dariosapainting

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Adobe is going to spy on your projects. This is insane.

Made a little Kay Faraday edit for funzies and boredom. Just a slight change but I think it still looks neat :]

Should I do more of these?

This idea was too good to pass up

I made it a little sketchy on purpose, I love the sillies <33

godot in maid dress mia in butler's suit send tweet

Lemme just say I apologize for the lack of art my motivation is kicking mah ASS 🙏

BUT!! I AM working on something for my self insert sooo stay tuned!! 👀

When you click on the gif the quality is better promise

Mah boi Ayumu lookin bootiful 😭

This video itself is art, GO ARTISTS AND ART DEFENDERS!!! 🙏 ❤️ 🎨

I stayed up way too late making this.

Presenting... Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney — The AI Art Case

Took two days to make this stupid shit but honestly I'm proud of myself!

I really like to think of them all hanging out and practicing for shows n stuff, man If I could rewrite some of these characters I would 😭 (Also don't hate but I fucking LOVE Ben and Trilo they are my second favorites in this case next to Moe)

Original audio: https://youtube.com/shorts/Qx2gvoZmCOM?si=jfLHNokCW1M4AHbM

Uncle Gumshoe!

I Am Not Your Asian American Doll: a comic for AAPI Heritage Month 2023

I usually spend a lot of time editing and fine-tuning my comics so that they come across as polite and inoffensive. But honestly, I’m really tired of the way Asian cultures and countries are treated / talked about while Asian people themselves are excluded, and thought it was about time I really let my rage out lol.

id in alt

I just reminded myself while getting back into my puppet phase that I genuinely love the ENTIRE CONCEPT of the Turnabout Big Top characters, I just wish they were done better. I'm not gonna get too in depth cause it's night and I'm small brained BUT!!!

For example: I ABSOLUTELY LOVE BEN AND TRILO AS A CONCEPT!! An anxiety ridden preformer who can only express themselves through a character they play as which is a complete parallel to them?? I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THAT!! The execution? Eeeeeeeehhhhh...

Yes 3-2 might be one of the lowest 3rd cases in the franchise for MANY reasons..I can't deny that I don't ENTIRELY hate the case, it just couldve been better. I'm a BIG circus guy and I was so exited to see all of the characters!! (I still wanna throw hammers at Max and Ben but my point still stands <3)

Here's some doodles from when I finished the case to cleanse the mind :] (Can you guess who my favorite is?-)

this is one full piece but split cause I took separate pics

"Despite his usually relaxed attitude, he's rather a harsh critic when it comes to art, possibly due to his time as an art student, to the point of openly mocking his friends' art pieces"

the world needs to know what a bitch Phoenix can be when it comes to art and for that i respect him

franziska coming around on phoenix as she grows older and finally admits her harshness was never his fault but instead her jealousy that he could stand next to edgeworth, who always felt so far out of her reach and would never return her love (not romantic just deep admiration and respect) the way he clearly did phoenix's

she finally "concedes defeat" and treats phoenix with kindness and without any expectation of reciprocation because doing so is the most pure act of love she can do for miles. and since she's finally accepted that love should be given without expecting anything in return, that it be unconditional, she is also finally able to open up to receive love in ways she never expected and realized she needed. 

phoenix, being who he is, forgives like everything is a fresh start, and his warmth completely knocks her off her feet and everything is suddenly clear to her. "ah. this is why he loves him. this is why i could never do what he did."

and suddenly, phoenix is her big brother. not little brother like miles but genuinely sincerely the figure in her life she should have had all along. her father had trauma bonded her to miles and she had no other guiding mentors, but now she has big brother phoenix.

miles has no idea when this happened. he doesn't understand at all how his little sister, who chided and harassed this man he loved, suddenly stopped looking down on him and began looking up to him. he's grateful, her approval of his partner means more than he'll ever be able to say, but he's lost. 

phoenix gets it. he does not tease her the way he does maya because he knows how prized and vulnerable and fragile and valuable the kindness of franziska von karma is, how it should be cherished as the priceless gemstone it is. 

they bicker. they have different tastes in music and art. they debate like two old men in the box seats of a theatre. but the barbs are a love language. the attacks lack their old spite and volatility. it is a choreographed dance rather than a spar. sometimes, people forget that miles was the one she had been raised with.

when phoenix and miles marry, franziska dances with each of them in lieu of the parent-child dance. she leads miles, but she lets phoenix lead her. 

he thanks her and promises he will take care of miles the way she had for so many years. she smiles and admits "i know."

I absolutely love Mimi Miney as a character she's one of my many favorite culprits

Will you lose yourself in your grief?

