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I'm looking for possession/mind control themed fanfics, can you recommend some? It doesn't matter if it's a long one or a one-shot, nor the classification, please and thank you 🙏

Malevolence by @thescrapwitch

Summary:

Malice is eternal. No matter what hero rises, it shall always return.

Malice is unforgiving. It will never forget those that have wronged its Master.

Malice is infectious, and wolves should beware what they bite.

Wind Mage by @skyward-floored

Summary:

The moment they walked into a wind-themed dungeon, Four should have been suspicious. Should have kept his guard up, should have paid extra attention to the decor and theme of the whole place.

Except he hadn’t. And now Wind was paying the price.

It feels wrong to hear those words with his voice... by @uniquevoidflowers

Summary:

“Legend!” Wind gasped and everyone crowded around Legend.

Violet eyes looked at all of them, Legend tearing up. “I-I’m so sorry...”

“It’s not your fault, vet. Stay strong, okay?” Time reassured, putting a hand on his shoulder.

Red crept up in violet eyes. “I don’t know if I can.” Legend whispered, and then red took over.

“Pest.” Dark Link spat.

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Or, Legend gets possessed by Dark Link, and the chain don't have a good time.

homeward by @rebornofstars

Summary:

"Something was in that sword,” Legend told them all. “Where did it go?”

They both stared at Sky. To Time's horror, a slow smile began spreading across the Skyloftian's face at their words.

“Oh,” the thing wearing Sky's body pouted. “You guessed, did you? I suppose that means the game is up.”

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Today's garden haul: 3 cucumbers, a daikon radish and the greens from it (edible), a bunch of apples, a jar of applesauce, and a bunch of frozen blueberries (not pictured).

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Wistful painting for sale. Very real, not fake. No refunds.

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This was my final, and 30th art fight attack for this year! It was my first time doing a mass attack, and I kinda like how it turned out.

Characters, in no particular order, belong to: LarkaSheanou, ophansprism, just-something, scaredycrow, Amarald, LiannQuasar, floofus, Sykloni, Beigetiger, fishliver8000, ChaosTenshi, KishMish, Galactictragedy, rablepen, FluffyFeathers23, LeisurelyLazy, _Lara, ImasTheOdd and Rancid_Renaldo

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Gatekeeping is so good and important

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@ryebreadgf / The Truth About Grief, Fortesa Latifi / bone deep, m.v.e / Sidewalk, Richard Silken / unknown / 60 hours, m.v.e / @itsblackleader / Salt, Nayyirah Waheed / @heavensghost

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As promised, welcome to

Fun biology in TOTK’s designs

I'll keep this post updated as I go through the game. I'm going to skip the more general identifiable things like apples (they're based on apples!) because there are tons of more unusual species to talk about.

Overall, the really interesting thing I've noticed is that many of the more unique Earth-based lifeforms in TOTK are super ancient, like predating dinosaurs ancient, which is a really cool tie-in to the overall time-hopping plotline of TOTK. Specifically, they're found in the new areas (caves, depths) while the surface remains a bit more normal.

(There will be no plot spoilers in this post, and also I've barely gotten into the plot because I'm spending all my time wandering, so shhh no spoilers in the tags for like a month please.)

Most recent additions: More lilies, irises, wild ginger, spiny bones, pigeon extravaganza, plus added some more real photo comparisons to old stuff.

PLANTS

Bryophytes my beloved. Bryophytes are among the earliest land plants, waaaay predating flowers and even seeds. In our world, they’re small by necessity—they lack vascular systems to help move water around like other plants, so they have to stay small and moist (hence their frequency in caves in TOTK—though they do need some light in real life.)

In TOTK they’re quite large and I think that’s very sexy and art directors should give us big bryophytes more often

Anyway, there are three types of bryophytes: mosses, liverworts, and hornworts. First image pair is a moss, second is a liverwort. Those red-brown and palm-tree-like structures, respectively, are their reproductive structures.

Real liverwort photo © Graham Calow, NatureSpotUK

Not yet spotted: Hornworts! Did they forget the third bryophyte sister :(

I think these next guys are probably lycopods (specifically club moss, which is not a true bryophyte moss, thanks science.) Very old, but vascular, so they're a bit more evolutionarily recent than bryophytes.

Real photo © Gloria Hanley Schoenholtz, virginiawildflowers

All the enormous curly-topped trees in the depths: Ferns! They curl like that until they unfurl. Another very old plant, though younger than bryophytes and lycopods.

