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[illusion-of-death]

Debts don't just disappear.

(Secrets kept by Saskia Del Norma, from the end of the beginning to the beginning of the end.)

Hey, remember that Saskia character study I was working on? Probably not, because it's been consuming my entire life for so long that any reasonable person probably would have assumed it just wasn't going to happen anymore by now. But it's DONE! And I'm screaming!

Hopefully people other than me enjoy it, because there were a LOT of creative liberties taken. So it goes when one is gifted this many unknowns to explore.

[ofstormsandfire]

Do you have any good BotW/TotK fic recs? Yours or other people’s!

Boy howdy DO I.

Going to preface this by saying that I have preferences, and those preferences tend to veer towards gay shit and people who don't initially get along ending up ride or die, and as such a high proportion of these are going to be Revalink.

Anyway. The fic that got me into that ship, changed my brain chemistry, and is a large part of why I go !!!! about ghosts (literal and nonliteral) haunting the narrative, characters with amnesia who are supposed to be dead, and the Rito as a whole, is Pinesong by aperplexingpuzzle and that is the fic that makes me go "if you read NOTHING else in this fandom read THIS holy fuck."

(But also you should be reading other things too, because there is so much good shit and I adore it greatly I go back to reread my favorites regularly. Also check out the authors I mention apart from just the fics I link there is so much good fic I'm forcing myself to just pick one per author or else I will be here literally all day.)

Next up: Moonlight (every single night) by Heleentje. Do you like time loops? Do you like characters slowly, painstakingly figuring out how to get it right? Did you get very attached to Revalink from the last fic? how about some ~queerplatonic Zelink~ in this trying time?

Frankly, it is very hard to pick just one fic by Ginneke, they've got so many good ones but I'm going to have to settle on Flowers from your Beloathed, which is another Revalink fic set before the Calamity where, y'know, Revali is getting flowers from a secret admirer. Except he's Revali. Hilarity ensues and I enjoyed the hell out of this one ^-^

Also also. Come Morning Light by misscoconi. Post-Calamity, they are both idiots (affectionate) and I am starting to realize that I have a bit of a pattern in my taste in Revalink fics. Huh. I'll unpack that later actually.

Skybound Wishes by Baddrummer is unfinished (unlike most of the fics I've recommended here) but y'all. Y'all it makes me lose my shit in so many ways because I am a SLUT for creative fix-it fics and gratuitous weaving-in of references to other games in ways that still respect the established canon but respect all of it, y'know, not just doing the TOTK thing of "actually nothing pre-BOTW matters anymore and neither does BOTW lol."

...I am starting to realize there may be a reason why I don't have a lot of TOTK recs. Also if this post is starting to sound unhinged and disconnected that's probably because I'm bouncing between Tumblr and studying for one of my finals like a ping pong ball.

But I do have one really, really big fic rec for TOTK. Y'all should check out Show Me the World Outside by IllusionOfDeath. The Sages get to do things, the Divine Beasts don't just vanish without a word, the Champions get actual recognition, and you can tell that the author is the Linguistics Georg (affectionate) of the fanfic world.

Anyway I think I will shill myself a bit too since you gave me permission to anon! If you read no other Zelda fics by me, may I recommend no one ever mentions fear, a fic that... it really was, in a lot of ways, a love letter to the fics in the fandom that I'd read and loved before. You've got the Champions getting to live and have nice things, you've got Revali being a dumbass (affectionate), you've got gay shit, you've got Problems Being Caused by the Yiga Clan in the background.

...Oh god this post is getting. A little longer than I meant for it to I've realized. Um. I love fanfic and tbh if you end up reading everything I've recced and still want more, my bookmarks on AO3 are public and I tend to bookmark just about everything I've read and liked enough to want to find again.

