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I often do think it is important to call myself a woman. In past I've had kids ask me "are you a man or a girl" and in hindsight I think these kids were quite perceptive of the world. Especially when you're in your 20s it's men and girls, I've seen students write pieces describing themselves as men, but their female peers of the same age they call girls, but I have also heard bisexual women say they like both men and girls. In past I've fallen into that myself and said that yeah I'm a lesbian I like girls, but do I? No I am in my twenties and I am actually only attracted to my fellow adults - women. It does feel more serious, less trivial, both to be and be attracted to women as opposed to girls, and that can be a bit uncomfortable to be faced with. It is also important to me as a butch. I am no longer a tomboy I am a butch I am no longer a girl I am a woman. I am a woman and women can be like me. I don't feel like I've succeeded enough at adulting to call myself a woman, but that doesn't matter. I am 25, and if the word bears other connotations so be it, that's not my problem.
#to be fair i have also heard men on their 20s say man feels too serious of a word to them#but idk like so much of our society infantilize women i wont do the same#but also like in group of friends i do hear both men and women call each other boys/girls like girl's trip/boy's trip evening with the boys#lunch with the girls etc like ofc theres many situations where those words are used past adulthood in a way that makes sense but still#musings#butch
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Okay but it's super interesting how
Din = Power = Ganondorf
Naryu = Wisdom = Zelda
Farore = Courage = Link.
Because Din, in the hylian creation myth, created the physical world. Naryu then created the laws - gravity, time, etc. And Farore finally created life - plants and people.
Din created the body, naryu the mind, Farore the soul.
And the triforce and its wielders so perfectly reflect that.
Ganon is physical power, he is big and intimidating and he breaks things. He is cunning and determined, but that's not what he focuses on. He is might makes right.
Zelda is wisdom and cleverness. She is stall tactics and information and team work. She is a powerful mage with a spine of steel, but that's not how she'll win. She is the pen being mightier than the sword.
Link is courage and persistence. He is the wild card sneaking behind enemy ranks, always moving, plunging into terrifying situations head first. He's a phenomenal fighter with a keen wit, but that's not what will get him through his challenges. He is bravery not being the absence of fear but the triumph over it.
They sit in perfect parallels to each other.
And ganon is reborn through his body - his resurrection is immortality. No matter how low he is cast, as long as he has a body he can claw his way back. He can cling to his power, build it ever higher.
Zelda is reborn through the magic of her bloodline. It's the accumulated knowledge handed down for generations, the unique power she must master, the skills she must develop to survive and get her kingdom out the other side intact. Even her name, the knowledge of herself, is handed down from all the way from the very first. Her ancestors knowledge of her future presence, her stability, is what gives her the edge.
Link is reborn in spirit. He is not bound by flesh or blood. Just like his wanderlust soul he can reappear in any time or place. His variation, his unpredictability, is exactly how he fights. It's what makes him so hard to pin down.
Ganons need to build strength means he can't chase after link. Links impulsiveness means zelda can outwit him. Zeldas stationary predictability means she's an easy target for ganon.
But the other direction?
Fire melts ice, ice redirects lightning, lightning burns fire.
And that's the very essence of the triforce.
