Kaz: My ducks? In a row. Ordered. Disciplined. Behaving predictably. Your ducks? Scattered. In disarray. Waddling aimlessly. Desperate for a leader to impose structure.

Managed to capture this shot after waiting patiently, and very still, while holding my camera just above the surface of the water.

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Four in a row

I did a thing today.

Ducks in a Row *** [Bellonwy]

@eilonwy-notjustgirl​

Belle and Hades had just gotten home from a meeting about the candidate mixer that was happening that weekend. Despite it happening every year, it always required some planning and Belle had offered to help. Not because she liked planning, but because she wanted to help, where she could. It was not too late by the time they got home, about seven. As soon as they’d gotten home, Hades had gone up to start putting the children to bed and Belle rummaged around in her tote bag for her wallet, so that she could pay Eilonwy for the few hours that she’d been watching them for.

Even with the twins at the InterPride daycare during the day and Opal starting school, it was still hard to juggle babysitters for their extremely busy lives. Belle was grateful for Eilonwy, and the fleet of other babysitters that they had. It made her feel guilt too, for leaving the babies alone so much, but it couldn’t be helped. They still had lives and the babies could not come everywhere with them.

“Thank you so much, Eilonwy,” Belle said as she finally located her wallet and started counting out the proper amount. “I was wondering if you’d be able to stay a few minutes? With the election season, we need to plan in advanced, since we cannot miss any of the events. I know you’ll want to go to some, of course, and that you have your own life--but I wanted to see if we could chat about it? Would you like dinner? I can warm some leftovers up. Hades and I haven’t had time to cook today...”

[outfit]

my brother and I saw a bunch of geese standing by our neighborhood lake and he pointed to them and said "is that why they say 'put all your geese in a line'?"

[ID Luggage label which reads:

My ducks are absolutely not in a row. I don't even know where some of them are... And I'm pretty sure one of them is a pigeon.]

(Source)

I have to be blunt.

The war of ages makes everything so damn complicated from a timeline perspective, because it isn’t a timeline, it’s a time Ouija board. Nothing happens in order or makes sense with the lore and sequence of event we know, but they all have to happen or the war of ages doesn’t happen to begin with, but then characters should have knowledge that they clearly don’t, which creates additional alternate timelines instead of fitting into existing timelines.

But I can’t just exclude it because I like Wars, he’s fun to mess with, so I can’t say it doesn’t exist and I don’t want to. But Goddesses dammit it’s so hard to make sense of the utterly insane twists and loops in the time web that war makes.

So. Lana Zelda and Link make the wish that it never happened. Cia stays gone, and only those three remember. Because any other version of events has so many conditions and orders of events to work in and just doesn’t make sense.

So. Triforce wish, war didn’t technically happen, we don’t have all the timeline breaking shenanigans happening and it’s all cozy and the ducks are in a row.

Rant over.

My ducks are never in a row.

My mother was away for a week and asked me to pick her up from the airport. Except we miscommunicated and I ended up at the airport at 1am day early! I didn't mind, it wasn't super far for me to drive and I'm a night owl so no big deal. But I did get my revenge. I had a bag of 200 tiny resin rubber duckies at home just waiting for an opportunity like this. I hid them EVERYWHERE in my mother's house. In towels, in socks and shoes, in pockets, in drawers, on doors, in the butter, in the spices, in her car. She'll be finding them for months!

I just found #73 in my purse so I guess the War Has Begun!