the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

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I just realized the pattern on the toga of the Little Caesar's mascot is made up of Ls and Cs: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f9/Little_Caesars_logo.png

i can't

deal with this

we used to get spam phone calls maybe once a week and it was manageable

suddenly we're getting two to five calls a day, sometimes in rapid succession, always from different numbers, of a recording claiming to be the social security administration and claiming they've "suspended our social security number" whatever that means

how do people handle this

we signed up for the do-not-call thing but that apparently takes a month to go into effect

occasionally i think about how asian cuisines just don't have cheese and wonder about whether some type of cheese could improve any asian dishes.... and i can't think of any that it would

challenge: name one food that is not improved by the addition of either a) chocolate or b) barbecue sauce

including a lot of people on here!!

like, there are just so many cute things

why are so many things so cute

that makes five times today, from five different numbers, that we've gotten calls from some scammer claiming to be the social security administration and this is very frustrating

i hate scam calls

so why are those little boxes that apply distortions to audio signals called "guitar pedals" anyway? they don't usually involve pedals, do they?

akira toriyama certainly has a distinct style of character design

seeing things from dragonball and we keep thinking about how much they remind us of dragon quest characters

today is just one of those days that does not feel good for reasons too complicated to explain or really understand

blh. have a lot of stuff that we probably ought to upload to weasyl but it's hard to get up the motivation to do that

also @Zeny@snouts.online @LexYeen@snouts.online this is (very indirectly) your fault

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The recently recovered BotW document shines new light on the Hylian mythology; it appears closer to a historical account than anything yet recovered, though it still bears the trappings of legend; it has probably been embellished to an extent, though less so than many other surviving documents. A comparison with the other major documents follows, in order of approximate date of writing:

The LoZ fragments seem to tell a fairly faithful story, though so much of them is missing that it's hard to tell what embellishments may have been made on the original. The authors consider it a distinct possibility that the LoZ fragments are in fact all that is left of the true historical account, rather than the BotW document, but the text is too fragmentary to be reliable.

The later AoL scrolls (which, it should be noted, are suspected may even be a forgery) seem to be a wholly fictional addition; no parallels exist in any other known texts.

The ALttP text is a relatively divergent one; the time gap seen in the BotW and OoT documents seems to have been replaced with a 'dark world' motif, an alternate dimension ruled by Ganon rather than merely a later time period. It is unknown whether this was a native innovation or a result of incorporating concepts from the Korok culture into the legend.

The LA document, initially thought to be related, seems instead to be an original invention with a well-known culture hero, Link, as the protagonist.

The Ocarina source, one of the most well-researched documents on the myth, has all the essential elements of the story of Link. Ganon (here portrayed as a Gerudo man named Ganondorf, exemplary of the strong anti-Gerudo sentiment of the time) plots to take over hyrule, the culture hero Link attempts, but fails, to stop him, and after mysteriously disappearing, returns to finish the job several years later. In this case, the time span is only seven years, which perhaps seems more reasonable than the one hundred years mentioned by the BotW document.

The Mask document may initially seem to be an outlier here, but examined carefully it seems to be an elaboration on the "dark world" theme seen in the ALttP documents; however, the four giants and the 'skull kid' figure both seem distinctly non-hylian in origin, and may be the result of syncretization with foreign legends, possibly of Gerudo origin, though further study would be needed to tell for sure. It is unclear whether Termina represents a mythologized portrayal of a real location, or a wholly fictional setting. Unusually for a Link myth, neither Ganon or Zelda features in the story at all.

The twin Oracle codices seem to be little more than morality tales with the recognisable name of Link applied to the protagonist, though codex A does feature the substantial time travel similar to that seen in the BotW document. Further research may be warranted.

The Waker codex is strongly divergent, though it seems to share some similarities with the first half of the Ocarina source; the hero Link comes from a small village, visits a forest, a volcano, and a giant fish, and then goes to defeat Ganon, again given the name Ganondorf. It's likely that this variant developed among a coastal population of Hylians, likely long after the ancestral land of Hyrule was naught but a memory.

The TP text is another highly divergent telling of the story; it is very likely that this represents a syncretization of the Link mythos and some unknown other culture's mythology (perhaps that of the lost Zora culture). Nevertheless, the essential components are there: a forest, mountain, and lakebed are visited before Link's first attempt to take down Ganon, then Link spends some time (quite a short time in this account) training, before returning and finally defeating Ganon.

The Sky text is widely considered a hoax, but it does contain the now-standard forest, mountain, and lake, as well as repeated attempts to defeat the enemy, though the enemy is not Ganon in this text.

The astute reader will note that a number of texts were skipped in this; this is because the MC, FS, FS-A, Hourglass, and Tracks sources all appear to be either wholly or mostly unrelated myths with the name of a recognisable culture hero added on for a Hylian audience. The origin of these myths is uncertain.

what the hell happened after gen 3, anyway

pokemon bad guys:

gen 1: literally just the mafia
gen 2: mafia wannabes
gen 3: a couple charismatic science-class-dropouts
gen 4: nihilistic narcissist who wants to literally destroy the universe
gen 5: some old guy who wants to take over the tri-state area
gen 6: fashionable young man who wants to destroy all life on the planet
gen 7: a bunch of penniless kids who have to steal to get by, and also a narcissistic, power-hungry woman with an interest in alternate dimensions