#recharge Fr

[altarfates]

I will most likely be taking a break for a bit or writing more sporadically. Honestly my capacity for writing has been low for a few weeks now and I’ve been really tired, so I think I’ll just write when I’m feeling like it and yall can decide if you wanna stay mutuals or not.

[meli-mouse]

I think people just gloss over the fact that yu just talks to cats outside his house and it boost his stats??? Why- why is he like this???

he’s just a cat boy!

[autosadist]

main thing i remember about friday night is like 10 piss drunk trans women arm wrestling each other and someone getting really into it and spinning a tournament bracket out of the bit and commentating for like half an hour and the host walking into her bedroom like why is everyone in here. oh its arm wrestling. that's fine i guess. and when i was playing with the cat w a fishing pole feather toy thing also drunk out of my mind and realized at some point that the cat has been replaced with a human woman who was batting at the toy and trying to catch it on her hands and knees. maybe she was a cat too i dont know anything about life any more

[flowercrowngods]

the academic joy of your advisor calling your thesis aims “very exciting and relevant”

[errorwarblesrr]

do you like totk or botw better?

In short: Yes, I like botw better.

Here are my reasons, though!

I know a lot of people view it as the better experience, which is completely subjective and valid if you do and like it better, but I just view botw as being better in almost every way.

I will give it to totk. The dungeons have a lot better atmosphere. The game has some extremely high highs with the build-up to the wind temple, the whole great sky island segment, and the final boss is a much better fight (though dark beast ganon has a better theme song imo).

Other than that, I prefer botw. Totk has a much grander story, but it's completely mishandled. You can argue that totk has a great story but has poor execution, and to me, execution plays a big role in what makes a story good. You can have good ideas bit it all falls apart if they aren't executed well which ends up making the story bad. It's not that totk has a good story with poor execution, it has good ideas but the bad execution leads to a poorly told story. (I hope that makes sense). Botw has less of a story and is more like a set of events. Botw has history and backstory that is told more organically. Link has amnesia so he slowly regains some of his memories of the past with some people trying to help fill him in. It feels more real...in a weird fantasy way. I guess totk is similar with how we see Zelda's memories, but not really? It's weird to explain. Everything 100 years ago is felt in present day botw while in totk most of those things don't really matter as it happened so long ago. Things only start to resurge because Zelda wanted to investigate under the castle. Totk also has twists like a story. Idk if this is making sense but that's how I feel on their stories. There was just not much botw could mess up on story wise as the way it was presented.

Gameplay wise I can not lie totk is technical marvel with the zonai tech. That's the most impressive thing about it. Tbh building contraptions isn't my thing though, it takes too long to make and experiment with a machine when I can just do whatever that machine was gonna do much faster. I see why people have a lot of fun with it though, it just isn't my thing. One thing I HATE in totk though is the amount of menuing I have to do. Elemental arrows had a serious downgrade. Yeah it's cool to fuse stuff to arrows, but not when I have to do it to ever single individual arrow and if I want to try something new I have to scroll past 50 other items in a single line. It's just tedious. If I want to use a good weapon I have to go to the menu, drop an item, and menu again to fuse it to a weapon that will still break. Item breaking is still an issue but it's more annoying and the weapons no longer look cool. Totk has some cool abilities, but idk I'd trade them all for remote bombs lmao. I hate going through caves, especially early game, and having to deal with the rock walls where they want me to fuse a rock to a stick 10 times to get through one cave. There's just a lot of little things gameplay wise that bug me. They doubled down on botws gameplay issues and added some more annoying ones. I don't even have to mention the sages abilities, that's a whole mess.

