One of the fan casts I’ve seen a lot is Hunter Schafer as Zelda. Thoughts?

image for reference because i had to google who hunter schafer was

i could back it? she'd definitely be able to pull off like. oot or twilight princess zelda (by looks alone i haven't seen her act) really depends on what they're doing story wise. but ultimately i don't particularly care what the actor looks like as long as they are believably link or zelda to me and i just. don't think the kind of "major hollywood actors" that people toss around when talking about it could really have that effect because they're too recognisable? if that makes any sense. also a bit of a tangent but i don't know if i WANT the zelda movie to adapt an existing game or a new one, though if i had ti guess it'll adapt something connected to botw/totk and that timeline if it is in any way tied to a game because nintendo is generally trying to move away from the 'traditional' zeldas so to speak

for context this is the hypothetical cast in the article i was reading earlier:

like i respect timothee but i think seeing him as link would just make me laugh. he's a perfectly good actor i just don't vibe with this. mr. holland. can we be serious here. respect the inclusion of dev patel and steven yeun but i think this would only work in a post-oot movie that was a tragic retelling of what happens to the hero of time / an exploration of the effect of All That. which won't happen but i think they could pull it off. we're very much dependent on how old link and zelda will be but if i HAD to pick from this list i'd say aramis knight (in ms marvel) because he's not as immediately recognisable and also he's around the right age for Link That Lives In My Head

moving to the zeldas. florence pugh are you KIDDING me. again i respect her i think ms pugh is very talented. but i don't think i'd want her to play zelda. ultimately it comes down to the fact that link and zelda are almost always teenagers and i want the movie to lean into that. especially because AGAIN this won't happen but i would like an examination of the impact of being declared Saviour Of The Entire World at approximately 12-17 years old. though i guess this could also work with an adult link and zelda but that would lean towards more of a drama than a Big Action Fantasy which is what this will be. zendaya again can we be serious i don't think this would work. personally i'd go w/ kathryn newton or stephanie hsu on this list tbh. or hunter schafer i think she'd be a pretty good choice on vibes alone but ive never seen her in anything (euphoria?)

the article also included these as cast possibilities for minor characters and when i tell you some of them made me choke on my water

i respect natasha lyonne as navi because that could be funny. the others are just. really. something

sorry this answer was super long and also not coherent i should inform you that i am running on approximately 2hrs sleep today. so. but if anyone wants to further discuss zelda PLEASE do i am going through a mini phase rn

also as a second tangent. my ideal zelda plots:

skyward sword zelda during her time on the surface because you could have some REALLY good conflict between her goddess side and her human side and the way she slowly realises she has to manipulate link

zelda becoming sheik in oot!!

my roommate pointed it out the other day but i haven't been able to stop thinking about it since: majora's mask stop motion movie in the style of gdt's pinocchio. directed of course by mr Fucked Up Fairytale del toro himself

I saw some of your tags in a previous post, did you not like BotW? (not trying to stir shit, genuinely curious because I didn't love it myself)

 so i’ve gotten a couple asks today like this one so I think it’s finally time to make a post about why i didnt love botw :~) this is like 2 years worth of internal critique that ive held in because i know its a really really popular game and arguably the most mainstream zelda game ever (possibly after oot) but i managed to write just my top 3 dislikes!!! woo!!!!

anyway so i just want to disclaim that botw is an amazing and incredible open world game with fantastic graphics and designs and just all round gorgeous! but it doesnt really hit the standard of a Zelda game to me....so here we go

music: forgettable ost  so we’ve all played Zelda games before and we’re all familiar with the music of the franchise. We all know the classics, like the overworld theme, and song of storms, dragon roost island, midnas lament etc. These are really, really iconic songs which we all know and love....So i want to ask how many memorable songs did we get from botw? i loved the trailer music, you know the song that plays when you unlock towers, but the best use of that song was seriously only done in the trailer. I know a big argument a lot of people use to defend the music in botw is “you’re supposed to feel empty and alone” but I don’t want to feel like im alone! I want to feel like i’m on an adventure to save Hyrule. just want to reiterate that botw outside of the zelda franchise is AMAZING but as a zelda game im not impressed. so for the music, in comparison to 30+ years of incredible soundtracks, botw didn’t leave a mark (for me) ((these are just personal opinions)) (((so keep hate to a minimum thabk u))) also i want to add that i shouldn’t like watching the trailer more than i actually like playing the game......you gotta admit the trailer was awesome 

plot: weak plot, boring, no flavour lol  plot.....what plot....lol....surely we can all agree that botw had a weak ass plot. i understand that nintendo was trying to break zelda conventions by allowing you to do whatever you wanted whenever you wanted but what i dont understand is why that had to come at the cost of a good story....the fact that you could do a playthrough of botw without having to collect the memories really made the characters and the arc feel so insignificant when it could have been a really great story. one of my favourite zelda games is albw because i loved how they gave you the choice of where to go and what to do through Ravio! and then the plot right at the end....blew my tiny mind. i loved it! albw broke zelda conventions while also delivering an iconic story line. Finishing botw was not satisfying for me. The characters felt incomplete and there were entire plot points that were completely insignificant, like the Koroks. Even the Guardians were made to feel completely obsolete by the end of the game. They were never given a finishing story line. My girlfriend was telling me how botw would have had a greater impact if the final boss fight had involved the guardians, as in they returned to your side and helped you finish ganon or something like that, but instead they were just forgotten about. i feel like a lot of botw was just forgotten about...........but yeah. it was a weak plot, especially in comparison to other zelda games. i really feel like a good story is a key element to a good zelda game 

