#and its fine

[taddymason]

Imagine how sad it is that Jay doesn't even remember his parents, he doesn't know his own age, or his birthday. He's been all alone for years since he can't trust anyone enough with his secret and no one cares about anything but work. He's stuck in a job he hates but knows nothing else.

yeah, I have many thoughts about him…

Also go watch this video please it's literally Amnesiac Jay

#I swear I can't put all my thoughts about his appearance in order #on the one hand I expected him to be more asshole for spending so much time in the Administration #and I really don't think they will make him a real threat because he barely knows how to control his powers and is just scared/confused #And its fine #the poor lonely scared bastard #jay ninjago #jay walker #ninjago jay #ninjago dragons rising #ninjago fanart #Ninjago dragons rising #Ninjago spoilers #Ninjago dragons rising spoilers #ninjago #I swear that if they give him a least one badass scene in part 2 like they did with Kai I will be able to die in peace

[themarydragon]

So my friend sent me this link to a youtube video about why the TotK lore isn't interesting. I couldn't get through it without a ten-screen discord rant (on my PC monitor, not my phone) so I thought I would put some thoughts here.

I don't delve too deep into TotK story but there are def some spoilery statements below, consume at your own risk.

The initial assumptions here seem to be that (1) BotW was more respectful of "The Lore" than TotK, and that (2) TotK made some unforgiveable sins that BotW absolutely avoided.

Both of these are completely false. And I am NOT saying that neither BotW nor TotK shat upon accepted lore. They did. There is no recovering the Hyrule Historia timeline, objectively. Instead I contend that the truth is the precise opposite: Nintendo has NEVER actually cared to try to make LoZ games have ANY amount of continuity.

Take the slide at the 5 minute mark of the video linked, above, in which we see the Master Sword was created specifically to be used against Ganon, and then the 7 sages set out to find somebody valiant enough to wield it (this is from the user manual of A Link to the Past, from the SNES, which also was about The Imprisoning War). Which, if you're playing the home game, you know got ret'conned TWELVE YEARS AGO by Skyward Sword. He's using the slide to explain why it was ridiculous that Ganondorf was able to shatter the Master Sword in the prologue to TotK, which tells me they didn't pay much attention to the mechanic in BotW in which the Master Sword "runs out of power" if you use it too much. If Ganon is an aspect of Demise (again from Skyward Sword, far more recent lore than the slide being used in the vid) then the secret stone he's wielding is amplifying DEMISE (WAY stronger than just some dude), which is why he's able to shatter the blade - but still isn't enough to destroy the sword. His entire complaint about the Sword being broken suggests to me he either didn't play Skyward Sword or has forgotten it existed, and has DEFINITELY forgotten the 'weapons breaking' mechanic started in BotW.

He makes another complaint later about there not being an explanation for the disappearance of the Divine Beasts. Which, sure. I wondered what happened, and figured the 5ish years since then made it old news nobody was talking about it anymore. I get why that might have been a breaking point for somebody else. But it's not just a TotK problem; BotW didn't address it, either. We see the Divine Beasts being dug up by the Sheikah in Rhoam's flashback - how did they get buried? The towers shoot out of the ground, how did THEY get buried, after the last calamity? Who put the guardians underground? How? HOW, if nobody is allowed into the tunnels under Hyrule Castle? It didn't get explained for BotW, so why is that an unforgivable sin in TotK? They give more than a passing suggestion that Purah has repurposed the guardians - just LOOK at the Skyview Towers. The jumpscare for BotW players when you get grabbed in the Lookout Landing tower TELLS YOU where the guardians went.

There is a significant section in which video creator is quoting an interview I haven't seen (and don't give two shits about), and I think it needs to be said: what is in the game is canon. What is in the interviews from other people is, by definition, not game canon. If it was meant to be game canon it would be in the game. Neil Gaiman talks about this when people ask him for clarification of his stories, go check his FAQ if you want a really good delineation of canon from somebody with way more clout than me.

