chamofleur

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Aquadacious
@Aquadacious asked:

what's one webcomic/internet piece where you think back on it and go "man, that was pretty good way back when, but I wonder if it still holds up?" and then you accidentally shotgun the whole piece again in a daze and then go "ooooh yeaaaah STILL GOOD" ?

oh this is a good question... weirdly enough, i was not super huge into webcomics in my middle school years. there are two specific "internet pieces" i will mention that i sometimes still think about to this day:

  1. there was this twilight princess series on fanfiction.net that had the most insane prose i have ever read on that website. the author titled it "the moments trilogy" which i think started as an innocent sort of oneshot, but then it evolved into this gritty postgame AU where midna never changes back into her normal form and she and link and the population of kakariko village have to wage war against king bulbin's forces and then zelda decides to turn against the common hylian and i cannot even BEGIN to describe how crazy it gets, but it is a wild ride from beginning to end. it was peak 2007 energy and i say this in the best way possible. i occasionally come back to it from time to time and am surprised at how well the prose has held up (ymmv on the story). that author was IN COLLEGE when they wrote that series and i do hope they ended up writing novels of their own because i imagine their writing skills got exponentially better from there.

  2. this probably isn't quite what you're looking for but. there was this short persona 4 souji x yosuke comic on tumblr that i used to re-read... it is probably lost to the sands of time at this point, but it was basically the concept of yosuke going back in time whenever he screwed up the p4 timeline and after some number of loops he just loses it on the first day of meeting souji and says something along the lines of "i've loved you a hundred times in a hundred worlds but i have no idea how to get it right" and the style and the expressions were just so well done. thinking about it still gives me a good kick in the feelings, which is pretty impressive because that game aged like milk to me.


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Ohhh, that Persona 4 comic sounds so familiar... though my feelings on the series is well-curdled by this point, I gotta say, the games really have been a fantastic springboard for some excellent fanwork.

ahhh i'm glad i'm not the only one who remembers it!! and they really have!! the writing of the actual games is...Not Great, yeah, and i feel like they desperately need to hire some women and/or sensitivity reviewers on their writing team if they plan to make any more of them, but some of the fanworks that have come out of p3-p5 fan communities have kicked ass. i still like checking them out from time to time

What inspired this question was me remembering about 'Lady of the Shard' like a week ago, but after reading this it awakened the memory of this one Ocarina of Time comic on tumblr (too many) years ago that was about Adult Link, still fresh from being understandably scarred from the Under Well, having a messy rematch with the Shadow Temple Dead Hand. It really nailed the tone of "oh yeah, Link really is a ten year old piloting an adult body" that I wished OoT struck harder sometimes. Its epilogue of Sage Impa looking through the Lens of Truth, seeing lil Link through it, and the sad smile on her face before she gives it back to him is peak "oof my heart"/chef kiss.

Finding it again is gonna be hell, but I'd like to think it'll still hold up, haha

oh!! i have read lady of the shard!! it's extremely good so i do not blame you at all. i should give it another read soon, it's been a minute...

also that OoT comic sounds cool as heck??? if you ever do end up finding it lemme know, i'd love to read it!!