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In these times, what we truly long for is a simple act of compassion from those around us. A gentle message asking about our well-being, a reminder that we are not alone in this struggle, would mean everything to us. Every one of you, with the smallest of actions, has the power to bring light to our lives.

By a small post or sharing our story, by letting others know, you keep us in your thoughts and hearts.

Thank you for standing with us, even in the simplest ways. May you always be surrounded by kindness and care.

Stay safe, and be blessed.

I'm not sure if this is a chain thing or a copy-paste gone wrong but I second it anyway.

My standing hope in this country and in this world is that there is always a smattering of people that want to help each other, and that that kindness has the power to radiate, one selfless act at a time.

We can't give up, especially now. Now is the most important time to support each other.

-Fate

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Update

I got a lot of surprise responsibilities, and wasn’t able to properly advertise this season of Behind the Fic. Because of that, I’m removing the deadline for fic entries. We need more entries before we can start the season, so I’d appreciate it if this post could be passed around! We really encourage any author with interest to submit. Here’s the application form again:

https://forms.gle/8U3rjd1iaoQuyGao8 If you have any questions, you can ask them either on this blog or @owlheartt! 

-Owl

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Behind the Fic Season 2! (For real this time)

Hi! I’m Owlheart, a cohost from season 1. Fate unfortunately can’t continue heading the project, but she’s very helpfully willing to post stuff on my behalf. So we’re doing a new season 2! 

I don’t know much about Disney movies but I am an enjoyer of Undertale so that’s the subject of season 2. If you are interested in cohosting, please fill out this form. If you’d like to submit your fic, fill out this form. I’m closing both applications August 16th so I can get the ball rolling. 

There are two requirements for a submitted fic. The first is it has to be online somewhere so we can link it in the description of the episode and the second is that it isn’t sexually explicit.

Also! Reminder that we ask the authors a question from the audience every episode! Feel free to send those in so we can have them ready for the first episode!

I plan to post one episode on the last Saturday of every month, but I’m new to handling big projects like this so I might fumble it.

Here is the link to the whole of Season 1 for a glimpse into what things might look like:

Behind The Fic interviews fan fiction writers and highlights members of a given fandom in order to shed a positive light on writing, writing as a hobby, and writing within a universe that already exists. Behind The Fic does not make any money or pay its contributors. It's just a fun project we'll do in our spare time, just like fan fiction!

-Owl and Fate

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Tears (As In Ripping)

BTF ToTk prompt #1

Prompt List

This oneshot is based on trailers officially released by Nintendo. I have looked at no leaked copies, nor have I looked at the leaked art book.

It was a unique pain, one he had never felt before unless it was merely long forgotten. Perhaps it was a sensation a past life had grown to loathe, dread like a chronic pain, or even love, like scratching an itch well-kept by the laughter of fate. At the moment, however, Link hadn’t the kind of history with this pain to loathe it or love it. All he knew was the agony of the here and now.

It felt as if his arm was being ripped apart. The burning sensation of malice he knew from his travels upon Hyrule was present, but accompanying it was the rough violin of skin peeling, the harsh piano of bones breaking, and the over-strung harp of muscles and ligaments snapping. Link held his forearm tight, as if that would stop the surging malice in it’s tracks. He panted, squirming and wincing where he stood, and drums pounded in his ears so loud he didn’t know whether or not he was screaming.

Through his squinted eyes he saw green, fading, blurry, but green. This green was like grass on a rainy day, shining with drops of resplendent fluid. Shaped like orbs, these two parapets of green implored him in a way he did not know. He felt the ground beneath his knees, and had no idea when he had fallen to sit on his heels.

“Link.”

The sound was clouded and ethereal, but he recognized his name, her voice.

“Link, look at me.”

Her hand was like a flute, soft and gentle, instilling him with a melody so satisfying that he could drown out the pain. Zelda came into focus with a warm light. She held the torch and looked at him with concern.

“What’s…happening…” Link made out as he breathed heavily.

