#frustrations

[ghirahimbo]

i started replaying totk recently, i say replaying bc i did buy and play it when it was first released but dropped it after a couple days bc i was busy w stuff. and so i'm doing a lot of things now for the first time and obv i can't help comparing it to botw and it's genuinely got me so upset how link has been forgotten by so many people, all the people he helped in botw all the quests he did are just meaningless, all my registered horses were carried over but they couldn't keep the character interactions? all the champions are mentioned once with the exception of mipha there's no memories or divine beasts. the zora who had remembered link for 100 years had forgotten him since botw how is that possible. i had to make an ugly house near tarrey town to hang my weapons bc the hateno house was no longer mine 😭😭😭 somehow it made the game feel lonelier, even though botw was more empty there was much emotion in it.

it's not that i hated totk i liked exploring and finding new outfits, the dragons, rediscovering my favourite places etc but idk i was genuinely tearing up thinking about the champions being forgotten and all of link's previous sacrifices meaning nothing. sorry to send these random messages i don't follow anyone else who still blogs about zelda 😭😭

No, I know exactly what you mean! 😢 Honestly (lol can't remember if I've already said this before or not, so maybe I'm re-ranting here, but) my personal take is that totk shouldn't have been a sequel game, especially because Nintendo doesn't like to concern themselves with the continuity between games that a direct sequel like this just needs. With some tweaking/set up/rewriting, totk could have worked as a stand-alone story, and then they wouldn't have had to take away from what botw achieved in the name of making it more approachable to new players.

And yeah, I didn't hate it either! I liked the gameplay and the weapons system and the feeling of stakes whenever you entered a new town and saw how things had all gone to shit. Loved the wells. I just think it was too eager to pretend botw didn't exist while at the same time leaning on it so heavily that it would fall to pieces if you tried to extract the botw out of it :P

[random-xpressions]

When it comes to the expression of human emotions, I believe kindness must be at the root of it. I speak of this specifically in the context of parenting at home. Disagreements and light arguments could be something common in every home but when things get a little wild, there's this demonic tendency to burst out and with little kids at home, the after effects would be just beyond any repair. Emotions like anger, grief and frustrations definitely need to be kept under check for the overall good of the family and unfortunately many of us learn this the hard way when waters have just gone well above the chin. Wisdom comes with a hefty price at times - perhaps at one's own flaws and mistakes...

Random Xpressions

[corrienteallita]

Just realised that all the screenshots that I've taken over the course of the last week do not exist, because my screenshot program was not in fact running despite the fact that it should run on start up

[winkette]

Trope but IRL

You guys read those fics where Dream and The Stars just think the absolute worse of Nightmare and his team, no matter what they say or do otherwise?

I...I'm LIVING that situation right now and it's pissing me off.

contacted my dad over the holidays for help (highly unusual cuz this man has never helped me in my life before)

he agrees to give me a room in the house they dont live in at the moment, I believe this was due to his [wife] who later said she was the one hoping to "bring me home"

get here and given stipulations for everything that were worse than I had thought possible

--- (just some) expected work 40+ hours a week, have move out plan by February, all money is to go to an account I can't access, provide me a phone under a contract, then had me sign the agreement in the event we need to go to court.

Monday they told me I needed to have 4 interviews set up by Friday; told them that wasn't possible in 1 week, they doubled down

I decided I was going to move to the homeless shelter from here, and they immediately equated it to Me. Trying to. Avoid. Working.

Nothing I showed them or did would prove them that I wasn't some lazy bum doing everything I can to avoid working. So they treated me like they needed a short leash and kept reminding me that their 'support' could be taken away if I didn't meet their expectations.

I have Never been able to talk to my dad, cuz he asserts his opinions and then ends the conversation. I have Always been made to feel like I was 'unworthy' or 'stupid' with him. I had thought maybe we could talk while I was here. No. This man's world has shrunk since the last time I've seen him. He lives in his own little reality and none of his kids can get him to see that.

He once told me that "kids are stupid and don't know anything" but apparently his view carries on forever, regardless of the fact he has 5 adult kids.

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

~sigh~ I had a whole folder of designs I made for Zazzle.com, years ago. But it seems to have been deleted.

(I have no memory of deleting it, but it doesn't show up in any search on my computer)

So I go log on to my Zazzle account, and discover 2 things:

They no longer let me re-download my own designs to my own computer (which is how I was hoping to recover my favorite designs), and

They no longer offer women's t-shirt dresses, which I was wanting to buy for myself.

So anyway, I "Started a new project" and picked the design I was looking for when I discovered the whole folder was missing. And then, I did a screen-cap, and cropped it.

