If I were any more ace I'd be a playing card

Personal blog, mostly of things that make me happy. Mostly Linked Universe at the moment! They/Them | Call me Skies or Sykie | Australia | Pfp by @hiimgin!

[undertheopensky]

About Me

Call me Skies, or Sykie if you already know too many Skys. (The perils of wandering into the LU community two years late!)

I write, theoretically, but after severe burnout in my teens and 20s I don’t post much of it. Trying to gently stretch out some of those scars, but it’s slow going.

I also sometimes don’t have a lot of words to spare. If I take a while to respond, or do so entirely in emojis, it’s not that I hate you, it’s that I’ve run out of words for the day, and tumblr doesn’t do well at expressing happy stimming.

My Ao3: undertheopensky

Current Status:

Obsessed with Legend of Zelda, Linked Universe specifically

Drawing LU Four every day!

Participating in Febuwhump 2024 - I won’t be doing every day, just the ones that call to me, and I’m aiming to make these shorter than my Whumptober fills, as some of those got so long and involved that I’m STILL working on them!

Edit: Task failed successfully. *facepalm*

Tags:

skies thinks too much - personal tag

sykie plays games / skies plays games - rambling thoughts on the videogames I was playing at the time

skies writes, theoretically - writing tag

skies draws sometimes - drawing tag

disaster sykie - I am genetically clumsy and only mostly resigned to it. Block this tag if you don't like injuries or complaining.

Writing:

Whumptober 2023

[gia-d]

So, uh...

I caved to my friends relentless peer-pressure (you know who you are and I love you all) and am opening an online store. So if you'd like some Linked Universe themed stickers, stay tuned because these babies should be up for sale by the end of the week.

[biglawbear]

I'm instituting a new policy of "if I can't easily read your crusty scanned PDF then I'm sending it back to you, telling you to get your shit together and save your .docx as .pdf, and causing snakes to manifest inside your house"

[christaaah]

this but also if you are in accounting and you have an Excel file please do not save it as a PDF or take a screenshot of it and then paste it into another Excel file

[biglawbear]

I take it back whatever you have going on is way worse than what I was dealing with holy shit

[firstbornsons-deactivated202605]

@thesummoningdark hello?????

[thesummoningdark]

yeah no this is a real thing an actual human being said to me

[biglawbear]

Good afternoon to everyone in the notes having a horrible time! Y'all are fighting demons I never knew existed!! I think every person that makes you do stupid time wasting shit like this because they refuse to learn basic computer literacy should be fired!!

[ride-ai]

Every time I get frustrated with a tool or appliance I think about the bit in 17776 about how people crave a little bit of inefficiency, how if everything always worked perfectly and instantly we would lose a lot of the joys of being human, how deeply humans want to want, and I try to find the joy and humanity in what's frustrating me and enjoy that it's not perfect

but this does not apply to printers. absolute bastard machines

[the-bakeneko]

Printer whisperer

[britcision]

Lemme once again share the magic tech support spell that will solve about 85% of computer problems:

Ask Literally Anyone Else to come over and say “I work in tech let me take a look”

Doesn’t matter if it’s a lie, it’s magic

[worldwright]

youtube with ublock origin experience of the 20 second gap between every video on a playlist where youtube desperately throws itself against the impervious ever-evolving uncaring face of the adblocker's wall screaming and clawing and calling PLEASE! PLEASE, OUR AD REVENUE!! DON'T YOU WANT TO SUPPORT THIS CREATOR? DO YOU NOT CARE ABOUT OUR WALLETS? AND THEIRS? into the vast and empty sky before the adblocker gently raises one of its many iron-banded arms and flicks youtube away into the void just to hear its wails fade slowly into nothing

[melonisopod]

It's funny when I get the "You seem to be experiencing interruptions. Find out why" popup as if two unskippable 30-second ads wouldn't feel way more intrusive and annoying than a slight delay for a video to start.

[sraksha]

Could you draw some of the LU lads fighting over a card game? (i'm not sure how hard that would be though so no worries if you don't want to)

There's only one thing stronger than any friendship or family bond.

