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ganondoodle · 4 months

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not sure if i have talked about this before but i also really hate how gorons are treated in totk

they are one of my fav and i know they are unpopular and were always kinda slot into the "big fat stupid rock people" role, but i do think totk is one of or the worst case yet; all regions get some life threatening event (ignoring how stupid it is to put the issues you need to solve in the exact same spots as in botw with most changes being also reversible so the actual changes to the environment of the map are largely some small rocks sprinkled about) and they get .. drugs (haha)

like i dont wanna downplay anything but their problem being that they are obsessed with eating (>_>) some drugged rock that makes them mean and lazy (even if the reason is fine ... if i remember right and didnt make up that they had to dig elsewhere for food bc of death mountain losing its lava flow, the execution is my problem -like the vast majority of this game is a ok to great idea with passable to horrible execution of it) and arent even a danger to you (which i thought at first when you approach goronia the normal path and two gorons start to walk towards you if you come near saying creepy shit- i thought they are gonna attack me or lure me into a trap but again .. only to find them wanting me to pay to be let through (i think??) and all other drugged ones are largely just ... eating or lying around ........

like it would have been cool if that drugged rock stuff made them actually agressive, like the friendly easy going rock people being turned into something akin to a starved animal after eating poison bc they were at risk of starving sounds alot more .. impactful and scary (even if it would still be about food, which idk about you but the only kind of fatter npcs, even if non human, being made all about food is .. hm, aside from other possibly bad implications from this, but im trying to roll with the idea of it)

and then poor yuno being put in a stupid (stereotypical?) wrestler outfit and hes LITERALLY being mindcontrolled is so ...... ugh (again, idea is ok but- you get it) and then him being told by two CHILDREN that that obviously not zelda might not be zelda and it not only being the only time that idea is openly said until its "revealed" that hhhwhat?? it was a fake one?? in the mid battle of the "story" and he doesnt even believe it (both bc haha hes stupid and cant understand such a thing and also link not being able to tell anyone ... even his friends ....... ) is just so disrespectful, its ok not to be the smartest guy in the room (tho in totk pretty much anyone is made so much dumber for no reason...) but it being so clearly the gorons that get treated like this just annoys me so much, you know no one of the other races would be treated like that

(not to reach a little but it also plays into how koga is portrayed, like i love him to death and there are things that largely the gameplay only implies of him not being that incompetent, but hes clearly meant to be laughing material, the boss of the band of 'evil' assassins being lazy, incompetent and 'childish' is funny right?? and although i hc that the either super thin or super beefed up appearance of yiga members are just an appearance like their disguises of normal people to seem more unified and less indentifyable- that is still only a hc and then koga being the only character that is visibly fatter (aside from ... the gorons and .. king dorephan??) it puts a pebble more onto the pile of pebbles of little annoyances)

also yuno saying, post mid "story" battle, that no one actually knows anything about ganondorf aside from him being evil and it going complete ingored and never mentioned again feels like the type of thing a games does when they are critized for soemthing and instead of changing it they put a line in the game essentially saying "yeah we know but we are not gonna do aynthing about it lol" (like thinking of the line ashe from league of legends, whos design has been critized alot bc shes running around in a stupid tiny dress in the snow lands of their world, got when her dialog was updated that made her say sth like "yes im wearing a little dress in the forever winter land, deal with it lol" which perhaps was supposed to be a joke but it just feels like a "lol we know, fuck you")

#ganondoodles talks #zelda #totk #ganondoodles rants #also may i say that i dont like that they made yuno be the boss of a company now??#idk i already didnt like how weirldy overtaking dumsda (hudson) thing got #and him suddendly beign the boss instead of landa (...the dance guy that you buy the house from in botw idk his engl name)#whos now chilling in angelstedt (lurelin?) like hes a shunned king in exile #idk feels off #and no im not saying everything about everything is bad #again I LOVE KOGA AND YUNO #and i dont mean they both have to be the coolest smartest guy around #i find the trend of only their types of design to be the ones made to look stupid and lazy troublesome #THAT is my problem #and yes theres lots to read into koga especially but still #at least it felt like to me that the game realyl wanted you to think of koga being a modern tingle

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plan-3-tmars · 2 months

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I think it's interesting that Kazui, Mr "My Father wanted me to be a Strong Man" is the only prisoner so far who's Es cover thumbnail is just the different shades of a solid colour.

