#New Link

[dottiep]

Reneé Rapp full set at Coachella.

[kate-m-art]

New Zelda for New Links story TvT

Don't have quite as much for her yet as i do for link, but she's in her early 30s like he is. At this point in time she's already become Hyrule's beloved queen. She's very reserved, poised and elegant and doesn't let emotions slip often. If anything I think she struggles less with ruling the country fairly and more with the growing loneliness and exhaustion of having very few she can trust to let her guard down around.

As tensions in the kingdom begin to rise and Link pledges his services to her, she begins to gain a friend. I'm not sure at first she was pleased with a child being brought along into the palace in a time of growing unrest but Adelyna definitely grows on her TvT nothing like a little kiddo with boundless energy and a million questions to break down walls

Another tiny thing but height comparison! It's not perfect, but Zel's definitely a few inches taller than her counterpart in this one akskfk

[orchid-151]

Added a Fanfiction account to the pin post~ no stories yet but if you are in an RP with me and don't mind me posting our story there let me know~ otherwise I'll just be posting single stories there for fun....

[sakurakotoni]

Lara in the Mikagura uniform from Shinobi Master Senran Kagura New Link.

[life-is-anything-but-certian]

Just gunna leave that here……..

[assiraphales]

I don’t think we’re rick rolling each other enough anymore. 1. it CANNOT die out 2. this under saturated market is perfect for unsuspecting victims who’ve been lulled into a false sense of security. be the person you hate. bring back the dastardly link

[littlestingray2]

Hi, kiddos. I'm back. I have a new Ao3 account and a new tiktok account.

Ao3:

Tiktok:

I'm probably going to cross post most of my actual stories and Headcanons on here and Ao3. I'm also going to completely revamp this account because my 2020 mushroom phase is over.

:]

[frenchgirlocean]

Chapters: 1/1

Fandom: Hatchetfield Universe - Team StarKid

Category: F/F

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Becky Barnes/Linda Monroe

Characters: Linda Monroe, Becky Barnes

Additional Tags: Fluff, Pining, High School, one sided enemies to one sided homoromantic friendship, Gardens & Gardening, Blood and Injury, very mild

[lyricshot-net]

There You Go Again

You blame me for your mistake When your mind starts to get anxious I feel like I might throw something up right now You make my broken heart beat fast When you feel the fear of failure You just come to make me stay awake all night There you go again There you go again You stare at me as if you care Then I wake up from a nightmare You don’t seem to know what’s going on in my mind You drive me to…

[junglejim4322]

Seriously if you can’t financially help or go to protests wrt palestine the second best thing you can do is learn history and talking points by heart and be ready to bring it up with people you know. There’s never “nothing you can do”. There’s no shortage of books and documentaries made by Palestinians you can find for free on the internet you have no excuse to not educate yourself especially if you actually want to help

[kate-m-art]

@skyward-floored saw your tags on this post, was debating about sharing but I guess I could really quick if you want to hear,,, uhh gosh ik it's a little silly tho so putting everything under the read more akskdkk

Uhh so,, I guess its probably cause I've been dead tired w school, but the concept was a Link w a sleeping curse like Zelda was put under in Adventure of Link. Thought was that it's slowly taking hold of him, draining him like a poison and like,, he's legit the hero of courage and only one that can save the kingdom but every day hes just feeling more and more tired but afraid to rest and sleep when he's not sure he'll be able to wake up. (I mean short and sweet relief tho every time he either caves and rests or collapses and wakes up, but only makes him more anxious wondering if next time he won't.)

Have a couple more notes about him and how things would go down so I'll drop them here quick too ajsjd

So to start wanna say he was cursed because he was able to advise the royal family w prophetic dreams (thank you triforce of courage) and was lowkey the ace up their sleeve during a turbulent time in the kingdom. An enemy snuck into the castle to curse Link that way would potentially cripple the kingdom. Not only would the crown lose the insight they have from him, but it would also be a slap to the royal family's face and image to lose their hero to the very thing that was his strength. In a way it sends a pretty powerful and lethal message, to be forced to look on as a curse slowly eats at his mind and body like a poison before they lose him entirely to the realm of dreams.

