#bloodofthepen

[arcaneglitch]

Saw your tags on the song lyrics post and went "THE PIXIES?????" Anyway, "Monkey Gone to Heaven" is in my head now thank you.

akdjfjdj my pleasure, it’s a fucking banger

[bloodofthepen]

I watched "Human Nature"/"Family of Blood" again and noticed something I had not before. With the time period that it is (1913) and his job being what it is (history professor), John Smith mostly wears tweed suits.... and bowties. In fact, the night he dies, he has exactly such an outfit on:

It includes a polka-dot bowtie.

At this time, it occurred to me that someone else wears a lot of tweed, and bowties, and generally dresses like a turn-of-the-century British professor: the Eleventh Doctor.

Did this adventure influence the next regeneration's sartorial tastes? Perhaps. After all, the Doctor did tell Nurse Redfern that John Smith is still in there, somewhere... the manifestation of an adventure the Doctor might wish he could have, and the one he never can.

Perhaps the Doctor who wasn't ready to leave found a small way to stay. Or, perhaps, this new Doctor hoped he might find some way to be a little more human.

[creations-by-chaosfay]

Commission for @bloodofthepen is now complete! I now have mere crumbs of this beautiful celestial print...and a version nearly identical for myself...

The reduction in machine quilting makes the section on the left a little fluffier (and one of the reasons why I looooove handquilting).

[silurisanguine]

Nine people I'd like to know better

tagged by: @eridanidreams

Last Song: Maggie Lindemann - You Hold My Love Favorite Color: I have 3 in rotation - Blood red, cadbury's purple and petrol teal. Watching: Currently nothing, but it will be the Fallout tv series for sure. Sweet/Savory/Spicy: Sweet or savoury. I do not do spicy. Relationship Status: Engaged and planning to get married very soon. Current Obsession: Starfield mostly, with a constant love for Adam Jensen, Dishonored , Vampyr and Garrett. Last thing I googled duckduckgo'd : The name of a location in Starfield.

Tagging @vorchagirl @1ll1ad @staticpallour @a-cosmic-elf @atonalginger @bloodofthepen @lisa-and-shadow @toxiclizardwrites @despicablediet

[rochenn]

people i'd like to get to know better

tagged by @charmwasjess hiii friend :D

Last Song: To France by Mike Oldfield (why is this song so good)

Favorite Color: Still a good strong red, I think, but that shade of blue you see on distant mountains is a close second

Last Book: currently The 'Mere Irish' and the Colonisation of Ulster, 1570-1641 by Gerard Farrell (academic reading, very fascinating), also 1913 by Florian Illies and a little-known tome called Les Misérables which is thoroughly clashing with my uni schedule :'D

Last Movie: Four Feathers (2002)

Last Show: Luden

Sweet/savory/spicy: I'm a savory kinda guy but I'm snacking some marzipan rn and I gotta say. Some nice, restrained sweetness is the shit

Relationship status: Picked up like an irresistibly handsome and well-fed stray dog

Last thing I looked up: "replace tefal pan how often" (getting worried about PTFE poisoning even though my pans should be safe)

Current obsession: Dooku, as always, as well as my dear collection of Prequels era characters, of course. I have so many things cooking but I am so disgustingly busy. I am also experiencing a MAJOR Team Fortress relapse! It's unreal how soft I am for these disgusting old-ish men once again, they make me sick, just rewatched Expiration Date and almost perished bc of how much I love them

Looking forward to: Paramedic training! Very excited!!

no pressure tags: @friendlyneighbourhoodelf @eightbitpale @catboydogma @catboy-pentheus @in-a-mellow-tone @bloodofthepen and also @ anyone i forgot mwah

[werecatninja]

Send this to ten other bloggers that you think are wonderful. Keep the game going, make someone smile!! 💖💖💖

I will just tag them. You would be on this list too if you hadn't have sent it to me first.

@czech-hunter-reject @rightintheghoulies @risunsky @comfysanda @copiasjuicebox @foxybouquet @evereverest2 @bloodofthepen @vanmec @werewolves-are-real

I love you all of you

[brynnmclean]

@eisoj5 tagged me in a "share the last lines of your WIP" thing, and I DID actually write a few words last night, so here are some of them:

There is one question he needs to ask, the one he has been avoiding all this time, though it has lingered in the shadows of the room like a specter. It feels as if it takes all the tattered remnants of his strength to ask it. “Is my father dead?” Senua turns and looks at him, stricken, but it is Ástríðr who answers with a snarl of contempt: “He’s alive. He’s an exile.”

I'll tag @skatingthinandice @allatariel @heymacareyna and @bloodofthepen, but no pressure!

[ketsuarting]

thank you pookie for tagging me, big digital smoochies to you <3 @dayochoco uhhhh Get to know you game lezzgo;

Last song listened to:

"ネヴァモア" / nevermore by sasalasa

Actually such a banger, I have been looping this for the past three days I am obsessed.