So let's just look at the lore he's defending from BotW. The map is wrong. Straight up wrong, from all the earlier Zelda games. Nintendo cannot decide where the Lost Woods should be, much less Spectacle Rock. The Temple of Time, which again is mentioned early on as a clear homage to the lore, is in the wrong damn spot. If this is the new Hyrule formed post-WindWaker (as indicated by the existance of Rito), the Temple of Time should have been destroyed. And why do the Rito and the Zora both exist? According to WindWaker, the Rito evolved from the Zora, who couldn't live in the salt of the sea. Which is a pretty big jump from the original game that had Zora in the ocean, and the two games following THAT in which they were straight-up monsters. I don't want to get into ALL the ways BotW breaks from the established lore, but there's a LOT. They don't mention the fucking Triforce ONCE, ffs, that's sort of a big damn deal.

I get there was a canon timeline published in Hyrule Historia. I bought that book for that exact reason. And, as someone who has loved this franchise since I got that first golden cartridge in 1987, I looked at that timeline once, laughed at it, and moved on with my life. BotW de-canonized that timeline already, in a LOT of ways.

So saying that TotK is evidence that Nintendo no longer cares about continuity or lore, and by NOT villifying BotW (or TP or SS) for the exact same problem is disingenuous at best. Saying that TotK is just nostalgia-baiting is ignoring the BotW map (Lake Saria, anyone? Ranch Ruins, anyone?) in general, as well as all the game-specific loot that had NO other reason to be there but straight-up nostalgia. The only reason for Zelda to mention the other heroes in the blessing we hear in the first memory is to (1) destroy the established timeline (skyward bound, adrift in time, or something about twilight, all in a world where Rito exist), or (2) prey on our nostalgia. TotK isn't any worse for putting the WW shirt and the Awakening armor into the game, in terms of wrecking the timeline or trying to feast on our nostalgia.

I'm not going to try to hypothesize what this person (or all his commenters) didn't like about the game, or why they're so willing to overlook all these problems in BotW to villify TotK. And everybody is welcome to like to dislike a game for whatever reason they want, IDGAF, you do you. What I AM saying is that for someone who's upset about the lore, he really doesn't seem to actually be aware of how inconsistent it's ALWAYS been. If TotK is the game that taught you that Nintendo isn't trying to follow their own lore, then I don't think you have been paying attention to the lore for a good long time.

tl;dr this is still my favorite series and if you hate that it breaks its own continuity then you've been asleep for the last 12 years of lore drops my good dude.

#loz #loz lore discussion #loz lore #botw spoilers #totk spoilers #botw #totk #totk directly contradicts skyward sword #and its fine #because SS directly contradicted all the original games #there has never been continuity #never #the total lack of continuity is one of the reasons I love it so much

[tennessoui]

pretty pleaseeeee ill take any crumbs from the counselling au 🥺🥺 (also love the new kofi as always vos at the crime scene)

the next chapter of the couples counseling au is going to be the one where they're instructed to hold hands!! and the counselor tells them to try to treasure little intimacies (ie. cooking together, holding hands, listening to the same song at the same time, napping together)

but also because it's told from anakin's pov it's going to involve more padmé - specifically padmé being justifiably hurt that she was once again waiting for anakin

it's gonna be interesting i think trying to write this chapter and strike a different tone than a more perfect union, when both padmés are upset about the same thing and both anakins have the same priorities (obi-wan first). it's just that couples counseling au anakin is less stupid but more oblivious almost - he's not going to come to the realization as quickly that he's in love with obi-wan, and no one's gonna handhold him through it. in all, it's a much more serious tone than a more perfect union of course, but there are enough similarities (basically 'kit's corner on a fall of anidala and rise of obikin in story format' that i'm probably going to struggle a little bit to keep the tone right in couples counseling au

#asks #couples counseling au #also it was so interesting to read back over the new kofi fic #and the whole beginning part of it before anakitty shows up #has such couples counseling vibes #and then some of obi-wan's jealousy during the story when he thinks of anakin and padme #is very a more perfect union AND couples counseling lol #like his whole thing about how the apartment is too quiet because anakin is out with his wife #and he's been left behind #and its FINE #and whatever he doesn't care that anakins a child bride or WHATEVER #i guess i have just written so much lately about that sort of dynamic #that it slipped into the anakitty story even though it really didnt need to be there #quick someone make me write a modern au as a palate cleanser

