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Idiot's Log

@not-freyja / not-freyja.tumblr.com

The name's Freyja. They/them. Deaf, and dumb (but those two things aren't related) My Ao3.
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likestoimagine16 asked:

So I'm rereading This is an Adjuration right now (slowly. Because there's a lot in the way, including life and my own brain, but that's beside the point) and I just

Things Sure Do Hit Differently on a reread. Which I knew going in, because I distinctly remember hitting a certain point and thinking 'Oh, so I was Concerned about Wild's Depths-rage for the wrong, less painful reasons, because uh. OW MY HEART' among other things, but like.

I'm only on chapter 11 and there's *so many things* to scream about. Mostly about Warriors atm, because of uh. The parallels between his first and last major wounds for the story. And also his first visit back to his era sure is an omen, huh

It's good stuff, but also like. Very Intense. I have two speeds I can read this fic at, and they oscillate wildly between 'binge-reading' and 'I need a break between each chapter. Sometimes in the middle of each chapter.'

Thanks for sharing your writing with us!

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And thank you for the lovely words!

The reread experience was actually something I was very concerned with while writing Adjuration. I am relieved beyond words that I have pulled it off.

Have a great day!

#freyja answers#freyja writes fic#this is an adjuration
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whatvioletdoes-blog asked:

For the writer ask game! 11 (WIP you'd like to finish someday) and 27 (favorite part of the writing process)?

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This took me… way too long to remember to answer. Forgive me, Starlings.

11. The Actual Wrath of Khan - co-authored with @straight-outta-hobbiton this is a serious fic with a crack premise, that TOS Khan takes his sexy ass on the warpath to slap down Benedict Cumberbatch’s pathetic white identity stealing “Khan”-ass and the Enterprise crew gets involved.

27. Deep revision. The part where every word is examined for a potential fault, each comma has to justify its existence, and the prose itself begins to lose almost all meaning.

#freyja writes fic#freyja answers#meteors fright
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Made another meme

My friend groupchat be like. Sky is the one of us that isn’t mentally ill.

Art by @/linkeduniverse

Yes i’m listening to the song those quotes are from right now :)

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I don't know I'm not done talking about it. It's insane that I can't just uninstall Edge or Copilot. That websites require my phone number to sign up. That people share their contacts to find their friends on social media.

I wouldn't use an adblocker if ads were just banners on the side funding a website I enjoy using and want to support. Ads pop up invasively and fill my whole screen, I misclick and get warped away to another page just for trying to read an article or get a recipe.

Every app shouldn't be like every other app. Instagram didn't need reels and a shop. TikTok doesn't need a store. Instagram doesn't need to be connected to Facebook. I don't want my apps to do everything, I want a hub for a specific thing, and I'll go to that place accordingly.

I love discord, but so much information gets lost to it. I don't want to join to view things. I want to lurk on forums. I want to be a user who can log in and join a conversation by replying to a thread, even if that conversation was two days ago. I know discord has threads, it's not the same. I don't want to have to verify my account with a phone number. I understand safety and digital concerns, but I'm concerned about information like that with leaks everywhere, even with password managers.

I shouldn't have to pay subscriptions to use services and get locked out of old versions. My old disk copy of photoshop should work. I should want to upgrade eventually because I like photoshop and supporting the business. Adobe is a whole other can of worms here.

Streaming is so splintered across everything. Shows release so fast. Things don't get physical releases. I can't stream a movie I own digitally to friends because the share-screen blocks it, even though I own two digital copies, even though I own a physical copy.

I have an iPod, and I had to install a third party OS to easily put my music on it without having to tangle with iTunes. Spotify bricked hardware I purchased because they were unwillingly to upkeep it. They don't pay their artists. iTunes isn't even iTunes anymore and Apple struggles to upkeep it.

My TV shows me ads on the home screen. My dad lost access to eBook he purchased because they were digital and got revoked by the company distributing them. Hitman 1-3 only runs online most of the time. Flash died and is staying alive because people love it and made efforts to keep it up.

I have to click "not now" and can't click "no". I don't just get emails, they want to text me to purchase things online too. My windows start search bar searches online, not just my computer. Everything is blindly called an app now. Everything wants me to upload to the cloud. These are good tools! But why am I forced to use them! Why am I not allowed to own or control them?

