#rez rambles

[undercityrezident]

So, did anyone else notice during Memory 4 that the Dueling Peaks is a complete and single mountain?

So that means, at some point between when Zelda arrived and the present day, according to Shay at the Lakeside Stable (in Breath of the Wild), "...legends say that a dragon god split the mountain in half to forge a way through, and that's how how it went from one to two."

It's worth mentioning that he talked about this while also mentioning "the presence of the shadow of a large creature on the surface of Lake Floria," which largely connects this dialogue to Farosh, the dragon often seen diving into the waterfalls near the peak of Mount Floria (in Breath of the Wild). The fact all this information comes from the same source may be the game's way of telling us that Farosh was responsible for the state of the Dueling Peaks.

However, I have a hypothesis to offer (which contains intensive TotK story spoilers, hence the readmore):

The way the camera pans in the memory to show the Dueling Peaks (or peak, rather, in this era), feels somewhat purposeful to me. And knowing that Zelda becomes a dragon in order to help restore the Master Sword over the aeons, I can't help but wonder if she might've been the reason why it happens.

Not that I blame her of course. She's a newly minted dragon, likely bursting with emotion and pain she doesn't understand or know how to cope with as she's just lost her sense of self. She could've gone mad for a time, flying erratically and ploughing through a mountain in her time of grief before settling into her new draconic existence.

Does this disprove that Farosh, or any of the other three dragons could've been responsible?

No, it doesn't. But I propose the idea that the other three dragons have existed much longer than her. By the nature of their names, they're connected to the three goddesses, Nayru, Farore, and Din, and have likely been around since the world's origin (or very close to it). Further, the Zonai have many carvings and depictions of dragons, meaning that dragons existed during and likely prior to this era, given their longevity.

Why is this important? We can look to how the three main dragons behave: they have regular patterns of flight, likely formed out of habit or preference, and do not go out of their way to harm people or impact the landscape in any significant way. For the most part, they're high in the sky where little can reach them, save for a hero with a paraglider.

Grant you, their paths have changed since TotK debuted, but the landscape itself has changed, as has the state of the world in general. The depths are now readily accessible, and perhaps there's an obligation on their part to survey it or maintain order wherever they can venture.

But my main point is that the dragons, given time, tend to settle and keep to their own habits and paths. If the three dragons already existed long before Zelda transformed, it's unlikely one of the other three dragons would find reason to deviate from their normal behaviour and plough through a mountain to split it in two.

But the new Light Dragon hasn't settled yet. She's wracked with emotion, grief, and new power she doesn't know how to control. She could almost be considered a newborn in that sense, and what might a newborn with nearly god-like powers do?

Split a mountain in half because it was in her way...

Also, keep in mind the former Temple of Time where Zelda transformed is not all too distant from that once unified Dueling Peak. As well, Zelda's own draconic trailblazing hasn't been consistent either in the present. At the beginning of TotK, she's seen flying in circles near the Great Sky Island before she boldly plunges through the cloud layer to open up Hyrule to Link once he's finished his trials there. As far as dragons go, Zelda doesn't have the same temperament as the other three.

It's true that there could be another dragon, or being that approximates one, that is responsible for the splitting of the Dueling Peaks. Maybe it was a more nefarious dragon sharing heritage with the likes of Volvagia, Argorok, or some progenitor of the Gleeoks.

Still, I think that it would be interesting to believe that the once gentle Zelda's sacrifice may have had a bigger hand in shaping the future of Hyrule than only her dutiful task of revitalizing the Master Sword. It would further contrast the change between the woman she was and the dragon she became, and emphasize the tragic nature of what she had to do in order for us to finally defeat Ganondorf.