Yes, blue is the colour of his prison uniform, but I also don't think its a coincidence that they chose the blue = boy colour for our guy over here.

On a similar vein, I think it's interesting how Yuno's two colours are Blue and Pink, especially with their specific placements

The Pink part of Yuno is her Body, which makes sense seeing as that's what her (male) clients are paying for, not Yuno, but the Body and Personality that they enjoy - whether that be for sex or for dates or both.

The Blue part of Yuno is her Brain, aka: where the real Yuno lies. The Yuno that says lines in Teardrop like:

“Poor naive little girl”? So off the mark, what's it to you?"

"INNOCENT? I'm so not that."

It makes me think that the reason why Kazui only has the one colour is because, while the thought of acting different is there - his "dreams" - he feels like they could never be reality, it's not even an option to him, therefore it isn't shown. Only his traditional man facade is there

#does this make sense i hope it makes sense #im playing mister obvious here i think and im aware but look okay i just wanna share my discovery because i rlly like 0207 parallels ...#mars when gender roles in society and the consequences they have on people #i didnt mention but yeah i think the pink = girl colour being yuno's prison colour is also not a coincidence at all #like her name litteraly translates to gentle (and honest) but like!!! thats litteraly why they chose pink as a girl colour in the 1940s #because they viewed pink as a delicate (gentle) colour which suited their “dainty women that need to be protected” idealogy #milgram #kazui mukuhara #yuno kashiki #milgram analysis #i think it counts

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officialesmilgram · 1 month

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what’s your favorite milgram character?

(+es, and jackalope)

(yes I made this bc I got bored and this is probably not the first poll with this topic)

edit: for anyone who likes john or midokoto, I reblogged this with them bc I forgot to add them 😭😭

#tumblr polls #milgram #milgram project #I’m gonna do all tje names…#es milgram #milgram es #jackalope #milgram haruka #milgram yuno #milgram fuuta #milgram muu #(my hands are dyin g pls help)#milgram shidou #milgram mahiru #milgram kazui #milgram amane #milgram mikoto #milgram kotoko #yayayayay!!!!!!

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hermionejacobs · 10 months

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We do love a creepy psycho ☆𝓴-𝖉𝖗𝖆𝖒𝖆 𝖊𝖉𝖎𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓☆

[image description: a set of gifs that shows six characters from various korean dramas. there's lee rang in his iconic red suit in tale of the nine-tailed. then there’s gangster sang-wook from sweet home, young gang-jae from the drama my name and yun-oh, the serial killer from somebody. I’ve also added seo moon-jo of strangers from hell and my beloved psycho gwi-nam from all of us are dead. end of description.]

#kdrama #korean dramas #tale of the nine tailed #lee rang #sweet home #pyeon sang wook #do gangjae #somebody kdrama #seong yuno #strangers from hell #hell is other people #seo moonjo #all of us are dead #yoon gwi nam #my name kdrama

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givemeanaccountalready · 4 months

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Milgram & Ghost Stories Dub

Kotoko’s Deep Cover is going to drop, so we are going to need all the chuckles we can get. These may not be the most infamous, but they are from the Ghost Stories dub (albeit with some tweaks). Please enjoy these incorrect quotes.

Jackalope: “You four are the ugliest fucking prisoners I’ve ever had the misfortune of laying my eyes on. I can’t wait for this bitch to kill you.”

Es: “Wow. That is some really nice animation.”

Haruka: “Pardon me! I really enjoyed running with you today. Don’t you have any money for shoes? Did the Crips beat you up and take your shoes too? They took mine and now Kazui only buys me cheap ones from Payless.”

Yuno: “Sentimental flashback time is over you stupid, bunny-loving bitch!”

Fuuta: “Don’t you look at me with those hepatitis eyes!”

