#IN MY DEFENSE they look similar

[uncanny-tranny]

Learning to internalize the message above, but art is in all of our bones. If you feel afraid to create art because it won't be "good enough," it's worth it to explore why you feel that fear. Creating art is one of the basic impulses of people, and if you want to create art, then you absolutely must.

#art #positivity #described images #image description in alt #i'm like 80% sure that's a lynx but i've never seen one irl #i'm going to weld this meme into my brain as i start crochet #maybe i have seen a lynx at the zoo actually. but that's beside the point and i haven't been to a zoo in years (sad!) #the zoos in my state are actually from what i understand VERY high-end and VERY good with their animals #which definitely makes me more willing to support them <3 #i have been informed this is not a lynx btw #IN MY DEFENSE they look similar #thank GD tumblr unlike twitter lets you edit alt text. staff was real af for that (rare compliment i have for staff)

[devildomwriter]

Yo, not me managing to make a typo when I can’t even type

#obey me nightbringer #they look super similar in my defense

[mitamicah]

Still can't believe they actually reuinted 🥺💚💜Also gotta love that bisexual lighting :3 💙 💜 💗

They prompted me to render my first drawing in this style for almost a month and in my opinion this is a pretty alright first fully rendered Bojan and Käärijä piece ^V^

Here are some progress pictures to the curious :3 💚

#I decided to edit a bit in photoshop as well which is why the last progress and the finished result is looking sort of similar #also experimented with the shading a bit which in turn colours my normally black outline #I am pretty happy with it #I know I am late to the drawing fanart of the reunion train #in my defense I did submit some fanart of it earlier - this just has taken me longer to finish xD #bojan cvjeticanin #käärija #jere pöyhönen #joker out #esc #esc2023 #tavastia #mine #my own art

[smoozie]

...life series ace attorney au?

colour me intrigued.

I've already explained the jist of it here and expanding on some defense/prosecutor duos I enjoy here

I am so excited to talk abt this!! Feel free to ask more questions! I'm using this ask as an excuse to talk abt design ideas regarding the lawyers!

Starting off with Gem, whose design I've already finished!! She has a similar silhouette to Apollo's angsty Dual Destinies design with her (green) jacket over her shoulders because of the shawl(?) In her hc10 skin and witch skin. I gave her a white button up with a yellow tie since a lot of her skins have yellow/gold accents. I also gave her a corset because of the corset for her empires skin (now sure what season, I haven't watched her empires u-u). I've given her a single glove as a reference to her hc10 skin and to Athena's single glove, since I think Athena and her share some fun similarities. Finally she has some grey pants (Capcom give these lawyer women pants!!) And brown dress boots.

Unfortunately, Gem's design was the easiest for me! I'm trying to keep the defense side relatively simple as you'll notice in aa they tend to be (rip Athena). I don't want everyone in a basic suit tho so I am trying to mix things up a bit. Would love some suggestions! As for the others, I have some ideas

Scott's S1 Empires skin is actually perfect! It's that multicolored tunic that could easily be depicted as a suit jacket with a white dress shirt underneath. Could be fun to mess around with what kind of shirt he's in or a neck accessory besides a tie. Other than that I haven't got much for him. Ace attorney lawyers also tend to be strongly color coded, so a multicolored suit may break that aa feel, but uh it's more fun <3. I may end up playing around with the colors anyway.

Mumbo's design is actually the easiest. I had more fun with Gem, hence why she was done first, but Mumbo is already wearing his ace attorney suit design lol. I kinda want to play around with it a bit more, but I may end up settling on his self imposed aa design.

Scar has an extremely unique problem for me where he actually has too many fun lawyer-adjacent skins. Particularly his hc8 and limited life skins. They are both very iconic to me but would be difficult to actually mesh into one deisgn. Additionally I ADORE the color pallette of his secret life skin (og, but red is good too) but I'm not sure if I could include it. Altogether Scar is the hardest!! If I pick one route I feel like I'm losing so many possibilities! And I don't want to just copy one skin of his, like Gem I want their to be numerous references to different skins. May have to study the aa wiki defense attorneys to get some better in-universe outfit ideas.

I've been having some trouble with Grian as I wanted to include his iconic sweater without breaking the prosecutor vibe. The prosecution tends to have more wild or whimsical (see Nahyuta) designs. However, I think Grian may end up on the more simple side of the prosecutor spectrum, Edgeworth is a more simple prosecutor anyway and Grian is Edgeworth-adjacent. Come to think of it tho, his poultry man skin looks stupidly similar to Gregory Edgeworth. Could do smth with that maybe hmmm.

