#it’s a link back to reality

[itspileofgoodthings]

Good morning what are the movies or tv shows that traumatized you as a kid mine are the BBC production of A Christmas Carol and a handful of David Suchet Poirot episodes

#my dad always thought if something was well done it was appropriate for children #so we never watched the silly little kid version of things. The muppet Christmas Carol? My dad would N E V E R #anyway a Christmas Carol ruined Christmas for me for YEARS #i hated to think about it #and poirot was just. traumatizing #there’s one called murder on the links which involved a golf course at night which is one of the most terrifying locations I can imagine #also there’s one called death in the clouds #and poirot uncovers the murder because there are two spoons on the dead lady’s tray of airplane food #and the way he says ‘he picks up a spoon giving him the task of a waiter to carry out’ #when explaining the murder at the end to this DAY sends chills up my spine #I know this is very obvious but the thing about fear is that it isn’t about logic or reason but it is about revelation #it’s like the flip side of moments of good and happy insight #at least for me #what terrifies me is a moment where some kind of evil is revealed in a blinding FLASH #a motive or (I guess) a ghost #and there is this presence of some malevolent entity underneath the reality of things #and something about it being SEEN almost more than it existing #is so scary. Like I. #Poirot uncovering the murder and describing it with such studied fascinated careful attention #pulling back the layers of a blind of one kind or another #shakes me to. my. CORE. #and it’s all so visual and instinctive. it’s one tiny little moment that doesn’t fit suddenly pulling back the curtain of reality #with such terrifying abruptness #makes me want to sit down and cry like a baby #the knowledge of evil doesn’t scare me. as in it doesn’t elicit an emotional/physical reaction of fear #but seeing it in embodied action. again. where it’s some tiny ordinary little detail suddenly ripping reality as you know it to shreds #the surprise of it. the recalibration it demands #I !!!!!!!!! Get so afraid

[inumbrapugnabimus-maybe]

No thoughts head empty

#Y’all I really need to sleep #And yet I do this instead #*screams quietly* #Ok back to reality #Linked universe #lu four #my art #is this even really art tho

[fisheito]

If you tracked my eye activity on that bliss promo pic with the tops it would be something like this

Making a major stop at topper

Before crashing into a ditch (yakuya corner)

#i'm having a moment. the only time i'll ever see these two standing next to each other is in a promotional pic for the sfw game version #FOR SERIOUS i was weirded out by this combination of characters in one pic when i first saw it #i was like oh?? they doing a random assortment now? i mean sure! yeah! i guess! spice it up they look great!! #then someone pointed out that this was Tops Only #then showed me the corresponding picture of Bottoms Only #and i felt my eyebrow raise sharply #OOOH.... i didn't even consider... right.... top bottom segregation #(reality does not occur to me. i see them all through switch-coloured lenses and thus ignore information inconvenient to my preference) #then i started thinking more about the . idea of it. that the tops are in a bar's hidden back room with mafia boss dante #and the bottoms are hanging out in the airy beautiful atrium of pure white snow and lilting piano music #tops are like WELCOME TO THE LIONS DEN and bottoms are like HEY COME INTO THE AVIARY AND SIT WITH US 🥰 #i dwelt on the fact that i was weirded out by yakumo in this group #and it made me think about how..... yakumo would be scared of all the other tops #all of them are INTIMIDATION 100 to hiim #so i imagine after you get him to pose for this shot with everyone. and the business is done #yakumo will quickly retreat to the room with the bottoms (where all his friends are) #blade being the adaptable little creature he is will be like OH COOL ARE YOU GOING TO SEE THE OTHERS?? #I WANT TO SEE THE OTHERS TOO!! MORE FRIENDS!! LET'S GO TOGETHER n_n *links arms* *DRAGS everyone else out of the room* #imagining yaku being first ushered into this dark room with kuya dante and quincy #and he's just nervously glancing at topper for reassurance that there's no danger #just trembling and thinking about how he wants his emotional support wolf/vice captain/priest/earring twin senpai #no yakumo. i wanted you to mingle. and you shall mingle #wear matching outfits with your fellow Tops and (topp) until you build trust and reduce their Intimidation Factors #nu carnival dante #nu carnival blade #nu carnival quincy #nu carnival kuya #nu carnival yakumo

