Pen

@alightbuthappypen.bsky.social

CQL/The Untamed. Wangxian. Art and occasionally fic. A discourse and current events free space: I curate my online experience ruthlessly. alightbuthappypen on tumblr and dreamwidth too.

Like twitter back in the day, I'm just not really getting anything out of bsky but there are a few people here I don't have any contact with on other platforms that I don't want to lose :( but still might have to for my own good. FYI I'm on tumblr and dreamwidth and Ao3 always, under this name

I think probably I need to start proactively planning my life so that, as far as possible, I don't have to do anything throughout June-August. I can't do these months at all. My brain stops functioning. I get depressed. Trying to push through as if I'm a proper person during this time does not work

House of the Dragon has a lot of heavy lifting to do to pull me back in after the "weak and feeble woman" line honestly, even Emma D'arcy sounded embarrassed to deliver it

Here with stone cold takes on 40 year old films but I've never seen the color purple before and like, what is this, tonally? What is happening? The jaunty quincy jones soundtracked domestic abuse? Is this is a conscious choice to unsettle, is the book like this

Just realised I check out unfamiliar fandom spaces for their feelings on people liking CQL with the same cautious energy as I check out real life spaces for their feelings on people being queer

This morning as I was sitting on the sofa looking at the sun on my little garden I cried because I realised I was happy, and that I think I had been unhappy for a very long time

Very sorry for continued bridgerton posting but they've really turned the romance-coding of penelope/eloise up to eleven this season, and it was already at like...ten. Why are they doing this, what are their intentions

Nearly done with season 1 of bridgerton, verdict so far: fake dating should have lasted longer, if only because the baby drama is absolutely HORRIFYING. Please tell me this was also the general opinion when it first came out, I feel like I'm going crazy

I'm watching Bridgerton, I'm a person who watches Bridgerton now. The purposeful anachronism is actually pretty fun, but I do find myself thinking it would be funner if it stretched to making literally every character (explicitly) queer THE VIBES ARE THERE

I did it! I drove the car for the first time! I parked in a bay and went through a 60mph zone and did big roundabouts and no one died! Obviously all things I did countless times while learning but not on my own in this car!

Dreamt my boss had tasked me with writing a short pitch for a piece of wangxian art, on deadline, but it was fine because I knew there was this one idea I'd been meaning to do for ages, but half way through writing I realised I'd forgotten a key detail of the idea because it's been SO LONG

House of the Dragon is my latest binge and I'm still watching but it's fraught, because while I do find this kind of fantasy compelling I have very little stomach for "watch all your faves die horribly and inevitably"

I do obviously try and avoid political chat on socmed at all costs but I still feel a bit grumpy about how I haven't seen *anything* on the UK elections today specifically about how the Insane Fascist Party For Morons has made terrifying gains. Like is anyone else seeing this shit

I wish The Youth (or maybe just the American Youth? Difficult to tell online) would stop throwing around 'fag' (as in gay person, not as in cigarette) as casually as they do. I'm sure it's an age thing and possibly a regional thing too but god I wince every time

Just watched The Northman for the first time and really enjoyed it, but my main takeaway is that oh my god I could actually see what was happening in the nighttime scenes and didn't have to turn the brightness up on my TV even a little bit, PRAISE BE