#The Legend of Zelda #TotK #Princess Zelda #Light Dragon #Tears of the Kingdom #TotK Spoilers #Rez Rambles #Headcanon #Yes let me make the saddest moment in TotK even sadder #Whoops... #I'll admit this isn't the most ironclad theory but... #I find myself wanting to believe it XD #If only for more angst

[krisiverse]

PSA for new tumblr users

DON'T use a picture of yourself as your icon!

you may be used to other sites expecting you to show your face to prove you're a real person, but here it's very much the opposite. bots often use a person's selfie to mask as a legit blog, so if you have an irl person as your icon you can easily be mistaken for a bot and blocked, especially if you just made your account recently! last night i got a new follower that i read as probably-a-bot and sent a message to check, and they turned out to be a new user who didn't know about this.

a big part of tumblr culture is anonymity and customization, you can have your own blog and setup completely personalized to look however you like. if you have your icon relate to one of the interests you'll be posting about, you'll be likely to find other people in that community to talk with, but you can also just put a picture of something you find pretty!

and to veteran tumblr users: please spread the word and make extra sure when you're blocking supposed bots! i feel everyone is understandably wary about new users from twitter joining, but i'd much rather they learn to adapt to the culture here than adapt the culture to be more like twitter

#rez rambles #i want to tag this to spread it but idk what to put it in so everyone send suggestions

[shapeshivvter]

Shrignold and Warren are some form of relatives and you cannot convince me otherwise. Maybe cousins

#dhmis #rez rambles #dhmis warren #dhmis spoilers???

[whiteheart7]

i really really really like that elora, bear, willie jack, and cheese are all still friends in the end. none of them got together romantically. theyre really close and they love each other so much and theyre friends. i was so afraid that when bear and elora had that moment in the chapel they were going to confess feelings for each other but they didnt. theyre friends and they love each other and arent afraid to say it. they hugged!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and theyre friends!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#i just finished catching up with rez dogs and the series finale #oh man #i am sososososo glad theyre all just. one big happy family #THEYRE FAMILY!!!!!! AND THEY LOVE EACH OTHER!!!!!!!!!! #sorry my brain doesnt work right now so have what i can offer #i am feeling very acearo right now #reservation dogs #willie jack #elora danan #bear smallhill #cheese reservation dogs #rip cheese he doesnt have his own tag #also good for big and bev #also also i Did Not expect uh. bear and jackie to get together but good for them too #sorry more rambling but #i am so grateful that we got a show about family and friends and community and that there was no overarching or even side plot about romanc #not only that but the main characters arent siblings and i dont even think theyre actual cousins #so the fact that EVEN THEN none of them got together is a blessing and i love you sterlin harjo thank you for this #i know theres other shows where theres an overarching theme of family but like #it ends up being a given because theyre related and it would be weird to ship them #but AGAIN #4 characters. not related. same age. sexualities never discussed. stay friends. and then become CLOSER FRIENDS!!!!!!!!!! #achshdhskfjdh im just repeating stuff please just take this

[omoghouls]

Gale at low health: pLEASE HELP ME

Tav: You got your healing dress on, go stand in a puddle for a bit buddy

Gale:

#bg3 #gale of waterdeep #z #bunny rambles #we just fought the wyrm thing and Gale dide but i was able to rez him

[chocobosdungeon2]

I wanna talk about the approach to the supernatural in Reservation Dogs.

I'd like to add as a disclaimer that I'm not yet familiar with most of Taika Waititi's other work. I know he has written about the supernatural before, but I haven't seen it firsthand so I don't know if what I'm about to say is unique to Rez Dogs or if its common throughout his work.

The show presents the supernatural and poses the question of whether or not it's "real" in the very first episode of the series with Big and his field of catfish (among other conspiracies). Big is often used as the POV character for these phenomena because he's presented as someone who readily accepts conspiracies, supernatural theories, and is known in his community as a Bigfoot-hunting wackjob. By doing this, the show makes the audience question if the things Big sees are real. At the same time, very "real" supernatural events happen to other characters, such as the Spirit who speaks to Bear. Some truth is shown to Big's beliefs in S1E5 Come and Get Your Love, where the Deer Lady is definitely shown to be real. This is all the Season 1 setup for the glorious romp that is S2E8 This is Where the Plot Thickens (which we'll come back to), where the line between reality and supernaturality is completely blurred, but there's a larger theme at play here I think. I would say Reservation Dogs likes to present reality-based solutions to supernatural problems, but without ever discounting those problems as "fake" or "just in your head." I feel like this is in contrast to a lot of media, which tends to do the Scooby Doo "There was a logical explanation the entire time!!!" thing. Not here.

