Function and Dysfunction

She/her. Actual adult

[drsteggy]

Tags I use, assuming they are actually working:

#just vet things covers rare vet med posts that are sorta graphic because I think it’s cool and my gross meter is set at a high level

#my midlife crisis is more fun than yours cosplay. I do a fair amount of cosplay and I post here sometimes.

#steggy arts I’m relearning how to draw and this is the tag for it.

Adding my 2026 creative goals here

- bind my long fic with its commissioned images- currently (Jan 15) text block is done! With images! I have played successfully with making signatures. I have also type set a smaller project as a practice, plan to print and sew that next month and then work on Farore.

-sew my own denim jacket- I have a pattern and a local assist!

-finish BOTW Link in time for DragonCon, including shield, sword and functional slate. Stretch goal: the Goron drill bit that will break down for travel purposes

- continue to develop drawing practice with 30 minutes a day dedicated to fooling around

-finish zine fic. I’m calling this goal complete.

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May 2026 update:

- Fic bind on hold BUT I think I can pull this off without a bunch of fancy crap which. Yay. I did get a couple tools but ideally I get my practice project printed soon. The hold at the moment is imposing the signatures which I suspect is more on the annoying side of difficulty.

- zero progress on that jacket. I need to check back at the sewing school as they have a serger I would like to try. Maybe that is a Skyward Sword project.

- BOTW upgrades inn progress. Have cut wool for the hood, need to cut the appliqués and hopefully get them adhered in time to hand embroider while traveling. Royal guard upgrades are also in the hand embroidery phase, I have a tiny bit of gold work I want to do on that (the triforces) but there's a lot I can do the next 2 weeks

- Expanding Hyrule bingo prize has a rough hook for the start and is as outlined as much as I do. The bidder who won my fic in the Fandom Trumps Hate auction had some interesting ideas, too.

- Have been doing some drawing, also bringing that to travel with. I even did a tiny bit of a smutty drawing

- still can't swim and I still can't lift actual weights, but the running thing is going okay as is the body weight only exercise. Hopefully final post surgery check is like a month away

- I started using my pillow fort account if you want to hang out there.

[schehzerade]

Goddammit.

Ok, Wake Studios. I'll work too much overtime for this one.

[dinsflowers]

OH NO

MY WALLET IS IN JEPORDY! AGAIN!

[cranberry-branflakes]

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[mistresslrigtar]

WIP Wednesday:

"You're a bio scientist, I know you understand how neural pathways work and the time it takes to build them."

"Like mycelium." Nature's brain.

"Exactly. It's your job to nurture and support him on this journey. Approach this like you would any problem you encounter in the lab. Slowly. Methodically. Don't throw everything into the petri dish all at once. Experiment. See what works and what doesn't."

The scientific method. She almost laughs. How many notebooks has she filled over the course of her studies?

It had taken months of research and attempts before she hit upon the right combination of fungi. Several more for the sunshroom and brightcap roots to combine beneath the soil of the deku baba to form the hybrid suncap. All total it had been years of research, beginning in her undergraduate program, to create the final Malice detoxification agent.

Could Link's neural pathways reform in less time? Say nine months?

Question: How to re-hybridize ZeLink?

Hypothesized optimal result: Subject B will recall prior attraction to subject A before subject C arrives

Observation: Upon visual stimulation, subject B exhibits extreme repulsion to subject A.

Proposed experimental sequence: Reintroduction in controlled increments

"I can do that."

Chapters One - Four on AO3

Rated E

[that-one-idiot-11]

30 day shipping challenge

Day 3: Spooning

I like to think that they didn't fall asleep like this, but they kinda naturally shifted into this position throughout the night.

I liked how messy the sketch was, so I tried to keep that loose, rough vibe in the colors as well.

I don't know. I think It's sorta okay.

[that-one-idiot-11]

30 day shipping challenge

Day 2: Formal clothing

sorry this took a while, I'm on vacation :) next few days will be slower as well because of that.

[engineering]

Where's that comment?

Hello Tumblr! 

@jubs here, today, to tell you about a feature we're building: Comments by author!

Comments (or replies) have been around for a while, but they have always been tucked away from your regular feed, and so we're working on a few ways to integrate them into the rest of our experience.

Soon, blogs will have a Comments tab alongside Posts, Likes, and Following. There, you will be able to see posts other people have been commenting on, and, more importantly, find your own comments! This was not possible before, except through notifications if someone engaged with your comment.

We're also working on a way to surface posts commented on by people you follow in your feeds. You will be able to find those in the For You tab, and later, alongside chronological posts in the Following tab.

