#also zelda is like 3 or 4 years old here i think

[alabasterpickles]

I was going to wait to share these? Because I have like twenty more drawings in the works, but there’s too many to post all at once anyway, so in the meantime my Zelda palies can have a handful of doodles

Some of these are old and a LOT of theme need context so I’m gonna list them one at a time from top to bottom, ahem

1. So, my sister and I have it in our heads that Tulin and Josha would get on like a house fire, partly because they are the only characters that are the same-ish age and partly because they’re both tenacious little turkeys (pun intended, yes) with LOADS of spirit to spare

But also, I can see Tulin hanging out around her a lot now that he's a Sage and will be spending most of his time at Lookout Landing. Plus Josha is all into history and relics and she's a little bossy so it just makes SO much sense that he'd develop a crush on her

I think he'd appreciate the attention, too! if he's anything like his hero, Revali, or even Teba (which, like father like son) he's bound to be a bit of a show-off around the ladies

Teba is somewhere off screen facepalming because his son flirts like a plywood board

2. NUMBA TWO; I was playing skyward sword on the switch, thought about loftwings, thought about Rito and bam! Crimson loftwing Rito. That’s pretty much all there was to this one. Thought about drawing Zelda’s loftwing as his wife too!

3. OKAY ITS BECAUSE DARSTON WAS MY FAVE IN ECHOES OF WISDOM, so i drew him in BOTW’s style. I have no regrets (I loved the Gerudo Princess too!) see a pattern here? Yeah, neither do I.

4. That’s just Gomo the Goromand because I’m lowkey in love with him and his funny little ‘do.

5. Just Urbosa being a total badass as usual and because her AOC dialogue in the Thunderblight Ganon fight sequence guts me a little.

6-9. Sage Charm designs I started drawing ages ago and still want to finish (but they’ll have to wait because of school)! I promise Tulin is there, he’s just trapped in thumbnail form!!!

10. Oldie but goodie because I am hyped for age of imprisonment and really, really, really look forward to seeing more of the dynamic between Rauru and his granddaughter. And also?? I want more of Zelda and Mineru’s relationship too, because that girl waited 10,000 years, witnessed the sacrifice of her niece, lost her brother, sister-in-law and her friends, AND her body, to help Link and if that doesn’t make her the coolest sage I don’t know what does

[sunshinetomioka]

Games I think the gang members would play:

Arthur: not much into gaming, I can see him play Zelda Breath of the wild and Tears of kingdom. Probably plays some other Nintendo games like Mario kart with the youngest.

John: I can either see him play comp fps (valorant, CS:Go, overwatch) / battle royal Or he's a speedrunner mostly on platforms game (Celeste, any old Mario)

Abigail: train on the games Jack wants to play so she can impress him when he asks for help, outside of that she plays Animal crossing with Mary-Beth and Kieran. When Jack isn't here she Loooves horror games. She finished all the resident evil.

Jack: pokepark, anything that looked cute and chill. Then teen year hit and he tried games with Knights. Loves watching Tilly play, tried to sneak on Abi to see horror games.

Hosea: those points and click games where you gotta solves things. Or maybe games like starcraft, so RTS. He also love Crusader King.

Lenny: anything that challenges his brain, Started with Prof Layton, continued with disco elysium, blue prince, chants of Sennaar. Hosea got him to play ace attorney too.

Sean: played GTA 5, went online tried rp loved it so now he spends most of his time trying to be the biggest gangster of Los Santos on some server. Also looooves mmorpg like he was a club penguin kid and then moved to Wow and ff14

Uncle: crazy candy crush kinda old man. Like John once saw he was top 3 world or something.

Dutch: forces everyone to bond on among us, Dale & Dawson or any imposter kind of game. Also like retro games and Sim city.

Bill: war games (Cod or world of tank) sport games. Actually anything so he can relax/ get rid of any tension he had during the day.

Javier: he tried guitar hero and HATED IT. He's actually more of a story game kinda guy, especially indie games. So he'd totally be into expedition 33, baldur's Gate 3, life is strange. Don't ask him about life is strange it's still a difficult topic (he totally cried)

Kieran: horse games. Like bro is a long time Star stable Online player, he played all the horse games you can think of. Animal crossing to hang out with the girl and have all the horses villagers.

Molly: Style Savvy: Fashion Forward. And also otome games, like my candy love and it kinda fucked up her expectations for love and relationship.

Tilly: play duo with John on fps game, or any final fantasy and fire emblem.

Micah: League of legends. You know why. Also play chess online only to brag about his elo. Had like 10 different acc cuz he keeps getting reported (rightfully)

Karen: just dance, she absolutely LOOOOVE those games. And rythme game, she's insanely good at osu.

Mary-Beth: Sims 4, like she has tons of mods and do some evil shit on that to pass the time. Play animal crossing too. Loves visual novels of any type.

Susan: I can't imagine her playing EXCEPT for one thing. She's at the head of one of the biggest Wow guild and she has been playing since the game came out. It's like the only thing I'll accept about her.

Sadie: not much of a player she sometimes joins Tilly and John but mostly spend time on Stardew valley. Depending on the day her activities in the game change lol

Charles: he goes through any indie games with a distinctive art style, anything that catches his eyes or has an interesting story he'll try it.

[waffliesinyoface]

thinking about Echoes of Wisdom again, and, I really hope that the progression in that becomes the standard for zelda games from here on out.

Like, the old standard set by Ocarina of Time, followed all the way to Skyward sword, was strictly linear. I, personally, don't have a problem with linearity, but the devs at nintendo clearly do, if their comments on BotW are anything to go by. In my mind, the downsides of a lack of player agency are more than made up for by the dungeons having a proper difficulty curve, and having a linear story.

In BotW and TotK, in a desire to put player freedom above all else, you can do the dungeons in whatever order, and you get all your abilities right out of the gate. ...Which also means that every single dungeon has to be presented as though it's the first dungeon a player might encounter (ie: explaining you need the map to activate the terminals to control the divine beast every single time) and also can't be too difficult either. And the also means that the story can't be too heavily tied to dungeons because, again, the player can do them in any order. Which leads to moments like every single one of the sages in TotK giving the exact same backstory of "Ganondorf attacked with armies of demons, we fought him with sacred stones, we almost lost but then rauru heroically sacrificed himself, and then the Sage of Time showed up and said you'd be around to fix shit in a few thousand years".

This is, uh. I'm not going to beat around the bush: fucking terrible. TotK tried to solve this a bit with the 5th sage dungeon being locked behind doing the other 4, and the run up to the castle, but it kind of fell flat. Especially because mineru, by the time you get her, really isn't very good.

Echoes of Wisdom, thankfully, fixes this! You have free roam of the map from the start - though, some areas will hand you your ass if you don't have strong enough echoes of your own - but you have to do the starter dungeons, the Gerudo and Zora, first. If you go to the areas with the later dungeons... well, you can go there, but there's no point, because the plot hasn't actually happened there yet. If you decide to go visit the deku scrubs first, they're just chilling. The only thing there is funny dialogue. (For example, if you try to climb the mountain first, Tri will pop up and go "there is nothing here for you and you WILL freeze your ass off, are you sure you want to be here...?")

This!! Is the best of both worlds. The player has freedom to do stuff in whatever order, within limits. And, unlike TotK, which just gives you the same goddamn information each time, the game goes "okay we have 3 different lore-drops we need to do, and they need to be done in [x] order, but it doesn't actually fucking matter who says them."

Granted, this is much easier to do when there's no voice acting, but. Come the fuck on, nintendo. You have like 10 scenes total with voice acting. You can make the actor say something different depending on when you do them. This isn't hard.

[sakuraluna01]

Headcanons

now normally i'd sit here and say i've been working diligently on chapter 3 but honestly I haven't been able to sleep properly in 4 days and i'm really tired so no lmao

so instead imma do smth easier and shares sm of my hcs for the already debuted blorbos + twilight

i'm also detailing stuff about their kits again inspired by how hsr works

Time

He has no clue what he's doing, he hasn't been on an adventure in years and he hasn't traveled with other people like this so he's out of his depth

He always knows what time it is even if he's only been awake for 5 seconds

He's a heavy sleeper if he's in a house or inn, but if he's in an outdoor camp he has a lil more trouble settling down.