The supernatural IS real

BUT it is always conquered by the mundane.

First, I want to pivot to Elora. There's a small scene in Stay Gold Cheesy Boy (S2E7) that illustrates what I mean really well. At the end of the previous episode (S2E6), Elora is shown sitting alone in her house. A house she is now the sole owner of. She begins to hear chanting coming from Mabel's bedroom, reminiscent of the elders who chanted as she was dying. Elora nervously investigates. The chanting gets louder as she approaches the bedroom, but it ends suddenly when she turns the light on. Elora turns the light off and walks back into the hallway, looking around her darkened house as if in a panic. There's muffled chanting and a growing soundwall that makes you feel claustrophobic, like something is coming towards you/her. The camera zooms in on her distraught face in the dark and then cuts to credits.

I don't know about the rest of ya'll, but that scared the shit out of me!!! I was like "oh fuck, what might happen to Elora???" This is Reservation Dogs! Shit can get DARK. She hasn't been in a great place mentally.

We don't see Elora at all for the beginning of Stay Gold Cheesy Boy. When Jackie goes to tell Bear and Willie Jack that Cheese was arrested, she says that Elora isn't answering her phone, spiking anxiety in the audience. You're made to wonder if she's okay.

But soon after the three of them find Elora at her house, plugged into headphones, painting the walls of her grandmother's bedroom, and there's relief. But that was quite the buildup to what turned out to be a paint job, right?

Elora is haunted by her grief, and as we saw in Mabel (S2E4), by the memories the house holds that she doesn't, by its history. Elora wanted to leave the Village, but now she's chained to it by this house she suddenly owns. I don't think the chanting and strange noises were just in Elora's head. She was being haunted. But she also didn't get attacked in the night by ghosts and the solution wasn't to hire an exorcist. When we're haunted by the past, the best thing we can do is look to the future. Elora was being haunted by the house's past so she took a step towards the house's (and her own) future. It's a very... reasonable reaction for a person to have. You can sense the urgency Elora felt to get this done after that harrowing night. What would you do if you felt like you couldn't handle living in a house with its history and memories? If you can't move, giving it a new coat of paint might be the next best thing.

Back to S2E8, this episode is a great example because it plays so much with the audience's sense of reality. A character with one of the strongest connections to the supernatural we've seen, Big, accidentally starts tripping on a huge dose of acid. He's soon followed by Kenny Boy. Complete side note, the juxtaposition of nervous and terrified Big's first time on acid, and chill Kenny Boy (hecking love Kirk Fox btw), who has probably done this a billion times, just vibing is hilarious. A lot of what Big sees can be assumed to be hallucinations, although in this show you can never be too sure. Deer Lady appears but is it really her or is it just his memory of her? Until they come upon the cultists. The Field of Catfish was a mystery presented at the start and built up a little every time Big would see or talk about it with no possible explanation. It turns out, the answer was weird cultists who fuck dead catfish. As wild as that is, it's still an answer grounded in reality so it brings your expectations back down a little bit. Then a bona-fide Supernatural Phenomenon shows up to save them. Not only is the Deer Lady confirmed to be SEEN by someone other than Big, but Kenny Boy KNOWS her, they've met before! So, there can no longer be any doubt in the audience's mind.

As a refresher, the Deer Lady is a supernatural woman with deer legs (as the name implies) who kills "bad" men (and men specifically). Figuring out what "bad" and "good" means is kind of what Big's arc is all about. She asks if Kenny Boy has been good and he replies, smiling, "No... but I've been trying real hard." Kenny Boy isn't someone Big would consider "good" in his very simplistic, child-like idea of it. Her affection toward Kenny Boy shows that being good isnt just saying No to drugs and following the law. Her targets are consistently womanizing rich men who have no regard for others or their environment. She does extend to outright criminals like murderers and robbers if the opportunity presents itself, but usually to protect or save someone. I don't think she likes to work in the open if she can avoid it. The Deer Lady is a supernatural phenomenon that punishes Bad Men. You can avoid getting killed by her by being a Good Man. By not flaunting excessive wealth, by not harming others, and by caring about people around you. The fundamentals of being a decent human being.

