Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

if this is zelda's test to show she is actually committed to not just repeating the past, there's a point there.

also perhaps the idea of... hyrule of this time rebuilding, but being stuck in the "well back in the glory days". maybe hijacking the divine beasts and guardians was also to say, "y'all can't just rely on shit done thousands of years ago forever and ever. this reliance is holding hyrule back."

what if he's dancing to ganon's tune now? and the ultimately kinda good cause is that we get to reveal how ganon made such strides to break the cycle - a ganon who has a paarthurnax moment, of being good not by birth, but by great effort - only to be betrayed? sure, it's extreme methods, but "a ruler who would betray her dearest friend like that is not fit to rule a kingdom" is also... kind of a good point.

what if the parallels coming up with twilight princess are in the whole... link-is-not-himself. usually he gets to stay human. in twilight princess (if i've got the different games right HNERF) he gets turned into a dog as sort of like... almost faery realm logic, or purgatory, even

he gets pulled into serving a shadowy force, whether he wants to or not. he can put up a token resistance but ultimately, it's dancing to midna's tune

and is he now making zelda prove herself different now, as to break his cycle of rage? is this a test to make zelda - and her kingdom - show that she is worthy of existing, instead of just repeating the same pattern of willingly sacrificing the champion for a momentary break?

if we have an incarnation of ganondorf that grew up gerudo, fought his destiny, and then... realized at the last moment there was only one way to keep the curse contained, and that was sacrificing himself... willingly or unwillingly...

is he so angry now because he remembers a thousand years ago, being made champion, fighting side by side with a princess... who shoved him into the darkness to save herself...?

why's there a shrivelled human form in the ruins?

is it ganon? or is it the remains of ganon after becoming host to an entity that wants to torment link and zelda forever?

and what better way to torment them than to hijack link's body, and drive zelda mad knowing she has to be the one to kill link?

(it might even be with the similarity in haircuts that we play zelda pretending to be link and doing a lot of WE'VE GOT IT ALL HANDLED CITIZENS DON'T PANIC and/or having to rebuild trust and ties after it all goes to hell.)

if the deep lore is that this entity is supposed to be because Demise (from Skyward Sword) cursed Link and Zelda to torment them forever - thus we have Ganon in all LoZ games - and if Calamity Ganon was supposed to have given up his human form...

(it makes sense to me from a gamedev point of view bc it means there's a good reason for no new-game-plus or import of progress over in a potentially gamebreaking way - switch of protag means a forced fresh start. and taking link out at the beginning means nobody gets much chance to quibble about how it's not THEIR link etc etc. people have been demanding playable zelda for years, too.)

so. what if. "calamity ganon" is not that-shrivelled-corpse-we-see as much as it is some more eldritch horror that hops from body to body. what if it's only calamity GANON now because GANON was the ancient hero who helped to seal it away.

what if we're playing zelda realizing that sealing away the calamity monster is done by making the hero its new host, and desperately trying to figure out how to undo this/find a third option to save link

so i just posted this on discord and i'm also going to dump this here because if i'm right, if i'm actually on the money with this, i'm going to become THE MOST SMUG PERSON ON THE ENTIRE PLANET.

so.

so the ancient hero in kass's song/etc. is shown depicted with red hair, unlike the princess's blonde. link has brown-blond hair.... gerudo got red hair tho. and so does calamity ganon...

i can tell it's a cold night because i was able to catch one of the toad friends - a smaller buddy, i think might be a slightly different species - and talked to it a bit, it didn't even stink eye at me too hard

i carried it over to some good leaves and was all "here you go, i'll open my hand so you can jump off now" and it was a good 15 seconds of PLEASE WAIT, JUMP.EXE IS LOADING before it boinged off

i guess alligator snapping turtles are just nature's "your toes.... hand 'em over", honestly

i am starting to think i am the only person on the planet who is not that upset at the lack of complete pokemon coverage lmao

but this is probably because... i'm not actually that interested in pokemon home, and i don't really transfer pokemon from game to game. at some point my team is as much a part of the setting for a game that it just doesn't interest me, or just plain feels weird

every animal crossing villager is good EXCEPT the motherfucking clown sheep.

he knows what he did

@alana_is_tooting@lgbt.io the shipping takes a bit, but honestly i've had amazing luck with aliexpress for such things! it ends up kinda like being your own importer, especially when it comes to 'specialty sizes'. and a pair of shoes not working out when you paid 20 bucks for them is much easier to swallow than a pair of shoes not working out when you paid 120, lol!

@alana_is_tooting@lgbt.io aliexpress definitely has a lot of sellers that all do the US-size-to-european conversion slightly differently, so go by measurements on the individual seller's chart. and returns may be a bit harder. but the good news is that the price point is often low enough where if it doesn't work out, it's a lot less of a hit, so there's a bit of an acceptable trade-off to find a wardrobe staple like a pair of ballet flats, mary janes, etc. :)

@alana_is_tooting@lgbt.io as i'm drifting by, my advice is to find a ruler and use that as the guide - many shoe sellers use slightly different systems.

of course that's mainly in conjunction with my other tip, which is looking on aliexpress for larger sizes. there are a couple of friends in the lolita fashion server i'm on with feet about in your size range, and i can see about digging up some links for you.

@salsa20 @Tutanota it never feels good to know you got duped.

but you did.

you're trusting in the ethics of a company that duped you.

by all means, you can give 'em money. but when i hand Pokemon Go two bucks in microtransactions, i know that it's not an ethical move on their part. and i know i'm paying for something more than ethics. i don't trust that company's ethics - they haven't earned that trust.

maybe sit down and have a think about if tutanota is as ethical as they say.