#rust-and-fairydust

[balladetto]

     It's raining up there.

     Link feels it in the new slickness of each rung and the pitter-patter on his face. He's careful to grip tight as he climbs the bars, rust digging into trembling palms, only ever looking at what lies above in heart-pounding fear of what could still lurk below. Navi is a bright guide in the darkness, lighting the way ahead while she fusses over things like where they should go next. She says nothing of how scary the well was, but she sprinkles enough of her fairydust on his fingers that he can tell she's thinking about it too.

     The rain picks up when they finally make it out, as though it's a friend who's happy to see him. When he puts it that way, it's not so overwhelming on his exhaustion, which already pulls on his muscles so hard that he stumbles to his knees. He drags himself a full body length closer to the stairs, then just— stops. Breathes.

     It's near impossible, sometimes, to feel like he can keep doing this.

     "Link," Navi softly calls. She lets him breathe for a few more seconds, before floating to the pouch by his waist. "Come on. Let's get out of here."

     Right. Yeah. The sooner they leave this place, the better. They need to— they need to—

     "To the Temple of Time, remember?"

     Yes. Yeah. Okay. He swallows the thoughts he can't afford to dwell on right now and nods, removing the ocarina entrusted to him from his inventory. As he puts his lips over the mouthpiece and prepares to play the Prelude of Light, Navi flies up towards his hair to wiggle under his hat — as she always does when they do this.

     Link sees a hand folding over the whole of his face, feels a breath sticky with rot on his hair, and recoils with a yelp before those long fingers can again burn invisible imprints into his scalp.

     Navi freezes.

     Link freezes.

     For several uneasy moments, only the rain disturbs the abrupt silence. Shame churns in his gut, agitating the tremor that's returned to his hands and the racing of his heart. His fairy bobs up and down in the spot he left her in.

     "Link," she starts, tentative, "are you okay?"

     He— should be. He should be. Just as hesitantly, he gives another nod. Then, firmer, he does it again. He doesn't know why that happened. He doesn't know why he did that.

     Navi idles a little more, clearly unsure, so he smiles a shaky sorry and beckons her closer. She comes carefully — gradually — like something skittish that needs to be coaxed from the bushes, or the steady warmth of a newly stoked fire, or the creep of a phantom presence crawling towards his back, fingers latching him into place, ripping strands of hair out with how much he struggles, panicked, terrified, too small—

     Link scrambles away, breath caught in the back of his throat.

     Another pause. Another suspended, fraught quiet. Raindrops sting in his eyes, and a distant, ridiculous part of him wonders if they feel the same on her wings.

     "Link," Navi says, voice a bare whisper over drumming rainfall: hurt, pained, and desperate in the way she sometimes gets when she wants to heal him but can't.

     His sternum crumples into his lungs beneath the weight of a sudden, penetrating grief.

     "Nn— Na-vi," he returns, strangled. He reaches for her instinctively, apologetically, a dart of touch that goes forward and flinches back as his fingertips brush against her light. The warmth bites where it would've comforted only a while ago — before the dead, before the well, before the fear he's been trying and failing to smother since he saw towering, stalking hands — spreading across his skin like cold fingers locking in a vice-grip.

     Horror twists in his veins. Thorns of despair sink deeper into his chest. This can't be happening pierces through the static of everything fading away, 'cause Navi — Navi, her touch, her fluttering against his cheeks, all her affection against the world's harshness — is the one thing of the so few things he has left to his name that gives him some form of real peace. Some form of maybe this will be okay. Patching over the hurts in his heart like her little hands can reach there, and now they can't— now he can't—

     He can't do this.

     He can't do this.

     A whimper breaks past his lips, ragged and undisguised, and tears welled up from waters that feel endless spill from blurred eyes. Link is bigger than this. He has to be bigger than this. But he's slept through seven summers and only truly seen nine, and want throbs from his core with a fierce, heavy ache. Something close to a scream leaves him as he raises a trembling arm and throws the Ocarina of Time to the dirt ground. He can't hear anything past his own panting, sobbing breaths.

     He wants Navi. He wants Saria. He wants the Great Deku Tree. He wants to go home; to have a home to go back to; to not be someone so special; to not have to be a hero too young for his own sword. Link feels the rain like it's going straight through him to the insides of his bones as he catches himself on his palms, wanting, and wanting, and wanting, and wanting.

     His fairy slowly drifts into what shelter the curve of his figure makes. She holds his gaze mutely, glow dimmer in shared misery. Ever the best at listening even when he isn't speaking, she catches his tears as if they're stars and doesn't touch him. He hates her for it. He loves her for it.

     He cries harder for it, body heaving, mud clotting under his nails as he curls fingers into wet earth.

     He can't do this.

[joeypottrs]

Whoever came up with the idea for the content on Milan’s Instagram page is my hero. I adore his posts, they’re so funny. Also I agree about the aesthetic posts. I hardly ever post my face on my Instagram

I know! they are so so good, they get his personality across and they are fun and interesting posts and 100% a thing people on ig, just look at celestebarber. and yes! i know a lot of people who never post their face on social media, so the aesthetics don’t bug me in terms of ���not being real content” because for me, even though i want selfies from characters, i understand that getting only that wouldn’t be an accurate representation of most people’s social media.

