#this could have been so epic

[ganondoodle]

wait i just realized... the mastersword isnt even important enough to warrant zelda doing to such extreme lengths to repair it bc its NOT EVEN REQUIRED FOR DEFEATING GANONDORF

idk about you but the mastersword being not just this weak after all this but also not even required is like ... hurting the whole plot SO bad for all that zelda knew she was basically killing herself by doing the dragon thing ONLY for the mastersword, which isnt even needed to reach the end why do the dragon thing at all??? she could have put it in some other divine place for it to recover (she knew where the springs are, she knew where the krog forest is, heck she even knew where the forgotten temple is BC THEY WERE ALL THERE* and im not going to belive any of them came into existence afterwards), in botw it took 'only' a 100 years to regenerate the damage it took in botws past which, while not as extreme as in totk, was pretty bad! yeah it gets outright broken in totk but like ... really? far over 10 000 years to recover it? through ZELDA? one of the most divine being IN THE FORM of one of the most divine beings aside from the very gods themselves?? whats the use of it being able to regernate if it takes THAT long?? feels easier to forge a new one for that matter?? and the excuse that "it needed to be able to resist miasma" is like .. why tho? yeah ok fine i could do the entire bossfight with JUST the mastersword, but again, its not required! i can do it with anything else!! and its doesnt cleanse miasma either, like the sword did in tp when you could do away the twilight stuff when it got the super glow stuff so its really like ... she did that JUST for the sword? really? the fact that her becoming a dragon is the way to get her back into her time isnt something she could have known and it working out like that makes it feel like a massive fail of the writers bc it makes it feel less like an actual decision she made for good reason and more bc its a decision the writers made bc the writers already knew where it would end, the writers knew shed be turned back in the end no problem so they had her do the dragon thing despite it being pretty senseless from her perspective

(wouldnt it have felt more in character and logical to put the mastersword somwhere safe where it can recover over all those centuries and search for a way to return to her time herself? like in these two games ZELDA feels like the more important thing that the sword, -zeldas prone to sacrifice herself for other- WHY! its better for everyone if you are alive rather than dead! you got to this time by yourself and also somehow not jsut shifted the time but also PLACE bc you sure as hell didnt appear in a cavern in the middle of the land, you have wielded incredible magic before and are a researcher, surely theres some way for you to at least TRY to return on your own?? how cool would it have been to find little markers and spots where clearly she has left you some sort of message, maybe like a way for you to do something that helps her in the past, USE THE WEIRD ASS TIME BUBBLES FROM THE TUTORIAL AGAIN!! send back something she needs to return! go and talk with impa and purah to determine what shes trying to tell you, help her along the way and in the end she makes her triumphant return, having grown and learned with what she did instead of regressing her chaarcter to the big eyed maiden that you get as a reward at the end through unsatisfying bs reasons and hurray she doesnt even remember, perfect little fairytale of no consequences wahoo- im salty about this let me be salty-)

you can absolutely combine a free to explore open world with good story without restricting it by much, like locking the bossfight behind aquiring the mastersword doesnt feel like that big of a change and its not making it a whole lot more linear, most people do it anyway right?

(also a thing im doing in my rewrite of it is locking certain things for some parts, it just makes sense if you are trying to tell a story, but its pretty clear now they werent trying to do that, just throw you into a box of virtual toys, and i think thats just sad)

*yeah actually whats up with the sonau/rauru putting their little nuclear super weapon storage room inTO THE ANCIENT RELICT OF THE FORGOTTEN PAST TEMPLE BEHIND THE BIGGEST STATUE OF HYLIA IN EXISTENCE?? you cant tell me all those ancient ruins (springs, forgotten temple) were made AFTER all of the shitshow that went down in totks past; putting it behind that statue? building it into there feels incredibly disrespectful, maybe it makes more sense if you just see it as the devs wanting to put somethign new there, but if you consider it in universe its just ??? also HOW is any of it in such a good shape??, it looks like they buried sonia there a year ago, the structures look like they just came out of a 3d printer despite supposedly being older than their recorded history??

on that note ... how does the room with the order and location of zeldas tears make sense .. are you telling me someone of the past ran around after dragon zelda recording where her fucking tears went down and what markings it made on the ground and then built a room next to the nuclear weapon storage room with the laughably unceremonial grave of the fucking queen just to put all that into statue form? also none of the geographical things changed in ALL that time?? the castle is drawn on there too so i guess that was super fresh then since it "was built above ganondorf as a symbol of royal blahbla" at least in botw you had the photos on your SHIEKAH stone to recover them once you found the place they were taken in, it felt so organically integrated ..

