#NARIT

[dare-g]

3 am thoughts:

I want to paint more clowns

I want to watch more pornos

[reddeadfag]

i can't stand bitches who thrist trap arthur like he's some 6'5" blond skinny hunk. bros been living as an outlaw for 20 years, grow up.

[superpussyking]

Another tma character I will defend with my whole heart is Melanie King. She did absolutely nothing wrong and all the wrong she did I have decided she was justified entirely.

Also her and Jon as foils to eachother destroys me every time I think about it they were so similar and that's why they couldn't get along- OUGHGG

[joshtriesathing]

I have played the beginning two towns of Wizard 101 so many times as a kid but now that im ana adukt i can finally experience....legit any of the plot. Was not expecting multiple references to Cats the Mysical.

keep seeing a lot of ominous stuff about the playable wizards fate tho....

[little-dikdik]

Black Eyed Peas are simply the best!

[idledreams4]

H. H. Aspen

Red Rabbit

Not gonna specifically tag anyone…but reblog if you feel like it and put yours in the tags.

[news-buzz]

Spooky Thai Drama 'The Legend of Nang Nak' Sets Broadcasts News Buzz

Thailand’s skill with ghostly drama series gets another showing in “The Legend of Nang Nak,” which releases widely across Asia next week. Directed by Taweewat Wantha and scripted by Sorarat Jirabovornwisut, the pair behind “Death Whisperer 1 and 2,” the 30-part series portrays a ghostly love story that defies the barriers between life and death. The series hails from production firm Minds@Work…

[cocoa0crow]

I don't know why but I for some unknown reason feel like I need to post something on here. I usually only post when I get a really good idea for a post. But right now I'm just posting about posting. So if you see this consider this a sign. Not a sign for following your dreams or doing something you've been debating on. No this will be your sign to do a random action, activity and or project that will have no bearing on your life at all. Nothing good or bad will come from it. But you will never regret it.

[mefilas]

faiz brain came back. Its over

[phoenix-drowning-ina-rainy-world]

NOOO!! NO AAAHHHH

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[selvepnea]

Still thinking about that thing my therapist said

[lemonking00]

No you don't understand.

THIS IS WHAT HAPP3NS NEXT FOR FUCKSAKES OMG THEYRE SO GAY AUGGHHHG

Pov: your about to smash ur husband

[hadesbullshit]

Tallulah :((((

all this egg knows how to do is have father figures doomed by the naritive and cry

[snazzlebazzle]

I don't think op is saying it's definitely far right, just that the plot at points is reminiscent of it.

a lot of people have already pointed out how totk has a lot of themes of imperialism and generally leans conservative ideologically, but what i think is interesting is how totk subtly redefines what a “researcher” is.

zelda wants to be a researcher in botw, and what this means in the context of botw is largely someone who works with sheikah technology. she wants to figure out ancient sheikah tech, she has an interest in botany and otherwise nature and biology (the whole silent princess and the frog thing), robbie and purah, the two characters who are the closest to us seeing what a researcher in the context of botw is are basically inventors. in totk, however, the main researchers who are presented to us are all historians.

this is an interesting pivot, because in botw zelda is not really interested in history. if anything, the one who’s deeply concerned with history is rhoam, wanting to preserve historical tradition and his uncritical reliance on said tradition and historical precedent is what leads them to their doom. in botw, zelda is narratively opposed to history, if anything, all the ancient tech backfires on them and traditions fail to awaken zelda’s power. zelda’s urge to be a researcher is in wanting to understand the world around her, not just blindly follow ancient plans but rather have agency within them.

totk, however, is obsessed with ancient plans. the only real moment where zelda gets to geek out in totk is her getting all giddy about finding out more about the divine origins of hyrule. all the researchers in the game are concerned with finding out more about the zonai. since all the mentions of ancient sheikah technology are scrubbed from the game purah and robbie read more as strange outliers, the sheikah slate is no longer, now it’s the purah pad, a product of purah rather than something larger. the whole game is literally about following an ancient plan, a plan most characters don’t fully understand as they sign up for it. totk’s main story is built on confusion, on the characters not knowing what’s fully going on but having faith in ancient sages telling them what to do. in botw, following ancient plans you don’t fully understand was the thing that doomed you. in totk, following ancient plans you don’t fully understand is the gimmick.

that juxtaposition between the two games has an ideological through line: botw posits that progress is necessary. mindlessly relying on tradition doesn’t work. prophecies are omens, not instructions. history must be learnt from, not repeated. the ancient sheikah aren’t a group to be emulated, but rather to be learnt from, considering their machinery backfired and the royal family betrayed them. totk, however, is obsessed with the mythical history of hyrule, a time where everything was idyllic until one bad man showed up, a time we must emulate in order to win. i already talked about how the past in totk is zelda’s life pre calamity but better here, but that also plays into the idolisation of that era and its royalty. in botw, even the myth of the first calamity preserves the fact that the yiga clan has origins in the royal’s family persecution of the sheikah, even the time when they successfully held back the calamity is tinged with mistakes that still affect the world ten thousand years later. in totk, ganondorf’s origins are nebulous. nobody provoked him, nobody did anything wrong, he’s just evil because he is.