Uhh second thought is that under normal circumstances Link is rather quick thinking and clever, able to problem solve on his feet. Quick mind, quick wit and a charming personality, he's adjusted fairly well to working in the castle for a guy who's come from nowhere. Sleep deprivation has him really struggling with all of this tho and decision making in general is getting harder as his mind gets foggier

Last thought is that Link and Zelda had gotten to know each other and become close since he's been working at the castle and neither are ready to let the kingdom go down w/o a fight,,, Link's determined to help fight the coming threat cause he knows as a holder of the triforce hes the only one who can, but w his brain and body becoming more compromised every day its more dangerous than ever to go alone. Can see that Zel (out of duty to her kingdom and concern for Link) sneaks out of the castle to act as his companion and lend him aid in trying to stop whatever threat the kingdom is facing and find a cure before its too late.

[wrenderart]

I made this a couple of months ago but. hack your 3ds. do it right now.

[thearchivesinsider]

Tell the people about the new vanity link!!!! Yeahhh!!!

Hey everyone So we do have a new link .gg/fanfic

now which of you found it necessary to be on anon for this, you could've just sent me a message here-

if anyone wants explanation ill go over what staff are allowed to say about it and report back, but its prob what was already said

[greyias]

Oh look, it seems everyone has been opted into the unfortunate "experiment" now. For everyone who has been blissfully using the old UI up until now, welcome to hell :)

Do you not like hell? Do you want to leave and crawl back up into the sunlight of the old UI? Well, have I got a link for you! A beautiful tumblr user (who is not me) has gone and fixed things beautifully for you already: https://github.com/enchanted-sword/dashboard-unfucker

You will need to have Tampermonkey installed on your browser of choice, and once that's done, just go to the github link above, and peruse the readme to install. And voila! You have your old dash back!

The authors of XKit Rewritten said during the experiments that at the time, since this was an "experiment" they weren't going to implement anything to revert to the old UI (although who knows if they'll do it now). And the dashboard unfucker has worked beautifully enough for me to where I genuinely couldn't tell if they had ended the experiment or not.

[genericpuff]

Tbh at this point you should just make your own webcomic app/website because it would probably be 100 times better than whatever going on with webtoon right now.

hahaha it wouldn't tho, sorry 💀

Here's the fundamental issue with webcomic platforms that a lot of people just don't realize (and why they're so difficult to run successfully):

Storage costs are incredibly expensive, it's why so many sites have limitations on file sizes / page sizes / etc. because all of those images and site info have to be stored somewhere, which costs $$$.

Maintenance costs are expensive and get more so as you grow, you need people who are capable of fixing bugs ASAP and managing the servers and site itself

Financially speaking, webcomics are in a state of high supply, low demand. Loads of artists are willing to create their passion projects, but getting people to read them and pay for them is a whole other issue. Demand is high in the general sense that once people get attached to a webtoon they'll demand more, but many people aren't actually willing to go looking for new stuff to read and depend more on what sites feed them (and what they already like). There are a lot of comics to go around and thus a lot of competition with a limited audience of people willing to actually pay for them.

Trying to build a new platform from the ground up is incredibly difficult and a majority of sites fail within their first year. Not only do you have to convince artists to take a chance on your platform, you have to convince readers to come. Readers won't come if there isn't work on the platform to read, but artists won't come if they don't think the site will be worth it due to low traffic numbers. This is why the artists with large followings who are willing to take chances on the smaller sites are crucial, but that's only if you can convince them to use the site in favor of (or alongside) whatever platform they're using already where the majority of their audience lies. For many creators it's just not worth the time, energy, or risk.

