#BUT! WE HAVE NO CONFIRMATION EITHER WAY!

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

assorted scribbles and Love Bites!!!!

#THEYRE IN MY BRAIN THEYRE IN MY BRAIN MY FUCKING GOD THEY'RE IN THERE!!!!! #i want to PUNCH & BITE SOMETHING theyre soooooooo aghh bsdkjcJKDFNJSVDSL #sorry. sorry. look away im losing my Absolute Marbles #they make me so emotional.... #having breathing problems while typing #they Affect Me and Effect Me and Everythingggggggg #literallyyyy FUCK everyone else theyre the only ones who matter #scribble salad #laughingstock #barnaby x howdy #howdy x barnaby #watch barnaby's gonna end up being the token straight- #hes bi In My Heart (until proven otherwise. probably gonna be proven otherwise) #tho man... his pokemon au design is So fruity.... WAIT WHAT EAR WAS THE EARRING IN?! hold on i need to look something up #THE LEFT EAR NOOOOO THAT'S THE STRAIGHT EAR- #again Im Just Joking! Joshing! Jesting! dont take this seriously please dear fucking god dont- #im simply a jester in this giant court. jingling my lil bells and doin a jig #fr tho when i first saw all the neighbors i looked right at barnaby and thought 'ah. thats probably the straight one huh' #BUT! WE HAVE NO CONFIRMATION EITHER WAY! #AND I AM AND ALWAYS WILL BE DELUSIONAL ABOUT LAUGHINGSTOCK! SO!! #straight barnaby can't hurt me he isn't real- #and ofc. howdy has always been so so fruity To Me <3 #idk what it is about him! hes just! i look at him and my entire brain goes 'oh that mf has four limp wrists' #AND TOGETHER THEY ARE THE FLUFFY HUSBANDS!!!! WHO WONT LEAVE ME ALONE!!!

[narwhalandchill]

oh my fucking god i feel. SO stupid rn at How i didnt make the (super sane very normal just absolutely. Yes. Surely) connection earlier but uhh

so anyway im now like 89% certain that whatever the "traces" of the narwhal that remain on ajax and facilitate their (ever-growing) innate connection are like. an actually fundamental aspect of it (them?) more or less.

why? because if you consider its pov just for a moment. the narwhal was literally about to depart teyvat for good. it had nearly finished consuming the primordial sea and preparing to breach surface to finish the job by eating the french for the leftovers their human bodies were made from. its an interstellar voyager it does not linger on planets it devours. it goes glug glug and it leaves.

and like if it wasnt for traveler intervening its confirmed through narzissenkreuz and renes world formula that teyvat wouldve just been destroyed. no one could have stopped the narwhal not neuvillette not focalors not anyone.

so what was the one other thing it did right before going for that french brunch? calling for ajax. getting them reunited in the primordial sea. like all the possible implications aside bc theres many different ways to speculate on the exact reasons why and the nature of that link. the point remains.

it wasnt leaving teyvat without finding him.

like the narwhal is about to fucking Dip from this cringe planet and whatever part of it that ajax carries within himself his narwhal Absolutely wanted to be reunited with. what the fuck am i supposed to read from that. hoyo???????!??! answers?!?!?!

and its not only the calling from the narwhal side itself either bc this is ALL coinciding with the growth of a 'restless power' within ajax and his vision malfunctioning (the things celestia is literally confirmed to harvest energy thru to repair its damaged authority) and his connection with the narwhal reaching an actual conscious level (arguably subconscious n emotional too bc i find it Curious his mood is poor right as the narwhal is repeatedly described as positively malding to the point its boss fight mechanic is literally a rage meter). ajax' power is growing. his destiny is starting to shift and something is drawing him to fontaine... right as the narwhal is getting close to finished with the primordial sea. funny how it overlaps eh. how it aligns 🤨🤨 why are they orbiting each other like this (they should kiss)

(& not to even Mention how ajax just Happened to get that absolutely exponential and borderline unbelievable feat of power spike in extending his foul legacy endurance as massively as he did. while. within the primordial sea. with his narwhal. who had at that point all but incorporated the power of that sea into itself. i s2g if childe was getting passive home turf co-op bonus exp with a 4x multiplier automatically the whole 40+ days 💀💀)