He has a resting bitch face plus he's old and stuff so the other links assume he's a wise old man, but nope, hes still a gremlin lil shit and a clueless dumbass most of the time, wars is the only one who sees that lol

As Mask he was a pretty angry teen, bitter at the world for everything that happened to him and those around him, he still has problems with his temper, but he's better at controlling it, Malon helped

Kit details: imaginary, his ult gives him a power up for a certain duration based on your trace lvls, hint hint, its basically fierce deity mode

Sky

he gets motion sick a lot (this is just me projecting ngl)

incredibly heavy sleeper, will only wake up after the sun is long up. even when he wakes up he's not fully awake until he's eaten something

He is the most self care conscious of the bunch, especially with other people. hes an empathetic person, if someone else he cares about is in pain he is too and he wants to whatever he can to help them feel better

Skys like the mom from little women, angry all the time but rarely shows it in front of the people he cares about, but he will fully blow up at anyone who dares harm them

Kit details: He's an ice element. he has shit stamina but he can land multiple strikes at once, an AOE hit. the stamina cost is big for both his skill and ult

Twilight

Twilights built different, he's strong physically without the help of artifacts or magic.

people think sky gives the best hugs and he does give good hugs but twilights the best

Twiight cant look like a kicked puppy on purpose but unintentionally has the best puppy eyes, he just can't use them at the right time aka when he needs it XD

He's a big sweetie, big brother energy, very good with kids but he has temperment issues, rather hot headed that one. comes with being related to time i suppose

Kit details: I gave him the quantum element in hsr, imo it was the closest to twili magic i could get. but the only time he's able APPLY quantum is during his ult, which in the concept art i did has him turn into a wolf

He interacts with magic the least of the chain. I was debating giving him phys dmg instead of quantum? but i needed to incorporate the wolf in his kit smhow. however he doesn't apply quantum dmg with any of his attacks, cept his ult

any questions or clarifications can be asked in my ask box

An AU spinoff based off of Jojo’s Linked Universe at @/linkeduniverse and Nintendos Legend of Zelda, inspired by Honkai Star Rail

[ofcowardiceandkings]

companion piece of young Zelda

AAHH i finally finished something :'D

it actually took more thought to trawl through my feelings about Link as a child than Zelda but we got there idk man i just knew he exudes gremlin energy as a 17 to 20-something year old so he must have been a little demon as a kid gfkdjfkd

we're sort of looking at roughly 4, 7 and 10 years old here feeding sum pigeons, playing soldiers, and doing some baking !!!

more detailed Thoughts under the cut 💙

iiitssss customary ranting about my BotW/TotK opinions tiiiimeeee welcome my darlingsss jfkdjfkd 💙

like i said, this took more thought than Zelda, but we also dont know as much about Link's upbringing so thats fair

having said that, we know his father was a knight - a prominent one - and its hinted at that his family may have owned the Hateno house you can buy from Bolson. im not sure if i land on it being the family / childhood home or belonging to like a grandparent but i like to think Link spent time in Hateno as a kid (im a great fan of bumpkin Link with a country accent aight im a simple man). no mention of any OTHER family members, but imo i think his mother was still around and he probably had younger siblings !! he DID probably spend a fair amount of time in Castle Town just due to his father's job though, to be fair he probably travelled a little as a youngster a-la army posting yknow ... moving on tldr that explains why i've got a bunch of Hateno-esque clothing here aside from us sort of not knowing what the average joe Castle Town citizen from back in the day would have worn idk man its cute also

SO, pigeons !!! i'll definitely expand on this later when i go over more livestock now ive finished TotK but listen i wouldnt be in the least bit surprised if pre-Calamity Hylians had domestic pigeons for sending messages or just for hobby, so here's a first look at the Castle Town Carrier, the Hylian army's best flying friends. Link's just out here feeding his fathers' cohort's messenger birbs :3

stimky boy plays soldiers with a stick and a pot lid and a tub, classic and good, he was probably like ... actually tactically aware at this age though lets be real lol i bet it was annoyingly impressive

C A R R O T C A K E its a bit wonky, but i bet it tastes great :') id imagine Link probably spent a fair amount of time helping around the house and boy loves his food !! some people develop those skills early !!! i bet he was one of those people !!! any chance to get involved and learn how to make his faves and make them for other people yknow, food as a love language everyone HEYO (bowl there is chickaloo tree nuts, hazelnut analog eyo)

ghfjkdjfkd i said i didnt have much to say about this but oops

[ipsl0re]

2024 in 52 games

I maintain a list of every game I complete- get to the point where I see the end credits roll.

Partway through this year, I realised I’d surpassed my previous record for how many i can complete in one year (26), and decided, with the uncomfortable amounts of time I’ve had to fill this year, to go for an all-time max. That number reached 40 near the end of November, and a subsequent sprint brought me here: to a game a week, 52 completed.

Here’s the list, and below that, my top ten.

Bold- I recommend it.

Italics- I enjoyed it.

(honourable mention to all games in italics that didn’t make the top ten. It was close!)

Monster Roadtrip

Book Of Hours

Misericorde: Volume 1

Settlemoon

Cult of the Lamb

Fight Knight

Cureocity

Venba

Roboquest

Buckshot Roulette

Slay the Princess

Akin

The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood

Minami Lane

Bad End Theatre

Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley

Sheepy: A Short Adventure

Portal

Essays on Empathy

Kinitopet

Spiritfarer

Cobalt Core

In Stars And Time

Dicey Dungeons

Sifu

Pepper grinder

Mediterranea Inferno

Ender Lilies: quietus of the knights

Cassette Beasts

Borderlands: The Pre-sequel

Live A Live

Bloodless

Clickolding

Sunshine Heavy Industries

Artic Eggs

Bad North

Horizon Chase 2

I Am Your Beast

Midnight Ramen

Lookouts

Project Wingman

A Year Of Springs

Gravity Circuit

Disco Elysium

Gris

Children of the Sun

Awaria

Neo: The World Ends With You

Resonance of the Ocean

Ib

Serre

Detective Beebo: Night at the Mansion

Top 10:

These are not ranked- though I do have a favourite, as you’ll see.

1. Book of Hours

Only finally finished it at the start of the year after playing for four months- it can’t be accused of lacking in content! Hush House is vast and full of fascinating mysteries, both physical and historical. (It’s also very Cornish, which is fun.)

The gameplay cycle of reading, learning, classifying, and using the knowledge to read ever more complex tomes really immerses you into the life of an occult librarian. Once you’ve heard the secret histories: “well, there just doesn’t seem to be anything else worth hearing.”

2. Bloodless

There is little here that wasn’t meticulously designed. Genius combat that always keeps you on the back foot and insanely good art direction that works in tandem with the hyper-defensive combat to help tell a great story on the dynamics of violence. That makes it sound very grim and serious- and I can’t pretend that it’s not when it needs to be- but Tomoe is one of my favourite characters, the warrior idols plentiful side content, and the geography of Bakugawa just a delight to explore. There is so much here to love and it breaks my heart that so few people have played this.

Please give it a look.

3. Fight Knight

I didn’t think a game like this would be made- technologically (a 3D game in gamemaker? Are they mad?) or from a design perspective. It’s a collection of old school Zelda style puzzle dungeons, with grid based movement, a save system about pushing your luck, and combat that puts you into some kind of corridor fighting game? Also you punch people to talk. And… to do everything else, too.

Despite, or perhaps in some places because of all that, I’d also consider it the most epic game I played this year, with some really touching writing. Huh.

You won’t find anything else like it. On that note…

4. Artic Eggs

I thought a game like this would exist even less- a… Post? Pre? Apocalyptic setting where you fry eggs and all sorts of other things, for all sorts of people. And a dolphin. But I can’t say I’ve stopped thinking about it since frying my first egg: I mean, could you fry an egg on mount Everest?

5. Misericorde: volume 1

A visual novel, in monochrome, without a single decision, isn’t a great sales pitch. But when it’s a 10-hour tour de force of characterisation in a murder mystery set in a medieval yorkshire abbey- and with such stunning monochrome art & 104 tracks of incredible trip-hop… well, there are few games I can recommend more heartily.

6. Disco Elysium

Look, this game will (and has already begun to) shape the entire art of games. And for good reason! The twenty-seven voices in a certain double-yefreitor’s head (if i’m counting the ancient reptilian, limbic, and necktie right) have such incredible interplay, and would make interacting with the dullest characters and situations engaging. Not that such a crutch is ever used- every storyline and three-dimensional character involved in it is often painfully human.

Few games will get you thinking about so much in its world and ours.

Also, heads up: don’t pay for the game. The actual devs don’t get a penny from the sales any more.

7. Live A Live

If Disco Elysium is what happens when RPGs are focused into telling a very specific kind of story, Live A Live is what happens when one RPG somehow manages to tell multiple totally different ones. Every story brings something new, (except prehistory. Prehistory contributes nothing.) and by spreading its efforts across all these different narrative and gameplay conventions, Live A Live stands out as almost ten times the game of many of its contemporaries.

8. Ib

Ib doesn’t alternate between being cute and being a horror game. Somehow, it pulls off both at the same time. I don’t know how but I do know it makes for a very effective experience. Ib, Garry, and Mary have such wonderful interplay, and as you explore the galleries, solve the puzzles, and lay eyes upon the sheer variety of Guertena’s works, they all bring a lot of character that helps ground the frights and bring the humanity to the quiet moments.

I’ve already got four of the endings in this game, and no doubt i’ll be going back for the rest.