#ganondoodles talks #zelda #totk #ganondoodles rants #this game drives me nuts (derogatory) #random ramblings ramble #the fact that all the sonau stuff is basically unscathed through all that time is like #that looks less ancient than the shiekah stuff #actually kinda boring #like unpainted blocks of toys #it just all doesnt fit together in my eyes #its gonna bother me forever #you had it all and didnt do anything with it #i love botws world #it had so much potential #never gonna get over the lost potential of it all #this could have been so epic #whenever i hear the trailer music my heart hurts bc i just have to imagine what it would be like #what i thought it was gonna be given the fantastic music #still dream of painting like a trailer for my totk rewrite using the trailer music #but god that aint doable #and would be nuked ofthe internet in an instant lol

[ilynpilled]

still love the way grrm decided to write this so damn much. other than the obvious romantic undertones of it all the “so he did” is so terse and simple and blunt as if it is the most straightforward and obvious thing in the world for him. jumping unarmed into a pit with a live bear to try save this woman is the most sound thing in the world. wanting her is the most sound thing in the world. doing the right thing is the most sound thing in the world. there is no justification for even a blink of hesitation. so he did.

#jaime impulses are miss or epic mega hit #but what im saying is #this could have been written so much differently and it would have been lesser #asoiaf #jaime lannister

[hinata-boke]

tiny birthday boy doodle!!

#my art #haikyuu #bokuto #akaashi #bokuaka #doodle #i wasnt originally gonna draw a lot of birthday stuff bc theres too many characters id want to draw them of #but i needed to draw something for bokkun #didnt have time to draw something cool and epic so little squishy it is #also have been having some sort of mental adjustment period as my schedule's changed a lot so #that explains the absence of art #(1hqaday im so sorry) #anyways happy birthday bokuto #obligatory akaashi bc i didnt have energy to draw a lot of characters but i didnt want him to be lonely #if i could i would have drawn fukurodani and his other besties so hes surrounded by people on his birthday #just imagine theyre behind the camera

[crystal-lillies]

honestly the fact that sam's voice was watery and wavering, and matt started to lose his composure and started tearing up because HE KNEW like we all knew too what sam was planning on doing and then. g o d . that last speech.

everyone fuckin crying. all of us behind the screens crying. god fucking damn it sam you fucking did it again but

I want to SCREAM!! not FCG!!! BABY BOY ONLY JUST FOUND OUT WHAT BEING ALIVE MEANS AND HE PULLS AN IRON GIANT AND AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA SAM FUCKING RIEGEL YOU TRAGIC HEARTBREAKING MANIACAL GENIUS

#flowerspeak #critical role #cr spoilers #bells hells #sam riegel #actors #matt mercer #i love fcg so much and i wanted so badly for him to get a divine intervention and really connect with the changebringer and be a champion #aaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaa #and FRIDA!!!! ROBOT BOYFS!!! AAAAAAA #but this was such an epic move and honestly probably the only thing that could have been done without anyone else dying #G OD DAMN

[babyloniastreasure]

something that kind of bothers me about modern feelings toward the epic of gilgamesh is how it's been COMPLETELY watered down to being "gay". Bear with me as I explain.

this is more of an extreme example, but I see this take all the time (not the yaoi part. the gay lover part). it's boiled down to the fact that it's gay over literally anything else in the epic. Gilgamesh's lament to Urshanabi about Enkidu's loss is overshadowed by the fact that Gilgamesh is mourning his gay lover. Gilgamesh is on a journey because he lost his gay lover. Gilgamesh and Enkidu were gay.

Now I understand that with a modern lens, people tend to lock on to how unabashedly Gilgamesh mourns Enkidu, because it's gay and because it's the oldest written epic in human history. People feel deeply connected to the idea that people like them have been around since the dawn of literature. But placing exclusive focus on the nature of the relationship as gay, rather than why the relationship or its loss was important, erases the story the epic is trying to tell.

The Epic of Gilgamesh is a story about love, yes, but it is not a love story. It's about the fear of death, coping with loss, and desperation to stave off the inevitable. It's about the bonds of friendship, about hardship, coming to terms personal change and losing pieces of yourself as you learn and grow. It is about consequences, arrogance, death, second chances, mourning, yearning, loving and LIVING. The Epic of Gilgamesh is about the entire human experience and one man's struggle to accept it. What does it mean to have lived? What does it mean to have loved, and lost? What does it mean to die, and to be remembered? What does it mean to be human?