#man the way its lovely reunion but tjen ajax fucking ATTACKS IT ON SIGHT you couldve gotten married!!!!11!1 fucking unbearable i am in agony #anyway contrary to popular belief we still have no fucking clue whether ajax' link to the narwhal was innate #skirk saying the traces remain on him after meeting it isnt saying tht much. the parts he shares w it couldve well been innate but dormant #instead. also just the fact that he woke it up already shady #then like. monoceros caeli being his from the beginning is completely plausible despite ppl acting like its been confirmed his const change #and like them being halves of the same entity on some lvl would make the narwhal being so weak without him n until ajax found it again #make very much. sense. anyway ajax toxicity jokes aside if the narwhal was just trying to eat him point blank without even a hello #i do get why hed react aggressively. but also bros been telling everyone n their mom hes fighting his narwhal the seconf he finds it again😔 #so i feel somewhat confident in assuming he started that 40+ days brawl #anyway if ajax Isnt the celestial narwhal on some level or possibly becoming it as their link grows. #riddle me this atheists. why is his 3rd phase boss theme. the song about His individual murderous rage at us #bc he thought he was outplayed by us. His personal wrath #whys the song for that called the wrath of the celestial narwhal. of the star swallowing whale. Hmmmge. his individual rage. #why does tusk of monoceros caeli speak of him embracing the narwhals innate qualities as embracing mere parts of Himself #funny how tjat goes!! (the OST n boss drop is not 100% serious theory but it does drive me insane. bc why would they phrase it like that) #anyway either theyre 2 halves same original entity or theyre soulmates idgaf . they should fold teyvat in half and eat it for brunch #aaand im going to be consumed by this realization for the next month wish me luck #WHY DID IT NEED HIM THERE SO BADLY???? HUH?????? #i mean relatable dont we all. but its sooooooooo inch resting. Curious indeed #rambles #genshin #childeposting #childe

[andoutofharm]

all of us tonight if heychris is the only streamer

#NOTHING is confirmed either way ok we could have many we could have 0 #but chris is the only one so far who has emerged as a potential streamer and. Funnie ok #fob

[problemswithbooks]

With the tentative and rough translations out, i have to say, yeah, Hori really doesn't get what he's actually writing and if he was trying to make Toga's entire deal a metaphor for queerness, he's ended up being quite offensive.

Like first off it seems he has Toga say she falls in love easily with boy and girls and...animals. Which, I always felt the bird thing as a kid could have negative connotations, but wrote it off as 'she was a little kid and this was before her desire for blood was wrapped up in her romantic feelings' type things. So having Hori reinstate that yes, she does still love animals to the point of blood drinking desire--a desire Hori coded as sexual/romantic is not a good look.

It also just makes me question if she could ever own a pet or if she'd end up killing it because she loved it to much and she needed to drink it's blood.

Also getting her perspective on the boy she attacked isn't great either. The translation is rough and basic so it could change, but I don't think there's any translation that could make the situation not read poorly.

In the rough translations she says something along the lines of "I didn't ask to drink his blood because I was afraid he'd hate me and think I was a decent monster."

I could see an alternative translation being "I asked for his blood and he called me a deviant monster, and I sucked his blood."

Again if Hori is trying to make a queer metaphor with Toga, this is a huge issue. Her attacking the boy was always a big problem, but if he didn't bring it up again I think a lot of casual readers would have forgotten it. But now it's front and center again and brings back bad connotations for Toga and a queer reading of her character.

Because again if we read her blood drinking as queerness, and Hori has already coded it in the past as lust while just last chapter confirming that Toga sees it as kissing in the very least we get two equally bad reads.

A) Due to fear of rejection Toga did not ask for consent and decided she'd just make sexual advances toward someone she had a crush regardless.

or B) She got rejected and told no, and then made the sexual advance anyway.

With a queer reading this only becomes worse because it pays into the really negative and even dangerous idea that same sex attracted people will go after anyone regardless of consent or the other persons orientation. It continues to perpetuate the idea that queer people are sexual predators, who target straight people or in the very least do not care about consent, or are unable to control themselves long enough to get it.

But even without a queer reading what Toga did is wrong. It sucks that people don't get her way of showing love, but consent is still needed regardless. You can't just do what you want to someone because you were to afraid to ask them out. You can't just do what you want with someone after they tell you no. Even if the boy had called her a monster that would not make it ok for Toga to, essentially sexually assault him (yes, kissing someone against their will is sexual assault, which is what Toga sees her blood drinking as).

And I think that's why Toga's character is really hard to get behind for some people--because at the end of the day she's literally just saying "I can't help but sexually assault people (and animals apparently)', and the solution to this is to give her exactly what she wants and apologize for not seeing how much pain she was in when she was actively trying to sexually assault people.

