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Thank you so much!!!

@hylianmewmew @phoenix-arts7 @kenxboi @frulleboi @majorproblems77 @kikker-oma @ginger375 @hazethestrange @tashacee @fwoosheye

Send this to ten other bloggers you think are wonderful. keep the game going!!

Thanks so much! That's really sweet :D!

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This is the kind of thing you see when you’re contemplating Botw and TotK.

BotW previous calamity. Was 10,000 years ago. That’s more than twice the length of time of the pre-dynastic Egypt.

That’s insane. And the ancient hero is that old. And we probably have who knows how many older calamities before that one. Loz between the rest of history and BotW could be tens of thousands of years.

And I think that’s really neat.

Listen my dudes Ancient Egypt existed for a really fuckass long time. Literally just Pharaonic civilization lasted 3,000 years. That’s not even including predynastic civilization and Roman rule. If you lump that in you’re looking at more like… 5,000 years. Like. If you want a comparison of how long that is: THE YEAR IS CURRENTLY 2018. TWO THOUSAND. TWO-THIRDS OF ANCIENT EGYPTIAN PHARAONIC CIVILIZATION HAVE HAPPENED SINCE THE ‘BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST’ We comparatively just entered the Third Intermediate Period. The Greeks will not take over for another 700~ years. Cleopatra will not be born until the year 2931.

It’s a really long time guys.

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Yessss, I love this!

Heyo, I'm still alive.

So, imagine- Sky is a sleepy guy right? He sleeps as much as he can in the weirdest places like a cat and he falls like a rock when it's bedtime.

But what if he doesn't?

Ladies, gentlemen and every other creature out there, this is...

Sleepyhead

(420 words ahead, short fic)

Sky was, once again, awake.

He knows he should be sleeping, he knows. He's just not sleepy, despite common belief.

Well, actually everyone believed he was asleep directly, at least he hopes they believe it. But he just isn't. He can't sleep. It's too early, it doesn't matter if it's past midnight, and his eyes just won't stay closed for too long. That's why he always lays down facing away from everyone.

He's actually never slept this early, not that he remembers at least.

Right now, in his dorm room of the academy, with half of his group of heroes on the floor and the rest next door. He kind of feels way more awake than normal. Like he should be finishing works or projects. But he doesn't.

Maybe the sleep schedule he had as a student wasn't always the best thing in the world.

He can't help it alright? He always has something to finish, something to do, something to complete before bed, studying to be a knight is not easy.

Now with this ragtag group of heroes (he’ll never stop feeling guilty about them having to be heroes) he’s been having to go to bed early. And he simply doesn't fall asleep.

The thing is, he lets them believe he succeeds in going to sleep and he just lays there until it's true.

And then there's mornings.

They. let. him. sleep. in.

He doesn't have to wake up at the crack of dawn to keep studying or train.

They let him be the last to wake up, they sometimes even lay down with him for a bit, they say he gives good hugs.

Everyone teases him about always being sleepy. Even Zelda, his Zelda, Sun, she calls him sleepyhead despite being exactly like him, she's just easier to wake up.

Everyone thinks he's just a sleepy guy. And ok, he sleeps late into the day, he takes naps in every place he can like a remlit every time he stays still for a bit too long. He sleeps way more than it should be humanly possible.

The thing is he doesn't. He doesn't sleep very well, he’s never slept properly. He's always working on two to four hours of sleep, and an unholy amount of stamina fruit when he gets really bad. And when he stays still, everything crashes onto him at the same time.

Yeah, maybe he's the fucked up one, the others are right, he should fix his sleep schedule.

Oh well, it's not working tonight.

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God dammit, Wild

Happy pride month, everyone.

Characters @ House of Heroes.

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I envision that Wind is the sleep master. He’s cuddly enough to make sure anyone who needs it can gets cuddles to fall asleep.

And Sky falls asleep best with cuddles.

Heyo, I'm still alive.

So, imagine- Sky is a sleepy guy right? He sleeps as much as he can in the weirdest places like a cat and he falls like a rock when it's bedtime.

But what if he doesn't?

Ladies, gentlemen and every other creature out there, this is...

Sleepyhead

(420 words ahead, short fic)

Sky was, once again, awake.

