#can you tell that i'm annoyed by these people bcause i'm annoyed

[gay-jesus-probably]

Let me just preface this by saying everyone is allowed to have their own opinions, TOTK is a really fun game, and I'm glad that other people have been able to enjoy the story as well.

...But I'm being dead serious with my complaints about the narrative being 100% imperialist propaganda. And I'm getting really tired of people replying to those posts by saying it can't be imperialist propaganda, because imperialism is bad and the game says that Hyrule is the good guys.

Like, guys. That's not the argument you think it is. Yes, I am aware that the game tells us Ganondorf is a flat, one dimensional character with no ambitions, interests or motivations beyond destroying the entire world for the hell of it, and also it's totally not racist because he's green, not brown like literally every other member of his race. Unfortunately literally all of these things are kind of the entire goddamn problem.

See, the thing is, everyone trying to make these arguments is accepting the game at face value. Hyrule is the perfect and almighty nation chosen by the demigod Zonai, and whose royal family has the right to rule due to their divine heritage. The other races exist to serve the glory of Hyrule, and they're happy to do it. Ganondorf is pure evil and must be stopped at any costs.

But that's not how anything works. The story informing me that Hyrule is the ultimate good that has done nothing wrong is the whole goddamn reason why I don't trust Hyrule at all. There's always more of a reason than that. And the game fucking suggests there was more going on! Ganondorf mentions Rauru has repeatedly 'invited' the Gerudo to become Rauru's subjects, and let's be clear here, it doesn't matter how peaceful those 'invitations' were, when the guy who owns every single magical nuclear missile in the world repeatedly demands you surrender to him, there's always going to be an implied threat of 'do it or get magically nuked'. Just that power difference alone shows us exactly why Ganon would feel threatened enough to invade. It's because Rauru was holding a gun to his head, and Ganon was expected to just trust that he'd never pull the trigger.

And yes, even if it wasn't intentional Hyrule was always threatening to wipe out the other nations, considering the entire royal family walked around openly wearing their magical nukes as cute accessories. If they couldn't be safely hidden away, there wouldn't be four other secret stones sitting untouched in a vault until the last second.

But that's never acknowledged. Of course Hyrule is the only nation with the right to the secret stones; even if other races get to touch them, they can only have them if they swear eternal blind loyalty and servitude to the glory of King Rauru and Princess Zelda. Ganon wanting to have one magical nuclear bomb out of a stockpile of eight of them is proof that he's dangerous and evil. I mean my god, what if he just walked around all day wearing a magical nuke and using its power for his own benefit, that would be terrifying. It's only okay when Hylian royalty does it.

And you can't argue that Ganon betrayed his own people, considering we don't get to know fucking anything about his relationship with his people. He's shows as the leader of the Gerudo, we're told he's a hero to his people, he has soldiers that loyally follow him into battle... and then oh nevermind, they all hate him and will spend eternity trying to atone for sharing a race with him. How did the entire race do a complete 180 in the span of at most a few months? Who cares, what's important is that now they accept they exist to serve Hyrule so they get to be the good guys now and we don't need to know why they were following Ganondorf, or why they stopped following him.

Basically my point is that yeah, I fucking know how the game insists everything went down. That's the entire reason I think it's imperialist propaganda, because the entire story feels like Hylian propaganda to conceal and justify some horrific atrocities that caused all of this. I literally do not believe that I'm getting the story through reliable narrators, especially considering that the only people allowed to actually tell me the story are all the characters that have the most reasons to be heavily biased in favour of Hyrule.

When the game shows me protagonists that have a massive amount of power and control over the entire world, then says the bad guy doesn't like that system just because he's evil, and literally nothing and nobody in the game says anything to oppose that take, I have some questions about what the fuck the story isn't telling me. And I'd really appreciate it if people would stop trying to argue with me just by telling me to stop asking those questions.

#tears of the kingdom spoilers #tears of the kingdom #ganondorf #can you tell that i'm annoyed by these people bcause i'm annoyed #...nothing personal if you are taking the story at face value btw #its just that i'm trying to dig into the story to talk about it #and it's frustrating to have people telling me i'm wrong because i'm analyzing the game #like guys... if someone doing a little bit of analysis is all it takes to dismantle the entire story #then it's not a well written story

[the-scungles-of-crungles]

ok hi don't wanna sound annoying and all and you can ignore me (cause at this point it won't be the worse that can happen tbh) but superstraight isn't real nor good. it was created by transphobes and shit and there's some neonazi bs involved and all. it's totally valid if you don't wanna date trans men because of personal reasons, what would make you transphobe would be to not wanna date them cause they aren't real men for you. but you don't seem to like think that? but really please don't use that label, it's been taken over by terfs and straight kids on tik tok use it totally seriously and legit want to replace the t in lgbt with s and none of them ever made researches on all the nazi shit

again I'm very sorry I know you told everyone to shut up and all but that's kinda important and if you use this you're going to end up either being seen as an asshole or a transphobe or get harassed by "superphobes" (I don't like the whole superphobe thing and telling superstraights to go die tbh) sorry again!