I feel like no one takes about these tragic sisters man. I feel like both mimi and iris have to deal with looking like their dead sisters for the rest if their lives and absolutely no one talks about it

“kids spend too much time on their devices” well what else are they supposed to do? there’s no corner shops with pinball machines in them on every corner anymore. there’s no malls or stores in small towns for teens to hang out in without being suspected of shoplifting or kicked out for loitering. sidewalks are too broken for them to ride their bikes and there’s no bike lane in the street to make it safe for them. i just don’t understand where they expect these kids to go when they keep taking places away from them. and yes having no safe public places for them is what leads a lot of teens into addiction if they end up at a place where people aren’t truly looking out for them.

happy autism awareness day to all the girls who had “ friends” growing up who were actually bullying them . to the girls who always sat alone in the grass and wondered why nobody wanted to talk . to the girls who spoke to animals like they were listening . to the girls who created a little world in their room . to the girls who always felt ashamed for how deeply they love things and how passionately they enjoyed media . to the girls who covered their ears when they were overwhelmed by everything . to the girls who carrying a special thing around to feel safe . to the girls who never understood what they did wrong to feel so lonely . to the girls who were diagnosed later in life because they weren’t little boys who liked trains. you are so special and beautiful and you’re not worse for it, you love deeply and that is so wonderful please never try to push that down . I LOVE YOU !!!!!

Genuinely mad that Mia is always being cut out the box art

what the fuck Capcom

i hate how much i like this au

bonus gaa/phantom blood sketches. idk anything abt gaa

I need more Missle content I wanna see the two take care of him I think it'd be so cute 😭 😭 💚 ❤️

They’re sooooooooo cute I like to head canon they take care of Pess too (Miles’s Pomeranian)

Am I the only one who saw this line and thought of Uncle Rodger?

Imma just say rq that I'm so glad i finished this case, it was getting pretty tiring but it was still entertaining and i CANT WAIT for the next one

“Hey, wanna go to the mall today?”

a personal challenge to see how many characters/references I could fit into one picture, could definitely still do more!

Edit-For everyone asking how long it took, 2 weeks of planning and a little less than month to draw/edit (I work fast)

On god

I was listening to some Ace Attorney soundtrack while reading YouTube comments, and I often see people commenting about how the entire franchise wouldn't have happened if it weren't for DL - 6. Which is true, that incident was the catalyst for a huge amount of events, however...

An special comment caught my attention. Perhaps, it's not DL-6 the reason behind majority of events.. but rather, IS-7.

Because if that incident didn't happen, DL-6 wouldn't have either.

The day Gregory died was when he inflicted a penalty in von Karma's perfect record, and that was during Jeffrey Master's trial (or wtvr his official name is, I personally played the fan translation). If IS-7 never happened, that trial wouldn't have aswell. Gregory wouldn't have gone against von Karma for a whole year, he wouldn't have shattered his perfect record and, therefore, there would be "no price for him to pay".

Perhaps, it wasn't von Karma the great genius behind all of Ace Attorney's events, bur rather Dane Gustavia.

CAN ANYONE FUCKING HEAR ME?

YOU ARE SO RIGHT 😭

Hey Capcom when are we having the Ace Attorney Investigations Anime

Used an Edgeworth reaction image in a discord conversation earlier and it made me think of this…. It was too perfect not to.

It's so annoying that to so much of the fandom Mia is just "boobs" or "girlboss", she's got so much more going on:

-She really struggles to remember people's names which often causes people to doubt her engagement despite genuinely caring and engaging with their situation and the case (she's just like me fr I really struggle with names (for probably autism reasons) and people really don't like that).

-She has a tendency to just not talk to people about things, especially about herself or her life. depending on when you think Mia actually started mentoring Phoenix he was a significant part of her life for at least a year and probably since 3-1, yet he only meets Maya and learns about spirit channeling after Mia dies, she never mentioned Lana either, or Diego, or DL-6, and this isn't just to Phoenix, she never told Maya about Diego either and it's vague how much Lana actually knows about her, hell it's vague how much Diego actually knew about her, maybe Grossberg only told him about DL6 and the Fey clan after he wakes up from his coma. Ultimately she isolated herself from everyone in her life to some extent and it's kinda part of how she died, no-one knew the danger she was in and she didn't want people to know.

-Her ineptitude with technology. Phoenix and Maya also have this, but I feel like Mia's and Maya's are so linked to their background in the fey clan, they were raised in a society and culture where they didn't have access to these things and integrating into broader society comes with difficulties.

-Her entire life and career is just things repeatedly going wrong and her being fucked over: DL-6, her disaster of a first trial, Diego being poisoned and just as she's about to try and finally put Redd White behind bars he finds out and kills her. She had shit hand after shit hand and was basically doomed from the start, but yet she persisted and she fought for what she believed and for the people she cared about and to make the world a better place, and everything good that Phoenix manages to do throughout PWT is thanks to Mia and everything she worked for, she laid the foundations for a better world for the ones she loved that she wouldn't get to live in and yet I think if she knew that it would all end this way from the start she'd do it all over again. I think a little part of me thinks that some part of her hoped White would kill her so there was something definitive to pin him with (which comes with some darker implications for how well she was dealing with life).

