#EVERYONE'S FUCKING DEAD BRO!!!!!!!!

[fourswords]

nobody ever talks about how numerous and massive the graveyards in zelda 2 are. you've got two smaller graveyard sites (one to the west by spectacle rock [in the area where the original legend of zelda took place] and one to the east directly above the abandoned town of old kasuto) and then you've got the GIGANTIC graveyard smack in the middle of the map by the island palace. and the fact that the map is actually scaled so everything looks smaller and there isn't much detail on the map (so link could travel longer distances without the devs having to use more disk space. there's a more eloquent and correct way of putting it but i just woke up and my brain isn't functioning yet) means that all the graves you see on the zelda 2 map are actually multiplied if you scaled up to see them better. like. okay. here are the maps for zelda1 and zelda2

you see how the graveyard in zelda1 is so big already, with many more graves than are pictured on the zelda2 map? and how small it looks by comparison on the zelda2 map?

basically. what that means is. the GIANT graveyard site in the middle of the map? it's ten times bigger than it actually looks. it's got ten times the amount of graves. i'm sure i could do some math with the graves pictured on the zelda2 map and the graves that are actually there on the zelda1 map and figure out how many graves are ACTUALLY there but. again. i just woke up. and also given that these are games from the 80s i'm sure there would actually be even MORE graves that just aren't pictured because they could only fit so much into the games. anyway. "hyrule was on the road to ruin" indeed.....

[badolmen]

I wish we got more moments of the Walkers being Family like. The opening of “Brave New World” where Hesh says he let Logan sleep a bit longer because he figured he could use the rest set the bar too high for the rest of the campaign. You don’t really get anything like that line again - there’s the “Sin City” and “The Ghost Killer” cutscenes as well but those are both high tension, ‘holy shit don’t hurt my brother/I am dying son but I’m proud of you’ lines. And honestly Hesh’s “All or Nothing” Rorke File where he talks about his misplaced guilt after losing Elias…it’s almost a bit weird that he doesn’t reference how Logan is handling it at all (especially considering he was the one manhandled into shooting their father).

I guess the first unlockable Rorke File where Elias talks about taking the boys to the beach counts, and Hesh’s “Logan’s got my back, and I got his. He’s my brother.” but it just feels a bit stilted compared to the natural tenderness of the “Brave New World” opening.

[imminent-danger-came]

Can we take a moment to appreciate how many hats SWK manages to keep crammed on his head in lmk?

That man was doomed by the narrative, is mourned by the narrative, is and was haunted by the narrative AND is haunting the narrative, all at the same time! And lmk isn’t his story, and he doesn’t think of it as his story, and he doesn’t want it to be his story, but it’s also exactly his story, just a little to the left, and he is trying to remove himself from this new story, but also can't escape it because this isn't his story but also it is, and he's taking steps to ensure this don’t end up like his story, and is accidentally contributing to problems that are making it like his story all over again as a result. What a character!

To quote Anne Carson,

"To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing".

I think, strangely enough, most characters in Lego Monkie Kid are living past the end of their myth (jttw). You have Wukong who is the only original pilgrim still alive and around, you have Tang, Mei, Pigsy, and Sandy who are all reincarnations of the pilgrims (supposedly), and then you have all the antagonists who try and continue their stories in their own way. DBK was freed from under the mountain, almost killing his wife and son in his continued pursuit of world domination. LBD escaped her prison early, continuing her plan for a perfect world which ended in her defeat, her end. Spider Queen refused to accept the end of her empire, and ultimately was killed by LBD for it. Azure Lion had been sealed in the scroll, and after being released immediately tried to continue his rebellion, his hubris, martyrdom, and refusal to change becoming his downfall.

I think in Wukong's own way, he does something similar—falling into old habits and becoming his own undoing. His search for the samadhi fire was exactly what Macaque was upset about in the 4x11 argument:

"You're the one always running off! Searching for more power, or more sources of immortality: you're the one who wouldn't quit while we were ahead!"

MK earlier in the special makes the point "Why didn't he just stop, right here? He was already so much stronger than anyone ever needed to be." to which Macaque replies, "Wukong didn't think so, he always thought he had to be stronger—more immortal." And that's what he does in s2 isn't it? He still isn't strong enough. He can't defeat LBD, so he has to go find the power that will make him strong enough to do just that—and Wukong finds the samadhi fire. Which in turn leaves MK behind, and has him relive his life's story again.

Like, this dude is CRAZZZYYYY

[satoruxx]

i was hoping to wake up and see that last night’s leaks were a joke but clearly the universe hates me…

[nikonuee]

Man, I wanna play DBD so bad but multiplayer games are the devil ://

[disturbedheart]

Nothing honest to god bothers me more than when I buy something for myself or bring something home for ME and out of the kindness of my heart I decide to share it, and it all fucking disappears in 7 seconds. Like those wipes were meant for ME but I left them out for everyone and now they're almost half gone cause my sibling uses them nonstop and leaves the god damn thing open so they DRY OUT when I've told them twice already not to 🤦‍♀️ and I hate to be a mean bitch but I bought those specifically for myself for very specific situations and not just because I need to tinkle 🤦‍♀️ those things were NOT CHEAP BRO

[eff-plays]

Came up with an idea for a scene in my fic and I'm trying to find a balance between letting Astarion show the same sort of care and emotional maturity for Hira that he shows for a Durge character without making it too twee and OOC 🤔

[ssiegfriedsystem]

「A hundred years had passed. So, so much has changed in the world, but not as much to Kazukiー

And the golden vestiges of someone still donning an all too familiar scar, smiling on the back of his mind.」

[todayisafridaynight]

lit cannot stress how much fuckability masato lost after becoming aoki like emo death is real and its so so tragic

[bibleofficial]

i genuinely think the worst place to live in the world is fucking belgium like bro why the FUCK does EVERYTHING CLOSE AT LIKE 6/7 IN THE EVENING do NONE of yall WORK

[lunarcigar]

Imagine waking up from a coma to see your ex girlfriend and your cop friend and they instantly have beef with you

[guideaus]

early Trigun is funny because I think the deeper content revolving around the plant conflicts wasn't quite planned (?) early on, so you have scenes like

which make no sense with scenes later on like these

[flovverworks]

gonna ramble again n continue my mika talk so teehee gbf spoilers but itd be So easy to drop her n shitori into mhyk n i think about that sometimes. cuz loki n fenrir r trickier what with them teasing lokis place in astral society and fenrirs a primal beast n idk what to do w that, but mika majorly could just be copypaste more or less

[dead-core]

maybe i should just let the ana kill me

[moderngirlmp3]

as a society i think we need to talk less about eddie munson

[caimitos]

my entire twitter tl fighting for its life because of a mcdonalds ad