[thatgirlonstage]

sometimes a show throws a scenario at you that you could see coming a hundred miles off but that in no way is gonna prevent you from going absolutely feral over it. Anyway I binged all of Link Click in like three days and I'm going to start chewing furniture about the end of S2

#link click #am I SURPRISED that lu guang is without question on board to #go against all his own rules and break reality for cxs? #not really. it's kind of what you expect just from the premise #am i still screaming into a pillow about it? #OH ABSOFUCKINGLUTELY #FUCKING MADOKA SHIT. HELP ME. #fellas is it gay to fuck with time and disregard all possible consequences #because the alternative is letting your Best Friend die and that's simply not an option #i want... to write... bed sharing fic so bad #they really made CXS For Me like #you have the absolutely perfect excuse to just drop this boy into a trauma blender at any given moment #anyway i think he should get like. trapped in a cave-in or something #anything that makes him terrified of being left alone #and when he comes back out he just desperately needs lg to hold him and not let go

[waywardsalt]

Bellumbeck is such an interesting final boss, because not only is it your ally, some of the bosses actions/details make it clear that Linebeck is fighting back. Retraining Ciela instead of killing her, using moves he's seen Link do, and more darkly in the manga - willing to destroy himself if it protects Link. Link is forced to fight not just an ancient evil - but one of the closest friends he's ever made besides Tetra, and one of the few adult figures he respects. To fight Linebeck is to potientially lose another mentor as was with The King of Red Lions

Bellumbeck is so… he really stands out from pretty much all of the other final bosses and its so cool- and it’s like you say, Bellumbeck is not just some final form of varying flavors of Evil Thing or a dangerous character whose defeat the world would benefit from, that’s your fucking friend. It doesn't feel heroic like other final bosses, it feels like a desperate fight for the survival of you and your friends.

Linebeck being capable of fighting back or otherwise resisting Bellum is an interesting one; definitely a fun way to give him some sort of agency or role to play, suggesting that he may be fighting against Bellum just as hard as Link is. I think I've seen some people suggest that the slight hesitation or pause before some of Bellumbeck's attacks may be caused by Linebeck trying to stop himself (like the manga shows him doing).

I absolutely ADORE the idea that Bellumbeck uses a spin attack because it's something that Linebeck has seen Link do. The idea that it might be unconscious, or something Bellum just happened to pick up on from Linebeck's memories... UGH it's good no matter how you justify it.

On the other hand, I personally don't see how Linebeck fighting back would've had an effect on Bellum restraining rather than killing Ciela. I understand stuff like a hitch in the attacks or unconsciously influencing what attacks are made, since all of that is stuff that Linebeck has a direct (though unwilling) hand in, but Bellum grabbing Ciela is something that... Bellum individually does. I don't imagine that Linebeck would be able to have any ability to influence what Bellum himself does, especially considering that even if he can affect the part he's directly involved in it's only ever a small effect. Bellum restraining rather than killing Ciela is, I think, a deliberate choice on Bellum's part without any input from Linebeck, and honestly even that way it's still interesting to think about.

The manga's take on events is interesting, especially with the idea that, to some degree, Linebeck was able to overpower Bellum in order to move how he wanted (even though it was clearly limited to only specific parts and with clear difficulty) and the idea that he'd do... well, anything he can to ensure Link's safety is pretty good.

The general concept of a Link having to fight a possessed person isn't really new and wasn't new when Phantom Hourglass rolled around, but I honestly think ph did it best, holy shit. Link having to fight a close friend and someone in a role akin to a mentor to him is already one hell of a devastating setup, but one extra thing I've seen others point out is that the Bellumbeck fight is the second time Link's be faced with a sword fight with another human, and he ended the first one by killing his opponent. So, that's a fun correlation for Link to make during this fight!

