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bone-yarddz · 1 month
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Audio books but it’s Michael Sheen reading books as Aziraphale and sometimes you hear David Tennant shouting something obnoxious as Crowley.
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phoenixcatch7 · 2 years
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Love the idea of each previous hero's journey being mostly lost to time, such that each time the cycle starts again absolutely no one picks up the very obvious clues that might lead them to the hero.
Oh, you've named your blond haired blue eyed child Link, have you? That's a good name!
Oh, he's found a strange red and white maned horse he's named epona who has utterly bonded with him? How unusual!
Yes, the princess Zelda is the same age, isn't she? What a good omen for the family!
We know he doesn't talk much, but he's the sweetest lad, don't worry!
Don't fret, dearie, his wanderlust will abate when he grows up, I'm sure it won't get him in too much trouble before then.
Prodigious little swordsman, isn't he? He would make a great knight if he wanted to when he's older!
Oh? Rumours about a long forgotten temple in the woods? How strange! Are you sure it's not just the children telling stories?
Look at him in his armoured green outfit! That hat looks lovely on him - where did you find it?
#It's so funny#In just about every Zelda I've played there's been about a hundred signs link is In The Building and no one ever notices#Twilight Princess was the absolute worst everyone just kept bringing up Its The Hero stuff and it just was not clicking#By the time we got to epona I was half tempted to make a bingo card#Heck he even has a tree house!!#Strong oot time genes there XD#There's something about loading up a Zelda game and going 'yup. This is a Zelda game alright' but NO ONE in universe notices#YOU ACTUALLY LIVE THERE YOU GUYS STUDY THIS IN HISTORY CLASS#it also opens up the great trope of link casually knowing stuff from previous lives he absolutely shouldn't and nobody taking it seriously#Until he comes back with the master sword#Some of those games were particularly bonkers and if the specifics never got recorded then there's no way anyone would believe them#A zora princess tried to marry the hero?? Lmao try writing fanfic#Listen I know it says the hero came from the woods but kokiri don't exist he would have just lived in a cottage or something#How dare you besmirch the hero's honour! He would never lower himself to base property damage! Never mind pots!#No hylian can ever wrestle a goron are you insane??#Talking boat.... Sure#But you just KNOW Zelda would get some scholars and they'd hang off his every word#I love fics where link just casually references some world shaking knowledge (ie rito being zora descended and their own squid ancestors)#Or what the divine beasts were named after#Or what time travel feels like#Or that the myths hylians came from the skies are true#Or what one Zelda did when she vanished centuries ago#Or what the giant skeletons were#That kind of thing#Sorry I rambled#long post#legend of zelda#loz#loz zelda#loz link
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blorbinho · 2 months
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send-me-a-puffalope · 2 months
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why did my teachers think it was okay to give us like one single weekend to finish all of our midterm projects and study for our tests.
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#slight vent#i have 3 projects and 3 tests#i’m halfway through my lit/history project and halfway through my psych project#and maybe a quarter done with my programming project#which is fucking insane btw cause how tf am i supposed to code a whole video game in like 3 days on top of everything else 😭😭😭#and some things he hasn’t taught us and just thinks that we should just be able to figure out like HELLO???/?///#I DONT HAVE TIME TO TEACH MYSELF NEW CODE#ITS THE MIDTERM/FINAL FOR THE CLASS??????#and once the weekend starts i’ll have no one to trouble shoot my stuff and fix my bugs so literally i’ll be hopeless so 😭😭😭#my calc teacher JUST finished teaching us everything we need for the midterm TODAY. THE MIDTERM IS ON WEDNESDAY. BRO.#my physics teacher doesn’t let us copy down any of our idk test questions or take our old assessments home to study#*old#so we get to look em over for like 20 mins and hand em back. which doesn’t exact fucking help me when i’m studying for the midterm.#WITH NO STUDY GUIDE.#my teachers even said that this years midterms are worse than previous years cause they’re all in a row instead of split by a weekend#we’ve had 2 delayed openings and 1 early dismissal this week which means we have less time to work on our midterm projects in class 😭😭😭😭#i’m so overwhelmed i’m gonna explode#by the time i finish these projects i’m not gonna have anymore energy/time to study for my tests. WHICH IS THE HARD SHIT BTW.
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queerbting · 2 months
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rewatching nuwho and i'm rlly.... why is human nature / family of blood just racist hit after racist hit after racist hit against martha . followed by a heavy dose of classist (+ misogynistic!!!!) behavior directed against her afterwards where the humans of 1913 england treat her like a weird alien from another world (the doctor in human form included!!!).
also, why do they have the doctor a) be actively bigoted and b) fall in love with a racist nurse who specifically speaks down to martha (someone who the doctor cares for). they create this "unassuming" white woman character and then have her be awful to martha but we're supposed to believe that she is kind and sympathetic worthy of being the human doctor's love interest, more than martha being treated as a human being. (and then that we should cry over her lost love/future in the end)
like why. genuinely why. what is the point .
also objectively what function does the nurse serve that martha jones could not have. she's even a medical student like !!!!!! going undercover as a nurse would not be that far off!! and plus, i'm not even a tenmartha shipper but it would fit more for the emotional arc of martha's character to get what she wanted all season in human nature / family of blood (the doctor falling in love with her!!! wish fulfillment !!!!!! ) only to realize the cruelty of what this would be like in reality if she were never to open the watch (despite her finally having what she "wants"), and finally understanding and having to give john smith up. it could've been a really tragic, but human moment (like a lot of other things in dw!).
then 10 and martha's relationship could actually be on some sort of equal footing. bc martha had a taste of what it would be liked to be loved by him (or someone similar to him, at least), and chose in the end to let it go. it would give her emotional closure, etc. and would show her choosing the /actual/ doctor (not human) and the friendship she has with him, rather than a lifetime with a human that she fell in love with who happens to look like him.
could've been a really cool moment of both character development and then bonding between the doctor and martha afterwards in their newfound partnership, so half of martha's character is no longer swallowed up by her pining for him.
but no. instead they go and hide in racistville and martha is a servant who experiences racism/misogyny/classism and microaggressions from white people + aliens over two episodes for nearly no reason .
