Why is this man so pretty...
I like to imagine that this is him after Tav gave him an unexpected kiss on the cheek before leaving their meeting room in Sharess' Caress. And now he is alone, flustered and confused about it.
Why is this man so pretty...
I like to imagine that this is him after Tav gave him an unexpected kiss on the cheek before leaving their meeting room in Sharess' Caress. And now he is alone, flustered and confused about it.
Dungeon Meshi Monster Tidbits - Demon
thanks @fangsandfeels :)))
"I'm going to play Dark Urge, I'm going to play a Drow, I'm going to play a Half Elf Cleric of Selune-" No. I grow tired of filling Faerun with hotties and encouraging my party's fatherless behavior.
To remedy this I have made Your Dad, the ultimate 1:1 replica of the average New Jersey father to save the realm and put a stop to my party's sad, horny business.
And before you can even ask "oh what is the Guardian Your Mom or something" of fucking course she is you fool
Update: Michael Sheen liked this post on Twitter, so I'm fairly certain there is a lot of validity to it.
I’ve had time to process Aziraphale’s choice at the end of Season 2. And I think only blaming the religious trauma misses something important in Aziraphale’s character. I think what happened was also Aziraphale’s own conscious choice––as a growth from his trauma, in fact. Hear me out.
Since November 2022 I’ve been haunted by something Michael Sheen said at the MCM London Comic Con. At the Q&A, someone asked him about which fantasy creature he enjoyed playing most and Michael (bless him, truly) veered on a tangent about angels and goodness and how, specifically,
“Closing the Circle,” by Laura Knetzger, originally appearing in PUPPYTEETH 4 (2014). Buy it now at Czap Books.
I made this comic for puppyteeth about 2 years ago! Wow. I was so upset.
took me a long while to realize that miasma is called gloom in english, i thought people were calling the hands gloom-hands as a cutesy name fnjvgn,kdfvnsdnjskl
TOTK SPOILERS
in a similar way i just learned that the final boss is called demon dragon in english instead of black dragon which kinda takes away from the contrast of zelda being the white dragon
add Gigamas to the list bc i think they are what people mean by "frox" what the heck
also the fact that Dumsda (hudson??) isnt called Dumsda in english means Pupunda, the lil goron kid in Taburasa (tarreytown?) has a different name as well which is a shame bc Pupunda is one of the greatest names ever invented Schnabuda is a close second
also add mayois + mayoi signum to the list, are you seriously telling me they are called bubblegems (if its even written like that) in english ;__;
(i dont know why this got so much attention, but please PLEASE im begging you to look whether someone already commented the same thing you are about to comment, i have UNDERSTOOD that zelda, while called Weißdrache (white-dragon) in german, shes called lightdragon in english, i GOT the memo OK?? .. also then ganondorf should be called shadow dragon, bc demon and light doesnt read as perfect opposites to me)
anyway, to add something to this, i love all german krog names, Maronus (hestu) is a beautiful name, also Kashiwa (kass) - even if he got pulverized out of everyones memory just like shiekah tech - and Sagono is a much cooler name than cece(?), fight me (actually dont)
ordered pizza from a small local place and they didnt actually cut it so i've chosen to revert to a wild animal and begin ripping it apart instead of just using a knife to portion slices
absolutely visceral experience. food is so much more satisfying when you have to fight it. i may be feral
i am not proud to say this but that pizza lasted fifteen minutes. i normally am not that gluttonous, but this goes beyond glutton. there was gluttony and wrath. a whirlwind of sauce, cheese, and pepperoni, all atop a flatbread that was shred apart by my own hands due to the neglect of another
in that moment i was wild. i was free. i understood the simplest joys in life. the joy of eating and manifesting my own destiny
been reflecting on this all day and the unsliced pizza experience honestly ruled. i think everyone should try it sometime or another. you have not truly lived until you just absolutely obliterated a pizza in such a feral manner
is this you
yes
run
My best friend and I have this tradition we call “chicken dinner” where we get a rotisserie chicken, lay it on a tarp, start on opposite ends of the tarp, and on the count of three we both run at the chicken and start ripping into it with our bare hands. We will be on our knees fighting for the best pieces of meat, ripping into the chicken with our faces, and it is the most viscerally delicious chicken I have ever had in my life. Grease gets everywhere. We have to do this outside. We have to tie our hair in buns beforehand.
You have never known the joy of food until you are lunging at your friend to rip the best part of the chicken out of their hand, rolling around on the tarp, stuffing it in your face before they can retaliate, and you realize “holy shit did I just growl?” And then you realize they are doing it too.
The chicken gets decimated. It’s absolutely destroyed. We aren’t allowed back inside until we have been hosed down. It’s the best.
wh-what is that one part of creating a champion
( in reference to this post )
If you’ve ever played Breath of the Wild, it’s very likely you’ve come across this chunk of dialogue from a Sheikah by the name of Cado in Kakariko Village:
“We of the Sheikah tribe have long been heralded as people of great wisdom. Our technology became the key to sealing Ganon away during the Great Calamity, some ten thousand years ago. At one point, our technology was praised as the power of the gods...but eventually the people turned on it. Turned on us. Our creations came to be viewed as a threat to the kingdom. The Sheikah became outcasts, forced into exile.”
