#toonlink

[artsylizzy82]

Spirit Tracks Zelink!!! :33 💜💙💚✨️ I had fun coloring this one <33

[woodenplankstudios]

Link and Pikachu have issues...

[7grandmel]

Todays rip: 13/05/2024

Stickerbrush Queen

Season 1 Featured on: SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume L [Side A]

Ripped by toonlink

EIGHT. Years later. And we're still jammin'. I can't believe I missed the anniversary to such a historic part of the channel's legacy. I hope the world can forgive me for being a whole day late and that we can all recover from this scandal together.

Stickerbush Symphony is one of the most revered songs within VGM to a degree I don't think I can describe accurately. The original version from Donkey Kong Country 2 is still arguably David Wise's magnum opus and continues to touch hearts everywhere through its various YouTube reuploads, wheras the equally-beautiful remix in Super Smash Bros. Brawl has its hooks in an entire generation of Wii kids who are forever attached to the theme through its prominence in the Subspace Emissary campaign. It of course has a huge presence on SiIvaGunner too, one I've covered multiple times before, most notably in Sidelined Symphony. Yet the song's presence on SiIvaGunner has branched out into something entirely different, an outright franchise of bangers based on the already banging Brawl remix - all of which started with Stickerbrush Queen.

Yes, you'll have to forgive me for Toonlink-glazing once again...it's likely that not even this will be his final appearance on here, but it genuinely cannot be overemphasized just how much of Season 1's spirit was defined by his contributions. Rips like The Great Weed and Dr. Soulja are just quintessential SiIvaGunner to me, and were my go-to rips to share back in 2016, their comedic timing near unmatched, but Toonlink's versatility as a ripper extended to genuine bangers as well. Case and point - Stickerbrush Queen, the first-ever rip of Brawl's interpretation of Bramble Blast, and one that hit the nail on the head right away with an utmost brilliant idea - to use the track as the backing beat to a rap mashup. Whether or not you have attachment to Trap Queen or Fetty Wap before listening doesn't matter - the two halves of the rip lift each other up in such perfect harmony, that it starts to feel wrong to listen to them in isolation afterward.

In my eyes, a huge part of what makes the mashup work is that its playing to the traits of Trap Queen rather than lifting it into a completely different environment - its beat in the original version has a very similar bright, sparkly sound to Brawl's Bramble Blast, and the contrast between it and the vocals are likely part of how Trap Queen was envisioned. More drastic tone changes in rap mashups can certainly bang, I fucking love Sweatpants Select for that very reason, yet there's something just so elegant about how Stickerbrush Queen does it - it still FEELS different, the Bramble Blast instrumental is undeniably emotional, yet its able to balance itself out through the steady rhythm of Trap Queen's vocals. The break in the middle of the rip, at around a minute in, hits extra hard though - the instrumental additions to Trap Queen changing in turn make it such a memorable part of the whole and unify the two songs amazingly well.

Being uploaded so early into the channel's very first season, during the period of time in which EVERYONE's eyes were on this weird new music uploading channel, Stickerbrush Queen slowly garnered a sort of legendary reputation. Perhaps that was just my view of things, but it was one that got validated more and more as the channel went on. More Bramble Blast and Stickerbush Symphony rips were made over the months and years, ones like Stickerbrush State of Mind and more, that all felt like they were paying tribute to the very beginnings of it all. Eventually, those tributes would become direct - The premiere to Season 6 of the channel, Bramble Blast Collab, includes direct nods to this one rip, and its only one of several examples - most notably, a direct tribute to it on Season 7's RIP² album. This release, 7 YEARS LATER AND WE STILL JAMMIN', is of course also notable for referencing perhaps what the rip is most known for these days - the persistence of one sole commenter who returns to Stickerbrush Queen once a year on its anniversary to remind everyone that, yes, all these years later we ARE still jammin'.

Eight years, huh...that's nutty to think about - and yet even with its age, this one sole rip continues to be referenced all over the place on the channel. Stickerbush Symphony, Bramble Blast,whatever you want to call it (even StickerBRUSH Symphony if you're wrong), continues to live on, celebrated as the legendary piece of VGM it always has been - yet the contribution Toonlink made to its legacy all those years ago feels everpresent in a way that's really fun to see - almost EVERYONE following the channel has heard that one mashup at one point or another. Be it the aforementioned direct arrangement of it on RIP², or this fucking stupid tweet that blew up around the rip's fifth anniversary...its the kind of rip that just brings the community together any time we get to hear a trace of it. The definition of an enduring classic - and yes, we are STILL Jammin'.

