#adding this to that bc i .. ranted again

[trashcanwithsprinkles]

This might be a bit random but would you say you have any thoughts on Neurodivergent readings of Zhongli (more specifically autistic)? I was thinking about it in the latest chapter of JG amd even before then too. as an autistic person myself i feel he reads very heavily as such, especially when talking about his human mask and feeling like he doesn't need to force it as much with childe, and his issues with human expression in smiling etc. but I think it's then an interesting debate between that and the fact that, well, he's just not human. that all comes from a place of being an entirely different species, unevolved and unrelated to human brains and how they think and read social patterns, and I feel we don't really have any way of telling if ZL has any divergent tendencies among dragons right? and even then he's half, too, so that affects things.

anyway sorry for the ramble I was mainly wondering if you had any opinions on the matter, or if you intended the parallels I definitely see while reading your Zhongli! love your work as always <3333

i think i might've commented on this at some point but never directly, so here – i do have thoughts on the matter!

as you mentioned, it's difficult to tell with characters that aren't human, because you can't call something 'neurodivergent' if the bases for their neurotypical-ity are not the ones by which we measure this stuff. so, to me, ALL non-human characters are neurodivergent-coded. they may not be neurodivergent, technically speaking (like how you mentioned, maybe all dragons are just like zl), but to us, they read as such. so, coded. ultimately i do think there is merit in labeling them as neurodivergent because, even if they, again, technically aren't; we are going to run into problems if we attempt to treat them as neurotypical, so we might as well say yeah, neurodivergent. it is also kinda correct anyway – they do diverge from us. that's a fact. it's like saying dogs are colorblind. if all dogs see in the same range, then you can't say your dog in specific is colorblind (unless it actually is but that's beside the point); but compared to us, from our perspective, for what it matters to us and how that will translate into how we treat them then yes! dogs are colorblind! i think i mentioned it once in conjunction with characters like alhaitham. to me, zhongli is neurodivergent-coded, while alhaitham is neurodivergent straight-up. because (as far as we know) he's human, so his brain should, in theory, be like ours.

as for which flavor of neurodivergency zl is coded to have in specific i would agree with you on autism! but then again, i'm not an expert on these things, i don't know the exact ins and outs and the specific characteristics that constitute an autistic character – i just write them the way i perceive them, with the quirks i perceive them to have. not to get preachy but i think that's the better way to write characters in general, since that's how real people work, after all. people with autism aren't born fitting some parameters that will make them autistic – they're born with specific quirks that we then interpret as autism, and even then you don't necessarily get two people having the exact same experience with this. most of these terms are umbrella terms regardless as to how well-defined or how big or small the umbrella is.

so yeah!

[seventh-district]

“Why’s he call you Darlin’?”

on my knees begging my brain to stop trying to associate this song with Sam

[smalltimidbean]

I think I figured out why that coffee was shit - it was sweetened with something artificial, which usually tastes chemical to me - so egg on my face for not reading close enough, but I was also in a rush so oughhrt

But I did put real sugar in it and it was like 10% better, so I chugged the rest and I have atoned for my sins today

ALSO While I am on the topic of coffee - was anyone gonna tell me that you can buy like coffee concentrate and put it in milk and have an iced coffee in like 30 seconds???

Have I been making my iced coffees like a dummy for years, by making a big jug of hot coffee and waiting for it to cool down and then making my gay little coffee hours later???

And they have like flavours and shit, whaddahell

[raddest-laddest]

ok. someone’s gonna have to come get my dad or i’m gonna tweak.

[ganondoodle]

Oh man I saw your totk issues post and I agree 100%!! Those are all things that have really bothered me about playing totk, and things that made playing it not nearly as fun (the dungeons, the shrines, the building, etc).

Especially the map!! When I tell you I was so disappointed by the maps on totk, I was hoping for something new! It really just feels like a modded botw, not an official sequel.

I was wondering what your thoughts are on the concept of “what if they had sent link to the past instead”? So the surface map would feature huge differences in the land forms and buildings that exist, and we’d get to see more ganon whenever he visits Hyrule, or go out to the desert to see Gerudo town, etc.

If they really wanted no sheika tech, they could also just have it being newly built? And you could introduce the new characters and such, etc etc.

