ZelGan Week

Do not look away.

[zelgan-week]

Just one month until Zelgan Week 2026 kicks off with Stargazing / Garden & Forest day!

What: Fics, fanart, music, videos… whatever inspires you to meet any of our week prompts! Whether you pick to meet one from the day, stretch for both, is up to you.

Is NSFW ok? Yes!

What counts as Zelgan? Work and centers and celebrates the character relationship of Zelda and Ganondorf in all incarnations, games, and timelines. This is a pro-ship event for Zelda and Ganondorf, so please save non-Zelgan works for other events.

Questions? Contact us via dm or email zelganweek [at] gmail. Shout-out thanks to @zeldieboo for the gorgeous graphics we'll be enjoying!

[lovekenney]

You know how it be

[nomorezerocommenteventfics]

EVENT SPOTLIGHT !!

@zelgan-week is a week-long event dedicated to the Zelgan ship- Zelda x Ganondorf, from the Legend of Zelda series! Each day of the week is dedicated to a different prompt, to be filled with fic!

It started in 2025, so there is only one collection at the moment :)

Here is the Zelgan Week 2025 collection, already sorted from least-to-most comments

Happy Commenting!

[zelgan-week]

This week isn't Zelgan Week, but the week after is!

We cannot wait to see all of the incredible things you've been working on to celebrate our favorite pair. See below for the guidelines (if you participated last year, you know the drill by now!). We'll be sharing the AO3 collection link closer to the date.

We'll see you back here next weekend to kick off with Stargazing / Garden / Forest Day 1!

What: Fics, fanart, music, videos… whatever inspires you to meet any of our week prompts! Whether you pick to meet one from the day, stretch for both, is up to you.

Is NSFW ok? Yes!

What counts as Zelgan? Work and centers and celebrates the character relationship of Zelda and Ganondorf in all incarnations, games, and timelines. This is a pro-ship event for Zelda and Ganondorf, so please save non-Zelgan works for other events.

ZELGAN WEEK 2026 AO3 COLLECTION COMING SOON

The a moderated collection that will open midnight GMT on Saturday, June 6th for Day 1 submissions. Please add to the collection on the corresponding day and use the Day Tag in the story tags (for example, on the first day, tag your Stargazing / Garden / Forest tales #ZelganWeekDay1).

TAG ON TUMBLR

Tag us here @zelgan-week with your art and AO3 links and the tags #Zelgan Week and #Zelgan Week 2026. We'll be reposting submissions throughout the week, and we'll also be posting a Daily Round-Up with all the participants at the end of each day.

CELEBRATE!

Reblog and share far and wide! We're a small ship community and can all use the love (just like a certain Gerudo King we know). Please be respectful, be encouraging, and remember that if this isn't your favorite ship, there are 55,000 other Zelda AO3 fics waiting for you to discover instead!

[studiorat]

Shade of My Enemy, volume 3, (Not) Healing, page 29

In which the lovers’ quarrel pivots…

I truly do enjoy working on this little gothic tale, but oh the swearing I do every time I have to render the detail on this man’s armor. There’s a little easter egg in the flourishes on the side of the upper cuirass if you squint. It’s there in canon too if you can catch him at the right angle, and when I say the questions that detail visible in the HD rerelease raises launched a hundred thousand words of fic I’m severely understating it at this point…

Anyway, with this pasted up for your entertainment it’s time for me to get back to my @zelgan-week projects. How much of the stack of Ideas™️ do you think I’ll get all the way to the finish line? Are you making delights for it this year? There’s some really juicy prompts this time around. Make sure to follow the event blog and look for the Ao3 collection very soon so you don’t miss any of the forthcoming Zelganny goodness.

Thursday posting continues, thank all the bright little gods. This third of five projected volumes continues in active production and the newest page will post as usual around 3pm CST on my patreon and Discord.

Note that the story will always be free to read online, whether a new page or collected volumes on Patreon, weekly pages here on tumblr, or the prose conversion is available on Ao3 — current prose chapters cover volumes 1 & 2 so if you’re new to SoME, this is an ideal time to curl up with the prose or collected pages to catch up with current plot.

Start from the beginning - previous page here

Thank you for reading, and as always, signalboosting is greatly appreciated.

[lovekenney]

[zelgan-week]

ONLY TWO WEEKS UNTIL ZELGAN WEEK 2026 BEGINS!!!

Wishing you all inspiration and cooperating creativity as we come in on the home stretch toward Zelgan Week 2026! We'll be releasing more details and a link to the AO3 collection next week, so stay tuned!

[studiorat]

Shade of My Enemy, volume 3, (not) Healing page 28

In which the princess is Not Amused and not backing down either…

They are ridiculous disasters and I adore them.

