hey how come none of u ever told me about malice@doll

Ya boi got fuckin' freaked out on their way home a bit ago!!! Fantastic!!!

okay wait wait just a sec imma go implode myself brb

"Morgan dont just say stuff and not expand on it"

I think alot of people de-racialize drag culture in a way thats fairly dangerous. Black drag performers are a important part and aspect of black lgbt culture and I think the white washing of it has hurt all aspects of LGBT people

And when I say "LGBT" I mean all of those letters because legit. I do not think i would be out and about as a butch lesbian without some of the black queens I know in philadelphia

the conclusion of the machinations of the masters line

i went with wines (because no stones option):

SCREAMINGGGGGGGGGGG ACTUALLY AT THE FUCKING REVEALS IN LAW’S BACKSTORY?!?? WILL I FINALLY FUCKING LEARN ABOUT WHAT THE WILL OF “D” IS BECAUSE MY GOD I NEED TO KNOW ALSO CORA SPEAKING TO LAW FOR THE FIRST TIME LIKE MY GOD WHAT IS GOING ON IM SCREAMING IM FREAKING ACTUALLY WHAT THE FUCK

This match got me thinking things

WAIT THERE'S GARFIELD ANIMATRONICS!?!!?!??!?!?!?!??!?!???? AND I DIDN'T KNIOW ABOUT THIS UNTIL TODAY!?!?!?!??!??!?!??!??!?!??!??!??!??

I LOVE THEM!!!! HOLY SHIT HOLY COW I LOVE THEM SO MUCH THEY'RE ADORABLE!!! AND THEY CAN TALK!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOOK AT JON!!!!! HE'S REAL HE'S FINALLY REAL!!!!!!!! ODIE HAS A LITTLE LIFE SAVER!!!!! GARFY BABY'S FISHING FOR PIZAAA AAAAAAA I LOVE THEM THESE ARE SO COOL WHAT THE FUKC?!??!?!? ANAHFDNFIDSBFOsjffbohjeiofhfsioHUIDHFUORH

SUPERNATURAL EAT YOUR FUCKING HEART OUT

been playing Tears of the Kingdom and have hardly made a dent in the game thus far but I must exorcise some thoughts because I’m gettin zany about the shape of what I’ve seen

the tonal shift. Breath of the Wild was a beautiful but sadly empty game. all your friends are gone. the towns are scattered. the music is scarce. vast expanses of green are still littered with the debris of war. people have learnt to live around the shape of loss, and while years have passed, progress is halted. like the Princess, Hyrule is suspended in time.

TOTK is so lively, comparatively! you find civilians travelling and exploring, you see the results of Zelda’s kind leadership across the land, with every stable knowing her well enough to know that something is awry. Link sings when he cooks and those are songs that we know, songs that insinuate that he has spent time either remembering, learning or re-learning his context in the world after years lost to the war, to his century-long sleep and subsequent memory loss.

the recurring theme of construction and building reminds you that this is Hyrule in a state of repair, finally moving and developing after stasis. there’s a momentum shift. we’re rolling forward again (highlighted by all our bizarre locomotives, by the development of a printing press, and the pace at which news and people travel) and yet the looming threat on the horizon is going to see all of this hard-won safety undone.

so we have the upward momentum of development, and the impending threat of Ganondorf, which creates this spiraling sort of urgency that sees us wanting to protect the former from the latter. the game has created a race within itself. the paranoid threat of the moon falling but rather specifically in this game, on top of bravery and weaponry and the sort, the primary thing that will save Hyrule is... study.

the threat of impending doom is incentive to research. and god, the way TOTK game-ifies research is a nerd’s daydream. you get just enough information to keep your interest piqued, and while you’re doing extraneous tasks your mind is reeling, processing, the same way you do when you study - which is so perfect for a game with a huge open-world like this one. and again, a perfect reflection of Zelda herself. a gameplay style that reflects the feeling of descending down a wikipedia research spiral.

just like Hyrule in BOTW is reflected by its ruler suspended in time, holding on, Hyrule in TOTK is moving forward by looking to the past, urgently studying to find solutions. Princess Zelda is Hyrule. this is her legend. and Link is once more actioning her will. she is wise, and he is courageous enough to trust that wisdom even without all the pieces.