Real photo via The Cosmonaut, Wikipedia

Brightblooms and some of the other giant plants in the depths: Possibly based on a cycad? Again, a very ancient plant lineage. At this point, evolutionarily, they've developed seeds—that giant cone in the center is called a strobilus, and that's the seed structure.

These next few plants are angiosperms, meaning they produce flowers. Angiosperms are a more recent evolutionary lineage—still many millions of years old, but it took a while to develop flowers as a reproductive tactic.

Sundelions (left) are a fun recolor of a lily. There are also some scenery lilies (right) in various places—there are yellow ones that spring up when you turn on a lightroot (which gives them literal and thematic connection to the surface) and several other varieties, including tiger lilies, throughout Hyrule. Fun note, the sundelions appear to only have 5 stamen, while other lilies in the game (correctly) have 6. Seems to be an intentional decision to make it a more distinct fantasy species.

These next ones are Peruvian lilies/Alstroemeria, just used as a scenery plant but a very fun inclusion. Fun fact, not true lilies, so they're not deadly to cats like true lilies are.

Real photo © Dick Culbert, Wikipedia

Plum trees: These are also called out as plum trees in game! There's a journal in Kakariko that refers to the plum orchards.

Okay I'm a little proud of figuring this one out. Bomb flowers blend a few botanical references. Superficially, the fruit resembles a type of seed pod called a capsule—specifically it's very similar to a poppy capsule. The little red thing in the center is a nice addition to resemble both a flower stigma (reproductive part that leads to the ovary) and a bomb fuse. Now, poppy capsules disperse their seeds via wind, but there are other plants who do explode their seeds outwards as a dispersal tactic! This is called explosive dehiscence.

There is one tree in particular called the sandbox tree, AKA monkey-no-climb or dynamite tree (yes, really.) Their capsules look more like little pumpkins, but are known for violently exploding when ripe—they can launch seeds at 150 miles per hour (250 km/h) and spread them roughly 200 feet (60 m) away. The photo comparison is a poppy capsule but you should def go look up dynamite tree videos.

Real photo © PommeGrenade, pixabay

Fire fruits (and the other elemental fruits) grow on the same generic plant that looks kind of like it has grape leaves. Fire fruits resemble a specific botanical thing too though—the black netting is a papery calyx (part of the flower) seen in a nightshade genus, Physalis (golden berries, tomatillos, etc.)

Real photo © Helene Rogers, Alamy

I think this stuff is an Asarum, AKA wild ginger. I was actually puzzling over it until I walked past some today and went HEY

Not sure of the exact species but they're very green and heart-shaped and love being dense and low to the ground.

Real photo via David Stang, Wikipedia

Irises: Love irises, one of my favorite flowers and words, very happy to see them in game.

MISCELLANEA

Cup lichen! Lichen is not a plant, but a symbiotic structure of an algae + a fungi. Cup lichen is just a type of lichen formation that has a kind of vertical cup-like structure.

Real photo via Bernard Spragg

Geology crossover! Go look carefully at some of the whiter walls in the depths—they look like they have fossils of coral and other undersea hard-structured animals in them.

ANIMALS

Sticky lizards: Based on Diplocaulus, a very early (now extinct) amphibian! Their skulls are wacky. We're not sure whether the long sides stood out separately or were smoothly connected to the body by skin flaps, but the separate arrow-like shape is the most popular rendition.

Deep firefly: Might be a stretch because it could just be a multi-winged fantasy critter, but I think the "wings" and antennae are very reminiscent of Anomalocaris, an ancient aquatic arthropod.

Update: Other folks in the notes/tags have pointed out that they're probably based on a cryptid that's especially popular in Japan: skyfish AKA rods! They show up in photos and people think they're an alien lifeform. In reality, they're an optical blur created when a lower quality video captures intermittent flaps of an insect's wings, leaving sort of a many-winged smear in the photo. Thanks to all who left info!

Little frox: Another stretch because it totally could just be a Hinox-like frog, but every time I see the little ones I can't help but think of like...Ichthyostega, Mastodonsaurus, Eryops, and other early amphibians. They were pretty hefty—little frox size or bigger—and had with little waddling legs. This is less "I think it's definitely this" and more "it makes me happy when I picture frox as primitive amphibians."

I haven't detailed many of the scenery animals around Hyrule because most are identifiable with the camera function—it'll tell you that a certain animal is a heron or porgy, for example, and those groups are real, even though the exact species is made up. But I think the pigeons are fun because they're all crested pigeons. Pink-necked green pigeons may have also been the inspiration for the color palettes on the wood and rainbow pigeons.

