#pudentilla

[wildwood-faun]

Macca <3

oh!! I wasn't expecting this one but I like it a lot, thank you!

#and from a true connoisseur nonetheless #pudentilla #the void answers

[alittletoosmarttobestraight]

10, 20, 27! For the wrapped one

ao3 wrapped [writers edition]

10) What work was the quickest to write?

That's a good question. I feel like I am such a slow writier (in that I write in a sprint and then distract myself and then can't get back into it). But maybe... In the Dark.

AO3 tells me I wrote it in 17 days... Considering some of my fics have taken over a year to write, and are still works in progress, that isn't a lot of time!

20) Which work of yours have you reread the most?

I don't tend to reread my work because I spot lots of mistakes which I then have to go in and edit to correct. But I did recently reread A Steward's Journal (which I did write and chose to publish anonymously for reasons).

27) What do you listen to while writing?

I've already answered this, but the answer is either the radio or nothing! The distraction of sound can be nice, but if I start singing along it means I can't concentrate which means it needs to be turned off.

Thank you for asking!

#asks #answers #ask games #pudentilla

[iphisesque]

i want to marry a rich milf so bad...........

#pudentilla if you're out there

[puddinginthemix]

Since I finished watching The Terror I've been thinking about "The Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell to The Terror Pipeline" (cf. Tumblr user pudentilla). I came to the show because a number of people I followed for JSAMN posts were also posting about The Terror, and naturally I was like, dudes on ships looking very cold and rather gay, what is this. Of course, I liked it immediately, but the reason for the "pipeline" still seemed fuzzy.

I joined this conversation about Tuunbaq's role in the story--how The Terror would still be a great show without the demon bear, but his presence definitely adds a certain whatsit--but things didn't really crystallize for me until I was reading an article that discussed speculative fiction as a form of resistance to the Western, colonialist, capitalist, masculinist model of literature that is often unfortunately dubbed "realist" fiction.

It would be easy to write The Terror as a "realist" narrative about the doomed Franklin expedition. All you do is take out Tuunbaq. It would still be excellent. And yet Tuunbaq--the entity that turns the story into speculative fiction--is the force that overwhelms the entire Western, colonialist, capitalist, masculinist enterprise.

I was fascinated by the end of Mr. Hickey: on the one hand, he appears to reject his native culture in favor of reinventing himself as a wild cannibal shaman of the frozen north. On the other hand, everything about what Hickey wants/tries to do is colonialist, exploitative, and driven by the urge to dominate. He fantasizes that he's connecting with Tuunbaq, but he doesn't understand it at all. And then it eats his face.

That was the fantasy moment that made me think ohhhh, what a beautiful connection. Magic in Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell is always and forever the enemy of colonialist, capitalist, masculinist domination. Lots of other people have blogged about this (recently @fluentisonus, good stuff), and I won't rehash that in detail here. But in JSAMN, magic puts itself into the hands of a Black man, servants, women, people who reject conquest and domination as a way of living. It rescues and sustains those people (like Tuunbaq brings Silna a nice fat seal). But those who would use it to dominate others, it utterly crushes.

tl;dr: 1) The Terror isn't The Terror without Tuunbaq; 2) I rode the JSAMN to The Terror Pipeline and I think I get it now

#long post #speculative fiction #the terror #amc the terror #the terror amc #jonathan strange and mr norrell #jsamn #cornelius hickey #tuunbaq #stephen black #john segundus #lady pole #henry lascelles #the gentleman with the thistledown hair

[keirametzbrassknuckles]

First Lines

*shakes my fist at you @blackberrywars but like lovingly* I have so many WIPs for so many fandoms it stopped being funny a long time ago. (you see now why it takes me so fucking long to write anything: I'm constantly jumping from thing to thing to thing like a frog on speed)

The first line of any wip longer than a paragraph.

The Witcher:

Later Aiden will look back and curse himself for his lack of concern but as it is it’s nearly a decade before he realizes that he hasn’t seen Kiyan in a while.

Like two strangers adrift on a subway platform after the bars close, Geralt and Eskel are waiting for a train.

