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“Fedi Cassandra” – @Satsuma
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I work for a library but I post about Zelda fanfiction.
Joined Sep 2021
i’m giving this fanfic an intentionally complicated history so it will be impossible to tell which parts actually happened, which are interventions on the part of hylia, which are interventions on the part of a certain zelda, which were added to drum up sales…
me: gaepora is large and looks like an owl. consequently, people liked to call him “big bird”
you, four chapters later when the realization hits:
@coriander also zelda games have always had large casts of characters whose names you will never remember but it used to be fine because everyone was playing for the dungeons anyway, and characters served clearly functional roles like “lady you bring the bugs to” or “guy who gives you the bomb bag in the earth temple”
@coriander i don’t think they do want to; i think they want to present a large number of marketable blank slates that fans can project onto
in all fairness this is a fanfic about zelda which doesn’t even introduce her until like the fourth chapter so realistically it’s gonna bomb no matter what i do
i keep being like “okay, this is enough, let’s keep it simple” and then i reread it and NO it is NOT enough i need to take it slower and dig into more detail
working on this fanfic is difficult because i fundamentally do not trust your average reader in 2024 to be patient enough for the very cool important things i am trying to do in the first handful of paragraphs
@coriander this is how u stay hydrated
it¦s very annoying to me that Rhoam Bosphoramus is clearly Hellenic at a time when I feel like Hyrule ought to have switched to vernacular Latin but i am just choosing to believe that he is very oldfashioned
hmm i would like to write a zelda fanfic
@coriander other fantasy authors, apparently, since they seem to struggle when emulating that bit
middle earth was neither a utopia nor a dystopia but merely a historic age which preceded this one, full of people who looked to the future with equal parts hope and despair
@coriander stephenie meyer wrote a Twilight from Edward’s perspective and all the reviewers were like “yeah so I hate him now”
@coriander see the thing that Twilight fans know is that this trope only works when it’s not the protagonist
@coriander or is the danger not from inside the house
i guess if it's other people it's batman
@coriander oh like Edward from Twilight
subtooting a N·Y·Times graphic
ah yes, famed middle eastern country, The United States
in fairness the reason we have to call it “Latin” is because “Roman” contrasts with “Italic”
wikipedia talk pages are FULL of pedants convinced that “the Latin alphabet” means not “the system of letters spread by the Romans and adopted widely across Europe and other regions” but, specifically, “the system of letters used to write the Latin language”
« I am skeptical about the assertion that this is "a letter of the Latin alphabet". Since when did Latin ever have pharyngeals? Or voiced fricatives for that matter? Unless I am very badly misinformed, someone must have added (or proposed adding) this letter at some later point in time for some purpose entirely unrelated to Latin. »
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- Delinquent (BREAKpoint 98a) by Megumi Mizutani
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- Pokémon 4Koma Plaza: 2017.04.24 “Mudbray’s Morning” by Takahiro Yamashita
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Administrator / Public Relations for GlitchCat. Not actually glitchy, nor a cat. I wrote the rules for this instance.
“Constitutionally incapable of not going hard” — @aescling
“Fedi Cassandra” – @Satsuma
I HAVE EXPERIENCE IN THINGS. YOU CAN JUST @ ME.
I work for a library but I post about Zelda fanfiction.
Joined Sep 2021
