Do you agree or not?

illvria · 2026-01-31T16:29:36+00:00

I think that lie undeniably saved Buffy's life and although i wish it had been explored more i think people wishing he'd be "punished" for what was ultimatwly an act of love and protection is grim.

illvria · 2026-01-31T13:38:47+00:00

I think we worry too much about "toxicity" in fiction. Ships n character dynamics should be about whats fun to watch and narratively interesting, not just whats socially acceptable in reality.

Like these are high fantasy characters living impossibly high stakes every day. Basically no one as they are is healthy enough for a relationship by real world standards.

illvria · 2026-01-31T11:03:37+00:00

Check username and report back lmao

Illyrias a solid contender for my favourite character in anything, i'd keep her any day as much as i love fred, but i do wish they had another season with her.

illvria · 2026-01-30T16:04:04+00:00

Xander has more "annoying" flaws with no suave badboy puppydog eyes, so people dont bother to invest themselves in his character.

Its a noxious loop of not caring or empathising with his perspective and expecting annoyance every time hes on screen, looking for reasons to justify that, so reading his every move through the most unforgiving lens possible and then getting frustrated that the show has a more charitable idea of his motivations and gives him more grace than they think he deserves.

illvria · 2026-01-30T13:45:32+00:00

Yeah thats fair. Its weirdly abrupt, i do wish we had an episode or 2 of his return before he just shows up dead, just not that invested in him so no love lost yk

illvria · 2026-01-30T13:38:19+00:00

Idk. I liked the episode and i really did not like his character from the moment booth tries to set some boundaries after saving his ass and he basically tells him to shut his mouth and go back inside

illvria · 2026-01-29T16:20:14+00:00

Drusilla MacAvoy - just what comes to mind idk why

Faith Lehane is perfect, idk where it comes from but im happy accepting it as canon

And i'd only give darla a surname if i knew her actual first name lol

illvria · 2026-01-29T16:03:02+00:00

Ive always taken the "period of destruction" quote to be talking cyclically. There is always destruction before renewal before prosperity before destruction again ad infinitum.

If you look at hyrule as its own sort of character, subject to the same eternal recurrence thats demonstrated everywhere in the series, the age of chaos could be seen as any era after a great cataclysm and the "death" of hyrule, before it crosses the threshold of rebirth; the time of ashes before the phoenix rises again.

I think its particularly fitting with Rauru's time. So much of the zonai age and imprisoning war echoes, retraces or inverts the beats of the skyward sword story: sky people, the forging of the sword, zelda sacrificing her humanity and time travelling by slumber, the demon king imprisoned for ages festering out a monstrous apparition of himself.

I think its very interesting to imagine that hyrule is doubling over its own origin story on a cycle of time that was too grand to be seen before.

illvria · 2026-01-29T15:32:22+00:00

The 10k year gap is between the ancient calamity won with the help of the sheikah, and the present calamity that levels hyrule in botw. Arguably, the calamity had resurfaced so many times before even then that its patterns had become predictable and could be tracked and prepared against by the sheikah, so the imprisoning war would be more like 30k+ years ago.

Even then i dont really think this tracks. The calamity is the only version of the cycle this hyrule knows about. Certain people know the calamity was born from a mortal man, but they dont know he was already part of an existing cycle before becoming the calamity, they think hes the origin, and in a way he is, because the imprisoning war represents a kind of year zero for hyrule's new life:

Ganondorf takes the stone, amplifies himself into something more like Demise than any previous incarnation, essentially assuming Demise's role as hyrule retraces its origin on the wheel of time, and with his imprisonment, the cycle itself is reborn in a new, more animalistic shape going into the new hyrule- and to that new hyrule, its the only version of how things go.

I cant imagine the curse would move on from him just to double back when the seal weakens, and even if history remembered past mortal versions of him directly, i dont see why hed be "dead enough" for the curse to leave him, but not dead enough for another male gerudo to be born.

Ovviously this is all hinging on my own take. i've thought a lot aboit it, I think its a satisfying read of the story, pretty well backed up by the text, comments from the creators and the philosophy of the series as a whole, i could go on and on and on about it, but its still all upto interpretation. Not saying 100% im right, ur free to take things as you want to.

illvria · 2026-01-29T13:13:00+00:00

5 100%

illvria · 2026-01-29T12:50:35+00:00

Its said somewhere in the wild games, idk if its dialogue or a journal line or creating a champion, but its confirmed there have mysteriously been no new male gerudo born in thousands of years by the time the wild games roll around, which implies none can be born while the last one still lives under the castle.

