#no i couldnt you go ahead

[ilovetextingandscones]

trying to explain to foreigners that in Spain you're supposed to say no to offers in case the other person was only offering out of politeness is so damn hard

[diathadevil]

Aftermath.

[captainspaulding]

if you tag every single post of your shitty ass unfunny commentary while watching a movie in the main tag for that movie im going to beat you over the head with a cement block.

[battleslippers]

okay look. I have clear favoritism to outsiders ff to anime ff for several (albeit possibly nonsensical, purely sentimental) reasons, but I will say this one jjk fic absolutely captivated me and I think if I wanted to I could fill pages with notes and tears. head in my hands absolutely life changing. I didn't even forget the title after months

I feel like I'm gushing incredibly hard over this but I truly do feel it's a wonderful look into toji's and megumi's characters and the events preceding the former's death. It undeniably solidified him as my favorite character

in short I desperately needed fushiguro content a few months ago and immediately got my heart and mind torn to shreds by this and NEVER forgot. 10/10 highly recommend!

[lietpolski]

question, how do most people in the fandom view the nations' regenerative/healing abilities? like, say a nation breaks their arm. in your headcanon, how long would it take until it was back to normal with no pain?

i feel like there could be a lot of variation in what people think!! i've also seen the hc that injuries a) last longer when inflicted by other nations, or b) last longer when the nation is geopolitically weak, like when losing a war, which could complicate things even more! idk i'd love to know people's thoughts on this!!

[waywardsalt]

im actually going to tear into totk’s dragon’s tears/ memories rn bc i remember feeling distinctly unsatisfied with them when i got all of them so im just going to write some general bullet points about them, about what i dislike or maybe what i do actually like about them, leaving out both master sword scenes and the mummydorf one because i’m here to talk about the stuff in the past not that

- off the bat (i play this game in english btw so all of this is based on the english text and translation i am aware some stuff is slightly different in other languages) im not really a fan of how the descriptions of all of the tears is just a literal description of what happens?? i think my issue with it is that some of the text is a little bit too in depth, as in it just tells you literally everything about the scene. this might be nitpick-y but i personally dont like it

- what’s up with zelda saying ‘but that must mean...!’ at the end of the scene. is it suggesting that she’s made the realization that rauru and sonia are the first king and queen of hyrule? because they literally tell her that like ten seconds before. i guess it’s suggesting she’s realizing she’s in the past but... idk the texts says ‘she’s left startled by a suspicion that she’s heard those names before’ yeah theyre the first king and queen of hyrule?? they tell her that. they tell her their names and that they are the first leaders of hyrule is she just now connecting the dots that she’s in the past? that’s what the next cutscene implies. but all of the surrounding dialogue and the description don’t suggest that that’s what she’s realizing i feel like this was kind of muddled in the translation

- why did sonia elbow rauru he was just standing weird he didnt say anything this isnt a nitpick im just confused. is it because he’s not being very empathetic towards what zelda’s going through? she elbows him and then she goes and talks to zelda why even elbow rauru. ordinarily you elbow someone like that if you mean for them to go do something why elbow someone if you’re going to do the thing you want anyways

- why doesnt zelda offer to help with the purah pad or anything like that. what happened to her sheikah tech fascination from botw. not even as someone actually familiar with the technology who could give mineru some points as to how it works

- what are sonia and zelda doing behind rauru when he shoots that insane fucking beam at the mulduga swarm they’re clearly doing something with their stones but like... are they amplifying rauru’s power somehow?? what do time powers have to do with the beam of light i dont- what were they doing please the text description only mentions him using his powers so are sonia and zelda just... supporting his powers? idk man

- dragon tear #5 is a whole can of worms with its worse-than-oot reenactment of that one scene from oot. why the focus on sonia and her tear btw. i mean yeah she dies to motivate rauru and zelda but like. why not aim for the new girl who probably doesn’t know how to use it as much and is probably more likely to be separate from the king who can shot insane lasers. im really not a fan of this scene for how strongly the game sides with rauru and zelda being passive and judgemental but ganondorf is literally the best part of it there’s a lot of character in just how he picks up his sword and stands up to leave

