#the divine right of kinds

[dispatchesfromtheclasswar]

#class war #class warfare #classism #capitalism #the divine right of kinds #ursula k. le guin #resistance

[rawliverandgoronspice]

So beyond the whole "Ganondorf is now Canonically a Femme Fatale" conversation, I feel like this part of the interview wasn't discussed a ton? Because apparently the original vision was that Zelda doubted whether to restore Hyrule at all (an interesting conflict! put it in the game next time!), and then got punched into the past and then seemingly was convinced of the necessity of her role and Hyrule as an entity (I'm extrapolating but it feels like it's what's being suggested, the direction they wanted for her arc, and it's basically what we get in the game).

And uhhh.

that certainly does not help the whole. imperialist. thing.

#totk #totk critical #zelda #thoughts #when will my brain return from the imprisoning war... #the Dreaded Imperialist Debate #because then the game ends up being about “never doubt your divine right to rule! it's your duty to reinforce your ancestral power!!” #and wow does it suck!!! #she's powerful but never does a thing in the entire game #she just drifts gently and is a big crying noodle you can harvest resources (+ sword) from #literally what does she do that's unique to her and doesn't involve assisting somebody else (especially rauru or link) #she doesn't even like.... seal ganondorf #or deal any kind of damage to him #(except badmouthing him to rauru and sonia which does literally nothing and changes nothing) #genuinely zelda deserved such a better arc #everyone deserved so much better

[kagoutiss]

doodles for double agent sheik AU,,, ive decided there is a strong impa vs ganondorf dichotomy, also memes

#tloz oot #ocarina of time #impa #ganondorf #zelda #sheik #undercover sheik au #double agent sheik AU #idk what else to call it right now so thats what i will tag it with #impa and ganondorf are like. the 2 opposing influences in sheik’s life #impa is a symbol of predetermined fate and inevitability; ganondorf represents self-determination and rebellion #so like #sheikah sworn to protect hylia’s bloodline (zelda) by any and all means necessary VS man who literally tried to steal divine fate itself #sheik is at odds with a lot of different interpretations of fate while trying to figure out her own #impa and ganondorf are philosophically very different but also kind of irritating in similar ways #and. may have some history from during the war that adds to the animosity they already have #i cannot keep writing essays in the tags afhshddrjhfs bye

[mamawasatesttube]

just thinking out loud here but i feel like a lot of popular perception of kon esp in online fandom spaces is colored by his joie de vivre and all the times he's silly and goofy. which i do of course adore!! i love when he's silly and goofy. but comparing that perception to, that of like, clark or kara, i feel like kon gets shunted into the box of "dumb comic relief character" a lot more easily. lots of factors probably contribute to that (sb94 having a bad rep, while no other kon comic really goes into a lot of his tragedy; conflation with the side of the fandom that doesn't read comics; the fact that comparatively postcrisis kara doesn't have a team the way kon has yj and clark is seen as a more capable adult, so other characters in the jl get the "dumb comic relief" short end of the stick more often; etc) ...

... but what really gets me about him is that he does embody a lot of the same traits as the rest of the kryptonian superfam. he's so extremely kind. he's got that same noble heart as the rest of them; he cares about everyone and he wants to protect everyone. and he's so, so lonely. he struggles between cultures and worlds where he feels like he doesn't belong to either. he is so strong and capable and holds so much power that it scares him.

cradles him gently in my hands. he contains multitudes... come closer don't you want to love him 🥺

#rimi talks #i'm mostly drawing parallels here between kon clark and kara: #the almost divine loneliness. the struggle to fit in. the kindness and deep deep love and desire to help others. #ofc that isn't getting into Every member of the superfam like linda or kenan or anyone else bc that would be a MUCH bigger post #but i'm mostly picking these 3 bc. well i'm a postcrisis girlie first of all. and also theyre the 3 i think fandom acknowledges most? #at least in my perception of it! (now whether fandom acknowledges them in accurate ways. well no bc nobody knows kara past the basics. but. #(that's a whole other post. this one's about how kon DOES in fact also share the loneliness and noble heart and everything with them. augh) #kon #i was really tempted to go pull panels from rots/sb94/etc to illustrate each point (loneliness nobility kindness etc) but #im SUPPOSED to be writing fic right now. theres a dick on that page that aint gonna suck itself #so back to the writing mines with me. but i was just thinking about kon. (i know. shocking) #also i had to go hunting for the 🥺 emoji bc my recents are entirely filled with fish lately. fjhdskjfh #anywhoozies. mines. farewell