So, how do you identify those posts in the feeds? 

Replied posts will show a small preview right there in your dashboard, before you click anything. 

This is not out yet, but soon! In the meantime, tell us what you think and expect from this! ☺︎

[engineering]

Launch Day

@jubs again!

First of all, thank you all for the feedback in the original post!

Today, we're launching the new "Comments" tab for Blog pages, and we'll be testing a For You recommendation based on comments from people you follow. The posts will have a preview of the reply, so you know why you're seeing that post.

You will be able to control the new tab visibility, and whether we should include your comments in your follower's feeds, through a new setting:

The toggle can be found on https://www.tumblr.com/settings/blog/YOUR_BLOG or in the General Settings > Replies section, on Mobile. If you have already disabled the "Share posts you like" setting, the setting will default to disabled.

The new tab is only available on Web and iOS (44.8+) for now, but the toggle is available to everyone (including on Android), so you can control what other people see on your blogs, even if you don't have the new feature yet. Don't worry, we have plans to implement the tab and posts on Android, soon!

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We want to later include these replied posts to the Following feed as well, and we're planning on adapting the current "Include posts liked by the blogs you follow" toggle to also consider comments, in case you don't want to see shared comments from people you follow.

What do you think? As always, we appreciate your thoughts, keep 'em coming!

[oliverr-gardenn]

fuck hussle culture, the toad to success is to sleep well, eat well and have fun

[oliverr-gardenn]

i meant road. road to success

[jellycreature]

Reblog the Toad of Success to sleep well, eat well, and have fun

[toadpolliwog]

feels like this was meant for me... :O

[spicycheeser]

"A marriage ending isn't a failure at all. I spent eleven years with her. We were so in love that we couldn't image life apart from each other. We got our own place, adopted a dog, and supported each other through school. I thought if tow people loved each other enough the rest would fall into place, except... love isn't everything.

And I didn't want to believe that, but we were sitting in counseling one day, talking about our future and I realized we were describing two completely different lives. Where we'd live, what kind of life we wanted, what made us happy. And it hit me that- I love this woman and this woman loved me. And after eleven years of loss, grief, career changes, we were so deeply in love... but we weren't aligned. And I kept thinking 'We just need to try harder. We can find some compromise to make this work,' because that's what you're supposed to do when you love someone, right?

But the reality was, we had just become different people. Her trade school took her in one direction, my graduate degree in another and trying to force us back into who we were five years ago wasn't coming from a place of love. It was coming from a place of fear. Fear that, if this ended, it meant we wasted eleven years. But sitting there across from her, I realized: That's not how love works.

Those eleven years happened. They were real. The dog, our home, showing up for each other through grad school and trade school. I wouldn't change a single thing because loving someone doesn't mean you're meant to stay with them forever. And letting go doesn't erase what you had. We measure marriage by whether it lasts forever or not, but what if we measured it by whether it mattered?

What if we measured it by the love we gave, the life we built, and the people we became? Because love's job isn't to last forever, it's to help you become fully completely yourself, and sometimes the most loving thing you can do is give each other permission to be yourselves, separately. But the dog doesn't know were' divorced. He just gets two Christmases now."

Pulled this from this guy Preston Rakovsky's Instagram (@prestonrack) because it is a beautiful perspective on love, marriage, and relationships in general.

[hurricane105]

WIP Wednesday!

TP Zelink soulmate au, Selene is Zelda in disguise:

Selene rearranges the blanket over her lap, white gloves flashing in the dusk. Link frowns, because the gloves remind him that she had a soulmate already, and as much as he doesn't really want to think about that person, he should offer Selene the same opportunity she gave him.

"Thank you for listenin' to me earlier today. I promise I'm normally more upbeat than that.""It's quite all right," Selene says.

"I didn't give you time to talk about your grief, and I'm sorry," Link says, taking a deep breath. "If you want to talk now, I'm happy to listen."

She turns her head. It's dim enough now that she's just a shape in the darkness.

"Or in the future, I mean, whenever you want to talk."

Selene hesitates, and even though he can't see her expression, he gets the feeling that she's holding something back.

"What was your soulmate like?" Link asks, voice quiet and encouraging.

She pauses, settling back against the hay with him. "He was a lot like you."

[karama9]

WIP Wednesday!

