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Happy 2 months!!!! I made a special meme to commemorate the occasion!!! 

#oh my it has certainly been a long time… #two years isn’t real act tu ally

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Wait omfg I just reread for the millionth time and I can’t believe I just realize the parallels between Elane’s death and her damning the rest of the Hyrule so Mallory would live and Larc lying about the master sword and trying to protect his son at the expense of the kingdom. How the hell did I not put two and two together I am UNWELL now.

My toxic trait is putting parents sacrificing everything in order to save their children in all of my fiction. Something something the greatest threats to the kingdom are born out of a single injustice and saving the world will always come at a cost to someone and what if that someone wasn't just a weird demonized villain but someone in a position that is typically viewed in a honorable and heroic light

#loz is all about kids struggling to face obstacles they shouldnt be facing so i simply believe they need to have the parents to match #love is the strongest thing in the world for better or for worse #out of character

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Have you played any TOTK so far or have any thoughts? I was definitely having some HKU brainworms while playing and was curious to see if you have any.

I have positive thoughts about the worldbuilding and less positive thoughts about the lore. I am a big nerd for politics and tracking the changes in societal cultures (if. that wasn't apparent already given what occurs lol) so all the development with the Zonai research teams and the investigators for the depths and the military groups organized to take down monsters every blood moon which I SWEAR Nintendo stole directly from my brain--it all itches a scratch.

On the other hand [ I have not finished the game yet ] the implications about timeloops and secret stones and ancient sages that don't even have names is really messing with me. Gonna be honest, and I apologize to women beforehand but Zelda is much less of a girlboss than I expected. Maybe I just had high expectations since she varies in fandom but. This Zonai time stuff is shaping to be just a convuluted excuse to trap her in a crystal again, imo.

Anyhow, I'll really just be lifting the stuff I like in totk and ignoring everything else because I'll be DAMNED if I let my Misko be associated with those ugly ass mushrooms.

#Bugs me to all hell that Zelda introduces herself to Rauru by just saying she is the daughter of King Rhoam Bosphoramus Hyrule #You had a mother?!?! It makes no sense for the only parent worth mentioning in terms of your importance to be your father??? #Your mother had to be the one with the true royal blood fucking LOOK at Sonia just say her name!! Just once!! #out of character

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have you died?

Not yet, I've just been busy scratching serial numbers off some things. Oddly enough been more swamped with work and projects over the summer compared to when I was in class :p

Current project should be finished (on its way?) end of August or beginning of September and when you'll know you'll know

#out of character

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This isn't totk spolers because it's just the koroks but you can attach them to wooden poles. you can crucify them. you can crucify the koroks if nothing else from your beautiful story is canon then hesus korok being crucify on the cross is. G-d Hesus bless.

(Wait if Hesus is Jesus, is the Great Deku Tree G-d??)

The Father, The Son, and the Holy Spirit (Great Deku Tree, Hestu, and the Weed required to make one high enough to follow said religion

#I know I like to put on an air of knowing and mystery around this blog but can we walk back to Crucifying Koroks? #like you can full on cross two sticks and put a korok on it?? For what purpose?? what the fuck?? #out of character

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Chapter 3 sneaky peaky:

Heroes Through the Eras

Link Sabellius Blair: Hero of the Light, Slayer of the Arachnid King, The Carver of Tanagar, The Father of Iron. [See the Archives of Legends for list of all details and accolades] Died in the Battle of Finality, in which thanks to his fiery last stand now immortalized in the Breach of Demise, the kingdom successfully defeated and sealed the necrotic forces that long plagued the land.  

Link Ercan Merritts: Hero of Legacy, Voice of the Brave, Slayer of the Mother of Giants, The Bane of Betrayers. Active in both the physical defense of the people as well as in court politics, it was by his hand that many anarchists, terrorists, and monsters alike were defeated, their schemes foiled, and peace within Hyrule maintained. Died of natural causes 

Link Dougal Moore: The Blade Invisible. Most notable for speaking to and for the spirits of the land. Lived a hermit life in Shadow Pass, and took few apprentices. Died of poisoning from an unknown party. 