Even if you find short-term success, in the long-term there are always going to be profit margins to maintain. The more users you pull in, the more storage is used by incoming artists, the more you have to spend on storage and server maintenance costs, and that means either taking the risk at crowdfunding (ex. ComicFury) or having to resort to outsider investments (ex. Tapas). Look at SmackJeeves, it used to be a titan in the independent webcomic hosting community, until it folded over to a buyout by NHN and then was pretty much immediately shuttered due to NHN basically turning it into a manwha scanlation site and driving away its entire userbase. And if you don't get bought out and try your hand at crowdfunding, you may just wind up living on a lifeline that could cut out at any moment, like what happened to Inkblazers (fun fact, the death of Inkblazers was what kicked off the cultural shift in Tapas around 2015-16 when all of IB's users migrated over and brought their work with them which was more aimed towards the BL and romancee drama community, rather than the comedy / gag-a-day culture that Tapas had made itself known for... now you deadass can't tell Tapas apart from a lot of scanlation sites because it got bought out by Kakao and kept putting all of its eggs into the isekai/romance drama basket.)

Right now the mindset in which artists and readers are operating is that they're trying way, way too hard to find a "one size fits all" site. Readers want a place where they can find all their favorite webtoons without much effort, artists wants a place where they can post to an audience of thousands, and both sides want a community that will feel tight-knit. But the reality is that you can't really have all three of those things, not on one site. Something always winds up having to be sacrificed - if a site grows big enough, it'll have to start seeking more funding while also cutting costs which will result in features becoming paywall'd, intrusive ads, creators losing their freedom, and/or outsider support which often results in the platform losing its core identity and alienating its tight-knit community.

If I had to describe what I'm talking about in a "pick one" graphic, it would look something like this:

(*note: this is mostly based on my own observations from using all of these sites at some point or another, they're not necessarily entirely accurate to the statistical performance of each site, I can only glean so much from experience and traffic trackers LMAO that said I did ask some comic pals for input and they were very helpful in helping me adjust it with their own takes <3).

The homogenization of the Internet has really whipped people into submission for the "big sites" that offer "everything", but that's never been the Internet, it relies on being multi-faceted and offering different spaces for different purposes. And we're seeing that ideology falter through the enshittification of sites like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc. where users are at odds with the platforms because the platforms are gutting features in an attempt to satisfy shareholders whom without the platforms would not exist. Like, most of us aren't paying money to use social media sites / comic platform sites, so where else are they gonna make the necessary funds to keep these sites running? Selling ad space and locking features behind paywalls.

And this is especially true for a lot of budding sites that don't have the audience to support them via crowdfunding but also don't have the leverage to ask for investments - so unless they get really REALLY lucky in EITHER of those departments, they're gonna be operating at a loss, and even once they do achieve either of those things there are gonna be issues in the site's longevity, whether it be dying from lack of growing crowdfunding support or dying from shareholder meddling.

So what can we do?

We can learn how to take our independence back. We don't have to stop using these big platforms altogether as they do have things to offer in their own way, particularly their large audience sizes and dipping into other demographics that might not be reachable from certain sites - but we gotta learn that no single site is going to satisfy every wish we have and we have to be willing to learn the skills necessary to running our own spaces again. Pick up HTML/CSS, get to know other people who know HTML/CSS if you can't grasp it (it's me, I can't grasp it LOL), be willing to take a chance on those "smaller sites" and don't write them off entirely as spaces that can be beneficial to you just because they don't have large numbers or because they don't offer rewards programs. And if you have a really polished piece of work in your hands, look into agencies and publishing houses that specialize in indie comics / graphic novels, don't settle for the first Originals contract that gets sent your way.

For the last decade corporations have been convincing us that our worth is tied to the eyes we can bring to them. Instead of serving ourselves, we've begun serving the big guys, insisting that it has to be worth something eventually and that it'll "payoff" simply by the virtue of gambler's fallacy. Ask yourself what site is right for you and your work rather than asking yourself if your work is good enough for them. Most of us are broke trying to make it work on these sites anyways, may as well be broke and fulfilled by posting in places that actually suit us and our work if we can. Don't define your success by what sites like Webtoons are enforcing - that definition only benefits them, not you.