#Because to me

[ruinatlantis]

It actually baffles me whenever I remember that Liu Qingge is dead in PIDW. Every time I read a fic where Shen Yuan either transmigrates later, or into PIDW, or a different character, I am always caught off guard by the fact that Liu Qingge is dead. Wdym he's dead. He can't do that. He isn't allowed. Who is going to return Shen Qingqiu's fans and bring him various monsters.

[parsleysaauce]

okay i am curious about the ratio of people who assumed celia was lying about sam jumping in to save her. because so far i think it’s just me

[piracytheorist]

I've yet to continue my re-read of Mockingjay but after seeing a few analysis videos on youtube about Gale, especially in regards to his role in the love triangle, I feel like I truly cannot connect with anyone who takes a look at this part without breaking out of a heteronormative angle.

Like I see people say that the love triangle was important because it's symbolic in how Katniss had to choose between the violence and rage that Gale represented, and the peace and hope that Peeta represented and I'm like WHAT DO YOU MEAN. I know the book says that but WHY does that make it required for there to be romance? Are you telling me that the bond Gale and Katniss had before the Games, where it was two fatherless children literally risking life and limb to keep their families fed, and eventually created a bond that allowed them to be their true selves in the woods... are you telling me this isn't important enough if it's not romantic??? And are you telling me that Katniss would have been able to stay friends with Gale after what happened by the end of Mockingjay??? That she only rejected him because she preferred Peeta as a romantic partner???

The story could still 100% work without the romance between Gale and Katniss. Gale could still be upset that her romantic story with Peeta was taking her away from him - not as a romantic interest, but as his best friend who knows him better than anyone - and in fact that would make him a deeply layered character, where he understands that the Star-Crossed Lovers narrative is pressuring on her, but NOT because he's jelly and wants her for himself, but because he CARES FOR HER and sees that she's willingly becoming a pawn of the Capitol in order to ensure her and her family's survival.

And like it feels so pointless to say this sometimes because I fear some people are incapable of thinking of a story without the neat little box of heteronormativity, and as much credit as I give Suzanne Collins for the depth in her writing, creating a romantic dynamic between Katniss and Gale cheapened the latter's character (don't come at me with a "Her editors/publishers pressured her to do that" because I'm not here to place blame, because someone thought it was a good idea and whether or not that was Collins doesn't matter) and unfortunately invited the reaction that YES THE ROMANCE WAS NECESSARY like no. Their relationship in THG, their hurdles in CF and their eventual separation in the end could have made total sense even if there was no romance and I really wished more people could see that.

[getvalentined]

An autogenerated YT playlist threw The Final Fall from Tears of the Kingdom at me and I straight up started crying so I'm gonna ramble here a bit because it's my blog and I can post if I want to.

I feel like I got a lot more out of the ending of ToTK than a lot of people I saw talking about it, because I've been with the Zelda series from the start and I've been elbows-deep in the lore basically since I could read and was capable of detailed abstract thought, but I really wish I knew how to put into words how it felt to beat that game without rambling for a hundred years.

There's a sort of intense, personal investment in the series from decades of engagement that I never expected to feel had "paid off," but that's really what it was. We've gone through this story again and again, trying over and over and over to set things right—and we've learned a lot along the way.

Ocarina showed us that this was kind of Zelda's fault from the start, since she set off the chain of events that gave a piece of the Triforce to Ganondorf in the first place, thereby awarding him immortality and effectively locking her and Link into the reincarnation cycle until they could finally strike him down. Skyward Sword showed us that it was actually even deeper than that, implying that Ganondorf is the mortal vessel of an ageless horror that the goddesses themselves chased to ground ages ago, and that Zelda and Link are the result of Hylia and the warrior she chose never really being able to kill it once and for all—the reincarnation cycle in which they're bound started well before Ganondorf took his place as Din's champion. Hyrule Warriors showed us that no matter how many times he's sealed away, no matter how long he's sealed away, he'll always come back. The Legend of Zelda showed us that he doesn't need to be entirely sapient to continue causing terror. WindWaker showed us that even the goddesses themselves can't strike him down, and Twilight Princess showed us that no power can defeat him save for his own—not so long as he has a goddess at his back.

We've been through this story again and again, and never really won. It's never really final, even if he "dies" there's still openings for a return, there are too many gaps through which Demise—not necessarily Ganondorf, as they are separate entities, just the same as Zelda and Hylia are separate entities after SS—can squeeze back through.

