#emcumbent

[syrupwit]

10, 17, 26? (for the fanfic ask meme!)

hey, thank you very much for the questions! >:]

10. What work was the quickest to write?

If we disregard the many works under 1k, some of which actually took quite a while to write, I think it was: you'd never forget me (Fallout: New Vegas, Christine/Veronica, 1.5k, written for anneapocalypse in the Chocolate Box exchange). It came together in like a day, which is pretty fast for me? I was like, ah, so many Veronica feelings suddenly.

17. Your favorite character to write this year?

Trexel Geistman from Stellar Firma, by a narrow but appreciable margin. It's easy to tell when I'm writing Trexel because I'm cackling to myself the entire time. Despite the veer from Stellar Firma to Dragon Age earlier this year, I have in no way exhausted my interest in exploring his character.

Trexel's got it all: grandiosity, unnecessary combativeness, a bottomless thirst for attention and also alcohol, a near inability to be honest about his deepest feelings despite how obvious they might be to those around him, a complete inability to be on time to anything, self-hatred that he works out in incredibly unproductive ways, a murderous streak, and Verbal Creativity. And sometimes he randomly bursts into song! I love him. I need to do a re-listen soon so I can get mad at myself for misrepresenting him here.

26. What’s your most common category?

For just this year it was M/M (17 works), followed by Gen (11 works)! For all years it is Gen (62 works), followed closely by M/M (59 works). I initially entered fic fandom as a femslasher, many years ago, so this is a bit funny to me, even after so many years of this trend.

[kolbietheaggrievedwriter]

kolbie... will you indulge me and expand on the first part of the answer you gave me? the part about it depending if chel is there, how much time he's given, etc?

🥺🥺🥺

what if. niren was given gifts for him and elliot for maybe 2-3 years in the academy era before his admirer suddenly disappeared. poof, just gone? no letters, no notes, no delivered gifts that represent the courtship being cancelled?

also, i can't believe im rivals to lovers anon now. why is this my tumblr anon identity now LMFAO

If Chel is in the picture, courting either of them is off the table. Niren is in the midst of a crisis lol And again, you only get Elliot with Niren and not without him. But in his hypervigilance, Niren will either investigate you thoroughly right away or else be emcumbered by Chel's ever watchful eyes. But either wat, our MC will be too busy MCing for romance. Even the Niren/Elliot romance will be a slow, slow burn, and he already completely trusts and depends on him.

If you did that and then disappeared completely, depending on just how close you got to them, you might become their white moonlight ???

Whoops I mixed you up with the Reeve/Tristian courter! Smh y'all got me all mixed up! But hey you can still be rivals to lovers anon in the eyes of everyone watching you court Niren and Elliot (bc some of them would surely assume you to be Elliot's rival for Niren lol)

[radialintrepid]

the other tag game i am late to lmao thank you @emcumbent woooooooooooooo

Relationship Status: taken, yet single lmao the wonders of polyamory

Favorite Color: blue or black, or sometimes really light pink and blue and some colors just look really good together so it depends!

Song Stuck In My Head: Evening Prayers from the Carrie musical *chefs kiss*

Last Song I Listened To: still the strings that tie to you from my last post lmao

Three Favorite Foods: this is hard i love food but ok cookie dough, steak (rare) and eggs (overeasy)?? idk picking 3 is hard and i can’t think rn lmao

Last Thing(s) I Googled: “popular swedish music artists” yep. and you betcha my previous searches before that were Alexander Skarsgard. I’m trying to get into his mind

Dream Trip: it’s mostly European, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, return to the Netherlands and France.

Anything I Want: don’t ask me this when i only have one setting and that is thirsty for eric northman

yayyy again no tags bc i don’t know anyone else here lmao

[seagulls-are-jerks]

As if the locks of her golden hair,

They cascade down her barren torso.

My eyes catches sight, and cannot pull themselves from the trance that seems all emcumbering.