#bnha critical #anti toga #anti himiko #bnha spoilers #bnha 394 #this isn't me saying all queer stories or romances have to pure #but it's not framed as toxic or negative and Toga is the only openly queer character we have that's still alive #(Tiger was confirmed trans in a character blurb not in the text. Any one who only reads the magazine wouldn't know he's trans) #it's also just hard to get behind because the way Hori draws and frames them it feels more that he does it because he thinks it's hot #like the way naked toga is hugging ochako with her legs spread is bad #I mean he could have drawn it with ochako in front to hide toga's body or have toga with her legs closed #or he could have not had Toga's power remove her clothes to begin with #it also doesn't help that we don't get much build up for these characters #like i don't believe either of these girls actually understand or genuinely care about each other #like there was an opening with Twices death for Ochako to start to care about Toga and feel genuinely bad for her #but instead she just kind of decided to care for toga and her smile because Hori said so #like she thinks of her during the speech #but wouldn't it have been better and made more sense if she saw dabi's vlog and heard Twice died and then she understands why Toga was sad #not just randomly think 'man i want that girl who tried to murder me with a smile to smile again' #it also would have helped wrap up the twices death better too

[fenmere]

So, we've had this nasty growing chronic fatigue and pain just getting worse our whole life, and it spiked dramatically in the past five years.

We finally got a doc who is both taking us seriously and knowledgeable about chronic illnesses, and she had us do a blood smear for the first time ever.

We're going to gloss over the ramifications of the results for a moment, because they aren’t conclusive (but they're definitely not good), in order to share the part of this that we're just kind of stuck on.

The MD specialist that examined our blood with her eyeballs wrote back to say, "this should be checked against a flow cytometry to verify the results and collect more data."

Which is to say, she told our doc that someone needs to shoot a laser at our blood!

Like, it makes sense. Human beings have learned that if you shoot lasers at things, you can often examine the reflected light to read minute details about those things. And they do it all the time.

It's nothing new at this point.

Grocery clerks shoot lasers at your cereal and beer all the time.

But.

They're going to shoot a laser at our blood!

It's like a combination of ignorant 1950s horror sci-fi and heavy metal.

Nimona would be so fucking psyched.

#anyway we probably actually literally have cancer #but if so it’s a really slow acting one #except we're experiencing a lot of severe symptoms so it's had time to act #and if it is the one the shape of our lymphocytes suggests it's incurable #but we'll make an official post about that after the laser either confirms or eliminates that possibility #either way we expect to have time to write several more movels in our lifetime #in the mean time #lasers #at the blood #yes we buried the lede in the tags because this is Tumblr and it's what you do

[sophfandoms53]

No mention at all that someone was removed from the game in that outro????

#that was certainly a choice #they didnt allude to it at all #and they have no choice but to address tmrw #which i think we got confirmation they were doing that #so maybe in the intro for tmrw #either way it should have been brought up in this ep by the end bc casuals still don’t know #bb25

[bardicious]

The way we know Spock has a difficult relationship with his parents, but somehow Jim's are even more absentee.

#Where No Man Has Gone Before and Then Some #star trek #star trek tos #jim kirk #spock #im always fascinated by how little we get to know of jim's life #sam is a godsend - and reaffirms my suspicions #like I know jim has no hard feelings against either his mom and dad #sam seems to resent their father #but like??? do EITHER of them have a relationship with their parents? #(I thought them hoes were dead for a while but seems like there's no confirmation one way or the other unless im forgetting something)

[somebluemelodies]

while we’re still waiting for the next q!Roier tape i have a question regarding our cubito:

do you think q!Roier’s consciousness was actually put into a rat? or has it all been just a drug-induced dream?

regardless of whether or not it’s actually consciousness-inserted-into-rat, that cubito is definitely getting experimented on one way or another. but i’m curious to hear other people’s thoughts O_o

#it can really go either way #bc i would NOT put it past roier himself to make his cubito a fucking rat #but also that said the nonsensicalness of it all #and also doied just existing as his twin brother (?) #also we know that ratatoier showing up in purgatory 2 was a dream #bc roier himself confirmed that #so are we seeing some dream within a dream type shit ?? #or what ??? #i have no fucking idea roier really did something with this lore of his #i applaud you streamer #qsmp roier #qsmp

[arolesbianism]

Sits in shambles I didn't read maybe Jorge's id correctly in the mysterious hermit logs the first god knows how many times I read them and only just now realized that it's the same id as the scientist that speaks in the agricultural notes log why must I be so bad at reading