9. Slay the Princess

On the subject of many endings and paths (in the woods, at the end of that path…), a game that takes that to the extreme: in the form of another horror game, with just as much heart. With intricately branching paths, there’s so much to see and hear (Nichole Goodnight is stellar with everything from angry beasts to ascendant gods, and Jon Sims, well, he needs no introduction). It’s beautiful, it’s horrifying, it’s probably made me laugh the hardest of any game this year. It is a love story.

10. Detective Beebo: Night at the Mansion.

If you play anything from this year, let it be this. The best time loop game this year- and that’s even when stacked against Cobalt Core and fellow love story Slay The Princess. Private detective Oliver Beebo is a delight to see in action, whether he’s solving puzzles, reliving traumas, or being flirted with by a hot guy. It twists the established conventions of everything it touches in ways that are touching and new- a relationship that can be seen as five or as one, brief horror used to carefully set stakes, foreshadowing aplenty merged with a unique take on player and character knowledge, and utterly incredible characters that are allowed to unfold with unparalleled care- some more than once each!

Maybe it’s recency bias making me go this far- but gods, this is a high note to end the year on.

Try it! Give it one more chance.

[cheesecakeislazy]

I feel like nobody is going to ever see this. But I just need to get some BEN Drowned headcanons out here-

1. He always wears his goofy ass hat because he never brushes his hair and it helps hide the absurd mess it is

2. Whenever Ben feels shocked, angry, or an overwhelming emotion, his pupils disappear leaving a black void(?)

3. His voice is naturally glitchy, it’s like his vocal cords are a messed up record player. Examples; He repeats words like a broken record occasionally, he tends to stutter pretty often, his voice has a constant static undertone, he has voice cracks but they sound cooler.

4. Virgin af

5. Short king (he’s 5’5)

6. Smokes weed and listens to Hyperpop and electronic music

7. He also loves video game soundtracks

8. He doesn’t technically need to sleep as a technology ghost, so he tends to pull all-nighters constantly

9. When he does sleep, he either has dreams about drowning in an abyss of water or other things he can’t remember

10. He listens to video game OST’s when he goes to bed (usually Minecraft or Legend of Zelda)

11. He loves the Zelda franchise but has a small grudge towards Majora’s Mask

12. He also doesn’t need to eat food, but he likes to anyways- it helps him feel human.

13. He doesn’t look exactly like Link. His blonde hair is a little pastier and dirtier (color wise lol) and his face still mostly looks like his

14. He’s toned. He hates being made fun of for his height so he started working his ass off at the gym to try and get some muscle

15. He loves brownies

16. Sour cream and onion is his favorite chip flavor

17. He is cracked at nearly every game he plays (he totally sucks at Among Us)

18. He can only take showers, baths scare him too much

19. He actually likes the beach, he just hates swimming to far out

20. He loves mint chocolate chip ice cream and Jeff thinks Ben is the devil because if it

21. Ben is bisexual, his motto is “Hole = Fucking Goal”

22. Ben doesn’t know how to flirt, so he just acts like himself (aka a dumbass)

23. He’s not a pervert unless he’s in a very good relationship, he makes sex jokes 24/7 but that’s because his humor is 13 year old boy humor

24. Ben is in his 20’s

25. Ben is a technology ghost. He’s a dead person aka a ghost. But his spirit lingered and possessed a gaming cartridge. Once his spirit was released from the game, he was able to transverse the internet. Computer, phone, tv, anything with a screen that’s connected to the wi-fi he can go through as he pleases

26. He’s really good at standing still like a statue

27. The Blood that leaks from his eyes is minimal most of the time and can be wiped off easily, he just chooses not to because he’s lazy

28. When Ben gets upset or any emotion to make him cry, the blood that oozes from his eyes literally thickens and bursts out

29. Ben hates bugs and he lets out a girly ass shriek when he sees one

30. He can teleport a decent distance, but he usually only teleports within the mansion (slender mansion AU)

31. He can summon fire from his hands but he doesn’t use it too often

32. Sometimes when he gets really mad, he unintentionally sets a fire (lots of controllers have been burned)

33. Ben can manipulate electricity, it makes his entire body warmer as he does it, Fire only makes his hands warm.

34. He tends to constantly have the electricity powers going on at a small level. Not enough to affect his electronics but enough to give you a small shock if you touched him. It gives him a sense of human like warmth

35. He always wears gloves because his hands are so frigid he can barely feel them.

[lavenderprose]

20 Questions for Fanfic Writers

Thank you to @emmg and @aldisobey for the tags on this meme! There may have been one other person, I'm not sure--if you're reading this and you tagged me, let me know and I'll tag you back! <3

I'm not sure who to tag and who's done it already and tagging people makes me nervous but I'll tag a couple: @pseudospaceship, @mageofquandrix and anyone else who wants to participate!

I'm extremely verbose, which comes out in memes like this. Do NOT feel like you have to read the whole thing.

1) How many works do you have on AO3?

38 on Ao3, which are the only ones I’m willing to acknowledge. If we’re talking about the fics on [redacted], then I’ve published 115 fics over the course of the last eighteen years. But again, we’re not talking about anything other than the fics on Ao3. I also have a few orphaned fics floating around, which we’re not talking about for obvious reasons. I’m now noticing that the question only asked about Ao3. Oh well!

2) What’s your AO3 word count?

511,846, somehow. I have soooo much fic that’s never seen the light of day, and so much fic on only Tumblr. I’m curious about what my word count would be if I was able to factor all of it in.

3) What are your top five fics by hits? (This was supposed to be kudos but I read it wrong 😔)

OKAAAY well these are all fics I wrote yeeears ago for two fandoms I’m not involved in anymore, but here we go:

All Those Things You’ve Always Pined For (Captain America, Stucky) – 113,224 hits. This fic just had its tenth anniversary and I’ve been playing with the idea of rewriting it, despite not being involved in the Marvel fandom for years and having no idea how it works anymore and having no WISH to. Idk. Still thinking about it. If I did it, I’d probably drop it all at once sometime in December.

Nikiforov’s Law (Yuri!!! On Ice, Victuuri) 42,566 hits. Somehow my post popular YOI fic even though I wrote it in two days and I spent WEEKS laboring over others. Mixed feelings about this one.

Take Hold (Yuri!!! On Ice, Victuuri) 35,278 hits This fic will always have a soft spot in my heart. I’ve spent the last six years of my life trying to recreate the high of writing it.

A Sad Sort of Clanging (Captain America, Stucky) 26,301 hits. First Captain America fic I ever posted.

Your Breath, My Skin (Yuri!!! On Ice, Victuuri) 18,642 hits. Fun fact: I HATE and LOATHE the title of this fic but I like the fic itself. Wish I could go back in time and rename it.

4) What fandoms do you write for?

Currently, Dragon Age. I hop around fandoms a lot and prior to last March I had been on a prolonged absence from fandom. I’m glad to be back, glad to be part of a fun and engaging and friendly fandom again! The Dragon Age/Veilguard/Emmrook fandom is the most fun I’ve had in fandom since YOI. I also frequently come back around to reading old favorites from the Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit, Star Trek, and Legend of Zelda fandoms. You may occasionally see those on my blog. :3

5) Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I didn’t used to—mostly because (and this is such a champagne problem that I hesitate to even mention it) I used to get SO MANY comments all at once that it was overwhelming. Like, 50 comments in a day. The Dragon Age fandom is smaller than the Captain America or Yuri on Ice fandoms, and people seem less inclined in general to comment nowadays, so I’m more capable of responding to them. I try very hard to do so. If you ever comment on one of my fics, please know that I appreciate it so much and I love you very much for doing so!! Comments make me so so happy and drive me so much to continue writing. My creativity is hindered by lack of engagement, unfortunately, so comments and kudos really help motivate me.

6) What’s the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

So I don’t DO sad endings. The most I’ll do is bittersweet. If I do a sad ending, it’s because I fully intend to write a sequel that has a happy ending. They have to be AT LEAST hopeful. That’s just a preference of mine; I’m weak. That said, the most bittersweet ending I’ve ever written was probably the end of Into That Good Night, which is at its core a fic about death and dying that I wrote to work through some of the trauma from my parents’ deaths. I would love to write an Emmrook version of it, if I can bring myself to recycle the plot without feeling like a total fraud.

7) What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

All of my endings are happy, so I don’t really know how to answer this question! The ending of Body and Soul is pretty openly happy. They’re falling in love :)

8) Do you get hate on fics?

Sometimes I’ll get a snarky comment but in general, no, and not for a while.

9) Do you write smut?

Oh all the time. My most exquisite emotionally waterlogged pornography, lovingly presented the perusal and approval of my internet darlings. I did NOT used to be this kind of person, but I have evolved.

10) Do you write crossovers?

The Marvel fandom made crossovers very easily, so yes, but not for a long time.

11) Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I know of!

12) Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes! Firebird was translated into Mandarin and I’ve had a few Tumblr fics translated into Russian more recently. I believe one of my [redacted] fics was translated into Spanish way back in the day.

