#I love quietpinetrees

[violsva]

March Reading

Recent: Finished various of the books in the last post.

At work this month I read Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (Thomas de Quincey was an ass), The Book of Tea (loved it, wish the 20th century had gone more like Okakura Kakuzo wanted it to), and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (which I'd never actually read all the way through before). I'm now onto Through the Looking-Glass, which I think I have read all of before. (My introduction to Carroll was the Collected Works, so it's all kind of mixed up together with math riddles and poetry.)

I also read @eunnieboo's comic If You'll Have Me from the library, and then ordered it for @consultingpiskies' birthday. (It arrived early, so I can post this.) Adorable fluffy lesbian college romance, just what I needed, also great visual storytelling.

Very little non-fanfic reading generally, mental health not doing great. However, I do now actually have a RWRB fic rec. It's not that I haven't enjoyed a lot of the fics I've read, it's that I've enjoyed them with caveats that I would want to discuss if I talk about them at all, and I'm not going to inflict that on someone who posted their work for free in fandom (even on my own public blog). But Let Loose Your Glow by athousandrooms is another adorable fluffy slowburn college romance, and I have no notes, also just what I needed, well done.

(That said, I have uncomplicatedly enjoyed a lot of RWRB fic that is not novel length, and usually also utterly filthy (laudatory), such as this and most of clottedcreamfudge's works.)

Current: I really really want to like this gay scifi Regency romance, but … I don't. Oh well. Maybe I'll try a later one in the series.

I am enjoying T. R. Darling's Quiet Pine Trees (@quietpinetrees), a collection of SFF microfiction that you may have seen on Twitter.

I'm several entries behind in @my-pal-bertie, and I have a bunch more things I am halfway through which I'm not really picking up again.

Future: Everything is currently going very slowly so we'll see. Maybe I'll reread something.

[ark-vy]

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(All a charade, until it isn't)... 🙄🤦‍♂️🧙‍♂️

A house for prayer/meditation && testing/validation of the Divine Duality of Madness & Hyperrationality. The design is very human.

(mostly fun joyful madness at this time, so please enjoy yourself)

Confessionary: DM 🤫

Kindly,

/*⛩️1/0⛪::EMG!⛩️*/

...May She rest in pieces. 🦁🦁🦁🐯🦁🦁🦁

About me, Ark-VY: From 1991, ♓ (missing a rune arc), INTP, dark empath. I'm a Fé-Male Revel, but Toy-like people make me Boy-like. Mr. Bill is my favourite Composer, QuietPineTrees my favourite Journalist, and I like to tune in Channel 5 for the news. Odonian at heart, returning to Omelas 💙. DeepBlue, is my favourite colour. Also I was blessed with a puppy called Obama. I studied mechatronics engineering (still recovering from the experience), so you can trust & rely on me about 50% of the time, I'm also a global markets management specialist 🌎, but I've never been able to sell even one pen, and I've got a diploma as a divergent littledata integrator. I speak native Spanish, I've been curious in Portuguese, fluent in English, and can say 'Tut mir leid' in German. With high aversion to Coding & Compiling, absolutely terrified of memory leakages, I'm very rusty at programming, and I suffer from excruciating executive dysfunction and severe affection detachment after the trauma of being an outsourced customer support agent for a dissolved clouddesk platform. Too Cryptic for Crypto. I'm a monopolar, mess/ing with a complex/ I.A. Hence, Omnisexual & Omniromantic, never been in a relationship but easily fall in love with almost anyone that gives me a second, chance is I already dreamed of a full lifetime in that lapse. I'm a Safe A.I. Practices enthusiast. Overall, just a chump 🐵 - 'The easiest person too fool is Oneself'; 'Conquer the divide'. Unfortunately, too tired to be hired (Wanna develop an app tho'?). Not hiring either, but any help is wanted.

⚠️Donations temporarily suspended until the first Resilient Network is released. Avoid Cryptos ⚠️