No more!!!!! I love my iPod with so much storage and FLAC files. I love having all my fics on my harddrive. I love having USBs and backups. I love running scripts to gut suck stuff out of my Windows computer I don't want that spies on me. I love having forums. I love sending letters. I love neocities and webpages and webrings. I will not be scanning QR codes. Please hand me a physical menu. If I didn't need a smartphone for work I'd get a "dumb" phone so fast. I want things to have buttons. I want to use a mouse. I want replaceable batteries. I want the right to repair. I grew up online and I won't forget how it was!

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glad this post is resonating with the local populace fr

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I was tagged in the fic writter tag game by both @toyouhellohowareyou and @rebornofstars . Love you both!

(All metric and ranking based questions have, to the best of my ability, excluded all works posted on Anon.)

1. How many works on Ao3?

51!

2. Total Ao3 word count?

727,467 so far!

3. Top five fics by kudos?

Okay so funnily enough, every fic in the kudos top five belong to the same series: Doubt the Stars: a Star Trek AOS AU where Kirk is raised in space, him and Spock meet and bond as children, and every possible shenanigan they can concoct ensues. The first installment (and also number one kudosed fic) is:

Adventure is Out There

4. What fandoms do you write for?

Star Trek (TOS and AOS) and Zelda (ALBW, FS, BOTW, and LU) currently. But I have also written for LOTR, Supernatural, the Walking Dead, Sherlock, The Boondock Saints, and Harry Potter (lmao regret).

5. Do you respond to comments?

Yes, every single one.

6. Fic with the angstiest ending?

Lol. Lmao, even. I’m not going to say what you think I will here, actually. So I have a WIP, and that one will have the angstiest ending so far. There’s a one-shot of a pilot here: Gale

Base premise is a Koholint retelling with a baby Link (Lore) who had already met the Chain and the entire thing is serbii’s fault and it will end in tears.

As for fully completed fics, the angstiest I have off-anon is probably Frenetīk, Sky’s Adjuration Epilogue and a testament to the aftershocks of grief.

7. Fic with the happiest ending?

The Gravity of Never Letting Go is a disability AU of ST AOS, a real downer of a time, but does end in surprising joy. A bit of a personal vent about accommodation (wrote it as my own disability progressed to the point of actively changing my life plans.)

8. Do you get hate?

[starts laughing and does not stop] Yes!

9. Do you write smut?

I do! And I enjoy it very much.

10. Do you write crossovers?

Not as a rule. Not really my jam, though I have tried my hand at it before.

11. Ever have a fic stolen?

Not to my knowledge!

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes and no. Nothing that is publicly available at the moment, but I have been told of several translations of the Damn Fic that are in progress. To the kind folks attempting such a thing: may the wind be at your back.

13. Have you ever co written a fic?

Yep! @straight-outta-hobbiton and I co-wrote Doubt the Stars, and @gia-d (the breathtakingly beautiful) and I are currently writing Shadowed together.

I have also contributed to the stellar Ganonrulie series, with canon works by @rebornofstars @nyastri and @toyouhellohowareyou

14. All time favorite ship?

As a multishipper this question causes me physical pain. Sprik? Old reliable, Spirk is. Also Ravioli. Gigolas.

15. WIPS you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Head in hands. Every day I tell myself to go work on The Oracular Refrain, and every day I fail. I’ll get there eventually. Please.

16. Writing strengths?

Characterization. Without a doubt. The one thing I know I do well is getting into a character’s head.

17. Writing weaknesses?

Spelling. English is a garbage language made of garbage phonics. I would die without spellcheck. There is probably a typo in this post, even.

18. Thoughts on mixed language dialogue?

Mixed. I tend to write very focused pov so if the narrator knows what’s being said, so does the audience, and I would just specify the language in the dialogue tags rather than make the reader translate.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Ever? I don’t even remember. But my oldest surviving (we don’t talk about the fic purge) work on Ao3 is Learning to Breathe, a Cas-centric Supernatural oneshot. It isn’t good, to this day has a (deserved) comment count of zero, but I was proud of it at the time.

20. Favorite fic you’ve ever written?

Okay how funny would it be if I didn’t say exactly what you think I’ll say? Imagine. *hem, hem.*

This is an Adjuration, or as I (mostly affectionately) call it, The Damn Fic, was the most impactful, life changing, and transformative thing I have ever done, both as a writer in the work, and in real life.

