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Day 788 - July 25, 2025

Art Fight attack for @daeyumi~

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Attack 15, for @nocturnalfandomartist

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Random Stuff from days ago

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decided to change zelda’s design after drawing her with a diff hair color one day & realized it looks super very much cooler 😵‍💫 so this is her new design

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WOOHOO SPIRIT TRACKS TRAUMA BONDING FOR @zelinkcommunity 2025 (ive never participated in this before and i have no idea what im doing im scared help)

anyway i wanna draw a tiny cover art for this but i dont feel like it right now so here's the thing

(i really need to draw more instead of just writing cause fanfiction was not my plan with this blog lmao)

It was the middle of the night, with the moon high in the sky. Link had parked the train at a small station in Whittleton for the night, and promptly fell asleep in one of the seats in the back of the vehicle. 

Zelda was there too, but she wasn’t sleeping. She couldn’t—there was too much to think about for her to be able to relax. Even if she wanted to, there was no benefit in sleeping in her current state. She had no physical sense of tiredness, only the mental exhaustion that came with all of the events that had happened prior. 

She didn’t want to think about it. But it was hard not to; having the person who basically raised you your whole life murder you one day. She should have seen it coming, she was stupid not to, she told herself.  

Zelda never realized how isolated of a life she grew up with until now. She was barely able to leave the castle, let alone castle town after Tetra died and Cole slipped in as second in command, taking custody of her. She remembered having her window open in her room almost every day, to be able to hear the sounds of life outside. Even though there wasn't much nature by the castle grounds, every time she spotted a moth or firefly made her happy. She remembered feeling the cold air of the night, and the crickets and little peeper frogs during the summer. And the moon, at its highest, just like it was now.

But she couldn't sense any of it. Not the wind or the smells or even hear the sounds properly. She could still hear, obviously, but it wasn’t the same as hearing with a physical body. 

She stuck her hand out the open window to try and feel anything, just for the only thing she felt to be the weightless feeling of being detached from reality. 

Despite not having any physical tears, she still cried. And not being able to even feel tears just further reminded her of the reason why she was crying in the first place. 

Resting her head on the windowsill, Zelda tried to quiet any sounds of her sobbing, but it was difficult when the mere motion of crying was causing her to phase through the walls of the train car ever so slightly. Yet another reminder. 

It didn’t take that long for Link to wake up from the sound. 

First he mumbled unintelligibly, still in the process of fully waking up. Then he recognized what was going on. 

“...Zelda...? Are you okay?” 

She didn’t mean to wake him up. He needed to rest after all the adventuring, and she felt bad for doing so. 

“Go back to bed.” She managed to say through her tears. 

That didn’t stop him, though. Link cared about her, and despite the awkward confrontation Zelda appreciated that.  

“No, no, what’s going on?” The engineer asked, sitting on the seat next to her by the window. 

He suddenly sounded a bit shocked and embarrassed, and despite not looking at him Zelda could tell what expression he was making. 

“Sorry, you don’t have to tell me if you don’t want to! ...But if there’s anything I can do to make you feel better, I'd be glad to help!” 

She turned to face him. 

“...Can you listen...?” 

Link looked a little surprised at that request, clearly not expecting it. But he nodded. 

Zelda sniffed from the crying, as if there was even anything that it would contribute to. 

Finally, she sighed. 

“I just wish this never happened.” 

Zelda felt Link tense a bit beside her, but he eventually settled back down. 

“Yeah. I get that.” He said. 

“It’s just...” Zelda started, her voice starting to take on that emotional tone again. 

“I just wish he never showed up. That grammy didn’t die so early in my life, and that he never swooped in...? And took over. I should have stopped him. I should have known that he had a plan all along. I shouldn’t have just shoved aside his odd behaviors for my whole childhood and actually told someone, a guard, my teacher, anyone! ...It’s all my fault. It’s my fault that I'm stuck like this.” 

Without even saying his name, both of them knew who Zelda was talking about. 

Link paused, presumably trying to think of an answer. 

“Zelda, no... If it’s anyone’s fault, it’s mine. I was the one who brought you there, I was the one who got flung away and couldn't protect you.” 

“He would have killed me anyway.” She sighed. “You might have created an opportunity, but he would have gotten to me eventually.” 

Link looked down at the ground. 

“...I guess so. Just... don’t go blaming yourself for things you can’t control, okay?” 

