#stormys-posts

[where-are-the-spooky-gays-2]

Remus could like actually have a pole..I mean..

E X A C T L Y!!! We were so robbed when those pics got deleted!!!

[salad-storm]

Man I love kabru. He's 22. His favourite hobby is analysing people. Sometimes it doesn't even help him he just has fun with it. He has blue eyes. they're a source of trauma for him. His mother and entire town got eradicated when he was a kid by monsters from a dungeon. He goes to work in a dungeon. His name isn't even kabru. His adoptive mother raises random short-lived race children for fun. She's a renowned swordswoman and he received brutal training from her. He could kill any human but is somewhat shit at fighting monsters. He speaks multiple languages. He hates elves and wants humans to just Get Better at being in charge. He thinks of the girl who has a crush on him as "lol big sister". He tries to befriend a guy, fails epically, follows him around, finds out he has to kill him to prevent the One Thing He's Here To Do, and doesn't kill him. Every time he interacts with this guy he thinks only of violence and pain yet does basically everything to get on his good side. He's a nurse for a week. Later he helps the guy he was nursing find his will to live again. He likes tomatoes. His party thinks he's an absolutely amazing leader. He has basically zero experience in a dungeon. He's angry the guy he was trying to befriend/kill survives. Then he becomes his advisor after he's made king. His people skills are so good that he's become creepy with them. He smiles at people like :) while playing 3d chess mindgames with them. He's great. I love him dearly

[ghostsprobably]

GLOOMIX TIME

(lore and symbolism under the cut)

This jewelry was crafted centuries ago during Valtor's rampage. Under threat of violence, he forced artisans to create the the pieces in the interest of gifting them to the Ancestral Witches after his total victory over the world of Magix.

When his defeat finally came, they were seized by authorities and eventually ended up in the Archives of the Wizards of the Black Circle on Earth. There they sat for ages collecting dust.

After betraying his fellow Wizards to aid them in their quest to free Valtor, Gantlos offered them to the Trix as a thank you gift. This would be a decision he would come to sorely regret...

ICY

Gem:

Opal - Truth, Wealth, Inner Fire

Placement:

Chest and Abdomen - Brutality, Internalization of Goals, Determination Even at One's Own Detriment, Leadership, Promises

Insignia:

Icy's initial can be found on her bracelets, showing how she is controlled by her identity. Her life is ruled by the expectations set on her by others... and by herself.

DARCY

Gem:

Amethyst - Mental Clarity, Healing, Dispel Negativity

Placement:

Head and Neck - Manipulation, Communication, Mind and Body, Psychic Attacks and Psychological Warfare, Cleverness

Insignia:

Darcy's initial is somewhat hidden in her belt, while still being front and center. Though she puts her depravity on display, others still can't help but be charmed by her... despite their better judgement.

STORMY

Gem:

Ruby - Passion, Love, Protection in Battle

Placement:

Stomach and Hips - Energy, Intuition, Legacy and Lineage, Connection with Female Ancestry, Fear and Joy, Wisdom

Insignia:

Stormy's initial literally holds part of her outfit together. She grew up with appreciation and pride for witches, and her reverence outweighs the uneasiness she once felt about their actions.

[ytelovski]

you can guess where my mind wanders to

[ragingtempests]

modern au where tav has to talk gale out of investing into crypto

[rogerdeakinsdp]

Cinematography by Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC: Stormy Monday (1988) directed by Mike Figgis

[kirider]

[04/11/2024+05/11/2024]

Mom said that since no one else cares about Stormy Age I'm allowed to do anything with it so I'm making post apocalyptic designs for everyone :P

[academic-vampire]

“I see the darkness where you see the light.”

-“Black Friday,” song by Tom Odell

[estcaligo]

Stormy nights 🤫

[eywaseclipse]

This aura trend was made for the Pinterest girlies!!! We were born for this lol. Go forth and bring your aura to tumblr! I feel like it’s pretty accurate for me 🌊🧜🏽‍♀️

[werewolfsister]

A Labour of Love Master Directory

Welcome to the comic directory! Looking for a specific chapter? Look no further! More details about the comic at the end of this page!

[STATUS: COMPLETE!]

Please, Enjoy!

MISCELLANEOUS [HERE!]

THE BEGINNING [HERE!]

2. THE COURTING SHELL [HERE!]

3. STORMY WEATHER [HERE!]

4. MOTHER KNOWS BEST [HERE!]

5. CONFESS [HERE!]

6. JOURNEY [HERE!]

7. SPECIAL DELIVERY [HERE!]

8. RESCUE [HERE!]

8a. RESCUE SIDE STORY: MECHANICAL MYSTERY [HERE!]

