#pendragyn

[the-haiku-bot]

but now that we do

have better blocking, we should

try to revive it.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

You know, an interesting tumblr transformation that's happened gradually, and which I've seen no one talk about: ask-culture has essentially dropped off to nothing.

By which I mean, asks used to be WAY more of the tumblr economy. They used to be more common to send, and receive, and see. They were integral to the collaborative, forum-like behavior of old tumblr communities, not even to speak on the HUGE number of ask-blogs that used to exist to only be interacted with in ask-form.

I'm not saying this in a vying-for-attention way but instead in an observational way: I used to get way way more asks in like 2015, even with a fraction of my follower count. I wonder if it's due to the homogenization of social media sites? There's a lot more of this divide between "content creator" and "consumer" instead of just a bunch of peer blogs who would talk to each other. "Asks" aren't really a thing on twitter, are they? And as I understand it, the closest thing to an "ask" on instagram or tiktok would be a creator screenshotting some comment and responding to it in a new reel or video or whatever those content mediums are. Are asks just too tumblr-specific? Is that aspect of the site culture dying out as more and more people converge to using all their social media sites in the same way?

[pendragyn]

first two pics were through eclipse glasses, rest at totality

Motorola Razr 2023 on pro settings, whatever looked good, I was just guessing lol

[toitaliclygo]

10 things for 10 people you'd like to know better!

Tagged by @vakarianshepard

Last book: last I finished was The Lives of Rocks by Rick Bass. Currently reading The Archive Undying but idk if I'll finish before I have to return it oops.

Last movie: His House

Last TV show: I had Infinity Train on while sewing yesterday

Sweet/savory/spicy: it depends!

Relationship status: in a relationship

Last thing I googled: tenebrous meaning

Current obsession: got a new story idea so that's currently running circles in my head. Also been watching Star Trek lately so that's resurfaced.

Looking forward to: a concert in April and warmer weather!

Last song: Tenebrous by Essenger (one of the groups I'm planning to see in April!)

Tagging: @mostmagical @jojo-vakarian @charmedcleric @strawberrykidneystone @continuous-spec @morelsupports @obi-wann-cannoli @bashircore @pendragyn @thatfaerieprincess if you want to do it!

[paradoxical-frog-backup]

Hey, this is @paradoxical-frog. Guess who did a little fucky wucky? I broke my phone and sent out for a replacement, and now I'm on my backup phone, which I can't fucking use to log in because it has no fucking text service to get my 2FA codes from! I'm trying to get @staff to help, but until then, I'm stuck here. Fuck my life.

Anyway. Mutuals, come on in. @mcnamak @graylibrary @justaddfiction @kinofourpaws @backupstardust @pendragyn

[vikingfenharel]

Testing tags! If this shows up in your notifs, please reply and let me know!

@korblez @pendragyn @jdowzell @lysanderish @autumnimagining @fictionalbullshitter @sparatus @dr-paine

For some reason, my asks are being sent but are vanishing once opened. When I reply to posts, it saves, and then vanishes. I'm now testing in-post tags.

[krakenartificer]

#things that Ifeel like Crowley would do

@pendragyn You are so correct

While reading over the demon’s contract, you realize it was riddled with typos. Notably, ‘soul’ was misspelled as ‘sole’. You thought the demon would be pissed when you handed him 100 pairs of shoes as payment, but he just started to laugh hysterically and clap.

[ghostighostly-oldaccount]

Hey! Since the last anon seemingly didn't respond, I wanted to fill in some context. This person has been sending out mass asks on multiple different accounts, all only a few days old when the asks start, and each account seems to be deleted soon after. Some examples:

https://www.tumblr.com/vaspider/747516921989218304/hello-sorry-for-tagging-i-am-very-sick-my-asthma?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/pendragyn/742945471410143232/hello-sorry-for-tagging-i-am-very-sick-my-asthma?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/strawberryoverlord/748302976293257216/hello-sorry-for-tagging-i-am-very-sick-my-asthma?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/achilles-patroclus-gay/750590530699804672/hello-sorry-for-tagging-i-am-very-sick-my-asthma?source=share

Generally you can test whether an ask you get is a scam just by copy pasting it into tumblr's search function, most scam bots will show tons of examples of people getting the same asks from multiple accounts. I've gotten this exact ask at least five times in the past week.

