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September LU Community Write-a-Thon Round Up: 405,699 Words in One Day!

Welcome back to another roundup! In this fourth monthly Write-a-thon, held September 1st from 12 am to 12 am, we had 73 writers join us in our game to write as many productive words as humanly possible. And these amazing writers put their heads down, picked their pencils up (or keyboards, as appropriate), and slammed out over 400,000 words! This is an amazing accomplishment, thank you all so much for coming — this month was a blast!

Directly below are the general statistics for this month (so much credit to the lovely @zarvasace) followed by the Winner’s Circle, Clubs and the Superlatives sorted in alphabetical order. This month, the statistics and clubs were self-reported through submission sheets — superlatives, as every month, were assigned by other members of the event. Thanks again to @zarvasace for putting together all of our lovely spreadsheets, to the mods for helping us run this event, and to all of you for coming!

Winner’s Circle (Top 5 Most Wordiest)

At 25,354 words, “Writer of all Time” goes to @haloburns! This new moderator has managed to blow everyone out of the water with an absolutely STAGGERING count! Amazing job, can’t wait to work with them next month!

At 21,318 words, “The Documentation” goes to @irenkaferalkitty, for managing to break 20,000 words and amazing everyone with the detailed spreadsheets and documents!

At 20,602 words, “Long Hauler” goes to @hytiaa in honor of their third-place victory and the sheer amount of words they managed over only 24 hours! 

At 20,588 words, “So Incredibly Fast” goes to @glowingmin! Are you sure you had a pen in your hand instead of a bolt of lightning?!

At 18,650 words, “The Studious” goes to @nebulapaws. You’ve channeled all your energy into writing this month, and you’ve got a veritable novel of words to show for it!

Clubs

This month was our second month of clubs! In these, participants were allowed to come together and find common ground around a chosen topic or theme. These clubs were completely public, so anyone could join the fun and combine their word counts for some friendly competition. Thank you all for playing, check out your stats below!

🧀 Cheese Cult 🧀

Easy, peasy, and cheesy!

“Pathetic Wet Cat” goes to @cinis0 as sincerely nominated by themselves.

“Skip’s Suitor A” goes to @hotcheetohatredwastaken, who also earned “Doing Gouda.” Seems the cheese cult managed to drag the cheese into it! Currently fighting Freyja for Skip’s hand.

“The Evil Mastermind” goes to @imperialkatwala for your wonderfully painful Fierce Deity Malon snippets!

“Star of the Show” goes to @lunaopus for getting over 1000 stars, more than double the second place most starred person, and breaking our out-of-context channel!

“Model Citizen” goes to @maddrumsticks who would, quote: “never think of taking a bribe to stay in the Cheese cult with cheese sculptures of Ravio and the very accusation is slander.”

Additionally: @life-in-winter, @lennsart, @labyrinthdancer.

🕶️ New Blood 🕶️

All first-time participants in the Write-A-Thon, but what a word count!

“Whump Enjoyer” goes to @twists-and-turns, I’m sure they know what they did.

Additionally: @glowingmin and @hytiaa both in the Winner’s circle!

👣 Stardust Crusaders 👣

“For the love god… DROP THE MEAT” (This is an inside joke that’s incomprehensible to the mods)

“Time Traveler” goes to @marsnoodlesoup whose last message before chats closed was a Happy New Year one! Anything you want to warn us about?

“Honorary Insomniac” goes to @sodapop-glitch, who went to sleep late enough to deserve an honorary place in the all-nighter club!

Additionally:

@nebulapaws from the winner's circle!

🐰Ravio Fan club!!🐰

For those of you that love bunnies, purple, and most importantly, money. 

The organizer of this club, @baileyboo2016, earned “Cult Leader.” and “I thought you were Ravio, turns out you’re just Shadow” because the Build-a-Four needed a Shadow and you were the funniest option!

“Skip’s Suitor 1” and “Stressed Out Parent” go to @not-freyja, who was mostly just already stressed about NaNoWriMo. Also fighting Cheeto for Skip’s hand.