There's other examples of this throughout the show of course, but these are a couple that stood out to me. A kind of overlapping theme that I'd love to delve into is the reverence given to Weirdos who Just Say Shit. Junkies, homeless, random dudes in waiting rooms, etc. All spewing their strange ramblings to whoever will hear, but the show frames them as wise and worth listening to. I think I need to end this post before I get too off-topic, but I think it plays into this theme as well.

I've intentionally avoided speaking on the scenes of prayer, where there's a very obvious crossing between these boundaries. I think there's a lot to say about those scenes as well, but I am not Indigenous and I feel like I'd be trying to speak on cultural and spiritual practices I know nothing about. I already feel dangerously close to doing that. I really don't want to make assumptions about anyone's beliefs, so I've tried to stick to examining the screenwriting and how it conveys these themes. If anyone else is willing to add their input, I'd be thrilled to read it.

#reservation dogs #reservation dogs spoilers #rez dogs #analysis #reservation dogs analysis #screenwriting #ramblings #ive spent the last few days trying to figure out how to write this #i hope its coherent #long post #come and get your love #this is where the plot thickens #stay gold cheesy boy #mabel #deer lady

[venturelovebot]

i cant believe i just realized this....................................

#one of their thank you lines is the censor for ggez im crying #that is so funny #rambles #WAIT I LIED ITS A REZ LINE teehee #it fits them so well imma cry #oh no i lied again #im............... :| #this entire post was engagement bait sorry

[jout--jout]

one thing that's been itching me now that some time passed since the episode is that they could've done the same thing they did to Laudna, but to Orym.

like Chetney said, Orym was a breathing, living being before going down, there wouldn't be any doubts about his state when the moment of resurrecting him came, he Would come back.

now Laudna, who has died before and went down a few times, is a big question mark when the thing is her resurrection. will she come back like the Laudna that we know? will she come back as herself before dying 30 years ago, fully alive but no memories of her time after those events? or her time with bell's hells? will only her come back, without Delilah?

plus, all the doubts about the rez spells themselves with 5e, would they even work on her, her being a hollow one? would they do the 1k gp one or be able to do the 25k one if powerful people are involved?

i feel like, in the heat of the moment, the cast maybe didn't think about that and how easier it would be if Orym was the one to stay down (tho he is a big asset and need for the group on the frontlines, that tiny lil man), and how could they really because a lot was at stake and emotions were high and they thought they could fix it (fuck you Ruidus die i still aint over that nat1), though they've been playing this game for a decade and probably will pull it off. and Matt is merciful. sometimes.

so in both scenarios, going to VM is completely plausible, if they so choose. Keyleth would resurrect Orym for... obvious reasons imo. and Orym, knowing what he does about Laudna and the Sun Tree and working for Keyleth, would totally be able to turn the tides to their side (although there would be some complications with the Briarbitch still roaming Laudna's head, if they decide to mention her at all)

but, storytelling wise... oh boy, storytelling wise Laudna dying is making me buzz with excitement for what's to come. it's a sad buzz, but a buzz nonetheless. ANYWAYS thanks for coming to my ted talk

edit: actually if orym died they wouldn't know about kiki being able to bring ppl back so you can scratch that BUT they'd still be able to bring him back w no worries through someone else. i think.

#critical role #critical role spoilers #cr #c3ep34 #imodna #laudna #orym of the air ashari #keyleth of the air ashari #bells hells #boy that was a big ramble i apologize #had to let that thought out #i dont know shit bout the rez spells btw so take that with a grain of salt #like laudna did #i hurt myself with that last one damn #sorry #:')

[girlmadeofstarlight]

'Frybread Face and Me' was such a CUTE movie!!!!

