#I’m tempted to like. write up a doc or script or SOMETHING just going in depth about these guys because I feel like rambling

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Thinking about my OCs again while watching cartoons and how much information I have stored about them at all given times

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Linked Universe Survey 2023

The long awaited results of the survey. Sorry it took me forever, making graphs is hard.

There were 452 responses to the survey as a whole, which is almost double what we got last year, so thank you to everyone who participated!

If you want to see the raw data, you can find that here. I had thoughts about the data, but compiling that into another post would be too much of a hassle. Feel free to send me asks about it though!

The rest of the post will be under a read more as it it large

Demographics

Other: Demigirl (4), Transmasc (3), Grey genderfluid, Unlabeled, Demiboy, Demiagender

Other: Omnisexual (4), Poly (2), Trixic, Abroromantic or Bellusromantic, Demisexual

General Questions

Other: Quotev, Discord, their own google docs

Other: Discord, Variations of "I haven't posted yet, but I pan to" and "I haven't posted my fics in ages",

Other: Wattpad, Deviantart, Discord

Other: Crochet dolls, Custom dolls, Roleplay blogs (2), Fan translations, Headcanons (2), Piano music

The purple section in the “Warriors vs Warrior” chart is supposed to read “Warrior.” I made a typo.

Favorites and Least Favorites

Selected Free Response Answers

im sorry warriors i just can't play your game (it is very very hard. i am stuck very early on in the game)

I love cats meow meow meow

was extremely tempted to put twilight for least favorite. unfortunately he is my favorite to write from the perspective of (he has taken over most of my wips. help) and that probably counts for something. WILD on the other hand. hooo boy how the hell do i characterize this gargoyle. why is he Like That. least favorite it is

Twiddy

very good fandom to be in :) everybody is very nice

It's a straight up crime that Wars lost the aesthetics poll so quickly. He has such a peak Link design with the best colors. Ugh I'm getting wistful.

FROGS. FROGS. FROGS. ALSO HAPPY PRIDE MONTH. FROGS. FROGS. FROGS. FROGS. FROGS.

I will fight Hylia herself and the next person who implies Twi can't handle spice. If we're going to lean into him being southern/Midwestern, which is an alright stero type for our rancher, please keep in mind the culture you're basing him off. The south and midwest can handle their spice, I assure you. Have you ever had authentic Louisiana gumbo? It will melt you tongue off. Or some good old fashion spicy fried chicken? I promise the real stuff has quite a kick. (In all seriousness, though. It's more important that you're having fun. And even I can admit the idea of Twi being an Ordonian who can't handle his spice is more than a little funny.)

I am an OoT Link edgelord and have been since early 2017. So, in September of that year, when an artist by the name of jojo56830 puts out a lineup of nine different Links and the Hero of Time is there – the oldest, no eye, Hero’s Shade armor? I saw that one sketch and just thought “oh this is gonna be bad.” Yeah of course he has the coolest design. By the way, it’s only a matter of time until Fierce Deity shows up in the comic and I have reason to believe it could be this current Dawn arc. Dawn … Dawn of a New Day … and who brought about the Dawn of a New Day? Fierce Deity. Twilight is recovering but still injured and what will happen if he falls again? Fierce Deity is coming and we need to be prepared. In this essay I will—

Remember that time when someone put the whole script of the bee movie in here? I’m not that dedicated, and I don’t have that time, but let us remember and hope someone else does it again this time. Cause someone is bound too. We’re all crazy enough to do it. Alright, love you and stay hydrated pls!

Hi! I joined this fandom really recent but i’ve always seen LU stuff on pinterest and elsewhere. Only recently have i actually took the time to understand the fandom and get back into LOZ stuff and i adore the characters and story! The more and more fanart, fanfics, and comics i see about the different Links the more i love them all. It’s such a pain to pick just one i like or one i don’t like because they’re all so unique. I love this fandom and hope to get more involved!! Have a wonderful rest of your day :]

Epona is an underrated queen

your mom

I really don't get why Zelda is called Artemis. Athena makes more sense???? It perplexes me

Anyone seeing this should check out Breanna’s E!Wild AU

Something something queer every Link into oblivion!