#rat rambles #oni posting #on the bright side thats one mystery id kind of solved #by kind of I mean its most likely jorge but theres no way to comfirm it #this does make me feel like there might be some other b363 thing I missed but Im not sure if I doubt myself enough to go check rn #they are another character seen in story trait logs alongside an in game lifeform origin log just with critters this time #Ive made baseless speculation on who b363 could be based on what named characters we have without ids but its nowhere near confirmed #at least from what I remember but again Im starting to doubt myself a lil so I might double check at some point #the only idless characters we have fully marked off is nikola Im pretty sure #although based on the characters we do know anything abt itd most likely be either ada or liam but thats not saying much #ada is a fairly high probability tho since we basically 100% know that shes a part of the bioengineering department #liam possibly is too but thats more of a educated guess then smth particularly implied #Im glad I've finally realized who our lovely plant guy is tho #alas even if I find some hidden b363 content that still leaves I believe 3 ids unidentified #well we do know that at least one of them is steve but we don't know which one #and while we can take shots in the dark at who the scientist is theres also a second guard #and out of everyone we know bits and pieces abt theres no one who fits that bill or at least not anyone Im remembering #every other mentioned character is some flavor of scientist or is implied to be #not counting quinn but they are also off the table on account of not being a gravitas employee #so basically unless I missed smth the only previously established character that we know for sure is in that log is steve and the other two #could easily be any of the currently unused guys #and the other guard basically has to be unless theres scientists here that also double as guards

[marblebees]

I hate risking restarting any kind of discourse but this is massively misleading and kind of. IDK uncomfortable how quickly ppl just resort to making their own callouts in the wake of all this shit. Like people were pissy abt dtwof yeah but The Thing That Ended up getting the poll taken down and actually prompted a lot of the racism posts was homestuck going up against Paris is Burning.

Like idk. From my pov, the two users were having their own separate reactions to these events, and Anonymous Users from both’s followings went to the others askbox to start shit. It Really Really Doesnt Seem to me like the kind of targeted harassment that ppl are painting it as and more of an issue of the site’s culture. Bc until dms or whatever come out between people confirming that either user meant to stir up drama Genuinely Why Would I believe otherwise. Theres a lot of racism on tumblr and theres a lot of transmisogyny too, and we’ve seen how these things affect events that a lot of users see and participate in

#ITS JUST UNCOMFORTABLE #like idk i Feel like The way these things are worded leads to people not actually engaging with what happened #it makes a specific narrative and even when there’s transmisogyny it’s uncomfortable to just ignore the racism #like idgaf abt either user and im not naming them so theyre not in the tag but like #the racism was homestuck fans’ where just The Idea Of it winning bc ‘ppl would be so mad’ IS a bit racist when the criteria is #best queer media: Paris is Burning vs Homestuck like its just not comparable #to take a work about peoples real lives a historic documentary about queer social structures and #a webcomic about Life on the Internet in the 2010s its just. idk not the kind of thing that we as queer ppl should be mocking yknow? #and i say that rlly broadly bc drag and ballroom IS something that we risk losing in cultural/generational shifts and im sorry hs but i dont #think it commands the same level of respect as an art piece when it comes to the question of queer media #even if it was a tumblr poll the willingness ppl had to just overlook the question even when confronted with what PiB was #it rlly is just uncomfortable #and To Ignore That in order to make your point abt how one user Totally Organised a campaign against hussie (who i have not seen Actually #confirm that they received death threats) when all thats on their blog is a reaction to This

[mishtershpock]

.

