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songbirdo

I got a new black pastel paper sketchbook. 40 entire pages of black pastel paper. I can be less precious with it!

#rb #not my art

lysimachias

THEM...the sidequest of all time!!!! (final hours OST playing at increasing volume in the background)

#this goes so incredibly hard I'm kind of appalled it doesn't have more notes #easily 10k note art #rb #not my art

grenapple0547

The original

#THIS IS SO. CUUUUUTE #rb #not my art

dreadlock-detective

"Have you seen a princess around here? The boss said she escaped but forgot to tell us what she looked like..."

Been watching my friend play through the Oracle games and realized despite all the comics I never really did my own take on the series and needed to fix that. Had a lot of fun with this pile of goobers.

#ohh these takes on the monster designs are so fun #im a sucker for when zelda monsters talk #rb #not my art #oracle games

ria-art-2025

✦ Zelda's Secret Identity ✦

shhh, she's undercover

(but she will absolutely tell you her name if you ask)

#eow #not my art #rb

what do you MEAN theres gonna be an oot remake WHAT DO YOU MEAAAAN

#WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO TO IT NINTENDO!!!! WHY TF DID YOU SAY REMAKE AND NOT REMASTER!!!

glidersdoodles

sketchy drawing I did for fun. so anyway I've been playing chrono trigger and I really like marle...so I drew my sweet girl in my favorite marle pose

#loz au #not my art #rb

unfortunately hyrule propaganda worked on me in EoW because that zelda is just so delightful. Them going through the effort to show that the common townsfolk cared about her because she frequently associated with them personally is just too sweet for my little black heart to take. AND her actually putting in effort to build relations with the gerudo people? sorry. sorry. im defending this one royal. its bc she gets off her ass and gets shit done.

#i really dont think i liked a zelda this much since tetra and thats only because she didnt even know she was a zelda #so she wasnt bogged down by that already overdone princess duty shit (at least before... they did THAT)#i also am partial to tp zelda her being older and more directly involved with royal duties was very compelling #especially irt to her relationship with midna (however you want to read that)#and botw zelda HAD SOOO MUCH FUCKING POTENTIAL #TO BE THE FIRST TO GO AGAINST THIS PREDETERMINED DESTINY SHIT #BUT ITS LIKE THEY EITHER CHICKENED OUT OR JUST JABAITED US #I REALLY WISH THEYD JUST GONE WITH HER BECOMING AN INVENTOR/SCIENTIST/SCHOLAR IN THE END #akin to someone like princess bubblegum god i love her #though zelda would admittedly be a more sympathetic version of bubblegum. even though bubblegum being a bit callous and morally gray is lik #what makes her so awesome to me #but its whatever #what was i talking about?

using the zelda universe as my outlet for geopolitical commentary is my main and remaining interest in it atp tbh. since the games are too scared to even unpack the bullshit they themselves imply time and time again its like.

Fine I'll Do It. Since You Are So Difficult.

#like imagine setting up political unrest like having usurper characters....... civil wars....... and then just doing fuck all with them #other than the usual 'this one specific race is blessed by the gods and has divine right' propaganda shit #that we as the player are just supposed to take as immutable fact #LIKE WHY EVEN SET UP THINGS LIKE. THE SHADOW TEMPLE. ALL THE WAY BACK IN THE 90S #the closest nintendo ever got to doing something interesting with the concept of the royal family having a dark history #but in the end just shoving it under the rug of 'oh well it was the sheikahs fault entirely and thats why they got punished for it'#pushing the narrative of the royal family being innocent yet again #STFU ALREADY #ATP JUST MAKE BABY GAMES

made the mistake of thinking about zelda recently. it all goes really good until i think about totk and get really madddddddddddd

#i NEED to use that as fuel for motivation...... but oh my god negative emotions have NEVER worked well for me

marinsawakening

I do think it's strange when ppl call Zelda's decision to turn into a dragon 'out of character'. I think it's a deeply unsatisfying progression of her arc, but also entirely in character for her.

Zelda's main point of confluct in BOTW was being unable to awaken her powers, and the resulting tension between herself and her role as the princess. This conflict resolves by having her awaken her powers under a moment of extreme stress, in a desire to save Link. This end to her arc is, to me, nonsensical and unsatisfying, but nevertheless, BOTW concludes with Zelda ultimately fulfilling her duty. After awakening her powers, she sacrifices herself and uses her power to suppress Calamity Ganon, hoping to stave him off until Link returns to fight him. And it works.

So, in TOTK, why would it be OOC for her to swallow the secret stone? Of course she'd choose to sacrifice herself, using her power to ensure Link can return to fight Ganon. It worked the last time.

It's not satisfying to see the narrative reward her self sacrificial tendencies and frame them as the correct choice, but Zelda jumping to self sacrifice and believing it to be her destiny seems very in character to me. Because BOTW very much reinforced this conclusion.

#normally i love a self sacrificing character #i love characters who throw away their entire identity for the sake of idk beliefs or a cause #but the way they do it with zelda is so annoying to me and ive never been able to articulate it #because when i play through botw i got the idea that zelda's arc was her struggling to find her place in the world #and her lashing out at link because of her resentment for him seemingly having everything figured out #for him doing things effortlessly (in her eyes at least) for him 'playing his part' without a hitch #and it could have been so interesting #but in the end the way they resolve her conflicts isnt by her finding value in her own self its by having her..... repeatedly do this #and her issues with link? merely resolved by him saving her? and her being like haha well i guess i was just in love with him after all!#my power merely needed to be unlocked by the power of love!!#but scratch that because thats not even the conclusion shes drawn from it! like op says! in her mind she thinks the ONLY THING SHE CAN DO #IS TO GIVE HERSELF UP!#THAT SHES NOTHING MORE THAN A VESSEL! FOR LINK SPECIFICALLY EVEN #i dunno. is that supposed to be romantic??#it puts a bad taste in my mouth bc all throughout history in society women are just always expected to sacrifice everything about themselve #their minds their bodies their autonomy always for a man #am i reading too much into this kids game?#maybe. but if nintendo wants to start acting like theyre producing thought provoking art then im going to over analyze it. shrug!!

willyhoos

wanted to remake my CDI ZELDA MENTIONED pic. now with 100% more DINNER! (and a lore-accurate goblet)

...i also gave her a little travel companion

#wait wrong blog.#POGGGG #loz #rb #not my art #zelda cdi

your-daily-toon

Today’s Toon is writing an overly hostile description of Pina the fruit vendor

#i love when links are like this LMAO #minish cap

larrytheflute9

Oracle of Ages/Seasons portrait dump

#rb #not my art #omg two of my all time fav zelda games ever #and these are so gorgeous!!#oracle games

willyhoos

someone threatened me on a post of mine about cdi link so, naturally,

#BEST link #rb #not my art

not-kat

Some Gerudo OC sketches

#amazing spectacular #not my au #not my oc #rb

idk, hearing a voice i respect on reviewing horror literature bringing up that majora's mask is his second favorite zelda game oat, "right after totk!" literally floored me. Immediately started doubting my own taste.

But also at the same time I was still thinking "HOW CAN YOU POSSIBLY GROUP THOSE TWO TOGETHER? AND PUT MAJORA'S MASK BEHIND THAT ONE?!"

So I really do wanna give totk a fair shake.

#like maybe its just the hype's fault #but also I'm still forever bitter that the zelda dragon thing like Did Not Matter At All #so I'm not hopeful my opinion on the game's story being bunz will actually change.

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