It is a classical tragedy, where the end is set in stone before the characters walk on screen. It is a story about love, and what it means to us, even in the darkest of times. It is a story about Link, every version of him, and the sum that is greater than each of his lives.

It is also where I met the woman I love, in the fucking comment section. We’re moving in together this summer! It’s where a group chat for my readers formed - that is now my group of dearest friends. A bunch of us are going on vacation together this month!

What a wild ride that was, is and—though the narrative has ended—will be.

I will leave you with this: You have to remember the love (this is an adjuration).

…anyhoodle, new victims! No pressure: @straight-outta-hobbiton @gia-d @hotcheetohatredwastaken @needfantasticstories @musical-chan @bokettochild

#freyja writes fic#tag game#this is an adjuration
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Hello and thank you for the last line game tags @hurricane105 and @amelias-calamity-quintet !!

I’m splitting out as the post was getting quite long, also my last line is a doozy:

Link's hands tighten on her breasts and a small groan escapes him.

Anyway, yeah…tagging @cyraclove @unmaskedcardinal @st0rmyskies @portraitofalinkonfyre and anyone else who wants to play!!!

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uhm I’ll have some of whatever Steg’s having please!!

Last line from yesterday, in the o!Sky WIP, Wars is trying to figure out why he’s feeling so tense lately:

Twilight had been acting strange and smelling off for a couple days now, although he couldn’t pinpoint what it was.

And in LMTCOY, Warriors is having a bad time in his own brain:

Volga’s derogatory ‘good boy’ was punctuated with a too-hard pat on his cheek.

Tags for @legends-shorts @autumnalchemist @poodle-anon @violentvioleteye @ghosthoard @sister-dear !! People always say ‘no pressure’ but y’know what no you have until Friday afternoon local or I’m giving you detention.

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Hahahaha what a delightful string of wips to follow on! Been a bit since I worked on mer au so I'm just picking a good line:

Hilda’s face, already tight with displeasure, darkened further. “If that is all you wished to say to me, your presence is neither required nor desired.”

@not-freyja , @batrogers , @rebornofstars , @green--lake

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Thank you for the tag, dear Sister! Have a snippet from LE63ND:

This is… new. This is not how the story goes.
“How could you know that?”
“I… I just imagined it to be so.”
“Link,” Zelda starts, cautious. “You don’t have an imagination.”
There’s a pause, a beat of hesitation. “No,” he answers at last. “I don’t. My mistake, shall I continue the story?”
She is curious, so painfully curious, about where it is that the side tangent was going. It felt like something new, some kernel of forbidden knowledge carefully tucked out of sight of children who are not yet ready to hear it. Not something she has been accustomed to in a long, long time.

New victims: @gia-d @life-in-winter @hotcheetohatredwastaken @needfantasticstories

And anyone else who wants to share!

#tag game#freyja writes fic#LE63ND#wip stuff
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Inspired by chapter 17 of Shadowed by @gia-d and @not-freyja on ao3.

This was such a cozy and absolutly not frightening scene, I just had to draw it!

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OH LORD OP THIS IS SO GOOD THAT SCENE HAS ME IN A CHOKEHOLD.

Like... was it Wind?? Was it one of Wind's own colours?? Was it a shadow pretending to be red?? Was it one of Four's colours inhabiting Wind??? The possibilities are endless and also the whole thing with the other heroes looking into the water and seeing their "true" selves?? And poor Twi was so freaked out by presumably seeing Wolfie... I feel so bad for them all. I really wonder what Wars, Legend and Four saw?

Your art is incredible, the emotions of the whole scene are encapsulated so perfectly! I love the way that the red figure is so clearly a younger, earlier Wind, exactly as he was at the start of Wind Waker. And the light work is just stunning, it's all identical to how it is in OoT!!

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Love how confused I have you guys. Gonna keep you guessing for [checks notes] at least 10 more chapters!

#shadowed#freyja writes fic
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it would be cool if websites let you be an adult on them. the advertisers and payment processors need everything to be Family Friendly though and their definitions of family and friendly are absolutely fucked. but since they're in charge of the Internet now, no one is allowed to be an adult. tiktokers say things like "unalive" and "seggs" because they know death and sex are too adult for online. online is for idiot babies only now because they're easier to market to

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oh im sorry you're a trans adult? super ban. you are super banned for life. you have upset Visa's feelings. Mastercard is throwing up in the corner. how could you do this to Google Ads?

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