Ace, xe/xem, fish/fishself | I write fics for Linked Universe, Heroes Spirit, Bonus Links, and Legend of Zelda, and I reblog cool stuff PFP by wolfy1298, banner by Nintendo
Call me Ace, xe/xem/xyr/xyrs/xyrself, fish/fish/fishs/fishs/fishself
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I'm Arecaceae on AO3. I also have a writing account @acewrites175 if you just want to see my writing stuff and not everything else
For any new LU fans, I made an LU Character Guide that you can find here!
AO3 accessibility tips
You can support me on ko-fi if you want :D
Loft stim board, Wake stim board
Fav comics for easy access: @linkeduniverse @heroesspirit @bonus-links @zelda-daily
I have another account @lu-novelization where I do image descriptions and novelizations to try to help Linked Universe be accessible to people with low vision! It is very much work in progress.
[Header ID: Screenshot from the Oracle of Ages game. It is pixelated art of a simple sailboat on the ocean. The clouds are fluffy in the sky and there are nine birds flying near the ship. In the bottom right corner, the words “The End” are written in large orange font. End ID.]
[Icon ID: drawing by @wolfy1298 of Linked Universe Sky in a cutesy animated art style. He is smiling up at the camera with his eyes closed and his sailcloth (white cloth) is wrapped around his body like a cape. There are sparkles surrounding his head. In the bottom, the words say “would fist fight god.” End ID.]
My stuff:
LoZ Game List: (hours played in parentheses)
Currently playing (4/25): Minish Cap (again), A Link Between Worlds, The Legend of Zelda I (1), Cadence of Hyrule (4), Phantom Hourglass (10)
Beaten (14/25): Breath of the Wild (680), Skyward Sword (90), Minish Cap (30), Link’s Awakening (20), Tears of the Kingdom (265), Twilight Princess (80), A Link To The Past (30), Four Swords (4), Oracle of Seasons (25), Wind Waker (151), Oracle of Ages (20), Echoes of Wisdom (80), Adventure of Link (13), A Link Between Worlds (29)
100% Completion (2/25): Echoes of Wisdom, A Link Between Worlds
Played a some of (3/25): Majora’s Mask, Ocarina of Time, Triforce Heroes
Not started (5/25): Four Swords Adventures, Link’s Crossbow Training, Spirit Tracks, Hyrule Warriors, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity
Played Games Ranked: BOTW, EOW, ALBW, SS, MC, TOTK, WW, TP, ALTTP, OOA, MM, OOS, LA, PH, TFH, LOZ, OOT, AOL
(Above- last updated: July 2025)
(Below- last updated: March 2024)
LU Analysis Posts
Tag: #ace’s lu analysis
Autistic LU chain headcannons
Smiling Compilation: use tag #smiling compilation - update link
Dawn 1:
Warriors and Wild analysis and why they're missing
Teaser update:
What is going on update analysis
Sunset 14:
Warriors character analysis throughout the Sunset Arc
Sunset 13:
Four & Wild character and plot analysis
Legend character analysis
Bonus Links Analysis Posts
Tag: #ace’s bl analysis
Most of these posts are analysis of comic updates that I put in the reblogs of the update
I love loft essay: part 1 here
Prompt Fill Events
2023 Whumptober and Flufftober info here :D
Febuwhump 2023 prompt fills: (30/30) Lu drabbles for febuwhump 2023
Febuwhump 2023 favs: Flinching (Time), Forced to Hurt a Loved One (Warriors & Time), "That's gonna scar" (Wild), Knife to the Throat (Warriors),
Whumptober 2022 prompt fills: (31/31) LU drabbles for whumptober 2022
Whumotober 2022 favs: Shaking Hands, Silent Panic Attack (Warriors), Cornered (Twilight), Adrenaline Crash (Time), Repeatedly Passing Out, Head Lolling (Time & Warriors), Take My Coat (Time & Wind), Screams From Across the Hall (Legend, Four, and Time)
Linked Universe Long Stories
Authenticity: (24/?) Wild POV, Autistic Wild because I'm autistic and he's my comfort character
Summary: Wild knew he was… odd. He experienced the world differently than everyone else. No one seemed to feel as deeply as he did, about the things he did. Sometimes he would interact with people and it would just feel… off. It was as if everyone else had a rulebook on how to be a person but Wild was left watching and guessing.
