Hi, Coriander here!
I’ve spent a large amount of my life reading fanfiction and now I have a surplus of favorites (almost four thousand whoops) that I have no idea what to do with.
Figured I might as well share them so others can experience the same joy as I have reading these lovely works. She/Her pronouns please!
Here's some of the notes, starting with the things multiple people brought up:
SHRIMP COCKTAIL:
banahbanah: #flashback to that one fic where Peter Parker frets about drinking shrimp cocktail because of the alcohol
generaldeliciousness: adding: what a prawn/shrimp cocktail is
#why is your character turning it down because they're under 21 #do you think prawn cocktail is a cocktail #this lives in my brain rent-free constantly #the rest of the fic was so normal #and good enough that i'll still re-read it #but bro
And then many, MANY, people wondering if this was actually authour mistake, since Peter really would do this!
POMEGRANATES:
zhajhassa: #haha where's that post that was like someone describing someone eating a pomegranate but they ate it like an apple
thornhands: #once someone wrote persephone biting into a whole Pomegranate #had to stop and stare at a wall for a minute
sungsingsanguine: I once saw someone very confidently write about a character eating slices of pomegranate.
FRUIT TREES:
zagreuses-toast: #given a very endearing glimpse into a writers blindspots by seeing them describe someone sitting under a ''pineapple tree''
salatrash: I remember something about picking watermelons... OF A FUCKING TREE
baander: #cranberry trees
DOUGH/BATTER:
maycelium: #I'm a chef so I'm really used to people not accurately describing how to cook food #But I was surprisingly flabbergasted when someone was writing making a cake and was kneading it. Which uh #Not necessary for cake. It was interesting for sure but just bizarre
livebloggingmydescentintomadness: #the one that drove me nuts was when a character set aside a batch of PASTA DOUGH 'to rise' #pasta doesn't have yeast!! #it does need to REST but it will never RISE #you do not want an airy crumb on your noodles
lovesodeepandwideandwell: #THE ONE WHERE THEY MADE COOKIES BY LADLING BATTER INTO A TRAY
Some other topics:
ANIMALS:
catenarwhal: #mandatory 'how cows produce milk' mention#i'll never recover from that one I fear
piromantic: #one time i saw someone fake their way through describing how spiders behave
pluto-lichen: horses
misskittypotter: #stardew valley faking its way through what fresh fish smell like
pa-pa-plasma: #saw someone faking their way through knowing what a seal is once #i still am fucked up over that one to this day. they just straight up did not know #& they were NOT good at guessing it either like it was clear they had never googled that animal ever #& was only just now realizing via answering questions from anons that seals are not!! what they assumed. initially
SEX:
dykevandyke: #what a prostate is #and where it is located #as in. external.
dreamyeyedrose: #I remember back in the ff.net days reading an Ichigo/Renji fic where the writer assumed the penises go inside each other #and I was like “I mean I don't know how it works for sure I don't have one but idk if that's how it works”
SOME OTHER FOOD STUFF:
thetrekkiehasthephonebox: #add another one to the list bloggers#this character is cooking a salad
shosta: #still baffled about the published work that didn't know food could freeze
sun-dari: #once i read a fic where the author didn't understand cinnamon
alto-tenure: #read something recently where the author was just. blatantly wrong about spices
dramatic-dolphin: #i saw someone try to fake their way through what ramen is once. like 14 years ago.#but i remember.#i was very confused about ramen for a few months. they were writing it so authoritatively.
the-celery-stalks-at-midnight: #i will never ever forget someone putting leftover fries in the microwave to reheat them and setting the timer for five minutes
typeghost: #this sparked a memory of a hannibal fic where the author had to fake their way through writing about gravy
draculin: #the one fanfic where the author knows about coffee only as a concept wrote a character as a coffee drinker#was very interesting#I don't remember the fandom or the plot but I was mesmerized by the coffee actions and choices
11235811235811: #there's a lot of faking their way thru congee in the svsss fandom i'll also note
fishali3n: #read one where the person clearly didnt know what tofu is
emmy-everafter: #in the aftermath of shadow and bone s2 i saw a lot of people pretending to know what stroopwafels are #babes they are more like cookies than breakfast waffles #like yes there is a waffle pattern but you're not gonna cut into a stack of them with syrup and sugar#🤣🤣🤣
NON-FOOD STUFF:
red-umbrella-811: Shoutout to Dame Agatha Christie for faking her way through what a wrench is in a very popular published work.