[rojnapat]

I’m not even that mad at people if they don’t like the clip, like that’s their opinion and I know some people are uncomfortable with sexual (ish) content so their views are their views. My problem is people who haven’t watched the clip or even read the transcript and are going on about how they heard that Sander pressured Robbe into having phone sex and he called Robbe daddy like??? At least know what you’re criticising, instead of spreading bullshit about a show just because you dislike it

THIS IS SO FUNNY like ok yeah i heard the daddy we all heard the daddy but please pay attention to context

[youidiotprince]

People calling you a hater for not obsessing over DS as if that isnt one of the major reasons why this whole issue has spiralled. Appreciating an actor for their skills and contribution to a show is great but so often it gets taken too far and people start to put them on a pedestal and obsess over them. Then, when they do something that doesn’t match up with the idea of them that someone has created in their own head, they feel betrayed. I much prefer keeping a distance from their personal lives

I think this is a good point! It definitely works both ways too. The people who are really really upset with him, and the people who will fight tooth and nail to defend him. I think it’s best to keep actor and character separate, and to direct most of your love/admiration/obsession to the character and not the actor. If we think the characters are imperfect people, damn the actors are bound to be ten times worse bc they’re real. That’s not to excuse the behavior, and I still think it’s okay to want to hold somebody who’s creating a piece of content you enjoy accountable for their personal behavior when it’s brought to your attention and contradicts/undermines the content you’re supporting, but emotions definitely get very, very heightened when obsession and stan culture of the actual actor get involved.

[basicshadowhuntersstuff]

Hi. I was just wondering if there was any way to purchase one of the Love is Love Malec tops. Where I have looked it says that the campaign has finished. Thanks :)

Hi! Yes our charity campaign finished, so unfortunately you can’t get the exact same design (with the white text) until our next one. 

But we do have a very similar design available on our store! 

[anthony-kate]

So you think maybe the "get out" bit between Magnus and Alec could be with Valentine!Magnus and he just wants to get rid of Alec??

Yeah, I’ve started to think about that, too. As I said already, I thought that scene might be happening in 2x13 but what if this is Valentine!Magnus? I mean we still don’t know the context just that Alec says “shadowhunters are being slaughtered”. So who knows???

At this point I think everything is possible. I just hope they will end the body swap soon and not come up with “Malec scenes” that aren’t actually Malec scenes, you know?

[jungkookjaan]

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[yasminaseason]

I’m not sure if it’s just me but I found the music they put in that clip so distracting, specifically in the flashback scene where I really don’t think it fit at all. It was a really serious conversation and didn’t seem to fit that...

hey, first of all sorry for the late reply! tbh i have watched today’s clip only once, and didn’t really focus on the music. after i saw your ask, i thought about watching it again but i just couldn’t make myself watch it again, so idk what to say tbh. i don’t really remember the song during that scene cause it shocked me so much that i barely remember it, all i can remember from that part is arthur’s screams....again, sorry.

[dairdevil]

I'm not exactly sure how you'd watch it but I'd 100% recommend Please Like Me. It's an Australian show, with a gay main character named Josh. It deals with mental illness so well and is super funny and just really well done and amazingly acted and directed. I honestly couldn't recommend it enough - it's one of my all time favourite TV shows. It is sad sometimes (I'm not gonna lie, I've cried watching it) but it's mainly super funny and lighthearted.

Ngl but I love sad shows so I'll totally look into it. I also love when they mix mental health issues in with LGBT topics bc that is something that affects so many of us? Thank you! COME RECOMMEND LGBT+ MEDIA TO ME

[dailybuddie]

Hi, I was just wondering whether you would be able to give me the link to be able to watch 911. I’m from Australia so I’m not sure how to watch it.

hey, I’ve just updated our FAQ page so you’ll get everything you need there :)

[joeypottrs]

You’re super valid for calling What a Feeling the best 1D song. It’s easily their best - a true bop

it’s such a VIIIIIBEEEEEEE, always a road trip song, ALWAYS.

[youidiotprince]

Talking about how Robbe really bottles things up, it’s one of the reasons why I adore the way his relationship with Milan was developed throughout the season and especially in the most recent clip. I’m so glad that he has someone that he trusts and that he can go to for advice instead of his worries/concerns just swirling around in his head and him overthinking things. Whatever you think of his friends, there’s no way he’d be comfy having that conversation with them so I’m glad he has Milan.

I definitely agree, I think he really needed a Milan-esque figure in his life, and I’m glad he found one and is actually embracing it and going to him with questions. I could maybe see him going to Jens about it, but I don’t think he’d be as comfortable with Jens as he was with Milan (and Jens would give horrible advice involving toothpaste so that’s that on that!). If he didn’t have Milan to talk through it with, I could definitely see this becoming a thing he bottles up his emotions about and could eventually snap over, even if it’s just at his friends instead of Sander. I’m so proud of his development though and how open he’s become with Milan!!