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sky-squido · 1 year

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hey important question:

would people actually be interested in reading a fic where wind and legend bond very wholesomely (literally starting out hating each other but then they get really close and it’s adorable) but also i shamelessly explain the entirety of how to celestially navigate in extreme detail?

cuz i just wanted to just have a fun fic where the two bond over both knowing how to navigate, but also each of them gets super disoriented and panicked by one thing they’re not familiar with (time travel, new hemisphere, etc.) and then the other helps them out, and it was gonna be short and simple and straightforward, but that would be incredibly self-indulgent because literally nobody would be able to read it!

like. i want to write this fic. but i could go about this in two ways. one is the inaccessibly self-indulgent way where legend would be like “hey, you can’t get your longitude when you don’t know universal time, and you don’t, because we’ve just time AND space traveled, so our chronometers are completely desynced and the prime meridian is arbitrarily located” and wind would be like “bish, you don’t know ANYTHING—watch me do this lunar distance calculation” and legend would be like “whaaaat? i didn’t know that was a thing” and wind would be like “yeah it’s super hot and sexy but it also requires you having an estimation of your longitude to at least fifteen degrees, and we don’t“ and then legend would be like “so if we just had an estimate of our longitude to fifteen degrees, you’d be good?” and wind would be like “yeah.” and legend would go and figure some stuff out and then come back like “WIND DUDE I GOT IT!!! i did manage to estimate our longitude by taking the magnetic azimuth of rigel during its meridian passage and then using that to calculate the local magnetic variation and cross-referencing THAT against this global variation chart, and by using the latitude we calculated during the noon reduction, we can narrow it down to an area—a relatively broad area, but one we can dramatically narrow down with the lunar distance calculation“ and then wind would be like “woah that’s so clever legend you’re such a genius“ and legend would be like “aw, but i couldn’t have done it without your insane book filled with logarithms that terrifies me to the bone but that you somehow actually know how to use” and wind would be like “dude it’s literally just basic arithmetic, chill,” but legend is hissing like a feral cat and it would be so so fun!!

right, like i think this stuff is SO COOL and it makes me SUPER HAPPY and i wanted to share it in fic form, but that meant making sure people could actually understand what these nerds were talking about without needing to consult a massive explanatory tumblr post, so i was trying to naturally integrate the background information into the dialogue and narration and now i’m thirteen thousand words in and i’m still like “wait, i want to talk about—but first i have to explain—and have i seriously not explained what declination is yet??”

like, i don’t care about this fic being Objectively Good or whatever—there’s a story i want to tell, but i want to tell it in a way people can understand, and that involves explaining my hyperfixation in tons of detail. believe me, i love doing it, i’m just beginning to seriously doubt that anyone is actually going to be able to suffer through this fic and i don’t want to keep going through the effort to explain everything if nobody is actually going to read it except for me, who already knows everything. it’s also really really hard for me to figure out if i’m explaining this stuff well or not because i already understand it and everyone else in my life has had me scream at them about this stuff enough that they know the basics and the terminology.

so, help please!! if you’d wanna read this, please tell me so in the tags (or i guess you could just like the post if you’re shy). if you’d read it, but you don’t actually care if i explain everything and you’d prefer i sacrifice giving you literally any idea what wind and legend are talking about in favor of not wrecking the pacing entirely, please let me know in the notes. if you wanna try beta-reading this thing for comprehensibility, hit me up on discord (@Sky-Squido#4521) and i’ll smack whatever the most recent version of the word doc is and the associated 26d12 psychic damange into your dms.

thanks, guys, and happy new year! i’ll be updating my annual new years fic tonight ^^

#squido rambles #squido's op #squido's navigational escapades #squido asks i guess

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mlnovaoff · 1 year

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f, i, and k?

ohmygod I'm so sorry I took this long to answer!!! ToT But any way

F: Care to share a favorite hurt/comfort fic?

I think I mentioned The Aviary the last time someone asked me this so I'll go with What Hyrule Hadn't Seen by one of my most favorite writers ever Squido. If you haven't read it please go do so it's some very good Hyrule and Legend angst featuring a blind Legend. It really is such a good story, Squido has a way with words I'm telling you please go read!!!!!

I: Do you have a guilty pleasure in fic (reading or writing)?

With reading it depends on the fandom I guess, as a whole I'm such a sucker for the fake dating AUs/ idiots to lovers--bonus points if it' enemies-to-idiots-to-lovers

With writing I don't know why but recently I've become really attached to platonic affection and comfort. Tell your friends you love them cowards, give them all the hugs and maybe a kiss on the top of their head, hold their hand too

K: What’s the angstiest idea you’ve ever come up with?

Ha. For fics? What I have in store for once the nightmares are finally over in Their Melody or what I have planned for A Blink of an Eye are pretty up there. :) Or here's this, some free Wind angst CW mcd, sorry

Don't look up.

The now-grown hero who was once known as Wind by friends across time had cradled his arms over his companion's head as she held onto the mast of their ship for dear life. All to protect her as much as he possibly could from the debris of another ship being thrown onto theirs by the harsh waves surrounding them. A terrible storm with low visibility had caused the two ships to crash into one another.

Don't look up.

He had begged her, Tetra. She was a strong woman--much stronger than himself--but the desire to protect and keep her safe had only grown stronger with age.

Don't look up.

He didn't want her to see the destruction with her own eyes. To see the ocean tearing her dear ship apart and sending her crew overboard.

Don't look up.

He couldn't speak any longer. Not as he came face-to-face with a wave much taller than the mast the two of them clung to.

Don't look up.

He squeezed his eyes shut and held onto her so tightly as he braced himself.

Don't look up.

Came his last thought as the monster wave crashed down on their ship.

Don't look up.

#writing asks #that i totally did not forget about #linked universe #linkeduniverse #lu #plus some wind angst #as a treat #i think i wanted to make a series of it at one point #don't look up #i might make it one #who knows with me #cw mcd #:)

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