When Koume and Kotake trick Link into pulling the Master Sword free of the Temple of Time, ten years after he placed it there to return himself to his own past, the world shatters around them and many of the Heroes across time are dragged together to stabilize a broken world.
How will they restore each other to their homes and families? Can they even get along long enough to find a solution without dying to one world or another or, worse, killing each other?
[Summary Post of art and fic content about this project of mine.]
I made a sideblog just for archiving the stuff here!
Click here to see my AO3 masterpost(s) for the whole body of my Zelda fanfics
Content Warnings for the series: The series will include 18+/Explicit fic and art (accordingly marked), angst, trauma, rape, graphic violence, temporary character death, minor/side character death, interpersonal violence between the Links, gender and sexuality headcanons, and Linkshipping.
Character List, with in-universe names and links to each respective bio:
The Zelda timeline as I will be using it personally
Skyloft = Skyward Sword, 24
Minish = Minish Cap, Four Swords, 20
Kokiri = Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, Hyrule Warriors, 20 [27?]
Chief = Spirit Tracks, Tri Force Heroes, Hyrule Warriors, 27 [29]
Ordon = Twilight Princess, 29
Four = Four Swords Adventures (Manga + Game), 24
Prince = Hyrule Warriors, Tri Force Heroes, 25
Rabbit = Link to the Past, Oracle of Ages, Link's Awakening, Oracle of Seasons, 26
Smith = Link Between Worlds, Tri Force Heroes, 26
Far = Legend of Zelda (1986), Adventure of Link, 20
Hateno = Breath of the Wild, Tears of the Kingdom, 29
Plus a few others!
The Fierce Deity
The First Hero
The Hero of Men
Ravio
The AO3 Series (This will primarily be fanfic-based with occasional art, no comic is planned.)
My Messy Linkverse Playlist (in very rough timeline/story order)
Overall Series songs:
Sons of Tyr, by Hebrede
Some Nights, by Fun.
Legends Never Die, from League of Legends
Surface Pressure, from Encanto
One Voice, by The Wailin' Jennys
Can I just say that it's really frustrating how many antisemitic conspiracy theories center on the Khazars, as a way to claim that modern Jews aren't the real Jews, because the Khazars were Jewish steppe nomad horse warriors who built an empire around the Caspian Sea. They were awesome as fuck, and unfortunately, because of the conspiracy theory nonsense, it's really difficult to talk about them, or find information about them, and learn about their history.
There was a Jewish Kaganate, with Jewish Kagans. There was a Jewish Steppe empire that held off the Rus, the Persians, the Byzantines, and the Pechenegs. In much of the region, the Caspian sea is still called the Khazar sea. And they chose to become Jewish.
And no one ever fucking hears about the Early Medieval Jewish Steppe empire unless it's to make some batshit claim about modern Jews being fake Jews.
Going to see children and adolescents dance badly, play ball badly, sing badly, play recorder badly because they are young: YES! YOU ARE LEARNING! INCREDIBLE!
People are so rude about going to watch the children in their lives do stuff shittily. “Ugh toddler dance recital,” “ugh tee-ball weekend again,” “ugh nativity play.”
That guy learned what skipping is this year and now he’s playing the piano the worst I’ve ever seen but the best he’s ever done! AREN’T YOU CAPTIVATED BY THEIR ABILITY TO DO A LITTLE BIT WHEN PREVIOUSLY THEY COULD DO NOTHING? Be filled with wonder and joy!
This beautiful outdoor choir performance is an act of rebellion, and efforts are underway to make it illegal to do this.
The choir is part of the larger organization Women of the Wall, a multidenominational, international group of women who are campaigning for the right of women to pray at the Kotel in Jerusalem in an egalitarian way -- to sing, read Torah, and to pray out loud, taking up space, as women.
The Kotel is currently administered by a highly Orthodox rabbinate, which I suspect would prefer it if women just . . . didn't pray there at all. Grudgingly, they allow a teeny tiny official prayer space for women, who are expected to be very quiet and Orthodox about their prayer. The Orthodox men who take up most of the space at the Kotel haaaaaaaaaaate when people pray in non-Orthodox styles there, and they especially loathe it when women do that, to the point where they will physically attack people like the Women of the Wall, by throwing things like chairs and hot coffee at them while they're having services.
The Israeli government has been making noises about setting up an egalitarian prayer area at the Kotel for ages and ages, and noises is all we're going to get from them for the foreseeable future. Therefore, Women of the Wall, and their choir of beautiful Kol Isha voices will continue to campaign, to pray, to read Torah, and to sing for the right of all Jews to encounter the Divine in our most holy place.
There's a recurring online tendency to aestheticize consensus itself. The imagined future village is full of emotionally compatible people who enjoy communal gardening, conflict resolution circles, acoustic folk music, mutual aid potlucks, and repairing bicycles together at sunset. Which is nice for the people who genuinely enjoy that lifestyle. But plenty of humans are solitary, prickly, obsessive, urban, nocturnal, sensory-seeking, technologically attached, contrarian, novelty-seeking, private, or just plain difficult. Those people do not evaporate after the revolution. They do not get Left Behind while you are Raptured into the Utopia. They become your neighbors.
