#blurbry rambles

Let go and be free of multiple years of pain and loss.

I wanted to thank @zarvasace for putting together such a lovely discord server. For a long while of being here I've felt very lonely and the fandom felt very quiet, I was always terrified to post my content on certain accountabilities and how I can't exactly handle toxicity very well when it comes to backlash or hate on pieces of work. But when Mina made the discord server I decided to take my chances and I don't regret it. There are so many lovely people even people who are in the fandom that I've never discovered before and we all work together to make a lovely place to interact and chatter about four swords (and its ships.) I've even become more confident in posting my drawings and my fanfictions and haven't had as much anxiety or worry about it! Having almost daily sprints (while I don't often participate) has also motivated me to start writing more often as compared to how much I used to! It truly has done something Great I think for the lot of us! <3 A warm thank you from:

Where did Vio get his damn book in chapter 3?! We never went anywhere near a library and they hadn't arrived in the village yet.

Ive been making too many aus and not any progress on my art or my writing please help

Anyways

Shadow is made of stardust, or just is a star that fell from the lofts of the sky.

When hes happy his skin glitters and glow yellowish. Its blinding. (Jokingly hes brighter than the sun and everyone needs to wear sunglasses)

When he sneezes lil star dusts and meteor chunks just float out.

He has a gravity barrier around him so hes almost always floating and so doesnt anything that enters that personal anti gravity barrier.

One minute reds going in for a hug the next red is 5 ft. Off the ground and hanging on for dear life.

This is a more sci-fi like au, mechas, Ai(like edi from mass effect). Space adventure, Well developed robotic prostetics. (Where as in ancient hyrule Theyd be using wood and magic to power missing limbs)

Shadow wears a cat bubble helmet on earth because he cant breath oxygen.

Also shadow is deaf. The pressure from. The fall broke his eardrums. He uses sign language and cochlear implants when he feels up to having something on his head.

Today my brain is on the track of birthday decisions. Now, Ive done a ramble like this before, way back, buti figured Id bring it back up again.

If the boys stayed seperate they would probably want their own birthdays and such, so thinking on the lines of it:

Taking the boy's elements into choice

Red: Fire, Fire is associated with hot, warming, comfort, sometimes disaster, I think Red chose his birthday to be in the Winter, his element is stronger in the winter, as any enemies that spawn of course, are mostly snow enemies and can easily be melted. Probably November or December.

Green: Wind element, wind is associated with peacful breezes or disasterous hurricanes, the time of season i see the most wind is spring, march winds. He probably chose March for is birthmonth.

Blue: water, water is associatedwith cooling down, drinking floods, swimming in the hot sun. Hes probably chosen his birth month to be between May- August

Vio: Earth, I associate earth with the scent of life, dirt, stirred up leaves, mushrooms. So id honestly put vio with an Autmn birthday, September

Shadow: Shadow wants to be edgy, hes probably chose october 31st, hyrule's great halloween fest. He also makes it seem like the festival is all for him and will often flop over everyones shoulder asking if they got him a gift.

Made the four swords crew.

What is happening.

Shadow wants to marry erune?!

Blue and Green are Vibing and also want to marry(glue my beloved)

Red fell for vio but they broke up because vio fought him over a shrimp tempura?!?!?!

Zelda.. Has feelings for shiek oot, gurl thats your ancestor.

VAATI AND ROSALINA MARIO GALAXY ARE DATING?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Todays topic: Vidow Development? (I guess)

I noticed something common, not just in the FS fandom either, often times in other Zelda fandoms or Just in general, that a lot of people ignore the character development and instantly jump to The conclusion of toxicity in the relationship because they saw one glimps of a commonly used scene and refused to see it any furthur.

The one development i notice, most commonly skipped over, is Vio and Shadows redemption arch.

Shadow may have outwardly attacked out of anger that vio would betray Lord vaati and his trust, but on the inside i feel it was also personal, past the trust. Vio took a hammer to the dark mirror, had he smashed the glass shadow would have died and or been weakened severely (depending on how badly vio damaged it). In retaliation Shadow attempts to execute vio. Betrayal of trust. Protection of self. I feel his brain process was "eliminate the threat" its like an animal, if you threaten an animal who is known for its sharp claws and holding grudges, its going to attempt to alleviate its pain and eliminate its threat.

The end of the manga, Shadow took Vios disguise. He could have turned to any link, as evident by the manga beginning when he pretended to be whole link to fool Links dad.

But he chose vio.

He helped the heros rather than going on a foot stomping tantrum and raving through the tower to sabatouge them. Zelda had helped a little with this by showing him light wasnt that bad and he too was a hero.

He smashed the mirror on his own accord, used it to see VIO one last time, before ultimately putting himself through his demise. (Which in reality i think it only killed his physical body, evident from when the sword is returned and shadow gives a thumbs up) (i say its vio because the side by side comparison matches)

Green even, said youre one of us, a friend. Then the light shimmered on him and he poofed (rip shadow.)

Vio then states: he wasn't evil, he just wanted attention of which he doesn't receive as a shadow. "He wanted to be with us...to be with his family"

Shadows are put behind people, always to weakly follow like pawns to a game, no one (except maybe kids) turn to acknowledge what is there, they just keep their eyes forward to the warm sun. I feel the statement "wanting to be with his family" can be taken two ways! Shadow wanted to be accepted and attentioned by the links, the very thing he branched from when born from darkness, Or, The links are his brothers and we're just blind as bats (I doubt this though, it would have been explained if it were so.) All In all, Vidow is only Toxic if you make it toxic. It's funny that If the iconic trust betrayal scene never happened Vidow would probably be a very rare ship and or a dead ship because it wouldn't have that uniqueness that we all fell in love with 18(?) years ago.

Ship week is an event that takes place one week in every month! If you miss the first one, there's always more to participate in.

As its looking right now, our first week is going to be Vidow!!

Launch week is October 9th, 2023.

Please be aware this is an Event for Fanfic writing AND art. Please do not feel pressured to do both or to participate at all, we want people in the community to be comfortable with ship week and become used to it, rather than to hurt from trying to beat a time limit.

AS FOR DEADLINE. Since its the beginning of this event, The deadline will carry until the next launch week of the event (Nov 6th) giving everyone plenty of time to submit your entries.

No one will be judged, this is just for fun!! However there will be three featured artists each month! (Six in total, three for fanfic and three for artists).

please keep it on topic to the ship of that week!

When you submit, tag your post with #ShipWeekFS or ping. @shipweekFS in the description.

There will also be a discord with submission chats there so feel free to join and use discord instead of tumblr!

Rules and regulations will be more thought out when both the kord and account launches! ^^