bluebeetle: #once saw someone have a character put an entire phone book in their pocket
nonametis: #- sex talk in languages other than english #<- or just the petnames in a different language other than English
sadisticpony: #the fanfiction i saw this week where op DIDNT KNOW HOW AUTOMATIC DOORS WORKED #and that they arent in peoples homes!!! of course. also opening the automatic door for someone is unironically very funny but its not #its not like. grabbing the door handle to let someone in. helpppp
danmeichael: #reminds me of the fic with the figure drawing class where the character started with the feet. #i love you feet first figure drawing author
meowmix1100blr: #me watching this one fic absolutely obliterate what the board of directors does
vexedhexes: #one time i read an architect character making a doorway bigger by building a bigger door #what a beautiful world. #OH. also gravity falls fic where they go 'oh piedmont is in california so its warm all year round'
leveragehunters: #characters going to a beer garden #And it's literally a garden outside the pub#It was a very cute mistake
fitofpique: #yes! #grown men do not get blind drunk off two beers #but i am possibly guilty of the hypothermia one #assuming it does not make you very horny?
dadvans-likes: #always thinking abt the soup kitchen fic #the entire setting of the fic was 'soup kitchen' #and i very quickly realized #the author did not know what a soup kitchen was #and they thought that soup kitchens only served soup #fic
msmargaretmurry: #i love fanfiction #once read a fic where the characters played 20 questions #but the author seemed to not know how to play 20 questions and was just kind of winging it........ #immaculate
shakespeareaddict: #Look I know not all of us are hockey experts #But it takes about ten seconds of research or any attention paid to the show to realize #That the Stanley cup playoffs are not in fucking September
baejax-the-great: #the funniest one i saw #was someone faking what church is like #like 1. they really didn't have to write an entire church experience for their fic #and 2. they had clearly never even watched a show where people went to church #it was bonkers weird
twosunson: #things ive seen authors faking #knowing how to unclog a drain #knowing. literally any history #knowing what ketamine looks like (apparently- oregano) #(you know who you are)
waterhorseyblues-ao3: #beltane being celebrated in winter #wales being portrayed as a completely separated land from england (i wish) #characters getting up after weeks of bedrest like that dosnt completely fuck you up
violetfairydust: #i once read a fic where the flight time from london to seattle was 3 hours
purekesseltrash: One time, in a fic set specifically in Des Moines, IA, two of the characters casually drove 20 minutes to the ocean. The memory continues to delight me. I want to know where that author thought that Iowa was.
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For anyone who hasn't seen them before, Hidden Search Operators are handy tricks you can use when you're either searching or filtering AO3.
summary: string is a generic way of explaining that you can search AO3 for a specific word that appears in a summary. You can do this from the search bar in the header, from the Any Field box at the top of the Advanced Search form, or from the Search Within Results box at the bottom of the filter menu.
Examples:
summary: Bruce
summary: "Bruce Banner"
summary: Bruce OR summary: Banner OR summary: Hulk
You need to put quotation marks around your search term if it is more than one word. The quotes make sure that the site searches for those two words together.
The other two operators listed work best in the Search Within Results box.
expected_number_of_chapters: 1 will return results where every fic has only 1 chapter currently posted.
You can use -expected_number_of_chapters: 1 if you want results where every fic has more than 1 chapter currently posted.
otp:true will return results where there is only 1 relationship tag on the fic. If you want results where there are 2+ relationship tags (and no fics with only 1 relationship tag) then you can use otp:false
This post is going around again (with an unfortunate syntax error on it - this version is correct), so I thought I'd add some information that folks have mentioned wanting in the notes.
Any time you want help with how to use AO3, look for the question mark bubbles. Clicking or tapping on those bubbles will open up a pop up window with information on that specific part of AO3. For example, here's the information for Include filters.
2. When you log into AO3 for the first time, you'll have a banner on your dashboard that gives you a ton of links and information that's useful for new users. A lot of people will dismiss this banner without ever reading it, but you can get it back at any time.
Go to your Preferences, scroll down to Misc. and check the box next to Turn the new user help banner back on. Update your preferences, and the banner will return.
