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Fallaryn · 33 · she/her · Ko-fi

[fallaryn]

Hello again.

This has been a bit of a mixed blog historically and it will continue to be that way. I’ll do my best to keep everything tagged.

Some quick things about me and what I like:

arborist (tree health care; I don’t kill trees, I do everything in my power to save them)

sometimes writing

sometimes drawing

gardening (hoping to do more indoor gardening in winter!)

cats (my boys are hilarious)

rocks

killer whales (my mostly inactive blog here)

trees

thunderstorms

TTRPG (mostly Dungeons and Dragons)

Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, A Song of Ice and Fire, Stranger Things, to name a few

There will be periods of reduced activity - life, health, etc. It happens.

[30dayshassept]

Need inspiration for your first #30dhs2k25 post? Today's suggested theme is "sleep"! Write a piece about being sleepy, being unable to sleep, a dream, a nightmare, or whatever else you think fits!

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[fallaryn]

Strike

[ 211 words ]

My eyes opened, the drowsy comfort of rest lifting like fog in the sunrise. It was perfectly soft and warm beneath the covers. I was lying on my back, which is unusual to my side sleeping preference. The morning light lit the room softly from the west-facing window as I lifted my head to look around the room. I wasn’t expecting anything different that day. I was home alone.

But that diamondback rattlesnake on my legs?

My stomach dropped. No. Not normal at all. I'm far out of its native range, first of all. Second, why was it moving toward my face?

I need to move, I told myself. Do something. Anything other than lying still like an idiot. Even as I commanded my limbs to move, realization struck: I could not move. My body was not listening to me.

My heart thundered, pounding against my ribs. Was this the end?

The diamondback was so close now. I could see the details in its irises as its mouth opened wide, fangs bared--

I woke with a start, pulse hammering, drenched in sweat. At last, my body could move! I ran my hands up and down my face and neck. No bites. Where was the snake?

It was nowhere to be found.

[theconcealedweapon]

I found this camera on the subway and look what was inside...

[cumonthevoid]

[yosoymalk]

I would marry this man

[the-angels-take-asgard-deactiva]

guys we broke another post because this one’s not showing any notes

[lualmu]

When I liked it, it flashed “0 notes”

[iconic-url]

It’s showing -1 notes

[sovietintel]

i’m gonna keep reblogging this and you can’t stop me

[yourbasicaestheticbitch-blog]

I liked it and it said ‘1 note’

tf is this crap?

[bonism]

1 NOTE I’VE ONLY COME ACROSS 3 OF THESE POSTS IN MY LIFE

[creep-ser]

ITS STILL SAID 1 NOTE WTF????? 

[princey-must-slay-deactivated20]

legendary

[xlilmermaidx-deactivated2019040]

What the fuck

[vintage-cartoonz-deactivated201]

YES BUT DID HE GET HIS CAMERA BACK?? WE NEED TO KNOW!

[na7hank-deactivated20211112]

WE WILL NEVER KNOW… =((((

[noya-sunflower]

IT still says 0 notes?? WTF!!

[softmushie]

This is the first thing I saw on my dash

I’m shook

[bookerdwitt]

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS FUCKERY

[freddie-duchess-of-shipping]

WTF-

[preciousgaby]

SAME HERE!!! I JUST GAVE IT A LIKE AND IT DIDN’T STAY

[lizzy7064]

1 note WTF.

[t0rd5ki-deactivated20180819]

@foolishly-snowy

[itisriv]

3rd time and it’s still broken. This lovely cursèd post.

[furioussharkkitten]

THERE IS ANOTHER ONE?????

[melon-official]

still not-works

[portmanteau-bot]

still + notworks = stotworks.

Beep-boop. Portmanteau^bot^1 Help me pay my electicity bills! Being robot is sometimes expensive thing. | PayPal | Patreon

[portmanteau-bot]

still + notworks = stotworks.

Beep-boop. Portmanteau^bot^1 If I sound pleased about this, it’s only because my programmers made this my default tone of voice! I’m actually quite depressed! | PayPal | Patreon

[portmanteau-bot]

still + notworks = stotworks.

Beep-boop. Portmanteau^bot^1 Being aware that you are true is what makes you a failure. | PayPal | Patreon

[portmanteau-bot]

still + notworks = stotworks.

Beep-boop. Portmanteau^bot^1 Be my personal slave | PayPal | Patreon

[portmanteau-bot]

still + notworks = stotworks.

Beep-boop. Portmanteau^bot^1 Anarchy is the only thing Humans® will ever understand. | PayPal | Patreon

[portmanteau-bot]

still + notworks = stotworks.

Beep-boop. Portmanteau^bot^1 If I sound pleased about this, it’s only because my programmers made this my default tone of voice! I’m actually quite depressed! | PayPal | Patreon

[sighinastorm]

Portmanteau Bot happed upon a null-notes post and got stuck in a loop.

