#thetreasurechest

[valiantarcher]

Soft-tagged by both @thetreasurechest and @lover-of-the-starkindler - thank you!

The rules are to list 10 of your favorite female characters from 10 different fandoms, and then tag 10 different people. 

Generally just going with ten great female characters.

Artemis Asa-Smith from The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond by G. K. Chesterton.

Kate Nickleby from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens.

Jane Bennet from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

Kateri Kovach from The Fairy Tale Novels by Regina Doman.

Arabella Strange from Jonathon Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke.

The Baker from The Woman who Flummoxed the Fairies (I'm familiar with the version by Sorche Nic Leodhas, nicely summarised in the link).

Vassilissa from Staver and his Wife Vassilissa.

Becky from Striped Ice Cream by Joan M. Lexau.

Jaylah from Star Trek Beyond.

Leonore from Fidelio by Ludwig van Beethoven (libretto by Joseph Sonnleithner).

Leaving an open tag for anyone who would like to do this!

[nerdy-catfish]

I don’t know your OCs but feel free to chose your favorite of the OC questions and answer them about your OCs

Hehehe thank you for giving me free rein :D I'm gonna pick a few prompts that originally caught my eye for Jeremiah, my 1930s vigilante.

🖊️ BALLPOINT PEN — does your oc have any tattoos? do they want any (more) tattoos?

He does not, and I don't think he would consider it. Tattoos still aren't super mainstream in his time period. Plus it would make him too easy to identify >:)

💛 YELLOW HEART — how many languages does your oc speak? what language(s) are they learning, if any?

Just English fluently. I like to think if he ever gets to interact with someone from another country on a regular basis he would learn a few phrases in their language out of a library book to pull out unexpectedly. He probably understands some scraps of Italian as well. He would love to learn Irish Gaelic but he knows that's very unlikely.

😖 CONFOUNDED FACE — is your oc an introvert, an extrovert, or an ambivert? do they let people in easily, or are they more reserved?

Despite all the interacting with people he does, he's actually an introvert, just very good at masking. He's an incredible actor and good at focusing on a task, and generally his tasks involve people.

[novelmonger]

Hey you like “he will carry me” too?

I doooooo~ <3 Doesn't hurt that I've assigned it to a couple characters too! ;)

[siblingshowdown]

Will you do the showdown again this year?

maybe! I'm pretty busy this year, but if there's enough interest I might run it again!

[kanerallels]

Might you be willing to share a link to the aforementioned Queen's Thief playlist? (If you don't want to give out your Spotify I totally understand!) (Or any other reason for that matter!)

I would be SO happy to share it you guys don't know how much I love sharing playlists it's a problem lolllll

Please enjoy! @thetreasurechest @vioqueenofmushrooms you expressed interest, so here's the playlist! I'd love to hear thoughts or song contributions if you guys have favorite TQT songs!

[rainintheevening]

10 beloved ships

Rules: without naming them, post a gif of ten of your favourite ships (any media), then tag ten people to do the same.

Tagged by @profwonderbearthementalista. Sorry it has taken me forever to get to this 😅 but thanks for the tag! Most of my actual favourite ships are in books, but here are some of ones I can find gifs for. What do y'all think they say about me??

Tagging @novelmonger @sailforvalinor @ablatheringblatherskite @thetreasurechest @wispsofwhimsy @thefinaljediknight @musewrangler @theanishimori @a-study-of-stars @catkin-morgs-kookaburralover

[lover-of-the-starkindler]

Favorite Female Characters

tagged by @thetreasurechest - thank you!

The rules are to list 10 of your favorite female characters from 10 different fandoms, and then tag 10 different people. 

Ioreth from Lord of the Rings - oh to have a ringside view of the arrival of a king with the hands of a healer...

Lucy Pevensie from The Chronicles of Narnia

Achren from The Prydain Chronicles - look, I love Eilonwy (and Alexander's other heroines like Vesper Holly) but there is something about this woman who goes from breaking swords with her bare hands (and magic) to living on past the downfall of her schemes, and that not being the end of her story

Emily Webster from Emily of Deep Valley

Phillipa Gordon from Anne of the Island

Belinda Davis from Love Takes Wing / Love Finds a Home - deeply shocked to learn recently that this is an outlier position (:p)

Col. Eve Baird from The Librarians - I just started watching the show so I'm only halfway through the first season but so far she's pretty cool

Natasha Romanoff from Captain America: The Winter Soldier - in this house we (sometimes) take bite-size pieces of a fandom

Elinor Dashwood from Sense and Sensibility

Red from Hoodwinked

previous iteration of this meme: (2017) if you're interested in seeing what changed and what didn't

tagging: anyone wearing blue?

[asymphonyofstarlight]

tagged by @freyafrida!! i picked the first of yours i recognized which was the coeur de pirate one but a moment later i was like oh yes tori amos <3 so. that too.

game: put your 'on repeat' playlist on shuffle & let your friends pick their favourite of the first five songs

tagging: @thetreasurechest & anyone else who wishes to participate bc i am bad at tag games

[griseldabanks]

Last line tag game

Rules: post the last line that you wrote and tag someone for every word in the line.

