#random ace things

[waterthatsmoe]

Lab mishaps with heartshackle trio

[Read R -> L]

[lopsaii]

Ongoing stepladder debate

[egophiliac]

So.... what are your thoughts on Ace's UM, if you haven't been asked this already?

sneaky magic for the sneakiest boy

no but really, I think it fits him really well! I had thought his UM would probably involve something kinda sleight-of-handy or pickpockety! and I looooved that it made such a nice loop-around back to episode 1. ❤️ I was. kind of half-expecting him to just run out and punch Riddle in the nose again. but instead this time 'twas he who offed the queen's head! it was great! and he did it while stone-cold terrified out of his mind! because Ace is the only remotely normal or well-adjusted person at NRC and therefore the only one who is like "we're going to literally die, this is super effed up". but he did it anyway!!!! I AM SO PROUD

[random-dragon-exe]

OK but like how cool would it be if there was a good asexual character that had an ace ring on?

Like, you could totally still show the character being ace and have them say how they feel.

Heck if the character gets a crush on someone (they're alloromantic), it'd be cool to see them question which attraction they are feeling. (Which from what I hear is a common experience for alloromantics)

Bonus points if the character is biromantic/panromantic and they're having a crush on the same or a different gender than before, and ultimately get in a healthy relationship with them.

Like come on, there's room for that!

[random-twst-things]

*Ace, Epel, Grim in the office getting in trouble*

Crowley: So, because you and the perfect count as one student, it would only be fair to punish them as well!

Crowley: Said punishment will be given to you all, of course! You'll all be helping the janitors clean around the school for a month!

Ace: What?!

Epel: Fair?!

Grim: A month?! The hench-human didn't do anything! They're gonna ban tuna for the whole month!!

Crowley: That's unfortunate! But, I am trying to be a fair and reasonable headmage!

Grim: You can't do that to me-! I mean, them!

Ace: Dude, they're gonna kick ours asses for roping them into this!

Epel: We're done for.

Ace: Okay! How about this? You leave the perfect it of this! Don't even tell them!

Ace, leaning in: And the next time there's an anti-drug assembly, I will ask a question....

Epel: Ace, don't! What're you? Crazy??

Ace: Quiet Epel! Quiet!!

Ace, looking serious: I will ask a question of the speaker.

Crowley, taken aback: No one has ever asked a question at assembly...

Ace: I will ask one.

Grim: 😨

Crowley: A real question?

Ace: Yes.

Ace: Not like a, "Can we see your nipple?" kinda question. Like, a real one.

Crowley: Like, "how can I help ensure my school remains drug free"?

Ace: Like, "Who should I tell if I suspect a peer is on drugs?"

Crowley, shocked, hand on chest: Great Seven...

Epel: Ace, no-! No!

Ace: Shut up!

Grim: It's not worth it!!

Ace: Shut up! It's for the perfect! For us!!

Crowley, now serious: You have your deal. And may the seven have mercy on your soul.

Ace, Epel, and Grim: Thank you!

Dividers from/by @/cafekitsune

[scribefindegil]

When you encounter a person who does not do something that you consider normative, you need to understand that they could be either stating a barrier or expressing a boundary. A barrier is "I would like to partake of the normative activity, but I can't due to other factors." A boundary is "I have made a decision not to participate in the normative activity."

Many people do not believe that boundaries actually exist! This is why it's so common to give a clear "No" on an issue and get inundated with people saying "But have you tried-" They can't conceptualize that anyone might actually want to avoid X thing, so they assume that you totally want to do X and you would love X so much if only they could figure out a way around whatever pesky obstacle is getting in your way. But humanity contains multitudes, and for any given experience you consider vital for happiness I promise there are people who are Just Not Interested.

If someone is stating a boundary, do NOT talk about how sad their life must be, and do NOT try to push them! Just accept that their life experience is very different from your own, and isn't that a beautiful thing?

Barriers are different. Barriers suck. With boundaries, the only problem is other people being dicks. With barriers, the problem is the barrier itself . . . and probably, additionally, people being dicks. There's really not a way to win in the people being dicks department when you don't do something that other people have decided is Necessary For Humaning.

If someone is talking about a barrier they face, still don't talk about how sad their life must be, although it's fine to commiserate with a friend if they're complaining. It's hard! Some barriers are pretty insurmountable; the person might not ever get to do X even though they want to. And a lot of people don't believe that this kind of barrier exists either; we're very much taught that you can do anything if you try hard enough, when that is simply not true. If someone tells you that they can't do something, listen to them and respect that.