And the thing is, Wild knew his friends knew it too. But these new friends, they were different. They didn’t treat him like he was different, or broken, or a burden. They just took him in stride. Wild didn’t know how to put into words how much that meant to him.
In which Wild is autistic because I’m autistic and I want him to be.
Gratitude: (3/9) Sky fluff!
Summary: 8 times Sky receives a gratitude crystal from the chain + 1 time he gives some away.
In Defense of Honor: (4/9) Badass Sky appreciation, Sky-centric with individual chapters for the others
Summary: 8 times Sky defends another member of the chain + 1 time they all defend him.
Only the Wild Ones (are the ones you can never catch): (5/5) Wild & Twilight centric Wild meets the chain
Summary: At 6, Link visits Castle Town for the first time and meets some strange men in the woods. At 12, Link pulls the Master Sword and sees his imaginary friends again. At 14, Link is appointed as the Princess’s personal guard and is grateful to have old friends on his side. At 16, the Calamity strikes, and Link has never felt more alone. At 16, Link dies.
At 117, Link defeats evil incarnate and saves Hyrule. At 117, Link meets eight peculiar heroes for the first time. Or, at least, what he believes is the first time.
Twilight thinks the Goddess Hylia has a cruel sense of humor and needs to leave his cub alone.
Favorite LU Oneshots
Sentiment: Warriors and Time have a disagreement. AKA two traumatized heroes don’t know how to handle emotions and then they try to have a healthy conversation about it
Delirium: Sky’s whittling slowed, hands lowering into his lap. His gaze was locked on Wild, as it had been for most of the afternoon. Wild wouldn’t stop twitching. Sky couldn’t figure out why. Based on kikker-oma’s art.
Welcome Home: The chain arrives at Lon Lon Ranch, and Malon’s words trigger a memory.
Bouquet: Wind, Wild, and Hyrule are planning a prank. They're quite obvious about it, but Time lets it happen anyway.
Find all my oneshots for LU on my AO3 here!
Heroes Spirit Fanfic
Space Bugs: Bugs In Space: (1/1)
Summary: Cori teaches Eras how to identify insects. Space AU.
Swamp Bugs: Bugs Not In Space And Not Quite On Land: (1/1)
Summary: Cori takes Sky, Twilight, and Sailor to look for bugs. Tensions are high.
Land Bugs: Bugs Not In Space: (1/1)
Summary: Cori and Agitha lead the second official meeting of the Bug Squad.
Bonus Links Fanfic
Loft Gets To Have One (1) Nice Day: (1/1)
Summary: Loft and the very good extremely nice day. Featuring Groose, Zelda, and a board game.
On Our Best Behavior: (14/14) (3,002 words)
Summary: Short Bonus Links Prompt Fills for Flufftober 2023.
Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom Fanfic:
Affection: (6/6) BOTW
Summary: Five times others make assumptions about Link and Zelda plus one time they figure out what their relationship means to them. Or, Link and Zelda in a QPR.
More: (1/1) BOTW
Summary: Link and Zelda bond over flames and Zelda has a lot of feelings about it.
Speaking to the Wind: (1/1) TOTK
Summary: Link updates Zelda on his progress. She isn’t there to respond. AKA Link is lonely and is having a lot of big feelings.
Falling Through the Air: (1/1) TOTK
Summary: Link discovers her.
Skyward Sword Fanfic
Shapes in the Clouds: (1/1) GrooZeLink fluff
Summary: Groose finds Link looking at the clouds.
Tags
#ace writes : my stories
#ace’s lu analysis : my LU analysis posts
#ace's bl analysis : my bonus links analysis posts and my thoughts on the updates
#art for my fic : amazing art based on my writing!
