it’s amazing how men can just ruin everything

HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN as KURT MATHESON The Last Man (2019) | dir. Rodrigo H. Vila

no because actually I'm so alone

You've talked about how great the ocarina of time story is (hard agree!) I was wondering if you have any thoughts about Sheik and how his story fits into the game's themes?

YES. sheik is such a good character genuinely. i think he’s best analyzed in tandem with link bc so much of their characters play off of each other. i ❤️ narrative foils

link, the eternal child, grows up in a sheltered space in which bad things don’t happen. bar the recent tragedy of the deku tree, he is unfamiliar with death and tragedy and unfairness and therefore carries an air of naïveté and a childish sense of justice—bad things shouldn’t have to happen, and if they DO happen, people should try to fix them.

zelda, even at nine years old, is his foil, the little adult. she has seen tragedy. she has spent her life ignored and neglected by adults. she understands that when bad things happen people would rather ignore than work to fix. but she is ALSO still a child, and she still carries some of that sense of justice with her and that’s why she tries so hard to fix things herself. but children are fundamentally unequipped to tackle adult problems. she was doomed the second she started trying, doomed essentially by the very adults that claimed to care for her but refused to listen.

as we jump to adulthood, link remains the eternal child, having lost no time in the seven years he slept, still mentally nine years old. sheik, on the other hand, is no longer the little adult. he is grown and he has seen every tragedy the world has to offer him. he has been forcibly adultified by the world without being given the time and space to process and grieve, and so, as a trauma response, he has struck down the child which still remains in him in order to protect her from the horrors he knows the world has to offer. this is why so much of what we see of sheik is strangely contradictory and why he keeps himself removed from the story as much as possible. sheik is governed by fear. he fears that allowing himself back into the story sets little zelda up to be burned again. he fears that little link will blame him for the actions of a desperate girl nine years ago. and yet the little girl he once was is still there, and she cannot allow him to stand and watch as tragedy unfolds like so many adults did to her.

functionally, where link is the child who doesn’t get to grow up, sheik is the child who is forced to. where link’s tragedy stems from the actions of adults who failed to protect him, sheik’s stems from the inaction of adults who COULD have protected him and chose not to. this crucial difference leads to sheik and link’s differences in worldview—where link still carries that childish sense of justice and motivation to change the world, sheik, having been forced into adulthood, struggles with the ramifications of action vs inaction as well as the choice to either protect link or save his kingdom.

that choice of link vs hyrule as sheik’s internal struggle is doubly important when examining the end of oot and the choice zelda makes to send link back. this, irt zelda’s arc, is a solution which returns that childlike justice to her—she gets to undo her past actions and save the world. she gets to fix the action and inaction which led her to this point. it’s hope where there once was none. it’s zelda saying “we CAN change things and we SHOULD change things,” a thorough rejection of the inaction mentality which characterizes the adults in her life and a literal return to her childhood at the same time. oot is a fucking masterpiece of a game

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Metamorphosis (4x04) October 9th, 2008

DID YOU THINK I WOULDN'T RECOGNIZE THIS COMPROMISE? AM I JUST TOO STUPID TO REALIZE? STALE INCENSE, OLD SWEAT, AND LIES, LIES, LIES IT COMES DOWN TO THIS YOUR KISS, YOUR FIST AND YOUR STRAIN IT GETS UNDER MY SKIN WITHIN, TAKE IN THE EXTENT OF MY SIN YOU GIVE ME THE ANGER YOU GIVE ME THE NERVE CARRY OUT MY SENTENCE WHILE I GET WHAT I DESERVE I'M JUST AN EFFIGY TO BE DISGRACED TO BE DEFACED YOUR NEED FOR ME HAS BEEN REPLACED AND IF I CAN'T HAVE EVERYTHING WELL, THEN, JUST GIVE ME A TASTE IT COMES DOWN TO THIS

riptide band

chip plays bass

Jay plays electric guitar

Gillion plays the drums

you agree

TOM JONES (2023) // THE HISTORY OF TOM JONES, A FOUNDLING (1749)

O R B I T C U L T U R E - From The Inside

DABI, PATRON SAINT OF CRAZY BISEXUAL GIRLS

hera. wolf. 359.

god. excluding trans/intersex people from medical studies in favor of being like "x disease more often occurs in males/females" is sooooo lazy. like what, exactly, makes this happen? is it the hormones? is it a sociocultural byproduct? gender and sex are both so like lazy ass concepts and we have nothing to lose and everything to gain by completely ignoring them in society but nooooo we all have to be categorized by our genitals in order to buy a shirt that's sized in some arbitrary number instead of just using measurements. what was i saying again

There is so much Primal stuff to catch up on since 5 years have passed

I hope I don't scare everyone in the tag by revlogging and liking everything while I'm dying at work...

do you think you’ll give Jeremy or Jean a pov in the story or is it strictly Kevin’s?

Anon! It's like you know me! Have you been peeking into my WIPs???

My plan has always been for this to be a five part series. The first three fics are Kevin telling us the main story of how they get together. The next fic, though, is definitely Jeremy and Jean's to own.

After we officially earn the kerejean stamp, I want to go back and show certain scenes through J/J's eyes. There are things to explain, and new scenes/moments between the three to unveil that I think help flesh out their characters in this universe, and round out the relationship so that you understand why certain choices were made.

(Plus then we all get to wallow in the angst and pining again so...why not, right?)

There may be additional oneshots or ideas that I've been tossing around too - it all depends on whether I have enough time and motivation to get to them. I really love this au, though, so I'm hopeful inspiration will carry me through. We'll see, I guess.

Thanks for the ask, anon! Hope this is good news for you lol!

re-watching Interview With The Vampire again and Claudia has finally showed up. I'm frothing at the mouth.

I think. I’m gonna make a haunted one monk for gale. And a paladin for wyll. Maybe a rogue for astarion bc 2 rogues in one party is a great idea actually. And maybe a liddle bard for my dark urge character