Function and Dysfunction

She/her. Actual adult

[studiorat]

A Change In the Wind

Zelgan Week day 4 : Seabound

Captain Ganondorf Rajenaya Chalut Dragmire and Zelda Anne DeLeon return for ZelGan Week 2026! This desktop wallpaper took about 10 hours from thumbnail to reality. Process video will be posted under the cut. Enjoy.

A note on some of the references used:

Yes, his uniform is modeled after the regency era British uniform, taking especial inspiration from a portrait of Captain Gilbert Heathcote.

The design for his ship-of-the-line references three real ships, including the HMS Victory for her distinctive curved prow, because it was good at ramming things and I thought it might work well with some Gan-ish motifs.

The pose reference is from the 1995 BBC adaptation of Persuasion, which source text is the whole reason this AU exists. I highly reccomend both the novel and the movie if you’re not familiar.

Oh and the portraits from last year’s event are here

Check out the event blog @zelgan-week for a treasure trove of more ZelGan goodies

[karama9]

WIP Wednesday! (working title The Bard Hero)

Snippet from a story that's going to be a mini pre-story for my WIP The Masked Rogue.

The usual cat calls greet us when Dejon and I emerge from behind the dilapidated remains of a carriage that was dragged here under the bridge Nayru knew when or how. The spot behind it is referred to as Lovers’ Nook, and nobody would dare bother any pair or small group while they’re making use of it.  After, though? Completely fair game. Both Dejon and I are used to it, we’re both… frequent users. Not usually at the same time, but the fact remains that we expected the teasing, we participate in it when other people make use of the nearly private “room”, and we’re not at all offended or embarrassed.  “Yo, Link! That a new song you were practicing?”  “Dejon makes a damn fine backup singer, doesn’t he?”  “Meh, not up to your usual standard, Link. Just kept repeating the same thing over and over. Yes, yes, oooh…”  I snort and sketch a short bow. “So sorry to have deceived you with my always impeccable vocals,” I say, “but this was not in fact a rehearsal.”  “Yeah. He just can’t shut up ever,” Dejon adds with a shake of his head. “Couldn’t just give him the silent treatment, you know?”  I take my pan flute out of my pack and sit cross-legged on the ground. “Maybe I can make up for the disappointment of this non rehearsal,” I say. I feel like playing anyway, perhaps from the pleasant relaxed state I’m always in after being with someone, and my music will make for far better entertainment than tired old jokes. 

[aroace-ryland-grace]

the sewing machine is like if a horse and an inkjet printer had a child

[itsjunetime]

clowngirl getting an orchiectomy and the surgeon just keeps removing ball after ball after ball after ball after

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

clown nurse standing by solemnly adding each successive ball to the ones she's already juggling

[nosimpincurly]

You’re not depressed. You just need $250,000 in your bank account.

[catherinebunnington]

Reblog to materialize $250,000 in prev's bank account

[threebeandinner]

97. Savoring

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Masterpost

Consent is sexy

Experimenting with a new shading style. Not sure I'm sold, but I don't hate it.

[drsteggy]

Ha ha ha love it when the zine is like here you go, please read over the preview pages of your fic for typos and what not and you read it and wonder why they agreed to publish it because it’s garbage. It’s way too late for revisions and I really liked this piece right up to this moment. Like what flavor of imposter syndrome is this

[catchymemes]

[strangebiology]

My baby angel Bijou is famous!

Look for this magazine at your grocery store and get it to enrich your cat’s life! And you can train your cats to do tricks just like I did. There are some decent YouTube tutorials that can help!

[drsteggy]

So I’ve been sort of fucking around in a play of TOTK- it’s so easy to get completely off track in this game. I have zero clue what tear I should be looking for. I have beaten the Wind and Water temples… and I’m done with Fire except for beating the boss. I started looking for the Lightning temple months ago- like I got the towers and Riju was all oh we need to figure out this mural so idk what step I skipped there.

I’ve got silver bokos but not mob,ins or lizalfos, so I’m sort of weirdly leveled at this point, I guess. Oh yeah I only have one fairy unlocked so all my armor is trash but I have good weapons at least.

Anyway, today I was dicking around and avoiding the main questline and decided to see if I could get to that big thunderhead in Faron and I just made it, and found Mineru. Like very early. I went wtf and rode allthe way to the construct factory so I’m gonna bring my robot girlfriend to a couple boss fights because why not.