#It's little details spread across the games like this that just makes it work so WELL it's SO COOL#They're all great at all parts of the triforce but they CHOOSE to focus on the path most meaningful to them#And that's literally reflected in their unique cycles of reincarnation isn't that just AMAZING#And that's why the team up is so important! If they were all working against each other they'd be locked spinning their wheels#If zelda and ganon teamed up link would immediately die and if link and ganon teamed up zelda would instantly perish#It's the link zelda team up that means ganon is the one who kicks it#Also the elemental thing was cool but they do jump around a bit. Like wind is there half the time#In botk the gerudo have lightning and the goron have fire. Farosh still has lightning tho and dinraal fire#In ss lanaryu was the lightning and faron had water like its all over the place thematically. And that's when it's only 3!#Don't even get me started on the 5/7 lots notankyu#But that's the most common group and it's also thematically accurate#Fire being the only one able to self perpetuate with fuel. Can be banked up again. Ice compresses with time but needs the right environment#Lightning go boom 👍 you can feel the static in the air but you don't know when/where it'll strike and then it's all over#Like fr it's hilarious zelda and ganon are playing the long game and link runs past eats all the pieces and while ganons yelling after him#Zelda checkmates his king. And nobody can prove she wasn't cheating because nobody was looking lmao#Ah the duality of metaphors#ANYWAY isn't that so neat???#Reason no.372 why rhoam was a terrible king he didn't just screw up he did it ✨thematically✨#If link had been allowed to run off and get dirty and if zelda was allowed to study her interest (like post kingdom fall FOR EXAMPLE)#They'd have won (like aoc) but nooooooo. I've already made a post (or 3) about it lmao I'll be quiet now#loz#legend of zelda#botw#triforce#loz link#the legend of zelda#zelda#loz botw#ganondorf#loz ganon
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The idea that uni protesters are "elitist ivy-league rich kids larping as revolutionaries" on Twitter and Reddit and even here is so fucking funny to me if you actually know anything about the student bodies at these unis. Take it from someone who's going to one of the biggest private unis in the US, 80% of the peers I know are either from the suburbs or an apartment somewhere in America, children of immigrants, or here on a student visa. I've heard about one-percenter students, but I've never met one in person. Like, don't get me wrong, the institution as a whole is still very privileged and white. I've talked with friends and classmates about feeling weird or dissonant being here and coming from such a different background. But in my art program, I see BIPOC, disabled, queer, lower-income students and faculty trying to deconstruct and tear that down and make space every day. So to take a cursory glance at a crowd of student protesters in coalitions that are led by BIPOC & 1st/2nd-gen immigrant students and HQ'd in ethnic housings and student organizations and say, "ah. children of the elite." Get real.
#also idk how to tell you this but even if it were true. wealthy children potentially sacrificing their educational careers to protest is#a good thing actually. idk how to tell you that caring about people from other nations is good#personal#“this war has nothing to do with most students cuz nobody's getting drafted” idk how to explain to you that we should be angry#that our tuitions of 10s of thousands of dollars that we pay every year for an education is being used to fund a genocidal campaign#also the implication that if you go to a uni institution you are automatically privileged by participation no matter your bg#i didn't /want/ to go to this school. i was supposed to go to a school with an art/animation program. but i realized my immigrant#parents have been working their whole lives to get me here. and turning the opportunity down would be a disservice to their sacrifice#this is getting into convos of “what 2nd gen kids owe their parents” which is different for everyone but. yeah#i just get pissed off at seeing people misrepresenting student bodies as “wealthy” and “privileged” and “elite” when it's such a blatant li#i remember a year ago a friend told me they can't fly home to hong kong for winter break because the plane tickets are too expensive#so they have to find temporary housing around the area#last quarter for a film doc class my film partner made a doc on a small group of marxist grad students from india discussing praxis#during a rally a few months ago in response to police presence the coalition invited palestinian students to speak about their experiences#and lead songs and read poems they wrote. these are STUDENTS. are they elitist too?#this is not to disregard my own personal privilege either.#this whole narrative's just to rationalize a lack of empathy to me. seeing a 19yo student get shot by a rubber bullet and your first#reaction is “HAW! HAW! bet richy rich didn't see THAT coming when she put on her terrorist hood!”#newsflash. these big uni campuses are HAUNTED by the violence of past protests and revolutions and police brutality. we know.#why do you think these coalitions have been making reinforced barricades at record speed
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Happy October! It's the perfect time of the year to gather around the fire, roast some marshmallows, and tell horror stories about that time you and your roommates took in a monster that broke into your house!
#Animator vs Animation#AVA#AVM#Animation vs Minecraft#Purple#Yellow#Green#Blue#Red#The Second Coming#Orange#Color Gang#Knightmare Art#Purple learning about the group's past together must be a total roller coaster#“You guys fought the Dark Lord and lived???”#“LOL No. We died and were brought back by shenanigans probably.”#“?!?!?”
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in regards to orym only admitting how badly he's struggling to dorian/always reaching for the sending stone instead of his current party members, I suspect it's because dorian's not with the team right now, and therefore he's not someone orym feels he needs to be strong for. orym has been told he's the moral center of his party numerous times (ashton has even admitted to him that this isn't fair! but it's still how he's perceived) in addition to being a keep-a-stiff-upper-lip-and-support-your-friends kind of guy. if he cracks, he's got to be afraid that's going to have a ripple effect on the stability of the group. so of course he's going to reach out to the one party member he doesn't feel he has to support, where it won't effect the larger dynamics of the group, who also happens to be someone who is removed from/untouched by the kind of trauma and heartbreak the party has been dealing with and feels more connected to a past that was kinder. dorian is the ideal candidate for orym to open up to emotionally, well beyond any shipping lenses
#not that i think him opening up to the group would actually have a bad group effect but I do believe that ORYM believes that#dorian is just the safest option and the one that connects him to a past that was better than the present#that's kind of it#cr spoilers#critical role#orym#bells hells
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Try these out!