13) Have you ever cowritten a fic before?

Yes! A friend of mine and I used to write Gravitation fanfiction together. God the way writing that sentence made me feel about a million billion years old.

14) What’s your all-time favorite ship?

Kirk/Spock. I’ll never forget about them. Very very close second is Sam/Frodo. It’s about the DEVOTION it’s about the TRAUMA BOND it’s about the EMPLOYER/EMPLOYEE relationship, apparently.

15) What’s the WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Oh god. Probably the Modern Royalty fic. It’s switched fandoms with me half a dozen times and I’ve been working on the outline off and on for a decade. Maybe someday I’ll make it into a true novel.

16) What are your writing strengths?

Hmmm this one is hard for me but I’ve been told that my works are very tender and emotional, which is I think my goal in like 90% of cases. I fear that too much emotionality can overshadow the tone of the whole piece at times, but I do enjoy being tender. I’m pretty standoffish in real life, I think, but I have a very tender heart.

17) What are your writing weaknesses?

I get very caught up in small details. It takes me a long time to write even short fics at times because I can’t resist going back and editing as I go. When I was writing Chasing Stars I had to MAKE myself write at least 1000 words an evening before I was allowed to go back and edit any of it.

18) Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in a fic?

I can passably speak German, so that might crop up in my Dragon Age fics soon (Nevarran = fantasy German, IMO) but in general I just write something like ‘she said, in Spanish’ and leave it at that, ESPECIALLY if it’s a long phrase that I couldn’t possibly accurately translate. Single words I will sometimes insert if I’m completely sure I know what they translate into.

19) First fandom you wrote for?

According to [redacted], it was of course Harry Potter, unforchies, but I’m pretty sure Baby’s First Fanfiction was a Teen Titans fic circa like 2006.

20) Favorite fic you’ve written?

Right now it’s Body and Soul because my favorite fic is always the one I just got done posting. As said though, I’m still SUPER proud of Take Hold, and I consider Into That Good Night to be like. The Magnum Opus of my early twenties. Kind of a milestone in my creative journey.

[kitsaystransrights]

It'sa me, Kit!

Woah, hey, you can make pinned posts! I totally didn't forget about this feature. I should probably do that, huh?

Weeeeell anyway, howdy! I'm Maddie, I go by Kit online sometimes, you can call me whichever you prefer. She/Her pronouns only, please. I'm a 22 year-old trans furry who is chronically online and geeky, so if you have a problem with that, I'm putting you in a box and then launching that box into the sun. I'm a YouTuber, Twitch streamer, filmmaker, and game dev, so I'm basically every stereotypical geeky trans-girl thing except for an artist. Can't draw to save my life.

On my YouTube, I usually make reviews or video essays about games I like, though I occasionally do stuff on other media as well. Currently, my big long-term projects are the "Splatoon 3 vs Splatoon 2" series, which is AAAAALMOST finished at the time of writing this, and my series on Leilani Wilson's Elancia Chronicles novels, (which are REALLY FREAKING GOOD and you should check them out!) I've linked a few of the videos I'm proudest of down below :)

I also stream pretty frequently on Twitch! I have a PNGtuber of my fursona, Stormy, with art done by EmmalemmaMewmew on Twitter. Stills of her will also start showing up in my YouTube videos eventually, hehe. Currently, the schedule is every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday, with each day being a different game. These streams always start at 7 PM Mountain Time (that's 9 PM Eastern and 6 PM Pacific) and go for around 4 hours. Sundays are Splatoon Sundays, currently the Anarchy Challenge, where I attempt to win an Anarchy Series with EVERY SINGLE WEAPON in Splatoon 3. It's hell lol. Then there's Triple-A Tuesdays, where I'm currently marathoning the Zelda series, and Indie Thursdays, where I work through my back catalog of indie games! There are also occasional bonus streams, usually around the releases of new games I'm interested in or events in ones I already play (like Splatfests!) Below is a link to my Twitch channel and my current stream schedule. I'll try to update this post as often as I can, but uh, no promises haha.

Last but not least, here's some of the other stuff I'm into/working on! Currently working on a Secret Game Project that I can't tell you about yet >:) But if you know, you know.

I'm a big fan of video games and animation (clearly), with some of my favorite stuff being, in no particular order... Sonic the Hedgehog, The Legend of Zelda, Persona, Fire Emblem, Pokemon, Elancia Chronicles, Super Lesbian Animal RPG, Splatoon, Hazbin Hotel, Helluva Boss, The Owl House, Gravity Falls, Amphibia, Steven Universe, Avatar: The Last Airbender, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Spider-Verse films, Dreamworks animation, Pixar animation, Insomniac's Spider-Man gams, Ratchet and Clank, aaaaaaaaaand that's all I could think of off the top of my head but I'm sure there's more junk buried in there somewhere lol.

Anyway, thanks for reading all the way to the bottom! You must really have nothing better to do with your life XD. Here's some links to my other socials, if you wanna follow me there. Here I'm mostly just be posting random rambling and updates for my YouTube and Twitch. See ya around!

https://www.instagram.com/kitthegoddess/

[faroreskiss]

The Power of Understanding / Part 2 (v2)

Read on Ao3

Rewritten v2 posted on: 2023/09/10

Cheat Sheet

Chapters: Pilot, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9

Summary: You have been with the Chain for a while now, as their "scholar" and translator. You know everything about them, because you are from our world. But do they know the truth about how you can understand everyone? Loosely based on the same reader in my NSFW fic, which is a very loose prequel to this one, and a work in progress. More background info to come, if I feel like it :D Isekai reader, but she doesn't know about the Linked Universe. Warnings: None. SFW. Maybe Teen? Points of interest: This is your thing if you are into the mystery of chain being able to talk to each other. I am an actual trained linguist IRL, hence this HAD to be written! Some fluffy Twilight x Reader content in this chapter.

So, what was happening to you today? You just couldn't stop thinking about Twilight for some reason. You even carried your work over the stables, having to inhale the smell of horseshit around you. 

But he was just... there. Not like he has been far away lately. You’ve literally been stuck with him (and the rest of the chain) for around two years. Your ‘situationship’ with Wild was still there, and the rest of the chain was aware of it, you were guessing.  You both weren’t exactly super subtle about it, hand holding and such and sometimes a small kiss here and there, but you were never explicit with it either. Nobody questioned anything, everybody had their… quirks, you guessed. 

Did they think you were just in a relationship, you wondered sometimes. Were they even familiar with the word, situationship? Gods, what would they think of the involvement of you, Zelda and Link at the same time, if they knew? Technically, everybody had their room in the house in Hateno, but, well... Ah, you really missed Zelda too, and her delicate fingers on… You took a breath and then sighed. You were getting distracted.

Anyway, nobody owes anyone explanations in the Chain that you learned. That was the agreement of the Links, in which you were indirectly included. If they don't want to tell, you don't force them.

Except, you pretty much knew everything. Well, you weren't really familiar with any game where all the Links were together except maybe some fanfiction where they met in the afterlife, but Wild didn't "exist" back then, from your perspective.

Now, Time was out with the others, getting some business done in Castle Town. Wild also joined him to get some ingredients for the recipes he learned from Malon.

Back to Twilight... You were watching his strong arms, brushing the horse gently. He definitely had a tall stature compared to the other Links. The Links you are in contact with are ranging from their mid to late twenties, maybe early thirties (except Wind, though he was still almost a 16/17 -year-old teenager). So, most of them were fully adults.

"Hey, I can feel ya starin', ya know, Trivia Queen,” he said with his Ordona drawl that occasionally made an appearance, sighing, while still brushing his Epona.

Right. That was your nickname. When you first arrived, you kept spouting things about them that you supposedly should not "know" about, which made the Links (except Wild, he was used to it) extremely suspicious. Over time, they got used to it, especially after finding out about your "job" at Wild's world, as a historian, linguistics scholar. So they left it at that.

The other rule was that you were not supposed to discuss one Link with another, unless you are sure you are not revealing any secrets.

...which was a rule that was established right after you revealed that Twilight is Wolfie, to Wild. Seems like the Old Man already knew (you and Wild joined the chain pretty much as the latest additions), and it was his idea to come up with it. And it was kind of unfair because Wild said he already knew Wolfie from his initial adventure! Hah, good riddance. It did end up being revealed to everyone anyway, after his near death experience.

Fair to say, you were the persona non-grata for a while. And that nickname was not Trivia Queen, but it was Trivia-something else for a while (Thanks, Vet).

"Mhm," you idly replied.

Twilight raised an eyebrow, catching you lost in thought while the stables filled with the scent of horse dung. "Hey," he called out again, his voice carrying a mix of amusement and curiosity. "Lost in your own world again?"

You sighed, blushing slightly, and tried to shake off the daydream of you and him in a big bear hug. "Yeah, just got a bit distracted," you admitted, turning your attention back to the ranch's budget paperwork. "These numbers can be quite mesmerizing, you know."