a lot of right wing ideologies are hinged on preservation, but more than that: the belief in the nebulous mythical past in which everything was better. “make america great again”, the fascist’s idolisation of ancient rome which is represented largely inaccurately, look at any conservative rhetoric and you’ll see people complaining about how things nowadays are ruined or are being ruined, how in the past things were this way and they’re not anymore, which is bad. the belief in the fact that in some past period we were great and are not anymore, and the strive to emulate that past is a trait highly typical of right wing ideologies. and in totk the past as a great era is an idea presented completely uncritically, the narrative is entirely controlled by the game and doesn’t dwell on any of the inconsistencies in this idea.

now, obviously, not every story in which a great ancient era exists is fascist, right wing or conservative. but to me what’s interesting specifically in totk is this shift between the two games: botw is critical of the past. it’s critical of arrogantly repeating history, it’s critical of having blind faith in great relics of the past. totk isn’t. totk idolizes the past, totk tells legends and tells you to believe them without any doubts. botw believes researchers are those who seek to understand the world, innovate it and solve problems without relying on ancient ways. totk believes researchers are those who discover ancient instructions, ancient ways and relay them to great men in the present to be followed. the four mainline regional quests in botw are about discovering four ancient relics that are terrorising the land and fixing the mistakes of the past. the four mainline regional quests in totk are about discovering four ancient legends are true, and receiving instructions from an ancient sage on what to do.

totk is not simply neutral, it is ideologically conservative in stark contrast to botw, because of the things it chooses to leave uncriticised, notably the things botw was very poignant about examining critically. the way totk redefines what is a researcher is indicative of this, indicative of the way it chooses to idolize or present as an unexamined good that which was nuanced in botw. totk isn’t just conservative in the sense that it presents uncritically a “good king” and “evil conquerer”, it goes deeper, it’s notable because botw was starkly opposed to the thematic axioms totk presents.

i just think it’s very interesting that they made a sequel to botw, and completely redefined or otherwise ignored botw’s thematic core.

[dabblingreturns]

30 hours after finishing Long Live Evil and I'm still reeling over how the charecters deal with goodness.

Spoilers below

I was thinking about how Rae vs Marius, and lia vs Eric approach goodness

Marius goes through life miserable because he can't find anyone flawless enough to live up to his ideal of goodness. So he believes that no one should be saved because they arnt innocent enough to justify risking him loosing control.

Rae on the other hand smashes through the world and consistently finds admirable virtues in people that it wpuld be fair easier for her to abandon. But she can't. Became how could she abandon sisters who love each other, or such an interesting maid, or a guard with a great smile who.she knows has been doomed by the naritive. In the end sje is even able to give kindness to the women whose life she took over. Rae loves freely and frequently looses control, and changes the world in ways that marius inaction never can.

Speaking of snakes who lie in wait (complimentary) there is Lia and Eric. Lia has plans to make the country better. She has plans to rule. She is ready to to "put up with some guy" if it gets her the power she needs to start improving things. And she is kind towards men in a most calculating and cold manner. She isn't kind to the because they deserve her kindness, she is kind to them because her best defense is kindness. She weilds kindness like armor to cover her ambitious.

Then there is Eric, Who is above all else effective in his kindness. Something the other three haven't fully mastered. Eric is kind on a personal level. But more importantly Eric is helping people on a systematic level. Eric is laying infrastructure to get the most venerable people through an apocalypse. Eric is protecting the marginalized. Eric is a one man revolution. Eric is incandescent. Eric is gaudy, and camp, hedonistic, and judgy. But Eric believes that asshole people that he hasn't even met also deserve to be saved and has laid that groundwork. Eric blew into a story about retribution and said, "that's not the way I roll" Eric has died before and he's willing to die again.

Raes kindness could change a story. But Eric's kindness could change a world.

[rat-rambles]

I finally read the gravity falls comic, and I know this isn't a franchise interested in exploring creation trauma, but it really should because it acidently did something really interesting. So, in it, young Ford basically tells Stanly that he should just not "take the easy way" ie simply be the good kid. That attitude, the revenge for authority, and the way Ford learned to fall in line to avoid trouble directly lead to him falling for Bill's whole act. This is made worse by Ford having to hide his insurity about his hands he couldn't talk to anyone, but stanly Stanley would just come back with oh well there all jealous idiots anyway. Ford was really set up to be easily manipulated for the convenience of his parents it's the downside to being the "good kid" makes you an easy mark. It's too bad that the naritive doesn't actually acknowledge that out loud.