ruvas

oh how the worm turns | ruvas on AO3 | european, historian, fan of: botw, films, trains, places | queer

[janpesart]

Makeela Riju 🌴

Early summer always makes me want to play zelda games! I've been playing totk again and I started age of imprisonment with my partner!

[takoxuls]

Sightseeing in Gerudo Wasteland.

[nerdyperday]

Day 3544 Link and Ezlo

[sab3rtooth]

patterns left by woodworms on driftwood

[vile-corvid]

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[agnesmontague]

ive invented (note: dubious claim) something i call the bear diet which is mostly fruits and vegetables with fish as the main protein source and something like once a month you eat a few hyperprocessed foods of your liking because that is when you, the bear, raid a dumpster in the suburbs

[stellarskyes]

after the hyperprocessed foods, do you take tranquilizers to simulate getting captured by animal control and returned to the wild?

[agnesmontague]

i would settle for melatonin gummies but well. knock yourself out

[socialistexan]

French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies of 'sadness' at 56

French-Iranian author and illustrator Marjane Satrapi, best known for the book and film “Persopolis”, has died of "sadness", members of her

This one hurt, her work had such a profound effect on my life, thoughts, and politics.

May her memory be a blessing

[herpsandbirds]

Geelvink Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus speciosus), male, family Columbidae, order Columbiformes, Palau Biak, Numfor Islands, New Guinea

photographs by Hery Sudarno

[bloobluebloo]

Happy pride to Ganondorf and whatever the fuck is going on with his gender and sexuality 💕🎉🌈

[having-it-all]

Kawase Hasui (1883-1957) Night Sea, woodblock print (1930)

[lierdumoa]

Every time an author reassures readers that the smut is skippable I sigh a disappointed sigh. This is not a reassurance. Why would anybody who likes smut want to read smut that was only included as an afterthought and has no impact on the narrative? Insulting. Just don't write it at all if you're not going to make it matter.

[marinsawakening]

A very fun idea I think is underutilized in fanon worldbuilding is the use of Ganondorf asGerudo propaganda. Obviously it's easy for Hyrule to trod out Ganon(dorf) whenever they need to justify Hyrulean superiority. But how do the Gerudo handle this great conquerer in their history? Because most of the time, from what I've seen, countries do not actually tend to be ashamed of their bloodthirsty conquerers. Napoleon, Alexander the Great, Julius Ceasar, Genghis Khan, etc. are not exactly considered dirty secrets. I think it'd actually make a good bit of sense for the Gerudo to be proud of Ganondorf and his achievements. It'd be quite easy to utilize his legacy and image to support pro-Gerudo propaganda, even as Hyrule uses it for anti-Gerudo propaganda.

But I also like the idea of the Gerudo royal family utilizing him as propaganda for their own lineage, especially in BOTW. Once upon a time there was a ruthless evil Gerudo King, overthrown by our strong and righteous ancestors, and we have ruled justly ever since. It'd be interesting if the reason Hyrule and the Gerudo seem to have a better relationship in BOTW is (in part) because their usage of the Gerudo King in propaganda compliments each other and reinforces the power of their respective royal families.

[transmascgerudo]

I already knew that BotW locks meeting Robbie behind meeting Purah first, but now I've found that Purah acknowledging your identity is locked behind talking to Impa first. Robbie makes more sense: he's simply not there if you visit his lab pre-Purah, which you can imagine means he and Jerrin are out (getting more ancient tech parts, perhaps, or getting food supplies, etc), but Symin and Purah standing around saying "oh you'll need Impa's permission to upgrade your Sheikah slate" (possession of which means you HAVE to be Link/his descendant, as Kass, Kaneli, Riju and Kohga know so far in this run) or "I hope your visit here is a good memory on your epic adventure" is baffling. Purah might be trolling, except that I know from the standard scenario she's very glad to see Link after her little prank re: who's the director (as you'd expect, given both the larger stakes and her personal role in his survival), and Symin is entirely serious. a rare L on the part of BotW's usually quite flexible any-sequence-you-like style, because it's so out of character for Purah and Symin. just have them say you really ought to go to Impa but we're glad you're here.

[apocryphics]

J. Drew Lanham, Sparrow Envy: Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts (2021) 

[yossyislandd]

you can bet your ass if completely custom genitalia were a cheap and easy thing i would have a strange and unusual pussy situation

[yossyislandd]

gynecologists HATE this one for its bioluminescent oyster pussy

[transmascgerudo]

replaying BotW but I skipped Impa and the memories quest so what Link has rn is:

- one memory of Revali clowning on him

- one inexplicably fraught encounter with Revali's ghost, Revali's power, Revali's bow, tragic sense that there was something going on there

- one memory of Urbosa asking him whether he and Zelda get on

- no other memories

- Urbosa's ghost talking to him about Zelda and guilt in a way that must be incomprehensible at this point, who was Zelda to him? who was he to Zelda? what was going on and with how many people?

ofc this is very sad, given everyone except him and Zelda is dead (and so far she's just a voice), but I also imagine he has to laugh at the absurdity, a little

[transmascgerudo]

not to be too antagonistic about the world around me existing, and I did choose to live on a main road through a town, knowing that's not a silent dwelling place, but the bar five doors down and over the road is playing its music so loudly (and has been ALL AFTERNOON) that even in a room with no open windows I'm getting a headache from how loud it is. I suppose the consolation is that everyone in the bar is not only getting sunstroke (inexplicable lack of umbrellas/etc on a southwest-facing patio during a heatwave) but permanent hearing loss.