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i love asexuality i love asexuals with a complex relationship to sex i love asexuals with a very simple relationship to sex i love asexuals who's definition of asexuality and aromanticism blend together and arent seperate i love asexuals who's asexuality is just a very minor part of their identity i love asexuals who's asexuality is a very big factor of their identity I LOVE ASEXUALITY !!!!
May the last four months of 2023 be the change you’ve been waiting for
I needed this so much right now
jesus fucking christ
"i wish i could do something 😔 / i wish the wga had a kickstarter or a gofundme, i would throw money at it" good news! it's amazing how you can literally go onto the wga strike website or the wgawest linktree from their twitter and find links to support writers and other workers affected by the strike
Also, don't let this scare or intimidate you! The pressure is on for these studios, especially with the looming SAG-AFTRA strike. It's the studios that won't last until Christmas without the labor of writers and actors.
People who draw link as taller than zelda are cowards. We need justice for short kings. Link is SMALL (even for a hylian) Let Him Be SMALL.
This is a PSA
The projections of the sages are both so comforting yet make the game feel even more lonely, since you can’t really interact with them. I like to think that the real sages can see through the eyes of the projections regardless. 😀
Something something Zelda doesn't mind waiting. She waited a hundred years for Link to wake up and face the Calamity. She waited 10,000 years for Link to find her and the master sword to finally face off against Ganondorf.
She doesn't mind waiting because she knows how the story goes. She knows what kind of narrative she and Link are doomed by. She knows Link will prevail.
But she also knows the narrative isn't what she or Link want. She wants a safe Hyrule. She wants her hero knight to be free. She wants herself to be an explorer, a researcher, a scientist. Being a princess is something she's born into and therefore something she's duty-bound to. Same as Link being duty-bound to being her royal knight.
In those hundred years of waiting and those 10,000 years of waiting, she is content for Link to just... Be Link.
We all joke about how Link is goofing around Hyrule while the Calamity is looming and Zelda is waiting. About how and Ganondorf is gathering power in the depths while Zelda is missing and Link is building contraptions to bring koroks to their friends.
But this is Link. This is him when he's not duty-bound. I'm not saying he doesn't like being zelda's royal guard, but his essence isn't just that. He's just a guy who likes to go around helping people. That stable woman needs a horse and horse cart? Sure, he'll use his new powers to get her sorted out. That man fell down the well (in lego city) and needs help fixing the ladder to climb back up? Yeah, Link's on it. Oh, you need help building this town into something so, so beautiful where everyone from all walks of life can come and meld their cultures together and live in a diverse sort of harmony? Link's your man to see your vision come true.
Link loves his role in Hyrule. As a helper. A wandering hero. As a guy who roams and cooks and tames wild horses and gets rid of monsters and helps anyone and everyone even if they're obviously disguised yiga clan members.
So of course Zelda would want nothing but for him to enjoy his little wonders. This transient moment that had been carved for him to be free. Sure, there is doom looming over him and Hyrule. But he's still fulfilling his promise. He's still protecting them all in his own small way. He's still Link. Just unburdened.
And now that Zelda truly understands the fuckery of time and fate and everything, she doesn't mind waiting. She can wait as long as Link needs to be free. She will roam the skies unbothered and unthinking and in her immortal, unaware state until Link is ready. Until Link needs her.
Until then she's content with waiting.
i got the charged set :smile:
Doubled up nightmare
This is what Link sees in his fever dreams.
one of the things i'm constantly thinking about when writing botw/totk zelink is that they are pawns in an endless cycle, and they do not realize that this is the case.
the beginning of their life is framed like a hellenic tragedy. we, the players, to varying degrees, come into the game aware of the cycle of reincarnation. every game, there is a disaster, and a hero is roused to stop it.
the hyrule before the calamity attempts to subvert this! a soothsayer predicted calamity ganon's return; they have an entire culture born around hyrulean queens teaching their daughters the sealing power; they had a contest to see which capable swordsman could draw the sword that seals the darkness. this time, they would not wait until the hour of darkness, but would grab the calamity by its throat, and avert it before it even begins!
but they fail. they had to fail. by attempting to escape the prophecy they only hastened its becoming. many have pointed out that the calamity arrives the moment mipha is poised to tell zelda how she uses her own magic; zelda, indeed, does not harness it until after everyone is dead.
but neither link or zelda know this! at most, zelda knows that she comes from a long line of princesses with sealing power, but not that the first in her line was the reincarnation of hylia herself; link is told that in the past there was a swordsman who wielded the master sword, but he is given no indication that he is any kind of reincarnation (unlike twilight princess' and wind waker's link, for example, who are both directly told of their legacy). this makes sense! it's been millennia: this information would be lost! all that they know is that there was to be a tragedy, and they could not stop it.
so when i try to get in their mind, i remember that each of them are made to believe, through the mythological telephone that informed their fates, through the nature of tragedies, that the calamity was preventable, and that they failed. we know that there was no universe where they do not fail - in an intertextual sense, because they are the most recent in a long line of cursed incarnations, and in a metatextual sense because they are characters trapped in a narrative - but they still have no choice but to believe that there is a world in which they do not fail! everything we learn about them between breath of the wild and tears of the kingdom reinforces this: not only are they trying to rebuild hyrule, they're trying to rebuild it stronger, so that it does not make the same mistakes! they are defined by this guilt, even though we know that they are not deserving of it! it was not their fault! there was nothing they could have done! they were only teenagers!
gaslighting myself into thinking i’m doing fine
the presence of koltin makes kilton seem like a well-adjusted individual
Can't believe it worked
i remember, your name is…
i forgot that people need a botw recap because most people are normal and dont have obsessions
“relive the story of botw”
i literally do this every single day don’t worry
-Me playing this game, constantly
