#b: amazing story

[felinefractious]

Brilliance Sinegorye Kenzo

🐱 Peterbald

📸 Tessa [Amazing Story]

🎨 Black

[modmad]

SAW STRANGE WORLD. MOVIE GOOD!! GOOD MOVIE. GO SEE MOVIE shame on disney for trying to bury this beautiful film. Discussion of generational trauma, hard decisions re: fuel sources and having an overtly gay main character? it's sad to say I can see why they tried. Failed! but tried.

[gameraboy2]

"Satellite Space Ship Station" Amazing Stories, May 1946 Back cover by James B. Settles

[captaindamianos]

If you aren't yet, please do yourelf a favour and go read 'even in another time' by @irregularcollapse / phlegmatic on ao3

scanning colored pencils is not ideal, learnt my lesson.

[retroscifiart]

Art by David B Mattingley for Amazing Stories ‘Saint Joan and the Computer’ (1991)

[carpe-mamilia]

Nathan: What are some of your favourite Captain moments over the series?

Ben: Well obvi- I think, yeah, definitely the Havers episode, because it was really nice to be... again, it felt indulgent at the time, but actually we were able to kind of put enough story around it to make it sit. But it was a kind of little glimpse, and, um, my friend Pete, who played Havers, did it so well -

Mat: Yeah.

Ben: - that it was so delightful to do those scenes because it felt that we were going into territory that you just look behind the curtain a little bit, and it's like "ohhh that's who he is!"

Nathan: Yeah.

Ben: And - but that's all you need, you just need to see who he is. So you kind of, every time you see him after that, you know that this is a man who has so much, ah, pain and suffering going on under the surface. And we all do.

Nathan: And we love him more for it!

Ben: We're all - every single character, everybody you meet in your life has stuff going on you don't know about.

Nathan: Absolutely.

Ben: And so it's kind of just humanising the character, to a point. But I love those scenes because they had to be quick, they had to be on the money, but it had to get across all of this emotion that wasn't allowed to come out. And, um, lovely to be able to play that, as part of that character, yeah.

(Inside Ghosts, 'Gone Gone')

[obstinatecondolement]

I have a lot of fondness for clunky Hallmark Christmas romance movies with rock bottom production values, vaguely established and extremely contrived plots, dodgy dialgoue, often questionable line readings, and child actors playing a kid who seems either three years younger or older than themselves. Hallmark have not undermined themselves with glib, self aware irony or attempted to "elevate" the delightful low artform that they excel in. Refreshing, honestly.

[bahbahhh]

PLS TALK TO ME ABOUT "BEGIN AGAIN" I WOULD DO SOOOO MANY ILLEGAL THINGS TO READ IT FOR THE FIRST TIME AGAIN </3333333

Oh man, begin again. Where do I, well, begin?

It started with the end — that is, the first I knew was I wanted to write a story that ended with Link giving Zelda Hateno house.

I became obsessed pretty early on in my play-through of totk with the changes between it and botw. And when I say obsessed, I mean annoyed. I love botw. I love the world and the landscape and the characters and the story. It just felt like too much was wiped away without explanation and I decided, damnit, I was going to fix that.

Here are so fun facts/ hidden gems/Easter eggs:

Chapter 1

She is not aware of a word that accurately describes the feeling of being forgotten by the person you tethered your heart to; to have it remain connected to that person and witness it drift behind them, becoming more of a dark cloud than guiding light.

This is a little nod to like someone would. I totally Link runs from his destiny a little bit before he faces CG. And writing from Zelda’s POV, I felt like I had to recognize the pain of witnessing that.

He jokingly calls it an ‘adventure pouch’.

Call back to SS!

Chapter 2

“Even the Divine Beasts?”

“Especially those,” he asserts.  

Another nod to like someone would Link. I always feel like, similar to how SS Link would have hesitation being a child of the sky entering temples, especially underground, this Link would hate entering the divine beasts. It feels like a living tomb. I wanted this contrast between he and Zelda’s perspective where, earlier, she thinking about all the ways they could be repurposed to help Hyrule, Link only sees how it can fall again. And the pain they have already caused.

“It trapped his soul inside his body,” King Dorephan says.

I hc Link was very much dead in botw. The shrine of resurrection essentially tethered his soul to his body long enough for it to be prepared so his soul could be convinced to remain inside. I have a wip sitting around about Link’s time in this stasis and how all three of this trio (Zelda, Ganondorf, and Link have all spent some time in it) but who knows if I’ll write it.

To this group, so revitalized by new hope, united and rising from a hundred years of ruin, her proposal of clinging to their ashes might feel like poison. 

Like malice.

I’m a little obsessed with thinking about and justifying how at any given point, Zelda and Link could become a calamity as well.

“You said you think the Shrines work like the Divine Beasts? So in theory, those stopped working because our friends—” Grief, unexpected and sudden, crackles in her voice. She clears her throat. Pivots. “You can’t use their gifts any longer, right?”

Link flexes his fingers slowly. Like he’s just missing something that keeps passing through his fingers. “I let them go.”

