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sossmoss · 1 year

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SBI my beloveds 💛✨

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catofoldstones · 4 months

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Lady as the priest’s favourite sacrificial lamb - so docile and sweet and I hold very still when they put the rope around my neck

Bran I - AGOT // Wolf in the Moonlight by Fredric Remington - 1909 // St. Francis Comforted by an Angel by Francisco Ribalta - 1620 // Sansa I - AGOT // Akela the Lone Wolf by Maurice and Edward Detmold for Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book - 1903 // Sansa I - AGOT // Eddard III - AGOT// A Dead Wolf by Jan Fyt // Eddard III - AGOT // The Sacrificial Lamb by Josefa de Ódibos - 1684

#lady the direwolf #sansa stark #ned stark #asoiaf #web weaving #if you know them please let me know about the unknown paintings so that I can credit the artists appropriately #thank you!#I try #queued #a song of ice and fire #a game of thrones #agot #edit: added some links and artist credits #web weave #game of thrones

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wishfulsketching · 1 year

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Oh, forgot I had these almost done, s2 dndads dads and moms. Designs that might change along the way as always.

#my art #dndads #dndads odyssey #rebecca oak swallows garcia #sparrow oak #lark oak #cassandra swift #nicky foster close #marco li #grant wilson #Veronica Marlowe-Stampler #terry jr stampler #I make everyone look so young I have to work on that #ghhhhh #I try #I am on the fence with marco #I'm not sure what vibe to lean to #I want him to look like a teddybear tbh #he's a kind boy

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a-person-whos-alive · 4 months

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Why TotK fails Zelda

Heads up, this is a long post. Ive cut this down like a motherfucker but it still reads very long. My thoughts are divided into four main categories;

1. Her relationship with her magic & tech

2. Her relationship with Hyrule

3. Her relationship with Link

4. Her relationship with the player

Also, these are my opinions, I'm certain there are people with far better analysis skills than me! I am just in love with this franchise and a little disappointed with the recent game. Zelda as a character holds a special place in my heart and its sad that her character was done dirty like this.

Theres a TLDR at the end and before I forget, SPOILERS!!!

1. Her relationship with her magic & tech

Zelda is not someone who magic came easily to, and I think BotW & AoC did a great job exploring that. They contrasted her natural interest with the sheikah technology and her lack of power and it was 😘👌

How did TotK do? With the Zonai tech being the main selling point, how would Zelda, a scholar at heart, interact with it? To my memory, the only interaction she has is to put Mineru's soul into a piece of Sheikah tech and hand it to a construct.

Well what about magic? Finding out she has light AND time powers was at first a great throwback to OoT with the Sage of Time. The fact that her Time magic awakened immediately unlike the Light magic in the last game was a nice contrast. But then, she immediately has a similar dilemma, she can't USE her magic to propel herself forward because she doesnt know how. Unlike BotW though, she has the "mother" she was lacking to teach her. This was a decent set-up. It was different enough to be its own thing but still was familiar enough. This is up to memory 4 - Mineru's Council

The issue the NEXT MEMORY, memory 5 - Gerudo Assualt shows her being even more proficient than Sonia. We don't see her train, or struggle, or even ask a question about how the stone works. She just does. It's not until memory 8 do we see her get any guidance about her powers? And even then we don't see her attempt recall at all. In the next memory she simply uses it perfectly and effortlessly.

The purpose of her strengthening Time Magic was to get back home. Yet, she gets back home by swallowing a sacred stone, that she already had the ability to do at any point. She turns into the LIGHT dragon, using her LIGHT magic to strengthen the Master Sword. Her whole arc about her magic was pointless because in the end she used the powers from the previous game for everything important.

2. Her relationship with Hyrule

Positives first! Its clear that Zelda loves her people, and during the 7? year gap she obviously took the time to connect with them and problem solve. Penn's quest really demonstrates this, and so does the Hateno school quest. (Even if the children don't believe in the Calamity). I found it very endearing that the people had such faith in her, that even with Ganondorf causing havoc with her face, people refused to believe it. The Great Fairies MUST have seen wrong because it was dark, Dorephan MUST have been mistaken, the Stable Trotters MUST have seen someone else - Zelda wouldn't do that.

I additionally liked that Zelda wasn't immediately trying to set up a monarchy again. In fact, she seemed to be doing the opposite. She wasn't living in Central Hyrule, at Looking Landing, she was living in Hateno. She was a teacher, and on some level a researcher (even if the Don Dons were scrapped ideas from the first trailer).

But the second she goes to the past, she is put back in her box. Her interests in tech are non-existant, she does not interact with anyone who isn't royalty, the King doesn't listen to her about Ganondorf and tells her to not to worry - after all she's just supposed to wear that white dress and hope her magic works soon. She's regressed back to before the Calamity, waiting for something terrible she knows is coming and is powerless to stop.

Crucially, she doesn't speak to Ganondorf once.

This is by far the most egregious waste of their characters in my opinion, and I've just deleted a 3 paragraph Ganondorf discussion - another time. But come on! This is legitimately the PERFECT scenario for Zelda to find about about WHY people opposed her royal family, WHY everyone she's ever loved died in Calamity caused by this guy, WHY she's had to go through all this. But no, if they did talk, it wasn't on screen.

Ive seen in translations of parts of one of the interviews with a developer saying she was able to see what a ruler should be like by going to the past, but until a see an official source I'm going to hope that's not true

3. Her relationship with Link

"Link is still entrusted with the role of protecting Princess Zelda." - Hidemaro Fujibayashi https://www.npr.org/2023/09/13/1199307678/zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom-dlc-video-game. Maybe I'll write a post about Link sometime, but I'm focusing on just him and Zelda.