Ahh okay! Thanks so much for the context <33

[pendragyn]

lets say you had a ring that magically filled your wardrobe with the clothes and accessories you wish you could wear. these clothes magically clean themselves, are resistant to damage, fit you perfectly, and the only people who can percieve your outfit as anything but normal are the people who think it looks cool/cute/etc and will be cool about it. ppl who would be weird, impolite, or offended by it magically percieve it as just a normal outfit unless you Want them to see it. also they magically dont impede your movement or get in the way unless you want them to. what outfits would you have?

I love this ask 🤩 Honestly if I could wear anything I'd definitely have some of the most fantastical shit possible; Discworldian dwarf micromail is top of the list for sure, also sets of giant articulated wings to suit my mood, elaborate fairy dresses made of living flowers, and easily a thousand cosplay costumes ripped from my favorite media. More practically I'd always have breathable shorts so my legs don't chafe, and just be ecstatic all my favorite clothes would stay pristine (I have favs older than half the people on tumblr and they are showing their age lol) and that everything long would get automatically hemmed for my hobbit-esque proportions 😆

thanks so much for this fun ask, I enjoyed it immensely

[not-that-debonair]

@pendragyn tagged me for this neat game. Spell out your url in song titles, and then tag as many people as there are letters in your url.

Now how much of my music taste am I gonna have to expose for this one…

Y - Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of Your Fist by Ramshackle Glory

E - Everything I Own by The Front Bottoms

A - A Complete List of Fears Ages 5-28 (approx) by The Yellow Dress

H- Hex by Corporate Hearts

W - …well, better than the alternative by Will Wood

E - !Edd buys Houses! by Sidney Gish

L- Little Talks by Of Monsters and Men

L - Lost by Amanda Palmer

I - I Thought You Liked to Rock by Corporate Hearts

M - Means Nothing by Henry The Archer

T - The Soccer Journals by Everybody’s Worried About Owen

H - Holland, 1945 by Neutral Milk Hotel

E - I can’t think of another E song so I’m calling it a freebie and saying Spaceship by Art Sorority cause it’s my current favourite.

L - Lonely Eyes by The Front Bottoms

O - Once A Loser, Always A Loser by HappyHappy

R - Runs in the Family by Amanda Palmer

D - Deathwishers by Corporate Hearts

O - Oh No! by Marina

F - Father by The Front Bottoms (or Father by HappyHappy, they’re both good songs)

T - Take Out by Pigeon Pit

I - I’ll die anyway. by Girl in Red

M - Monet Issues by Chase Petra

E - I really need to listen to more songs beginning with E but anyway freebie number two with First and Second Law by Flanders and Swann, because Flanders and Swann

Why is my url so long…

Okay so tagging: @lemonlimeimprobabilitydrive @v0gons @an-actual-fan @honeycoatedsunshine @rabid-catboy @z0nie @nureyev-steel-institute @wheelybard @shiggyhands777 @9lightbulbs @momo-blade @st6nbones @space--ace @eli-371 @orc-hestral @join-me-in-the-bog @kindlingofsorts @king-minyard @chaoskiro @niamhous @xx-grumpy-gummie-bare-xx @bluer-than-the-tardis @wild-flower-0101

Woo that’s a lot of people hehe

Thank you so much for the tag!

[marzipanandminutiae]

she tried to make a raccoon into a pet

(I know nothing about this show or how she got her scars)

1. You're the second person to mention raccoons, which I love because they're not native to the U.K., where this character grew up.

2. This is Lucille Sharpe:

Everybody say, "Hello, Lady Sharpe!" (using her first name would be far too familiar if you've just been introduced, and even though she technically doesn't get a courtesy title, it's probably best to not argue the point.) And then maybe go somewhere else, because hanging around her for too long tends to be bad for your health.

She is the primary antagonist- kind of -in Guillermo del Toro's 2015 Gothic romance movie, "Crimson Peak."

She's also a serial killer who has a codependent, incestuous relationship with her brother. He's only saved from being the OTHER primary antagonist because he has a change of heart, which she never does.