The only reason for not doing X that people really acknowledge as real are the surmountable barriers. And these are real, but even in these cases you should always assume that the person knows themself best and not give advice unless they've specifically asked for it. But if they have asked, it's chill to try to brainstorm solutions with them.

As someone who has both things going on, it really sucks that people tend to assume that everything is a) a barrier issue and b) that they personally have the solution to it. Don't do this.

The only way you can tell if something is a boundary or a barrier is to listen to people and believe them.

Example:

If you offer someone a drink and they say, "No thanks . . . I haven't really found anything that I like yet," (barrier, potentially surmountable) it is probably cool to ask them if they're open to trying something new, and if they say yes ask about their tastes to try to find a drink they would enjoy! They might like it or they might not.

If you offer someone a drink and they say, "I can't, it interacts with my meds," (barrier, insurmountable) you can say, "Aw, that sucks!" and offer them something nonalcoholic.

If you offer someone a drink and they say, "I don't drink," (BOUNDARY) you should give them a mocktail and shut the fuck up.

[perrigoaway]

Finished Turnabout Serenade with my sisters today and I had to quickly draw this concept (Also an excuse to draw Apollo AND my girl Ema.. love her.) Also I had to draw them mugshots for this THE KISSY FACE IS NOT SERIOUS just like he's not serious.. he'd so pull the Instagram influencer lips..

Slight spoilers below the cut, just in case!

Can you IMAGINE how freaking funny it'd be if you were Daryan, listening in over the headset, only to hear two people talking about "wanted? Nobody wants him!" about your band mate? Ngl if it was me, I'd end up laughing LMAO which would be bad for him considering.. you know. I really enjoy the worsties dynamic Ema and Klavier have because.. it's just hilarious, honestly. I love how she talks trash about him every waking moment, she is waiting for the SECOND she passes her exam and her 2 weeks notice is ON his desk

Joke made by my sister here @abandonedart

[crystallizsch]

DID SOMEONE SAY FILIPINO TWST (no one did it's just me 😔)

below the cut is stock photos of what is a trike/tricycle in the philippines (what they’re riding on) if you're unfamiliar!! and also some rambling about my heartshackle trio ;;;

i referenced the one on the left, there's usually supposed to be a screen where ace is popping out (and also i think deuce would prefer riding the one on the right where it's an actual motorcycle and not just a bike)

i like to think that the trio found this tricycle trashed and broken somewhere and they tried to fixed it up so they could all take a ride on it

ace and deuce kinda fought who’ll be the first to ride it and deuce only won because they all agreed deuce was the one who actually knew (for the most part) how to fix the thing

++++ some more concepts/hcs between them in this au(???) 😳

all three of them are childhood friends who grew up in the same neighborhood and went to the same elementary school. unfortunately in high school they ended up in different schools, but they all still remained close friends 🥹

grim exists but as a regular cat who “belongs” to yuuna (yuuna was just grim’s favorite out of the three). technically he’s just a neighborhood stray, yuuna can’t really keep him as a pet at home (and neither can ace/deuce) but somehow grim keeps finding the heartshackle trio whenever they’re all together. and so grim just became part of the group.

yuuna has a physical album of photos dedicated to all the times they go to jollibee. they take a photo with the jollibee statue every single time they all go there.

[wynjara]

Someone asked me today why ace/aro folk are part of the queer community and my tired brain could only come up with "Because society tells us we're doing it wrong too."

Because that's part of it, it feels like. Oh, you're doing love wrong. Oh, you're doing gender wrong. Oh, you're wrong you're wrong you're wrong.

We exist despite chunks of the world hating that. And that is something we can all share.

[brodorokihousuke]

Ace Attorney may suffer from an absolutely inane amount of character/plot bloat, but the one kind of cool thing that results from that is the absolute variety contained within the fandom.

Every single character has their ardent fans, and there are people obsessed with every single plot beat, main plot relevance be damned. I know it definitely feeds into infighting (how dare you not care about/care about [insert plot/character here], etc) but when people are civil it makes this a really fun fandom to be a part of.

[obeymetournaments]

And the winner of the Asexual Swag Tournament is...