[assmaster-8000]

i cant find much oc content in touchstarved because im lowkey blind but people with touchstarved ocs!!! please info dump to me in comments or dms i /gen want to hear what yall have come up with!!!!! what are their back stories? how different is it from the route you chose for them? what are they like? what do they look like? miscellaneous facts?

#touchstarved game #touchstarved oc #pls pls pls interact #pls stick ur fingers in between the bars of my enclosure pls #for my fallen oracle oc they are the mortal reincarnation of a god yet not the god itself #kind of like furina to focalors #they themselves claimed their touch bestowed enlightenment and the priests believed them #when the visiting mage revealed them as a fraud in that their power is actually a curse they killed the entire temple and fled #the reason they were so weak to the first soulless is because they had been running for days without food or sleep #they have an awful superiority complex they fled to the senobium not to cure their curse but to learn about their divine counterpart #so that they can kill them too and take their rightful place as the authentic deity to worship #they treat everything like a play and they are the observer. they are human but are they really humane #they're best fit for the kuras and ais route

[uncanny-tranny]

The religious argument that people can't possibly be trans because God cannot make mistakes has always been a weird one to me, because who's to say God didn't intend on making somebody trans?

My dad put it best; for some reason or another, God sometimes decides to give his children specific experiences, and being trans is an experience. He doesn't make mistakes, so being trans isn't a mistake. What is a mistake is forcing his children to think they are a mistake.

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #religion tw #religion mention tw #i'm atheist now but still #i thought god made me a different kind of boy when i was young and religious and you know what? i was right ngl #i was made a different type of guy and that's okay. whether by divine intervention or by chance that's just reality #maybe it's just me but telling people that they should supress who they are is much momore a sin than being trans

[sftbvllet]

guys maybe like. maybe stop making ur first convo w me about sex or what im wearing. maybe… stop doing that

#sorry this is kind of a rant #im just really annoyed like we could have a genuine conversation and get to know eachother #and like we could actually??? idk?? maybe i could start to like you #but you ruin it by being like every other man #ldr said ‘youre just a mannnnn its just what you doooooo’ and she was right #sftbvllet ౨ৎ #cinnamon girl #coquette #coquette aesthetic #divine feminine #dollette #fiona apple #gaslight gatekeep girlboss #girl blogger #girlblogger #girlblogging #girlhood #gloomy coquette #it girl #just girly things #lana del rey #lizzy grant #nymph3t #pinterest #soft coquette #soft girl #this is what makes us girls #coquette dollete #soft goth #grunge

[sporesgalaxy]

#misc doodles #trigun is destroying me #and i dont mean this in a demeaning way. i mean like. people want to be doing the right thing. so bad. #want it to be so right that its divinely ordained to be correct. that the very laws of the universe conspire to make it the only way. #but that is so seldom the case. and . and then the agonizing doubt to be overcome. necessary to temper convictions #im foaming at the mouth #and im people. ive been people. i had problems as a child you might not know this . i was kind of a dick

[humanmorph]

what did brnine do to asepsis anyways

... is what I wanted to make the post about (I'll elaborate) but I was looking through a transcript for info & this is so funny to me. Keith

I should make a compilation sometime bc last week Ali said something about integrity that reminded me of a specific lyke moment & made me laugh... I knew I wrote it down somewhere I just can't find it now.

