Once Again Wind Waking, Part Three
Mar. 27th, 2021 08:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingLast night my husband saw The Wind Waker for the first time.
He was like, “Wow, this is a beautiful game.” And it is in fact a beautiful game, so he sat and watched me play it.
After a few minutes, he was like, “Is this the game people were sending you death threats about?”
And indeed it is. I don’t really understand it either.
I think I’ve gotten a lot better about dealing with that sort of thing, thankfully. Yesterday someone reblogged one of my old Zelda meta posts, and it got a few more notes and reblogs. This happens from time to time – maybe once every two weeks or so – and the inevitable result is that another person will then reblog the post with something nasty added to the end. I might get one or two unpleasant messages after that. I don’t usually bother to look at my notes on Tumblr, but I do read the messages people send me, and some of them aren’t great. Last night I got another one calling me “literally Hitler,” which was good timing. Pesach sameach and all that.
I showed my husband the message, and he said that he wants to pitch the concept of “Literally Hitler” to Larry David, as having a time-jumped Hitler living in Los Angeles would be a good follow-up to Curb Your Enthusiasm. I considered responding to the Tumblr ask along those lines, but instead I just blocked the person. We only have so many hours on this earth.
Anyway, The Wind Waker is a beautiful and sweet and wholesome game, and spending time with it makes me happy. I just got news that I’m going to be teaching my class on The Wind Waker at UPenn in Spring 2022, and that makes me happy as well. It’s a good game, and it’s going to be a good class.
He was like, “Wow, this is a beautiful game.” And it is in fact a beautiful game, so he sat and watched me play it.
After a few minutes, he was like, “Is this the game people were sending you death threats about?”
And indeed it is. I don’t really understand it either.
I think I’ve gotten a lot better about dealing with that sort of thing, thankfully. Yesterday someone reblogged one of my old Zelda meta posts, and it got a few more notes and reblogs. This happens from time to time – maybe once every two weeks or so – and the inevitable result is that another person will then reblog the post with something nasty added to the end. I might get one or two unpleasant messages after that. I don’t usually bother to look at my notes on Tumblr, but I do read the messages people send me, and some of them aren’t great. Last night I got another one calling me “literally Hitler,” which was good timing. Pesach sameach and all that.
I showed my husband the message, and he said that he wants to pitch the concept of “Literally Hitler” to Larry David, as having a time-jumped Hitler living in Los Angeles would be a good follow-up to Curb Your Enthusiasm. I considered responding to the Tumblr ask along those lines, but instead I just blocked the person. We only have so many hours on this earth.
Anyway, The Wind Waker is a beautiful and sweet and wholesome game, and spending time with it makes me happy. I just got news that I’m going to be teaching my class on The Wind Waker at UPenn in Spring 2022, and that makes me happy as well. It’s a good game, and it’s going to be a good class.
