Re: 2025 Writing Log, Part 38
Sep. 27th, 2025 07:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingI also changed the PFP icon and visual theme of my main Tumblr blog. I call my new theme "touch moss," and it's not perfect, but I'll keep playing with it until I'm happy. For the time being, it's just nice to see something different.
The other day I left a comment on a mutual's post and said that it feels very cringe to be a Legend of Zelda fan these days, and I've been thinking about that ever since. It was one thing for Ocarina of Time to feature problematic fantasy trope bullshit in 1998, and it's another thing entirely for Age of Imprisonment to be about fighting a green-skinned hook-nosed wizard from the desert in 2025.
"Arabs are evil" has never been a good look, but it's especially upsetting at this particular moment, when the ongoing crisis in Gaza has (finally) become the subject of fervent worldwide attention. I tend to think the mindset that "media has a 1-to-1 correlation with reality" is a good way to give yourself mental illness, but Age of Imprisonment is just embarrassing.
The recent games aren't even fun. Tears of the Kingdom is visually inspiring and ambitious in scope but unfortunately very tedious to play, and Echoes of Wisdom is cute and creative but not even close to fully cooked. I hate to say this when there's still a lot of excellent fanwork going around, but I feel like the broader Legend of Zelda fandom has shrunk and stagnated.
Idk man. The spirit of Marie Kondo is with me, and she says: It does not spark joy.
The other day I left a comment on a mutual's post and said that it feels very cringe to be a Legend of Zelda fan these days, and I've been thinking about that ever since. It was one thing for Ocarina of Time to feature problematic fantasy trope bullshit in 1998, and it's another thing entirely for Age of Imprisonment to be about fighting a green-skinned hook-nosed wizard from the desert in 2025.
"Arabs are evil" has never been a good look, but it's especially upsetting at this particular moment, when the ongoing crisis in Gaza has (finally) become the subject of fervent worldwide attention. I tend to think the mindset that "media has a 1-to-1 correlation with reality" is a good way to give yourself mental illness, but Age of Imprisonment is just embarrassing.
The recent games aren't even fun. Tears of the Kingdom is visually inspiring and ambitious in scope but unfortunately very tedious to play, and Echoes of Wisdom is cute and creative but not even close to fully cooked. I hate to say this when there's still a lot of excellent fanwork going around, but I feel like the broader Legend of Zelda fandom has shrunk and stagnated.
Idk man. The spirit of Marie Kondo is with me, and she says: It does not spark joy.