- putting memories 6 and 7 together just because of how there was just. no fucking care put into the idea of zelda learning to use her time powers. memory 6 zelda talks about wanting to use her time powers and sonia gives her tips on how she could use it and visualize the use of it and then in memory 7 she can just use it perfectly with great control and timing. why even bother talking about her nothing yet understanding how to use it when the very next scene she just uses it like it’s nothing. how much time has passed we get nothing to show us zelda trying to practice this power just. nope. she’s good she can use it perfectly. also more awkward dialogue sonia saying ‘what a picture zelda paints of him’ as she is. looking directly at zelda. change the line to like, ‘what a picture you paint of him’ she is literally looking right at zelda so why would she say it like that

- generally i feel like memory six should have been before 4 and 5 (4 being where she uses some power to... support??? rauru and it being before memory 5 so that there isnt this weird break in between the memories concerning ganondorf.) memory 6 does not have anything to do with memory 4 or 5 so just put it earlier so there isnt a weird shift in focus between the two big ganondorf scenes

- good god they introduce the idea of sonia and zelda being aware of ganondorf using a fake zelda but theres literally nothing about it having been a problem or them having experience or like. anything. they just TELL you that they know and suggest that it’s been like. a thing for a bit??? also obligatory ganondorf’s face model rigging is fucked comment he’s still the best part

- the pacing of these memories is just weird in general, memories 7 and 8 being separate but the same scene is strange when other memories are long as fuck but cover one event each, plus theres clearly barely any passage of time between memories 7 and 8 it almost feels like they were split up to fill space or just because otherwise it’d be... too long? man idk

- ‘queen sonia needs you!’ girl she is DEAD good fucking luck doing anything to help her

- ganondorf’s horse and its armor both look sick as fuck i really wish you got to see more of it outside the memory it appears in

- everything about the original sages honestly sucks. they aren’t characters they’re just walking macguffins. they have no names and are not relevant or mentioned or make any appearance until they are needed by the story. why does the zora sage talk about getting word about the attacked gerudo village in this scene when like. they’ve all met up and have clearly. been together for a bit. when she gives them the news it’s clearly the first they’ve heard of it... but... why would she wait until this moments to give this info unless for the benefit of the player watching the scene. why does the ZORA sage have this news and not... the gerudo sage?? what’s with the masks. they’re all made of zonaite or whatever sure theyre gifts from rauru but like. i hate that it kind of denotes them being subservient and lower than him and the zonai. honestly i really hate this scene in general mostly because of the uncomfortable showing of how rauru absolutely holds power over them and despite them being leaders as well they are expected to be wholly blindly loyal to him. rauru only gives them these stones when he needs their aid and they swear loyalty too him soon after but you also see that sonia and mineru have stones, too, so they’re clearly withholding these things despite it being kind of reasonable for him to give each race their own secret stone as further proof of their pact? there is so much shit to be said about the imperialistic themes or whatever in this fucking story and i really hate it

- i do kinda like how the next scene shows you that the one rock in the corner of that first hidden room in the forgotten temple is sonia’s grave

- zelda’s phrasing and description of how she and link found ganondorf is weird to me ‘he’s still alive’ ‘he lives on’ girl that was a mummy. he was not moving until you got there. he’s undead at best as far as you know. this is def a nitpick but eh. also the reliance on link is a... bit odd when zelda does not actually know that link is safe until she gets the master sword. its fine but still. also her shell-shocked expression after rauru talks about her being in the past for a reason is a bit... it doesn’t fit her emotion it’s kind of similar to the expression she had when sonia was killed

