#Link shocked

[ovegakart]

What she said.

[uncharted-constellations]

Them, your honor

Anyways thank you echoes for giving poor a-ttp link a rest

[ghelullu]

Orlando, 02.11.2016 - Video by Phil Lutz

Papa is handed a painting of himself by someone in the audience and proudly displays it on stage for the rest of the ritual.

[off-mozzarella]

Can't wait to see what they're up to

[nell0-0]

Prologue 1

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[fetidbog]

I find the Dark Dany conversation really confusing (and maybe part of this is because I haven't watched the show, and I think a lot of analysis of Dany's arc is wrapped up in trying to use the show as a barometer for where George is going to end up – which I don't agree with), because I feel like she already had her Dark Dany arc and the end of ADWD is her realization that compromising with the masters is bad! You can make no peace with slavery!

Her last two chapters seem really clear to me as a denunciation of compromise in the face of moral evil!

Here's her second to last chapter (when she's going to the re-opening of the fighting pits):

The "floppy ears" comment is in reference to the tokar, the outfit of the ruling (former slave owning) class. Brown Ben Plumm makes a joke that if you want to be king of the rabbits, you have to wear floppy ears, and so Dany refers to blending in with the ruling class (again, the former slave owners!) and adopting their customs as putting on her floppy ears. Here she describes how putting on the floppy ears, the symbol of her attempt to compromise with slavers!, will keep her cool and hide any blood splatters. But she also acknowledges little about this day shall please her – she knows the compromise is wrong.

Dany is upset that that so little has changed despite ending slavery. "One step, then the next, but where is it I'm going?" is Dany questioning herself about if she's taken the right approach to agreeing to reconstruct Meereenese society under the influence of/beholden to the whims of the former masters. Has she compromised her entire abolitionist project?

Dany witnesses Barsena's violent death in the fighting pits. The boar realizes he can't charge Barsena directly (much like how the masters of Meereen have changed tactics. Instead of fighting Dany directly, they are manipulating her into compromise, attempting to provoke and misdirect her, and waging violent guerrilla war from the shadows with the Sons of the Harpy).

Barsena is brave, but dies horribly in front of the crowd, and Dany is sickened. The sequence ends with her TAKING OFF HER FLOPPY EARS, the symbol of her compromise with slavers, because she can no longer ignore the violence of the fighting pits and the moral rot of appeasement.

She's realizing the depths of her mistake in compromising.

I am looking into hell (the fighting pits), but I dare not look away (instead of allowing Hizdahr and the rest of the masters to convince her to ignore the problem and lead her astray).

If I run from him, he will burn me and devour me (the moral consequences of compromising with slavers will destroy her.

And here's her final chapter (where she's wandering lost with Drogon):

"That was where she belonged, surely" – she's trying to convince herself that her place is in Meereen, back with her husband. She's telling herself to keep walking forward despite the previous chapter's quote about "one step, then the next, but where is it I'm going?"

I also think this part about Drogon is interesting – is she talking about the path of moral truth, that she shouldn't have bowed to whip or words (of the ruling class)? Or is she talking about the rot of slavery, that she can't turn the masters away from it if they do not wish to be turned?

And then! In this next paragraph she contradicts the previous statement, saying "Drogon had bent before the whip, and so must she"

But she believes that her place is in the arms of her noble husband, the husband who has pressured her to reopen the fighting pits, which she knows is evil, that's the realization she has in the last chapter! So she's conflicted here, and I think we're supposed to be taking away that she shouldn't do that. Her place is not there! She should not bend!

Then Dany describes the blisters she gets "from the way [she] walk[s]" a clear callback to the line in her last chapter "one step, then the next, but where is it I'm going?" – the path of compromise is quite literally hurting her!

Dany has to remember who she is – someone who abhors slavery, who doesn't compromise on her principles.

She's sick, dehydrated, hallucinating (and seemingly having a miscarriage), all alone at her lowest point, and finally she realizes Meereen is not her home and never will be! She cannot be a Harpy!!!

