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For @bokettochild

Fic: He Stopped the Blood (Fan Joy July day 29, my 19th pict for Fan Joy July)

When I read this fic, I immediately imagined this scene and really wanted to draw it! I miss Guardian! And this fic made me tense when I read it so I wanted to finish it, even though it was past midnight at that time. I love your fics!

Thank you for sharing your great work!

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Over 7,000 species of frog and Zelda wants Link to try all of them

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*struggles while writing* i suck and writing is hard

*remembers some ppl use ai* i am a creative force. i am uncorrupted by theft and indolence. i am on a journey to excellence. it is my duty to keep taking joy in creating.

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i love when people depict c!jack, c!fundy and c!niki goofing off and having fun with clingyduo in early lmanburg

because they were literally all SO young, it truly was a nation of child soldiers just trying to make their dreams reality.

they all cared about each other, they trusted each other, they were practically family. because that’s what they HAD to be in order to survive. and that’s what ultimately makes how things turned out all the more painful.

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Took sometime away from art and it helped a lot to reset and find new inspiration 💙

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Warriors was calm. Everything was fine. He was calm. He would assess the situation and make a plan. Everyone was unharmed. He was calm.

“What do you mean, we can’t get out?” Even his voice was calm. He stood straight, shoulders back, and his voice and face was calm. Yet Time’s head still snapped up from where he was examining Legend’s new ring along with Legend, Sky, and Four. No one else reacted. Wild was poking the odd magic shield from the outside, while Twilight poked it from the inside. Hyrule was keeping Wind from putting the ring on himself.

“It’s a shield,” Legend grumbled. He didn’t look up from the ring glowing in his palm. “Nothing gets in, nothing gets out. It doesn’t make sense, though. It should shield the person with the ring, not someone else.”

Twilight smacked the shield. Nothing happened. He didn’t look perturbed by it. He looked exasperated by Wild poking at it with a spear but that was it. Twilight was calm. Just like Warriors was calm.

Time didn’t look calm. Time stepped away from Legend and the ring and rested his hand against the clear shield. Warriors’s shoulders tensed but he didn’t flinch. Everything was fine.

“Captain,” Time said. Something in his voice made several of the others look up. Warriors didn’t look at them. It was hard to look away from Time’s hand on the shield, marking in the air where the shield caged them. “Captain. Are you all right?”

Not Twilight. Just Warriors. Something was slipping. Warriors smiled. “Of course. What did Legend mean, though? That we can’t get out?”

Legend stood up. Time’s hand didn’t move on the shield. “It’s just until I figure this out. Wars, are you --”

Trapped. Trapped in a clear cage. No doors, no exits. 

Could the air run out in here? There was plenty of room, but Warriors felt his chest tighten, anyway, like something was constricting his lungs. 

Twilight was looking away from Wild now. Everyone was moving now. It was hard to look away from Time’s hand. “Time,” he said. Calmly. “I want out.”

A muscle jumped in Time’s jaw, but the other man didn’t change his expression. “I know, Captain,” he said. “We’re working on it. We’ll have you out soon.”

Someone else was saying something. Warriors didn’t catch the words. “I want out now,” Warriors clarified. Perhaps he hadn’t been clear enough.

Wind was tugging at Time’s arm. He looked worried. Time didn’t look away from Warriors. “Soon, Captain. I promise. Twilight, can you do me a favor?”

Legend had turned back to his ring. He and the others were talking, voices high and excited. It was hard to make out their words. Twilight was closer, moving so close that Warriors could feel his body heat. The air was starting to feel stuffy, but Warriors still felt cold. “What can I do, Time?”

He sounded worried, too. There was no need for anyone to be worried. Everything was fine. Everything would be better once Warriors was free again.

“Transform into Wolfie,” Time said evenly. “Captain, I don’t know what’s going to happen when we break the shield, but there might be bright lights and magic. I need for you to stay close to Wolfie and keep your eyes shut. Twilight, stay close to Warriors.”

“Got it,” Twilight said, and Warriors made himself nod. The shield was clear but unyielding, like glass under Time’s hand. Unbreakable glass.

He didn’t notice Twilight transform until Wolfie nudged his hip with a low whine. He thought Legend said something, but there was a strange noise in the air. A low roar in his ears. It was so loud, it was hard to hear anything at all. Warriors grabbed Wolfie’s scruff to steady himself. The fur was thick and warm. Warriors gripped it tightly. The ground felt unsteady under his feet. Did the shield go under his feet? It was wrapping all around him. He just knew it. Wrapping all around him and moving and caging him.

“Captain,” Time said. “Link. Grab onto Wolfie and close your eyes. If there are any sparks, I don’t want either of you to get hurt.”

Right. Right. Warriors forgot about that. Everything was still swaying, so it was easy to let himself drop. It was easy to wrap his arms around Wolfie, keeping them both steady as the Great Fairy’s bottle rocked them.

“Close your eyes, Captain,” Mask said, and Link obeyed. Link buried his face in Wolfie’s thick fur and held on.

Mask would get him out. Everything would be fine. He held on and breathed. Mask would get him out.

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One I forgot to post here, @turtleduckcrossing 's fic Crimson Ties and a fairy prompt for an art even made me really want to draw fairy Rulie a few weeks ago 😅 I definitly want to do more of him in the future though ♡

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Bot accounts and Real people with accounts.

I’m pretty sure the tumblr community is well aware of this problem and probably loads of other people have already made posts about this, so I’ll keep it brief.