Currently watching: Hazbin Hotel, kind offf?????? I have stopped properly consuming media, and started to just skip through episodes ten times until i have the whole plot together. I know. Horrid. I love the show tho and i am going to rewatch it with all my friends and draw fanart and I am actually writing a fanfic about it as we speak hihi

Currently reading: Coraline by @neil-gaiman, holy shit I can tag the man that's crazy, right? I loved the movie since i watched it as a lil diaper baby, and while i struggle with print media, i've been MEANING to read it. It's definitly on my nightstand. I've been rereading the first twenty pages a lot. Again, I struggles consuming media the traditional way grr

Currently obsessed with: One Piece and Hazbin Hotel, specifically OC's i made for both verses. Escapism is strong. Also! Crocheting and sewing have me in a deathgrip and I have been obsessed with tea for the past five years now, and I will continue to be obsessed with it for the forseeable future! Yippeeee! Boop ur snoot, ur turn, you've been tagged, SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES MEHAHAHAHAH @bloodofthepen @thegoodviolinist @mutatedleemon @flowerb-0y @1merfairy @1darkflame7

[thatdamnokie]

oh snap i got tagged by @nereaddict​! yes i know you this was from a while ago and i started a whole new post but pls do not be mad ;-;

currently reading: one of us is lying by karen m. mcmanus

favorite color:

last song: power of my love by elvis presley & jack white

last film:

austin butler is so gd fine i--

sweet/spicy/savory: savory!

currently working on: well it was at one point the backrooms piece but i honestly feel so bad most of the time that i don’t really... work on stuff, anymore. :( i’m a very lazy bad person, idk.

for my 9: @oceanssneverlisten, @briarchubnj, @hyllatavorianaldan, @fabien-euskadi, @bloodofthepen, @heck-fire, @starrstrike, @heartherfield​ & @naomiinyun​ (bonus tag goes to @circlesofbone​ love youuuu)

[purple-compromise]

Just so you know, when I boop back, it's from bloodofthepen. 😊

[dwarveslikeshinythings]

WIP Tag Game

Tagged by: @niennawept (Thanks friennnnnd)

RULES: Post the last sentence you wrote* (fanfic / original / anything) and tag as many people as there are words in the sentence. as you can.

*so i can't put the last sentence i actually wrote from awake, arise because it is WAY too spoilery, but i solemnly swear that this IS the last sentence in the document:

What good could he possibly do for his children, especially when likely none of them would remember him at all?

tagging @brynnmclean @heymacareyna @bloodofthepen @abnerkrill @eowyn7023 + anybody else who wrote something they're dying to share with the class!

[nulfaga]

got tagged for a 20 questions for writers meme by @jiubilant! tagging @bloodofthepen who i suspect would very much enjoy this meme

How many works do you have on AO3?

17 according to my dashboard. 28 to the connoisseur (various orphaned nonsenses over the years). 29 if you're nasty

What's your total AO3 word count?

second verse, same as the first: dashboard says 227k. the real figure is ~450k. gog save me

What fandoms do you write for?

by volume (apparently), mostly tes: oblivion and mass effect. highlights from the full list include dragon's dogma, pillars of eternity and pentiment

What are your top five fics by kudos?

this, this, this, this; and in tragic 5th place true gold. my oopy schmoopy apple of my eye

Do you respond to comments?

[almost] always, even if it's just "thank you" or a heart! makes me happy that people took the time out to drop me a line so i always feel like it's the least i can do

What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

eeeeehhhh i think i almost always go with an open ending. and happy and sad are subjective. lol. probably this one; dead brothers go back, after a brief reprieve, to being dead

What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

THIS ONE. teeth rot out of your damn head. i wouldn't make it quite so cloying if i wrote it today

Do you get hate on fics?

not to my knowledge <3

Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

often and w/ gusto i'm afraid. i need it to be character-focused ie if it doesn't further the characters' relationship in the eyes of the reader then it's basically dead weight. i have stretched this rule exactly once (for "once", read: with exactly one work. of a modest 170k. i get one bodice-ripper as a treat.)

Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

n/a baby. unless you count my dragonfable fic vampirizing the narrative structure of season 2 of russian doll but that's not strictly a crossover is it

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

not to my knowledge. i have had people gank certain bits of worldbuilding or plot beats, but not maliciously (i think). so i just look on with. how you say. benevolent mirth

Have you ever had a fic translated?

not to my knowledge!

Have you ever co-written a fic?

as a tween. about anime. but i will part with that story only after being bought dinner

What's your all-time favorite ship?

aww man. ask me tomorrow and get a different answer but i really like andreas and werner in the pentiment longfic i'm plugging away at. what if it was that deep yknow.

