#.they just remind me how alone i am

[slutisnotabadword]

TWILIGHT: NEW MOON

✨the bedroom scene ✨

[ganondoodle]

some destiny (zelda comic) lore

i really have absolutely no problem with AUs, but in the case of my zelda comic i kinda dont like it being called that bc i made it specifically around the idea of offering an origin story to .. everything really that could be true and put the entire series in an entirely different light

like most things in the series around the creation of the world and the godesses etc are told to us, and i always ask questions when sth is just told to you especially in this black and white kind of way

idk if i ever talked about it, probably not bc its somewhat of a big reveal in the comic (though its at the very end) and given how slow i am thats years away so:

the three gods (gods as a neutral term here) exists outside the physical realm in a sort of void like darkness with an endless completely calm ocean they created the world we know as hyrules world, in fact they created two more, each of them filled with life, at some point choosing a mortal to kill and make into a deity as their right hand since the gods cant go into these worlds themselves

they want to enact the plan we see in skyward sword, they want a monster to invade the land, their chosen deity to seal it, die and be reincarnated and start the whole zelda cycle as we know it; why?maybe purely as entertainment, which is why each cycle is so widely different, they are gods and treating life and worlds like their little toys feels kinda right- and they really dont like when their toys act against them, thats not what toys are supposed to do after all

so, courage as i like to call them, was a deity they created using a mortal, but they failed to even make their mortals believe in them, instead they were seen as the monster, the gods lost their patience and drowned their world leaving only courage to survive, while they failed their orders and were hated, they still cared about their world, seeing it slowly drown and abandoned by the gods made them filled with despair, in an outburst they destroy the spring of the gods (an ancient spring that is the first to exist in a world when its created) and it opens up a gate into the realm of the gods, that dark calm ocean of nothing- they go into it and wander into the closest source of light and it brings them into demise's world

demise is the deity of his world, and when courage arrives there they start to attack it, filled with desperation and rage that their world was drowned while this one thrived- demise hasnt failed the gods yet, and he fights and seals away courage with easy, but it lets him doubt the gods words, courage was supposed to be some evil monster, yet they were similar to him and he defeated them so easily, why would he chose to die and be reincarnated as a mortal? he wanted to stay a deity and protect his world forever- he started to stall for time, halting the building of the temples for the hero in the future, and at some point courage broke out of its seal, nothing of it was like before it was a strange and now truly, a monster, and demise killed it to protect his lands, thus making the gods prophecy unable to be furfilled and so the gods abandon his world too, they let mortals turn against him as his world slowly dries out, until there is nothing left alive but him and ghirahim, trying to drive him to madness so he becomes the monster for the the next world in the row, but fail just barely- he too destroys the ancient spring and discovers the gate it creates

so demise travels to hylias world, and hylia, hesitates to seal him right away bc she notices he is not a mindless monster like she was told, despite the gods effort to raise her in isolation and make her into the perfect vassal, hylias curiousity is too much, so she lets demise live, over and over as they battle- which is the story of the comic, at the end they fall in love and uncover the gods plans, that demise was in the same position as hylia is, and he killed a deity jsut like them, that the reincarnation thing might be a lie to get rid of the biggest threat to the gods (the deities needed to be gotten rid of before they realized anything) and replace it with a more controllable mortal once the set up for the play was done, this too has been a cycle in the end the gods make sure this time it ends up how they want, more or less (im leaving out the details for now) and demise gets sealed and hylia dies, both of them taken by the gods but as both resisted them it is not perfect, demise still did not turn into the monster they needed so what you fight in skyward sword is an apparition of him, not him truly, and ghirahim knew he would never be himself again but his desperation and devotion made him try anyway only to end up playing right into the gods hands

and that is how the series started, a scheme of the gods to create their little play, inventing new little adversaries and eviil beings but short lived so easily to reinvent over and over, but its all based on lies, zelda isnt special, she was jsut a mortal that happened to be chosen by the gods to take the role she has now, shes no reincarnation of hylia, none of the things they tell you about hylia are true, its the gods lying to you, and the trio is stuck in this cycle not realizing they are merely being played with

(being sealed or dying as a deity send you to the realms of the gods, where they pin them down on a pillar like bugs (unconcious) and occasional borrow their magic for some tricks and schemes to play with in the world of hyrule, the deities are still there, and will be until the gods decide to kill them fully- and at the end of destiny as demise is take by them, in the last few moments before he is hung up like a trophy he not only sees that courage, who he thought he had fully killed, was already there, but in the darkness were countless remains of abandoned deities hanging dead on pillars, how many times have the gods done this before?)