Muu: “Haruka! Have you done your homework yet? Oh wait, you’re dyslexic. Done your yet homework have you? You hey I’m answer hey talking me too.”

Shidou: “I have such fond memories of that hospital. It’s a lovely place of healing, except for those who die.”

Mahiru: “OOH! Shirotabi! All dead but you, it’s a miracle.”

Kazui: “Why are all my memories sepia tone?”

Amane: “Lord, reveal Your Salvation since I am your favorite among these heathens.”

Mikoto: “Looks like it’s just me and you, rabbit. Call me Jackalope! Okay fine. Looks like it’s just me and you Jackalope… I’m going fucking crazy.”

John: “Doesn’t work. I used an Ouija board once to contact a dead hooker I saw on the news and she didn’t show up. Bitch.”

Kotoko: “Maybe we should arm the rabbits with little guns.”

Kotoko: “Fuuta! Get your ass down here!”

Fuuta: “What?”

Kotoko: “Don’t you ‘what’ me when I call you! You say ‘Yes ma’am!’”

Fuuta: muttering “You’re such a bitch.”

Kotoko: “What did you say?”

Fuuta: “I have an itch.”

Fuuta: “They beat me up all the time! I don’t need another goddamn reason!”

Mikoto: “You watch your goddamn mouth!”

Es: “Kotoko? You don’t look so good?”

Jackalope: “RUN! She’s a ghost and a bitch!”

Yuno: “Nice ass.”

Mahiru: “Do not lust in your heart-Jesus, you’re right.”

Mikoto: “Hey, can you guys hear anything?”

Kotoko: “You know what I hear? I hear the sound of you shutting the fuck up.”

Mikoto: “Let’s see… seven?”

Kotoko: “What the FUCK are you talking about?”

Muu: “Kotoko?”

Haruka: cries

Muu: “I’m sure I’ll live a long, miserable life of heartbreak and alcoholism before a vigilante takes me out.”

Haruka: “If you’re lying, thank you.”

#milgram #milgram es #haruka sakurai #yuno kashiki #fuuta kajiyama #muu kusunoki #shidou kirisaki #mahiru shiina #kazui mukuhara #amane momose #mikoto kayano #kotoko yuzuriha #surprisingly I did not have to modify sentimental bunny loving bitch #it’s in the killer bunny episode as an actual line #shirotabi is the rabbit name #Mahiru needs to name her man

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cycle-hit · 5 days

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ATTENTION ALL MILGRAM HIMEJOSHIS

do YOU want to join an event where you can make milgram yuri win in a competition with other f/f ships? do you want to join the YURI OLYMPICS and create works for your favorite milgram yuri ship?

oh boy do i have news for you! the @yuriolympics is open!!!

quick explanation of how the event works

schedule of the event

rules (in the discord! this is a discord invite link!) (you can also just ask me to dm the rules to you, but please note most importantly that this event is 16+.)

if ur interested in any of these ships, pls consider joining the milgram yuri team!! (if there arent a lot of people interested in anything besides 0610, ill probably create an 0610 team specifically instead!!!)

-0610

-0204

-0210

-2610

-0206

-muurei/reimuu

-hinako and hana (shidou's wife)

fanart, fanfiction, analysis, edits, songs, recipes, cosplay, etc are all accepted as work submissions when it begins!!

dm me on tumblr or discord (im in the yuri olympics discord if you want to hunt me down) if ur interested in joining the yuriolympics on the milgram yuri team!!!! 👍

(pls feel free to ask me any questions as well)

#milgram #kotoko yuzuriha #mahiru shiina #yuno kashiki #muu kusunoki #rei milgram #hinako mukuhara #hinako milgram #hana milgram #0610 #0210 #0206 #2610 #0204 #reimuu #muurei #I DONT KNOW HINAKO AND HANAS SHIP NAME. UM. ILL JUST HOPE TH HINAKO AND HANA TRUTHERS FIND THIS #i finally posted this. god bless #yuri shipping olympics

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good-beansdraws · 4 months

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Finally finished my Milgram-characters-in-my-outfits thing :D Yuno's probably the only one who would actually wear the outfit I gave them, but that's the fun part! Bonus lazy Shidou in my fave shirt of all time, plus technically the cow is headless because my dryer ruined it...

