AO3: RosemaryRiddel.
Currently into Linked Universe and The Long Dark. Links to fics will be posted here as they come into existence, whenever that may be.
I go by Rose or Riddle (she/her). I'll post and reblog anything from meta analyses & writing resources to some of my own drabbles & fics.
Any important/relevant tags are listed here alongside the headers.
Tags of note:
#riddel's rambles
Meta Analyses, References & Resources
Linked Universe
LU Combat Guides Part 1 & Part 2
-> (Part 1 last updated 2 May 2025. Part 2 last updated 3 May 2025)
BOTW/LU Wild Meta Analyses (#botw combat mechanics meta)
How Wild's magic affects his weapons
Wild's magic in-depth explanation: OG post & follow up info
A list of AO3 fics and short stories posted to tumblr can be found below the keep reading line.
AO3 Fics (#riddel's fics)
Linked Universe
Spoon Theory & the 'Despite Everything' series
In which Wild is still Link of a century ago, even if it takes everyone, including himself, a while to work that out.
A.K.A. My "Wild has ADHD" series
Tear Streaked
Unstoppable force meets immovable object.
Time is going to get passed Wild at all costs, no matter how many uses of his ocarina it takes.
God Shattering Star
Laws of magic, space, and time be damned, Sky is going to kill TOTK Ganondorf no matter what. As a treat.
Twin Stranger
Mid-LU, Wild ends up in Age of Calamity. No one is happy about this.
Completed: 4/4
The Deep Below
Trapped in the depths of the Lakebed Temple as it floods, Time and Wild have to race to escape.
A.K.A. Time passes his CPR refresher course with flying colours.
Complete: 3/3
Sins of the Father
Are to be laid upon the children. Separated from his brothers and taken captive by the Shadow, Wild learns this the hard way.
Complete: 13/13
Word Count: 260k
The Long Road Home
A few months after Time got custody of his younger brothers, the first Kaiju attacked. It took everything he had to keep his tiny family together in the aftermath. But with one single mistake, the screech of metal and an ear-splitting roar, the future they had planned is torn away. Two people can still pilot a Jaeger but the silence that fills the hole where the third should be is deafening.
In progress: 3/?
Affliction: Hypothermia Risk
It's one thing to end up lost in a tundra with the temperatures plummeting and limited shelter on hand. That is something Wild and Twilight have handled before with ease. But it's another thing to be stalked relentlessly by something unknown, something that is very hungry and has its sights set on them both. Now they're stuck in a race against time to either outrun their pursuer or be consumed by the endless cold.
In progress: 1/?
Persona
Dare to Break This Silence
Faced with Dojima's anger over his interference with the serial killer case, Souji makes a drastic decision. It doesn't go well.
In which I make November worse for the Dojima family.
Additional Content from Fics (#deleted scenes)
-> Shield Surfing (got your heart in a headlock, Despite Everything series)
Ficlets (#riddel's fics)
Linked Universe
Phoning a Friend
Warriors watches two version of the Champion play Stop Hitting Yourself.
Inherited Handwriting
Time contemplates the physical manifestations of his future and ends up thinking about the past.
Twin Stranger
TFW you get a time-travelling mentor but he's your alternative timeline self (now completed multi-chapter fic).
you're taller. how fucking dare you.
Wind sees some familiar faces. He's Very Unimpressed.
Braiding Fic (a Twin Stranger continuation)
Age (formerly Champion) and Wild braid each other's hair and talk about boys.
Beamos
In which everyone hates these lil bastards, but no one more than Wild.
I think one of the funniest abortion stances I've heard was from my parents neighbor. He's a like, hard-core libertarian viking larper guy who is very tall and very fat and very bald.
He believes a fetus is human with a soul, but also its "basically attacking the woman's body" so if she wants to get rid of it, that's "basically self-defense". He compared it to shooting a home invader. So he supports abortion not as healthcare, but as killing a baby in self-defense
Y'know I'm so glad someone reminded me of this. Because this was also discussed.
My stepmother did NOT like the way her Libertarian Viking Neighbor framed pregnancy as the fetus "attacking the woman". She incredulously told him this was extremely disrespectful to expectant mothers to portray pregnancy as so violent and negative.
Libertarian Viking Neighbor's response was that people consensually hurt each other all the time, and "there's like a whole community about that, with the acronym the one that starts with a B" And his reasoning was that if the mother was consenting to bring attacked by the baby, it in fact wasn't violent and negative because there was consent.
He brought up people consensually hurting each other, didn't go for one of the obvious answers like boxing or body mods or something, no he went STRAIGHT TO BDSM and he DIDN'T EVEN REMEMBER THE ACRONYM
I miss you Riddel! How’s it been? Just wondering we haven’t spoke in a while. :D
Aw, hi Honey! I'm doing a lot better than I have been the past few months. Can't say things are better yet, but they're getting there. Finishing Sins definitely helped take some of the pressure off - good luck catching up now lmao - and moving on to new fics and new hobbies has helped.
