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yes, they’ve torn the surface all apart, but never even glimpsed the heart by ruvas
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
03 Jan 2026
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They have broken fate into something better: the Calamity is sealed, the Champions live, Hyrule will rebuild. Yet the death of the king and much of the Hylian court unsettles the balance of power, and while Zelda recovers from the Calamity, the army moves to seize control.
Worse, the Calamity is not the only piece of history lodged in the bedrock of Hyrule. Deep under the ground, other histories await. Some start to seep up.
Link is not yet rid of fate – but nor is he alone in facing it.
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- Part 5 of return to the river of light
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At the summit of Mount Fay, Hornet receives a gift, feather by feather, sewn with her own silk into her cloak.
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A Boar to the Altar by ruvas
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
17 Sep 2025
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Twenty years after the Imprisoning War, the clouds part on a blood moon. The greatest calamity is yet to come. It can’t happen again – but the world is a water wheel, ever-turning, and an unborn Gerudo boy is set to drown in it.
The Gerudo sage, Naba, would pull him out.
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instead of a burial, a wagtail by ruvas
Fandoms: Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (Video Game)
07 May 2025
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The Champions live. The Kingdom of Hyrule still stands – and King Rhoam declares that in all the old stories, the bearers of divine wisdom and courage are joined in more than battle. In celebration of averting the Calamity, Princess Zelda and Link are to be betrothed.
Rito songs offer another course.
The bard Keteli lifts a wing, as if beginning, and says simply, “Revali should kidnap him.”
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Those-dwelling-under by ruvas
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom, The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap
08 Mar 2025
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The inhabitants of Tabantha Village alone in Hyrule celebrate the Picori Festival, held every spring in honour of the diminutive people who long ago gave Hylians the magic light force and the Picori Blade, and later aided a young hero and his rude hat on a quest to save Hyrule. Now, the peaceable Minish need help.
A buried guardian-statue is waking up. The only way to deactivate it is inside its ancient carapace. The journey to the guardian-statue requires two people with the skills of warriors, but only children can see the Minish.
For Link, it’s a strange adventure. For Revali, it’s a way to prove himself.
Recent series
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little courage by ruvas
Fandom The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
15 Feb 2025
- Words:
- 28,731
- Works:
- 1
- Bookmarks:
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return to the river of light by ruvas
Fandom The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
03 Jan 2026
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Draw back the curtain, for I would see the garden in the twilight
and the chapter titles hanging on the trees.
– Sofia Samatar, "Snowbound in Hamadan"a Link/Revali-centric series where I chew on the contingencies of history and spit them out
- Words:
- 147,154
- Works:
- 5
- Bookmarks:
- 37
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On the fourth day of the month of September,
In an early year of a decade not too long before our own…Daniel Molloy, hapless flower shop assistant and amateur investigator into unexplained phenomena, discovers a strange plant that promises to grant his every wish. All it wants in return is his blood.
Bookmarked by ruvas
25 May 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
this is the classic "I don't go here BUT" fic, it's so so much fun
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In Delusions of Increasing Grandeur by graiai for aguntoaknifefight (swirlingvoid)
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
29 Nov 2024
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Obviously, truth is stranger than fiction, and there’s always going to be edge cases in the real world, but for our purposes: just how realistic is Armand’s tragic backstory?
Judging by the number of retweets/reblogs on this post and others like it, fannish opinion seems to be “not very”. But honestly? It’s not that far-fetched.
Or: a fannish academic does a deep dive into the most controversial character in Daniel Molloy’s new novel.
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A Wind-Grieved Ghost: Ganondorf’s Robes in The Wind Waker by Rynling
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
26 Oct 2024
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This meta essay discusses the influence of medieval Noh theater on the striking costume worn by Ganondorf in The Wind Waker. I explain the symbolism of Ganondorf’s gorgeously patterned robes and argue that the sartorial allusions to Noh theater serve to characterize Ganondorf as a frightening yet tragic ghost displaced from the beautiful vanished kingdom of Hyrule.
Bookmarked by ruvas
29 Oct 2024
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Expatriate by thehoyden
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
01 Oct 2021
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Being sent to the Rito in the dead of winter is a punishment. Link is ostensibly relieving the longtime Hylian military attaché, so this could be construed a promotion—but for the timing.
Another birthday has come and gone, and still he has not presented. And even though everyone expects him to be appointed the Princess’s knight, one thing is for sure—the King will never select anyone but an alpha. And he certainly won’t trust his only child with someone who hasn’t even presented yet. Maybe it would be different if Link had the sword that seals the darkness, but he doesn’t.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 51,901
- Chapters:
- 6/6
- Comments:
- 638
- Kudos:
- 3,897
- Bookmarks:
- 1,225
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Bookmarked by ruvas
08 Oct 2023
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anniversary by silverscale (acacias) for bene_elim
Fandoms: Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (Video Game)
21 Sep 2022
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You wake up with the sun.