(possibly not as interesting as i hope it is, but this is what im going for, and it only really works if the rest of the series exists just the same, otherwise the whole point of putting everything in this context would become kinda meaningless? at least thats how i feel about it so i dont like calling it an AU, but im not mad about it bc i guess if you take all the lore at face value it is completely different and doesnt work with canon at all? idk )

[seraphic-sibyl]

I should have been born a frog. I should have been born a frog. I should have been born a frog. I should have been born a frog. I should have been born a frog. I should have been born a frog. I should have been

[wayfinderships]

The Snow yearning is so strong tonight

[purgatorygardensco]

hello people from the amazing digital circus fandom how are you feeling about gangle offing themselves in the recent episode? doesn't that just make you wonder how many times all of them tried to do it?

[oliviadrawsbts]

There's nothing quite like visiting your parents for the holidays and realizing that they are indeed idiots.

[professionaljester]

love my bad mental health, love being suicidal all the time

[minweber]

I have no idea how hot of a take that is - because I, in my infinite wisdom, tend to stay away from such harmful things as "discussing Dragon Age on the internet" - but I do think that moving to a more ME-style action-focused combat system with only partially controllable companions is a good move on part of DAV team.

I would imagine that few people have very fond memories of DA2 or DAI combat, but I have often seen people praise DAO's slower, more tactical system as a standard that series needs to return to. Probably did so myself, if I am being completely honest.

But replaying DAO in 2024, I find that combat is... fine? Serviceable, better than what its two sequels had to offer, but in no way something that could carry a game on its own, or even something that you truly return to the game for.

I find that "real-time-but-actually-turn-based-via-the-pause" combat doesn't work - in a sense that its attempt to marry the two extremes neither retains all their best qualities, nor produces any new ones. It's functional, but not much more so. Trying to control your entire party as if it were a turn-based tactical RPG feels rather clunky (the tactics system, while presenting a valiant effort, does not really save it) and rawdogging it real time robs the system of most of its depth and makes the game nigh unplayable on higher difficulties.

And I think 2010 BioWare actually saw it as well, as they kept trying to streamline it for the next two games. It seems to me that they failed, but whether it was a failure of execution, or an inevitable consequence of the limitations of the concept is up for debate.

And if one were to be of the second opinion, then it would make sense for this system to be discarded, and lean more heavily in either direction. And the choice between a fast-paced action combat system and a turn-based tactical one would be nowhere near obvious - yeah, franchises's and studio's roots lie closer to the turn-based tactical one, but their greatest success was with an action RPG, and honestly, DA's entire post-DAO (meaning the entire series but one game) identity desperately wants to be attached to something action-packed and fast-paced.

So why keep fighting it?

[pickled-flowers]

Every time I go to a party I'm reminded that it's not that I can't interact with people, it's just not a desire I have :(

[inevitably-johnlocked]

Putting feelers out if anyone is interested in getting a Christmas card from me? Nothing fancy, just a card from a box, 'cause I keep getting lazy and don't make my own. Might have a little doodle or something but generally "sign it with a personal message and throw it in the mail".

If anyone's interested, either DM me or reply to the post. Nothing official is getting posted here, mainly because I doubt anyone wants a generic card. Open worldwide, must be okay with giving me an address.

[weezerlvr228]

Opinion on SFTBH... :3

I LOVE SFTBH!!! i adore all the fanart for it and the story?! UGHH AMAZING. all the songs are so great, though i love Pinkerton, i would have adored SFTBH <\3

[kavehayati]

Chappel Roan saying she’s sad she’s demisexual and then there’s me being aroace as a whole like don’t you think I’m even more sad 😭

[jrueships]

sometimes i'll think abt a Fandom and wish it were bigger, and sometimes i'll read something from a fandom.. and wish it were smaller

[deepseawave]

obsessed w the tags on ur last reblog

Omgg, thank you haha, it was a quality post so I just had to appreciate it in full force 😂❤️

Can‘t believe someone would actually enjoy my yapping :,D

[justablah56]

t4t morglennnnn

T4T MORGLENN EXPLODES AND DIES ABOUT THEM AIGUWNCNWNCKWKKCWMNC

[sensitivegoblin]

Someone should sexually use me to fill the aching hole