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Me requesting time off: oh my god my boss is going to hate me i am causing so much trouble i hope this is okay

Me approving my team’s time off requests: this affects me zero. go, be free.

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Me: I have taken a lot of time off this year I hope it’s okay

My boss: hey I saw you haven’t used much time off this year find some long weekends to take or something

#personal#I have unlimited time now so I can take whatever time within reason but no concept of what’s within reason#and I find it hilarious that my boss is like. no go away more#I never learn I swear
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I love Zelda theories and lore but I wish more people acknowledged that

1. Skyward Sword shows that it's perfectly fine for the same person to exist twice in a time due to time travel since both Zelda and Impa do, and

2. Ocarina of Time's time travel is a really interesting and weird form of time travel because it's only Link's consciousness traveling between time periods and that's totally different than other forms of time travel in the series

#tloz#the legend of zelda#(mild totk spoiler in next tag)#everytime I see someone say there's a paradox now because Zelda and the Master Sword existed twice for a time I'm like there's not??#I know that's the common idea of how time travel works but the games established that it doesn't really have an impact in-universe#also I really think Zelda didn't change anything by going into the past and had always gone into the past#I think it could have been interesting if her going changed things! but I don't think the game points to that
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I really love the Lurelin side adventure in ToTK, but it must be so bittersweet for Link to be recognized as the village’s hero and have everyone treat him so warmly when he died defending Hateno, his (implied) hometown, and he’ll never be anything more than a stranger there, especially since his house (which I always assumed was his family home before the Calamity) is only referred to as Zelda’s by the villagers

#totk#tears of the kingdom#I still headcanon that Link and Zelda went to Fort Hateno instead of Akkala citadel or the great plateau or anywhere else#because if they got to try and save one thing link wanted it to be his home#and now no one knows it was him and I don’t think he necessarily minds that part#but with all the time that passed he’s always going to be an outside now and that must be hard#maybe that’s why he left#even outside of not shipping Zelink I really don’t think the game suggests they both live there#totk spoilers#tears of the kindom spoilers
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Maybe my hottest ToTK take is that I think, keeping all the gameplay mechanics the same, it would have worked better as a low stakes game with the goals of helping Hyrule rebuild and investigating Zonai ruins, with the later triggering the appearance of the Sky Islands and the depths as well as granting Link (or Zelda, there's zero reason Zelda can't be playable) Ultrahand and the other abilities (which in turn are super helpful for rebuilding!)

You can even keep most of the Regional Phenomenon without changes, either as things caused by the Sky Islands' emergence or frame it as the monsters' final attempts to maintain control after the Calamity's defeat.

There just wouldn't be Ganondorf waiting in a hole the whole game and Zelda wouldn't have been lost in the past. There wouldn't be really urgent things you should be doing instead of exploring or helping the towns, that would be the whole point. Just Link and/or Zelda making discoveries and helping people.

#tears of the kingdom#totk#I think there could even still be a final boss if you think there'd need to be#honestly I've seen people talk about ways Dark Link could have fit in and I think something along those lines would be really cool#not necessarily actually Dark Link but some manifestation of Link and Zelda's fears that the peace they've helped achieved isn't real#because they haven't actually achieved peace for themselves until they can face that fear#and manifesting that as Dark Link/Zelda or something similar would be a way to make it work in the game
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I made this post about changing ToTK's story to (in part) have Sonia and Rauru be Link's ancestors before I saw the Ancient Hero's Aspect and now that I got it in the game can I just say. What the fuck. Clearly the hero of the Calamity legend was part Zonai, the aspect pretty closely matches the tapestry, so WHY is Zelda their descendant instead of Link?? The princess in the tapestry is visually indistinct from any Hylian Zelda, clearly she was not part Zonai while the hero was, and yet?? The royal family are supposed to be the ones with Zonai blood??

#tears of the kingdom#tears of the kindom spoilers#totk#totk spoilers#tloz#the legend of zelda#also if they had a design already for a part zonai character why did they never show Sonia and Rauru's kid??#If they were Link's ancestors instead I think having their kid be the young version of the hero's aspect would be absolutely killer#imagine you saw in the tear memories a little goaty kid with red hair and then like 50-100 hours later you get the hero's aspect#and it's just that kid grown up. that cute little kid you saw faced nearly the same horrors as this Link
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TOTK is so great but its story mostly doesn’t hit for me so

THINGS I WOULD CHANGE (major spoilers ahead)

