“Diamond x Pearl REWRITE” is both a “rewrite” of BDSP & a second story in the Hisui region of old involving my & my husband’s trainers, Ansy & Ikrit, along with their ancestors Mizumi & Sasmu, as they travel along with a pair of familiar monochromatic train twins.
The title “REWRITE” also refers to how in both Diamond & Pearl as well as Legends Arceus someone wanted to “rewrite” the world, & how this story reimagines modern Sinnoh if it included more from Legends Arceus (among other things, hehe).
Updates every Sun &/or Wed (depending on life stuff). If you’d like to help support my work, visit my Kofi! ☕️
Mizumi & Time Travel / Professor Laventon’s married? / Ingo’s Journal / Childhood Friend Rayquaza / FANART?? / Emmet > Barry / School Uniforms & Teacher AU / Jubilife City vs Village / Languages (part 1) / Languages (part 2) / Languages (part 3) / Height & Poses /
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📖 Other stories:
PKMN Black / PKMN Legends: Arceus - Mizumi / Sword x Shield / Scarlet x Violet / BW Survival AU
Journal Entry X/XX - As Miss Ansy prepared some much-needed fuel for our journey with Miss Koko, Mr. Link & I explored the Ring Ruins in search for clues regarding the Fifth Sage. Using his remarkable “Hidden Move” Ascend, we were able to enter the Ring Ruins held aloft by a valley. There, we had discovered a strange stone slab.
Mr. Tauro, leader of the Zonai Survey Team, was able to decipher the ancient text Link photographed with his Purah Pad. The name “Mineru” was discovered, as was the next stop on our route: the “land of dragons”, deep within Faron’s rainforests.
My instinct tells me we will find an answer to those mysteriously familiar yet unfamiliar Constructs…I am sure of it…
As it is, I can almost sense my lantern’s steady blue flame telling me that this is the correct track to take.
I survived that workweek. Somehow. 😮💨 & finally got a day off.
I was thinking of doing a little good news, art therapy thing today, work on that Hero of Bombs series, but first! In honor of Ingo exploring the Depths with Link, I’m very proud to share the lore accurate (for HoB), completed map of the Depths! \878/
As I’ve shared in that recent string of comics, the Depths is pitch black & the map is empty until you activate the Light Roots. This is the very first time I went & found each one! There’s a lot of danger down there - all that purple you see are Gloom that can “break” your hearts until you have Sunny foods, reach a Light Root, or return to the surface to recover. Also Gloom monsters, giant Froxes, etc. So I usually never bother exploring down there very much (scaryyyyy >u<).
It’s very fascinating - all rivers & bodies of water on the Surface are giant cliff faces in the Depths. I also felt it was a reference to the very first Legend of Zelda, where there’s an Underworld you have to explore, & eventually defeat Ganon. Also it’s funny how all the Light Roots are under shrines on the Surface, & have a name that’s the opposite of the shrine (Sinonoyk Light Root = Kyononis shrine).
Okay. That’s it. XD Now have some pretty pictures of some of the main places of interest during Ingo’s Fifth Sage quest 💣
Hi-ho, Parasol Lady Ansy (& Sora!) here again 🌧️☀️
With a reminder about heat sickness in light of the extreme heat warnings we’re getting in France & in the US this week or so.
Heat-related deaths in at least France have been rising, so please, please, PLEASE do what you can to stay safe! Have enough cool water on hand (& also eat cooling foods with enough salt to retain said water), wear brighter, lightweight clothes, avoid direct sunlight whenever & however you can (use a dark or dark-underside umbrella like mine), etc.
Heat sickness is not something to take lightly, or just brush off / tough out. If you start to feel lightheaded, weak, very thirsty, nauseous, etc. please take care of yourself. 😢
In the US, we’re forecasted to have record-breaking heat in the east, as well as wildfire conditions in the west. Not good.
If you or someone you know is unhoused (or under-housed, especially when it comes to access to AC or power), we do have emergency cooling centers they can go to. They have a website where you can search where to find one in your state. ❄️
You can also come to the public library - many have water fountains, & most of us have HVAC systems (can’t promise the quality, but it’s better than nothing) as well as free WiFi for you to chill out safely out of the heat. I think some of us may also have some cooling resources as well - better check the library’s website for more details before going. 📖
As for you guys out west, be sure to do what you can do to prevent wildfires. I know nothing about that being on the generally wetter east coast (currently more in drought / flood / storm conditions), so here’s a helpful guide by the NOAA.
Journal Entry X/XX — We had reached our destination in Hyrule Castle, & confronted the Demon King’s puppet of Princess Zelda. We had a wild encounter en route with Constructs unlike all the ones we have seen on previous routes. I myself felt a shiver down my spine at the sight of them. They were familiar, but in a twisted way…Even now, I feel as though I am on the cusp of remembering something…at least enough to know what I saw was “wrong”.