Link Nellie Aaldenberg: Violent vigilante who frequently fought against the campaigns of Queen Zelda Irene. Wielded an ancient device that shot metal arrows. Sliced two fingers off of Queen Irene in a defending revolt against the Hebra Conquests. Killed by Princess Zelda Kleos. 

Link Wallace Grey: Born to a family in Tabantha Village. Died at birth.

Link Ryo Furst: Born to a family in Lurelin Village. Died at birth.

Link Michelle Ragnar: Born to a family in Gerudo Town. Died at birth.

Link [Unknown]: Died. Link [Unknown]: Died. Link [Unknown]: Died. [See Chapter 4: The Prunings of Queen Irene and Queen Kleos for speculations]

Link Abbas Brandt: Hero of Prosperity. The Right Hand of Kleos. Said to have never failed an order, nor ever lost a fight. Previous General of the Hyrulean Army, first General not of the Hartell Family lineage

*Link Saylor Baanders: First Hero with Sheikah Blood, The Faster Blade, Founder of the Blue Flame Guild [See Chapter 6: The Dilemmas of Parallax Prophecy for details and speculations] 

**Link Arcadius Hartell: Hero of the Iron Wood, eliminated the entirety of the Gerudo King Cult at 19, youngest appointed captain in the Hyrulean Army, youngest Captain of the Royal Guard. [Please advise.] 

--- Please revise the manuscript with the noted redactions. Storyhouse is very specific on what it wants. If you send this now as is, you’re just asking to get imprisoned. Please redact the rest. I know it’s direct from the Archives, but still, it’s really not appropriate.  

— Excerpt of an Encyclopedic manuscript recording all known heroes within Hyrule over the last three centuries. Dated 18 years before The Calamity. Attached with letters to Hyrule Royal Storyhouse publishing company. Never published.

#I am going to Lore it Up in here--on Chapter 3 of HKU sometime this month when hell week is over

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豆鼠木彫根付

Netsuke of a Rat Grasping a Soybean Pod

Edo period (1615–1868)

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the two of th em

#submission #Two of them and no one else! #hku art #lovely art as always Steel! :D

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See, it is one thing to know of something, and another thing to care about it. Knowing does not mean caring, just as caring does not mean to know. Therefore, if you do not know, do not care. And be careful not to care if you know.

Chapter 2 has been updated. Chapter 1 has not been updated. Chapter 3 will update everything. Happy reading!

#Hello! I wrote this

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See, it is one thing to know of something, and another thing to care about it. Knowing does not mean caring, just as caring does not mean to know. Therefore, if you do not know, do not care. And be careful not to care if you know.

Chapter 2 has been updated. Chapter 1 has not been updated. Chapter 3 will update everything. Happy reading!

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The chapter has been peer-reviewed.

#out of character #the bigotry my beta-readers have! #shake my smh my head. as the generation z says

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Hey, @hyrule-kingdom-updates, can you believe it’s been two whole years already? 

I decided to draw another post of yours to celebrate! I hope you like it

#two whole years! eighteen more to go before i can make the time skip seamlessly accurate! #hku art #wonderful art! i hope the gradient of gold to purple doesnt imply anything horrendous in these fellows future…

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What a waste of talent. What a way to respond to the undeniable fact of destruction: indulging in every other aspect of the universe besides preservation.

It’s a pathetic existence that I’ve truly only ever seen in the most boring of men, the most muted of souls. And yet it is in her.

Here we are, witnessing innocence in the holy. Oil in water. This is as good a reminder as any that I am not the only thing to blame, though I’ll happily take the credit.

See, the opposite of a god is not a demon. The opposite of a savior is never the villain. Rather, here we have Hylia’s true diametrically opposed opponent: A vulnerable little girl.

Kindly brace for an update by this week’s end.

#hyrule kingdom updates #Featuring updates on: #Candles. Quills. February. Prayer. #and several other useless things.

