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hey guys. i know it's been a long while since i last updated all the bells say, and i've come here every now and then to tell you guys that the next chapter is still on the stove, but honestly... it's not. it hasn't been on the stove since 2 months ago, and even then i only popped in the document to write maybe 2 lines. as much as it saddens me to say this because 2023!me hoped to finish this longfic in just a few months... all the bells say is indefinitely on hiatus.

i'm gonna be honest with you. the reason for that is because i'm simply burned out--creatively, mentally. last year i started taking art commissions, and while it's been fun drawing mostly zelda art for a living, it has made me kind of jaded to this piece of media i was once so obsessed with. my personal life also just hasn't been that easy, and it has drained a lot of my creativity. i'm still fine with taking comms and drawing for others, but writing has always been a medium that requires a lot of focus, emotional investment, and frankly, hyperfixation-filled love. and i don't have any of those for my longfic right now.

whenever i have free time to draw anything other than comms, i want to do/write things that aren't really related to my job, y'know? sadly, zelda for me right now is just so tied to that, because comms are work after all.

i hope to one day return to all the bells say, but i'm truly sorry that i can't say when that will be. if i do come back, i want it to be because i've missed writing it, i've missed that world, i've missed zelink. i don't want the reason to be pressure, to be "god, it's been going on for so long so i must write something."

it really is saddening me to write this, but it is what it is, and i think it'll help me move forward creatively if i'm finally honest with myself about the state of this longfic. and of course, i want to be honest with you, too. i'm really sorry, guys. i wish it hadn't turned out this way.

nonetheless, thank you so much for all the love you've shown me since i first posted on AO3, for being patient with me, for cheering me on. you have no idea how much it means to me. truly, zelda will always be so dear to my heart because it's given me a space to express my creativity through fanfiction and fanart, it's helped me get through really tough times, and it's introduced me to people who would become my good friends--even find love. so i want to personally take some distance from it because i want it to feel special again.

I am ever at thy side.

a post-totk zelink fic. [ one-shot // 14k words // E-rated for sexual content ]

>> Read on AO3

Summary: The war is over, and everybody has welcomed it—embraced it. It seems that she has, too. And if he’s still lost in it, then that is on him.

Notes: Written as part of a secret santa exchange for @spoiledspine 🎄 It's two-chaptered but it's a one-shot; the last chapter is just some spicy art hehe.

just inhaled like 2 different story explanation vids on youtube and holy shit i’m just so mad nintendo didn’t include it in the base game. aoi has so many crucial points of the story and we’ve missed so much of it. i would’ve missed it if i didn’t watch any videos on it because i don’t own a switch2.

and yeah i cried… calamo and robolink i love you so much…

hey anon. if by “continuing anytime soon” meaning posting a new chapter, probably not, because i’m really in a writer’s block and haven’t been able to write for a few weeks now. i’ve been having a hard time mentally and inspiration does come and go unfortunately.

9 ⧽. tell us about a wip/idea that you're excited about

It's for sure the current chapter of all the bells say. It is at 6.8k words right now and at about 40% done.

10 ⧽. what genre is generally the easiest or most enjoyable for you to write? which is the hardest?

I love writing angst and mutual pining, sprinkled with fluff. and character/relationship studies. I'd say smut too lmao but it's such a broad umbrella term, and if I were to narrow it down it'd be, like.. emotional sex. or spiritual sex. idk hahahah.

i don’t have a switch 2 yet so i haven’t listened to all of the memories (only the staple zelink ones, but even then i’m probably missing a few.) but yeah i heard about Revali having 8 voice memos and since i don’t really care for his character (sorry revali stans) i just feel meh about it. we get so little info on Link outside from what’s presented to us from the base game (dialogue options, npc journals, etc) so i would’ve loved to hear more about him. they don’t even have to be zelink-focused all the time—just more lore on him, what he did throughout that time period between botw and totk, etc. frankly i’m quite tired of nintendo being such cowards when it comes to showing more of botk Link’s personality, expressions, etc. yes we get a lot from journals but come on, he could’ve at least showed some semblance of emotion when he found the last dragon tear, for example.