......I should probably get back to studying now but thank you for the ask! I like rambling lol

[aq2003]

Different anon than before, but all the s3 ten and martha fics you recommended were amazing. Any other general doctor who fics you like?

ok i'm going to use this as an opportunity to make a general fic rec list for doctor who bc i haven't done something like this in a while and i think it'd be fun. (i'm going to include the s3 ten and martha fics i linked before bc they are some of my favorites and i won't shut up about them)

Sometimes There's Stars by Monarchetype. this is probably my favorite doctor who fic ever in that it appeals directly to my twelve feels and fourteen feels and makes me feel the entire spectrum of human emotion bc of it. the doctor is having neurodivergent floor time in this one. donna has some funny names for the constellations. i cry every single time i read this

History by NikaV. this fic is special to me it's actually the first one i read as i was warily perusing doctor who fics after watching series 3 (i had donna's tag blocked for spoilers LMAO) and god it's soooo. it's sooooo. tenmartha museum fic you'll always be famous. stories that worldbuild about the aftereffects of the timewar my beloved. early s3 martha pov my beloved.

The Ravelled Sleeve of Care by lavenderseaslug. this basically follows ten and donna after their various series 4 adventures. they share a bunk bed. theyre my little guys. the qpps ever

Lethologica by babybel. this is a fic of jenny meeting with donna post-series 4 and yes it's exactly as shrimp emotion inducing as it sounds

Ten Minutes Of Eternity by EldunariLiduen. technically you have to listen to the time reaver big finish audio (...:)) to get the full context for this but it is such a great missing scene and actually can i please have more fics about time reaver it makes me want to explode

Grounded by gawayne. AHHHHHHHHH time reaver hurt comfort. time reaver hurt comfort save me. save me time reaver hurt comfort (<- deranged about this singular big finish audio)

Aro/Ace Twelve by lloydsglasses (series). exactly what it says on the tin. i have not found a lot of twelve fics that appealed to my specific tastes but these ones are really sweet and as an aroace doctor truther i am legally obligated to recommend them <2

At the Edge of the Universe by IllusionOfDeath (series). this is a pair of canon compliant donna character studies in the 60th and ohhhhhh the fourteendonna huh. The fourteendonna broke into my house and left me for dead. AhhhhhHHHHHHH

The Last Act of the Time War is..., Three Months, Subjective Time, and Human-Shaped by versaphile. these three fics are great and i have many feelings about them that can all essentially be boiled down to "jesus christ ten is doing so bad. he's doing so so bad you guys. good lord"

doctor who oneshots by inckpot (series). i tried to pick out my favorites out of these to specifically recommend but it ended up being almost all of them and they are all organized into a beautiful list already so <3. also i don't rly ship ten w anybody but the tensimm and tenjack here fascinate me. they are like diseased bugs of some sort and i'm studying them in a lab. anyway i think op has my favorite general portrayal of timelords in fics ever like there's a line in respite about "carrying the stars" and this generally makes me want to eat drywall and explode into 80 million tiny pieces of glass. the way the doctor's pov gets written. oh yeah. i'm insane

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Unfinished Saturday

Sometimes two months still isn't enough time to complete a work, especially a long one. I want to celebrate everyone who has made progress on their WIP as part of this event! Below are some fics who had new chapters posted as part of this event. That's so much progress!! Congratulations on completing those chapters!

If you made progress on your WIP during this event, please feel free to reblog with a screenshot or snippet of your progress. Rough sketches, rough drafts, all are welcome as all mean you worked on your project!

If You Could Leave a Light On Please by Edai

Chapter 14 completed as part of the event. Naruto - Inuzuka Kiba/Kankurou, Gaara & Kankurou & Temari, Minor or Background Relationship(s), Aburame Shino/Inuzuka Kiba, Aburame Shino/Hyuuga Hinata - Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Angst with a Happy Ending, Hurt/Comfort, Getting Together, Sibling Bonding, Polyamory, Chronic Illness, Psychosis - Rated T "“If you’re about to ask me if I’m sure this is okay, please just keep your mouth shut,” Kiba comments. Is he this easy to read? “I will then.” --- Kankurou moves in with the polycule."