Etho's design is actually pretty straightforward from his skin. And he only has one to work with haha. What I'm picturing looks a lot like Godot's outfit, he even has a mask on lol. I'm probably gonna try to make it pretty unique, but it is hard to resist the urge to just turn those sleeves into a button up and that green into a suit vest.

Joel is one I'm trying to play around with more. I've perused his skins and haven't had any stand out as super lawyer-y. His default is fun enough to work with tho! Gem's comment of his weird vest thing as a corset is making me consider giving him a corset (he and Gem can match!). I'm trying to distinguish him from Shrek as much as possible while still keeping recognizable elements from his default. All in all I think he'll be fun.

CLEO oh BOY am I excited for Cleo. I'm thinking a lot of Franziska's silhouette with Cleo, focussing on extravagant sleeves, particularly relating to that blue dress skin of Cleo's. I'm also thinking of Nahyuta's detailing. Cleo's skins, to me, give the perfect amount of inspo without spelling anything out. I'll probably stick to her usual color pallette, but playing around with her 80s skin colors could be fun! Cleo is very exciting for me!

Finally, Pearl. When it comes to Pearl's design, her top aa influence is Barok van Zieks. I adore his cape and would really like to use it as a reference to scarlet Pearl. I also really like his soldier-esc getup underneath it, and while I wouldn't go as heavy handed with it, I am tempted to take some bits. I also really like Lana Skye for Pearl as a design reference, but mostly for her sprites. Pearl will not be crazy corrupt like her, but I would like to draw some parallels

#on a fun side note I realized after my post the other day when I mentioned Scott being rather calm for a defense #he's like Kristoph #like obvi there are other calmer defense than our main cast #but he is given me very similar vibes to Kristoph #I think the fact he has Jimmy as a co-counsel contributes to this #smooziespeaks #ask #dragonanswers #life series #trafficblr #traffic smp #life smp #Hey if ur just finding this and didn't look at my og posts and are upset I didn't include ur fav in this au #I DID #I only mentioned defense/prosecution in this podt #if ur fav isn't here they are either co-counsel detective or Martyn #Martyn being the judge lmao #ALSO #I know in the body here I mentioned Gem's silhouette was reminiscent of Apollo's in dd #this is because his dd inspired the suit jacket on the shoulders look #but her silhouette is ACTUALLY more like Sebastian Debeste's #I just forgot he had that jacket until now

[thevirginslvt]

at the tender age of 12 i developed a huge crush on seedeater but not in a twinkified/anime version way. i wanted the monster

#monster fucker #creepypasta #seed eater #seedeater #the creepypastas to slashers/monsters pipeline #in my defense it look similar to mitachurls and everyone agrees those are hot right??? #right…???

[fluffypotatey]

Sorry for making my first question about Júhua about shadowpeach, but I'm obsessed. She knows about macaques entire codependent mess towards wukong cause of shadowplay (enjoyed the fic where she read him filth). But does she know about wukong's side? She known him a long time, but wukong doesn't really talk about himself or his failed relationships

no yeah, i know i mention it very briefly in the series but swk is pretty tight lipped when it came to discussing past relationships with her. mostly because a lot of their time together was during his 500 year punishment and he was coping horribly :) like all she would get is vague stories that swk could never finish and always had this bittersweet expression

also, literally the day they met was right after swk and Macky’s fight (such a fun introduction to the monkey king her mother was previously hyping up before lmao) so he was even more reticent in sharing that can of worms. especially when Júhua and her mother overheard the tail end of the fight

so Júhua knows that Macky meant something to swk but the specifics are still vague to her. is she able to read between the lines? yes, but she would still like to hear it from swk whenever he’s comfortable

#her mother knew tho mostly bc she asked and prayed more than Júhua did #and…….the mother was the one to bring Macky to the Diyu (she felt it was kinder) #also while the (now) old memory is fuzzy to her . Júhua remembers how visceral and heightened the emotions were during that fight #even while a kid she knew that SWK’s bittersweet look always meant he was thinking of that ‘other monkey’ & she couldn’t help #but get upset for swk even tho she didn’t have all the information at the time. she still will get defensive about it even after swk told #her about the war with Heaven and the brotherhood and she DID read jttw so she’s got plenty of info #but also another reason why Macky can sometimes get to her is because she’s been in a similar position (different circumstances and #separate reasons but similar enough to see the writing on the wall) and Júhua still has trouble reconciling with that past #but yeah #also don’t be worried anon about asking for shadowpeach and my oc #these are things i have spiraled over for months lmao #also i’m glad you’re enjoying the series! The shadowplay one was a lot of fun to write 🥰 #lmk #asks #shadowpeach #lmk oc #húang júhua (黄菊花) #swk & the reaper fic series

