not that I have a bias or anything…

saw @chez-cinnamon's absolutely BANGER butterfly!Howdy design and couldn't resist! two fluffy flutterbyes <3 solidarity

TotK DLC idea!

The screen is black. You don’t hear anything for a long time. Then, faintly, in the distance, you can hear it.

Link. Link. Open your eyes.

While the line echoes familiarity, the voice does not.

Or. Well. It does. Because while it isn’t Zelda, it’s a familiar man’s voice speaking gently, so gently you almost don’t recognize it because there’s no way he ever spoke like this in the main game.

But he is now. And instead of a golden light being the first image you see before the screen shows Link awakening… you see gloom floating in the air. The image cuts to a Hylian waking up who… doesn’t look like Link from TotK?? He’s different, still small in stature, with slightly tanner skin, platinum light blonde hair, and red eyes. But… something’s wrong with his forehead. There’s a weird line on it.

This new character you apparently are gonna be playing in the DLC blearily blinks his eyes open, clearly groggy and too weak to really move. But then that line on his forehead moves a hair, it splits apart, and you realize it’s a freaking eye, red and yellow and it’s like the ones on gloom hands and oh gosh what the hell is it doing on his forehead—

Link realizes something is off and his eyes blow wide, his hands reach for his forehead and he screams in agony and terror, only for someone to scoop him into a hug to soothe him.

And suddenly you realize why that voice was eerily familiar.

It’s Ganondorf. He resurrected you from the era of the Imprisoning War. You, who have a history with him and his family. You, who he wants to protect, who he views as his kid, who he calls a prince and says he’ll keep you safe by controlling your body with his dark magic if he has to.

Welcome to Tears of the Kingdom: Hero’s Shadow.

You have to play a long gone Hero who was resurrected. Ganondorf, who is still recovering his strength in preparation for killing the current Hero, tasks you with finding your betrothed, his daughter, as well as his wife. They’re buried somewhere in the Depths like you were. He wants you to find their burial sites so he can use his secret stone to resurrect them like he did you, and control them as well. Which is doubly bad when you realize his wife was the original Sage of Lightning. He gives you free reign to wander once you go through a tutorial (he tests you to see if you’ve recovered enough strength), because he knows you love wandering and collecting things. Your own personal objective, however, is trying to help Hyrule from the Depths, to break free from Ganondorf’s control, because Link would rather set himself on fire than let Ganondorf resurrect and control the love of his life and his mother-in-law. Your best hope is to find shards of the shattered Master Sword to try and stab the eye on Dark Link’s forehead and break the control Ganondorf has on you. Until you can, though, the monsters are your allies, you can teleport across the Depths by manifesting out of the gloom created by gloom hands (just like what Phantom Ganon does), and the world below is your oyster. If you get too close to sword shards when gloom hands are nearby, Ganondorf can see your attempt and immediately takes control of your body, and no matter what button you press Link just walks back to Ganondorf’s location and stays there until you get a chance to try again.

You start with three hearts, all empty looking like when gloom hurts you, and if you get injured they just shatter. Whenever they all shatter, you respawn at Ganondorf’s location because his gloom hands came and rescued you from dying. The only way you can get more hearts is by collecting poes and offering them to the statues in the Depths. You can communicate with the spirits of soldiers, who may give you combat tips or info about the area. If you gain enough of Ganondorf’s trust, he’ll let you command monsters, and he might even let you wander the Surface (under his supervision) during a blood moon.

You learn of Link’s and Ganondorf’s history through discovering ancient relics/texts that trigger memories. This connection between you and Ganondorf stems back to time before the war, well over ten thousand years ago. Link was engaged to Ganondorf’s daughter, but during the Imprisoning War the family fought against the demon king. Ganondorf did love his family, but he loved power more. Link sacrificed himself, letting himself get mortally wounded to save Rauru from a killing blow. Gan held him as he died, and it allowed Link to both beg him to stop and stab him in the heart with a light shard. The shard didn’t kill him, but it was what Rauru connected with when he hit him in the chest, allowing him to seal Ganondorf away. Ganondorf still wants the world, but his love for his family is still present, though now twisted, so he thinks he can control Link and everyone else with his dark magic in order to keep them safe and in line. Once the threat of the current Hero is eliminated, the world will be his, and his family will be safe. As such, he treats you, Link, the player, like a stubborn child, reeling you in, but does so in a horrific way, torturing Link by controlling him.

