While I was Gone
Tenzin sighed in relief as his key turned the lock to Lin’s apartment, letting his travel bag slide down to hold the door open. He adjusted the bag of groceries in his other arm and shouldered his way inside.
He slid his shoes off and set the food down while he shrugged off his outer robe. He saw that all of Lin’s warmer clothes were boxed and labeled, waiting for the return of fall.
With a small smile, he rummaged through his travel bag to find the desert scarf he had brought home for her. She wouldn’t find it for months, but she would know that he had been thinking about her, even at the beginning of his six weeks away. Kicking himself, just a little, he placed a gentle kiss on the scarf before tucking it inside the box marked “Winter.”
With a happy sigh, he padded over to pick up the groceries.
Once in the kitchen, he opened all of her cupboards, and saw they were just as bare as he’d anticipated. Her rice jar was nearly full, though, so he put the extra bag he’d brought in her pantry.
The “ice” box was warm enough not to have had ice for days. Fastidious as Lin was, the food cabinet was clean. The smell of vinegar had faded enough for it not to gag him.
The weight of her settled on his shoulders. So little care she gave herself, he knew she would be running on little but spite by now. Without him around to make her think about eating, never mind taking her mind off work for more than an hour, he feared that she would be consumed by her ideas of what Toph’s approval would take.
His smile fell, and he wondered if he would even see her before he went back to the island. He had watched her, more than once, spend less than an hour cleaning herself and dumping her clothes off before rushing back to the station. If he could put food directly in her hand, he figured she would finish it.
She always stopped long enough to thank him for just being there. That seeing his face gave her strength. That his touch kept her warm.
But somehow, she never thanked him for cooking, cleaning, or organizing her bills.
He closed the empty icebox and opened the window above the sink. He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and cupped his hand in front of his face. His father’s voice swelled inside him.
Let the air enter you. Let it find the tension in you.
Blow it away from yourself. Allow it to dissipate like a cloud. Release it.
Tenzin blew across his palm and his fingers, imagining his worries flying away from him like dust motes in a sunbeam.
***
Her startled grunt woke him.
Her hungry mouth stirred him.
Her sleepy hum soothed him.
***
When he woke the next morning, she was already gone.
The sweet note she left for him was longer than usual, and included very specific thanks for the food, the fresh ice, the clean dishes, and the empty trash cans.
He frowned.
I wonder what happened while I was gone.
But the broken mirror told him only so much.
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Very very short 363 words fic of Legend rejoining the chain after getting sent back to his time for the start of EoW. Thank you Echoes of Wisdom <3 I love you Echoes of Wisdom
It’s been 100 days since Legend had been separated from the group. They had all gone through the same portal-they all saw that Legend was the first to proudly walk through it. But on the other side, he wasn’t there, they couldn’t find him. No matter how hard they looked, no matter how hard they tried, it was all for nothing.
They had to move on. Those black blooded wouldn’t let up. They had to march forward, clutching onto their courage with all they had.
They always walked hand in hand through the portals after that. They had to stay connected throughout time, to stay linked throughout the universe. They may had mourned the presence of their missing Link, but mourning does nothing. All they could do was pray for him to be alright. To be in his own time, safe and sound.
Then he fell down right in front of them.
The chain were in an inn, debating on what their next course of action would be. The shadowy beast they were up against only got stronger and more difficult to deal with as time passed on. They needed to kill it now, or they could never even dream to strike it down.
A rip in time and space open up above them. They all scrambled for their swords, watching as a pair of feet emerged from the portal, running in place. Then the legs came, then the torso, then the arms with a bow in their hands. Finally, the head crossed through, and the figure fell onto the hard, wooden ground.
“Veteran!” Multiple shouts rang out. For everyone, from no one, all towards to figure. A beaten and tired Legend lay on the ground. Tears were streaming from his eyes. He could barely muster the energy to open his mouth, but he spoke anyways. He wanted to comfort his brothers, even though he was barely aware they were even there.
“Zelda,” his breath stuttered, soon turning into uneven laughter, “I saved her…I freed her in the end.”
Legend passed out in his brothers’ arms. All he dreamt of was of his Zelda, with her meeting his brothers. Everyone was happy.
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One last store update! After this I will begin sending emails to a subscriber list.
You can input your email of choice for my shop newsletter into this google form here.
A quick summary of some things:
I was unable to finish orders by printing their shipping labels by today, despite what I said last week, because of health issues that had to be addressed instead.
More of my product order was messed up, had enough items to fulfill every order but I’ve been left with ZERO extra stock on a couple items to put into my shop after.
I got enough interest in the Halloween keychains and stickers so I will be making them.
Full explanations below ^^
I have now packed every single order and reviewed all of their contents. However I was unable to send them out today as at some point last week I became very unwell. I’ve been going downhill for a while but it has never gotten to this degree this fast before. I still don’t really know what caused it and so I had been unable to pack over the weekend and couldn’t get all the shipping labels printed for them today.
I will be printing these labels out and taking chunks of the orders to the post office over the next few days.