Bellumbeck is just... it's such a cool, unique battle even compared to the other final bosses, and while it may fall short in difficulty or gameplay, it has some fantastic music and all of the story and character surrounding it is honestly amazing.

#asks #anon #loz #legend of zelda #phantom hourglass #bellumbeck #bellum #linebeck #going to upfront admit that i'm actually a bigger fan of linebeck being helpless during bellumbeck #that he's so vulnerable to bellum's control that he is completely unable to muster up the strength to do anything #giving this a 'keep reading' bc its long #anyways free bellumbeck fight headcanon that i think is cool :)))) #link gets so upset and frightened by the visual/concept of linebeck getting possessed and forced to fight him that for the first few #minutes of the fight he's in denial having himself convinced that it's just a bad dream and that he's waiting to wake up now #and he doesn't fight back or accept that it's actual reality until he gets hit really bad and realizes he's not waking up as he's in pain #i have not played all of wind waker i cant say anything cool abt the king of red lions or that whole ganondorf fight #salty talks #ty for the ask btw!

[zxal]

they need to add Jin to duel links for MEEEEEEEEEEEE

#no idea how they would justify it since they seem to be going the postcanon route with the vrains world but they need to. for me #i finally unlocked playmaker and ai....a heem heem.....whimper #yusaku saying he looked everywhere for ai and was so sure he was gone. yusaku calling ai his most suitable partner.....FINEEEEEEEEEEEEE #i need to know what theyre doing with vrains in duel links. hey do you guys know youre pulling back the fabric of reality? #my ultimate hopium for dl is jin in vrains and ray + zarc in arc v #at least i know that vector + yuri are coming. but ray and zarc would be real bottom of the barrel picks. then again (looks at dm world) #.txt

[maschotch]

I would love to hear your thoughts about Hotch and fire because I never really noticed it but when you point it out it does stand out as something he gets VERY affected by very quickly

its not the most obvious pattern, which is par for the course when it comes to anything relating to hotch’s past. but i think its sooo interesting that hotch seems to be on edge/more emotional when they deal with cases involving fire. in ashes and dust he seems particularly moved talking to the burn victim and insists on being the one to speak to her; in house on fire he averts his eyes from the burnt corpses and has a shorter temper; in devil’s night he’s antsy the whole case and makes brash decisions (like running into a burning building???)

its subtle changes, so subtle that im not entirely convinced im not just hallucinating it all, but it seems like there’s something there. especially during the final confrontation with the unsubs in each of those episodes: the steel-faced hotch is gone, and he seems incapable of hiding his fear. in devil’s night he has a hard time looking away from the unsub’s lighter; in house on fire he keeps glancing down at the spilled gasoline. if it was anyone else i wouldnt pay any mind, but hotch is known for staring down death (like with foyet). he’s.. uncharacteristically emotional

i feel like something must have happened. even gideon—who has better insight on hotch’s past than anyone—seems concerned when hotch volunteers to go to the burn ward or gets distracted looking at a child’s burnt shoe on the ground. the way hotch lingers on the picture of the mother with her son… something mustve happened in the past for him to take this so personally

im not sure what it is. again, we dont really know anything about hotch’s background (and what we do know is frequently contradicted a couple seasons later—like the way his father died) so its not like we have a lot to work with. simply because of his interaction with charlotte cutler, i think it might have something to do with his mom? we dont know anything about her outside other than her attending mary baldwin. there are just so many unknown variables and oddly intimate moments of connection he has with various abused-sons throughout the seasons

was he in a fire growing up? was his mother? maybe his mom was inside and he stood helpless on the outside, unable to save her? was it an arsonist? was it his father? or was it his mother herself—tired of her life and trying to tear it all down with her? was it all just a horrible accident? was it before or after his father’s death? was his mom dying the final push for hotch to stand up to his father?

there are just… so many questions. so many possibilities. but, whatever happened, hotch is definitely afraid of fire.

