Panam🌻

“homework should be done as late as possible on a sunday night in a state of desperation tinged with regret”

Leyendecker's Honeymoon: Hansry edition.

You would drown if i cried, you are lucky to be so poorly versed in the language we supposedly share

You’re short

Im taller than a thousand redwoods and you are smaller than a single sand particle

You remain my only loyal vassal, you shall have a place in my castle and be buried with me in my tomb

You’re short

Im taller than a thousand redwoods and you are smaller than a single sand particle

My absolute favorite official Cyberpunk 2077 art from CDPR is this piece by Łukasz Poller

Not just for the old school Edward Hopper style and Syd Mead vibes that's used, but just because there's something very simple and easy about it. I feel like the plot moves so fast that it never seems like V can catch a break within the story. But in this piece, they're just chilling, shooting the shit, like it's a lazy day in. The air looks still, the conversation seems lazy. V's not even dressed.

I can't even explain it. Guess there's just something comforting about the world as you know it crumbling around you and still being able to find a moment to breathe during it.

ok ok ok, it's been a minute but i'm playing thru Breath of the Wild again and thinking about it and the Tears of the Kingdom timeline and going mental about how I perceive the timeline.

So we have BotW, with the guardians and the Sheikah tech and all that jazz, and the hero from 10,000 years ago. We have it all nicely laid out for us and go through the game. We get Kass' song and the history from Impa and all that.

Then we get to TotK. We get clammy Ganon underneath the castle, then we jump forward an indeterminate length of time and Link has a new arm and the world is changed. And Zelda has been teleported back in time.

My whole theory comes from Zelda going back in time. We know she talks to Rauru and Sonia about what happened in her time and Link. She tells them of the Guardians and Ganon and all the things that went wrong. So they set out to make sure they don't happen. They don't team up with the Sheikah to create the Guardians or Divine Beasts. The people that would have been their pilots instead become the Sages.

And this affects the present in the same way of that the Calamity happened, but in the way that they never found the Secret Stones as they didn't have the descendants of the Sages, or didn't find them in time. Instead of the Guardians Hyrule was killed by the spread of Gloom. Link and Zelda managed to push it back after 100 years, but we never get too many details on that. Because the Link we play as and the Zelda we see still only remember their Calamity, the BotW Calamity.

With this timeline divergence we see more emphasis on the Zonai. While they existed in small bits in BotW, their ruins are everywhere in TotK, whereas the Shiekah presence is much much smaller. They essentially swap importance.

As well, in TotK, it's implied that Link never failed the first time he fought Ganon. There is no Shrine of Resurrection. Instead there's simply a pool of water with some healing powers, the same as a hot spring.

Anyway, I feel like Tears of the Kingdom is such an existential horror of a game from Link's perspective. He has all these memories that don't match up with the world around him. There's all these people who he knows that don't have the same memories. Zelda, the only person who might possibly understand is trapped in the form of a dragon flying through the sky endlessly for years.

And as for the hero 10,000 years ago? Whoever that was, if it was another Link or just another hero, they don't seem to exist in the new TotK timeline. Instead Rauru takes their place at the forefront of fighting Ganon.

I know its been a while since Tears of the Kingdom came out, I just have a lot of thoughts about it.

About ten, fifteen years ago I wrote a story about a guy living in a Capitalist dystopia. His walls, furniture, and tableware are all covered in smart displays. Basically animated wallpaper. It's sold as being able to turn your room or objects into anything - A nice forest view, outer space, a fantasy realm... but the companies that run this stuff keep sneaking ads in.

It gets so bad he's always being woken up by adverts that offer insomnia cures and better bedding that play when he tries to sleep.

So he buys the ad-free tier, and it's great... for a few months. And then he starts getting adverts from 'premium partners'. So he goes up a level... and the same thing happens.

So he jailbreaks his wallpaper and sends all the ad servers to 0.0.0.0 and voila... he can sleep.

Until this SWAT team blows his door off and drag him off to jail. The Ad companies are suing him for loss of revenue for the products he' notionally have bought if he'd watched their adverts, based on some weird 'The average consumer buys X products with an average value of Y' calculation.

The judge is like 'well I dun wanna annoy the sponsors' so he RICO's this guy's house and possessions and sends him to jail.

... which is a nice relaxed non-volent offender jail for the corporately disenfranchised. But because these people have no money... there's no ads and now he's happy because the only place he's free... is in prison.

Which at the time was a bit much and now it's like: Called it.

Elon's suing companies for not advertising because he's losing revenue. He's also cranking the price of Ad Free Twitter. Disney and Amazon play adverts on their paid service when services used to be free because of the adverts... and now you have to pay to watch the adverts or go up a couple of tiers.

And google's going around freaking out about ad-blockers.

Reading Pride and Prejudice for the first time, so fucking funny Jane Austin wrote the eldest daughter to be incredibly gorgeous and desired by all, so well mannered and tempered, and then named her Jane to boot. Great stuff, truly

wikipedia no longer being anywhere near the top of search results when looking up anything feels eviscerating

Coloured sketches of TotK Link with an undercut because after all, why shouldn't I?? Inspired by my own hair cut 😊 I feel like Cece should let you cut your hair in the game, please Nintendo 🙏