And she is my Human Garbage Fire Darling(TM), whose psyche I love to poke around in for fanfic and whose wardrobe I want to raid. I want to give her a hug, too- while wearing full-body armor, of course. She may be evil, but she’s also a Sad Bitch and I get the feeling it’s pretty exhausting to be her, mentally speaking. Abandonment issues that deep-seated, and the belief that only one person in the world can ever love you, to the exclusion of loving anyone else ever, can’t be fun.

3. The canonical answer to why she has two small scars on her face is "childhood beatings from horribly abusive parents." Just in case you were wondering.

[sheshallfromtimetotime]

I was tagged by @pendragyn in a fun tag game! Spell out your URL with song titles, and then tag as many people as there are letters in your URL.

I specifically waited until I got my computer fixed to do this so I could be extra and link everything and only have it take forever, not the forever and a day it would take on mobile. :p

22 is too many people to tag, so I’m not gonna do that, but if you -- like me -- enjoy most any excuse to share pieces of your music taste, have at it and feel free to say I tagged you.

S - Storm to Weather - Grace Petrie H - Hesitating Beauty - Billy Bragg and Wilco E - Edge of Seventeen - Stevie Nicks

S - Something To Talk About - Bonnie Raitt H - Hey Julie - Fountains of Wayne A - All This And Heaven Too - Florence and the Machine L - Linger - The Cranberries L - Level Up - Vienna Teng

F - Fire Drills - Dessa R - Relax, Take It Easy - MIKA O - Once In A Very Blue Moon - Nanci Griffith M - M.T.A. - The Kingston Trio

T - This Year - The Mountain Goats I - I Know A Place - MUNA M - Me And That Train - Patty Larkin E - Emmylou - First Aid Kit

T - Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper O - Once In A Lifetime - Angélique Kidjo

T - Talkin’ Bout A Revolution - Tracy Chapman I - If I Could Turn Back Time - Cher M - Murder In The City - Brandi Carlile E - Every Space - Lauren O’Connell

[margridarnauds]

🏝 Share your favorite description of a setting.

for the ask game :)

Thank you! Honestly, I never feel quite GOOD about writing out settings, so there are relatively few that I really LIKE, but I’m fond of this one from my 1789/Assassin’s Creed Mashup because I actually went into the game and just sat there, describing what I saw. 

This is from a scene where Ronan is given a mission to meet up with a possible Templar defector at the Place des Vosges, in front of the statue of Henri IV there. 

It was easy enough to get to the Place - it was hard to miss, a red-orange building with three arches at the end of a street opening up to a large park, a steady stream of bourgeois leisurely moving in and out. It was lined on all four sides with hedges that must have had people trimming them daily for how sharp their square lines were and, at each corner, there was a fountain. 

 The sky overhead still threatened rain, a steady wind tossing browning leaves all over the pavement, though it didn’t stop all the people from gathering there. They weren’t far from the Bastille, but the high buildings that encased it on all sides blocked it out. 

Of course the aristos wouldn’t want to think about the Bastille being nearby. Easier to turn a blind eye and enjoy their picnics this way. 

He settled beside the statue at the center, leaning on the wrought iron that encased it, which he immediately regretted because he remembered that, after a good rain, metal would be wet, his sleeves being nearly soaked through. He didn’t know if it was Henri IV, but it was in the center, it was big, and only an aristo would have the kind of vanity to make something like that, anyway. Either way, given he entered from the side that faced the horse’s ass, he wasn’t sure that whoever it was had the best planning skills. Looked like some of the pigeons had the same thought, too, given there were several splotches of white on the man’s head. 

Just went to show: You could spend your entire life trying to show how impressive you were, and all you got for it was for your statue to be a chamber pot for pigeons.