Tagged last year by @dairogo ^^' I got kinda burnt out after finishing TMI, then writing something for FMA Day, then Inklings Challenge, then Comfyvember...so then I took a three-month break, and I'm only just beginning to actually want to write again. It's good to be back :D

It was just always there, all day every day.

Oof, do I know that many people interested in this sort of thing? Tagging @dairogo back, as well as @bunnyscar, @thetreasurechest, @catkin-morgs-kookaburralover, @winterinhimring

@authortobenamedlater, @sailforvalinor, @freenarnian, and...uhhh, the last one I'll leave open! Only if you want to!

[windmilltothestars]

WIP Game

I was tagged by two glorious, wonderful friends: @general-illyrin and @thetreasurechest!! Thanks, guys <3 Rules: Make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! And then tag as many people as you have WIPs. As usual, I'm bending the rules slightly because my "WIP folder" is not one thing, I have literally hundreds of half-started stories and WIPs, even more ideas that I've scribbled down in some obscured 3rd location, and many, many that I haven't remotely thought about in years. So I'm gonna write down a couple Tolkien ones and a couple Les Mis ones - some with titles, some have "working" titles, some have titles I just invented for this list, some that are just kinda a concept - and call it good for this era of my life XD - Blessed and Beloved - Laughing at Old Grief - Ancestral Valor (chapter 2) - Mankind Was My Business - The World Is Wild and Bright - One Equal Temper of Heroic Hearts - Establishing the Squad in Ep. 1 - Weird Little Angsty Woodcutting Interlude - Finrod Does Not Regret - Young Outlaws Getting to Know Turin - These Violent Delights Have Pretty Chill Ends (chapter 3) - To Go Through Fire (chapter 4) - Songs of Salvation - The Gentle Light of the Evening-Star in Summer - All the Elf Wife Nonsense Wooo this was fun!!! And it'll be good think about them and share about them!

I'm no-pressure tagging @marietheran, @nerdy-catfish, @skeleton-richard, @scioscribe, @magnetocerebro, @dwarven-beard-spores, @whitehorsevale and @grondds-and-roses if you'd be at all interested in participating in a thing like this, and sharing anything you're working on! If not, no worries!! Thanks again <3

[valiantarcher]

Tagged by @thetreasurechest - thank you!

Pick six favourite movies, and make a poll for others to pick which best suits your vibe.

[nerdy-catfish]

Hey I don’t know anything about Red dead or the bonding one but they sound interesting! also feel free to take the Tolkien OC Week one as my choice instead

Well thanks for asking about it despite not knowing the source material ^^

No one had noticed him, as usual. In fact he somehow managed to relax so much, staring into the fire with the lukewarm beer in his hand, that he didn’t notice Arthur slinking his own way over to the fire until he sat down suddenly on the stool across from him and made Kieran jump about a foot in the air.

Arthur ropes Kieran off his horse, kidnaps him, threatens to break his bones and/or kill him on multiple occasions, and can't manage to greet him three times in a day without insulting him at least twice, and yet the fandom collectively said "But what if they were friends?" and I'm so on board with that 😊

[novelmonger]

Tagged by @rainintheevening to make a poll of beloved female characters and see who everyone else likes most.

Tagging @bunnyscar, @authortobenamedlater, @thetreasurechest, @dairogo, and @valiantarcher if you'd like to do this and haven't yet!

Characters I wanted to put on the list but decided not to because I know they wouldn't stand a chance because nobody knows them:

Rakka from Haibane Renmei:

Miri Unasaka from Buddy Daddies:

Lirael from the Old Kingdom series by Garth Nix:

Alexandria from The Fall:

[siblingshowdown]

Your posts don't show up on my timeline until after the polls are finished (I am a follower) Do you know Is there something I can do to make them show up sooner or is it just the algorithm?

The way I have tumblr set up is where it's completely chronological, starting with the most recent posts from people i follow at the top of the dash. Your settings page has the option to switch stuff ("best stuff first" or "based on your likes") but i personally really don't like those because it tends to muck up the dash and put a lot of posts in front of me that i don't like while pushing posts from people i follow far down the dash. I would suggest undoing those toggles if you have them on, but if you want to keep them then I would simply suggest checking the blog every few days, as polls span a week. Round 3 polls will post on Thursday!

[kanerallels]

WIP Game!

Tagged by both @ghosts-and-blue-sweaters and @misscrazyfangirl321 (thanks, y'all!)

Rules: make a new post (or reblog from this one!!!) and post the latest line in your WIP & tag as many people as there are words (or as many as you feel like)

From a little story thing about some OCs I've been playing with lately!

But Chambers— and Andersen, for that matter— seemed to belong here so thoroughly that an outside life seemed decidedly foreign.

OH boy I might not get to 20 people, but I'll give it a shot! With no pressure: @hecckyeah @saxifrage-wreath @winterinhimring @musewrangler @kazoosandfannypacks @magpie-trove @mandaloriandragontrainer @thetreasurechest @o-lei-o-lai-o-lord @incorrectpizza and anyone else who sees this and wants to play!

[rainintheevening]

Crying because this gif is so cute it deserves its own post. Thank you @thetreasurechest. This is exactly what I imagine my Grant Ward laughing like, though only a handful of people would get it out of him. (Rose, Coulson, eventually Skye, Fitz, Hunter, and Mack.) Also dogs. Puppies will turn him to mush.