[not-rab]

WAS THINKINF ABR YOU TODAT WE HAVENT TALKED IN AGES?? BUT I ALWAYS SEE YOU IN MY NOTES ILT (SREY FOR DISABLED TYPINF)

AAH I KNOW I ALWAYS SEE U ON MY FYP (what is the tumblr equivalent for fyp pls send help) AND I THINKING ABT U TOOO BUT AM VERY SCARED TO TALK😔😔

#really typing this had me shaking in my boots #i should get boots #AND ITS FINE #I HAVE TO TYPE AND RETYPE LIKE 4 TIMES #TO SPELL THE WORD RIGHT #jaa

[fertbutt]

Is there a reason why people especially on tumblr are becoming so obsessed with rewrites and redesigns of things they dont like? like 5 years ago if you really didnt like a piece of media you would hate watch it and constantly post about it, or if you were normal youd just ignore it. but nowadays theres this obsession with "what couldve been" and like, trying to "fix" these bad or at times problematic shows/books/movies. and i dont want to stifle anyones creativity but a lot of these rewrites are like. not good. . . and i think it's because theyre born purely out of spite, and it's assuming that you know better/are a better writer than the person who created the original media. and sometimes you are but sometimes you arent. but besides that it just feels very obsessive ? like theres a difference between critiquing/disliking a piece of media and going out of your way to say that you couldve done it so much better. and like. Whats the point? I get its because theres this idea of "this thing has potential but is bad because of the creator" but idk sometimes you just gotta let it go. like yeah sometimes media is bad but you just gotta let it be bad. you can still watch/read it even if its bad, you dont have to "fix" it just to prove how bad it is.

I dont know I dont have an actual answer to this. This is entirely me rambling about this phenomenon ive noticed on tumblr and tiktok. pls lmk your thoughts if u have any

#i have a dear mutual who is very into critiquing vivziepop and hazbin hotel #and its fine #but now tumblr thinks i really like helluva boss critical accounts and posts and puts them on my dashboard #and its really annoying #like yeah the show is probably bad but like.... okay #you dont have to make a seperate account detailing every way its bad and how youd fix it #did people ever do rhis for steven universe? #not that i remember. at least not to this extent

[beansnpeets]

Oh my god. I'm not tech savvy enough to work for a lawyer that's even less tech savvy. It just took us like 2 days to fix a problem that we created ourselves, but couldn't figure out what had happened. I finally got it figured, tho, after so much grief. We're just both stupid, it's fine.

#personal #work tag #it was an issue with one drive because he only had client files synced and not everything else #so i synced the entire folder #but he was still accessing client files from the old sync and it wasnt syncing that path anymore #so i unpinned it from his quick access so he has to use the other path now #and its fine #ugh

[clingylilhoneybee]

They should invent a long distance that doesn’t have a time zone difference

#:( miss him #im on my period and cranky #n he had to go to bed ;;;;;-;;;;; #and its FINE #because its LATE #but i want him to give me attention :(

[grain-my-beloved]

I honestly might be the only one who thinks this, but I really do feel like the traffic series fandom puts an unusually high amount of emphasis on Grian's violent or manipulative actions over literally everyone else's and it always gets to me how this just emanates from every kind of traffic series content. I genuinely don't know why it happens, but I swear, I genuinely see like a hundred times more critical viewpoints of Grian's actions than of anyone else's even though he's absolutely no worse than the others.

#trafficblr #grian #third life smp #last life smp #double life smp #i mean #grian trap kills someone in season one #and every fic for the next year calls him endlessly cruel over it #but anyone else does the same shit #and its fine #people will write scar thinking about how awful grian is for stuff they literally did together

[im-suchanicegirl]

Me: ah, i wish i was more cutesy and soft in my aesthetics, it doesnt work even when im hyper feminine. Whats up with that

Also me, after one band of three in a show: i fucking hate everyone and i already laughed at three people for something petty.