Zelda stole a glance behind her at something Link didn’t see.

“Everything’s fine.” It sounded like a lie but Link wanted to believe it. “Just stay with me.”

As the rest of his surroundings came into focus, Link looked down at his arm. It wasn’t torn, like it felt, but charred and burnt and withered. He shook at the sight, the shock overwhelming him. He held the hilt of the Master Sword still, somehow, as if the malice had glued it into his hand. However, the sword was now a wilted fraction of what it once was. Zelda dropped the torch to place her other hand on his cheek, redirecting his gaze back to her eyes.

“You’re okay,” she tried a smile, then repeated it. “You’re okay.”

It sounded like a lie that even she didn’t believe.

The ground beneath them shook suddenly, and it tossed them apart like rocks thrown off of either of the Dueling Peaks. Link pushed against the cave grounds as soon as he got his bearings only to see Zelda rolling off the edge and out of his sight.

“Zelda!” He exclaimed as he scrambled up, ignored the pain in his arm, dropped the Master Sword, and jumped, reaching for her.

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Tears Of The Kingdom Prompt List

May 1st: Tears (as in ripping)

May 2nd: Journal

May 3rd: Balance

May 4th: Kingdom

May 5th: Tradition

May 6th: Curse

May 7th: Recall

May 8th: Choice

May 9th: Stuck

May 10th: Tears (as in crying)

May 11th: Ascension

May 12th: A New Adventure

All posts tagged #btftotk or that @behind-the-fic will be reblogged by @behind-the-fic. There are only a few rules:

1. Please only base your work on things that have been officially released by Nintendo. This means no leaked art book, no leaked review copies, and no other leaks that come up.

2. Works can be fan fiction, art, music, mood boards, anything really

3. If you are doing ships, works can be any ship, but please no relationships that encourage rape, pedophilia, or incest. I just personally don’t want my community to face those real-world problems here. I have no way to police what you write in your own space.

4. Please tw if needed

5. You can do all the prompts, some of them, or even just one. You can do one interconnected story or lil’ oneshots. It’s all up to you!

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Chapter 2 of The Mushroom Risotto Incident is out! There’s a lot of Talking About Feelings, Tension, and Plot Relevant Cuddling. I hope you all enjoy it!

Here’s a little excerpt (more under the break):

Seeing Link’s home in Hateno with the cold distance of the divine doesn’t compare to seeing it with her own eyes.

When the sun slips fat and orange over the ocean and they’ve put dinner and their supplies away, Link makes a pallet on the floor beside his own bed. Zelda is given the bed because he refuses to let her sleep on the floor. Zelda tries with all of her diplomacy and all of her negotiation training and all of her vast intellect to get him off the floor, but he won’t budge.

“It’s your house.”

Link shakes his head. Crickets chirp outside the window.

“Link, it’s your bed.”

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Whumptober Day 1: Curse of the Hero

Adverse Effects | Unconventional Restraints | “This wasn’t supposed to happen”

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HAPPY WHUMPTOBER! I’m doing individual prompts this year, and honestly only have this one done early so this might go poorly lol!

Summary: Link makes good on his promise to spend his life protecting the Princess. 

Setting: Tears of the Kingdom

(note: this one is meant to be a little trippy)

Ao3/ Master List

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Will you be joining us? Do 1 day, do 31 days. Who cares? Just have fun! Please share.

ALL ART FORMS ACCEPTED.

ALL SKILL LEVELS WELCOME.

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Soup Ladles and Rain

read on Ao3

words: 1259

He loved what the rain had brought out in her. He loved getting to see her free of the burden that had been on her shoulders since they met. He loved her.

–

Link slowly awoke to the sound of rain.

Rolling over, he had half a mind to just move in closer to Zelda and her warmth, breathe in her flowery scent and go back to sleep, but even half-consciously, he could tell that would be impossible.

Zelda was not there.

