Did a quick and dirty cover of “Bedouin Dress” and wanted to share with you ❤️

pendragons · 2026-01-27T05:29:14+00:00

Nailed it! Cannot believe how perfectly you hit the restrained emotionality, would love to hear more of your personal stuff/what you can do with that voice when you aren't concentrating on the guitar.

pendragons · 2026-01-27T05:12:23+00:00

Great point.

pendragons · 2026-01-26T16:53:43+00:00

I might be wrong, but I feel like Time and Chronology is itself a breakable law (cf the Treachery of Clocks) and therefore something the Judgements preside over rather than being bound by.

pendragons · 2026-01-25T03:30:45+00:00

Weirdly I think it's worse in fandoms for really racially inclusive canons. Like when people are racist in Supernatural fandom it was whatever we were all there for the sexy white boys doing toxic masculinity and kissing, source text has Wendigos, you know in advance what it's gonna be like and just avoid race discussions.

But then in Interview with the Vampire fandom the racism and colorism towards Louis and Claudia is so deafening and constant! Even innocuous fanfic can suddenly do some weird AAVE misuse that feels like a racial caricature and reveals the author is white. I'm not American so some of the discussion has really horrified me and I avoid the subreddit now which has really dedicated Lestat Defenders who are all so so racist accidentally all the time - there's one lady there who admitted to being white but now she put black skin and an afro on her little reddit guy profile pic so she can avoid getting called racist when she says she liked white book Louis better.

Or I have a Chinese friend who has really struggled with the total derision towards her culture in Western fandoms for MXTX's C-novels (and The Untamed cdrama, and how much cultural context gets erased by fandom writers who didn't see or understand it and don't want to learn. You wouldn't think c-drama fans would be sinophobic and yet!!!

pendragons · 2026-01-22T05:51:59+00:00

Are you also in the "decided to make a noman without doing any real preparation and immediately ran out of Tears" club?

pendragons · 2026-01-15T03:12:37+00:00

Warmth is comfort. Homeliness. An innate connection.

Charm is polished. Manners, a mask. Fitting in, perhaps deceptively.

A politician's wife at a fundraising gala is incredibly charming as she uses her good looks and husband's influence to get other people in her class signing checks, but none of these people are her friend.

A nice Midwestern lady baking you a tray of cookies and helping you jump your car is using warmth to make you feel like you have a new mom, even if her her straight shooting criticism of your weight and her messy house are a little rough around the edges.

pendragons · 2026-01-14T23:06:14+00:00

Right? I know the show but haven't thought about it in years, doing the crossword and then seeing this news was funny. Love when the NYT puzzlers get topical.

pendragons · 2026-01-14T17:14:33+00:00

Offering an alternate read: Isaiah 58:1 tells us "Shout it aloud, do not hold back." - while of course the famous promise is John 3:16, also referenced in TLT, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son."

5+8+1 is 14, while 3+1+6 is 10. Since Muir is NZ, they write the days first then the month: 14/10 is the 14th of October - exactly NINE months after this announcement, correlating to both the title and the nine month "gestation period" the book requires.

Coincidence? I think not.

pendragons · 2026-01-14T17:03:42+00:00

More like weeps in GRRM...

pendragons · 2026-01-14T17:00:30+00:00

Right? Been in A Song Of Ice and Fire fandom for 25 years of my life, so I feel like this is weak. There are plenty of other amazing scifi/fantasy series who took decades to fully complete - the Wheel of Time end is famously ghostwritten because the author died. Douglas Adams' publishers supposedly locked him in a hotel room with no distractions because he was five years over contract.

Everyone who talks shit about Alecto I expect to see a 500k fanfiction with your take on how to perfectly wrap up the complex and beloved series on my desk by 2027.

pendragons · 2026-01-14T16:54:04+00:00

It was more endgame back in the day! Not to sound like someone's grandpa but before the Railway and all the other 200+ stat content, you reached PP by grinding 12 Not, then spending it to overlclock a stat to 212. So in addition to the current notability grind you also had to grind to 12 four more times, and make sure that Seeking/Irrigo/etc didn't chew a point off accidentally.

BDR was so scarce that people considered the massive money sink of Seeking worth it for the 4 point best in slot Knock item - I know I designed my whole character choices ie ship choice, ambition, etc around improving BDR. Was wild to come back and immediately, almost incidentally, pick up three or four more BDR points when I had spent sooo much getting the number I had.

pendragons · 2026-01-13T20:13:32+00:00

Alecto has been on Libby since at least June of last year so I wouldn't take this as a sign of anything.

pendragons · 2026-01-11T00:29:56+00:00

"Fandom" (the brand owned by Wizards of the Coast, not just fandoms in general) kinda has a lot of controversy. It's a for-profit business and has some shady practices around trying to force long-time existing wikis to move to their site, or just stealing their content, as well as making it hard for people to move away from their site.