Extract from Chapter 30 of a Link Against the Dark:

“Link!” Kepoga said, looking up. He let out a dry chuckle. “Managed to get through my jungle, did you? Sorry about that, I really don’t have time to bother with it right now.” “It’s fine,” Link said. “I could cut it for you if you want?” Kepoga’s brow furrowed a bit and he cocked his head. “Don’t you have better things to do with your time right now?” Link scratched his cheek and shuffled his feet. “I need money,” he admitted. “Oh. Oh, well, that’s easy. Here.” He left his travel bag for a moment to go to a chest of drawers in the corner of the room. He opened the top drawer and Link saw him get a red rupee out of it. He walked back to his pack and tossed it to Link. “Happy birthday!”, he said. “Sorry it’s not much.” “It’s not my birthday!” Link protested. “Late birthday,” Kepoga replied with a shrug. “Or early, whichever. I already packed what I need, I can do without that red for now. Mom figures what you’re doing is important, and…” He locked eyes with Link, narrowing them slightly. “Honestly, I think she’s right. Can’t see why else the wizard would want you so badly. Take the money, Link.” Link swallowed but slipped the red rupee in his pocket. “Thanks,” he said lamely. “Er… where are you going?” Kepoga put the last of the odds and ends he had gathered in the bag, closed it, and turned back to Link again. “Trying something desperate,” he said with a sigh. “There’s a Great Fairy in the waterfall of wishes out by Zora’s Domain, apparently she can grant wishes. I’m going to go see her, maybe she can help us. Mom’s idea.” “Grant wishes?” Link said. “Really?”

[karama9]

What Am I Up to?

Thank you for the tag @mistresslrigtar !

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.

[drsteggy]

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.

[emryses]

listen to me. this is my final message to you. when you are at your lowest a fictional guy will come to you and when that happens you must start putting them in situations. this is the meaning of life.

[chainofclovers]

Put in the tags the completely finished (whether cancelled or wrapped up on its own terms) TV series that has YOUR perfect ending, however you define that

Please don’t include huge spoilers for the specifics of the endings, and it would also make me happy if people don’t use this to talk about the shows whose endings they hated

[triforce-princess]

[kittmoon]

I have no regrets

[thesadpuffin]

I made a reel cos this audio I found was TOO perfect for the pirate AU!! I wanted to post the drawings cos I really like how they turned out - if you want to watch the reel it's here

[genderkoolaid]

Hey, I had read a post from you a while back where you mentioned that people can be queer solely because they're autistic, even if they're still cishet, and I was wondering if you could explain that a bit more? I've been frustrated for a long while with how I'm expected to look and act as a cis man, and that's lead me to blogs like yours.

So, its been pretty well established now that autistic people* are more likely to identify with queerness, in gender and sexuality and anattraction (aspec).

One factor in this is that autistics tend to not pick up (or want to follow) arbitrary, often unspoken social rules. So many autistics don't understand or want to follow rules about what defines men and women and how those groups Should behave and why only these groups can exist.

But there's also deeper issues in how gender roles themselves reject autistics. For example, autistic people tend to use and move our bodies differently. For me, I tend to be somewhat clumsy and generally "ungraceful," which goes against the expectation for women to be good at using the body in structured and pleasing ways. We may not speak in ways men and women are socialized too. Stimming can be a very visible sign of neurodivergency, which is often dehumanized and therefore de-gendered; our physical mannerisms aren't not stereotypically masculine or feminine, but simply inhuman. And sensory issues may influence the way people present themselves, like an autistic woman shaving her hair or an autistic man shaving his beard, or wearing certain clothes that aren't "properly" gendered. I've also seen discussions of kink that talk about how autistics tend to have different ideas of pleasure and pain, which shapes how we engage in sex.

And gender tends to be a highly communal identity- while autistics are often alienated from community. We don't pick up, or fit into, "man" or "woman" culture of allistics, which can often be very exclusionary for anyone who doesn't conform to that mold. (For me, I coped with this in middle school by having a friend group entirely composed of undiagnosed & likely queer NDs, so we didn't have to worry about being weird little freaks around each other. Highly recommend this). This alienation can also effect how we form romantic/sexual relationships, and how we engage with the expectations around what it means to be a "boyfriend" or a "girlfriend."

There's this quote from bell hooks on queerness that I really love: “'Queer' not as being about who you're having sex with (that can be a dimension of it); but 'queer' as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and that has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live.” Autistic people are frequently at odds with everything around us, and have to create or find new places to speak, thrive, and live. I tend to center queerness on gender and desire (or lack thereof), and being autistic can have an effect on any or all of those categories.

Basically, if you feel like queer is good at expressing your relationship with your gender/sexuality, and/or that queer community/queer theory feels like a safe place to explore and engage with those things then I welcome you here for as long as you want to stay.

*this applies to all ND groups, but we're just focusing on autism in this post