Additional Tags: Eventual Romance, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Manipulation, Slow Burn, Angst and Romance, Feelings Realization, Denial of Feelings, Unhealthy Relationships, Obsessive Behavior, Blood and Violence, Introspection, Murder, Canon-Typical Violence, Character Study, Max is an asshole, This is a love story, Also a theological semi-essay on Scientism, learning to live; accepting we die, Sexual Tension, Mock Apple Pie
Summary:
She hums, humored, “You’ve never made a mock-apple pie, have you?”
“Once or twice,” he glibly counters, scoffing to ensure his distaste is apparent. “I didn’t particularly enjoy it. Neither the process nor the result.”
“That’s unfortunate,” she says, wistful, and doesn’t look from the rain, “apple pie’s a favorite of mine.”
look I know it’s supposed to be a joke but that “irradiated wasteland” is the unceded homeland of the Paiute and Shoshone peoples and consists of fragile Mojave and Great Basin desert ecosystems that are actively being exploited and destroyed by mining interests who utilize the perception of desert as wasteland to justify their destruction of indigenous lands and communities. the joke’s not funny. fuck off with this.
also, as to the “irridiated” part of this - here’s an article by High Country News on cancer clusters in indigenous communities in the Southwest resulting from nuclear tests at the Nevada Test Site (itself located on the ancestral homeland of the Western Shoshone and Southern Paiute) and the US government’s continuing failure to compensate affected families. it’s a horrific crime that the US government committed against its own citizens and the joke’s not fucking funny.
wasn’t expecting this to take off but shoutout to the Australians in the notes - getting fed up with this kind of shitty rhetoric about desert landscapes and erasure of the indigenous peoples that have lived in them for millennia is Australian-Southwestern US solidarity
@etrujii idk if you’ll see this but this reminded me of you
@titania-saturnine I miss and I thank you. As someone who was born and lives still in Nevada and of indigenous blood, the fight continues. I hope you’re well, dearest.
Summary: Something beyond the gate still calls to her, he’s certain. Something always where she is not. Leaving an unrest to settle in her blood and marrow, all discomfort and wayward ache. But he’s never inquired, as a part of him is spineless in the supposition of what she might say. And she would confide in at least Lia, he reasons, should it be something inexorably dire. She’s not so senseless to shoulder her aches alone.
Summary: Something beyond the gate still calls to her, he’s certain. Something always where she is not. Leaving an unrest to settle in her blood and marrow, all discomfort and wayward ache. But he’s never inquired, as a part of him is spineless in the supposition of what she might say. And she would confide in at least Lia, he reasons, should it be something inexorably dire. She’s not so senseless to shoulder her aches alone.
Fandom:The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence, Major Character Death
Additional Tags: Twilight Princess References, Windwaker References, Reincarnation, During End of Games, Mute Link, But Ganon doesn’t shut up, Multiple Lifetimes, Sign Language, Spoilers, Angst, Romance
Summary: He’s felt this before, he’s certain. It’s typically momentary, the sense of familiarity. Present in the artworks, in the shrines and murals depicting the Calamity’s likeness.
So kindred to that first instance of consciousness — displacement, as if Link had forgotten something set upon the very tip of his tongue.