It is perfectly okay to find appreciation for the Epic because of Gilgamesh and Enkidu's relationship. But also understand that the world's oldest story is not about two gay men who loved each other. It is a story about being alive.

TLDR;

#the epic of gilgamesh #mesopotamia #sumerian #once again recommending that everyone read the epic of gilgamesh at least once because it really is a great story #gilgamesh and enkidu's relationship is first of all--a minor detail at best. homosexuality was normal in sumerian society #so it wouldn't have been unusual. in fact placing such intense focus on it is what's unusual #also they weren't even homosexual. they both also sleep with women. but the erasure of bisexuality is a completely different hornet's nest #i could also probably write a post about how watered down the whole ea-nasir thing is too #but hes so much of a meme i might as well try to convince a brick wall to get up and walk for all the good it'd do #anyway. im pretentious about this topic because i love it so fucking dearly. please recognize what it is youre appreciating

[absoblume-reblogs]

YAAAAAA 🐢💜⁉️

So so so so!! I got to see the mutant mayhem movie a day early and AUAAAUUAGHHH ahem- anyways. my favorite as usual u_u [[me and three of my brothers even went color coordinated!! I’ve never felt so ALIVE/hj💜]]

#OKAY NOW BACK TO WORK #my art! #tmnt #mutant mayhem #mutant mayhem donnie #this gent so peculiar #very peculiar indeed #absoblume-art #absoblume reblogs! #okay wait I have to talk about this movie- I loved it upon first watch #amazing! Muy epic! Loved the animation! Thought it was childish but cute! #HOWEVER I HAVE NITPICKS #I won’t go into details but maaaaaan what the movie COULD have been really stings me #I LOVED IT DONT GET ME WRONG #it just had a lot that needed to be fleshed out more 😔

[ashshmee]

choices is like if the song of achilles and normal people had a child and it turned out to be a harry potter fanfiction

#like the epicness of soa #mixed with the way np just feels so real #like you could meet the characters at the grocery store #idk i can’t explain #but it makes sense 2me #also i don’t even like normal people that much #but the way that the relationships were written just evokes so much emotion #and it must have been good enough if it reminded made me think of choices lmao #jegulus #james potter #regulus black #marauders #marauders era #choices

[keikoayano]

Thinking about how Polites hitting the ground is the only thing you hear aside from the club crashing down

#epic the musical #personal #because Odysseus watched it. honed in on it. could not process it. #was focused entirely on Polites and his last moments even while his men screamed and begged him to tell them what to do #while more men died #because they HAD to have been making so much noise but all we hear is that thud and then the club. the club. the club. #like we hear the men yell about the club and to ask Odysseus what to do but we KNOW Odysseus isn’t hearing ANY of it #he just hears the club. the club. the club. #we don’t hear other men hit the ground or get injured it’s just Polites because he is one of Odysseus’ most important people

[fluffypotatey]

Not surprised Odysseus is related to the Greek gods cause that's basically a requirement for all Greek heroes, but I'm feeling some kind of way that it's hermes

YEAH!!! Like I always knew Ody was Athena’s champion which I thought was unique for Greek Heroes bc most are demigods, but also it makes sense for him to still have a divine relation since he’s technically royalty. a lot of kings based their authority on the fact that they have divine blood (whether immediate family or no)

but the fact that Ody’s Greek god relative is Hermes just hits different in the best way. tbh i have really found it a bit of a tragedy that Ody was not Hermes chosen champion at first simply because of the similarities between then AND having the god of traveling as your patron is super helpful for Ody especially (because…reasons) like no offense to Athena because her and Ody have a really interesting dynamic and wisdom is a very prominent theme that follows Ody, but it doesn’t encapsulate the whole man

AND THEB IT TURNS OUT THEY’RE RELATED SO MY WOE OF A MISSED OPPORTUNITY WAS OVERTURNED

#tbh thsi could have been solve earlier for my heart if i bothered to look up Ody’s family tree before #also #ther hermes&ody dynamic fits (in the context of epic) Ody’s ideal of being mentored by a god #there’s less of a distance or prominent unbalance in their relationship #they can be friends and admit that #meanwhile Ody was the only one who wanted something more platonic w/ Athena while she kept it more professional & distanced #kinda wanna do an analysis on that for epic the musical but i wanna wait until Hermes shows up just so i have clear cut conparisons #odysseus #the odyssey #epic the musical #asks