“You’re the one blaming yourself for getting flung away when Bryne has superhuman strength and literally concussed you.” Zelda chuckled. It was a sad chuckle, but she wanted to at least try and make him feel better as he was doing to her. 

“Yeah.” Link said. “Yeah.” 

“I guess I’m not very good with this stuff, but if there was one thing out of this, if there is any, that you would be upset that it disappeared if that wish came true, what would it be?” He said, and then panicked a bit.  

“For like—therapy reasons! Like the knowledge of the outside world you have now, or being aware that the chancellor was a piece of shit, or—” 

“I would be upset that I wouldn’t have met you.” Zelda cut him off, still staring out the window. 

“Bh—Wh—” Link started sputtering, and when Zelda turned around she found that his face was completely red. 

She laughed. “I suppose that makes two of us?” 

“I, uh, ... yeah.” 

The two of them sat there in silence for a second. 

“Well, I think I can actually get to sleep now.” Zelda said. “Uh, thank you. For listening.” 

“You’re welcome.” 

Link stood there for a few more seconds before very awkwardly realizing that was his cue to do the same, so he wandered to the seat behind her, and layed down. 

“See you in the morning.” Zelda said, hanging over the back of her seat to face him before laying down in her seat as well. 

“Yup.” 

Zelda could have sworn she heard Links panicked muttering, which was quite amusing. She had to admit, though, she was tired. Maybe not in the way you feel physically, but tired in her head.  

But this time, she was content enough to push the blame away from herself for now. 

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Thanks so much again for this!! 🩵:D

Folks please check out this lovely attack! 😊

Attack on @dream-puppeteer 's OCs for Forget Me Not! I've been wanting to draw them for a while, so I'm glad to have the chance to now! I love characters with flower associations, especially for one of my favorites :)

The links on art fight:

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Artfight revenge on @loz-untold-myths 💞

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some of yesterdays art fights! ft the beautiful ocs carmine by p03 røkkva by @chaoseclips anemone by @dream-puppeteer and hanasaku by endraws!

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Last minute pride thing 💗💜💙

my Kirby Sona yet again as she's my de-facto mascot now.

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it's that time of the year again, isn't it?

Prepare your ocs, I'll be fighting on the side of Fossils! (probably)

> my artfight profile <

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I don't know what else to caption this as besides "Never stop drawing!" I missed drawing Corentine!

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Hey folks, doing this again this year!! Hoping to see some of you there! C:

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Hero of Another Story - Chapter 10 | Archive of our Own

RETURN OF THE KING

...p. please don't be mad at me.

I've actually been working on this, indeed, since the last chapter came out in uh..ya know. 202*mumblemumblemumble*, and it showed during editing lmao. Hopefully this comes across nice and smooth.

Thanks to everyone who's stuck around and still been engaging me about this story. It truly is something I'm very proud of and am happy to see a positive reception for.

I know that a while ago I announced an intention to put the story on hiatus and break it up into books when the City in the Clouds arc finished, but I've changed my mind since then.

I'll still be going back and correcting mistakes in the previous chapters, but because it's really difficult to define "hiatus" for a story that has now taken over a year and a half to update while still being actively written, and I feel reasonably confident I can juggle that editing with writing new content, I will no longer be making such an announcement.

I've also reflected on breaking the story up into separately-published parts, and tbh it was never originally intended to be presented that way, and even though it's POSSIBLE given the progression of events to do so, I have come to the critical realization that...I don't wanna.

So essentially nothing will be changing. Yayyyyy~

PP next on deck for all my LobHeads out there. Or, er, exactly one LobHead.

Thank you all again, please enjoy!

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Major Character Death Characters: OC Link - Character, Ganon Additional Tags: untold myths event: light & time, Original Legends, Non-Binary Link, Locked Land AU Summary:

Day 3 of the Untold Myths Light & Time event. Prompt: Reversal.

When the victory is too hollow to accept, what’s a hero to do but to demand a do over?

Thank you to @loz-untold-myths for organizing the event!

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Aquame <3

(pronounced aqua-may)

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It’s been kind of an Ass summer so far, so I’m opening up commissions to help with food and rent while I look for a new job! Feel free to reach out if interested, and shares are super appreciated if you can! 🌺🌞🌳

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"Left side, right side, go on and bare your fangs; Pat-pa-pa, haha, You are KING"

Obviously based on the image by nounoknown, accompanying Kanaria's KING video.