#i'm deeply sorry you don't even know...

[ayo-edebiri]

Themarvels > Yellenabelova

I promise this is the last change before a long time... I need to go back to my roots.... 

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[canisalbus]

I'm sure you get this a lot but because my cousin and I love that one Danny Trejo action comedy, I always have to snap my brain into the right position when I read Machete's name. Maybe I should draw them both chilling

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[radioactive-cloud]

fellas is it gay to gently touch the strings of your fellow bandmate's bass guitar with your fingertips while leaning on him and pressing your foreheads together and breathing in the same air?

fellas is it gay to play with your fellow bandmate one breath away from kissing and look sensually into each other's eyes and then fall to your knees in front of him and sit like that for the rest of the song clinging to him while he hugs you?

fellas is it gay to sing the lines "did i ever tell you how good you smell?" while you stare into the eyes of your fellow bandmate whose face is very close to you and who smiles at you and then you ruffle each other's hair and hug tightly while gripping the backs of each others' heads?

[meirimerens]

is that picture of notkhan kithing cropped or something.... people need ro SEE.....

yeap i mentioned in the tags it was cropped because it looked funnier. full thing is this

do you think love can bloom. even [in] a [plagued town in which children endlessly replicate the pains of adults]

[rawliverandgoronspice]

Hello.

You and gay-jesus-probably have successfully made me question everything with your view that Tears of the Kingdom is imperialist propaganda, so that's been fun.

Anyway, I decided to share this discussion with the Zelda fans on reddit, and perhaps unsurprisingly, a lot of them disagreed. Here is what they said (I'm Alarming_Afternoon44):

So what do you think? Have I and all these other people just been duped by the game's manipulative framing? Or do they actually have a point?

And if you'd rather not answer this, or would prefer if I censored the usernames, just tell me and I'll delete this.

Hey! Thanks a lot for reaching out, and I'm glad it made you think stuff through!!

Honestly, as I mentioned in this post, I am not super interested about in-world conversations about who oppresses who, because what can be assessed from the game is super vague and more vibes-based than evidence-based. Within the text, of course that the Good Zonais are good and the Bad Ganondorf is bad! But that's my whole point! The narrative has been deliberately crafted so that the zonais and Rauru (and Hyrule) are as blameless as possible (and it's not doing a great job at it overall to be frank; we would not be having these conversations about how offputting it all feels for a non-zero number of people if it did do a great job). More importantly, I want to focus on what sort of real-life narrative it all parallels. Because people make stories, and people live in the real world.

Not going after everyone's throat here, gamedev is hard and the hydras that are AAA game production do end up doing super weird stuff, especially since the thematic ramifications are absolutely never prioritized (and it's also always the same kind of people who make the final calls and push out what can and can't be talked about also). And as fans, we tend to have trouble stepping outside the lens of lore and take a look at the bigger picture sometimes; not as an attack on any individual part of that decision-making process but to just pause, stop, and question our standards, our priorities and the kind of reality (or skewing of reality) the stories we tell each other reflect.

Again: do we want to take videogames seriously or not? If we do, then we need to accept they are a vehicle for ideology, just like any other artform. And sometimes, you push out questionable ideology, sometimes without meaning to, because you didn't unpack your own biases as you did. And it's even fine to do it, nobody is perfect, a 300+ people team spread over 6 years certainly will not be that. But that it wasn't prioritized is, in my opinion, a problem. As a narrative designer, I want games (at least the narrative side) to be held to a higher standard than this. It's literally my job to work with the industry so it can hold itself to higher standards of quality --so the whole TotK situation is quite frustrating to witness from a very pragmatic, work perspective where I already spend my days trying to convince people that things mean things. I have a vested interest here in not having the companies I work for being given a free pass by gamers to do literally whatever as long as it's fun, especially when we're talking about a billion-dollars company suing its own fans left and right for any perceived slight. Nintendo are not underdogs here. It's fine to point out they cut corners and maybe promoted messy ideologies, voluntarily or not.

So long story short: no I don't believe anyone here has a point in regards to what I think is actually important, which is why these choices were made in the first place. If you look at an imperialist text expecting the text to tell you that it's imperialist instead of recognizing a framing used for propaganda by yourself, you're never gonna find any imperialist text ever, obviously not!! I'm sorry if I sound a little gngngn here, but I don't know why audiences have, at large, this feeling that lore and story beat decisions materialize themselves already formed and without any human bias, meddling, intervention, internal politics or approximations (it seems that people can only conceptualize this part if they have actual names to attach to the story, but without clear authors it's like there are no authors and so no bias, which is... a very strange bias in itself). I can promise you that it does not work that way in practice: every narrative department on every big game is a battlefield --some nicer than others, but all of them very emotionally draining either way.

So yeah, I guess that on these grounds, I disagree with every point raised here. Sorry Reddit :/

But thank you for the ask and sorry if I didn't go more into details as to why. The big Why I Dislike Rauru Post and the Gerudo Post might have some more specific rebuttals, but I am not super interested in debating small detail stuff tbh. I feel like it's no use if the frame of reference isn't being understood in the first place.

[spnintheyearofourlord]

Okay Dean “You know I am not much for prayin’ ‘cause in my book it’s the same as beggin’” and “I prayed to you, Cas, every night” Winchester, I see you.