#I do think it's different but it did not use to be. That much #palisadeposting #Oh right. What did brnine do. it was never that clear to me. Probably bc it wasn't said explicitly #They rebuilt a divine but they have got to put some checks in there or else this wouldn't work out #in pzn there was a kind of mindlessness implied but what asepsis did then vs now is just completely different #Basically I'm just thinking about to what extend the murder divines autonomy was impacted. #Won't anyone think of the murder divines right to choose. #Also re: making divines into tools #which is what it started as and... Probably isn't now? Brnine asepsis relationship is strange but it is caring. That's been shown. #Still if I was a divine I would be a lot more worried about brnine collecting those. On principle. But hey its helping the cause right #It just came to mind bc if fealty is a tm-era divine they WOULD know about the pleroma hypothesis #Which like. Actually divines in service under the principality are already tools. & they would've rebuilt it too. #palisade spoilers #This is all very halfbaked & I got sidetracked thinking about lyke.sorry #I'd usually check more transcripts bc my memory is ever spotty but that's annoying on mobile. I'll have to live w possible inconsistencies

[greencheekconure27]

Thinking about Sorsha and how terrified of magic she must be (even if she'd never go as far to admit it) and how it impacts her decisions in the show.

Bavmorda was her mother.I don't know if she was already too far gone when she had Sorsha or if Sorsha witnessed her slip further and further into evil .Either way I do think she sees magic as a corrupting force that pretty much destroyed the first half of her life. She watched it ruin Tir Asleen, her mother*, Nockmaar, just everything around her as she grew up.On top of that, from what (admittedly little but it's there) we've seen of their interactions in the movie it seems likely Bavmorda used her magic to punish/force Sorsha into obedience, either directly,by proxy, or both.

Sorsha isn't magic herself (probably another way she disappointed Bavmorda) but she did inherit the potential as well as the knowledge of just how dangerous and powerful and messed up it can be.She loves Kit and Airk, but she's also afraid and constantly looking for signs of their grandmother's evil in them.I think protecting them from that is one of the main reasons (other than the stated one) she decides to ban magic in her realm.Because by doing so she also prevents her children from studying it and thus getting corrupted even if they do turn out to have magical talent,or so she believes.Willow already told her that magic dissipates if not trained and encouraged, and we know she was willing to do that to Elora (and she does love Elora!)for the sake of her having a *normal* life, so why not the twins as well?

Which also brings me to her interaction with Willow in episode 2. I think there's more to her telling Willow he's not a great sorcerer (rude !!!) than meets the eye.It's not just her not believing in him or trying to win the argument about Elora's fate.I think that for her, Willow's is a great man Despite, not Because of him being a sorcerer.And yes she refuses to believe her friend, whom she definitely admires, is a "great sorcerer" because who had been the main and only *great sorceress* in Sorsha's life? Right.Bavmorda. Maybe Fin Raziel too but a) she was past her prime at that point and b) we'll probably never know,but I suspect she didn't trust Raziel much either.So I think that deep down she both can't really reconcile "good man" and *great sorcerer* in her mind (and since Willow is definitely a good man in her eyes he can't also be a great sorcerer) and is trying to discourage everyone around her (the twins, Elora, Willow himself) from what she genuinely believes is a dangerous path.

(* and presumably her father as well- he was supposed to be the king of Tir Asleen whom Bavmorda cursed in the movie but those scenes got cut)

#willow thoughts #sorsha tanthalos #not saying she's right about what she did but she needs a hug #also Elora probably turned out a lot more stable than if she had been raised as some kind of Divine Child Empress #willow 2022 #willow 1988 #willow ufgood #queen bavmorda #fin raziel #kit tanthalos #airk tanthalos #elora danan #willow series #ramblings

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

it's possible i'm missing more recent discussion but like, ok, titania as xenia clearly tracks both in terms of fey hospitality and also in the broader sense of like, ritualized kindness and love of strangers/expression of love as social contract, considering both feo ul's relationship with you and the way the fairies treat their king post lightwardening. BUT why are we saying innocence is agape?? that's buying so hard into vauthry's own mythos about himself? innocence is philautia. the wod would have been agape.