(I also think the past champions are such a missed opportunity? If botw is about grief and loneliness, and finding hope in the hopeless, and Totk is about coming together despite that, it could have been really interesting if Link had gone to the past! They could have used the past setting as an eerie reminder to what Link and Zelda had lost when the Calamity struck!)

THAT BEING SAID: I’m not as familiar with the legend of Zelda lore, and haven’t played totk very much! I wanted to know your thoughts on this because you seem to have a lot of story and game mechanic knowledge that could explain why this could be a bad/good idea!

(Plus, your discussions are always super interesting to read, as is your custom totk lore, so I’d love to know what you think🩷)

I’m sorry if you’ve already answered an ask like this! If that’s the case, feel free to point that out and I’ll go through your ask tag if you have one:) I hope you have a great day!⭐️

Hi!

im glad you enjoy my rants, i often feel like im being overly mean but tbh were else could i just rant as much as my heart desires without getting spammed by annoying people (certainly not on twitter lol)

i have talked alot, and i mean ALOT, about totk and my issues with it, both lore and gameplay wise, i dont claim to be an expert on any, though i am an old zelda fan and aspiring gamedev, i really only talk about what i feel about it, what i think about it, and by all means im biased as hell xD

if you dont know yet, the "ganondoodles rants" tag is where all my rants go, so if you are interested in reading more on my totk thoughts thats the way to search (given tumblrs search in blog works ..)

and to answers your question, i have touched on it briefly, sending link back in time before the shiekah tech existed would have been an easy way to excuse how they jsut got .. rid of it, bc they didnt, it literally didnt exist yet- and for reusing the map- though that argument falls a little flat bc ... they coud have already done that in present totk, like i brought up in one of said rants, things like flooding gerudo desert, collapsing death mountain, drying out zoras domain etc, and changing the location of the main populations would have already done alot without having to redo the map in its entirety;

the little changes to map itself really wouldnt that big of a deal if they didnt also send you to the EXACT same locations AND repeat the SAME LOCATIONS AGAIN but in the underground, like thats a fact i have talked about multiple times bc its so illogical in every way, anywhere theres a settlement on the surface theres a bigger mine below, its so stupid, the shrines conenct to a lightroot, the same, again, you dont need to explore bc theres nothing TO explore (its also extra weird bc theres one below taburasa (tarrey town) which .... link literally build with dumsda (hudson) a few years ago .. unless that got retconned too idk wth do i know anymore honestly- AND it makes the sonau extra weird bc why the hell do they have a bigass mine under every settlement ESPECIALLY UNDER GERUDO TOWN like, that just adds to my suspicions towards them)

anyway, link to the past was the point and yes, it could have solved a few issues (mainly shiekah tech and the whole "story" taking place AGAIN in the past completely disconnected from you the player) i personally am not so much a fan of it, but that mostly comes down to me just not liking time travel, i dont like going back in time, i want to play and do things in the here and now, i want to repair the damages of the calamity, find out its origins, maybe fix that too, i love to learn about past stuff too, but that more in text, no literal flashback (unless done well), i want to connect to the past but it also holds alot of mystery that maybe shouldnt be touched upon, some mysteries and unkowns are much more interesting when left as such, i want to THINK about things and come to conclusions that are logical and makes sense in hindsight even if it wasnt clear at the start, i dont want information and what to think about it told to my face over and over like im stupid

after botw i really didnt care much about the past, maybe about the acient hero who alot of people specualted to be of gerudo origin due to its red hair- which also got a monkeys paw curled bc in totk they do sth with but its so stupid and insulting that i do not accept it as canon, say what they want, there are no dog people anywhere in the past nor present botw/totk wtf is that i hate it- and its not even .. why is that the reward for that, it has literally NOTHING TO DO WITH TOTK ITSELF I COULD YELLLL AAAARGH

main point is that really, i wanted to explore the past .. in the present, i hoped to find broken old shiekah structures, old labs and maybe some left over damage and records from when the old king persecuted the shiekah for their tech, i wanted to know where the ancient energy the shiekah used was coming from, what the boss arena in the middle of hyrule castle really was- so many things just discarded and acted like they never happened or mattered; i dont want to travel into the past, i want to discover whats left of it, piece it together, discover dark secrets you can ask no one about bc all that knew about it are long gone- thats what intrigued me about botw, it felt like there was so much left to discover only for totk to throw it all away and just do its own thing .. but not commit to that hard enough either so its neither its own thing nor a sequel-