On the topic of gameplay, botw just has the better world. Idc, exploring that world for the first time is an unforgettable experience. Totks main world is too similar so the magic is gone. The sky and depths are also unimpressive and repetitive. Botw also has the benefit on how the word felt so lonely yet alive. Everything had a purpose or a story. The world has a history. And totk just doesn't have that. Outside of the upheaval, totk doesn't really build on botws world that much. I was hoping to see if they would've added new towns or see how they'd rebuild hyrule, but they really didn't do that. We only got lookout landing, which doesn't really count as a town, and a bunch of building stuff lying around which is cool I guess. Hateno has a school and Terry Town expanded a little, but with the estimate of about 5 years since botw it makes you wonder...what have these people been doing? We can theoretically build Terry Town in one day. There could be new towns.

Totk is a sequel that doesn't really acknowledge it's predecessor which is so odd. Botw stands on its own and is an overall more cohesive experience. Everything in the world feels purposefully crafted for that world while totk just slaps things on top of it with not much thought. Botw has some amazing world building while for totk it's either "the Zonai did it" or has some contradictory world building. For example, the old sages lifted up the sky islands so that Link would be protected from Ganondorf shenanigans, but then other sky islands suggest how they've been around long before Rauru since young Zonai used to train in them or something. There is also how Zelda says Link never leaves her side, but people she interacts with on an almost daily basis do not recognize him and how even treat as if he doesn't know some facts about her. So either she is overexaggerating by a lot and/or lying in her own diary or that people in hyrule have the collective memory of a rock. There's also Zelda supposedly never giving Link the champions leathers yet as a gift, but we see him wearing it in the beginning. Idk there's more contradictories, but I haven't experienced this for botw??? Totk is so disconnected and disjointed in comparison.

I'm trying to be vague but there's a lot to say, I'm sorry. I really was enjoying this game at the beginning but the more I played the more I noticed or saw things that bugged me and just kept adding up and up on each other. Botw was never like this for me. It's just more cohesive and I like that. There are so many other things I haven't brought up like the repetitive cutscenes, or missing characters/characters that SHOULD know Link but don't (namely Bolson and Hestu). But this post is long. I can't keep complaining about this game. Botw really is that one of a kind experience, and totk tries to replicate it but worse. Botw had a vine that totk lacks. You feel so alone, but you meet knew people and make friends. You build connections as you learn about the past and help those around you. There is no story, you're just a person going through the motions and exploring the vast world around you. Totk can't replace that for me. I'm the main character playing a side role in a disjointed world where not much makes sense. Everything is similar in all the wrong ways.

And most important of all, they took away Link's fun dialogue and personality now he really is bland asf and used to defend that he wasn't.

[fakeoutbf]

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[curiosity-killed]

8 19 24 for writer’s asks

8. if you had to write a sequel to a fic, you’d write one for…

ironically i was noodling on a sequel fic for 'the letters of your name' the other night!! which is mostly weird bc that's one of the fics that's in my "I hate it for no clear reason" bucket. In general, I don't really fuck with sequels as a reader or a writer because I like a story to stand on its own BUT the fic I've written that I'm most like "but the sequel!!!" is 'til my feet are memory.' GOD i want the huaqing gay chicken to exist. the version of it that i had planned and then completely failed to write any notes for was brilliant in my memory!! (<- does not remember 99% of what was supposed to be in there)

19. the most interesting topic you’ve researched for a fic

oh man I've researched a lot of random shit 😂 I read so much poetry for MDZS and TGCF fics. I did do a lot of superficial astrobiology research for apoapsis but that also just stressed me out a lot (the worldbuilding makes no sense!! what do you MEAN the only life forms are worms and yet the world looks like that??? WHERE IS THE WATER COMING FROM). I've researched historical toilets a lot too?? soil types for sequence the bones...ancient prostheses for a variety of stories...a lot of TCM for mdzs/tgcf/woh...researching Chinese sign language for whipstitch was frustrating because I couldn't find a lot of good sources (esp re:regional dialects).

It's rarely the things you'd expect to cause a rabbit hole that do in fact cause a rabbit hole, but also i can make a rabbit hole out of anything

24. how do you recharge when you’re not feeling creative?

