#totk one year anniversary

[echoesofwisdomcountup]

364 Days since Tears of the Kingdom Released. HAPPY ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF TOTK. Yes that math is right because I started day 1 a day after the day TOTK released. You have no idea how many nightmares I had about being days off (I want a good grade in count-up, something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve.) Anyway, I’ll admit that Totk didn’t exactly achieve everything people expected/wanted it to. However, what it has done is given us precious memories. Totk is the reason that I started this account. I’ve enjoyed interacting with you all so much and diving through tags to reblog the wonderful art that so many skilled people have taken the time to make and share. Our love of the Legend of Zelda series will forever bond us. Thank you for coming with me on this journey and I hope you will continue to stop by in the future.

[itsyaboi-lehoe]

Happy 1 year anniversary to Tears of the Kingdom!

To celebrate, here is my postgame designs for Link and Zelda! I might share my specific headcanons for each of them if there’s enough interest across socials!

[pitchblackespresso]

Happy one year anniversary, totk!

[zellink]

anointed

[hotstreak2k3]

An new TOTK Art poster has been released by Nintendo for the One Year Anniversary.

[godcomplexhaver]

TEARS OF THE KINGDOM WAS RELEASED ONE YEAR AGO TODAY!!! 🎉🎉

[deetax]

Happy Birthday Tears Of the Kingdom 💚

[l0verseyes]

happy one year anniversary totk !! 🥳

[janedoeremi]

Tumblr Memes of 2023

January: Polls, Bug Race, Tumblr Sexyman Round 2, No Fly List Leak

February: Vanilla Extract, Tumblr Sexywoman Polls, Homestuck Fandom Commiting Voter Fraud, Miette decimating Todoroki in Blorbo Polls, Just so many polls

March: Dean Winchester and his Time Traveling Impala in The Winchesters, Celebrating Ides of March a week early, March 14th: The Day Krabs Fries, Ides of March, Autism Swag Poll, Ultimate Cat Girl (Gender Neutral) Poll, Putin having a warrent for his arrest, The Bots returned with a vengance

April: April Fools Day, Sonic the Hedgehog died, Trumps arrest, Barbie Arresting Trump, Everyone getting a Barbie description, Poll with Nina Tucker and Alexander needs them to tie to move on together, hyperspecific polls, Misha Collins assigned Bisexual by the WB, Elon Musk being the victim of Murphy's Law, It's gonna be May

May: Dracula Daily cast is stuck in a time loop, Trigun stan causes book: This Is How You Lose the Time War to become a bestseller, whatever the fuck happened with Eurovision, TOTK releases and gave us our feral Link back, Barbie and Ken arrested template.

June: Pride month, Across the Spiderverse... just all of it, trump getting arrested...again, The Great Reddit Migration & r/196, Horse Race, Meows Morales, The week long Titanic Oceangate Iron Lung Clusterfuck, Destial 'i love you' news meme trends at least 4 different times for different reasons, Papyrus says fuck day

July: Twitter post rationing causing Tumblr Migration 2: Electric Boogaloo, ao3 went down for 2 days, ao3 readers debating on going back to wattpad/ff.net, Barbieheimer double feature, Tree Law invoked, Elon renamed Twitter to X

August: Tiktok trying and failing to make their own Goncharov: Zepotha, Destiel confirmed canon again by not-so-rouge translator, Riverdale polycule finale, Trump mugshot, One Piece Live Action Pirate-Clown annoys Tumblr users

September: Mole Interest, Ice King became a Tumblr Sexyman again, 21st of September.

October: Spooky month, Merlin Twitter updates for first time in years to show streaming options confusing fans, The Amazing Digital Circus and Nerdy Prudes Must Die both trend for a week straight, trying to insert Markipler into the FNAF Movie

November: Nov. 5th 3rd year anniversary, Zach and Cody get their dinner reservation after 15 years. Goncharovs 1st 50th anniversary.