9. POLITICAL AFFAIRS [HERE!]

9.a. POLITICAL AFFAIRS SIDE STORY: DISTRESS CALL [HERE!]

10. STORY NOTES: BEHIND ENEMY LINES [HERE!]

11. TRAVEL [HERE!]

12. DENOUEMENT [HERE!]

13. EPILOGUE [HERE!] [JOIN THE EPILOGUE!]

•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••

ABOUT THE COMIC

🐠 This is a completed Legend of Zelda fan comic that takes places after the events of the game Tears of the Kingdom, specifically after my main comic Shadow Out of Time (on hiatus). A Labour of Love focused on the good people of Zora's Domain and their struggles to coexist with other less-friendly Domains. The comic started as a romantic comedy and has since evolved into a sort of interactive political drama with romantic elements. It started at the beginning of May 2024 and finished near the end of November 2024!

🐟 Collaboration and interactivity were important features of the comic: fan OCs were regularly included, and major plot decisions have been influenced by readers.

🦀 During the Rescue chapter, I received rude messages which I addressed here. Here's a post on online etiquette I find very helpful, and another that I think is even better!

🦀🦀 I was later accused of intellectual property theft, which I take very seriously. Here's a more comprehensive post with a log, timelines evidence, etc. My friend and I were bullied online because of this, and as a result I decided to retire my blog and essentially leave the website after I had completed the comic.

🦀🦀🦀 Highlighting issues and drama is uncomfortable! But I believe being 100% transparent is the ethical thing to do. The point of the comic was for people to come together to work on something wonderful! So, exposing the ugly parts rather than hiding them is awkward, but necessary.

⭐️ Acknowledgement to Nintendo for copyright, ownership, etc. of The Legend of Zelda and all its assets

[where-are-the-spooky-gays-2]

Virgil and Remus

Remus is the ugly one (their both hot asf but Virgil has my heart)

Damn RIP Pony!Ree manz was just ugly but has a hot ass husband /light hearted /joking

[spittyfishy]

Prepare for an absolute onslaught of akuma art lol, I’ve got a bunch from last year I never posted

[chervonyizvir]

[merriclo]

I want to know your LU headcanons!

ohHO i will absolutely tell you tysm for asking!! i’ve been wanting to talk abt them for ages but just never got around to it ig ahjdkcka

Time’s actually like 32 and is just really committed to the bit of being ancient

Sky is horrific at making new friends. he grew up with the same small group of people, so he never learned how to make friends with complete strangers because there simply wasn’t the need to. so, when he first starts traveling with the chain, he makes little wooden charms for them because he isn’t entirely sure how else to get close with them. Zelda always enjoyed his woodcarvings, so maybe they will too??

as a result, the entire chain has little trinkets made by Sky. on Legend’s bag there’s charms hanging off the straps, and Twilight wears his as necklaces (both because it looks cool as fuck and it helps the shadow crystal stand out less). yes Wind has specifically commissioned him to make something for Aryll

yeah yeah bunny Legend but consider: the mermaid suit (which I like to think is more of a curse bc get fished pink man <3) giving him some marine animal qualities as well. no matter what tho that bitch is an Ariel kinnie, they’re collecting all the shiny shit they can find

Sky is obsessed with doing puzzles the Right and Proper way, meanwhile Wild cheeses absolutely everything he can

Wind believes in all of those classic pirate superstitions

the witches in Legend’s era adore him. Grandma Syrup dotes on him, Maple is like a teasing older sister, and Irene is like a teasing younger sister. this is where he learned most of his magic skills from, and he takes all potentially enchanted or cursed items to them to check out. he’ll never admit it, but Legend finds lots of comfort in all of them, as they’re one of the few people who’ve stayed in his life this long.

Wild’s a pretty good medic!! during his adventure, he very quickly realized how dangerous infection is, so they learned about a lot of home remedies and medicinal herbs, as well as how to tend to a wound from other travelers at stables and inns. he didn’t really get a choice in learning, considering how he probably got stung or bit by painful insects or accidentally brushed up against painful plants a lot during the early days of their adventure, and thus showed up to stables covered in rashes and hives and such, causing every decent person in the area to flock to them and try to help. their Hyrule is very sweet, okay?

they’re not the only one who’s well acquainted with medicinal herbs, though! while I think all of them would have a basic understanding, Time, Hyrule, Warriors, and Wind would know a lot. dw i’m elaborating

Time quite literally grew up in the forest, was raised by a tree, and had actual forest spirits for siblings—he knows his plants. he and Saria would peel willow bark and collect dandelions together

I like to think that Hyrule being half-fae makes him very sensitive to all magic-based auras, including that of plants, so they’re very good at picking out the healing herbs, even if they’re not quite sure what they’re called

listen ok hear me out about Warriors. young Time was appalled that he knew jackshit about nature and forcefully taught him. also, before modern medicine, medicinal plants were used all the fucking time on the battle field. yarrow, an herb that stops bleeding and prevents infection, is called soldiers’ woundwort because of this. i mention this because he was probably concerned about the health and safety of his troops, so he learned what the medics were doing and using.