His eyes shot open with a gasp as he sat up straight. In a panic, his gaze darted around the dark room, and after the few seconds where he couldn’t catch a glimpse of her, he jumped out of bed and flung himself down the stairs. Once his feet touched solid ground he noticed with even more panic that the front door was slightly ajar.

Immediately, Link assumed the worst. Monsters lurked outside Hateno Village, even after the Calamity. She was in trouble. She had been taken, or worse. Even with her powers, he couldn’t help but feel white hot dread creep up his throat like bile.

Trying to clear his head, he kept his eyes on the door and inched slowly toward the wall, moving backward along it until he reached the display cases that Bolson had built. He grabbed the nearest weapon he could find - a soup ladle. Recently, Zelda had taken to switching out his swords with various objects to make him laugh. It would have to do for now.

His fingers curled around the warm wood, and he held his breath as he moved stealthily toward the slightly opened door. He caught a glimpse of movement and pressed up against the wall, using the ladle to push the door open all the way. It opened silently, and he slowly leaned forward to peek outside.

The sky was gray and shrouded by the clouds and rain, light enough to indicate the onset of a hazy, early morning. The front yard of their Hateno house was occupied by Zelda, who stood there with her arms out to the side and her face turned up to the sky. If Link listened closely, he could hear her laughing above the sound of quiet rain.

All of his panic dissipated like smoke, and he pulled himself from the wall to instead stand in the doorway. His heart fluttered as it always did when he saw her, but it wasn’t often he got to see her relax. She didn’t seem bothered by the fact that her nightdress was soaked and clinging to her legs and arms, or that her bare feet were covered in mud and freshly cut grass. She was at peace, and he probably would have been content to stand there and watch her all morning.

Slowly, she lowered her arms back down to her side, her shoulders tensing as she seemed to sense his presence. She turned over her shoulder and smiled sheepishly at him. Some loose hair stuck to her face and neck, water droplets running down her cheeks. “Ah. Did I wake you?”

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BTF MFC Competition Results (Year 2)

1st Place: “To Be Forgotten” by @that-g3-obsessive​ 

https://archiveofourown.org/works/35391100

Prize: 15 dollars donated to the charity of your choice. That same charity will be featured in a future charity stream on my twitch channel. Please message me privately to tell me your chosen charity. The paragraph I wrote gushing about your fic will be in your inbox shortly.

2nd Place: “Last Look” by @drsteggy​

https://archiveofourown.org/works/39821856?view_adult=true

Prize: 10 dollars donated to the charity of your choice. Please message me privately to tell me your chosen charity. The paragraph I wrote gushing about your fic will be in your inbox shortly.

3rd Place: “We’ll see each other again” by @linktheacehero​

https://archiveofourown.org/works/41314710

Prize: 5 dollars donated to the charity of your choice. Please message me privately to tell me your chosen charity. The paragraph I wrote gushing about your fic will be in your inbox shortly.

4th place: “Something Remembered” by @louwhose​

https://archiveofourown.org/works/41422788

The paragraph I wrote gushing about your fic will be in your inbox shortly.

A massive thank you to all of our participants! These are truly some superb fics we have here!!! It was a very close race!

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Submissions are closed and the winners have been decided. Tomorrow morning I will post the winners and their respective fics and I will put my gushing in the ask boxes of all the contestants. A big thank you to all who participated!

BTF’s Annual MFC Writing Competition (Year Two!!)

Last year, I hosted a writing competition with the premise that I was having irl dry eyes and I, Fate, thought it would be fun to make it into something that inspired others to share their work, and put a bunch of awesome fics in one place. And it turned out awesome: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/behind-the-fic/658519058194497536?source=share

Well, it’s that time of year again and while I don’t struggle with dry eyes anymore, you can still make me cry and maybe get some money into charities at the same time.

The full name is Behind The Fic’s Make Fate Cry Competition, named because I am Fate (fatefulfaerie) BUT also it kinda sounds deep.