“Idolatry’s Spokesperson” goes to @tashacee, in honor of her gleeful taunting of the already agonized readers after the last chapter.

“Is this a Robbery, a Ravio Impersonation, or Just Capitalism?” goes to @winterfen for changing their screen name to “Hand your rupees over right now.”

🌘All Nighters🌘

For those of you that, despite multiple requests to take a break, buckled down to get that word count. Sleep is for the weak.

“Cheerleader” goes to @nancyheart11 for her constant encouragement and support of her fellow writers!

“Crack Extraordinaire” and “The Memer” go to @whatvioletdoes-blog who made enough memes during the event to break a personal record (13 in a day)!

“Spreadsheet Artiste” goes to @zarvasace for the gorgeous spreadsheets everyone loved!

🧼Soap Club🧼

The organizers still do not endorse eating inedible things. 

“Word Goal Sharpshooter” goes to @hyrulescarlet who aimed for the same word count as last month and finished with the exact number!

“Silent Leader” goes to @shadedheart138 who came in, started a soap club, and said nothing else.

Additionally: @anime-obsessed, @bluury2, @druidbottles and @starlight-eclipsed. 

Fierce Deity Fanclub

They’re all masked up and ready to go!

“Fierce Deity Dance Crew” goes to @musical-chan for their dancing FD gifs, and they also earned “Time Traveler” for their references to last year’s Write-A-Thon (we are… three months in…) and warnings that February's Write-a-thon will end in disaster.

Additionally: @artsyanonymity and @cat-at-a-writing-desk. 

🍞Bread Club🍞

Everyone gets a Brog! (A.K.A. Bread 👍)

“Permanently Exhausted Pigeon” goes to @nyastri, who despite not being in the all-nighter club, only slept 4 hours in the entire event.

“The Words of Wisdom” goes to @wildlysilver for giving some really good advice during the event! It was very appreciated.

Additionally: @toyouhellohowareyou.

🐭The Cheesus Church🐭

“Cheesus is the Way, The Truth and the Light.”  

“Reat Jesus” and “Angst Lord” go to @sketchy-potato who spent the last two events killing off every character they could get their hands on.

Additionally: @lemoncatssss.

👻Spooky Club🎃

Embrace the Spooky: Set your Skeleton free today! (The moderators do not support freeing the skeleton, though, it’s better off imprisoned)

“Aimed for Funny Number” goes to @harmonysixx, who went for exactly 666 words. Spooky!

“Leader of Spooky Club” goes to @somanyfanficssolittletime, and all of that time is spooky time!

“Club Collector” and “Extracurricular Extraordinaire” go to @vivalaplutothedachshund, who was also the second in command of the soap club, loves cheese and slept so little they could have been in the all-nighter club.

🐦Skyloft Knight Academy🐦

Write Like the Wind, Crimson! 

“Four When Not Split” goes to @four-eyed-nerd, who is apparently just regular Four.

“The Silent One” and “Stressed Out Parent” go to @silvrash-797, who still managed to write a bunch around… 2.9 kids? 

Additionally: @artemistorm and @emberlylion. 

Everyone else

She may have only been “There in Spirit”, but this month @a-manicured-lawn got the best award of all: “Touching Grass.” Good job.

“Cheese Sculptor” goes to @aurora-boreas-borealis for bribing someone with… a cheese sculpture of Ravio, to not jump ship on the Cheese Cult for the Ravio Club. I am still waiting on those pictures.

“Keyboardist” goes to @bittirsweeteer for their amazing self-made setup. It has Ravio in it. Guys Ravio is in their keyboard. He dances and everything.

“Tried Something New” is a shiny badge of honor for @bluevaractyl because quote, “They came in during the last 8 hours and still wrote words!!! go Blue <3”

“Schrodinger’s Cat” is apparently @gerudoevernight and the only explanation given there was “Because I can :)” …or can you? Have to check.