[macroglossus]

being evaluated for adhd by having one of those full psych evals that last like two hours. scared frightened etc.... last time i took it i lied extensively bc i was 13 and thought they might tell my mommy if i said i had suicidal thoughts. and i still have a habit of lying to therapists bc i'm embarrassed......... AGH idk. what if i take it and they tell me that the reason im Like This is bc im genuinely just weird and shitty and not bc im mentally ill at all. SCARED

#which is dumb bc i have been formally diagnosed with multiple mental illnesses i dont think they can just take it back right????? #this is so stupid and cliche but what if i have been faking it........ all along........ Argh. #when i was in res i was put on adderall (bc the house psych just kind of experimented w meds LMFAO) and i had to go off them after like #two weeks bc it was affecting my appetite in a way i couldnt afford at the time lmao. but i do genuinely feel like it helped during that #time.... which is why i want to go on it again!!!! but im scared theyll just be like nah and i wont be able to take any of my meds anymore #is that crazy. am i being crazy rn. idk i truly do think most of my experiences w school and like. life could be explained by adhd and #when i was a kid they thought i had it but the two meds they tried didnt work for me so they just. kind of gave up #and i was really extremely unable to do school and graduated hs w an insanely low gpa and then dropped out of community college. LMAO. not #that people w adhd cant be good in school i just couldnt make myself do homework and couldnt listen in class bc i was too busy focusing on #listening. if that makes sense #IDK. idk. i know it's become like. a trend to have adhd is the issue and everything is being attributed to having it so im worried that ive #like. accidentally fallen in w that? even though ive thought i had it for forever and everyone has been like girl do you have this. IDK!!!! #idk. idkkkk im just like. genuinely scared. it's not the end of the world if im not diagnosed obviously but that means that #im just like this for no reason at all. and there's no way of helping it bc it's just the way i am. and i actually am just shitty n lazy. #epic. which incidentally is the proper name for how fucking long these tags are my bad. if you read this far sorry for being insane 👍

[todayisafridaynight]

I’m fairly new to the fandom, but I do have a question if you can answer it! Why do people ship Daigo with Aoki / Masato? I tried looking to see if they’ve interacted before, but couldn’t find anything! Sorry for asking I’m just </3 dumb AND I LOVE YOUR ART OF THEM!!! Nerd looking ahhhhhh

hi ! welcome to the community i hope you're having a lovely time so far and ty for enjoyin my stuff :) no need for apologies it's a very fair question to have :]

i cant speak for everyone (all. ten people into masadai anyway) but Personally To Me i just think the idea of them together is very funny. thats quite literally it im afraid..

#snap chats #//twenty page google doc in the background// ignore that. it's mostly for comedic purposes #might also be my fault idk sorry about that. allegedly. idk ive had like three people tell me they started to ship them cause of me 🧍‍♂️ #@mementoasts is another person who's drawn masadai and whose stuff i love and am inspod by .. i love their disneyland fic sm ... #there was another artist on twitter who posted a neat drawing of them but i cant remember who they were and i didnt bookmark it //screams// #recently there's been ANOTHER masadai artist ive started following on twitter - @wifekiryu. his account's n/s/f/w fyi before you go looking #he has a tumblr too @foxdies. i say cause i realized as much recently vjeaKLGJALKGJ #oh but I GUESS ill get deeper into why. /i/ personally ship masadai or whatever #first off they're opposing factions yet their character alignments Do Not Match their roles. stereotypically anyway #aoki who leads the 'surface' of society and is meant to be an admirable figure and someone 'just' when really. he sucks LMAO #though that's not atypical of politicians but just from a stereotypical This Is A Respectable Individual perspective of his role #daigo on the other hand leads the 'underbelly' of society- yk comprised of dangerous criminals and outcasts and whatnot #yet as we know him daigo's compassionate and considerate of his men- he doesnt treat them like tools like aoki does #if put in a room with the two daigo would be most people's choice of person to hang out with. probably open a trapdoor on aoki tbh #and i think thats really cool and epic i always love that kinda Subverting Expectations thing #theres also the fact they both started off like. edgy/angsty in the franchise and then brush up down the line #masato does a stronger 180. publicly. obviously but its still really funny they both have to get their act together #if you wanna talk about in-text reasons. there really is none LMAO I TELLS YOU masadai is pure crack #but if i wanted to pull a muscle reaching then there's daigo being on aoki's side while everyone else is on arakawa's during the funeral #im lying of course. mitsu was behind him. rgg tryna make me forget mitsu exist .... put him back in y8 .... #and ofc ichi joins that side to even out the seating but moving on another Goofy Reason is arakawa being like #'the chairman and my son are like p much the same age Surely he knows how he thinks :)' #and then i just think daigo being all smarmy about outsmarting aoki is really goofy and im choosing to interpret that as personal #they both also have issues with their dad. s. dad/s/. anyway. #tbh the google doc tag was a joke but i really could sit here and list every dumb reason why i think theyre funny together #like i started going over the tag limit so uhhhh yeah needless to say i have a lot of. dumb reasons 💀💀💀💀 #one day ill use the main text for long rambles like this but todays not that day Point Is my imagination is rampant im afraid #so the short and sweet of it is I Think It's Funny. And They'd Be Terrible Together. Which Is Why It's Funny. #and the unfortunate part is anything i find funny i obsess over for a year so. //gestures to the mountain of bullshit thats my masadai tag/

