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Nap time!

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shocking how much of writing is putting down a sentence and then thinking, "okay, but now a less shitty version of that"

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So I brought back grampa four… Only good things could come out of that right haha

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I have... the one and only 24 carat gold wolf...

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ominous

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my favorite genre of a four + wild dynamic in a fic where either one relates a little too hard they hurt Their Own Feelings

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as a writer, i love considering how turns of phrase are different depending on the world youre writing in. for example, being called a cucco in the LOZ universe has such opposite connotations to being called a chicken in ours that its comical

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man, The Character really strikes me as someone who would struggle with Same Problems I Have, for no apparent reason

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the thing is so many people try so hard to "understand" ganondorf but in order to do that you have to acknowledge that

1. loz is imperialist and orientalist in its themes

2. its narrative in some games functions more as propaganda rather than any sort of fairy tale-esque fantasy story

that is to say the orientalist themes wrt to ganondorf start when they decided to take the main antagonist, originally only a non-human monster, and portray him as a man from the desert with every possible caricaturization

and, a lot of the way that the hylian monarchy is portrayed is based on both medieval europe and japanese myth — the latter especially embodying the "divine emperor" ideology, which was something that was often utilized to justify imperialist aggression from japan, by inculcating the belief that the emperor was divinely ordained to rule the world

and b. what i mean that loz narratively functions more like propaganda than a fairy tale-esque fantasy in some games, is that there is no coherent moral statement to be found. particularly in ocarina of time and totk (the latter of which is sort of a revisit of the former) ganondorf does not actually function as any sort of parable. which is why any attempts to analyze and determine his goals beyond "evil guy from the desert wants to steal our grass" hits a dead end. you can't determine any sort of moral statement or anything about ganondorf's actual character just from looking at the source material alone. which is why so many people who analyze these things often come to these conclusions — not because we're trying to "defend" or ""woobify"" ganondorf, but because the writing in loz often makes it hard to come to any other conclusion with him besides this "fear of the other," that the demon from the desert will ruin everything you know and love

i'm quoting someone else on this but ganondorf as portrayed in canon is only whatever he needs to be in order to justify the fantasy of killing him

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hate that like every iteration of zelda is skinny. put some meat on her bones hylia is literally fat

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imagine the ''four gets messed up by portals'' trope, but set right in the beginning of linked universe, when everyone's meeting for the first time

example: imagine everyone gets thrown through the portals, ending up at the same place, and while 8 of them are freaking out like "WHERE AM I. WHAT HAPPENED. WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE" the camera just pans over to four, solidly out cold on the ground

the poor guy

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Nichest headcanon for a character?

Day 114: Crash out

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please wait while he travels across your dash, he's on a very important mission