“Bookbinder of the Year” goes to @gia-d for her gorgeous work on making fics into physical books people can hold in their hands. Also “Americanismized” for struggling through writing a fic with an American co-author… and an Australian spell check.

“Slow and Steady (WPM)” goes to @hyrulescarlet for taking breaks to take care of themself! Exercise! Stretch! Good job!

“Deus Ex Machina Herself” goes to @needfantasticstories since this whole operation is actually her fault. Good job Skip. And with how many people you have fighting for your hand, you are also voted this month’s “Prom Queen.”

“Lost in the Sauce” goes to @passerinesoncaffeine who rolled into the event late… because they were reading fic. Well done. You got the spirit.

“Assigned Beer by Starwolfie” goes to @rebornofstars, who is apparently not a bee anymore!

“Aimed for the Funny Number” also goes to @savimatteo2810, who went for exactly 69 words (nice!).

“Silent, Happy in her Lane” and “Focused” go to @sunny-porridge, who was largely silent but consistently joined sprints.

“Silent One” goes to @sydneymaxstripe, who didn’t talk but still did a great job!

“Aimed for Funny Number” goes to @the-au-collector, who aimed for and reached 666 words!

“Rhythm Writer” goes to @weavingstarlight, whose prose, quote: reads like it has been set to music and is truly gorgeous.”

“Plotter” goes to @woahtherebuckerino, who plotted out an entire new multi-chapter fic instead of working on their many WIPs.

Ending Notes

Thank you all for coming this month! If you find any typos or mistakes in this post—please feel free to contact @hotcheetohatredwastaken with your concerns here on tumblr or on discord!

We’d like to give a BIG thanks to the mod team: @not-freyja, @hotcheetohatredwastaken, @a-manicured-lawn, @tashacee, @winter-fen, @gia-d, @haloburns, @whatvioletdoes-blog, @weavingstarlight, @rebornofstars, @zarvasace, @artemistorm! Go give them all your love! We’ll have some announcements soon about next month, be sure to keep an eye out! We can’t wait to see you all next month!

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Fanfic prompt: there are quite some fics that portray the windwaker as a literal conductor

And have wind use the abilities of the windwaker

Like the sky gets darker when he gets upset

It rains if he is sad

And it storms if he is angry

But like controlling the wind is not the only ability of the windwaker

You can change day and night with the song of passing

You can also straight up command people (command melody)

And in phantom hourglass you can control time and see ghosts

Like imagine him having an actual panic attack from the point of view of like Wild who already experienced a big calamity

Like there is a hurricane appearing

The sun and moon are fighting for their spot on the sky (till it ends up a solar eclipse)

The wind is strong enough that actual boulders are flying off the ground

And you feel something commanding you to go there (wind really wants someone to stop him )

The time in several places is going out of control

And on top of that your ghost friends are freaking out because of something

You are convinced that that is divine punishment

And that the world will end

Like imagine the sheer shock that any of the chain will experience when it turns out to be wind

fuck being cringe. make cat ocs with angel wings and too many colors. put rainbows on everything you can. make them edgy without any reason and give them heterochromia and no parents. make them weird and yes I mean weird in the way that some people may not like or understand. art is an expression of the self and if your self is a fat wolf with tiddies and he/it/xeno pronouns then fuck yea dude. idk where I’m going with this just be cringe for the love of god. and if others are being cringe and having their best life fucking leave them alone we are not going to tell people what they can or can’t do with their cringe

Just finished Skyward Sword! And I finished A Link Between Worlds a few days ago.

So, double post time! I'll start with ALBW because I had a few days to sit on that one.

Also just realized that with the completion of Skyward Sword, I have officially played and completed every 3D Zelda game! YIPPEEE!

(Long post below the cut!! Along with major spoilers for both aforementioned games!)

Ravio is SO SILLY. Though, he's already talked about a lot. Anything I could say about him has probably already been said.

But hey, I can't help but really like this silly guy who stole my house and all my rupees, okay? He's a little rascal.

