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Sidon and Nami to Prawn at the end of chapter 21. NOT MY ART.

finished reading chapter 21 of SEEPA by ObakeAri and I couldn't get this out of my head.

Sidon's Art by cartoondannie

Nami's art by itsmebalem

[gay-trash-shipping-trash]

Alright! These two drawings I’m still proud of and would hate for them to be lost when Twitter kicks the bucket.

These were made for the lovely majestically-fangirling here on Tumblr!

The top drawing features their character Minami, Sidon and Link’s adoptive daughter and princess from their FanFic series on AO3! Like Sidon’s Epic Pining Adventure and From the Godesses Above!

The bottom also has Minami but it also has my oc, Mipha! She is also the daughter of Sidon and Link though it’s through surrogacy and dna splicing thanks to Shieka technology.

Zora are hard to draw, meaning I have to practice a lot in order for things to look right. Especially when I have to come up with how a hybrid of Zora and Hylian could look like. I love drawing Minami! She’s honestly so neat to look at and her personality is one of my favorites!!!

I highly recommend y’all check out the fics I mentioned above! I’ll even link them again here!!! They are just soooo good and I can’t get enough of em! I’m constantly finding myself re-reading them whenever I get the chance!

[itsmebalem]

This one is a commission for my dear friend @/ObakeAri on Twitter. I'm sure that they have a Tumblr but I'm too shy to ask for it so I'll tag them eventually if I can edit this post. Or not. I don't know how to use Tumblr

This one is based on Ari's fic, Fealty! Give it a read, it's amazing and you'll love the ancient hero as much as I do.

My comms are open, if you want. Being friends with Ari made me realize that I'm capable of drawing almost everything, even silly dogs and anthro birbs 🫡

[prisiidon]

Zora May gift drop batch no. 3!! 🐠 zora ocs: ObakeAri (twt) @momo1515 @lezzybugo3o KathShadow (twt)! Enjoy >:)

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The Legend of Zelda: stats of the kingdom

A Statistical Analysis of Popular Fanfiction in the Legend of Zelda Fandom on AO3

I like numbers and stats and for some unfathomable reason I find it calming. So over the past couple weeks, I’ve been making this spreadsheet!

DISCLAIMER: This is not a judgement of the quality, value, or merits of any of the fics on this list. It's just me being curious about what's popular with the Legend of Zelda fandom on AO3.

Feel free to go explore the spreadsheet. My own observations and analysis under the cut.

TL:DR, Link has a lot of kinky sex. Sidlink and Zelink are vying for who’s the most popular ship. Also, this fandom has a shit ton of sub categories that are truly islands unto themselves and have their own conventions.

Methodology: I'm including all fics from the first page of AO3 results (20 fics per page) sorted by:

Hits

Kudos

Comments

Bookmarks

Anything tagged under the Legend of Zelda and Related Fandoms tag that was in the top 20 most hits, kudos, comments, or bookmarks made it into the spreadsheet. This ended up including 51 fics in total.

I put all the fics into one single spreadsheet in order to compare the differences between fics that are really high on the kudos count but not the hit count, or what has a lot of comments but fewer hits. Basically, I'm throwing a lot of things together to observe what gets engagement and looking at patterns that emerge!

Popular fandom subcategories:

Botw (41 fics tagged as such)

Linked Universe (9, including one mostly set in the world of BOTW)

OoT (2)

(I do wonder what it would be like to run these numbers on other fanfic sites, given the popularity boom of ao3 over the last 15 years or so. But also, Botw was an insanely popular game even by Zelda standards, so… who knows?)

Tags:

Character tags: Obviously, Link was by far the most popular character, but here are the characters that had a minimum of 3 appearances per category. Yay champions!

Zelda

Sidon

Mipha

Urbosa

Revali

Daruk

Story tags: Again, just going by sheer numbers, here are the story tags that appeared at least 3 times in every category:

Slowburn

AU – canon divergence

With honorable mentions to fluff, angst, double penetration, anal sex, amnesia/memory loss, and mute or selectively mute Link, who all cracked above 3 instances in 2 separate categories.

Relationships:

This was a tight race, but shoutout to Sidlink for eking out the win for the most highly rated ship in the Zelda fandom with 13 fics qualifying in my ranking. Zelink is close behind at 10 fics. (That being said, Zelink takes it by volume: 7,797 fics tagged as Zelink vs Sidlink’s 2,193)

Other popular ships:

Revalink (8) (this one surprised me! I didn’t realize my beloved birb was so popular)

Miphlink (3)

Link/Monsters (2)

Sidon/Reader (2)

Ganzelink, Ganlink, Malink, Miphzelink, and Miphzel all made single appearances.

