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cataclysmicamomile · 9 months ago

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Haven't drawn in a while so have a shitty Bing Yan sketch

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#the unique legend #特殊传说 #冰炎 #bing yan #my art #digital art

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phoenixcatch7 · 4 months ago

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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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solarwreathe · 1 year ago

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i designed a sheikah outfit for josha like purah and robbie. they gifted it to her, but josha added the depths elements later because no one tells the president what to do.

i wanted to keep it in line with the modern sheikah's sense of style, with some allusions to their past ninja antics, hence the bandages and assassin's creed hood. all the better to slip out of lookout landing undetected. strict parents make sneaky kids, purah!

#loz #totk #tears of the kingdom #legend of zelda #josha #totk josha #loz fanart #totk fanart #sheikah #totk sheikah #tloz totk #legend of zelda tears of the kingdom #i made the mistake of putting home alone on the entire time i was drawing this #now i suffer the curse of pavlovian responsing myself when i look at it #i gotta remind myself no solar totk never had a b plot where purah and the research team accidentally left josha alone at lookout #and she created a series of ingeniously cruel sheikah traps that exploit lookout's unique terrain to foil the yiga bandits #(totk if it was good)

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jhonskii · 3 months ago

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I'm on a roll for the past few days that I've been animating this thing the whole day. Hopefully I could finish this by like a week or so. I love doing facial expressions <3

#am i insane? maybe #but good lord these guys are so fun to draw #fantastic to get myself to draw more unique shapes <3 #jhonskii art #wip #once upon a witchlight #gricko grimgrin #gideon coal #kremy lecroux #morning frost #torbek #twig toadspring #legends of avantris

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old-skyguy · 10 days ago

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The silly stupid alien show about ghosts that steal your cock and balls just pulled the most gut wrenching, poignant shit possible and portrayed it so artistically and meaningfully what is even life.

This was MASTERFULLY done. The visual and environmental storytelling, the subtle foreshadowing, and inject those motifs into my fucking BLOOD.

Ho. Ly shit. Good fucking lord.

#dandadan #dandadan episode 7 #ok so it should come as no surprise that i grew up on paranormal stories about ghosts aliens cryptids urban legends the whole nine yards #acrobatic sara sara is one japanese urban legend i don't see portyayed a lot. it's a bit nore obscure so when i saw they included her #i was IMMEDIATELY hyped.#but this episode #they did something so different #so unique #this is what i love about adaptations of urban legends you can do so much with them put so much meaning into something so underdeveloped #and what they did with that concept. holy shit.#they took a baseline legend about an underrated woman yokai - something that there are plenty of - saw her gimmick #and just shot it out of the motherfucking park.#it made me insane and then it made me cry so hard i gagged im dead serious.#the art in this show has been beautiful so far but never has it meant as much to me as it did here.#i love these characters so fucking much.#i need to read the manga. please dear god someone tell me where i can read the manga for free.#acrobatic silky #dandadan spoilers #dandadan acrobatic silky #dandadan aira #aira shiratori #if you hate aira shiratori genuinely fuck all the way off.

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hildegardladyofbones · 4 months ago

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One of the best things about Disco Elysium by far is that it does not fear ugly women. The world is full of ugly men, but ugly women are so hard to come by.

#I'm not calling the characters ugly btw #i don't believe any one can be ugly #i do not care for beauty standards and thus i don't rank people based on how “ugly” or “pretty” they are #but the characters in DE do not meet the conventional beauty standards and look like actual people with unique faces #and thus would be considered “ugly”#and that is so important to me. i go feral whenever media represents how people look like in real life and not how they look like in the #fictional parallel universe where everyone is a model and where a majority of the movies take place #because irl you don't have to be a model to be desirable #the most attractive man in any video game I've ever played has a receding hairline and a big nose and thick glasses and a small chin #and not only is representing realistic people. just good. in general. but it makes the character of Dolores Dei stand out so much more which #works for the game so well. she's barely human. she's a deity- a myth- a legend. the only version that exists of her now is the one with #glowing lungs. she's perfectly beautiful because she's inhuman. the fact that everybody else looks so human only highlights how inhuman she #has become yk?#if everyone was as conventionally attractive as her then she wouldn't stand out. we wouldn't get why she's so special.#disco elysium #disco elysium analysis #media analysis #beauty standards #this is only one aspect of how this game portrays real people btw. as someone interested in character design this just immediately stood out #to me #the first time i noticed it was when i first met garte and the second time was when i met ruby because neither are conventionally desirable #oh my fucking god the nerds who complain about a woman with a model face having body hair in a video game would perish if they played this #mainstream game/movie studios catering to western masses could never

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yukipri · 10 months ago

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Spar, Alpha-Ø2, Mand’alor the Resurrector.

My take on this super fascinating if somewhat obscure character from Legends! A clone with Jango Fett’s memories, who escaped Kamino to become leader of a faction of Mandalorians.

