#ACs: Nova

[kittikaiju]

Simple lil blinky animation of Nova~

[mako-neexu]

[vintagerpg]

This is Ace of Aces: WWI Air Combat Game (1980). This is the very first one, called Handy Rotary Series for reasons I don’t quite understand, as it isn’t a series. Maybe it refers to the planes.

Ace of Aces is a genius idea. It’s a box containing two books, one for the Ally plane, one for the German plane. Each book contains a mind-boggling number of illustrations of a cockpit from a first-person perspective (always locked on the enemy plane) and, by calling out the numbers at the bottom, you “perform” dogfight maneuvers. And that’s basically it — use the books to fly around and try to shoot the other player out of the sky. A two-player analog flight simulator.

This thing astounds me. Like the design of it. It is so brilliant and cumbersome at the same time. I can’t imagine the work that went into this. It’s so cool! I will probably never play it!

This is the first product by Nova Games, who would go on to produce the Lost Worlds series of one-on-one fantasy combat gamebooks in the same vein. The form would be periodically imitated by other game makers — West End knocked off both versions in a Luke vs. Vader lightsaber dueling game and an X-Wing vs. TIE fighter dogfighter.AceofAces

[pigdemonart]

Ok yeah actual art today. Fake little posters for the problematic Space Rhapsody throuple

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[miss-tc-nova]

Eyed in the Knee

Ace: Can you believe that Yuu kneed me in the eye?!

Deuce: What?!

Yuu: Woah, hold on! Don't you go twisting things!

Ace: I would never!

Yuu: Liar! We were napping and I was wrapped around my body pillow. Then he decides to also use my pillow and slams his face into my knee!

Ace: No!

Yuu: He didn't even wake up!

Deuce: Wow. So you eyed Yuu's knee

Yuu: THAT'S WHAT I SAID!

Ace: ಠ_ಠ

[novamayhem]

Happy International Asexuality Day! You're all valid and I love ya!

[edyavtostopom]

Глава 6.1 • Айван • День рождения

После возвращения из очередной экспедиции, в день рождения Айвана, они с Вигго решили, что пора им обзавестись наследником.

[gavfleetout]

This might be an unpopular opinion, (but this fandom is on life support so who cares) but I personally wish Ace hadn’t killed Novas parents. To me, there’s something so much more compelling with having Nova learn to realize that just because the people who loved her and cared for her genuinely love her, doesn’t mean they aren’t bad people who should be stopped. Idk I felt like making Ace be responsible for her families death makes her decision to turn against Ace almost too easy? And it makes Ace as a character less interesting.

Give me the crazed violent anarchist who cares about his family, the Ace who took in his niece, used his powers to ring bells just to make this traumatized girl laugh. And then show me that girl all grown up, realizing her wise, stern, but always loving uncle is wrong and needs to be stopped, and turning against him to do good and make her dead family proud, even if it means betraying the man who raised her.

Like give me the ANGST. Give me the tortured conflict between good and evil. This series is all about shades of gray and having Ace kill his own brother and not love his niece makes things WAY too easy and takes all of that away.

[whimsicalcotton]

Hi local instigator here: go on that max hand holding rant

shdjfjdhgd okay okay so. i think there are several combining factors to this.

for starters i headcanon her as some nebulous flavor of ace (she probably hasn't put much thought into it) & also pretty touch averse for anxiety/sensory reasons. like even before going through The Horrors if you touch her w/o warning she turns into one of those startled goats and just freezes the fuck up. so i think she'd hold non-sexual intimacy in a v high regard/be really particular abt it in general

but more specifically,, holding her hands means

keeping her from her camera. she really is married to that thing & Will get jittery if she can't use it for whatever reason. even if she wasn't going to five seconds ago, if something is suddenly Preventing her from using it she is Not A Fan

stopping her from hiding her face. being a little anxiety ball with an overactive prey drive has her filled with the Constant Need To Hide, so if she isn't already hiding behind her camera she has a tendency to cover her mouth w her sleeves (esp when she's smiling/laughing bc she's rly self conscious abt it)

stopping rewinds. i always want her to have her own version of Sayaka jamming a sword into Homura's shield to stop the time freeze, so in my french vanilla fantasy Max can't use her rewind if her hands are being held (something something touch as a tether to the present. something something cursed to go it alone. this is a whole other can of worms tbh)

then also you add in The Horrors aka Jefferson & the Dark Room and that shit cranks everything else to eleven. anxiety +100 touch aversion +200 need to hide +100 etc etc. after that point it should be considered a high honor if she sits within a five foot radius of you let alone lets you touch her.

all of which totals up to Max viewing hand holding with all the seriousness/trust/power exchange of being choked out. because she's so normal and fine and chill and not psychologically damaged whatsoever. <3

[mikodrawnnarratives]

FEAST MY FELLOW RENEGADES FANS

Maggie is sooooooo Annie coded it drives me INSANE

There are some details that I kNOW are inaccurate i just.. really don't wanna go back and redraw some of these kjfdkj I've been working on this on and off again for a while and I REALLY want to get this done b4 finishing a different creative project that.... hasn't even taken a month to finish god i cannot focus on anything can i lkjfdklds

I can't get all the characters tagged below so heres a list of everyone in order:

David & tala artino(s graves), Narcissa cronin & Maggie, thunderbird & tsunami, max, simon and hugh, danna oscar and adrian, leroy, callum, ingrid honey winston and ace anarchy with nova, the sentinel and frostbite's team by hawthorne, nova and maggie again, gene cronin, millie, ruby tucker and her brothers, thunderbird again, and from there its just nova and maggie!

[kittikaiju]

Another lil mini revamp/ref, this time for my baby Nova~

Art & design edits by me. Original design by arunyi on toyhouse.

[everwizard]

I don't know how to extrapolate it but as an asexual(alloro), in my experience at least, there is an incredibly isolating experience of trying to find a life partner that doesn't mind that sex and/or sexual attraction are things that are not generally going to be reciprocated in the relationship. I can't describe it...

[chippedtoons]

so my tiktok account got harassed by three different people claiming i, a bi person, was wrong about bisexuality being more than just attraction to men and women.

reminder that bisexuality has always and always will include nonbinary and genderqueer folks.

[dragon-pawz]

Only pride month could get me to change my icon away from the Omori styled one o7 Threw this one together really quick and I quite like it actually!! Trying out a new eye design for Skye too

[pigdemonart]

Haha some oc shenanigans for me and cheri’s characters. Wasnt gonna share at first but i worked hard to make my partner laugh, so I must put it somewhere i can cherish. 💖🐷

Audio is from game grumps 10 minute power hour, the ep where they are playing the How well do you know your spouse game.

[miss-tc-nova]

Nothin' Left to Lose, Or Use, Or Do

Yuu: Don't forget to give a treat to Grim

Ace: I never give one to Grim

Yuu: You're supposed to give Grim two treats in the morning

Ace: I never do

Yuu: That's rude

Ace: He's barely even out of bed in the morning

Yuu: *Pointing* He's literally waiting for it

Ace: He barely even eats his breakfast in the morning

Yuu: Well he's been having a great time with me

Ace: Your mom's a great time...Wait!

Yuu: -_-

Cater: I'm so glad I got that on camera