Ahem… Boy! Did Luigi and Bowser get off on the wrong FOOT. But what a strong IMPACTFUL IMPRESSION. Gee golly does this ship leave me KICKING and giggling- Okay okay I'll stop.
But this update gives this other page some new context huh?
The school in Hateno Village bothers me on a profound level. Zelda was always interested in scientific inquiry and the natural world, and her frustration with ritual and tradition was an essential element of her character in Breath of the Wild. If Zelda were going to establish a school, it would make sense for her to create a curriculum in which children learn physics and chemistry, both of which are major components of gameplay in Tears of the Kingdom.
Instead, a key goal of Zelda's school is to teach children that ancient legends about heroes and demons are literally true. She wants the younger generation to understand the history of Hyrule, even despite the fact that Hyrule no longer exists in any meaningful sense. I understand that being trapped inside Calamity Ganon for a century might have changed Zelda's priorities, but it's jarring to see her personality transform so radically without the trauma she experienced ever being acknowledged.
i hope ruby gets a well-that’s-alright-then-style notdeath. on the one hand it will make haters mad because oh no not another companion with an impermanent end (and i like to see haters mad) on the other it would require creativity to depict this in a new way + i love all the implications i love the dark fairytale quality of these companion exits i love my un-undead schrodinger’s women
with the way the legend of ruby sunday is titled… legends aren’t usually told about living people. legends are stories of the bygone past, of an age long since over, fictionalised and overgrown with folklore like barnacles sticking to an abandoned shell. there is such a thing as a living legend, but they’re exceedingly rare. the unmistakeable raven’s call in the 73 yards teaser, the trailer’s cut to fifteen crying alone after promising to cherry he’d protect her daughter… the foreshadowing is clear as day…
and yet. there’s one massive HOWEVER. ruby appears in s15: millie’s been spotted on set filming it. which leads me to believe — the doctor isn’t one to take the time travel route and revisit companions that in his future are genuinely dead. that would hurt too much, it would cause unnecessary trauma and could break the timeline. that must mean ruby stays alive in some way. ish. she’s alive and a legend and a mystery. girl-ballad girl-song girl-paradox
here she is, fading out.
p.s.: thesis statement on moffatgirls from the tags i left on somebody else’s post about charley pollard.. well it belongs here since it’s basically the semiotic hurricane swirling around ruby at the moment :)
since we already have fiona/nightfall for yor, i want no maybe need a new character that would make loid jealous and yor’s obliviousness would make it better. preferably someone from the secret police would spice the drama more
So… just to be clear….. You’re telling me there is such a thing as a handsome, sweet, kinky, Daddy as fuck butch who has exceptional communication skills and the ability to make me feel validated in my thoughts or feelings even when I can’t do that myself!?
i have seen people say that there are too many red wolfs of radagon scadettered around the lands between but lore-wise it's actually a very sweet detail
imagine that years before the shattering, the almighty radagon of the golden order found this bunch of puppies and just decided to raise them. i can see pretty much all of the demigods playing with the red wolfs, especially rykard, radahn and ranni
years pass and the puppies are HUGE and MAGICAL and really strong, so radagon decides to leave a red wolf in each of the important places where he has something or someone to protect
the boss before rennala is a red wolf of radagon... guys... imagine radagon training the puppy to protect rennala at all costs...
then there's another one next to the caria manor, close to his daughter ranni
it might be a silly headcanon but!!! radagon is silly so!!!
On the topic of How Do You Handle XYZ Comment, I've always wondered how you handle terrible responses on your toh takes. Like I know the toh fandom doesn't lack piss on the poor reading comprehension and they also really enjoy wildly out of touch takes, but I've never seen any comments on your princess luz stuff of that nature. I'm sure they must be there but maybe I'm too early? But anyway, how do you tend to deal with the "acktually shipping luz and Hunter is incest" and the "ur not a real lesbian because putting amity in a poly ship is lesbian erasure" and the "as a white person kinda sus you make the poc woman an empress" kind of responses? Ones that are technically not hate and maybe if you squint could be from people who aren't inherently trying to do bad but just lack the maturity needed to engage with the internet at large?
this ask made me giggle. honestly, i haven't received as much pushback as you might expect! way less pushback than i expected. in the princess AU, i've gotten a LOT more "this is actually too grotesque for me to stomach" comments than "this is problematic" comments, which is fine. horror-thriller isn't for everyone, those comments do not upset me.
i have had a Few run-ins with bad faith people, whom i mostly block. there's one prolific commenter in toh tumblr fandom who would repeatedly write angry essays on my humor meta posts -- essays that were all about how belos is too evil to be sympathetic and/or about how hunter is a soft gentle boy who shouldn't be jokingly referred to as evil. then they'd go "i can't help my active and conscious decision to type a bunch of rude fucking words and then my active and conscious decision to send those rude fucking words because i'm autistic :(((" around the fourth or fifth time this happened, i was fucking done with that nonsense and finally blocked them. shoulda done it after the first comment tbh!! no more autism exceptions.
as for the rest of it, my main management strategy is to simply.... preempt the bad faith comments?
i had a LOT more unpleasant and conflict-filled fandom experiences when i was in the raven cycle fandom. that was my first exposure to "you can't ship multi-gender polycules if anyone involved is gay" and "queerplatonic het relationships are just heteronormativity shipping that you're trying to get away with." having dealt with those takes before, i've found a few different ways to disarm bad faith readers before they get started.
first is to be super open and honest about my interests. i talk about what i find compelling in different relationships All The Damn Time. it's really hard for anyone to accuse me of only wanting hunter to fuck amity if they've seen, like.... anything i've said about hunter and amity.
same with hunter and luz. the only negative reactions i've really gotten to how they're written in the princess AU is like.... two people being squicked by camila thinking they're romantically involved. i REALLY expected more pushback on the touchyfeely bed sharing stuff, but from what i remember, there's never been Any....? not even from people who consider them siblings.
i expected a lot of pushback on how mean hunter and amity are to each other, since it's taken So much farther than the canon. but it turns out that there's a very large overlap between people who like dark horror AUs and people who like hunter and amity murdering each other. (in a fluffy fic i don't think this characterization would fly Nearly as easily.)
i find that being funny really disarms people, too. when you look at any of my toh meta posts that could be controversial, they're basically all funny. people are a lot more willing to listen to what you have to say if you make them laugh, and it's harder for them to get angry at you.
and then the last thing is that i think i'm in sort of a privileged position in toh fandom. i've written a lot of controversial subjects and relationships and characterizations.... but i've also written some WILDLY popular mainstream fic. and people who like the mainstream fic don't really want to beef with me about differing niche opinions, bc there's a level of respect there. which they might not have for a writer they don't like.
but anyway. when things Do happen, i almost always just block and move on. there are so many people here who get what i'm talking about that there's no need for me to try to convert people who don't, you know??
Aaravos wouldn't have survived the casual homophobia / hate of androgynous/ feminine male characters of the 00's Internet. Those people would have torn him apart.