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The crew discusses language and gender

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Alt text perhaps on its way if I have time!

To be clear: Aconite is ftm trans and has been practically his whole life, by his own decision. Mal is demiromantic. Talon is some shade of queer but he doesn't really think about it. (Which means that I have no clue.)

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i love linked nexus! if you’re taking ideas/prompts, could you do four and wind fluff? i feel like four always gets the whump end of the stick

Hi anon!! This ask is a little old but I've been keeping it in my back pocket for a day like today—I needed a bit extra Happy Chemical so I wrote this. :) (and in my defense, these boys are fun to whump...)

It got late

Linked Nexus | Four & Wind | low stakes slice of life scene | G all around | 905 words

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Wind glances up from his project when his back begins to ache. He stretches, and his spine crackles when he twists. Eugh. The display on the wall catches his eye, blaring an accusing number at him.

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Mmm.... What should I draw

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:O! Yes I love being tagged for stuff like this thank you! He's adorable—and he has a kitty!! <3

I was challenged to draw a character in a wheelchair, so...

(inspired by @zarvasace 's shatterproof au (sry for tagging you if you don't like to be tagged. Just thought that you might be interested to see fanart or something.))

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They've attracted a bit of an audience...

for @mizaruwu's Necromancer Hyrule AU

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I know Aconite is just Suffering™ during his time(before the gala) with the witchy bitch. But bloody hell is that a bad time to learn she might be a lesbian. The scene is complete fucked up as shit. I'm hooked. Maybe I just want Acon to go apeshit at her one day.

I'm glad you enjoyed it—and he very well might, someday! :)

Gotta admit I'm really confused by your second sentence though. Who?? The dynamic between these two has been in play for a long time!

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Whumptober day 18: possession. Image description under cut!

Edit: next>>

This comic is done in tall pages with a gray background. All the lines have a pencil-like texture to them, and it is not colored. Most lines and text are in black, with white and red being used symbolically and sparingly.

Page One

Panel one: A sketched landscape that evokes the Dueling Peaks of Wild’s world, lit in bright red by a full and bloody moon.

Panel two: A line of silhouettes, lit slightly in red light for some detail. They are walking toward the right side of the page. From right to left: Wolfie, facing forward. Time. Warriors, looking backward. Wild, looking up with his slate in his hands. Legend looking around. Hyrule, jogging to catch up. Wind, shading his eyes and looking up. Sky, glancing backward. Four, fully stopped and looking back down at his shadow on the ground. The text reads, in quotes as if recalling something from a memory: “Monsters stalk the shadows here, once they’re dead. Blood moons bring them back.”

Panel three: We see Four’s head and hand, reaching out toward something slightly below him. His expression is concerned. He’s lit in red light, including two little reflected red blood moons in his eyes. The text is not in any quotes or speech bubbles, as if they are Four’s thoughts: “...bring them [underlined] back. Could it?”

Panels four and five: Four, still in silhouette, kneels next to a puddle of bubbling shadow, lit in red light. First he reaches down toward it, and in the next panel, his hand pulls back suddenly as the shadow begins to extend upward. Flecks of red evoke the Malice in the air, and become more intense in the fifth panel. The fifth panel is interrupted by a large (loud) exclamation from an unknown source, with a dash before to indicate that the speaker interrupted themself: [all caps] “—FOUR!”

Page Two

Panel one: Four glances over his shoulder, still lit in red light with flecks of red flying around him. There are tiny tears in the corners of his eyes, and he’s smiling. He says: “Calm down, its [underlined] okay!”

Panel two: A copy of the previous panel, except for a few differences. Four’s tears are gathering a little bigger. The red flecks in the air have turned to flaming shapes. Four says: “It’s just my S—” but is cut off by the next panel.

Panel three: Four is still looking back, but a bright flash of red interrupts what he’s saying. His eyes go round, his tears fall, and he stops speaking. The red lights in his eyes are bigger. 

Panel four: Four kneels down in the middle of the panel, while shapes that suggest the other Heroes gather around him, indistinguishable from each other. Red flecks fly around them all. Text fills the background, as if from the Heroes muttering, but there is now way to tell who is saying what: “FOUR! That doesn’t look good. What happened? He doesn’t usually linger behind. Give him some space. He said to calm down? That’s the opposite of what we should be— Who has the Ma— [cut off by shapes] He has a moon pearl, right? He never touches the thing.”

Panels five, six, and seven: These panels are a sequence left to right, separated by dotted lines instead of solid ones. In them, we see Four, but not any of his facial features. In panel five, he stands up (there’s a word to make it clear: “RISE”.) In the next, he raises his hands to look at them, and lines indicate that he’s wobbling. His feet are turned in ever so slightly. In the last panel of this sequence, he is still looking at his hands, but there is less wobbling and he’s standing more firmly. All through these panels, he doesn’t say anything, and red wiggly lines surround him. 