#r there too many links? i wanted to cite my sources lol #asks #aaron hotchner #i feel like i should have a cm meta tag but i feel like its too fucking late #anyway. #my personal fav potential backstory is his mom going crazy #full on wander the halls; yellow wallpaper; haunting of hill house crazy lady long white dress mom shit #and--wanting to spare her sons from suffering any further--sets the house ablaze; not realizing no one else is inside #(or maybe baby sean is inside and he's the only hotch can get out?) #if it happened before his dad's death then i think this moment drove hotch to finally kill him #if it happened after his dad's death.. it means his mom is Way Crazier than we thought #and i think it'd be fun if it was shortly after hotch started going through puberty #so he's getting taller and he's starting to look more like his father #and his mom (unable to come to terms with her husband's death--unable to come to terms w her son killing her husband) rejects that reality #she gets confused and think aaron is the one who died. and when aaron tries to approach her she recoils as tho he was his father #he gets Freaked the Fuck Out by that #then goes to get groceries or some shit and when he comes back the house is in flames #smth like that #very emo very wattpad #but its MY headcanon i can be cringe if i want

[therealjasonx]

#retrogaming #zelda #legend of zelda #link’s awakening #gbc #game boy color #wind fish #koholint #marin #inception #hans zimmer #dream is collapsing #come back to reality cobb #Spotify

[hereforyourdispleasure]

Me when I'm in a jokey mood but have to restrict the silly because Darian can't say that shit in canon

#I TRY TO SING ALL STAR BUT BECKY FROM ZONK REALITY LINKS IT BACK TO WHEN SINGING KILLED HER GRANDMA #IT'S STILL SETTING ME OFF I CAN'T STOP GIGGLING

[morimess]

FILL ME UP

POUR ME OUT

WASH HER NAME OUT OF MY MOUTH

I AM READY TO BE CLEAN

BURN MY LUNGS AND SHE WAS GONE

LONG BEFORE THE LIGHTS WENT ON

GOD I HOPE SHE'S DONE WITH ME

DO YOU BEG?

DO YOU PRAY?

TELL ME HOW YOU GET AWAY

FROM THE VOICES IN YOUR HEAD

I AM LOST

I'VE BEEN DONE

LONG BEFORE THE LIGHTS WENT ON

SOMEONE PLEASE PUT ME TO BED

Cause I-

I AM NOT WELL

#Having Linebeck thoughts again #Especially centered around this song #And the idea that fragments of Bellum remain post PH #And maybe become stronger the more he indulges in the...less moral aspects of being a sailor #Song is “Before the Lights Went Out” by Emilee Petersmark btw #She's one of the singers of “The Crane Wives” #My All Time Fav band #And I've recently become obsessed with her solo stuff #I usually use gender neutral/ it/it's for Bellum when writing #But in this song Bellum is she #The Crane Wives also have another song called “Nobody” #And I absolutely see that song as being another Bellum possessing Linebeck situation #But I usually view it as it being during the ACTUAL Bellumbeck fight #Like Bellum is showing Linebeck some of his past relationships/ using the faces of past lovers to keep him in a feeling of regret/ #Hopelessness so that it's easier to control him #Bellum eventually reaches a breaking point though #And Linebeck realizes he shouldn't have put up with as much shit as he did then and that he shouldn't put up with it now either #Then starts fighting back a bit just in time for Link to win the fight #Please for the love of God #I need the will to be able to put these thoughts onto paper or into reality SOMEHOW #THIS ARE VERY VISUAL THOUGHTS BUT I DONT KNOW HOW TO ANIMATE GUYS #AAAAAAAA