(but what of power? we’ve seen how it turns out, but how did it get there? iunno I’ve only gotten like four 'tears’ so WE SHALL SEE but lord knows I’m ready to feast. Link bears both marks rn, eh? he is corrupted by Ganondorf’s gloom but he has Rauru’s arm. the two are interlinked, the ‘Triforce bearers’ always are.)

this is a story that starts at the end. similar to BOTW, we have arrived at the outcome with no idea how we got here. but BOTW was a personal story, in a way; this is Hyrule’s story now, and the grand scale of a once intimate tale of self-discovery now belongs to a scope far larger than two or six. it’s bouncing back and forth throughout time, tying the past and present and future into one braid. you see the outcome. presumably you cant change it - but can you change the future?

all the while you’re aware that the people living in these flashbacks ought to be long gone. you’re seeing the plot and the history develop in tandem. you feel the dread of knowing what might be coming when you turn over the next page in your book, combined with the horrific knowledge that it’s about to repeat. it’s that perfect, sickening reflection of how it feels to study history: the sadness at knowing that these people are long gone, the gratitude towards their efforts, the fascination with their exploits and accomplishments, the academic pursuit of knowledge for solutions. connection to your past, to your ancestors, to their legacy and how it shapes your own. and just... how fun is it? learning is so fun!

and combining the first-hand accounts alongside the ruins and remains... similar sort of mix of nice-but-sad bittersweetness as BOTW, but a completely different iteration of that poignancy. and I don’t know the full story of it yet but I feel the shape of it just crushinggg down in the bg anytime I’m not playing it.

oh I just. love it. I have so much more to say. but I also have so much more to play. augh. kisses this game on the face

"Are you a book because I'd like to spread your pages and break in your spine." @papermint-at-your-service

Ghost almost immediately covered their mouth in shock- eyes wide and face flushed, their tail fluffed up and wings flying open- before quickly regaining their composure, clearing their throat and straightening up- although they were unable to regain control of their fluffed up fur or upright wings.

Then, they laughed a bit.

"Didn't know you had that in you, Papermint! Oh jeeze, you sure- ha ha haaa- holy shit, give me a minute to recover from that..."

All in all, they're certainly not opposing the approach...

Wow so cool that this episode completely betrayed all of Din's character development and the code of Mandalorians being a Creed, not a race love that for us 🙃 at least we have Space Lizzo and Sir Grogu

What Are You the God Of?

patron of promises

they call you naive: of all the things to be the patron of, you have tackled the most mercurial of things. promises can easily be reduced to empty words, the precursor to brokenness, and truly, you have seen so many end in such a way. but you have also seen promises be kept, whether expected to or not. in a way, the gamble of it all charms you the most. think of professions and vows screamed in guttural voices, of saying sweet things laced with uncertainty, of beautiful edifices built on unstable land, completely at the mercy of the quaking, crumbling earth. you are the god of the hopeful, of those struggling to find the good in their blackening hearts. the god of uncertain things, of saccharine words said with pure conviction. a refuge for defiant souls, shelter for those who make poor choices but have good intentions. god of oaths both broken and kept, god of sleeping early so that the new day can sooner begin, god of wonder. you string together the words filled with assurance and rain down belief, on both the promiser and the promised.

—the bringer of hope, however frayed and frail it may be.

stolen from: @r-adio tagging: anyone who wants to do it !

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Y'know I think I might just leave these sweet asks in my inbox to scroll through 🙂

started a new save to test out clayfarming methods and tried to rank up some serious gold before the egg festival. i did manage to buy like 80 strawberry bushes (could buy more but thought it would be Hell to water manually) & went to sleep... and that night a got damn FAIRY flew into my garden and immediately grew some freshly planted strawbs, like 8 of them, into fully developed fruiting bushes!!!!! guys. this run is Made!!!