Sorry for the wait. I've been busy lately and i've been hunting for the legendary creature known as Motivation.

[zephyrus-gremlin]

Smug bitch /affectionate

[sraksha]

He has experience

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

home sick in bed, tell me a story 🥺🥺🥺

[motherrussiachan]

this is a story of human folly, and how my egotistical ass refuses to admit im wrong ever. also the story of why i dont trust lawyers.

im taking a law course right now that requires basic medical classes (med term and A&P). i took these classes in high school, and unfortunately i couldnt transfer the credit or anything, but the classes were extremely easy because i remembered most of the info. also unfortunately, this made me very overconfident.

in med term, we had two different quiz styles - spelling quizzes, and match-the-definition quizzes. the definition quizzes were hard, so i gave them their due respect. the spelling quizzes though were painfully easy for me, and we also got five attempts for them, which i felt was unnecessary.

they were set up like so:

"choose which, if any, are spelled correctly.

a) word 1

b) word 2

c) word 3

d) all

e) none"

for one question, the words were "pulmonary", "fibia", and "hyperhydrosis".

of course, i read these, and i say cool. all spelled correctly. no need to think any further about it. and i complete my little quiz, just to see at the end that i got the question completely wrong. and i was like, huh, thats weird. okay i guess ill retake the quiz. best as well.

i do a different combination of answers, this time excluding "hyperhydrosis". still wrong. i take it again. different combination of answers. still wrong.

you see, every time i took this quiz, i included "fibia" as being spelled correctly. and folks, let me tell you, fibia is not a real fucking word. the human body has a "tibia" and a "fibula", both of which are bones in the calf.

neither of which is a fucking fibia.

a "fibia" is NOT A THING!!!

but i was so convinced that it was a thing, that i refused to even double check myself or anything. didnt look it up. didnt verify. was 100% going to die on the hill that fibia is a real word.

i wasted all five quiz attempts and got the question wrong every single time, and instead of realizing i was wrong, i became deeply convinced that my professor had coded the quiz incorrectly. theres no way *I*, in all of my greatness, could POSSIBLY be WRONG about this.

anyway i told my mom about it and she laughed at me in my face.

the moral of the story is that humans can grow, change, and learn. except for me because this was like two months ago and i would still do this if i was given the chance.

i have learned nothing

im going to be a lawyer someday.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN 'FIBIA' ISN'T A REAL BONE

[kvotheunkvothe]

dis u?

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

THE FUCK YOU MEAN TIBULA ISN'T A REAL BONE

[flogisto]

big fan of stories that, while undoubtedly being about the power of friendship, acknowledge that the power of incredible violence is just as important

the love was there. the love changed everything. the crowbar helped also

[queer-is-future-deactivated2025]

so when straight people ask me why I say I’m “queer” or “gay” instead of sharing my actual identity as a panromantic demisexual non-binary sapphic queer I just tell them “ok look, when you’re talking to someone who isn’t local and they ask you where you’re from and you either say the name of the largest city nearby or ‘town name, suburb of large nearby city’ so they can get some geographical context of where you’re located right, bc they’re probably not going to know the name of the little town you actually live in.”

but if you’re talking to a local you can say the name of your actual town bc they have a greater chance of knowing where/what that is.

ok well when I’m talking to a straight person I start with queer bc chances are they aren’t as familiar with the context of all the little towns in that big queer city and need gps (gay positioning system) to find me.

if I’m talking to another queer person and I say I live in a suburb of gay city in a town called panromantic on the demisexual side of the tracks which is in the county of queer and I live off the intersection of non-binary and sapphic, they’d probably be able to find me with little to no problems, make sense?

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Also because my exact address in Queertown is usually nobody's business.

[tarragonthedragon]

In either case, you only need all the details if you're coming back to my place.

[fatherofthebride]

montage of a spectacled owl meeting my barn owl shawl at the ren faire today

[abbycrashing]

The Chain are sailing in what they *thought* was Legend's Hyrule- on their way to Hyrule's shores, when a sailor shouts "MAN OVERBOARD!"

The Links on deck immediately race over to see a teenager dressed in green unconscious and draped over a large plank of driftwood. They pull him up, and brush the wet hair out of the boy's face to see... Legend.

