link's face before eating dubious food is so funny to me
he hasn't even tasted it yet he's just bracing himself for it
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5/9/2023
I do genuinely believe that the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (and arguably the Zelda franchise as a whole, though i myself have played literally none of these games) is closer to fitting the description of ‘Tolkien-esque Fantasy’ than most other movies/shows/games/books etc that claim that label
Like, compare this post by tumblr user wufflesvetinari, which makes an important point about Tolkien’s worldbuilding, and also lives in my head rent free:
and then these quotes from Jacob Geller’s “Every Zelda is the Darkest Zelda”
and his conclusions about the messages in Zelda games are thematically very similar to the through-lines about friendship and love in LOTR, and what a lot of authors miss about what makes a fantasy story personal and memorable:
“A world without joy and humor isn’t a compelling world to fight for” is exactly why there are so many pieces of fantasy media out there that just feel like carbon copies of each other (i’ve seen many posts that explain this better than I can though I can’t find any specific ones at the moment, just know that I didn’t invent this thesis). You’ve got the cool swords, you’ve got the wizards and the spells and the battles, but first and foremost you need the LOVE.
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One Piece is so fucking funny cause imagine you’re trying to escape a massive prison in the middle of the sea and then you just randomly stumble a lgbt safe hideaout with Dr. Frank-N-Furter giving free hormonal therapy to anyone in need while in the middle of a stage performance and that’s like only the 4th weirdest thing you find in said prison
I think my favorite bit i do with customers is when white women are like ‘i dont know what to getttttt’ and i hit them with the ‘you should be bad~ 😈’
Saying ‘you should be bad!!’ In like Gay Voice to a white woman at starbucks has like the same psychological impact as going like ‘who’s a good boy?’ To a dog. It makes them so excited in a really endearing way.
it feels strange to me now that undertale garnered such a reputation for being edgy due to fan interpretations when the game itself is just SO earnest and sentimental that it hurts. like, it's a game about connection and friendship and love and it's so forward with that message that it gets silly with it, but that's just because it really really wants you to care. it's the least cynical game i've ever seen, even on it's worst routes
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you guys are SO right
Speedrunners have ruined their entire speedruns of Undertale last second because they chose to hug Asriel at the end. The game is so impactful that even speedrunners, understandably disregarding everything about the game except for what they need to memorize in order to get the fastest time for their sport, have seen Asriel and couldn't help but let him know in his last moments that they forgive him.
having thoughts about a media that my friends aren’t into and thus would need the context of to understand my- AAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAH NOT THE HAWK WOUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
One important thing that you should do as a queer person is to find another queer person whose brain works just like yours (romantically or not) and then adopt a cat together and then finally steal that fucking Pikachu and make it big
He just can't stand by and watch...
Bonus:
100% Nintendo verified canon: the entirety of Zelda's extensive emotional damage from Rhoam's shitty parenting was undone by this single extremely dad reaction from Rauru
Ok but I love that in botw Link was alone, like very alone in a big world full of ruins and dwindling societies. And NOW in totk it's shown that he won't be alone at all, he's got the new champions and all the people he's met on his journey have got his back too. That's just so wholesome to me. It's very literally everyone going "you helped us and saved Hyrule, now it's our turn to help you". I'm in tears.
