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Meme and News

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Just updating the old journal for the token updates, as well as a fun Q&A meme from Seldavia.

On the fanfiction front: I updated Empire of Ashes yesterday as I will try to on Fridays. You can go read it here!

Work is fine. It is mildly disconcerting to have someone who makes robot brains for a living, with 50+ academic publications, send you their resume and a note that reads, "Plese edit for spelling and grammer." No, they're not stupid. Just intensely bad at writing. Only an engineer could somehow write the concept of 'the chance of a false-positive result' as 'a non-unit probability of detection.'

My father went to India yesterday. He will be there for 2 years. I may join him after I graduate for a few months or something. But that's in the future. A dad-less life awaits, I guess.

ONTO THE MEME!

1.What's your favorite Zelda game and why?
That's a tough question. Ocarina of Time is my favorite in many ways, but in others I have to concede that it's not perfect at all. Wind Waker and Twilight Princess are the same. Spirit Tracks is OK, and I like a lot of the older games about the same, with the exception of A Link to the Past, which I like a lot. Skyward Sword was good, but as I said before, I liked only parts of it and the rest I was neutral or "eh," on. I like elements more than full games. I guess my favorite game is Skyward Ocarina of Twilight Waker to the Past!

2. Who is your favorite character?
Ganondorf, Zelda close second, Link close third. I really love the motifs and themes the main characters have; Ganondorf in particular has so many different ones because he was kept classic and interpret-able. He can be many different archetypes, some villainous, some even heroic, depending on how you interpret the mythos around him. Zelda too, but she kind of cemented when her backstory became defined in Skyward Sword, so now I have to adapt to her new motifs as a heir to something greater. Link has even more of this problem: it is the whole point of the game for others to tell him what he is, which means it's more difficult for me to interpret it myself.

3. Who is your least? Why?
Real or Fanon? My least favorite character in fanon is Dark Link. Guys, he doesn't exist. Stop. He is not a sexi bishi. Just stop. Thankfully content with him has tapered off since Ghirahim has appeared, revealing what the fans wanted all along: another non-groady person to molest Link because they think it's hot. Which is probably why I don't like Ghiriahim. The response to him has been just generally unpleasant, hormone laden and somewhat creepy.

6. Which game has the best soundtrack and why?
Skyward Sword, hands down... but some songs in Wind Waker are a close favorite, and Spirit Tracks didn't do too badly either. Twilight Princess is also OK, but when I listen to the music without playing the game I find there are unknown, un-needed jangly sounds in some of the songs (boss themes especially) that obscure the music. While some tracks are just right, a lot of the others are a bit overproduced.

7. Which Princess  Zelda design is your favorite?
A tossup between Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword. Ocarina of Time is OK but I felt she had too many bells and whistles and didn't really portray her quiet dignity enough; she's a very solumn character in many ways and also very mysterious. I liked TP and SS designs for different reasons: TP because she really felt like royalty to me, and SS because she was a great Mysterious Maiden, which reminded me of the sacred maidens from previous games.

8. What's the dumbest thing you've done in a Zelda game?
Pulled out the Spinner by accident in the middle of the fight with Ganondorf. Oops.

9. What's the most awesome thing you've done in a Zelda game?
Got the Hylian Shield in Skyward Sword on the Boss Run on the first attempt. SCREW YOU, KOLOTOLOS. I GOT THIS.

10. What moment makes you cry?
"The wind... it is blowing..."

11. If you could kill any person in the entire Zelda series, who would it be?
I can't kill Daphnes, because he's already dead. Maybe Ghirahim, because I want to slap him in the face and say NO TOUCHY. It bothered me that Link didn't manage to whang the creepster in the teeth with the Master Sword when he teleports behind him.

12. What's your fave item?
The Bow and Arrow, hands down. Very few things feel as good as sniping enemies from across the map.

