#I’m sick of not feeling safe

[dont-fucning-look-at-this]

Loss for words

I don’t like war, though

It feels inevitable

A paradox of lies and cheaters in silk robes

And though enemy territory is still miles away

I can feel their soil under my feet

As they dance in circles around trees

I’ve seen my sisters do the same

Why does it have to be a competition

To see who can be more dead

Why am I the one that has to live through history

Why can’t it be my grandparents

They’re much more suited for the scandal

They can pay what I cannot

My soul is not prepared for branding

What does it mean to be nineteen and hated

Why am I the one that has to fear for my life

We’re all next no matter what we do

Even when we win we loose

What does it mean to live while dying

Why can I not see the future

We’re fighting against iron walls

But all were given wooden clubs

What does it mean to be young now

Why do the old get to dictate what I do

Poetry and literature and blood and air

I don’t want to fight for my hands and feet

What does it mean to be a soldier

Young heads pounding through streets

They take away what we want

Then they’ll take away what we need

What does it mean to be a target

And why does it have to be now

The billionaires will keep getting richer

Until they burn everything down

[gojoest]

pregnancy freak satoru + lots of spooning sex bc that’s one of the safest and most comfortable positions for when the pregnancy progresses and your belly gets bigger and rounder (he’s done his research) + obviously his hand is glued to your baby bump ALL the time

[leciraofthewilderness]

So, despite some faults, I really enjoyed totk, and on its anniversary I want to say something about it. Other people have said similar things before but it’s really important to me and actually a big part of why the story of totk was meaningful to me, so I want to also say it:

Zelda needed to come back from draconification. The story needed that. It wasn’t lazy and just ignoring “consequences” because (imo) that was the *point*

The point is to feel like there are going to be terrible consequences and then say actually, no. You can come back from this, with the help of other people.

To me at least, that was the theme of the whole story.

If botw was about how the world goes on past loss and grief and starts to heal (how flowers grow in the ruins and the world can be beautiful again, be worth saving, even if it has changed)…then totk was about a more personal kind of healing.

The weight of the world should not be on your shoulders alone…you, alone, should not have to fix everything…you should not have to sacrifice yourself, but when you do, someone will be there to save you from it.

This turned into a really long ramble so:

You (Link) gained so much and now it’s gone. It feels like you’re back to where you started and yet you know you have to do it all again…you were weak and you failed and you’re weaker now…but

You go down to the surface. Monsters swarm across it once again. Other people are fighting them too though. You help, but it’s not just you…

You go to the Rito, the Gorons, the Zora, the Gerudo…just like with the divine beasts, there are friends who help you save each region. But this time, part of them comes along with you when you leave. It’s nice, you realize, the first time one of them protects you from a monster you weren’t prepared for. You’re still weaker than you were before, but someone has your back…

When you go up to the sky you see a strange new dragon there. There’s something about them that feels familiar. You try not to think about it.

You go down to the depths too. It’s terrifying at first. You hate it. You only want to get what you came for and get out of the dark….but slowly, the light grows. You get stronger. The dark feels like a challenge you can face (and someone has your back).

There are spirits down there. You don’t know when they’re from, but some part of you wonders…are these all the people you let die in the Calamity? (You help them find rest from their wandering. The weight on your shoulders feels a little less heavy).

There’s so much gloom. The first few times the sky turns red and hands chase you (a reminder of what you’ve lost, how you failed) you just run. Eventually though, you have to fight. It feels like the (second) worst day of your life again. But you manage to get free of the grasping gloom and stand and fight, as wild and desperate as it is. Beneath the manifestation of your worst fears, there’s another thing to fight, but this time it has a face (a voice in the back of your head says…you know this isn’t all on you and your failure…it’s really Ganon’s fault right?). You get through it.

At every turn in your travels, it seems like something reminds you of Zelda. Her passion, her curiosity, her kindness. You miss her.

At first, the tears you find reassure you. She may be in the past, but she’s safe. She’ll come back somehow…but then you hear the word draconification for the first time. You want to believe she wouldn’t do it but you know her and the fear sits cold inside you. (Zelda is a lot of things. She’s been allowed to be more of them, since she was freed from her hundred year battle, without her father holding her back. But deep down inside her, there’s a vein of self-sacrifice that still runs strong. It’s what saved the world before, after all).

She did it. She really did it. She’s gone from you (from Hyrule) forever, and it’s all your fault. If only you hadn’t failed so utterly in the battle (you can hardly even call it that) under the castle. If only you’d caught her. If only you hadn’t let the sword break. You should have protected her you should have been better it’s all your fault and now she has to live with the consequences, forever. Everything really is on you, you should have been better.