This was a very important change I wanted to spend time on: The champion’s gifts. It broke my heart to think when mummy ganon attacked Link, he stole their gifts (essentially their souls) away from Link. And I decided it lined up with Link’s characterization in this story, that he would let them go versus hold onto them longer than needed. He especially, down to his very core, knows what that is like.

> Rest? <

I wanted a plausible explanation for how the shrines disappeared from the map and I just thought this was so clever when I came up with it, hah. That souls fixed for so long, so dedicated and driven by purpose might need permission to let go (HINT HINT ZELDA) And also, Link had the answer all along because, essentially, it’s what he did for the Champions when they let the gifts go.

Chapter 3

A bit of a logistics chapter but I wanted to wrap it around moments of feeling. Grief and living with grief is a huge theme through the entire story. I just love the “I’m 18” scene and how she’s physically moving forward before she’s emotionally there.

With her soul is exposed and pulsing like a nerve, she can sense the entirety of the Sheikah Technology network - all the shrines, every guardian, the towers stretching up into the sky, the furnaces burning outside the Labs - all these things without a mouth suddenly have one, and they open wide and desperate, and begin to siphon energy from her.

In theory, since the Sheikah tech runs on soul energy, I felt like it would make sense it has a hard time recognizing what is fuel and what I not. So every time Link fast travels, it’s like he’s bargaining with the horned statue. I always felt like you should lose a half heart when you fast travel in botw.

I was a little nervous it would fit with the story, but I really love the letters. It was the perfect opportunity to show Link has a lot going on in his head behind his few spoken words.

It does feel fast, but at the end of it all, it's just another year. Important things take time. 

This comes back in chapter 6 when Link tells Zelda how he feels about her.

You want to know where my favorite place in Hyrule is? There is a spring on top of a waterfall north of Lake Floria. It's where I first saw Farosh. Came right out of the water and climbed up into the sky above my head. Nearly scared me to death. I can’t really explain it well, but it's where I realized I wanted to actually be here. Ruins and wild and all. It's where I realized I wanted to be the one to save Hyrule. To save you.

Another like someone would reference. Also laying foundation of Link connecting with dragons…light dragon feels.

It’s just, sometimes it feels like this destiny asks too much, you know? 

This is a big theme in the depths au. A lot of my stories are connected/have passages that inspired others.

Chapter 4

The shrine Link got sick from was Noya Neha shrine. It’s next to Hyrule castle and it’s a cave shrine. I wanted to subtly introduce gloom sickness in a way it would take several years to become a problem consistent enough for Hyrule to pay attention to. In the beginning, I see it as something just chalked up to a random virus/illness. While Link and Zelda have more of a resistance to it, I argue because of all the fast travel and not taking the best care of himself for weeks, he was in a weakened state and more susceptible to the gloom in the cave.

“What are you talking about? Who will–” Paya freezes as Impa pulls off her hat, revealing a thin coil of silver braid on the top of her head that partially uncoils and drops down by her ear. 

It only felt right that Impa would drop a bomb on Paya and announce her retirement so casually.

The thin coil braid is a nod to SS Impa.

Calamity Ganon could easily be mistaken for a dragon. Can you imagine? Facing off against a wicked version of Dinraal or Farosh?

Foreshadowing the demon dragon.

You can clearly see she was Hylian by the ears, but the hero has none of Link’s features. He barely looks human. They chose the Champion blue from the color found in the threads that make up the ancient hero’s armor, but up close, she can see it’s a blending. They could have just as easily gone with green.

Nod the ancient hero’s aspect design. I’m so desperate to make this feel connected to botw because it doesn’t, haha.

‘It needed to heal,’ he signs. ‘I decided to let it.’

Again, an easy way to let Link’s characterization explain the detail of them having to retrieve the Master Sword before they descend under castle to investigate in the opening to totk and the Master Sword needing/being able to heal (Zelda’s decision to swallow the stone in totk).

Chapter 5

“Strong name.” The old man tugs off his hat and bows his head. “My name’s Toffa, by the way. My grandfather was head groom for the Royal family a century ago, Princess. His name was Talon.”

Nod to OoT.

Link drops down beside Zelda with two plates of food. He sets one in her lap, ignoring Tauro completely until Zelda picks it up. He’s unusually close. There is a strange edge to him; she feels it along the long line of his thigh against hers. Like she's thumbing the edge of a blade.

It was really fun to make Link a little jealous of Tauro and Zelda be completely oblivious to it.

I just love the entire Riju and Zelda scene. It felt really important for me to spend some time on Zelda facing her grief with Urbosa. I wrote a scene in the Killing Moon where Zelda uses Urbosa’s sword to cut her hair and I loved it so much I wanted to keep that theme with explaining her haircut. And of course, the most simple change between games (Zelda’s appearance) became a moment of a deeper significance.

Chapter 6

“It’s just, I remember reading that the Rito were once thought to be water dwelling.”

Nod to fandom lore Rito evolved from Zora.

“Our ears. They used to be longer.”

Another nod to fandom lore. Hylian ears once being longer to hear messages from goddesses. Sonia longer ears.