[balladetto]

there is a time, as a child, where stones or sticks or a pot over fire are warm not just for the flames, but for the way it is about learning how to look after yourself. and how to look after others, in turn! do the kokiri cook? i believe, yes. does link cook? i believe even more, yes. nature gives — lushly — and the children of the forest take — reverently. the act of hunting is that of respect. the act of feeding is that of love. the act of cooking is that of trust.

when link cooks, even by the bare definition of it as a meat-over-fire sort of thing, it's so easy to do in the face of words he can't seem to find. he doesn't need to use his voice for this care at all, and the words will be conveyed anyway. in a place like kokiri forest, where everyone always knows when the fruits are just ripe enough, home tastes like the earth: like chestnuts still warm from the fire, berries with a tart aftertaste, lemongrass on game meat.

castle town brings with it new foods and textures — he likes sticky rice the best. over the course of his journey, he looks to street foods and inn/home-cooked meals. lon lon ranch brings with it lon lon milk, and i imagine creamy soups. zora's domain is where the fish are really juicy, and there are things like shellfish, molluscs, hard things that can be cracked open the way forest nuts are. he can't eat rock sirloin or roasts on death mountain, but goron spice is a kick he enjoys for its newness. the riches and dishes of the desert, all eaten with whatever sense of camaraderie the gerudo are willing to build with him — he enjoys these, too.

i think he's someone who likes eating when his head is in the right place for it, or when he's with the right company. he tends to just go through the motions after everything.

#* lionheart / study. #* intermission / ooc. #sorry. my own head is in a strange spot rn so the writing is like this #'go through the motions' as in he will eat if it is edible and will eat until he is full #but the enjoyment is very lost and there is no regular schedule so much as 'oh. i am really hungry.' #< when i say enjoyment is very lost i mean he does not discern between levels of deliciousness anymore. it is good if he can eat it. #it isn't if he can't. that's all #the irregular eating becomes the worst when he hits that 12th year because his body wants food constantly compared to before #he is convinced he is good at looking after himself but the reality is he takes care of what needs to be taken care when it needs #to be taken care of. he is capable -- yes -- but there's a difference between capable and actually healthy #[goes on a tangent again] lmao the point of this post is link really likes learning how to cook. he really likes food. he can #really like eating. also i am not connected with them the way i am the ri.to. but i have thoughts #about the ko.kiri and cooking. consuming the fruits and energies of the forest as spirits. #i have them. i don't know if i will share them #i will come back to this when i wake probably. (future ray don't delete this it's valid actually) #long tags cw #disordered eating mention #* intermission / queue.

[vulpiximisa]

Was thinking about Revali and how he was created as a rival for Link. I don’t remember if we’ve ever had a “rival” for link in any other iteration. There’s occasionally the “bully” like Mido or Groose and obviously we have the main antagonists like Ganondorf, Zant, Girahim etc.

I was thinking Ralph from the Oracle of Ages would be the closest to something like Revali but I don’t think Ralph ever actually fought Link. If AoC counts for something, it shows that Revali might actually be on par with Link in terms of battle. Given that Zelda had interrupted their fight, we don’t know how it would have turned out.

#pixi fandom post #re loz #pixi talks ship #I want to debate that revali is Special ™️ #but in reality he probably isn’t any more important than the other champions #was also thinking why they chose A Rito as his rival #a zora could make the same (I’m master of the water) argument like ritos are master of air #but I think having the zora have romantic feelings for link is a call back to ruto

[jestiamy]

venera is so confused. he didn't know they changed the execution method so much. why do they need a picture of him and a plaque with his name on it? do they no longer mount the heads on walls? oh god, how is venera meant to fake the execution if they changed the methods?? fuck why did everyone stop doing the cutting off the hand of the thief thing. that was so much easier to illusion away. jianwei (or if you want to get all exact about it, jiàn-wěi) is freaking out just as much as venera, though for highly separate reasons relating to the fact he is an amnesiac and has no way of knowing if he's already in their systems for something. people looking at his mugshot don't need to know about that though.

