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We’ve all seen that post about how “World Famous Detective” is a type of person who exists in fiction and never in real life but what is really crazy to me is that “World Famous DnD Dungeon Master” IS a job that does exist in real life and as far as I know, not at all in fiction

#veesaysthings #Matthew Mercer. Brennan Lee Mulligan. Griffin McElroy even? #can you tell I’m watching d20 #dimension 20 #brennan lee mulligan

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I got home kinda late today and my roommate was ordering chicken wings and she offered me some so I was like "yippee a perfect snack for my weekly watch of dungeon meshi" and um. certainly it was an immersive choice.

#veesaysthings #dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi spoilers #sitting there wide eyed munching my buffalo chicken like 😳🍗

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Favorite ship dynamic

#veesaysthings #i have an addition let me get it just a sec #Barbie #lotr

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This is the best fuckign movie on the planet

#veesaysthings #everything everywhere all at once #i get it guys. i get it. ur right. it is THE movie of all time

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Student discount is so funny. You’re experiencing a Sisyphean hell of your own choosing. Have 50 cents off your coffee.

#veesaysthings #when I get my roommate’s employee discount…now THATS where it’s at

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I feel like some Fall Out Boy songs sound stupid until you listen to them in a very specific state of turmoil and then you’re like oh I get it hahaha yeah cheers Patrick yeah I’m gonna need u to sing that for me fifteen more times

#veesaysthings #fall out boy #they are truly my top Spotify artist just bc I go through so many emo stints where I need their angst randomly and for 3 hrs straight #anyway I SPENT TEN YEARS TEN YEARS IN A BIT OF CHEMICAL HAZE AND I MISSED THE WAYYYY THAT I FELT. NOTHING. NOTHING. NA NA NA NA NA

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I do genuinely believe that the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (and arguably the Zelda franchise as a whole, though i myself have played literally none of these games) is closer to fitting the description of ‘Tolkien-esque Fantasy’ than most other movies/shows/games/books etc that claim that label

Like, compare this post by tumblr user wufflesvetinari, which makes an important point about Tolkien’s worldbuilding, and also lives in my head rent free:

and then these quotes from Jacob Geller’s “Every Zelda is the Darkest Zelda”

and his conclusions about the messages in Zelda games are thematically very similar to the through-lines about friendship and love in LOTR, and what a lot of authors miss about what makes a fantasy story personal and memorable:

“A world without joy and humor isn’t a compelling world to fight for” is exactly why there are so many pieces of fantasy media out there that just feel like carbon copies of each other (i’ve seen many posts that explain this better than I can though I can’t find any specific ones at the moment, just know that I didn’t invent this thesis). You’ve got the cool swords, you’ve got the wizards and the spells and the battles, but first and foremost you need the LOVE.

#veesaysthings #thanks for attending my ted talk on this day #lord of the rings #tolkien #the legend of zelda #breath of the wild #again i've never played a zelda game in my life but Jacob Geller's video stuck with my like nothing else #i was hoping he'd draw parallels bc I was like omg! this is literally tolkien-esque! in the most literal non-corrupted sense of that phrase! #but he didn't bring it up (to my knowledge) so i'm doing it right here right now #long post

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Gomez Addams is often appropriately categorized as a wife guy, but very rarely recognized for the himbo that he is

#veesaysthings #the addams family #gomez addams #morticia addams #this is the same episode where he tells morticia he wishes her name were 'oo-oo' so that he could spell it with smoke rings

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Buffy season 6 is insane. It’s like what if someone you loved died a meaningful and accepting death but you couldn’t live without them so you brought them back. And against all odds, they didn’t come back wrong, but they didn’t WANT to come back at all, and now they have to learn to live in this world again while resenting their friends and family for taking the death they willingly chose away from them. And existence is hell compared to death because in life they never get a break and never get to rest because they’re constantly needed by everyone. And they can’t chose to die a second time because they know what it would do to their loved ones who still never got over the fact that they died the first time. And also there’s a musical episode.

