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@coriander this is also a thing in chinese fiction more generally, like the beginning of Journey to the West has this Bit where Sun Wukong goes around and messes up everyone's shit and the narrative just explains in the driest possible matter how whatever aggrieved party then sent a formal petition of complaint to the Emperor of Heaven before immediately dropping that thread and moving on to the next shenanigan

and anyway this is hilarious, to me

@coriander it's from Strange Tales from Liaozhai, a chinese zhiguai/chianqi collection by pu songling

zhiguai developed out of an earlier historical tradition and generally purported to be records of true events despite being ghost stories. the focus is supposedly on describing exactly what occurred for posterity rather than weaving an entertaining narrative. however on account of being stories of the strange, what happens is often itself absurd or entertaining and frequently quite funny. this contrast between the interesting subjectmatter and the dry prose form is part of their charm, imo

@coriander remember that time that guy fucked a rotten log and then got his dick stung by a scorpion and then died

i'm making fun of fanfiction tonight but i'm also reading it

@coriander this fic was like "link furtively left camp" and i was just like dude he's alone why but then again trees are pretty cool so

« She’s never even found male anatomy particularly appealing on its own before » okay so who is going to tell her

you are camping in the wilderness alone, and you were just suddenly reminded of your girlfriend’s killer-gorgeous butt. you're horny and you need to take care of it. do you masturbate:

honestly steve eating cereal ought to be more of a trope in BotW fandom

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« Zelda tries not to let her heart break, not to let any tears flow down her face. Any show of weakness would mean the beast would throw its evil magic at her harder, and she has to hold on until Link comes for her.

Link, unaware of Zelda’s longing and grief, digs into his bowl of mushroom risotto. »

« Sword or not, saving Hyrule or not, you’re already a hero to me. » you're my present this year

« Link threw his hands up in mock frustration » video games man

that is what you mean right. it's a strong, important feeling and she expresses it from the depths of her heart. there are words for that which are just that; you don't need the reduplicative “she cannot lie; she could never lie”; you can just say she's sincere

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try just actually saying what you fucking mean, like “the answer resonates within Impa with a clarity which cannot be mistaken, and when she responds, it is with a sincerity which cannot be faked.”

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using words to create a heightened sense of emotional weight is fine but next time choose ones which make sense

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« Impa knows she cannot lie. She can never lie about this.

“Beautiful,” Impa says » okay, that's not something one would lie about in the first place, so

« We trust one person for recommendations on food, and another for movies, and to muddle these trusts could be disastrous. » is there a story here, Tim BL

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