#my art#fan art#what we do in the shadows#wwdits#nandor the relentless#monster high#draculaura#mh g3#redrew an oldie#bc I didn't like it the first time and now I love it#she's older than him by like 900 years#but she's NICER and also not afraid to break societal norms that would prevent her from dating a certain group of ppl#and also they're friends#they probably wouldn't be friends#but i think they could talk about how lonely it can get. living for so long. until you meet the right group of people#i think they would tell anecdotes to each other. once Nandor got past the silly relentless warrior act. and she finally got to talk to-#someone closer to her age that didn't look down on her#idk man I just think about characters so much. I want them all to be buddies#AND ALSO THEYRE BOTH ASIAN YAY
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treasure hunting
#sorry for posting a ton of pokemon art in a row leaving for a convention so i rushed everything out#ill be back w art that isnt sada and arven next time............#pokemon scarlet and violet#pokemon scarlet#arven#clavell#ive been doing nothing but posting dnd oc comics to a group of 10 people for the past year u can tell. im just jumping back to fanart now#jacq#nemona#penny#pokemon spoilers#pokemon scarlet and violet spoilers#scarlet violet spoilers#scarlet and violet spoilers#psv spoilers#sv spoilers#pkmn spoilers#scarvio spoilers#based off classes + lab notes that say clavell and sada worked together#then jacq and clavell later on#u guys should take the classes they rule#soupdoodles
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Pjsekai magical girl au where all the leaders are recruited by miku to be magical girls send tweet
#this has been rotting my brain so hard for the past few months#if one(1) person shows interest I will finish & drop chapter 1 on AO3#I think it would be really silly#and they’d have to keep it secret from the rest of their groups!!#saki like hm ichika and tsukasa been spending a lot of time together#n25 proud kanade is getting out (if a bit. surprised??)#even if it is to secretly fight monsters#and like. the leaders slowly sacrificing more and more of their personal lives for their magical girl world-saving#euhfjsnfjn#brainrot#pjsekai#project sekai#would probably end up being Kohane focused bc I’m biased#but with focus also on all the leaders#I love the idea of all the group leaders as a friend group
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I dunno, I kinda think that describing an often-viewed-as-autistic character as relatable to everyone is fun and rad actually. I think that the idea of autistic people being relatable to neurotypical people is cool as hell
#we will never get past the male/cis/straight/neurotypical/etc 'everman' unless we accept that ppl from outside a marginalized group#can connect with/relate to/be inspired by characters w personalities and identities that aren't the 'default'#and that is. what I have to say on the matter. other people have already said the other things to say better than I can
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Apprentice Adam and Hoffman back at it again with their bullshit
Mark may be guilty of eating hot chip and lying himself but he is NOT about to joke around on the clock.
#please forgive the quality and weird shape of the screenshot the past few doodles i posted including this one are all on the same canvas#mark having the universal experience of being in a group assignment w someone who will NOT move their ass no matter how urgent an issue is#i need to watch breaking bad again theres a ridiculous amount of quotable moments in there#saw#saw fanart#saw movies#adam faulkner#adam faulkner stanheight#adam stanheight#mark hoffman#saw adam#saw hoffman#detective hoffman#pipeshipping#latenightsundayblues art tag
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Seeing the shit people say about Jews in the wake of the Israel-Palestine conflict when you’re Hindu is really just coming to the realisation that:
#like some of the shit we are told is verbatim cut copy paste of anti-Semitic arguments#we also BOTH are considered white by leftists#and BOTH are called Nazis#and the same groups of people want us dead
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
Time marches on
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Alternates + individuals under cut!