#milgram #mahiru shiina #yuno kashiki #fuuta kajiyama #shidou kirisaki #im gonna reblog the other art ive seen of this on my main but if someone else did one lmk!!! i wanna see >:3 #the colors are all over the place but its fine #mappis little ear cuff is in the shape of a frog :3 #i know its not a bug but i always wear it with bug outfit #also i gave her all my rings since most of them are relationship-based #(promise ring with my partner - ace ring - mood ring my partner and i got together)#the heels that yuno is wearing are so fun and reserved for special occasions because MAN theyre tall #even if my dad hadnt (not-so-)lovingly named them my 'stripper heels' i would have given them to her #that outfit is my confidence booster/make a good impression outfit #rip my cow shirt... that dryer straight up shreds clothes so im glad it was only a fucked up design -_-#surfboarding frog shirt my beloved!!!!!! have you ever seen something cooler in your whole life

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a-scary-lack-of-common-sense · 4 months

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Gave my sona the asshole supreme™ lore (I would gladly throw him against the wall) (I hate him /hj) (he's so Creek-core <3 /derogatory)

His Dumbass Lore:

He's a tattoo artist that is very prominent in the underground market scene with bounty hunters and assassins and such n such... being largely known for being "the troll you go to for information", although they are often not without a high price.

He has a notorious reputation of never keeping his pinkie promises (which is!! very important in troll culture!) and even going as far as weaponizing them against other trolls.

He always somehow manages to manipulate trolls straight into a corner so that they have literally no other choice but to accept his pinkie promises. Whatever he promises, you know it's not going to happen.

He has a vicious silver tongue and cloying sugar sweet words, you cannot trust him.

He is also known for some other pretty shady stuff, like tattooing secret maps and codes onto people; as well as little clues that mark them as prey for other bounty hunters and assassins. (and ig troll trafficking since that seems to be a pretty big thing in the trolls universe for some reason??)

He was also the one that supplied V&V with Floyd

Evil evil backstory, let's go:

He used to be part of the Kpop trolls, but he couldn't sing nor dance (no big reason for it, he was just very bad at it). The other trolls in the tribe didn't shun or exclude him because of it, though. In fact, they all took it in stride and was quite accepting of it.

And yet.. ...... he was so jealous and angry that everyone else got to sing and be happy except him- that during a time of crisis for the tribe, he made a pinkie promise with the queen (that he did not keep) and ended up accidentally selling out the entire Kpop genre. Kind of a "if I can't sing then neither can anyone else" kinda situation... .. .....

ANYWAYS, so the Kpop trolls sort of went extinct, but not really. Everyone was just so dispersed and far apart that they couldn't come back together. Most were left lost, and suddenly genre-less; the Kpop bounty hunters being one of them :)

He didn't actually mean for the situation to escalate that much (he didn't realize the power a tiny little pinkie promise could have) so he went into hiding and adopted a new name and identity by fear of being tracked down and brought to justice. He has not learnt his lesson and still continues to make meaningless pinkie promises and ruining people's lives. (He has a bit of a God complex thing going on where he's like: if my fake promises can bring such destruction, imagine what else I could do.....)

#my art #my post #sput chatters #trolls 3 #trolls band together #trolls #trolls au #trolls oc #trolls sona #trolls oc lore #i forgor to give him a name D:#he's such a filthy traitor- I hate him <3 #my oc #my au #trolls oc yuno

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snakes-and-fluff · 4 months

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Whenever I try to make a Milgram song ranking I agonize over my placements for way too long, so instead I'm making a list of which prisoner's song I prefer for each one (main trial songs only... for now) ((this is ranking them primarily on the songs themselves, not taking MVs into account))

Haruka: It's a very, very close call and it's flip-flopped for a while but my final decision is Weakness. All-Knowing and All-Agony is also very good though.

Yuno: Umbilical. I don't even like Umbilical but Tear Drop is just so boring to me that it wins more or less by default.

