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always thinking of that “i couldn’t stop wasting time” quote

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gonna post my entire stickman reaction pic collection

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gender spell: p.2 electric boogaloo

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the best kind of character writing i think doesn't confine its characters to having one or two specific narrative foils or parallels but instead writes every character as having traits that both contradict and mirror the others, like splitting a beam of light through a refracting prism

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i think all the best sci-fi is the sci-fi that looks dirty and lived in. like yeah we could have space travel and lasers but people are still gonna leave dirty cups by the side of their sleep pod and get weird alien mud stuck on their boots and put off fixing that faulty light on the lower deck of the spaceship. its relatable. its humanizing.

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i won't lie to you sometimes i feel like totk takes up the same place in my brain in relation to botw that the frozen fever short does to frozen

like . blue fit... kept everything else in the world the same and gave them a green fit.......

saw it accidentally while waiting for a movie and thought for a moment it was gonna be a sequel fr ........kinda forgot abt it until they announced the other sequel........please.......... am i onto something

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There are plenty of valid interpretations for our LU boys, considering the malleable definition of "canon" in our fandom. I really enjoy the dynamics when I give manga-Shadow back to Four. But I also think that, for some of my preferred versions of Four, loss is a major theme of his life and his personality. (I won't write the essay here for now.)

I believe that Four is the kind of person who knows that things change. He doesn't have the same kind of resentment that Legend does about the fact, or hope that it will change like Twilight, but—due to the loss of so many important people in his life, and the inevitability of growing up and losing the Minish, and being one of the more forgotten earlier heroes—I do think he harbors a sort of deep melancholy and acceptance about the flow of time. There's just... a lot to be said for keeping Shadow dead.

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So, uh, haha. You might have already seen, but your hype fed my hype and well-

The "lettuce heart" podfic is complete.

Give it a listen and I hope you enjoy! I haven't edited that fast in YEARS.

OHHHHMY OGDDDD OHHHHMY GODDDDDDDD JUST AS YOU SENT THIS I WAS OPENING MY EMIAL IN ANOTHER TAB AND ,,, OHHMY GODDDDDDDDDDDDDD

AHHHH!!!!!! thank you so so much again... i'm gonna EXPLODE

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The best advice i can give any creator is do it before you're good at it, do it BEFORE you're happy, do it while you suck, do it while you're doubting yourself and get stuck the fuck in, because waiting around to be "good enough" is a motherfucking trap of the highest degree. You'll get good along the way and better after ever project is complete. Remember, this is the greatest thing you've ever created, and then you'll do something else. You're only ever gonna get better, but not if you stand still.

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procrastinating going to bed so here’s me ranking the chain by how badly they snore

9) Wars- loud asf and for what. back at home he has the cushiest bed set up out of all of them but he snores like he’s never had a good night of sleep a day in his life. legend is so pissed abt it

8) Wind- doing way too much for someone his size and age. mouth open and drooling. they mostly just find it too humorous to be annoying but DAMN can he snore

7) Time- inconsistently loud. scares the crap out of them sometimes but he’s “old” and “withered” (winds words) so it’s understandable.

6) Four- can never tell what kinda night it will be. sometimes he’s quiet sometimes loud. and I mean loud. another mf that is too damn small to b causing all that ruckus.

5) Twilight- snores through his nose. pretty loud but if smacked or shaken he stops.

4) Sky- not really loud but constant. annoyingly so. his sleep snores are different from his nap snores, which are quieter thank god

3) Legend- often snores but it’s quiet. nothing crazy. plus he tends to burrow himself under his blanket which muffles the noise. he sometimes kicks in his sleep though so there’s that

2) Hyrule- only occasionally snores but its never loud. still gets embarrassed abt it though

1) Wild- deathly fucking silent. like to a frightening degree. sleeps like he’s in coma. again. soaking in that sheikah goop messed him up (or so he theorizes)

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On conservation and survival

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Another teaser! (Navi effects yes/no?)

ORUHGORHGROUHGRGGGGGG???? SOGRRRHROGRRGHGGG

ME WHEN NAVI ,,, ME WHEN NAVI

that is SUCH a pretty effect omg omg omggg. i love it so much. its so... its SO... THE WHIMSY.. THE WHISMY,, CRIES,,,

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just thought you might want to know that my friend who is not in the loz fandom read (aka was forced to read) the bottle girl and called it “really good yuri” :D

OUROGHRHGGGG literally the highest compliment... my yuri has been approved.... tell your friend thank u sos so o much forever. also recently ive started thinkin abt stephcass if shes into that so. more yuri coming maybe early next year

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ok time to lock the fuck in *opens discord* ok time to lock the fuck in *opens tumblr* ok time to lock the fuck in *opens gmail* ok time to lock the fuck in *opens youtube* ok time to lock the fuck in *opens an unstable vortex in time and space* ok time to lock the fuck in *opens ao3* ok time to lock the fuck in *opens discord* ok time to lock the fuck in *opens tumblr*

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thank you!!!!! the support means SO MUCH 💛💛💛💛

ooh I don't know if you've mentioned this before but I may or may not have stalked your wip list sooooo YESTERMORROW??? wut dat :)))))

