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link-is-a-dork · 2 months

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TiL you can do Phantom Ganon's first phase with the hookshot

#liad.txt #ocarina of time #liad post #phantom ganon #oot phantom ganon #first phase as in portrait phase btw

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st-hedge · 7 months

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The majority of the doodles I’ve done for spooky season (minus the final one) 🎃✨

#loz #legend of zelda #twilight princess #loz tp #ocarina of time #loz oot #botw #loz totk #Zelda #link #phantom ganon #dark link #twili link #ganlink #calamity link

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mochiwei · 8 months

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Day 14: Ganon

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sennamaticart · 8 months

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Phantom Ganon playing painting polo

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kagoutiss · 11 months

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self immolation

#legend of zelda #tloz #ocarina of time #oot #ganondorf #phantom ganon #ive been in a phantom ganon mood lately and.#idk. him being a sentient being who ganon just made to look like himself #and just doing what he was created to do. and then being called useless and thrown into basically an interdimensional garbage can #LIKE #???????/?/?/???#the kind of identity issues a ghost like this would have by the way. good fuckignn god #i NEED to get some rest but GODDDDDD #i love phantom ganon i mean i love all the phantom ganons but oot phantom ganon specifically #everyone go get the evil spirit armor in totk right now. do it for him

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littlesakis-aubade · 8 months

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Day 13 - Spirit/Ghost/Phantom

I offer you three Phantom Ganons, because I couldn’t choose just one

Also, below is the sketch because honestly it looks really cool

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elysiuminfra · 9 months

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get up

#ocarina of time #tloz oot #link oot #my art #i got my ass kicked by phantom ganon today. :(

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blackautmedia · 10 months

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The Problem with the Gerudo | Orientalism in Legend of Zelda

EDIT: Because I made an updated and more in-depth version of this now that Tears of the Kingdom has been out longer, I've posted the updated link here in place of the original.

With the release of Tears of the Kingdom, we have to have this discussion again. The desert vai outfit was racist, not that the game removed it to address that, but the Gerudo are built entirely on orientalist tropes that go beyond just the outfit. We also talk about orientalism as shown in works like Aladdin and Ducktales.

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I'm not saying to abandon the idea of queering Link entirely, but only to understand that Legend of Zelda relies very heavily on a number of euro-fantasy tropes that rely on presenting numerous non-white people as exotic playthings and to consider the position that puts queer non-white folks in.

The entire scene of Link getting the Vai outfit and questioning the man giving it to him is built on transphobia.

This isn't queer expression, it's racial exoticism. They're not imagined as people with a society that makes sense, everything around them being so fixated on finding men and having Link and other white guys infiltrating their space.

Orientalism at its core is an imagined vision of real oppressed people by a dominant group in a way that excludes them from their own portrayal and reinforces real-world systemic oppression.

Entire fictional groups in Zelda such as the Rito, Twili, Zonai, Gorons, and Deku Scrubs to name a few incorporate racial coding in addition to the Gerudo. That recontextualizes how we look at say how the Deku are portrayed in Majora's Mask where they're jungle dwelling savages boiling this monkey alive because they think he kidnapped their princess. This is where racial coding comes into play because Nintendo is using a racial trope commonly used to depict Black and several native indigenous people as barbaric.

The Gerudo in Ocarina of Time are depicted as a race of desert-dwelling thieves. You're formally introduced gameplay wise when you have to sneak around their hideout and free these men who were seduced by what the game presents to us as dangerous but irresistible women. Despite being a group of almost entirely women, their society is patriarchal as the in-game lore states the lone man born every century is destined to be their leader. The Gerudo also go out into Hyrule to go find boyfriends.

Ocarina of Time is one of the earliest Zelda games to portray a human or human-like version of Ganon, the man of the desert he's repeatedly called, but they use racial coding with his human counterpart and make him an Arab man with some other cultures mashed in, which they also conflated with Islam to characterize him as evil and dangerous.

Ocarina of Time goes a step further as the recurring symbol of the Gerudo shown here is an altered version as seen on the mirror shield obtained in the spirit temple. The original symbol is a crescent moon and star very closely resembling the symbol of Islam. A common orientalist trope that does this is the conflation of Arabs with the religious faith of Islam. This was changed alongside prayer chanting used in music for the fire temple on some N64 cartridges and subsequent ports and the DS remake of Ocarina of Time.

The fact that Nintendo is a Japanese company doesn't magically make them immune to these issues, especially because 1) orientalism doesn't only encompass Asian people and 2) Even the term "Asian" encompasses countless subcommunities each with very distinct histories.

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the-carnival-of-time · 1 year

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#zelda #tloz #the legend of zelda #tloz oot #ocarina of time #oot #forest temple #boss fight #phantom ganon #ganondorf #ganon #lozgifs #lozgraphics #nostalgia #retro gaming #gif #my gifs #oot3dgif

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tonbane · 1 year

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So I've been thinking of phantom Ganon and dark Link... 🤠 Thanks to st-hedge amazing art (I feel shy tagging)

Brightness up, my apologies. If you'll excuse me, I'll head back to my thesis cave. See you next month :-)

#not too happy w how this turned out but it was more of me unwinding thsn anything else #ganlink #dark link #phantom ganon #dark link x phantom ganon #tloz #loz #link #ganon #ganondorf #the legend of zelda #oot #ocarina of time #legend of zelda #zelda #tonbane #send me couple pose refs i beg

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divineprank · 20 days

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Solving a 25 year old mystery...

