#librarianoftheclayr

[lykegenia]

15 questions for 15 friends

@pushingsian tagged me - thank you!

ARE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE?: My mother's best friend growing up, but that name happened to coincide with my grandmother's middle name, so it woked out. My middle name is my great-grandma's.

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED?: Two days ago, thinking about an angsty scene in a fic I haven't written yet. That happens a lot.

DO YOU HAVE KIDS?: Dear gods no. I have never wanted them and have less than zero parental instincts so that's probably for the best. I'm of the opinion that unless you are 110% eager to be a parent it's something you should skip because no child deserves to be unwanted.

WHAT SPORTS DO YOU PLAY/HAVE YOU PLAYED?: I used to row at a pretty high level, which wrecked my back, and rugby, which wrecked one of my ankles, so now I enjoy bouldering and wing chun because they're both good exercise while also being a mental workout too.

DO YOU USE SARCASM?: Sarcasm is my native language.

WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE?: Mostly how tall they are, I guess. I'm oblivious to most things.

WHAT'S YOUR EYE COLOUR?: A weird mix of green, grey, and hazel depending on the light.

SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS?: I'm terrible with scary movies, my imagination runs away with me, so I choose happy endings.

ANY TALENTS?: When I was a kid I was uncannily good at spotting money on the pavement, and I'm pretty good at spotting and identifying birds. Apart from that, Id call myself a good cook and a good writer.

WHERE WERE YOU BORN?: Berlin.

WHAT ARE YOUR HOBBIES?: Does wishing I didn't have to work count? If I didn't have to work, I'd spend all my time gardening, cooking, writing, reading, and playing video games. Also DnD now!

DO YOU HAVE ANY PETS?: I don't, and I keep going back and forth on whether I want dogs.

HOW TALL ARE YOU?: 5'7.5" (the .5 is important)

FAVOURITE SUBJECT IN SCHOOL?: It's easier to say that Music was my least favourite because it was my worst subject, but I enjoyed Art, English, and Latin.

DREAM JOB?: I'd like garden design if not for the need to budget and follow idiotic briefs, or maybe a kept artist, or something in wildlife conservation. I used to want to be a smallholder but I've realised I don't really have the energy for that.

Passing this on to, no pressure! @gingerbreton @serenpedac @briannasroger @lalizah @mutantenfisch @choccy-zefirka @theluckywizard @hervissa @librarianoftheclayr @leafthi3f @bluekaddis @naiatabris @agentnatesewell @pepperpatrol @molliehaswords

#tag game #personal ramblings #these are some good questions #i don't really know how to tag this tbh

[charminglyantiquated]

hi I am very curious - how much of a role do shanties play when you're sailing on tall ships?? are u constantly singing or is that a bit cringe or?

At least on the boats I’ve worked on, they haven’t played much a role in day-to-day work. I’ve sung shanties with the crew at night up on deck once the work was done, or hanging out on the dock together once passengers have left, for the fun of it rather than the function. The captains I’ve worked under to date preferred a much more straightforward chant of ‘two-six-heave’ when trying to get people to haul together.

That said, my experiences aren’t universal! The last ask I answered about shanties, a few months ago, some comments mentioned working on ships which did sing shanties as they hauled up the sails, as well as other well-known, even-paced songs like Itsy Bitsy Spider and Drop It Like It’s Hot. Even then it’s not constant, though - if they’re being sung as work songs, it’s for work that needs everyone acting in time together, which is mostly hauling up the sails and weighing anchor, and not as much the kind of running about you do when you’re actually sailing and need to be able to hear the captain’s orders!

Not really part of the answer but kinda relevant to it: while I unironically love shanties as a facet of the living history of tall ships, and would love to work on a boat that sings them, it’s worth knowing that there’s also a certain weariness in some parts of the sailing community about the public perception that it's all yoho yarhar pirates and parrots etc, which sometimes gets plastered over the actual history and sailing practices that existing tall ships are trying to preserve. So there’s often a sense of walking a line between being fun and historical vs being twee and sorta disneyfied. It’s why some of the boats I worked on explicitly preferred to avoid shanties when they wouldn’t have been used historically on those specific boats - you don’t need a work song when it only takes two people to set the sails, for example, and incorporating it would have been inauthentic and a bit themepark in a way that might have distracted from the very cool actual history of the boat in question.

#shanties had their place!! #and that place is in large part on ships that need to unify groups of people to work in time #you also don't have much breath to sing while you're hauling sails #which doesn't matter if you have a shantyman #or are all singing together #but is very obvious when there's 2 of you #and you're both gasping for air #schooner bum life #librarianoftheclayr

[anthonycrowleymoved]

my boyfriend sent me a screenshot of one of your supernatural bricks-to-the-face posts (the holy lube one) because he knows that I was dragged kicking and screaming into being invested in All That Shit by the general tumblr vibe. (he is not on tumblr himself). little did he know I've been following you for several years and have been watching your recent descent into destiel trash first hand. kudos for having supernatural posts that are famous beyond tumblr 👍👍👍

THE LUBE POST IS ON OTHER PLATFORMS

@princesshamlet OH NOOOOO

#now that's another brick to the face just on its own #spn #librarianoftheclayr #inquiries

[simplysapphichope]

So...