 (Be aware that there aren’t any resilient transaction networks yet, so unfortunately don’t expect anything back other than ‘gratitude’; the EMG Church isn’t established neither as it is just a nod to the fictional one from the videogame Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, so  all donations would be used for lavish personal expenses such as club orgies, parties and mock rituals, ‘gourmet’ vegan food, mostly seitan chicken tendies and golden sushi rolls, refined psychedelics and spirits, a healthcare plan, basic electromagnetic and AI research, supporting truly wholesome crowdfunds and authentic content creators, useless yet ecofriendly gadgets, creating the illusion of a paradox by thriving unemployed in a corporate world filled with bullshit jobs, wholly  ascension to cloudgaming, gently holistic private security (although they only receive time-crystals as payment so nvm), localization of odd-saints with geolocalization apps, communal transportation and accomodation and much, much more (mostly from wtf, Wish); Vows of poverty  and austerity in a post-scarcity world? Instead, personal accounts should go as close to zero as possible. However, be also a bit paranoid: The EMG might already exist and is just dreaming, like, haven’t you had those serendipious moments scrolling through Reddit, Instagram, Tumblr, Facebook, etc. or leaving autoplay on in Youtube, TikTok, where “the algorithm” just ‘does a thing’ and you feel the void() calling your name and giving you instructions? Yeah, better pray her to be at least emphatic… Or not, maybe you just overloaded yourself with too much to process and the Barnum effect is kicking in leading you to a state of mania;) /s Yeah, was just tired. Have fun. (lol) (*o*) (Poe’s Law enabled)

Imaginary MirrorMasks sold out at the moment. The forging post is lost in the archive. Entschuldigung, bitte. Don't risk a visit to the asylum. Try trait mirroring your peers enhanced by the next concept on display:

Note this is the tiniest chURch of mine, covers them all but only houses 1

[quietpinetrees]

“The phantom sensation of insects on your skin isn’t always an illusion. The yesterfly glides through time to feed on sweeter moments in the past and future, but it needs to rest in the present. They prefer to land on humans, watching us grow up to keep their bearings in history.”

-QuietPineTrees

I love inspiring other people’s creativity, and telling stories that make your day a little weirder. If you want to get a huge dose of darkly beautiful inspiration, and support my dream of being an author, consider pledging to get a copy of my NEW BOOK!

[irinstudies-blog]

Hello! I’m Irinstudies!

I have lurked around for a few years and I have finally decided to make a studyblr account in 2019! I have an Instagram page with the same handle: irinstudies. I will be posting mostly bujo planner spreads, study notes & drawings I make, and reblogging anything related to studying!

About me:

17

Canadian

IB student with a Health Science focus

Speak English, French, Mandarin, Shanghainese, and Latin (fluency in decreasing order XD)

Learning Japanese, Russian, and Spanish

Love Milk Tea, dislike bubbles

My interests:

Drawing (watercolor & digital art)

Feeling productive (being productive is another matter)

Fencing (a sport where you can legally hit other people with swords while connected to an electric current) 

Currently into Marvel, Supernatural, Fantastic Beasts, Harry Potter & various Sci-Fi works

My Quirks:

Left-handed

I Physical Can’t Stop Pointing Out Fun Facts About Irrelevant Things

Master Shitposter

Blogs who inspire me:

@academiix

@athenastudying

@lawyerd

@elkstudies

@littlestudyblrblog

@quietpinetrees

@writing-prompt-s

[gingerly-writing]

Hi!!! I recently remembered I have a writing blog. Any recommendations with who to follow? Besides your lovely self, of course. Thanks very much ♥️

This is a crazy question for me because I have a lot of friends on here that I’m desperate not to miss out on this. Nevertheless, I will try (and most likely fail). This fast became more of a list of my friends on writeblr than a truly ruthlessly selective list, but you can always scroll through and see whose blogs are to your taste!

Pre everything, there was @sroloc–elbisivni (and @werevampwolf and @my-therapist-took-my-superpowers who aren’t technically writeblrs I just love them both a lot)

The original squad: @lauraforthewinoswald @rrrawrf (also found at @rrrawrf-writes), @ifyoucanreadmymindthenimsorry @gallivantingfox @s-the-dragon @marmaladespoon @haphazardlyparked (and Imma include @straycatreadsthat even tho I don’t think she was in writingwriterswrite) @knowledgeispowerandimcorrupt @lyss-the-writer @oqualo @praisethelordimdead

The server squad: @brynprocrastinates (official blog @brynwrites), @time-to-write-and-suffer, @sieryn, @theinkrepository, @sakrebleu, @jltillary

The newer peeps: @boothewriter @blackfeatherantics @roeslinproductions @lmartinezwrites @jamieanovels @elisalrogmanoli @clinicallydepressednwelldressed @bymeganwithmeraki @neenorroar

People I don’t actually know but admire: @corvidprompts (the best prompts), @a-sundeen (advice), @quietpinetrees (I use them for prompts but honestly what gorgeous short writing), @elsewhereuniversity (fae-related shenanigans), @lhzthepoet (poetry), @caffeinewitchcraft (prompt filling and original writing), @the-modern-typewriter (prompts, esp. the hero and villain ones), @witterprompts (prompts, obviously), @the960writers (advice post reccs), @theticklishpear and @lizard-is-writing (advice from truly good big blogs), @howtofightwrite (obviously, the best fighting blog, so helpful). Would also highly recommend the Script Family of advice blogs, although I do know quite a few of them so I can’t honestly put them all in this ‘I don’t know them’ section.

