Today I started on the LEGO build of the Deku Tree. This is one of the coolest things I've done in a long time. ![[I Love LEGO-20240917195430895.png]] ![[I Love LEGO-20240917195443498.png]] ![[I Love LEGO-20240917195456616.png]] I chose the Ocarina of Time side because I'm blinded by ~~[light](https://youtu.be/ydFXIUDiWNE)~~ nostalgia. I love LEGO. It's an act of consumption, especially given that I focus on the sets that you build once and put on a shelf. But it's one that you have to earn by putting it together yourself. As I've gotten older, I've found that I also love to make these sets because I marvel at their engineering. It's unbelievably impressive what these people are doing with bricks. As I built Link's treehouse, I literally gasped aloud in childlike excitement, realizing with each step what I was building - the balcony that Young Link starts on at the start of the game, the hookshot, the bed. The same happened when I finished the first major steps of the Deku Tree, which involve building a slopped contraption that lets you open and close the tree's mouth. This was an overpriced set but I'm not going to lie, I don't really care. I love it. I love getting to remember when I was 5 and didn't know what taxes were, or when I was too scared to do the Shadow Temple for a month, or how I once tried to impress my cousin by showing him I could do the entire Deku Tree dungeon with my eyes closed because I've played it so many times (he didn't give a shit). It was worth it. Also it doesn't have any stickers that I have to put on myself. That's worth the price of admission alone. When my mom first bought me **Ocarina of Time** I ran around the forest for a full day but couldn't figure out where the kokiri sword was, so I had to check out the guidebook from the library the next day, until I could buy it for myself. I never got frustrated though. I had fun just experiencing something so wild and wonderful. I'm trying to be like that again - less jaded. With LEGO I can get pretty close. So that's nice.