#the nemesis speaks #swift plays ff14 #ffxiv spoilers #shadowbrings spoilers #the entire vauthry/eulmore story is like. pure and unfiltered vanity. #and then the leg right before you climb mt. gulg engages with the non-perverse side of self-love #w/ chai-nuzz taking charge etc. & the free and bonded eulmorans approaching equals #i mean wod-as-agape is not. a new thought. i'm more like confused about why the vauthry philautia connection escapes people #but agape isn't JUST divine love it's also self-sacrificial love or love without expectation of reward; love for others without condition #which like. ymmv depending on your pc but going just off canon actions is CLEARLY NOT a vauthry thing?? #unless you want to talk about the way the eulmorans view vauthry but like. i could sit here all day turning love metaphors into other ones #eros is already kind of a slanted one #wjskh. anyway.

[gloriousmonsters]

screw the current 'let's rehab the Gerudo by uhhhh making them really want to suck up to the Hylians and they super hate Ganondorf and disown him now'. give me back the enthusiastic Ganondorf fans who don't gaf about Hylians unless they win a gym membership from OoT

#it's an old song and we're gonna sing it again #i've seen some like 'they're brainwashed' takes and like. aside from the obvious thing with nabooru it does not come off like that to me #everyone else you meet seems perfectly chipper and normal they just yknow #are super stoked about their king and don't really care about hyrule being taken over #which doesn't seem like an attitude that would require any particular manipulation #(like they worship him a bit but... considering the guy that's born every 100+ years is automatically king #I assume it's got to be some kind of 'it's rare so it's special!' belief that probably involves #assumption of some supernatural and/or divine importance #which considering the kind of fantasy this is might be right. maybe if you're a gerudo dude you get visions or something. anyway)

[teaandinanity]

I am fairly sure I am just, PROFOUNDLY insufferable to deal with on occasion.

Like. I quoted Robert A. Caro's 'power reveals' at a friend on discord, but at least in that case I was just copying the actual quote from a website.

I also paraphrased Ursula K. Le Guin on capitalism in her National Book Award speech while talking to a coworker tho.

I just. Do that sometimes. I will go, 'oh, someone else had Good Words about this topic, I'm gonna use the Good Words at you.'

#in my defense tho my coworker was kind of like 'I don't know if we're ever escaping capitalism' #to which I think there is genuinely no better response than 'Ursula K Le Guin said something about that' #'capitalism seems inescapable - but so did the divine right of kings' #which is not quite the quote but does get the point across and I attributed it correctly and thus I got the Important Bits

[hisonlybegottenbeysuschrist]

corporations and sitting in offices and advertisements cluttering up every waking moment and paywalls and the fall of democracy were not these inevitable things and it’s crazy to think that one day it will be something different. i hope that thing is better

#thinking about the ursula leguin quote about the divine right of kings #while i exert all my power not to just start sobbing at my desk #BECAUSE I DO NOT WANT TO BE HERE #i should be weeding in the communal garden #or taking a nap in a patch of sunshine #or helping my neighbor find her glasses #take me to this fictional soft kind place PUHLEEZE

[lexicals]

Thinkin about my trans prince story again today.... nice to take it off the backburner once in a while and give it a stir. Add some seasoning

#wastepaper basket #I realised that the only way I could write a western fantasy type setting is if it's deeply anti monarchist and anti colonialist #Which not like that hasn't been done before but like I have some ideas about the intersection of divine right and meritocracy #And what it means to abdicate privilege instead of working to deconstruct the system that gave you it in the first place #I feel like a lot of the newer western fantasy stuff I see just makes the nobility more diverse instead of deconstructing what the existenc #of a noble class Means in the setting. & as I say definitely not the first person to bring this up & that kind of thing has its place anywa #But I'd like to try my hand at it still. Eventually lmao #tqid

[its-captain-sir]

oh my gosh, genuinely- PLEASE tell me about your turtles/zelda crossover

YESSSSSS I HAVE BEEN ENABLED ok ok ok so. don't have any explanation for Why it happens but the turtles end up in Hyrule at some point before the calamity. They're not together when they arrive, but rather split up amongst the four major regions. I'm sure you can see where this is going as to me drawing connections between the turtles and the champions hakdhskdjs I'm still missing a lot of the plot reasoning for all that to make this a truly solid au idea, right now it's kinda just been me thinking about who would be best matched with who, though it does get a little more complicated than just magically appearing in front of a champion and going from there

