Just frelling around

"You like that, don't you?" "I like a lot of things." My interests and commonly used tags: Merlin fic recs My favorite music Things I have created Discworld Blade Runner Free! Iwatobi Swim Club Colin Morgan Pacific Rim Welcome to Night Vale Doctor Who Torchwood Mass Effect Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Politics LGBTQIA+ topics Star Trek: The Next Generation Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Merlin general Merlin flailing About me: usually humorous and dark posts about myself and my problems. Red Dwarf Morrissey The IT Crowd Game of Thrones Arrested Development Parks and Recreation Imaginary landscapes Cute doggies My last.fm profile, which is a feed of all the music I listen to. My LJ, which I really only use to comment. My Ao3 fics, podfics, and bookmarks I hope you enjoy your stay on my blog, and please feel free to say hello anytime!

[cannibalspicnic]

[kidmograph]

SVBBBBW∆Y

[frellingaround]

Aha!  Back to Tumblr!

I’ve been lurking on Twitter for a few months (@spinachy), and I’ve always participated in the hidden friendly corners of Reddit.  But mostly I’ve just been reading books and playing my Steam games, which has been pretty great. 

I keep thinking I’d like to use a blog for daily thoughts, etc., and I may start using my Tumblr that way. 

[frellingaround]

Thank you for tagging me, @elveatas - very kind of you! rules: bold all the things that apply to you!!

I am in college/university

I’ve graduated college/university

I am in high school

I like my job

I’ve never had a job

I am shorter than 5’5

I’ve worked a job I hated

I wear glasses

I have a tattoo

I have more than one tattoo

I don’t have tattoos but I want some

I’m vegetarian

I have allergies

I’m sarcastic

I’m self-conscious about my body (not especially - I get that way sometimes but mostly I don’t think about it very often)

I’m shy

I’ve been called over-emotional

I have a strange sense of humor

I wear a piece of jewelry at all times

I’m atheist

I have red hair

I have blonde hair

I dye my hair regularly

I am an only child

I have more than three siblings

I have a niece

I have a nephew (I was raised an only child but I have a sister; we met as adults)

I couldn’t choose a favorite song

I’ve failed a class

I can speak two or more languages (I can puzzle out written French and sometimes Spanish, but not very well)

I can play an instrument

I’ve hugged someone in the last 24 hours

I’ve kissed someone in the last 24 hours

I have a best friend

I’ve known my best friend for more than 10 years

I have met a friend from the internet

I’ve kissed someone of the same sex

I’ve had sex in the past month

I’m in/have been in a long distance relationship

I’ve had a one night stand

I’ve been dumped more than I’ve dumped someone

I’ve cheated on someone

I’ve met someone famous

I’ve broken a bone

I’ve spent more than six hours straight online

I’ve been out of my home country

I have friends who are married

I have friends who have children of their own

I have been in a wedding party

I’ve ridden in a limousine

I am a morning person

I am a night owl

I like anime

I like Disney movies

I like comedies more than action films

I like action films more than comedies

I always order dessert

I hate fast food

I can’t cook

I enjoy puns

I enjoy being alone

I read for pleasure

I don’t play video games

I believe in ghosts

I believe in aliens (more or less - I don’t disbelieve)

I enjoy conspiracy theories

I’ve been somewhere considered ‘haunted’

I’ve stayed up all night for no reason

I can’t keep secrets

I’ve had a Skype call with more than four people

I’m good with children

I’ve cheated on a test (funny story - I cheated because it didn’t count towards a grade - I was too proud to just fail, and I still feel guilty about it!)

I’ve watched an entire season of something in one day

I am wearing something green right now

I am wearing something yellow right now

I am wearing something purple right now

I’ve never tried alcohol

I’ve had alcohol while underage

I’ve played a drinking game

I’m scared of snakes

I’m scared of heights

I’m scared of clowns

I’m scared of spiders

I collect stamps

I collect comic books

I keep old bus/train tickets

I don’t know the words to my national anthem

I’ve been to a professional sports game

I have more than three key rings on my keys

I’ve had my hair cut in the past month

I’ve cosplayed

I can’t swallow pills

I miss someone right now

[greendad]

Sorry not sorry for that last one.

Man why did I spend so much time on these? Actually, the better question is, how many times can I send these to Sam before she gets fed up with me?

gosh you have no idea how much I wish there was some official Micum art

[fuckyeahnightrunner-blog]

This is actually better than anything I ever knew I wanted, I wish I’d seen these before Valentine’s Day!

[70sscifiart]

Ron Walotsky, 1978

[cuteington]

I honestly can’t handle this right now she looks so good

[frellingaround]

Thanks, Everyday Genius: SquareLogic, for your apt assessment of me

[city-of-fiction]

I think my favourite thing about books is how they shape us. Your book history is uniquely your own, no one else in the world has read the all the same books at the exact same times of their lives as you have, and all those books have changed you so intrinsically that you couldn’t erase their influence on you anymore then you could change your DNA.

[frellingaround]

hi! sorry to bother you but would it be okay for me to ask whether you know a fic i'm looking for? i don't know where else to ask, if not thats totally okay tho! Ive been looking (for more than a month :/) for this merthur fic where arthur know about the magic and have a secret relationships. the knight find out along the way. In the end merlin is hurt(stabbed i think and passes out) and arthur is really worried. the knight are all go care for him we know you love each other

Hi!  I don’t know this fic, unfortunately.  Sorry!  Maybe one of my followers can help out.  If not, merlin-finders is an active community on LiveJournal for finding Merlin fics, and you can ask there.