MY DEAR FRIEND IM SO GLAD YOU ASKED

long story, but bare with me. in the first week of august 2023, before i even had my ao3 account, before i had even done anything at all in this fandom besides lurk and write down ideas in a doc without deciding to commit to them, i came up with this tragedy plot, right? inspired by a combination of the whole "hey, what the fuck kind of implications does palace of the four sword have on legend & fours relationship" thing, and also this scene in a book i was reading that had some really unsettling imagery that had a visceral impact on me that i wanted to have a go at replicating the effects of. it was set post-lu in four's world, so i could only even allude to sky out of all of them... i worked his echoes into the fic as much as possible, but everyone else wasn't even born. i was like, this isn't fully cooked yet. it doesn't feel complete without the others. so i wrote about 2K of a depressed middle-aged vio talking to a dot who faked her death ten years ago, i titled it something long and pretentious cause i was 17, and then i put it aside, and went full steam ahead on the cursebreaker, and steady going under, and other more pleasant things.

a long time after that (think the beginning of august, 2024 - i do NOT know what it is about me and august, omg. i never realised this was a pattern before. there must be something in the air? finals rapidly approaching, maybe?) i got to thinking about hyrule, who has been a strong contender for my favourite character this entire time, and why haven't i written about him more? where were all my plans for him? i decided i didn't like the way i had characterised him very much. it was too sweet. too spineless. i wanted him to be fiercer. i wanted him to be a bit weird. or a lot weird. i wanted to write something that would make up for the lackluster way i had written him in the past. (this is also around the time i started ganonrulie, by the way. if you can't tell. LOL.) i wanted to write something that would attract itself to others who also felt this way about hyrule, because, i mean. i'm not one to complain, but once i decided i didn't like the woobification of hyrule, i started noticing it more and more. and that's what writing fic is for, right? to say: look, this is my take on it. and hopefully find like-minded people along the way.

anyway. the document started out with the words "High mage cave rat hyrule longfic", because tumblr is, as always, an inspiration, and there were some great posts on my dash about hyrule furnishing his cave, and being pestered by other magicians, and eating the soul of ganon, and fun facts about his games i hadn't really thought very hard about. and then i was like, oooh, this is a good opportunity to make it detailed and thoughtful, and full of references to the games, (i had discovered glowingjellyfishtreelights' ao3 account a few months before, and to this day i continue to be utterly enthralled by the way they seamlessly blend all sorts of items and landscapes and monsters and backstories from the games into a linked universe setting)... i started getting very high hopes for this fic. i decided then and there to throw my entire soul into it. i wrote "it's going to be an homage to linked universe", because i was still just as pretentious, only 18 now, and then immediately after i wrote "what is it going to be about??????????" with even more question marks than i included here.

i like plotting. i like making silly leaps in lore and conspiracy theories and connecting dots that probably shouldn't be connected. i like bringing back really old ideas and feeding them into new ones to create all manner of monsters. i decided it would be about time travel - almost a given, really [gestures to my track record] - and then i had the brilliant idea of exploring the chain at different stages of their lives, because in the year or so i'd been reading LU i'd built up a lot of headcanons for the chain pre- and post-adventure, and normally i'd never get to use them, because everything's set during LU, right? but now. now.

this is where we start getting to the things i can't tell you for fear of spoiling it. i must stay pretentiously vague. but safe to say, the story grew to cover a lifetime. lifetimes, even, all of them overlapping, each of the chain with a motive and a goal and a villain. a birth and a death. in less than a week i had feverishly melded the story with the tragedy plot i mentioned earlier, and another wind-centric plot i had been despairing of ever writing, and then an aurora-centric wip i had tucked away eighteen months before, and then another hyrule-centric oneshot i thought i'd never come back to, and then i realised that it was the perfect opportunity to put every single one of my headcanons and conspiracy theories into one place, most of which had been sitting quietly and unused since i started my ao3 and quickly got sidetracked, and then about a month later the doc got so big i had to download it and convert it to word, and then i started splitting it up into chapters, and i realised there was going to be more than 50 of them, and then i decided to give it a name, and couldn't come up with a good one, so i put yestermorrow in as a placeholder, and it STUCK, it fucking STUCK, my yesterday tomorrow, my first word-last word promise, and then before i knew it i was naming all the chapters and drawing up maps of each character's personal timeline through the story and tracking each triforce along its lifetime and thinking about framing devices and pulling up old dating systems i had made several years before and realising that i finally had the space to do everything i had ever wanted to do with the legend of zelda, and everything i had ever wanted to create out of linked universe, and, well. an homage indeed.

yestermorrow's outline, as of yesterday, has breached 30,000 words. sometimes i despair i will ever post it. there is so much plot that 80 chapters remain a conservative estimate, and my prologue draft is less than halfway through and almost 5,000 words. i am trying to be concise. will i ever actually finish it? will anyone ever read it? maybe not. maybe it's not any good. i go back and forth on this every day. it's full of headcanons, and barely hinged worldbuilding, and focuses a good deal more on my own ideas for zeldas and impas who are seldom seen in canon or fanon than anything i'd usually write, and i'm sure not everybody will be on board with my insane conspiracies. plus, i have dedicated way too much time to original characters for the sake of the worldbuilding. i have identity reveals designed to make you question your morality. i have done terrible, terrible things to characters you love. in my mind palace, i have orphaned children. i have killed innocents with the hands of my heroes. i have given almost every link and also some zeldas a fate worse than death. it was necessary. it was needed. it was all to save the world.

yestermorrow, though it started as a story about hyrule, and still is in many ways a story about hyrule, has (tl;dr) become a patchwork of everything i've ever loved about this franchise and this fandom. it's everything i have ever wanted to read all in one story. it's about time loops and overlapping lifetimes and secrets and tragedies and a time machine and godhood and motherhood and siblinghood and the nature of being born a mirror and grief and guilt and regret and shame and love and i'm going to explode because i can't actually tell you more than this. i don't want to spoil it. one day i hope you might be able to read it for yourself. one day. one day i swear