The rancher chuckled, his eyes warm as he continued brushing his Epona. "If you say so," he replied playfully. "But I have to admit, you manage to make even the most mundane tasks seem fascinating."

You couldn't help but smile at his compliment, feeling your heart flutter slightly. "Thanks, Link. You know how to make a 'trivia queen' blush," you teased back, trying to keep the conversation light-hearted.

His grin widened, and he leaned against the stable door, looking at you with that undeniable twinkle in his eyes. "Oh, really? Well, consider it a skill I've honed over time," he said, winking playfully.

You playfully rolled your eyes, trying to hide the butterflies in your stomach. "I suppose I'll have to keep my guard up around you, then," you replied, feigning a serious tone.

Twilight chuckled, and for a moment, the two of you locked eyes, a silent understanding passing between you.

"You wish you could," he winked.

There was an unspoken awareness that, despite the friendly banter, there were lines he would not cross. You respected his relationship with Wild, and he respected your history with him. And of course, the fact that everybody's existence is but a flicker...

Yes... Who knows how long you will still be here anyway? Even the stuff with Wild and Flora is as dangerous as it is. You can literally disappear and get back to your own world, leaving them behind.

This was the thing that was stopping you from the other type of "feelings" you could catch. You never spoke about this with Wild or Flora. To be fair, not like there was any time to. You… literally had the most intense moment of intimacy one night, and less than 24 hours after that, you and Link were taken in via the portal and met with 8 other Links. Poor guy even hesitated to sleep with you in the same bedroll, literally the night after. 

 And since the adventures with the Chain started, there was this weird gloom between you two sometimes (both missing Zelda), but the respect you have for each other never disappeared. That was another unspoken agreement.

The moment you want to speak about this awkward issue of you having a heart big enough for love for other people, the reality of your existence would be bare.

Anybody can disappear, forever, anytime.

Time's return broke the moment, and you both quickly resumed your tasks, acting as if nothing significant had transpired. "So, what were you two chatting about?" Time inquired with a sly grin.

"Just discussing the ranch's budget," you replied casually, keeping things vague.

The Old Man raised an eyebrow but seemed to take your word for it. "Alright then, just remember we've got some preparations to make before the next portal appears," he said, his eyes flickering with a knowing but serious glint. It wasn't the first time he witnessed something like this.

You nodded, grateful for the diversion. "Of course, I'll get back to work."

As the day went on, you couldn't help but steal glances at Twilight, his presence always managing to captivate you. Though you were the "translation magic" of the group, your understanding of him went beyond language. It was a connection that had been forged through shared experiences and unspoken feelings of the last couple of years, despite the initial incidents you had.

And as you continued to work alongside the Chain, you held onto the hope that, in the midst of all the chaos and adventure, there might be a chance for your paths to intertwine in a more profound way. For now, you would cherish the friendly banter and the secret glances, knowing that no matter how many worlds you traveled, Twilight would be a part of your heart's journey, for now.

[thyrus]

ok erm nintendy 2 predictions (may or may not be in the direct, just my general thoughts? i guess)

games/features:

mario kart launch title

n64 zelda remake for summer

new mario title for holiday

^3d mario

enhanced versions of ACNH, splat3, mario wonder, BOTW/TOTK, pikmin, metroid. these could take advantage of joycon mouse. ubi teased mario rabbids on switch 2 or something so maybe that gets an upgrade of some kind

weird new IP to demo the new hardware features

animal crossing announced before 2027, maybe aimed around that point but could always be delayed into 2027

splat4 announced 2026, release in 2027 i think (too early for splat4)

i think a splatoon spinoff is likely this gen but idk when. this year might be a good time as filler but i think they'd rather save resources to develop splat4

less focus on mobile and more on console. i feel like the mobile games were kinda cushion during the 3ds/wiiu era and after the success of the switch and the development of the switch 2 they feel like its not necessary (have all mobile games discontinued? not including like. pokemon ((which should always count as a separate thing)) and pikmin?). i thought i saw an article about them not abandoning mobile but idk if it was with apps or games or what. apps are definitely here to stay though i think

roblox will come at some point. it's gotta

another weird "99" type game or something of an old IP

in the direct: 3rd party anime and ~cozy farm games~

xbox games come to switch (idk anything about xbox. halo? this was rumoured)

bingo space: C button is for voice chat (microphone sold separately) (idr did anyone find a microphone on it?) (wii speak...2!)

price of games go up $10-20

monetization:

nintendo dabbles in microtransactions for the first time this generation. remember in the mid-2010s everyone was like "nintendo is the good company they dont release halfassed games" and then so many games were halfassed on the switch LMAO. also they really focused on DLC this time around and ""free updates""

microtransactions/more paid DLC for animal crossing, NOT tied to amiibo, maybe they'll try to milk it and make it run longer. expansions for towns/islands/cities (whatever they settle on), furniture sets, villagers.

microtransactions/more paid DLC for splatoon 4, not tied to amiibo. single player obviously, but also cosmetics and maybe weapon skins (THERES your "third kits")

free-to-play games with microtransactions?

honest attempts at live service games for AC and splatoon. i feel like its stupid how little content they put out for these major games when they could very easily get way more money out of it. if not "indefinite" service then way more than just two years (lbr "two years" was barely anything for these games. they released bare bones games and then added like one major thing towards the end of the lifespan after two years and thats it. they ended before they got good, or they started to get good and then it died because no one gave a shit anymore because they don't know how to keep people interested)

themes, but not to the extent of the 3ds (nothing quirky)

the playtest game, if they're gonna make it a full experience,

wishlist/wildcard:

nintendogs. idk if i necessarily want to play it but its more about a nostalgic IP coming back lol. and it would look good

quirky comes back (personality with menus, miis, something like streetpass, badge arcade, cutesy themes, SOMETHING)

gamecube VC

make wii and ds work somehow

i want the rayman 3 remaster pleeease :) dont think it'll be in the direct though im not expecting it

wildcard: mario paint as a cheap eshop title

oooooooooooooh bring back art academy maybe

more first party smaller titles for eshop? (like how pokemon does with their free to play games. like release a simple dr. mario without charging $60 for it)

[generalluxun]

My TotK experience and how it shaped my TotK shipping.

I'm writing this out because I got static on a random post for mentioning my headcanon, and I figure my own blog is a safe place to write it all down and get my experience in one place for better or worse. I'm a mutishipper by temprement, so you can and should ship what you like. Do not think by outlining my experience and thoughts I am trying to invalidate your own. Totk and BotW are both games with amazing emergent gameplay. The written narrative is only a fraction of the tale as you write your own version of events by what you choose to do and in what order you do it.

My wife is a huge Zelda fan. I enjoy the games, but she is the one who keeps them coming in. She's got a Triforce Engagement Pendant(try putting that on a ring!) we saw the Symphony of the Fates on our wedding night(and our first not-date years before) Zelda is a thing.

So I played BotW, and I played TotK. I enjoyed them both! At the end of BotW I was sure Zelink was a cute sure thing. I was happy! (My wife was frustrated Zelda didn't tell Link how she felt 😆)

Then we played TotK. Six years later, Zelda and Link are spelunking and boom the game yeets Zelda away. Couples-time, we barely knew ye. Now, both my wife and I play our own separate saves. We generally avoid spiling for each other, and we play quite differently. (In BotW I went right for the castle, found the basement, and ended up fighting the Stalnox that protected the Hylean Shield with 4 hearts. In TotK she mapped the entire underground early on)

My TotK experience began with me making a bee-line for Gerudo town after talking to Purrah/Robbie and exploring the castle a little. I liked the Gerudo plotline in BotW and wanted to see what was going down over there these days.

The Gerudo plotline is definitely fun (uh spoilers I guess?) Seeing Riju grown and trying to be a strong leader was awesome. (I have a headcanon she's still short because she met Link. She knew exactly how tall the strongest warrior in all of Hyrule was, and so why get any taller than that?)

I completed the temple, got my first sage power, and now several things converged.

1)Okay, so Riju's crush on Link in her Diary is cute. Not unique, everyone crushes on Link!

2)I decided to explore after completing this quest. Checking out the corners, completing my map, gaining some shrines, etc. This means I spent a lot of time with Riju as my only sage. We crossed Hyrule and back time and time again, checking on people, visiting old haunts, and fighting enemies way past my weapon's abilities thanks to her lighting.

3)Riju is the most interactive of the sage powers. Activate the power, and then you have to actually work with her to trigger it. It's not temperamental like Yunobo's either. Riju will hold ready for you for quite some time. It's also very versatile. Explode enemies, blow up mining points, and one of my favorites- Light the underdark. There's something deeply intimate about being surrounded by darkness with only your partner's power to light the way for you.

It made Riju one heck of a travel companion. Just having someone *anyone* along with Link, him not being alone, felt so good after being alone in BotW. The Warrior of Light and his Sage companion. Little tales wrote themselves, like an epic saga.