You were always going to end up here.

Yennefer said working at the art museum will help Ciri develop “culture” although what pricing coloring books in the museum shop has to do with culture Geralt can’t even begin to guess.

There’s no aircon in the shop and the interior is dark and hot as hell, smelling of dirt and hay and vegetables slowly rotting in their crates.

Novigrad outpost is a sprawling neon jungle clinging gamely to a tiny ball of rock, lonely, in the deep reaches of space.

“That one’s yours” the officer says, pointing across the crowded visitation room to a lean figure in an orange jumpsuit perched precariously on one of the stools along the perspex phone bank.

Later, Eskel will wish he spent more time that morning to just look.

Stranger Things

It’s summer, one of those wide-open days, hazy with humidity which seems to creep by like molasses, delicious and slow.

The other side of the bed is empty. 

It starts as it always does, with the lighting.

It’s less gruesome, turning back, but only slightly.

Sandman

Hob Gadling has lived for too long to be anything but comfortable in his own company.

Endeavour

“Wotcher”

SAS: Rogue Heroes

Eoin McGonnigal is a reasonable man.

The Terror

John dreams of seals.

Tagging @queerofthedagger @theowlseye @the-butch-of-blaviken @justleaf @camilleisback @pudentilla @softest-punk and everyone else who sees this because I'm a horrible person and I fundamentally Can Not remember who of my moots are writers/open to being tagged in things like this. (Also if you wanna let me know for the future please lmk on this post -- I feel like I should start a list...)

#my writing #this is such a self drag I can't #good fucking lordt

[slow-burn-sally]

I absolutely made this for @pudentilla but it’s also true.

#the terror #john bridgens #the sandman #hob gadling

[neptuniite]

WIP Title Game

Thanks for the tag @serve-cunt and @rebsinthevoid !!

RULES: post 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.

Be Fair To Me — Erres x Hal

Earn it, Boy — Erres and Hal

Curious are the Gods — Erres and Torben

The Cormorant — Harry Peglar x John Bridgens

Road Trip Ficlet — Harry Peglar x John Bridgens

Secret Santa Thing — Jann Mardenborough x Jack Salter

Open — Jann Mardenborough x Jack Salter

Genesis — Selaphiel x Sandalphon Tagging @silvermagpies, @boatgays, @pudentilla, and whoever else wants to try it out!

#WIP Title Game #ask #meme

[palavapeite]

Got tagged by @nocompromise-noregrets and this is the perfect type of thing to do while I wait for dinner, thank youuu! :) <3

Favourite colour: warm purples and dark greens

Last song: On the Dark Waters by Amorphis on my walk earlier

Currently reading: I'm stuck midway in too many books to remember them all, so I'm gonna go with: I started a casual reread of It will come back because I craved the lonesome forest vibes and soft yearning.

Last movie: I honestly don't know about movie. Might have been Nimona? But we're currently watching Good Omens season 2 and are more casually making our way through Taskmaster NZ (the season with the hottest woman on the planet).

Sweet/spicy/savoury: I need all three in my life to keep my palate happy tbh. It's the balance that does it for me.

Currently working on: ending this day better than it started, tbh.

Tagging @greaseonmymouth @thebeautifulsoup @eye-scream-girls @waury-d and @pudentilla

#ask memes

[boatgays]

tagged by @silvermagpies!

Rules: post 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! Then tag as many people as you have WIPs. 

1. big bang fic :) 2. fantasy au 3. 60s collab with @pudentilla 4. vampire au

#I've got a couple more wips than this but. the main ones #I only figure out titles when I absolutely have to so #not gonna tag anyone asjdf just go for it

[thebeautifulsoup]

🎶✨when u get this u have to put 5 songs u actually listen to, publish. then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (non-negotiable, positivity is cool)🎶✨ 

I was tagged by @last-smoke, thank you Vio! 💖💕

1. Voulez Vous - ABBA

2. Shrike - Hozier

3. Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac

4. Wet Dream - Wet Leg

5. Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting - Elton John

Tagging, without obligation, @jordenspuls, @somepallings, @finniestoncrane, @palavapeite, @explorersaremadeofhope, @emmyllou, @verecunda, @ohveda, @pudentilla and @nasturtianredux!

