15 Works in Light World
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The wind in the gallows by Charles_Rockafellor
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog (Video Games), The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, Super Mario & Related Fandoms, 無彩限のファントム・ワールド | Musaigen no Phantom World | Myriad Colors Phantom World (Anime), Multi-Fandom
06 Jul 2025
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Hot on the somewhat-cooled heels of the phlogiston problem at last, the gang ends up on a quick jaunt to another world, trying to thwart Dr. Evil while avoiding detection by that world's quantum twins.
When worlds collide, however, things have a funny way of throwing... curves at our heroes.
Oh, my! Don't you just love it when a plan... “comes ” together? 😉
NB: This is the second of the two fic.s that I had skipped in order to knock out Ruru's house has many doors — or: What dreams may come.
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- Part 12 of Love against the darkness
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Living in a powder keg and giving off sparks by Charles_Rockafellor
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types
23 Mar 2025
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If one can flash light, then surely one can “flash” darkness, and Tails has found several innovative ways of performing the impossible.
Chapter 2 will be uploaded next week, Sun 23 Mar 2025 at 10:30 CDT / 15:30 UTC.
NB: This is the first of the two fic.s that I had skipped in order to knock out Ruru's house has many doors — or: What dreams may come.
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- Part 11 of Love against the darkness
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Building ConLangs, with a concrete example by Charles_Rockafellor, 𝖀𝓷ᶦ𝕔ⓞðə E Ⓜ️🅾️j̵͍̟̝̝̖̮̓ͭͨ̂̐̚ℹ️ (Charles_Rockafellor)
Fandoms: Conlangs - Fandom
07 Apr 2024
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Sometimes we want a conlang (constructed language) in our fic (or even without a fic). They abound in the wild — Star Trek's Klingon has an essentially functional vocabulary, Tolkien put in a lot of work on Elvish Quenya and other languages of Middle Earth, and many others exist in one state of completeness or another.
So, how do you go about making one for yourself? This takes you through the steps alongside resource links; where you start building one is up to you, but this provides a good grounding in some of the basics at least. It also goes through those steps as it progresses, building up the lelɹli conlang as we go. The sounds and written form, the vocabulary and grammar, and even dialects, though each section's associated linked resources are probably of more interest to most (except perhaps my readers).
NB: there's a metric shit-ton of IPA in here, for which I apologize beforehand should you read this with a TTS screen reader (or, I imagine, a braille reader) that's not majorly buffed.
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𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆, 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒖𝒃𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒆! ❤️
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- Part 11 of How to
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I am Legion (with map) by Charles_Rockafellor
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, Super Mario & Related Fandoms, Sonic the Hedgehog (Video Games), Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land, Multi-Fandom
02 Apr 2023
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A world-shattering threat looms in the murk of the immediate future, and on its heels comes a cure worse than the symptoms. Given free rein, The Obelisk would unleash a literal hell of Cenobites on all life — and given free rein, Daemon would stop at nothing to prevent this.
Beneath all of this, greater powers still than they make moves on the chess board of reality itself, exchanging not only pieces, but the significance and even “sides” thereof.
Embarking on a mission to stop all of this, our heroes — Sonic, Tails, Zelda, Peach, and Ruru — brave the teeth of the Dagurashibanipal mountain range once more, in search of a way to prevent the wheel of fortune grinding down all that they know.
Completed! See header-note for details. 🙂
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𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆, 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒖𝒃𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒆! ❤️
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- Part 7 of Love against the darkness
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Seize the Deity (plus map) by Charles_Rockafellor
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, Super Mario & Related Fandoms, Sonic the Hedgehog (Video Games), Multi-Fandom
18 Dec 2022
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With Sonic, Tails, and Ruru by her side, Zelda seeks to wrest control of the world back from the clutches of Warbotdorf in a Belgariad-like adventure (all the while trading quips after the fashion of The Princess Bride or Another Fine Myth), but the task is made all the more difficult when a seeming innocent stumbles into her life.
