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shygirl :: CLUB SHY ROOM 2
by 一紫太
All kinds of shit is always happening to Sailor Moon in broad daylight on the sidewalk
Hi mom,
do you remember me?
havent properly drawn these guys in a while so heres my first animorphs art of the year! ive missed them so much (;_;)
animorphs does not get enough credit for its innovation in the field of platonic willing-manipulation dynamics… making peace with being used, using your friends right back, doing it because it’s the only way, doing it because you’re desperate, doing it because you love them, accepting it when and because you trust them, accepting it when and because you don’t trust yourself… strengthening your connection through it like a really disturbing friendship bracelet… loving each other fiercely in and between these moments, caring so, so much for each other, seeking each other’s company to laugh and play and rest... ignoring the weight of it when you can, feeling it full force when you can’t, wearing you down, wearing you down all the time, just another pane of plexiglass separating you from notions of normal, living in that violent dissonance, your whole adolescence in it.
also i just finished rereading #29 the sickness and if you dont love cassie i hate you i hate you i hate you i hate you i hate you i hate you i hate you i hate y
where's that picture that ruined my life
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this comic did the same thing
I don’t do drugs cuz I like them I do them 2 cope with the pain of nevar having anyone appreciate all the things I do even though I make more toys than anyone else and my holes r available but that’s not enough for some people
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WARNING do NOT start reading books and comics or watching movies or looking at art!!! you will start wanting to create art yourself. or god forbid. writing.
Sudanis have been saying this so posting it here, please stop saying Iran is freeing Sudan. Yes you can be happy that the UAE is being bombed but that is not stopping the UAEs genocidal proxy, the RSF, from continuing their massacres.
Anyway open ur wallets
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a lot of people have already pointed out how totk has a lot of themes of imperialism and generally leans conservative ideologically, but what i think is interesting is how totk subtly redefines what a “researcher” is.
zelda wants to be a researcher in botw, and what this means in the context of botw is largely someone who works with sheikah technology. she wants to figure out ancient sheikah tech, she has an interest in botany and otherwise nature and biology (the whole silent princess and the frog thing), robbie and purah, the two characters who are the closest to us seeing what a researcher in the context of botw is are basically inventors. in totk, however, the main researchers who are presented to us are all historians.
this is an interesting pivot, because in botw zelda is not really interested in history. if anything, the one who’s deeply concerned with history is rhoam, wanting to preserve historical tradition and his uncritical reliance on said tradition and historical precedent is what leads them to their doom. in botw, zelda is narratively opposed to history, if anything, all the ancient tech backfires on them and traditions fail to awaken zelda’s power. zelda’s urge to be a researcher is in wanting to understand the world around her, not just blindly follow ancient plans but rather have agency within them.
totk, however, is obsessed with ancient plans. the only real moment where zelda gets to geek out in totk is her getting all giddy about finding out more about the divine origins of hyrule. all the researchers in the game are concerned with finding out more about the zonai. since all the mentions of ancient sheikah technology are scrubbed from the game purah and robbie read more as strange outliers, the sheikah slate is no longer, now it’s the purah pad, a product of purah rather than something larger. the whole game is literally about following an ancient plan, a plan most characters don’t fully understand as they sign up for it. totk’s main story is built on confusion, on the characters not knowing what’s fully going on but having faith in ancient sages telling them what to do. in botw, following ancient plans you don’t fully understand was the thing that doomed you. in totk, following ancient plans you don’t fully understand is the gimmick.
that juxtaposition between the two games has an ideological through line: botw posits that progress is necessary. mindlessly relying on tradition doesn’t work. prophecies are omens, not instructions. history must be learnt from, not repeated. the ancient sheikah aren’t a group to be emulated, but rather to be learnt from, considering their machinery backfired and the royal family betrayed them. totk, however, is obsessed with the mythical history of hyrule, a time where everything was idyllic until one bad man showed up, a time we must emulate in order to win. i already talked about how the past in totk is zelda’s life pre calamity but better here, but that also plays into the idolisation of that era and its royalty. in botw, even the myth of the first calamity preserves the fact that the yiga clan has origins in the royal’s family persecution of the sheikah, even the time when they successfully held back the calamity is tinged with mistakes that still affect the world ten thousand years later. in totk, ganondorf’s origins are nebulous. nobody provoked him, nobody did anything wrong, he’s just evil because he is.