(Pls don’t start ship war discourse in the notes kthanx)

All right, let’s deep dive into the numbers!

Fics in all 4 categories:

Interim - starkraving

Sands of time -tirsynni

Congrats you are officially the most popular Loz fics across all of ao3! at least according to my particular scope of analysis.

Fics in 3 categories:

Displaced - socksock

Drown In Me - bacchanalia

Alone We Fight - SilvermistAnimeLover

Blood Moon Rising - MarquesGillette

Popular authors (people who show up more than once in multiple categories sorry comments georg)

MarquesGillette

MaryDragon

SilvermistAnimeLover

ObakeAri

Hits:

Top 5 most popular fics by hit count:

Displaced - socksock

Interim - starkraving

To Save Hyrule - orphan_account

Sands of time - tirsynni

Drown In Me - bacchanalia

First page by hits:

Min: 117,917 – Sidon’s Epic Pining Adventure (ObakeAri)  

Max:  189,622 – Displaced (socksock)

Average: 145,385

Average wordcount for fics with the most hits:

140,909

Kudos:

Top 5 most popular fics by kudos count:

Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy - Icka M Chif

Interim - starkraving

To My Dearest Friend - surveycorpsjean

26 Minutes and 42 Seconds - T_5Seconds

Blood Moon Rising - MarquesGillette

First page by kudos:

Min: 4917 – Finding Link (Umbreonix)

Max:  10321 – Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy (Icka M Chif)

Average: 6981

Average wordcount for fics with the most kudos:

41,136

Comments:

Top 5 most popular fics by comment count:

Carlos from MarvelandZeldaFan's Children of the Heroes - KR5

This is an Adjuration - notfreyja

My Art - KR5

Sidon's Epic Pining Adventure - ObakeAri

Priestess of War - KR5

Woohoo! You all get to meet KR5 aka Comments Georg. Comments Georg has long conversations and RPs in the comments of their ao3 posts, which are usually fanart. TO BE CLEAR, THIS IS TOTALLY FINE AND COOL! I think it’s quite delightful! However, it does completely bork my ranking system because outside of comments, these posts do not have a lot of engagement (like, less than 100 hits and less than 20 kudos) and I don’t think they count towards my analysis of “what is popular in the Zelda fandom writ large”. But they qualified based on my criteria. Which I think speaks to the weakness of my criteria more than anything else tbh…

Anyways, shoutout to Comments Georg for truly showing off what it means to be a statistical outlier.

First page by comments:

Min: 1568 – The Quiet River Rages (MaryDragon)

Max:  43808 - Carlos from MarvelandZeldaFan's Children of the Heroes (KR5)

Average: 4131 (which goes down to 2042 if we exclude KR5’s impressive max, which is a full order of magnitude more than notfreyja in second place with 3470 comments. Very much demonstrating the power of a statistical outlier!)

Average wordcount for fics with the most comments:

275,593

Bookmarks:

Top 5 most popular fics by bookmarks count:

Interim - starkraving

Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy - Icka M Chif

Sands of time - tirsynni

To My Dearest Friend - surveycorpsjean

Alone We Fight - SilvermistAnimeLover

First page by bookmarks:

Min: 973 – Expatriate (thehoyden)

Max:  2984 – Interim (starkraving)

Average: 1468

Average wordcount for fics with the most bookmarks:

70,027

Fic Ratings:

G: 3 (literally all fanart from KR5)

T: 22

M: 8

E: 17

Unrated: 1

Observations:

I ran this twice. Once including crossovers, and once excluding crossovers. This filtered out a lot of large drabbles and things like “flash fiction fuckings” which, no judgment, you do you, they just weren’t super relevant for what I was looking for. If you wanna see these stats including all the multifandom stuff that shows up, here’s the link for that:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DXDKXutIzVC-Iac93fFSDohAkphrn67yV-DmRt9xXmU/edit?usp=sharing

(I’m going to break academic professional analysis here and get on my soapbox for a sec – please don’t post big multifandom one shots where you tag like 20 different fandoms and every single kink that gets written about across 103 different chapters. This is literally what series are for. These kinds of things just clog up the tags, and it also makes it harder for people to find the things you’ve written that they want to read! I know this was a convention on ff.net, but this is not ff.net! We can make authors' lives and readers' lives easier!)