#i have never claimed to be cool #for the last 3 months i have been stuck in a 70s cycle #ask meme #also check me actually remembering to do one of these #apologies to anyone who's tagged me in anything recently i don't mean to ignore them #i merely see them think 'oh cool I'll need to do that' then close tumblr to do something and immediately forget

[wildwood-faun]

@focsle tagged me to share the last line of my wip and tag as many people as there are words! The following is technically from a wip as I plan to go over it a little more and maybe fill out a scene a little - but the general shape of it is done aka this is actually the last line.

"At least the rent is cheap."

Tagging @waltzingtostars, @pudentilla, @bookhobbit, @overelegantstranger, @cheesybadgers and @annundriel if they have wips they feel like sharing lines from!

#i was tagged #i'm pretty excited about this short story tbh!!

[phoenixflames12]

Taken from this picrew- thank you to @pudentilla for showing me this!

#phoenix prattle

[verecunda]

First line meme

Tagged by @nocompromise-noregrets​. Thank you! 💕

Rules: Share the first lines of ten of your most recent fanfics and tag ten people.

1. Sam couldn’t sleep. (In the Silent Forest Listening)

2. “Now,” said Hilarion, voice even lazier than usual, “when we first met, did you ever think for a moment that we’d end up here like this?” (Strange Meetings)

3. When Thangorodrim was broken, that was the end. (Nunc Dimittis)

4. The short midwinter day was already well advanced when Caranthir and his train reached the angle of the river. (The Hopes and Fears of All the Years)

5. When Eönwë arrived at their usual meeting place in the eastern garden, he found Mairon already there. (Giver of Rings)

6. They made their escape across the marshes. (Thus, Thus Go I Gladly to the Shades)

7. After Gurthang, there was only darkness. (Winged to the Long Waiting)

8. “We must make haste!” cried Sir Lancelot, as he led his companions across the swamp towards the shelter of the distant forest. (A (Confirmed) Knight Bachelor)

9. “I never cease to wonder, though I have seen you forging weapons more times than I can reckon up, I cannot recall when I last saw you wield one.” (In the Precincts of Light)

10. There were still many leagues between them and Forres, and the changeful mirk that had dogged them all day had turned at last to wind and storm, so that the going was even slower. (Royalty of Nature)

I’ve lost track of who on my dash has all done this one lately, so apologies in advance if I’m tagging you in this one again: @di-daydreamer, @cuddlytogas, @bryndeavour, @irisseireth, @cycas, @kitthefox, @pudentilla, @thethermocline, @chiropteracupola, @southfarthing.

#meme #my fic #I haven't posted anything in ages #I've barely even written anything for weeks and it's getting to me #x___x

[edward-little]

tagged by @wlwoodnymph​!!!

Rules: Tag 9 people you would like to get to know/catch up with.

Last song: pain by three days grace oh my godddddd

Last TV show: the segundus show. hold on i am currently being informed that it’s actually called jsamn

Currently watching/listening to: nothing?

Currently reading: the chapter after ch 69 of jsamn is ch 1. also the ladies of grace adieu (also by susanna clarke) but i have literally just finished my school stuff for now so give me a minute to get into the swing of having hobbies again

Current obsession:

i tag @cajunroe​, @edwardashley​, @william-pilkington​, @lovelyprincejehan​, @duesternis​, @oughtnots​, @hundyreal​, @pudentilla​, @ohveda​

[slow-burn-sally]

@pudentilla​ I made you a little birthday gift

#ferdinand kinsley #damn #just DAMN #HAPPY BIRTHDAY PUD I LOVE YOU

[elucubrare]

Your personality!!! God I'm always so happy to see you on my dash. You have this playful clever quick witted side, but also like. Backed by this calm wisdom underneath? And you seem so genuinely curious about so many things and topics? Would 100% hike with you or like. Complain about prose

ok this was from this morning from a thing that wasn't meant to be an ask meme but honestly i am so touched???

#pudentilla