#Its basically an essay

[ovegakart]

Im realizing with Link in the wrong place now, not much is stopping Ganondorf from getting the spiritual stones. The Deku Tree puts up a fight but he is, after all, a tree, and cant actually stop Ganondorf from taking the stone. And with the gorons and the zora working with him, it just takes some talking around to convince them that he needs it to get back at the hylians. BUT he would need the ocarina of time and i think the song of time is still a secret? So thats fine, nevermind. He still has the stones tho.

As for Ganondorfs deal with Demise, im still working out how it works exactly, but it would definitely work towards Demises side, dude wants to be unsealed. Crazy that Demise, the master sword, and the TRIFORCE is locked behind the same DOOR. A door with so many keys.

ANYWAYS the deal: Its was Twinrova's idea, really. Ganondorf's probably less in charge of things than he thinks he is, his mothers are 400 years old and definitely fed every idea into Ganondorf's big stupid head that he thought was his own. Suggest an idea that if he makes a deal with a powerful demon for more power and of course he would be all over that. He was young and stupid and shortsighted. He was 18 when he took on the deal. Power in exchange for the promise of freeing Demise from his imprisonment behind the door of time.

It takes him an embarrassingly long time to realize some of the hate he feels is foreign, not his own. Sometime the hate he feels is so overwhelming that its nauseating, pushing it away causes migraines. This only gets worse as he gets older.

Castle town is brought down. The ocarina of time, the final key, is missing. Hylian king is killed and the princess is missing. Ganondorf cannot complete his deal with Demise. He doesnt even remember snapping his Gerudo sister's neck in the blackout rage that overtook him but he knows that he did. He hates himself now on top of everything else. He doesnt argue when Nabooru tells him to leave (polite way of saying she cussed him out and screeched until he ran away). Twinrova arent happy he left.

[mystii-gur0]

I lied, put your clothes back on. I'm about to tell you ALL the Ask Error/Errortale lore and explain to you how even after loosing his memories, sense of self, and sanity, everything Error!Sans does is still out of some futile, subconscious attempt to protect Papyrus, because despite everything, he's still Sans.

[coern-art-very-cool-and-nice]

“An abnormal heat is occurring within the ceasing remnants of my mind”.

[neflil]

Something Quiet..

Something for valentines day and whatnot - Ciaran, Artorias, and lil puppy Sif under a tree in a cool field and with actual sunlight. I just wanted to get it out of my system dhsjkdhskjhds....

++ an extra doodle for those brave enough to venture into my "read more"

[asurrogateblog]

I'm excited to say I have finally gotten around to making a presentation that attempts to briefly, coherently, and simply explain the different narrative levels in the concert tour of the wall, and more importantly, the absolutely fucked storytelling implications they have

[tennessoui]

you can tell when im procrastinating on an in real life thing (read: final assignment) cause im always like. hey what about that fic or fic sequel or au i wanted to turn into an actual fic. yeah the one i haven't talked about or thought about in like one hundred years.

but yeah so like in the throat fic sequel i'm faithfully working on a year later, how batshit do you think alpha master vaderkin, who so recently claimed his padawan for the first time (and also kidnapped him and gave up an entire empire for him and also just revealed his sithiness to him), will go if someone were to kidnap obi-wan in an attempt to save him 👀👀 from vader 👀👀

[right-there-ride-on]

thinking about how Gyro 'anti-death penalty' Zeppeli discovers his dark determination and willingness to murder only after the situation concerns Johnny's safety. they make me sick

[iridescentmirrorsgenshin]

the fulfilled motifs in alhaitham and kaveh's relationship are on my brain!!

- most poignantly, the two coming together to unveil the temple of silence in cyno’s story quest, which parallels their thesis on ancient architecture and runes of king deshret’s era, as the two appropriate the other’s respective signature (alhaitham recognises architectural structures whereas kaveh is struck by the beauty of an emblem) - where the two once fell out due to the disharmony of their viewpoints, they have reconciled them within this quest

- there’s the two working together in the house of daena, where they argued in the house of daena upon meeting them in the archon quest, where they were described to have a ‘terrible’ relationship by the npc geoff, which is mirrored in cyno’s story quest by the two actively working together - as well as paralleling the npc archon quest scene the player has to actively seek out in which the two argue once more, whereas in cyno’s story quest, the two willingly exchange information and are supportive in helping the other

- we have the fulfilment of kaveh losing his family and therefore his idea of ‘home’ through him actively referring to the house he and alhaitham share as ‘home’, and that he wants to return to it together with alhaitham, as a set, and by implication a family, in cyno’s story quest

- by extension, kaveh not concealing his living arrangements by openly referring to him and alhaitham’s ‘home’ in front of his friends, which refers back to when kaveh asks the traveller to keep it a secret upon meeting him officially in alhaitham’s story quest

- kaveh buying wine and coffee beans in the tavern, alhaitham and kaveh sharing wine in their house, which is something they are mentioned to do in the bulletin boards of sumeru as well as in alhaitham's story quest, going hand in hand with the two drinking coffee together in the house of daena, with kaveh mentioning he wishes he had made some for them before leaving the house, which refers back to his 2023 birthday letter where he and alhaitham taste tested coffee beans (i am, once again asking, for an alhaitham mention in 2024....),

for future sumeru quests or events i am thinking of the unfulfilled instances or things that can be addressed??