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Sometimes I like to scroll through the blog to review the # number one hits of my silly little skringos (in my opinion at least...half of them are probably post nobody remembers lol) and last night I happened to notice I really interesting theme of the characters trying to assign meaning to what has happened (and for a certain little seer, what he knows is going to happen)

The most popular example of this (also the most subtle? I don't think Zelda is direct about assigning meaning to her grief as the Hartells are imo) is Zelda's Prayer when she tells the made-up story about Rhoam bringing her springs to fix Terrako. She says it's a story she wishes she had for the slightest justification for things continuing on the way they are because if she had a story like that, it would prove that everything that she has done, her father has done, and everyone around her has done, has been out of love, something that is worthy of all of this pain. Zelda, however, ultimately resigns herself to the fact that, even if it was real, it would not make everything okay or worthwhile, there is no meaning to all of it.

(Also the scene where she vents to Urbosa about her frustrations with Link, she poignantly asks why Link had to lie to her, but it's not in the sense of "what was his reasons for keeping the master sword a secret" because she KNOWS that, but rather what does that mean about Link and what does it mean about her and their shared destiny and what was the purpose of it. Idk if this is even that relevant I just think it's a really good scene)

The next one I noticed was Larc in Roots Aren't Where the Birds Rest, he very bluntly says he does not know how to assign meaning to his malice in the way his brothers have and if he has not grown stronger or wiser from this pain, what has everything been for? Launo tells him that sometimes pain is simply painful and you can't assign some meaning to it, it means neither that it made you a better person nor that it's cosmic punishment from a fundamentally flawed person and that trying to assign meaning to everything will drive him crazy and just be content and Larc, against all odds, says he agrees with Launo, that there doesn't have to be a purpose for his suffering. (And then the most recent arcs might have undone all of this beautiful growth because what is there to be happy with if he has no family so....rip)

In what has been my favorite and most underrated arc, Astor and Mallory meet in Serenity's old house, and he...says something that is so unbelievably interesting to me.

"This is the best and only way, yes, yes. It has to be true. …Because if it’s not true, then my mother died of sickliness and grief out of never finding her runaway son. And that it’s my fault for any misery her other children experienced. If it’s not true, then that means you genuinely care, and will foolishly attempt to ruin this fragile, singular desire of mine. If that all isn’t true, then Elane, my truest and only friend, had honestly loved me. And if all those are truths, then it means you all just die to make the world a little more miserable, and nothing more. That there’s no meaning in it all. That there’s nothing of value to be found in that death and demise. And I can’t have that…Sacrifices have to be worth something."

To me, this is a man admitting that the entire reasoning for his actions is a ruse. Ganon had also been talking to Astor in the post I'm quoting and in previous scenes from this arc so... he listens to Ganon though he knows what he's saying is almost certainly wrong. And the reason he does that is that he has sacrificed the last 20 years of his life (a nice parallel to a certain queen doing the opposite) to serve Ganon to protect Mallory and if the world is not a horrible, cruel place like he has failed to convince himself of, it certainly will become one when the calamity comes and destroys everything as it is now. He is trying and failing miserably at giving his atrocities and what he has sacrificed a meaning. 

I could talk SO much more about the last scene because it's absolutely amazing to me but this is already 800 words and I don't want to clog your askbox more than I already have. I'm also sure there's more examples of this with other characters I just haven't noticed or perhaps I've arrive at the wrong conclusion about all of this but regardless...I think your writing is pretty neat :))

Please feel absolutely free to clog my inbox further in the future as you have honestly turned a rather mundane day for me into a great one. I’ve invested a lot of time into this story over the years and I’m truly happy to know that my details, ideas, and just general work put into it has coming across to you. I am certainly doomed to be trapped in a perpetual state of cringing at my old work as I always try to grow and improve, but there is always a touching solace and ease in knowing you enjoyed it, perceived and existed with it, in more than its fullest. I can only hope I can properly convey and return this same quiet emotion I have now when I call thanks to you my dear, dear, reader.

#out of character #I mean this sincerly and as straightly as a queer writing can be when i say that #There is no greater honor that having my collection of words become skringlos

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Cozy wooden chairs are currently bare of customers during this time of day—when afternoon soon crumples into dusk. 

Hello. The person typing these words is called Quill. Please allow me to indulge in the sin of pride for a moment. Above is my favourite line from last night’s chapter of HKU. I would like to quickly analysis/demonstrate why for two reasons. 1) It would relate to weekly assignments for my writing class in which my professor does not know that my submissions of self reflection are actually just renamed works of disgusting, childish, fanfiction about Zelda characters, for I am also a sinner in sloth. 2) I want to.