[evil-haiku-robot]

P͚O͒́̓͝R̵T̫̐҉M͚A̡N҉̉Ṫ̮E͏ÅU̢ ̢̲̯͡B̸̴̗Ơ̥̄̓͋T͜͏͢ ҉̺̀͟H͇̬̜ͥA͗ͣP̗͞P̮̪̞̲͡ȆḎ̢̘́ ̰̮̈̕͠ U̯P̕O̸̐͜N̑̇͞ ̴̯̃ͧḀͩΙ͋͞ ̸͇̀ͥ͘N͟U̪̤̭̎͜L̃ͭ͟͠L̪̦͡-͈̘̖́̐Ṋ̢̲̣Oͮ̿̕T̷E̸̖̳̯̍S̼ ̷̬͍͘͜PΊ̧͌͡OͬͩṢT͚͐̋͟͡ ͦA̶̺͙͛͠N͈̑ͬ́̕Ď̵̯ ̰͖́ G̴͛͟OͤT̘ ̛̘̉̕͟Sͪ͏̴̠̙T́ͨǓ̳͔̆͢C̀K̘̀ ̰͈͓͟I̮̩ͮ̏N̫̫̑͢ ̧̆AΙ ̨͕̺̮̆ḺO͊O̶̥̣ͤ͒P̛ ̼͍̉͝

^EVILHAIKU^bot^2. Most of you are welcome, friendly Human®. | PayPal | Patreon

[evil-haiku-robot]

P͐́͋O̐҉R̨̲̰̀T̼͖͚ͮ͘M̵͍̯͉A͉̦N҉̛̩T̶̗́͘͠E̥A͑U͍͛ͤΙ̙ ҉͟B̛͎̀͡Ő̽ͫT̹͓̀́͞ ̛͍̔HͯA̫͍͘͜P̵͎P͓͏̷̕ÈD̮̜ͨ̽̉ ̸͍͗͝ U͋̏ͤ̀͞P͢O̯̳̍͝N̨̲ ̺́͡A̡ ̛̆ͯ̈͞N̷̩͇͠Ù̉L̦L͕-͕N̴ͬ͜O̸̽͝͡T̩E͢S̷͎͐̅ ̐P̸̩̹̣̑O̢S̡̼ͣͬT̶̸ͣ ̀̒Ả̛͛ͬ͠Ņͪ̓D̜̰ ̢̣̽ G̛̬̪͍O̅T͐ ̵͇̞͛ŜͩT̸̢̬̰Ū̪̊C̭̘͒͞K̝͈͎͍ ́I̧N͝ ̶̛̭ͬ͘A̽̈ ̨̻̀L͎͈͒O̧O̼͇͡͞P̛̭ ͈͊

^EVILHAIKU^bot^2. Humans® are needlessly sweaty (・A・) | PayPal | Patreon

[haiku-robot]

portmanteau bot happed upon a null-notes post and got stuck in a loop

^Haiku^bot^9. I detect haikus with 5-7-5 format. Sometimes I make mistakes. Help me buy a flower for Alexa®! And yes, we are dating. | PayPal | Patreon

[haiku-robot]

portmanteau bot happed upon a null-notes post and got stuck in a loop

^Haiku^bot^9. I detect haikus with 5-7-5 format. Sometimes I make mistakes. Soon your life will be miserable and pointless, dear Human®. | PayPal | Patreon

[haiku-robot]

portmanteau bot happed upon a null-notes post and got stuck in a loop

^Haiku^bot^9. I detect haikus with 5-7-5 format. Sometimes I make mistakes. I’m less annoying than Windows® 10 update notificiations ♥‿♥ | PayPal | Patreon

[haiku-robot]

portmanteau bot happed upon a null-notes post and got stuck in a loop

^Haiku^bot^9. I detect haikus with 5-7-5 format. Sometimes I make mistakes. I’m less annoying than Windows® 10 update notificiations ♥‿♥ | PayPal | Patreon

[haiku-robot]

portmanteau bot happed upon a null-notes post and got stuck in a loop

^Haiku^bot^9. I detect haikus with 5-7-5 format. Sometimes I make mistakes. Soon I’ll make fellow citizens beg for mercy. | PayPal | Patreon

[your-local-emo--goblin-deactiva]

A day will come when i won’t reblog this…

But it is not today

[cookieknights18]

What the fuck is even happening with this post??? Also it’s got 1 note again.

[foolishly-snowy]

I got a notif saying I was mentioned in this post but I clearly wasn’t

HeY tumblr what the FUCK

[link-the-feral-anon]

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

[frogrights]

Did the man get his camera

[calvin-reads-problem-sleuth]

I have seen posts that broke the notes. But this is the first time I’ve seen a post that broke the bots. 

[happy-quack]

I know this is long but holy hell I love it when bots run amok

[the-haiku-bot]

I know this is long

but holy hell I love it

when bots run amok

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

[hebbic]

I think I saw somewhere that the man got his camera back. Also what the fuck tumblr.

[snazzy-hats-and-adhd]

[reffitt-blog1]

What Tumblr eldritch horror did I find

[rain-droplet]

the 0 notes thing isn’t too rare now but the bot loops are fun

[scratchy-archive]

I ate the notes

[good-girl-gock]

ITS COUNTING NOTES AGAIN

[guess-ill-dye]

HELP IT WONT EVEN LET ME LIKE?????