Miss Ansy seemed to notice, & inquired as much. She seemed to want to say something, but stopped herself. Perhaps she can clarify in the future.
…Just who was I before I came to Hyrule?
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(I really wanna draw the other Sages on their own sometime ✍🏻) Yes, I purposely echoed some of the words Ingo said in Legends Arceus, as I have in a couple comics here & there. Just made sense.
I’m hoping to post twice a week, but we’ll see this week since I work 6 days straight 😅
I’ve been wanting to do this for a long while now - share Ingo’s version of The Fifth Sage quest. 🌌
“The Fifth Sage” follows Link’s journey to find Mineru’s Secret Stone within the Spirit Temple. Originally, I thought Ingo’s would be more or less the same with only a couple changes (eg. facing the Seized Memory aka a corrupted memory of his brother instead of the Seized Construct), but as this AU progressed, more changed 💭
It’s gonna be like a small prologue comic, then single panel entries to accompany one music track from that quest (the whole soundtrack is excellent, the ones around this quest especially so 🎵) & if I’m feeling brave…an animatic. ouo;
I was thinking about that Ask I answered about keeping cool in summer. I’ve been having some easy, cooling meals lately, so I’d thought I’d share them. ^_^
Here’s that cold soba I mentioned in the Ask (another popular noodle is somen, but I usually have this buckwheat soba). Yes, that’s an ice cube. 🧊 You dip the noodles into this soba sauce & it cools you right down. =u=
Easy breezy 🎐 Just boil the noodles, & rinse in cold water until cool (if you have time, chill it in the fridge for a few minutes before eating). If you don’t have easy access to the ingredients, you can always explore other chilled noodles (eg. pasta salad, or hiyashi ramen! I just use instant noodles which most people can get). 🍜
Typically it’s served with cucumbers - those (& tomatoes!) are in season, are pretty cheap, & have a lot of water content, so I eat those a lot in the summer like my little snack plates:
My lunch lately - just little cut veggies & cheese sticks wrapped in deli ham. 🍅🥕🥒 Almost zero effort, not too expensive, & very customizable. >u<
Again, best if you chill it for a little bit before eating, especially on those really hot days.
This is my favorite hotdog - it’s got cheddar cheese, avocado slices, & this pineapple-mango salsa I got from the store (more like a pico de gallo but I didn’t name it lol). I can (& have!) make it at home, but well. >u> The heat makes me lazy, & it’s also hard not making a TON. 🍍🥭
I have to thank that one Hawaiian place (I think it was Puka Dog?) I saw on the Food Network when I was a kid around the Coney Island hotdog contest - they had all these tropical fruit sauces & I was just like “I MUST TRY IT”.
The hotdog was warm, but the “salsa” was cool, & the avocado balanced it all out. If you’re looking to try something different for your summer BBQ’s, give it a try! ^o^/ 🌭
Oh! I also discovered these Mexican mini chocolate-dipped ice cream bars that came in coconut, banana, & strawberry - nice little sweet treat >u<
I’ve been saving the strawberry ones for when Ikrit came back from his work trip, so I can say the coconut & banana are great (coconut’s like a Mounds bar while banana reminded me of moon pies >u<) 🥥🍌🍓
I also like these Korean taiyaki ice creams (kinda like a soft cone in the shape of a fish based on a Japanese & Korean pastry that’s kinda like a stuffed waffle. My favorite’s the matcha red bean. 🍵
Of course, I also love a good soft serve or just a couple scoops at home like an economic overheating person lol (or get the best of both worlds with a carton of Blue Bunny soft serve!) 🍨
(lol another repost - I love this little season series >u<) Here’s where I spend most of my time hiding under an umbrella or inside with the AC & my water bottle 🫠
Today I’m making a sunny peach cobbler for the Father’s Day BBQ. 🌻
⭐️ Also decided to include The Depths flora to the collection, even though none of it is edible lol.
It really was fun & interesting to show the journey of Tears of the Kingdom / Hero of Bombs through the many ingredients & materials they encountered through every part of Hyrule. Link / I’d make so many different foods or Elixirs in every place, while Ingo would dutifully maintain his throwing arsenal. 🌿
I’ve got another HoB project in the works, one I’ve thought about for a long time. Hope you like that, too. 8u8
So, I wrote this elsewhere online, & I wanted to share it here, since I think it’s important.
A lesson on positivity from a Parasol Lady: don’t let negative people steal your joy ☀️
(Long version below - TW for mention of trauma & emotional abuse)
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I made a comment about seeing a glimpse of world peace at the World Cup, how happy & hopeful this has been, & agreeing with others online who’ve been saying people still like us American people while (rightfully) hating the current government.
