Karama9's Blog

Fanfic snippets, musings, reblogs of stuff I like, possible rants, stories, etc. Trans ally, agender ally, LGBTQIA+ ally, really. 

[audley-and-cherry]

My least favorite things about anti- UBI discourse is always the techbros whining that "nobody is going to work anymore! People will just watch Netflix all day!" and I have 2 responses:

1) Who the fuck cares. Who the fuck cares what people do with their time! That's kind of the fucking point!

2) People aren't going to stop laboring. Housework (look, it's right there in the word!) will still need to be done. So will maintenance on our homes and personal spaces. Children will still need carers, as will the elderly and disabled. There are millions of examples of ~work~ that we do all the time, uncompensated, that won't suddenly stop because we aren't forced to sell our labor to provide corporation's profits.

I'm not surprised that what is traditionally women's work is invisible to these dipshits, but it never fails to anger me.

Anyway. Join the IWW.

[sleepyowlet]

Field studies have been conducted in several countries now, and the result is always the same - people will just flop about for a couple of months to recover from the burnout most people who have a job live with, and then they look for something to do. Some get a job with reduced hours, and some start doing charitable stuff like volunteering in soup kitchens and teaching others to do whatever their particular skill is. They socialize more, they are happier, and on average, people will work more, not less.

But the thing is, employers suddenly have to think about how to make their jobs appealing enough for someone to come and do them! It's hard to find someone to work for you for long hours under horrible conditions, if they can just choose not to; which shows you how voluntary our current system actually is.

[trochaic-mutant-ninja-tetrameter]

🎶People won't stop working! If so, fuck it!🎵

[bisexual-engineer-girl]

I'll be making sure we still have engineers and machinists haha

[the-haiku-bot]

I’ll be making sure

we still have engineers and

machinists haha

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[karama9]

Hello! For the Expanding Hyrule asks: what of your stories can you recommend if I want a good balance between romance and action/adventure? 👀

Thank you for the ask!!

I never wrote much long form romance until relatively recently, so slim pickings I’m afraid. 😅

But not zero!

For adventure with a side of romance, I would recommend A Link Against the Dark. It’s a novelization of A Link to the Past, and although Link and Zelda don’t get much time physically together, they are the most adorably ridiculous lovebirds.

For romance with implied adventure, Interrupted is short and sweet, it’s BotW Zelink.

You might like The Masked Rogue if i ever start posting it! Meant to be exactly what you’re looking for, a blend of romance and adventure. But unfortunately that one won’t be up for a while. 😭

I do have some pre-stories for a taste:

The Birth of the Rogue

And

in collaboration with @mistresslrigtar , The Pillaging Pair! Only bromance in that one unless you count Link waxing poetic about Zelda to another Link who really wishes he'd stop. :D

I hope you enjoy them if you check them out!

[t-pose-to-assert-gayness]

happy pride to TRANS PEOPLE

[t-pose-to-assert-gayness]

I LOVE YOU

[doomed-era]

WIP Wednesday give me strength to edit this chapter and actually post it (it's been six months)

[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

[improbablescience]

Korok #55

Korok 55 is late due to puppy naptime.

(Actually I just took the photos then was out doing stuff and forgot to post.)

Also have a maiamai that I drew for the sprinting discord server that uses them as participation tokens.

< previous korok

[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?”

[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."

[politijohn]

Source

Happy Pride Month!

[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.

[improbablescience]

Korok #57 : pride korok

Pride korok! 🏳️‍🌈

The pose I chose isn't the best fit for the progress pride flag, but it was the cutest flag pose I could find before my meeting started.

< previous korok

[alternate-triforce]

Alternate Triforce, Chapter 4 page 11

Are we there yet?

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[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.

[louwhose]

Drew Impa from @pelicanpig's AMAZING fic On My Honor! She's so cool I love her so much.

[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.

[torstherapy]

[depsidase]