The rules will be explained in more detail further down but it’s pretty simple. The fic you submit will be judged based on how much it makes me cry. Here are the prizes:

1st place: $15 dollars donated to the charity of your choice

2nd place: $10 dollars donated to the charity of your choice

3rd place: $5 dollars donated to the charity of your choice

The winners will be announced via a post on this account in a master post of all the awesome fics submitted!! You will also get some of me gushing about your fic in your ask box (in a dm if your asks are not open). All contestants regardless of placing will get gushing.

Rules 

- if you entered the competition last year you can of course enter again, but you cannot enter with the same fic as the year prior! (I will be checking)

-all you have to do to enter is tag this account @behind-the-fic in the fic you are submitting. If you change your mind on which fic you want to submit, that’s okay, as the most recently tagged one will be your submission. BTF will reblog all submissions, but don’t abuse this!

-submissions must be at least 100 words and at most 5,000

-the story you submit can either be something already posted or something new. 

-the story must be set in the tloz franchise, but AUs are accepted!

-this is a friendly competition, please be respectful of all contestants

-submissions close September 8th, and the decision will be up September 9th

-have fun and share this around!

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Only a few days left to submit!!!

BTF’s Annual MFC Writing Competition (Year Two!!)

Last year, I hosted a writing competition with the premise that I was having irl dry eyes and I, Fate, thought it would be fun to make it into something that inspired others to share their work, and put a bunch of awesome fics in one place. And it turned out awesome: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/behind-the-fic/658519058194497536?source=share

Well, it’s that time of year again and while I don’t struggle with dry eyes anymore, you can still make me cry and maybe get some money into charities at the same time.

The full name is Behind The Fic’s Make Fate Cry Competition, named because I am Fate (fatefulfaerie) BUT also it kinda sounds deep.

The rules will be explained in more detail further down but it’s pretty simple. The fic you submit will be judged based on how much it makes me cry. Here are the prizes:

1st place: $15 dollars donated to the charity of your choice

2nd place: $10 dollars donated to the charity of your choice

3rd place: $5 dollars donated to the charity of your choice

The winners will be announced via a post on this account in a master post of all the awesome fics submitted!! You will also get some of me gushing about your fic in your ask box (in a dm if your asks are not open). All contestants regardless of placing will get gushing.

Rules 

- if you entered the competition last year you can of course enter again, but you cannot enter with the same fic as the year prior! (I will be checking)

-all you have to do to enter is tag this account @behind-the-fic in the fic you are submitting. If you change your mind on which fic you want to submit, that’s okay, as the most recently tagged one will be your submission. BTF will reblog all submissions, but don’t abuse this!

-submissions must be at least 100 words and at most 5,000

-the story you submit can either be something already posted or something new. 

-the story must be set in the tloz franchise, but AUs are accepted!

-this is a friendly competition, please be respectful of all contestants

-submissions close September 8th, and the decision will be up September 9th

-have fun and share this around!

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Entry has been accepted, thank you!

For interested parties, info about the MFC competition can be found here: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/behind-the-fic/693663649662976000?source=share

Something Remembered

My submission for @behind-the-fic's Make Fate Cry Writing Competition!

“Zelda?”

The boy… no, the young man with long dirty blond hair and pretty blue eyes gave her the kindest and softest smile as her eyes came into focus.

She smiled up at him, feeling at ease with his presence.

“Who’s Zelda?”

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Entry has been accepted, thank you!

For interested parties, info about the MFC competition can be found here: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/behind-the-fic/693663649662976000?source=share

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Fandom: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Summary:            

It looked like a boy, based on the style of the braids behind his head. The feathers, which had probably been a beautiful blue in life, had faded to a dull grey. Frost crept over every limb, and the ends of his talons had turned black. His eyes remained half open, green and glassy.

Teba shuddered. He was no stranger to death, but in the Rito tradition, bodies were usually cremated within a few days. Seeing a corpse preserved so perfectly was just… wrong.

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There was a body, buried in the snows of Hebra.

(mind the tags on this one!)

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Eight days left to submit!! Share this around and maybe even enter!!

BTF’s Annual MFC Writing Competition (Year Two!!)

