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For Revalink Week 2026, I'm sharing a mini series adding these two into some of my favorite fine art pieces! This one of course is inspired both visually (and emotionally ngl) by Vincent Van Gogh's The Starry Night.
The collision of two stars is a cataclysmic embrace, where any contour of their former existence is erased. But in such an event, could their destruction instead be their reunion if they're just smaller pieces of the same star?
The light of our stars is hope in the midst of a dark night.
For Revalink Week 2026, I'm sharing a mini series adding these two into some of my favorite fine art pieces! This one is inspired by a few figures seen in Joseph Tomanek's Nymphs Dancing to Pan's Flute.
It's always a warm and intimate dance with these two. They move to the rhythm of each other's melody, their relationship is truly wild and free.
In honour of @revalinkweek day 5, and because the writerās block from hell has yet to show any sign of abating, here's a throwback to that time @ginneke and I wrote 9 fics totalling 222k of Everyone Going Through It Over and Over and Over Again (with lots of Revalink throughout).
Moonlight
Reading order:
Moonlight (every single night)
Written by Heleentje, 170k
The day before he fought Ganon the first time, heād visited all the people heād come to know and all the Champions waiting for release. He had thought it would be the last time heād ever see them. Heād even made peace with it.
Now, that yesterday is nearing a month ago for Link, and he is so tired.
āI did,ā he says. āI went. Fought Ganon.ā
āā Did you have to retreat?ā
āā¦Didnāt fight it today. Five days ago. And ten. But also today.ā
Link defeats the Calamity. And then he faces it again and again and again and againā
Carry Them Inside You
Written by Ginneke, ~6k, set during chapter 6 of Moonlight (every single night)
Maybe this is all he deserves to keep.
Some treasured memories that he didnāt have the right to make in the first place, and the grief that comes with losing the Champions again and again and again.
Link returns the Championsā weapons.
there's no turning away
Written by Ginneke, 3k, set during chapter 7 of Moonlight (every single night)
"You'll see me again in a few days."
And I won't remember any of it.
As his end approaches, Revali tries to find hope in the face of the inevitable.
a soft yellow moon
Written by Ginneke, ~3k, best read after chapter 11 of Moonlight (every single night)
thereās a futility to the loops, when youāre not in a position to achieve anything
and yet, she has to try
there's a futility to the loops, if you're not in the goddess' light
and yet
this flooded sky
Written by Ginneke, ~25k, best read after chapter 11 of Moonlight (every single night)
Dawn spreads an orange curtain across the distant horizon, and Revali wakes to the dismayed realisation that time hasnāt turned back while he slept.
That it is still marching on, and Link is stillā
A light so steady
Written by Heleentje, ~2k, best read after chapter 15 of Moonlight (every single night)
The Great Daruk would have fought on the frontlines. Yunobo has never been that brave, but as Hyrule's fateful battle approaches, he wishes he could be.
Diagnose Some Fault Line
Written by Ginneke, ~6k, set after the end of of Moonlight (every single night)
Purah's Diary. Top Secret!!! (Linky do NOT look) (I mean it! No snooping!!!)
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Extracts from Purah's very-secret-diaries before, during, and after Moonlight (every single night).
Harmonize Your Own Worth
Written by Heleentje, ~5k, set after the end of of Moonlight (every single night)
It's unbecoming for Laissa to be jealous of a fledgling. Even if that fledgling is getting opportunities that Laissa, at the same age, could only dream of.
(The greatest archer the Rito have ever known has returned to the village, and his first new students aren't who anyone expects.)
And the extra special bonus crossover with @ghirahimbo's amazing Pinesong:
Moonsong
Written by Ginneke, ~2k
A hundred years of deepest despair, and these scant months spent rediscovering the memory of hope... As Link's final confrontation with the Calamity draws near, Revali is ready to move on at last.
Destiny, it seems, has other plans.
Shout out to the (many) times I got called an elitist gatekeeper for saying that the only real way to fully understand a work of fiction is to experience it firsthand and that summaries and reviews are not a replacement for that
Me, reading the first 80% of the post: What do you mean, "experience it firsthand"? How am I supposed to join the Hunger Games or go on the Odyssey?
Me, reading the final clause of the post: Oh, you literally meant that people have to read the book/listen to the audiobook in order to fully understand it. And people got mad. Oh dear.
To quote what a friend of mine said after she watched Jerry Maguire (1996) for the first time, having thought she knew what it was about because of its cultural ubiquity: āyou miss a lot of a movie when you donāt watch itā
OKAY STRAP IN because this is one of the WILDEST stories in aviation history.
In 1990, a British Airways BAC One-Eleven, captained by Tim Lancaster and co-piloted by Alastair Atchison, was cruising at 17,000 feet.
Around 15 minutes after take-off, flight attendant Nigel Ogden entered the cockpit to bring the pilots something to drink. One second everything was fine. The next second, the pilot's side window blew out from the force of the pressurized cockpit. Even though he was strapped in, the force of the explosive decompression ripped the captain out of his chair and pulled him though the window.