Still, Zelink was still a thing, right? Then You run into Link's old home in Hateno. It's changed, definitely. You find Zelda's lab. You find her Diary. -Now, here I know the Japanese version has a very different tone, but I didn't have that version so I only got the English- reading Zelda's words painted a picture of a close bond, but also not a classical 'ship' one. Combine this with some of the other tidbits and memories collected on the journey and it just painted a very different picture for me(and my wife) There may have been dialogs we missed too, it's a vast open world game, and this is a retelling of my playthrough, not a comprehensive thesis based on all the lore available on a wiki.

This Zelda, being Aro/Ace. Or at least if not, being so immersed in her work and duty that something like a traditional relationship isn't on the radar for her. She's got her Science. She's got her Kingdom. She's got her curiosity. These things Matter to her. A romantic relationship? Just didn't feel like it did.

Link is still the most important person in the world to her. He's her Knight. He's reliable, supportive, dedicated, brave. He's as vital to her as her own two hands. A respectful Link could easily be seen accepting this role. Zelda's vital to him too. He cares for her and will always be there. It's his duty, and his passion. The two are inseparable. They're just not a *couple*

So, where does this leave us? Link and Zelda will travel together always. Riju is Queen of the Gerudo and cannot just leave her people. She's also someone who my TotK Link spent time with (in my writer's brain the sage-mirages actually sent impressions back to the Sages in their dreams, and as time went by the link between the two could be two ways, like a form of active astral projection in a crisis)

So a RiLink relationship that is built on respect and trials together, but that understands the duties placed on both just seemed cute. He's still with Zelda, she's still with her people. She'll eventually end up with a hero's child, and the one male ever allowed into Gerudo town will be able to visit his future child and maybe even pave the way for a more open Gerudo society in the long run.

Zelda and Link are still constant companions day-to-day though. She's the Queen(eventually? Still princess?) he's her Knight. Their relationship is still built on respect and shared hardships(much like RiLink) They're just not an 'item'. They're liege and retainer.

I did the 'Wait how old is Riju?' thing as this was starting to come into focus, because she was young in BotW 😅 She's 17... I think? Fantasy setting, it seemed fine to ship. I mean, everyone thinks Mipha crushing on Link is adorable, and she saw him first when he was a little tot! 🤣

So, that's it really just kind of laying out my ship and why I think it's cute. I welcome any and all comments provided they're couched politiely.

[cupcakegal25]

notes and thoughts on the switch 2 direct

did this just for fun and because i have brainrot <3

under the cut because there is... a lot

we knew it was coming, but finally. a new mario kart game after like. a decade

it’s fucking OPEN WORLD MARIO KART JGKLASJHGLAKHJ

we’re getting so many directs lately goddamn

THEY PUT DISCORD IN THE SWITCH 2 HELPPPPPP

IT’S LITERALLY JUST DISCORD HELP

i highly highly highly doubt this works as well as it says it does in terms of filtering but okay

oh shit open access period that’s great

oh man gameshare that’s AWESOME

the screen seems like it’s pretty similar to the oled

magnetic attachment is GREAT

MOUSE CONTROLS??????

the new stand looks great ngl

wow the storage increase is INCREDIBLE

are there any nintendo switch games that aren’t compatible with the switch 2? i can’t tell

also do joycons from the switch still work cause if not that’s a lot of money i'll have to spend again

the nintendo switch 2 welcome tour looks kinda like nintendo land but worse and more gimmicky

it’s PAID?????? ew

oh my god do i need to get a new microsd card MINE’S LIKE 72GB

again are the old switch controllers still compatible because that’s a lot of money to sink again, i just got a new pro controller last year

JUNE 5???????? there’s no way that’s WAY too soon

also why bother with the last direct at all at this point if it comes out in june??? it’s not like any of the games announced will be worth playing on the original probably (i am looking directly at you, legends za)

nintendo switch 2 edition is going to be added to SO many games oh my god. at least scarvi will be (hopefully) mostly playable now (i personally didn’t have too many issues with it but oh my god)

do we need to buy another copy of these games for nintendo switch 2 edition btw? cause if so i'll RIOT

oh my god we DO

like ig it’s just an “upgrade pack” but STILL

honestly the graphics in botw and totk were good enough for me i don’t need that to be upgraded

zelda notes???

man FUCK OFF that looks SO COOL and i need to buy the switch 2 editions to get it

i’ll never get the one missing korok i have in botw without this goddammit

a new story in forgotten land? this shit’s INSANE omg

okay prime 4 i will give a pass ONLY BECAUSE it hasn’t come out yet

the mouse controls look awesome jfc

same thing with legends za that gets a pass because it’s NOT OUT YET

how much even ARE the upgrade packs because it already sucks but depending on the price it may suck more or less

drag x drive… not super interesting to me personally

also looks like it would be too slow because you need to use the mouse controls and you can only drag so fast

third party games… let’s see here

elden ring, hades 2, street fighter 6, daemon x machine, split fiction, ea sports fc, madden nfl, hogwarts legacy, tony hawk’s pro skater 3+4, hitman world of assassination, project 007, bravely default, yakuza 0… a respectable selection

also it sounded like most of them would be coming out on launch day so probably same deal as switch 1, where there’s one big og launch title (which seems like it’ll be mario kart) and a bunch of third party games to pad out the library for a bit

ZELDA???????

ma’am i love you ma’am

IS THIS THE DLC WE WERE LOOKING FOR WHERE YOU PLAY AS ZELDA IN THE PAST PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

oh my god it looks like aoc and it said koei tecmo was part of the team

IT IS!!!!!!!!

HYRULE WARRIORS AGE OF IMPRISONMENT LET’S GOOOOOOOOO

hopefully now we’ll learn the FUCKING SAGE’S NAMES

also hopefully she’ll talk about the champions and not just iGNORE THEM LIKE TOTK DID

nintendo switch online plus expansion… let’s see

it’s probably like a gamecube emulator or smth

CALLED IT LMAO

More third party stuff…

DELTARUNE LET’S GOOOOOOO

OH SHIT CHAPTER 3 AND 4 ARE COMING OUT SAME DAY (i think) LET’S GOOOOOO

other third party stuff… borderlands 4, civ 7, wwe 2k, nba 2k, survival kids, enter the gungeon 2, star seeker, cyberpunk 2077, final fantasy 7 remake… not bad

oh rapid fire okay let’s go

kunitsu game path of the goddess, silksong, story of seasons, goodnight universe, two point museum, wild hearts s, witchbrook, puyo puyo tetris, rune factory, marvel cosmic invasion, star wars outlaws, nobunaga’s ambition, fast fusion, shadow labyrinth, raidou remastered, no sleep for kaname date, reanimal, fortnite, arcade archives 2, professor Layton, tamagotchi plaza, and human fall flat 2… interesting

the silksong bit is fucking fake btw no chance that game comes out this year like it said lmaooo

okay last third party game (i'm p sure at least)

the duskbloods, huh. neat!

it gives bloodborne so i know a lot of people will be excited about that (not to mention it’s a soulsborne sooooo)

kirby??

kirby!!!

PLANET ROBOBOT?????

no this is a new game i just got excited when i saw the engines

WAIT KIRBY AIR RIDE SEQUEL???

KIRBY AIR RIDERS!!!!!

SAKURAI AS DIRECTOR LET’S GOOOOOOO

okay last trailer let’s see here

DONKEY KONG!!!!!!

donkey kong bananza… incredible

alright no more games… are they going to tell us the price?

yeah yeah bundle whatever

alright guess that’s it then!

[lumeha]

Twenty questions for Fic Writers

Tagged by @recurringwriter hell yeah thanks :D it looks fun to do

1) how many works do you have on ao3?

72 works, divided into 60 fics and 12 podfics :D (and I should record some of the podfics I have been wanting to record for a while, hm)

One day I will finally bring some of my old French works from ff.net to my AO3, maybe (I should do that today)

2) what's your total ao3 word count?

103,589

Which is honestly more than I expected, ngl. This does count the podifcs, but the podfics aren't exactly bringing a lot of additional words here

3) what are your top five fics by kudos?

me, forced to consider my Marvel phase in the face : ouch ? ... I know I write niche things for Fire Emblem but wow still. I am impressed.

Stay and help me to end the day (373)

cursed love, blind faith (353) (the one FE representative woo !)

Rewind // Press Play // Rewind (324)

A thousand years old adult who dies too much (317)

Have faith in me (when you feel ashamed of yourself) (281)

4) what fandoms do you write for?

Currently ? Fire Emblem (general, I'm writing for games from GBA era games to Engage in my WIP piles) and Yugioh, to everyone's surprise. I'm also occasionally writing for Zelda and even more occasionally for Persona, but these fics (the Persona ones) are usually stuck in WIP hell (sorry to the fics)

I've also, clearly, written for the MCU and also a lot, and I do mean a lot, of Bleach fanfic. Most of the Bleach fanfic is in French, though. Because I started writing in French. I'm pretty sure my first English written works are things I wrote on tumblr !