13. Which character would you date?
I don't know. I'd try Ganondorf, but I think that King of Evil thing would make things not work out. Is it a bad thing to say I'd try and date Zelda instead? She seems a bit safer. Except I might have competition. *looks at the entire game series* Uh, yeah, that might not be a good idea, either.

14. Which character do you wish was a sibling of yours?
Link! Link! I want to go riding with him! And then I would be prime to be kidnapped and see Ganondorf! Or I could maybe try not to get in horrible danger, that might be good too. D:

15. Who's the most adorable character?
I... don't know. These games don't do adorable very well, believe it or not. I guess I like Medli and Quill the best. Some of the expressions and movements of the Rito are very cool and endearing. I also like their little bird feets. I don't know why. They just seem cute. :|

... it's over!
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IT'S A MIRACLE

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She began publishing a fanfiction! For Legend of Zelda! GanZel eventual, but not focus of the story.

www.fanfiction.net/s/8369317/1…

Amazing! She plans to update about 1 chapter a week or so if she can wrangle it.

WOW.

SOUND THE TRUMPETS.

She had anxiety actually publishing it. She has several chapters already done, but she had self-consciousness. Well I guess that had to break sometime!
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Do you know what sucks? DA's alert system failing entirely for me. For the past two weeks, I have had nothing but 0 up top. Now I have EVERYTHING. I've been ignoring Deviantart for Tumblr for that reason (don't worry, I don't really plan on much of the community stuff. It's just a place to look at funny pictures) and WHOOPS NO, there's stuff to do on DA.

Boooo.

I do, however, scream into the void there and rant about fanfiction. Most of the examples I make are Avengers though-- not really because it's my fandom, but because there is an INTENSE ENORMOUS fandom of it there, and you have to tag posts with topics to get anyone to see them who doesn't watch you. Also the fandom is fairly brainless and fandom-y and brand new, so it has a lot of classic examples of The Stuff That Happens to Every Fandom that I can wag my finger about.

I should cross-post some of my rants here.

Yeah I think I'll do that.

Thanks for bearing with me, folks.

Oh, also I have fanfiction I am writing. Finally. Why does it take me so long to get Will to Write? It's ridiculous.

Also I have a summer job. It is writing and editing technical documents for a technology company. Score one for reading comprehension: pretty much everything I see is techno babble. Expect Sad Intern comics soon.
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I am terrible at updating my journal so I don't know if you know but I took a short trip to visit :iconsapphire-warg: this week before next week's family vacation (call it decompression) and we watched the end of Wind Waker again together, and we came to a startling conclusion that I cannot believe I missed before and I am kicking myself for not realizing.

The series of events went mostly this way at the top of the tower:
1) Ganondorf has Zelda. Zelda is unconscious.
2) Link arrives.
3) Ganondorf talks about his past and his need for the Triforce.
4) Ganondorf BEATS LINK UP AND KNOCKS HIM OUT to steal the Triforce of Courage.
5) Neither Link OR Zelda can see or hear what's going on.
6) Ganondorf unites the Triforce and tries to make a wish.
7) Daphnes beats him to it, wishes for maybe the vaguest wish ever and fits drowning Hyrule for good in it.
8) ONLY NOW do Link and Zelda wake up.
9) Ganondorf is laughing.
10) Daphnes does not elaborate what went on.
11) Fight ensues

Naturally, Link and Zelda assume Ganondorf wished to destroy Hyrule and fight him.

Ganondorf is actually bitter-laughing because Daphnes set him up. He was going to wish for the exact opposite and he knows that neither Link or Zelda will listen to him.

I always knew that the last part of this was true, it always smelled funky to me... but I never realized that neither Link nor Zelda could possibly know what actually happened. I falsely assumed they were observing from my, the player's point of view, and they were not. I know that Nintendo probably didn't intend this, and went pretty far out of its way to not point out what was going on in this scene. But sometimes, I feel, that a fanon is just so well supported by the evidence of what actually happened I just can't imagine the game ending with any other message than,

Daphnes set everybody up. Everybody.

Ahaugh.
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