He knows he should be sleeping, he knows. He's just not sleepy, despite common belief.

Well, actually everyone believed he was asleep directly, at least he hopes they believe it. But he just isn't. He can't sleep. It's too early, it doesn't matter if it's past midnight, and his eyes just won't stay closed for too long. That's why he always lays down facing away from everyone.

He's actually never slept this early, not that he remembers at least.

Right now, in his dorm room of the academy, with half of his group of heroes on the floor and the rest next door. He kind of feels way more awake than normal. Like he should be finishing works or projects. But he doesn't.

Maybe the sleep schedule he had as a student wasn't always the best thing in the world.

He can't help it alright? He always has something to finish, something to do, something to complete before bed, studying to be a knight is not easy.

Now with this ragtag group of heroes (he’ll never stop feeling guilty about them having to be heroes) he’s been having to go to bed early. And he simply doesn't fall asleep.

The thing is, he lets them believe he succeeds in going to sleep and he just lays there until it's true.

And then there's mornings.

They. let. him. sleep. in.

He doesn't have to wake up at the crack of dawn to keep studying or train.

They let him be the last to wake up, they sometimes even lay down with him for a bit, they say he gives good hugs.

Everyone teases him about always being sleepy. Even Zelda, his Zelda, Sun, she calls him sleepyhead despite being exactly like him, she's just easier to wake up.

Everyone thinks he's just a sleepy guy. And ok, he sleeps late into the day, he takes naps in every place he can like a remlit every time he stays still for a bit too long. He sleeps way more than it should be humanly possible.

The thing is he doesn't. He doesn't sleep very well, he’s never slept properly. He's always working on two to four hours of sleep, and an unholy amount of stamina fruit when he gets really bad. And when he stays still, everything crashes onto him at the same time.

Yeah, maybe he's the fucked up one, the others are right, he should fix his sleep schedule.

Oh well, it's not working tonight.

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Thx for reading!

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I read the tags to decide. If it has stuff I like. I read. If I really like it. I subscribe/bookmark depending if it’s ongoing or not.

Another AO3 thing I’m curious about, how do yall decide if something is good enough to read? Usually I follow a rule of 1 kudos for every 10 hits. One because it’s easy math and two it’s yet to fail me. Thoughts? Do you just go for it and pray it’s good?

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It’s a victory when you aren’t trying to make them sexy, they just are.

I think I just made my roommate fall in love with Sky

I'm drawing a request and I did like... a pretty good job on his musculature (nothing suggestive, just stuff like the contours of the back and the joints are turning out nicely) but I managed to draw the rough lines for one leg and exclaimed that I did a good job because legs are the devil to draw and my girl just started drooling and snatching for my notebook while shrieking exclamations that don't belong on a family friendly Tumblr page LOL

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Final pair of HoH Links as merfolk! Warrior is a royal blue tang/betta fish mix, and is as flamboyant as he deserves. Twilight is a little different. He's a catfish (both Ordon and redtail)/sockeye salmon (or reekfish) mix. I mean, apart from some minor differences, the reekfish is just a salmon 😂

Time and Wind

Wild and Sky

Characters @ House of Heroes.

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Addendum; she hates that nickname.

Spirit doesn’t care. It’s funny.

It's been far too long since I've last touted "Phantom" as a great nickname for Spirit Tracks Zelda, so here's why it's so great:

Pairs well thematically with "Spirit," a fairly common nickname (and my typically referred one) for Spirit Tracks Link

Zelda got to possess Phantoms a lot! It's like a major mechanic of the game!

It's just plain a cool name!

This has been my obligatory "Spirit and Phantom" propaganda of the day.

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Thank you for the tag!

Unwinded what peoples will ask about my writing….

@frulleboi @kenxboi @lolabearwrites @tashacee @hazethestrange

New game! Reblog this to ask your followers to send you anonymous asks telling you what they like most about your writing/art.

If you are tagged in this you are legally obligated to reblog because I will force you to get compliments >:D

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(Pspsps this is your permission to reblog whether you’re tagged or not, sometimes we all need a pick-me-up!)

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What trope would this be called?

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Don’t forget just straight shit which depending on context can be an explicative or actual poop.

english slang is awful i would hate to be learning this shit. like the word shit. something can be horseshit or bullshit which means it's a lie. but cow shit is just poop. and something can be dogshit which means it's really bad quality. but cat shit is just poop.