I was delving into the depths of my blog and realized that I have been mutuals with some of you for like four or five years and have never talked to any of you? Feel free to send me a message any time because I’d love to get to know you outside of our mutual reblogging and liking of posts :)

#to all my mutuals #especially #thesmallgay #librarianoftheclayr #songofthelyrebird #bestfriendtabitha #triforcecos #zombie-survival-royalty #y'all are great #I hope this isn't weird? #but its seriously been years

[yuluthu]

prime numbers asshole

1: when you have cereal, do you have more milk than cereal or more cereal than milk?

Usually more milk

2: do you like the feeling of cold air on your cheeks on a wintery day?

IDK is my coat toasty hot

3: what random objects do you use to bookmark your books?

Fanfics

5: are you self-conscious of your smile?

Very

7: do you name your plants?

I don’t have any

11: what's an inner joke you have with your friends?

Uh, idk

13: what's something that made you smile today?

Well I’m drunk with my guildies rn

17: what color do you really want to dye your hair?

I usually dye it red so

19: do you keep a journal? what do you write/draw/ in it?

I dont

23: what's your favorite thing to do on lazy days where you have 0 obligations?

Play games

I also do this on days where i should be doing things

29: what's something really cute that one of your friends does and is totally endearing?

They refuse to be called a beautiful cinnamon roll that’s adorable

31: what is your opinion of socks? do you like wearing weird socks? do you sleep with socks? do you confine yourself to white sock hell? really, just talk about socks.

Yes, Yes, no, no, no

37: do you like keeping your room messy or clean?

I like to keep it clean, but i dont clean it

41: what's the last book you remember really, really loving?

His dark materials

43: who was the last person you gazed at the stars with?

Nobody?

47: what food do you think should be banned from the universe?

IDK Mushrooms probably

53: have you ever watched the rocky horror picture show? heathers? beetlejuice? pulp fiction? what do you think of them?

Nope

59: what's your favorite myth?

I quite like the myth that there’s someone out there for me

61: what's the stupidest gift you've ever given? the stupidest one you've ever received?

My ex got me some sweets for valentines does that count

and a joke book for my birthday

they werent even good jokes

67: how do gloomy days where the sky is dark and the world is misty make you feel?

The same thing i feel on sunny days tbh

71: what's your favorite kind of tea?

I dont like tea

73: what are some of your worst habits?

Depressive spirals

79: what's one of the cutest things someone has ever done for you?

I cant remember, probably something @librarianoftheclayr, @auspiciousemma, @themirrorstruth or @thefuryofthenorth did

83: what's some of your favorite album art?

vOv

89: are you close to your parents?

Physically, yes. Because I live with them, but i dont want to

they’re transphobic af

97: myer briggs type, zodiac sign, and hogwarts house?

ISFJ, Cancer, Gryffinpuff

#about me #matt is a nerd #thefuryofthenorth

[veshkrisk]

librarianoftheclayr reblogged your photo and added:

omg your haaaaiiiiiirrrr it’s so so so fab look...

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 (also my hair decided to turn into a pastel glaaxy thing without my say so? but its super fab so yes now I am a magical space princess and that’s that :P)

#replies #librarianoftheclayr

[thenerdinator]

were you playing the valentine's draft drinking game?

I wish! I couldn't attend, and missed the draft completely! I'm analyzing results now and tomorrow morning, but it sounds fun and I might do it for second draft!Curse my friends here for not being into Quidditch enough to play a drinking game with me!

#ask #librarianoftheclayr

[acityofravens]

I was tagged by lumoslupin :)

Name: Lex (technically Alexandra)

Nicknames: This is going to be a long list! Lex, Alex, Lexi, Alexy, Lexical, Alleycat, Lexington, Lexicography, Alipop, Lexipop, Ali, and of course Prongs.

Birthday: 24th April

Gender: Female

Height: Between 5'7 and 5'8 

Favourite Colour:  Purple, silver, and black 

Time and Date at Current Moment: 11.37 on 17th December 2014

Average Hours of Sleep: About 8

Lucky Number: 21

Last Thing I Googled: On my laptop it's 'Leicester slang' when Jayne was talking about northernisms and I was wondering what people think slang around here is like... I have probably googled stuff on my phone since then though

First Word That Comes to Mind: Doughnut (because a book with that title is on the shelf in front of me)

One Place That Makes Me Happy: Hogwarts. Or the sappy answer is home because it's really good to be back for Christmas so yeah.

How Many Blankets Do I Sleep Under: Just a quilt. If I'm cold I sleep with a cardigan on

Favourite Fictional Character: No idea how to choose between them since I have like 8 favourite Harry Potter characters, let alone all the ones from every other book/film/tv series/game ever! Let's go with my favourite character of the day who is Violet Baudelaire from A Series of Unfortunate Events, which I'm re-reading at the moment because I'm definitely old enough to get nostalgic and re-live my childhood 

Favourite Book: Again, I have far too many favourites but I'll be boring and say The Fault in Our Stars because it's my favourite book that isn't part of a series

Favourite Anime: Code Geass!!!