[anqarfamily]

@timeturner-jay @muukumuu @rndm-entity @sweetcreme @oddgrapes @knight-of-ashes @average-acorn @strawberrybitchesblog @pendragyn @laraloopy @mirror-sys @parzivale @isitizyesitis @scuttlefishy @becandidbeautifully @fleshandbutterflies @arsenic-trickster @catchandelier @pinkcloud-lady @stupidlovepurplepeace @1dk-h1 @scoutbokmal20 @countingsunflowerpetals @fireheartedpup @theluckiestrose @pulchrasilva @abyssal-debonair @thealpinistwithapearlearring @allingoodfaithart @of-chaos-and-flame @ephemerle @monstrblood @irinaspoetry @chilioilbabygirl @miilkphone @dawnssurlylight @blackfiresuplex @unbossed @saw-tism @summerfactorfiction @via707 @hymnsandarias @iloveheltondog @rainbowizardtherainbow @miggiebro @endym10n-1 @isabellalovelyyxx @abyssal-lilac @agraveforflowers @cowboy-jules

I would be very grateful if you Reblog this post 🤍. ❤️

From Gaza Strip i extend my heartfelt congratulations to America and its people on the inauguration of President Donald Trump, hoping this moment marks the beginning of a new era of peace and prosperity for the world.

A few minutes to the beginning of a new era. I hope that peace will prevail throughout the world.

[faejilly]

@leahazel replied to your post “@shadoedseptmbr replied to your post “I mentioned on Twitter the...”

God I hate the cowboy cop trope more than anything, Jesus.

I used to enjoy them in fiction because obviously that’s not how you’d want irl cops to act but it can make for a fun story... but then they became the Standard and now they’re horrifying

@pendragyn reblogged your post and added:

same with Miss Marple. Even Poirot. Cops are bumbling fools at best. I wish the cozy mystery genre hadn’t been infiltrated with cop outs.

same

I find it really interesting that the popular mystery protagonists in the “golden age” of cozy mysteries, back when Christie and Sayers were writing, were pretty much never actual police. (Except for Marsh, and while Alleyn was British, his author was from New Zealand, which skews the perspective, I would think.) Like, most of the authors were relatively privileged, but still. They knew. 

@servantofclio replied to your post “@shadoedseptmbr replied to your post “I mentioned on Twitter the...”

When I was a child in the 80s, the Vietnam war seemed like a very long time ago to me, but I realized it some point that it had not been -- it was recent history for all the adults around, and haunted the entire decade, I think.

same on all counts, and I really can see it around the edges when re-watching older TV shows as an adult. There’s a note of manic/desperate/relief that reminds me of stuff set in the 1920���s like, performative survival, a little? A lot less than you see in stuff set in the 20′s, (probably because it’s by accident while they were living it rather than on purpose when portraying it) but the tone’s familiar.

And yes to everything about cop procedurals. I feel like hte success of the Law and Order & CSI franchises shifted that landscape, but I'm not sure what earlier shows started it.

Yeah, I’m not quite sure when it shifted either, but L&O was definitely part of it. (I mean, there’ve been cop shows for forever, but there used to also be other things, and it’s the lack of the other things that really started shifting it from “idealized fiction” to “copaganda”.) I almost feel like the real problem wasn’t the comedies or the clearly smoothed over things like Dragnet, but the drama cop shows which make you identify with the ‘good cop in a tough situation’ because then they almost always turn into the ‘cowboy cop’ that hazel mentioned and by the time they do that you’re on their side. 

It’s like. Spies. In a spy movie, the fact that they act independently and unilaterally is why they’re appealing; in anything except a spy movie, the fact that the spy can do whatever the hell they want with no consequences is clearly a problem.

We’ve got a lot of cop shows where we’re identifying with the cop getting away with whatever the hell they want... and very few other things showing us why that’s bad. 

[gaslightgallows]

pendragyn replied to your chat “Me: *upset because no one has commented on my fic* Also me: *has not...”

@gaslightgallows I'm right there with you! lol

Why can’t I manifest flaily comments on a non-existent story????

[theloversthedreamersandme82]

ask game 11) what are your ambitions?

I've had to really think about this, cos I don't really know that I have any as such.... It's such a strong word 'ambitions'.

There are things id like to do, like dance en pointe, but am not able to, because I have such bad feet.

There are things like getting married, having a family and buying a house that seem so far removed from reality right now that they don't seem like they will ever happen.

There are things like traveling and seeing as many shows as I can, but they rely on me having spare $.

I guess for me, my main ambition in life is to be happy, Content with what I have, And to make others around me happy. Whatever that may look like. To surround myself with loving family and friends and love them hard. ♥️

Thanks @pendragyn for making me think.