5) do you respond to comments? why or why not?

I try ! ... I'm bad at it, but I do try my best to answer.

I do not always know how to answer, that's honestly my biggest issue, but I'm always extremely excited to talk with people - I just have a terrible habit of forgetting if I did or did not answer ^^;

6) what's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

To me, it's For all the pain of love, for which I just really wanted to explore Rhea's emotions regarding the Heroes' Relics, especially in relation to Catherine.

7) what's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

(waves hands) have you read my latest fic I think I did a good job it's a cue and very happy ending (And try to remember your name)

the fun answer though would probably be cursed love, blind faith, because I genuinely love the ending and I think I made it happier than expected lmao

8) do you get hate on fics?

That has never happened so far and I'd be surprised if it happens (this isn't my tumblr where I get into my weirdest hot takes about video games)

9) do you write smut?

Not really.

... the only kind of smut-adjacent fics I write are usually locked into WIP hell and more on the ero-guro side than purely smut. Maybe one day I'll finish one. Maybe.

I do think the title of my RE8 vivisection fic is a banger, I have just never found a way to actually finish the fic itself lmao ?

10) do you write crossovers?

Rarely. It happens but overall : rarely. Also. Once again. Extremely usually locked in the WIP hell that is my WIP pile T-T; ... I have done some crossovers RPs, I have developed crossovers AU with people, but I just don't write them a lot because I feel like it usually deserves a lot more attention and length than my usual fics.

I think some of the fun ones that are floating as WIPs that will never be finished are the PoE/Patho one that's for clearly one person only, and the Transistor/Re-Animator, just for the sheer wtf of it (and I like it)

I will say, there is a lot on the cutting floor of the Fire Emblem 8, But Make It Pathologic fic (Smoke, mirrors and burning fire), which included : Eirika and Ephraim as the Stamatin twins, Valter as an Inquisitor, Gr...Grace ? More Grace ??? why was she the one I decided to keep ?? and more Knoll and Saleh interactions

(I do enjoy reading them though :0)

11) have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not as far as I know ? Good on them if they do, I mean, I hope they like my frenchness and that's what they stole ?

12) have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes... by myself. No one is ever seeing it though lmao

13) have you ever cowritten a fic before?

A long, long time ago, but it's never really happened again. I'm just not great of a co-writer, I'm a lot better as editor if I have to work with someone (or the reverse) (I'm just a chaotic gremlin in terms of process okay)

14) what's your all time favourite ship?

... it's a little hard to say, ngl, because I still hold a candle for Dimitri & Felix but I need such a very specific kind of dynamic between them. Hm. But I guess it's them.

OH NO YOU KNOW WHAT

I.

Wild card answer. I have not even written them. I forget it's barely not canon. Daniil and Artemy.

I just genuinely get way too fucking in my head about writing Pathologic okay the game and the fans are too good about it for me to feel like I can do it but (shakes them) that ship

(the new guys in town are eating at my brain very heavily, though, ngl, I'm looking at u, Shark and Quattro)

15) what's the wip you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Feels extremely ironic that I still want to finish it, for how long it hasn't been updated, but Wash the blood off my skin. Which is my Big Beast Dimitri fanfic, ft. a lot of dimilix. I love it. I love 'em. I'm probably never finishing that fic /o/ (or I probably would need someone to look at what I have for the next chapter and reassur eme it's not dogshit I guess)

16) what are your writing strengths?

I'm very good at purple prose :)

(the less funny answer is that I think I'm good at bringing an atmosphere in the writing ! :3 Like good at establishing a strong emotion from a snapshot, something like that !)

17) what are your writing weaknesses?

I'm very good at purple prose :)

(okay less funny answer but I think I can struggle a bit with giving a strong voice to characters, and oh my GODS what IS an ACTION SCENE they will make me SUFFER. I am getting better. But still.)

18) thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

I don't really care ? I usually don't do it, but I would only do it if I'm sure of what I'm writing (meaning : yeah I can write bad Spanish, bad German, bad Latin, and good French)

....

probably necessary for bad Latin in the case of Pathologic fic though shout out to the Latin in Pathologic that's just accurate character writing

19) first fandom you wrote for?

Digimon - but that one has a fun little story. I wrote a like. 50 words story with a little drawing that I sent to a French Digimon comic magazine that existed when I was, like, 10. And they did print it. I sadly have lost my copies of the magazines, so I no longer have it, but I honestly would give a lot to find it again

Otherwise, the first I really wrote for with the idea of sharing it with other fans online was a Fire Emblem 7 fic and I am pretty sure I have it somewhere in my files but I somehow can only find the translation I've made one year.

20) favourite fic you've ever written?

A fic I haven't talked about so far lmao but currently it's To Follow. I had a ton of fun writing it, I think I got Rennac and L'Arachel down in terms of characters, and it was just a blast. And I got to write a little bit of disgusting stuff in the end with the part about the aftermath of the fight against the Demon King. What's not to love ??

(shout out to my French Bleach fic that's just me going OFF with inspiration for symbolism and 19th century romanticism - and yeah you're going to ffnet to see it : El Sueno de la rason produce monstruos)

In case you want to do it, I'm tagging : @meyerlansky ; @risualto ; and @soogymoogi

[the-aftonsparv]

100 follower special!! fun alien facts!!

okay!! 100 FUN FACTS!! for each follower!! i’m sorting them by type!!

hey also!!! i’ll answer the first ten asks i get. whatever they are. completely honestly. pinkie promise! ask me anything.

20 fun facts about me!!

i wrote this while listening to the alien stage soundtrack

i have a 4 year old nintendo switch! it’s pink and green and makes me feel happy inside

i read. a lot. so much, in fact, my brain is bigger than megaminds

my first oc’s name was nightheart and she was the leader of thunderclan

i have written fanfiction since i was 10, had a wattpad account since i was 11, and only recently got an ao3 account

i have four published works on ao3, and about five million wips

i have eight published wattpad works. and i forgot my account email. if you see an account that’s called like guest123456789 (yes. that’s what it was called.) and is mostly wings of fire and warriors that’s probably me

my music taste is the neurodivergent trio + mitski + indie + occasionally rock

i’m neurodivergent :) big shocker!!!

i have a lot of health problems so sometimes i wont post on here lol

i have uhh let me count 6 tumblr accounts 4 of which i actually maintain regularly

im going to see an ado concert soon :) first concert ever!!!!

my walls are COVERED in posters

i i have a secret pokemon card stash

i have a blahaj as well as an aftonsparv!

my blahaj’s name is daryan!!

my blahaj is named after daryan crescend from aa4. bc the shark motif? anyways

this is harder than i thought it’d be

im currently halfway through a zukka fanfic?

i have the biggest list of ships and fandoms im in maybe ill post it (cough scroll down)

20 fun facts about my fandoms!!

ace attorney!! current favorite!!

name a musical. it’s that

favorite musical though is either heathers or rtc!!

splatoon!! i speedrun it occasionally too!!

genshin (but only sorta i haven’t played since fontaine)

DUNGEONS AND DADDIES!! (current second favorite!!)

project sekai colorful stage!!! WORLD FUTURE STAR!!

LEGEND OF ZELDA!! (t4t zelink has me in a stranglehold)

mob psycho!! (reigen drives me crazy)

tgswiiwagaa!!! GREEN YURI

wicked (since the musical one lol) GREEN YURI

love bullet!! GUN YURI!!

BUNGO STRAY DOGS (TOP FAVORITE OF ALL TIME!!)

saiki k!! THE SILLIES

toilet bound hanako kun (not the sillies :(( )

percy jackson!! (leo valdez and solangelo are my favorites!!)

HERMITCRAFT!! SCARIAN IS MY ROMAN EMPIRE

deltarune!! rouxls kaard is so babygirl

s1 and s2 tales from the stinky dragon!! haven’t started s3 yet :[

ALIEN STAGE as of like three hours ago RULER OF MY HEARTTTT

20 fun facts about space and or science!!

space is really quiet!! so you’d think i (an alien) couldn’t hear music?? WRONG i’m an alien i have special ears or whatever

i just finished a brief history of time by stephen hawkins

the moon isn’t perfectly round

time is relative

*insert thomas jefferson* every action has an equal opposite reaction

space is really cool guys trust

it would take nine years to walk to the moon

jupiter has 95 moons!!

i’ve played where in space is carmen sandiego like. four times? shoutout to the androgynous rep

voyagers 1 and 2 are still working even though it’s been like since the 1970s

99.84% of the universe is just. the sun

black holes are really cool looking

space is really fucking huge

splatoon 3’s boss level takes place in space!! sick!!

mouthwashing also takes place in space!! sick in a different way!!

i’ve read so many creepy ai takeover space books i dont wanna go

my favorite space books are either the illuminae files and/or the final six + its sequel

my favorite dndads episode is partially in space (finding tori)

you can last like. 15 seconds. before the vacuum gets to you

there’s like LOAAAADS of corpses up there just chilling. forever.

