#Egypt Outfit

[blackbackedjackal]

I love her your honor

[blackautmedia]

The Problem with the Gerudo | Orientalism in Legend of Zelda

EDIT: Because I made an updated and more in-depth version of this now that Tears of the Kingdom has been out longer, I've posted the updated link here in place of the original.

With the release of Tears of the Kingdom, we have to have this discussion again. The desert vai outfit was racist, not that the game removed it to address that, but the Gerudo are built entirely on orientalist tropes that go beyond just the outfit. We also talk about orientalism as shown in works like Aladdin and Ducktales.

Some Excerpts:

I'm not saying to abandon the idea of queering Link entirely, but only to understand that Legend of Zelda relies very heavily on a number of euro-fantasy tropes that rely on presenting numerous non-white people as exotic playthings and to consider the position that puts queer non-white folks in.

The entire scene of Link getting the Vai outfit and questioning the man giving it to him is built on transphobia.

This isn't queer expression, it's racial exoticism. They're not imagined as people with a society that makes sense, everything around them being so fixated on finding men and having Link and other white guys infiltrating their space.

Orientalism at its core is an imagined vision of real oppressed people by a dominant group in a way that excludes them from their own portrayal and reinforces real-world systemic oppression.

Entire fictional groups in Zelda such as the Rito, Twili, Zonai, Gorons, and Deku Scrubs to name a few incorporate racial coding in addition to the Gerudo. That recontextualizes how we look at say how the Deku are portrayed in Majora's Mask where they're jungle dwelling savages boiling this monkey alive because they think he kidnapped their princess. This is where racial coding comes into play because Nintendo is using a racial trope commonly used to depict Black and several native indigenous people as barbaric.

The Gerudo in Ocarina of Time are depicted as a race of desert-dwelling thieves. You're formally introduced gameplay wise when you have to sneak around their hideout and free these men who were seduced by what the game presents to us as dangerous but irresistible women. Despite being a group of almost entirely women, their society is patriarchal as the in-game lore states the lone man born every century is destined to be their leader. The Gerudo also go out into Hyrule to go find boyfriends.

Ocarina of Time is one of the earliest Zelda games to portray a human or human-like version of Ganon, the man of the desert he's repeatedly called, but they use racial coding with his human counterpart and make him an Arab man with some other cultures mashed in, which they also conflated with Islam to characterize him as evil and dangerous.

Ocarina of Time goes a step further as the recurring symbol of the Gerudo shown here is an altered version as seen on the mirror shield obtained in the spirit temple. The original symbol is a crescent moon and star very closely resembling the symbol of Islam. A common orientalist trope that does this is the conflation of Arabs with the religious faith of Islam. This was changed alongside prayer chanting used in music for the fire temple on some N64 cartridges and subsequent ports and the DS remake of Ocarina of Time.

The fact that Nintendo is a Japanese company doesn't magically make them immune to these issues, especially because 1) orientalism doesn't only encompass Asian people and 2) Even the term "Asian" encompasses countless subcommunities each with very distinct histories.

[malachimoet]

Something came over me to make an anthro egyptian umbreon oc, but then it turned into a full fledged art piece. 

[fairmerthefarmer]

Anyone else remember/play cluefinders?

[novahazard24]

A bunch of JV!Nemo sketches because I am not normal about this man

[b4rfbrain]

[she-wee]

Noah if the inside of the cake was pink

Egypt fit!!! / "I'm gonna skin. Kris." / (All of them should've had and Egypt fit tbh...) / shining w/ sweat

"Let's do this before Alejandra shows up and makes me do it because in the shortest."

So sorry pookies guys they are kind of blurry tbh

[hoperaypegasus]

I just realized something about Nile’s eye makeup. 

His bey is obviously based on Horus, the Egyptian god. And everything about Nile, legit down to the fact he has the same name as the major river in Egypt, seems to be a reference to his heritage. However his makeup doesn’t really look like Horus’s symbol, the eye of Horus. It doesn’t look like the eye of Ra either in my opinion, it seems both stylized and different from both famous symbols. 

Instead, they are deliberately asymmetrical, as if they represent different things. These are supposed to show something. The kid version of me in my head who was obsessed with mythologies told me I was forgetting something that I definitely should know. So I dusted off my old books and did a bit of digging. And...

The deity Horus is a sky deity. And in early texts, his eyes were described as the sun and moon, before they were split up between Horus and Ra later on. More specifically, his right eye was the sun and his left was the moon.

The makeup under Nile’s right eye predominantly features a triangle, like a sun ray. And the makeup under his left features what looks to be a geometric crescent, like the moon.

...His makeup is a nod to the early translations of Horus’s eyes.

[pan-gya]

long time no gray

Reblogs welcome

[lord-of-tomatoes]

Fem egy my beloved <3

[bensalah96]

Happy birthday to me

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[mytale0]

One country one outfit 🔥

Egypt :

( the "I ❤️ Palestine" shirt is from https://bkaz.fr/)

[puzzledmemories]

(To Atem, off of the meme)

What’cha Thinkin Bout?

Send “What’cha Thinkin Bout?” And my muse will tell you something that’s been on their mind lately… ((always accepting!))

"For a long time, inhabiting the puzzle and during my time sharing Yugi's body, I did not need to sleep. In the afterlife, of course, I didn't need it either. I was cast from the afterlife and given my own body as a punishment for saving Yugi against Aigami, and I suppose needing sleep is one of those things the gods view as a punishment."

"In all honesty, though, needing sleep isn't something I mind. Getting tired is still a weird feeling, just as much as hunger is. After a lifetime's worth of trials and nonstop danger, however, it's nice to be able to just rest."

[kirstythejetblackgoldfish]

Muammar's cousin Ahmed did an interview with Saudi-based Al-Arabiya

He said that Muammar was 'a rebel and revolutionary', not a 'traditional ruler'

He also talked about Hannibal and Saif

[naomiknight-17]

One neat thing about staying at the Sheraton in downtown Toronto is apparently some airline staff stays there between flights out of Billy Bishop Airport and we got to see some neato flight attendant uniforms

Look at how crisp the KLM folks are

And the babes from Egypt Air???

We even saw some people from Etihad Airways, which I hadn't seen before! They're based in Abu Dhabi and had more subdued, but still snazzy uniforms:

Like dang, who is designing all these uniforms? They're all so distinct, unique and fab

[mountain-toes]

God..,au??? Um