Wind grew up on a small, tight-knit island, realistically they would’ve had to have learned how to use the things around them to their fullest advantage. that being said, his knowledge is sort of useless outside of his own era, aside from what he was taught in the war. ok i’m done talking about medicinal herbs now i promise sorry it’s a hobby of mine ahhsjdka

Legend’s terrified of dogs. in Link’s Awakening, the dogs are literally balls on chains with huge mouths full of sharp teeth (basically just Chain Chomps). if you want to get angsty with it: it comes from guard dogs being sent after him on his first adventure. he became a lot less scared to more he spent time with BowBow (the ball and chain dog) but, when he woke up, he got the belief that he could only be safe around a dog in his dreams. he’s pretty damn uncomfortable around Wolfie at first, but after lots of time and learning to trust Twilight, he’s able to slowly overcome his fear. sort of. mostly just with Wolfie. he still hates staying at stables in Wild’s Hyrule.

if Wild doesn’t want to explain/source something he’ll just say it came to him via divine intervention. Sky believes it every single time

I was thinking about Legend’s story a while ago and realized it was kind of similar to Joan of Arc’s so take that as you will. idk if this even counts as a headcanon but i’m putting it here

Warriors and Twilight are really close friends because they both understand the struggles of wrangling dirt worshipping nature freaks. anytime Twilight (lovingly) complains about Wild, Wars will counter with whatever asinine feral child antics young Time got up to and suddenly Twi will feel very blessed and lucky

whenever Four sees someone with their hair in a high ponytail he subconsciously thinks they’re very smart and respectable because Dot always wears her hair in a high ponytail

Hyrule is completely fine with not sleeping on a bedroll. they like the dirt, actually. let them sleep in the dirt.

Legend uses apples in his red potions, both to increase their potency and to make them taste better. he also learned how to enchant apples to be healing on their own so sometimes when someone’s hurt he’ll just shove an apple in their face

uhh so ik this is a lot but this isn’t even close to of all my headcanons so yeah there’s that lmao

[storm-driver]

hi, i have feelings about cartoon nostalgia and the audience perception of them 20 years on

this is gonna read hyper-specific, but bear with me

i refuse to credit butch hartman for the way danny phantom came out during it's first two seasons, at least outside of the initial pitch and the idea of the protagonist having white hair. i know the majority of enthusiasts for this show are more than aware of hartman's antics at this point. these anctics, i won't get into. other people are far more suited to explain that stuff vs me, a random guy on the internet. but there's very specific topics that i don't often see get brought up in detail, like the production and staff behind this show.

i'll get into it below the cut so as not to clutter your dashboard. but if you're not familiar with the actual production history of danny phantom, this might be interesting to read.

it's common knowledge these days that stephen silver is the one who developed the design for danny based on hartman's original rough sketches. the similarity between each drawing is apparent, but you can see clear as day which design was gonna be more apt for animation and overall audience allure back in 2003.

he also did character designs for hartman's other poster child, Fairly Oddparents. the trend is similar, though far from a huge concern. character design overhauls happen all the time in media production. designs might be too complicated for animation, so they get stripped down. or maybe things aren't complex enough and more nuance needs to be added. that's normal stuff, and i am not dunking on hartman for not nailing danny's design right out the gate. i'm pointing this out in case you've ever looked at butch hartman's recent work and wondered "how are these done by the same artist?"

the answer is they weren't. hartman had to adapt to stephen silver's conceptual designs in order to work on the storyboards. take from that what you will.

onto the actual writing.

butch barely wrote a single episode for this show's first two seasons.

steve marmel helped write at least 28 episodes of the original two seasons, with writers like sib ventress and marty isenberg bringing a good amount of episodes to the table, as well.

butch hartman is credited primarily for directing and storyboarding this show. the episode pitch and writing was by other people almost entirely. the ONLY episodes in the first two seasons that hartman is credited with having written are mystery meat, one of a kind and splitting images. and he's credited with co-writing these episodes alongside steve marmel and mark banker. ie, he did not write these episodes on his own. and allegedly, butch hartman had a tendency to be credited as a writer for an episode, even if he only wrote a few lines of dialogue. again, take from that what you will.