There were 38,427 fics in the tag “Legend of Zelda and Related Fandoms” (including crossovers, that goes up to 41,634). I manually added one back in though because it was entirely a botw story, just loosely inspired by another game.

Linked Universe fans comment a LOT. Strong correlation between high comment and Linked Universe fandom subsection. Y’all are very involved and active, and you show support to your authors. I salute you!

Sidlinkers, y'all are horny and I respect it.

Zelinkers, dear god we do love a slowburn.

All the most highly kudos’d fics are very low in the comment count. It’s almost an inverse correlation.

Excluding crossovers increased the correlation between hits and kudos quite dramatically.

There were not very many au’s other than canon divergence. Only one modern au as far as I could tell from a cursory examination of tags.

Lots more clustering, far less disparity between min and max numbers than when I ran this with A:TLA numbers.

Far less consensus on a vibe. Way fewer big writers, but lots of little writers doing their own thing.

Truly a lot of E fics. We are horny bastards.

We need more stuff written for games other than BOTW!!

There aren’t as many fics that are like “oh everyone in the fandom has read these fics”. There are probably those fics in each subcategory of the fandom, or within the specific ships, but there aren’t as many general fics that have entire fandom-wide appeal.

Thank you for reading! This was a lot of fun, and I hope you found it interesting. Shoutout to the Hateno Hangout discord for helping me refine this mess :P

Further shoutout to my partner who helped with writing some SQL to help with tag analysis. Truly partner of the year.

If you want more of this kind of egregious nerdiness, I did this with the top fics in the A:TLA fandom a couple weeks ago: https://www.tumblr.com/cooking-with-hailstones/751749202663669760/statistical-analysis-of-the-most-popular-atla

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Ghost of You

Ghost of You

by ObakeAri

"Link knew the Sage wasn't his dearest friend...it wasn't even close. It didn't have Sidon's laugh, quips, or positivity that brought a smile during a Calamity."

Sidon wants nothing more than to reach out to his dear friend, to his beloved when they are separated miles apart. However, he must first learn to master the power of his Sage.

(Inspired by and based off "Secret Confessions of a Sage")

Words: 3511, Chapters: 1/4, Language: English

Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/M, M/M, Multi

Characters: Link (Legend of Zelda), Sidon (Legend of Zelda), Yona (Legend of Zelda), Riju (Legend of Zelda), Muzu (Legend of Zelda), Dorephan (Legend of Zelda)

Relationships: Link/Sidon (Legend of Zelda), Sidon/Yona (Legend of Zelda), Link/Sidon/Yona (Legend of Zelda)

Additional Tags: Love Confessions, Falling In Love, Fluff, In which Yona is the brain cells of the operation, based of "secret confessions of a sage" by Kennedy Homan, Sidon can't get his Sage Avatar to work and he is trying his best, Link is just a gay disaster, That's it, that's the point of the story, Dorephan is once again a meddlingly supportive dad, he can't help himself he just loves his children, including the ones he collects like candy

From https://ift.tt/LJTVPlf https://archiveofourown.org/works/48428410

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My adventure trying to find a LoZ word for my new blog Me: Oh neat hornedgod isn't taken! @Obakeari : Hornnyyyy goooodddddd Me: Me: And now I see why

[lulalulens]

Do you also read other SidLink fanfiction? If you do, could you name them? And what are your favourite ones? :3

Hello anon! Well, yeah, I also read others! But those are my absolute favourite:

Already mentioned it, but Coma baby by BanishedOne is my #1! Coma baby it’s quite long, but it has a really good world-building and some nice OCs! In this one, you can find a very angry Link, who is totally done with the others attitude and not so pleased with being awakened and told to save the world.. but also a confused Sidon, who has to find the time to fix their not-so-healthy ‘relationship’, despite being VERY busy with his responsabilities and duties. Full of angst and a very, vERY SLOW BURN. It updates every friday!

Sidon’s Epic Pining Adventure by ObakeAri will be my #2!! This one is a light-hearted, funny and sweet fanfic, where you will see a Very In Love Sidon trying to not be so obvious (and failing badly), who also happens to adopt a young, sweet Zora child! It’s absolutely perfect, and you probably will need it to recover after reading Coma Baby HAHA

Now, let me see.. I also liked For a Flower that Grows on the Shores of Necluda (only two chapters for now, but looks promising!!) and Healing and Helping (6 chapters and going!)

Anon! What are your favourites? Do you think I missed a good fanfic? Please feel free to answer!