#three sentence prompt : ask game where you submit a word and I write three sentences of a fic based on it (it’s always longer than three sentences)
#lu incorrect quotes : instead of studying for finals I created over 100 incorrect quotes for LU XD they can be found under this tag
#authenticity : my autistic Wild story
#idoh : tag for my story In Defense of Honor
#gratitide : tag for the gratitude crystal story
#autistic chain : all my LU autism stuff
#ace has polls : my polls. They’re fun
#good art : reblogs of art I really really like (also artists I reblog from a lot each have their own art tag - it’s “artistname art”)
#lu fic recs : other people’s fics I really really like
#the lu boyos : stuff with all the links (boyos is gender neutral lol)
#self care : unrelated to LU usually. Just general self care tips!
Currently Reading: re-read of Nona the Ninth and fanfic wise, What it Means to be Chosen and In the Shadow of Death.
Last film: Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3. Son’s pick. It was okay.
Last show: Witch Hat Atelier. It’s SO GOOD! I just bough a couple of volumes of the manga to start reading ahead.
Coffee or Tea: coffee is too hard on my stomach so tea, Earl Grey, Hot.
Video Games: working on 100% for BotW, and just traded for DKC Tropical Freeze and Megaman 11 so I’ll be trying those soon. I want to go back to Metroid Dread, as well.
Working on:
Two main writing projects right now are A Link Against the Dark and a series of short snapshots that will be a sort of prequel to The Masked Rogue. Also working on refining the plot for the ACTUAL Masked Rogue story.
Art-wise, I’m practicing a stained glass effect with markers because I want to use it on an illustration for A Link Against the Dark and I don’t want it to be my first time trying it.
Tagging @raginghummingbird and @batrogers, as well as @hurricane105, @drsteggy, @zarvasace and @spoiledspine.
Thanks for the tag! I’m afraid I’m not super interesting of late.
Reading: mostly stuff to make sure I’m giving out correct information for a workshop I’m hosting next month. Yikes
Last film: recently attended a screening of UHF but I was sort of working behind the scenes so I’m not sure I saw much… but I’ve seen it dozens of times.
Last show: Survivor because my MIL likes it so when it’s on we all watch it.
COFFEE
Video Games: I’m kinda doing maintenance stuff in Animal Crossing (ousted a village I despised today!), a deep replay of Tears of the Kingdom and a lot of Pokémon Go
Working on:
- a 2 hour presentation on getting started with performance showing plastic horses to be delivered at our huge con in like. 5 weeks.
- two fics that were offered as prizes for events I agreed to before getting sidelined with surgery.
- Draw Everything June and realizing I need to put in more dedicated practice as I think I’m at that point where I don’t like what I’m doing because my ability to see vs do are flipped
- a wig to boots rebuild of my BOTW Link cosplay which is definitely not making its original deadline either, thanks so much uterus.
- obsessive tourchasing a favorite musician which is why everything else is in a holding pattern until Friday
Tagging @studiorat @st0rmyskies @uwudonoodle @tnc-n3cl @gargoylesister and anyone who wants to share.
Thanks for the tag, @drsteggy! It’s been a busy fuckn week.
Reading:
Tarot for Self-Transformation, Introduction to Tarot, and How to Read Tarot
Need to start on The Firm already
Just finished Stephen King’s On Writing
Last film: Finally got to see Sinners on a recent trip. Michael B. Jordan could absolutely hit.
Last show: I don’t watch TV hardly at all, but The Pitt has me sucked in. Noah Wylie was my first Hollywood crush as a kid, and I used to imagine ER fanfiction in my head before I knew what fic was.
Coffee or tea: Please, life is hard enough, why on earth would I choose anything but coffee? Celsius is also a frequent choice, currently obsessed with Playa Vibe. With any luck the caffeine will do me in.
Video games:
Untitled Goose Game, which I somehow haven’t played before.
