My Second Post

Probably going to catch a lot of flack for this one.

I don’t know if this even made sense.

As I sit here at this computer, I can still tell you that I haven’t looked it up or remotely asked anyone about the Majora’s Mask character guy thing making sense.

I know that I wanted to make this meme thing because a particular nerdy girl I had a thing for was laughing about a post she shared and I commented on.

“I want some of that, please.” I thought to myself. I wanted to have that attention further, to have her look at something I made and think it’s the funniest thing in the world.

I did no research, I did no background check, no wiki-searches—only one google search for a Majora’s Mask picture that I could make a simple Dark Knight Rises joke with.

I don’t know what his motivations are, or what he even means to the story.

Contextuallym he’s the villain?

Wears an evil mask to scare little boy Link?

What I do remember about the game is that there's a nightmare angry-girlfriend Moon face looming over the entirety of the world.

And I guess when it touches down to the planet it ends the world?

But there’s also time travel, and I think the first cross-dresser in gaming.

Again, no googling or wiki-searching or even friend asking.

I don’t want to get beat up by my friends, so I’ll spare them my dumb questioning.

So when I sent her this image and said so smugly, “Haha, I thought this was pretty funny!” with like a few emoji faces to show just HOW funny I thought it was.

She sent back, “Lol, What’s that?”

The utter shock on my face.

Do you know how long I didn’t research this joke to tell you!?

Do you know how little work I did to try and make you laugh!?

The nerve!

I was very unfairly like, “Wow, you’re kinda dumb aren’t you?”

I didn’t say that obviously, but you know what I mean.

I had no right to think that, but heck, even I knew what the game was.

So my reply of, “It’s The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask,” was messaged with a soft tone, to show I wasn’t going to make fun of her for not knowing.

She didn’t have much for me in her response.

“Oh? That’s funny.”

I could feel her lack of hilarity finding.

I sunk into my chair.

“Welp, that was great. Good job man, she’s totally just gonna fall in love with you now.”

I took myself way too seriously when it came to girls.

BUT!

Like I huge, huge, huge BUT!

I did manage to get something back out of the situation.

I won a little “Cool” favor with her as I went on to explain the game, to the best of my ability (See Above)

I went on after that explanation to talk about an idea the game gave me for a cosplay idea.

“What’s that?” She asked, interested.

“I think it’d be reaaaaaaally cool if I could pull off being the mask salesman from that game, but with like Masks from all kinds of Anime/Movie/TV/Etc."

She thought that was the COOLEST.

I was so ecstatic that she thought an idea I had was cool.

Like through the cloud barrier with joy.

So I think I walked away from the whole situation with a positive feeling.

That’s the story behind my Second Ever Post to Instagram.

A dumb joke that didn’t land.