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If You Want Your Ship to Sail it Might as Well Sink

read it on the AO3 at http://ift.tt/2snJH21

by ObakeAri

Like any hopeless couple, Link and Sidon fall in love. And with that love comes a special bond, a few children, and special moments that they might want to remember forever…and a few that they’d probably rather forget.

(aka, these are all those tumblr prompts I’ve received and I’m finally doing good on my promise to put them on Ao3)

Words: 5076, Chapters: 2/?, Language: English

Series: Part 4 of Sidlink Shenanigans

Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Link (Legend of Zelda), Prince Sidon, King Dorephan, Zelda (Legend of Zelda), Original Characters, Tulin (Legend of Zelda), Teba (Legend of Zelda)

Relationships: Link/Prince Sidon

Additional Tags: Fluff, SO MUCH FLUFF, Copious Amounts of Fluff, Tumblr Prompts, all of those SidLink prompt requests that I’ve been getting?, yeah I’m putting them here :D, posting in the order that I got the asks, not necessarily in a chronological order, otherwise I’d be reordering chapters daily

read it on the AO3 at http://ift.tt/2snJH21

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Universe Sandbox

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/2PG4j18

by ObakeAri

Within the vastness of the universe there are infinite realities, infinite possibilities. Maybe there's a reality in which Voltron can inspire hope, win the war, and still find happiness in the end.

OR

Keith's mentor in the Blade of Marmora is a chaotic good disaster gay just out to have a good time and Lotor has Dad jeans and a chance at happiness.

Words: 2956, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M

Characters: Lotor (Voltron), Keith (Voltron), Original Galran Character(s), Original Altean Character(s), Original Blade of Marmora Character(s), Allura (Voltron), Shiro (Voltron), Hunk (Voltron), Pidge | Katie Holt, Matt Holt, Lance (Voltron), Kolivan (Voltron), The Blade of Marmora, Zethrid (Voltron), Ezor (Voltron), Acxa (Voltron), Coran (Voltron)

Relationships: Keith/Lance (Voltron), Allura/Lotor (Voltron), Allura/Lance (Voltron)

Additional Tags: Fix-It, Fluff, Bisexual Lotor (Voltron), Lotor has Dad jeans, In which we explore more of Keith's life in the Blade of Marmora, And maybe fill plotholes, Definitely fill plotholes, I just have a lot of feelings about this show and I love this show but you know what, Lotor deserved better, Allura deserved better, But I have ideas, just let me have this, More tags to be added, Also Nova is a good bean, Found Family, pooooossible endgame Shotor?, is relevant, fic named aptly from the video game I was rewatching Markiplier play, idk how long I'm going to follow the canon plot, or when I'm going to just jump overwayside, stay tuned

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/2PG4j18

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Universe Sandbox

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2PG4j18

by ObakeAri

Within the vastness of the universe there are infinite realities, infinite possibilities. Maybe there's a reality in which Voltron can inspire hope, win the war, and still find happiness in the end.

OR

Keith's mentor in the Blade of Marmora is a chaotic good disaster gay just out to have a good time and Lotor has Dad jeans and a chance at happiness.

Words: 2956, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M

Characters: Lotor (Voltron), Keith (Voltron), Original Galran Character(s), Original Altean Character(s), Original Blade of Marmora Character(s), Allura (Voltron), Shiro (Voltron), Hunk (Voltron), Pidge | Katie Holt, Matt Holt, Lance (Voltron), Kolivan (Voltron), The Blade of Marmora, Zethrid (Voltron), Ezor (Voltron), Acxa (Voltron), Coran (Voltron)

Relationships: Keith/Lance (Voltron), Allura/Lotor (Voltron), Allura/Lance (Voltron)

Additional Tags: Fix-It, Fluff, Bisexual Lotor (Voltron), Lotor has Dad jeans, In which we explore more of Keith's life in the Blade of Marmora, And maybe fill plotholes, Definitely fill plotholes, I just have a lot of feelings about this show and I love this show but you know what, Lotor deserved better, Allura deserved better, But I have ideas, just let me have this, More tags to be added, Also Nova is a good bean, Found Family, pooooossible endgame Shotor?, is relevant, fic named aptly from the video game I was rewatching Markiplier play, idk how long I'm going to follow the canon plot, or when I'm going to just jump overwayside, stay tuned