Fuuta: Backdraft. Though Bring It On has grown on me a lot more recently, it can't beat the certified banger that is Backdraft.

Muu: It's Not My Fault. To be honest I'm not super attached to either, but I do prefer it to After Pain by a significant margin (even though After Pain was the first Milgram song I saw).

Shidou: So, funny story: Throw Down remains the only Milgram song I fully zoned out of on my first watch. As such Triage would take it by default, but even on its own it stands up pretty well.

Mahiru: I Love You, mostly because I'm still so surprised by her rap but she really sells it well! I do like TIHTBILWY, but I find it gets a little repetitive.

Kazui: I know a lot of people put half really low down on rankings for being too slow but I really love it - one of my favs of Trial 1! With all that being said, Cat still takes it here, being the pure bop that it is.

Amane - Magic. I don't like The Purge March opening with spoken verse (while I do understand and respect the decision, I don't like how it sounds as a full song with that) and while I do like its ending it's just not that good to listen to for me.

Mikoto: MeMe. Other spots on rankings may differ but I consistently consider MeMe to be my #1 pick for T1 songs. In comparison, Double has too many abrupt starts and stops for me to listen to it nicely as a song by itself.

Kotoko: Deep Cover. This one was pretty hard; Harrow is really good but the thing that puts Deep Cover just a little ahead of it for me is single-handedly that ending where she puts so more much emotion into the singing.

#milgram project #milgram #ranking #haruka sakurai #yuno kashiki #fuuta kajiyama #muu kusunoki #shidou kirisaki #mahiru shiina #kazui mukuhara #amane momose #mikoto kayano #kotoko yuzuriha #(I'm not tagging all the song names as well)

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red-moon-at-night · 11 months

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Currently concocting the most self-indulgent 'normal' Milgram AU in the world right now... I am going to make these fuckers Found Family and give them a chance to come to terms with their situations and themselves...

All through the power of a goddamn fish shop/aquatics store.

Hear me out okay:

So we know that from his interrogation questions, Kazui has a childhood friend who he looks up to, that has a boat and if the world ended tomorrow he would go fishing. He mentions to Mikoto in a timeline conversation that one of of his hobbies is trawling. I am taking these facts and running with them like my life depends on it.

In this AU everyone lives in relative proximity to each other (I will have to think about exactly where later) and are all in different stages of their ‘sins’, but notably no one has actually killed a person.

Kazui is a widower having a midlife crisis at 39 and taking time off of work/leaves his job altogether to pursue something new - like helping out his childhood friend with his fishing-store-come-fishkeeping-aquatics-shop. Yes it’s weird that it’s both but it brings in more footfall and more customers (is what his childhood friend tells him). It becomes a bit of a running gag. Kazui also starts running martial arts classes in the evenings because I can totally see that being something he wished he’d done instead of... whatever his old job was. Anyway, he’s depressed but somewhat happy doing the things he loves.

Meanwhile over to the left we have Haruka finally being discharged from a psychiatric unit on a community treatment order (yay!) Part of that community treatment order includes a program where individuals volunteer in the local community with partnered businesses... Haruka picks the fish shop, obviously. But he’s getting paid for it, because Kazui is not about to agree to free child labour. So Haruka gets a job!

Cue a journey of self-discovery in which Haruka learns he is actually not useless or a burden to society. He can do things? He’s been given responsibility? And he enjoys it?? Mind blown. Kazui is there to support and encourage along the way. Just wholesome all around (except for the trauma Haruka has to unpack about his mother and her fish tank ohoho-)

Haruka is the first kid Kazui ‘adopts’. The second kid is Muu who wanders in the shop one afternoon, missing a shoe and has a thousand-yard stare in her eyes. We then have this scene: Kazui asks if she’s okay and she eventually replies something along the lines of “yeah I’m fine I just tripped while trying to catch up with a... friend” and Kazui then asks if that’s why she’s only wearing one shoe and if she needs a spare and she says “no I just forgot to put it on until now thanks for reminding me” and takes a shoe out of her bag and puts it on. Kazui decides she’s exactly the right kind of person for Haruka to practice his social skills with and gets him to go over there and help her out. They awkwardly talk about the betta fish tank they’re standing next to. She leaves. She comes in the next day and says she’s decided to set up a new tank at home could she get some help with supplies. The rest is history.