- whether kaveh accepts alhaitham's research into sachin's influence over his father as closure for his involvement in his father disappearing into the desert, as his reaction differs from whether alhaitham tells him vs when the traveller tells him. since cyno's story quest 2 indicates that alhaitham telling him is what happened in canon, this subsequently betters their relationship. the idea of kaveh's cycle of self-detriment due to his past guilt hasn't been addressed since apop and it remains uncertain as to if kaveh has made steps to forgive himself or if he even wants to. this development of kaveh's character is truly interesting and i would love to see it explored at some point, and also in turn what alhaitham's involvement is in this, as in his newly accepted support of kaveh

- kaveh writing to/visiting his mother in fontaine? or at least a mention of kaveh's mother, as his hangout has a heavy focus on faranak's past relationship with kaveh and her hopes for his future, which we see in her advice to him as a struggling artist being that to found reliable companions. if kaveh undergoes a reconciliation arc within himself, as in he aims to forgive himself for his past guilt, then it would make sense for him to have a reconnection with his mother to talk about the past in order to truly look to the future

- kaveh and alhaitham having a role to play in the exploration of the temple of silence in future events - hints of this may be seen in sethos cautioning cyno that he may only invite people he and lord kusanali deem worthy, for cyno to then tell alhaitham and kaveh upon arriving back in sumeru. To this, kaveh expresses an open interest and cyno tells him that he will have an opportunity to investigate in the future. As alhaitham and kaveh have teamed up together in order to investigate into the temple of silence, and are indirectly connected to it through their thesis of king deshret, it seems they will likely be a part of the role the temple of silence will play in the future

(- i thought that an unfulfilled instance could be kaveh referring to alhaitham as his friend in game as this would be a callback to when paimon asked whether he and alhaitham were friends, to which he replied that they ‘used to be’ but weren’t anymore… but in terms of how alhaitham and kaveh's relationship is handled in-game, i think queercoding plays a big part in having labels such as ‘friends’ continue to be evaded (i have spoken about definitive labels being avoided in the writing of haikaveh here), this is backed up by sethos’ voice line as the two are paired together as “alhaitham and kaveh” and are referenced as a set with “those two”, rather than a definitive label such as ‘roommates’ or ‘friends’ being placed on them. Rather, they are conceived to be something outside of this, as sethos conveys their ‘otherness’ with “something about those two hanging out, you just can’t look away”, so i think, imo, it would fall more in line for them to continually not be assigned definitive relationship status, but if the improvement of their relationship is actually mentioned in-game since it was only shown and not told in cyno's story quest 2, it would make sense for them to say something that indicates they overcame misunderstandings or something vague like that. as there's an air of secrecy around alhaitham and kaveh's relationship, the traveller won't ever be privy to the specific details)

[extravalgant]

speaking more from my last post about shadow magic and its just. so interesting tbh. like the first mention of shadow magic comes from khrysalis when we enter the eclipse tower and it gives us interesting looks into how shadow magic as a whole is regarded in the spiral...

its so insane to hear that its a forbidden magic and that grandmother raven and BARTLEBY of all people forbade it to be taught. raven i could probably understand, but considering we are now bartlebys scion... it's hard to think about the possibility that he didn't trust us before. an outsider from the spiral learning a forbidden magic...

i think what's also interesting is the fact that the shadow magic the wizard learns is a wholly unique one. shadow magic corrupted the moon magic inside the tower, so there's a possiblity that our wizard only knows this specific subset of shadow magic—one that's been permanently altered by moon magic in the eclipse tower, and one that can only be taught by sofia darkside.

it makes me wonder if velma knows the same kind, or if hers and the wizard's shadow magic is different... is one more volatile than the other? or if there's no difference at all and im looking into it too much lolol

knowing this and knowing raven forbade anyone in the spiral from ever learning shadow magic, it would make a little bit of sense for how hostile she initially seems towards the wizard... if we take what we saw from the book of secrets, then we know that magic law states that nothing is an accident—magic is reactive and 'sentient' to a certain degree, so there was no mistake in the wizard freeing grandfather spider from his prison using magic, because that's what they wanted.

granted it was for other reasons... but it doesn't paint a pretty picture of any of us. the wizard learns shadow magic, the wizard frees spider, and then spider goes on to say that theyre his favorite.

i think what makes this particularly more tragic is the fact that the wizard didn't even have a choice. sofia says this herself!

they need to learn it. the sword of kings isn't enough. being a child of prophecy isn't enough. they failed once before, and theyre not eager to fail again. theyll try anything, and everything, and that includes... freeing grandfather spider.

which, you know, speaking of backlash... sofia mentions it too lol.

which is interesting to me... i always complained that the morganthe fight needed a bit more oomph—which, i still believe it does, to some extent—but i think how she died was a fitting end to her. crushed underneath the weight of her own powers, her own shadow—her backlash. she was the instrument of her own defeat, and, well... that could have very well been the wizard. she's our reflection, our parallel. i think it's why the wizard never mentions or claims that theyre the one that did her in—because they technically... didn't, but they also did. which is cool!

much to think about....

