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[fey-changeling]

soft asks: poppy & mochi

not me being surprised at getting an ask because i already totally forgot i reblogged the ask list haha

poppy - favorite pastel color?

Yellow, it makes me think of finding primroses in spring

mochi - favorite studio ghibli film?

Howl's Moving Castle, i've watched it the most and Howl is so gender

thanks for the ask!

[theroguetoast]

while applejuice is telling you to fix your colors on your theme, can I tell you to set up ur account so that you actually have your own url and full page? tell me if u don't know what i mean by that

Am I going to have to break my five-year streak of never having used Tumblr on desktop for this?

[amphibianaday]

Amphibian Pride 2024!

Thank you to everyone who joined!

Link to a Google drive with larger version! Credits below!

@arcadianskypirate, @bagumbo, @boldforg, @bumblechub, @charlotte-lancer, @dark-roasted-kestel, @froggyfroo-art, @goofy-guy-dj, @hsavinien, @impulseimpact, @infiniteorangethethird, @its-a-beautful-day, @laptoparmageddon, @mb-blue-roses, @mercworm, myweirdwriting, @pride-flag-planets, @reallyprofoundkryptonite, @rusalkaandtheshepherdgirl, @salamanders-in-a-trench-coat, @shittybraindrawings, @sillyinq, @slemhosta, @spamssketches, @teethburglar, @thebespectacledhyacinth, @werewolf-transgenderism

[the-clockwork-three]

The Martial God of the West, Yin Yu, goes down to a forest near his old home to vanquish a violent ghost. He was not expecting to meet his Shidi that left the sect.

My second entry to @tgcf-reverse-big-bang, with the lovely art by @soapy-soartp, and betaed by @rusalkaandtheshepherdgirl. Its a QuanYin role reversal AU, and I think its very sweet.

[graylikethecolor42]

Hey mutuals let’s start a chain! Add a link to the most recent song you’ve listened to!

Me first: https://open.spotify.com/track/1n8sOGhhV0eyWcGpmwl71q?si=5fodZ9OJSJuvt78qLgagMw

Tagging: @happyallykats @zeldanoel @midnight-clover @eridanisanenby @rusalkaandtheshepherdgirl @ohdamitsme @distracted-milkshake @fizzy-champagne @mandobogwitch @ulysses-but-somehow-more-transer @mad-i-moody

Anyone is free to join!

[dandy-draws]

Meshi May day 21!

This one was requested by my dear friend, @rusalkaandtheshepherdgirl, who asked for a drawing of Kuro meeting my IRL dog, Darla (pictured below). Love you, babe!

[hairasuntouchedaspartoftheamazon]

So here's my rendition of "It's Called 'Helena and Gerard, a Vampire Tragedy in Unmetered Limrick', Mom" by The Forgetmenauts. Enjoy.

@rusalkaandtheshepherdgirl

[graydrawssometimes42]

i finally got up the nerve to post this! i’ve been wanting to make a self sona for a hot second, so here they are! i was going for a jackalope plushie kind of vibe :)

feel free to send any asks abt this, and i’ll leave some close ups under the cut! and a special thanks to @rusalkaandtheshepherdgirl and @fizzy-champagne for supporting me when i felt self conscious!

[jewishdainix]