[quemirabobo]

Really?? This is pathetic, so ooc and meaningless, Gege come back, take another break or whatever and make jjk good again, I'm begging

#like PLEASE WTF WAS ALL THIS ARC?? #shit poor from the beginning #and it could have been epic just like Maki's arc or Shibuya or many others wd had before that #but now we have meaningless character and fights and deaths #I'm so mad #now I'll go back to finish the chapter #jjk leaks #jjk spoilers #jjk 249 #Jujutsu Kaisen

[rapidhighway]

ive been shaking for two days straigh now with it varying between like very tiny little tremors in my fingers to i cant put the key in the keyhole on scratch my face because i keep missing the spot so. ouough? hasn't really affected my ability to draw i think but im concerned

#im not stressed or particularly exhausted or anything so idk #rn im taking the stance of its either always been like this and im hyperaware of it now for a random reason #or im overreacting #and that itt :p #also i played dream team i have positive and negative thoughts but basically i think the game is fun but nothing epic that ill miss #once my free month of apple arcade runs out lmfao #very happy to be able to play with with a controller because it being on a touchscreen is absolute hell on earth like 100% of enjoyment #taken away in an instant #and then i saw i could connect a controller and suddenly it was a pretty good game #mad about the music

[coquelicoq]

just got a biopsy to see if my [checks notes] 15-week period is because of cancer. however then my friends drove me to get chocolate and the new martha wells novel so, you know, there are pros and cons here.

#the epic highs and lows of having a uterus #highs: people buy you chocolate!! #lows: all the other stuff :( #anyway i am. a lil stressed out lol #also pretty lightheaded! i'm not really even sure why because ok so yeah i was already anemic from the 15 weeks of bleeding #plus i was anemic before that also #plus there was a lot of blood during the biopsy. but i feel like that blood was just the stuff in my uterus that'd be coming out anyway #as opposed to new blood from within my veins or something #and i'm still sick lolllll #so it's a fun time. BUT! martha wells novel! and i lent all systems red to a friend who will hopefully become obsessed with murderbot #and talk to me about it constantly! (<-my endgame at all times) #it's so funny every time i've been to the doctor they're like 'date of your last period?' and i'm like april 9th. and it is ongoing. #and then we just 😬 at each other #anyway cross your fingers for me. apparently if the biopsy comes back negative they don't have other ideas for what could be going on #not sure how to feel about that. obviously i don't want to have cancer but it's very stressful not knowing what is going on #do i just bleed forever indefinitely??? i'll be real with you lads that doesn't seem great :/ #she was like next step would be to put in a hormonal iud and i was like that is absolutely not an option that i will consider #i would sooner get a hysterectomy #so idk maybe i will get a hysterectomy! biopsy results in a week. okay. ending the tags now #if anybody wants me to trigger tag for cancer mentions let me know and i can definitely do that going forward <3

[miraluking-respectfully]

For all my hipster pretensions, I do love Hunter. I also love the hyperspecific intricate, intense, and often erotic relationships everybody’s agent OCs have with him. It got me thinking about him and my own agent, and honestly?

He disappointed her. Deeply, and personally.