Thursday posting continues, thank all the bright little gods. This third of five projected volumes continues in active production and the newest page will post as usual around 3pm CST on my patreon and Discord.

Note that the story will always be free to read online, whether a new page or collected volumes on Patreon, weekly pages here on tumblr, or the prose conversion is available on Ao3 — current prose chapters cover volumes 1 & 2 (and begins volume 3) so if you’re new to SoME, this is an ideal time to curl up with the prose or collected pages to catch up with current plot.

Start from the beginning - previous page here

Thank you for reading, and as always, signalboosting is greatly appreciated.

[hateno-house]

Once Upon a Songbird Chapter 8

A new challenger enters the arena! Yes, over 50K words deep and we're finally meeting all the main cast.

Zelda folded the letter back up along the creases, pressing them tightly shut. A Bombchu of a message, ready to snake forward and blow open a door, if only she aimed it correctly. 

“This,” she decided, tucking it into her bodice, “requires a prompt response.”

She felt Link’s eyes as she rose from the bed, retrieving her handy-dandy notebook from where she’d set it near the door. She flipped a good twenty pages past the list she’d begun, just in case the pen’s impressions left indents of her thoughts. 

Your Majesty, I regret to inform you that I cannot make our standing appointment this evening. As you are aware, I have obligations predating our agreement made scarcely a week ago, and I cannot set my livelihood on fire for an unpaid assignment of indeterminate length. I have debts to pay, and none of us can be too sure how long our relevance will endure.  I look forward to resuming our scheduled meetings tomorrow.  Best, Songbird

“I need you to deliver this,” she told Link when she approached the desk, pressing the generic palace wax seal to the ripped page’s edges. 

“Can’t wait,” he muttered. “How do I tell the Chancellor apart from all the other peacocks in the pit?”

“You’re not delivering it to the Chancellor. This is for the King.”

Link winced through a blink, as if she might actually be a drunken mirage from a night that hadn’t ended after all. “I’m sorry. What?” 

“But you can’t bring it to him until Friday night,” she warned, scrawling the letters H.R.M. across the front. “Not until I’ve brought the Chancellor back here. Also I hope your new best friend wants to get beers on Friday.”

“Zelda—!”

“You’re just the messenger,” she insisted. “He won’t take it out on you.” 

Probably.

Most likely not.

Read it here

[om-nom-berries]

I've got a new zelgan comic! It's FULL COLOUR and this is the cover. I'm going to have it available in print and digital in mid June.

[zelgan-week]

Zelgan Week Day Six: Persuasion / Home and Belonging

Contributions Round-Up

Thanks to everyone who shared words and work for Day 6 of #ZelganWeek2025! Here is our central run-down of everything that's come across our account so that you don't miss anything.

ZELGAN FANFICS ON AO3

HOME by @imagineaspen (Rated T)

HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS by @crolivsart (Rated M)

WHAT WE SOW by @thetwilightwriter (Rated T)

THE DEMON QUEEN CHAPTER 24 by @hateno-house (Rated E)

FRIENDLY FIRE by @zeldieboo (Rated T)

IN THE HOUSE OF THE SUN by @ro-blaze (Rated T)

PROPOSALS OF PEACE by @stinkyguar (Not Rated)

MAKING PEACE AT HOME by @bloobluebloo (Rated G)

ZELGAN FANART ON TUMBLR

"Zelda Anne DeLeon & Captain Ganondorf Rajenaya Chalut Dragmire" by @studiorat

"Sweet Calamity" by @shichishit0

Thanks to all of our participants! We'll be back tomorrow for Day 7: Honey and Sweets / Blood.

[zelgan-week]

Remember Day 6? Take a quick look back as we all get ready for Zelgan Week 2026, just a few short weeks away!

[studiorat]

Shade of My Enemy, volume III, (not) Healing, page 27

In which the loving reunion continues…

No really, they’re both thoroughly smitten, they’re just mad about it. This page was fun right up until the detailing on the armor 🫠 He’s so pretty and his armor has so many parts. I swear in future projects I’m going to just take Frazetta’s example. Down with complicated pants!

Thursday posting continues, thank all the bright little gods. This third of five projected volumes continues in active production and the newest page will post as usual around 3pm CST on my patreon and Discord.

Note that the story will always be free to read online, whether a new page or collected volumes on Patreon, weekly pages here on tumblr, or the prose conversion is available on Ao3 — current prose chapters cover volumes 1 & 2 so if you’re new to SoME, this is an ideal time to curl up with the prose or collected pages to catch up with current plot.