[decadentmousse]

WIP wednesday

I was tagged by @lunar-gl1tch and I write so sporadically and rarely finish anything anymore but you know what? Sure why not

With the obvious disclaimer that I have no idea if this will ever get finished, here is what I've been working on:

A familiar voice whispered, not quite in his ear, but very close, “Interesting conversation?” Heinrix didn’t flinch, even though Vesalius had actually managed, somehow, to catch him by surprise. “It’s been illuminating.” If he hadn’t known any better, he might think the other man had used his biomancy to either mask his own presence or dull Heinrix’s senses, or both. Vesalius wasn’t usually inclined towards such mischief, but a quick glance at him and the upward twitch of his lip told Heinrix that that was exactly what he had done.  “You know, I appreciate everything you do, but it is a party. You’re allowed to relax.” “They call it the unsleeping eye of the Inquisition for a reason.” “Which is why I was able to sneak up on you, I’m sure,” Vesalius teased. “You seem distracted tonight.” Fighting down something that felt suspiciously close to guilt, Heinrix finally turned towards him and got a good look at him for the first time all night. He was wearing a finely embroidered green vest over a black shirt with billowing sleeves. It made his already unusually pale skin look nearly bone white and brought the green out in eyes Heinrix had previously thought were brown. Someone -- probably the same person who had managed to wrangle him into that outfit -- had gone after his hair with equal ruthlessness, because his red curls were arranged with a sort of deliberately mussed but stylish air that the man had never voluntarily inflicted on himself in the time Heinrix had known him. Even the metal of his jaw looked as though it’d been given a good polish.  Vesalius’s eyes widened slightly and Heinrix realized that he had been staring and glanced away. “Alright,” Vesalius said. “You can tell me. How bad is it?” Heinrix stared at a fixed point on the far wall behind Vesalius. “It’s-- you don’t-- you look fine.” Vesalius was quiet for a long moment before visibly relaxing and saying, “Well, that’s a relief. To be honest, I feel like I’m at a masquerade ball.” Heinrix looked at the people around them, most of whom were up to some scheme or another -- and those were just the ones he knew of. “I don't think you're too far off.” “Maybe not,” Vesalius said with a laugh, “but I still feel very out of place.” “You deserve to be here as much as anyone else does.” “After talking to a few of these nobles, that almost sounds like an insult.” Heinrix smiled before he could stop himself. “I didn’t mean for it to be.”

I just think......... I should have been able to romance him....... in my first playthrough. I just think Vesalius and Heinrix are perfect for each other..... OWLCAT............. *hiding a baseball bat behind my back* I JUST WANT TO TALK

And I tag whoever feels like doing this, I'm not sure who all is currently writing and don't want to put anyone on the spot

[raziraphale]

it's hard to joke about samurai flamenco (my beloved) bc while I'm not a person who cares about spoilers, I realize I'm in the minority here and a lot of people think the best way to experience the show is to go in completely blind. but like... guys... I cannot stress this enough [spoiler spoiler spoiler oh my god spoiler] but that boy went to the moon and met god, the literal universe itself. he was even gay. if you even care.

[sysig]

It’s me, Stanley, I’m the Bucket, speaking to you inside your brain, listen to me, Stanley, leave your wife, we don’t need her! Come with me and play my games, you need me, Stanley, your free will is an illusio- (Patreon)

He’s just jealous

Tell me this isn’t exactly the PS5 meme tho

[borgeslabyrinth]

I'm literally on my dash like "no one's saying anything no one's saying anything" like it's all just business as usual like normally I like that tumblr continues on as tumblr even in the face of emergencies but I'm standing here, watching everyone post like nothing has happened like the fact that the school shooter in Tennessee was trans means nothing that nothing bad will come of this like Tennessee wasn't already trying to pass transphobic legislation like this isn't going to make it worse like this isn't going to empower terfs and the religious right like being trans isn't going to be incredibly dangerous in the upcoming weeks because in the mind of the religious right we've proven ourselves to be the monsters the baby murderers they thought we were we shot up a Christian elementary school we're the evil they always believed we were this is so bad and our community is in danger and everyone's just posting as usual

[alwaysbethewest]

I don’t read a lot fic so I’m simultaneously living in an ignorant lalaland but also wanting more and afraid to venture into wild territory for fear of repeatedly encountering the Joel you mentioned. If even someone like me has noticed it, then it’s truly pervasive. I like to think I do a decent job of separating the character from their dominant trope/au/fanon but it gets hard <insert Oscar Isaac coffee gif>

I'm kind of in the same boat! I'm not reading that much these days (and when my brain is ready to I have a looong to-read list for other characters!) but I like to scroll through the fandom tag and skim the summaries. I'm sure there IS some great, thoughtful, in-character fic out there but I rarely see anything that draws me in. I've actually literally just added a tag filter for his name so I can stop looking in the first place because I find it so dispiriting and confusing 😕

[there-will-be-a-way]

Something about making your mother cry that makes you think you need to go to jail

[humanmorph]

"We are coming home not to conquer but to build. Our doors are open. Send your envoys. Send your theologians. We are eager to talk."

(girl who is always thinking about 'no value in a closed door') wow nice no value in a closed door reference

[moe-broey]

Hmmmm.....

[vespertine-legacy]

Ok, but like. The agent's Nar Shaddaa mission had to have been about 80% unsanctioned, right? Like, yeah, go find out about and dismantle any terror cell on Nar Shaddaa, by whatever means you deem best, yes. But the means being "collaborate with a former Watcher who so deeply traumatized the rest of the Agency that they can't even talk about what happened but they thank you if you kill him" can't have been like. "plan a."

[lynxgirlpaws]