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[ganondoodle]

this isnt as long as before but i just cannot stop thinking about this, why i dislike story and lore boils down to these main point

--the ending feels unsatisfying as hell even if i ignore everything i dont like about how the game treated zelda and ganondorf, the ending itself just feels, despite being presented as super epic an touching, incredibly empty to me and part of it is that it feels like an unearned return to status quo of course i didnt think zelda would stay a dragon and i actually wanted to help her, which is why i kept trying to hunt down impa since she said shes gonna search for a way for us to help zelda, bc i wanted to!! i was eager to help her!

i fully hoped and kinda expected that thered either be some kind of dragon dungeon (think, the water dragon from okami) tho that would be difficult since you can get items from her so i ended up thinking before going into the end thered be a mission with impa (or at least given to you from her) where she found answers in ancient scripts (that she told you she would look through) and that you need to find a special lil thing that will help zelda undragonfy, like some sort of ultra secret forbidden enigma stone able to reverse dragon transformations kinda deal (golden opportunity to make you go and talk to the yiga bc they might know or even own some ancient texts) that youd keep in your inventory until the very end and after you kill dragondorf (pretty mortal for becoming an immortal dragon huh) you take it out and use it, undragonfying zelda and ending in a similar epic falling and paralel to the beginning way

... and instead impa stays in the house and only has a few repeating dialog boxes and does nothing and you cant do anything bc in the end you just get randomly teleported (and stripped of your clothing AGAIN) into some weird ethereal plane somehow?? with the ghost of long ass dead sonia and apparently not as gone as i thought rauru (seriously i felt sad when he went poof at the end of the tutorial but i guess i shouldnt have) awkwardly blasting dragon zelda with some magic tm and its all reversed no problem (heck me for caring i guess) turns out helping her was killing an evil guy we never really knew and mineru just kinda says lol its bc time and light magic i guess lol as an explanation

like i really wanted to go and help zelda! i was motivated to do it and spent HOURS trying to find impa again but i wasnt allowed to do anything bc zelda gets saved by some deus ex machina bs in the end anyway, what a fool i was, of course killing the evil guy is the solution to everything >:( (and no i dont care if its meant as in uwu sonia and rauru wanted to help one last time uwu bc it doesnt change how unsatisfying it was to watch it all just kinda happen)

--point two is just how much totk feels like its trying to REPLACE botw instead of being a sequel, its not building on anything of it its ripping out the fundation and building its own thing in its place, like i was so excited to see what happened to the titans, and all the sheikah tech what they mabe had done in all that time now that theres a tech enthusiastic girl as the head of the monarchy, maybe even find out more about them and instead its just all ... gone with not explanation? theres isnt even a LAME explanation, its just gone?? you never find out what the ancient energy actually was, and why there were concentrations of it in the regions with the ancient furnace (well heck it didnt even have anything to do with ganondorf actualyl bc that would have been too interesting) bc that was so intrigueing?? like yeah where DID it come from and why is it there ?? and oh suddendly hey look theres an even MORE ancient and even MORE advanced civilization thats way COOLER and BETTER than the ancient sheikah now, they also built stuff everywhere and have been here ALL ALONG cant you see its everywhere!! and its the only thing everyone cares about all of the sudden, all evdidence of the ancient sheikah tech was scraped of the earth so there literally only being some guardian parts on top of the hateno lab feels like an oversight now bc everything lese was to thourohgly wiped of the map- for no reason even?? like im totalls fine with it being useless and not working anymore but .... why remove it like it was wiped from history?? and then they have the gall to mention the happenings of botw like, twice in the entire game but still just give you the most basic summary of it mentioned on a sidenote with again not even a hint what happened to all of it

wouldnt there have been the golden opportunity to use it to access the new parts and map points that changed?? like a shrine thats fallen into the underground, an access to caves and the underground in the broken and collapsed elevator tube of a sheikah srhine?? maybe even a broken interior of an old shrine, like the room you get put into with the puzzle and where the monk once were broken and half overgrown in the udnerground? some left over construction site where you can see oh thats how the ancient sheikah got all that tech underground, bc they all had access to it and built it there to then rise up when its needed? maybe even making use of the old sonau sites since they frequnetly built their srhines within those ruins?? that the ancient sheikah found em and put the ruins to use? to research it and built their own stuff from it? it wouldnt have to have any focus, literally just part of the enviroment even

