actually yeah now that I’m thinking about it it would have been way more interesting and probably a little less on the nose if instead of just going “draconfication… is forbidden.. don’t do it..’ they just. actually brought in the other three dragons. like mineru could have told the stories of dinraal, naydra, and farosh and bc the three dragons still exist, Zelda (and the player) could have come to the conclusion that they’re immortal on their own instead of being like "BECOMING A DRAGON WILL SOLVE EVERYTHING. DONT DO IT THOUGH”
Mineru about as effective as your average DARE speaker
“You will have friends pressure you into becoming an AWESOME DRAGON TO SAVE EVERYONE but it’ll actually kill you”
actually I want to know whoms’t the fuck made it forbidden in the first place. They’re literally the rulers. Are they following Zonai law? Goddess commandments? OSHA?
Someone should probably put a big DO NOT EAT label on each of them
actually yeah now that I’m thinking about it it would have been way more interesting and probably a little less on the nose if instead of just going “draconfication… is forbidden.. don’t do it..’ they just. actually brought in the other three dragons. like mineru could have told the stories of dinraal, naydra, and farosh and bc the three dragons still exist, Zelda (and the player) could have come to the conclusion that they’re immortal on their own instead of being like "BECOMING A DRAGON WILL SOLVE EVERYTHING. DONT DO IT THOUGH”
Mineru about as effective as your average DARE speaker
“You will have friends pressure you into becoming an AWESOME DRAGON TO SAVE EVERYONE but it’ll actually kill you”
actually I want to know whoms’t the fuck made it forbidden in the first place. They’re literally the rulers. Are they following Zonai law? Goddess commandments? OSHA?
Someone should probably put a big DO NOT EAT label on each of them
I know people on tumblr looove stories of underwater cave diving, but I haven’t seen anyone talk about nitrogen narcosis aka “raptures of the deep”
basically when you want to get your advanced scuba certification (allowing you to go more than 60 feet deep) you have to undergo a very specific test: your instructor takes you down past the 60+ foot threshold, and she brings a little underwater white board with her.
she writes a very basic math problem on that board. 6 + 15. she shows it to you, and you have to solve it.
if you can solve it, you’re good. that is the hardest part of the test.
because here’s what happens: there is a subset of people, and we have no real idea why this happens only to them, who lose their minds at depth. they’re not dying, they’re not running out of oxygen, they just completely lose their sense of identity when deep in the sea.
a woman on a dive my instructor led once vanished during the course of the excursion. they were diving near this dropoff point, beyond which the depth exceeded 60 feet and he’d told them not to go down that way. the instructor made his way over to look for her and found a guy sitting at the edge of the dropoff (an underwater cliff situation) just staring down into the dark. the guy is okay, but he’s at the threshold, spacing out, and mentally difficult to reach. they try to communicate, and finally the guy just points down into the dark, knowing he can’t go down there, but he saw the woman go.
instructor is deep water certified and he goes down. he shines his light into the dark, down onto the seafloor which is at 90 feet below the surface. he sees the woman, her arms locked to her sides, moving like a fish, swimming furiously in circles in the pitch black.
she is hard to catch but he stops her and checks her remaining oxygen: she is almost out, on account of swimming a marathon for absolutely no reason. he is able to drag her back up, get her to a stable depth to decompress, and bring her to the surface safely.
when their masks are off and he finally asks her what happened, and why was she swimming like that, she says she fully, 100% believed she was a mermaid, had always been a mermaid, and something was hunting her in the dark 👍
there are 2 Ethans in my daughter’s class. you’d think they’d go by Ethan L and Ethan M, but they decided together that they would like to be called Lethan and Methan and I think that’s fantastic
people who live in areas where there are native lizards should never take that for granted. you can just go outside and see a little guy hanging out. what’s better than that?
What’s better is when the little guy starts doing little pushups, to impress another little guy you haven’t spotted yet. Or possibly you.
the thing about literary analysis is that its not often “the author intentionally made the curtains blue to represent sadness“ its more like “this is the 5th piece of writing where this author describes blue curtains, incidentally the bedroom his mother died in when he was 6 had blue curtains“
