#askbaings

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just translated the her gravestone and oh my god-

everyone is so mean to her…

Omg the drawing kills me I love it. I promise she gets a new headstone in the end. Let's just say I hope you are.... Torn over this coming weeks chapter.

[baings-nails]

Ooh! Did you have a particular inspiration when creating Bonds? What was the first aspect of the story you came up with (if it's not a spoiler)?

Oh boy time to get personal. So long story short back in September 2023 I had a cancer scare that basically consumed my life. Thankfully it wasn't cancer in the end but until I got that news I was an absolute wreck, most women in my family have died of cancer in their 60s and I'm technically half way to the age everyone else has been. Totk was my hyper focus at the time, I was even designing OCs and I loved finding the little comics and art other has made through insta, twitter, pixiv. I also loved the interpretations of a Draconified Link I've seen being created. I had a couple ideas before my medical scare I was considering drawing out. One I called "The boy who talked to dragons" where Zelda would occasionally wake up from her "dream" through the eons and tries to make contact with hylians out of loneliness, only for the first person to not run away from her being a tiny Link. But when I heard the news I had some massive tumors I didn't have the heart to write something charming or whimsical. So Taboo came about, it was cathartic and honestly self indulgent and apparently a lot of people liked it, when it was released on Twitter all those years ago I went from 30 to 300 in a few weeks... I was even debating on ending it after Selfish to let people write their own ending but I'm pretty proud of what I've written this many years later. So thank you to those readers who came from twitter and still read my story. I promise there will be an end to this story.