It moves, melds, perfectly contours to her body,

As it seems God did to the marble she was carved from.

Who allowed such beauty to grace the greyscale terrian of earth?

Who allowed such a perfect creation to manifest before my mere mortal form?

A fusion of cultures perched upon her porcelain skin.

Steam rises through the air, floats within the four-walled room, shifts the atmosphere.

Metaphoric usage is not the only source of heat.

Lingerie lingers far too long as I indulge.

Spaghetti bra.

[brillante-pero-escalofriante]

It is scary to write again

Years ago, I would fearlesly get my fingers on top of the keyboard and type away even my simplest thoughts for stories. I would never carry on with them, true, but that speaks of a bigger problem I have of not finishing the projects I start. That might be a topic for a future post. Now, however, I'm being faced by the... I wouldn't say opportunity, but the challenge of getting to write again. I conviced myself I could do it after reading an article from years ago (maybe ten? Who knows now). Now, I rediscovered my Tumblr and saw that I was indeed not that bad. But now I feel like I'm not the same person who wrote those witty non conforming words, and phrases, and paragraphs. I've changed, but I haven't figured out if it's for better or for worse. For starters, I don't read as much. I can blame my shiny little phone all I want, but I also know I've grown lazy. At times, I cannot read more than a couple pages of books that I would've devoured in a couple days. The feeling that my younger self would be embarrassed by this never goes away. I've also become less critical of things. I'm not sure if this is a maturity thing, or once again laziness. It used to be easier for me to put my thoughts out there, claiming that my feelings, thoughts, and beliefs were the right ones to have out there. Now, however, I'm more of a "to each its own" kind of woman. (I was about to write "girl" back there, but realizing I'm in my 30s now made me think it was not appropriate). This less critical approach to things has made me sort of stop trying, I guess. I'm not going to change anything that refuses to be changed, so I do the bare minimum now. The researcher in me has also gone into early retirement. I used to crave knowledge in a way that now emcumbers me, simply because I don't have the time anymore, or because when I do I'd rather go to "no-thinking-land" to enjoy the numbness. This last change is the one that bugs me the most. And I have to say that having laid out all these issues in a neatly organized way has helped. So maybe I'm getting ready to write again. I'm amusing myself at the fact that these thoughts came out like this, and that I almost wrote them in the way they teach you should write essays in college. But anywho, just putting this out there for future me to remember, to come back, and to encourage whenever I feel like I cannot do it. Come on, I can.

[yoisthisageist]

Every once in a while I run into a person who seems to feel it is emcumbent upon them to inform me that “we are getting old now” basically saying give up- because perhaps they have given up. I’m not sure if it’s ageism but it is obnoxious.

Everyone wakes up a day older, and there’s nothing problematic about the empirical observation that “we’re getting old." It’s ageist if the person is equating getting old with something negative, which as you suspect is unfortunately probably the case. Next time it happens, I hope you’ll respond by asking, “What do you mean by that?” Bonus points for keeping the irritation out of your voice—a big ask, I realize. If they say something about giving up, see if you can uncover the actual reason they feel like this way, and point out that age has little or nothing to do with it.  

[noniketta]

Unseen (event link in bio) In the still of the night at home and alone I feel my self to be a human In the bustle of day at work or at play I’m reduced to the status of woman With all of the dangers that are thus incurred When born and raised to embody the word The problematic legalities The constraints The dangers The cost The emcumbering physicality’s My complaints My rages Are lost As I am written out of history Written out of the present Written out entirely Conspicuous only when I’m absent https://www.instagram.com/p/CMBHrHSjo4x/?igshid=xubv6vzbemnc

[syrupwit]

Meme of facts about you. @ziskandra tagged me -- thank you, I love doing these things :-)

Tagging, with no expectation or pressure: @sunrisetune, @malatruse, @sulky-valkyrie, @pierogipie, @realace, @only-slightly-terrified, @emcumbent, @nyaautumn and anyone else who would like to do it.