December: Gavle Goat being devoured by Jackdaws, Hbomberguy lives up to his name and nukes James Somerton's plagerism ridden channel, Its Dec 10th, We're gonna have to kill this guy template, almost Christmas, one more sleep til Christmas (screams internally), Halloween trends on Christmas Eve

[leciraofthewilderness]

So, despite some faults, I really enjoyed totk, and on its anniversary I want to say something about it. Other people have said similar things before but it’s really important to me and actually a big part of why the story of totk was meaningful to me, so I want to also say it:

Zelda needed to come back from draconification. The story needed that. It wasn’t lazy and just ignoring “consequences” because (imo) that was the *point*

The point is to feel like there are going to be terrible consequences and then say actually, no. You can come back from this, with the help of other people.

To me at least, that was the theme of the whole story.

If botw was about how the world goes on past loss and grief and starts to heal (how flowers grow in the ruins and the world can be beautiful again, be worth saving, even if it has changed)…then totk was about a more personal kind of healing.

The weight of the world should not be on your shoulders alone…you, alone, should not have to fix everything…you should not have to sacrifice yourself, but when you do, someone will be there to save you from it.

This turned into a really long ramble so:

You (Link) gained so much and now it’s gone. It feels like you’re back to where you started and yet you know you have to do it all again…you were weak and you failed and you’re weaker now…but

You go down to the surface. Monsters swarm across it once again. Other people are fighting them too though. You help, but it’s not just you…

You go to the Rito, the Gorons, the Zora, the Gerudo…just like with the divine beasts, there are friends who help you save each region. But this time, part of them comes along with you when you leave. It’s nice, you realize, the first time one of them protects you from a monster you weren’t prepared for. You’re still weaker than you were before, but someone has your back…

When you go up to the sky you see a strange new dragon there. There’s something about them that feels familiar. You try not to think about it.

You go down to the depths too. It’s terrifying at first. You hate it. You only want to get what you came for and get out of the dark….but slowly, the light grows. You get stronger. The dark feels like a challenge you can face (and someone has your back).

There are spirits down there. You don’t know when they’re from, but some part of you wonders…are these all the people you let die in the Calamity? (You help them find rest from their wandering. The weight on your shoulders feels a little less heavy).

There’s so much gloom. The first few times the sky turns red and hands chase you (a reminder of what you’ve lost, how you failed) you just run. Eventually though, you have to fight. It feels like the (second) worst day of your life again. But you manage to get free of the grasping gloom and stand and fight, as wild and desperate as it is. Beneath the manifestation of your worst fears, there’s another thing to fight, but this time it has a face (a voice in the back of your head says…you know this isn’t all on you and your failure…it’s really Ganon’s fault right?). You get through it.

At every turn in your travels, it seems like something reminds you of Zelda. Her passion, her curiosity, her kindness. You miss her.

At first, the tears you find reassure you. She may be in the past, but she’s safe. She’ll come back somehow…but then you hear the word draconification for the first time. You want to believe she wouldn’t do it but you know her and the fear sits cold inside you. (Zelda is a lot of things. She’s been allowed to be more of them, since she was freed from her hundred year battle, without her father holding her back. But deep down inside her, there’s a vein of self-sacrifice that still runs strong. It’s what saved the world before, after all).

She did it. She really did it. She’s gone from you (from Hyrule) forever, and it’s all your fault. If only you hadn’t failed so utterly in the battle (you can hardly even call it that) under the castle. If only you’d caught her. If only you hadn’t let the sword break. You should have protected her you should have been better it’s all your fault and now she has to live with the consequences, forever. Everything really is on you, you should have been better.

(Zelda POV: you couldn’t call upon Hylia’s power in time, you were too content to let it wither and fade away from you, ready to be free of it. You shouldn’t have. He got hurt, the sword got hurt, it’s your fault…Sonia and Rauru help you channel it again, Sonia helps you learn how to turn back time…but you don’t save her. She dies because you couldn’t save her. Rauru dies not long after. There is no one left to guide you, once again. You could spend years trying to figure it out on your own. But you did that last time. It didn’t work. Self-sacrifice, stepping in front of someone you love, that worked. (You do what you can, to call upon the sages, to help Link in the future, first). And then you swallow the stone. You’ve come a long way, in the past five years, allowing yourself to exist. But in the end, self-sacrifice worked last time. It’ll work this time too.)

You (Link) go down beneath the castle. You were supposed to bring the sages but you didn’t. It’s nice, for someone to have your back. But no one else should get hurt to fix your mistakes.

