#sharlmbracta

[appalesbian]

*reads your username* hell yeah.

I'm a simple gal-- I love women and sky bison😌🦬👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩

[sherlocktheravencat]

have a nice day you are loved no matter what you don't have to reply if you don't want to

[korrasamibottles]

have a nice day you are loved no matter what you don't have to reply if you don't want to

You're so sweet thank you😭 And so are you!!!

[fluffykittyscientist]

@lavleyart @sharlmbracta I have been blessed by your presence in my dreams.

[katkalis-the-fanartist]

How Airplane Are Their Ears?

A new category I made up with which I can judge fictional characters by! How impressive are their airplane wings??

Also thank you again @sharlmbracta for the reference pic of Astor's exposed ears!

[silverjirachi]

💕 get to know your mutuals!! when you get this, it means someone wants to know more about you, so list 5 things about yourself you want your followers to know. they can be as simple as your age or as complex as your deepest fear, as long as it’s something you’re comfortable with sharing. when you’re done, send this to 10 people you want to get to know better!! 🥺🌼💕

awwww i got an ask game forever ago that i never answered 🥺 thank you for your kindness

1) i write pokemon and loz fanfiction but this one is pretty well known by now

2) i play dnd (and have cosplayed many times as my dnd character and made many silly videos as them... but now i have a half elf artificer named corian who is my blorbo supreme).  i plan on trying out a solo campaign in some point in the future.... maybe podcasting it.........,, would anyone be interested in that??

3) i went to catholic school and it influences me in more ways than i like to admit

4) i have a bigass dumb orange cat named barry!!!!

5) i collect glass bottles.  hoard them really.  it’s a problem.  if you give me a green glass bottle i will kissa you on the mouth. 

(one time i was visiting my partner in florida and we went to this random tiny museum and i had been talking about my Hoarding Bottles Problem and we walked in and the first fucking display was a wall full of green coca cola bottles over the ages..... and in that moment... i realized what i wanted my future home to look like)

i’m just gonna tag some random people!!!

@marshiestars @emo-eyemakeup-evildude @sharlmbracta @sherlocktheravencat @bulbiedorf @brilliant-soul (you!!!) @lordmogatron @aimez-da-llama @brennaauragoldwing @ashlynya @eggrollsandbutter @denimdepression @edgy-dragon-trash

and anyone else who wants to seriously!! also don’t feel pressured people i tagged!!!!!  please just tag me so i can see it and learn about you!!!!!!!

[sharlmbracta]

so i finally decided to post this inspired by this post

excerpt

“Please listen to me! You have the power to stop what you’re doing!” “You are right. I do have the power.” He began to stoke himself. “I have all the power in the-- ... all the power in the--?” He frowned. He punched a few fists in the air, but nothing except for a few ‘poofs’ of fire came out. He glared at his hands, bewildered, and screeched: “What is the meaning of this?!”

[sheikah-simp]

Out of Thelem, Azelphir and Astor, who would Tassel choose if he had to? Such as after the calamity, when Astor's whereabouts are left unknown, and everything has broken apart. If Thelem and Azel had to move away, would Tassel join them or persist to stay within what's left of the structures of the order, waiting for Astor to return?

That’s a tough question bc Thelem is Cuddle Dad™ but Azelphir is Angry Dad who Gives Raw Meat™ and thats a very difficult choice for a dog to make.

I think he’d probably go with Thelem just because Thelem handles him more throughout the day vs Azelphir who keeps his love for the dog very hidden.

He’d go with his dads, I don’t think he’d stay put looking for Astor, however he would probably run away frequently trying to find him. Thelem would not worry about this of course, because Tassel could take down a bear

[lize-the-prophet]

Listen to me guys.

In the fandom I was before (Artemis Fowl), we had the ‘’trend’’ Holly in a strawberry dress... Now I need ASTOR THE FUCKING PROPHET OF DOOM in a strawberry dress.

[absollugia]

@sharlmbracta

Here’s a rushed and sloppy ref of her markings--they’re symmetrical on both sides (hopefully it doesn’t make it more confusing lol)! While Zoras tend to not wear human clothes, she lives in Hyrule Castle and really likes Hylian culture and fashion, so she’s pretty much always wearing Hylian clothes (with lots of cutouts so her fins/gills don’t get obstructed)

[appalesbian]

i still can't get over your pfp

once a brilliant choice, always a brilliant

lmaoo thank you, I really enjoy how many emotions it can convey simultaneously. Like Katara is experiencing the full spectrum of human experience and how perfect is that for this goddamn website

[fluffykittyscientist]

YES, one of the meanings of "kôš" is, in fact, a trash can.

@sharlmbracta

[silverjirachi]

I had an idea regarding character development of astor (if he actually had one haha), and the devs mentioning something like this came to mind...