Twilight Princess for Gamecube, I’m in the courtyard looking for the Shade’s gravesite and I think it’s a myth. I quit when I found YET ANOTHER area full of fucking bulblins. It’s raining, it’s dark, this isn’t an HD version, and my TV is not calibrate-able for the gradient of browns that is this game. Also I'm p sure I'm out of arrows.
STRUGGLING to resist a fourth (I think) replay of Skyward Sword. It’s my current comfort game.
Ready to find a Let’s Play of RE9. I can’t play Resident Evil games, I get too scared.
Current projects:
Obvs tarot study. I’m finding it helpful with the mental health shit, helps me analyze situations that are bothering me from a newer, calmer perspective.
Playing with my brain meds and journaling every day to track symptoms.
The Brave, o!Sky, LMTCOY. Engagement is down, so I’m not writing fic nearly as frequently.
Also OH MY GOD IRIS I HAVEN’T FORGOTTEN ABOUT THE TWIME ZINE I PROMMY
Working on two original manuscript ideas.
Adopting more offline hobbies because the internet has become an AI and age verification cesspool.
Planning my travel for the rest of the year.
Tagging @legends-shorts, Aliens how the hell do I spell your username, @autumnalchemist, @renegade-1, @arecaceae175, @ghosthoard, whoever else would like to share.
Currently reading: rereading “You used to tell me I was brave” by @sokkas-first-fangirl (hope you don’t mind the tag, I love your fics 😁😁) everyone should click the tag and go read that fic and all the others, it’s all good soup 😁
Last film: uhhhhhhhhhh I don’t really watch movies much. I think the last one I watched was Sully for the 4th time. Idk why but it’s somewhat of a comfort movie for me?
Last show: I’m rewatching Victorious right now. Before that, my last new show was Radioactive Emergency
Coffee or tea: tea. I don’t like coffee. I like refreshers with a green tea base, and I’ve also been liking raspberry hibiscus tea with lemonade lately
Video games: I’m playing tomadachi life a lot and I’m also replaying echoes of wisdom 💞
Working on:
Oh hey, I’ve also had different brain meds lately!!! I’m extremely happy and lucky and grateful that the combo I’m on right now seems to be an awesome fit and I’m loving it. Would love for my body-problem meds to work that well (or exist 💀) but I’LL TAKE WHAT I CAN GET 😂. Stormy I wish you good luck with yours and also I pat your head encouragingly, if you’d like that.
Me and @wildsage00 have been co-writing with our OCs and it’s been really really fun. That’s most of what I’ve been writing lately :D
Moving. Help.
Developing a take-home lesson on hydrology for a volunteer organization I’m in. I say working on, but I haven’t actually started it yet. It’s just been lingering over me and stressing me out 😂😂👍 I’ll do it one day probably
In terms of LoZ fanfic, I’ve been vaguely hopping between Wolf pelt fic (a gift exchange for @oxalis-art that I swear I will finish one day I fucking promise you 😂😂😂💀), the final chapter of Sky pass out fic, and the next chapter of my skyward sword psychological torture fic 😇🤗
I’ll tag @wildsage00 @oxalis-art @the-sleepydetective @zolanort @zartophski @echoing--stars and anyone else who wants to play can be tagged by me 😁
Couldn’t let Mermay pass me by without a contribution ✨
And these two wouldn’t leave me be anyway! I’m more confident in how I want Legend’s merform to ultimately look, a few more tweaks will happen here and there as usual but I really like where it’s going. Rulie’s is, of course, perfection ✨
I do have plans for the other guys, they’ll just have to wait their turn!
Alternate prompts are, like the rest, entirely optional. Please reblog this post so the event can gain visibility!
This year's extra challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to avoid using labels and diagnoses. Try to focus on words that your characters would use for themselves as they navigate their disabilities. Start small and simple, and let your audience connect with their feelings and experiences.
Time: “sexuality? What is that? I love Malon” and also grey-asexual, agender, xe/xem. I also love giving Time super fun nounself pronouns based on whatever fits the vibe when I’m writing the fic. For example: moss/mossself :D
