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Multifandom reblogs included here! Spoilers at your own risk; I do NOT include spoiler tags! (Hollow Knight, Sky: CotL, Legend of Zelda, the Owl House, Gravity Falls, UTdr) (other fandoms too, but limited to light references).
some tags included below! TIL there is a 30-tag limit
rule one of being a trans man: you’re always the sexiest and coolest motherfucker in the room
rule two of being a trans man: don’t trust hairdressers.
I need to prove a point.
Like if your definition of “Spork” is this:
Reblog if your definition of “Spork” is this:
im still pissed off about シ and ツ
I don’t シ whaツ bad about this?
im going to stab you in the face
ソン of a—
There’s really ノ need to get ソ worked up over something as miンor as this!
ワt the フck is going on
this is my worst nightmare.
Oケ guys let’s chill out, it クld be a lot worse.
I can’t speak for every screen reader, but if you listen to this post on VoiceOver it reads almost perfectly.
For those without a screen reader that transitions between English and Japanese so easily (or sight readers who can’t read Japanese): the symbols are Japanese Katakana. Each symbol represents a phonetic syllable. The entire post is just making puns with that, except for the first post, which is just OP being upset that [shi] and [tsu] look so similar.
This isn’t really a plain language transcription, but more of…a sort of translation?
i think we should all go back to carrying cheap little plastic mp3 players that look strangely edible and only hold like 200 songs
listening to unwritten just as natasha bedingfield intended
And I do! Owning a dedicated music player isn't a strange ironic joke, it's a perfectly reasonable thing to do in a world where companies want to lock you into smartphone streaming platforms where they can push AI-generated music at you and take away digital files you ostensibly "own" at any time. Also, these days it's impossible to buy a mobile phone that doesn't weigh 100 pounds and require larger-than-average pockets just to carry it around.
My sandisk clip! This brand has players 8GB-32GB, and there's also a line of them that has Bluetooth if you prefer wireless headphones. As the name suggests, it has a clip on the back to attach to your clothes, so it's perfect for working out if your gym clothes don't necessarily have pockets. It also has an FM radio chip, so as long as the wired headphones are connected (they act as the antenna) you can listen to the radio as well. (Access to FM radio is a basic safety feature in a world where severe weather is more and more likely to knock out cell networks! Many non-Apple smartphones actually do have this feature, they just don't advertise it because ew, who would want to let people listen to music for free broadcasted from and for their local community, when predatory monopolies of algo-generated junk music are right there?)
i believe in 'i made a thing' superiority over 'i made content'
i think everyone needs to get into wildlife identification it's like a minigame for real life
maybe this is a kind of obvious answer but can you talk about the symbolism of the silent princess flower in botw?
YEAH. i can <3 <3 <3 <3
so the silent princess. this flower which is so pervasive as a symbol throughout this game. most of what we are told about it comes directly from zelda in the memory where she talks about it. in the english version of the game, she says "This one here is called the silent princess. It's a rare, endangered species. Despite our efforts, we can't get them to grow domestically yet. The princess can only thrive out here in the wild. All that we can hope... is that the species will be strong enough to prosper, on its own." in japanese, she (more or less) says, "this is... it's called the silent princess, and it's an endangered flower. I started artificial cultivation [of the silent princess] a while ago, but it's not going well. it's... a princess that might become extinct." that discrepancy is interesting, i think, with the english version being altered to give zelda a slightly more hopeful outlook on the fate of the flower, musing about its potential for survival instead of thinking more negatively about the prospect of its extinction.
So. the flower's actual symbolism. It's honestly kind of heavyhanded imo, but sometimes a heavyhanded symbol still works really well. consider the flower's name, the "silent princess." consider, then, the two characters who are most obviously tied to it--zelda, the princess, who is actually named in the flower's compendium description, and link, the silent knight who seems to find the flower at every important location throughout his journey. On a certain level, the flower is representative of these characters, hence why its name evokes aspects of both of them. more specifically, though, the flower is representative of the internal struggle these two characters undergo as pieces of the bigger puzzle that is the calamity.
both zelda and link suffer "in captivity" as zelda puts it--they find themselves struggling under the weight of their destinies, zelda unable to perform to the standards of her father, link terrified to fall short of the kingdom's expectations. neither of them are able to reach their full potential when "cultivated artificially" as it were; link is mute and subdued, never showing even the slightest hint of his true personality underneath the hardened exterior, and zelda is frustrated and depressed, convinced she will never be enough to win the love and praise of her father. On a certain level, being "cultivated in captivity," being forced to live under careful observation, with a clear purpose and clear, unshakeable expectations, killed both link and zelda. link literally died at the hands of the calamity, and zelda killed her adventurous spirit and scientific curiosity in an attempt to conform to her father's expectations. when zelda, in the japanese version of the game, muses that the princess may be destined to become extinct, she is expressing kinship with the flower, believing that she, too, has no meaningful future since she can't conform to the expectations her father and her kingdom have for her. She essentially feels that if she can't be useful "in captivity" there is no way for her to live in this world, and that the only other option is "extinction."
Her more optimistic english monologue, however, is closer to the truth of the silent princess's resilience. While we know that the princess was in dire straits a hundred years ago, post-calamity hyrule sees many of the flowers taking root, often in places that were once highly-populated but have since been abandoned. what we find in a post-calamity landscape is that the silent princess, once thought to be unsavable, is THRIVING in this new world, having been released from the expectations and interference of the people trying to cultivate it. Again, this is symbolic of link and zelda: in a post-calamity landscape, we see link begin to find his voice. we see his personality begin to return--he cracks jokes, he laughs, he cooks, he takes photos, he makes connections, he buys a house and decorates it. He thrives in a world where he is not confined by the pressure to be perfect, to grow in the way that others expect of him. the silent princess can't grow in captivity, but it CAN thrive in the wild, free of outside influence, allowed to just BE.
