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Revisiting a piece I made for @/Nerdy_Toast_ ; Mel x Revali She got a new design, so I wanted to revisit the piece xD

#not my art #botw #loz oc #revali

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The thing about people talking about how much they hate children is that I've never seen any correlation between "openly expressed loathing of children" and "support for policies that actively harm children."

In contrast, when people go out of their way to tell you how much they love children and want to protect children, it's at least a 50/50 chance that you are about to hear support for the most actively evil assault on children's rights and dignity that you can possibly imagine.

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Fanart

Tears of the Kingdom - King Rauru

#not my art #rauru #totk

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#not my art #twilight princess #midna

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I'm gonna say it:

Astor (AOC) was a bigger threat than Ganondorf (TOTK) was, in regards to the gameplay. Yes, I know The Calamity was the ultimate threat and not Astor, but that's just lore. What matters is that when the AOC plot said, "It's time to get serious about this story now," it actually got serious. Rather than TOTK's idea of "boy, it's sure going to get serious once you hit this area and trip an event flag!"

Like, TOTK Ganondorf's idea of being 'evil' was to make a puppet Zelda and go around and mess with Hyrule, doing everything from pranking some of the stables to summoning monsters to invade the temples. And because the game is open world, it makes for some really weird tone shifts. Things ranging from "our city is being overrun by unkillable monsters" to "there's a talking chicken spreading rumors." And where was Ganondorf? Down in the core of the earth, being evil. The biggest AND ONLY threat he ever directly posed to Link was in their final fight. There was nothing in the story itself to suggest that he posed any kind of threat. Especially because he made it look like Zelda was the one behind it all.

But Astor! We saw him working with/manipulating the Yiga in his plans. He lured the gang into the Lost Woods as a trap and sent the Hollows after them, coming within inches of killing Zelda. He managed to release the Calamity early. He tore the souls out of the Yiga to re-summon the Blights! He went after Zelda himself! And when it happens, it feels impactful, because of how the story unfolds in the game play. The tone shifts; you lose access to the Champs from every game menu once they're trapped in the Divine Beasts. When the Calamity hits, the tone of the entire game shifts. You're not on some action-packed adventure fighting off the Yiga clan anymore; now the apocalypse has happened and you're still alive, trying to find a way to reverse it. And throughout everything, you know that Astor is the one behind it and he's the one you have to stop. Even with the Calamity as the greater scope villain in the background, Astor is still the focal point.

So yeah, from a gameplay and story perspective, even if Astor was a flat character, he at least acted like he was trying to destroy Hyrule. Ganondorf did fuck all in TOTK. All his action scenes were flashbacks. Lazy ass man couldn't even be bothered to trek up to the surface and destroy a village or two to show he meant business.

#totk #age of calamity #astor #ganondorf #i think this just speaks to the problem with open world games in general #and perhaps even most RPG type games #you can always delay the doom by not advancing to the certain point in the story #you can just spend forever at the golden saucer playing games #or running around hyrule finding koroks #totk had some good story moments but they just didn't come together #and botw just didn't have enough of the champions to make me really care about them except for urbosa (loved her instantly)... #...and revali (salty birb grew on me) #but aoc had a way better balance of gameplay and story #yeah i like aoc more than botw #but it's close #if you could give me botw/totk style exploration and maneuvering and aoc style combat and group mechanics then i would be very very happy #(also cutscene replay (not memories) would be nice)

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A hummingbird thought a man’s orange hat was a flower [x]

#birb #video #poor confused lil guy

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Next up: the heron! Another from this series.

#birb #herons my beloved #thanks for the tag!

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@zeawesomebirdie @unmaskedcardinal

Happy world penguin day!

HAPPY WORLD PENGUIN DAY!!!

#birb #gif

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catholic guilt vs protestant belief in your own inherent superiority, fight

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Reblog if you love AO3 and appreciate their volunteers who are working harder than God, fighting battle after battle, making sure the place that is a safe space for every fandom is staying up and running for all of us

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*Sees a thoroughly rusted Cybertruck abandoned by the side of the road*

Me: "Wow, how far in the future did we go?"

My time-traveller friend: "About two weeks."

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Remember that the calls for the national guard to intervene are calls to use state violence against Palestinian, Jewish, Arab, Muslim and other pro-Palestine students. They’re calling for deadly violence against Jews in the name of “anti-antisemitism.”

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His Undulations

#birb #video

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One thing that helps me calm down about intra-left-wing sniping and the reality that the big center-left coalition inevitably includes a lot of ridiculous nonsense, is to remember how ubiquitous seances were to progressive politics in the 19th century.  Like, e.g., Frederick Douglas had to go to so many seances. Many, many political strategy sessions around the country had to include feedback from the ghost of Moses who spoke to us via morse code.  

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