[broken-clover]

Alright well today I learned that Aleks Le has been in Strive this whole time and I didn't figure it out until someone on twitter literally spelled it out for me. Not my finest moment but I can accept that embarrassment if it means Anji gets to go beast mode

#look in my defense hes the only one that uses a pseudonym I had no reason to doubt anything #I thought it sounded similar but still... #op back on her bullshit

[wife-beam]

my scum villain secrets are that when i first read it i didn’t interpret any of lqg’s behavior as romantic until the succubus extra went “hey wouldn’t this be So fucking funny” and that i also didn’t interpret sqh as like, a self aware gay man until people said so dbsjfkkd

me after 80 chapters of sqq’s issues: damn another one?

#in my defense #sqh’s attraction to mbj IS super evident but it’s also paired with his deep gender envy of mbj’s masculinity #so i figured he had similar issues as sqq LMAO #like it’s not that i didn’t think he was gay i just didn’t think he knew this about himself #every one else: sqh’s gay pov was such a relief after sqq’s bullshit #me looking up from the book: AH?

[fionnaskyborn]

THE IPOD IS WORKING

I REPEAT

THE IPOD

IS WORKING

#OKAY CONTEXT A FEW MONTHS AGO I BOUGHT AN IPOD CLASSIC‚ THE A1238 MODEL FROM 2007 TO BE EXACT #ON THE FLEA MARKET FOR THREE EUROS #THIS BAD BABY IS CAPABLE OF STORING EIGHTY GIGS OF MUSIC ON IT #TROUBLE IS‚ I WAS IN TOO MUCH SHIT TO GO LOOKING FOR A CABLE I COULD ATTEMPT TO CHARGE IT WITH #(the people at the flea market in my hometown are usually very honest about whether or not a piece of tech is working but i'll always have #my doubts until i see for myself) #TODAY I FINALLY MANAGED TO BRING MYSELF TO GO TO MY FAVORITE TECH STORE AND AFTER SOME DIGGING THEY ACTUALLY FOUND A 30-PIN CABLE #(it took them a while because the younger of the two dudes who were in the shift didn't exactly know what he was looking for. he brought a #package to the older guy and he said ''that's a samsung cable.'' in his defense‚ that cable and the actual 30-pin are incredibly similar in #shape so i don't blame him lmao‚ it was an honest mistake) #and i plugged that bad boy in tonight and NOT ONLY IS IT GIVING SIGNS OF LIFE (CHARGING)‚ IT SENT ME RIGHT TO THE MENU SCREEN AS SOON AS IT #GOT TO A CERTAIN PERCENTAGE!!!!! HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #NOW I FINALLY HAVE THE MOTIVATION TO GO THROUGH MY ENTIRE YOUTUBE DOC AND EXTRACT EVERY SINGLE SONG I'VE LISTENED TO IN THE PAST THREE YEAR #(that's as far as they date the watch history logs‚ sadly - they start deleting them after some point so everything before late 2020 is los #to time‚ but fortunately enough there is PLENTY left!) #CAN I GET A HELLLLLL YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH BABYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY #logs #I AM IMMEASURABLY HAPPY ABOUT THIS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[godsmightandmortalsmold]

I know this is probably one of the worst ways to come back to this blog but

For every single reason under the sun, this is a joke

I promise

Probably

#LOOK I WANTED TO DO SOMETHING to spite all the people who keep making asura and kratos fight #when we know those two would at LEAST recognize they got similar struggles #in my defense it seems everyone's okay with Kratos getting it on with anyone so uh LET ME LIVE!! #poor ethan bro JEGFH #kratos #asura #ethan winters #digital art

[bakso-goreng]

monstrosity 2.0

YOU SEE IT RIGHT????