Both pigeon photos via JJ Harrison, Wikipedia

Spiny bones: Not a specific critter, but those spiny bones that you can find lying around Eldin Canyon are vertebrae—possibly from the same thing that left those big rib cages around? The top spike is the spinous process where muscles attach, the littler spikes on the side are the transverse and articular processes. The dark O in the center is the spinal cord.

Also I made a friend who finally recognizes my purpose in Hyrule.

That's all I've got for now! Will add more as I keep playing.

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4, 9, 34 for ask game :D

4. How do you recharge your wing the most?

Mostly I just let butterflies recharge me. If there aren't any around or I need a big recharge, then I try to go find a flame or a random player to candle. But sometimes other players get confused why I'm candling them and they don't pull out their candle to help me recharge.

9. Earliest Memory in the game?

I remember friending other new players in the Isle of Dawn and being confused about the candle currency (the game starts you off with 5 candles you can spend). I also remember trying to go up the ramp to get the first wing light and struggling to figure out how to jump. There were 3 or 4 of us doing the little baby vertical jumps trying to get up there instead of the long leaps that you actually need to use.

34. Best thing in sky?

The story. It is obscure enough that my analysis brain can gnaw and chew all over it like a dog with a reindeer antler and yet its also not so difficult to figure things out that I get frustrated and have to look up a lore video coughcoughHollowKnightcoughcough. And once I invent a story/au of my own, my interest in the thing is self-sustaining.

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Not the best tea

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Why is food so expensive? I just wanna buy cheap delivery food cuz I'm migrainey and we ran out of both snacks and meal prep food in the middle of the week. Why does a basic meal for 2 for delivery cost $55??? That's half of a week's worth of groceries.

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11 and 23 0:? (hi, serene here xD)

Hehehe hello Serene! Of course I know who you are! THanks for the ask!

11. Comfort/favorite item?

Fox plushie or the bass harp since it was my first instrument I bought. The fox plushie is sooo cute and it was one of the earliest items I got. When I am sad or upset, that's the item I have my sky kid carry.

23. What color do you connect your skykid to the most?

Definitely the warm colors: red, orange, yellow. Which color specifically changes over time. Right now my sky kid is golden yellow themed with cyan accents. I am always low on yellow dye cuz I want to dye everything orange or yellow.

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been painting landscapes recently as a break from my usual art, some landscapes from my favorite cosy game

rain forest and prairie peaks

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Sky: Children of the Light Themed Asks<3

Which instrument is your favorite?

Flying or swimming? Why?

What's your favorite color palette?

How do you recharge your wing the most?

Which candle do you have the most of? (Seasonal, Regular, Eden?)

Who do you hang out with the most?

Which realm are you most in?

Which realm is your favorite?

Earliest Memory in the game?

Funniest Memory?

Comfort/favorite item?

What do you get most frustrated at?

Krillkid or Skykid? (Or some other option?)

Favorite outfit?

Favorite season?

How often do you go to Eden?

How old is your skykid? (Or how long have you been playing?)

Have you even written someone to another player via boat message? (Or swan or some other water floating message)

Has someone ever written you a message? (Was it sweet or not?)

Who do you look up to the most? (A spirit, an elder, another player who helped you)

Who is your best Sky friend? Do you have multiple?

What do you do daily besides daily missions?

What color do you connect your skykid to the most?

If you could live anywhere in the game where would you live?

Do you know any songs that aren't from the in-game song charts? If so, what songs?

Do you have any sky ocs? Who are they?

Favorite thing to-do in sky?

Are you a solo-player or a multi-player?

How many friends do you have in-game?

How many of those friends are moths that never come online?

Who has the best outfit in your friends list?

How often do you play sky?

Worst thing in sky?

Best thing in sky?

What's your best screenshot?

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Wind and his big brother

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Captain, it’s Wednesday

reference under the cut

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I was taking a photo of the direction this wayward spirit was facing so I could see what buildings were in view: apparently none.

No pressure tags @bluevaractyl @raycatz @zolanort

Let’s play a game

Everyone post the most recent picture in your camera roll. You only get one sentence to justify yourself if you wish. This one is mine.

My boyfriend is rly good at Latin, so I was looking up how to say ‘I love you’ but found this instead :)

Your turn!

@bookmovietvworm

@myfairkatiecat

@i-am-a-fish

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