#twili speaks

[twilight-hills]

Have a Nice Death is getting a physical release with more info and "surprises" coming soon!!

[carouselunique]

Cinch had three charges in her care once, Celestia entrusted her with the day-to-day care of Prince Blueblood, the new Princess Cadence and her student Sunset Shimmer - running a kingdom is difficult enough alone without three young ponies to look after - so when Celestia is absent (often) that means Cinch was in charge of these three ponies. And while the matron of the castle was always rigid about rules and wanted her three charges to uphold her reputation and to build their own budding reputations high, she cared about them very much. You'd have to, spending your time with the same three young ponies for so long, guiding and teaching them to be their best...

By the time Ditzy came into the picture, Cinch was down to two charges. She refused to fail them the way she failed...

Well, with one down, there were two left and she cared so much she wouldn't let anyone ruin them, especially not themselves. Surely they would come to realize Cinch was only helping.

[masescart]

Made my own twili from @/linked-maze (+a ver where i made little notes abt detaild)

[cabeswaterdrowned]

There are really interesting dynamics at play in Adam’s description of Gansey making his apartment seem shabbier by being there and the contrast of Ronan fitting there, it’s a layered outlook he has because it shows how much he idolizes Gansey to a point where even now after realizing a few things about his being more motivated by fear and trauma in a way that’s similar to Adam rather than a total opposite, Adam still sees and conceives of Gansey as grand and beautiful in a way that’s larger than life, that he feels inadequate in comparison to and feels he doesn’t deserve in his life. And when it comes to the reasons his admiration of Gansey manifests in such unhealthy outlooks and feelings towards himself even at this stage after a mini breakthrough, there are the things that Gansey is as a symbol that Adam admires and is infatuated by the charm the beauty the seamless masking the wealth and status, power,polished and princely persona and then there’s also his admiration and love for who Gansey is; kind good brave beautiful loving generous warm complicated intellectual hungry to learn wondrous interesting. He covets and is enamored by both sides, but his love for Gansey as a whole person while real has to exist in this charged hyper-intense space, and is harder to let himself feel and express in vacuums when Gansey is a physical presence in front of him. A lot of that comes from class dynamics and then a lot of it comes from timing, Gansey was Adam’s introduction to and model for love and that’s a huge thing, so in every interaction or beat of their relationship even as the way he sees Gansey evolves and he grows to accept him more as a flawed complicated person, that fifteen year old Adam who stopped at the side of the road wanting to know the beautiful clever impressive boy but fearing cruelty and rejection and not being good enough / being pitiable, but then was shown kindness and curiosity and formed a real connection he still felt undeserving of / didn’t know to trust is So present emotionally even if not intellectually (because Adam is often far more emotionally erratic than he wants to see himself as and that’s the most extreme regarding Gansey, again because it was so formative). Adam’s soft underbelly gets exposed unwillingly in his relationship with Gansey in a way that’s really visceral and even more so because Adam avoids acknowledging / puts up defenses with prey animal anger and fear, and Gansey can’t see that this is the case because he can’t see through those shields and so thinks of Adam as mostly impervious to him when that’s not the case at all.

When Adam is eventually vulnerable with Ronan, it’s a lot more about Adam’s active choice to be that way or at least it is when he eventually gets to accepting his feelings for Ronan which come with accepting his own capacity to love and be loved. And through that he does expose himself to be vulnerable with Ronan in a way he hasn’t been with anyone else ever. Right now he is being vulnerable with Ronan in a way without acknowledging that to himself either, but it’s a vulnerability in terms of allowing himself to seek comfort in that relationship. Which Adam can do because Ronan, despite Adam associating him with danger in a later chapter which I’ll talk about when I get there, is someone Adam can be his unchecked self around and relax around instead of being on edge and self conscious, which is a sign that (at this point td3 is a different story) they can be good together in a way Adam and Gansey can’t. And I do think that the check out counter scene, even with the likelihood it wasn’t Ronan, is on the same level of integral memory to Adam as his first meeting with Gansey, but that boy made Adam want to be like him but wasn’t perceiving him and so Adam wasn’t thinking of how pitiable he was to him in that moment, just the “he had never wanted to be someone else so badly” (like I said previously I think all types of want and desire intersect with jealousy for Adam there’s more on that later, but he wants to take on qualities he loves in everyone he loves, he doesn’t love himself.) And then their friendship developed later on organically without the same level of idolization of it, so I think that’s part of the difference (as well as other things about the perception of Gansey vs Ronan’s wealth and how socialization around their different types of wealth effected them which I will talk more about in a few chapters).

