#own thoughts

[themindofmine]

I feel sick. Sick of myself, my life and my feelings.

[letsgowatchsomebirds]

he's a textbook energy vampire

[nag-mamahal]

As a romantic asexual I headcanon just about every single character (and ship) I like as asexual/on the ace spectrum. I just feel there's not enough representation of non-sexual beings engaged in romantic love in popular media. I'd really love it if more stories explored good and fulfilling partnerships that thrive even without sexual intimacy. I'm not against characters being sexy or having sex I think it's just really neat when figures can exist and fall in love without a big part of the relationship revolving around fucking. I love when people, ace or not, can explore their sexuality on their own terms and set boundaries that are accepted and respected by their partners. I love when they realize they're more than their body and what their body is able to provide in terms of sexual fulfillment. I love emotional intimacy independent of the pressure of sex.

[wordsofwisdomandsoul]

[sparkwrldsz]

what if i just reveal a couple of one of my oc's 😮

[inkedescapist]

Life is pretty weird, you get hurt by the person YOU LOVE the most and inturn hurt the person who LOVES YOU the most.

[yoga-onion]

Noppera-bo

[*is a Japanese yokai with no eyes, nose or mouth on its face.]

I have severe astigmatism. So my vision is normally blurry. Recently, when I pass someone wearing a pink or beige skin-like mask for anti-COVID purposes, occasionally, they could look as a noppera-bo for a moment, which freaks me out. I think, "No way, no way...can’t be", but then I am rather suspicious of this. It may not be surprising to find ghosts and yokai-monsters hanging around, just not usually visible. And those who can see it can see it.

But they are not so dangerous. If you threaten them with a loud scream, they will run away in surprise. Or, "This is not the place for you to come. Please leave." If you ask them lightly to leave, they will leave immediately.

It is much more troublesome for living people. There is nothing more dangerous than a living person. If you try to scare them a little, you could be sued and they won't listen to you for free even if you ask them to leave.

When I thought about it, I couldn’t help thinking, "If only all the people around me were monsters, it would be much more peaceful".

[Picture above - the noppera-bo, quoting "Are you there?"  from 'Kitaro of the Graveyard' by Mr. Shigeru Mizuki.]

のっぺらぼう

[＊のっぺらぼう（野箆坊）は、顔に目・鼻・口の無い日本の妖怪のこと]

わたしはひどい乱視です。だから、普段から視界がぼやけています。最近、COVID対策でピンクやベージュの肌っぽいマスクをしている人とすれ違うと、一瞬のっぺらぼうに見えることがあり、ビクッとします。「まさかァ、まさか…」と思いつつ、わりと疑っています。普段目に見えないだけで、幽霊や妖怪がウロウロしていてもおかしくはないのかもしれません。見える人には見えるし。

しかし、彼らはそれほど危険な存在ではありません。「わっ」って大きな声で威嚇すれば、驚いて逃げてしまいます。あるいは、「ここはあなたが来るところではありません。出て行ってください」と軽くお願いすれば、すぐに出て行ってくれます。

生きている人間の方がよっぽど厄介です。生きている人間ほど危険なものはない。下手に脅かそうものなら、訴えられかねないし、出て行ってくれと頼んだってタダでは言うことを聞いてくれやしない。

よくよく考えてみたら「いっそのこと、周りの人たちみんな、妖怪だったらよっぽど平和だ」と思っちゃいました。

[christophoronomicon]

So, about Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom…

So, well, I still can't play Tears of the Kingdom (can't believe Nintendo wouldn't allow such a big fan as I am to play the game early! 😏), so I have no choice but to vent my thoughts here.

Once again, no spoilers (except light spoilers for Breath of the Wild), I've managed to avoid all leaks so all thoughts and opinions here are based on officially released materials and stuff based on those. So, let's start after the break.

As you may remember, yesterday I was talking not so much about what Nintendo had revealed about TotK in the last few weeks, but about what was still absent from those reveals, and how things being conspicuously absent could point towards important story beats.

But I left one important thing out, probably the most conspicuous absence in the all game: where is all the ancient Sheikah tech?! I mean, the trailers and promotional materials have shown some Sheikah tech, like the new Switch-like Sheikah slate, a platform with mechanical tentacles resembling Guardian legs, and some kind of high-speed elevator in the latest trailer. But Sheikah tech is conspicuously absent from the overworld.

