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brightknightie) wrote2025-04-26 08:37 am
brightknightie) wrote2025-04-26 08:37 am
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New TLOZ fanpoem by me: "First Comes Choice"
I've been working on a The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword poem in my hobby time from March through this week; I posted it this morning. (Now, full pivot to the fest!)
"First Comes Choice"
G, gen, no warnings apply
~450 words
Hylia, Hylia's Chosen Hero | Link, Implied Impa, Mentioned Demise
Missing scene, Eternity, Samsara, Free will, Hyrulean myth
Summary: Gravely wounded, Hylia puts her plans into motion. When she takes a leap of faith, who chooses whom?
Posting this poem makes me smile, first, by raising "The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms" to 4 entries on the AO3 for me, finally pushing all fandoms with 3 "below the fold" and achieving a consistent display of my top 5 that suits me today. Yay!
(I've wanted a certain fandom to stop popping up there without removing its works, which were gifts; as you know, fandoms with the same number of works sort randomly, not alphabetically or sequentially, apparently rolling the dice once per day. Achieving this new, stable, visible order has been a fannish resolution of mine for two years running.)
Of the poem itself, I really enjoyed getting to burrow into it at this particular time. Its main level is the specific missing scene in TLOZ canon, from the mists of its own legends, that the Edenic era of Hylia ends and the cycle of history starts, on which I hope that I found a nice twist that I hope satisfies readers. One of the epithets for Link is "Hylia's Chosen Hero;" I decided to make it a much more mutual choosing, and surface an act of free will for Link (the Spirit of the Hero) beyond and beside any imposed destiny.
There's also a level on which I anchored Hyrulean myth to real theological concepts, which gave me a different kind of reflective space from Lent into Easter this year. A line from Christina Rossetti's elegy on the death of Cardinal Newman (1890) -- “Yea, take thy fill of love, because thy will / Chose love not in the shallows but the deep” -- inspired the poem. I hope no one would feel, in context, that I'm disrespecting reality by my imagination paralleling Newman's profound choice for Christ with Link's (well, the Spirit of the Hero's) choice of Hylia.
Thank you very much for reading this chatter! I really appreciate it. ♥
"First Comes Choice"
G, gen, no warnings apply
~450 words
Hylia, Hylia's Chosen Hero | Link, Implied Impa, Mentioned Demise
Missing scene, Eternity, Samsara, Free will, Hyrulean myth
Summary: Gravely wounded, Hylia puts her plans into motion. When she takes a leap of faith, who chooses whom?
Posting this poem makes me smile, first, by raising "The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms" to 4 entries on the AO3 for me, finally pushing all fandoms with 3 "below the fold" and achieving a consistent display of my top 5 that suits me today. Yay!
(I've wanted a certain fandom to stop popping up there without removing its works, which were gifts; as you know, fandoms with the same number of works sort randomly, not alphabetically or sequentially, apparently rolling the dice once per day. Achieving this new, stable, visible order has been a fannish resolution of mine for two years running.)
Of the poem itself, I really enjoyed getting to burrow into it at this particular time. Its main level is the specific missing scene in TLOZ canon, from the mists of its own legends, that the Edenic era of Hylia ends and the cycle of history starts, on which I hope that I found a nice twist that I hope satisfies readers. One of the epithets for Link is "Hylia's Chosen Hero;" I decided to make it a much more mutual choosing, and surface an act of free will for Link (the Spirit of the Hero) beyond and beside any imposed destiny.
There's also a level on which I anchored Hyrulean myth to real theological concepts, which gave me a different kind of reflective space from Lent into Easter this year. A line from Christina Rossetti's elegy on the death of Cardinal Newman (1890) -- “Yea, take thy fill of love, because thy will / Chose love not in the shallows but the deep” -- inspired the poem. I hope no one would feel, in context, that I'm disrespecting reality by my imagination paralleling Newman's profound choice for Christ with Link's (well, the Spirit of the Hero's) choice of Hylia.
Thank you very much for reading this chatter! I really appreciate it. ♥