Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

After talking some history with a lawn-mowing resident of Bow, he suggested I visit Edison just down the way "they got buildings and everything." Edison, as it turns out, is a happening little town. A sign says "The Kindness Town," a pride flag greeted me coming into down, the tiny downtown was BUSY and I even saw a few artsy painted pro-choice signs in driveways. I could get to like this place.... (1/2)

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The Not-Really-A-Ghost-Town-But-It's-Certainly-Not-The-Bustling-Town-It-Once-Was of Bow, WA.

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Awesome driftwood yard art in Bow, WA. (2/2)

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Awesome driftwood yard art in Bow, WA. (1/2)

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You can't fool me, that's a TARDIS. This is TOTALLY a TARDIS. Maybe it's my TARDIS. It's my TARDIS now.

Stay classy Snohomish County.

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It's hot. In AND out of doors.

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Where I am now.

My first death...choosing Gerudo Town for my first was way way way above my health level. The fact that this was my first death was SUPER surprising. I am eating my way to victory, though....

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Yay! Jules is now a permanent resident of Gerudo Town. My personal head canon for Breath of the Wild was that Jules is trans, and now in Tears of the Kingdom, she's a resident.

❤

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More cleaning the freezer out. Barbacoa! Or outside of Texas, tacos de cabeza.

Also, here's my new griddle. I've retired the comal until I get the crack repaired and...well...I learn better how to take care of cast iron.

Thirdly, I love flour tortillas. I like the 50/50 flour/corn tortillas. I cannot STAND pure corn tortillas. EXCEPT in barbacoa tacos. Only way to eat them.

When the trailers for the game came out, showing off some of the story, I had an inking that the story was going into a dark place. The more I play this, the more I think this Princess Zelda story is going into a very very very dark place.

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MAH PEOPLE

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So I knew I was gonna go see the Gerudo today, and I was gonna power through somehow, which is why I ended running through all 25 Zelda amiibo to stock up. Went up the lighthouse in Kara Kara Oasis, and flew straight for Gerudo town.

When I didn't make it the whole way, I took off all my clothes for heat resistance (which didn't 100% work as I still took damage), ate a meal that gave me extra hearts (ate a meal which gave me some heat resistance), and straight up dead reckoned through the sand shroud (which wasn't easy as they put a rift in there now to keep you from, well, dead reckoning).

AND I MADE IT. Nothing's gonna keep me out of Gerudo Town. :)

Tears of the Kingdom isn't easy at all, but it is easier if you remember all your Breath of the Wild knowledge to keep you alive (eat eat eat).

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1 - I'm gonna have FOUR Eponas at this rate.

2 - Ganonhorf. XD

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Burning off some of my frozen meals to save money on groceries. Today's dinner? MENUDO.

I realize Nintendo isn't beholden to my personal headcanon, but making such a big deal of Link being the only voe allowed in Gerudo town...AND some of the disdain he gets for that...makes me kinda sad.

Almost like being personally misgendered....

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No stable, no problem. Epona will just go shopping

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Two Eponas? No open stables? Well. This is awkward.

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So I maxed out the amount of meals I could hold. Plus un-degraded weapons? Even once a day, TWENTY FIVE amiibo is not fair.

#26 is on its way.

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