3. When you first tap or click into the search in the header bar, a little popup tip appears below the text box. This is showing you an example of a search that you can do.
4. If you've never seen the filters before, click or tap on any tag that you're interested in. On a wide screen like a laptop, the filters will appear on the right hand side of the screen. On a narrow screen like a phone, you can tap on the Filters button for the menu to appear.
5. The FAQ has a series of questions related to Searching and Browsing on the Archive. You can find the FAQ in the dropdown under the word About in the header.
6. You can also just click on stuff and see what happens. For example, if you're wondering what the four icons at the top corner of each fic blurb mean, you can just click on them and get a popup with the key. Same thing if you're wondering about the icons at the top right of a bookmark.
7. I almost forgot ☝️If you want to see fics based on the primary pairing but you're okay with additional ships being in the fic (so otp:true won't work for you) - there's a script for that! AO3 Only Show Primary Pairing.
This post is extremely long now, but if you're wondering about other things just drop them in the notes.
i was thinking this morning about how i categorize fanfic authors that i enjoy like AKC breeds and decided to share my rubric with you:
the specialist: this author has a favorite kink or trope and has written 80% of the content in that tag. you know exactly what you’re getting. they have A Brand™️. no matter what other traits they display, dedicated rare pair authors belong here.
the chocolate box: essentially the exact opposite. this author will try anything once. they have 80+ works in the fandom with no discernible pattern. the shortest one is 268 words and the longest is well over 100k. this breed of author may or may not be related to:
the renaissance fan: they’ve written three things in your fandom: your favorite fic, your notp, and a bizarre crossover with a show you’ve never heard of. you hit “expand fandoms list” on their author page and have to scroll down twice to reach the bottom. whenever you curse the fact that you can’t legally commission fic writers, this is the author you’re thinking about.
the horn dog: they’re here for one thing and one thing only. if someone’s dick is not in another character’s mouth within 500 words, they apologize for it in the author’s notes. they have one (1) g-rated fic.
the rookie: this writer is usually young, new to fandom, or just got a beta-reader for the first time. their fics are a little all over the place, quality-wise, but you’re excited whenever their name pops up because their unique voice gets stronger every time. you feel a personal investment in their development, like you’re an old man reading the local high school sports page and saying “this kid’s the one to watch.”
the live streamer: the most prolific author in the fandom. their works are all over the front page when you sort by kudos. you have no idea how they generate this much work, and have seriously wondered if they have access to an extra-dimensional time portal. their stories are usually un-beta’d and the characterization varies wildly, but their best works are inspired and you’ve read them 30 times.
the cryptid: this one comes out of nowhere every two years, drops the best fanfic you’ve ever read, and disappears. fifteen months after you left a three paragraph comment about how they changed your life, you get a message in your inbox that just says “thanks.”
the novelist: we talk about “filing off the serial numbers” when someone reworks their most popular story to pitch it as an original novel; this author somehow does the reverse. their fics are excellent, usually long-reaching multi-chapter AUs that have almost nothing to do with the on-screen characters except their names. i’d like to extend my personal thanks to this breed of author because it’s the closest i get to reading an actual book.
the reunion tour: this author wrote some of the most popular works in the fandom, but either moved on to k-pop or burned out when canon took a turn for the worse. they put out one new thing a year, often an old draft that’s been haunting them from under the floorboards. their last six author’s notes all say they never thought they’d write this pairing again and “this will probably be the last time.”
Y'all if you're American please email your politicians and senators against the parents decide act. I'm fucking begging because we're reaching a tipping point.
Quick and easy link to both find your congressmen/women and giving you a quick and easy way to copy / paste the message into it. You want to oppose. It's an act that will demand that all major OS makers integrate a direct forced age verification control into all OS.
I received a comment on this that I figured would be very helpful- it's a template for communicating with your representatives. Be sure to use it for reference
Dear Representative [Name],
I am writing to express my strong opposition to H.R. 8250 (The "Parents Decide Act"). As your constituent and a concerned citizen, I believe this bill introduces unprecedented risks to digital privacy and security.
Specifically, I am alarmed by:
SEC. 2(a)(1)(B): Requiring age verification to even use an operating system creates a mandatory "hardware lockout" that ends anonymous computing and forces users to hand over sensitive identification data to major corporations just to power on their devices.