"hyrule during the calamity would have a lot of malice, we need more malice in fights"

"simple malice enemies isn't enough, they're just new types of their respective species we need like a malice controlling boss spouting pillars from the ground"

"ganon is literally the calamity so we would need a side boss again, acting like the main villain"

"let's make a simple placeholder villain smug and dark, who we could fight in any land with no story whatsoever so we can put him in whatever origins afterwards"

"his theme music? since he would appear rather frequently than previous ganon-puppets, let's give him an easy tweak from zelda's theme; after all, zelda herself has more screentime than any other before. A royal honor for him, before we kill him off like all the other secondaries."

"and let's take these simple 6 upscending notes and nicely bloat it into an unsettling battle ambience, making the strings have a surrounding voice effect for universal doom"

... i have a feeling he really was expendable, simply made to be disposable after all - what do you think :p

Yeah this is a pretty thorough breakdown of how i imagine astor's character came into being. As much as we all *wish* there was more direct astor connection to botw, I promise botw was made without any conception of Astor as we know him now. There is absolutely no sign of him or his people in-game, save for a few tiny, tiny threads mentioning people who "worship ganon" who may or may not be yiga. The only shred of an inkling we have to go off is the mention of a "fortune teller" in botw, but that seems to be such a throwaway line and an easy mystery they left unsolved for exactly the purposes like you see now. A "fortune teller" could literally be anyone or anything, doesn't mean they were evil, doesn't mean it was Astor, even if the *vague* connections were made in retrospect (with his design and music for instance).

And even when Astor's VA so vaguely mentioned in an interview that "Astor wasn't in BOTW, or so we think," I'm pretty sure that was more him knowing as well as the rest of us that there is nowhere near enough evidence of Astor in-game to say that, but it was him having to have those sorts of thoughts as an actor. Especially when he follows it up with how Astor could have just been "lying in wait," or something to that effect. Unless Nintendo told him something we don't know, in which case @ Jon Lipow break your NDA.

But in fact, I'm inclined to say the entirety of Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity wouldn't have been released at all if not for the overwhelming success of BOTW. It was a cash grab. They knew people were obsessed and in love with the story so they made an even bigger shinier story that lives in that world, and I don't blame them, I am lapping that shit right up. They spent a long time refining and developing that initial world, and they should milk it tbh. I would too. They said themselves BOTW2 was initially gonna be DLC because they just had so many ideas to expand BOTW, and maybe along the way, some of those cut ideas were put into AoC instead.

But that absolutely ties in to why I don't think we're getting any further information on Astor, ever. If not for, come dlc, we find out he was the leader of this cult or something. I think that will be the extent of it. He wasn't pulled out of botw's pre-established lore or anything, you're exactly right - he was made for botw's existing lore, and more specifically, for Age of Calamity's, which is on such a weird island in terms of timeline and such as it is.

Which is exactly why he's disposable.

Age of Calamity, cool and fun and story-driven as it is, is ultimately a spinoff game. They needed a spinoff villain who would fit the world and explain *some things* in the world but also not be important enough to make a huge impact on the world in such a profound way that he'd make a mainline appearance.

It's always interesting to me, then, just how disposable Astor is both in terms of the "meta," as well as how quite literally, in game, he lives to serve one explicit purpose until Ganon doesn't need him any more - after which point, he is disposed of at the earliest convenience. As above, so below. As in Koei Tecmo, so in the Great Calamity.

Art reflects life? Life reflects art? Something else entirely?

Anyways yeah

[silverjirachi]

Just wanted to tell you I also love your new Exile//Vilify chapters, time not really letting reviews as before, just had 12 done and will munch 13 tomorrow

well soothing after a mock exam -- much devoured

ahh this is probably from awhile ago (tumblr never shows me when i get asks) but thank you <3333

[sheikah-simp]

milking this cow until it runs dry

[sheikah-simp]

speaking of hugs(thank you silv♥) this scene emerged in my head as in

~ behind the scenes ~

zeldarose puts astor in a posture and takes out a camera

thelem acts and drags a bewildered azelphir with him to astor

mari and clement slips into the scenario, clement joining arms with thelem and mari cuddles a to-be-flustered astor from his left side

mari waves her hand, and tassel comes waggling with zelsparrow chasing him, chittering with glee

zeldarose chuckles, set the cam timer, scoops both sparrow and tassel then squish into astor from his right

just seconds before the timer goes off, rhoam strides in behind all of them wearing smug thug glasses and smacks them all together as the cam goes snappity

now someone make a scene but with us the astor camp crew

🥺 this is so wholesome you have taken the botw photo scene and injected it with my babies. thank you for this glorious gift.

incidentally, i was actually planning a brief camera scene in the next chapter of exile//vilify. (just a mention of it, really. might expand on it in stories from exile) because little baby zelda is about to be born!! family photo!!!