really everything totk does is like -forget botw ever happend, look how much cooler and better i am, who cares about sheikah stuff sonau are the new cool guys that came out of nowhere but now apparently have been everywhere all along actually-

i LOVE botw and with it feeling much more like its attempting to replace botw instead of building its story and world further every reference to botw i found felt like a slap in the face instead, oh look where the shrine of life used to be isnt even a hint left of sheikah tech somehow, and also right under it is the lake of healing filled with sonau structure bc ACTUALLY they were here FIRST bc they are so cool omg you guys

dare i say it feel a little like they wanted to make an entirely different version of botw basically, but wanted to reuse the map and models so they just said yeah uhhhh its totally a sequel yeah yeha that makes sense, its not erasing botw and doing essentiall the same thing again but bigger cooler and better (tm) its just uuh a ...sequel ye.

#ganondoodles talks #totk spoilers #totk #sorry i got longer again #also what was calamtiy ganon then #if it was ganondorf trying to resurrect himself outside of the seal then ... wouldnt he ... mention it or something or anyoone no? #also dont like how all the teasers made it seem like there was soem great mystery as to how gan got down there- #.. actually how DID he get down there thats a pretty weird place to go to war too #-aynway and WHO did this to him omg he looks in pain maybe theres more to it alll omg #and then its just ... yeah cool guy tm sealed him #oh ... ok #why would you tease us with a good time then bring stale chips and an empty beer can you have brought with you three times before already #like i get we love to read more into stuff that isnt there #but they were oh so vageu with the teasers and stuff we got to see when its all just #the same schlok but even more tasteless than before

[wuntrum]

uh oh, hes at it again 🤣 (making notes app list of youtube video ideas that i probably wont make)

#personal #THIS TIME CAN BE DIFFERENT! I BELIEVE... #ik i make art videos but these would be not art videos #think i want to try making vids talking abt stuff vs making stuff #because to be Honest i think connecting productivity / a bit of self worth #to making art and vids abt my own art has not been great for me long term 😂 #i think having a hobby thats making a thing without it being Illustration tm will be good #ANYWAYS. shift is abt to start at work

[hasarjunadoneanythingwrong]

like I do feel bad to not be happy about something that a lot of people are happy about but almost every summer servant being lb6 AND the anniversary servant being a summer servant connected to lb6 is just. A lot. Like I’m glad that you like aesc and she works with her already existing narrative but putting a summer servant (bc she is, Morgan shows up in a swimsuit and her alignment changes to lawful summer in third ascension) uo as the anniversary servant is just. It feels really weird to me and i don’t like it. Even pan human history Morgan would’ve felt more suited to the slot than a summer unit.

#and there’s also the fact that like 4 of the other summer servanrs are probably lb6 + obe + the kotr it’s just #idk like yeah. if you love lb6 this is great but a summer servant? for anniversary? #all the other anniversary servants were either incredibly important to tm overall (arc) or story relevant #and idk maybe aesc will be again but it feels way more like they just wanted a Morgan alt and decided to have her there for a headliner #it’s just. idk most of the other years the summer servants weren’t all from one story #like they created new interactions and relationships #and this doesn’t seem like it will be doing that? #sigh. idk I feel like a lot of the people who are excited aren’t acknowledging that putting a summer unit on for the anniversary headliner #is just weird #this isn’t even getting into how they let her swimsuit be the anniversary servsnt but #the guy from the chapter who was just as popular as her still only has a costume #like make it more obvious that y’all won’t even make a male alt for easy $ will you #it’s obvious that is isn’t about the money anymore it has to be that they either don’t want to bc of personal stuff #or bc they don’t want to upset a specific genre of male otaku #and it’s annoying bc other games in the same category as fg0 will make make summer units like. come one #my post

[apostaterevolutionary]

You know what would be really funny, is if people came together to have an anti-crab day. A day where every user who joined prior to automattic’s acquisition logged off for 24 hours to show that yes, actually, older user retention is important and you should listen us just as much as new users

