Lady @Lady@cat.family

#DecRecs fire emblem echoes was underrated https://archiveofourown.org/works/20170612

@coriander https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/𐀒

is it a plus or a minus that we live in an age where a zelda fan can go down a rabbit hole and wind up studying the wikipedia page for linear b

« νοόω (noóō) »

sometimes you just don't know what went wrong
and sometimes you don't even know what fixed it
and sometimes you ask yourself, well, “how did i get here?”

zelda fans love writing novelizations of “Shelter From the Rain” and completely missing the blatant trans subtext

« I’m not sure Link being a child is relevant though since Link would have been a child at some point in all timelines. »

« The Hylian text on all these Books reads the same thing: "April First. Today was a shy hot and sunny day. I went to school. This diary is a very important document. April Second. Yesterday was Fool's day. Everything that I wrote was false. That is all. See you tomorrow" »

@gaditb so the issue here is that the way i am charting Hylian history, they have

• a very early Hebrew period (the original legend of zelda, adventue of link)

• a Germanic period post‐exile from Old Hyrule with possibly some Hebrew influence [i’m a fan of the interpretation that the Mudoran Script in A Link To The Past is just Hebrew Germanic which is why Link is able to reasonably translate it once he learns the Latin‐script correspondences]

• a Greek period (overlapping with the Germanic period but primarily as a prestige dialect), and finally

• a Latin period for recent stuff

[i promise this is all reasonably evidenced (altho not canon) and i’m not just making shit up]

[there is also definite Sanskrit influence in some games and i’m still trying to figure out how that fits in, which is kinda difficult as i know 0 sanskrit; it’s definitely never spoken by either common Hylians or the royalty though]

MOST of the hebrew stuff is just like, rare or archaic names like Kaepora Gaebora [widely suspected to be כפרה גיבורה], so Practically Speaking i don’t need to be conversant in it, but it does help to like, be able to read the script and understand how words are put together, lol

am i going to have to learn classical hebrew for this

contemplating just publishing a working Zelda lore piece on AO3

@gaditb @alexis lol yes i just faved this

eventually you reach a time in your life when you realize that people born a decade after you are adults now, and that's horrifying

but then you look the other way, at the people born a decade BEFORE you, and they're ALL MILFS

#DecRecs i mentioned this one in a conversation on Lex so now i have to rec it here

1970s trans lesbian murder-mystery, plus pokémon https://archiveofourown.org/works/20822714

thankful that Zeldapedia is independent now so that i can add it to the quick searches on my homepage

ah i’m going to need at least a little bit of explicitness in this zelink in order to get this fragment i wanted in in there

if you were born between 1992 and 1998 and are not aware of one of the largest and most notable (not praise) Harry Potter fanfics in existence, second only to My Immortal, you hung out with the wrong friends