[klefable]

before you date someone, consider the following: would you want them in your party in a jrpg?

[klefable]

LET ME ELABORATE

will they have interesting dialogue? do you want to go on adventures with them? do your strengths and weaknesses work well together? can they effectively destroy your enemies with magic, swords, etc (or maybe they can heal you. thats cute too)

[beebara-deactivated20161124]

reblog if you knew a Horse Girl

[violettesandthistles]

[frellingaround]

Sunless Sea is free this weekend at Steam!  It’s also on sale for $11.39.

I played through it once and immediately bought it.  It’s really strange and absorbing.  It’s based on Fallen London - so, Lovecraftian choose-your-own-adventure.  The bulk of the gameplay is text-based, but you also sail a ship around, visiting ports, fighting creatures and other ships, and discovering stories, which you trade for benefits and gear. 

You can choose whatever gender and title you like for your own character and romance men or women or both.  So far I’ve discovered you can have a sweetheart in port as well as dally with some of your officers, but I don’t know if you can do both in the same playthrough (or what the consequences are).  You can ignore all that, too, but it’s always so nice to have those options.  You also choose your captain’s background, as well as the game’s winning conditions, which I thought was especially refreshing.

It’s an incredibly fun and open-ended kind of game, with an original world and a lot of memorable moments.  Don’t let the permadeath thing scare you off; if you don’t like it, you can turn it off by manually saving the game at any time.  I’m sticking with permadeath for now, but I’ll try it the other way if the game starts to feel repetitive (I doubt it will, since a lot of the NPCs and encounters are randomized each playthrough).

The free weekend allows you to play the full version, until Monday morning.  I definitely recommend trying it.

[frellingaround]

Song Tag Thing

Rules:
 write the first ten songs that come up on shuffle (no skipping) and quote your favorite lyric from each song, then tag 10 people.

Thank you for tagging me, @elveatas - I love these!

1. Sweet and Tender Hooligan by the Smiths - “In the midst of life, we are in debt, et cetera.”

2. Colony by Joy Division - “A cruel wind that bows down to our lunacy and leaves him standing cold here in this colony.”

3. Carnival by Mark Lanegan - “Trying to look like you just might know that all of the good that you’ve seen just went down and into the drain.”

4. When You Don’t See Me by the Sisters of Mercy - “You bought a mask; I put it on.  You never thought to ask me if I wear it when you’re gone.”

5. Lights by the Sisters of Mercy - “Well, there have been better plans, but none that I could ever understand.”

6. Perfect Kiss by New Order - “Tonight I should have stayed at home, playing with my pleasure zone.” 

7. Sheila Take a Bow by the Smiths - “Boot the grime of this world in the crotch, dear.”

8. Sometimes by Erasure - “Climb in bed beside me, we can lock the world outside.”

9. Troubled Times by Screaming Trees - “Troubled times and worry will turn your head away.”

10. Temple of Love by the Sisters of Mercy - “Crying, weeping will not save your faith for bricks and dreams for mortar.  All your prayers must seem as nothing, ninety-six below the wave, when stone is dust and only air remains.”

No tags this time, but if anyone really wants to do this, please feel free!

[helenkordart]

Dr. Christine Putnam from the Whyborne and Griffin series!!!!

Friends let me tell you about this book series. If you love victorian era in America, gay wizards with anxiety, dashing charming ex-pinkertons, badass female archeologists who are Better Than You, fish warrior women, mystery, aliens, ancient gods, comparative philologists, WIZARD HUSBANDS, lots and lots of character development and fun shenanigans, please try this series. It’s so much fun. I love Christine so much. It has 7 books so far. I love them SO MUCH. PLEASE TRY IT

Christine is so AMAZING and BADASS and she’s SO DONE WITH THIS SEXIST SOCIETY she will PUNCH YOU IN THE FACE DONT THINK SHE WON’T. Seriously Christine is one of my absolute favourite characters ever, she tries so hard and is so good at her job despite having to fight against the society she lives in and she loves her friends so much but she has such a hard time showing it and her and Iskander are so precious I love them so much <333

PLEASE TRY THIS SERIES

[pornosophical]

Pratchett went back to older throwaway jokes (like dwarves being apparently unisex) and used them as metaphors to discuss social change, racial assimilation, and other complex issues, while reexamining the species he’d thrown in at the margins of his world simply because they existed at the margins of every other fantasy universe. If goblins and orcs and trolls could think, then why were they always just there to be slaughtered by the heroes? And if the heroes slaughtered sentient beings en masse, how heroic exactly were they? It was a long overdue start on redressing issues long swept under the rug by a parade of Tolkien successors who never thought of anyone green and slimy as anything but a notch on the protagonist’s sword, and much of the urgency in Pratchett’s last few books seemed to be related to them. “There’s only one true evil in the world,” he said through his characters. “And that’s treating people like they were things.”   And in the last of his “grown-up” Discworld books, that idea is shouted with the ferocity of those who have only a few words left and want to make them count. Goblins are people. Golems are people. Dwarves are people, and they do not become any less people because they decide to go by the gender they know themselves to be instead of the one society forces on them. Even trains might be people, and you’ll never know one way or the other unless you ask them, because treating someone like they’re a person and not a thing should be your default. And the only people who cling to tradition at the expense of real people are sad, angry dwellers in the darkness who don’t even understand how pathetic they are, clutching and grasping at the things they remember without ever understanding that the world was never that simple to begin with. The future is bright, it is shining, and it belongs to everyone.

John Seavey, The Evolution of the Disc (via pornosophical)