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rooolt · 11 months
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maybe we didn’t get goofs realm this episode, but we sure got lots of goofs
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winterf4iryy · 5 months
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opens-up-4-nobody · 7 months
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My friend's boyfriend is a jiraiya fan and a sasuke hater 😭😭😭
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bmpmp3 · 13 days
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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
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oldshrewsburyian · 9 months
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Robin Hood Research Rant
So, I’ve finished Hood, and I have Thoughts on the book’s conclusion, but I don’t wish to spoil it for the other readers. I also have a rant specific to Lawhead’s resarch process, however. (I will call it a research process, though “process” is generous.)
First, credit where credit is due: he has taken time to wander through an old-growth European forest, and that definitely counts as Robin Hood research in my book. This kind of embodied research has academic recognition as well as obvious benefits. So, good for him.
Second good thing: he has read primary sources, both ballads and chronicles (hooray.) He’s read Gerald of Wales, from whom I think his oddly repetitive ethnic characterizations of the Normans in the book come. He has also read Brenhinedd y Saesson, but here the problems start. For one thing, he seems to take the chronicle at face value (HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.) For another, he seems to take for granted that its perspective is Welsh and presents “the Robin Hood legend in seed form.” I’ll get to that in a second, but the issue with this Welsh perspective thing is, um, it’s a compilation chronicle. It draws primarily on English sources. Yes, compilation is a creative endeavor, especially in the Middle Ages, but I would feel so much better if it were clear that Lawhead 1) knew this 2) cared.
Despite all this source use, the grounds for his argument for Welsh Robin Hood appear to be... vibes. He writes “My contention is that although in Nottingham, the Robin Hood legends found good soil in which to grow, they must surely have originated elsewhere.” This is the kind of thesis that I would annotate ferociously with red pen if it were in a student essay. Actually green pen because research shows that looks less aggressive. It’s also the kind of thesis I wish I could annotate with “I will not dignify this by calling it a thesis.” Anyway. Absolutely unsubstantiated. What he cites as though he thinks it is evidence is... the longbow is Welsh. Seriously. That’s it. He also claims that fact is Ignored By Historians™, which, no.
Then there’s the question of the individuals he cites. “British historian Philip Warner” was indeed a historian, and an acclaimed military historian... of the modern period. And “military historian Robert Hardy,” well, that’s the Robert Hardy. The actor. Charmingly (in my view,) playing Henry V formed part of Hardy’s longbow-enthusiast origin story, and he was indeed an expert in historical longbow technology, and a respected member of the Society of Antiquaries. But it seems to me careless at best -- and disingenuous at worst -- to cite these two authors rather than historians of medieval Britain... or, for that matter, scholars of the medieval Robin Hood literature! And I am more irritated by this tissue of claims to historicity, plausible, I fear, to the untrained eye, than I would be if he just said “I, acclaimed fantasy author Stephen Lawhead, am writing a Welsh Robin Hood because I think it would be fun.”
Here endeth the rant.
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passsionfish · 2 months
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I dont really make posts like this but
look I don't watch the news and Im not gonna lie I don't really understand politics and all that much but, even so, even from the little info ive gotten from just tumblr. its uhm i dont think its that hard?? to understand that all the stuff going on in palestine right now is incredibly fucked up? I dont pretend to know how like. the land and stuff works but i know there is nothing that justifies killing so many people.and KIDS god its. a lot. its really fucked up. I dont really like cursing idk it just doesnt really, i dont feel the need to so know im using it now to convey my strong feelings. so this is me trying to help how i can with just like. internet uhh exposure sorta thing? yknow. talking about it.y eah. if you somehow are seeing all this and thinking its fine? please block me. I dont want you here. Free Palestine
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raekiez · 3 months
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Haii, I had to do a video essay for a college final, and i ended up being really proud of it! Being able to ramble about my fav movie ever for a grade fucking rules. I will warn yall, it had some editing and grammar issues, but I'm still proud of it! Go check it out!!!!
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cuntstable · 3 months
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if i lived in the medieval times id still find a way to fixate on insane fictional characters. id read the canterbury tales and then be posting about my new blorbo the Wife of Bath at church or whatever
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ghosttown-mp3 · 4 months
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beclynns-posts · 1 year
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My younger siblings got me into Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (after I made them watch a lot of the OG 80’s series)….. and absolutely positively NO ONE WAS GONNA TELL ME ABOUT THIS??!!?!
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I mean I was loosing my shit over the ice cream kitty reference a few episodes before that….
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… but an actual acknowledgment to other TMNT adaptations is gorgeous with its alternate universe note. Absolutely beautiful! If you need me I’ll be writing my next free-style college essay why Rise is the best adaptation.
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justablah56 · 6 months
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casually listens to the most insane music you've ever heard while reading some book about the ratification of the US Constitution
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