[megu-art-blog]

New year dresses suggestions

[misio-dangisio]

I drew EveryLinks without any references or sketches

[kakelikeschips]

Toon link

[ambershirelle]

🌿🍄 Minish Cap piece I made for the Zelink Fan zine 🍄🌿

[thecalendork]

Anyone else feeling a little grumpy thanks to the time change?

[msbeezyweezy]

Toon link is so cool man, I really want another zelda game that looks like wind waker so badly!!!

[auromzayart]

I made this illustration for a final project of my university, SP was my first TLOZ, so it was very special for me, in addition to the game mechanics that make the player feel part of the story, like tracing the routes in the train tracks or literally blow the screen to make the flute work, for these reasons I decided to draw myself as a train driver, forming one more character in the story along with a little fairy!

[saritatoyx]

Nintendo amiibo Super Smash Bros Toon Link

El amiibo de Toon Link (Super Smash Bros.) es uno de los amiibos que están relacionados a la saga de Zelda. Este en particular es compatible con los juegos de Hyrule Warriors: Legends para Nintendo 3DS, Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition y The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD para Wii U, y finalmente The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild y The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening para Nintendo Switch. Fue lanzado el día 22 de enero de 2015 en Japón, un día después en Europa y en febrero de 2015 en Estados Unidos. Su diseño corresponde al de Toon Link, versión del joven héroe que debutó en The Wind Waker.

Link (Rinku en japonés) es una de las figuras pertenecientes a la serie Super Smash Bros.

Representa a uno de los personajes iniciales de Super Smash Bros. para Nintendo 3DS y Super Smash Bros. para Wii U.

Los amiibo son figuras divertidas y de alta calidad de Near Field Communication (NFC) para coleccionar que también desbloquean extras especiales en el juego para los juegos de Nintendo Wii U y 3DS. 

Tu amiibo puede entrenarse, usarse para desbloquear nuevos trajes Mii y poderes de personajes, y mucho más en una variedad de juegos.

Disfruta de la nueva forma de jugar con amiibo

[sarahi32skellington]

Toon Link!! 💚💛😉🎨👩‍🎨 #toonlink #thelegendofzelda #fanart #art🎨 https://www.instagram.com/p/CnfczmquheHv4nf9xNrh9IXXhaf81dy9xJfBSE0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[woodenplankstudios]

The left-handed Lurelin liberator

[7grandmel]

Todays rip: 24/09/2023

DRIFTVEIL CITY JUST GOT A TON MORE GROOVIER

Season 2 Featured on: SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume AI

Ripped by toonlink

Okay, so Septemberposting may be over - but in the process of looking for other Earth, Wind & Fire songs to use for the posts earlier in the week, I rediscovered an absolute gem. A gem by, of course, none other than the legend toonlink himself - arguably the best ripper of them all in the early seasons of the channel.

That proficiency alone almost guarantees any rip he works on is one for the playlists, yet we've got something else to discuss here: Driftveil City from Pokémon Black and White. In all the years Pokémon games have been releasing, its hard to find one city theme that is as unanimously beloved as Driftveil City - its vibe and beat is simply unmatched, and several YouTube uploads of the theme have view counts in the millions. Its a theme whose sheer groove and quality transcends just Pokémon fans and unites people all over to sit down and jam.

Which, too, is what DRIFTVEIL CITY JUST GOT A TON MORE GROOVIER does to SiIvaGunner viewers - arranging Earth, Wind & Fire's Let's Groove into the tune of the theme. Its a perfect match for the city's original soundscape, and uses both instruments from the original track as well as ones from the Driftveil City Gym in Pokémon Black 2 and White 2. The grooviness of both pieces are channelled into every part of the rip, from the percussion, lead and background instruments, and the intro still channelling Driftveil City's original intro.

Its hard to find much to say on rips that are so effective in being perfect - when toonlink wasn't aiming for the stars, he still took the time to refine his craft to be damn near infallible. Even back on my first listen in 2017, it was rips like this that would regularly remind me of just how good the people behind SiIvaGunner were at their hobby.

[themrnworld]

Link & Tetra - Queen & Knightking . . . #Nintendo #thelegendofzelda #thelegendofzeldathewindwaker #thelegendofzeldaphantomhourglass #link #toonlink #tetra #toonzelda #fanfiction #agedup #couple https://www.instagram.com/p/CmdseKIos-k/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[misio-dangisio]

I painted an old sketch