Favourite Television Shows: Same as Jayne, I got into Agents of Shield recently and I love it a lot. Also House, Once Upon a Time, Buffy... (I'm clearly terrible at picking a single favourite thing)

Favourite Beverage: My childish answer is chocolate milkshakes and my studentish answer is Malibu and coke

Favourite Food: Exactly the same as Jayne - pizza and pasta and chocolate


Last Movie Seen in Cinemas: I can't remember when I saw stuff so either Mockingjay or the Imitation Game


Dream Holiday: Paris and New York and London are my favourite cities so any of those. I also want to go to Japan and Switzerland

Dream Wedding: Oh god no I'm never getting married


Dream Job: Novelist and/or activist

I’m going to tag: thehalfbloodsheep and librarianoftheclayr

#thehalfbloodsheep #librarianoftheclayr #lumoslupin #z

[momo-de-avis]

librarianoftheclayr replied to your post “I’m almost finished Clariel oh god”

OH MY GOD I KNOW RIGHT sorry i'm just incredibly invested in all garth nix

OH PLEASE DO COME IN AND BE INVESTED IN THESE BOOKS I haven't quite finished (I have like 2 chapters left) but oh my god oh my god what else is gonna happen that poor poor girl

daughter-of-castile replied to your photoset “matching icons for u and ur friends”

Beatriz is hateful in Isabel and I hate the voice of Nuria Gallardo :S.

Well she did have her reasons to be pissed (expecially at João lmao) but all in all I love her persistance and how alone with her daughter these two ladies raised hell on the king that made every man tremble to his feet gotta love me some badass, patriarchy-defying ladies

(but I liked the actress actually!)

#librarianoftheclayr #reply #daughter-of-castile

[cowstellations]

YOOO CHUMS LET'S DO A TAG

Rule 1: post the rules
 Rule 2: answer the questions the person who tagged you asked and write 11 new ones
.  Rule 3: tag 11 (a selection of) people and link them to the post
.  Rule 4: actually tell them you tagged them

What is your favourite festive song?

FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK.

What is the last thing you bought?

Tonight I had to buy a new Bod Card after losing mine. It cost £10 and I will most likely find it in my room tomorrow but I need food and library and all of these things are dependent on my GOD DAMN BOD CARD.

Tell me about someone you admire/admired and why? 

My little sis. She's so intelligent and strong and so fucking hilarious and the most generous and brave and kind-hearted and selfless and selfie-full person I know and I miss her with all my heart, all the time. 

What type of shampoo do you currently own?

Aussie Miracle Moist... The only shampoo they stock in Sainsbury's by Magdalen roundabout.

Do you have a favourite historical period/figure/thing?

Lost Generation! Not the Rizzle Kicks one. The Gertrude Stein one. 

Favourite place you’ve travelled to? 

Oh wow I'm so boring this is the most predictable answer ever. Paris, always.

You’re on an island and you get to keep one DVD boxset of ANYTHING with you…what is it? (It can’t be a complete boxset, so if it’s a TV show you must pick one series)

This question broke my heart... I'm going for The Office Season 3 though, because Pam fire walk.

Cavemen vs Astronauts - who would win?

Cavemen bc astronauts would be restricted by all their spacey gubbins whereas the cavemen would be naked etc.

Favourite item of clothing you own?

Probably something snuggly.... I'm going for my varsity jacket.

What’s one thing you’ve used so much it’s become ruined/dishevelled (a book etc.)

Last year's journal became pretty messed up towards the end of the year...

And finally…which is your favourite movie out of the Cornetto trilogy? (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz or the World’s End?)

HOT FUZZ ALWAYS HOT FUZZ ALL THE TIME HOT FUZZ

Tagging:

(no obligation)

zamirarahim

librarianoftheclayr

crazy0ldmaurice

ddlavender

Questions:

1- What's one song lyric that properly punched you in the gut the first time you heard it?

2- What's one talent you have that you're proud of?

3- Describe one of the best days of your life.

4- If you could give one sentence of advice to the you of 5 years ago, what would it be?

5- Share a photo of you from a time when you were really, really, happy.

6- What's your favourite pizza topping?

7- Describe one person who means a lot to you, and what makes them so amazing.

8- What's something you're looking forward to in the next month?

9- What are you most proud of yourself for surviving? (does that make sense? i mean like what is something from your past that you look back on and think "yeah man, that was really tough. i am amazing for getting through that)

10- One thing you do that makes you happy?

11- Tell me what positive lessons you've learned since this time last year. 

#zamirarahim #librarianoftheclayr #crazy0ldmaurice #ddlavender #wow i was supposed to be in bed/ asleep by 10 #talking to beth was so much more rewarding though let's be real #xxxxxxxxxx

[veshkrisk]

librarianoftheclayr replied to your post “librarianoftheclayr replied to your post “Okay wow the LoK finale...”

I WILL WATCH THIS ASAP

GOOD THEN I CAN WORD VOMIT AT YOU ABOUT IT

#librarianoftheclayr #lok spoilers #replies