SEC. 2(a)(3): Mandating that OS providers create a system for all app developers to access verification data is a massive security vulnerability. This effectively creates a centralized API of user identities accessible to thousands of third-party developers, many of whom may lack adequate data protection.
This bill does not protect children; it creates a centralized surveillance infrastructure at the OS level. I urge you to protect the privacy of your constituents and vote NO on H.R. 8250.
This is a hell that us down under in Australia are already living in, and it’s not even effective at what it claims to do in protecting children.
Given that, in the wake of this mandatory identification policy, my country seems to be moving to hand over its citizens biometric data, like fingerprints, Face ID files, and identification documents, over to the USA and to ICE to maintain the visa free travel (ESTA) we have, I strongly urge any US resident to send these emails, or make calls.
But if you can’t do that, the most powerful thing you can do is spread the word. Tell your friends, family, coworkers, anyone who can help.
My reach will likely be small, and so I don’t know if this will mean very much in the grand scheme of things, but I cannot stand to see this tracking happen to another population as it did to mine.
And if you think it won’t affect you, it will. All anonymity goes out the window when your accounts can be linked via your personal ID
I wish you all luck in preventing this act from going through.
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Summary: Wild has an episode. His brothers call it a seizure, but Wild disagrees.
Words: 2,414
Art for this fic / AO3
For @linked-disability , alternate prompt 1: Rare diseases/disorders (PNES).
PNES (psychogenic non-epileptic seizures, sometimes called functional or dissociative seizures) are seizures that resemble epileptic attacks but are caused by psychological distress instead of abnormal brain activity. They are a form of Functional Neurological Disorder.
They are not pseudo-seizures.
This fic is based on my own experience with PNES. The information that Wild says about his seizures is the same information that I was given when I was first diagnosed. Unfortunately, that information is blatantly incorrect. Please keep that in mind while reading. (What Four says is correct)
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Being the designated chef of the group came with some perks: while the others set up camp and argued over whose turn it was for various chores, Wild simply pulled out his cooking pot and started to work on dinner.
Of course, he wasn’t able to skip out on all the chores, but as he watched Wind grumpily follow Sky to find an area to dig their catholes, Wild was glad he was able to miss the more tedious ones.
He hesitated for a moment before pulling the last of his fortified pumpkins out of the slate. Pumpkin stew was always a hit with his brothers, and they hadn’t stayed in a village in days. They could use the boost.
Still, as Wild cut into the pumpkins, he couldn’t help but be upset that he was using the last of his pumpkins. Ever since he first picked up the slate, Wild had made sure to keep it stocked with food and elixir ingredients.
Now, though, his slate was emptier than it had been in years. He was running low on multiple of his essentials; he’d need to restock soon.
He pulled out the Tabantha wheat and began to separate the wheat berries from the stalks, mouth twisting in annoyance as he thought through his inventory.
There were a few things that he could get in the other eras. He had already stocked up on multiple bottles of Lon Lon Milk, courtesy of Malon, and Twilight had already promised him more goat butter the moment they landed in his era. Acorns, eggs. and herbs appeared in every Hyrule, even the traveler’s, and it was easy to hunt for more raw meat.
But the majority of his items were from his era, and even if he could replace them, he didn’t want to. Every time he made dinner for the group, he was sharing a bit of his home with them. If he got the ingredients from other eras, it wouldn’t be the same.
He dumped the pumpkin and wheat berries into the cooking pot. Now, he needed to add… milk? Butter, maybe? No, definitely milk. He had this recipe memorized, right? He had all his recipes memorized. It was milk.
Everything would be fine. They would visit his era soon, and he would refill his slate then. The farmers in Hateno always kept a few of their best crops for him; hopefully that hadn’t changed in the months since he saw them last.
Had it been months since he was last home? It must’ve been. It couldn’t be longer than that, Hylia wouldn’t be that cruel. He would be home soon. He would - he had to be-
Shit, he was burning the pumpkins. Where was his ladle?
He blinked,
and
His head hurt. There was a rock digging into his back. He went to sit up, and a pair of hands quickly rushed forward to steady him.
“Whoa, hold on,” Warriors looked down at him, concerned. “You back with us?”
“Back…?” Wild’s head felt fuzzy.