Meeting Mikey is point where it all sorta starts in my head. It's actually Zelda and Link who run into Mikey first on their way to Gerudo Town! He's just kinda been wandering the desert for a day or so after getting turned away from the town, and up until this point he actually has no idea that he's in a different universe, he honestly thought there was some kind of portal mishap and he ended up by another hidden city somewhere else in the world. Getting everything actually sorted out is a bit of a mess, but Zelda promises to help him search for his brothers, he and Link become cooking besties, and then they have him tag along to meet Urbosa. These two I paired together mostly because I felt like their powers of fire and lightning complimented each other well, and Mikey's chains might just be fast enough to help prevent something later on...... :)

Raph ends up in Goron City! In the hot springs more specifically, as it's the only place protected from the heat as Death Mountain becomes more active. Luckily Daruk was out and about though, so he finds Raph pretty quick before he spends too much time alone and takes him back to the city to get fireproof elixirs and eventually a custom fit set of fireproof armor. Raph has a BLAST with Daruk and they definitely spend a lot of time sparring (without having to hold back too much!) and showing off their different protection powers! Eventually though they do set off towards Hyrule Castle hoping someone there will have the answers to how Raph got here and where everyone else is.

Leo ends up in the Hebra Mountains and his first meeting with Revali is Absolutely Horrible. for Revali. Kinda like Mikey, Leo was on his own for a bit wandering around, except he ran into wayyyy more monster camps. Just bokoblins so nothing too bad, but it does mean his new motto becomes stab first talk later which makes for a bit of an issue when he runs into a Rito patrol spearheaded by Revali. They think he's a monster, he thinks they're monsters, it's a mess hdkdhdkfhd just as he's about to enter a really serious fight with Revali he finally gets clued in that these are People rather than monsters, so he drops all pretenses in his usual manner and backs off instantly and Revali's just left scrambling like "what." And really it only gets worse for him from there cause here's yet ANOTHER blue coded sword wielder except this one. this one tries to be annoying to him on purpose. Leo has absolutely no qualms about throwing all Revali's bullshit right back at him and pesters him beyond that just for fun (he's just similar enough to Donnie that Leo knows alllll the right buttons to press). Revali wants to get rid of him right away, but who knows, maybe Leo's portals would be enough to make a difference in the final hour if Revali had him on his side.......

Donnie is the only one to appear right in front of a champion right in the middle of Zora's Domain, so there's no escaping meeting Mipha hskfhskdhsj she's very nice to him though! And he likes how thoughtful she can be and that she's not overly loud. There's also something to be said about being long ranged weapon buddies <3 it's honestly just a very nice match up that quickly comes to be built on a lot of respect for each other, and so Mipha is the one who offers to accompany Donnie out of the domain and to Kakariko Village where hopefully the researchers there will have some answers (but Donnie will have fun exploring their whole entirely new form of tech regardless hskdhskdjs and he definitely becomes close with Robbie and Purah)

Eventually everyone heads back or gets redirected to Hyrule Castle and an actual reunion can happen! As for what happens after that point.... I don't know really. The only other ideas I've tossed around are how the blight fights could potentially go if they all had a little extra help on their side. If anything, I think this crossover would be in a similar vein to hwaoc, just not as easy and without time travel forewarning hskdhskdhsj it's something to keep thinking about though! Thank you for indulging me in my ramble cause I really do have so many thoughts and ideas about this hakdhskghsj

#i had also tossed around the idea a bit of the turtles disappearing right as ganon appears and showing up again 100 years later #when link's by himself and kind of guiding him while there even though he doesn't remember much of them #and idk i probably could do something with them confronting all the failure in the world they weren't even there for #and assisting link with the divine beasts to help everyone find a sense of closure #but idk i just think i can do something better with their purpose for being there #eh I'll figure it out eventually hsjdhskdjs #ANYWAYS if you made it to the end of all this thank you for listening and feel free to ask more questions <3333 #loveeee getting to talk about this idea :) #rottmnt #breath of the wild #asks? #jastertown