#bells tag

[zellink]

let me carry it with you.

[ninczeniks]

@lebannabell i should be asleep because it's 5 am but my nose is stinging hard asf trying not to cry just thinking about it 💀💀

[hale-of-stiles-heart]

@whatthehellbells

They're not the best quality pics but ta da!

[zellink]

all the bells say - chapter 18: Imperishable Son pt. I

a pre-calamity zelink longfic. [M-rated // chapter 18 of 27 // Act 3 of 5]

>>Read chapter on AO3 or start from the beginning >>here

Chapter excerpt:

She has always known that a mountain’s worth of weight hangs above everyone—herself and her knight and her father and all the souls who dwell on this cursed land—but as Link tucks his eyes away, lips pressed down on the words she knows he’s holding back, that knowledge matters very little. There is only anger and guilt. Angry at how unfair it is, that they all shall live this way because of a war no one alive today ever agreed to partake in. Guilty, for it is this very ancient war that brought his spirit to her blood, binding them with a perennial string that cuts through not only them but the people around them. Because if it weren’t for that string, she would not be here right now, on the withered grass next to him, in the warm fireside of his existence.

>>Read chapter on AO3

[zellink]

outwardly nonchalant handsome boy & perpetually sad beautiful girl

[zellink]

theoretically if the next chapter of bells is like at 14k words now and might be fuckin 18k or some shit when it’s finished god knows when. theoretically. how would you guys feel about this

[zellink]

all the bells say - chapter 19: Imperishable Son pt. II

a pre-calamity zelink longfic. [M-rated // chapter 19 of 27 // Act 3 of 5]

>>Read chapter on AO3 or start from the beginning >>here

Chapter excerpt:

“But it’s painful.” Her whisper has never sounded this broken before, and she hates how his face is crumpling with concern—but it has become more and more of an insurmountable task to keep her heart from bleeding. All she can do to alleviate this immedicable wound, it seems, is to share its existence with him. “I know,” he replies. “But I’m just grateful that I get to feel it at all.” “Even the pain?” she asks. “Even the pain,” he answers, resolute. “Though I wish I could take yours away.” She would never want to add more to the kingdom-sized burden piled upon him, though the prospect of feeling no pain sounds enticing to someone who has long accepted its perpetual company. But this—this cruel torture, these thousand spears that gore at her soul—is the surest, realest thing she will ever feel in her body. And it is as sure as the knowledge that he, too, feels it.

>>Read chapter on AO3

[zellink]

the long-dreaded update on my longfic

hey guys. i know it's been a long while since i last updated all the bells say, and i've come here every now and then to tell you guys that the next chapter is still on the stove, but honestly... it's not. it hasn't been on the stove since 2 months ago, and even then i only popped in the document to write maybe 2 lines. as much as it saddens me to say this because 2023!me hoped to finish this longfic in just a few months... all the bells say is indefinitely on hiatus.

i'm gonna be honest with you. the reason for that is because i'm simply burned out--creatively, mentally. last year i started taking art commissions, and while it's been fun drawing mostly zelda art for a living, it has made me kind of jaded to this piece of media i was once so obsessed with. my personal life also just hasn't been that easy, and it has drained a lot of my creativity. i'm still fine with taking comms and drawing for others, but writing has always been a medium that requires a lot of focus, emotional investment, and frankly, hyperfixation-filled love. and i don't have any of those for my longfic right now.

whenever i have free time to draw anything other than comms, i want to do/write things that aren't really related to my job, y'know? sadly, zelda for me right now is just so tied to that, because comms are work after all.

i hope to one day return to all the bells say, but i'm truly sorry that i can't say when that will be. if i do come back, i want it to be because i've missed writing it, i've missed that world, i've missed zelink. i don't want the reason to be pressure, to be "god, it's been going on for so long so i must write something."

it really is saddening me to write this, but it is what it is, and i think it'll help me move forward creatively if i'm finally honest with myself about the state of this longfic. and of course, i want to be honest with you, too. i'm really sorry, guys. i wish it hadn't turned out this way.

nonetheless, thank you so much for all the love you've shown me since i first posted on AO3, for being patient with me, for cheering me on. you have no idea how much it means to me. truly, zelda will always be so dear to my heart because it's given me a space to express my creativity through fanfiction and fanart, it's helped me get through really tough times, and it's introduced me to people who would become my good friends--even find love. so i want to personally take some distance from it because i want it to feel special again.

i'll still be around of course, though not as active as before. so for now... until next time. <3