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Sometimes I reread my own stuff, and I don’t even realize it’s me that wrote it.

Scars left by Love

Day 7: Scars

AO3 link

They laid in bed together, snuggled close, enjoying each other’s company. Twilight was ecstatic to spend time with his love.

“Have you…” Twilight started.

Wild turned his head sleepily toward his fiancé. When he didn’t continue, Wild hummed a question.

“Have you… ever talked about the scars people left in your life?” Twilight finished.

Wild turned in their bed to face him. Twilight was face up staring at the ceiling like it would reveal the secrets of the universe.

“What do you mean?” Wild asked.

“People, like our adventures, leave us with pain. Scars, even. Do you know what I mean?”

“A little bit. Have you?”.

“Not really. I’ve thought about it, but never talked about it,” he turned to face Wild, “but I’d like to, with you, Wild.”

Wild had a comforting smile at the trust Twi was placing in him. He’s told him about his past, but he never really talked about how it affected him before.

“I… my village was really small and quiet. You know, you’ve seen it. There was this girl I liked, she was sweet, comfortable, so patient. More than I deserved, really.” Twilight reminisced. But his expression turned dark.

“But then there was a monster raid, Bulbins, they took her and all the other village kids, I ran after them into the woods, and into a wall of darkness. A hand-“ he reached his hand out above him for emphasis-“reached out of the wall, grabbed me, and pulled me in. All I remember after that was feeling more tired than ever before, then agony as my wolf shape took over for the first time. Then when I woke up I was in a cell, with Midna watching from the shadows.”

He paused, calming himself from the memory of terror and pain.

“She was- a piece of work, at first. She seemed selfish, self focused, and manipulative. Which. To be fair, she absolutely was manipulative. But her self centeredness was how she worried about her people. So I eventually understood it at least.”

He turned back to face Wild.

“But she opened up my own world to me. We escaped that prison below Hyrule castle. She got me home. I saved the Light Spirit of Faron Woods, they purged the darkness from me, and returned my body to me, with that green tunic and chainmail. It took so long to do what I set out to do. To save the kids of my village. Ilia had lost her memory, somehow, along the way. I wonder if that was a blessing in disguise. My entire adventure was about pushing me further out of my zone, out of my control. Having to do more and more ridiculous and treacherous things with Midna’s help, along most of the way.”

His breath hitched as Wild listened, cobalt blue meeting cerulean.

“Sometime along the way. Probably when Zant tried to kill her. I realized. I didn’t want her to die. I cared about her. She was important to me, by then. And feeling her clutch to me back, paler than I thought possible, and dying. Even as Dusk gave her life force to Midna, all I could feel was relief at Midna being better. It wasn’t- it wasn’t until she left that I realized. I loved her. And her leaving hurt, so damn much. I couldn’t stand it.”

Wild brought his hand up to Twilight's face, as tears pooled in his eyes, threatening to fall.

“You don’t have to keep going, Twi.”

Twilight smiled up at him, even as tears fell down, turned his face to kiss Wild’s palm.

“I want to, now. To show you how much you mean to me… I never thought I’d fall in love again. Ilia was the comforting girl back home, Midna was the girl that showed me the world with her sass and snark as I gawked like a tourist, while also fighting to not get flattened by any number of things. After Midna I didn’t expect to love again. Then I had those dreams as a Wolf, wandering an entire new world alongside you. And I didn’t realize it at the time, but it was the same. I fell for you, little by little. And then when, against all the odds, impossibly, we met again when the goddesses dropped me in front of a Talus, I never wanted to let you go again. Even before I realized I loved you, I still never wanted to let you go.”

Wild was tearing up a bit now, too, “I remember how handsome you looked, when you woke up at camp and looked up at me like I was the most important person you’ve ever seen, right then. I didn’t even get why, but it’s not a look you forget.”

“Goddesses, I made a fool of myself. I blame the concussion.” Twilight lamented, covering his face with his hands, the heavy mood dispelled for a moment.

“Blame whatever you want, that moment is living in my head forever.”

Twilight smiled under his hands, dropping them to see Wild still looking at him, smiling himself.