Just need to assemble her first.

[drsteggy]

Robot girlfriend assembled and we made it to the Spirit Temple, which was easier than I remember? I only did this part once in like 2023. I have to beat up that construct and then maybe I’ll go hit the fire temple boss what could go wrong

Really should go wake up another Great Fairy as I’m tired of getting nearly one shotted by everything. Maybe go figure out wtf I’m supposed to be doing on the dragon tears. Or maybe I’ll just see if I can get the light dragon, I’ve only seen her at a distance and I know I’ve gotten shot out of towers in her path before

[forthetriforce]

Announcing a Fic Fight style Legend of Zelda event:

For the Triforce!

This event is open for registration from now until June 25th! Check the pinned post on this blog or refer to the full rule document for details.

[hurricane105]

Fanfic writers asks ‼️ and 🔥

10. ‼️Tell us a random fun fact about, or easter egg you have hidden in one of your fics.

I picked Practice Date for this one.

It didn't feel cold to him, but his hands are sweating at Zelda's closeness. His self control is already creaking under the strain, and now she smiles at him like that? Desperately he tries to remember what they were talking about, and to remind himself that this is only a practice date. "I can get you a blanket."

She looks at him, grinning. "No, I feel warmer already."

This section is inspired by a meme (or maybe a reddit post) I saw somewhere online (ofc I don't have the link) about how oblivious people can be when someone's flirting with them. Being cold and getting a blanket is 100% stolen inspired by that.

11. 🔥What are your favourite three fics that you wrote and why?

Two Different Worlds (gosh I love TP Zelink, arranged marriages, and idiots to lovers. figured out what meal I craved most often and cooked it myself)

Practice Date (for a fic that I really struggled to write, I really like how this came out. No it doesn't mean anything that 2 of my 3 favorites are smut)

The Test (I wish I could write BOTW Zelda this snarky all the time, instead of depressed 😂 I also love that this was an inspo fic -- I really want to write more of those)

[drsteggy]

So I’ve been sort of fucking around in a play of TOTK- it’s so easy to get completely off track in this game. I have zero clue what tear I should be looking for. I have beaten the Wind and Water temples… and I’m done with Fire except for beating the boss. I started looking for the Lightning temple months ago- like I got the towers and Riju was all oh we need to figure out this mural so idk what step I skipped there.

I’ve got silver bokos but not mob,ins or lizalfos, so I’m sort of weirdly leveled at this point, I guess. Oh yeah I only have one fairy unlocked so all my armor is trash but I have good weapons at least.

Anyway, today I was dicking around and avoiding the main questline and decided to see if I could get to that big thunderhead in Faron and I just made it, and found Mineru. Like very early. I went wtf and rode allthe way to the construct factory so I’m gonna bring my robot girlfriend to a couple boss fights because why not.

Just need to assemble her first.

[intosnarkness]

Here’s the thing: authors know when they get a rec on an older story. There’s a telltale uptick of kudos (with a 10-15% comment rate if you’re lucky) in your digest email.

The thing is, there’s no way to know where these people are coming from. In the before, when fandom was more in the corners we all knew about, you could search LJ or a message board or whatever social bookmarking site we were using. You could join the community and participate.

You could get a little dopamine hit by seeing someone tell their friends why they loved your story.

Anymore, those recs are hidden in discords, or in tiktoks or instagram slideshows that you can’t search for. They’re inaccessible, not discoverable unless you’re already there. You may never know why 27 people left kudos on an old story of yours, what they liked and found in your writing. You just get the thumbs up and a kinda lonely feeling, cause these could be your people. You could like them, maybe. You could be friends.

But you’ll never find out why they stopped by, or what people are saying about you behind your back, and that’s sad.

So thank you to the people who still do public rec lists on this webbed site. You are my sunshine, and I’m appreciative of all of you.

[icedghostlatte-art]

Shared Wardrobe Couples meme, Ganlink Edition

Bonus

[dinsflowers]

Fanfic writer ask game 💜

What pairing would you like to write but never have? Ngl I wanna write something astor x ganondorf. Astor is such a cool character and him interacting with gan in any capacity would probably be so much fun.

[captain-price-unofficially]

[crane12jp]

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Zelda Heritage Post