Pov You Tell Them Healthy Communication Exists

pov you tell them healthy communication exists

art based on the new broken bells album “into the blue”

for all my fellow nerds with any remote interest in the botw soundtrack:

molduga battle phase 2!!!!!!

it’s such a jaunty little violin track! and the person playing it clearly knows exactly what time they’re going for and did not hold back in that aggressive articulation

thinking about making an arrangement for a string quartet! it’s just so good :’)

Arven button :P I’ll put it up on my shop later tomorrow (reblogs very appreciated!!)

my two favorite pieces of media and now i have a tie between them

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.

janky botw redraws!