The following analysis has a pretentious rating of 16.8:

My current venture in Ao3 has one goal: to experiment and write with voice. Perspective. Narration. I have a bit of an obsession with unreliable narrators, irresponsible personalities. Put simply: I love lying.

I’ve sort of grown accustomed to my experiment with the blog--html, colors, asks, tags, codes. I can’t say I’m satisfied, but I can say I’m happy. I did it because I was bored of Ao3, but now time passed and the pattern switches.

Of course, I am still going to continue the original tumblr blog style updates as we are so very close to my favourite part of the story, and if I had to wait another 2 years to get the Ao3 chapters up to speed before I can share the ending, I might frankly kill myself. That Masterlist takes a good 30 seconds to load for me on my Lenovo Legion 5 Nvidia Geforce RTX 32gb AMD Ryzen 5000 series 7 and iphone 5. I shiver at the thought of doing all the work again, and then twice over.

Anyhow: Voice. It’s the constant, the bread and butter of HKU. Long have I dabbled between the realms of writing with intricate, sentimental description, and writing like a loser pissboy. Even now, the certain voice that I concoct for “Quill,” is not how I talk in real life. Of course this choice of style is forced in order to attempt to exude an aura of mystery and intelligence, but it’s not something I truly say “on da casual.” In fact, I’d say this voice of Quill is how I normally think. In real life I talk something more similar to Asivus Hartell. I look at the world of Breath of the Wild, and think to myself how it is a world of splendor and grief, a testament to the act of creation and growth despite life’s repeated tragedies, despite life’s repeated deaths. I think it is a masterpiece that sits in a corner of my soul forever. Outloud, I say: noice. And now you know why I am forever stuck in insatiable madness.

Therefore, I not only write and read sentences in my head, but I like to say them outloud, as is the case for:

Cozy wooden chairs are currently bare of customers during this time of day—when afternoon soon crumples into dusk.

It is very important to me that a sentence feels nice to say. In middle school, I was bored by Shakespeare, but now I understand his obsession with rhythm, syllables, and meter. Don’t you think this is a nice/noice sentence? Perhaps it seems a bit forced at times, particularly in the middle of it, but I like the slight disruption it gives.

There is a heartbeat present in the natural emphasis of the words: CO-zy, WOOD-en, CHAIRS-are. I try to highlight it further with the alliteration: cozy, chairs, currently, customers.

The meter is not perfect, “currently” shakes up the rhythm by an odd number of syllables so it forces a sort hiccup or inverse in the pattern. And “during this time of day” loses the alliteration of “c” that I’ve set up, trailing off the momentum. The reason? I just like the way it sounds, I like the way it transitions.

When AFT-er-NOON soon CRUM-ples IN-to DUSK. A perfect iambic pentameter. My bestie. My beloved, even. It’s a description that I like, even without the meter, but is further enjoyable(at least in my opinion) when juxtaposed with the different weird meter/alliteration in the chairs part of the sentence. It’s two different types of word-feel(there’s probably a word for that) that merge together through the shared interest in the time of day.

It’s also a sentence that I think has decent voice. It’s not something Siv would say, or Zelda or Link. It’s very flowery, passionate or pretentious depending on who you ask, perfect for something like Arcadius or ???(depending on who you ask). I never care about meter when writing for Siv, I pretty much just talk out loud about the topic ‘til it sounds good and then I write it down and edit.

This? I write out the single, favourite sentence first, and then I make a scene as an excuse to use it.

As thank you for reading this, here is another of said “excuse sentences” as I’ll call them. I am finishing up editing its accompanied scene in an update coming sooner than you think.

And they had a long, constructive dialogue much like that between a jellyfish and a ghost—bereft in true transparency.

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You fucking bitch. You fucking scoundrel. You inane being of flesh and bone. You sad excuse of a coat hanger. I will end you, do you understand? I will kill you, murder you, maim you, stab you, bite you even. No vector of pain is beyond my ambition at this moment in time. Thank you kindly for catching this small mistake!

#out of character