#ill never soft #im a bitter fat bitch #and its fine

[gifti3]

I actually enjoyed watching the fnaf movie

Its not super scary but i enjoyed the story

#i was worried cause of all the dunking ppl were doing to it #but i watched it #and its fine #fun to watch with a friend #especially if the friend is a big fnaf fan cause then they can explain some parts u might not get lol #i know some fnaf lore #maybe a little bit more than the average person but that about it #anyways yea

[justmills]

I, a teacher, really wish danmei authors would stop shipping students and their teachers. It makes my eye twitch.

#i get loads of people like it #and its FINE #but all i can think is no no no no no no ew no no no no! #svsss #scum villian self saving system #the husky and his white cat shizun

[thirt13n]

me a couple weeks ago : hahaha yeah so like spoopy share awoo bark bark verse, amirite? it'll be fun. me now : the absolute ch0kehold these two woofs have on my head and my heart and i would legit k!ll for them how am i supposed to function normally now?!

#its fine i wouldn't know how to function normally anyway #but now there's these two soft woofies living in my brain #and its FINE

[juleskelleybooks]

Lmao it's all fun and games until you're writing alone at 1:00 am and you have to start describing a haunting

Hahaha NOPE.

#its hilarious too because i know who the ghost is #and its fine #hes not going to hurt anybody #hes a sweetie #but ffs maybe DONT make a poor girl think someone has intruded into her house #at least not at 1:00am when im the only person awake #thx

[eroticcannibal]

Dude isint your span young, like elametry age? Fuck it track up. Your just makeing sher they dont get kidnaped or playing in the high way

My child is perfectly old enough to be at the park round the corner without me tracking it. I cannot stress enough that helicopter parenting is a very western and very harmful thing. Now I dont put much stock in developmental milestones, but it is quite behind in terms of independence. It actually isn't normal for a kid of its age to still need to be watched 24/7. It is perfectly mature enough to handle this trip on its own, the only thing holding it back was anxieties about managing its disabilities, but its got a walker now.

Also the majority of kidnappings are by parents, other kidnappings are vanishingly rare. And I've had the "prevent it being kidnapped by my ex" thing down for years, don't worry about it. Tracking it on its phone wouldn't be needed in such a situation because I know exactly where it will end up if kidnapped. The tracking is more for if it can't get itself home due to its disabilities or gets injured or lost.

Also also cars aren't really much of a risk where we are since we are on residential streets in bumfuck nowhere and we dont have boy racers. You get hit by a car here u can walk it off.

I'm sure this wasn't your intention but it is very much not healthy or beneficial to my child to feed into my paranoia on things like this. I am constantly fighting the urge to just lock it away from the world because I am SO scared of my ex finding us, and I know that would harm it. I know I must not do that. I know I have to let it have freedom and grow up. It is very difficult for me to do this, please do not make it harder.

#i know the past 2 decades has normalised helicopter parenting #largely due to increased reporting of exceptional cases #but things are safer than they have ever been #kids are ok going to the park #its ok we dont have to worry #we got kids here going park at like 7 and 8 unatended and untracked #and its fine

[aropride]

maybe you should try now! they wont bite u i promise

see i should but. its so so scary :{

#ask #i know logically like. i call they say hey this is location name this is. kira or maureen speaking. #and i say hi its nik im calling to schedule an appt with kiely #and they go ok cool we have a time at [whenever[ #and then i go yeah that works #and its fine #BUT! im so so scareds

[yymiya]

every day in uni is one fraught with depression

#is it going well work wise? arguably #is having to mask near 24/7 burning me out? absolutely #theres no way around it 😭 the moment i go into the kitchen bc i cant put off making food for any longer someone comes and sits with us #and its fine #this is what i wanted #to be getting closer with my flatmates but like #sometimes i just need to exist bruv #I CANT IF SOMEONE ELSE IS THERE #unless its sir peachyjudar #then idc