#kirby#kirby series#kirby fanart#galacta knight#galacta knight kirby#kirby galacta knight#morpho knight#morpho knight kirby#kirby morpho knight#my art#Yippee this took so long (i started this at the end of january and picked it back up these past 2 weeks)#but im happy with the result#the inspiration behind this was i was listening to metallica and For Whom the Bell Tolls came on and i was like#huh yeah this is very galacta knight and morpho core#sketched this#then got possessed 2 weeks ago and worked on it in chunks#but ramble aside im working on a bigger project with a group of people so i wont be posting many finished pieces#in the coming weeks#but im excited for the project!
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May I present, not just Irish Hatsune Miku - but GAA and Irish dancing Hatsune Miku!
#artists on tumblr#hatsune miku#vocaloid#ireland#irish#my art#fanart#I missed this trend#it was so cool to see people draw so many different mikus every week in 2021 ifkyk#That's when I first made a doodle of Irish dancing Miku#And now one of my friends was annoying me the past few days to put Miku in a Dubs jersey#I actually remember why I designed Miku the way I did for the og design#That being said I know a lot of people see Irish people as just white people with ginger hair#When in reality there's so many different groups of people who live here and are as Irish as everyone else#Anyone can be Irish regardless of skin colour and that's why I designed Miku to have darker skin
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Curtwen Week Day 6: Happy Ending
#I like to believe that there is a universe where they get to grow old together#just one#look once upon a time I read a fic that had me bawling my fuckin eyes out where they get to grow old together#I do want to say that I believe in personal growth and I think that Curt can 100% have a happy ending without Owen- where he can grow#away from that experience and where he can healthily cope with the trauma he ended up with#where he can find solace in something other than alcohol and where he can find it in himself to forge new relationships and build his#connections with people like Tatiana#etc etc#I just want to make it known that this is one of many happy endings that could happen#(amongst the several sad ones that I know also exist)#ALSO I wanted to draw the old men and I do what I want#but yeah something something if the universe is infinite /ref#maybe this is a universe where the banana incident never happened and they were able to retire together#ough#the curtwen feels are really getting me today#I adore them#also I used a new brush ive been having fun with this past week#doesn’t it look cool?#I really like drawing with it and I like how it looks so#we might be seeing more of this one in the future#although 6b is still my guy#damn y’know hypothetically- if Owen (depending on the au) and Curt lived to be in their 60s (at least) they would witness the first Pride#god can you imagine that?#At the very least Curt being around for stonewall and everything that came after that with queer rights#FUCK anyways#fun fact: a group of frogs is called an army#isn’t that cute#reminds me of that one person on TikTok that raised like a thousand frogs- they had a literal army of frogs#crazy#curtwen week
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Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth by Sleep - A Fragmentary Passage - Forest of Thorns
#kingdom hearts 0.2 birth by sleep a fragmentary passage#kh0.2#forest of thorns#enchanted dominion#realm of darkness#scenery#my gif#it's cool to see this world become more gnarled and dismal as you progress#vines constantly shoot out of the ground to block your path as if this forest is alive in some way#and the further you go the more darksides you encounter#you'll have to fight the ones standing in your way but there are so many more that are just lurking on the sidelines#they wont attack you even if you get close. instead they'll just stand by and watch you delve deeper into the forest#you can see their heads turn to follow your movement as you walk past them it's kind of spooky#can't help but wonder why so many are grouping up here it's really unusual#for the most part they seem peaceful but there are a few that lunge at you unexpectedly#very cool world i love wandering around here
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you know. just like with specific terms and nicknames like clanker or shinie, clones must've come up with unique meanings for their armor paint. like with different meanings assigned to colors of mandalorian armor except since the choice of color is out of their control, all the importance lies in shapes and placement
#this is obviously based on fanon as well as personal speculation but knowing that clones are such a tight-knit society#plus knowing the circumstances of their “upbringing” it wouldn't be surprising#there must be a code to everything#if we take into the account the idea of clones developing their own dialect together with incorporating combat sign language into it#i just think for clones everything matters. the words they use the body language their ranks etc and that everything would include paintjob#so like that would mean that there are specific ways you could paint ur armor that have their own meaning#like with some types of traditional embroidery or other textile arts#like an outsider would look at a clone in full armor and see a collection of geometric shapes and simple designs#but another clone would see so much more#clones could incorporate some personal designs together with more well known “universal” symbols#a stripe across the pauldron for luck. another stripe down the chestplate to signify bravery on the battlefield so on so forth#doylist: they didn't want to make adjustments to their clone models and used copy and paste#watsonian: a group of clones would collectively decide on armor pattern that would best represent their battalion#star wars
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