Her heart grown cold from nearly a decade of battle and betrayal, Zelda finds Peach, a caring soul — but she also knows that evil lives to present the face of innocence while seeking the ruination of all. In a world where a narcissist has taken control of the empire, can love find its way into the heart of the imperial princess?
Fighting the bad guy was one thing, but to fight her own heart as well would sap the last of her strength.
“Hey, don't write yourself off yet.
It's only in your head you feel left out
or looked down on.”
— “The middle”, Jimmy Eat World (2001)Fully revised : see header-note for details (as of 03 May 2022).
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𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆, 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒖𝒃𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒆! ❤️
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- Part 3 of Love against the darkness
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A weird couple, a small child, and a mysterious journey. Sounds like the opening of a joke in poor taste, but Link — hired to escort them to visit faraway relatives — has other issues to deal with, such as the odd and pervasive fishy smell that's dogged them the whole time, but that's OK: he hated Innsmouth, and this would get him out of town ahead of the local constabulary.
(Map included.)
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𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆, 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒖𝒃𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒆! ❤️
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- Part 2 of The misadventures of Link
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Princess Peach, Vampire Slayer! by Charles_Rockafellor
Fandoms: Multi-Fandom, Count Duckula
17 Oct 2021
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Bine ați venit în satul-națiunea (este ambele) de Microsilvânia!
Count Duckula was visiting the tiny village-nation (it's both ) of Microsylvania, Cravenloft, in hope of restoring his nerves, only to discover the terrifying truth of their cottage industry. Our intrepid heroes, suddenly discovering themselves on an unexpected vacation (partly explained in the omake), find themselves embroiled in the local drama and intrigue and soon arrive on the doorstep of a campy Gothic castle, complete with strange servants — one of whom hopes to go bump in Zelda's night.N.B.: Though not directly spurred by it for the story herein (10th in the series), I must acknowledge a deep gratitude for the inspirational atmosphere of Robert Lynn Asprin's Myth-ing Persons in his portrayal of the Limbo “dimension” (and I suspect a dash of the Winslow vacation resort in Myth-fits).
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𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆, 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒖𝒃𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒆! ❤️
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- Part 10 of Love against the darkness
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Dimidium by Charles_Rockafellor
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog (Video Games), Futurama, 無彩限のファントム・ワールド | Musaigen no Phantom World | Myriad Colors Phantom World (Anime), Multi-Fandom
08 Nov 2020
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Tails the Fox and Amy [Wong] (an AI) were long star-crossed, lost to each other for over a decade of his life, though only a blink of the eye in her discontinuous existence. Reunited of late through the magnanimity of a god-like being, they began their life together again, and Tails designed a variant liquid Terminator body for Amy (at her request) soon thereafter (fear not: he's more Doctor Who than Doctor Doom). A few months into their adjustment period, we join them now in quieter moments to see what things are like when they're not busy fighting dragons and saving the world.
“Dimidium” is intended to look at a slice of life, presented as a set of vignettes. They don't tell a continuous story as such, instead filling in the flavor of things in the between moments.
Timestamp: 22 and 23 Mar (and presumably extending into some part of 24 Mar, though no further), 6562 PB.
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𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆, 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒖𝒃𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒆! ❤️
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- Part 8 of Love against the darkness
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Sometimes, to defeat a monster, one must become a monster.
This story occurs in the badlands of the Wamphyri aeries in the far northeast of Light World (see map at top of fic), and is approximately concurrent with the Zelda/Peach romance series “Love against the Darkness”, and its sidequel “Link: What evil lurks”.
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𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆, 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒖𝒃𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒆! ❤️
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These dreams by Charles_Rockafellor
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, Super Mario & Related Fandoms, Sonic the Hedgehog (Video Games), 無彩限のファントム・ワールド | Musaigen no Phantom World | Myriad Colors Phantom World - Anime
24 May 2020
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Greasers had a bad reputation, and sometimes it was justified... and sometimes life gets in the way.