Here it is:

[knightoflodis]

Google has become so useless. Also video game searching is just so hard nowadays because terms have just been stretched out that it is SO HARD to find specific thematic niches since the term used to define that niche also encompasses basically EVERYTHING ELSE.

I am currently just trying to look up strategy games that have their infantry in squads or companies. And I cannot get anything off of Google. It is giving me tactics games (which I love but I am not looking for them here) or just like flat out gaming companies. No. I want a list of games like total war, company of heroes, lotr battle for middle earth, etc. I want a huge list of that to remember what’s out there and maybe see if there is anything new to me that I missed or am unaware of. But no. Google and Steam are useless for finding that specific thing. Also had trouble finding deck builder games since I wanted to find games like Star realms but I kept getting stuff like slay the spire which uses completely different kinds of deck building mechanics (I wanted deck builders where you built your deck in game rather than out)

[sarahreadstoomanycomics]

I’m sorry this is just what it’s like half of the time for me on this site.

[wordssandcoffee]

I finally understand it. I understand why they say to sit and value the small moments. Why you take an extra hour with the people you love, or why you watch the clock not wanting the hands to move. Why people take pictures and ‘snaps’ of everything. It’s because they want to remember the feeling. They lock it all in a photo or lyrics or a scent or words. One day you say bye to your best friend, start the engine and drive away, hoping and praying you meet again because your heart was so full. In reality, the days were long. They felt so short, but they were blissfully busy, fulfilling really. Sometimes you think about the people you wish you could linger with, stay with, stare out the window in silence with. Sometimes you want time to stop and say it’s okay, stay in this moment but it won’t. It doesn’t. Because just like the hand will move to the next minute, as does life. It carries on. Whether that’s painfully or beautifully, it does. Often you wish you were given more time, not too much time, just a few more minutes or hours or days because right now, pieces of my heart aren’t with me. No amount of blankets wrapping my heart will prepare me for this fall. Perhaps it’s cruel to be so hopefully optimistic, but if we don’t be, what else is there to hold on to? I don’t think the soul was being ironically pretentious because it loves who it loves right. Maybe verging on the edge is a blessing in disguise. Some stories, I cannot tell. This story is one of my soul. The souls affairs are not the same as life’s eventualities.

[theriu]

I noticed tonight how my brain these days is very much like, “of course I want to show off cool stuff I made, but I don’t wanna sit down and MAKE it. Why doesn’t the stuff ALREADY EXIST so I can show it NOW?! THIS IS A REASONABLE EXPECTATION!!!”

And now I’m realizing that my brain is acting exactly like the dog by @cupcakelogic

“Pls post?? NO MAKE!! ONLY POST”

[colorfuldream]

Say all you want about the Shiver hate but the funniest thing is that people are making those stories addressing the hate with one character feeling so bad for poor Shiver because people are upset at her and the game iykyk

Especially if they include the "I'm so strong and protective" bit only to "subvert" our expectations with the character being upset FOR her and not AT her

Straight up hilarious, can't believe we're doing this unironically

Anyway yeah I'm salty too that she keeps winning and the Splatfests should be regional again but let's be real, this isn't gonna change and we all knew it was gonna happen when we saw the initial reaction for her. Being salty won't change anything, it's time to accept it y'all

[thebroken-hearted-lover]

I think the hardest part so far is the jealousy of not living with them. There’s a level of intimacy that only comes from occupying a space together, the ability to come together whenever you want, and I don’t get to have that with them. Watching them have it together is hard, I feel left out.

[tidalrose]

Feeling like you're asking for too much when you're asking for the bare minimum.

And then getting frustrated af that you're even having to ask for the bare minimum in the first place 🙄

[delilah705]

Man, if this were pre-2018 porn ban I'd have a lot more things I could share and would be drawing for this blog. :') So frustrating because even with a mature label here I can't post those dick references I did for WWRG. I tried. They flagged it and made it private to anyone but me so I just deleted it. 😭 I had to put them up somewhere else so I could put them in my fic!

[tiny-brain]

I keep having all of these great G/t thoughts, but I never write them down, so every time I finally have a moment to go on tumblr, I'm like "wait, what was I going to post again?" and it frustrates me.

At least I remembered one while writing this. I'll post that next, I suppose.

not sure what else to put here so I guess I'll say that i'm currently listening to tally hall. they're awesome.

[jazzstarrlight]

Finally got around to doing the extended version of frustrations aftermath. Still kinda short tbh.

Tell me what you think!

[foxscriptions]

This is why my accomplishments in life have been limited…