Wild squinted at the captain for a moment, trying to figure out what that meant. When that didn’t work, he leaned forward to peer over Warriors’ shoulder to look at the rest of the camp.
He was laying on a bedmat near the edge of their campground. Behind Warriors, he could see his brothers standing around the fire and his cooking pot, trying (and failing) to look like they weren’t staring at Wild.
“Can you tell me your name?” The captain asked, gently.
“Which one? Link or Wild?”
Warriors grinned, obviously relieved. “There you are. What’s the-”
Wild stopped listening the moment he saw Hyrule holding his ladle.
“Are you letting Hyrule cook?” Wild asked incredulously, trying to stand up. Pain shot through his head at the movement and he slumped back down into Warriors’ arms.
“Okay, none of that. You need to lay down for a while,” Warriors scolded him.
“But the soup,” Wild complained, “Rulie’s going to burn it, and I don’t have any more pumpkins -”
“He won’t burn it, the pot isn’t even on the fire,” Warriors tried to push him back down, but he resisted, looking at the campfire again.
Oh, his pot wasn’t on the fire, and his slate was on the ground next to it. Good.
Satisfied that his soup wasn’t burning, he flopped back down onto the bedmat. The pain had cleared some of the fuzz from his head, and he was slowly realizing how weird this situation was.
“Wild,” The captain stressed, and Wild realized he should probably be paying attention, “Have you hit your head at all recently? Even if it was just a small bump.”
“Uh, nope.” They were treating Wild like he was injured, but unless he had somehow gotten hurt while he was cooking dinner, he was fine.
Hm. Actually, now that he was thinking about it, this felt weirdly familiar. Underneath the slowly shrinking layer of fuzz in his brain, some kind of alarm was going off; he just wasn’t sure what.
“Do you feel sick? Dehydrated? You’ve been eating, right?” Warriors asked, pressing the back of his hand to Wild’s forehead.
“I’m not sick, I’m not dehydrated, and I was literally just making dinner for us.” Wild waved his hand away. “I feel fine. What’s with all the questions?”
Warriors sat back, clearly unhappy with Wild’s answers. “You had a seizure, Wild.”
Oh.
The last of the fuzz cleared from Wild’s head. The headache, the brain fog, the missing time that he only just realized was missing… he had an episode.
“Oh.” He repeated out loud.
“Oh??” Twilight repeated from where he was pacing next to the fire. “You had a seizure, we used a fairy, and you just -”
“Twilight,“ Time interrupted him. The rancher shut his mouth with an audible click.
Cold shame dripped down Wild’s spine. The others had clearly panicked if they wasted a fairy on him.
“Has this happened before, Wild?”
“Yeah.” Wild shrugged, "If it helps, they’re not really seizures.”
“That was definitely a seizure,” Warriors looked sick. “Do you have- do you know what epilepsy is?”
“I know what epilepsy is,” Wild snapped, a bit insulted. He took a deep breath before continuing, calmer this time, “I don’t have it. Zel- Flora and Purah scanned me. They said there wasn’t any sign of abnormal electrical activity or brain damage. They're not seizures, just something that happens sometimes.”
“This just happens sometimes,” Warriors repeated, voice flat, “And it’s not epilepsy.”
“Yup. That’s what I just said.”
Warriors pinched his nose with a deep sigh, and Wild instantly regretted snapping. He knew the captain wasn’t trying to insult him, but this wasn’t the first time he had been doubted like this and the sharp pain in his head was already testing his patience.
“Why didn’t you tell us about this?”
Wild looked away. Shame continued to wrap around his shoulders.
“…I found a book that talked about pseudoseizures. It said,” Wild hesitated, choosing his words carefully, “It said that talking about pseudoseizures can make them happen more often, so…”
“So you didn’t tell us.” Warriors finished. “That’s…”
“That doesn’t make sense.” Legend interrupted them. Warriors shot him a look, but Legend continued, “No, seriously. How would talking about seizures cause them more often?”
“They’re not real seizures.” Wild snapped. “They‘re pseudoseizures and they happen for attention. If you don’t talk about them, eventually I’ll learn that they don’t work and they’ll stop. You guys should’ve ignored me.”
“When did they start?” Four asked.
Wild clenched his fists in annoyance. He just said that they shouldn’t talk about them, and they were asking more questions.
