“Cassandra woke up to the rays of the sun streaming through the slats on her blinds, cascading over her naked chest. She stretched, her breasts lifting with her arms as she greeted the sun. She rolled out of bed and put on a shirt, her nipples prominently showing through the thin fabric. She breasted boobily to the stairs, and titted downwards.”
i won’t fall for muscular hiccup propaganda i won’t …!!!!! he only has one well built muscle group and it is exactly the thigh muscles for riding and that’s it. hes not big and bulky he can’t even keep the carbs for it honestly he’s probably got one of those ungodly fast metabolisms. and anyway then you ask him Hey buddy what did you have for dinner today 😊 and he’d blink and go Oh Fuck It’s 10PM I totally missed dinner..Oh well 🕊️
tonight I have so many hiccup thoughts… maybe I make this a running thread? anyway. i love that he uses snark and sarcasm as a defense mechanism when in reality he is secretly very earnest and full of joy and mischievousness (tempered by odd humor and a modern notion of common sense)… fake ass idgafer i saw you relish in the beauty of friendship and the vastness of nature’s bounty!!!!!
i won’t fall for muscular hiccup propaganda i won’t …!!!!! he only has one well built muscle group and it is exactly the thigh muscles for riding and that’s it. hes not big and bulky he can’t even keep the carbs for it honestly he’s probably got one of those ungodly fast metabolisms. and anyway then you ask him Hey buddy what did you have for dinner today 😊 and he’d blink and go Oh Fuck It’s 10PM I totally missed dinner..Oh well 🕊️
the thing is so many people try so hard to "understand" ganondorf but in order to do that you have to acknowledge that
1. loz is imperialist and orientalist in its themes
2. its narrative in some games functions more as propaganda rather than any sort of fairy tale-esque fantasy story
that is to say the orientalist themes wrt to ganondorf start when they decided to take the main antagonist, originally only a non-human monster, and portray him as a man from the desert with every possible caricaturization
and, a lot of the way that the hylian monarchy is portrayed is based on both medieval europe and japanese myth — the latter especially embodying the "divine emperor" ideology, which was something that was often utilized to justify imperialist aggression from japan, by inculcating the belief that the emperor was divinely ordained to rule the world
and b. what i mean that loz narratively functions more like propaganda than a fairy tale-esque fantasy in some games, is that there is no coherent moral statement to be found. particularly in ocarina of time and totk (the latter of which is sort of a revisit of the former) ganondorf does not actually function as any sort of parable. which is why any attempts to analyze and determine his goals beyond "evil guy from the desert wants to steal our grass" hits a dead end. you can't determine any sort of moral statement or anything about ganondorf's actual character just from looking at the source material alone. which is why so many people who analyze these things often come to these conclusions — not because we're trying to "defend" or ""woobify"" ganondorf, but because the writing in loz often makes it hard to come to any other conclusion with him besides this "fear of the other," that the demon from the desert will ruin everything you know and love
i'm quoting someone else on this but ganondorf as portrayed in canon is only whatever he needs to be in order to justify the fantasy of killing him
people in the notes praising wind waker for "subverting" these issues and while i do love wind waker dearly, i do want to point out that it is still based in orientalist ideals. the representation of the desert as a harsh, hostile, and unlivable land serves to perpetuate orientalist tropes as well
Aladdin, Al-Qaeda, and Arabs in U.S. film and TV is a great read but specifically i want to point out a specific quote and how it relates to ganondorf in wind waker:
Such pejorative association between topography and cultural identity shapes the mise-en-scene and is the initial locus of much of Hollywood’s negative portrayal of Arabs. As Shaheen puts it,
“The depiction of Arabs always begins with the desert.”
As with depictions of Africa where the jungle connotes both danger and cultural “backwardness,” the “hostility” of the desert environment often translates into attitudes about the people who live there.
if i had a nickel for every time i was interested in a story centering around two lovers estranged for twenty years with a plucky son determined to prove himself to the world by becoming a man, i would have three nickels. which is not a lot but it’s weird that it’s happened thrice
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