Like, okay, despite her misplaced fealty to the Empire, this is a woman who's had almost exclusively bad interactions with Force users in both camps. Her Sith grandfather belittled and tormented her for the crime of being born without her sister's powers. Her mother, his apprentice, only risked enough interference to keep her alive. When the same sister she was always compared to abandoned her and escaped to the Jedi (who then never let them contact each other again), Lyde only narrowly avoided being sent to Korriban in her place.

And then when she made it to Intelligence, Darth Jadus maimed her, compromised the missions of her employers, and critically endangered the Empire. One of her first missions as a faux-turncoat to the Republic was tracking down and incapacitating a fallen Jedi. The protégé she gained on Hoth? Another semi-Force sensitive, hiding from the Sith. Sith meddling dissolved Imperial Intelligence; Sith infighting ate up resources and cost Imperial lives on Corellia.

And, of course, the Dark Council called for her brainwashing, and a former Jedi abused it.

Sure, like Hunter said, the Star Cabal was never recruiting. There was no incentive for him to care about gaining Lyde's allegiance when he already had the remote to her shock collar, so to speak. But, holy shit, he had no clue how many concessions, how much sympathy to his cause he could have wrung out of the woman designated Cipher Nine, if he hadn't made her his whipping girl. If things had gone juuust a little bit differently, Hunter might've turned over the Black Codex, implored her to take care of it with his dying breath - and she might have fucking done it. Nobody, not the SIS, not Sith Intelligence, not even her former ImpInt superiors would have ever seen that data ever again.

But Hunter wasn't that sort of guy. What sort of guy he was learned Cipher Nine's codeword and used it every chance he got. He didn't have to pretend to play nice with her like with his other colleagues, so he made a point of whisking her brain like cake batter, and acted like it was the funniest thing in the world.

When the Dark Council pushed for Lyde's brainwashing, and when Ardun Kothe used it to control her, she was furious - but she wasn't offended. They're trained and powerful Force-sensitives, and as far as she's concerned it's in their nature to sting.

Hunter, though?

Hunter was a fellow frog.

#MY BROTHER IN THE EMBRACE OF THE FORCE. YOU COULD HAVE HAD IT ALL. #i swear i made up Lyde's backstory before i played the agent storyline at all & only had foggy 11-year-old memories of Jadus and noone else #it just happened to all follow so perfectly #imperial agent #swtor hunter #oc: lyde aniteon #yes i am writing oc meta yes i have not posted cursory oc backstories whatsoever. we exist #i keep looking at this and i don't love how i phrased everything but it's been sitting in the drafts too long #i guess my point is less ''local woman shocked that people other than force-sensitives can be dicks'' (that would be dumb) #& more ''fuck dude. shit. i was really hoping my cool epic rivalry enemy wouldn't literally be the exact same as my banal normal enemies'' #''more fool me for getting my fucking hopes up''

[spectrearia]

hhh found some photos of old disney trips from several years back and it just made me really sad that the parks are nothing like what they were back then anymore. i still feel like it was probably best in the 90s and early 2000s (from what i've seen in videos documenting that time frame, and from the few trips my fam went on as well), but i ended up visiting more often in the 2010s and i still really enjoyed it;;

i miss walking around and just drinking in the atmosphere and theming honestly. sucks that its a mess now and you're paying so dang much for lackluster quality and there's no room for spontaneous flexibility within your visit because of the stupid genie+ app and insane wait times for Everything. the fact that there's no real "off season" anymore because it's Always Busy is a terrible reality as well. *sigh*

#nothing compares to the atmosphere of the disney parks and thats what makes it so sad that it's changed a lot #i've also heard that cleanliness has degraded a lot as well #which isn't . good. #never been big on most universal IPs #so that park never interested me cuz i have no attachment to anything offered within it #but i have been a few times since i stopped going to disney and i did enjoy it; mostly just the islands of adventure #but even still i do miss wandering around epcot and animal kingdom the most :'c #universal doesn't really come close to that but hopefully the new epic universe will prove to be better than where disney's at now #anyway . i just got hit with a wave of nostalgia for a time that can't ever be replicated again i guess #i'm glad i could enjoy those trips while i could tho #spectre says #(not letting anyone reblog this because i dont want to accidentally start any Discourse lol) #OK WAIT CORRECTION. #universal's portofino hotel is absolutely GORGEOUS and i genuinely loved it so so much #and volcano bay was really fun and immersive too; mega props to them for that one #so universal does have some offerings that i really liked!!! #but as a whole i just like some of the theming of the disney parks better; mostly the stuff that doesn't rely on existing IP