#zelinktines24

[jullbnt]

Very indulgent birthday gift to myself 😇

(I’m ridiculous I know)

It’s also day 25 of the Zelinktines calendar, the prompt was "Just a kiss" :)

Drawing kisses is hard!! Hope I’m not going to hate this tomorrow haha

[pitchblackespresso]

Cooking Lessons

For @zelinktines24 Day 8 - Bonding

Comics master post

[zelinktines]

Masterlist 2024

Hey everyone! We had so many entries this year, wow! Here's the master list which wouldn't exist without @deiliamedlini having painstakingly put it together! Thank you again, Deilia! 🫶

I got feedback that more of you want to do a multi-chapter fic next year, so l'm going to try to release the prompts a bit earlier.

Chaptered Fics covering all prompts:

Third Time's A Charm -@mistresslrigtar

Cozy Cozy: A Zelinktines Story- @eugenerapunzel A Warm Embrace- @cjracingpnf First Snow- @writingnocturne Cherished- @sparklyhyperbole Cozy-@gathoscorner

Glow Glow: A Zelinktines Story- eugenerapunzel Flickers- @taapje Past Love- writingnocturne

Reunion Reunion- @floraunderground Reunion- @pitchblackespresso Reunion: A Zelinktine's Story- eugenerapunzel A Century to Fall In Love- @zelzenik To have a choice- @zeldaelmo

Blush A Warm Embrace- cjracingpnf Blush- @louwhose Spring- @wildpeanut Birthday Seal-ebrations- sparklyhyperbole

Sun: To the Moon and Back: From the Sun- @aurathian From the Sky- writingnocturne

Moon From the Sky- writingnocturne Zelink: The Full Moon Fever- @legofanguy To The Moon and Back: To the Moon- aurathian

Stars From the Sky- writingnocturne Stars- @unicorn30067a To The Moon and Back- And even the stars- aurathian Stars- @legofanguy1999 Star- sparklyhyperbole

Bonding Cooking Lessons- pitchblackespresso Bonding with the Princess: A Zelinktines Story- eugenerapunzel Sparring- wildpeanut Bonding- @gathoscorner To have a family- dubiiousfood

A Watery Smile A Watery Smile- louwhose Nightmares- wildpeanut A Watery Smile: A Zelinktines Story- eugenerapunzel A Watery Smile- @floraunderground

Melody An Encounter in Kokiri Forest- louwhose Moving On: ALttP; Zelinktines Melody- @daemosdaen Zelink: Our Song- legofanguy1999

Heartbeat Heartbeat- unicorn30067a Zelink: By a Heartbeat- legofanguy1999 Heartbeat- @kokiriforestspirit

Dusk Dusk to Dawn: Dusk- aurathian

Dawn Dawn to Dusk: Dawn- aurathian Famous Prophets (Stars)- @korokposting

Rumors Rumors- aurathian Rumors- legofanguy1999

That's My Shirt That's My Tunic: A Zelinktines Story- eugenerapunzel Zelinktines: That is my Shirt- legofanguy Of Breakfast and Buttons- @railtracer30

Dare Zelink: A Challenge to Kiss the Captain- legofanguy The Dubious Delite- railtracer30 The Flowers Rage- @dubiiousfood

Fire Soup, Sandwiches, and Burnt Ends- railtracer30 Zelink: By the Housefire- legofanguy Permafrost: Bolero of Fire- aurathian

Ice Bumping the Shoulder- railtracer30 Ice- @unicorn30067a Zelink: Lesson in Ice Skating- legofanguy Permafrost: Serenade of Water- aurathian Ice Skating- dubiiousfood Icebreakers- @ladyhoneydee

Secret Resignation- railtracer30 The Fixed Eye- @bahbahhh A Secret of the Hero of Twilight and His Queen- legofanguy Enough- wildpeanut

Diary Diary- legofanguy1999 Excerpts from the Personal Diary of One Zelda Artemis Hyrule, Mj- railtracer30 Dear Diary- cjracingpnf

Breathless Zelink: Lost Breathing Without You- legofanguy Stabilizing Agent- railttracer30 Oh, You Fill My Lungs With Sweetness- @crazybananacakes

The Worst Pickup Line Last Sheikah Standing- railtracer30 A Broken Knife a Day Doesn't Keep the Blacksmith Away- louwhose

Sentimental Memento Mama- railtracer30 Zelink: The Hero of Time Return- legofanguy Sentimental- legofanguy1999

Candles Dining in the Dark- railtracer30

Just a Kiss Just a Kiss- legofanguy1999 Just a Kiss: A Zelinktines Story- eugenerapunzel Kiss Me, Stupid- railtracer30 Just a Kiss- @jullbnt

Dancing? Here? The Fixed Eye (part 2)- bahbahhh The Barefoot Waltz- railtracer30 The New School Teacher- louwhose

Veil Zelink: Wedding Veil- legofanguy Cherished- sparklyhyperbole

Make a Wish The Care of the Goddess- railtracer30 Of Trust and Trickery- sparklyhyperbole What Did You Wish For?- cjracingpnf Promise- writingnocturne

Here's the link to the Ao3 collection! Some fics that aren't on Tumblr in there, so make sure to check it out!

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

If we overlooked an entry, please let us know and we'll fix it!