a lot of right wing ideologies are hinged on preservation, but more than that: the belief in the nebulous mythical past in which everything was better. “make america great again”, the fascist’s idolisation of ancient rome which is represented largely inaccurately, look at any conservative rhetoric and you’ll see people complaining about how things nowadays are ruined or are being ruined, how in the past things were this way and they’re not anymore, which is bad. the belief in the fact that in some past period we were great and are not anymore, and the strive to emulate that past is a trait highly typical of right wing ideologies. and in totk the past as a great era is an idea presented completely uncritically, the narrative is entirely controlled by the game and doesn’t dwell on any of the inconsistencies in this idea.
now, obviously, not every story in which a great ancient era exists is fascist, right wing or conservative. but to me what’s interesting specifically in totk is this shift between the two games: botw is critical of the past. it’s critical of arrogantly repeating history, it’s critical of having blind faith in great relics of the past. totk isn’t. totk idolizes the past, totk tells legends and tells you to believe them without any doubts. botw believes researchers are those who seek to understand the world, innovate it and solve problems without relying on ancient ways. totk believes researchers are those who discover ancient instructions, ancient ways and relay them to great men in the present to be followed. the four mainline regional quests in botw are about discovering four ancient relics that are terrorising the land and fixing the mistakes of the past. the four mainline regional quests in totk are about discovering four ancient legends are true, and receiving instructions from an ancient sage on what to do.
totk is not simply neutral, it is ideologically conservative in stark contrast to botw, because of the things it chooses to leave uncriticised, notably the things botw was very poignant about examining critically. the way totk redefines what is a researcher is indicative of this, indicative of the way it chooses to idolize or present as an unexamined good that which was nuanced in botw. totk isn’t just conservative in the sense that it presents uncritically a “good king” and “evil conquerer”, it goes deeper, it’s notable because botw was starkly opposed to the thematic axioms totk presents.
i just think it’s very interesting that they made a sequel to botw, and completely redefined or otherwise ignored botw’s thematic core.
No, no, listen. The kissing was a metaphor. They're not actually —they're not actually gay. It's symbolism. The car thing? No that was real. She literally turned into a car.
during transitory periods of your life you may hit a 'this isn't even worth it, i'm already exhausted out of my mind from the effort of bringing this about, and losing any comforts i may have had in my life before - is it even going to be better for all of this?'. that's the hater PRINCE DIOS speaking and you have to run him over with a car
“When were you born?” She asks the thing inside her, one year when she is feeling raw and alone— alone, save for that which she most and least understands.
When the morning star and evening star crossed paths, married and became one, I first burned in the sky.
Mina sighs. Even her clearest memories of that life are mosaics of myth and reality, pieced together to value beauty over truth. “Did you have calendars back then? Moon years, or something similar?”
Her arms cross, an action of the thing. Such distinctions were superfluous.We marked Our Princess’s christening day and little else.
“So she got a birthday, and you got a legend?”
The thing smiles with Mina’s lips. Which would you choose, if you could?
Utterly different, utterly the same. Mina smiles the same smile.
I was conscious some of the time, waiting for you, the thing says unprompted. All I knew had died, and I listened to the ages of the world pass until I could merge with a new star. Your ascent on my horizon is a date worth noting.
Mina can feel the thing’s loneliness eclipse her own. A void of nothing, and then one tiny light— her light, the third star of Venus. In memory she is overwhelmed with wonder, disgust, gratitude and abhorrence. Her own feelings, mirrored.
“You’re using a lot of words to say you’ve co-opted my birthday as your own.”
It passes the time.
Mina looks up to the clock, reminded at the perfect moment to see it cross into midnight. “Well, happy re-birthday, then.”
Happy birthday.
For a rare moment, they are at peace with one another, and the world. Mina closes her eyes and lets the thing have her body, lets it feel the quiet night, the warm blankets, the soft sleepiness building behind her eyes. In the light of day, they will be at war again, but here, while the morning and evening stars have crossed paths, they are one.