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I’ve decided that my favorite ships are those ones where you don’t care if they’re together romantically or not, as long as they're together. It doesn’t matter if they’re kissing, as long as you know they’ll have each other’s back through everything, and really it’s a stronger bond than if they were banging anyway.  Because it’s all based off of trust and loyalty.

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Wood planing competition for thinnest plane of wood

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having online friends who are busy is just like. I LOVE YOU. I miss you. YOU GOT THIS. I'm giving you space to work. I LOVE YOU.

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Joder que tension

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How am I only just learning this!?

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'somebody loves you,' charles m. schulz, 1996.

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why have i been disgraced

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Ooooooohhhhh 😲😲😲😲

Ooohhh Roski is into shipping??? 😁😁

Letsee.... Link and Zelda?

Okay, I know this is a boring answer. But...

Ship it.

1. What made me ship it... well, I have eyes. And I used those eyes to see the cutscenes that lay out the plot of Ocarina of Time. Even if running highly on implication more than showing everything, the bond the two share is strong enough as to drive the emotional aspect of the game's climax and ending. I didn't even know the word "yearning" back then, but I felt it. The "book ends" moment of that game isn't tied to the Master Sword, or Link waking up or anything like that. No, it's the two of them meeting in Hyrule Castle's garden.

2. What I like about this ship... What's there not to like? You technically get multiple ships for the price of one! With a few exceptions each game has a different incarnation of these characters(as in, they're quite literally different people) and they bring a different dynamic each time. From the knight in shining armor that jumped to the call, to childhood friends everyone is waiting to see eventually make the leap, to the badass girl that recruited the gremlin boy or even a soft version of enemies to lovers. Anyone that has played these games KNOWS which one is which, and that's amazing. With, of course, a few constants. Even if Link is technically a silent protagonist, the little characterization that is clear cut with him is that he would lay his life for her. Every time. No questions asked.

3. An unpopular opinion... Eh, it's honestly a lukewarm take at this point but the idea that some people possit they're destined to be lovers is flat out bullshit. Eat your heart out Hyrule Warriors, never bring your ugly writing into the series again (wait, there's a new upcoming game. SHI-)

For real tho, I find this idea uninteresting. For starters, I don't mind that much scenarios where either of them found love elsewhere, like Link finding a quite life with Malon in Ocarina of Time or Zelda falling for Midna in Twilight Princess(even if that game is PRIME material for an OT3, the two regal princesses that shared a soul through hardship and the country bumpkin hero that stood by them at every step of the way). But more importantly... I think love HAS to be a decision to be meaningful. The two of them being bound to find each other so they can join forces to fight off evil? That's perfectly fine. But if Link and Zelda are predestined lovers and just follow said predestination each time, then what's the point. They may be different takes on the same ship, but every love should matter for a different reason.

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I love writing. The first thing I do when I get up is write, the last thing I do before I go to sleep is write. Between reading horror/fantasy/speculative fiction books, I read books on craft by anyone and everyone. My passions in life are the craft of writing AND storytelling.

Note: those are two different things. Having a story to tell and craft (the way we tell that story).

I am not saying that people who use AI to tell a story don't have a story to tell. They do! But that doesn't make them writers.

We have folktales across every culture about not accepting ourselves for who we are and that way leading to madness. Your version might go a little something like this:

A person who feels different than everyone else wishes to whoever is listening that they wake up beautiful/smart/charming. In the morning they wake to a mirror at the foot of their bed. Their reflection is all of those things! Filled with confidence, they go out into the world but, before meeting anyone, they catch sight of themself in a window. Their reflection normal but (having seen themself in the mirror) they now perceive themself as hideous.

They rush back home to check. In the mirror they're beautiful! What a relief. They stare deeply into the glass. Slowly their hair grows tangled and their clothing ragged. Days and weeks and months pass. They can't do anything without watching themself do it in the mirror. Dishes are done at the sink with the mirror blocking the window they used to love looking at the garden through. They wake with the mirror in bed with them rather than their lover. Etc, etc.

Using generative AI is like that mirror. Surface level, it makes things pretty. It may be entertaining and it may convey the story you want to convey.

But it's not your voice. It's your story, but not your voice. And it will trick you into thinking there is something wrong with your voice, that the way you tell stories is hideous, that you are incapable of the craft of writing. It will lie to you and you will live your whole life feeling disconnected from your own stories because something else is telling them for you.

That's why I'm against AI. Because I love writing. I love the way people tell stories, imperfect or perfect, because it's people telling them. Writers grow and change. Their punctuation choice, their word choice, their choice of form matter to a written story. There is connection in those decisions. A deeper level to a story that AI can never touch, only a person can.

So, please. Give your own voice a chance to grow and be heard.

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Flying is effortless, landing can be a little bit harder, Cornell Lab / DoC (northern royal albatross) (part 1)

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