(Zelda POV: you couldn’t call upon Hylia’s power in time, you were too content to let it wither and fade away from you, ready to be free of it. You shouldn’t have. He got hurt, the sword got hurt, it’s your fault…Sonia and Rauru help you channel it again, Sonia helps you learn how to turn back time…but you don’t save her. She dies because you couldn’t save her. Rauru dies not long after. There is no one left to guide you, once again. You could spend years trying to figure it out on your own. But you did that last time. It didn’t work. Self-sacrifice, stepping in front of someone you love, that worked. (You do what you can, to call upon the sages, to help Link in the future, first). And then you swallow the stone. You’ve come a long way, in the past five years, allowing yourself to exist. But in the end, self-sacrifice worked last time. It’ll work this time too.)

You (Link) go down beneath the castle. You were supposed to bring the sages but you didn’t. It’s nice, for someone to have your back. But no one else should get hurt to fix your mistakes.

They follow you anyway. They fight with you, against the hordes, against the greatest enemies you defeated together, along the way. They’ll have your back, even if you don’t think you deserve it.

You fight Ganondorf, and then the demon king, in the hardest battle of your life. You think it’s over and then the demon king decides it’s better to lose himself completely than let you win. You’re exhausted and afraid of yet another battle, but up there in the sky, when you’re falling, the Light Dragon catches you (you wonder why she changed her path to catch you, you wonder if there’s still something of Zelda left in there to save). With her help, you win.

And then you’re in some other realm. The spirits of Sonia and Rauru are there. You remember how the two of them and Zelda channeled such incredible power together. You think about Recall. Turning something back to the memory of what it was before, like Sonia said. You stand with them and you allow yourself to hope. Maybe the Light Dragon can remember the form she took so long ago, the person that she was.

And then you’re falling, and Zelda is falling, but this time you catch her. You catch her. She’s back home with you, finally, finally.

And maybe, one mistake doesn’t have to be the end of the world. You don’t have to be perfect. Sometimes, someone else can stand with you, and it’ll all turn out alright. (You can put the weight of the world on your shoulders, you can sacrifice yourself, but someone will be there to catch you, someone will be there to pull you back to yourself, when all is said and done).

[to-be-a-dreamer]

How am I supposed to be normal when I have to wait a whole week for Grover and Annabeth to learn Percy isn’t actually dead and they didn’t just loose another friend who sacrificed themselves to buy them more time and Annabeth didn’t just loose one of the only people who ever cared about her without making her earn it all because she wasn’t able to see he was tricking her and Grover didn’t break his promise to Sally and do you understand me? That after Percy fell Echidna and the chimera would have come after Annabeth and Grover which could only mean one thing and they had to leave the arch believing they failed? How long do you think they had to wait until Percy came out of the river? How long did they sit beside each other, not saying a word because they failed, they failed again and now they have to finish this quest alone?

[hedonists]

Anyway. Fuck transphobic metalcore dudes and all their enabler friends.

[greenclouds]

sally. running back home in a desperate attempt for comfort. but her childhood bedroom has been turned into a "mancave". and it's packed full of dead animals and hunting rifles.

her mother repeatedly critiques the semantics of her tv show

"you don't have a daughter. who wrote this?"

"I wrote it."

"… but you don't have a daughter."

but sally writes her character one because she wish she had a mother to console her when she needed it

"have you been paying any attention to what I have been going through?" "mom. I need your help."

but her mom isn’t listening. and sally goes back to her serial killer ex and can't make herself leave because maybe he is her only chance at feeling safe. inside a prison

[child-of-boundless-seas]

I need my TikTok fyp go back to the Kathryn Hahn and Aubrey Plaza thirst traps instead of stressing me the fuck out with election stuff

[fernisfat]

it should be illegal for work to happen when i’m sick 😭

[theshadowrealmitself]

A member of a species with feathers being insecure about their feathers because they don’t have as many colors as some of the other people in their species

Human crewmate offhandedly mentioning how much they like their crewmate’s feathers because the colors and the order they’re in remind them of a specific pride flag back home

Crewmate with feathers now taking any chance to display their feathers around their Human crewmate since they appreciate them

[willowfey]

starting to think maybe waking up with an anxiety stomachache every single morning and then needing to spend the entire day trying to get rid of said anxiety just to maybe have a few minutes in the evening of feeling relaxed before going to bed is perhaps not normal

[thecampbellclub]

i need some drunk sad hughie on the edge of the gun after robins death for morale boost

[algrenion]

in my disabled slumber, i dream of Wall Mounted Fold-Out Shower Seat With Legs……….

[quietlyblooms]

oh i’m gonna riot 💜

[s0ftcr33p]

what am I doing wrong? every time I think someone may like me fr and I start to trust them, they suddenly take distance with no explanation or forget about me entirely, beginning to beg for love everywhere else again…It’s like I never existed…I’m holding my arms open but you walk right past me without a word…I feel like a idiot because I don’t understand and all I want is to understand.

If you don’t communicate your perspective my mind will fill the blanks.

[heartless-aro]

heartless-aro/766547861567651840/im-aware-that-all-women-can-be-harmed-by-men-who

the person you're replying to is a terf i wouldn't bother with them tbh

Ah, that’d explain some things. Thanks for letting me know! I sincerely hope that she someday grows and changes as a person.

[ethrealprincess]

hi i miss u all