#right so #firstly: oliver stark i love you please never stop #the way he talks about buck is so nice!! not to mention always reiterating that the show was queer before bi buck was confirmed #secondly: oliver stark i love you but please stop!!! #lmao. ben affleck smoking jpeg #i completely understand his reasoning behind what he says about tommy #he can’t confirm or deny anything and changes are he doesn’t even know anything. just like before #when he was waxing poetic about natalia and buck’s future #i just do not like the whole narrative of tommy being a perfect queer elder who can do no wrong and is there to guide buck through this #it’s a disservice to his character. and to buck’s #and to eddie’s if you really wanna go there #tommy is the perfect first boyfriend because he’s got experience. right? that’s what we’re saying? #experience does not equal perfection #and like i said the other day. it suggests eddie is not worthy of being a queer love yet because he has no experience #they hadn’t written the final episodes yet for a reason. they’re posting positive b/t posts on social media for a reason #they’re testing fan reactions to decide what to do with b/t. sorry but i genuinely think that’s the reason #and this characterisation of tommy as perfect and ideal for buck and they’re smitten etc #a second ben affleck smoking jpeg #i have nothing against tommy or b/t together or multi shippers. nothing at all #but i sweaaarrrrrr #if i lose out on the ship who have 6 years friendship and a history of getting through neg and pos experiences together #coparenting and saving each others’ lives. literally and figuratively #being so intrinsically linked to each other #not to mention oliver and ryan’s chemistry #if i lose out on that because people can’t stop screaming about tommy on social media #i will implode and take this place with me #especially because focusing on buck’s lovely new perfect relationship will probably mean that eddie is pushed aside #with a shitty storyline they put no effort into. wait what who said that that’s crazy #i agree that bi buck isn’t about eddie (it’s not about tommy either) and potential queer eddie isn’t about buck #but i’m so done with people saying we can’t hope the two storylines come together in the future. why is it suddenly bad to want buddie

[gideonisms]

tamsyn could say two characters fucked nasty and people would still interpret it as platonic. And they might be right, depending

#harrow & ianthe fucked nasty and it was platonic on harrow's end. tbh #i truly do not get all the (redacted) hate tho. people who aren't interested in other ships just don't interact with those ships #like if you want cam corona friendship content you just make some! #but no one's saying they can't possibly be romantic etc #if it was just about the level of problematic content then we could have a field day with every openly abusive dynamic that ppl still ship #or. hell i saw augustine/ianthe the other day. i've seen john/ianthe #that woman is a whole lesbian hggjjklll #like this is barely headcanon. hanging onto *not* being canon by a fucking thread. she shows as much interest in men as harrow #i don't get what it is about this one ship in particular #just make platonic content! most of the shippers will enjoy that angle too #i really like platonic (redacted) as well it's just every platonic redacted post ends in 'and here's why they're canonically confirmed #to be exclusively platonic do not ship!!!' #and that's just factually untrue #nothing is actually confirmed and i think that was a deliberate choice #because that's not the point. the point is their weird ride or die codependent relationship and it #doesn't actually make that big a difference whether it was platonic or romantic imo? it's exploring similar themes either way #people just have their preferences

[torgawl]

SOEMONE IS REALISTIC AHSNWHSJSJ

#this gave me so much life #i'm tearing up actually geto was so loved :(((( #this chapter is great because 1) maki is back on track 2) we have insight on geto's family #3) yuuji hitting sukuna and making him fall to his knees???? THAT'S MY BOY #also the story actually has a little educational moment on racism which i was not expecting #miguel is SO funny #we have a confirmation sukuna used a binding vow to be able to summon without hand signals so that's fun also #also larue iconic as always. never stops serving #i'm excited for next week :D #people say the fights are repetitive but have you guys noticed that sukuna is actually - in his own twisted way - demonstrating little #signs of love for others? either by enjoying fighting people or thinking of eating them (which is in itself to become one with another) or #to pay respects to them at the brinks of death... sukuna kinda is learning 😂 #anyway not going into that but i genuinely think the story is good and makes sense so seeing the hate it gets is sometimes a bit surprising #jjk leaks

[pavlovers]

actually nvm im not emo anymore 🤧

#will i ever be truly content with the ending ? no 💀 but ! everyone looks so cute nd im happy that my fav freaks are able to be silly :p #i have mixed feelings on chifuyu narrating this chapter tho lmao 😭😭 #i mean its great that he somehow remembers everything that michi went through nd their friendship wasnt lost #BUT I CANT GET OVER THAT LIKE. ONE TAKEHINA KISS PANEL AND ITS JUST HIS UGLY CRYING FACE AT THE BOTTOM 😭😭 #i kinda love that for him tho like shit make their day all about yourself king #i wouldn't have taken the whole takehina ending seriously either way #tokrev aint even about them at this point its about the collection of freaks takemichi collected along the way 😭 #what other thoughts can i put out there... #omg sanzu being an influencer is such a slay. i love how he looks exactly the same as he did in the bonten timeline #he just slays online now instead of yknow with a katana in real life ! #kazus adorable. izanas adorable #I LOVE THAT SOUTH IS JUST THERE. IDK HOW THEY MET IN THIS TIMELINE BUT FUCK IT YEAH HES INVITED WHY NOT #seeing timeskip mikey again just confirms my initial feelings towards manila mikey which is that he was ugly 😭 #IDK THE SHORT HAIR DOESNT SUIT HIM IMO 😭 I WAS HOPING THAT WAKUI WOULD GIVE HIM A NEW HAIRCUT THAT WE HAVENT SEEN BEFORE #its ok tho im happy that hes actually happy ! and that the future he wanted with emma and draken and their baby came true 🥲 #WAHH THAT TOO 😭 THE FACT THAT THEYRE MARRIED AND EMMA IS PREGNANT WITH THEIR FIRST CHILD LITERALLY SOBBING 😭 #its what theyve deserved this whole time !!!! #what wakui did to naoto was a crime tho 😭 why does he look like thatttt #bring back detective naoto 😭 current naoto looks more homeless than takemichi that doesnt sit right with me 😭 #im rocking with long hair hanma. shuji just some guy hanma 💀 #wakui making mikey looking at takemichi like that the opening panel like we know what they are 🙄 just had to remind us #thats all i think... its finally over 😭 i may have my grudges but i truly loved reading this weekly for over a year it was so much fun 💗

