A Princess of Sun and Song

On AO3 HERE Link walked quietly into the market of Castle Town. Music played cheerfully as people danced in the square, groups crowded in front of one stall or another, clamoring for sales and goods and gossip. Everything was bright and colorful and loud and Link quickly found themself overwhelmed.

Navi buzzed in front of them, vibrating with energy. “Hey, Listen! The Great Deku Tree wanted us to go to visit the princess at Hyrule Castle.... Shouldn't we get going?” Link nods and passes the crowds and the fountain and the dancing couple, only to stop when they spot someone small like them. They are reminded of Saria, with a delicate face and brightly colored hair, but instead of leaves of spring their hair is the color of autumn, the fire of fall. The fall sprite seems to spot them and smiles, and for a moment the chaos around them fades away and all they can see is sunshine.

“Hello there! Oh . . . you’re a fairy boy from the forest, aren’t you?” they say, and their voice is a melody. It’s all Link can do to give a small nod.

If possible the sprite smiles even brighter, an expression as sweet as honey. “My name is Malon.”

Link hears the song of Malon's voice once more but the fairy boy’s head is turning over the name, wondering if maybe this is the princess the Great Deku tree spoke of. The princess is wearing a dress and they are light and good, and a special magic seems to surround them, different from the normal magic of a Hylian.

“Are you going to the castle, fairy boy?”

Link nods and the princess beams at them, asking for help and they easily agree. Malon gives them an egg bigger than any from the forest and asks that they find their dad. If their dad is at the castle the image of fall in front of them must be royalty. Link wanders around out of the market shortly after at Navi’s pressing. He finds himself wandering back streets, dodging people and crates and the occasional stray dog. Soon night is falling and they head to the tall iron gates and the castle beyond.

The princess is here now, outside the castle gate, singing the sweetest song of freedom and sunshine and love and calling. It echoes in Links’ ears the way music often does, filled with the magic of its enchanter. He remembers when a bard had passed the forest once, all the Kokiri crowded by the forest tunnel, listening to the melodies and giggling quietly as they slowly faded away.

The princess’s song is filled with a similar magic, woven into the tune. It echoes against the cliffs and sounds slightly mournful in the night, with a promise at the end to tie it together. It is not a song for the twilight but for sunny fields and long summer days, calling out to a dear friend to join in.

The princess smiles at the fairy boy, and Link hides their face. Navi flutters around them, reminding Link that the castle is still ahead, still out of reach. The vines beside the princess grab their attention and they climb up the cliff wall, hands breaking loose gravel and stone but the vines standing strong. Link pulls themself to the top and stares out at the stone bridge and the rising towers, and makes their way forward. Malon’s voice echoes behind them.

Link learns that Malon is not the princess. The princess is small and thin, with hair the color of the pampas grass in the winter. The princess is wrapped in divinity, eyes shining with knowledge beyond her age. She does not sing sweetly or pour magic into her voice like the bards do, but she gives him a magic song that is a treasure, and he holds it close. Still, Link often thinks of the autumn spirit they met in the square, a princess of sun and song. When he is suddenly too old and too small and not in the right body, he finds himself in a ranch with a familiar girl with hair the color of autumn fire, and she teaches him a song of love and sunshine and freedom and calling. And when the world is safe from the darkness, he finds himself visiting his princess again and again and falling in love with the way she smiles and the sweetness in her voice and the magic in her song.

i never knew there were men in the room for this, “that was tough” oh man they were not prepared XD

LOKI 2x06 Glorious Purpose

thinking about that very brief moment after jess says “hobie you’re not helping” and hobie says “good” where there’s a split second you can see the gears turn in miles’ head as he tries to figure out what that little interaction means even though he’s definitely got more pressing shit going on. idk it almost like he’s grounded by that eye contact with hobie before that escape + big chase and BOY do i love it

Escaped clone au

You know all those fics where Danny and Damian are twins but everyone first assumes Danny must be a clone? How about an au where Danny is Damian's clone who escaped the League after he was assumed dead. Damian could even have been the one to have "killed" him, back when Danny was a newly created, fully brainwashed clone minion and trying to kill Damian himself.

Danny gets adopted by the Fentons and canon goes on as normal, until Dan. Witnessing what would happen to the world should he turn evil really drove home to Danny how dangerous he is.