When Breath of the Wild ended, Hyrule was still full of broken and deactivated Guardians, Sheikah towers, shrines, not to mention the Divine Beasts (including Link's own Master Cycle if you count the DLC contents). But in all the trailers for TotK, all that is completely gone. So what happened?

Of course, it could be that they were all destroyed during the Upheaval, but that seems unlikely to have left no trace of Sheikah tech on the surface, especially for things as large as the towers and Divine Beasts.

Another possibility is that the Sheikah basically dismantled everything for parts. Purah and especially Robbie seemed to need a lot of stuff for their research, and they may have used the new found peace to expand on their work in earnest. But while I can definitely see the Sheikah dismantling all the Guardians for parts (and the other races helping to get rid of those horrors forever), I have difficulties imagining them doing the same to all the Sheikah towers (no matter how useful those terminals are). And the new towers of TotK (seemingly called Skyview towers) don't solve that conundrum, as they are not all placed where the old Sheikah towers stood, implying they are not just the Sheikah towers packed up in wood and cloth.

I have even more difficulty believing they'd go as far as dismantling the Divine Beasts, they're far too useful to protect Hyrule. Unless it was to ensure they'd never fall into the wrong hands again... But still, that's a bit far-fetched.

As for the Shrines, I don't believe for one moment that Hyrule would have the resources to dismantle those. And what about the pillars surrounding Hyrule Castle? I just remembered that they were gone too. Did they just go underground again?

This said, if you've completed all the main story quests in BotW, you're rewarded at the end with an additional cut-scene where Zelda says that they are going tothe Zora Kingdom, to, among other things, investigate why Divine Beast Vah Rutah has stopped working. Maybe that's the stinger for the sequel, and the first step towards whatever is going to happen that leads to TotK. Maybe Vah Rutah isn't the only Divine Beast which is going to stop working. Maybe, with no Malice nor Champions to keep them going, the Divine Beasts are all going to shut down one by one for ever. In that case, I could imagine them being dismantled to try and reverse engineer them.

Still, there clearly isn't a big time skip between BotW and TotK (5 years at most I would expect, given how much Riju has grown and the fact that Zelda and Link look pretty much identical as in BotW), so I can't imagine there being enough time to fully dismantle all the ancient Sheikah tech present on the surface at the end of BotW. So its absence in the TotK trailers is all the more intriguing.

I don't really have a theory here, just questions, as all theories I have are too full of holes and unknowns to be worth going through.

Personally, I'm very curious to see how much ancient Sheikah tech we are going to see in the new game, especially now that it seems Zonai tech is going to take centre-stage. Are they going to be able to interact somehow? Are the Divine Beasts completely gone? Do the new Skyview towers contain any special tech or are they just constructions of wood and cloth? What do you all think?

[dreamlovetravel]

Wenn ich jetzt gehe, würdest du mich einfach lassen?

[sajid-waseem-u]

Or phir Log Apki Zindagi se Niklny

ke liye Bahany Talashny Lagty Hain

[themindofmine]

I don’t want to hurt people with my death

Instead I hurt myself with my existence

[letsgowatchsomebirds]

[nag-mamahal]

I love Jonathan Sims so much!!! I love snooty, serious academic s1 Jon, I love paranoid S2 Jon, I love tortured, fearful S3 Jon, I love struggling with his humanity S4 Jon, I love unwilling avatar-above-all S5 Jon. I love Jonathan Sims in all his forms, with two human eyes or ten thousand. I love Jonathan Sims and his excruciating journey through the horrors and his efforts to maintain his tenuous grasp on his human identity TT One of my favorite ever little men, what an absolute icon.

[luminere-nova-444]

No one talks about the way society demonize femininity. I remember being a kid and hating anything pink because I didn't want to be viewed as dumb. But now I love pink because I realise I repressed my want to be girly through put my childhood. I think people need to stop judging people on how they dress. No one should judge one girl for wearing colorfully eyeshadow and the other wearing neutral. People should express themselves how they are and not worry about coming off basic or dumb. So I say if you want to dress in a grunge way, do it. And if you like gilters and pink, wear it.

[wordsofwisdomandsoul]

[predispusalascandal]

one thing i like to think about is if people from the past would like modern music

like how would they react to it? would they like it??