The flight attendant immediately leapt forward and grasped the captain's belt. The force was so strong - due to the plane's speed - the captain slipped and was pulled almost entirely out of the plane, but the flight attendant caught his leg. The captain laid on the roof, then the side of the fuselage (the above image is an inaccurate recreation - the side window was smashed) and the flight attendant's entire arm was soon outside of the plane, gripping him.
(Recreation from the show Mayday at the point of decompression)
At the same time, the event caused the autopilot to disengage, and the captain's body hitting the flight controls caused the plane to enter into a deep dive. The throttle was set to full power and could not be accessed due to debris, meaning the plane was descending rapidly. The co-pilot, experiencing hypoxia, fought to control the plane's dive while allowing it to continue descending to a level the passengers/crew could breathe at. He attempted to contact air traffic control, but the wind made communication impossible, so he broadcast a mayday signal. Finally, he was able to re-engage the autopilot and level the plane out at a breathable altitude.
Soon, the flight attendant's entire arm was burned from wind shear and frostbite, and his grip began to slip. The other attendants entered the cabin to see what was wrong and took over holding the captain's body. Seeing the blood covering the windows from the captain's severe wind sheer burns and frostbite, the attendants and co-pilot knew he was dead. However, they could not let his body go because it could smash into the wing, horz stabilizer, or engine, and bring the plane down.
For 30+ minutes the co-pilot flew a jet plane with an OPEN WINDOW and his co-worker's body hanging along the side of the plane. Finally, clearance to land from ATC came across over the sound of the wind and the flight attendants were able to dislodge the captain's ankles from the flight controls without letting him go. The co-pilot successfully landed the plane.
(tw below for blood)
(Taken same day as the incident)
BUT HERE'S THE KICKER: when they reached the ground and evacuated, they realized THE CAPTAIN WAS NOT DEAD.
He SURVIVED being outside the fuselage of a jet airplane traveling 550mph at 17,000 feet. His only injuries were extensive - but mostly superficial - frostbite and windshear burns, bruising, fractures in his hand, and shock. He has since stated that he remembers the event and was conscious for much of the time he was outside of the fuselage. The only other injury was the flight attendant's frostbitten/windshorn arm. Captain Tim Lancaster returned to flying five months later.
(Captain Tim Lancaster in bed several weeks after the incident, with flight attendant Ogden (+ Ogden's wife) above him and co-pilot Alastair Atchison to the far left, along with the two other flight attendants)
Why did this occur? Because the plane had received maintenance the day before, and the maintenance supervisor did not check he was using the correct screws in re-installing the windscreen.
(Recreation)
So yeah: you can apparently survive clinging to the side of a jet airliner traveling 500+mph at 17,000 feet.
Wow! Didn't expect this many likes for an aviation post.
Just a note that I was wrong - it was the front pilot's windscreen, not the side-window! I'm used to looking at Boeing windows with different positions :)
If y'all want the full story & more analysis of what exactly went wrong, Mayday: Air Investigations did a pretty decent special on the incident. It's free on YouTube here (and here on dailymotion if you're outside the US).
The āmaintenance supervisor did not check the boltsā is technically correct but ignores the amount of stuff that had to go wrong for that to happen.
1: the supervisor was the one doing the bolts (I think there was a staffing issue) and so did not have to check the work that he did
2: the window was not on the list of vital components that need to be checked by someone else even if the supervisor does it.
3: the parts store where he had to go to get the bolts was badly lit and had bolts in the wrong drawers.
4: the wrong bolts and the right bolts are almost indistinguishable by sight.
5: the correct tool to put the screws in was not available so they had to do some lite bodging to get the screws in. By this I mean it was still a torque wrench and they checked it released at the right point but the correct socket did not stay in place or something like that.
6: any slight differences between the right bolts and the wrong bolts were hidden because of the tool they were using (which would have worked perfectly if they were using the right bolts).
If one of those things had not happened then the plane would have had the right bolts when it took off.
^ absolutely critical edition and a great example of whatās known in risk analysis as the Swiss Cheese Model.
From Wikipedia:
āThe Swiss cheese model of accident causation illustrates that, although many layers of defense lie between hazards and accidents, there are flaws in each layer that, if aligned, can allow the accident to occur. In this diagram, three hazard vectors are stopped by the defenses, but one passes through where the "holes" are lined up.ā
Accidents in complex systems are very rarely one personās fault and my original post indeed oversimplified the incident for the sake of telling a straightforward story. This was not the case of one bad maintenance worker; this was a systematic failure. The holes lined up and a tragedy nearly occurred because profit (short staffing, poor maintenance facilities, poor training and tools) was prioritized over safety at several layers. Any additional degree of safety would have prevented this from occurring.
hyperfixation please stay with me long enough to complete the project. hyperfixation do not fade. hyperfixation finish what you started for the love of god
Like... i have to make sure my meals are nutritionally balanced... i have to make sure that the space i occupy is big enough, and interesting enough, and provide enrichment to make up for the lack of novelty... i have to make sure i get exercise... i'm not qualified for this
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