'Beauty for ashes' - the ruins of Melrose Abbey in southern Scotland
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Arcs-boutants, cathédrale, Bordeaux, 2017.
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they just don't put gargoyles on roofs like they used to. buildings are so swagless these days
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I am very, very curious as to what Hyrule Castle means to this specific iteration of Ganondorf. Even in his deepest sleep and restless death as The Calamity, he comes back to it like how migratory animals keep returning to the place they were born or fly south for the winter. And when he wakes up, presumably that’s where he’ll go, lifting it up into the air much like his own castle in Ocarina of Time.
That place was Zelda’s home, but also her prison. The millstone around her neck that weighed her down, the cage she kept trying to escape with her little jaunts to the countryside. But Ganon…he practically tried to merge himself with the place. Whereas in the Divine Beasts his presence felt like a fungal infection, his relationship with Hyrule Castle feels “special” somehow. It feels different. Significant. Rather than trying to escape, he practically chained himself to it. He seemed to try to turn himself into some sort of organ transplant to become one with the architecture. Either a heart, with his veins and arteries snaking through the ceiling, or as the building’s own child, seeking to be reborn through the cocoon he wove inside of it. Flesh of my flesh, blood of my blood, kindred forever bound together.
He keeps going back there. In his addled, half-dead fugue state, he seeks the throne room as his shelter to hide and rest. When he awakens, his first then (presumably, although we don’t know for sure because the game’s not out yet) isn’t to return to the land of his birth but the castle. If he’s being presented as Zelda’s opposite, then he, too, has a powerful connection to this place. Whether it’s as emotionally fraught as the princess’ own relationship with her former home remains to be seen, but it seems equal-but-opposite in its manifestation. He yearns for the place and keeps returning to it, even as he wants to destroy the system of government and ancient empire it represents. It represents all the things he hates and wants to erase from the world, and yet it’s home.
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Arbotantes con paloma, catedral, Sevilla, 2016.
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I compiled moments of the Animamates from the 96 Sailor Stars myu
It's mostly to showcase the myu exclusive Animamates Pewter Fox and Kerokko
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I'm just trying to build a scale model of a city - why does Matt Mercer have to come along and make buildings 'cerulean with four short towers'?
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