-Mia has such an interesting relationship to the legal system and her own sense of justice. So much of her experience with the law is with it failing her, repeatedly. DL-6 is a disaster that stripped her mother from her, her first trial ends in the clearly guilty party that murdered her client getting away with it, her boyfriend's murder goes unsolved from the same murderer who she dedicates the next 8 months to taking down, and then there's 1-2, her own murder trial. Mia has again worked for years to try and get this man convicted, the deeply corrupt legal system making it a near insurmountable task, then in the last stretch he murders her. The police immediately just try to brush it under the rug, blame her sister and get the trial over with. Grossberg is too afraid of White to defend Maya and Edgeworth is a slimy piece of shit the entire trial. When Phoenix finally finds the clearly guilty White, he simply makes a few calls and her understudy is the prime suspect. White goes up on the stand and just repeatedly comes up with any old blatant nonsense and excuses and no matter how many times and how much work goes into Wright picking apart every mistruth and detail and how many pieces of evidence he shows nothing will convict White, the court is completely corrupt, you'll never be able to defeat him within the system. So, what happens? Mia and Phoenix have to work outside the established rules, even working outside the rules of death itself. White is only defeated after Mia straight up blackmails him into confessing, and yet this is more justice than working within the law ever would allow them. Mia also only gets Dahlia through pushing the law to it's breaking point, she was a step away from being disbarred. I feel like it's easy to see her as a strong believer in the law but if you really look at it, to her, the law is not sacred or worthy of much reverence, if something is unjust, to hell if it's legal, she will try and reach justice no matter what.

-Look I may be projecting my woke onto the game a little bit but I can't help but feel the routine misogyny Mia faces in both the cases we play as her in T&T is more than just "a product of it's time" and more showing misogyny as an extension of the system being rigged against her.

Loooong post but there's so much going on with Mia.

this one's still relevant right

Ace Attorney Doodles!!!

Love drawing out posts that I associate with characters

Also drew Phoenix and Miles original portraits, mostly because I’m obsessed with Phoenix’ weird kitten face (I’m not crazy it does look kitten like right???)

An essay about Iris Hawthorne

So I will preface this by saying that I am not an Iris hater but she never sat right with me after Bridge to the Turnabout. I'm a biased Narumitsu shipper but I do entertain other ships (helllllloooooo Langworth) but I couldn't get behind Feenris for a few reasons.

She's a victim, yes, but she's complicit as an accessory to crimes. We last see her serving time for covering up the murder of Misty Fey but this is just the one that caught up with her. There's been at least two times she was at least privy to Dahlia's crimes (the fake kidnapping plot, Valerie's murder, Diego's poisoning) but the real issue in my mind is that she did nothing after the fact.

Firstly, she could have spoken up after the kidnapping plot but did not. We could give her the benefit of the doubt and say that she didn't know that Dahlia was even alive, or that she could plead ignorance to what actually happened, but this is only the first incidence in a damning thread. Also, she still could have at least passed information along that suggested the kidnapping was not all that it seemed, given that Dahlia had tried to recruit her. And, if she believed Dahlia to be dead, what was stopping her from speaking out?

Secondly, and I'm putting her deception during her relationship with Phoenix to the side here for a second, why didn't she do anything when he was arrested for a murder he didn't commit? It's hard to be generous here because Iris was privy to all of Dahlia's plans (Violet, Fawles, Diego Armando) except the one involving Phoenix, but that's only because Dahlia kept her in the dark intentionally because Iris would have sabotaged it. However, she had to have been aware of what happened in the aftermath. Doug Swallows was murdered and Dahlia was, once again, at the center of it all. It was Mia, not Iris, who saved Phoenix. There's no evidence to suggest Iris was somehow unable to take action because she just went back to Hazakura afterwards. She never provides any excuse as to why she failed Phoenix when he needed her the most.

Now, back to Phoenix, here's where it gets fun. I am going to posit that her falling in love with Phoenix and wanting to protect him from Dahlia is for her benefit, not his. This is also, ironically, the first time Iris does something selfish. She fell in love with him and wouldn't let Dahlia kill him, but that's because for the first time in her life she wanted something. But I can't accept this protectiveness as romance. If she wanted what was best for him, she would have done something, anything either before this point or at the time of his arrest even if it meant getting into trouble. She, once again, chose to obscure the truth and instead did nothing.

Further to that, I can't accept her actions at Bridge to the Turnabout as anything but self-serving. She continued to hide the truth until it was presented to her. It was only at the eleventh hour that she confessed she loved Phoenix all along. It doesn't exactly inspire much confidence in her motives.

Now, all of this actually makes her a more interesting character in my eyes, so again, this isn't an Iris hate essay. She's tricky to get right in a Narumitsu context but here's a shameless plug to my story if you want to see my take on it: https://archiveofourown.org/works/63292576/chapters/162138757

aa x voicaloid posting plus gumworthies at the end