!