#Dee wright

[sesiondemadrugada]

Electric Shades of Grey (William Grefé & Terry Merrill, 1971).

[dr-julius-sumner-miller]

This morning I woke up with the sunrise at Dee Wright Observatory. Built in 1927, it is a viewpoint for a bunch of the nearby mountains.

Surrounding it are miles of lava rock fields - a rolling sea of boulders and split plateaus of stone. As the molten rock cooled, gases released themselves forming little tubes in all of the stone, and flows of magma contracted and split apart, forming crevasses across the landscape. In one photo, there are two “islands” of forest that the lava flowed around in its flow across the landscape. A plaque I read said that this area is one of the youngest lava flows in the country - having occurred about 2,700 years ago.

I had a nice time clambering around those rocks this morning. I sort of felt like I was on a different planet. It’s wild to imagine the folks who were wagoning their way through this area - shifting stones to make a way, probably busting their wheels left and right.

[godotswifey]

dee vasquez cosplay

I love it when a character has a strong guts but also a lot of flaws, they never leave you indifferent

I love you dee vasquez

smoking is fake cus smoking is shit. it's my metal straw for drinks

[danwontshutup]

A few sketches <3

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Some ace attorney doodles from the past few days :)

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[pyroclastic727]

inspired by

[did-someone-say-aliens]

ace attorney femmes appreciation post ╰(*´︶`*)╯♡

[theopalempress]

Dee Vasquez Transformation - The Opal Empress

[itsyourdogpepito]

Bark bark bark

[doctorsiren]

I think it’s so foul that in the beginning of the circus case in the anime, they had Phoenix wearing the Feenie sweater and scarf because at that time (aka before Bridge to the Turnabout) he would have still believed that the sweater had been made by his crazy murderous ex-girlfriend who was currently on death row 💀💀💀 he never would have worn it when he still thought Dahlia made it

[psychlocke]

playing the aa trilogy for the first time ever made me realize that phoenix literally goes up to the actual murderer with decisive evidence of their crimes for almost all the cases in the first game and it is STRESSING ME OUT

[thatoneidiotyoulovesomuch]

I have to know if this is a common sentiment in the Ace Attorney fandom. So basically I watch a lot of Ace Attorney YouTube videos. A lot of them being rankings and stuff whether that be of cases or characters. And something that I've seen 2 or 3 times now is the sentiment that there was not an interesting/well written female characters in the series until Dahila Hawthorne. And while I do think that some female characters are lacking like April May or Lotta Hart. (Which I don't even think April May is all that bad either.) Overall I think they are done pretty well BEFORE Dahlia. Like do Adrian Andrews, Lana Skye, Morgan Fey, Dee Vaquez, and even Maya Fey not exist to y'all?

To anyone anyone who says this you just don't think about female characters writing as much as you think you do. And you don't allow yourself to see the nuances of female characters.

[bagelbun333]

Ace Attorney’s Weird Manslaughter = Murder Misconception

I saw a lot of positive feedback on that ace attorney death penalty analysis post I made a while back, and I’ve been wanting to add more onto that for some time. So here goes :D

Here’s the ace attorney death penalty misconception post I made if you’re interested: https://www.tumblr.com/bagelbun333/754725218437709824/the-death-penalty-in-ace-attorney-the-fandoms

Also major spoiler warnings for the Phoenix Wright trilogy and AAI1!!

“Even accidental murder is murder, you know.”

Because of this stupid line, this causes a lot of people to believe that manslaughter doesn’t exist in the Ace Attorney universe. However, let me tell you, that is false!

First of all, self defense is a real plea in this universe. It’s been brought up in cases 1-3, 1-4, 1-5, 2-2, 3-5, and I1-5 as well. They’ve established that if someone killed to defend themselves, then they don’t get punished for it.

Now, you’re probably thinking “but what about Dee Vasquez? She acted in self-defense and got punished for it.” You have a point. This is something that makes people believe that manslaughter isn’t real in Japanifornia. However, she didn’t do herself any favours by trying to frame someone else for her accidental killing, tried keeping all her staff members quiet about it, tampered with the crime scene, forged evidence, and threatened to kill Phoenix and Maya by mafia members in order to escape her mistake. If she didn’t do all those things, she really wouldn’t have been charged with anything. She just acted too irrationally.

