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generational

ahhhhh!!! This took so long and idk how I feel about it. The concept is pretty basic. I tried to get a good mix of Zelda eras (Zelda 1 through Tears of the Kingdom), but it was difficult because during the 2000s her design was so consistent game to game. Tetra is in the center because she deserves so much more. the link to the past blue dress also deserves more but I forgot about it until the final stage of this

here's the games I was trying to reference:

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okay so when kazuo ishiguro wrote

“I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it's just too much. The current's too strong. They've got to let go, drift apart. That's how it is with us. It's a shame, Kath, because we've loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can't stay together forever.”

he was talking about klance, right? There is no more klance quote in all of fiction oh myyyyyyiffididhssiwiehrhduss

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Klance Animatic I Wait, I Wait, I Wait by Laufey

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hey not cool

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keith but comfortable

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I think fanon v canon Tim Drake discourse is so funny because both are, at the end of the day, ridiculous

Tim Drake doesn’t need to be shoved in a closet or beaten up or ignored by his family because he’s already going through it 😭 he’s already the perfect source of angst for any fandom, why do we feel the need to add on?!?! he is the 10 year old’s first oc. He has been through a school schooling (kinda two), he’s had the sexuality crisis, all of his friends have died, both of his dads are dead or have been dead…the guy can’t catch a break

canon Tim would be a fanon character in most spaces

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all of a sudden I have four fandoms and drawing anything is impossible. how do I choose bro

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if 2020 is back in style with the hantavirus I propose we bring back bo burnham and the ratatouille musical

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im not scared for link to speak im scared for him to be British

zelink is so American boy x British girl

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I played botw on my original account for the first time in two years and I was just struck by the difference between it and tears of the kingdom

Now first, I’d like to preface this by saying that I adore tears of the kingdom. I don’t think I’ve ever been more excited about a game. It has its strengths (ultra hand, fuse, all the mechanics cuz why was cryonis a thing). It’s beautiful but like…

something is missing. But, in my opinion, it’s the fact that there’s just too much going on for the story to make any sense.

botw very clearly depicts a post apocalyptic world. It’s a story of love and hope but ultimately loneliness and grief. The graveyard in kakariko with that one dead mom, satori mountain, Sidon and Mipha, the kingdom of hyrule, the ruins, all of it creates this intensely lonely atmosphere.

and that’s why the game works. You’re this character who has no one left from his time. His situationship is fighting ganon indefinitely, his friends are all dead, and I choose to believe that he has a sister in hateno who at this point is also dead. He has impa, but he doesn’t even have any memories of her nor does he really gain any. His world is gone.

botw’s environment, through the ruins and silence is able to communicate its message.

totk, in my opinion, fails to do that. It doesn’t have a clear message. Age of imprisonment is the only thing that makes the imprisoning war even kind of interesting, and the sky islands and depths are empty but aren’t lonely in the same way.

I don’t think totk needed to be lonely. But, I wish it would’ve used a different map and a new iteration of the characters. Make a world that’s vibrant and full of life and can feel busy! Or, at the very least, make hyrule interesting again! Show towns actually being rebuilt! Totk failed because it kept the lonely landscape, added a bunch of rocks and green robots to it, and then acted as if this created a real message

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my Zelda timeline

(don't think too hard about this I made this at 2 in the morning)

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I love both of them so so so much. Both of their stories are fundamentally about destiny. Skyward sword Zelda is the first, she’s the first reincarnation of Hylia and there’s no one who really gets it. She’s this daughter, friend, and whole person, and is completely stripped of that by hylia. All of her autonomy is removed. But, in the end, her efforts to stop demise just result in all future Zelda’s having that same autonomy removed from them. Botw Zelda is the first to really acknowledge these pressures. Her dad knows that she isn’t ready, she knows she’s not ready, and basically the whole kingdom knows that she’s not ready. She never gets to be a teenager. Botw and skyward sword Zelda are the only Zelda’s to really acknowledge this pressure that they face as a result of their destiny. They’re forced to make sacrifices. So, I drew them together!!! I think botw Zelda isn’t hugging skyward sword Zelda back because she does blame her, in some way. We see that in the memory of the trip to mount hylia that Zelda is frustrated with the goddess and I think that frustration would carry over to skyward sword Zelda. Skyward Zelda would want to comfort someone she doesn’t know how to comfort.

I’m assuming that botw is still canonically related to skyward sword but honestly who knows. Totk messed the worst timeline ever up. Who knew it was possible.

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link and Zelda are the first ever iPad couple

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and he did.

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link sketch because im still at the restaurant

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im back! so are they! i haven’t drawn anything dc in a HOT sec so this isn’t perfect but it’s art so what

I love all of them and they love each other. Kinda wanted to capture that childhood defining friend group that you’re brutally forced to drift away from (canon event). I was rereading tractors which was part of the inspiration for this (tho they do not look very tractors-y) and then I read my friends by Fredrik Backman and while I did have problems with that book it also captured that nostalgia that plagues Tim and Cassie. sorry for making tim lwk chopped and putting them in a slightly pink void.

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I won’t be here when you come back.

quick sketch before bed 🛌 anyways I’ve never really drawn Adam so he looks a little funky but ehh