.. that wasnt really what you wanted to know was it? xD sorry i tend to ramble on if someone seems to give me permission to

to sum it up, i think it COULD work, sending link to the past instead, if done well, but so could canon totk have been, it could have been done well but wasnt for reasons i dont know and tbh even fear bc i worry its sets a dark future ahead of zelda; i personalyl am just not a fan of time travel so i dont have that much to say to it :O

[freevoidman]

also this is such a side tangent of the themes of DMC being misconstrued into "family and love are SO IMPORTANT guys it's INHERENT that everyone LOVES EACH OTHER SO MUCH and there's no effort behind it and that's why demons are INCAPABLE of such COMPLEX EMOTIONS" thing (that is just flat-out false and I'm not gonna rant about it again) but I genuinely hate it when the fandom has Nero call Vergil "dad" or Dante "uncle" right out of the gate once they're back from hell.

Vergil hasn't been a dad to Nero. Like, at all. He was never present for Nero growing up, he was only kind to Nero as V and riiight at the end of DMC5 when he gave Nero his poetry collection. He has no reason to feel familial love to either of the twins, especially since he was 1) raised as an orphan for most of his younger, formative years and 2) adopted by the Eleisons (Kyrie and Credo's parents) so he ALREADY has a 'mom and dad' in them, not in Vergil and whoever his biological mother is/was.

Aside from the biological connection there would be no reason whatsoever for Nero to call Vergil 'dad' and the idea that he'd do so right away and have that become a regular habit annoys the hell out of me. That's something you have to work towards and I don't think either party would be comfortable with calling them by familial terms (dad/uncle/son/nephew) for a long, looong time. I think other characters saying it teasingly is fine but like. If I suddenly learned that the completely random guy I only knew for about a month was my biological dad I wouldn't feel comfortable calling him that right away.

(This isn't to say I dislike dadgil, I honest to god love those works, some of my favorite fandom stuff right there, especially post-5 where all three have to work towards it. It's just that I really can't vibe with the immediate titling thing, especially since I think Nero would have a LOT of pent-up issues he'd want to address once Vergil and Dante would return and calling either of them by family terms wouldn't be the main priority there lmao)

[chaotic-orphan]

So I've been reading Intoxicating Fear for a while now and (Oskit shippers don't come after me) I don't see Kit and Ambrose being together. I get Ambrose but can be somewhat gentle with Kit, but I just don't think I've really seen it till now. I don't think their vibes or morals line up. I could see Jude and Ambrose together, as like a power couple of sorts, but I think don't Kit and Ambrose would be well together. (I'm sorry if this is repetitive and no one asked for my opinion on the matter. I love your work so much,

HAH HAAAAAAGGHH!!! YES!!!! WOOOOO!!!! THANK YOU ANON!!!!!! *sending kisses and bouquets of roses and popping champagne* I ABSOLUTELY ASKED FOR YOUR OPINION ON THE MATTER!!!! HAHAAAHHH! I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE!!! Now, Oskit shippers also don’t come for me, but I agree!!! Wholly and completely.

I agree that Ambrose can be gentle, and that their morals or vibes join up at all! My reasoning against them as a couple is simply because Kit would never, ever forgive Ambrose for what he did to him, what he took from him. Kit didn’t have a good life growing up, and then he found Mentor and his calling in the Hero academy — so when Mentor took him in and gave him a home and a life and love, Kit slowly, very slowly, let his guard down and started to believe the stories and movies about life being good, and then— Omen attacks and Kit is left alone again after taking the risk of hoping for a better life for himself.

It also doesn’t sit well with me because who has the power in their relationship? Ambrose, always, always Ambrose. So even if Ambrose made advances would Kit be too afraid to say no? And that makes it too like situations that happen in real life for me

Jude and Ambrose however? They are on the same kind of power balance (both in power and status and how they hold themselves) which would be a-okay to write, but because Kit is Ambrose’s second victim *ever* [and also just his victim] it is far too personal for Kit to ever get passed that and love Ambrose —— unless, Ambrose compelled him, and then it kind of goes into the Jessica Jones realm

Having said that, Oskit shippers, I get it, I love a good unbalanced power dynamic myself where love blooms — hell power imbalances in general (esp in whump, WOOF) — and I also love that you see something in the story that I never intended, and felt strongly enough about it to bring it to my attention!!! It has been a very fun and fucking hilarious experience, and I really like the coffee shop AU idea so it probably will happen, just not in canon 😉

But ANON, may the gods smile on you today for sharing your thoughts and opinions on the matter, I thought I was fighting against the army of Oskit shippers by myself, but now we can go back to back and fend them off with spears XD

[theflyingfeeling]

local cry-baby complains about her sad little life and self-created problems again, pt 325

[cosmogyros]

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[grassbreads]

I have to organize an event at work. I asked the assistant of the guy running the event whether he wants anything changed in the event room (tables moved, chairs added, etc).