[akito-shinonome-daily]

🎤 day 451 🎵

➥ today’s akito is from the (brave new world) cinema 3DMV!!

[yeetusthemighty]

The creechur

The silly (crazy? I was crazy onc-)

So I got inspired to finally post this guy because of this post by @z4n3jul13n (cool person you should look at their stuff)

full version with my doodles under the cut

(I have a whole au based off of this guy)

[obsessioncollector]

The book of essays on the Mughal Empire that I'm reading is mostly really good but there's one essay from 1924 that reads like it was written by a classic Orientalist white boy except—plot twist!—the writer is a (Hindu) Bengali historian. He even says Mohammadan instead of Muslim and talks about the Roman empire 😭 Also he rants about the degeneration and decadence of the Mughal artistocracy which he makes sound really awesome. I think he thinks wokeness (or femininity) killed the Mughal Empire but imo if I were a Mughal aristocrat I too would spend all my time with the harem and the eunuchs instead of joining Aurangzeb's eternal military campaigns. Actually now that I think about it, the essay is a case study in reactionary grasping at straws bc the first half is all about how bad Aurangzeb was at running the military and budgeting and then in the second half he starts rambling about the decline of masculinity and rise in drinking alcohol and how that was the real problem. Idk man the Aurangzeb stuff kinda seems more important...

[fairyhaos]

google search how do i say "svt music peaked in the years 2019-2022" without making it sound like im saying i think they sound terrible now

[aristhought]

Severance and the Pursuit of Meaning & Identity A personal video essay/reflection on the themes of the show, and what it means to be human in the modern day and age. Also readable as a written piece here!

[lunavagans]

Me when Shadow, and I wish I were overstating:

[magiefish]

Something I've kind of noticed about a lot of the academic scholarship I've read about Frankenstein / Dracula / Jekyll & Hyde is that everyone just seems to completely dismiss/ignore the characters as actual characters most of the time unless they're the Main Guys. Like, they'll go really in depth about Victor or the Creature's motivations and backstory and spend ages talking about Jekyll's relationship to Hyde and stuff, but the second it comes to characters like Enfield and Elizabeth or Lanyon and Clerval or frankly the Entire Rest of the Cast of Dracula, they just immediately seem uninterested. They'll just sort of vaguely gesture in their direction and go 'Oh yeah X and X thing happens to this character and here's a one sentence summary of their personality which doesn't really matter because this entire cast is interchangeable, anyway, onto the next theme' and half the time their One Sentence is just textually incorrect (looking at the New Woman/Traditional Woman descriptions of Lucy and Mina). And the reason I find this so baffling is because with other analysis I've read (e.g. Great Gatsby stuff) people seem to actually slow down and consider the characterisation and motivations of the cast as a whole with like. Nuance. Like they sit down and treat the characters as multifaceted and complex and having actual relationships with one another, and then you get to these books specifically and no one seems to care? Like they'll go really in depth with various interpretations and historical context for the Big Guys, and then never apply the same sort of examination to anyone else, and if they do, very rarely and probably only for one other character e.g. (Utterson or Mina).

If I had to posit an explanation, I would say its a combination of the archetypal nature of the title characters and the admittedly patchy writing of these books (which arguably lends to their archetypal status). I think academics kind of assume that the primary draw of these books are The Big Guys and the expansive themes and ideas they cover and that everyone else is just a pawn there to enable the narrative around the Big Guys, and the propensity for film adaptations to scrap or rewrite characters probably compounded this impression. And while I think this is at least partly true, the thing is, these characters were not always archetypal Big Guys. They originated in stories alongside *these* other characters *specifically* and it is worth asking what it is about the rest of the cast that makes the story interesting as well. Because, let's be real, if there was approximately no interest in the fucking *narrators* of Dracula, the best friends of Henry Jekyll, or the victims of the Creature, the original readers would have been completely bored out of their minds for most of these novels and public interest in them would not have been as great as it was. All of these novels were stories before they were myths, and academics should not be letting pop culture eclipse them unless they're specifically talking about the relationship between the two.

Overall, I just feel like academics are not only shooting themselves in the foot, but also doing a disservice to these stories by not bothering to investigate the other characters because frankly. It's lazy. It's lazy to dismiss an entire cast and basically skim read any sections involving them just because it's easy to focus on The One Guy. If you people really cared about themes, you'd understand that characters are inextricable from them. Like shit dude I see more care given to characters in essays about Greek tragedies, you guys are waaaay fucking behind