shrines: too easy, too short, underwhelming  ahhhh. shrines. 120 shrines, and all you get at the end are some clothes. i have a LOT to say about the shrines. they tried hard to switch it up here, replacing dungeons with shrines & divine beasts. i was really excited about this change at first but i felt they really under-delivered. Here are the zelda conventions they got rid of with the divine beasts: boss keys, dungeon specific items (bow, hookshot, boomerang etc), maps (kind of), compasses, mini boss. cool cool cool cool cool thats fine. i feel like they couldnt include any of these because the divine beasts were soooo short. i feel like i completed them in like 20 minutes. i’d say that they were underwhelming! it really made me miss getting stuck in the bloody forest temple in oot shooting an arrow at the walls trying to get the hallways to untwist for like 7 hours u know? as for the shrines, they were boring too lol. the music was all the same, there was barely any variety in the elements or challenges and they were pretty simple to complete. i thought they were booooorrriiiing. i think definitely my key word for this section is underwhelming. the only reason i would get excited about finding a shrine is because it actually gave me something to do instead of just frolicking around and foraging for like 15 hours straight  

but yeah anyway i did like botw but its not in my top 5 loz games barely even in my top 10 like maybe its tenth. and reiterating these are my personal opinions if u relate im starting a club we will have shirts that say ‘botw was okay’. if u thought this was completely wrong then i feel for ya i dont blame u for loving botw. its great! i have high hopes for the sequel!!! also if anyone read this far im surprised but i love u 

How Nintendo stopped me from killing myself.

I have struggled with mental health pretty much all my ‘grown up’ life. From being bullied in high school to having an over critical mother (who I love very much) I’ve struggled.

This past year has been the hardest time for me. I’m 20 yeas old with a full-time job; amazing friends who care about me; the best boyfriend who I’m so unbelievably lucky to have yet I still have depression and anxiety and often question the idea of suicide. I’ve only once went so far to the idea of actually killing myself when I was around 14/15 years old that I wrote a note and sent it my friend. Sometimes I think yeah ok I was just being a teenager, the perfect example of an emo who cut their thighs and cried to my chemical romance but more recently I have just been thinking wow maybe it would be better for everyone around me. It would stop the hurting for me and I could just fall asleep and that would be it. The end. But then I couldn’t do that to the people who love me. I think when I’m in my depressive states nobody cares about me and I should just die but then people do care about me and it’s just my brain telling me lies. It would ruin lives and hurt the people I love the most if I was ever to kill myself. My best friend would but so hurt that I didn’t talk to her first, my boyfriend, my family and I couldn’t do that to them, so I never would. If anyone I know personally reads this you don’t need to worry because I’m never going to go that far, I’ve passed the hurdle and I do believe I am getting better mentally.

Probably wondering how Nintendo comes into this right?

Animal Crossing: New Leaf saved my life (with the help of many other things such as anti-depressants and my boyfriend) but animal crossing weirdly was there for me when I had nothing else. It was my reason to get out of bed in the morning. I had to get up because if I didn’t who was going to water my hybrids and talk to my villagers? It’s Sylvia’s birthday today I need to go to her party, she invited me. What if I missed Crazy Redds visit to my town? I need to get all the artwork for my museum I promised Blathers I would. It sounds ridicules to be saying that a game helped me but sometimes I would be in such a dark place. My boyfriend works full time, my best friend lives in London which is a 7 hour drive away from me. I didn’t want to bother people with my problems which weren’t even problems. I couldn’t phone somebody and just say “hello, I’m really sad. So sad I can’t eat, and I’ve cried non-stop for two hours. Why? I don’t have a reason sorry”. So, I would go and play animal crossing, I would talk to my villagers, they say nice things to me which is a code in a game and they say the same 10 phrases to everyone who plays but it was nice also made me feel helpful when I did deeds for them. I set goals for myself that yes, sound very dumb and pointless that buy this time next week I want to have found all the fossils for my town. It got me out of bed plus gave me something to care about.

But then it’s how did Nintendo save me and not just animal crossing?

Nintendo have released a video saying that they are releasing a new animal crossing game for switch in 2019. I need to be alive, so I can play this game. But also, I bought my first Zelda game as a distraction from my own brain but now I want to play all the Zelda games. I told my boyfriend to buy professor Layton and we now have the first four games and I want to be around to help him with puzzles because it’s fun. I’m not saying that animal crossing alone helped me. My boyfriend did. He is the main reason why I am doing so much better now, he would talk to me and wouldn’t get mad at me for crying every single night over nothing. He would make tea for me if I wasn’t feeling well and he would work all day at a job he hates to come home to a house where the pots needed doing, the floor needed mopping and I have just been there like “hey babe look at how well my flowers are growing in my game” but he would look at my virtual flowers and not get mad. I love him a lot and I’m very thankful for him. He deserves the world and not a depressed girlfriend who can’t make more than five different meals. But soon I’ll be able to make six different meals and then even seven, eight, ten different meals. I’m going to get better and go back to work. Go to the gym, become a better person in myself for him. I’m going to keep playing Nintendo games and I’m going to keep playing animal crossing. I would suggest buying the games because they’re so wholesome and calming. They do help in my opinion. Thank you for reading this post, its very sad but it’s something ive wanted to talk about for a while without being sad. In my own words and my own feelings, this is what depression has been like for me. I have single handled kept PG tips company from going bankrupt with the amount of tea I’ve drank plus also my skin has been glowing because no make-up and tears have been my go so skin care routine for almost two months.

If anyone is reading this is still in the dark times, don’t worry you will get better and come out the light side of the tunnel. I’m willing to talk if I am ever needed. Thank you.

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