Whether you ship the two or not, the pair would obviously have a unique bond from both fighting the Calamity and losing the Champions/everyone. So, how did the pair cope with the destruction of everything the love? How did Zelda come to terms with the ruins of Castle Town, the harsh reality of all those who were dead? Zelda doesn't have Link's amnesia to temporarily soften the inital blow.

TotK explores none of this.

Similarly, there is a level of formality on how Zelda speaks of Link. When she tells Rauru of Link she starts, "He is a royal knight. He had been originally appointed for my protection, but later he became a hero by saving both me and Hyrule from a great evil". Not "he and I became close" or even "he became my friend". Zelda is talking to the two people closest to her right now,

All their interactions are the bare minimum.

Link has ALWAYS been a self insert for the player, but he's still a character, and more recently Nintendo has been acting like having emotions means a player can't project onto them. Zelda is Link's closest person, and when she returns he is piece of cardboard, at least help her up!

4. Her relationship with the player

First, as everyone who played BotW will know, many things were removed or changed in TotK to allow it to be standalone for new players. Sheikah tech was removed, important characters forgot Link, the majority of the last game was rarely if ever mentioned. Kass

However TotK does not properly establish Link and Zelda for new fans AND doesnt not elaborate for old fans. They interact twice until the end - the intro and memory 1. All of her characterisation is in that little history moment, the rest of it is 50% sacred power lore and 50% time power lore. Additionlly, anyone who is new to the game has no context for her light powers.

Actually, TotK literally retcons her light magic to be from Rauru and not Hylia. Which was the WHOLE POINT of BotW so great sequelling there guys.

TLDR: The Conclusion

Wow, you made it this far. Or you skipped to end, I would too. My main gripes with Zelda:

> She doesn't interact with Zonai Tech.

> Her arc is about learning time power to go home, only for her to not use said magic and instead use the light magic from the last game to fix the sword and be a light dragon.

> Having her worries about Ganondorf shot down by the King and not holding her ground/ insisting (did you learn nothing from Rhoam??)

> never interacting with Ganondorf him being in Hyrule as a diplomat

> nintendos approach to her and link, they dont once touch while both conscious. Not even a handshake or pat on the shoulder. See images above with prev. Zelda and Link.

> the instance on making it not complicated for accessibility to new players, but also not fleshing it out enough to be compelling on its own.

#legend of zelda #tears of the kingdom #totk #zelda #zelink #skyward sword #???#kind of #if i said all i wanted to say about skyward sword zelink it would be three times as long #i dont even ship totk zelink but im mad for yall #i hope this is readable #i do math all day #i have little media literacy #i try

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911bts · 1 month

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I mean this with all the love and respect in the world but do you like. Sleep??

I'm not very good at it

#anon #answered #i try #but alas

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amoebeau · 1 month

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you are so relatable

makes out wiht you

#asks #diont know what that entails but thatnk you.....#i try

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frankystongue · 2 years

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KATIE MCGRATH as SARAH BENNETT in SLASHER: 07/ ∞ ► S01E05 "ILL-GOTTEN GAINS"

#ha nds #face #eyes #this woman istg #and that peach fuzz; i'm obsessed #show: slasher #p: katie mcgrath #katie mcgrath #slasher #sarah bennett #kmcggifs #i try

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izmaddieyt · 1 month

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Augh- i just seen this, CURSE YOU NOTIFS

@hiro-doodlez @dustsansm1 @weirdest-worlds @elizakai @swiftmitsu @flowey-the-lanternflower55

I DONT KNOW WHONELSE TO TAG

MY BRAIN CANT REMEMBER ON THE SPOT

AAAAA

EVERYONE ELSE

#I TRY

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bugsinmyhoney · 7 months

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i’ve been trying out some new brushes :)

#art #digital art #my art #wip #gojo satoru #geto suguru #i need more textures in my art aghh #i try

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snowlilisims · 5 months

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Another fun one made using the @manawhims create-a-species challenge.

Genetics: Tail Cyborg face Eye preset Hair Hair overlay Limb gradient Cyborg arm Eyelashes Body preset Nose preset Skintone Scales Scales Gills Gills Brows Freckles Skinblend Lip preset Teeth Ears Eyes

Outfit: Stockings Rings Top Garters Necklace Piercings Piercings Piercings Bow Legwarmers Shoes Skirt

Makeup: Lipstick Eyeshadow Nails Eyeliner Highlights

Thank you to all CC creators <;3

@kiellessa @kikuruacchi @northernsiberiawinds @oydis @lixeeos @aleniksimmer @astya96cc @christopher067 @1-800-cuupid @evilquinzel @julhaos @joliebean @magbay @miikocc @ts4eve @natalia-auditore @nesurii @obscurus-sims @octetsica @pralinesims @pyxiidis @gigglecoffin @sagittariahx @sammi-xox @saruin @simulationcowboy @shandir @superflare @trillyke

#the sims 4 #ts4 #ts4 cas #cas challenge #manawhims #im not sure im categorizing things correctly #i try #casCASchallenge

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2dieavirgin · 10 months

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foreman..

#I CANT DRAW OMAR EPPS FACE DEAR GODDDDDD #i try #house md #my art

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sossmoss · 2 years

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See ya later king 👑

#doodle #i try #fanart #drawing #art #mcyt #dream smp #dsmp fanart #drawings #technoblade fanart #technoblade

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tiny-planet-13 · 3 days

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my whole tl is just tsc this tsc that and I am performing gymnastic leaps far above a level that I am qualified to do (meaning none at all) because I still haven't gotten around to reading it yet good grief

#its literally my own fault but hey #i try #aftg series #aftg #tsc #the sunshine court #nora sakavic #jean moreau #neil josten #all for the game #all for the gay #andrew minyard

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hel7l7 · 1 year

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