  • Sonia purposely reaches through time for help against Ganondorf and that’s how Zelda ends up specifically in their time
  • Rather than being the first king and queen of Hyrule, Rauru and Sonia are the Zonai rulers in an unspecified past era prior to the 10,000 years ago of the Calamity legend
  • Also, instead of being Zelda’s ancestors, they are Link’s
  • BULLET TIME IS CLEARLY A TIME POWER, ZELDA DIDN’T HAVE TIME POWERS IN BOTW
  • BotW/TotK Link is more than just an ordinary dude but there’s no sign he’s chosen by the goddesses like in some other games so why not say he’d descended from the Zonai and a magical monster fucker with time powers
  • This also makes more sense why they think Zelda could make a difference, because her powers wouldn’t just be copies of Rauru and Sonia’s 
  • I think also it would be cool to have her be the Sage of Light while Rauru is the royalty/leader of the sages, basically a role swap from Ocarina of Time
  • Ganondorf (implied to have been resurrected rather than born into the Gerudo as a new man) originally wanted to ally with the Zonai against Hyrule 
  • Rather than being with the Gerudo, he’s with the beginnings of the Yiga clan (the Yiga are said to have been formed after the first Calamity, but the Shiekah have had a long cycle of being used and then discarded/persecuted by Hyrule’s rulers so I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to have it start before and history has just misattributed it to post-Calamity)
  • Part of Ganondorf’s argument is that the Sheikah of the time are copying Zonai designs and technology for the Hylian Royal Family’s use, and must be stopped (so much was SO similar I really thought it would be addressed)
  • The Royal Family already has the blood of the goddess/Triforce/etc, and still they reach for more
  • Ganondorf blames Sonia, as she is Rauru’s Hylian wife, for the refusal, which is why he targets her specifically
  • But the Zonai are a fading people, and even if they had the strength and numbers to stand against Hyrule Kingdom, the Sheikah using their technology and building on it is a way their work can survive after they’re gone, and they bear no ill will towards Hyrule
  • I wish I could have Sonia not die because I love her but that part of the story and the Light Dragon stuff are both solid
  • BUT before shit starts going down WE SEE HER AND RAURU’S KID. They clearly have one and I’m mad we didn’t see it, why will Nintendo not show us characters’ kids (yes I am still mad Age of Calamity didn’t address if Urbosa had a child/heir) 
  • Bonus points if the kid like, accidentally enters bullet time while playing around and that’s how Zelda starts putting together that she’s with Link’s ancestors
  • From there the past mostly unfolds the same as in-game, but maybe with a little more individuality from the sages so the moment when they see Zelda fly off as the Light Dragon hits a little harder
  • Rauru’s final lines about Link also then will have the weight of knowing Link is his descendant, Ganondorf has failed in eliminating their future
  • The present is mostly the same as well, except Link gains recall from a tear Zelda hid for him that amplifies the time powers he already has, rather than her giving him her own powers
  • Then in the final fight, once Ganondorf has swallowed the tear, he moves to attack Lookout Landing, and Link does the only thing he can think of to save everyone– he sends Ganon, along with himself and the Light Dragon, back in time
  • The fight progresses as it does in the game, up until Link breaks open the tear on Ganon’s forehead
  • Instead of dying, all Ganon’s malice pours out, coating the dragon and making it near invincible
  • This is the origin of Calamity Ganon
  • But this is not the time of legend, it is before, while the Shiekah have begun their work based on the Zonai designs, they are not prepared for an attack
  • Ganon must be sealed until they are ready, and there’s only one person who can do it
  • Link calls on all the power of the sages through his hand, reaching through time to draw their power and combine it with his own, and uses everything he has to reverse the tear out of Zelda and return her to her original form
  • His magic arm shatters in the process. He does not get his original arm back
  • Zelda seals the Calamity, knowing it’s temporary, knowing that even after everything she’s done, she cannot prevent the tragedies that have already happened. The best they can do is know that they’ve paved the way for their future where he can be fully defeated.
  • We end on her collapsing against Link, silent for a long moment, and then just, “Link, take me home.” 
#tears of the kingdom#totk#totk spoilers#tears of the kindom spoilers#the legend of zelda#tloz#also I'm not a Zelink shipped but why the FUCK did they not hug in the last (not-post credits) scene??#Even if Zelda doesn't remember being the dragon she remembers deciding to sacrifice herself AND ALSO SEEING A WOMAN GET MURDERED#but then she's just like lol I have SUCH a good story to tell you Link#NO!! LET THEM COMFORT EACH OTHER#long post
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Looking through resumes for a position in my team and someone’s email they put is sinful[comic book character][number] and I’m just like. Why would you use that?? Not only is it easy to make a separate email for this type of thing, but you’re an internal candidate so you HAVE A COMPANY EMAIL ADDRESS??

#just make a name email for your resume. please#like I’m still going to interview this person but why.#I know there’s a move away from professionalism as a concept and I think parts of that are good but some things#I think are helpful still
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Keep seeing theories that say this guy must be an enemy or even a boss as though he isn’t perfectly friend shaped, but also

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THIS IS A BROOM HE IS A JANITOR. A SWEET CLEANING ROBOT WHO HAS BEEN LEFT ALONE FOR CENTURIES AFTER THE PEOPLE WHO MADE HIM DIED OUT. HE WILL BE SO HAPPY WHEN LINK COMES BECAUSE NO ONE EVER VISITS THE SKY ISLAND HE WORKS SO HARD TO MAINTAIN. HE JUST WANTS TO HAVE SOME COMPANY AND FOR HIS EFFORTS TO BE APPRECIATED.

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I WAS RIGHT THEY ARE WONDERFUL NEW FRIENDS AND I LOVE THEM

#totk#tears of the kingdom#totk spoilers#tears of the kingdom spoilers#botw2#the legend of zelda#tloz#I love the constructs so much ;_;
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I'll be streaming TotK in a few minutes on Twitch, I imagine no one will watch because everyone is/will want to play it on their own, but I want to capture some of my reactions because I'm so damn excited.

I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S ALMOST HERE