What's a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

not touching this one with a 39-and-a-half foot pole. the evil eye is out there. (real answer: writing is a long con. i have to start every project believing i'm going to finish it to the last dotted i and crossed t)

What are your writing strengths?

no one can be objective abt their own shit but what i enjoy reading back in my writing (in the brief beautiful period before the Cringe encroaches) is the subtext in character interactions. no one EVER says wtf they mean due to shame or pride or the demands of diplomacy or emotional stuntedness or what have you. that old saw about your readers see the tip of the iceberg but you've got to have the whole ehm.. glacier... fjord.. stalagmite... in your head

What are your writing weaknesses?

pacing!! at least in my own view. esp with the [REDACTED] i'm working on now it's like...fuck me i'm trying to cover a long time period without embroidering every single day that passes, but when and where and how often do i switch from brisk narration to blow-by-blow dialogue. only when i want to? only when it's necessary in order for the plot to make sense? are those two criteria different in practice? aughghgh

Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language?

absolutely fucking love it. it has to be a language i feel reasonably confident about (unless it's a fictional conlang, but even then i have a constant fear of getting strung up by lorebeards for conjugating a dunmeris verb the wrong way lol)... that being the case i love love love it. because you get to do subtext 2: electric boogaloo. and what languages do the characters share? and what languages can they use to dissimulate or to speak freely w/o the risk of being heard and understood??? and what does each character's command of a given language say about their social status????? and do they think differently from one language to the other??????? LOVE it. love it to pieces.

First fandom you wrote for?

minecraft i think. i am a child of my era

Favorite fic you've written?

to date... posted it up a day or 2 ago. the canny observer will be able to sniff it out. but i'm not prepared to own it just yet god bless <3

runner-up goes to this one, 'the bridge of details'. i think it strikes the right balance of "warm & hopeful w/o being cloying"

[bloodofthepen]

I know it's fun to think of the Time Lords collectively rolling their eyes when The Master graduated and chose his name, and there likely were a fair few that did, but consider. Consider that, perhaps, a good many actually did think "The Master" was a perfectly commendable choice. A perfectly respectable name.

Mastering the laws of space and time is what becoming a Time Lord is all about. Why shouldn’t you say that you are a Master of these things? Surely it is no more pretentious than "Time Lord."

From the perspective of his peers, The Master may have been a credible name. A statement of celebration--the resolution to study and master an ever-wider array of subjects. Declaration of Mastery over oneself. What could be greater than that? What is more indicative of what a Time Lord should be?

And then, centuries later, those same instructors and peers consider The Master a much greater tragedy to the Time Lords than The Doctor ever could be.

[creations-by-chaosfay]

Here are this week's sewing projects:

For @ravenbara an 18 inch quilt top of a crow. The background is that light batik on the right, and the crow will be make with the green and brown prints on the left.

I made a mini quilt a couple years ago with this pattern, albeit significantly smaller. It was a tarot card interpretation and has gems hand-sewn to it.

For @mutantenfisch I've chosen three fabrics for the coasters. The star of the show is the floral, a blue blender-type print to make the blue flowers pop, and a brown wood print to balance them out. I'm not sharing the design yet. That's something I would rather reveal in stages, like most of the coasters I make.

My sewing room lighting is making the colors a little brighter than they are, but the second and third of this bunch are the most accurate.

I absolutely love that floral, and prints that look like things are a fun challenge for me. Wood prints are among my favorite to play with. When I make my *bookcase quilt, I'll be using a wood print to make it look like a bookcase.

I will likely have these done by the end of next week. My time is being split between sewing and handquilting. It's likely the projects here will be done next Monday or Tuesday. Then I'll start on the mug rug commission for @bloodofthepen. That'll wrap up all the small commissions unless I receive more before June 1st.

*I don't have a printer, and using the print shop is a lot of stress because the place is itty bitty and they don't have a printer set up to count the pages. On Fridays, it's $0.05/black & white page, but I have...so many things I wanna print. The library is $0.10/black & white page, but it'll be a lotta pages. One thing that's especially irritating about both is the paper quality. They use stuff that's way too high quality. The stuff I prefer is maybe two steps higher than newsprint. It needs to be 1) easy to cut and fold, and 2) easy to sew and tear. High quality stuff is more difficult to tear, tugging on the seams even when I set the stitch length to 1.4mm. Any smaller will result in other problems I don't wanna deal with again.

If anyone here wants to make me scream and dance with delight, I have a printer on my wishlist here. It comes highly recommended by a couple other quilters I know, and I'll be able to do soooooo much foundation paper piecing.

[silurisanguine]

thanks for the tag @sentryskyhawk

i tag @vorchagirl @ashenlavellan @bloodofthepen @themortalscout

and anyone who'd like to do this.

blank below - (cropped from original which was an instagram post)

[heymacareyna]

Badly Summarized WIPs Poll Tag

thank you to everyone who tagged me! this is so fun

Rules: Pick a bunch of your WIPs and summarize them as badly as possible

Tagging: @brynnmclean @bloodofthepen @dwarveslikeshinythings @authorlaurawinter @author-a-holmes @ekinsellaauthor @writernopal @korblez + open tag. no pressure