A bunch of people (many being Americans themselves) decided to come out of the woodwork to tell me how I’m wrong. They scolded me for celebrating this moment, said how they actually hate us, & basically how we should all continuously feel bad to show we care about fixing this mess.
At first, that really stole all joy & hope I’ve been feeling, the most I’ve felt around here in about a year & a half.
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🚩 TW: emotional abuse
After I slept on it, I remembered how my abusers LOVED to do that, too - any time I felt happy or accomplished something, I was never allowed to celebrate it. I was never allowed to relax, & enjoy the good moments when they came, because to them, it meant I didn’t care.
It didn’t make me care more. It just made me the most miserable, isolated, & hopeless person. What’s more, it was a way for them to keep mistreating me more easily, because someone without hope or joy are less likely to do or say anything about it.
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Joy is survival. Hope is survival. Joy & hope are revolutionary.
Seeing the whole truth is important; acknowledging the bad that’s going on, or the work that has to be done is important. Ignoring that is injustice.
It’s also okay, even vital, to celebrate when good happens. Doesn’t mean we forgot, or we’re ignoring the uglier parts of the truth. It’s just also seeing the truth that something worth celebrating happened. ☺️
Like, tomorrow’s the summer solstice - we still celebrate the longest day, even as it marks the slow return of darkness leading to autumn & winter. 🌻
So the next time someone wants to be like “it doesn’t matter / no one cares / here are all the reasons you’re a bad person for celebrating right now”, you can just let them know they’re not helping even one person, & they’re just a joy-thief.
North of Hyrule Castle lies the Great Hyrule Forest. Surrounded by a lake & veiled by mist, the trees hold many secrets. At the center is Korok Forest, shaded by the Great Deku Tree’s flowering branches. A haven to all manner of forest life, the innocent Koroks are only too happy to share their mushroomy treasures. 🌳🍃
Or at least, they normally do: they & the forest were eerily silent when we made it there. The source came in the form of Phantom Ganon inside the Great Deku Tree, spreading a miasma of Gloom. Once the forest was purified, the Great Deku Tree told Link where he can find the Master Sword, the final key to Ganondorf’s defeat…🗡️
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That’s it for this little local ingredient series! Thanks for following along ^0^/
The tropical Faron region lies to the southwest of Hyrule, with a dense rainforest full of Zonai ruins giving way to the coast & a small slice of paradise: Lurelin Village, home of the renown Azure Bay. Rain often storms through the forests, filling it with life, & food: while Hearty Durians no longer grow here, Zapshrooms & Mighty Thistles gives travelers the strength to brave the many storms & velts of this region. ⛈️🌴
Having freed Lurelin Village from pirates, we traveled through the dense rainforest, still following the path to the Fifth Sage. A path through the massive cumulonimbus was cleared, revealing the Thunderhead Isles in the sky, which lead to Dragonhead Isle, floating above Tobio’s Hollow. There, in The Depths below, Ingo found answers to the questions he had in his heart…& having braved through that with his friends, was handed the title of Sage of Spirit from the last Zonai, Mineru. 🖤
Under the shadow of Dueling Peaks is West Necluda, & along the many winding paths, one can find Kakariko Village, home of the Sheikah people. A quiet ninja village filled with flowering plum trees & ingredients that increases one’s stealth, it has since gotten more attention with the Ring Ruins that fell from the sky into their hillsides, & the Ring Garlands a young Sheikah girl started to weave. 🌿
Link came here with his isekaied companions to investigate the Ring Ruins, following leads concerning a Fifth Sage…more on that later 🏛️
Wish upon a star! 💫 Jirachi is coming to #PokemonPokopia! Starting Tuesday, June 23, you can befriend Jirachi, the Wish Pokémon. Additionally, you can collect shining wish notes, which are only available during the event, and exchange them for items inspired by the starry sky.
Along the southeastern coast & just beneath snowy Mount Lanayru is East Necluda. There one can find Hateno Village, the capital of agriculture, dairy products, & recently, fashion. 🍄🟫🥕
Link encountered some folks around Hyrule sporting mushroom-themed outfits or hats resembling mushroom caps. Once he & his isekaied companions stepped into Hateno, we saw why: the fashionista Cece had taken over the town with her love of mushrooms. After sorting things out between her & the mayor (I refused to be a part of the mushroom bribery lol), the mayor revealed & shared his newly bred crop of Sun Pumpkins to go with the recently revived art of creating Hateno Cheese. 🧀
Hey so, if you’re thinking about making an Instagram, maybe don’t? Especially if you’re a minor - if they let people say this to me, I truly hate to think what they’d say to you.