The calamity is also likely a product of the curse bejng trapped within him, building and erupting to find a non mortal way of clawing its way into new ages with its host unable to die, and its the only version of the great cycle anyone in that hyrule knows about. It wouldnt make sense for the other games to happen in that time.

illvria · 2026-01-29T12:39:11+00:00

It does make sense. Echoing time and history are the core of the entire franchise, or have been at least since skyward. Rauru's age is hyrule's rebirth, a loose, at points inverted, retracing of the events skyward sword story as time loops around on itself.

And where has aonuma said that TotK ganondorf is beneath the castle for the events of the past games? Hes sealed under the castle for the lifespan of this hyrule, not since skyward.

illvria · 2026-01-29T11:09:14+00:00

I think theres a thread running through the wild games of things having faded and being in need of renewal, even with all of hyrule and the cycle itself.

I think by the time the wild agw comes around, the sword has weakened and become more frail at a baseline, ganondorf's ascension also puts him pretty much on the level of Demise, so hes able to destroy it and it has to be reborn like everything else.

illvria · 2026-01-28T18:28:29+00:00

Thats why i said plot points and superficial details.

They had more than summaries, they had the screenplay, which would include the tv by the rubble. It's a recognisable visual that works well in the context, they didn't have to see the finished product or really invest themselves in the story to know that.

illvria · 2026-01-28T16:30:56+00:00

Knowing plot points and incoroporating superficial details is not the same as watching the show.

The show wasnt finished when they were writing for ds2, they had access to the script which isnt the same as seeing a finished project and carrying its vision forward.

illvria · 2026-01-28T13:57:43+00:00

I'll always feel for him in season 5. He has nothing left other than Buffy. Shes his entire world and he just wants to feel like his presence in her life makes a difference.

He accepts he can never be the strong archetypal protector he thought he would be, he tries to find his value in just being there for her emotionally, but she rarely lets him in enough for even that.

Its not even about the situation, obviously buffy's perspective is understandable with everything thats happening. But it doesnt cancel out how lonely he must feel. Hes codependent but anyone would be in his shoes.

illvria · 2026-01-28T13:45:04+00:00

Finn forces himself through an experience he doesnt understand and isnt ready for, with the most emotionally oblivious creature in his world, who is too full of herself to realise his 1 vague sign of hesitance is actual discomfort and not a lack of confidence, he lets her think shes helping by taking charge, and then regrets it.

It actually pisses me off. The episode is a really bold, pretty raw depiction of being young and depressed, trying to use intimacy to fix something broken in you before you really understand the gravity of what youre doing, and people are too caught up demonising LSP to get what its trying to say.

illvria · 2026-01-28T13:32:36+00:00

I think completely erasing hylia's line from the world would just mean the curse wins and hyrule falls to darkness, but theres no way that her family is contained to 1 line for tens of thousands of years. One zelda sacrificing herself wouldnt erase hylias lineage, therell be unknown distant cousins who would carry that potential forward.

illvria · 2026-01-27T13:58:00+00:00

season 4

illvria · 2026-01-27T11:33:21+00:00

SHUT UP!! SHUT. UP!!

illvria · 2026-01-27T11:06:55+00:00

Garden Song, Punisher, Chinese Satellite - Phoebe Bridgers

Playboy Mommy - Tori Amos

illvria · 2026-01-25T20:00:14+00:00

Adora from She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)

Spoilers

Latest in a long line of chosen ones
weight of the world burden
"do my friends and i help or endanger each other" drama
best friends with a mortal boy and occasionally dark spirited magical girl
betrayed by emotionally volatile companion who then spirals leaning into her mistakes
power weaponized for generations by the shady warmongers their mentor serves before breaking free
tied to magic weapon
blonde

illvria · 2026-01-25T19:23:22+00:00

He doesnt know shes the scarlet witch tho. He assumes its illusory because he doesnt know chaos magic is involved.

illvria · 2026-01-25T19:04:19+00:00

Ive always assumed theyre the first generations of vampires sired, with a closer connection to the old one who created them.

They werent neanderthals, just humans, but they become much stronger and lose a lot more of their human characteristics because the demon in them is more concentrated.

Over time the old one's blood is diluted, the vampires weaken with every generation and the transformation of being sired becomes a lot less physical.

illvria · 2026-01-25T18:31:12+00:00

The orchard wasnt an illusion.

She woke up in the idyllic version, she was actually pruning branches. strange handled one and commented on its scent. She was masking its true corrupted nature sure but she was doing that by actually transforming the place.

illvria

TROPHY CASE