#not /r they are. hypothetically friends. #in reality they probably met eachother five minutes before the pictures were taken #I don't actually have anything explaining the jianwei lore on hand so I couldn't link back to anything. which was upsetting #also they're both in for like. petty theft and vandalism. venera just hasn't stepped into civil society on their own since the era where #that was incredibly punishable by execution and or permanent imprisonment and or dismemberment #probably. I don't know man I'm playing fast and loose with the timeline here. #art stuffs #lmk #lmk oc #lmk oc art #venera. #fallout: canon aligned venera #oc things #had to get out the catchall tag to cover for jianwei just not having one

[izzy-b-hands]

i love how i sent a nice, brief, personable email to a place to enquire abt a potential job opening they had on their site (no other way listed to contact them abt this stuff, and their site gave no other info on HR/jobs/ hiring aside from the one line that essentially just said 'Position Vacant [Dept]' that i was interested in)

and was sent back a link to a site they claim holds their job openings but THAT site claims the place has their own listings elsewhere but doesn't say where the heck that would be

you could have just said the position wasn't available anymore if ya didn't wanna deal with me. Or just don't reply at all and ghost me like everyone else lmao 🙃

#text post #trying not to feel down and discpuraged but fuck me i put a lot of effort into that stupid little email #tried to be polite but friendly and show my genuine love for the work potentially available #and got a cold slap back like damn sorry maybe edit ur fucking site then so ppl won't think there's an opportunity #my bad for being interested in your work thanks for the useless scavenger hunt and showing you also don't know how your hiring process works #apparently or i presume they wouldn't have sent that link #like i was really excited abt this one even if the position had been filled I'd hoped to make a new contact maybe #got my hopes slam dunked by reality once again which is: ppl don't want to be ur friend or acquaintance! nor do they want to work with u! #i shouldn't care but i do and i wish i didn't bc maybe that's the secret is Not Caring

[links-studies]

I've been getting into doing my homework digitally lately using Notion, since it's a lot easier to type and use equations on there than it is for most of the other programs I've tried. I also feel like I'm saving a lot of time & saving my hand a lot of pain from having to sit there and write equations for pages and pages despite my disabilities haha.

#link studies #most of this is required review in my mechanics course since it's been a while since everyone took gen phys 1 #also do NOT comment on my answers I did this when I was very stressed. #you can tell me about it when I get the grade back and am forced to accept reality #studyblr #study #studying #college #college student #student #physics studyblr #physics student #physics #mechanics #if anyone is curious we're learning from classical mechanics by taylor for my course this semester #also technically I needed to take this a YEAR ago but they only host this class every other year so. I got unlucky... #it feels weird to take this class after already learning about special relativity in depth in modern physics last semester lol

[quibbs126]

Can I just say I love Link to the Past’s Dark World concept?

For those who don’t know, basically how it seems to work is that when you enter the Dark World, you become a reflection of your inner self. We see this on our first visit there when Link becomes a bunny, something seen as innocent and good, while another character that was seemingly once human turns into a pig-like creature, reflecting its inner ugliness, due to its greed for the Golden Power

Edit: I got there again today, here are my screenshots explaining the Dark World, just for a proper explanation because I don’t think I gave that great of one:

Just the concept of a place that makes someone’s inner self now reflected outwardly for all to see is just something I really like and would love to see in other media

#I remember back when I first played it I wondered what characters from my current hyperfixation at the time would look like #was it Dragon Ball I was obsessing over? I don’t remember #but in terms of characters from my current hyperfixation (Cookie Run) I’m curious what they would look like #Dark Choco in particular I imagine would think he’d look like some sort of horrible monster #but in reality he looks like something that reflects his true good and kind nature #maybe not a rabbit but something else that reflects his good nature? But maybe also reflects his warrior nature #that might do some good for his self esteem while also maybe making him reevaluate the way he sees himself #anyways this is completely random #link to the past #ideas #video games #I just want this to show up as a trope in media #random stuff #dark choco cookie #only since I mention him in the tags