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Making long-form webcomics is like

#me with thralls right now #you won't believe the shit that happens in episode 6 lol + etc #(yeah I told you the scope was *bad*)

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Tfw you're transported to the alternate universe where everything is a metaphor for your complicated relationship with what it means to be grown up

#majora's mask #link #tingle #kafei #DAMN that's good #no yeah I completely see your vision #link truly going through it in termina

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Ok so here's my thoughts.

Arguments for why he would be sheikah:

He's the gravekeeper, has a strong connection to the dead, lives and thrives among the graves, does keep to himself. Becomes a ghost himself. Lives in Kakariko, and then haunts Kakariko.

This is more questionable, but I feel like "Dampé" and "Impa" have similar phonetic sounds and underpinning logic, the inflexion is in the exact same place, and I think he's also the only OoT Zelda character with an accent in its name in the English translation? Impa doesn't, but the "é" does seem to fall sliightly outside of hylian naming conventions, unless I'm forgetting someone and if that's the case I look stupid now.

There's literally a sheikah symbol in his house I think? In his diary?

Arguments for why he wouldn't be sheikah (so hylian):

Impa being among the last sheikahs and sheikahs being gone (and potentially dead) is a huge part of her characterization, and it would be weird for people not to mention Dampé is there also.

He doesn't seem to have red eyes. To me that's kind of the biggest tell.

He seems to be pretty much kept apart, and if Impa is technically the head of the village, I feel like there should be bigger connexions between them? (unless. Look I have bigger headcanons about Kakariko's history but these are my mad ramblings and nothing canon so let's ignore that)

He doesn't seem to have any involvement with the more spiritual tasks that Impa seem to be responsible for, aka sealing angry spectres or touching anything related to the Shadow Temple, and seems to be mostly focusing on more mundane tasks (and digging holes into the graveyard for money, which seem... pretty disrepectful if we're being quite honest here? So unless he's the kind of guy who turns his people's own resting/sacred grounds into tourist traps, which, not discounting tbh, it seems to me he lacks some of the depth of the relationship Impa has with the dead)

Which leads me to my personal headcanon that he has sheikah ancestry, and might have been raised here, but might be half-hylian, and so his relationship to gravekeeping is not as strict and ceremonial as Impa's. But it would still explain his name, his job, and maybe his distance with the rest of the village (beyond casual ableism too).

Literally WHO wanted to hear me ramble about my headcanons re: Dampé OoT, I'm not quite sure!! Either way, here they are!!

Ok, weird question.

#thoughts #oot #dampé #sheikah #impa #we speak a lot about kakariko re: the well and the shadow temple #which honestly: very very fair #but I feel like the whole... Impa's relationship to the village and the construction of new buildings and the guards everywhere #(there are TONS of posters featuring guards in the 3DS remake I had forgotten about that) #the fact that people just live in her house no problem in spite of the guard and she's just.... never really there??? #that the more “esoteric” people tend to be pushed to the side in some form (like dampé or granny or even the cursed brothers) #the fact that the first thing you read upon entering the graveyard is that it's the resting place of loyal servants to the royal family #watched over by their servants the sheikah #I don't know this village has veeeery weird vibes even discounting the torture chambers #like what the fuck is going on everybody #what's up #like. it's so weird. I had forgotten how much the game introduce you new races by specifying to you they are loyal to the royal family #as if it's important for you to know their subserviance as a token that you can trust them #I don't knoooow I so extremely don't trust whatever the fuck happened prior to us waltzing in fresh from the forest #(also the son of the carpenter guy??? who ends up committing suicide in the lost woods more or less?) #(after an existence of being disgusted by everything up and including his own parents??) #(yeah I had forgotten a lot of details --it's undeniably a game for children made with game designer brain and fairy tales in mind) #(but the weird detailing of the lore and interplay of things makes the universe so very... yeah almost lynchian. as nintendo wanted.) #(real twin peaks vibes. what the HELL are you all hiding)

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Ok, weird question.

#oot #dampé #sheikah #I revisited Kakariko and I had Thoughts

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Hey, this campaign for evacuating a family from Gaza seems to be having a hard time getting off the ground and the situation of Yousef's family seem to have worsened a lot.

If you could help out in any way to help them leave to Cairo, that would be incredible. 🙏

#palestine

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NOOOO I just replayed OoT for 20mn to check something and I just realized I had my mental plan about which shortcut leads where completely messed up, which destroys my entire military strategy plans for Thralls noooooooooo

#thoughts #thralls of power #yeah it genuinely fucks it all up #I am not quite sure what I will do about this!!!! #I might need to revise my zora subplot entirely to account for this u__u #(but I also returned to Kakariko and picked up on a ton of details I had forgotten this village is SO suspicious for so many reasons) #I thought I was being SO CLEVER

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You need to understand your Ganon edit has been the only thing giving me the strength to power through anything this week, I have a little dancing Ganon in my head at all time and it's all thanks to you, so thank you <3

Aww... well, you're welcome! And I hope everything eases up for you soon, anon! You got this, Ganon believes in you! :3

#ganondorf #🥺🥺🥺 #he believes in me........... #<3

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there is so much intimacy in creating something together