past that in season 3, he wrote infinite realms, torrent of terror, forever phantom, urban jungle, and ofc, phantom planet. which a lot of people know, these episodes in particular weren't the most enjoyable, nor was the overall direction of them very good.

a director's job is to make sure that the overall tone, feel, and message of the show is being kept consistent with intent. that means meeting with producers, who are the ones managing the, y'know, producing part of the whole project. it may sound like the director is the one heading the project if it's their job to keep things in check. which, i will not deny, hartman must've put in a good deal of work to make the show come out as well as it did.

but pile that with some of the off things per episode. the mean-spirited way that characters tend to be taught lessons, the voice direction getting a drastic change in season 3 (you can hear it explicitly with david kaufman suddenly going for higher pitches instead of the usual one he's done so far). there's really only one consistent motif in the entire show's OST. which isn't a bash against the music producer. it's a concern that the director of the show never asked him to change things up, and ONLY stuck to this one motif.

to briefly touch on the mean-spirited thing. there's multiple instances in the show where danny or someone else is seen fighting back against whatever has given them trouble, or they're taking matters into their own hands to ensure they won't be hurt ahead of time. and repeatedly, the show likes to kick these characters back down for trying to stand up. it's a trend in all of butch hartman's shows, and it's treated more like comedy than anything else. it's up to audience perception on how to view it. but for me personally, it starts to feel like an overused gag and turns into something more malevolent after seeing it overused almost every single episode.

okay besides that, i actually wanna look at specific examples of episodes that steve marmel wrote for. again, this is the guy who's more or less responsible for the show's serialization.

the complete list of episodes is as follows:

Mystery Meat, Parental Bonding, One of a Kind, Attack of the Killer Garage Sale, Splitting Images, What You Want, Bitter Reunions, Prisoners of Love, My Brother's Keeper, Shades of Gray, Fanning the Flames, Teacher of the Year, Fright Night, 13(Thirteen), Public Enemies, Memory Blank, Reign Storm, The Ultimate Enemy, The Fright Before Christmas, Secret Weapons, Flirting with Disaster, Micro Management , Kindred Spirits, and Reality Trip.

multiple episodes listed here are from the first season, which a lot of people consider the show's best. and of the handful listed for season 2, he wrote all of the hour-long specials.

i would be here for hours talking about how steve marmel tackles all of these characters and concepts significantly better than hartman does in season 3. but that's a topic best praised elsewhere. point is, if you watched any of these episodes and thought to yourself "wow, that was actually kinda clever," steve marmel is more or less the guy responsible.

butch hartman was in charge of direction, but that does not give him exclusive credit for every single line of dialogue or plot beat. there could be a LOT we just don't know because people on production staff don't want to comment. but the writing consistency taking a dive off the board by season 3, which is the same season that steve marmel departed from the project due to conflicting direction in the story? you might deduce that butch hartman was not the prized writer and artist behind this otherwise beloved cartoon.

to dredge up an easier-to-tackle target, season 3.

my criticisms are 18-year old echoes at this point, you've heard them all. from otherwise pointless episodes that don't develop the characters or world, to completely out-of-touch writing (looking at you, phantom planet) that juxtaposes the characters with everything we've been told about them so far. it became a slog of a season that didn't have any build-up to it's finale. the occasional gem of an episode like frightmare helped in some aspects. or the promise for something later with d-stabilized. but it all gets swept under the rug thanks to a rushed finale with poor build-up, bad writing direction for the characters, and most importantly, an unlasting effect on the viewer. (or a negative lasting effect, which is arguably worse)

for a season that knew it was on its last leg before inevitably needing to give up, there's seldom few episodes dedicated to advancing an overall narrative, and thus give a slimmer of hope for a satisfying conclusion. instead, the show goes all in with villain-of-the-week stories, and even the returning villains are hardly taken seriously or given more to do besides just being there.

of course, we know the reason steve marmel had left the project was because hartman wanted the show not to taken a more story-focused drive. it almost starts to feel like spite that kept the show so horribly grounded, letting it become stagnant before eventually being forgettable.

all this is in service of letting people know, it really wasn't butch hartman that made the show, not alone. death of the author and all that nonsense aside, he pitched the concept. and it takes a lot of love and dedication to make a concept something you can physically see and adore. don't let him swath in all the credit. recognize the others who made the work you can still enjoy.