[mikoran]

its yearning for the monologue script hours again guys

#byler #because like. everything we hold dear with this ship depends on that script #the descriptions of el and mikes reactions and what theyre intending to portray all lies in there #if they wanted it to come off as genuine? itd be in the script. wanted it to come off as bullshittery? also would be in the script #that singular script couldve confirmed or denied byler endgame #IT HAS SO MUCH POWER #could turn my opinion on byler endgame around so fast #they made the actual scene itself just vague enough with what it tried portraying that honestly im just confused bro that script is a need #tho part of me thinks that the script might end up not holding much cuz if it were too revealing then they probably wouldnt have put it in #the polls in the first place #either way it COULD have something and that box being unopened is leaving so much up in the air #if the script is however mileven endgame promotion then i cant tell if id want it now or not at all #cuz id rather cut myself off sooner rather than later and stop myself from looking like a fool #but also byler is half of whats keeping me him going rn bro i dont think i could handle losing that #theyve become so important to me that season five is genuinely terrifying #what if they dont get together? what does that mean for my view on this entire show and what ive thought for the past year and a half? #my world would come crashing down bro #nahhh theyve gotta be endgame hahahahshdhrhrje #ohhh fuck guys is the byler doubt starting #oh god oh no #noooo im fine im okay im great guys #were gonna tag it in case oh god #byler doubt #man and i just made a post talking about how we should stay strong

[prosebushpatch]

Listen, i don’t care if it’s romantic/platonic/barely put up with, but in totk, Link and Zelda share that bed. I didn’t spend all those rupees so Link could sleep on the floor, Nintendo. You couldn’t even give him a bed under the stairs? WHERE’S THE SIGN THAT SAYS “LINK’S HOUSE” NINTENDO. COMMIT TO THE SHIP OR AT LEAST PUT TWO FRICKING BEDS IN THE HOUSE THIS IS MALARKEY

#rose and rambles #im replaying botw and did the house quest again and *clenches fist* i forgot the sign #THEY TOOK AWAY LINK'S SIGN #POOR GUY DOESN'T HAVE ANYONE BUT TRAINED ASSASSINS REMEMBERING HIS FACE AND YOU TOOK AWAY HIS SIGN #This is an instance in which i think the fact that nintendo is afraid to commit to certain aspects of Link's character is more harmful #than not #like #i do not think Link is self-insert for the player i don't think he's ever been super successful as one #and in botw totk its clear theres a lot more we get that delves into Link as his own person #so i think the weird wishy-washy does he actually have feelings for this person is just unnecessary #like the fact that nintendo can't seem to pick so they leave evidence for *any* outcome is the problem #and that is best seen in the house #like in all accounts with how link is always traveling with zelda anD HER BODYGUARD he should AT MINIMUM have a house next door #that's just job related #so even if he did just give the whole thing to Zelda it still begs the question of WHERE DOES HE SLEEP?!?!?!!?! #SURELY NOT AT THE INN IN HATENO IF THE YIGA ATTACK #AND HE'S THAT FAR AWAY? I THINK NOT #it's just frustating #its like nintendo were like 'well we won't confirm either way whether they're together so we won't put in another bed but we won't make #the twin bed any bigger so the audience can fight amongst themselves' #JUST GIVE LINK A BED #THAT'S ALL I WANT #GIVE HIM A FRICKIN BED NINTENDO MY BOY IS ANXIOUS AND TIRED