“It took way too long to realize what I was feeling was love…”

“But you figured it out. And so did I, luckily.” Wild added.

“Ugh, you were so much better about it, though.”

“Hey, you didn’t even know that was an option, give yourself some slack.”

“Do not remind me, Legend gave me shit for weeks.”

They both laughed at that, Wild remembering some of the truly awful jokes leveled at his then-boyfriend for his obliviousness.

“But, the important thing for me…” Twilight started again, “was that I loved you, and realizing you loved me back. The pure joy I felt right then, nothing else mattered. For weeks, I could just look at you and think ‘that’s my boyfriend’, and anything else that was wrong, exhaustion from a fight, boredom from a long walk, the soreness of a bruise, would vanish just by seeing your face, hearing your voice, or holding your hand… Midna left me with a scar over my heart that I never thought would heal. A scar that would just ache and burn, until it killed me inside.”

Wild’s smile faded from the idea he was hurting that much inside even when they first met. “But you saw me. A messed up, gawking weird though I was, literally dogged-” Wild chuckled at the terrible joke, “-and totally out of my world, and my element, and you helped me find a new reason. And it was good to help you again, too.”

“And finding love again…” Twilight took Wild’s hand, a hand that felt so familiar, but felt like electricity, even after all this time, “it was the most exciting adventure of all, and I’m so glad I got to share it with you, Wild. And I want it to be an adventure we share, for a long time.”

Twilight lifted his face to Wild’s hanging over his, and Wild brought his face down, their lips meeting in a gentle caress, and a loving embrace as they twined their hands together, enjoying each other, and the love they share.

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@luinhealthcare

ranking the best things I have heard surgeons say mid-surgery:

1. "Five second rule!" while scrubbed, after dropping a sterile scalpel on the floor (no they did NOT pick it up again but I swear everyone's buttholes puckered)

2. (spoken during the closing of a particularly long and difficult case) "Nurse - my tunes." :heavy metal starts blasting:

3. Gently to a fretful patient, pre-anaesthesia: "It's going to be okay. I promise, I've dealt with worse." As soon as the patient is unconscious: "This is literally the worst thing I've ever seen."

4. [okay this one was a med student] "Wowwww, that's so gross!!" Reg: "Please remember that [patient] is awake for this procedure." Student to patient: "Oh my god. I am so sorry, that was really unprofessional - " Patient, cheerfully, also engrossed with what's happening inside them on the screen: "Nah - it's, like, super gross, right?"

5. [another procedure where the patient couldn't be put under GA] Patient: *starts singing country roads midway through the procedure* Surgeon: *shrugs and joins in with surprisingly good harmony*

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I got intrigued with the power of a fused monster and human soul by the UnderGrowth AU, so wanted to play with that combo.

I gave Asriel the God of Death too as the red soul, and his role as “God of Hyperdeath” (he’s really embarrassed about that title too lol)

Cult of Poppies or UnderCult? 👀👀👀

Cult of the Poppies

This stems from when I was watching Poppy Playtime playthroughs, and then something popped up from Cult of the Lamb. So my brain combined them.

So in this the smiling critters are the first cultists, and fight alongside the lamb to defeat the heretics on crusades. (Making it more group combat) it would focus a lot on day to day workings, I threw Catnap and Dogday into a codependent relationship because my friend memed about it and I actually like it.

UnderCult

Undertale and Cult of the Lamb crossover

Flowey steals the soul of the human who falls, which makes them turn back into Asriel like in true pacifist. He finds through memories out the surface is a hellhole now, and returns to the underground at large.

The seven human souls are used to break the barrier, and the other six willingly remain to right the surface, so they go find monsters they’d get along with the fuse with. The seven then go on crusades to bring back resources for the Underground, now Overground (silly name schemes continue).

More morally grey than the game normally is, monsters are more pragmatic, and slightly tougher. Much tougher with the fused souls. Sans is annoyed the Patience Soul chose him, and they get into a waiting match. He “loses” (accepts them)

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unending kingdom sounds fun whats that one??

That’s a final work in the planned Forged Connections trilogy.

It’s basically TotK but the whole chain is there after the intro. Wild isn’t alone (again) Secrets are revealed, Wild works to get his strength back.

I can’t go in much more depth without spoilers. But it’s the climax of the series.