He considered not answering, but the camp was silent, eight faces staring at him expectantly.
“I don’t know. Sometime during my journey.” He closed his eyes, resting his head against the ground. “I can’t really tell when they happen unless someone tells me, and I didn’t exactly spend a lot of time around people. Flora scanned me a few months after.”
“So they happen when no one’s around?”
Wild opened his eyes, turning towards Four. Their smith’s voice was strangely intense, and his normally gray eyes were rapidly swirling red, violet, green, and blue.
Wild shrugged, voice caught in his throat.
“Then how could they get attention?”
“…What?”
“If they happen when no one’s around, then how could you get attention from them?” Four continued to stare down Wild, eyes swirling faster and faster. “And if not talking about them makes them stop, then why have you dealt with them for so long?”
“I… I don’t…” Wild blinked rapidly, his annoyance quickly burning off into nothing but shame. He didn’t know the answer to those questions.
“In my time,” Four pressed on, “They haven’t been called pseudoseizures in years. They’re psychogenic nonepileptic seizures, and they’re caused by trauma, Wild, not talking.”
Four’s words didn’t make sense for a long moment. The book that Wild read was half destroyed, tucked away in one of the furthest shelves in the castle’s library. Flora wasn’t sure when it was written, let alone if it was even accurate, but it was the only information any of them had found about Wild’s condition.
So despite Flora’s concerns about the book, Wild had just… accepted it. He accepted that he was doing it for attention, even if they felt uncontrollable. He accepted that he needed to push away any thought of them. He accepted that he couldn’t ever talk about the shame he felt whenever he had another one.
“They are real seizures, okay? You’re not doing it for attention.” Four finished, voice going soft. “The next time we’re in my Castletown, I’ll take you to the library. There’s books on it there. I’ve read them.”
”…Thanks,” Wild whispered.
Four’s eyes settled into a pale magenta as he turned away, face turning light pink.
“And you still should’ve told us about it,” Warriors hesitantly broke the silence, “I understand why you didn’t, but if we knew about these in advance, we would’ve known what to do.”
Wild nodded, only half listening. He was still repeating Four’s words in his brain, barely believing them.
Warriors sighed again. He stood up and turned to the group behind him, glaring. “That goes for all of you as well. I better hear about any medical issues well before they become a problem, alright?”
Everyone avoided eye contact as they mumbled in vague agreement.
Warriors’ eye twitched as he turned back to Wild, pointing. “You need to stay here and rest. I see that look on your face, and no, you aren’t cooking either. I know you have enough leftovers in your Slate for one night. We’ll survive.”
Wild grumbled as Warriors walked away. He was fine, really, the only problem was his headache, and even that would be gone soon. He didn’t even have his slate to entertain himself.
He looked around the camp, debating on whether or not he could sneak away. The others were too high strung for him to slip away easily, especially without his stealth armor, but the treeline was pretty close…
He started shifting his weight to make a break for it.
As if he could hear his thoughts, Warriors spun around from where he was poking at the slate, glaring.
“Wild.” He threatened.
Wild threw his hands up, pretending to be innocent. “I’m not doing anything!”
Warriors raised one eyebrow.
“…I’m thirsty,” Wild tried instead. “You have all my stuff.”
“Here!” Wind rushed forward with a water skin. Hyrule was only a step behind him.
Knowing that Warriors was watching him, Wild took the water from Wind and drank some.
“Thanks, Wind.” He tried to not sound disappointed.
Wind and Hyrule both plopped themselves down in front of Wild, and he groaned internally. He might’ve been able to convince Hyrule to run off and explore with him, but Wind actually listened to Warriors.
He handed the water skin back to Wind, and accepted his boring fate.
“You called yourself Dink.”
”Uh, what?” Wild asked Wind.
“You called yourself Dink,” Wind repeated, “When Wars first asked. You said your name was Dink.”
“Huh. I don’t remember that.”
Wind shrugged. “You were pretty out of it.”
It was quiet again. Wild watched as Wars struggled with his slate, poking it and squinting.
”What does it feel like?” Hyrule suddenly asked.
“What does what feel like?”
“You know.” Hyrule waved his hand. “The seizures.”
Wild’s first instinct was to shut the conversation down, but… Well, if what Four said was true, then he didn’t need to stay quiet about it anymore.
