#when will i be free

[falintome]

My mind immediately went to them

[fortjester]

forgiveness in the locked tomb series (redux!)

[yamujiburo]

Is jessie aged up isnt she like 15 in canon?

she's always been 25

required reading:

[thatseadog]

I said one word...

[its-toki-anmei]

They're going on a date <3333 (neither of them is calling it that). Also Albedo is like dangerously close to being late but it should be fine

[ganondoodle]

just saw more on twitter about the stupid book and apparently theres a "timeline update" and supposedly hylia made the stupid magic pebbles

yeah sure, say whatever you want, theres no saving this shit anymore, lore down the drain yeehaaawww

one of my biggest fears before totk came out was that it would screw not only botw lore up but also mess with existing lore, and i hate to be right on that part, id much prefer if theyd leave whatever shit they invent as being something new and not something that has "totally always existed", they clearly dont care about lore consistency, why do they keep trying to connect things afterwards anyway

....... if im being honest, i was surprised but glad that the game didnt actually end up killing my passion for the franchise even if it made me struggle for a good while

but

the stupid book might. and im being serious.

i really just want to throw everything zelda related i ever made or bought away right now, it will only get worse from here and the sooner i can stop caring the better

"that sounds unhealthy" oh you dont say?? i am mentally ill, in fact, the passion that an obsession like that brings with it can turn into some really ugly distress, i am aware of it, i do fucking wish i could just stop caring about lore and timelines and find something else, but i cant, thats not how this works, just bc i am aware of how stupid this is doesnt mean i can change anything about it, i feel what i feel

[grechsblog]

Summary:

and (for the first time in your memory for the first time in your life for the first time in history for the first time the eternal silence that stretched forever) [THE UNIVERSE] (took a breath that spasmed around the stats the dust the world the very atom of every being frozen and moving and remembered and forgotten an d -) replied.

dedicated to this ask specifically because when i say that i Will Not Do The Thing i apparently always LIE. and have like -5 self control

[fifteenloove]

Just woke up and there's a new Jannik controversy on twitter, God gives his toughest battles to his bravest soldiers (sinneristas)

[tamlindudley]

I sometimes remember how Tamlin got tired from just reducing the size of the table that one time, but he over and over went to kill all kinds of horrible monsters which were coming to Spring like, imagine how much it weakened him. But he did it all he could to keep his people safe. And people have the audacity to say Tamlin did “nothing” utm. If there was ANYTHING ELSE that could be done, he fucking would have.

[ace-dodo]

Me resisting the urge to cosplay max goof

[iersei]

you've heard of oakworthy as the lovers (reversed) now get ready for them as the lovers (remixed)

[wasuniquewas]

thinking about kevjeandreil again

[saph-yells-into-the-void]

this series is trying way too hard to fujobait me lol

(why is it working why is it working why is it working why is it

[harpieisthecarpie]

hey, thanks for your addition to my post. i really loved what you wrote, and as an allo, it all rang true to me. the bit about romance vs erotica was also a new way to look at it that i’m still thinking about.

Oh Im so glad it resonated! Sorry for the very very long tangent in the reblogs, but I noticed my mutual peer reviewed my original tags in my rambliest moment of the day

And your post seemed to be primarily jokey, but it touched upon an attitude among fic writers that I think has surged a lot in the past however many years!

Im really fascinated by it, and how tropes in fanworks reflect on broader fanculture. I just wish that fic writers (and their readers) would give themselves more leeway to explore imperfection without feeling the need to soften, solve, or explain it.

There is so much to learn from stories, including fanfiction. But sometimes the lesson isn't a moral one, or it is but it holds a morality we don't agree with. Even then, we learn something about ourselves and the writer and how to evaluate texts.

But there's a secret other thing we can learn from beach reads, dark romance, fic, and erotica: sometimes we learn nothing substantial at all because that wasn't the point.

Reading a toxic relationship for enjoyment while thinking "man if someone pulled this shit with me I'd kick their ass" is a time honored tradition! Something can be "hot" in a fantasy (ie BDSM scene, erotica) while being 100,000 red flags irl.

A novel titled "My Tormentor, My LOVER" with a very shirtless man on the cover, and a fic with 25 sex-related tags both have many indicators of being fantastical, of being a scene. You just have to know what those indicators look like.

Honestly I think we don't give enough credit to genres like these because of their target audiences. Like, primarily cis-dude oriented spy thrillers don't get grilled nearly as much for their horrible sex scenes!

They'll be made fun of, for sure, but there's a level of internal monitoring (and enforcing) in romance novel and fanfiction circles that just does not exist with dude lit.

Cis women and queer people are treated as both more impressionable AND more responsible than cis men, at least with their reading habits. It's an echo of "boys will be boys" and the slut/madonna dichotomy that has become self-perpetuating in writer-reader circles.

Even when we aren't cis women, or women at all, minorities (and spaces where we congregate) still must "hold ourselves to a higher standard". But that's another debate, I'm way off topic.

Re: the erotica discussion, in Savy's video she was specifically talking about how a lot of Colleen Hoover's works are mislabelled romance when they should be erotica, because her sex scenes treat what are definitely kinks as realistic vanilla sex.

It jars the reader from their immersion, because the novel had heretofore shown no indicators of having those kinks in it. (Except for it being a CoHo book). Not in the description, its marketing, or a content warnings page of the book was Savy made aware these kinks would occur and be treated as normal.

Even just the label "erotica" would have given her more of a heads up! But without any of that, she lacked the informed consent necessary for her to take the scene as the fantasy it is. Leading her to enjoying the whole book a lot less!!

Basically, its about genre expectations and tonal shifts.

If I blind watched the Blair Witch Project because it was advertised only as "a fun parody of ghost hunter documentaries with super relatable main characters" I would brawl a producer for my money back.

If I'm not expecting horror, if I'm not informed of jumpscares, a movie I would have loved has now been made awful and upsetting. I wasn't able to adjust my expectations or be in the correct headspace.

That's what's important about labelling for tone, and why the destigmatization of works called "erotica" would help everyone :D

Oh it's so late and I was rambling again ;---; I had more to say about metatextuality and how being informed of a fantastical scene allows for a safe place to explore what might be unsafe irl. But I have this chocolate to eat

Thanks for liking my og reblog! You have succeeded in feeding 2 Harp rambles!! Redeemable at your local Chester Eustace Cheese

[bookinit02]

i love when i’m so anxious i can’t even complete basic tasks because i keep zoning out and being overwhelmed by the Underlying Dread👍🏼

[chkn-kit]

I painted over a piece I did back in April cause looking back on it, I felt like I left it unfinished. I'm not entirely sure if I like it or hate it, but it's definitely better than before GKDSFJFGKJ

Anyway, it's also an excuse to post more Toya so-