She said "he wants the same layout he always uses for events."

I said "Can you be more specific? You know what the room's default layout is. Does he want anything moved or changed?"

She said, "I think he'd like the same setup he has always used."

MA'AM

[chipjrwibignaturals]

i have a list of hermits in my Brain that are like. "i really enjoy what ive seen of you in social interactions and im interested but i can Not get my brain to latch to your solo stuff" and it fills me with vague Guilt every day <3

[wp100]

No... no, you don't.

[whiteroseismyotp]

Wisdom teeth that have been fucking with my life for the past 6 years because they decided to grow in with holes in them are finally gone. Got them removed yesterday and despite having to kill my spine sleeping upright so I didn't choke on the excessive amount of blood I will never feel as free as I do right now.

These stupid fragments of deformed calcium have given me nothing but unceasing agony of the highest degree(The inner nerves inside the pulp were exposed, so any and all pain was nerve pain which is another level) and now after the comparatively short recovery time I'll finally be able to eat without fear of accidentally setting off a 32 hour wave of pain in which I can do nothing but cry and beg for the 3 different painkillers I took to do anything

And I spent so long being terrified of the idea of the IV they had to use to give me anesthesia because I despise the thought of having a tube literally moving around inside my arm but I 1. Literally didn't feel it go in they numbed my arm so damn well that if they hadn't told me it was in place I would never have known and 2. Despite walking out of the building myself apparently, the first thing I remember afterwards was being in the car halfway home lmao

[baekuras]

At this point I've accepted I'll never have nice, soft, clear skin because everything I have issues with boils down to diet, which means I'd have to eat less snacks and as a picky eater....I think if I limit what I eat even more I'll just still have the same problem but now some kind of deficiency on top of it

I can count what I actually like on my fingers, and what I tolerate basically boils down to "Eh I guess carrots don't taste like anything so if I steam and hide them then sometimes I will eat them by accident with rice" Look-I can't help that most food is either gross or boring or somehow both to me Which is why I will continue with at least enjoying chocolate every day...I need something that tastes good in my life

the foods are Noodles(gen., some moreso than others because shape/texture) Rice Chicken (nuggies ofc and breast moreso than wing/leg because they don't got all the tendons and gross squishy bits) Processed pork (like various sausages and all that-but not the ends bc they feel weird) Potatoes in various forms (full, crispy, fries, chips,...idk when I last ate mashed ones those are very mood dependent) uuuuuh Apples (sometimes) Milk Eggs I.....various spices on top of chicken nd rice that aren't just salt nd pepper? does that count??? Bread and Toast Chocolate Cereal (wheat tastes too bland i'm sorry) Salmon! salmon is good too whenever i feel like fish(including fishsticks and those herring in tomato sauce cans....idk where that came from either but i like them w/ softboiled potatoes and thats about as weird a food as it gets for me)

Like I said Carrots are a hard neutral/boring and so are many leafy veggies+they go bad so fast and I like to stockpile so they just end up rotting and now no one ate them rip

FUCK beans and bananas tho-disgusting foods anything squishy and overly sweet or surprising (aka most healthy foods bc they act all tasty with a firm, almost crunchy outside but BOOM you bite into them and are surprised with liquid with a different taste than the outside and it's disgusting -50/10 burn them)

also yeah i ran out of foods....i thINK that's all? and yes i have tried multiple things but at this point i know what i'll enjoy, what i might tolerate and what i'll hate i also am fine eating raw onion but that's not like...something i usually do it still ranks higher than carrots tho bc at least those shits taste...at ALL/good even

[red-dyed-sarumane]

having not played rhythm games for months and then picking up kamicity ensemble ive gotten SO bad at proseka. i was like its so over but im finally down to 5 greats it may possible to ap maximizer ex yet.

[ventingbit]

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