Also worth noting that there's a side quest in botw which involves a legend that if you swear your love on a freshly-picked silent princess, you and your partner will "live a charmed life." there's definitely something to be said about The Zelink Flower being the subject of a romantic legend. but that's not actually the point of this post. anyway
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#i can't remember if it's ACTUALLY implied in game or not but i always thought that that legend was probably why the princess was endangered
#in the first place. too many people picking it to try and make their love last
#which says something about the way love can hurt i think. especially potent a la zelda and her father
#because you know he didn't MEAN to hurt her. he loved her. but he wanted her in captivity and she couldn't grow there
#anyway. yeah. breath of the fucking. wild. agh
is this trying to imply that gay and transgender people didn't exist until after the ps2
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It’s never a good time for any app to replicate Twitter but I find it especially mind-boggling that Tumblr and fucking Discord are backpedalling on all of their unique and good features in order to become a clone of a website that is actively losing money and most of their userbase.
Discord is especially egregious considering that it’s NOT EVEN A FUCKING SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITE. IT’S A GODDAMN MESSAGING APP. It’d be like if whatsapp decided to recommend other family group chats for you via an algorithm
Now that the desktop dashboard change has come into effect, I’m bringing this back.
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Op you're not looking very well
Doing lines of OP off my cellphone screen in the restroom.
As an anthropologist let me tell you this post would pull serious numbers at the forensic conferences.
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hornet!
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would you put a discarded fruit sticker on my forehead in whimsical jest yes or no
reblog to put a discarded fruit sticker on the forehead of the person you reblogged from in whimsical jest
The long awaited results of the survey. Sorry it took me forever, making graphs is hard.
There were 452 responses to the survey as a whole, which is almost double what we got last year, so thank you to everyone who participated!
If you want to see the raw data, you can find that here. I had thoughts about the data, but compiling that into another post would be too much of a hassle. Feel free to send me asks about it though!
The rest of the post will be under a read more as it it large
loved reading the raw comments :0 people are so nice! someone even left a taco!
If you ever read this, just know that I love you, even if I don't know you, and I hope you have a great day, but more importantly, a great life. Also, I hope you archive everything you want in life, and that you find your so called "home" if you haven't yet (be it with friends, family, by yourself, just whatever makes you happy <3) Have a great day ✨🦆
everyone is so nice to OP :)
The long awaited results of the survey. Sorry it took me forever, making graphs is hard.
There were 452 responses to the survey as a whole, which is almost double what we got last year, so thank you to everyone who participated!
If you want to see the raw data, you can find that here. I had thoughts about the data, but compiling that into another post would be too much of a hassle. Feel free to send me asks about it though!
The rest of the post will be under a read more as it it large
Old Christmas gift for my friend who loves Artemis' design and character in Hades!
“rap is the worst music genre” “no actually it’s soul” “no actually it’s jazz” “no actually it’s ska” “no actually it’s r&b” hey guys do you notice a common denominator in the genres you hate or is it just me
always a red flag when someone openly hates entire genre(s) of music tbh. probable racism aside, it also points towards an overall proclivity for prejudice and close-mindedness.
you can certainly dislike the sound of a particular instrument/synth/sfx/voice, or have an aversion to heavy treble/bass or tempo/volume that's too intense or laidback, or feel that certain keys/modes or lyrical subjects don't suit your personal life situation or daily listening habits.
but, music genres are massive, varied, abstract categories, with lots of overlap and gray area between them. it's impossible for any one aspect — the specific cause of your dismay or discomfort — to apply to every single piece of music within any one genre. you might not like it, but do you truly hate it? all of it? even when your avoidance of it means that you probably haven't experienced anything beyond stereotypes and memes?
and if you can't even name what the specific thing is that you hate about a genre? naivety. ignorance. pure foolishness. condemnation in the absence of introspection is the mark of an accomplice to oppression.
“Vampires can’t enter your house without being invited!” you yell. The shadowy figure steps through the busted door, holding a search warrant. “True.”
I stare at the search warrant in his slender, white hand. I look back up at his face. He’s smiling at me now, his canines gleaming in the dim room. His brass badge gleams too.
“You finished cop school pretty fast,” I say. Stall him, I tell myself.
“That’s the beauty of it, isn’t it? So few requirements and regulations to impede me.”
He speaks with the languid drawl of a predator that’s already caught its prey. From the way his pupils dilate, I know he hears my quickening heartbeat.
Don’t scream. Not yet.
I swallow hard. “Beautiful or not, I didn’t write that,” I say, pointing at the search warrant. “It’s not my invitation.”
He folds his hands behind his back, the warrant crinkling. “Well, now. The stories only say I need an invitation.”
I take a step back. “What about the stories showing people saying ‘no’ at the door?”
“Eh.” He takes a step after me. “Artistic interpretation is so variable. Besides, this place isn’t yours. It belongs to your landlord, who was very understanding.”
Fucking Jim.
“rap is the worst music genre” “no actually it’s soul” “no actually it’s jazz” “no actually it’s ska” “no actually it’s r&b” hey guys do you notice a common denominator in the genres you hate or is it just me
genres people have said are the worst in response to this (including the deleted comment section)
funk, house, reggae, disco, gospel, bluesgrass, dubstep, country.
introspection done: zero
:(
All know the worst genre is Hillsong worship
i got a preowned copy of pokemon sapphire, so i snooped around in the game a little bit, and the only pokemon they had left was a magikarp with this letter attached to it:
Pokemon Heritage Post
Letter says “HAHAHA HAHAHA NO POKéMON FOR YOU (Zigzagoon Head) From Nikki