The users giveth, the users taketh away

#this isn’t about the sidebar btw I’ve already said I don’t mind the sidebar #I think it could be a better sidebar like the 2014 tumblr layout which was great #but it’s Fine (tm) #this is about live and the new post editor and the apparent avatar removal bs ‘experiment’ #and it’s also about how these big overhauls keep being done meanwhile we can’t have like. a search function that works #or the queue reordering tools that already exist on mobile web applied to any other platform #you know. all the little stuff that’s comparatively easy to implement yet they ‘don’t have time’ for because they’re too busy #with these massive overhauls and ignoring all the asks that go to wip #also I don’t expect anyone to actually do this and I’m sure as hell not organizing anything cause that’s a lot of work lmao #but I think giving them money pre-emptivelt just showed they can do whatever they want and we’ll fall for it #taking away money would be more effective #idk I don’t think current staff are any better at running tumblr than yahoo was #they’re just better at the ‘we’re quirky and relatable just like you guys uwu’ bit #and a lot of us fell for it but I think the illusion is starting to lift #anyway idk it sucks here but all the other sites are either worse or empty so what can we do #(genuinely wtf can we do this nonsense is getting bad) #text #misc #shut up nerd #new layout stuff

[marinsawakening]

The problem with BOTW is that it's obnoxiously popular in the LOZ fandom to the detriment of other games but also unfortunately it's genuinely really really fun to write fanfic for.

#it really hits that perfect fandom balance of good but not THAT good you know #its base is really interesting and you can do a lot with it. there's a lot of freedom to be had playing with its characters and concepts #contrast and compare to Link's Awakening which imo has a way better story and is my most beloved zelda game #but also like. what do i even have to add. how do i write fanfic for it when it has such a great bookend #like i don't even really want to do AUs or change the ending #the reason I like it are the Themes(TM) and changing the story too radically or changing the ending risks losing that #don't get me wrong i can and have written link's awakening fanfic. i am writing link's awakening fanfic right now #but it's a lot harder to come up with concepts bc it already does such a good job with all its stuff #on the other hand botw does not utilize its story potential much yet establishes enough it's fun to expand on #so with link's awakening i'm like ok. how do i put marin in Situations this time when the game's already the best Situation she could be in #and with botw i'm like 'so here's three different link and zelda role reversal AUs' #'this is the one where zelda is transmasc' #'this is the one where urbosa is fighting ganon link is dead and riju and zelda are on a roadtrip' #'and this is the one i'm planning a 40k hubris fic for' #being a fandom hipster is all fun and games until you like something popular #at least i still don't care much about link #my posts #loz #botw

[bandtrees]

my opinion on the manga-to-anime mogami arc adaptation changes depending on who im talking to. when it’s people who lament them getting rid of the more brutal parts i have my whole speech about how mogami shouldn’t be this cartoonishly violent strawman who just wants to play dirty and an important part of his character is that, while he’s wrong, he has genuine points that mob needs to hear that help further his development through the season and that’s better expressed when mogamiland is more down to earth and realistic and not just senselessly brutal and knife twisting

however when it’s people who discredit the arc just because of its darker tone and because bad things happen to mob i just go like “YOU KNOW WHAT? THEY SHOULDV KILLED TWO CATS”

#babbles #mp100 #mp100 meta #ig #mob psycho 100 #mogami arc #keiji mogami #picked this from stuff sammi says cuz we go on this bit a lot lol bless em #also it does bug me when people just treat mogami like he’s pulling shit out of his ass #cuz his presence is more than just’bad guy mob needs to Prove Wrong’ #they learn from eachother!!! mogami tells mob advice he needs to hear and mob makes him become a better person next time we see him #obviously not great by any means nor do i even think mogami’s RIGHT but. idk i don’t like ppl just making him #Look At This Wrong Evil Bad Guy Doing Wrong Evil Things n making him like generic angst torture machine #he has a personality and strong morals and that’s a very important thing about him #he’s not just a Bad Guy(tm) you can slot anywhere for Le Angst #sorry i love mogami I have demons.

