Author: Seth M. Walker

Link’s abilities in Tears of the Kingdom illustrate the remix principles of selectivity, recombinatoriality, and recyclability that guide all creative processes and production—no matter how limiting the context might seem.

The sudden disruptive jolt that follows from not landing an attempted skateboard trick can offer more than an opportunity to snarl at a blameless handrail or weathered curb.

Wabi-sabi, a concept in Japanese aesthetics revolving around the beauty of imperfection and impermanence, aligns well with both the goblincore aesthetic and subculture and some of J.R.R. Tolkien’s short, hairy creatures.