I was in the rushes

By the banks of the river sweet

The current that tugged at my skirts

Nearly strong enough to pull me right off of my feet

And I should've listened to grandmother

And I should've stayed with the sheep

But @thefaceofthegirlinthewater 's

The same as the face of the girl who's been haunting my dreams

She comes to me every night

Her body a song, a poem in the candlelight

Tempts me away from the lord

Salvation anew past the banks of the river shore

Whispers my name in an unchristian way

Tells me for once, I don't have to behave

I don't care if she's the devil, I don't want to be saved

I'll lay down in the current and let the river carry me away

Lay down, christian lass

Chaste no more and free at last

Think no more of sin and toil

Of sheep and wolves, your mortal coil

In baptism bow your head

The river rushes make our bed

Leave behind your narrow home

And men shall leave you well alone

Marriage is a damned curse

A life of servitude and worse

So spurn the blood and flesh of christ

And lay with me beneath the ice

A dowry of rotten gold

Forsake for me your narrow world

Current catch you, dance and twirl

@rusalkaandtheshepherdgirl

The current catch you, dance and twirl

@rusalkaandtheshepherdgirl

The current catch you, dance and twirl

@rusalkaandtheshepherdgirl

The current catch you, dance and twirl

@rusalkaandtheshepherdgirl

The current catch you, dance and twirl

@rusalkaandtheshepherdgirl

[theoscelosaurus]

Tagged by @asterlark (thank you :D!!) Rules: pick a song for every letter of your url and then tag that many people (welp that is A Lot of letters we'll see how this goes)

T: The Road to Nowhere, Radical Face

H: Hey, Runner!, The Arcadian Wild

E: Eat You Alive, The Oh Hellos

O: Old Pine, Ben Howard

S: Summer Skeletons, Radical Face

C: (The) Consequence of Imagination Is Fear, Junie & TheHutFriends (sorry lol apparently I don't listen to music starting with C)

E: Everything Costs, Radical Face

L: Lying Beast, Run River North

O: Of the Wall! Magical!, Junie & TheHutFriends

S: Sunn, Radical Face

A: A Benediction, The Arcadian Wild

U: I've looked through all of my playlists but genuinely can't find a single one¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

R: Rearview, Run River North

U: :(

S: Severus and Stone, Radical Face

That was a lot harder than I thought it'd be! @myrtaceaae @obsidianmage3 @mythologeekwriter @transcarcinization @cinqueform @doruwuwei @rusalkaandtheshepherdgirl (okay i genuinely can't remember people's usernames well enough for this, @ 8 other people i probably like very much but have sadly forgotten)

[fey-changeling]

talk to me about seth lakeman's music plz??

So once upon a time my beloved mother discovered Seth Lakeman, an English folk singer/songwriter/musician. She bought an album, Poor Man's Heaven, and played it on the way to school (and on the way back) for months and months. Me and my mum have a similar music taste so I didn't really have a problem with this.(it's been well over ten years I can still sing almost every song on this album from memory)

His music is based off folklore and stories of real people, he's done retelling of songs from the 1600s, he's written about his grandparents. He writes about ordinary people. It's all very English, in a way it feels like the coast, and the countryside, and all the stories that lie buried in the landscape. Each of his albums has a very distinct sound, I can't explain it in any other way (i love the sound of Word of Mouth). But also as an artist his style as a whole is very distinct, a few years ago he wrote a song for an episode of Midsomer Murders and me and mum recognised it as him within the first 5 seconds before he even started singing (Ballad of Midsomer County is a fun song with trad folk themes of don't trust the pretty woman in the woods she'll kill you)

i've seen Seth play live a handful of times now (thank god that folk artists always have sensibly priced tickets) and it's always an incredible experience. If you have the chance to see him live do it. He's an incredible performer and you can tell how much he loves what he does. Mostly I've seen him perform in churches (which is so cool) but for my birthday one year me and my mum travelled to Cornwall to see him perform at the Minack which is an open air theatre built on the edge of a cliff.

I can't not mention Kitty Jay, his favourite song. He plays it at every single gig and has done for twenty years now. It's always such a moment when he starts playing it because the intro is always a little bit different and the build up is *gesticulates wildly* anyway this is one of my favourite versions though the intro he's been doing more recently is incredible.

If you enjoy folk or folk-adjacent music, if you like songs that tell stories you'll probably fall in love with some of Seth Lakeman's songs.

Blood Red Sky, Higher We Aspire, Divided We Will Fall, The Hurlers, The Courier, Willow Tree

Also as a side note he collaborated with a group called Wildwood Kin on one album and you should listen to their song Warrior Daughter right now

[theroguetoast]

🐏💗🎀

I'm so happy with how this came out! I bought this outfit impulsively after seeing it on @lolita-wardrobe, and gave it a spin for a birthday dinner yesterday. Nothing to be sheepish about here!