[bmpmp3]

when people complain about getting like, a 98% grade on something because it was "so close to perfect" its like. i understand what you're saying on a technical level. but that is a line of thought so far away from my experiences and ways of thinking that i do feel like im from another planet. 100% isnt even a real number to me

#i kinda understand when its something like a multiple choice test or something where there is an objective answer #it might feel like u got so close but just missed one #again still a bit alien to me because my scholarly performance is mysterious and anything over 70 is great to me #but i mean ive had a 98 before once in a math test. i did get exactly 1 bit of 1 question wrong #but i didnt really care that it was one off from perfect i was too busy being happy because that was the highest mark id ever received #and the previous math test i had taken got a 53% . grade 11 was a wild time for me in math class GHJKSHFKds #anyway i kinda see where ur coming from with stuff with right or wrong answers like that #but i sometimes get friends in class complain that they got a 95 or something on an art assignment #because they think they got docked 5 points for one or two little things #but i dunno. thats not really how fine arts departments in university tend to grade things #you dont start at 100 and get docked marks for things you got wrong. i dont think ive ever seen a 100% on something like that #tbh the numbers are a little arbitrary i find. i do prefer to try to get em higher because that helps with grants and stuff #but the numbers dont mean all that much in fine arts or in art history (my two majors) a 75 and a 95 can function the same depending on lik #weighting and context and feedback and whatever. i dunno its a wild world out there #it might just be the perspective of someone who did really goodbad in school. (GoodBad (tm) its when ur good but also kinda bad at school!) #compared to someone who got a lot of perfects in mandatory schooling. i sympathise i really do that kind of pressure sounds insane #but while i sympathize i cant really empathize as much unfortunately with this specifically orz its a world very far outside my purview! #100%s arent real to me so they never cross my mind to be worried about LOL

[wastelandhell]

god i want to watch death shroud so much is seems so good but i dont want to watch it while im so nervous i need my anxiety to chill tf out so i can actually pay attention and enjoy it

#maybe ill watch it tomorrow after work #why did the biggest fo4 thing to happen in years have to happen when im in the middle of a mental health crisis tm this is so inconvenient #well not a crisis anymore that was last month but im still not great #is that oversharing. whatever. you see the stuff i post you all know im insane.

[rumor-weed]

i’m sorry VOTER FRAUD?

IN MY VEGGIETALES?

it’s more likely than you’d think...

#veggietales #ryan watches vt #he literally shows up out of nowhere hears 'happy place' and says 'I WILL BECOME GRAND MARSHALL OF HAPPINESS PARADE' and immediately #like no hesitation nobody saying anything is like 'I WILL STUFF THE BALLOT BOX and BE ELECTED' #now's probably the time to admit that I don't recognize any Larry-Boy or League stuff after Bad Apple as canon #and even then I didn't really like Bad Apple #I tried watching League but was way too old for it by then and had hit my limit #like I love rewatching classic VT because it's not just nostalgia it felt legitimately fun for adults #read phil's book it's great #but also like... past a certain point VT became 'oh yeah its cute and kinda funny still' #and this new show so far really doesn't have clever laugh out loud enjoyable for adults too moments #not like they used to have #they feel so... sanitized #and there's something weird about complaining like that #but it's not really complaining as it is just... noting how drastically different 90s kid media and 2010s kid media and 2020 kids media is #from 'family fun' meaning adults could get a chuckle and like it too #to 'family fun' means its 'Wholesome'(tm) Christian Media (tm) and if there's even a reference to an old TV show kids haven't watched #its a big Ordeal like #idk there's a whole lot to say there #and I probably should watch more eps before I say anything more #at the end of all these liveblogs I may give a wider explanation of my thoughts on the new series from a view of like... #a long time fan since childhood who HAS returned several times to the show and fandom into his adulthood

[captaincleverusernamehere]

Underrated moment during the bird task was Dara floundering (lol) for bird names and Fern just saying “tit” in the most monotone, factual way and then getting ignored fhfshfjdgdh

#yes I know tit is a type of bird #but #‘tit’ ’EAGLE’ #great stuff hfgddjfjd #taskmaster #taskmaster series 14 #tm s14

[dimiclaudeblaigan]

ike, in his dumbfuckest moment ever:

soren to ike literally one chapter prior:

ike, realizing that was just his dumbfuckest moment ever and backtracking as quick as possible and realizing he just screwed up his first meeting with the cute cat boy:

