Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

instead of korok seeds you’re going to be running around collecting tears of light something something banish the darkness mumble defeat ganon

« When the title of Tears of the Kingdom was revealed during the September 13, 2022 Nintendo Direct, many fans were unsure whether the name referred to tears as in crying, or tears as in rips. » oh come on it’s obviously a reference to the Tears of Light

anyway the Official Explanation for Tears to the Kingdom is “our ideas for Breath of the Wild DLC were too wild to actually pull off as DLC” so like, fair odds it’s another hit out of left field lol

like with Link’s Awakening what they WANTED to do was port A Link to the Past to the Game Boy but because they were just messing around after work to see if it was possible they accidently wound up creating an entire other game

again with Majora’s Mask Nintendo was like uhhhh make us some Ocarina of Time DLC pls (for the 64DD) and Aonuma was like “god making DLC for a finished game sucks ass i wanna make weird stories and cool dungeons” and just made an entirely separate game instead

we all know zelda is going to be thrown in the fridge for tears of the kingdom but aside from that, considering it is conceptually the same as Link’s Awakening and Majora’s Mask, i expect it to be pretty good

#DecRecs fire emblem echoes was underrated https://archiveofourown.org/works/20170612

@coriander https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/𐀒

is it a plus or a minus that we live in an age where a zelda fan can go down a rabbit hole and wind up studying the wikipedia page for linear b

« νοόω (noóō) »

sometimes you just don't know what went wrong
and sometimes you don't even know what fixed it
and sometimes you ask yourself, well, “how did i get here?”

zelda fans love writing novelizations of “Shelter From the Rain” and completely missing the blatant trans subtext

« I’m not sure Link being a child is relevant though since Link would have been a child at some point in all timelines. »

« The Hylian text on all these Books reads the same thing: "April First. Today was a shy hot and sunny day. I went to school. This diary is a very important document. April Second. Yesterday was Fool's day. Everything that I wrote was false. That is all. See you tomorrow" »

am i going to have to learn classical hebrew for this

contemplating just publishing a working Zelda lore piece on AO3

eventually you reach a time in your life when you realize that people born a decade after you are adults now, and that's horrifying

but then you look the other way, at the people born a decade BEFORE you, and they're ALL MILFS

#DecRecs i mentioned this one in a conversation on Lex so now i have to rec it here

1970s trans lesbian murder-mystery, plus pokémon https://archiveofourown.org/works/20822714

thankful that Zeldapedia is independent now so that i can add it to the quick searches on my homepage

ah i’m going to need at least a little bit of explicitness in this zelink in order to get this fragment i wanted in in there