Which is unsettling enough on its own - but on my first playthrough of the game, I was so enamored with absorbing anything and everything that I must have thought little of it at the time. But then Creating a Champion came out, and things...quickly took a turn for the worse:
Ten thousand years ago, the kingdom of Hyrule reached an advanced level of civilization thanks in no small part to the technological prowess of the Sheikah. The Sheikah have worked from the shadows to support Hyrule's royal family since the era of myth, and their contributions have been significant. Their technology was key in helping the chosen hero and the princess seal Ganon away ten thousand years in the past and usher in an age of peace, but the king of Hyrule at the time began to fear and doubt the Sheikah. He became possessed by thoughts of imagined Sheikah betrayal. He issued an order to abolish technology and began to oppress the Sheikah. The Sheikah's laboratories were closed, research was prohibited, and data was destroyed. Their best researchers were expelled from the kingdom and monitored. Any Sheikah who dared oppose this order was met with severe punishment, including imprisonment.
This oppression led to dramatic changes within the Sheikah tribe and ultimately to a division into two main factions. The moderate group chose to live peacefully, accepting the restrictions placed on them out of respect for the long-standing ties to the royal family. They built a hidden village, now known as Kakariko Village, and lived there in secret.
Those who violently rejected the king’s decree formed a militant group that specialized in assassination, the Sheikah’s original dark purpose. In time, they came to follow Calamity Ganon. They retreated to the remote Gerudo Province, outside of the kingdom of Hyrule’s reach, and later formed the Yiga Clan.
- Creating a Champion, pg. 368
The rising fear and exile of the Sheikah hadn’t arisen from “the people” - it was a horrendous act of oppression from the then King of Hyrule, against a people who had done nothing but serve and lend aid to his kingdom in living memory. But what gets me the most is the language this book uses to describe this act of oppression; the Sheikah who submitted to the King’s will, after millennia of servitude, are the “moderate group” - whereas those who were rightfully furious with the King’s nonsense decrees are described as “violent.” It almost reads as if this book was written in-universe by the royal family (or someone who wanted to make them look good), but as a piece of media that exists independently of this fictional universe that attempts to objectively explain events as they happened? The Sheikah have served the royal family for all time, so the ones who continued to the do so are the Good Guys, and the Yiga (who definitely didn’t have a point, of course they didn’t, they’re Pure Evil and also foolish, heehoo look at them they LOVE bananas!) are the Bad Guys. It’s all...extremely bad from both an in-universe and out-of-universe perspective.
And this all comes to a head with this, leading back into the post that I linked at the beginning of this wall of text. We’ve all seen this tapestry from Breath of the Wild, depicting the events from 10,000 years ago:
But I only very recently took notice to what’s going on at the very bottom:
As if hearing about the King’s acts of violence against the Sheikah wasn’t bad enough, we now get to see him weaponizing an entire army against them. Or, as Polaris so eloquently put it: “Good, lord, what is HAPPENING down there?!”
And all of this just makes the rest of what Cado had to say that much more sinister:
“Some, like us, chose to cast off our technological advances and strove to live normal lives. Others fostered a hatred toward the kingdom that shunned them. These sad souls swore their allegiance to Ganon.”
The Sheikah are literally brainwashed into thinking mindless and eternal submission to a monarchy which has treated and continues to treat them like garbage is a good thing, and that those among them who rightfully fought against their exile are “sad souls.” But, yeah, the Sheikah of today totally aren’t oppressed in any way, right, Nintendo? They willingly strove to live “normal lives”? Geez.
“It’s ya boy Guzma” is probably the smoothest translation of ore-sama I’ve ever seen (makes eyes at Hetalia and TTGL) but it’s also unfortunately hilarious wwwww
It’s for ore-sama? AWESOME!
Yeah, ore-sama is a bitch to translate because standard English just doesn’t use pronouns like that but “it’s ya boy” is actually a great way of conveying both the conceited “you should know me” and inappropriately close connotations. I think it’s kinda rare to see direct ways of translating how rough/friendly speech is kinda the same thing in Japanese. I mean, we DO have an understanding that being overly familiar is rude in English but I feel like I rarely see that aspect of ore speech translated gracefully.
The divers bow and turn away. The research vessels kill their lights while onboard crew or remote pilots sit in silence and watch The Lovers pass. They all greet her if her voice comes through their radios of course. They’ll laugh and chat and deliver news of the human world that she’s asked for less and less over the past 78 years, and she still sounds just as young as the day she went down in that yellow tin can which should have rotted apart ages ago.
Maybe she is. No one has really checked.
Out of the handful of fools curious enough to approach The Lady and her human bride, not one has been brave enough to gaze directly into the eerily clear glass of the Veil 02. A few say they got close enough to touch the hull before they swam away in terror, and they all felt like the metal was breathing.
Maybe she’s still just as young in there. Maybe she’s still just as human.
Maybe.
all the way back in June Cindy Nguyen asked for kaiju and bio-mechanical wives over on patreon, so enjoy these lovebirds. i wanted to do something with the idea of a mech pilot falling in love with a kaiju and transforming somehow through contact with them, and a kaiju as less of a city destroying monster and more of a giant fae or cryptid with mysterious motives. when i have more time i want to poke at this idea again.
Not all construction work is equally enjoyable. For example, enlarging a drilled hole is boring, but fastening pieces of metal together is riveting.
this joke would get the exact same reaction in 1870 that it gets in 2021 and I love that about it
obsessed. also makes sense when you remember than butterflies drink blood
concept: your vampire lover cannot be with you during the daytime, so they follow you in the shape of a butterfly through the day
Life imitating art.