Purah’s change in appearance felt like an important change to spend some time on, not just because she’s suddenly older but also why Robbie and Impa didn’t de-age, too. It stands to reason, the same tech that ages her up could be used to alter Robbie and Impa’s age.

The air is damp and heavy. It smells – she thinks about Link and the cave shrine – funnier than it should. Musty and mineral and sickly sweet, like something is rotting behind the bedrock.

Another tiny foreshadowing of gloom.

“Just burn it.” She hears her father in the harshness of her tone. There is ink on her fingers. 

Fun fact- this is happening in the exact spot you get the memory in botw where her father scolds her.

“The song you are humming,” She fails to keep the edge out of her tone. “What is it called?”

He’s humming the song of storms in this scene. It’s why storm clouds are approaching and Farosh flies overhead.

“Kondo. The court poet’s name was Kondo. He was a Sheikah.”

Nod to the music composer for many of the iconic LoZ themes- Koji Kondo!

‘I choose you. Do you choose me?’

I wanted to say I love you without saying I love you. And for these two, bonded by destiny, choosing each other feels so much stronger, more significant and romantic to me than a declaration of love alone.

Chapter 7

The entire scene of her walking through the village and being stopped multiple times is my explanation why she eventually wants/needs the secret well.

I wrote the first passage of the story- Zelda wanting a bed- and the last passage - Zelda getting a bed/house- at the same. I broke it up when I gave it to my beta reader and only edited it a little when it was time to put it into the final chapter.

[henrysglock]

wow, more dogshit in the henry tag? unsurprising atp but frustrating nonetheless.

tapping the sign:

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

𝔇𝔞𝔳𝔦𝔡 𝔅. 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔦𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔶 𝔣𝔬𝔯 𝔄𝔪𝔞𝔷𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔖𝔱𝔬𝔯𝔦𝔢𝔰 ‘𝔖𝔞𝔦𝔫𝔱 𝔍𝔬𝔞𝔫 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔱𝔥𝔢 ℭ𝔬𝔪𝔭𝔲𝔱𝔢𝔯’ (յգգյ)

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Art by David B. Mattingly for Amazing Stories ‘Saint Joan and the Computer’ (1991)

[felinefractious]

Amaya Amazing Story

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📸 Amazing Story

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[vividblaze]

S5Ch1... definitely my top favorite of the story so far 👌

Is it crazy that I kind of want to see Mizuki try to make his own team... again lmfaooo

[fleuraimer]

hi girlies <33 i js wanted to get on here rq and apologize for my lack of activity :(( IM SORRY!! LIKE SO SO SOOO SORRY :(((( school has been schooling real hard recently, and other personal circumstances overlapping with that makes juggling my life not so fun all the time. that being said, i've been working on cylwjat pt.2 and getting through the amazing asks u lovely ppl send me. i'm hoping to get a few requested blurbys (2-3) out this weekend and another sneaky peaky for our beloved babies tastyrry and y/n <33 n e whore, thank u sm for ur support through my slow ass writing process, u guys genuinely have no idea what it means and does for me :((

[yuriyuruandyuraart]

hope this one reaches you!

context: this is not too long after a recent reset and ves doesn't fully trust ash yet but they don't really have much choice :3

ves CAN reset. they just don't retain the memories. because the reset is stolen from a human soul their ancestor absorbed. they inherited it through magic and genetics but are still a monster and do not fully qualify as the saves owner so...

with each reset they forget :)

ash and the rest of humanity remember. and ash is trying to guide this idiot out of imprisonment while also explaining the whole situation for the fifth time this week...

(inverted dynamic and consistent lore with Undertale! yay!)

(all dusts need a vacation man)

I've been drawing so much fluff of them I figured there needs to be more re ACTION!

YES!! i can see it now :D

ooo i like that piece of info!! time travel is always so fun to write and read about hhh it's so interesting to see the different outcomes and what ifs!! >:0

[artemidesarrow]

Okay, finished the season and my first impression is positive. It’s true that we had too many scenes with big john and there was definitely too little time with the pogues all together but it still felt like a nice conclusion to this storyline. I particularly liked how they showed that both ward and big john, even being from such different backgrounds, became obsessed with the gold and turned into terrible fathers. It was a nice point to make. I also really liked all the couples this season with a particular shoutout to cleope cuz they were the cutest.

Also loved jiara ofc, I’ve been shipping them since forever and I felt like they developed the friends to lovers trope well, considering they both have a lot of issues with their families and their social status.

I read a lot of different opinions about the time jump on itself and jiara in the time jump and I must say that yes it’s disappointing not seeing how things happened when they get back (like with kie and her parents?? they looked way too happy and supportive in the final scene or what happens in general to everyone when they get back) but I guess they will tell us at the start of next season (probably with a john b voiceover). About the jiara not feeling really acknowledged in the time jump, I just feel like they were always less “physical” than the other couples and more of a “heart eyes is how we show our love” kind of couple and they stayed true to that. They kept looking and smiling at eo and they seemed always aware of where the other was (like jj being completely turned to speak with her or kie looking for him when they moved toward the table) so I really didn’t feel anything amiss about that.

I just think that this was the perfect open ending for the series when they didn’t know if it would get renewed or not.