[bahbahhh]

the fixed eye

a @zelinktines24 story | rated T

sequel to desire path

Impa!POV

💕 beta readers: @cooking-with-hailstones & @zeldaelmo

Summary: Impa travels with Zelda and Link to Gerudo Town following the festival of Sahasra’s Pass and tries desperately to only see what is really there. Of course you catch every little glance if you're looking for one. Every touch seems lingering if you’re watching long enough! It doesn’t mean anything. It can't! Not now…not when the King has given her a direct order to inform him if such things are happening. Not when there are Yiga in disguise and the end of the world hangs dark on the horizon.

What good is a third eye to a Sheikah if it’s fixed?

[ao3][part 2]

Excerpt from Part 1 - for prompt “secret”

Impa has always hated lying. She’s been this way for as long as she can remember. All her mother needed to do was look at her a certain way in the aftermath of some mischief she and her siblings almost got away with and Impa would dissolve into tears and confess to it all.

Thankfully, her ability to wear a mask when necessary has developed with time, but this does nothing for how it feels to carry a lie inside of her. She’s always wondered if other people feel this way, like they are beholden to some invisible lens of truth, like something in their very core repels falsehood. It's why the idea of lying to the King about feelings Zelda may or may not be experiencing, like her aunt suggested, has been haunting her for weeks. The mere anticipation of it is enough to rob her of sleep and set her unnecessarily on edge.

But what her aunt doesn’t know, what no one knows, is that Impa has been lying to them all about something else for a very long time.

Read the rest on Ao3!

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[aurathian]

My Zelinktines 2024 Masterlist

All my contributions for @zelinktines24 2024! All are SFW. View my full masterlist here.

To the Moon and Back: #5 sun, #6 moon, #7 stars

Breath of the Wild

Under the light of the sun, the moon, and the stars, Zelda and Link travel to the Spring of Wisdom so the princess can perform one last prayer.

From the sun, 2. to the moon, 3. and even the stars.

Dawn to Dusk: #12 dawn, #13 dusk

Twilight Princess

It is dawn when she leaves, but it is dusk when she brings them together.

Dawn 2. Dusk

Rumors: #14 rumors

Skyward Sword

There’s a rumor going around that Link and Zelda are in love. 

Permafrost: #17 fire, #18 ice

Ocarina of Time, Sheik/Link

Until the war is over, she will only be Sheik to him.

Bolero of Fire 2. Serenade of Water

[floraillinois]

whenever you’re gone I have trouble hanging onto myself.

I wander Hyrule without anyone left in my head

once,

I woke up falling

when I hit the ground and felt my brain shake around in my skull

I wondered to myself what the point of all this is.

I was trained to never give up

but it has been raining for days now.

and I miss you.

I fought him for you

I gathered all my friends and I fought him for you

I knew it didn’t matter

you were long gone

but I couldn’t let your sacrifice be in vain.

it doesn’t matter.

I wasn’t enough

he swallowed me whole.

I rested in his stomach

all forgotten things end up in someone’s gullet.

eventually I heard you, out there

you fought for me.

what was I supposed to do?

not fight for you?

we are falling

a second time

all history does is repeat

I am reaching out,

I am reaching for your hand.

clasping your slender fingers in my calloused palm,

reaching out,

I’ve got you.

don’t worry,

I will not lose you again.

we hit the water

delving deep into the depths of this lake, pond, puddle

and I have never been engulfed in such silence.

the ocean speaks to me

it says:

You are free. Let go.

my arms tighten around your heart

I can hear it stutter across my chest

we burst from the water

and I drag us onto land

laying you down on earth you haven’t touched in eons.

oh goddess.

please.

just let us go.

the wind in my hair

I feel it whistling down my neck

I’m staring down

at a face I have seen worn by monsters

a face who has destroyed me time and time again

a face I love.

I reach my hand up to my face

surprised that I am crying

water I have held in my center for as long as you have been gone

leaking out of my eyes

you looked up at me

you spoke to me

I’m home.

I’m home.

I’m home.

[zeldaelmo]

Summary: "Would you have chosen a different path?" Zelda finds the answer that Link gives rather depressing, but sometimes life deals second chances when you expect it the last.

Rating: T; Word count: 3,917; warnings: a bit of angst

Written for @zelinktines24 prompt "Reunion" and @dynerlow 's follower milestone request from last summer.

Thanks to @mistresslrigtar and @cooking-with-hailstones for beta reading!

To have a choice

Zelda kicked a pebble with the tip of her riding boot until it skipped into a puddle in front of her and cursed herself.

‘Would you have chosen a different path?’

What kind of question was that? How was he, the ‘Chosen One’, supposed to answer that? No wonder she had no real friends. Every time she tried, she started to ramble, made some weird analogies, and asked questions that nobody could answer.

Zelda closed her eyes, listening to the rain dripping from the ledge under which she had found cover. The sound of the rain drops had lost the soothing rhythm they had when the rain started, having now turned into an unnerving, urgent pattern. Somehow it alerted her to the fact that everything in her life — quite literally, actually — seemed to be on a deadline. Thunder rolled in the distance, the lightning that flickered over the dark sky giving the impression of being much closer than it actually was. She could only hope the same was true for the prophecy.

The Master Sword cutting through the rain was the only unnatural sound. Or… had been.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[dubiiousfood]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works