Last year, I hosted a writing competition with the premise that I was having irl dry eyes and I, Fate, thought it would be fun to make it into something that inspired others to share their work, and put a bunch of awesome fics in one place. And it turned out awesome: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/behind-the-fic/658519058194497536?source=share

Well, it’s that time of year again and while I don’t struggle with dry eyes anymore, you can still make me cry and maybe get some money into charities at the same time.

The full name is Behind The Fic’s Make Fate Cry Competition, named because I am Fate (fatefulfaerie) BUT also it kinda sounds deep.

The rules will be explained in more detail further down but it’s pretty simple. The fic you submit will be judged based on how much it makes me cry. Here are the prizes:

1st place: $15 dollars donated to the charity of your choice

2nd place: $10 dollars donated to the charity of your choice

3rd place: $5 dollars donated to the charity of your choice

The winners will be announced via a post on this account in a master post of all the awesome fics submitted!! You will also get some of me gushing about your fic in your ask box (in a dm if your asks are not open). All contestants regardless of placing will get gushing.

Rules 

- if you entered the competition last year you can of course enter again, but you cannot enter with the same fic as the year prior! (I will be checking)

-all you have to do to enter is tag this account @behind-the-fic in the fic you are submitting. If you change your mind on which fic you want to submit, that’s okay, as the most recently tagged one will be your submission. BTF will reblog all submissions, but don’t abuse this!

-submissions must be at least 100 words and at most 5,000

-the story you submit can either be something already posted or something new. 

-the story must be set in the tloz franchise, but AUs are accepted!

-this is a friendly competition, please be respectful of all contestants

-submissions close September 8th, and the decision will be up September 9th

-have fun and share this around!

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Opposites Attract: A Zelink Prompt Month - GUIDELINES

GUIDELINES | PROMPTS | DISCORD

The event:

Will run from Oct 31-Nov 27, with late submissions being accepted until Nov 30

There is one dual prompt per week; you can complete both sides of the prompt, or one side, and as many or as few as you want

You can submit art, writing, music, ANYTHING as long as it follows our submission guidelines below

Click here to see our moderators for this event

Submissions:

You must mention our account ( @zelinkcommunity ) and tag your post with #zelink opposites attract in order to be reblogged

Your submission must follow one of the prompts and include Zelink or a variation thereof

Variations include Shink, Hylink, Dark Zelink, Fierce Deity Link, etc. (Hildavio does not count)

Reblogging is up to mod discretion, and if we feel that your submission doesn’t meet the criteria above, we reserve the right to not reblog your submission

You can also submit to our AO3 collection, our Discord server, and our Twitter hashtag #zelinkoppositesattract

NSFW:

We accept NSFW submissions as long as they are properly tagged/censored below the read more line (we may reblog your content and add our own NSFW tag if we deem it NSFW)

NSFW is anything that contains nudity and implications of/explicit sexual content, and extreme violence/gore

However, we reserve the right to not reblog NSFW submissions if we feel uncomfortable doing so (i.e. your submission contains extreme kink/fetish)

If you’re unsure if your submission counts as NSFW, message me @aurathian on Tumblr or on Discord and I will review your submission (but generally, if you have to ask, it probably is)

Questions:

If you’re unsure about something and have questions, please reach out to us via our Tumblr ask box, Twitter DMs, or via our Discord server.

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Whumptober 2022

Welcome to Whumptober 2022, in its fifth year of running!

To those of you who participated last year, welcome back! To everyone new, WELCOME!

Please make sure to read the Event Info carefully, as most of your questions will be answered there already. For everything else, you are welcome to come to our ask box or ask questions in our Discord server here.

This year’s AO3 Collection can be found here.

With that being said, we’re very excited to see the community come together once more and be a wild, chaotic bunch of creators and consumers of whump. Go wild with the prompts, and support your fellow creators, see what juicy whump they’ve created too! We wish you all the fun!

(All 31 Themes + Prompts, Event Information and FAQs are posted below the cut!)

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