Very early on in the game, we're informed that if the Kokiri dare step outside of the forest, they will die. That's a fairly heavy statement, but it does line up with more lore that we end up picking up as the game carries on. Anyways, this forest is a secluded, protected and magical place, a small haven that is effectively cut off from the rest of the world. As we carry on through the game, we learn that anyone who is lost within these enchanted woods--anyone who is NOT a Kokiri--will twist into one of two creatures: a Skull Kid if you are a child, and if you are an adult you will transform into a Stalfos. Why this happens is still a mystery, but one can guess it's likely connected to the Deku Tree's magic and the Kokiri being a vulnerable race. They're so precious to the Great Deku Tree; he views them as his children after all, and his children MUST be protected!

Makes sense, right?

So why is it, at the end of the game, we actually see a bunch of Kokiri outside the forest, partying it up with Guru-Guru at Lon Lon Ranch? They're spinning him on his organ grinder, and we even see a lonesome Mido situated next to a heartsick King Zora, both of them missing their special person.

Q: The Kokiri tribe is outside the forest at the ending. And the Zora too...

A: This is because Link's success has wiped out the evil forces, and the range of the Deku Tree Sprout protecting the forest has been expanded. The Zoras do not need to be immersed in water all the time. (Kawagoe, Cinema Scene Director).

And there it is! The answer to a burning question that many people have been wanting to know for twenty-five years now! The worst part is, this interview was published in an April 1999 issue of Nintendo 64Dream Magazine! We've had the answer to this question given to us only FIVE MONTHS after the game launched, and yet still to this day I think it is one of the most-asked questions about Ocarina of Time! Funny how things happen that way, huh?

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...Aaactually, since I mentioned it...

Remember the cute little boy who is practically enamored with Dampé, the grave keeper? The one whose father you give the Keaton mask to and the very same child you give the Spooky Mask to?

According to this very same Dream64 magazine interview, this child ends up going missing before Link wakes up seven years later. In fact, five years after Ganondorf had invaded the sacred realm, this poor kid ended up taking it upon himself to search for his missing father, (the Hylian soldier stationed in front of Death Mountain's gate - the guy you trade the Keaton mask to!). Upon searching the forest for his father, he became lost and tragically succumbed to the forest's curse. He transformed into a Skull Kid at eight years old and apparently had an encounter with Link. He didn't bother to attempt communicating with Link, asking if he knew where his father was because Skull Kids don't trust adults. He attacked Link instead and I hate to think where that ended up.

Q: Where did the little stalker in the graveyard go when you were in your time (became an adult)? A: Five years later, when he was eight years old, he wandered into the Lost Woods in search of his missing father and got lost. At that time, he became a Skull Kid. Skull Kid don’t talk to adults, so when he encountered adult Link, he just attacked him and didn't ask him what happened to him. (Koizumi, 3D System Director).

Grog is actually mentioned in this magazine, too... You know, the "People are disgusting!" guy? After we are given the medicine from the Odd Mushroom he had given us, we don't get to see Grog again. Instead, Fado appears and tells us that everybody who enters the forest turns into a Stalfos. Everybody. Stalfos. The dark and frankly unsatisfying conclusion to Grog's story, just after giving the poor fellow an ounce of hope, is quite jarring and it only left folks with more questions.

Q: What happened to Cucco Lady’s brother after he gave you the mushrooms?

A: Fado, the Kokiri girl who is waiting for you, is saying a meaningful message. "They all become Stalfos.” That's right, everyone who wanders into the Lost Forest becomes a Stalfos and lives in the Forest Temple. What? What about the human Link? Well, they are not Kokiri... Why is that? (Koizumi, 3D System Director).

While it's not a lot of information, we are given a piece of lore that gets my imagination firing off... Why would Grog--or any Stalfos--be drawn to the Forest Temple? Interestingly, if you show the Skull Mask to some of the Deku Scrubs, they will refer to the mask as looking like their "sacred forest totem". Could the Stalfos be related?

And for THAT matter... Why does the Skull Mask look so similar to Phantom Ganon's face?

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enigma-selfships · 1 year

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Sometimes you re-beat the forest temple boss and end up feeling sorry for them.

#soooooo guess what I did today #the legend of zelda #legend of zelda ocarina of time #ocarina of time #loz oot #forest temple #phantom ganon #ganondorf #phantom ganon x oc #phantom ganon x reader #ganondorf x reader #fanart #self ship fanart #my art

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st-hedge · 8 months

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What’s more romantic than a blood moon (happy spooky season)

#legend of zelda #loz #loz OoT #ganondorf #phantom ganon #dark link #shiny ganlink #posting while the Americans are asleep #I fell asleep at the tablet while drawing this #but I decided if I don’t finish it now I never will lol #happy freak season

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mochiwei · 2 years

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Day 23: Ganondorf

Available here!

Phantom Ganon is one of my favorite (and most infuriating) bosses! I had to draw his horse as well… look at that beauty 🐴💞

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imjiahn · 8 months

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A: Ruler of Boars????

B: Sooooo OOT happened before TOTK?

#botw #link #breathofthewild #zelda #legendofzelda #loz #fierce deity #tears of the kingdom #the legend of zelda #ganondorf #loz ganon #ganon #phantom ganon #oot #ocarina of time

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kagoutiss · 2 years

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good morning here is the saga of me studying oot ganondorf’s pre-timeskip outfit and being extremely normal abt the fact that he wears a knife on his leg

#tloz oot #ocarina of time #ganondorf #uhhhhhhh idk i like him lol #goofy hot topic looking man #goth jock who stole my heart #also i hc that the phantom ganon skull mask is an actual thing that he wears #he totally would

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