I mean, the good and the bad thing is that I just kinda do many things. So I read a lot, I dance, I go for a run, I knit, I do home renovations, I practice piano, I lay on the couch and watch random thematically relevant media.

Mostly, if I'm feeling stumped in one area, I just switch to another—I draw instead of writing, I run instead of drawing, I dance...irrespective of how I feel about dance actually lol. And when I'm feeling super drained/out of motivation for like...generative activities, then I read more or I watch TV or I play piano. sometimes I fuck around on canva or with video editing for something different.

writing fanfic is very much a time-sensitive endeavor for me because once I run out of steam on a fandom, I pretty much never return (there are a few exceptions), but with every other creative endeavor I do...like I've been doing it since I was 7 or 8 years old (at the latest), and so I can let it rest for a little bit knowing that it'll return.

writer asks

[mylove-thresher]

every day is a new exam bro why tf did I choose an advanced course 💔 im tired

[willowve01]

[balladetto]

it's the 1st for me here, so happy 2024 to you folks!! i came back to writing on a whim in the middle of last year with a fairly niche set of muses whom i still hold very dear to my heart ( and will return to, i swear lfksdj ), and it's been an absolute pleasure to keep writing here with the same people — and new ones! i missed writing very, very much, so it means a lot to me that i'm able to again.

whether we've interacted or just vibed with each other on the dash, please know that i appreciate your presence here and not a single one of you can call yourself talentless, okay?? whatever you think about your own skills, it is an amazing commitment to the art to have muses and think, write, ramble, gush, draw, and just. discuss them at all for fun! we are all artists inspiring fellow artists, sharing bits of our love for our blorbos with each other, and that's neat no matter what! all of you are beloved!! any thoughts that say otherwise does not make it any less of a fact.

( i'd be remiss not to mention how endlessly grateful i am to have met or reunited with certain friends though, even if i say that to them almost constantly. you know who you folks are; 2023 as a writing year would not have been the same without you and i am blowing you friendly kithes ♡ mwah )

may this new year treat you better than the last! we are going to make it through as we made it through last year. i'm looking forward to seeing whatever new plots and shenanigans you'll have in store for the dash, as well as chatting and writing more with you lovelies! happy new year!!

[i-drop-level-one-loot]

Wahhh srry for the late response cuz again was busy earlier but

Basically the CCS council is like a student council but it's only for our department w/c is CCS (College of computers studies)

N someone from the CCS creatives team reached out to me telling me that they loved my work and asked permission from me if they could use it and simplify it for me and I agreed cuz I'm literally so tired from thinking 😭😭

And n the theme was: Tron and here are the two drawing I made btw :DDD

First attempt

And the second attempt

You're such a good artist??? Literally, so cute! And Tron fucking slaps

[ravewing]

i fell asleep in class and i had a dream that someone on tumblr named grimgurr with a pfp of alexander hamiltons signature posted a review on an anomalocaris tshirt from germany and a 12000 piece anomalocaris lego set and i was jealous as hell. tumblr user grimgurr are you out there

[lynzishell]

Get attacked!! ✨🌈SEND THIS TO OTHER BLOGGERS YOU THINK ARE WONDERFUL. KEEP THE GAME GOING🌈✨

🌈💖 Awwwwww this is so sweet THANK YOOOUU!!!

[mwagneto]

Omg I'm so sorry you're unwell and haven't slept or eaten in 4 days, I hope you feel better soon and you rest up :( ❤

ohhh nonono thank you but dont worry im having the time of my fucking life im just crazy

[marciliedonato]

so my phone turns 1 today and i was checking it now and it totally glitched like 2 things overlapping out of nowhere so I closed the screen and when I tried to reopen it it only lets me either enter the code or scan my finger and unlock it anyway I can and the the screen is either blurred or there's nothing on it and I cant open anything the buttons don't respond and I cant even turn it off what the actual fuck I'm losing my mind fr

edit: i was able to force turn it off somehow bc it wasn't working and we're back random indian guys on youtube save the day once again

[electric-plants]

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