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TotK really took the ear racism that was applied to the entirety of the Gerudo in OoT (which, in the context of Ocarina of Time, could have been read as Hylian propaganda because there is an NPC in Castle Town that talks about how it is said that Hylians have pointed ears to hear the gods but he never heard any gods), and then applied it JUST to Ganondorf, to justify the ear racism and make it real? I guess?

The funny part is that the explanation in the TotK Masterworks for Ganondorf having round ears as a "sign of his fate to stand against the gods" comes right after explaining that Ganondorf saw this kingdom suddenly spring up on his borders and was wary of it. As if that is not a reasonable concern to have as a king lol

i don't really want to weight in on the "using big words in your writing is ableist" discourse happening on tiktok because i'm like 90% certain it's an anti-intellectual psyop to stir up drama in online circles to promote the use of ai to summarize literally everything and thus feeding the LLMs and lowering the populace's mistrust of such tools but i also have to say: dictionaries and thesauruses are the most accessible they've ever been. if you use an e-reader of any kind you can look up a word without leaving the page. there's a plethora of online dictionaries and if you just type a word + "meaning" into google it'll usually give you a definition. we used to have pocket dictionaries we used when reading in class. i have two on my shelf right now that i used in high school. stop letting the fascists purposefully misuse anti-ableism rhetoric to trick you into never thinking again.

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