#veesaysthings #buffy watch #btvs #death tw #this is just the kind of character arc that gets me #not to be all ‘guy who’s only seen lord of the rings’ but HOW IS SHE GOING TO PICK UP THE THREADS OF AN OLD LIFE #screaming and crying

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Me before completing the forest temple: okay I get that ocarina of time is fun and nostalgic for people but it’s a bit of a stretch to call it one of the greatest video games of all time

Me after completing the forest temple: By revealing that Link is not a Kokiri, but a Hylian, the game effectively strips him of his humble origins amongst a group of people that already fail to recognize him in his adult form. Thus, kokiri village instantly becomes a location that is no longer Link’s home in any sense, exacerbated by the fact that the game now loads up in the temple of time instead of Link’s bedroom— he is a stranger in the only place that has ever been familiar to him and he is depressingly reduced to his destiny alone. However, the subsequent introduction of the time travel mechanic, which allows the player to travel from the horrific apocalyptic future back to the idyllic past of Link’s childhood, gives new meaning to the idea of this “destiny”. In effect, Link is not a stock “chosen one”, but a protagonist who consciously decides to fight onwards. Link’s dual existence as a child who knows the grim future and as an adult who was powerless to stop disaster gives a sort of desperation to his character, because while it brings the player relief to revisit the Castle Town that is populated by cheerful villagers instead of lurking zombies, the story can only be progressed through the acknowledgement of reality — the decision to make those seven years pass again. Therefore, both the player and Link as a character must be proactive in their heroism and make the conscious choice to struggle onwards despite the darkness that permeates—

#veesaysthings #ocarina of time #fantasy story: yeah the protagonist can never go home again. Me: OH MY GOD THEY CAN NEVER GO HOME AGAIN #Im dearly sorry for all the Zelda posts #I’m getting my shit rocked by ocarina for real #(no spoilers I literally JUST got to this point in the game) #thank you so much to my friend who is forcing me to play this #I will cry at all the temples though bc I am so awful at puzzles pls I am so dumb

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Ok Goncharov was actually insane. I’m reading the Wikipedia page even though I was there at its inception and I still can’t believe Scorsese straight up admitted to “making” it. Like it got old fast but it was truly tumblr’s greatest creation and I am so proud to have witnessed history. We’ll never top that one.

#veesaysthings #Goncharov #inspired by the fact that I just learned you can google ‘Goncharov cast’ and it comes up #just like. as any google cast page would.

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This is so legendary Tolkien cannot help being hilarious he tries to be this serious dry narrator but I see you Mr. Stand up comedy

#veesaysthings #his hierarchy of funny books is definitely the hobbit - lotr- everything else. but this killed me #beren and luthien

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HUGE news

#veesaysthings #lotr #frodo baggins #saw this notif while in my modern art class this morning and I was like. omg. why is no one talking about this

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Crowley and Aziraphale were literally slowburning since the beginning of the universe only for Beelzebub and Gabriel to steal the title of first universe-altering angel/demon couple from them in just a few years. and they're objectively more important figures in Hell and Heaven too. they literally stole all the drama. all the scandal. i would be furious if I were Crowley setting up this long-con social-convention-breaking against-all-odds love story for multiple millennia.

#veesaysthings #good omens #good omens spoilers #ineffable husbands #ineffable bureaucracy

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what do u guys think of my latest fanfic? what, you mean you haven't read it??? when it exists in not one but TWO easy to access places -- my brain and my personal google doc?? i'm honestly offended

#veesaysthings #jokes jokes i wouldnt even actually be offended if no one read it when it WAS posted #just griping about writing againnn.

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The thing they don’t tell you about Glass Onion is that you will see Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc playing Among Us in the bathtub within the first ten minutes

#veesaysthings #glass onion #benoit blanc #also INCREDIBLE FILM #glass onion spoilers