But the more I’d packed the more I’d realized more of my product order had been messed up. I had ordered extras of everything and yet some of the products that I ordered just BARELY fulfilled every order — I had to use some of the initial samples to fulfill every order but rest assured they are the exact same as the products in size and quality. I have exactly ZERO of some products left over for shop stock when I’d ordered 10-15 extra of every item (as well as TOO MANY of some less popular products that didn’t need all these extras) which sadly means a few items will not be in stock when I open the store back up. I may put discounts on the unwanted extras I received because of this.
While I would expect by default to receive the products in the quantity that I ordered, I also understand that I ordered hundreds of products all in one order, and that is only one order that is being fulfilled out of the many other orders they get daily. I myself did not count out every single product to check because of the sheer amount of everything that was ordered — I had ordered over 500 keychains alone to fulfill the preorders and the entire order has taken up a full room when all spread out. But I still did not count beforehand and would only find out once I’d run out of a certain product, so I accept this is partly my responsibility too. This should not happen again as I never expect to make an order this big again, I had only done this for shop startup, and I will be making another order to restock these products. But it’s still sad it happened.
I apologize for this and I appreciate all of your patience once again. I am explaining all of this as I believe you are owed information about what is going on seeing as you’ve put money into this, and I myself said they would all be sent out by Monday. I just want to be transparent ^^
And one last thing — many of you wanted Halloween merchandise, so I will be moving forward with that! (I’ve decided they will not be glow in the dark though, as I’d have to make every vibrant color instead transparent for the glow to come through, and I believe the designs would suffer too much without these colors)
I have ordered from this manufacturer multiple times before over the years and they’ve always gotten it right with more reasonably-sized orders, so I am confident these will not have the same problems as this preorders period has.
Thank you again very much for your support and understanding up to this point!! <3
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super long rant incoming:
the joegoldbergification is super weird. like please please if you’re obsessed with me to an unhealthy and dangerous degree, just keep it to yourself. just don’t tell me, please. the amount of times someone has gotten like this with me and escalated things when i’ve told them to stop is seriously wild. and like wtf is this about saying how you didn’t want to have parasocial interactions like hello?? is my existence a performance to you? am i content created to be fed and consumed by you? and why WHY would you ever think it’s alright to take my kindness as an avenue to then start talking shit about femmes you had falling outs with?? what do you gain from that? certainly not respect from me and that’s why i called you out repeatedly on that shit. so so fucking weird. do you think you gain my pity or my sympathy?? you’re not a beaten dog so please stop. like oh my god the dog metaphor makes me wanna slam my head into a wall. like as someone who has literally been forced to watch animal cruelty take place, shut the fuck up. shut the hell up. your relationship ended and now you wanna demonize people and rewrite history thinking that if certain people don’t know the full story that they’ll just believe you. legitimately how the fuck and why the fuck would i do that when you position yourself as a blameless victim?? it’s so weird and odd. and on top of aaaaaall of that, to obsessively text me and try to like corral me into a corner and say all of this weird stuff like as if you’re spiraling about me when we’d only texted for three days (two of which i wasn’t even responding to you for) is seriously bonkers. like seriously thank fuck something told me not to sext you because i just know things would have gotten awful. it’s not normal and it’s not okay and it’s not healthy. please stop idolizing me. i’m just a person and i am no more interesting than the next person. your obsession is not my responsibility! to try and manipulate me with the way you talk about your ex is super super weird. like extremely weird. i have a mind of my own?? hello?? i make my own judgments myself and i use intuition for a great deal of that. took me all of five seconds after blocking you to check the femme discord and see that i should have already done so but i haven’t because i’ve been busy with family emergencies for like two months. very uncool. very weird, very strange behavior. not my job, not my problem. i am not all of these weird deified titles you like to call me. i don’t have to be ‘omnipotent’ to know that you are trying to bury her and scream your lungs out into the fucking grave as if she deserves it. god i fucking hate when people do this shit. like can toxic mutuals maybe just instead leave me alone?? ‘why are you mutuals with them if they’re toxic” BECAUSE I DIDNT KNOW AND I HAVENT BEEN ABLE TO BE SOCIAL AND FIND OUT UNTIL NOW. like fuck dude i hate it here sometimes. if you’re just haha obsessed with me, GREAT. but please don’t start dumping all this weird shit about how i *make* you feel when im not doing anything and i’ve stated that im not encouraging anything and ive communicated that’s a you thing. i literally told you to focus on yourself and stop talking shit about her and you just kept doing it. the whole obsessed with me thing can be what it is, at this point it’s so normal irl and on here that i’m too exhausted to try and do it all, but the decision to keep going and keep talking shit about her and demonizing them and making yourself a blameless victim is fucking gross and no i actually won’t just sit there and listen to it in exchange for your attention or some weird shit like that. i find it super super weird your constant asking of me to tell you what i think about you and what i think about ANYTHING and everything about you. what the actual fuck?? and then to be like ‘i want to take accountability’ after i’ve already told you everything you’re doing wrong and locked my boundaries and said how uncomfortable i am?? that’s hilarious. anyways ugh okay that’s it bye
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