#genuinely my favorite thing to do with people #by a long mile #nothing compares imo #but #it is very hard to do and to sustain #and it's extremely fertile grounds to get really hurt too #(at least for me it's where I'm most vulnerable) #so I have unfortunately gotten veeeery careful about this #(and it's also why I have put upon myself to learn to do everything at a passable level --jack of all trades sort of approach) #(that way if I work with people it's a collaboration but I don't depend on them) #(I think it helps) #also I have learned I can get Too Much about this because it's more important to me than it is to others #and I understand it's not fair to demand people's involvement #and I just had to learn I'm kind of legitimately Built Different in that area #and it's not on other people to adapt to that fact #but I do miss finding a way to work with people that is all of the good parts of creation without the more toxic parts #which is why I wanted voice actors for thralls :( #but everyone who knows me told me to be soo careful because I would for sure have issues and get frustrated #and I think they were correct #but I do miss collaboration yeah

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I have friends at Indiana University and they've been saying there are snipers on IU Bloomington campus. And theres a bunch of cops everywhere. This is wild.

#palestine #us politics #the snipers on the roof are another level #but we all live in wonderful western democracy don't we

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I love every version of Ganon, let's be real.

But the edits where he has brown skin over green skin? They fuck me up in the best way

#ganondorf #yeah the spinach smoothie look was a weird decision #he had a greenish hue ar worst and an olive tone at best before #except for that insanely weird oot figurine where he was??? almost blue??? so pale that he looked like he was made of yogurt??

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Well, the good news is that my computer got fixed so it’s not constantly freezing anymore. 

The bad news is that all my nice custom photoshop brushes got destroyed so now I’m back to the factory defaults.

(But thank God I still have you, Rubber Ducky Brush. So long as I have you, everything will be GREAT.)

(╯꒪Д꒪）╯︵ ┻━┻

#ganondorf #CRYINg

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Hey guys, I have a priority fundraiser rotation for you:

Fadi & Shahed: 2,044 USD out of 62.5k

Sana'a & Sujood: 12,016 £ out of 50k

Mahmoud Qassas: 9,994$ out of 200k

Ezzideen Shehab: 10,296€ out of 32.5k.

Hussam Aburamadan: 16,374€ out of 148k.

Hamdi Hijazi: 1,511$ out of 25k.

Suheir Hojok: 16,897 AUD out of 70k.

Madleen Abu Jayyab: 29,005$ out of 70k.

I have personally verified every one of these campaigns listed here.

As Mona's campaign nears completion I'm preparing for you this list so we can show these families the same amazing and unbelievable support we showed Mona and her family. The invasion of Rafah grows nearer everyday. Please understand the urgency of this campaign.

Version date: April 25th 2024.

#palestine

[rawliverandgoronspice]

#master kohga #incredibly huggable man imo #he can get a peck on the cheek as well <3 #marrying him is brave tho I wouldn't do that personally #also he is obviously unkillable #far too goofy to die #he ascended from normal physics and entered the world of cartoon physics --making him untouchable #ganondorf should look into that method of immortality honestly

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Ðæmon King

#ganondorf #so pretty!!!!! #love the detail of the scar #and always very partial to ganondorf with a braid #gorgeous art

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#I immediately knew it wasn't true because it wasn't announced using destiel...........

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words pale to express how much I hate macron at this point

#thoughts #my grandmother was sent home with an unexamined broken bone #because she is old so not a priority and the public services are fucking drowning #then obviously she fell again and broke two more and got open wounds #then she was taken in and stored in a *corridor* for days #and the operation on her shoulder is being stalled because they have zero openings #AND THIS BITCH is out there speaking of cutting 10 billion more funding for hospitals #you are selling us to private US interests like there is no tomorrow #forbidding us from protesting for our rights and maiming and killing your own citizen when we try #gassing up the far right to try and win by comparaison EVEN THOUGH you do the EXACT same thing as them AND criminalizing the left #pussying out of saying you 100% support Israel when this is actually what's happening because you're a coward #AND prepping us for a war with russia that I'm fairly sure has nothing to do with genuine solidarity with ukraine #but far more with the european political chessboard and your own mark upon history because that's the kind of person you are #and doing your little ego parade for the olympics as though this should in any way shape of form be the priority right now??? #as if it's not unbelievably dangerous given the current state of the world?? #I want to eat a wall every time I see him on my screen #I am. very angry about many things at the moment. :)

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People so badly want to convince others that those that think that OoT is a good game are looking at it through nostalgia-tinted glasses. To be honest this is so untrue; I replayed the game recently and it is legitimately a good game. People still play it today for the first time and enjoy their playthrough. Even those that want to weakly argue that it has “dated elements” well, what does that mean? It’s a game from 1998 so of course it won’t look or feel like a modern game but is it so difficult to handle that you feel its “age”?

OoT is over 25 years old and still not only remains playable but also enjoyable. It revolutionized the game industry. You don’t have to be that much of a hater; just accept that it is an excellent game that is standing the test of time.

#oot #yes!!! #yeah it's the same for mm's honestly #I have some trouble with the ds remake --even moreso than with OoT #because I feel like adding polygons hurt the mood on occasion #the ambiguity of characters' expression specifically #just take the moon: I think it's wayy less uncanny in the ds remake #there I understand it's an angry face #meanwhile in the original... what is this emotion? is this pain? is this hatred? is this glee?