- the memory about the imprisoning war starts with practically the whole story up until now being repeated back to you by mineru with a decent amount of bias on mineru’s part and while it’s fine because of some of the extra stuff you learn but it does a lot more telling rather than showing when it comes to the actual imprisoning war and... idk the whole thing about their ‘fight’ kind of falls flat when you don’t actually see any fighting you just see that the sages have gotten their asses beat. i think it would have been a little interesting if in the god-awful repetitive sage-awakening scenes they had actually showed you the og sages fighting ganondorf instead of just. slow-mo freeze-frames for whatever. once again ganondorf if the best part of the scene

- the rest of the memories are fine idc

i get the feeling that the japanese-to-english translation was either all-around rough or somehow rushed, because some of the phrases in the game as well as some of the dialogue is really awkward and... could have been better. i don’t know how it works but it feels like a lot of it was very literal, direct translation and no one at noa thought that it ought to be tweaked just a little bit

these memories also do a fuck-ton of telling rather than showing and it really is like they don’t really trust you to connect the dots, and some of it does come off like they either didn’t want to make more memories or ran out of time or something. i felt like the memory of ganondorf just summoning his monsters and riding on his cool horse could have been a bit longer to actually show us the forces of hyrule fighting him and having a hard time with it

a lot of the character animations doesn’t have a whole lot of personality to them, ganondorf is the character who had the most distinct and interesting movements. rauru and sonia had their... singular movement (rauru putting a hand to his chin and sonia taking zelda’s hands) and zelda was kind of just... standing around and reacting to stuff, and neither mineru nor any of the other sages had any really interesting animations asides from mineru’s coughing fit in memory 16 (plus her reclining chair that was a nice touch). very few of their movements really express anything about the characters besides some really baseline values or traits.

the ordering of some memories is kind of odd, the excessive flashbacks in memory 17 are a bit much, the telling rather than showing, the sometimes awkward dialogue, a lot of the scenes are characters just... talking at each other, you don’t actually see very much of hyrule in the past or any characters beyond the main four, and it really did nothing to actually get me to care about these characters at all.

tldr i dont like totk’s dragon tears

[aladaylessecondblog]

Severed Destiny wip

tw: referenced death in childbirth

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Haj-deek had done as Orvas instructed, after a few days' deliberation. So far things had gone well with Almalexia, but...it still felt like a good idea to have some sort of a backup plan.

And that elderly man HAD had some pretty good knives, one of which she picked up for cleaning the fish she bought. It was good distraction from the Everything Else going on.

The discomfort started to heighten the day she noticed her room had been straightened up.

Mention had been made that as one whom Almalexia currently favored, she would find she was entitled to some benefit. Namely, having her room tended to by the same servants that took care of the rest of the place. And when she protested (minding her words and trying to sound humble) at this, she was gently scolded and told to enjoy it.

Haj-deek took it and once the door was closed set about searching her things. There were a small number of things she was afraid of them finding...the robe with the Dagoth symbols, for example, she could probably explain away. It was the journal--her mother's journal that had her worried. Most of it would be fine if considered blasphemous by the Temple - she could say she wasn't following in the previous Nerevarine's footsteps. But the last few pages, the pages that so clearly outlined--

The robe seemed to be unexamined, or at least refolded well enough she couldn't tell if they'd looked at it. The dagger she'd brought with her was as she'd left it.

Her mouth was dry and her hands cold when she saw that the journal had been gone through. She read the whole thing quickly through again, thinking - something was missing, but what was it? She felt stupid not noticing it, but...the book had been moved, which meant it could have been read, and THAT was the important thing here.

She went to bed early, but it took her more than an hour to get to sleep with all that worry in her head.

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The sun was setting over the harbor in Ebonheart, but the moon did not show its face and so she was left in near darkness.

Even so, the harbor still felt--not entirely safe, but familiar, homey. Somewhere someone was singing a song she knew but couldn't place...it wasn't a sea shanty, that was the only definite thing she could pin down. She tried humming the tune she could make out, and it grew momentarily stronger.

Haj-deek looked out to the water. Sunchaser was somewhere in the distance, swooping for fish, and she smiled at the sight. Not the real one...but...