[qoldenskies]

Taking a break from homework to ask 11, 12, and 30 from that ask game you reblogged (I’m super super interested in the way other people go about writing their fics lolol 🙏)

YIPPEEEEE

11. Do you write scenes in order, or do you jump around?

truthfully it kind of depends! whenever i write i tend to have The Scene in mind and if i get impatient i'll usually write it, but i try to avoid doing it because i notice it messes with flow (but flow and pacing is something im just very conscious of, even though i observe that because im writing it my brain is reading it faster/skimming so its partially a me problem LOL)

in caged lungs im skipping around only because im trying to go with a draft format instead of editing as i go, since its so long itll help when i see everything connected, and there's a few scenes i plan on changing/rewriting completely when i get it all out. technically everything ive posted up to this point is a first draft, and its a habit i hope to break !!

12. Do you outline your fics? If yes, how detailed are your outlines?  How far do you stray from them?

i doooo yes, its mostly just a list of things/interactions i know i want. for cvd i have plans for up to chapter 9/10 or so, and just a bunch of scripts/concepts for later. with canary continuity i have a description for each scene on the google doc and i just add the content in as i go, with my actual notepad (thing i discovered i had on my laptop and have been using liberally) i mostly have quotes and passages i want to put in the story

and also for cc in particular im keeping really close track of the motifs and how i want to work them back around. already thinking about the healing part of the arc and implanting scenes/chekhovs guns that are going to loop back around WAY down the line is very funny... i actually do some of this for cvd too, i love to write intentionally like that.... i am weirdly pretentious and earnest about my turtle fanfiction. people have no idea what im going to do with that lamp and i bide my time. also the clocks. and the laundry room. and the ocean (actually that one's fine its just a parallel). and the rooftop. and the cameras oh my god the cameras. i plan on committing so many horrors

really just things i know i WANT to be consistent with is the biggest thing i keep track of (although sometimes things will just pop up AS i'm writing and i roll with the punches, like the security system being a metaphor in coming undone, and also all of the very intentional trust fall parallels and the way it conveniently worked with the chapter names. fun fact for metaphors, i REALLY planned to expand on the chess thing between leo and donnie but it messed with the pacing so im keeping it for cvd.... ive got some ideas)

OH EXCEPT FOR THAT SEP AU IVE VAGUELY TALKED ABOUT. i have EVERY SINGLE chapter plotted out, its 52 chapters long. i am NOT GOING TO WORRY ABOUT IT RIGHT NOW its a far in the future thing. but its also the only au i have that isnt like,,, specifically canon divergent, so i wanted to pay close attention to how i set things up. 4 later (currently the working name for it is where we went wrong, after the song by the hush sound, and honestly im tempted to keep it because it makes the acronym wwww which is beautifully ironic because they take NOTHING BUT LS ITS JUST ONE AFTER ANOTHER OH MY GOD)

30. How much do you edit your fics?  Do you edit as you write or wait until you finish the first draft?

OH I KIND OF ALREADY ANSWERED THIS ABOVE OOPS. im trying to break out of the habit but i mostly just grammar correct through google docs and then throw out the first draft haphazardly, and it can kinda come off polished anyway because i tend to edit as i go. sometimes it means i'll fix mistakes in fics like a month after releasing them, impatience is my Weakness

wow i yap a lot LMFAO the yapperrrr

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Morning Pages #34 (14.02.2017)

Tuesday 14th February - 4:48 p.m.

Not the morning, I know. I didn’t even try. I only just started typing when I felt like it, and I know that that’s kind of cheating and it defeats part of the purpose of the morning pages (to accustom yourself to writing even when you don’t feel like it), but I think I have a bit of a right to make up the rules for myself for the next couple of days or so. That and I still kind of don’t feel like it. Everything is still very fresh for me and I think it’ll all be easier after the funeral, whenever it will be. Hopefully I won’t have to go on my own though.

I took a massive break and it’s 5:10 p.m. now. I’m listening to music and typing really casually. Right now I’m listening to Spit Syndicate, but my music is on shuffle so anything can start. I started on Keane though. ‘Somewhere Only We Know’. I might just go and watch the Lily Allen video for that song right now because it’s so beautiful. I’m playing that now, but I don’t know if I’ll watch the video. I feel like I’ve taken too much of a break already and I just want to see if I can get my three pages out right now. I know that tomorrow morning when I get started on the next day’s pages, it’ll feel far too close to this afternoon. Or it might, I mean I don’t really know what I’m going to feel like tomorrow. Goodness, this woman has such a beautiful, delicate voice. And the lyrics of this song of course, they’re so gentle and loving. It sounds like something a parent thinks when they’re checking up on their child in the afternoon, to check if they’re still in bed. I don’t know, that’s just what I’m thinking right now.

