#penmeetspage

[welcometonightblogging]

penmeetspage said: Way to go!

cheesekneesandbees said: Good job!

t-m-f said: Congratulations on defeating the dreaded interviews! 🎉

indigoprinceofslytherin said: Congratulations! That's so awesome :)

Thank you all so much for the congratulations on my job news! 

Even though it’s taken me a while to get back to you, they’re all very appreciated, and really lit up my day.

[captainofthetidesbreath]

Repcomm question--I've recently read the first two books for the first time and they're a lot of fun, but the constant sexism is a little exhausting. I'd like to keep reading but I'd like to know--does that keep escalating like it did from 1 to 2, or is that about as bad as it gets? Because *other* than that I'm really enjoying them. (I mean. I'm going to read them anyway. But I'd just like an idea of what I'm in for, if that makes sense?)

I regret to inform you that it does not get better. It does escalate. Steeply. If you thought that it was bad when there was only one major female character of note, wait until there’s MORE than one! Get to spread the misogyny around. Though, poor, poor Etain still suffers the brunt of it.

You get everything that could be inflicted on a female character over the course of the rest of the series, including disproportionate consequences for her mistakes, punishing her for things that would be celebrated in a male character, fridging, female pain as motivation for male character arc, her status as highly respected in her field ignored, relegated to the kitchen and other classic rigid gender roles, female characters are interchangeable, doesn’t exist outside romantic relationship with a man, and nothing is important to me but babies. It manages to do a lot.

As a general note, all of the… shortcomings in the first two novels only escalate from there on out. I feel like I ought to warn you for flagrant ableism and for….Kal. Just, Kal, gets much worse.

ImpComm is the most egregious offender of all of the above, but the vast majority of people I know will beg you to not waste your time with ImpComm. I did, and they have a point.

[overelegantstranger]

penmeetspage answered your question “jsmn prompt me?”

any pairing you like involving Black Joan, or Mrs Brandy--getting lost & running across someone in a place you thought you knew (a city? a forest? a familiar road?)

I hope this is close enough to the prompt! I was listening to The Curse by Josh Ritter while I wrote it, which I think is to blame for the rhythm.

The day she hears that Mr Black has vanished, Mrs Brandy closes the shop for sixteen days. She stays up in the small room above the shop, opens all the windows as wide as they would go, and dances slowly to the mournful music that floats up from the street violinists. Her long skirts swirl around her bare feet and she closes her eyes to imagine polished floorboards beneath her toes and a warm hand helping her spin. She pictures him so strongly that she can almost hear his feet on the rug but she can’t bear to discover him gone so she screws her eyes up tight and spins again, again, again, feeling him catch her every time.

She carries on dancing long after night falls and the violinists go; she drifts downstairs and steps outside in her bare feet, feeling spring hiding in the cracks between the cobblestones. The buildings around her sway and ripple like water and she runs into the crispness of the waiting air, ignoring the shouts of people around her, their concern and their cursing. Her hair works free of the pins and flies around her face, whipping like her skirts, and she is lost in the breeze and the memory of dances she never attended but that she can see him in as clear as day and she spins and spins down St James’s-street, or what she supposes must be St James’s-street, for with every spin the buildings grow ever more distant, ever taller, ever thinner, until she is surrounded by trees and her bare toes dig into soft, moonlit grass. In the distance, music begins. From a long way away she hears a familiar voice, and when she spins again she feels a gentle touch against her wrist pulling her out of it.

And for the first time, a king dances.

[jazzybot4]

Or! Or how about: What set of characters would be interesting in that 1am McDonalds thing you mentioned? Is the trip to McDonalds the adventure, or is it the sleep-deprived decision that kicks off an adventure?

See. the Mcdonalds at one AM thing is a bit of both. It’s a liminal space in and of itself...so when you go there you’re gonna meet interesting people. I’m pretty sure the 24 hour mcdonalds where I’m from, there was a shapeshifter working the counter. He was lovely and sweet but just more than a little strange in the way that desert people are. I always ordered in this bastard mix of spanish and english and pointing mumbles, until I could go ‘the ususal’ and I’d end up with my hot and spicy sandwiches, no mayo, extra lettuce, add ranch. Sometimes it’s just a stop, sometimes it’s the point. Sometimes it’s the only time you get out of the house. And sometimes, you meet someone who gives you a quest and then you spend two days hunting down a specific series of things as a favor and the person rewards you with free food. 

