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sheikahposting

@doomed-era / doomed-era.tumblr.com

glider | local monsters and sheikah/yiga enthusiast | art account is glidersdoodles
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SOMEONE AGREES WITH ME ON BLOATED CORPSELINK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#and its got me thinking about fic again#not specifically about him being a bloated corpse#he doesnt give a shit#but it means uhh decay claimed him :)#also reminds me of this singular time i wanted to like#so i used to not be as much of a botwzelink hater#used to like. tolerate it ig i have never been big on ships#but i was like ok the ONLY time id ever write something like that is if botw link was a zombie and got out of the sor too early <3#creepy zombie going I LOVE YOU I HAVE TO SAVE YOU#and zelda being creeped out and realizing she doesnt want this ^^#glider rambles#something something gender roles heteronormativity and lifeless husks#goddamn this is making me want to write it again#would anybody be mad if i did this. would anyone get it
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grabs paya and shakes her violently like a squeaky toy STOP GIVING ME PROBLEMS

#you know when you have anxiety and you try to write a character with anxiety#and instead of making them cutesy and shy#you really cant do anything but think ''anxiety is a curse'' and give them multiple toxic traits that can stem from being anxious and havin#low self worth and all that implies#so you have this character that DESPERATELY needs to assert boundaries#but they're in a social situation where they have been trained not to#plus they're nervous#like what the hell#thankfully paya does have a little bit of a backbone#her self worth may have been too reliant on link in the past#but she does still have a sense of self#so that helps. she's trying#glider rambles#it's still annoying though#the problem with some of these traits is that as narrative functions they're just annoying#like an inability to communicate is just fucking bad storytelling sometimes#and i find it obnoxious#esp when its soooo obvious the author is dragging it out#and i feel like i mightve#so that's frustrating. and im immediately fixing that#also to be fair I guess ive had a really bad past few days
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like in the end I never want zelda protagonists to completely agree with zelda antagonists or us to "flip the script" and say that the antagonists were completely justified. but there's such a lack of nuance to the general conversation around zelda antagonists and it's frustrating to watch because as someone who likes them it feels like everyone is all too willing to just use them as plot devices with no motivations besides to hurt the good guys, or complete monsters that deserve nothing but to be completely annihilated. and that's annoying!

#glider rambles#like it really is too much to ask for even a scrap of actual analysis from most of the fandom#why are they bad? what do they do? what happens?#but no we have to make up shit and call people genocidal for no reason#you are boring and lack imagination
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I really have no right to talk as I have major bias but having zelda say that the yiga deserve to die and treating them like monsters or animals is a one-way ticket to pissing me off. would she do this? yes, she would. are you examining this critically? no, and for that I'm blocking you

#and I mean there is a caveat there and that is of course I don't think she'd have a positive relationship with people#who are actively trying to kill her and link. and I think zelda and link are fine acting out of self defense#like of course she hates them. duh. but like. treating her as if she's *right* to say that#like there's a difference between realizing an enemy is an enemy and actively dehumanizing them#glider rambles#i'm vagueposting i just blocked someone i've been meaning to block for a while#like? does that make sense? I acknowledge that zelda would probably do something like that it's in character#but having the narrative effectively agree with her is. mm#and granted this is kind of an impulse thing but i'm pretty sure the narrative is agreeing with her there
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very enamored with the idea that kohga's the only yiga clan member who can really read ancient sheikah. is this because he's old or because he was given this knowledge the world will never know. anyway he's not sharing

#glider rambles#master kohga#botw
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2026 Creativity Goals Tag Game!

Rules: Make a list of every creative project you'd like to tackle next year! It can be anything, from updating a story to starting a new story entirely. Fanart ideas. Wrapping up old projects. Literally any creative endeavor that comes to mind! It doesn't have to be super extensive either. Just whatever you think you'd reasonably like to tackle in the coming year.

I got tagged by @amelias-calamity-quintet and @bloobluebloo!