#ddlc #doki doki literature club #in my defense i was looking at the ddlc promotional poster and thought it looked like the mean girls one #theres probably other similar posters but mean girls was the first to come to mind #its because of the pink #definitely the pink

[jattendschaton]

so there is an actress I follow on Instagram who posted a story of some artwork she had on her walls and she had a Ladynoir print! And I recognized the Ladynoir print! I already followed the artists and they're relatively small—only a thousand followers or so—and I thought it was so cool that this actress with 6m+ followers had their artwork on her walls! So I send the story to their DMs explaining that it's their artwork in the photo and how cool that is before realizing that, while the artwork looks very similar, it is not...the exact same...

Of course, I immediately try to unsend the message, but Instagram won't let me! There is no unsend option! Apparently you can only unsend a message after the person has accepted the message (WHY??) and just deleting the whole conversation on your end does nothing to delete it on theirs.

I feel like I am fully going insane at this point, I'm so embarrassed and anxious I feel sick, so I make my roommate do a series of experiments with me on her own IG account so I can figure out a workaround to get these messages deleted. Long story short, I have now blocked an artist I really like and can never unblock them lest my embarrassing messages become known :')

#bean talks #this is so stupid and so mild #but i genuinely was freaking the fuck out about it as soon as I realized I was wrong about the artwork #in my defense it's just one print on her walls that were filled with prints! #so the camera was very far away and the artwork was small #and the print really did look similar to this other artist's :' :' :' they even had a butterfly in like the exact same position #i was SO confident #and this is why i should never be allowed to be confident about anything ever!!!!! #anyway I guess I could unblock/refollow the artist after a day because the story will have disappeared by then #so they'll never know my shame of being stupid and wrong #but honestly i think i just have to take the L here and pretend I never existed #my first thought was honestly i should just delete the whole account so this is less dramatic than that at least #sorry artist if you got a notification of a dm that you will never see #it's better this way

[sunglassesmish]

i’m tracking down the tie misha wore in this picture

so if anyone can help i appreciate it 😭

#i found jensen’s on one of those instagram pages #now i’m looking at the company’s website to see if misha’s is there too #because the ties look so similar #yes i am spending my time at 4am doing this but in my defense:

[leafatlaw]

i should not have gone in the rvb tag (theres spoilers in there)

#in my defense i was shown the triplets epsiode and have not been able to stop thinking about them since #The tripletsssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss #i miss them :(((( #looking through fandom playlists and theres alot of good stuff here #and - im realizing i can just use most of my freney songs for grif and simmons #because i have a type in ships i like #ive got to get my partner into hlvria #its soooo similar to rvb rain would love it #(guy who just wants someone to talk to about their fav machinima show) #sparrrow speaks

[fenraheart]

whenever I see a drawing sometimes I’m like “oh! My podcast blorbo with no physical description!” and then i check the tags and it’s not them

other times I’m like “who is this” and I check the tags and it IS them

there’s no winning

#tma #woe.begone #ok but in my defense someone drew some characters that look VERY similar to how ppl draw jmart lmao

[lockedtowers]

seeing ppl in the tags super used to the j/apperwock(y) in b/urton's alice and then getting mad at how 'ugly' the s/yfy version is is absolutely hilarious to me bc the s/yfy version is literally just lifted from the original illustrations

#its like am/erican m/cgee's only he added a few things to it #it originally WAS that ugly #also when they're mad like 'WHY DID THEY NOT ADD THE Y' bc it doesnt have a y #the POEM is j/abberwocky #the CREATURE is the j/abb/erWOCK #wanna say anything abt the a/lice version laugh at the laughability of the C/GI bc like #yes it was 2009 but the c/gi is kind of laughable at times #still good for the time. but laughable. the budget was really noticeable there #or when ppl are like 'they should have just kept b/urtons and left this mess' BITCH S/YFYS WAS FIRST #the similarities are funny bc s/yfy was a whole YEAR before b/urtons came out #and dont get me wrong i like/love b/urtons to a point but #you can't claim they copied one that was still being filmed #when theirs was being released #the trailers were already coming out like omg #its so funny but so wild at the same time that the discourse is #STILL in those tags after all this itme #s/yfy alice was 15 years ago now in abt 6ish months #b/urtons was 14 #it's not even a competition esp when we know d/s doesnt need defense or help w anyhting #lol #tbd #anyways love my ugly ass giant duck lizard #'oh he doesnt look fearsome' no he looks dorky but honestly being almost murdered by a beast that looks like that #that WOULD be terrifying as many can say when you think you're safe bc its dorky looking but then it ends up being the worst #out.