I’ve been exploring him a lot in my fic, the Prime Override, and I wanted to give him a shot visually. His appearance here is specific to my fic, where his story diverges considerably from Legends, so there are a couple of details that don’t match that of any of the three official illustrations that exist of him. But the changes are intentional! I still hope he’s recognizable 😅

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#YukiPri art #Spar #clone trooper #star wars legends #artists on tumblr #mandalorian #mand'alor #alpha clone trooper #mand'alor the resurrector #thePrimeOverride #eyyy actual new art for once #as of Book 1 of Override/the early war era I've stated in the fic that his armor paint is green & blue #this green & red & gold is more true to his Legends appearance and there'll be an event later on in the fic #where he repaints his armor so that this is his primary final look #Anyway even tho some of his official arts kinda just make him look like a Boba knock off #I tried really REALLY hard to make sure he looks distinct and unique #he and his story deserve it!!

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mearchy · 6 months ago

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You think THIS site and THIS generation have no media literacy? Guys I read a twitter conversation yesterday between middle aged men where among other things they said the fascist allegory in the Star Wars prequels is the Jedi. That the Jedi having a strict code makes them “arguably fascist.” My god. Award for the least media comprehension on God’s green earth goes to cishet boomer sci-fi fans.

#they do this every fucking time like with x-men and orwell too.#i am somewhat jedi critical #but for actual reasons that make sense #and that have more to do with legends content than canon material #and also with wider real world discourses about the role of religious institutions in political bodies #which is not unique to the jedi.#anyway i want to feed these people to giant iguanas genuinely #in the same thread someone else was having a debate about the OT being a vietnam war allegory #like “that can’t be true bc it implies the empire is the US”#like yeah. yeah that’s exactly the ENTIRE point. fucking CHRIST #star wars #star wars discourse #jedi order #prequel trilogy #jedi discourse #mine

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glumspell · 7 months ago

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My biggest hope for the Mighty Nein animated series is that they capture the tone correctly and don't use the same tone for TMN that they used for TLOVM.

I thought the tone in TLOVM was great for Vox Machina, it was littered with Scanlan style adult humor that suited the adult-style comedy/drama very well but I dont think that exact same tone would work well for the Mighty Nein.

Even though TMN had dirty humor, I think it's style of humor was different than TLOVM. Sex scene cut-aways and projectile vomiting, over the top gore and poop humor throwaway gags I don't think would hit the way for TMN as it does in TLOVM even though it exists in TMN.

I think that in the way that TLOVM is framed around Scanlan style humor, I think TMN is framed around Jester humor- which is still dirty, but sillier and a bit more naive and familiar that fits the mature tone of TMN much better than the throwaway humor of TLOVM.

And i'm sure TMN will be gore-y too but sometimes the gore in TLOVM was over the top in a way that detracted from some of the major villain deaths and made them less impactful when compared to some disposable npc whose skull gets exploded in a few scenes prior. What I mean is that I hope it's gore-y where it counts. Like Caleb crushing the guards while storming the sanitarium in rage and vengeance is not as impactful if everyone dies in a similar fashion all the time, if you know what I mean?

#critical role #tmn #tmna #the legends of vox machina #the mighty nein #the mighty nein animated #tlovm #sometimes i feel that too much gore makes characters seem disposable? if that makes sense? like you never get attached to npcs bc it feels #less like characters and more like meat waiting to be torn apart in gruesome ways. Archie had this problem in season 1 I feel.#his sacrifice didn't feel impactful at all. he felt like a throwaway and part of that i feel is because his death didnt feel unique #I think too much gore also starts to feel less realistic in a setting. it feels fine for TLOVM bc I think TLOVM plays with tropes in a way #that works for them and their characters but wont always work for the style of TMN

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najikasunart · 5 months ago

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So if the faefolk can take names and identities, can they take gender? Can they trade them?

Happy pride month yall, I think Hyrule and Legend should trade genders. MtF Legend and FtM Hyrule bonded with fairy magic living their best lives. 🏳️‍⚧️

#linked universe #linkeduniverse #lu legend #lu hyrule #pride month #they’re platonic btw in case that is not apparent #it’s an intimate subject and they’re helping each other through it in their unique ways

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ganondoodle · 1 year ago

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did another rough concept for faron for my comic

design is based on both skyward swords and botws look since they are the same character in my AU, idk if this is the final one; she will show up in chapter 4

basic design, with robe, and one of her being noisy

(comic concept art)

#ganondoodles #zelda #art #tloz #loz #character design #doodles #skyward sword #the legend of zelda #i kinda want the dragons to look like both skysw but also hint at that they are also the dragons in botw just wayyyy evolved/older #while still have it unique looking #and the fact that shes named faron even though thats kinda ... wrong for her element i based that on hylias poor eyesight #so she literally .. accidentally switched two of the names around #also naydra being the one getting corrupted is bc faron was the one thats been against hylias growing affection for demise #and she really does hate him #so shes more susceptible to malice corruption #even if in botw she is a mere ethereal spirit and theres really nothing of her character left from the time this comic takes place #even if it doesn matter in the story that that happens in botw- it is where i got the idea from #plus shes kinda rude in skysw anyway lol

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cataclysmicamomile · 8 months ago

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I didn't know Unique Legend had a colored manhua. I bought a few volumes of the physical manhua, but those weren't colored. Although it stopped updating in 2020, there's like 70 chapters of it free on kuaikan. Definitely going to read it after catching up to the books. It'll be fun to compare it with the old version of Unique Legend that got discontinued and see how much Honglin's art has improved throughout the years...

#the unique legend

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the-phantom-peach · 6 months ago

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What’s ur favorite dungeon in any loz game?

You already knooooowwww