Well, the Legend of the Hyrule they are currently in. Because it is Legend's Hyrule. Just not yet.

The next week or so is spent with Legend staying as far away from his past self as possible, while the other Links take turns tending to their friend's seasick, dehydrated, and delirious past self.

Legend has no memory of this happening in his own past save for perhaps a few blurred memories that could have passed for fever dreams, or the sailors of the ship they were on.

The Chain are the ones to deliver Past Legend to Fable safely. Mayhaps Fable remembers this, and trusted the Chain when they first showed up to pick up Now Legend at the beginning of their Quest? Perhaps that is one of the reasons why Legend joined them... his princess trusted these strangers, knew who they were, and was confident that they were a safe group. Maybe she is the only Zelda to recognize the Chain as Heroes of the Past and Future? Because they explained who they were when they brought her Hero back from his disastrous voyage at sea...

[sab3liii]

I really like how Blue has his hair tucked behind an ear when Four splits its such a neat detail

Kinda makes me wish the other colors had design changes besides the slightly different haircolors yknow

Anyways here are MY colors designs (rushed)

The differences between them:

Vio: scar under left eye, hair in a low ponytail

Green: braid with the minish tail

Blue: hair tucked behind ear

Red: slightly smaller eyes, shorter hair

[yardsards]

his tuoy

[yardsards]

woke up cuz he dropped his tuoy

[yardsards]

i have retrieved his tuoy for him. all is well.

[winedimples]

The time we have left together.

~*~

(Click for quality! I really tried my best for this one. Yapping, close-ups and extra emotional damage underneath the cut)

Don't think about the mischievous glint in the old man's eye whenever he decides to join in on story time. Don't think about the warmth of family, the soft breeze of a place you can call home.

Don't think about the latest bag of rupees you won from a bet with the captain or the way elation lit his face at the use of your fire rod. A man in uniform you can trust.

Don't think about about the warmth buzzing under your chest as the resident sleepyhead pressed his most treasured companion in your hands. Don't think about how the blade greeted you like an old friend or the start of an eternal legacy fluttering in the wind.

Don't think about the hopping stone statues and careful movements of the rancher. Don't think about two dark forms, curled against each other despite their differences.

Don't think about stern words in the heat of creation or the passion dripping from the smithy's eyes. Don't think about him as something you thought you would never see again.

Don't think about the crooked eyebrows and flailing limbs. The sailor always had a knack for storytelling, so ignore the way wind twirls around his locks. Don't think about the sea.

Don't think about the wooden bowl filled with warm soup after a day of trudging through the rain. Don't think about scars that stretch the body or vacant houses now touched with life anew.

Don't think about shattering pots and delighted laughter in darkness. Don't think about how the traveler pokes at your attitude. Don't think about the legacy you will leave behind.

Don't think... don't wonder... just how much time do you have left with them?

~*~

I unfortunately got afflicted with this horrible sickness called The FeelsTM and spend the last week working on this piece. Whenever I scroll through ao3 for fanfics and I bump into those post-lu fics I get so so so sad (actually I don't even need to scroll through ao3 for that to happen it just randomly ambushes me).

Insert family guy death pose.

[robothechicero]

Wild immediately killed him with an arrow. To this day, they still don't know who he was referring to.

(I'm still alive!!!).

[magical-girl-coral]

🏆 Achievement unlocked: kill a tumblr mechanic within the first twenty hours of its release.

[passing-traveler]

Staffwork Basics with Warriors Linked Universe

SILLY GIF PREVIEWS ⬇️ (Scroll for Actual Video)

THE ACTUAL VIDEO:

BLOOPERS IN THE LAST 38 SECONDS!! :D DISCLAIMER: Please keep in mind this is just one way of teaching staffwork & there are many styles out there! (Also I am not perfect & am still working to improve :) ) If I didn't mention something, it's bc I cut the video down from SO much yapping about technique LMAO. Also. I am playing Wars' arrogance up for the bit. We stay cringe in this house 👏 Lmk if you want a sequel with more advanced techniques & fun sequences!