[prettyboysdontlookatexplosions]

fwiw the student quoted in nymag saying something like she spends so much time on tiktok it's hard not to use chatgpt for schoolwork showed up in the r/professors discussion of the article sharing that (1) she's since quit using chatgpt and feels really proud of herself for finishing her first year without chatgpt (2) she hadn't realized how much self-confidence in her writing she'd lost and she used to really enjoy writing and that went away when she started using ai (3) she does like tiktok but is prone to hyperbole and in fact most of her time is in fact taken up by school/work/sports/socializing and in the past week she's done 9 hours of tiktok which virtually no one #onhere has any standing to give any shit about lol (4) two of her professors in her first semester allowed chatgpt use as long as it was cited which, like, yeah that's gonna confuse a lot of 18 year olds

[rainibao]

"I like that answer! It's exactly what I was thinking! You really are interesting...I wonder if your friend would also think the same way."

Version where I make lyrical references to 血色风浪/bloody storm

[kikker-oma]

Skyfall part 2

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Part One

[clowns0up-felix]

💛 Send this to the twelve nicest people you know or who seem to have a good heart and if you get five back you must be pretty awesome!!! 💛

AWAWAHHH YAYYYY TY TY ^_^ 🧡🧡

CS mask if that’s anything :P

[chained-spirits]

Double the CS, double the fun

Culture Shock by @nell0-0

[mochiobonio]

a bittersweet reunion, where sidon thought for sure Link's life was lost during the Upheaval :')

[hxney-lemcn]

I can't take on anymore wips right now (I have like 20 staring at me) so I thought I'd come share the idea with you!

Imagine being Time's younger sibling that got lost and you find him again at like idk 20 is and he's 30ish and with the chain... except you somehow ended up in Legend's time and you're married to Legend. (That sounds like a MESS and possible fluff)

You don't recognize Time, last you saw, he was still that little boy, and you were even younger than him... but you do see your husband and that's the important thing.

But Time recognizes you and probably watches you and Legend is just over here like 'why are you watching my spouse that close???'

Maybe you grew up with the Kokiri too, another hylian given to the forest before you got pulled through time.

Anyway just thought I'd share

-Misty

OMG I FORGOT TO RESPOND TO THIS I'M SO SORRY T_T

Lets say you were also raised with the kokiri cause I feel like that would make the most sense. Time is gone, Deku tree is dead, monsters have invaded the once pristine home of the kokiri. You wander through the forest to clear your mind when suddenly the branches start twisting, your scenery slowly changing from a forest you recognize to one you don't. You panic, trying to retrace your steps, but you only find more of a forest you've never seen a day in your life.

That's when you stumble upon Legend who was on one of his many adventures. He takes you with when you explain the situation, promising to bring you back home...except your home is in another time, so you settle with Legend.

Time passes, (I think Legend is still kinda young in lu so I'm gonna say fiances??), Legend proposes to you, then he's whisked away once more when you both thought he could finally settle down and live a normal life. Your heart broken, taking care of his house with Ravio until your hero, no, love comes back.

Oh boy, and once he does it's nothing but chaos. There are now 8 other heros, but only one has you dropping your broom. You don't notice the way the oldest one looks at you in surprise, too focused on rushing towards Legend and tackling him in a hug. The others laugh and joke but Time is stuck in place. All he knew was that you had gone missing shortly after him, he hadn't seen you since, but here you were, completely happy and healthy...hugging Legend in a way that seemed a bit too happy.

"Didn't think Legend had it in him," Wars jokes, clapping the blonde on the back.

"You're married!?" Wind shouts.

"Engaged," You correct with a shy smile.

Time felt like he was going to puke.

[marenwithanm]

@socialc1imb has a devastating au where Vio dies and comes back as a redead called forgotten fourth. Since the Zelda games love to use time travel all the time forever, I thought what if Vio, before he died and before he got wrapped up in whatever it is that killed him, wanted to see if he could figure out time travel for funsies, and accidentally goes like a year into the future. Cuz then the other links get to see an alive Vio again but it can't last. Anyways obviously this won't happen at all and isn't possible in forgotten fourth, but I thought it was a fun idea so I doodled it.

[cyber-geist]

Made some little Clay Koroks for my Roomates birthday! Enjoy ;)

[nell0-0]

It's been some time since I last drew my boy Mask ^^