My biggest aha moment as a leftist was when I was volunteering with an illegal supply distro group at one of the larger homeless encampments and a guy came through the breakfast line with a swastika tattoo and a machete tucked into the waistband of his pants. We asked one of the black residents of the encampment if he was a problem, and they said that he was fine and never bothered anyone. Tough to swallow pill is that sometimes you're gonna have to give services to a homeless nazi because he's just as powerless and starving as less "problematic" victims, and that "everyone deserves food/water/shelter" does still apply to people you hate.
You gotta learn how to work with and help very difficult people on a very wide spectrum, otherwise you're just trying to force reality into a neat pretty box the same way conservatives do.
Not a scholar at first, but the guy who wrote Jaws hated that people used it to justify hating sharks so much he dedicated the rest of his life to shark research and advocacy.
(afaik- the woman who popularized gender reveals did so because she had a long history of miscarriages. The reveal was a celebration of the fact that one of her pregnancies had gotten far enough that there WAS a physical sex to reveal. It was never intended to be like... *gestures at modern gender reveals* all that. That same kid later came out as trans and yes, the family had a second gender reveal for that lol.)
L. David Mech, who popularised the idea that there were 'alpha' and 'beta' wolves in his 1970 book The Wolf, has spent the rest of his career trying to debunk this. (The original studies were done on captive wolves, and thus didn't simulate an accurate model of wolf pack dynamics.)
The idea that wolf packs are led by a merciless dictator, or alpha wolf, comes from old studies of captive wolves. In the wild, wolf packs a
In the wild, researchers have found that most wolf packs are simply families, led by a breeding pair, and bloody duels for supremacy are rare.
“What would be the value of calling a human father the alpha male?” says L. David Mech, a senior research scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey, who has studied wolf packs in the wild for decades. “He’s just the father of the family. And that’s exactly the way it is with wolves.”
I desperately wish we would stop giving these 'anti-woke' idiots the time of day. They don't actually care they just want engagement on their floundering accounts. I'm going to try to list these in chronological order but it's going to be entirely based off my memories of the situation because I don't feel like going back in time to find the articles/posts.
Mass Effect 3: Had exclusive homosexeual options for male and female Shepards. (Steve Cortez and Samantha Traynor)
Tomb Raider 2013 Reboot: Lara wasn't sexy anymore since she didn't have 'big boobs or shorts'
Halo 5 Guardians: Played as Master Chief for only a lil of the campaign and the rest you played as a *gasp* BLACK MAN NAMED LOCKE.
Horizon: Yeah they've always had Aloy as a protagonist but... she ugly... get that gurl a face mask and some cleanser. It's not like she lives in a post-apocalyptic late iron age world. It's not like she eats, sleeps, and goes to the bathroom outdoors most of the time. She can squeeze in a 60+minute makeup routine every morning.
Assassin's Creed: While I remember the occasion bitching and whining with Odyssey and Valhalla for having playable female protagonists. Most the vitriol was against Shadows for having a female and a male protagonist but the male was *gasp* BLACK. Ignoring that Yasuke was an actual historical figure...
The Last of Us 2: Obviously hating Ellie and Abby for being the playable characters and killing the MAN Joel. Despite the fact that he had gotten old and also kinda earned it. (Not reopening the debate). This also lead to death threats against Abby's actress Laura Bailey and her child.
The Mario Movie: Peach had pants on, even though she's worn pants in games before.
The Witcher 4: Ciri as the player character. OH Also she used Geralt's 'killing monsters' line as a sign of tribute to her father figure.
Starfield: Had pronouns in character creation
Dragon Age The Veilguard: Can make a trans character.
Masters of the Universe: The main character 'He-Man' has pronouns
I bring these up because I just want to enjoy the new God of War Laufey game but I also gotta parse through all the FUCKING WHINING MAN BABIES BECAUSE PEOPLE KEEP SHARING THERE STUFF TO MAKE A WITTY RETORT. If you see someone complaining about women or POC or LGBTQIA folks just ignore it. Don't screenshot it, don't share their takes for a laugh, and don't respond. DON'T FEED THE TROLLS! Seriously, just ignore it. Long term you'll be happier.
Like quite frankly the repeated insistence that it is normal and forgivable dohoho you youthful scamps behavior for young men in the military to get nazi tattoos is actually a deeply, profoundly offensive insult to the countless numbers of veterans and active duty military personnel who, like, AREN'T hateful nazi scum and/or brainless shameless idiots and it it's infuriating to see this lie repeated again and again and again
When I got back from the seaside a couple weeks back I realised I hadn’t done any mermays this year, so obvi I decided to do one (with the help of a photo I took back on selsey beach). Featuring the mermaid and harpy from that drawing I did I inktober (below)
if you’ve been “radicalized by empathy” to instantly turn your empathy off for a significant portion of the population maybe it isn’t about empathy after
are you really a natural-born “empath” who keeps attracting “narcissistic abusers” with your pure cinnamon roll ways, or are you confusing a lack of emotional boundaries with compassion, holding yourself and others to unhealthy unsustainable standards, and then demonizing people for asserting the healthy boundaries and patterns of thought you lack in order to disqualify them from your supposedly boundless compassion & reassert an image of yourself as “a good person”?
Inspired by my recent love of the Raven Thrower (it looks like a corvid that you chuck at things!)
Also obligatory reminder that it’s the final week on my Bluminarmour fundraiser. If you want to see me test dumb stuff in proper historical armour please consider pitching in and/or sharing!
Blumineck is trying to fun a video series doing fun and serious historical and fantasy testing in fitted plate armour.
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