Muu starts skipping school and hanging out at the fish shop, to get away from her... situation at school. She still hasn’t talked to Rei since that day in the bathroom. Kazui is slightly concerned but also isn’t a snitch and would’ve bunked off school as a youth so is pretty chill with it as long as she’s safe. The fish crew is born.

Some extra very important bits of lore:

Kazui takes Haruka on dad-and-son fishing trips.

At some point Kazui ‘adopts’ a third kid except it’s actually his child from a fling about two decades ago. It’s Yuno. He doesn't actually know he has a kid until her mother gets into contact with him, saying her daughter wants to meet her biological dad can she please come and see him. Kazui has an existential crisis. Kazui agrees. They set up a date and he's asking his fish shop crew about what kids their age like and learning very little because he’s taken in two very weird teenagers. Muu does end up telling him about brands of makeup/clothes/perfume/etc. that girls like, which of course is all expensive and possibly designer.

So yeah Kazui and Yuno meet and she runs circles around him. She's her wonderfully sweet but cold self. They talk about his dead wife and he is dying inside. They exchange contact numbers and emails. She wants to see him again which surprises Kazui because that's Not the vibe he was getting from her.

The university students exist and they all go to the same one. For now it’s mainly Kotoko and Mahiru lesbian hours. She’s a law student, and she’s a literature student, sharing a class (maybe linguistics) and slowly becoming aware of each other’s existence. Mahiru likes girls but she doesn’t know it yet. Mahiru sits on campus and does a bit of people watching, writing stories inspired by what she sees - and maybe one day she sees Kotoko doing her vigilante shenanigans and falls a little bit in love. Kotoko is oblivious to this (is what she tells herself). They end up working on a class project together and become weird friends.

Kotoko is very much doing her side gig of apprehending criminals and punching the daylights out of them. No deaths... yet. She wants to improve her technique so starts going to the martial arts night classes run by Kazui. Mahiru eventually ropes into watching one time so she can make notes for action scenes she wants to write. She also ends up joining. It's fun!

Haruka also learns some martial arts with Kazui, having one to one sessions before classes start. It’s good for him, to get his pent up anger out in a non-destructive way, to redirect all that energy somewhere. He’s scarily good. This results in him building the courage somewhere down the line to join in on the actual classes, at least every now and then. He and Kotoko spar and it impresses her just a teeeeeny tiny bit.

#milgram #AU #this became a VERY long post but I needed to write Everything down #Ideally it would be great to get everyone together in this au but this is all my brain can do for now...#there's definitely wiggle room here to change stuff and add things!#the yuno and kazui connection is thanks to me seeing that post by tokyogruel one time and immediately agreeing with it #this conglomerate of ideas is quite frankly insane but I hope you can see my vision <3 #I mainly made this for myself as inspiration for writing and so that the idea is out there somewhere on the internet if I never get around--#--to acting on it!!#plenty of fish in the sea AU #at least that's the name I'm giving it for now... so I can actually find this post in the future teehee >:3c #kazui mukuhara #haruka sakurai #muu kusunoki #mahiru shiina #kotoko yuzuriha

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amugoffandoms · 4 months

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HELLO FRIENDS!!! Please go check out my silly fanfic of a fanfic (Lights, Camera, Sing Your Sins)!! It's called Fell and Found Out, go check it out on AO3!! It's based on a silly doodle of Yuno I sent over to Beans (@good-beans thank you again for letting me do this :D) and then eventually expanded on a while back!! Please enjoy :D

#mug writes #milgram #kashiki yuno #yuno kashiki #there are others in the fic but they're not really named but you know who they are ADIOWIAJD

