A message from Anonymous

hey me again, sorry about this i'm basically new to Zelda fandom and don'r have a clue how stuff works. I think I basically assumed the first list was all ask so was looking for ask/RP and general Zelda blogs

((Oh! Well, welcome to the fandom! :D

My suggestion for finding more ask/rp blogs would be to find one that has the list of blogs that it follows visible (like Tri-kun’s Dark), and just spring from there. Some of those blogs will be following other blogs as well, and you can check those out. (That’s actually how I got myself integrated with the community here a little more than a year ago!) That should definitely help you find a lot of ask/rp blogs that may have updated recently and continue to do so regularly. Again, since I haven’t been really active on this one, I don’t have a very good idea of who is and isn’t active at the moment.

I’ll throw down a few links (hurrhurr) for some of the blogs that I follow that post a good bit of Zelda content but aren’t necessarily ask or roleplay blogs. 

Fuck Yeah Classic Link (this blog posts content related to the games that came before Ocarina of Time)

Zelda Remixes (if you’re looking for music)

And actually…I just found this while searching, so I’m going to give you what appears to be a fairly comprehensive masterlist of Zelda-related (non-ask/rp) blogs on tumblr. Or at least a really, really huge one. So go nuts with that. XD

If you’ve got nothing better to do, I would also recommend perusing various Zelda-related tags. Granted, you’ll find a lot of people just reposting art, but if you look at the poster’s url, it may be Zelda-related, which would suggest that they at least post a fair bit of content. However, if you’re looking for blogs that post only Zelda stuff, I guess just stick to the master list.

Again, welcome to the fandom! If you want to talk more—and I’d be happy to talk more with you—I’m going to point you in the direction of my personal blog for further asks, okay? c: It’s my pleasure to help you start exploring the fandom more, but I do want to keep this blog more for ask/rp related things. I’ve got anon turned on at my personal if you still want to keep that up.

So yeah. Hopefully that was more of what you were looking for, and if you’ve got more questions/want to talk more about things, feel free to shoot me an ask on my personal!))

A message from Anonymous

so hey big thanks fot the list of RP blogs, don't suppose you could do one last favour and help me with cool non-RP Zelda blogs?

((…I’m pretty sure most of those were non-rp blogs? 

I think most of the ones I mentioned were primarily ask blogs. Relic and Tri do (or did, at least) a fair amount of rp, but they had side blogs for that. I can’t remember ever seeing Majora have a roleplay post. I think Kenzie had an rp blog too. Though the HMS blog I linked to does combine rp and ask into one.

I’ll be honest, hon: I’m not quite sure what you’re after here. Are you asking for blogs that are purely ask blogs, with zero roleplay or external interaction? Because I can’t remember the last time I saw a blog like that here. Even those of us who have a fairly strict headcanon/story that the blog is following—like Celtic’s Phantom Link, who she’s deliberately keeping true to her creepypasta fanfic—will interact with others in some way. (I use Celtic as an example because I remember loooong ago, we had Nabooru and PL talking to each other after I sent her an ask.) So if you’re looking for a blog that only posts with the character interacting with the asker, you might be SOL. We’re pretty chummy around here.

So, yeah. I’m not quite sure what it is you’re asking for me to help you find. Could you explain, please? o3o))

A message from Anonymous

(technically not a LoZ question but w/e) what ask or RP Zelda blogs are actually still up and running?

((I…have no idea. I really don’t know. I rarely check this blog anymore, and this is the one I use to keep tabs on the community. Far as I can tell, we’ve gone pretty quiet.

I do know that Tri-kun’s got a new Dark Link blog that updates with some frequency. And naturally, Relic has a counterpart blog to it.

Every time I come here to check things, Ask Majora seems to have posted something, so I guess that’s another active blog. A-Happiness-Salesman has updated recently as well. I think Kenzie still updates her Midna blog too.

I don’t follow many roleplay blogs, unfortunately; for me, rp has always been a very personal thing, so I generally tend to assume it’s personal for other people as well, and thus don’t really follow their roleplays. But I do know some people who are really, really into rp follow me. Any of you who are still active and see this, feel free to reply to the post saying so. I’ll make up a list later today or possibly tomorrow and post it?

It’s been said time and time again that those of us who run ask blogs depend on our followers for update material, and it’s true. When the fandom is at a lull, fandom-related blogs tend to do the same. The LoZ fandom’s a bit quiet at the moment; people who follow our ask blogs aren’t as hyped up and excited about the series as they might be when, say, a new game is released, and aren’t taking as much of an interest in the characters we portray. And while that’s a bit disappointing to those of us who are really excited with our blogs, it’s also understandable. 

Rp-centric blogs run a bit more independently—particularly those of OCs, who don’t get nearly as much love as canon characters—but their activity depends a lot on the roleplayers’ availability and muse. Writing is fickle business, believe me. If they’re busy with schoolwork, they might not have much time to roleplay. 

I think a combination of lack of activity from followers and lack of availability for blog-runners has just sort of combined to put things on hold. Again, I haven’t really been keeping up with the community much of late, but I’d be amazed if all these other ask/rp blogs just decided to shut down all at once. I think it’s far more likely that the community’s…not really dead so much as dormant.

We had a huge burst of activity when Skyward Sword was released, because everyone was excited about LoZ and wanted to get involved in the fandom again. There also tends to be more activity during the summer months. We’ve got that coming up, and as more information gets released about the ALttP sequel, I’m sure the fandom will get excited and the community here will start revving up again.))