If I must fall, I will rise each time a better man.

title quote from the Stormlight Archive | Call me Illeg (that's a capital i not a lowercase L lmao) | They/them :D | I write Smoke & Ashes on ao3 (updates are SLOW) and some other stuff (see: fourdow bc they make me ill). also I draw sometimes. Expect rambles.

[illegiblehandwriting1]

Hey, y'all!

If you've found this blog, welcome in! Call me Illeg (they/them, any): I'll be your yapper this evening. I'm a nonbinary writer, artist, partially-trained musician, and Zelda nerd who primarily writes for Linked Universe, but my interests vary greatly, including but not limited to:

Hollow Knight, Stormlight Archive, Metroid, Unravel 2, Knives Out, Iron Lung, The Fruitless Quests of Nabiu, literature, critical analysis, astronomy/physics, chemistry, tea, speedrunning, fountain pens, coding (though I am the most beginner beginner to ever begin), environmentalism and sustainability, filmmaking, and martial arts. You can basically assume I have a preliminary understanding of most subjects, and if I don't, I'll either ask or do research until I do.

Fair warning: I do not accept any bigotry about ANYONE whatsoever! This includes racism, sexism, homophobia/transphobia, antisemitism, zionism, ableism, or any other type of hatred.

Ao3: Illegible_Handwriting

Writing Archive Tumblr: @inkstains-on-parchment

Tagging organization is below the cut!

Tags I use often:

Original writing: #illeg scribbles

Original drawing: #illeg doodles

Original posts: #chicken scratch

Reblogs: #reblog

Answered asks: #illegible answers

Posts about writing: #writing things

Art references: #REF REF REF

Stuff to save: #save for later

college stories: #illeg's college adventures

Post-specific tags:

The Angstforce: #the angstforce

Links eating battery acid: #the battery question

The Silent Realm post: #silent realms

The Sky, Four, Time successor post: #divorce trio

Fic-specific tags:

I use the name of the fic I'm talking about (no commas, ex. "#there it is again that funny feeling" not "#there it is again, that funny feeling"), but the most common one to see around is certainly #smoke & ashes.

Some notable exceptions include #the lightning fic and #orpheus!shadow

[thewitchqueen281]

loz fans: trying to figure out why there is so much pasta in their fav gay ship tag

ravioli fans: trying to figure out who these two gay bitches are in their favorite pasta tag

[lemonade-loz]

some of them you can't tell which it's for

[illegiblehandwriting1]

I gotta know why there was never a zelda game where Link turned into a dragon or Zelda turned into an owl through the power of the triforce. Like, what are we even doing? Ganon gets to turn into a boar so

Pause that's just tp for Link, pre-botw the animal of courage was the wolf

Then WHY HAS ZELDA NEVER TURNED INTO AN ANIMAL BC OF THE TRIFORCE??? FREE MY GIRL WTF

[cach1nnate]

i love when muslim women do makeup 2 match their hijabs its so pretty

[beanthebugboi]

Seconded, and I would like to add: hijabi cosplayers. SO fkn cool.

[cach1nnate]

:00000 that is so cool

[cach1nnate]

waowowwwowow

[cach1nnate]

!!!!!

[ouroborosorder]

”there’s no glory in suffering” and “sometimes the effort is the point” are two ideas that co-exist but god damn if I can ever tell when’s the time for which

[i-point-at-things]

👇👇👇

[agnes-nielsens]

[agnes-nielsens]

[illegiblehandwriting1]

Incurable illness called "starts every chapter with anecdotal character study"

[itisi-asimplegay]

falling in love with her art all over again...

Starfall by Anastasia Trusova, Acrylic on canvas

[palmolli]

skyskyskyskyskyskyskyskyskyskyskysjskysksysksysksysksyskysksyskyskyskyskyskydkydkdykdyskysksyksyskyskysksysksysksysksuyyyysksysksukdyskyyyu

[fella-lovin-fella]

i hate it when people mistake "etymology" with "entomology." like, i know where they coming from but it still bugs me

[yorgen-sh]

The Chinese shoe manufacturer decided to demonstrate the indestructibility of their shoes

[scarlettohairdye]

And also the indestructibility of that woman's ankles

[paramar]

The Animals - House of the Rising Sun (1964)

Silver Jews - New Orleans (1994)

wdhmbt’s tumblr post (undated)

[mesopelagos]

there are at least three houses in new orleans

[solarsyrup]

[rodentlegalteam]

Like your Pre-Split Trio so much<3

Sky💞Four💞Time

thank youuu I like them a lot :] they’re all very nice people but make assumptions about each other and then end making everything kinda awkward…. My favourite passive aggressive friend group

[goldensunset]

ok i’ve been curious about something. can you name a character who is, all three at once,

1. canonically female (no variation)

2. canonically the protagonist of her story (if it’s an ensemble cast you have to say you can legitimately see her as The main character)

3. your personal #1 favorite character in that story (ties are acceptable)

?

yes

no

super nuance bald extract button (use this wisely)

Remaining time: 1 day 14 hours

[corrodedparadox]

No way

[olyoil2-deactivated20250812]

People are like “it’s so beautiful no clouds at all” it could use a little clouds if I had to be honest.

[holoprisms]

it literally could use a little clouds if i had to be honest

[zechery-deactivated20220114]

Send me to Mars with party supplies before next august 5th

[thebaconsandwichofregret]

No guys you don’t understand.

The soil testing equipment on Curiosity makes a buzzing noise and the pitch of the noise changes depending on what part of an experiment Curiosity is performing, this is the way Curiosity sings to itself.

So some of the finest minds currently alive decided to take incredibly expensive important scientific equipment and mess with it until they worked out how to move in just the right way to sing Happy Birthday, then someone made a cake on Curiosity’s birthday and took it into Mission control so that a room full of brilliant scientists and engineers could throw a birthday party for a non-autonomous robot 225 million kilometres away and listen to it sing the first ever song sung on Mars*, which was Happy Birthday.

This isn’t a sad story, this a happy story about the ridiculousness of humans and the way we love things. We built a little robot and called it Curiosity and flung it into the star to go and explore places we can’t get to because it’s name is in our nature and then just because we could, we taught it how to sing.

That’s not sad, that’s awesome.

*this is different from the first song ever played on mars (Reach For The Stars by Will.I.Am) which happened the year before, singing is different from playing

[shadows-ember]

This is humanity

[siawrites]

Happy Birthday, Curiousity.

[labelleizzy]

Happy birthday, Curiosity.

[the-cimmerians]

Happy birthday, Curiosity.

[codenamewife]

Happy birthday, Curiosity!

[pair-of-ragged-quarks]

Happy birthday lil buddy :))