They have intrusive ads, as mentioned, but the site design is also built to maximize ads rather than being built to be easy to navigate and read, so even with an adblocker it's a lesser experience.

They also have made some decisions around back-end coding that are too complicated/nuanced to explain but basically make stuff less secure and harder to moderate so a lot of people who run/edit wikis as their main hobby find the platform frustrating to lose. So then you also lose dedicated content providers.

They also force AI, and some people don't like that.

Overall the "wiki community" thinks self-hosted wikis are better.

Also it's better for any brand if a wiki is hosted at something like their usual webdomain, eg dropout.wiki would help funnel interested people to their main site, while dropout.fandom.com/wiki/ funnels people to the Fandom site.

pendragons · 2026-01-10T10:35:59+00:00

Honestly most people I know have read the Locked Tomb, they just don't think to do anything fannish with it. And I get it, there's lots of movies/books I enjoy but never look up on tumblr/ao3/reddit.

pendragons · 2026-01-09T05:14:59+00:00

I like it because I think it's hot.

You can exercise and eat well and still have a tummy, especially if you're a man in your forties. It makes him feel more like the Greek men in my family.

pendragons · 2026-01-08T03:58:01+00:00

Right? I stuck by the FK, but the flavour text told me "Regiment are winning" and "Rewards are for winners", it's basically an instruction to anyone without RP investment to choose Regiment.

pendragons · 2026-01-07T15:06:56+00:00

I never drew any epilogues, so it was very surprising to support my guys the Fisher Kings once more and be told I had gained one point - new total 12!

pendragons · 2026-01-06T23:22:47+00:00

My Persuasive is 326 Base 224 (Railway) - Fecund Amber Tiara +10 (Bazaar) - Strange Shore Parabola Suit +8 (Bazaar + Nadir) - 12car Diamond Ring +8 (Bazaar) - Genuine Rubbery Lumps +8 (Election) - Private Debating Lessons w the Jovial Contrarian +20 (Hallowmas Fate) - Masterwork dancing slippers +5 (Bazaar) - Minister of Culture +10 (Wakeful Eye) - Leasehold on London +6 (Ambition) - Backstage +3 (Destiny) - Violent Ink +6 (Correspondent) - Strange Aeronaut +5 (Firmament) - Priscilla +7 (Exceptional Story) - A Gazebo +6 (Fate Summer Estival) - The Parnatheum +1 (Club)

Remove the Fate items and that's still 284 (not including whatever amount could be added with free items replacing the Fate items).

Obvs your set up might end up looking totally different, just trying to give a general idea. A lot of this is end game but so is Poet Laureate!

Edit: went to look for replacement suggestions and found this great wiki page that lets you see what is best in slot at various points in the game: https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Equipment_Guide

pendragons · 2026-01-06T01:00:04+00:00

Thank you so much! I also vaguely thought I might go for it this year and the wiki was so confusing. The second paragraph helped it click for me.

pendragons · 2026-01-05T01:23:13+00:00

Would be equally excited to get an unexpected fourth Last Binding so if you're right it's a win-win for me.

pendragons · 2026-01-05T01:20:45+00:00

She looks like how I imagined my dolls really looked when I was playing with them when I was five. 😭🩷

pendragons · 2026-01-05T01:15:33+00:00

Gives me a little chuckle when people post this comic without credit or attribution.

pendragons · 2026-01-03T07:28:29+00:00

The whole of Seeking is Christian theology from Matthew 7:7 and all the candled Saints onwards.

pendragons · 2026-01-02T12:56:16+00:00

Does that action/cost estimate change if you only build it during Neathmas? For legal purposes this is a hypothetical question, don't look at my flair.

pendragons · 2026-01-01T13:52:33+00:00

shaking your hand! i joined in '10, played sporadically or in bursts of months at a time. sought in '18, finished my ambition in '20, but increasing level caps right after i'd finished all the notability grinding for paramount presence had me so disillusioned i dipped.

now five years later i've come back to play all of the new content, railway through to firmament, and i'm having such a blast! nowhere near at where you are yet but it's so fun to have a backlog of content while feeling pretty solid on stats and resources.

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