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Oh ok. Childhood memory unlocked.
When i was a little kid, i had a "4d puzzle" of new york city.
You built the cardboard jigsaw base, then the foam island, and then you had plastic buildings and bridges.
And it had instructions to place the buildings in chronological order, as well as a timeline, hence "4d".
And i just fucking remembered. In 2001 on the timeline a step was "remove buildings #xx and #xy (World Trade Centers)" with no other explanation.
And as a kid i had no clue what that meant, but looking back on it my puzzle really just told me "alright kid, do a 9/11" and i, age 5, went along with it.
Congrats on having by far the funniest tags on this post so far.
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god some of you are just so weird about having content on this site
“justify”?! babes it’s a bullshit internet scrapbook not a fucking phd thesis
You know the thing where you find something funny and you hold out your phone to your friend so they can see it too?
Reblogging is just you holding out your phone to show us the neat thing you found
the-home-kvetch
Some people: I won’t reblog something unless it’s deeply meaningful and I can contribute.
Me: time to reblog fifteen pictures of frogs, three pieces of fanart, twelve shitposts, and six political posts about somewhat niche issues!
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Anonymous asked:
you might've talked about this already but. god. there's just Something about the gloom hands always reaching and trying to grab you - a direct reflection of link trying to grab zelda and failing. there's just Something about one of the most terrifying enemies in the entire game, especially when you first encounter them, being hands that will try to grab you no matter where you run and what you climb. And even the way they disappear after they fail but haven't died; like zelda disappeared. fuck.
I actually havent done much analysis of the gloom hands but i gladly will now that youve given me a reason to because you're right about the reaching motion being reminiscent of link's failure at the beginning of the game. Similarly, the other most notable thing about the gloom hands imo is the fact that they turn the sky red when they're approaching. most people compare this to a midday blood moon, but what it really reminds ME of is the way the sky above hyrule castle changes the closer you get to the sanctum in botw. the red sky is something that, in botw, was visual shorthand for calamity ganon, so imo the hands are representative of not just his failure at the beginning of totk, but his initial failure to stop the calamity in botw as well. They are essentially link's regrets CHASING HIM DOWN.
another thing that I find really interesting about the gloom hands is that they're actually not that hard to beat, relatively speaking. as long as you have some bombs or elemental arrows and a decent weapon to hit phantom ganon with they generally go down pretty easy. the reason they have this status among players as the worst enemy in the game is purely because of how TERRIFYING they are. if you can shoot them with a bomb arrow you're fine, but because of the genuine fear they inspire in players most people's initial reaction to them is to either run away or freeze in place. unlike botw's guardians which were genuinely almost impossible to defeat early-game, the gloom hands are actually easily defeatable. they're just so SCARY that running seems like the better option. and I think that says something about what role they play and what they represent to link within the context of the game--failure, and specifically his personal failures, is something so terrifying to him that he can't help but run from it even though he KNOWS he's capable enough to face it. because of his years serving as zelda's knight and the trauma that came along with his role pre-calamity, his own mistakes have become something too terrifying to even think about facing.
and the fact that the hands reveal phantom ganon once they fall is important too! because the REAL trauma link is facing didn't actually come from his mistakes. it came from ganon. The true evil behind every problem he's faced concealed itself so well that link begins to think that HE is at fault for the suffering he faces--because he couldn't stop the calamity, because he couldn't reach zelda, THAT'S why bad things are happening. but it was never ACTUALLY his fault, and when he is willing to confront his own fears head-on they easily fall through and the true root of the problem reveals itself.
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sword that seals the darkness
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actually yeah now that I'm thinking about it it would have been way more interesting and probably a little less on the nose if instead of just going "draconfication... is forbidden.. don't do it..' they just. actually brought in the other three dragons. like mineru could have told the stories of dinraal, naydra, and farosh and bc the three dragons still exist, Zelda (and the player) could have come to the conclusion that they're immortal on their own instead of being like "BECOMING A DRAGON WILL SOLVE EVERYTHING. DONT DO IT THOUGH"
Mineru about as effective as your average DARE speaker
"You will have friends pressure you into becoming an AWESOME DRAGON TO SAVE EVERYONE but it'll actually kill you"
actually I want to know whoms't the fuck made it forbidden in the first place. They're literally the rulers. Are they following Zonai law? Goddess commandments? OSHA?
Someone should probably put a big DO NOT EAT label on each of them
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actually yeah now that I'm thinking about it it would have been way more interesting and probably a little less on the nose if instead of just going "draconfication... is forbidden.. don't do it..' they just. actually brought in the other three dragons. like mineru could have told the stories of dinraal, naydra, and farosh and bc the three dragons still exist, Zelda (and the player) could have come to the conclusion that they're immortal on their own instead of being like "BECOMING A DRAGON WILL SOLVE EVERYTHING. DONT DO IT THOUGH"
Mineru about as effective as your average DARE speaker
"You will have friends pressure you into becoming an AWESOME DRAGON TO SAVE EVERYONE but it'll actually kill you"
actually I want to know whoms't the fuck made it forbidden in the first place. They're literally the rulers. Are they following Zonai law? Goddess commandments? OSHA?
Someone should probably put a big DO NOT EAT label on each of them
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I know people on tumblr looove stories of underwater cave diving, but I haven't seen anyone talk about nitrogen narcosis aka "raptures of the deep"
basically when you want to get your advanced scuba certification (allowing you to go more than 60 feet deep) you have to undergo a very specific test: your instructor takes you down past the 60+ foot threshold, and she brings a little underwater white board with her.
she writes a very basic math problem on that board. 6 + 15. she shows it to you, and you have to solve it.
if you can solve it, you're good. that is the hardest part of the test.
because here's what happens: there is a subset of people, and we have no real idea why this happens only to them, who lose their minds at depth. they're not dying, they're not running out of oxygen, they just completely lose their sense of identity when deep in the sea.
a woman on a dive my instructor led once vanished during the course of the excursion. they were diving near this dropoff point, beyond which the depth exceeded 60 feet and he'd told them not to go down that way. the instructor made his way over to look for her and found a guy sitting at the edge of the dropoff (an underwater cliff situation) just staring down into the dark. the guy is okay, but he's at the threshold, spacing out, and mentally difficult to reach. they try to communicate, and finally the guy just points down into the dark, knowing he can't go down there, but he saw the woman go.
instructor is deep water certified and he goes down. he shines his light into the dark, down onto the seafloor which is at 90 feet below the surface. he sees the woman, her arms locked to her sides, moving like a fish, swimming furiously in circles in the pitch black.
she is hard to catch but he stops her and checks her remaining oxygen: she is almost out, on account of swimming a marathon for absolutely no reason. he is able to drag her back up, get her to a stable depth to decompress, and bring her to the surface safely.
when their masks are off and he finally asks her what happened, and why was she swimming like that, she says she fully, 100% believed she was a mermaid, had always been a mermaid, and something was hunting her in the dark 👍
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huge fan of reading and learning, but also an even bigger fan of sleeping and being unconscious.
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there are 2 Ethans in my daughter's class. you'd think they'd go by Ethan L and Ethan M, but they decided together that they would like to be called Lethan and Methan and I think that's fantastic
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A classic rinse
He deleted it.
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Please enjoy this video of Limewire (sound on).
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people who live in areas where there are native lizards should never take that for granted. you can just go outside and see a little guy hanging out. what’s better than that?
What’s better is when the little guy starts doing little pushups, to impress another little guy you haven’t spotted yet. Or possibly you.
