byleth

Gifts for @marsnoodlesoup for the LU gift exchange!

I loved drawing all of these!! Especially the second one of your little legend au(does this count as first meetings? lol), I hope you like it :)

e.g. I keep seeing people talk about 'purple prose' when they actually mean 'the writer uses vivid and/or metaphorical descriptive language'. I've seen people who present themselves as educators offer some of the best genre writing in western canon as examples of 'purple prose' because it engages strategically in prose-poetry to evoke mood and I guess that's sheer decadence when you could instead say "it was dark and scary outside". But that's not what purple prose means. Purple means the construction of the prose itself gets in the way of conveying meaning. mid-00s horse RPers know what I'm talking about. Cerulean orbs flash'd fire as they turn'd 'pon rollforth land, yonder horizonways. <= if I had to read this when I was 12, you don't get to call Ray Bradbury's prose 'purple'.

I griped on here recently about the prepossession with fictional characters in fictional narratives behaving 'rationally' and 'realistically' as if the sole purpose of a made-up story is to convince you it could have happened. No wonder the epistolary form is having a tumblr renaissance. One million billion arguments and thought experiments about The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas that almost all evade the point of the story: that you can't wriggle out of it. The narrator is telling you how it was, is and will be, and you must confront the dissonances it evokes and digest your discomfort. 'Realistic' begins on the author's terms, that's what gives them the power to reach into your brain and fiddle about until sparks happen. You kind of have to trust the process a little bit.

This ultra-orthodox attitude to writing shares a lot of common ground with the tight, tight commodification of art in online spaces. And I mean commodification in the truest sense - the reconstruction of the thing to maximise its capacity to interface with markets. Form and function are overwhelmingly privileged over cloudy ideas like meaning, intent and possibility, because you can apply a sliding value scale to the material aspects of a work. But you can't charge extra for 'more challenging conceptual response to the milieu' in a commission drive. So that shit becomes vestigial. It isn't valued, it isn't taught, so eventually it isn't sought out. At best it's mystified as part of a given writer/artist's 'talent', but either way it grows incumbent on the individual to care enough about that kind of skill to cultivate it.

This is the collection of all the art I've done which has been inspired by wutheringmights' 'Call Them Brothers'. All pieces can be found on my profile under the #lu ctb fanart or #byleth drawing hours tag.

There is more to come, so this list will be updated as I post more drawings! 😌

Now, I don't know if linking posts re-tags people; if it does, I am so incredibly sorry 😭

Prayer to Farore - Chapter 1

Orlanda and Time - Chapter 10

Reincarnation - Chapter 12

Orlanda, Knight of Water

His Hand Hurt - Chapter 16

Teachings of Din - Chapter 17

ἐν τῷ ἀγρῷ - Chapter 17

Courage's Table

It Was a Good Hand

Leaking Casks - Chapter 22

Telos - Chapter 24

This is my gift for @hirosheart for the 2026 Lu discord server gift exchange!

I hope you like it! I had an amazing time creating this comic for you!

P.S. I had so many ideas for this and so little time to implement them. I’d love to add on to this later if you’d like. 😉

This is my gift for @cranewire ! I had so much fun making this! Click for better quality!

Ft a visual of what I sent mod mail when I was crashing out

my gift for @linksintime for the 4th annual Linked Universe gift exchange!! I hope you like it !!!!!!

My gift to @lawyernovelist for the LU gift exchange!

I really wanted to draw some wings, so here’s sky helping wild re-learn to fly.

I’m so thrilled to once again finally share the pieces I made for this year’s @linked-universe-discord gift exchange!! This year my lovely giftee was @usethelittlegreycells105 !!

I am here to present my made up alphabet for Hyrule Warriors. Consisting of a mix of the actual characters found in the game and a few that I made up myself using the other era's as reference :D

For note: Everyone is free to use this as they like.

Hello, @the-moon-files ❗️ Here’s my gift exchange drawings for you! I drew Wild shield surfing, Twilight & Time about to train(TP Link & Hero’s Shade style), and the Fierce Deity with a fiery aura around him! I love your content by the way! I hope you like the drawings!

I also wrote you a fic inspired by your x reader headcanons, it’s a Fierce Deity x Male Reader(with cameos of the Chain) fic! I’ll post it on here in a bit!

I’ll be posting the drawings on Instagram too, but it’s fine if you don’t have an account there! Link to my instagram is on my pinned post!

You mentioned loving to receive art of any of your fics, so that’s the direction I went, seeing as I’m not much of an author :) I have LOVED your fic “The Rabbitland Rescue Wildlife Rehabilitation Program” for a while now, so I thought I’d draw one of the scenes that made me crack up, what with the pun and Legend being absolutely DONE with being kidnapped several times (but also being stuck as a very non-threatening pink rabbit)

Man just the idea of Spirit kidnapping bunny Legend is GOLD, might I say 😂

I have discover a great amount of joy in drawing fanart of your fics, which are all gorgeous, so this may not be the last one I do ✌️🥹

I hope you like it! (Click for better quality)