Even if he was confident he could be trusted with his absurd amount of power (which he isn't), what if the League of Assassins found out about him? Does he still have programming triggers from his evil assassin clone conditioning?

So, Danny does the responsible thing: he goes to Batman to turn himself in.

Cue Danny showing up on Bruce's doorstep with ghost hunting equipment, intel on the afterlife, and an almost unbelievable backstory. Somehow he still managed to be more well-adjusted than Damian.

More thoughts under the read more

Here's how I'm thinking Danny leaving the League went down:

After surviving his wounds but failing his mission, Danny (then an unnamed potential Damian replacement) knew there was no point in returning to the League. As a failure, he was meant to be disposed of. He even thought of simply allowing himself to perish, since that was what the League would do.

But he couldn't help but feel as though that would be a waste of a resource. Surely he could be of more use to the League alive than dead?

That tiny bit of rebellious logic is what caused Danny to go into hiding, only living on based on the off chance he would find opportunities to further the League's goals. Obviously, that mentality didn't last long after being exposed to the real world and meeting one Jazz Fenton.

Being adopted by the Fentons was the best cover Danny could have asked for, since any odd behavior he couldn't hide while he was learning how to be "normal" was totally overshadowed by the sheer bizarre eccentricity of his new parents. He was still the neighborhood weird kid, but even that was a major upgrade from disposable tool, so Danny considered it a win.

Anyway, if anyone likes this idea, please feel free to have at it! Interpret it as you please :)

half of these tiktok relationship/break up/whatever pranks would not work on most of the jjk boys, but nanami is esp funny because he just becomes immune to it. you tell him you two should break up and he just sighs and nods, continues making dinner even as you flutter around him and try to start a fake argument. “kento, hello? i’m saying we’re finished!” and he just hums, and chops the vegetables, “that’s nice, dear. did you want red or yellow peppers this time?” 

https://soundgasm.net/u/LateNightFeels_/Getting-Fucked-By-Your-Boyfriend-While-He-Games-With-His-Friends

this reminded me of your gamer rafe fic

nsfw audio // game over fic

PAUSEEEEEEE !!!!!!!!!!! oh my fucking god?????? anon first of all thank you for reading my fic eeek and thank you for sending me this!!!!!!!! im literally twirling my hair and kicking my feet while listening to that audio omfg where did you find it i need to know

“look, i’ll still move my character with my left hand, so they think i’m still doing something, and with my right… i can put it in between your legs.” good fucking bye

UPDATE: HDSHDJD HE WASNT MUTED THIS ENTIRE TIME ????

another update: im done and oh my god anon what have you done to me i am sweating djsjdjdj also this is exactly my fic omg !!!!!! thank u for sending this to me ily

small, and so, so afraid.

sumeru text posts part infinity

my dude cannot host

i just remembered that i can in fact post Old Art so here is an album cover project from last semester

Details below!

This was the second project of my Illustration Intensive I class last semester, and we had to either design or redesign an album cover, so I chose The Mechanisms

During the project I took a 4-hour detour trying to translate the Red Signal chant into norse runes, aka I threw it through a translator and tried (emphasis on tried) via wikipedia to fix any Weirdness despite knowing next to nothing about runes so its probably. Incredibly wrong lol

average spirit trio

15x09 / 15x18

an uncomfortable truth is that if batman and all the batkids were kidnapped and it was up to alfred to save only one while all the others would perish, alfred would push the button to save bruce with no hesitation before the villain was even done talking

and even more uncomfortable truth is that bruce would eventually forgive him this

thinking about buck and Tommy showing up to some firefam dinner/barbecue/some family event, someone notices a hickey peeking out from under Tommy's collar (or maybe there's one in a very visible, impossible to cover up with clothes place), someone makes some teasing joke/comment, buck goes all red but smiles proudly when Tommy grins and says 'yeah, someone got a little carried away last night' with a soft and playful look at buck, and Buck shrugs, says 'gotta make sure people know you're mine' and he leans in to kiss Tommy, just a chaste peck, and someone's like 'ew, get a room' and Buck chuckles and he's so happy to be able to just joke with his family and his boyfriend, and be so open and free about how in love he is, and Tommy's right next to him with his hand on Buck's knee under the table, and he's never been happier