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Come to think of it, a lot of Zelda’s problems socially stem from how the very basis of the series used to be an elf vs orc conflict in all but name. There was even like, Christan iconography in the first two games before the universe became its own thing. Very Tolkien inspired, and then rebranding Ganon as a green man in OoT kinda fits with how orcs became more human like in fantasy around that time too.
Its almost like the devs picked up on the racially charged way orcs were written and went oh nice, well what if the main orc we wrote long ago was not a pig but just a green dude that evokes that image of a modern orc that never stopped causing Problems, and also he would use his people, Pretty Female Orcs (who are all dark skinned and muscular and sexualized compared to the Female Elves of the World, gee, I wonder why the only dark skinned ethnicity/species has women that look this way 🙄), to help him in his evil.
And then Skyward Sword made things so much worse with revealing (well, writing in but. Still) that Hylians are the chosen race/patroned race of the goddess Hylia, with their pale skinned, long eared princess being a reincarnation of this goddess throughout history, and that Ganondorf, a brown-green man and leader of a dark skinned people, is a reincarnation of hatred throughout history. This imagery is very really fucking bad man.
that post calling ppl "mentally slow" for using chatgpt was v weird. while i think u should be learning & not getting chatgpt to write ur papers (tbh it's not even good at writing papers), i get that school is v demanding, esp when u have disabilities and/or a lot else going on. here's a couple tools to help take off some mental burdens of studying:
goblin.tools -> excellent site full of tools
- magic to-do: AI breakdown of tasks into sub-steps
- formalizer: in the name! changes text to formal language
- judge: can tell u about the tone/subtext of ur writing
- estimator: judges the length of a task for u
- compiler: turns a braindump into a to-do list
researchrabbit: input a source u have already found to create connection webs (through citations) to other literatures -> ensures higher relevance in the sources u find vs digging thru ProQuest or JSTOR for hours
connectedpapers: same function as above, however it's limited to only 2 free articles
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