Leviathan!

winning with 51.6% of the votes, this has been one of the closest finals we've had on this blog so far! it was a very close call as the votes waffling between the two throughout the poll, but Levi inevitably pulled through and won another crown in these tournaments! i am so proud of this asexual pathetic meow meow <3

thank you to all who participated in this; i hope you all had fun with this one!

[thou-babbling-brook]

Kind of a fucked up thing to post on Valentine’s Day all things considered but that was unintentional tbh

[lucky-whispers]

sometimes I think about the possibility of Yuu returning home, and think about soldiers. I've heard that after the war, when soldiers came home, they were treated normally. After all, their families were just happy they were alive right? But they didn't understand that war changes a person.

And that's when I think about Yuu, who had gone through all the overblots, has scars left from that time and this time, has been manipulated and tricked by almost everyone ever, and they get home- but their parents just aren't that comforting anymore. their favorite foods taste a bit bland now, and sometimes they wait for their friends to come running with danger on their coat tails. they prepare for the worst, always in a constant state of tension, sort of how horror movies have that killer suspense-

and they break over the smallest things, because that's what happens when a soldier comes home traumatized.

[ace-and-the-rpg-horrors]

honestly thank GOODNESS Niko has an interest in explicit manga because if she didn't you just KNOW that a certain percentage of the fandom would have infantilised her SO much for being a bubbly and sweet East Asian girl due to odd stereotypes

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

Ok, I think I have a pretty good idea of why a lot of Akechi's dialogue is... like that.

So, even before his confidant truly started, I noticed that he has a real knack for directing the flow of a conversation. This is very fitting for someone who is both a detective and skilled at interviews - when there is a topic and a goal, Akechi is in his element.

All this to say, he's actually kind of controlling when it comes to conversational flow. He probes for information, or turns the conversation around to a particular topic, usually the Phantom Thieves. He manages to take a few of Joker's dialogue options and spin them so they sound mildly incriminating in the context he's placed them in - the only way to truly get around this is to pick answers that feign indifference, and even then, that's more than a bit telling. He's clearly very good at this kind of thing.

But then, we get conversations where either Joker does something he didn't expect, or else he doesn't have a particular goal in mind - and the conversation stutters. In the first instance, Joker does something (a particularly egregious example is putting his glasses on him and fluffing his hair in rank 3) which both leaves him wrong-footed and no longer in perfect control of the situation. He just kind of... freezes, for awhile. It's hilarious. He has no idea how to respond.

He picks up control again in the phone call afterwards, having chosen to play into it, turning this "fooling the crowds" into a kind of game or secret between them. Nice save.

But in instances where there isn't an obvious topic and the goal is somewhat nebulous, for instance, that one Leblanc scene, it becomes pretty apparent that Akechi doesn't have the right "script" to go off of. Again, it's particularly notable in that scene, because I'm fairly sure he didn't have any specific reason to be at Leblanc, other than him looking for a quiet spot now that public opinion has turned on him. And because there isn't anything specific he's digging for, he kind of just ends up throwing things at the wall to see what will stick. Probing for any kind of recognizable reaction that he can jump on and work with, and that just doesn't really happen in this scene.

He references Sae, a woman in a respectable position, to Sojiro, but instead of that netting a welcome, it earns his ire, given Sae's recent actions against him. He then tries to greet Joker, his... rival? friend? enemy? person who at least seems to somewhat enjoy spending time with him? But Joker's responses are somewhat short, and Akechi practically wilts. He tries to commiserate by oversharing. He tries to involve Futaba and reaches out for the only topic of interest he can think of around "young people". He compliments the coffee. He compliments Joker. He tries to invoke that connection between them. None of it is really sticking, nor does it serve as a jumping off point for him to steer the conversation, or even really start one.

So, he basically just ends up having a one-sided chat with himself and then leaves. Hilarious. Also a little sad, if I'm being honest. It's really giving "guy with no friends who only knows how to speak to adults" energy. If there's no specific purpose to the exchange, or he is not in control of its direction, he seems to be kind of out of his depth. He succeeds only in being a little awkward and confusing, more than anything.

[random-twst-things]

*Riddle, about to collar Ace*

Trey, trying to intervene: Riddle, you have to be the bigger person in these situations.

Mc/Y/N/Yuu, who was listening in: He can't, he's only 5'2.

Ace: HAHA-!

Cater, who was also listening in: PFT-!

Trey, exasperated (grinning very slightly): At this point, you're all going to be collared 😮‍💨

Dividers from/by @/cafekitsune