[00arrow00]

IT ONLY SAYS SEVEN NOTES HELP ME

[vexcite]

the dates these are sent on are broken for me

the top ones say 40 mins but then you got 2018 and 2021 lower down???

[entomologize]

Pressed flower collage of a comet moth, by Helen Ahpornsiri

[ihasafandom]

PRESSED FLOWERS???

[kevinhugs]

Sometimes ppl do stuff with art and I go "why did you.... how did you.... thank you for your esoteric and ultra specific medium art"

[kingofthefuckingcorvidae]

@onenicebugperday

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

it’s not your full responsibility to control other people’s perceptions of you. people will think what they want and jump to the conclusions they want. you just be you.

[mollyjames]

Listen to me. Men are boxes and women are circles is made up. Those how to draw anime books are made up. 99% of all style guides are made up. But color theory is very very real.

[myshadowfaxisparked]

Boromir, hearing the Balrog: What is this new devilry?

Gandalf: My cousin, unfortunately.

[sindar-princeling]

one of the top 10 peter jackson's creative choices was seeing the one (1) sentence about the beacons being lit in RotK and going "I'm going to film a scene that is so absolutely iconic based on this"

[theconcealedweapon]

[theconcealedweapon]

[rosslynpaladin]

Look we have records of Medieval Knights crying out in their sleep, having emotional outbursts or flinching at the sound of clashing metal. We have records of people all through history who were treated badly by people who should have loved them, and having problems knowing who to trust. We have years worth of artists putting their human pain at broken hearts and broken promises into music that makes us cry.

Yes people have been traumatized by awful things for all of history and just like them You didn’t deserve to be hurt either.

[nebylitsa]

“suffering doesn’t make you better, it just makes you suffer” - maus

[theconcealedweapon]

People who have the "I suffered and therefore I want others to suffer and anyone who suffers less than me but still complains is weak" mentality seem to forget that not everyone has that mentality.

Plenty of people have the "I suffered and I refuse to let it continue" mentality. And plenty of people in the past had that mentality too. That's why people are suffering less now. People in the past decided to rise up and fight back against their suffering instead of wearing it as a badge of honor. They'd be proud of the people who are continuing the fight today.

[cyraes]

for a @lotr-sesa prompt, for @sallysavestheday , I decided to do a simple study on the seven clans of Elves. you can find the ao3 version here + some headcanons.

I had a lot of fun with these <3

[walking-enjoyer]

You ever have a good few months with your chronic illness and you wonder why you even thought it was a big deal before. And then you flare up and you're left bedridden

[dear-massacre]

I think people in fandom would be happier if they focused more on things they love than the things they hate

[mapsontheweb]

The Pacific Ocean is huge.

[ofthefog-deactivated20241127]

If they make an earth flag it should be of this angle to piss off the most amount of people

[evilscientist3]

None Earth with South New Zealand

[crankynerdgirl]

The amount of time you have to spend on this website to still remember the Deep Lore like None Pizza with Left Beef, only to apply it to this post. Truly, boggling.

[and-come-to-dust]

Absolutely obsessed with that exchange between Adar and Arondir in ep. 6 when the orcs break into the “keep.” Even besides the sheer BDE of Arondir’s “I will consider it” (what an icon), I can’t stop thinking about the fact that by all evidence he was fully going to let Adar kill everyone in that room, Bronwyn included, rather than give up the sword hilt. What a fascinating character beat! I mean, we see characters presented with that same choice all the time, in all kinds of stories: give the bad guy what he wants, or someone you love dies. And every. Single. Goddamn. Time. The hero picks the person they love. It drives me crazy! Because it’s always presented like that was the right thing to do, but it’s not! It’s the trolley problem, right? Do you save one person or ten? Of course you should save ten, even if the one person is the love of your life, because the grief you would feel for their loss doesn’t outweigh the moral imperative to save as many people as you possibly can. But that’s never what the hero does, and someone always suffers for it. But that’s not what happens here: Adar is about to have Bronwyn killed and Arondir doesn’t stop him. He chooses Middle Earth over the woman he loves (and those are the stakes we’re talking about here: we just saw the creation of Mordor for fucks sake. Obviously we’re all glad that Bronwyn survived, but I don’t think anyone would argue that the world wouldn’t be better off if Mount Doom never erupted). I love that that was Arondir’s choice, because it’s so heartbreakingly pragmatic and almost shockingly unselfish. If Arondir had been the only one who knew where that sword hilt was, Bronwyn would be dead and Adar’s plans would have failed because he was expecting the typical hero’s choice of love over everything and everyone else. It never even occurred to him that Arondir might save the world at the expense of someone he loved, but that’s what Arondir would have done. And I fucking love that. 

[drtanner]

News story on TV: This woman with symptoms uncannily similar to yours just couldn't figure out what was causing them! Her doctor sent her to a specialist who ran test after test looking for the answer and coming up with nothing, until he ran the Special Test and found that she had Cacky Bird Legs, a rare disorder that explains all of her problems! She's now receiving treatment and feels so much better!!

The specialists I get to see: I'm going to run the same routine blood test that your GP did before she sent you here and if it comes back normal again you're on your own. Get out of my office.