Next off, we have Yanni Yogi. Even though he wasn’t the culprit in the DL-6 Incident, Robert Hammond defended his case by claiming that he was “mentally unsound.” This is a claim that’s reserved for voluntary manslaughter. You know? The thing that apparently “doesn’t exist” according to our fandom??

Voluntary manslaughter is a charge for a person who cannot be found guilty of murder due to provocation or mental incapacity. Some people do serve time for it, but it’s not nearly as severe as a murder sentence.

Back to Yogi, his life was still ruined after winning that trial, but that’s because it was such a huge incident. He was extremely unlucky that he had to be the one who got blamed for the controversial incident. It doesn’t help his case that he ended up murdering Robert Hammond 15 years later.

Now to Ema Skye. Although it’s established that she didn’t kill anyone, it was mentioned that she could’ve potentially killed in self-defense. She was held hostage by Joe Darke, who was a serial killer. Neil Marshall came in to save her, then the power went out. Not being able to tell who’s who, Ema pushed away the man holding the knife, which turned out to be Neil Marshall. If that turned out horribly wrong for her, then she would receive the self-defense plea. Phoenix even said himself that it’s “self-defense” and that “she wouldn’t be charged with anything.” Which again, proves my point that manslaughter is real.

Next we have Maya Fey, or rather Mimi Miney. It was brought up at the beginning of the trial that it would be easy to make a case that it was self-defense, because Dr. Grey fired a shot at Maya (who was actually Mimi). That plea will not work for Mimi because she planned on killing Dr. Grey ever since he wanted to channel her spirit. She also framed Maya and tampered with the evidence on top of that. If it were Maya in that situation, then the self-defense plea would work, because she had no murderous intent.

Next, Godot is pretty self-explanatory. His true goal was to protect Maya, and he succeeded, despite it not going according to plan. Phoenix mentioned that “it’s not simply killing Misty Fey, you were saving a life!” Or something along those lines. His circumstances are different and fall under the voluntary manslaughter charge. He can’t be charged with murder due to provocation, mental incapacity, and the fact that both his and Maya’s lives were in danger. Not only that, he wasn’t even the person who brought any weapons with him; all he brought was some coffee, cream and sugar. Misty Fey brought a sword out of her own volition. His mental incapacity made him question his own motives, but it doesn’t change the fact that he ultimately saved Maya’s life. (Also silly little side note, I think him killing someone to save another’s life should just cancel out his punishment 🤭 What he’s been through is already punishment enough. But I digress—)

Next, self-defense was briefly mentioned in case I1-5. It’s hard to remember details because it’s such an extremely long case, but I do remember the culprit claimed that he can’t be charged with anything because he was brutally attacked and he faught back. It’s another scenario that proves manslaughter is real. But in this person’s case, his story wasn’t exactly true, so he got charged for murder anyway. Extraterritorial rights be damned!

So now you see I’ve explained many different instances where self-defense and manslaughter is a real thing in the ace attorney universe. So I find it completely absurd that several characters in this series believe that manslaughter is the same as murder. Even some of the lawyers believe that!

What’s my explanation for this?

They’re stupid and don’t understand the difference, that’s all. A lot of characters in this series think and act on stupid things, so it’s not far-fetched to believe that lawyers don’t know how the law works.

[probablygayattorneys]

there were bloodstains in the red and there were teardrops in the blue he said 'it may not be the best but it's the best that i can do'

(Stained Glass, Danny Schmidt)

[brodorokihousuke]

Three menacing men and two… mildly inconvenienced women.

Practicing blocking out colors with a chunky brush, and also drawing more random characters I draw rarely/have never drawn.

Do note that yes, Dee’s earring and clasp thing are on the wrong side… because the art I was using for reference is flipped for some reason. Don’t get mad at me, get mad at the official artbook I’m referencing!

[tuliptheoshawott]

Episode 3 of the FREAKY attorney series.

The Turnabout Sisters one blew up, and that's probably because that's the case most people remember. Let's see if it sticks for the *counts on fingers* 15 cases we have to go.

[wormspoodle]

watched the captain underpants movie and it made me wanna draw some beloved childhood comics characters