Wind and Hyrule were looking at him, faces open and bright. There wasn’t any judgement, no sign that they thought he was strange or weak. They were just curious.
Wild took a moment longer to think about it. He had never explained it out loud, and it took him some time to gather the words he needed.
When he did start, it was slow and hesitant.
“It’s like blinking.” The words became more confident as he spoke. “One moment I’m doing something, I blink, and I’m on the floor. I don’t even realize that time has passed. If my head didn’t hurt, I wouldn’t even be able to tell they happened at all.”
He smiled slightly. “I don’t remember right before or after the seizures. Apparently, one time, I stood up and pointed at the sky before seizing. Purah thought I was possessed.”
Wind snorted. “Trust me, you’d know if you were possessed. Ghosts aren’t exactly subtle about it.”
“…You sound like you have experience?” Hyrule asked, both concerned and amused.
As Wind launched into an overdramatic retelling of his experiences with possession, Wild felt something in his chest loosen.
He had spoken about it, and nothing horrible happened. He hadn’t had another episode and his brothers weren’t looking at him any differently. In fact, Wild was pretty sure they were trying to cheer him up.
Hyrule burst into laughter as Wind accidentally smacked himself in the face with a particularly dramatic gesture, and Wild felt warm. He reached an arm out to pull their youngest hero closer to him, ruffling his hair along the way.
Wind sputtered but accepted the impromptu hug, even when Hyrule launched himself against them and shoved them into a pile on the ground, still laughing.
“Does it count as possession if I’m just hosting a part of their soul in me? Because I might be possessed.”
“Wild, what?”
okay there are 42 chapters in the book, and dividing 3000 by 42 = ~72
so I’d have to write the chapter titles like this:
Chapter 2: In Which an Elf Is Concussed, but it’s Not Really My Fault Because What Would You Have Done? Would You Not Have Concussed the Elf? No, Of Course You Would Have. We All Would Have Concussed the Elf. Besides Which, I Am Very Sorry for Concussing Her and Will Try to Make Amends Later If She Stops Trying to Kill Me. Also, Her Intent to Kill Me Was a Highly Relevant Factor In My Decision to Concuss Her
Hey. This is a gentle but serious reminder for USAmericans who read fanfiction and enjoy fanart.
You should really, really consider downloading and archiving any fanfiction and fanart (and non-fandom indie author and artist content) you like, and saving it to at least one, preferably three, offline storage places.
Especially given the now-emerging White House Faith Office and the continuing desire of many on the right to get rid of ANYTHING they consider immoral or porn, which includes anything outside of strict religious marriage boundaries and includes any and all even REMOTELY LGBTQ+ or “leftist” or too-secular content.
Especially content that doesn’t funnel money into specific corporate pockets.
Reblogging to add that you should consider saving queer or remotely “teen/adult” video games, music, fan music, indie books, graphic novels, zines, poetry collections, and ttrpg content too, in light of what’s now happening due to Mastercard et al putting the screws to Steam, itch.io, and other content hosts (and the steadily-churning efforts to force legal/IRL ID usage online).
This isn’t a complete “panic, the world is ending forever” moment, we know censorship flares up and down over time with changing attitudes and economies. But it is a “get the security of knowing you have a safe copy of things that are dear to you or art you want preserved in the face of years of uncertainty and harder times” time.
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director's commentary for the Kintsugi comic i posted last week. i put a lot of thought into it, and i really wanted to talk about it.... i am a yapper
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Specific places the chain could spend the night (that aren’t in the middle of the woods somewhere!)
I’ve seen a few people ask for something like this, so I’ve complied what I know from playing the games as well as a few headcanons thrown in. Hopefully this post is somewhat comprehensive and helpful. Feel free to add on if you want!
Below you’ll find a list of places in Hyrule that the chain could crash. I’ve included wiki links, a few art and fic recs, screenshots, and brief descriptions. Be warned if you open the read more because this post is kinda long.
From fanfic: The Absent Blue of Your Gaze chapter 5
~May this be the first fanart for your fanfic from a fan.~
I really like your story, you wrote it so well! I can see the 5W1H in every scene. I feel like I'm being carried into your world, which made it easy for me to draw this scene. It's as if I'm an ant standing on a rock, witnessing everything, then drawing it directly from what I see. I hope you continue the story soon.
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