#izandai

[embyrinitalics]

The Master Sword is what let TP Link return to human form. Presumably as long as he had it he could transform at will, but he returned it to the Sacred Grove after the game.

I discussed this a bit in the previous post comments (and some discord threads that spawned off it lol), but I'll recap here:

The Master Sword is what turns him back initially, but in subsequent uses of the Shadow Crystal, it's Midna who does the altering. She says "I can return you to your normal state whenever you need," and is the in-game mechanism you use to make that transformation. Whether she uses the Master Sword or her own magic and understanding of the Shadow Crystal to do that isn't explicitly stated.

The consensus in other discussions I've had is that the Master Sword's power weakened the Crystal to the point of easy manipulation, and it's Midna's magic doing the removing from then on. But again, it's up to interpretation.

[demilypyro]

What do you mean people like you? There's plenty of trans people who have found joy and gender affirmation. Plenty of autistic people who lead fulfilling and happy lives. Same for bi people, for demisexuals, and so on. Any category you identify with, if you look you will find stories about people who have found happiness both despite and because of belonging to that category. I know it's hard. I'm sure I can't really understand how hard it is to live with the struggles you do, but I do know that it's hard. But I also know that you are strong, and that you have people who will support you, and that if you've made it this far you can make it farther. And I know that when your brain tells you that you can't, that this is as good as it will ever get, that happiness will always be a dream deferred, it is WRONG. It is LYING TO YOU. I've been following you for years. I've seen you get happier and more confident over the past year. I have every confidence that trend will continue, and every word of that is true. I'm not here to blow smoke up your ass. I do not lie to people just to try to make them feel better. If strangers regularly misgender you, then I am deeply sorry, but I was not lying when I said they didn't. I was simply mistaken, because I truly saw no reason to believe that that would happen. I am honestly surprised to hear that someone who wasn't actively trying to do so could look at you and not see a girl. You DO deserve to be happy with your body, and I believe you will be one day. And if you still find it hard to believe that... Try to anyway. Please. As a favor to the people that care about you.

Look, I... appreciate. what you’re trying to do. But I’m not in any state of mind that words can fix. yknow. Theres just been too much bad shit lately. I’m not good at the whole being nice thing, so like.. im trying not to be rude. But like.. dont waste your energy with me right now.

[blueskittlesart]

Why do you hate Nintendo?

declining standards for graphics and gameplay upon release combined with rising prices, increased reliance on pay-to-play and subscription models, microtransaction based mobile games that are just blatant cash grabs, refusal to sell older consoles and games legally (essentially forcing people to pirate them if they are unable to obtain the console or game legally, which is highly likely since they discontinued production of the NES and their virtual game library sucks ass.) etc etc. plus theyre a multibillion dollar corporation so i dont feel bad stealing a $30 game released 19 years ago even a little bit

[figofswords]

Damn, that BOTW comic you just posted is a real hell of a thing. Truly excellent work.

thank you!! I put a lot of work into it so I’m really glad people are liking it

[jitterbugjive]

I fell off of Discord Whooves years ago for a variety of reasons (none of them having to do with the work itself BTW). I'm still following all the blogs though, and I'm definitely gonna go through it all at some point, probably after it's all done. Just need to make sure I read through Zerum before you delete it.

There will be a heads up posted on Zerum at least for people to get a last chance to look

[automaticgiraffe]

I'll second the excellence of the scars. Samus is sexy, but she's also a fucking badass. Or rather, AND she's also a fucking badass, because being a fucking badass is part of why she's so sexy.

Indeed, they feed into each other well : >

[tredlocity]

I'm not sure I believe that Cinemasins was ever seriously intended as legitimate film criticism. I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure even the earliest videos had plenty of "jokey-jokes" in them. I think the substantive criticisms only exist to give the videos a veneer of credibility and to make it harder to pick out the stuff that's just plain wrong.

The fact that they wanted to give their videos a veneer of credibility is proof that they wanted to be seen as legitimate (and there are people who’s seen them as legitimate, and they have profited off it). If they were intending on never being taken seriously in the first place, their videos would have been like this:

No one would ever mistook this video for real criticism. Cinemasins, meanwhile, made it harder for people to differentiate between the jokes and the real criticism. Which means when they get something wrong, they could just say that they’re joking, but when people praise their criticism, they can embrace it and profit from the publicity.

[the-character-lounge]

Don't you think Jewel's being kind of insulting? It's one thing to say that you made a bad dress, it's another to be so rude about it. If nothing else, she can't talk back to you like that while she's working for you or people might start to wonder why you keep her around.