The video also kind of pays homage to the art of animation as well, considering that it doesn’t just celebrate the gorgeous end product, but also documents the amount of care and effort that went into creating that world in the first place. I drank a lot of water right before I came upstairs and my stomach feels weird. This morning, I tried brushing my teeth in the shower again for the first time in a long time, and the brush stabbed the back of my throat and I half-coughed and half-swallowed a large gulp of air. My chest felt really weird for ten or fifteen minutes afterwards. I ate muesli in the morning with the last of my fancy weetbix, and then for lunch I had the leftover ravioli with today’s new stir fry on top. I just wanted to save some food on both of my meals, ate whatever was left over. I also ate two more yoghurt ice cream things. I’ve eaten well today. I’ve been trying to eat well. I also went on a run in the morning, just a soft 1k. I’m trying not to overdo it. I think I might go for another soft run this evening though, because I felt really weak when I woke up this morning so hopefully after a good day of eating, the evening run will feel a lot easier. I just want to see if it feels easier. But right now, I’m going to walk out of my room for a bit because my stomach hurts and I think I might need to pee because I drank so much fucking water. I’m sorry. I’m taking a book with me because I haven’t been reading much either and sitting on the toilet might soothe me for a little. I also want to take off this dumb turtleneck. It was comfy in the morning but now it’s just making me feel too warm.

Okay I’m back. I read like five or so pages of ‘The Progress of Julius’, and realised that I’m not even through the first chapter yet. I’ve been slacking with my reading so severely, it’s shameful. I didn’t even read Moby Dick during these holidays! And uni starts in a little under a fortnight now! Like I’ll have time then. The Weeknd is playing now, this song called ‘Next’, and the main line in the chorus (and by that, of course I mean the ONLY line in the chorus) is ‘you just want me ‘cos I’m next’. He’s really getting to me now, getting on my nerves I mean. His lyrical disregard for the women he sings about fucking is actually abhorrent, the only issue being that his VOICE is very much the opposite. His voice and his sound is like kryptonite to me, it’s so gorgeous. I feel like a lot of people feel the same way: they completely disagree with his social values and his casual misogyny, but they can’t help but fall in love with his music anyway just because it’s so hypnotisingly good. Chance just played ‘Sunday Candy’, and now it’s Kanye’s ‘Streetlights’, which is also very wonderful. This is a fantastic shuffle, in the sense that it’s playing music I enjoy listening to rather than providing me with some variety.

I went on a walk yesterday, I forgot to mention. This walk was of significance because Malith texted me asking if I wanted to go for a walk with him, and he hadn’t spoken to me since Friday night so I was eager to see him, and also to hear about how his workshop went with Melbourne Playback Theatre. It apparently didn’t go too well not because he had been burning the candle at both ends, but because he wasn’t prepared to do any acting for which he felt he’d be judged or assessed on that day. He thought he was going there to watch the company, see what they do rather than join them in what they do. Also speak of the devil, he just messaged me. Two words: Hannah Gadsby? I was talking to him last night about wanting to see more stand-up with him because I told him that he enriches the audience experience for me, by interacting with the talent. When we went to see Adam Hills together, for example, we were sitting in the front row on the left hand side, so Adam could see us very clearly and thus decided to ask us questions. In little to no time after initiating that typically one-sided stage conversation with us, Malith managed to turn the tables on him to such a degree that Adam Hills became an implied racist and the entire audience was sent up in accusatory ‘oohs!’; it was a sight to behold! From what I remember, Adam asked Malith what his name was and Malith said ‘Marv’ and then Adam said ‘well THAT’S a name’, and a very precarious chain of dialogue later (which will be presented in the last part of this paragraph), Malith told Adam his actual name. Adam Hills then saw me and asked if I was his sister or something and Malith said ‘no, she’s my friend’, to which Adam replied ‘oh I just assumed you were related’ BECAUSE OF THE COLOUR OF OUR SKIN, ADAM? HUH ADAM? WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY FOR YOURSELF? It basically went down like that, it was fantastic.