She shut her eyes and took a deep breath. The sound of the wind, the waves, the odd bell, and somewhere someone's windchimes--this, this was home.

I wonder if my mother ever felt this peace, or if that room was all she knew, like when we kept On-Wan there.

Im-Kilaya said that her mother had come there for her own safety, after being attacked, and the journal had explained as much. Vivec had finished the rest.

Vivec told them to keep an eye on her, but he never meant for them to attack her...

The darkness overhead shifted. It felt sorrowful and furious by turns.

Maybe it's my mind trying to tell me not to trust Vivec...because he was the reason she died, even if he didn't mean for her to...

A sudden bolt of pain. The black clouds overhead turned grey and began to weep.

How did she die?

Her thought. Or maybe not her thought...it was too confusing. But if it was him, it was better not to outright refuse.

She took a deep breath and thought back to the little she could remember. The harbor shifted and once more she was in the Argonian Mission, with Ukawei overhead and Im-Kilaya somewhere in the back. They were saying things she couldn't quite catch, but she could tell they were meant to be comforting.

The scent of blood, however, was not. Someone somewhere said it was too much, and then Ukawei said something.

Then the sudden cry of the babe, and Sadara pleading to hold her baby. More tears as she slipped the Moon-and-Star onto the tiny wrist, declaring the child to be as cursed as she had been.

"She looks like you..."

(A stab of pain so deep, so agonizing, that the fog gathered around the edges of her vision. She wanted, suddenly, to wake up, to run away from that anguish as fast as she could.)

And then a word, a word Haj-deek couldn't remember hearing the last time she'd seen this memory. A word spoken as the room was going dim, so softly it was barely audible at all.

"...Voryn..."

Then, blackness. She tried to shift the dream back to the harbor, but found she couldn't.

[nemisisnemi]

also old art

[dewgongs]

ha

[goldiipond]

let's say, theoretically, i finally got around to watching pmtok... any recommended let's players? :D

OOOUGH YAAAY MEETING MY WONDERFUL FRIEND OLIVIA!! YAY

im gona b honest though i dont actually remember finding many pmtok lets plays? at least that i can remember enough to recommend bc i have tge memory of a little bug of some sort </3

my go-to for most games i like is to recommend holly hollowtones vods bc she's always super fun to watch and i enjoyed her pmtok ones a lot! the only catch is holly's vods tend to also be. incredibly long. but if you're okay with that or even just putting em on in the background then holly is really really good. i know vinny vinesauce also played it and i remembered enjoying those vods a lot as well and theyre definitely on the shorter side compared to holly's bc he's not as big on like the collectables and optional exploration/dialogue and stuff but there's really nothing too major story-wise that you'll miss by watching him

[pissheartmybeloved]

hmm, i dont know. no one gave you permission to start pissing yourself, did they? i certainly didnt.

no you didn't 🥺 but I couldn't wait that long!! I waited as long as I could without having an accident >_<

[helianskies]

feeling a bit miffed and frustrated.. just had a simultaneous spanish interpreting class and we had to go into the booths and just. sim interpret from spanish to english. but i have not used the booths before, nor have i done any kind of simultaneous practice. i feel like my classmates have all done like english speech shadowing in lesson to practice. but i haven't done that. my sim lessons have been sight translation and memory exercises. so of course i fucked most of it up where others didn't. and i just kind of feel like an idiot who is onthe wrong fucking course. basically.

[arcenergy]

every time i remember that im an adult that lives by myself and is financially independent my brain crashes like a lenovo laptop running windows 7

[jesterwaves]

my experience with percy jackson is kinda funny in hindsight because reading the first book for the first time i was like 'no way...thalia mentioned!!!!'

[gayfrasier]

HAD THE. CRAZIEST INSANE SEQUENCE OF EVENTS AT UNIVERSAL TODAY

[forgetleighnot]

i hate that i have to car shop and therapist shop at the same fucking time