#DCB PoR Run #grabbed this off YT bc I accidentally clicked the button before I could get a Phone (tm) pic of one of them #but yeah. way to go Ike. that's gonna be a story for the history books of the great mercenary who slew a goddess #local man meets cute cat boy and screws up first meeting literally immediately #soren facepalms bc he literally told ike they were called laguz but ike in all his intellectual glory chose to go by shinon's example #suddenly greil realizes he should've educated ike on this topic before he let shinon get to it #shinon hasn't met the cute bird boy to change his mind yet ike you can't just take his word for this stuff yet #imagine ike and ranulf talking abt their first meeting one day years later #and ranulf is just like hey remember how we first met and you straight up asked if i was one of gallia's sub-humans with #the STRAIGHTEST face. and ike is like fffffffff don't remind me that happened #i feel like they could joke abt it bc they're basically like bffs by RD/during RD #but it'd just be so funny to see ranulf never letting him live that down bc it's so un-ike-like #but at the time ranulf didn't know that and was ABOUT TO GO on a tangent #tfw your first meeting with your bff was offending him on accident hfjsgjhs

[dragonofthestone]

[On a completely unrelated note thinking about horns has me once again thinking about Iruma-kun where there is a character who as a child some how managed to break off - his magic/mana is considered pretty weak so I doubt he used any of that to assist- one of his horns. On Purpose mind you. So either he's physically stronger then he looks or maybe as a kid, young demon horns are more brittle/easier to break because smaller

These are very much horn, horns. With a core/blood vessels, nerves ect.

They can clearly grow back if only a little- he does still have two horns one is just smaller then the other

Ami Kiriwo is uh.. special to say the least

(Even other demons find this kid unsettling) ]

#that kids has *issues*tm #out of the nest; mun #10/10 quality world building stuff tho Nishi has like loads of tweets and stuff answering questions and talking about stuff #Horns/wings being able to just pop up when excited- wings get tucked away in their body when not in use #can hide their horns #just the veriaty on demon design #such a good series #like straight up ask a question and there's probably an answer either in the manga itself or in something that she has posted #yes I have thought of just yeeting in an iruma character asa random npc for the funs #pls go read/watch Iruma is good #also a mafia au manga literally just started for it #it's great

[officialbabayaga]

“is this a concert or a cult?”

-portland, or 10.7.22

#hi this concert was a religious experience also florence’s cardiovascular system is fucking amazing #HER HAIR WASNT EVEN SWEATY AFTER SPRINTING ACROSS THE STAGE FOR 2 HOURS?? BRUH SHE RAN THROUGH THE CROWD #japanese breakfast was such a great opener too!! #f+tm #zoe stuff

[taupewolfy]

i will, with great ease, say that i was deeply enjoying misericorde but that little surprise nestled away REALLY got me

#like as a whole - real good vn! one of the controls settings made me think there will be choices (tm) but nope it's linear (nice) #does make me wonder if future stuff will have that and if so i am deeply curious what that might entail #but overall. very nice. great cast - good hook - nice old murder mystery stuff

[eggs-can-draw]

babys are a double edge sword for me lol, on one hand aaaaaaaa so cute! on the other hand i panic too much when dealing with kids and its too much stress to babysit lol

have a lovely rest of the day/week! (ꈍᴗꈍ)♡

Yeah lol

a very AAAAAA CUTIE! Please keep it tho mood lmao

#eggs can answer #Yin #not great at watching kids personally but that’s mostly cause of Stuff That Happened tm lol

[lisbonsteresa]

haHA

#it really does have such a 'hey honey how was your day' 'horrible. i need your advice on this work thing...' energy huh #like the fbi seasons are great but there's something so homey about the cbi offices #i mean they're both so dedicated to (obsessed with) their work (/haunted by loneliness and their pasts) that it's basically home for them #this is their kitchen where they catch up after a long day; her office is their bedroom where they feel safe relaxing and lounging together #the bullpen is their living room where their pseudo kids (the other three grown adults they work with) #mess around and listen to mom and dad bicker in the entry way #(jane's rooftop loft thing is where they hunt serial killers and maybe do other stuff who's to say) #tm