How are you going? Saw you mention somewhere you're not into LU rn, what's taken your fancy?
i hate that when you try and look up shit for writing purposes it starts linking suicide hotlines and addiction advice articles like bro i just wanna know the information im not killing myself i promise. now tell me what i wanna know
“No, you’re right,” Wild says comfortingly. “I can’t lay her forever. I made a promise to my brother to meet him in Ordon. I just need a few more minutes.”
Despite his forgiveness, the fairy still looks contrite and continues to flutter over him worriedly. This time though, she doesn’t touch him.
“It was an accident. I know that,” Wild reassures her. “You’ve been a huge help. I wish I knew your name to thank you properly, but sadly I don’t speak fairy.”
She chitters a fairy laugh. It’s probably obvious Wild doesn’t know how to speak fairy.
“I’ll be sure to ask Time next time I see him,” Wild continues. “In the meantime can I give you a nickname? My brothers and I are big on nicknames.”
did you know that a huge complication of bed rest, even just for a few days, is back pain, potentially severe? that alone makes it hard to stay lying down because it would feel so much better on your back/hips to get up, even if the rest of the pain is just as bad. do with that what you will
Everyone say thank you american indigenous people for cultivating corn, potatoes, peppers, tomatoes, cacao, pumpkin, squash, and anything i missed. Makes life more meaningful globally
Yes actually I will not shut up about how these foods are from the Americas/cultivated by the people there, and did NOT exist in Asia, Africa or Europe before the 1490s, there was an absolute food revolution going on in the 1500s. Whatever you think is traditional food for your country? Check again, you’ve maybe only been using that ingredient for maybe 500 years. Here is the full list of crops, it is very interesting :))
Things have been really hard the last few months. Mental health took a dive, shit went sideways in a safe space, life changed abruptly in both good and bad ways, and I have a therapist that, for the first time in my life, actually listens to me.
But for all the chaos that has happened, I think I'm finally walking forward again. I'm trying new things, doing stuff I've never done before, writing because I enjoy it again, and just. Starting to like who I am. It's been a while, honestly, since I've looked in the mirror and liked who I see.
Progress is slow but that's how it always is. There's still a lot to untangle and get a hold on but I'm just glad to not be as stuck as I have been. I don't want to go back to that again. I'm looking forward to the rest of my life without this luggage, even if it takes months or years to get there.
Okay I know it's an old thing everyone's seen a million times, but...
I really do love it when a character gets to safety after some grueling experience they survived and got out of by their own strength and skill and cunning, and... then gets drastically worse very rapidly afterwards. Just utterly collapsing, sick, out of strength, in so much pain, hardly able to get out of bed without help, probably emotionally an utter mess too
Because they've just been pushing their body on and on, to its limits and past, because they had to, because it was up to them to deal with it all, there was no help, no back-up, nothing to rely on but themself. So their mind and body have just burned up all the reserves and endured it all as best as possible, they've held together until they got out of that situation
But now that they're finally safe, their body recognizes it. Now that they're finally safe they no longer need to endure more, they no longer need to keep anything together, to push the pain and exhaustion aside and refuse to feel it in order to go on. They're finally safe to stop all of that. And so- they collapse. All of it catches up with them all at once, and they have no optipn to keep it at bay anymore, they just have to feel it. Have to suffer the consequences of all the injuries, exhaustion, whatever illness they might've picked up, whatever's going on
And they just feel so miserable and weak and vulnerable and tired, and have no real option but to allow whoever's around to care for them and deal with everything while they recover
Affliction: Hypothermia Risk
Summary:
It's one thing to end up lost in a tundra with the temperatures plummeting and limited shelter on hand. That is something Wild and Twilight have handled before with ease.
But it's another thing to be stalked relentlessly by something unknown, something that is very hungry and has its sights set on them both. Now they're stuck in a race against time to either outrun their pursuer or be consumed by the endless cold.
Whumpees who have been resurrected by supernatural means...
Whumpee who bears the guilt of the trade for another life [or more than one life or something else that's important to the person who brought them back]
Whumpee who remembers "the other side" and misses it
Whumpee who remembers "the other side" and fears it and dying again
Whumpee who doesn't remember "the other side" and is afraid
Whumpee who no longer fears death
Whumpee who is terrified of dying again
Whumpee who remembers the act of dying and the pain and violence of it
Whumpee who is terrified they came back wrong
Whumpee who did come back wrong
Whumpee who didn't cone back but with trauma and thinks that it's them coming back wrong
Whumpee who still has marks of death on them
Whumpee whose body is a blank slate
Whumpee who remembers burial and being buried alive
Whumpee who remembers their body coming back together