You have to break free of this and stop him, and the only hope you have is the distant call of a sword spirit…

here are some of my thoughts on how beckory could be if ggy never happened and gregory continued to live a normal life being abnormal

Something about bsd abilities and trauma and also literature as escapism to face reality better. Something about Atsushi's fantasy being all about strength and self healing and a rampaging "beast beneath the moonlight" when reality forces him to rely on others to heal and emphasizes his empathy and "weakness." Something about Dazai's escapist fantasy and character trope as something "no longer human" when he actually is very much human. Something about Yosano's fantasy being a world where "thou shalt not die" when reality keeps making her face death. Something about Kunikida's desires to be a "lone poet" against the world with just him and his ideals realised when reality is full of people he can't abandon. Or Kenji escaping into a world where he is "undefeated by the rain" and putting his entire soul into living that dream out. Or Akutagawa being (philosophically) consumed by his "rashoumon" when reality shows he doesn't always have to devour and overtake....

Holy shit I thought I'd seen the worst and laziest gimmick blogs already. Congrats on setting the bar even lower.

@#$_&-+()/*"':;!?,.~`|•√π÷ק∆£¢€¥^°={}\%©®™✓[] get a fucking job

jokes on you asshole, i am in school most of the day and have multiple hours of homework every night. i just ride the bus for two hours to and from school and know how to use a queue

and you? do you understand how much work i put into this blog? how much i've learned about various punctuation so that i—with time i could easily use doing something else i might add—can tell people about things that i find interesting? i doubt it because you just have a hate filled heart from what i can see, picking on blogs that you find lazy because you can't even bother to dig.

i would have just left this in the inbox; but i really do feel like showing everyone what a fool you are. i mean, come back when you know all the brackets and dashes and have read at least one book about punctuation and then you can talk about who's the "laziest gimmick blog"

and no, i am not justifying that keyboard smash of an attempt to get more punctuation. if you want to talk about lazy bud? take a look inwards, perhaps.

new game! shuffle your playlist 12 times and let it predict your 2023. i'll start:

January -> Never Too Late // Three Days Grace

February -> Going to Hell // The Pretty Reckless

March -> my tears ricochet // Taylor Swift

April -> The Sound // The 1975

May -> More Than A Friend // girli

June -> Cloudburst // Oasis

July -> exile (feat. Bon Iver) // Taylor Swift (i don't like this chrissy)

August -> Girl From The Internet // Lauren Sanderson

September -> Promise Me // Badflower

October -> hug & kiss // dress, fka, Lydia Paek, Miso, sogumm

November -> Once // Liam Gallagher

December -> Never Know - Unplugged // Bad Omens

um, smells like ✨sorrow✨.

tagging (no pressure): everyone who sees this + @geolikesstrangerthings @disco-phrog @adorewillbyers @jonahlea08 @byler-is-endgame7 @over-rated-cheese @biigiiiii @heroesbyler @lesbian-el-supremecy @angelwithnightmares @wheelerssecret @pinkeoni @rebellius @scout-the-wise @ki-flor @kittykat940 @booksandpaperss @bookfansworld @blueeandyellowmakesgreen @sorry-i-panicked @onstoryladders

Assassin's Creed + TV Tropes ↳ Desmond Miles 1/?

I feel like part of the reason that a lot of us who got the Waiter to call us lambkin feel so many red flags at it is because the Waiter kinda gives off predator vibes, and lambs are prey. But, if viewing it through a predator sees prey lens, we aren’t just any prey, we’re small/young prey, which means we’re prey that can’t defend itself. Absolutely zero threat, and possibly completely unaware that there’s any danger at all.

Then again I may be over analyzing but I’m also pretty sure there’s no such thing when it comes to them

*peeks at something in Book Two where the W says something special to their Lambkin* Interesting. 👀

This part in particular stood out to me: "Absolutely zero threat, and possibly completely unaware that there’s any danger at all." I feel like many of the Lambkin readers may allow their MC to have a degree of innocence or being a touch naive/too trusting (respectfully), while they themself can sense something isn't adding up with the W. It can create a really unique dynamic! I do like your analysis of this; I can see how some of the descriptions of the W's body language and how they hold themself coiled/readied could reinforce this power dynamic.

But what if they think the lamb is worth protecting from other predators (e.g. the Lion and the Lamb)? Or maybe it's all a guise and it's a bit of a wolf in sheep's clothing type of thing? Who knows. >:]

Best wishes! 💚

genuinely these panels are going to make me ugly cry

This is only for folks who consider to reblog a artwork they like but are worried about it for what ever (and I do mean what ever) reason or don't know that reblogs are a common here:

This is a thumbs up 👍 that it's 100% alright for you to do that~ artists and writers would appreciate it, even!

i waited 10 years to enter my "i'm gonna do short threads and not worry about my queue" era and i love it here 🤧

GIRL HELP I WASNT EXPECTING THE SATURATION PSA TO BE THE MOST POPULAR DRAWING-RELATED THING IVE EVER MADE IN MY LIFE