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💡 How'd you come up with Prince of Hyrule?

🎮 If your OL was a game, what unique game mechanics would it have or genre would it be?

💖 What's a detail you really love about your OL that you want to talk about more?

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💡= I gotta admit, I don't actually remember how I came up with Prince of Hyrule originally? It was so many years ago and it was just one of those ideas where the pieces come together so neatly there was not strictly speaking a specific "origin." If I had to guess, it would probably have been out of the question of "Who were the Zonai?" (this being an idea that preceded TOTK's release when it started, although it was partially inspired by the trailers) and the way that history can become mangled with time. How prepared was Hyrule, really? How well did they actually do at this? And then what kind of characters would I like and can I make that fit here -- which likely was where Zaal being a trans woman came from and the journey being so much of her discovery of herself.

🎮 = Which I suppose leads neatly into "What unique mechanics or genre would it be in?" -- the story as it goes is one built out of reaching the correct places, completing riddles, a fairly significant escort quest (of your precious baby sister, no less!!), one significant miniboss fight on two fronts, and finally platforming. It's actually interesting that I think this story could be played both in Melem or Zaal's POV and be similarly fraught and dramatic: they both have some really interesting dark moments, and some really interesting challenges. As much as we never see Melem's POV, he absolutely is at several points here quite afraid of Zaal's potential to reject him and leave him to die.

💖 = I am so very tempted to do more writing about Melem's backstory. I have it fairly detailed in my head, but almost none of it came up in the actual story I finished because of the way the POV was limited to Zaal's experiences and the way she's so caught up in her own head. Melem had so much going against him, and yet he still managed to come out of a life of fairly significant horrors tbh with kindness still as his first instinct towards others. Melem loves people; it's what made him so easily attach to Zaal, its what made him so patient and perceptive and I think people sometimes like to act either like hard lives leave NO mark on someone (which obviously isn't true with him either) or they are insurmountable horrors and rarely that it's a little of both. (At some point in my larger Link's Meet idea, I may have them wind up in the world after Melem & Zaal's victory and play with where Zelda and Maz went after that but alas, I am not there yet, either!)

2️⃣ = I presume this is just a "Yes I loved your work" thing, or should I have some kind of thing to say to it? If there's a question, hope you lemme know but if not it's midnight so I'm calling it good as is.

Thanks so much for the ask (and for the ask game itself!)

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"The Protector", a mother centipede pendant designed and glass blown by Jessica Tsai

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The Squabble

Two little dragons vie for a place to perch. Nothing else to see here.

I love how this piece turned out!

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Thank you so much for 200 followers on the blog! As a thank you, we've prepared an ask list for y'all. Many of these questions are are geared towards original legends works, but we're thrown in a few other categories as well for anyone else looking to join in.

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Original Legends (OL) Questions

💡 How'd you come up with your OL?

🤔 Are there parts of canon you wanted to pull from in your OL?

🤢 Are there parts of canon you didn't want to pull from or change?

✔ How did you come up with the title of your OL? What does it mean?

🎮 If your OL was a game, what unique game mechanics would it have or genre would it be?

🕹 Imagine your OL as a game, do you visualize it as top-down/2D or open world/3D?

💖 What's a detail you really love about your OL that you want to talk about more?

🔟 Give us your 10 word pitch for your OL!

🧝‍♂️ What's your favorite trait to play with in an OC Link?

👑 What's your favorite trait to play with in an OC Zelda?

🐗 What's you're favorite trait to play with in an OC Ganon?

👾 Any interesting twists on existing franchise races or any new ones?

📜 What's a concept you want to use in an OL but haven't had a chance to yet?

🕰 If your OL has a timeline placement, where is it and why did you pick it?

OC Questions

✌ What's your general approach to making an OC for fanworks?

⌛ Do you prefer to make OCs based on existing fandom characters or totally from scratch?

🖋 How do you name your OCs?

🌹 Who's your favorite OC you've made?

👿 Who's your least favorite OC you've made?

💭 Do you have a concept for an OC you haven't been able to use yet?

💪 What's your approach on balancing an OC within a setting?

General Fandom Questions

🖥 How did you get into creating (fanworks, original, OL, etc)?

⚔ How did you get into the Legend of Zelda franchise?

🔺 What's your favorite game?

🔻 What's your favorite game to create for?

❤ Favorite trope(s)

💢 Least favorite trope(s)

💌 What's a signature of your style (writing, art, etc)?

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PLEASE like and kudos my things.

I love seeing people wander by. It's like people-watching. I know some of you are shy; I know some of you are exhausted and words aren't working today.

Sometimes I am that, too.

I leave likes and kudos all the time, because I would rather wave at you than not even raise my eyes as you pass by.

The number of readers who leave comments is low, but man, it seems like nobody even leaves kudos anymore. In the first day of posting a link to a fic of mine on tumblr, i got 10 notes and about 25 hits. That fic has 2 kudos, 0 comments, and 4 private bookmarks. It's dire out there sometimes.

ive noticed this too. remember to leave kudos if you finish a fic everyone!

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Oh!

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At the risk of sounding anti-intellectual, I think that college should be free and also not a requirement for employment outside of highly specialized career fields

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Even when I try to write about fascism I write about plants

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The three kinds of bird species name

1. God’s Specialist Little Boy

2. Hot Breasted Milf

3. Grey Bird With Brown Head

4. Walter’s Fingernail

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30 seconds of me talking at him and him looking adorable

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Sanctum hall

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Fucking killer story map from NPR. A+++

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Ok, imagine you're comic accurate Clark Kent and you're a working-class immigrant raised on a farm. You grow up and dedicate your life to helping people while being a total malewife to your Pulitzer prize winner girlfriend. You're despised and targeted by an unethical, megalomaniacal billionaire who thinks his intellect and his power and his wealth entitles him to your inherent abilities and the adoration you've earned through years of nonstop altruism. YOU WERE CREATED BY TWO JEWISH MEN IN THE 1930S

And then people complain about a movie about you being too woke

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Babylon Berlin really said “fascists can easily infiltrate leftist spaces just by learning the right vocabulary” and I feel like that’s...a pretty important overall message that the fandom is mostly sleeping on.

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Reminder that you are loved