So instead, I love Hilda having a clear motivation behind her actions. She is just trying to restore her kingdom. She wants her people to thrive. But she turned to the triforce instead of trying to find better meds to maybe help her people. Though the place was literally breaking apart, so maybe there really wasn't anything else that would've worked.

The story of this game is really heavy in the last 30 minutes, and that's really it. Before that it's just dungeons. Oh, and helping Ravio retire. I absolutely LOVED that XD

So, the distribution of the story could've been done better. But really, this game is so underrated for a Zelda game. Also, the whole moving through walls thing is super fun. LOVED that mechanic. Altogether, great game.

Okay, on to Skyward Sword!

SO good. This game does NOT deserve all of the negativity the surrounded it for some reason. Sure, I used button controls (I couldn't figure out motion controls for the life of me pff) but STILL! I think the Switch version definitely made it easier on me. Though idk what the Wii version is like so I shouldn't be trying to compare them lol.

On to non-gameplay stuff, the dungeons were so cleverly designed. As someone who is not particularly smart, I never found myself super stuck in the dungeons. Instead, I had a lot of fun with them! That's always a plus with me, but I don't find too much shame in looking up a walkthrough here or there.

Story! So fun! I loved Groose's character arc especially. I totally despised him at first but he reached silly status pretty quickly. His character was handled really well, too. He didn't just flip personalities. He showed his flip through his actions, not his words. Which for Groose is a perfect choice.

Also, Ghirahim is SUCH a theatre kid. Nothing can change my mind on that. (And before anyone gets mad, I'M a theatre kid. I know what we act like.)

I find it interesting that the whole game only takes place in three regions that you visit over and over again. Other Zelda games have done this before, but I think Skyward Sword does it the most. I loved all the regions, but tbh I think the forest was the most boring to me. The Ancient Cistern was cool though. I won't deny that. Also, Eldin was probably the most traumatizing for Sky. SO many bad things happened there lol. Like being burned because of how hot it is, then finding chains Zelda has definitely been bound in, being told he was too late. Then he comes back later and not much traumatizing stuff that time. Maybe getting chased by lava, probably not lasting trauma, just scary for a minute lol. But when he comes back a final time, the volcano erupts, covering the sky in ash and leaving him with no return to the sky. To make matters worse, he gets beaten up and captured by monsters and all his stuff was stolen. Wow I just wrote a lot about Eldin pfff

Sadly, I already knew about the whole Zelda is Hylia thing. I kinda wish I hadn't known that. That cutscene probably would've been cooler if I played this game in the complete dark.

Also, Link is so subtly expressive in this game. He actually has facial expressions! I love how at the end of the game, you can SEE Link's determination. You can see his desire to cut Demise down and save his world. I LOVE his expressiveness!

One thing I didn't know was that Demise was the Imprisoned. That actually surprised me.

Then there's Impa. I already figured out that the Old Lady was Impa before the reveal. So that was just "I called it." But here's the silly part about that cutscene: I read fanfic saying she died once. But of course I let my guard down. I believed that the author had Impa die from Ghirahim hitting her. And so, literally one text box away from the scene, I sent my sister in law a text like "lol, idk why I thought Impa dies. She's literally been here the whole time."

I had to send a text probably two seconds late saying "nvm, she died."

Whoopsies, silly me XD

Last thing I wanna say! (I think.) The whole lightning in the end battle is SICK! And now all the lighting scars people give Sky make sense. That's probably one of my favorite scar headcanons, honestly. That and Wild's blast scar. Also love giving Twilight a nasty arm scar, but I'm getting off track.

So yeah! Those are my silly disjointed thoughts on both the games I finished recently! Now I only have 2D games left to play. My list became so much smaller! It went from having ten games to just five.

Just have the Oracles games, Link's Awakening, the original and Adventure of Link to play! (I'm debating which one to start with. Probably the Oracles games to I can get Legend's character down better.)

Yay! Wall of text!