#Goblin Wisdom

[magigoblin]

Goblin wisdom: Live like a crow.

-Be everywhere you aren’t supposed to be.

-Scream from high places.

-Find tasty foods to eat.

-Be a creature that is too smart for anyone else’s good (can lowkey be dumb and still manage this)

-Scream from low places.

-Recognize that you are small, so big problems need big brain, not big brawn.

-If that fails, band together until small brains add up to the total size of big brain.

-Scream from forgotten places.

-Refuse to tolerate rich people making things worse for everyone. Everyone should have shinies.

-Do what makes you happy, not what makes you money. Partial overlap is fine.

-Scream in impossible places.

-Normal? They wish.

-Find a flock of real friends to do all of the above with.

AND IF ANYONE DARES TO CROSS YOU OR YOUR FLOCK

-Show them why “polite society” calls it a murder.

[smallsmallwitch]

Tap Tap

[sweetgoblinhaze]

IDK if this is a hot take or not but Wyll is definitely trans.

My justification? Credit to my fiancée who said, "Only a trans guy has the name Will with a Y."

[magigoblin]

If goblincore were a sound.

[magigoblin]

Goblin tips to saving money:

Buy ingredients, not snacks. A bag of flour costs about the same as a bag of name brand chips and will make you so much more food! Rice, beans, block cheese, tortillas, there’s a lotta ways to make cheap n tasty lazy food. Spices seem expensive but remember they’ll last a while longer than most food purchases. You can make chili oil, pickled vegetables (garlic is Gobbo’s personal favorite!), all kinds of flavorful things without much effort to make other things tastier. Google has all the recipes you might need, as long as you disregard the AI thing they’re pushing.

Thrift stores. You don’t need that fancy new Apple brand waffle maker or whatever the fuck the rich assholes are pushing this week. Go to a thrift store and buy the waffle iron that the previous owner had for 20 years and will last at least 5 more, because the new stuff is designed to break after six months to force another purchase and will do the job just as well as the thrifted one at best.

Basic tools. You would be amazed how far a few screwdrivers, needle+thread and an adjustable wrench can extend the lifespan of goods. Tinkering is good for the goblin brain and is entirely practical as an experience. Do your research and get the brands of tools that will last and have the fewest “features.” Bells ‘n whistles only inflate the price and weaken the products.

Reuse before you recycle. Even if you can’t fix something, you can repurpose it entirely. Bucket has a hole in the bottom? Put a sturdy mesh over it with non-water-soluble glue and use it to grow a plant. The hole will let the excess water drain and keep the roots from rotting. You just saved money buying an overpriced planting pot, only having to buy some glue and mesh instead. Do not, however, begin hoarding things “just in case.” If you cannot think of a use for it, or have no desire or need to put it to said use, it is best disposed of or given to someone else who will.

Don’t spend, invest. Not in stocks or crypto or whatever. Wherever you can, buy the built-to-last versions of things and take care of those things instead of the cheap ones that are “good enough.” If you have to save up for a while, so be it, trust me it will save you so much money later. Durability is king when saving money, and maintenance is his faithful queen. Gobbo recommends cast iron cookware, if you can consistently maintain it. That stuff will last literally for generations if it is cared for.

Establish routines. A lot of money-saving practices need a little extra effort to work, so make a checklist and do everything on it once a day. Season your cast iron, water your plants, check expiration dates on food, make sure none of the lights were left on by accident, that sort of thing. The certainty of this routine does wonders for one’s clarity of mind in the long term, and usually takes half an hour at most.

Optimize your hobbies. Identify which parts of a hobby you don’t need to invest as heavily in to fully enjoy still. For example, if you love movies, it is worth appraising whether the whole movie theatre experience is worth the price tag or if you’d be just as happy buying the DvD and curling up at home with your own popcorn and no rude moviegoers detracting from the movie. If you’re a crafty sort, see if you can do anything to get more out of your raw materials. Went to school with a girl who used to waste a lot of fabric when tailoring, but started saving about 70 dollars a month by measuring and stenciling all the cuts in the fabric before actually cutting, minimizing the unusable scraps.

We live in a world where money is worth less to the market every day, so it is important to make that money worth more by how we use it!

If you’re motivated by spite, think of it like this. The rich people that run things want you to spend as much money as possible on every purchase, so spending less money and getting more out of it is a direct act of rebellion that they can’t do anything to stop you from committing. It is a small victory over capitalism, one that you can commit every moment of every day while simultaneously improving your quality of living. You are taking some power over you away from them and they hate that. It’s punk, it’s positive, it’s productive counterculture. What more could you want?

[quibbs126]

Oh yeah, I forgot about this until I went to look at the Echoes of Wisdom tag, but I absolutely love this

It’s probably because I played Link Between Worlds as a kid, but I’m very fond of the green River Zoras, and I wanted them to show up in a new game, or at least aspects of them could be part of a new Zora race like them breathing fire, but now here they are

And we get the Lake Zoras too, and it looks like we’ll actually see the conflict between the two, since I don’t think we’ve seen them together at any point

Also I didn’t realize at first because of the light blue of the main Lake Zora, but their designs seem to be mostly based on the BOTW/TOTK designs. I guess it makes sense, since those ones are pretty popular. And also I looked to double check, up until BOTW (but also maybe in Twilight Princess), the Lake Zoras have pretty much exclusively looked like the OOT designs, so it’s giving them new life I’d say

But yeah, very excited for the Zora conflict here

[magigoblin]

When I tell you guys that rebelling in positive ways is the way to make a difference, this right here. This is a prime example. They ain’t looking to screw anyone over, and it still hits the unfair society we live in right in the wallet.

Take notes!

Solidarity

[magnetic-maverick]

Love In Paradise is his song

[hollowaluminumvessel]

I would just like to say. Since I cannot find a Canon age for either character, Echoes of Wisdom Zelda is 17 and Link is 12. I don't make the rules except I do and I made these ones

[eow-askblog]

Happy Halloween everyone! Have a BOOp-tiful day!

[magigoblin]

HEED THESE WORDS AND BECOME MEDIA LITERATE, FELLOW GOBLINS.

(If you are still working on regular literacy, ask a nearby human to read it to you. Most of them seem to know words.)

[autisticlaezel]

I know it's a video game and I get why they didn't do it, but I think it would have been cool if Durge had to roll wisdom saves to resist the Urge more frequently and not just That One night

[mars-ipan]

just remembered i have a huge dnd session planned from 12 to 8 on sunday. hoo boy

[magigoblin]

Don’t forget to steal some books on your next raid to train some wizards too!

It isn’t proper Goblin Warfare without some kabooms!

me and the gobs are honing our warrior skills

[warlordfelwinter]

spirit guardians is a really funny spell to cast when you're in a room that's small enough that you can fill the entire thing with them and enemies are just funnelling in through a single door into my zone of death

[magigoblin]

You ain’t alone!

It is proof that no matter how hard humans try to eradicate nature and promote an ecologically disastrous monoculture (grass lawns), the moss will endure.

Nature outlives everyone who wants to erase it. And that is a happy thought.

anyone else get like super happy to see the tiny fuzzy moss in the cracks of concrete sidewalks?  just me? okie