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ganondoodle · 9 months

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as i was awake in the middle of the night for like 2 hours bc i felt sick i had more somewhat random totk thoughts

one being that i really hate how raurus response to concerned zelda is, after sonia died in that almost funny how little impactful it was way, "im sure you are here for a reason" (actually, i hate how often this sentence is used in general to .. idk i guess its supposed to be inspiritational???)

bc what does that mean actually? him saying that to someone who got there absolutely by accident really just sounds like "i dont care go figure it out yourself bc i dont want to think about anything concerning you or your troubles lol" i guess its meant to sound like OOOOH fate has BROUGHT you here bc you have to furfill a role you dont know yet (spoiler its being a sacrifice girl with no personality) and besides me hating the 'inescapable fate' trope in general (at least the way its usually done in these games, which is not to struggle against it but willingly accept whatever you are told and pretend thats good) its really jsut goddamn boring and is really only an excuse to well .. ignore her and her trouble; shouldnt you, if you were actually such a cool guy like the game wants me to believe so bad, do everything in your power to get zelda back to her own world before shes pulled even further into the war you caused now that her only ""mentor"" that could help her get more use of her pretty much useless sudden powers is gone too?? i know shes basically dead wife sonia replacement (can of worms ugh) but it still grinds my gears whenever i think of that cutscene, bc i cant help but hear it as the lamest excuse in existence to not care about her and just kinda .. see what happens which in this case means leave zelda completely on her her own since both rauru and mineru die as well (honestly shouldnt rauru have thought about like .. any plan to defeat gan besides dying himself, given hes the oh so cool and goodest guy king whos only mistake was not stabbing gan the second he stepped into their kathedral castle thing, like even if you had a plan it can still fail but it seemed like he just kinda went in with a handful of people that didnt seem to know each other at all, never got names or faces -or unique voices for that matter- to fight gan face to face inlcuding the girl that came from a different time and had nothing to do with any of this conflict and couldnt even really control her sudden new powers just seems pretty stupid)

thought 2

how totk really feels like botw but for the people who didnt like shiekah tech, its not a sequel, its botw again, but version of only sonau, its like a pokemon game that had two versions but one has weirdly incoherent story and acts like the other never existed jsut as a whole its like retreading the same points but worse, all shiekah tech that was so integral to the world and had such a long history just vanishing and no one caring about any of it like it never happened, HELL the titans were called divine beasts in english but i guess they werent divine or important enough to keep around LOL champions WHO and isntead a never before seen or even heard of race for that matter showing up and planting their ass in every place the shiekah were before, dare i say it feels weirdly manipulative, like either them or some outside force erasing every fact about the ancient shiekah and replace them with sonau stuff bc they are the hot new shit now

this is a point that just doesnt stop bothering me, how the shiekah tech seemed so carefully designed and integrated into botws world and story, its a difficult to keep balance after all, integrating high tech stuff into a medieval setting, but they made it work! and then totk comes around and throws a bunch modern day tech into it puts some vague greenish stone filter on its exterior and call that even better more ancient tech; why did they even bother to make pottery inspired laser shooting spider legged robots so well integrated when they throw a car and rockets into the next game without a thought and call it a day, what was the fucking point

it feels like someone was dead set on having a set of legos thrown into the game it had no place in, if you want players to build whatever they want make a building game instead!! especially if you are just gonna throw it in with seemingly no consideration how out of place it feels togehter with the fACT THAT YOU ALREADY HAD AND ANCIENT HIGH TECH CIVILIZATION WITH A VERY DISTINCT AESTHETIC THAT WAS ALREADY WELL INTEGRATED INTO THE WORLD YOU ARE PLANNING TO REUSE WITH ALOT OF MYSTERY AND UNKOWN STUFF ABOUT THEM TO EXPLORE FURTHER YOU COULD HAVE USED!! but i guess they just "didnt want to play with you anymore" and that so much so that they went out of their way to erase every trace of it, i dont think the words shiekah tech are ever used in the game, and the purah pad and her towers just drive me more isnane bc they are the same shit but called different and also much worse, liek the purah pad isnt some more developed shiekah stone, no its a glorified camera with a teleport function and thats it