A Wolf In The Fold by TheStarGayzingEtherian

Chapters 4 and 5 completed as part of this event. tumblr post for chapter 4. twitter post for chapter 4. tumblr post for chapter 5. NSFW - She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018) - Adora/Catra (She-Ra), Bow/Glimmer (She-Ra) - Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - Werewolf, Werewolves, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, mentioned transphobia, Trans Female Character, Eventual Smut, Blood and Violence, Fluff, Domestic Fluff - Rated E "After a painful tragedy, Catra has found herself retreating from the world, isolating herself in a cabin owned by her friend Glimmer. One day, however, Catra hears a loud cry from the nearby woods. Catra rushes out to find a rather large wolf caught in a trap, however, this is no ordinary wolf… and this beautiful creature's secrets will change Catra’s world forever. (Catradora, Modern/Werewolf AU)"

Carry Me From These Walls by HopeStoryteller, IllusionOfDeath

Chapters 17 through 23 completed for this event. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Link/Revali (Legend of Zelda), Urbosa/Zelda's Mother (Legend of Zelda), Daruk & Urbosa (Legend of Zelda), Mipha/Zelda (Legend of Zelda) - Characters Play Dungeons & Dragons, Alternate Universe - College/University, Alternate Universe - Modern with Magic, Minor Character Death, Parent Death, Major Character Injury, Queerplatonic Relationships - Rated T "Link grows up playing Dungeons & Dragons with his neighbor Zelda, her moms, and a few other friends. It makes for the best few years of his life, before the DM is murdered and the group falls apart. Years later, in college, Link and Zelda reconnect—and, alongside a few new friends, start up a new campaign, not expecting anything more from it than maybe a bit of closure. Little does anyone know, a much larger conspiracy has been afoot for almost a decade now…"

Life After War by Mysticalbeingwithuntoldpowers

Chapters 3 through 6 completed for this event. Bleach (Anime & Manga) - Kuchiki Byakuya/Zaraki Kenpachi, Aizen Sousuke/Kurosaki Ichigo, Abarai Renji/Kuchiki Rukia - Kuchiki Byakuya-centric, Soul King Kurosaki Ichigo, Politics, Announcements, Survivor Guilt, Canon-Typical Violence, Post-Thousand Year Blood War Arc (Bleach) - Rated T “Reconstruction is well under way after the massive destruction caused by the Quincies' invasion. Byakuya Kuchiki is secretly hopeful for the future and all the changes he can foresee happening with a new King on the throne. However, there are still huge day-to-day repercussions from the events of the war. Everyone was affected; even those who weren't known to be able to feel anything. His fellow captain of the 11th division is even more of a disgrace to his rank, drinking all day long or staring absently at everyone with no drive or care in the world. No one has dared confront the madman, especially with his newfound Shikai... Well, he is a Kuchiki and it is his duty. Kenpachi seems so out of it, he doubts he could be a threat to him. It's just too bad he is the only one that has the guts to shake him out of his turpor.... and why is the guy almost naked everytime he sees him…"

[biointernet]

The Death Does Not Exist

The Death Does Not Exist, Bekhterev Academician Vladimir Bekhterev worked all his life on the secret of genius, the secret of the superman. The Death Does Not Exist - Russian movie. We will translate it soon. If you are ready to help, please mail to Kirill@Korotkov.com https://youtu.be/XgAKzoHtptA Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev (January 20, 1857 – December 24, 1927) was a Russian neurologist and the father of objective psychology. He is best known for noting the role of the hippocampus in memory, his study of reflexes, and Bekhterev’s disease. Moreover, he is known for his competition with Ivan Pavlov regarding the study of conditioned reflexes. More: Wiki, Time Philosophy, Time Symbolism, Time Travel, The Full History of Time

Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev works, 1913 At the end of 1924, the soviet authorities thought about creating a secret laboratory for the study of Lenin’s brain, which was supposed to unravel the mystery of the “Kremlin superman”. As futurologist Melik-Pashaev subsequently wrote, who was aware of these works, Lenin’s brain “is undoubtedly the prototype of the brain of the coming superman.” In fact, it was a question of developing a methodology for the development of a superman, a Soviet superman, in the future. That was the main interest of the authorities! At a meeting of the OGPU (KGB) board, chaired by Felix Dzerzhinsky, they discussed the structure of the brain. The KGB paid special attention to the ability of the brain to respond to radiation invisible to the eye (light, electromagnetic, etc.), to emit and receive biopsychic energy (in the old terminology - "N-rays"). Today it is called parapsychology and telepathy. By decision of the heads of special services, a document was adopted on the creation of a secret laboratory of neuroenergy. The security officers were especially interested in the work of Ankylosing spondylitis, who had long studied the secret possibilities of the brain. The Death Does Not Exist

The Death Does Not Exist, Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev, 1913 See more: Dr. Okhatrin on GDVPLANET Korotkov on Academia.edu Dr. Sergey Avdeev – inventor of Translighters technologies and co-founder of the Biointernet project. Dr. Alexander Kozhemyakin – inventor of AK TOM The report of N. P. Bechtereva on the topic “About Alternative Vision”, made during the meeting with representatives of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the Institute of Higher Nervous Activity. Moscow 29.10.2003 Intuitive Information Sight Research on IUMAB website: Intuitive Information Sight Research Energetic Influence of Ayahuasca Память Будущего Translighters Games Episodes and more about Intuitive Information Sight The Death Does Not Exist https://bekhterev.net/ Robert Lanza, MD After the death of his old friend, Albert Einstein said "Now Besso has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us ... know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." New evidence continues to suggest that Einstein was right, death is an illusion. Does Death Exist? New Theory Says ‘No’ https://youtu.be/WFjGz28yTQ0 One well-known aspect of quantum physics is that certain observations cannot be predicted absolutely. Instead, there is a range of possible observations each with a different probability. One mainstream explanation, the “many-worlds” interpretation, states that each of these possible observations corresponds to a different universe (the ‘multiverse’). A new scientific theory – called biocentrism – refines these ideas. There are an infinite number of universes, and everything that could possibly happen occurs in some universe. Death does not exist in any real sense in these scenarios. All possible universes exist simultaneously, regardless of what happens in any of them. Although individual bodies are destined to self-destruct, the alive feeling – the ‘Who am I?’- is just a 20-watt fountain of energy operating in the brain. But this energy doesn’t go away at death. One of the surest axioms of science is that energy never dies; it can neither be created nor destroyed. But does this energy transcend from one world to the other? Consider an experiment that was recently published in the journal Science showing that scientists could retroactively change something that had happened in the past. Particles had to decide how to behave when they hit a beam splitter. Later on, the experimenter could turn a second switch on or off. It turns out that what the observer decided at that point, determined what the particle did in the past. Regardless of the choice you, the observer, make, it is you who will experience the outcomes that will result. The linkages between these various histories and universes transcend our ordinary classical ideas of space and time. Think of the 20-watts of energy as simply holo-projecting either this or that result onto a screen. Whether you turn the second beam splitter on or off, it’s still the same battery or agent responsible for the projection. According to Biocentrism, space and time are not the hard objects we think. Wave your hand through the air – if you take everything away, what’s left? Nothing. The same thing applies for time. You can’t see anything through the bone that surrounds your brain. Everything you see and experience right now is a whirl of information occurring in your mind. Space and time are simply the tools for putting everything together. Death does not exist in a timeless, spaceless world. In the end, even Einstein admitted, “Now Besso” (an old friend) “has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us…know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” Immortality doesn’t mean a perpetual existence in time without end, but rather resides outside of time altogether. This was clear with the death of my sister Christine. After viewing her body at the hospital, I went out to speak with family members. Christine’s husband – Ed – started to sob uncontrollably. For a few moments I felt like I was transcending the provincialism of time. I thought about the 20-watts of energy, and about experiments that show a single particle can pass through two holes at the same time. I could not dismiss the conclusion: Christine was both alive and dead, outside of time. Christine had had a hard life. She had finally found a man that she loved very much. My younger sister couldn’t make it to her wedding because she had a card game that had been scheduled for several weeks. My mother also couldn’t make the wedding due to an important engagement she had at the Elks Club. The wedding was one of the most important days in Christine’s life. Since no one else from our side of the family showed, Christine asked me to walk her down the aisle to give her away. Soon after the wedding, Christine and Ed were driving to the dream house they had just bought when their car hit a patch of black ice. She was thrown from the car and landed in a banking of snow. “Ed,” she said “I can’t feel my leg.” She never knew that her liver had been ripped in half and blood was rushing into her peritoneum. After the death of his son, Emerson wrote “Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature.” Whether it’s flipping the switch for the Science experiment, or turning the driving wheel ever so slightly this way or that way on black-ice, it’s the 20-watts of energy that will experience the result. In some cases the car will swerve off the road, but in other cases the car will continue on its way to my sister’s dream house. Christine had recently lost 100 pounds, and Ed had bought her a surprise pair of diamond earrings. It’s going to be hard to wait, but I know Christine is going to look fabulous in them the next time I see her. Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe

Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe The Death Does Not Exist  “Biocentrism” and “Beyond Biocentrism” (BenBella Books) lay out Lanza’s theory of everything. Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe Robert Lanza is one of the most respected scientists in the world—a US News & World Report cover story called him a “genius” and a “renegade thinker,” even likening him to Einstein. Lanza has teamed with Bob Berman, the most widely read astronomer in the world, to produce Biocentrism, a revolutionary new view of the universe. Every now and then a simple yet radical idea shakes the very foundations of knowledge. The startling discovery that the world was not flat challenged and ultimately changed the way people perceived themselves and their relationship with the world. For most humans of the 15th century, the notion of Earth as ball of rock was nonsense. The whole of Western, natural philosophy is undergoing a sea change again, increasingly being forced upon us by the experimental findings of quantum theory, and at the same time, towards doubt and uncertainty in the physical explanations of the universe’s genesis and structure. Biocentrism completes this shift in worldview, turning the planet upside down again with the revolutionary view that life creates the universe instead of the other way around. In this paradigm, life is not an accidental byproduct of the laws of physics. Biocentrism takes the reader on a seemingly improbable but ultimately inescapable journey through a foreign universe—our own—from the viewpoints of an acclaimed biologist and a leading astronomer. Switching perspective from physics to biology unlocks the cages in which Western science has unwittingly managed to confine itself. Biocentrism will shatter the reader’s ideas of life—time and space, and even death. At the same time it will release us from the dull worldview of life being merely the activity of an admixture of carbon and a few other elements; it suggests the exhilarating possibility that life is fundamentally immortal. The 21st century is predicted to be the Century of Biology, a shift from the previous century dominated by physics. It seems fitting, then, to begin the century by turning the universe outside-in and unifying the foundations of science with a simple idea discovered by one of the leading life-scientists of our age. Biocentrism awakens in readers a new sense of possibility, and is full of so many shocking new perspectives that the reader will never see reality the same way again. Who is Robert Lanza Robert Lanza, M.D. is currently Head of Astellas Global Regenerative Medicine, and is Chief Scientific Officer of the Astellas Institute for Regenerative Medicine and Adjunct Professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. His current research focuses on stem cells and regenerative medicine and their potential to provide therapies for some of the world’s most deadly and debilitating conditions. More about Robert Lanza, MD. The Death Does Not Exist on MHC virtual museum

The Full History of Time

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[illusion-of-death]

Unreleased, totally 100% canon scene from chapter 37 of Show Me the World Outside

[ID: six-panel pencil comic featuring Link and Riju from The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Panel 1: Riju, sitting in her throne with her back to the viewer, watches Link enter the room, and says, “Hey, Link! How’s your journey coming along? Have you reclaimed the sword that seals the darkness yet?” Lower on the page, as an aside, she adds, “Was he just in my room?”