Start from the beginning - previous page here

Thank you for reading, and as always, signalboosting is greatly appreciated.

[expanding-hyrule]

Once Upon a Songbird by @hateno-house

Political Fantasy | Mature | AO3 | Ongoing

Synopsis: The Hylian Royal Family is dead. At least, that’s the official report. Ten years after Ganondorf’s decisive purge of the Castle, Hyrule carries on beneath new banners. Whispers persist of the lost Princess’s ghost living on in the kingdom’s most elusive, notorious courtesan, the Songbird. For the men powerful enough to receive an invitation to her bed, it’s a chance to relive the fantasy of a vanished age. These men, however, have a strange habit of vanishing without a trace. When a summons arrives for the Songbird to the Court of Vices, the glittering, debauched heart of Ganondorf’s New Hyrule, she’s finally within striking distance of her ultimate mark. The man who seized her birthright, sent her underground into hiding, and now wears her father’s crown. Armed with her cover story and decade of Sheikah assassin training, she wrangles the new King into a deadly bargain he believes will align her kill list to his advantage. It was meant to be a clean vendetta. The monster wasn’t supposed to have a soul.

Content Warnings: Sexually explicit content

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I was immediately yanked in by the setting--1920s Hyrule--and premise, and the characterization of Zelda ensured that I would stay that way. I love this version of her, the calculating assassin out for revenge for her family, training for so long so that she could enact it with Impa's help. I love Impa as well, and the dynamic between them is rock-solid. I can't wait to see where this goes, it promises to be an excellent, suspenseful good time! - onlybythestars

1920s meets Ocarina of Time! Really enjoyed Zelda's role in being ruthless towards those that had wrong her, her eye always on the man at the top that had initiated this entire sequence of events that had led her to seeking refuge in the shadows of Hyrule. This story is definitely set up to become an interesting web of mystery and political intrigue, where perhaps not everything is as it seems. - bloobluebloo

A fascinating Zelda with a plot set up for all kinds of murder, mystery, and political intrigue. Our leading lady has quite the strong personality, not to mention the skillset to boot. Considering her personal goals, she's going to need it where she's headed. - amelias-hart

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You can find @hateno-house at AO3.

[hateno-house]

Thank you so much to @expanding-hyrule for featuring Once Upon a Songbird today! Writing this story brings so much joy to me, so thank you to everyone who has read and sent along your encouraging words 💖💖💖

Much more mischief to come!

[2na2b]

nya nya nyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[zelgan-week]

Zelgan Week Day Five: Mythology / Music

Contributions Round-Up

Thanks to everyone who shared words and work for Day 5 of #ZelganWeek2025! Here is our central run-down of everything that's come across our account so that you don't miss anything.

ZELGAN FANFICS ON AO3

PLAY ME A LULLABY by @crolivsart (Rated E)

CAPTIVATE THE EAR STRANGELY by @studiorat (Rated T)

VAMPIRE BAT by @fabdante (Rated M)

OF ROWANWOOD LIMBS by @ro-blaze (Rated G)

THE SYMPHONY THAT SHATTERED THE SKY by @thetwilightwriter (Rated T)

BALLAD OF THE GODDESS by @imagineaspen (Rated T)

ZELGAN FANART ON TUMBLR

"Goddess of the Depths" by @demonsreverie

"Of Purring and Presents" by @shichishit0

Thanks to all of our participants! We'll be back tomorrow for Day 6: Persuasion / Home and Belonging.

[zelgan-week]

Revisit Zelgan Week Day 5 2025 with us! Not long now...

[lavabunart]

[Linktober] Day 11- Nightmare

[figmentforms]

Part 255 of  “A Tale of Two Rulers” (May 3, 2026)

I live! I'm so sorry for being away for so long. It's been one family emergency after another (and some overlapping) for months and months. random life lessons that i've learned through this i wish to pass forward: Please please please get power of attorney over your old people so when they go nuts you can help them. Also if your dog starts to try to barf but nothing comes up and he won't eat even his favorite things and he has a bloated belly, for the love of God, take them strait to the emergency vet because they may be dead by morning if nothing is done. It's called GDV and it's a nightmare. Also please get pet insurance if you can. Luckily my dog survived!

In other good news, baby is healthy and is now FAST

Comic realted:

-Please contact me via dm on patreon if you're still waiting on a patreon reward. I know I've missed sending people what they're owed. I want to make it right.

★ Webtoon-  https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/a-tale-of-two-rulers/list?title_no=292453 ★ - I’m still building up this archive.

★Patreon- https://www.patreon.com/LorIllustration ★

★Store - www.etsy.com/shop/FigmentForms

good thing i love drawing eyeballs