The Calamity continuity is very clearly on a different timeline from the rest of the series. I understand the devs have said that it's "so far in the future it doesn't matter," but in-game that doesn't actually appear to be the case; the Imprisoning War is very clearly a different take on the events of OoT, on a timeline where Link never existed, where Hylia never manifested in mortal form, where she never started that cycle of reincarnation in the first place.

Beating ToTK felt like we finally did it. After almost forty years in the real world and thousands of years in-series, we finally did it. It's over. Everything we learned through all these different attempts came together to give us this one chance to set things right, to fix what we accidentally helped to break, to finally end it once and for all. A culmination of decades of effort and attempts and failure after failure after failure—because we did fail, every single time. Even when we won, we failed.

We didn't fail this time. We did it.

And to have the last stage of the game require the most high-stakes iteration of the repeated tests of courage given throughout the game, throughout the series—the fact that Link can't save the princess who spent ten thousand years saving him if he's not brave enough, if you are not brave enough to fall as fast and as far as you can? The final stage of the entire game reiterating the simple statement of the Stewards who taught you how to fall, "you have to be brave"—I choke up every time. Every single time. I can't put into words the rush that whole final fight gave me, from jumping into the pit at the bottom of the depths to diving to catch Zelda's hand. I can't describe how perfect it felt, how complete it felt, how finished the story feels to me now.

It took a lot of pain to get here. Decades. Centuries. But this time, those who are left really do get their happily ever after.

Because we finally saw what it meant to be wise, we finally learned how power can be reclaimed, we finally learned what it meant to be brave.

No goodbye has ever made me so happy. We did it. It's over.

[strangewiggles]

You were spilling all my will out I was bleeding my last brains It's nothing like the nothingness That normally numbs one's pain

Goodbye, oh goodbye

some closeups for you

[brain-rot-central]

Trying so hard to get back into reading everyone's WIP's again and not automatically compare them to my own writing so I don't inadvertently discourage myself from continuing.

It's hard lmao

[glsneeg-enthusiast]

sorry do you think sneeg could never beat charlie in a fight without killing him

[nbkdramathings]

My whole thing with Hong-jo getting upset at Sin-yu for coming to where her and Na-yeon were is:

a) You could have just called her a cab and left yourself.

& b) He asked where YOU were and thought it was strange that y’all were even together.

Like, I understand the whole “I gotta know if he’ll show up if I call” but I feel like she definitely set him up for failure.

[nebbeli]

captcha

[nigelgraz]

I am happy because everyone loves me

[corviiids]

was talking to a coworker and realised i could not for the life of me remember his name but i was too embarrassed to ask because we've spoken multiple times so mid-conversation i started concocting a plan to nudge the conversation towards the ID photos on our building passes so that i could be like oh my ID photo is awful haha the camera they use to take these has a real talent for making me look as unphotogenic as possible and then he would say oh yes me too haha everyone says that (because they do) and then i would be able to say well let me see yours it can't be as bad as mine! and he would show me his ID because we are coworkers and why wouldn't he and this would allow me to see his building pass which of course would have his name on it and then i would be able to say well yours is perfectly nice it must be me that's the problem! and then we would have a polite chuckle about it and i would have his name without needing to ask for it and he would be none the wiser and all would be well but then before i could execute this fine plan a little voice in my head went "so this is some light yagami bull shit you are about to pull" which was such a violent reality check it shocked me completely out of my embarrassment and i went "hey im so sorry your name has slipped my mind could you remind me" and he did and it was fine.

[just-french-me-up]

"mmh did you know that creator you like also posts 🔞 content? did you know that? don't you think that's weird? don't you think we should keep this space-"

no. i don't.

i booked a front row seat to the devil's sacrament and you're blocking the view

just go back to the 1660 new england hole you just crawled out of and eat barley for a week to atone for your sins or whatever

[flogisto]

big fan of stories that, while undoubtedly being about the power of friendship, acknowledge that the power of incredible violence is just as important

the love was there. the love changed everything. the crowbar helped also

[daftpatience]

slow down for your disabled friends. thats like a bare minimum kindness that we shouldnt have to ask for. i love that youre so quirky and walking fast is a cool personality trait to you and all that but i bet you can count your physically disabled friends on less than one hand

[pipebombgf]

gender-affirming surgery is a months-long dark comedy. what the fuck do you mean you're charging me double for everything. what do you mean they itemize the bill by left and right ball. what the fuck.