I'm a rez girl, I grew up on an Indian reservation in the southwest. I grew up in a very rural place, by that I mean our nearest neighbors lived about 20 miles away! The nearest mall or movie theater was a three hour drive - still is!

What my childhood lacked in terms of entertainment such as movie theaters, video games, concerts was made up for, and extremely thankful for, was playing outside even after the sun went down. Making up imaginary worlds that I explored with siblings and cousins.

Some of the things that Dawn and Benny experienced in the movie like loosing Grandma's sheep. Yeah, that's happened to me and my cousins. And boy did we get in trouble - ha! Also, learning how to drive at a young age, I learned how to drive at 10!!! Not on the main road, dirt roads only until I got my license, but I learned to help with chores like hauling water or feeding the livestock.

What I absolutely LOVED about this movie was the Grandma. I cried when she first came on screen because she reminded me so much of my misání and I just wanted to hug her.

#frybread face and me #rez girl watching rez movies #reservation life #please go watch this movie #my thoughts and ramblings no one asked for

[sunshineler]

gotta go buy cigarettes for a 16 year old like a responsible adult

#at this point it’s I supply them from the store (bad but still safe) or he goes to the rez and gets the native rolled ones #rae rambles #I love the kid but Jesus

[godnectar]

I LOVE UR NAILS SM

I frfr am thinking of doing them red if I get them done :P

u really really should, amor mío 😩🤝 red nails are something else fr-

#nectar's rambling #♡ lovely rez ♡ #tysm babe <3 #looking forward to see yours when u get them ✨

[undercityrezident]

I was just thinking about how important these companions often are to their respective games, and I wondered how well they could integrate into new ones, whether these games would be tied to the game of the companion's origin or not.

This need not be a vote for your favourite companion (though you can if you want), but it could also be for one you think deserves to have their story expanded, if their personality or concept would lend itself well to another style of Zelda game, or if you think their presence would make for a great hook for another great story!

Reblog to get this out there or to shout out your cool ideas if you have specifics in mind!

#The Legend of Zelda #Legend of Zelda #TLOZ #Rez Rambles #I wanted to put “New idea” or “Missed character” as separate options #But alas there are only so many options I can put on this! #But please I love seeing people be creative with their answers! So feel free to reblog talk about cool scenarios you'd have in mind!

[krisiverse]

green link of four swords manga fame is extremely system host core. guy who tries so hard to be the person they were pre-split and has no idea what sets himself apart when everyone else has their Thing. guy who ends up the de facto leader not because he's particularly *better* at it than the others but because he seems most similar to the Original Link. it's about the identity issues and the responsibility

#am i writing meta about how green is really bland and i love him for that? ... maybe #also fair warning i havent read most of it in years #this aint going in the main tags #rez rambles

[shapeshivvter]

Might go as Red Guy for Halloween! I was originally gonna go as Dom from animal crossing but Red guy seems easier, and more fun! Plus might as well go as a character from the fandom i'm mostly active in.

#Rez Rambles

[huginsmemory]

Fucking FINALLY done my semester which means I finally have some time to work on art. God I'm so tired but so thrilled to be able to finish some pieces which have just been sitting beside my desk for fucking AGES since I have no time. Like the semester was good but so fucking stressful and I picked up a part-time job so like that's been not helpful stress wise. But. Finally. Time to rest and to do art.

#hugin rambles #i can finally start the after time skip of one piece since i was putting that off until i knew i had time to actually engage with it #tragically im travelling and so cant work on my air dry clay sculptures and books that need to be finished #but when i get home i can work on em #i have like 4 books that are in various states of being finished on my side table and its driving me nuts ngl #and ive got like 3 projects that are VERY close to being finished but none have been yet #two are paintings i can take w me so ill be finishing them then fingers crossed #and being back home on the rez there aint much going on so that means i definitely have some time to do art and unwind

[goldienectar]

THIS THEME OMG 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼

I fr loooove the look of clowns

must like the look of me then /hj 😽😽 still tysm amor míoooi 🥹🥹🫶🫶

#nectar's rambling #♡ lovely rez ♡ #clowns will always be part of me fr