So recently blogs like this keep appearing in my followers list (these are recent ones)

Now when you get a spam blogs or p*rn bots you’re supposed to block them. But some these blogs are actual people who are new on tumblr and have the default icon, so you’re supposed to check before you block them. But here’s the problem…

some of these blogs don’t have anything. No posts, No description, No title. So you’re gonna automatically assume that these are spam and block them.

Now I hate fact that some of these blogs belong to actual people and I’ve been blocking and reporting on blogs like these for the past few days, and that they’re probably wondering why there being blocked or reported. ( sorry to the people who own blogs like these that I blocked you)

So a couple of tips for new blogs on this site,

1.You could change the title (a catchphrase, a favorite quote, a random sentence etc.) or type small description, or whatever random stuff you like!

2. You could change the your avator or icon (it be a picture of you, a cartoon, again it’s your choice do whatever)

3.If you’re not planning to frequently post stuff and just sign in to check out other people’s stuff, just put a put a post something like this just to show you’re new here.(again u can write down anything)

if you’re reading this and new to this website I hope you found these suggestions useful and should stop you from getting blocked immediately. Happy posting.

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A Really Cool Detail About Might Crystals in The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom

The first time I encountered a Might Crystal was maybe ~an hour into the game. I think I found it in a chest or something in Suthorn Forest and the first thing that I thought was "Huh...that looks kind of like bismuth." But, as I was so early on in the story that I didn't know much about what the Might Crystals were, I didn't think much more of it.

Well here I am with 46 additional hours worth of playtime in Echoes of Wisdom, and I'm here to say that there is a very cool reason that Might Crystals resemble bismuth crystals!

Before we get into bismuth, I need to talk about what is going on in Echoes of Wisdom. This WILL contain mid-to-late game spoilers, so do be warned.

Long before Creation there was nothing more than a void—a vast empty oblivion. Occasionally, bits of matter would spark to life in this nothingness. Nothing substantial, just small clumps of reality managing to form only for a moment. Only a moment, for anything that managed to flicker to life was devoured by the one who dwelt within this void:

Null.

Null is the main antagonist of Echoes of Wisdom. It is an ancient, incomprehensible lifeform that thrives in the absoluteness of zero. Nothingness personified.

Seeing the way these sparks of existence were so quickly extinguished, the three Golden Goddesses—Din, the Goddess of Power; Nayru, the Goddess of Wisdom; and Farore, the Goddess of Courage—descended from the heavens and forced Creation. Together, the three built the world itself and everything that makes up reality with Null imprisoned and contained at its center.

The Golden Goddess then departed back to the heavens, leaving behind the Triforce, the Secret Stones (though they aren't relevant for this, just thought I'd throw them in since we know they were created around this time), and the Tris. The Triforce and the Tris served as the glue keeping reality together; the Tris specifically being created to maintain the structure of the world, as even though Null was imprisoned that didn't stop it from consuming and returning the world to nothingness.

From the point of Creation onward, Null and the Tris were locked in a delicate balancing act of destruction and recreation. Null ate away at the world, creating rifts that tore through reality. And in turn, the Tris constantly patched up these rifts, quickly restoring what was lost.

This return to nothingness is a major part of the themes of Echoes of Wisdom, and why Might Crystals likely were inspired by bismuth.

Might Crystals—as well as the energy they produce—are some of the only things capable of withstanding Null and the void. When everything else is lost, these crystals remain. But what does this have to do with Bismuth?

Well visually both Might Crystals and Bismuth share the iconic stairstep spiral growth structure, but the main reason I believe bismuth to be the inspiration for the Might Crystals is the Bismuth-209 isotope.

Bismuth was previously thought to be the heaviest stable element, with only one stable isotope (Bismuth-209). I say previously because in 2003, a research team at the IAS (Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, a research institute in France) came to the realization that the Bismuth-209 isotope is actually undergoing alpha decay at an incredibly slow rate. How slow? Well it was determined that Bismuth-209 has a half life of approximately...

2.01x10^19 years. Or about 20,100,000,000,000,000,000 years (20 quintillion if you don't know/don't want to count out the zeroes).

For reference, that is billions of years longer than the current estimated age of the universe.

It is because of this inconceivably long half-life that it is said that bismuth will be among the last elements to disintegrate. And it is that bit of information that I believe inspired Might Crystals. If you need to come up with a crystal that can withstand nothingness itself and outlive matter in a void that consumes endlessly, what better choice to base it off of than the element that decays so slow that we used to think that it was stable?

I just thought that it was a cool detail. This is a bit different from my other Zelda posts—as this isn't me talking about the lore and story, but rather me talking about a possible irl inspiration for something in the series—but I thought this was really cool and I wanted to share my thoughts.

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i simply cannot get over Sky's lil thumbs up i the most recent update panel he just such a lil guy i had to make him shiny

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can’t wait for their dungeon shenanigans tbh

reference down below

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got my wii back everyone celebrate

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a lot of really annoying media discourse on tumblr comes down to people having a hard time accepting that both of the following are true at the same time:

for any work of fiction interesting enough to be worth talking about, there will be multiple equally plausible and valid interpretations that are possible - and by interpretations here i don't just mean headcanons about minor details, i mean how you read the core themes and character arcs. and very often some of those equally valid interpretations will directly contradict each other and that's ok

not EVERY interpretation is valid, some are genuinely just dumb as hell and unsupported by the text

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the one who left the group is legend btw lmao

anyway based on this:

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The eight stages of writing :

- this is awesome

- this is slightly less awesome

- this is shit

- I’m shit

-oh god oh fuck what the hell am I doing

-wait this might not be that bad actually

- How the fuck is this working

-This is awesome