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2PG4j18

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I just finished Links Fabulous Flashback Montage and I cannot recommend it enough. I started reading it for the Sidlink (which is there and amazing) but I hyperfixated on it and read like ~400k words in a month because of the amazing storytelling. It is SO, VERY long and some of the time travel stuff is SO, VERY confusing but Jesus if it isn't the best fic I've ever read. It got me over Revalink (if not Revali himself, the hatred is still strong) it has boys kissing. It has *the* boys getting married! (legit some of the best fluff I've read) it has time travel. It has setup, payoff, and twisting the knife. It has an absolutely BEAUTIFUL and heart wrenching death scene. An ending that makes me want to read the 2 mil word monster that is FGA. Did I mention the confusing time travel? There's soooooo much time travel, of which I understand about half. (And I am really trying to) Anyyyyyyways if you have 100+ hours to burn, I highly recommend it, and the previous entry: Sidon's Epic Pining Adventure.

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Boner Delux for Delux Boners

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2xmPEkH

by ObakeAri

Taako and Kravitz have just moved in together and they decide its time to adopt a cat. They find the perfect kitten and it's on their way out when Taako stumbles across the meanest, angriest, stray cat he had ever seen and it was love at first sight.

So naturally he had to name the cat Boner Delux.

Words: 5727, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: The Adventure Zone (Podcast)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: M/M

Characters: Kravitz (The Adventure Zone), Taako (The Adventure Zone), Angus McDonald

Relationships: Kravitz/Taako (The Adventure Zone)

Additional Tags: And Magnus helps!, in which Kravitz and Taako adopt cats, also how they go from having two cats to an entire army of cats, ghost kitties, Pets, senior cats, angry kitties, senior cats that come back as ghost kitties and demand to go home, just two cat dads who love their cats and their Angus, and one very very extra cat dad

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2xmPEkH

[breath-of-the-ship]

Have y'all read "Sidon's Epic Pining Adventure" and the related works by ObakeAri (majestically-fangirling here on tumblr)? It's one of the best SidLink fics out there!

hiji: nope, but if you say i totally check it! but...im going to be clear with one thing here!! because i think i sound like those fics dont care and i will never read it, its not like that, when i search for fics in ao3 i search for finish fics (mostofthecases), or my darling is the one who recommend me some of them, i will read it when is finish because those loooooonggg fics really are for read when they are finish. (at least for me c:)empe:It is a little stressful that they take so much time into expressing their feelings, it's not a bad fic but it's not in the category that I like.

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Sidon's Extremely Epic Pining Adventure

Sidon's Extremely Epic Pining Adventure

by ObakeAri

"It all started with grief...grief and a little girl."

Prince Sidon sought to fill the vast void his sister had left behind, but in the wake of Hyrule's victory over the Calamity, he learned quickly that he could not even fill the void in his own heart. Struggling to accept his role as the future king, Sidon shoulders the burden of his people and the friends he has lost, though help unexpectedly comes his way in the form of a heroic Hylian, a beloved friend, and a little girl looking for a place to call home.

Words: 6238, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Series: Part 1 of Sidon's EXTREMELY Epic Pining Adventure!

Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: M/M

Characters: Link (Legend of Zelda), Sidon (Legend of Zelda), Yona (Legend of Zelda), Zelda (Legend of Zelda), Mipha (Legend of Zelda), Revali (Legend of Zelda), Dorephan (Legend of Zelda), Muzu (Legend of Zelda), Original Legend of Zelda Character(s), Original Zora Character(s), Original Rito Character(s)

Relationships: Link/Sidon (Legend of Zelda), Link & Zelda (Legend of Zelda), Sidon & Yona (Legend of Zelda)

Additional Tags: Falling In Love, Platonic Soulmates, Friends to Lovers, Idiots in Love, In which Sidon and Link fall in love. Again., Family Feels, Fluff, Light Angst, Romantic Comedy, Consider this the revision of Sidon's Epic Pining Adventure, Yona is the president of the Sidlink Fanclub, Adopted Children, Found Family, Tooth-Rotting Fluff, You know what this fanfic is about

From https://ift.tt/YcUk1fu https://archiveofourown.org/works/47269489

[dragon-on-pineapples-blog]

Hello! :) I saw your amazing pieces of art you submitted to majestically-fangirling for 'Sidon's Epic Pining Adventure' and I wanted to say they are absolutly awesome and you're a great artist! :D Keep up the good work! I also write fanfiction, and I wanted to ask you if you would like to read it, too. It's a gift for ObakeAri on Ao3, because she and her fanfictions are outstanding and I wanted to create something nearly as amazing as her work. (I'm from Germany, please forgive any mistakes!:o)

Of course, could you please PM me a link to the story?