[jazzybot4]

As far as prompts--you could get a head start on that self-insert punch-people-in-the-face thing for January? :D

I'm definitely working on it. I've got...two self inserts so far and another one might make themselves known. It;s defs gonna be a strange crossover. Transformers/Star Wars. Because I'm a NERD like that. Original Fandoms represent. I'll post a snippet with this when I have actual writing on it done, not just storyboarding! Thank you for asking about this, because I'm having fun with this prompt.

[notbecauseofvictories]

''the bones of november'', or ''a paper songbird'', or ''who only stand and wait''

THE BONES OF NOVEMBER || lord of the rings, the west wing fusion, faramir, background faramir/eowyn, ensemble

“honestly, fuck politics,” faramir said to the empty oval office. 

Long-suffering Chief of Staff Faramir Húrin can’t remember the last time he ate something with more nutritional value than cold pizza. (His assistant has started sneaking multivitamins into his coffee, he knows. He’s gotten used to the taste, which is worse.) Despite President Aragorn Elessar’s sweeping electoral victory---helped in no small part by his war hero status, and what TIME called “the indelible impression of Kennedy reborn”---the result has hardly been Camelot. Instead,the Dúnedain are facing a weak midterm, as Faramir grapples with a stalled domestic agenda and Elessar’s dipping favorability ratings as he remains committed to the conflict in Arnor. 

When Faramir misses visiting his father in the nursing home for the fifth week in a row, and his assistant lays the flowers at Boromir’s grave, he figures it’s time to reevaluate.

He’s never been close with most of the president’s staff---Aragorn had insisted on old army buddies, supporters in the campaign, and Faramir had never found any reason to object. Gloinson was even a good speechwriter, Faramir had to admit that much. Although he would be better if he stopped sending passive-aggressive memos to Senior Advisor Greenleaf in National Security.

Still, for the sake of his sanity, Faramir is ready to cooperate more fully with the rest of the senior staff, and maybe solve the problems of the country while they’re at it.

”Are you sure?” Deputy Director Took asks during the strategy meeting. (Pippin is one of the few hiring choices Faramir did make himself, and he thanked Eru ever goddamn day for it.) “I mean---”

“Yes,” Faramir says grimly, thinking of the looming budget deadline.

The outlook invites go out the next day.

[yetanotherknitter]

penmeetspage replied to your post “I’m trying to find good songs to sing with my sister and so far half…”

There’s a lot of folk songs that are pretty easily turned into duets, or already have been. Some Wailin’ Jennys stuff could probably be simplified to 2 voices. I think there are a few Disney and other animated musicals with sibling songs, and plenty that aren’t could be turned into duets. There are things from Over the Garden Wall that might work–Potatoes and Molasses, Patient is the Night?–not actually duets, but with two parts.

I think there are some Frank Sinatra duets that are pretty fun? Might be remembering wrong. The “Return to Pooh Corner” album has some, too–mostly lullabies and some medleys. Owl City has done a couple duets with people (I like “Cactus in the Valley” but that’s not the only one). That’s about all I can think of atm…

yes! we’ve mostly been singing folk songs and things that we can harmonize on. I’ve actually been working on setting Over the Garden Wall (the song) to guitar for a while now, haha. it’s just kind of hard to find things that we’re both into? she’s super into tom waits and his ilk and I’m… all over the place, really, but somehow we never overlap. I’ll definitely check out the wailin’ jenny’s, sinatra, and owl city though! thanks!

[yetanotherknitter]

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there is a mosquito bite on the arch of my foot...

I mean the big ones right now aren’t in the states? You’re probably fine

Other than the itching and the insult of it

thanks! I’m just sorta generally aware that there’s always a new terrifying mosquito virus?

it’s right on the part of my foot that presses against my shoe!!!! right where I step!!!!!!!!! it’s just. so rude.