My idea for what Tears of the Kingdom could have been (like an au):
Originally, people speculated that ToTK would involve the Twili based on the aesthetics of the trailer.
So what if it was actually about the Twili?
Here's my VERY basic pitch lmao:
Link and Zelda are exploring some ruins underground, through circumstances, Zelda ends up in the past.
But instead of Sonia and Rauru, she's met with Skyward Sword Link and Zelda. They're much older than they were in their game, and now married, leaders of what will eventually become Hyrule down on the surface.
Nothing seems to be wrong just yet.
Zelda's ancestor aids her in her powers, trying to find a solution and send her back home. Then disaster strikes. A group of powerful magic users try to overthrow sksw Link and Zelda, fighting over the Triforce. A war begins.
On the official Zelda timeline, the original imprisoning war with the Twili didn't come long after the events of Skyward Sword. So it's possible... cough.
hey! did you ever do a solo pearl piece in the mucha style? if so, can you link it or rb it here, i loved the lizzie mucha style illustration so much!
no actually i had a sketch planned for a pearl one but i ended up getting pretty busy with school and also hit a little with art block, and well, i got my spark back with the start of hermitcraft, so its been pretty pushed back to the very backburner/maybe just not gonna happen
the mucha style drawings are very fun but at the same time they're a lot of work lol
I just watched the film adaptables of And Then There Were None (the BBC series and the 1945's movie) and *cough*-
Why, tell me why they must always ship Vera and Lombard? In the book, it is clear there is no mutual attraction between them. Lombard did take a errrr.. liking to Vera but she didn't reciprocate. Her mind and heart and soul was always, always on Hugo - it was almost an obsession with her. She hangs herself because she reasoned "Hugo would've wanted it", she kills for him, she half lives in his memory. I don't see her falling heavily for Lombard while being so 'preoccupied'. Their chemistry was (in the book) that of two possible partners in crime or - of course - detection. Christie made them a cool duo, but not, for heaven's sake, not damned lovers!
The fucked up bit in the 1945 film is how they portrayed Vera Claythorne. A damsel in distress! Oh! A pretty secretarial lamb who needs to be watched over when it's dark and lonely! (God you ought to see the part where Lombard was watching her through the window for the whole goddamned night creepy shit). They ripped away her character, made her an object of male coveting and hooray look! A happy ending where they both fall in love and escape the island LEAVING EVERYONE ELSE STABBED, POISONED, CHOPPED TO PIECES AND THEY DON’T GET HELD UP BY THE POLICE? They'd obviously be the first and only suspects because the boatman couldn't have been on the island (he found em by the way) - no one could've been! How the heck do they get away with it??? Hmm??? Also, the obvious racism in titling the poem as "Ten Little Indians" in the movie kills me. Christie had the grace and good nature to use "Ten Little Soldiers" but oh no, not these colonial douchebags.
And they blatantly sexualized the entire chemistry between Vera and Lombard in the BBC series good god. You know that scene where Lombard is ridiculously shirtless (the towel being unnecessarily low at that) and just ogling and Vera's umm upper torso...? they killed her character then and there when she unfastens her robe with a sAuCy smirk.
Good god.
How many chances do you waste when you're building a female character? Not only did they destroy her essence in TWO DIFFERENT ADAPTATIONS but some people are actually fawning over it??? I am not going to get over a music video edit of vErA aNd LoMbArD hOlDiNg hands blah blah blah blah blah. Agatha Christie wrote some of the best female characters among her contemporaries. They had essence of their own, a mind of their own and oh these bastards go off and ruin it!!! The actual heck. Everyone in the book committed their own evil deeds, which eventually led to their deaths. Vera, was perhaps, the most deserving of the ordeal. That is if we are not distinguishing between the types and "levels" of their wrongdoings and the individual situations that inspired them. Sure, she killed a child in cold blood, for the hand in marriage to her beloved. But Lombard left twenty-one African men to die in the hands of some unmentioned danger (in the movie, it is said he kills them with his own hand but that is not so in the book). Is it indirect racism when Christie made Lombard die second to Vera? Well yes, leaving people to die and directly causing their death is quite comparable and I must be paranoid if I'm seeing this as racism but ah I'll wait for some opinions to roll by. I haven't found any analysis on this topic.
So yes, that escalated unexpectedly, I didn't even realize I was going off a tangent from my original statement but yes. Had to put this out there.
Just letting you guys know that my blog might be a little quiet for the next 2 days. I’m going on a sports tour and there are early morning starts and late night finishes (I’m going from 7am-10pm today!!).