Oh trust me you can't be annoying to me, I'm the one who's always annoying people on tumblr.

Also again it was started by 4chan, not, yknow, nazis or whatever.

And uh idk big text wall makes my brain go to shit sorry.

Basically uhh...

Uh the only label I use is Default Settings, bcause I'm straight, cis, and white, lmao-

I mean yeah I'm female but basically just like if you picked the generic female preset in a video game.

Bad response I know lol.

[cake-by-thepound]

{1/7 (I think). And I'm sorry for that!} it’s probably because a few days ago while scrolling through tumblr to kill time (procrastination is real!) i came across an anti lori post that I’ve been thinking about her. so is it cool if I share mmy thoughts for a second? (I apologize in advance, this is gonna be a very LONG one.) *cracks knuckles *

{2/7} Side note: I’ve been waiting for richonne since forever and (over :P)analyse and celebrate every interactions (that ily !!! still on cloud nine ❤️) with the rest of yall so it’s not about not loving michonne (that’s my girl!) or richonne or a race thing (I’m a BW myself actually)… I’m just saying that cause I know how sometimes it can get heated in the fandom lol

{3/7} unpopular opinion coming: *cautiously comes on stage * I don’t hate Lori. Is she my fav? Hell nah. Not by a long shot. But I feel like she gets a LOT of hate. Her biggest problem was that she never learned to adapt to this world –I feel like you can trace almost all of her actions back to that fact. Just to get into the 2 things she gets the most heat for: FIRST, being with shane. Which I get, but as far as she knew, rick was dead.

{4/7} And they were best friends, yes, but that’s actually not that uncommon (irl)? To find comfort with somebody who was also close with the deceased? (And it’s not like she had many options anyway) And yes the relatively short amount of time is not a good look either but add the high level stress sit they’re in, and again it’s (irl) realistic and not uncommon… If people wanna hate her because of the affair, that’s fine and their right.

{5/7} I do think there are def factors here that should be taken into account but that’s my opinion. I guess when it comes to that, I mostly have a problem with people who don’t hate shane for the same reason… / SECOND, she gets trashed a lot for the moment rick told her he killed him but I never quite got it bcause I saw the moment a bit differently? Don’t get me wrong, it was def not a good look , that’s for sure.

{6/7} But to me it always seemed like she was really more reacting to the fact that 1-rick said he actually wanted to kill shane (you gotta remember back in those days, their stance was def more “we don’t kill the living”, and that’s not the rick she knows. (see also: she is not adapting to the new world –he is, thus “new” rick)) and 2- she then really reacts and “rejects” him because of carl. Rick tells her that her son had to do it, to “kill” him, and that she can’t take and comprehend.

{7/7} That’s not the life she wants for her son… So it was never really about shane in that moment but really all about rick and carl. Or at least that’s how I saw it. I’m sorry, I just don’t hate her (again, I don’t love her either but…) and think her character gets a lot of hate and a lot of that is a bit unfair and unjustified & I honestly just don’t get WHY she gets the amount of hate she gets *runs away before somebody can get me *

Umm. Sure. 😄 I don’t quite know what to say, because I don’t really disagree with the specific things you mention. But I also don’t think any of this is why I dislike her. At least not if you separate them from everything else about her. But when you put all this together, Lori had more issues than Us Weekly.I will say that personally, I don’t blame her for sleeping with Shane. We do weird shit when we’re in pain, and the world was falling apart. Whatever. She even tried to shut it down when Rick returned, and I do blame Shane for pushing the issue and then eventually resenting Rick for returning. But I thought the story was good and he was well written, so I don’t really have a lot to critique there.For Lori, however, it felt like she didn’t know what she wanted in the end, and that was annoying as fuck. To have her be so resolute with Shane one minute, then turn around and pull him back in the next, sending mixed signals. And then with Rick, she’s the one who told him to kill Shane (without actually saying the words), and then rejected him when he actually did it. I’m not sure how the audience is supposed to take that. She was wishy-washy as hell. (As were a lot of characters back then. I barely liked Rick in S2, so this is not exclusive to Lori, lol.)

But to me, I just don’t think she and Rick were meant to be together – not in this world or the one before. I think she loved him, but by the time we meet them, she didn’t like him. And that manifested itself in the way she would question his decisions. Shane seemed to be better suited to handle her personality.I think she did her best. And I think what she did to save Judith was beautiful and brave, and I respect her for that. But if I knew Lori in real life, I wouldn’t fuck with her on any level. 😄

#but don’t worry this is a safe-ish space! you’re always welcome to your opinion lol #as long as you express it nicely #i’m actually surprised i got all of these. tumblr has been acting up lately #about lori grimes