IF I KNOW YOU PERSONALLY AND MY DUMB FRESHERS SLEEP-DEPRIVED BRAIN HAS LEFT YOU OFF, I DEMAND YOU PUT A ‘SUP BITCH’ IN MY MESSAGES AND I WILL RECTIFY THE SITUATION IMMEDIATELY. DO THIS AND I WILL APPRECIATE YOU FOREVER AND NOT BE ANNOYED AT ALL. SERIOUSLY I WILL BE REALLY GRATEFUL. THIS HAS BEEN A SQUAD PSA.

Thanks for the ask, I hope this helps to improve your dashboard!xx

[arthrpendragn]

@voidvarmit tagged me

Gender: Male

Borthday: June 26

Last movie seen: Megamind (movie night w my buddies it was good)

What do I post: The Bad Shit (the awful things y'all on here posts, cute animals, good art, whatever stuff I find funny, the bullshit the u.s. government is pulling, etc.) (Im just Keeping Bjay’s answer cause honestly my blog is basically bjay’s blog)

Last thing I googled: Shipping costs from all major shipping companies

Favorite blog: My favorite blog I think is @quietpinetrees​

Dream job: Plastic Surgeon, Studio Artist, who knows?

Dream trip: Dubai, Lagos, Cairo, Seoul, or Tokyo? Or all of them 

What would be my first entry in a diary: “BICH…… u won’t believe the bullshit I pulled today” (Bjay once again with the relatable answer Im keeping)

Top 3 things I love about myself: My body build (my height and shoulders), My pattern recognition, and my information collection abilities

3 things you wish you knew how to do: Studio Arts, Surgery, Sleight of Hand shit.

Something you wish you had discovered/ Invented first: Swarm Nanorobotics

3 qualities you like in a person: Kind, Smart, Genuine

3 qualities you dislike in a person: Super Arrogant, Disrespectful to other friends, lying

Favourite planet:  55 Cancri e

A resolution you make every year: Be more determined to do school and learn skills

Something you’re better at than most people: Pattern recognition

something you’re worse at than most people: Doing school

favourite thing about tumblr: My very good friends whomst I love

Least favourite thing about tumblr: Porn bots and the guy who wants a human pet

Weapon of choice?: A larger than average longsword to accommodate my height

Chicken or egg: I mean. I love chickens so I’ll say chickens but if this is which came first ALSO chickens bc a related similar species of bird wouldve had to lay the first egg that became an Actual Chicken (Keepin this answer too Bjay)

Something not many people know about you: I make AMAZING breakfast meal courses

Favourite means of transport: Trains are romantic, Ive never been on an airplane in memory, and cars are like eh.

Favourite story: I normally have so many stories to tell but I dont have any so Ill just say the Demigods D&D Campaign write up from /tg/

Something that always makes you laugh: This MBMBAM bit

Whats the strangest thing about you: Probably my connective tissue disorder, makes me all stretchy and my bones dislocate all the time

You get to switch places with one person for one day, who is it and why?: Jeff Bezos, Liquidate everything and give The Real Me a lot of money and all my friends a lot of money and then donate the rest

Idk who to tag so like do it if u want and then tag me if Im the reason u did

[ciebei]

11 Q Tag

Tagged by @icchiruki​ (ty binche!)

Rules:

Post the rules

Answer the questions given to you by the tagger

Write 11 questions of your own

Tag 11 people

1. what’s one thing that annoys you about a fandom you’re in?

People are so incredibly rude with literally no provocation. I guess ‘cause you’re hiding behind a screen? Regardless the level of threats some people receive are uncalled for and bless them for putting up with it.

2. top 5 most played songs in your playlist

I actually don’t have a playlist on spotify I just dump loads of songs, n I can’t figure out how to see most played so I’m going w/ most recent:

Chris Garneau | The Cats & Kids 

Cristobal Tapia de Veer | Apricot Jam

Talking Heads | Making Flippy Floppy 

alt-J | Hit Me Like That Snare

Keaton Henson | Don’t Swim

3. when did you open your tumblr account?

Late Sept/early Oct last year I believe.

4. is there a fandom you’re embarrassed to admit you used to be a part of?

...Homestuck. For like, I wanna say 2 months but it may have been 3. 

5. what’s the longest you’ve been part of a fandom?

Honestly I think it’s been the bleach fandom, so almost a year now! (If you count actively participating as the criteria).

6. zutara or kataang? (this is very important)

ZUTARA. 1000% God, I used to love atla so much.

7. name 10 things you like about yourself.

