#do i really have to tag that tho?

[griseldafandom21]

💀Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom spoilers or whatever💀

The restoration of Link and Zelda at the game's ending is so contrived. The issues I have with it boil down to two things: permanent consequences not allowed and a missed opportunity.

First: Permanent consequences not being allowed, i.e. Zelda's transformation and the loss of Link's right arm. Right at the start, we are told that Link's arm was "beyond saving" and so Rauru removed it and replaced it with his own because of that and that it was essentially a breeding ground for Ganondorf's malice to grow and keep slowly killing Link. Then, there's the issue of swallowing a secret stone: "to swallow a secret stone is to become an immortal dragon; to become an immortal dragon is to lose oneself" which, coupled with Zelda literally shedding her memories as tears, implies that even if she became Hylian again, she'd be in the same situation Link was at the beginning of BotW.

Sure, Sonia has time powers, but they only work on objects, not people (unless it's people travelling back in time), and they only work on objects that are whole: Link is neither, and it wouldn't help Zelda's situation, either, at least not without rendering the entire plot of the game irrelevant and nonexistent. Additionally, both Sonia and Rauru are ghosts and neither of them are in possession of their secret stones anymore, therefore are without that power boost, and theirs and Link's own apparent inherent magics do not deal with transformations.

It just doesn't make sense.

Second: the missed opportunity. This one boils down to this: you can have Link's arm be gone and Zelda's transformation irreversible despite anyone's efforts to restore either. No need to pull a dues ex machina out of thin air, because the Legend of Zelda series has one built in already!

The triforce! An object with absolute power, able to alter reality with a single wish made by someone balanced in the virtues it represents: Power, Wisdom and Courage. BotW teased its existence, and that Zelda was probably channeling it to seal the Calamity, though personally, I think the triforce on her hand merely indicated that if she ever came across it, she'd be worthy of it.

Throughout the series, the triforce has been used for purposes as benign as lifting an incurable magic slumber curse, to utterly destroying all that remained of an old kingdom long submerged and mostly forgotten beneath the ocean, so wishing for Zelda to be restored, mind and body, and restoring Link's arm isn't outside the realm of possibility. There are even a few different quests in TotK that come in triplicate like Ousting The Giants, the skydiving islands and the Lomei Labyrinths. The latter of which are already set up to potentially be trials of power, wisdom and courage that could've ended in receiving a blessing or a key that Link could use to go to the sacred realm and make his wish after proving himself worthy of each piece.

Nintendo missed a golden opportunity to reintroduce the triforce back into the series. I wouldn't mind so much if it wasn't so obviously a solid narrative choice. We could have our cake: things happen that cause permanent changes; and we could eat our cake: but now the mission is over, and it's time to come home, and live happily ever after without a constant physical reminder (aside from the chasms, as the depths aren't inherently evil, predated Ganondorf, and are gloom free if the lack of malice fog in the cutscenes following the demon dragon's destruction is any indication).

And it could be done without being gimmicky without reason.

The triforce is inherently gimmicky, but it's also been around for 37 years, is the whole reason there's a story at all, and so is gimmicky with reason.

[inkskinned]

we were sitting on the floor and i was cutting out tiny pictures to make a collage for a friend's birthday. you were on your phone and you laughed about something, and i was still in love with you then, so i asked what had you giggling.

"sorry. i was just..." you took a moment and went back to texting. "i was telling someone about how you're afraid of the dark."

i'm afraid of the dark because something bad happened. "oh." i felt a little slinky of shame crawl down my throat.

you glanced up, and maybe it showed on my face, because you rolled your eyes and held the phone to the side casually so i could see the group chat. "what? was it a secret?"

i looked down to the scissors in my hand. "i just..." no, it's not a secret. it just felt like something private, something serious. saying why would you tell someone that just feels like an accusation. it's unfair. i honestly am not even ashamed of it, it's just a fact about my person that i don't usually share.

what a strange experience. is this a human thing or a generational thing? for our grandparents: did they need to worry about how quickly someone can just... share your personal information? again, i didn't even really have a true objection. what could i say? i want any person in my life to feel they can be honest with their friends. it's not like i said don't tell anyone this.

i cut out another letter to complete the rainbow happy birthday, started hunting for the exclamation mark. i heard you sigh dramatically.