Anyway, I also managed to present my slam poem to Malith last night, and received some pretty positive feedback on it. He basically said that he thought it was very well-written, very poignant, and also agreed with me that the metaphor of the mud needs to be stronger, and that I need to get my contention in order so that I can naturally strengthen the metaphor. He also said I should use more statistics, not just use one. Like Marcus’ feedback on my script, everything Malith said about my poem was something I’d already been thinking about. Just hearing someone else say those things has given me enough perspective to know what I need to change in order to make it perfect. I hope to get it done by tonight, I mean that would be ideal if I were aiming to memorise it. I’ll need to be performing it a lot though before Slamalamadingdong, but the thing is that it can get quite loud and quite emotional so I’ll only get to do it when nobody’s home, and nobody can hear me effectively shit all over my own culture. To be fair though, I’ve spoken to my mum about my script and I feel like I’ve won a couple of brownie points from her for that, because I talk about how I use some of her life experiences to juxtapose the life of a migrant mother and her first-generation daughter. The slam poem is less about my parents and more just about the negative side of South Asian culture, that is the ingrained misogyny and long history of traditionally practised gender inequality. I’m sick of South Asian men in Melbourne too, I have to say. The guys who were harassing me/staring at me last weekend when I was at Laundry were all South Asian: Indian, Pakistani or something along those lines. Not Lankan, I’ve learnt to tell the Lankans apart now so, and actually Lankans tend not to be as pervy because Lankan migrants, I’ve noticed, are a lot older and a lot more work-oriented (they were all granted work visas and they’re all professionals rather than students) than other South Asian migrants. That’s because of the immigration sanctions that were placed on them by the Australian government up until very recently because of the Sri Lankan Civil War. The thing is though, is that a lot of Sri Lankans claiming asylum during the war weren’t Sinhalese Sri Lankans, but Tamil Sri Lankans, and I wholeheartedly believe that they desperately needed to seek asylum because the country was definitely not treating any of them well. It was discrimination by the end, because even after the Tamil Tigers were defeated and the war was arguably won, the Sri Lankan government was still at war against the Tamil people, and it was somewhat unfounded. Anyway, I don’t want to talk South Asian politics here because I have something to say before I run out of my three pages. I mean, I might just change the size of my font now because three pages is feeling a lot shorter with every passing day. Let me just check what this looks like in Times New Roman size 12 at least. Ooh, that’s not too bad. I have about half a page left, that’s certainly easy enough, and not too drastic of an extension. I was getting sick of Arial anyway, I never liked that font and I despise how it’s the standard font on Google Docs.

Evan just texted me to wish me a Happy Valentine’s Day. He called me ‘sweetness’. I can’t stand it, I mean I love it. I was really tempted to see him today, but I thought it would feel forced and decided against it. I do miss him a lot though, and I’m not going to lie, I would not mind his company at all right now. But I know that it’s far too early in our relationship (romantic OR platonic) for him to be a source of comfort for me right now. I at least had the courage to tell him yesterday what happened with Manasha. I also had the courage to make a post and post a photo on Facebook, which I didn’t know if I wanted to do to be honest with you, because I have been on and off of Facebook all day today out of fear that someone might call me insensitive for posting at all right now despite the fact that for the past two or so years, I’ve made very little effort to stay in her life. I don’t know, I’m just nervous and I’m also really sad! I’m so sad. I feel myself being sad somewhere inside, and some other part of me just refuses to deal with it so instead, I’ve been feeling a very shallow and very transparent numbness. I think I will feel a lot better after the funeral, I really do. But you can understand now why I didn’t want to see Evan today. My life is too heavy right now.

(A LITTLE P.S.: Also a little something interesting about Evan and what happened on the weekend. Apparently Malith didn’t know that I was dancing with a guy that I’ve been dating, and assumed that Evan was a total stranger I had picked up in the span of ten minutes, immediately began to dance very explicitly with and then very passionately make out with, and then LEAVE with. Apparently his sister thought the same thing. I hadn’t had the opportunity to speak about Evan with Malith much, but we did get to do a little talking last night. As I told Isaac, the only way I could basically describe Evan aside from physically is that he’s incredibly polite, and I feel that he’s very much like me. Anyway, it’s funny to mention here that the main reason why Malith was angry at me over the weekend was because he thought I was being a massive slut, not just out dancing with my baby.)