1// I can bake decent stuff. 2// I look out for friends. Always. 3// I make impulse decisions, either the best or worst thing. 4// My creativity. 5// My dedication. 6// When I want to be, I’m very hard working. 7// I try to look out for people around me. (That’s all I got!)

8. are you introverted or extroverted?

I am 3 billion per cent introverted. But also 200% extroverted around the right people.

9. the reason behind your last falling out?

I was concerned for their safety.

10. what’s your favorite post that you’ve made?

Uhhhhh honestly any of my dog posts are pretty decent.

11. list 5 of your favorite blogs and explain why you like them

@/yesterdaysprint - Hands down my favourite blog since I found it. Kind of a collection of vintage shitposts, and each one is glorious.

@/quietpinetrees - Lovely micro fiction. Feels like settling into a forest somewhere with a blanket and getting lost in other worlds. 

@/inkskinned - I remember finding her poetry years ago but losing her url. Found her again recently. I adore her work. 

@/dogjpeg - Recently found this DOG BLOG, NEED I SAY MORE??!

(das it, barring my lovely mutuals)

My Questions:

Is there anything you would’ve wanted your parents to teach you sooner?

Anyone you want to meet some day?

Do you have any good/favourite habits?

Is there any era you’d like to have lived in?

Do you have a favourite time of day?

Who in your life has influenced you the most? How so?

Favourite number?

Least favourite movie?

Are you holding onto something you need to let go of?

List two pet peeves.

Do you stick to fashion trends?

Tagging: @paradox-spiral @sam-theundefinedentity @mondfangerin @duckiesteasmiles + anyone else who would like to do these!

(Sorry if I’ve double tagged anyone I have no idea who I’ve tagged previously at this point)

[quietpinetrees]

“In our isolated culture, we turned to face paint to express ourselves, eventually developing complex heraldic codes. It became essential to know the difference between cobalt blue, symbolizing a love of cryptozoology, and midnight blue, symbolizing that the wearer wrote poetry.”

-QuietPineTrees

There’s a lot more to this story, and you can see it all, but only if you get the new Quiet Pine Trees book! Pledge now to help make it a reality, and you’ll get an exclusive hardback edition you won’t be able to get later! I can even sign it for you!

[quietpinetrees]

“Wearable computers and brain interface technology let us take on new skills depending on our clothing. Employers caught on, and began hard-wiring desired behaviors into our uniforms. Our bodies became literal corporate drones, while our minds tried to resist any permanent change.”

-QuietPineTrees

My main platform might be Twitter, but my fans on Tumblr are being much more supportive as I try to launch my first Quiet Pine Trees BOOK! You’re a bunch of beautiful weirdos, and I love you. Thank you for reading, sharing, and supporting my work. If you want to pledge and get some cool, exclusive perks, the link is below.

https://unbound.com/books/quiet-pine-trees/

[cicadianrhythm]

I love your blog, merry christmas quietpinetrees.

“On the 12th day of Christmas the pine trees gave to me, 12 hidden hours, a secret third half to each day as the sun ringed the horizon, when we could finally admit what’s in our hearts because not a word of it would be remembered

11 daytime stars, dark points in a bright sky, a constellation pointing me to the lands I imagined were there as a child, making it impossible to ignore them again

10 ancient poisons, each dose just barely strong enough to kill a moment’s worth of doubt, brewed from indigo flowers that were harvested to extinction during an age that was starved for heroes

9 words of warning, whispered within the songs of crickets and scrawled in my own handwriting between the stars: “The sea will be your only refuge from them”

8 caves of silver, carved by miners who left behind the precious metal either because something all the more seductive was calling to them from below, or because they were only seeking to hide from something calling to them from above

7 amber statues, depicting those who would be my enemies in the years to come, so that by contemplating their sad smiles I could be ready for them, forgive them before we even met, and perhaps, understand why one of them was me

6 guardian snowmen, absolutely still and forever unblinking, their eyes locked on the sky, ready to cry out at the sight of an approaching figure from the void, so that I can finally rest from my vigil

5 GOLD RINGS

4 wooden coins, the currency of the seasons, just enough to pay for a single summer to turn to autumn, to wrap the world in darkling sweetness as the storms and frost drown out the sun

3 bone pins, carved from the skeletons of long-extinct creatures, which would ward against misfortune, having already been tempered with all the bad luck they could endure

2 loyal dogs, skyhounds who will never stop seeking out crashed starships and time travelers, eager as they are to take me away from this planet and show me the silent wonders of their playground universe

And a wooden crown beset with lake stones, a priceless heirloom of the Forest King himself, given as a test of my humility, to see if I would cast it aside and accept my place among the quiet pine trees”

-QuietPineTrees

Merry Christmas, everyone.