(i know i said this before but i really cant stand how obsessed every single NPC is with sonau shit, you get told to your face every second line of dialog that they are so cool and are so mysterious that it just makes me annoyed of them even more, the game is obsessed with shoving them everywhere and telling you over and over you too should obsess over them, they werent weird like that about the shiekah stuff in botw?? the biggesst talking point in botw was calamity ganon ..... which makes sense and in totk its like ... gan is mentioned what, in a newspaper article??? once???and then not even by name i think???)

aside from that big point which will never let me go, its also just .. its not moving forward anything, it actively walks BACK the progress that was made in botw, call me dumb but i dont really count moving one step up in the social roles of each race as a character development (for the side characters like the champions desc- ahem SAGES) but mainly zelda ... god how dirty she was done, totk pretty explicitely makes her regress any development she made in botw aside from she likes link uwu and some people like her too, but also not enough to notice that that weird zelda being all evil and weird isnt her (INLCUDING THE CHAMP- SAGES WHO YOU ARE SUPPOSEDLY FRIENDS WITH??? you dont have to be a genius to pick up on that my god, were you all given the mc dumbo potion or what)

she gets put back to square one, back into the little itty bitty princessy maiden role forced upon her by her royal parentage, this time rauru edition, back into a white little dress, back into the scared puppy eyed teenager, back into a situation she cant handle, back into losing everyone around her (tho honestly botw made me care more about rhoam than totk did about rauru), back into being forced to do a big sacrifice- but worse actually

in botw she went to FIGHT AND HOLD GANON IN THE CASTLE SO LINK HAD TIME TO RECOVER AND IT WOULDNT DESTROY THE LAND!! and you are telling me in totk rauru takes up her botw role and she bascially killed herself to ... restore the mastersword.

......... she ... she did that only to be a glorified version of the stone pedestal in the forest. and then she gets returned to normal itty bitty girly no problem via magic sparkle beam at the end and

DOESNT

EVEN

REMEMBER.

it really is just botw but worse, you even get yet another ghost king of hyrule to guide you around (rhoam did it better fight me ... we dont talk about the questionable choice to make himself darker skinned when posing as just some guy)

i honestly dont think i was ever truly taken aback by anythign that happened in botw, while in totk, the further i played, the more i had to fight with myself to keep the feeling of unease, disappointment and betrayal down

its such a god damn shame, totk should have stayed a DLC, i will forever mournfully dream of a game that explores more of the ancient shiekah, doesnt erase integral parts of the world, developes characters more instead of making them regress back and make them end up even less developed than at the start of the game, dives into buried secrets and mistakes of dark pages of history without giving into a weirldy nationalist(imperalisitc?) narrative and lets characters have some agency for once

if it werent for the yiga i might have actually considered refunding the game, just to be at peace with myself

anyway, aboslutely incoherent word vomit.

#ganondoodles talks #zelda #totk #ganondoodles rants #old man yells at cloud #i know im repeating myself in alot of points #but some things just wont stop rotating in my head #ngl i felt like nintendy was trying to gaslight me in totk #what noooo the shrine of life was ALWAYS just a barren cave with a puddle of water in it #noooo dumsda (hundson) NEVER had a funny quirk of how he talks #nooooo purah NEVER cared about shiekah tech or that stone she used to have in her lab in hateno #noooooo robelo NEVER cared about the shiekah oven he named cherry #nooooo yuno was never not dumb like a rock and ridiculed by the narrative worse than koga #noooo yuno never had inheretited an ability unique to daruk #nooooooo zelda never had any character besides like white dress waifu #nooooooo the dekutree never actually played a central role #nooooo there never was any shikeah tech #noooooo there never were any champions we were actualyl friends with #why is this series so damn allergic to moving the world or characters forward #you literalyl showed us that zelda companion is doable #you made 5 fram rate killing ghosts that are more useless than useful in any fight but noooo cant do zelda #she gotta be the little maiden uwu #you could have shown us the past without sendign zelda back #you could have revealed the sonau without erasing the shiekah #you had such a good setup from botw #and isntead chose to focus 3 years on being able to glue a stick to a stick in a game that isnt about glue or building

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