Nightmuse's writing-and-babbling blog

Fen stuff, occasionally random games, and quite a bit of random commentary. Originally a fanfic blog, however community happened, as it does.... (important note: not a safe space for anyone but me, tags are sporadic and unreliable)

[capybaralovers]

[your-local-warship-horse]

Reblog this to lift someone else's curse

[chronophobica]

what they DONT tell you about clarinets is that you have to fucking build the damn thing every single time. "what instrument do you play" fucking legos man idk

[alphabetizing-posts]

about build clarinets damn do DONT every fucking fucking have idk instrument is legos man play" single tell that the they thing time. to what "what you you you

[howverychaotic]

I really need to start reading the blog name because I thought I was having some sort of moment right there.

[warmfigure]

i am massively overdue for a very very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy

[unlettered-heathen]

reblog to give prev a very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy

[musanocturnis]

I had this weirdass dream last night, where I was with a group of friends on Shenanigans (there was a plane-ride, a fire, emergency landing in the norwegian skärgård, much effort to find a dormitory on a ferry to go back home, this is not the weird part)

In the dream, I knew these friends, really, really well. I knew their quirks and their needs and their wants and we had in-jokes and were ribbing each other and helping each other and having a good time (despite shenanigans)

I... do not have these friends IRL. I have never met these people. They do not exist.

But they were So Real.

[cryptidfuckery]

Hey so like omen wise how are we doing. Are we doing okay

[greatmountainfloofsquatch]

Could mean good things!

[lets-nuke-it-from-orbit]

Hey @evilwizard. So, you up to anything new lately?

[evilwizard]

haha it’s funny you ask

[wibblyrlin]

THE WOMEN OF THE WHEEL OF TIME + channeling

[maxknightley]

"it would be so good if it was good" will haunt you but "it's extremely good, except for the one or two parts which are so bad it's genuinely kind of insulting" will straight up drive you insane

[maxknightley]

one has you making posts like "okay but if the author UNDERSTOOD the POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS of the story they were telling, and leaned into it, it would actually be a really interesting exploration of..."

the other has you pacing your bedroom at one in the morning going "why. why would you ever in a million years do it like that. genuinely what possible thought process was involved. was the writer possessed by a fucking ghost or something."

[luxolin]

So Mat originally planned to leave Ebou Dar with:

Himself

His men

One (1) Aes Sedai

And now he's actually leaving with:

Himself

His men

Three (3) Aes Sedai

Two (2) warders

Three (3) sul'dam

A member of the Blood

Two (2) so'jhin

The former Panarch of Tarabon

One (1) Tuon Athaem Kore Paendrag

Truly another flawless plan courtesy of Matrim "Yakety Sax" Cauthon

[xxemo-hubrisxx]

why your sewing machine is acting up: - tension is wrong - wrong needle size - thread bit stuck somewhere - tension again - needs a deep clean and oiling - you said something and now its offended and refusing to cooperate until you realize your error and beg forgiveness

[taavicleric]

why your serger is acting up:

-it can sense hubris

[littlebosslady7]

Your serger can also sense fear.

[seljepw]

And they can both smell a deadline a mile away.

[ao3commentoftheday]

Happy anniversary to my favourite ship

[sleepdeprivedsurgeon]

the purpose of friends is to have people who unconditionally hate your shitty exes & relatives. like maybe YOU have a complex relationship with your father but i sure don't. i'm outside his house with a gun. he's not the unforgivable asshole who raised me he's just an unforgivable asshole

[chongoblog]

*gathers all of the people in the world who write the number 7 with a little dash in the center of it so I can study them like little critters and find out what makes them do that*

[audpaints]

There’s actually a lot of history regarding the development writing systems and why there are different visual representations of numerals, but the short answer is: it’s regional, and you probably picked up how to make your numbers look based on your parents or your primary school teachers

[ruusverd]

I do it out of spite because in grade school a kids detective story identified the culprit by saying NO American wrote their sevens with a line and I thought that was super flimsy evidence and it made me so mad I started putting a line through my sevens so the fictional detective would be wrong and then kept doing it for several decades since.

[mikkeneko]

I do feel one can’t underestimate the “elementary school child taught themselves how to do this Out Of Spite” crowd

[loquaciousquark]

I had to learn to do it in adulthood because in my profession (optometrist), handwriting out a glasses prescription for -1.25 DS is very different than -7.75 DS, and ones, twos, and sevens can all look very similar if you’re writing too fast.

[musanocturnis]

100% spite. I was taught standard 7 (and 2) in school, but mom and dad still used the fancy-ass 7 (and 2) and I wanted to do that too, but my teacher told me No, That's Wrong. So here we are.

[musanocturnis]

Ring out, wild bell, to the dark sky The flying cloud, the frosty light The year is being dragged out back Ring out, wild bells, and shoot it dead.

Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, grieving bells, across the land: The year is gone, and thank fuck; Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Ring to the grief that saps the mind For those that here we see no more; Ring out the ignorance that harms Ring in the knowledge to one and all.

Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in justice to all mankind. Ring in the nobler respects of life, With sweeter manners, juster laws.

Ring out the want, the care, the sin, The faithless coldness of the times; Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes But ring the fuller minstrel in.

Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good.

Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in please one year of peace.

Seriously bells, one year,  is that too much to ask?

*

Ring out, wild bells – Alfred Lord Tennyson, gently edited by unknown author

[writercultureis]

Writer culture is impulsively posting the first chapter of an uncompleted work because you’re starved for interaction and suddenly realising the crushing expectations you have placed on yourself as people begin to comment how excited they are for the next chapter.

[westiec]

I joked about this earlier but I'm curious now:

have you ever studied Latin?

yes

no

Voting ended onDec 26, 2025

doesn't matter if you remember any of it now

[westiec]

See yeah, 200 people (at the time of this reblog) is obviously neither definitive nor likely representative of tumblr at large, but I do not think I would get a 45% yes rate to this question in many other forums. 😂

[apolladay]

Do you have an identifiable* local accent** in your native language?

yes

no

i used to, but don’t anymore

i didn’t before, but i do now

other/nuance

Voting ended onDec 21, 2025

If you are so inclined, please tell me your thoughts and feelings about having/not having a local accent in the tags/comments!! I would love to hear!! This, of course, goes for other/nuance voters as well!!

*as in someone can identify where you are from just based on your accent** (no matter how obscure of an accent you have)

**as in the way you pronounce/sign your words(creek vs crick), NOT dialect i.e. vocab and grammar differences(soda vs pop)

ALSO, EVERYONE HAS AN ACCENT DIPSHIT IT CAME FREE WITH YOUR FUCKING LANGUAGE :P

[musanocturnis]

I selected yes, but thinking further I should have said no given the ** clarification that it's solely about pronounciation. I've never actually tried to separate my native dialect (pronounciation, grammar, vocabulary) into an accent (just pronounciation). If I'm speaking my dialect I'm always using local pronounciation. If I speak standard Swedish then I never use local pronounciation (since the entire point of switching to standard swedish is to be understood lol).

[supreme-leader-stoat]

Look, I agree that perhaps the Witch-king should have been less assured of his own invincibility in a world where elves, dwarves, hobbits, wizards, the undead, and women are all real things, but I think he would have still been screwed even if Glorfindel's prophecy had been less exact in its wording. Consider the following scenario, for instance.

Witch-king: "Hinder me? Thou fool! Nobody may hinder me!" Odysseus of Ithaca, very lost: