#mattison is adorable

[theorangestar]

I finished the quest “Mattison’s Independence” yesterday. I’m not crying you’re crying!!

[botwheadcanons]

There's this lady in Tarrey Town that you can gossip with after Mattison leaves, and Links response here is so adorable?!!!

If you hit B, she's basically like "SINCE YOU'RE INTERESTED!" and then continues on anyway.

-Mod Beedle's Wife

[gensnix]

Welp I’ve completed totk and it’s been about a month so I’d like to give my silly little thoughts on it

I’ll put my thoughts in category's things I enjoyed, moments that made me lose my mind, and of course things I hate

spoilers below obvs

Enjoyed

The game plays so good! You can do just about anything you can think of. They definitely set a new bar for quality. oh those poor future game designers 

the title “legend of zelda” actually works this time lol

There’s sooo many little details in this game it makes me happy

they added more speech bubbles for npcs depending on what is happening 

I love the new characters! Makes Hyrule more alive

Yona is so kind and pretty she even fixed Link’s zora armor! 

Penn my writing partner that whole side adventure was fun and hilarious. 

Mattison! MY GODDAUGHTER I LOVE THAT ENTIRE FAMILY.  

Gomo helped me make my first $1000 so I’m legally obliged to kiss him on his head.

Tauro another history nerd. I like his dynamic with Paya!

I love the constructs all of them. The fact that they were made so long ago and yet still fulfill the roles they were made for make me sad. Plus the fact they actively miss the people who made them and wish for company adds to the sadness 

I liked how they upped the difficulty of the shrines I’ll admit I had to look some of them up and then eminently get humbled by some of them 

same with fixing some of the towers I’m embarrassed by the one that had weapons jamming the door 

Anything that happens in Tarrey town. 

Helping the hudson family prepare a great departure gift for their daughter? Beautiful

The dream house? Amazing 

The fact you can take a pic of Mattison and show it to Rhondson and Hudson to cheer them up? Literal tears in my eyes

THE FACT THAT KILTON IS THERE AND WANTS PEOPLE TO LIKE MONSTERS AND IT’S WORKING?? Priceless     

The lurelin village quest! Link saved an entire village and helped rebuild it and they give him the greatest rewards 

The fact that Link can join the yiga clan. Yea fuck that Link guy I can’t stand his short blond ass Glory to Master Kohga

As you can probably tell I really like the side quests 

I adored all the boss fights from slamming my face into ice to fighting against Shiver splatoon. 

Gohma it’s good to see you again. 

I really enjoyed the gibdo queen fight my only regret is not getting the sand boots before the fight 

speaking of gibdos I was kinda sad they weren’t redeads but then I remembered Oh yea the royal family made redeads not ganondorf

And of course the best fight(s) ever MASTER KOGHA! GLORY BE TO HIM! I knew that guy wasn’t dead and I don’t think he’s dead after that last fight either bros got cartoon logic on his side. The fights weren’t hard but I liked seeing Link get run over

The ganondorf fights were AMAZING when his health bar took over all the way to the side of the screen I burst out giggling.

THE DEPTHS 

I LOVE THE DEPTHS I HAVE EVERY LIGHTROOT DONE I LIVE THERE NOW SO SORRY HYRULE I CAN NOT SAVE YOU FOR I AM IN UNDERTALE AND COLLECTING CLOTHES OF PAST HEROS

The addition of caves and wells is nice 

The well in Kakariko even has blood on the walls down there <3 great call back. 

but no demon from hell trying to drag you under just a cutie patootie learning to cook for her family 

the fact that there's an underground gerudo cemetery right under the ruins of Arbiter's grounds a bit fucked up but it’s another great call back 

the fact we got something about zora ages and how gorons are born. 

Lose my mind

The fact that a good portion of the constructs names are fucking Steward I call some of them Stewies 

Purah pad... sounds like a hygiene product 

The lady that calls Link a freak then sees he’s attractive and gives him an egg

Actually I feel like there’s even more people that find Link attractive from botw 

the dick riding from the sign dude is crazy 

The fact when Zelda said “Link you must come find me” and I followed up with “Why don’t you try to find me”... shouldn’t have said that 

Misko WHO IS THIS PERSON WHY DID THEY HAVE ALL THIS STUFF

IT’S BECAUSE OF MISKO I CAN’T TELL WHAT’S CANON AND WHAT’S NOT WHY DID THEY MENTION THE FIERCE DEITY SO CASUAL AND HOW THEY KNOW I HAVE THE FULL SET OF SOMETHING TO GET ANOTHER REWARD

The fucking Cece side adventure 

The entirety of Goron City. I swear Regandorf has something against Gorons first he was feeding them to a dragon in oot NOW HE’S GIVING THEM CRACK ROCKS

AND HE GOT MY BOI YUNOBO MAJORA’S MASKED 

zora’s domain more like Delfino Plaza 

And now I’m in Splatoon!

BLOND! NO ABS! NOT A VAI!

Riju still needs her high chair for her throne!! 

the memories are ok but because you can get any of them whenever spoiled some shit. Like Sonia dying and Zelda turning into a dragon I didn’t even know there was a forth dragon until the final memory I just picked up the flowers and said “Welp i don’t know how to fix this”

the end of the bluepee quest for Kolton THAT left me speechless 

in fact WHAT IS WITH THIS GAME AND MAKING PEOPLE EAT GEMS

“Link I pray...” GIRL YOU NEED TO STOP PRAYING IT’S CLEAR THE GODS DO NOT LIKE YOU

Above every bargainer statue is a goddess statue and that is cool and has some lore implications 

Link suffering from the Tony hawk affect and how is zelda not How did they convince all of hyrule she’s the princess  

Jumping monsters with the avatars 

the sages mask making me think of majora’s mask 

Hate

I’ll be up front about it right now I have not a single care about this story’s main plot which is sad cause it had a great opening 

look as a gamer totk is great but as a lore enthusiast I’m going insane 

i like the timeline and I’m never expecting the games to perfectly line up I mean cmon most of the games take in-between hundreds to thousands of years there ain’t no way

but to me totk doesn’t like a retcon of the timeline. it feels like a retcon of botw 

 I’ve always held onto the theory that botw takes place in a world where the timelines finally become one. 

And I’m aware nintendo wanted to make it friendly to new players who didn’t play botw but... it’s a sequel 

Don’t give me the whole “Majora’s mask is a sequel to OOT and those two are def different games” Cause 1 those games are over 20 years old so it’s not a sin to want a zelda game with a sequel that actually feels like one ( I ain’t ever forgiving nintendo for cancelling the tp sequel) and 2 totk takes feeling like a different game to the extreme by literally getting rid of parts that happened in botw

it literally contradicts it's self all the damn time

if Link is always with Zelda why does know one recognize him he’s on the missing poster with her cause everyone knows the princess 

the disappearance of almost all sheika tech feels genially insulting 

the fact that they just sideline the sheika in general is fucking insulting 

the shrines?? the towers?? Cherry, Robbie’s most prized possession being reduced into something so small and now only has photos?!?! 

THE DIVINE BEASTS????MY SLATE?!?! THE FUCKING SHRINE OF RESERECTION 

And I know the running theory is that they went back underground or repurposed but do you know how much tech that is? to just take down somehow and then not see it any more the most you see is the guardians legs in the towers 

Only like 2 maybe 3 people commented on Link’s fucked up arm and in the end he doesn’t even keep it! Rauru literally said it was unsalvageable

and at the end Zelda is just... fine Like no scaring or anything just saved by two ghosts who I didn’t think could do that 

I hate the zonai I didn’t really think of them in botw cause I thought it’s just another tribed that helped 10,000 years ago and died out but noped they went from being a warrior tribe to god like beings who lived in the sky

they are the biggest inconsistencies and are just the ancient sheika with new coat of paint and for some reason there’s only two of them now 

Honestly to me they kinda sound like colonizers and the fact there are minning facilities everywhere in the depths doesn’t help

Also Rauru your plan to seal Ganondorf failed! Twice!

And ganondorf what was your plan exactly why did you do all this I’ve seen better villain backstories in Splatoon and Kirby. This whole story is just black and white

Don’t think I didn’t notice how you changed the labyrinths Nintendo those bars on the floor weren’t there before 

the fact Yunobo isn’t using daruk’s protection 

The thunder helm is missing?? One of the gerudo’s most important piece of culture. a vital part of botw story too. Like yea you can get a copy from the yiga but where’s the real thing

Rito village... what did they do to you 

No mention of Revali 

The weirdest personality changes

the fact that they just sidelined Teba. you know the forth person to help you with the divine beasts an absolute powerhouse in aoc. the guy to be described as crazy and rude but knows his worth. Revali’s biggest fan??

Nope give the job to Tulin the character it seems alot of people didn’t know existed in botw. “Over shadowed by his dad” kid was like 5 and all he did was watch Link and Teba train and suddenly he’s hot shit with a never before seen magic ability that he just has 

I liked rito village cause it’s two main character from their had to train to get to where they were

Like Tulin’s ok but it’s bad story telling you telling me all the new champs are now leaders of their respected societies but Teba is the only one to get sidelined (don’t give me the whole but in “age of calamity...” a noncanon game shouldn’t be used for a main story and if that would be the case the new champions fighting styles should be just like that game then) 

Also I can’t tell how many years have passed cause why is Molli (Harth’s kid) Still small I thought Tulin and her where around the same age 

Kass not being in the story obviously takes the game down to a 7/10 :(

And yea I’m aware that some people think he’ll be in a dlc later but that’s not an excuse for him not being in the base game.

Zora’s domain is exactly as I expected it to be but man Sidon you really are just here to be eye candy his ability sucks

god Sidon Teba you two used to be so blood thirsty in age of calamity what happened 

why the fuck is it called gloom it’s always been malice and why did it only effect weapons and not the bows and shields 

Speaking off where did the elemental weapons go? the different arrows? No one talks about them did Nintendo really get rid of them for the fused ability. they could have just added more power to them if you matched the elements right 

The sages are just diet champions and I can’t tell, especially with the direction it seems to be going, if they have the same names as the sages in oot/ww cause in the zora murals you can read they talk about the sage Ruto in both games and we all thought they were talking about oot ruto falling in love with a hylian 

I question this cause of the goat/llama/ whatever the fuck they are shares a sages name if that’s the case they really are just diet champions 

WOLF LINK AMIIBO DOESN’T WORK LIKE IN BOTW THEY PUT MY BOY THROUGH THE MEAT GRINDER THIS GAME SUCKS -3/10

I’d love to here what some of you guys think cause I may be deranged about the zelda series but my friends aren’t lmao 

But yea those are my thoughts it’s a shame that I game I’ve waited for years for isn’t to my fancy but I’ve been in the fandom game for a long time so I know exactly what to do!

Ignore it! 

I’ll make my own totk story and lore!

With blackjack and Koroks!

[knightotoc]

The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: Mary Pickford, a 25-year-old Canadian, plays a 10-year-old New Yorker thanks to the power of silent movie magic. At one point, she lashes out against her miserable upbringing and is punished by being force-masculinized because of her dad's own gender trauma.

She quickly embraces the costume (there's even a very 2018 "it has pockets!" moment), and gets into a mud fight with the street boys. Of course, she is soon punished again, and cries with grief for her brief moment of cross-dressing class-traitor freedom.

The scenario isn't "good lbgt representation" (none of these are), but it is a bizarre glimpse into turn-of-the-century gender roles. The entire film has a tonal dissonance you don't see anymore (whimsical proto-Wizard-of-Oz dream sequences include one of her dad committing suicide), and this subplot in particular seems especially tragic and cruel from a modern point of view.

The Dream Lady (1918) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: Rosamund Gilbert becomes an independently wealthy woman and decides to move to a cottage and make her neighbors' dreams come true. Sydney Brown makes a "bold request," to spend her vacation as a boy, and Rosamund sets her up in an adorable dress-up sequence.

Sydney makes friends at da club with James Mattison, and they walk around arm-in-arm as boys do. But when her vacation is over, Sydney retransforms into a woman, prompting "pal" James to say, "I've seen people go through changes in their life, but never anything like this!"

There is another movie from the same year but from Germany called "I Don't Want to Be a Man," in which this I-thought-you-were-a-guy romance subplot is the main plot (and there's hilarious drunk makeouts). I recommend both movies since they are just lovely and very funny, even though it is sad about the cisheteronormativity. It isn't too much of a reach to interpret that these couples would consider themselves trans and gay in their private lives, even as they present straight in public.

There are 6 more movies on my Letterboxd list with this theme, so I might add them on to this post. Even though these movies were made later in the time, they aren't necessarily more progressive.

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