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𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆, 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒖𝒃𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒆! ❤️
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- Part 6 of Love against the darkness
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Link: What evil lurks (plus map) by Charles_Rockafellor
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
24 May 2020
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What do you do when you're being driven mad in increments by reality gone mad itself? When your every attempt at a normal life is thwarted by some insidious evil, laughing at you from behind the shadows? When every waitress's hand is against you, and not in a good way?
(World map below, more-local composite-Hyrule map in chapter 2.)
Approximately concurrent with the Zelda/Peach romance series “Love against the Darkness”, and the Necroscope-inspired story “To be” set far to the east.
NB: What used to be the third chapter of this fic is now a separate fic of its own, linked (no pun intended) as a series.
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𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆, 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒖𝒃𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒆! ❤️
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- Part 1 of The misadventures of Link
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Alexander's horned cabinet (illustrated) by Charles_Rockafellor
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, Super Mario & Related Fandoms, Sonic the Hedgehog (Video Games), 無彩限のファントム・ワールド | Musaigen no Phantom World | Myriad Colors Phantom World - Anime
24 May 2020
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What do you do when magic and technology outstrip your expectations?
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𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆, 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒖𝒃𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒆! ❤️
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- Part 5 of Love against the darkness
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Deathclaw: the tale of Mister Fluffykins by Charles_Rockafellor
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, Super Mario & Related Fandoms, Sonic the Hedgehog (Video Games), 無彩限のファントム・ワールド | Musaigen no Phantom World | Myriad Colors Phantom World - Anime, Multi-Fandom
24 May 2020
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We all need somebody to lean on: how Mister Fluffykins (et alios) came to be part of Queen Peach's family.
NB: This is a warm-fuzzy story to do with homeless cats, found family, and Princess Peach and the rest of the Scooby Gang. I've never played Fallout, and had no idea that the game had a monster called a “deathclaw” until uploading this story and someone commented about them in a Facebook thread.
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𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆, 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒖𝒃𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒆! ❤️
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- Part 4 of Love against the darkness
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Sonic's Redemption by Charles_Rockafellor
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, Sonic the Hedgehog (Video Games), Multi-Fandom
17 May 2020
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The world was over. What do you do when that happens, and you find yourself on a deserted tropical island? Your prospects are bleak — no matter how pleasant the surroundings — when it all boils down to a universal variant of thermodynamics and poker: you can't go home, you can't start again, and you're functionally immortal.
Prior military life had prepared Sonic for just about everything. It hadn't prepared him for nothing, and there was a lot of nothing in this quiet place. At least until a Deku Scrub came into his life and forced him to face the world again — to face himself again.
His nemesis was still out there, somewhere. It could only be a matter of time before this world, too, would meet its end.
Small, simple [spreadsheeted] dungeon map in chapter 2.
Final revision now updated as of Sunday 03 April 2022! ❤️
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𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆, 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒖𝒃𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒆! ❤️
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- Part 2 of Love against the darkness
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Zelda Invictus (plus map) by Charles_Rockafellor
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
17 May 2020
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Tormented by a madwoman, hunted and hounded in her flight and sought by the authorities as her own impostor, Imperial Princess Zelda seeks time to heal, refuge from her own mind, answers to questions that she can't even form.
Amidst all of this, a darkness is rising unbeknownst to all. A force gathers that would see the world undone, all life snuffed out in a heartbeat, to suit its craving for power.
“Through yonder grove, by the spring that is running,
there you and I have so merrily played,
kissing and courting and gently sporting...
Oh, my innocent heart you've betrayed”
— “Early One Morning (how could you use a poor maiden so?)” (Roud V9617)NB: The first prequel of two to Seize the Deity; there are more fics in the series, but these three are the core.
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𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆, 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒖𝒃𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒆! ❤️
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- Part 1 of Love against the darkness