  • Finish at least six pages of Alternate Triforce. I don't know how far I'll get but I want to at least try and get somewhere with that.
  • On that note, work on my color palette goals for ALT. I want to eventually switch over to two-color pages.
  • Write at least 15k words of my BOTW AU/anything related to it.
  • Write something for LOZ Femslash Week...
  • Experiment more with line weight and work on my rendering! Do some artstyle studies.

ok I will tag @hi-there-cake @goopi-e @eccdrawss @waywardsalt !

#glider rambles#tag game
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snowstories asked:

Director's commentary for 'Sparrow in the Rafters' and/or 'give me your answer, do'? SitR is one of my fave fics of yours it's such a great combination of insightful/emotionally impactful and funny as hell. And I'm Impa-brained so obvs I wanna know everything about the hylimpa drabble

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ooh! fingers crossed, I will try to do both.

So, context for Sparrow in the Rafters: this was when I had just started my BOTW AU, and I hadn't gotten far enough into it to be able to write much Zelda yet, and I was dying to do something with her. Purah was also very fresh on my mind, as I was able to write her a little for a roleplay my friend and I were doing at the time, and I wondered how they'd play off each other.

Fun fact I also wrote all of the fic at like, 1AM, because I was bitten by the writing bug. Most of my short stuff is written on impulse to be fair. I've only really gotten better about this recently.

The title for Sparrow in the Rafters is a double meaning! Purah is worried about animals in the Royal Lab during the beginning of the fic, notably birds, and Zelda hides in the rafters later. Hehe.

Purah's backstory for this AU, as well as her relationship with her sister, have been in the background for a long time, and there are tidbits of it throughout the fic. They're at a point where they're slowly learning to appreciate each other, but they don't talk too often. Impa's also Zelda's (former) bodyguard here, and after an injury had to be retired from the position. She was replaced by Link (god I love making people foils you have no idea.) This is a deliberate parallel to Link later, and as you can imagine this makes Zelda even more bitter about the circumstances, heheh

Also! Another small detail in the beginning is the location of the Royal Lab is changed from a field north of the castle to inside Castle Town. This was purely because I wanted Zelda to be able to break in without as much running around, but I think it's more practical worldbuilding-wise too. I like making things in BOTW bigger than they actually are for immersion's sake.

Purah and her lab squad are notably bigger than just her and Robbie! They're probably a group of around twenty or so people here that all regularly use the building. I haven't developed Lychi much, but Purah and Cherry are dating at this point. They're all fairly close-knit, and enjoy the freedom that working in the lab gives them (to make explosions of course.)

I really like the detail of Link punching the window to get in. It says a lot about him without many words. This was my first time writing pre-Calamity Link as far as I'm aware, so I'm really pleased I nailed his freakishness so soon. I think the only thing I'm really eh on with him is that he showed some amount of tiredness at one point, as that very obviously ruins his image, but it's hard to imagine him not being exhausted. He's stayed up all night at the door after running around after Zelda and punching glass. I think it's also the only time where the narration is sympathetic towards him at all, which is fun lol

#glider rambles#asks
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if i draw enough totkzelda gore and enough botwlink covered in beautiful flowers will everyone stop echoing the sexist subtext of both games

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@1tsjusty0u a very good point. yea I care way more about giving zelda More To Do than sitting around and looking serene and miserable than I do making link look pretty/more conventionally attractive than he already is. even though both are annoying. it gives Girl can only do Passive Thing and Boy can do Anything

#glider rambles#and what if she could blow stuff up and be covered in blood
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I have this problem where even if I'm writing a fairly serious or academic piece I always end up including some kind of joke. It doesn't even have to be anything more than chuckle-worthy I don't think I'm to a point where I'm able to make people laugh out loud at my writing but whenever I get bored I always include a joke or some silly bit and I am not sure if I should be relying on that to keep me/any theoretical audience engaged

#i figured out what i need to fix for current piece bc it's not really meant to be funny#glider rambles#🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥third draft time 🔥🔥🔥🔥#i don't know like i don't think it's bad that i've developed a sense of boredom#but i need better coping mechanisms#if any1 has any advice on this uhhhh

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