Please Take Good Care Of Them!

insane how people think i can just do things. "can you mail me this?" and get killed by the post office desk workers?????!!!?

I do genuinely believe that the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (and arguably the Zelda franchise as a whole, though i myself have played literally none of these games) is closer to fitting the description of ‘Tolkien-esque Fantasy’ than most other movies/shows/games/books etc that claim that label

Like, compare this post by tumblr user wufflesvetinari, which makes an important point about Tolkien’s worldbuilding, and also lives in my head rent free:

and then these quotes from Jacob Geller’s “Every Zelda is the Darkest Zelda”

and his conclusions about the messages in Zelda games are thematically very similar to the through-lines about friendship and love in LOTR, and what a lot of authors miss about what makes a fantasy story personal and memorable:

“A world without joy and humor isn’t a compelling world to fight for” is exactly why there are so many pieces of fantasy media out there that just feel like carbon copies of each other (i’ve seen many posts that explain this better than I can though I can’t find any specific ones at the moment, just know that I didn’t invent this thesis). You’ve got the cool swords, you’ve got the wizards and the spells and the battles, but first and foremost you need the LOVE.

What is it about laying on the floor when you're overwhelmed that makes everything feel so much better?

putting my saved r/196 posts on Tumblr

Originally posted by u/dullscythe

This just seems the right time to share that my grandmother once told the family her second cousin had "erotic autism" instead of an aortic aneurysm

When a physicist falls in love :)

Richard Feynman's love letter to his deceased wife, 1946.

This is like God saying you live to worship him