Panel eight: A shot of Hyrule, looking grim with a shield already out, Legend, looking a bit worried with a hand on the hilt of his sword at his back, and Wild, who’s definitely worried. They’re all outlined in red light, but don’t have any red shining in their eyes. Wild, in a wobbly speech bubble, says: “...Four?”

Page Three

Panel one: This panel takes up most of this page, and shows Four looking up, with one hand on his head and a huge, maniacal smile on his face. His eyes are fully red, and he’s still lit in red light. Flecks of red fly around him, and the panel is shaded and has more detail than the others have had. A series of “AHAHAHA” laughing is repeated behind him. He says, in all-caps with a red speech bubble: “I KNEW THE LITTLEST WOULD BE EASIEST TO TAKE!!”

Panel two: This isn’t Four, but it is his body. Not-Four laughs, one hand up by his face, and keeps speaking with red speech bubbles: “The idiot let me right in! Me, his dead friend?”

Panel three: All eight of the other Links with swords and some shields out, making angry eyes as they stand in a line. The sky is red behind them. We see the top silhouette of Not-Four’s head, and he says: “oh… uh…”

Panel four: A copy of the last panel, except now each of the other Links looks either surprised or even angrier. They all shout: “STOP!” but the silhouette of Four’s head is now dissolving into red light. He says, “catch you suckers later!”

Page Four

There is only one panel on this page, and it is quite spread out to illustrate a lull in the action.

At the top, we see the moon outlined in red, but now with white on the inside and around it, as if the blood moon is disappearing. 

Text, without speech bubbles but staggered so that each sentence seems to come from someone else, without any hints as to who says what: “Does anyone have any idea what that was? …nobody? Where’s Four? What was that? He’s possessed?!” And at the bottom of this block, there is more text: “Guys… Who’s that?”

At the bottom of this page, we see a Four-like figure lying slumped on the ground, a few sparkles of white around him. He looks to be asleep. The end of his hood is curled above him without a charm, as if floating with a mind of its own.

The very bottom has text in white, the artist’s signature: “mina @ zarvasace”

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Roughly a year ago I drew this (which remains one of my favorites) so I drew a follow-up, trying to keep to the same style! I think I've improved. And they're still cute :)

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The Hand That Holds the Sword

The Jungle Temple: part 1

Chapter 1

AO3 link here!

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Talon looked up and around at the sky and green hills and blue ocean, his jaw set and his fists clenched. “We've jumped times again. I don't recognize this.”

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Four original Links who failed, with all the consequences that implies, are now on a quest to perhaps help some others. This is their first mission.

Every Monday for a few weeks, I'll be posting a new chapter of this fic! Each is about 3-5k long, and there are a total of 7. The series description on AO3 has some more info about how this story is organized. This is part 1 of part 1, immediately following the prelude that's already posted. Very excited for this one!! :)

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The Hand That Holds the Sword

The Jungle Temple: part 1

Chapter 1

AO3 link here!

BEL masterpost

Talon looked up and around at the sky and green hills and blue ocean, his jaw set and his fists clenched. “We've jumped times again. I don't recognize this.”

---

Four original Links who failed, with all the consequences that implies, are now on a quest to perhaps help some others. This is their first mission.

Every Monday for a few weeks, I'll be posting a new chapter of this fic! Each is about 3-5k long, and there are a total of 7. The series description on AO3 has some more info about how this story is organized. This is part 1 of part 1, immediately following the prelude that's already posted. Very excited for this one!! :)

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Hello all! I bring another set of doodles--this time with a dark theme :3

They correspond to the following fics (which are fantastic and well worth a read):

Kintsugi by @whitewinterstar

A Dark Among the Lights by @luckylectio

Home by @mysteryn0te

Counterbalance by @zarvasace

A Study of Darkness (and its Light) by @floatingnebulas

A Tale of a Darker Time by @luckylectio

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Yesterday, I finished a fic, and today I had a lot of free time

That means that my brain was both exhausted and way too excited. Picture an intense need to draw, with the certitude that I was going to do shitty things and the attention span of a racoon on crack.

That said, have a few practice doodles that I managed to squeeze out of the static :

For the bottom left corner, I borrowed some Bad End Links from the friends of the whump server

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if you ever feel awkward leaving a long ao3 comment getting no reply remember that at this point receiving any feedback at all will leave most authors too stunned to speak

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Toon Redesigns

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Soul count: 2?

On two occasions, I have had people tell me "if you wrote/drew ____, I would give you my soul" or a variation of it. And I did. So I now have two extra souls. :)

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Hello!! Just wanted to drop by and say I love you!!!!! 🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷

THANKS I LOVE YOU TOO YOU'RE THE BEST AND A PILLAR OF THE COMMUNITY 💜💜💜💜💜💜

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OMGGGG UR ART LOOKS LIKE ITS MADE OF PAPER AND ITS SO EDIBLE MMMMMM I LOVE IT SO MUCH

-soemone who eats paper. i would eat ur art btw. looks like cardstock

THANKS THAT IS THE GOAL I'm so bad at answering asks sometimes I'm so sorry

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