20 fun facts about my aftonsparv!!

their name is slaughterhouse

don’t ask why his name is slaughterhouse

slaughterhouse’s favorite crayon flavor USED to be dandelion but it got canceled

slaughterhouse’s favorite crayon flavor is robin’s egg blue

slaughterhouse’s favorite ship of all time is either ranpoe (bsd) or mitsuaya (tgswiiwagaa)

slaughterhouse’s nickname is william.

slaughterhouse’s favorite song is red green yellow by the garden

slaughterhouse’s name takes forever to type out so i’ll be calling her william now

william DOES NOT LIKE being called will

or willy

or bill

william’s favorite musical is the starlight express because they have a crush on c.b.

william’s best friend is orbulon from warioware!!

orbulon from warioware is one of my favorite characters in any media ever.

william drives a ford f-150

william’s ford has been featured in three (3) two trucks by lemon demon music videos

william cowrote two trucks fanfiction with me (psst it’s published on ao3) (psst it was always you truck x2)

william just stared at me i think she’s hungry

william just started levitating so i better hurry up and finish

OH william is nonbinary and eats only crayons and transphobes

20 fun facts about you guys!!

my first follower on here was @the-purjolokhaj ‘s main account :)

this blog is most inspired by @the-blahaj and their creator!

it was actually @the-rodhaj ‘s creativity that made me actually start this :)

sorry for the tags you guys :(

im working on a really cool project!! its dndads themed ill put it in the replies maybe

i have an elaborate april fools prank planned so expect that

trans rights!

intersex rights!

lesbian rights! (this is the 69th fun fact i’m typing btw :P)

gay rights!

ace + a-spec rights!

neurodivergent rights!

everyone deserves rights. all of them. all of you.

you all are doing amazing

im very proud of you!

you’re still here :]

the secret language i use is enderspesk bc i was a HUGE dsmp fan (support tommy and not dream)

i was originally gonna be something along the lines of alienhaj, and then i looked over at my aftonsparv and my brain went WOAH

the fact that im aftonsparv is funny because in one of my discord servers im in im known as momguy (i ship mafumom pjsk with the purple guy (fnaf)

you’re all so amazing and wonderful and this blog makes me so happy! thanks for being here :)

[ryttu3k]

The big writing year in review, plus AO3 Wrapped! Last year's is here.

January: 9,527 (Sweet Things: 6,777, An Interview: 2,750)

February: 4,383 (Sweet Things: 2,018, An Interview: 522, Karlach meets a bat: 1,843)

March: 4,111 (Sweet Things: 3,775, An Interview: 336)

April: 6,465 (Sweet Things: 6,465)

May: 11,293 (Sweet Things: 11,293)

June: 6,392 (Sweet Things: 6,392)

July: 11,812 (Sweet Things: 11,812)

August: 4,471 (Sweet Things: 3,753, The Librarian: 718)

September: 2,635 (The Librarian: 692, Many Meetings: 1,943)

October: 3,106 (Many Meetings: 2,164, Eyebite: 942)

November: 701 lol (Eyebite: 701)

December: 4,049 (Eyebite: 165, The Reason: 1,395, The Librarian: 2,489)

Total: 68,945

(Sweet Things: 17,465 written in 2023, 51,938 written this year; The Librarian: 21,707 written in 2023, 3,899 written this year.)

Current WIP lengths: The Librarian (25,606)

Fic/Writing Meme

1. Favourite fic you wrote this year

Sweet Things. So glad I finished it and it came out well!

2. Least favourite fic you wrote this year

*gives hard look at Eyebite*

3. Favourite line/scene you wrote this year

Honestly? All of chapter 11 of Sweet Things. It was dark as hell and had some stylistic screw (because it was both mid-ritual and also Astarion was both dissociating and also getting hit with A Lot of psychic damage) but I really enjoyed just… messing with the formatting.

…Also, Lae'zel's, "I would have been inevitable. You will have to try harder to avoid me" in Many Meetings.

4. Total number of words you wrote this year

Just shy of 69k lmao

5. Most popular fic this year

Going solely by kudos because it's hard judging oneshots versus multiparts by either hits or comments: An Interview, interestingly. In fairness, it was posted long before Sweet Things was done, but it has 309 kudos to Sweet Things' 244.

6. Least popular fic this year

Eyebite. *gives it another hard look*

7. Longest completed fic you wrote this year

Sweet Things by far, with 69,403 words. The next-longest was like, 4k XD

8. Shortest completed fic you wrote this year

The Reason was itty bitty, 1,395.

9. Longest WIP of the year 10. Shortest WIP of the year

The Librarian, which remains the only WIP by the end of the year.

11. Fandom you enjoyed writing for the most this year

I mean. Clearly it's BG3 XD

12. Favourite character to write about this year

*holds up Astarion by the scruff of the neck like a soggy cat*

13. Favourite writing song/artist/album of this year

GY!BE remains my favourite and most effective writing music.

14. A fic you didn't expect to write

I wasn't expecting to write something for Mononoke??? Given that I watched the series fourteen years ago and was not expecting the movie???

15. Something you learned this year

Even if you hate a fic, you still can get nice comments on it :)

16. Fic(s) you completed this year

See the monthly breakdown above! The completed ones are all linked.

17. Fics you'll continue next year

I will finish The Librarian it is happening it's just not happening. Like. This afternoon.

18. Current number of WIPs

One :o

19. Any new fics to start next year

The deities fic (five deities that never answered Astarion, and one who does). It got started off in that 'Karlach meets a bat' part, which is going to end up being one part of it.

20. Number of comments you haven't read

I read all of them :D

21. Most memorable comment/review

Friend went through and commented on every. chapter of my old Zelda fics. I'm kind of torn between "ancient sins!!" and rolling around having emotions that people are still reading and enjoying them.

22. Events you participated in this year

None this year!

23. Fics you wanted to write but didn't

*waves hand helplessly at The List*

24. Favourite fic you read this year 25. A fic you read this year you would recommend everyone read 26. Number of favourites/bookmarks you made this year 27. Favourite fanfic author of the year

*dumps the rec list at your feet*

28. Longest fic you read this year

Complete or incomplete? I think The Season is still longest, not actually sure for complete.

29. Shortest fic you read this year

Like. Some drabbles. Hard to get shorter!

30. Favourite fandom to read fic from this year

Astonishingly, BG3!

-

AO3 wrapped

Striking through for repeat questions.

1. How many words have you written this year?

2. How many works did you publish this year?

Five! All linked above.

3. What work are you most proud of (regardless of kudos/hits)?

4. What work of yours has the most hits?

Sweet Things, on 4,803. Which is fair because it's, you know, eighteen chapters long.

5. What work of yours got more feedback than you expected?

An Interview. Apparently it was pretty popular!

6. Favourite title you used

I dislike the fic itself but 'Eyebite' is kind of a funky title, yeah?

7. If you use song lyrics, which artist's songs did you pull from the most?

Astonishingly, none this year!

8. Pairing you wrote the most for this year?

Wyllachstarion by virtue of Sweet Things being the longest thing I wrote.

9. Favourite pairing you wrote for this year?

Many Meetings threw in a bunch of new ones, so I got to try different ones like… Shadowlach and Lae'zel/Gale and stuff. Was fun!

10. What work was the quickest to write?

The Reason just happened.

11. What work took you the longest to write?

I started Sweet Things in October 2023 and finished in August 2024 lmao

12. How many WIPs do you have in your docs for next year?

The Librarian is getting finished!

What's your longest work of the year?

What's your shortest work of the year?

What WIP are you taking into next year with you?

16. What's your most common 'Additional Tags' tag?

'Traumatised Astarion' and 'Astarion's past abuse' both came up in Sweet Things and The Interview, and 'friendship' in Eyebite and Many Meetings.

17. Your favourite character to write this year?

18. The character that gave you the most trouble writing this year?

Gale. Eyebite took a Lot to get out XD;;

19. What's one pairing you want to explore next year?

The deities fic is Halstarion :D I wrote their friendship a bit in Sweet Things, looking forward to writing the actual ship!

20. Which work of yours have you reread the most?

Uh, I went over Sweet Things a lot in the editing process, I guess?

21. How many kudos in total did you get this year?

633!

22. Which work has the most comments?

Sweet Things has 84 comment threads (and 176 comments total). Again, in fairness, eighteen chapters.

23. Did you do any collaborative works this year? 24. Did you write any gifts this year?

Nope to both!

25. Did you receive any gifts this year?

Yes! Someone wrote a 'missing scene' fic for Memory of Younger Days! :D

26. What's your most common category?

Astonishingly, Gen!

What do you listen to while writing?

Favourite work you wrote this year?

Favourite line/passage you wrote this year?

30. Biggest surprise while writing this year?

It is entirely possible for November to be one's least productive month. lol. lmao even.