Panel 2: Closeup on Link, with a neutral expression, reaching for the sword on his back. He says, “No… but I can do you one better… the sword that—“

Panel 3: He draws the sword, revealing that it has been Fused with one of Riju’s sand seal plushies. He concludes, “SEALs the darkness!”

Panel 4: Link and Riju fingergun at each other, both saying “ayyyy” and grinning.

Panel 5: Closeups of each of the other four sages’ secret stones—Mineru’s on her chest, Tulin’s around his ankle, Yunobo’s on his belt, Sidon’s on his hand—with small lines coming out of them to indicate vibration. A box reading, *stone ping* is in the center of them.

Panel 6: Riju, holding her own secret stone to her ear like a telephone with an extremely simplistic facial expression of minor horror, tells the other sages, “We’re all gonna die.” /end ID]

Your Honor they are sealblings.

(You can read Show Me the World Outside here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/47605786/chapters/119984830)

[illusion-of-death]

It takes two to tango.

I did it again! Yet another Saskia fic, this time as thinly-veiled disability allegory. Spoilers through 2.8 ‘Wake’.

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[ID: sketchy 2-panel black and white comic of Zelda and Riju from a BotW college AU, in the stule of the “it is pride month, Walter” meme.

First panel: Zelda, in a University of Hyrule hoodie, looks up at Riju, and says, “It’s pride month, Riju! You know what that means!” “Huh,” Riju responds. “What”

Second panel: Zelda walks away, facing the viewer, with a satisfied smirk. Behind her, Riju continues, baffled, “do you want me to race like—gay seals—I already do” /end ID]

(Read my good friend @ofstormsandfire and I’s BotW college/D&D AU here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/46860208/chapters/118037269)

[finishwhatyoustarted-event]

Finished It Friday - May 3

Happy #FinishedItFriday! Here we can celebrate everyone who has finished a project in the latest week of the event. I will update this post throughout the day. This post is for the works finished this week without Twitter promo posts, so I'll be linking straight to them! I'm using some of the tags the author gave for my content tags.

Twitter thread for those with promos

Writing

Carry Me From These Walls by HopeStoryteller, IllusionOfDeath

CW: graphic depictions of violence - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Link/Revali, Urbosa/ Zelda's Mother, Daruk & Urbosa, Mipha/Zelda - Alternate Universe - College/University, Alternate Universe - Modern with Magic, Minor Character Death, Parent Death, Major Character Injury, Queerplatonic Relationships, Unreliable Narrator - Rated T - "Link grows up playing Dungeons & Dragons with his neighbor Zelda, her moms, and a few other friends. It makes for the best few years of his life, before the DM is murdered and the group falls apart. Years later, in college, Link and Zelda reconnect—and, alongside a few new friends, start up a new campaign, not expecting anything more from it than maybe a bit of closure. Little does anyone know, a much larger conspiracy has been afoot for almost a decade now... "

Try Not to Hate the Light by treefrogie84

NSFW: Graphic Depictions Of Violence - 陈情令 | The Untamed, 魔道祖师 | Módào Zŭshī - Jiang Cheng | Jiang Wanyin & Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji, Jiang Cheng | Jiang Wanyin & Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian, Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji/Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian, Jiang Cheng | Jiang Wanyin & Wen Qing, Jiang Yanli/Jin Zixuan - canon divergence: post-golden core transfer, post-sunshot campaign fix-it, Jiang Cheng | Jiang Wanyin & Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji Friendship, Politics, Lan Wangji in Lotus Pier, Political Marriage, solving the Tiger Seal problem, Golden Core Reveal, No Yīn Iron, sect heirs get political training - Rated M - “The Sunshot Campaign is over, Wen Ruohan is dead, and Jiang Cheng is far more focused on rebuilding his sect and getting the betrothal agreement between Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji signed than he is on any of the other currents happening between the sects. He also needs to figure out what’s going on with Wei Wuxian and convince the other sect leaders that his brother is not another power-hungry manic.”