They follow you anyway. They fight with you, against the hordes, against the greatest enemies you defeated together, along the way. They’ll have your back, even if you don’t think you deserve it.

You fight Ganondorf, and then the demon king, in the hardest battle of your life. You think it’s over and then the demon king decides it’s better to lose himself completely than let you win. You’re exhausted and afraid of yet another battle, but up there in the sky, when you’re falling, the Light Dragon catches you (you wonder why she changed her path to catch you, you wonder if there’s still something of Zelda left in there to save). With her help, you win.

And then you’re in some other realm. The spirits of Sonia and Rauru are there. You remember how the two of them and Zelda channeled such incredible power together. You think about Recall. Turning something back to the memory of what it was before, like Sonia said. You stand with them and you allow yourself to hope. Maybe the Light Dragon can remember the form she took so long ago, the person that she was.

And then you’re falling, and Zelda is falling, but this time you catch her. You catch her. She’s back home with you, finally, finally.

And maybe, one mistake doesn’t have to be the end of the world. You don’t have to be perfect. Sometimes, someone else can stand with you, and it’ll all turn out alright. (You can put the weight of the world on your shoulders, you can sacrifice yourself, but someone will be there to catch you, someone will be there to pull you back to yourself, when all is said and done).

[carpthecarp]

Happy one year anniversary totk! This was super rushed I wish I had the time to make something better to celebrate:(

[zeldaelmo]

Happy TotK anniversary!

I'm working on things I can't share yet, so I'll make a list of all my published TotK stories instead!

The three golden rules of a jeweler are discretion, politeness, and subtlety. No big deal for Isha, Gerudo Town's jewelry shopkeeper, but there's one customer who keeps her on her toes.

Read Shop Rules

Link joins Zelda’s class so that her students can learn first hand about the knights of Hyrule. Turns out they aren’t as prepared for the children’s questions as they thought...

Read Rumors have Wings

Zelda and Link are finally back home in Hateno but... the time apart has left traces on them both. It's nearly impossible for Link to push aside what so often happened around midnight while she was gone and her tender voice failed to warn him about the blood moon.

Read Just after Midnight

Link shows Zelda his new dream home... Or rather what's left of it.

Read Superglue

He has done it all before, but the difference is - this time he remembers.

Read It's Lonely at the Top

Modern AU with TotK characters and outfits.

Zelda is taking over the fabric store from her mother and struggles to balance traditions, new ideas, and financial problems. The last thing she needs in her sewing class is a guy who disagrees with her every word and threatens to ruin her favorite time of the year: Christmas.

Read One Stitch at the Time

That's more than I thought it would be. 😅

[lucky-clover-gazette]

HAPPY ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY TEARS OF THE KINGDOM <3

i've spent the past year casually editing together a heavily-edited "video scrapbook" of my first totk playthrough! while the final product isn't complete (and it's like 40 minutes long already), i wanted to post something for the game's one-year anniversary. these are selected parts from the bigger video. all the footage is from screen recordings i took on my switch in may 2023.

expect some loud noises (although i did check the audio balance so it's not too bad) and some flashing. a lot of this is just funny, but some is just super sentimental. i'm especially proud of the way i edited the hyrule castle cutscene to reflect my interpretation of link's character.

if a full version of this sounds interesting, please let me know! this video is mostly for me, but i'd still be happy to share.

[kitzeeee]

more totk fanart, and the biggest drawings I’ve ever made :3

This was supposed to be out on the 12th for TOTK’s one year anniversary, but it took me wayy longer than expected. Also it’s for my dad so I took my time. Overall I like it a lot.

made with:

ibisPaintX, phone, finger

the timer on ibis is off for this drawing it says 14 hours 18 minutes, but it’s probably closer to 13 hours. Whatever it is it still took forever and I’m glad to be done lolll.

[artsy-n-smartsy]

I dont have much to offer for TOTK's one year anniversary....but I do have this mini sketch qwQ

Nose kisses tWt

[accidentalsoravoice]

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ZELINK IS REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

HOLY SHIT GUYS NINTENDO JP POSTED THIS FOR TOTK'S ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY AND

LOOK AT THEM

THE WAY HE'S CATCHING HER LIKE HE DID IN THE GAME OH MY HEART CAN'T TAKE IT