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Nickname: Syrup (pronounced SEE-rup, not SUH-rup as some people may choose to say it)

Sign: Taurus sun, Cancer moon, Sagittarius rising -- I do not know the rest of it. My friend Michael, who's really into astrology, analyzed my… chart? a few years ago and had some interesting things to say, but I don't remember them. I think something odd was in Saturn, and he was like, oh man, huh. How exciting!

Height: 5'2" ish

Last thing I googled: lie vs lay

Song stuck in my head: "Keys of Life" by Klaus Nomi… I love him… FROM ANCIENT WORLDS I COME / TO SEE WHAT MAN HAS DONE

Amount of Sleep: Seven to nine hours, or else.

Dream Job: public librarian

Wearing: dress, hooded zip-up sweatshirt, socks.

Movies/Books that Summarize You: either Spirited Away or the anime adaptation of Night on the Galactic Railroad where they're all cats (which i guess is up in full on youtube rn!)

Favorite Song: "Don't Try So Hard" by Queen

Instrument: I can kind of play the piano maybe a bit. I'm really bad at music that involves instruments, like really really bad at it, zero aptitude. I can sing a bit though.

Aesthetic: In terms of what I look like irl, either "half-assed mall goth" or "guy catering a wedding." In terms of the image I would like to cultivate, either "untrustworthy fairy" or "human crazy quilt who also could, at any moment, be safely and reasonably drafted into assisting with catering a wedding." (Which would likely even out to "kind of weird looking, with sturdy footwear," which is fine with me.)

Favorite Author: JL Borges, Joanna Russ, Octavio Paz; several other writers whose work I have a more complicated relationship with, which would take more effort to explain than I feel like expending at the moment, but they are still favorites.

Random Fun Fact: The Yiddish word for "snail" is shnek (שנעק).

[radialintrepid]

i’m a month late but who cares!!! thank you @emcumbent for the tag<3

Last song: Strings That Tie To You by Jon Brion, from the soundtrack of eternal sunshine of the spotless mind lmao

Last show: showing my gf True Blood🩸

Last film: showed my gf This Is The End bc it’s silly but it makes me laugh

Current show: well we just watched the last episode of true blood so idk what we’re gonna do now😭

Currently reading: nothing that has been physically published lmao i’m simping for eric northman on ao3

Current obsession: Eric Northman/True Blood wow i chose a really bad time to answer these lmao I have One Thought rn

tagging nobody bc emma is my only friend here lmfao

[burlap-sacc-blog]

Me: "AAAAAAAAAHHHHH FUCKFUCKFUCK!!!!!"

Also me 0.00001 seconds later: "I am immortal and nothing will ever emcumber my divine power!"

[elizabethmasen]

So i studied a sociology degree during the time i spent at uni, while there i took a gender and sexuality paper, just for shits n giggles and can i tell you how god damn weird it is to think back and remember the shit that that course spilled about marriage in society nowadays. Of course there are two sides to every subject, im speaking for neither just for my own opinion- i really disagree how "marriage is a prison" or "marriage is useless now" or even "its unfeminist of you to get married". First of all- I am 100% getting married, I want the whole white wedding and the names and the processes and the fluffy white gown that makes me the centre of attention. Secondly- If you HONESTLY think that marriage is a doomed institution and its an emcumbering antique of social culture, you clearly hate the people you're with or you're the dumbest person alive (maybe both shit idk)

[boyfrommville-blog]

innocence - lost

innocence – lost

un-created.

un-done.

unknown you.

unknown –

me.

separated long before our is – became was…

  how different our –

each –

would be,

if allowed to roam

free – from tethers set in doubt.

  unrestrained –

un-caged –

un-emcumbered.

carried along lost as dandelion seeds,

by the wind of what could be…

[syrupwit]

@emcumbent Behold!

I feel challenged, made competitive, and humbled by macarons. Thanks again for sharing the recipe!