(Thank you to @rusalkaandtheshepherdgirl for taking the best of these photos 💗)

[the-clockwork-three]

@rusalkaandtheshepherdgirl

Most blessed type of fandom experience tbh

[sketchy-fey]

Section of a post from main, seemed relevant to this blog so sharing it here @rusalkaandtheshepherdgirl asked me to infodump about cosplay. (Thank youuuuu, i love being enabled)

I'm pretty sure I do this because I'm a dancer and how people move is very interesting but my cosplays (Rem and Isolde especially) have specific body languages.

Rem is very open, a little bit masc, she's confident, has a relaxed-but-not-too-relaxed posture, can't sit properly on a chair (manspreading, legs over the arms, cross-legged), she talks with her hands, she fidgets, something cat-like but basically her body language downplays how dangerous she really is.

Isolde is much more closed, her arms are often across her body or behind her back, she has ballet dancer posture, and holds herself like she's better than you, she moves very smoothly and elegantly, sits legs crossed or ankles crossed, hands in her lap, minimal superfluous movement.

Photos below cut!

anyway here's a photo I love from my Rem shoot (I'm wearing fluffy socks), and an Isolde shoot i did at a con (photo by drawiingdreamer on insta)

i mentioned in the last post i was planning a dark academia/modern!au Arrnodel and the Wyrd Sisters (i did all 3, this is Hecate, a friend took that photo)

[the-clockwork-three]

The Prince of Yong'an's First Love

Lang Qianqiu fell in love with his Goushi from the first moment he saw him. He will prove on his seventeenth birthday that he has become a man, worthy of being his equal.

Event fic of the season number one of four! This one is for @tgcf-reverse-big-bang. It contains and was inspired by the amazing art by @rosietearz both here and on twitter/x and was betad by @rusalkaandtheshepherdgirl

[hairasuntouchedaspartoftheamazon]

Writers Tag Game!

The tried and true strategy of using song lyrics as fic titles.....we've all been there.

How do song lyric titles measure up in your fic?

Total number of fics: 65 (all on Ao3)

Number of fics with 'song lyric' titles: 15

Number of fics with lyrics (in parenthesis): 2

Go crazy, go stupid, list all your song lyric fics and what song you used as the title(if you so wish):

Long Live [BBC Merlin, title from Long Live,Taylor Swift]

Rose Colored Boy [Helluva Boss, Rose Colored Boy, Paramore]

When I Ruled The World [BBC Merlin, Viva la Vida, Coldplay]

A Health to Those Who Dance By The Fires [BBC Merlin, Beltane Fires, Gaia's Consort]

The Joker(s) [The Mechanisms, The Joker, Steve Miller Band]

Count to Seventeen (Close Your Eyes) [Danger Days, S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W, My Chemical Romance]

The Edges of What We Might Be [The Mechanisms, Pieces, The Mechanisms]

You Want a Revelation, Some Kind of Resolution [BBC Merlin, No Light, No Light, Florence + The Machine]

It Must Be Love [The Umbrella Academy, You Got Me, Colbie Callait]

It Wasn't Worth It [Supernatural, 1,000 Years, The Gaslight Anthem]

And Make It Our Own [Danger Days, Take the World, Ray Toro]

And If I Thought It Would Help (I Would Carve Your Name Into My Heart) [Danger Days, Dark Places, The Gaslight Anthem]

If In The End I End With You [The Locked Tomb Series, The Weatherman, The Gaslight Anthem]

LET IT OUT LET IT OUT LET IT OUT YOU'RE DOING ALL RIGHT [Danger Days, Id'a Called You Woody, Joe, The Gaslight Anthem]

They'll Wish The First Life They'd Taken Was Mine [Danger Days, Gay Werewolf Murder Ballad, The Forgetmenauts]

Tag Writer Friends: @alfalfairy @rusalkaandtheshepherdgirl @bsideheart AND ANYONE ELSE WHO WANTS TO PARTICIPATE