and if I said that dennis’ insistence on being the breadwinner/provider despite literally being a pampered princess who dgaf about traditional roles of masculinity in every other regard (aside from ego) is because his mom only stayed with/chose frank for his wealth and dennis is highly aware that he’s difficult to love and unable to show his emotions openly so he has to be contributing something to the relationship materially in order to feel like he’s worth staying for… and mac grew up with parents who were extremely ambivalent to him and eachother so he has to overcompensate by proving his worth at every given moment and seeking praise/validation from people (and religious icons) who will never demonstrate the same amount of dedication to him but he has no idea how else to desperately keep himself close to those he loves other than by eroding himself into something they’ll approve of… dear god they’re both exactly what the other needs — someone who can’t and won’t leave them even if they try — and they don’t even see it…
if you're wondering why I kind of abandoned this blog, there's several reasons (fandom just doesn't feel fun anymore, I'm trying to cut back on screen time, I've been feeling like my faith is in contradiction to what I see/read/interact with on here is for years and years now) but the final straw has been what I see on my dash every day about Israel/Palestine.
I keep seeing people I used to interact with and used to like now peddling conspiracy theories, debunked claims, inflammatory headlines, and even bloodthirsty rhetoric with tens of thousands of notes (when corrections of those posts get ~500 notes at best), and reacting to nuanced conversations like they're calls for hatred, all while turning a blind eye to the very literal vicious hatred or sheer ignorance in many of those big posts. The level of black-and-white thinking is so strong that we are wayyyy past 'us-vs-them,' we're in the kind of discourse where even 'know thy enemy' (being interested in understanding the opposing arguments even just so you can dismantle them) is considered hatred - people can't be bothered to know what they're arguing for or against, nothing short of plugging your ears and screaming for the death of the Bad People is enough. This is a wave of just about the most hypocritical, callous and uninformed 'activism' this website has ever been guilty of and it's too much. I'm done with this.
And yes, this is about antisemitism. You can all shout 'not antisemitic, just anti-zionist' all day long but you have done jack shit to prove you don't hate Jews beside chanting 'punch a nazi' in the same breath you use KKK slurs and cheer for groups that have 'curse the Jews' in their slogan. I trust none of you anymore.
(Psst, also I love the way you draw the beloved skrunklies both accurate and inaccurate! They're all beloved and always are a treat to see on the dashboard. Hope you have a nice day!)
aww tysm!! ^^ i hope your day is going well too!!
here's a doodle i made recently with both of those styles X)
makes u all look at my favorite OoT development interview (this is the Zelda Dungeon translation of it, there are probably other versions out there)
original japanese interview is here. but anyway yeah i like going thru old interviews from the late 90s/early 00s sometimes because you can find little gems like this? which i think can help give more context for how parts of the games were originally conceptualized, and with this one, the description of Ganondorf’s first appearance as a human being as intentionally neutral, in contrast to his previous appearances as Ganon, presenting his origins as a human containing good & evil, and them having to actually dial back the deviousness of his first voice recordings to better suit him, is. it’s just very very precious to me lol
also the staff having a funny nickname for him based on the name of a cold medicine they had on hand, bc so many of them kept coming down with colds at the time is very cute ahsfjsjfhsk
The duality between fanders who view Janus as the shortest side versus the ones who view him as one of the tallest is a duality I will always enjoy because it demonstrates how we perceive these characters differently in ways that even include their visible heights despite them all technically having Thomas’s height.