[dawn-the-rithmatist]

ACE HAS SPOKEN, SEE HIM FACE!!

[marysong-mp3]

i am once again thinking about the the way i loved you/midnight rain parallels!!

he is sensible and so incredible, and all my single friends are jealous/i couldn’t ask for anything better/but i miss screaming and fighting and kissing in the rain/he can't see the smile i'm faking cause i'm not feeling anything at all/got away by some mistake -> he wanted it comfortable, i wanted that pain/i broke his heart cause he was nice/he stayed the same, all of me’s changed/i peered through a window, a deep portal, time travel/and the life i gave away

something about how being comfortable in a relationship isn't always enough, but once you leave you, there is always that lingering question of "what if i stayed." even years down the line you can still imagine if you had said yes instead of no, and consider the ways you loved and the ways you could have loved and the ways you love now. how does it change? how does it stay the same? what have you given up? what have you gained? was it worth it?

[lilflowerpot]

perhaps it’s wishful thinking but,,, you’re really going to look at the zonai and cry “ancient sheikah!” when the twili are //right there// as magic users who were shown to have advanced technology (moving platforms / giant hand sentinels / sol spheres) powered by a blue/green energy that much more closely matches that we’ve seen in TotK than anything the ancient sheikah produced?

Zant’s sleeves (and shoes!) have little snake/dragon heads, as does Midna’s headpiece while her skirt has jagged gear-shapes, all of which look an awful lot like TotK’s ouroboros as well as its deity-esque figure! Both Zant & Midna’s masks are very stylistically similar to not only a lot of the zonai carvings we saw in BotW, but the newly revealed constructs too!! The Palace of Twilight itself was a floating island in the sky!!!

[mctwilight-mcd]

GUESS WHO JUST GOT TUMBLR

@agayusernamesblog

This is my gf! She's very new, but she's hereeeeeee!!!!!

I have corrupted her

[weirdgirlzip]

y'all are EATING UP that broppy doodle just wait until you find out the angst i have planned......

[zmeydeva-arch]

zoya basically having to cosplay as hylian when she inevitably strands herself in hyrule is sooo real to ME

[twilight-hills]

JERRY AND HARRIET MOVE OVER

[finnickodaiir]

Society, if we had The Way I Loved You performance on the Fearless Tour in HD....

[masescart]

Scared of twoink

[cabeswaterdrowned]

re: love story that one I can’t really make a specific lyrics based argument for, it’s more that it’s about first love and the narrator thinking of an idealized reality where that story can happen and also their parents don’t approve, Romeo and Juliet reference can speak to a class imbalance if you want it to etc. the rest I could really make a case for and defend

[paddy-nic]

I once started a writing project that was intended to be written in a very loose and almost kid's book-like form (sort of like The Hobbit) about the interconnectivity of Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, and Twilight Princess.

It started with OoT then led into MM, with it culminating to TP being an end result of conjoining the first two tales with some added lore from theories across the web and Hyrule Historia. Following the Hero of Time and his journeys through OoT and MM then as Hero's Shade in TP with the Hero of Twilight, being Time's descendant, taking up the mantle and destroying the evil of Ganon, the bane of Hyrule, and Majora (possibly Zant), as the bane of Termina/the Twili.

I started with added verbiage for a better 'book' setting then worked a word-for-word write up of play throughs of the games....

And that final part is likely why it never got finished as that took way too much time and effort. Would still be cool though...

[dawn-the-rithmatist]

more pictures of the boy… would anyone like to see them