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knock knock

inspired by this tweet

#undertale #papyrus

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drew these beautiful motherfuckers when i was supposed to be finishing an essay,, ngl worth it [img desc in alt text]

#MY HEART... #thank you op its a delight to see art of these 3 #they look so soft here <3 #leverage ot3

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there is something wrong with him

#apollo justice #nice #ace attorney

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Simon baldquill , you agree

#ace attorney #horrible image. i shall reblog and inflict it on my mutuals now #simon blackquill

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#oooh these are very nice #labru #dungeon meshi

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new lbmr manga page cover slaps hard

#so handsome ! #alfendi layton #layton brothers mystery room

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Gumshoe being the only person with enough emotional intelligence to recognize Franziska as a teenager on the verge of a breakdown

#dick gumshoe #ace attorney

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She deserves to be pretty,,, 🌟

#ooh this athena is beautiful ! #love her make up and her big flowing pants ^^ what a nice fit #athena cykes #ace attorney

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Yesterday I talked a lot about the gay subtext in Ace Attorney– it exists, and there's lots of it.

Today, I'm going to talk about the het subtext in Ace Attorney– it exists, and there's lots of it.

Honestly, I could probably end the post there, because that's my whole point.

But I'll elaborate.

I'll elaborate because the Ace Attorney fandom is pretty unique in that a large section of the fandom acknowledges the subtle gay subtext in Ace Attorney, while at the same time absolutely refusing to acknowledge that the blindingly obvious het subtext exists at all, and pretending strongly that it does not.

Headcanons are one thing, but even as slash shippers, we can't actually engage with the text in good faith without accepting that the dominant cultural perspective– the perspective that the narrative assumes and is written with the intention of catering to–  is straight.

An adult, straight, culturally normative audience is who the Ace Attorney is primarily directed at and written by.

Yes, there is deliberate gay subtext in the series. But it's written with the understanding that a queer reading of the text will not be the dominant/majority reading.

The dominant/majority reading of the text, and to a large degree its intention, is a straight one.

We need to accept that, as I said in my post about the gay subtext in the series: 

"Phoenix Wright and Athena Cykes both have obvious subtextually heteronormative romantic partners. To an adult, straight, culturally normative audience, Phoenix Wright and Maya Fey read normatively as an obvious romantic pairing. This is also the case for Athena Cykes and Simon Blackquill. In Great Ace Attorney the same can be said for Ryuunosuke and Susato.

I repeat– to an adult, straight culturally normative audience, the romantic subtext between these characters is clear. If you showed these games to an American movie going public, that would be the obvious read by the audience."

To a culturally normative, adult, straight audience the relationships between Maya and Phoenix and Athena and Simon aren't seen as problematic. They are in fact viewed as the obvious pairing. Male/female age gaps with an older male and a younger female are very often romanticized in heterosexual society, and they are, frankly, romanticized in the text of Ace Attorney, with both Phoenix and Simon being protective toward Maya and Athena.

This is not saying that you have to accept these pairings as canon, or you have to like them. You don't have to at all. You're totally free to reject them and ship other pairings.

The Ace Attorney games are in fact written deliberately without any romantic confirmation so an audience is able to project whatever relationships that they want onto the cast.

But it is not written without romantic subtext. 

A culturally normative audience just naturally assumes that Phoenix and Maya are meant to be together. If you showed the story to an American movie-going public, that would be the obvious, default assumption.

Having gay ships is not the issue here, there's as much subtextual evidence for them as there is for the het ships.

The point is that there is just as much subtextual evidence for het ships.

The issue is that people need to accept that the het subtext is real, and stop pretending that the people who see it are somehow wrong, misguided or outright predatory.

You can't read romantic intentions between Miles and Phoenix's behavior while insisting that the same type of interaction between Athena and Simon is meant to be 100% platonic, or even deliberately sibling-like.

You can't look at official artwork of the characters--such as Maya and Phoenix-- framed in obviously deliberately romantic ways and demand to know what the artwork means. It's meant to be shippy.

You don't have to like het pairings. You don't have to ship het pairings. But you have to admit that het pairings have just as much, if not more, deliberate canon romantic subtext as the gay pairings.

#thank you op #as someone whos liked both the gay and het ships (yes. even if some have issues) since i was a teen #the dynamics of interacting with /witnessing fellow fans discussions has been wild at times. and by that i mean often unpleasant #loved being treated as A Freak for even suggesting i liked some of the het ships or thought the hinted at romance stuff existed in game #to the point of nearly gaslighting myself that i was completely making it up. then talking to het fans or queer ppl not fandom-involved #that were like 'oh is that ship confirmed of is it like narumitsu ? :)' like it was all simple even when it wasnt their cup of tea. #because it could be. sigh #fandom wank

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labru gift art 😘

#ajdkss the panic kabru inside at the end made this comic go from a 10 to a 100 on my 'loving this' scale #this is v good #labru #dungeon meshi

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i lied the compliments are very nice too and im in love with you

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My friend Gia made a request to draw a meme as Van Zieks, so I did

#post with 14k notes in my heart #barok van zieks

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http://www.capcom.co.jp/game/content/gyakuten/regular/comic/287/

 Please read from left-to-Wright! :)

#he's so funny #the judge #maya fey #phoenix wright #ace attorney

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you and me

#WAWAWAWAAA #so SO cool to see them move in your artstyle op.. heartwarming even #farcille #falin thorden #marcille donato #dungeon meshi

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love when characters have to have a domestication arc before you can even consider giving them a redemption arc

#kazuma asougi. to me #the fandom treats him like he was neutered but i dont trust that beast like that

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love it when a nondog baby animal is called a pup anyway

#this is barok's newer puppies (the old ones are his brother's who are now large dogs)

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heyyyyyyy lemme just go back to another hyperfixation of mine real quick

#les tuniques bleues #lmao. mdr even