"don't make a big deal about this," you said.

this entire conversation was a pattern for us, and this was when we got to my least favorite part of the pattern. i would get my feelings hurt in some oblique not-technically-terrible way, and then it would be making a big deal about something. you'd get frustrated for me for being soft, but i was born soft. you knew i was soft when you pierced me. it's one of the things that made controlling me so easy.

"i'm not," i felt my voice crack. the question came without my wanting. "why are you guys talking about me?" and why are you saying that thing? why not like - i'm telling them how you're generous and kind and pretty.

you let out this low, tragic groan. "oh my god." you tossed the phone away from your body. "there, see? i just won't talk to them if you don't like it."

the rest of the hour went the way it always went, between us: i said i don't actually mind if you talk to your friends but -, you found a way to call my minor expression of discomfort "being dramatic." you got upset that i had been offended. i ended up apologizing, even though i hadn't actually done anything.

afterwards, you picked up the phone again. after texting for a little bit, you snorted. "okay," you said, "but it is kind of funny you're afraid of the dark. i mean, when you think about it."

[bacchuschucklefuck]

class swap design masterpost for convenience (from top to bottom: bard!riz, cleric!gorgug, sorcerer!kristen, barbarian!fig, artificer!adaine, and rogue!fabian)

[elsecrytt]

okay but jjk somnophilia is like

gojo "please please pleaaaaase let me put it in while you're sleeping PLEASE i swear i'll make you cum i proooomise please let's try it once pleeaaase. YOU can put it in ME whenever you want!!! any time any place anything you want in any of my holes!! wake me up with it!! it'll be soooo hot" satoru

vs

nanami "i have kink charts for both of us and they have sliding scales and notes section for each one. we can mark hard boundaries for what state of consciousness we want for ourselves or our partners, giving or receiving, what sex acts, etc. we'll set up a safe word and a safe gesture and then we can start trying things out" kento

vs

geto "sorry i fell asleep while eating you out, it will happen again. no, i won't stop eating you out when i fall unconscious. just tear me off your pussy if you don't like it" suguru

[palskippah]

Hi!

@shapeshiftinterest ’s art of kid Bowser and Luigi is the cutest thing, so I drew some of them too!

[s-citrus]

Woe, madcom be upon ye! Updated designs/headcannons!

[meamiiikiii]

mira !!! :]

[bbq-potato-chip]

thinking about saiura

[mattodore]

birthday boy 🎂

[adriancatrin]

katara sees her brother and bff approaching something that can make them happy and says no interruptions

based on this photo from the live action cast

[abd-illustrates]

I might’ve spoiled the plot of Natlan | Genshin Impact THEORY

In which I read so much lore that I gained the power to see the future (maybe) This ended up being a real challenge to make - but it was also really fun! Please do lemme know what you reckon of these ideas, and whether y’all wanna see me pattern-recognition my way into several corkboards worth of theories about any other topics sometime down the line! (^^)/

(also: HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🥳🎉 Here's wishing y'all every good thing for 2024)

[bananacat76]

ain’t nothin gonna break their stride….!!

[cappydoodle]

rereading my own fic and yeah I'm a comedic genius I think

[quill-n]

Here's that Molly animatic I've been working on <3 !! I thought that this song fit him a little too well so I had to do something with it :)

[Here's the Youtube link for anyone that wants to watch it there]

thumbnail posting for Ant <3

[azure-clockwork]

I love three houses discourse because I'm pretty sure everyone just picks their route based on which house leader they're the most gay for and then tries to defend their pick by pointing out the other sides's war crimes via twitter memes. Reader, all four of them do substantial quantities of war crimes. So many. We're just here because the woman with Issues and a big fuck-off axe said so, and then we gotta justify everything she did in the name of dismantling the class system. I mean, I'm here for that, but you could also try justifying Charm Man uses poison and perfidy to try to stop racism, A Sad Little Meow Meow gives no quarter instead of doing therapy, or the Thicc Pope tries to bring back her mom via human experimentation, depending on your tastes

[slavhew]

you win. try again?