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[ruixlonby]

hello my eager followers [consisting of roughly 3 people]

i rise from the dead and announce that half-finished going-to-submit-to-writing-contest writing is going to be dumped here because i want to put it somewhere and my tumblr is a wasteland

that is all

also if youve tagged me in things i prommy i read them !! im just a little bit silly right now [has not checked tumblr in ages]

anyway. that is all. possibly getting back into knb and will be going insane over them again, or falling into another fandom and brainrotting there. who knows !

thanks for listening to my ted talk ill be back in approx 3 months

[ruixlonby]

Childhood Dream Came True!

I don't often talk about my past on here but I'm so freaking excited I'm going to delve into my past life a wee bit. I've updated and pruned my pinned post enough times that it no longer even mentions music anymore. It used to mention how I was a retired professional harpist.

I began playing harp pre-puberty and three years after I began lessons I had my first paid gig. I continued performing all through my teenaged years and it paid entirely for my first college degree. My Mom saved up for an entire year to purchase the harp I still have, a Blevins Encore 34 in Walnut with a full set of levers.

He's my most precious possession and my oldest friend. In case of house fire, he's the only thing I'm saving that isn't a human being. When all else fails, he is the life skill that will put food in my belly and clothes on my back. I love him. He's been moved across the country repeatedly and his body bears scars from all kinds of situations.

I retired from professional performance in 2018. While lucrative, I do not have the soul of a performer. I never overcame stage-fright and I got so stressed out I once had to go to the hospital for nothing more than nerves (we didn't know that at the time).

I hated all the preparations for performing even though I actually liked the performances I gave. I liked meeting people and letting little children play the harp. I liked taking photos and answering questions and occasionally getting to network with other harpists. I liked the clients I had who consistently hired me over the years (14 years to be exact).

But I hated being a performer. I hated having to price out the craft and having to deal with skin-flints who didn't want to pay the rates they agreed to. I hated working with people who changed the repertoire on a whim or who flat out cancelled an entire event and didn't tell me until the day of, as I was unpacking.

I was so happy to retire, I do not regret it one bit. What I do regret is that as soon as I retired I stopped playing entirely. That was never my intention. 2018-2019 saw me flying back and forth between the two coasts and it just wasn't feasible to move the harp with me. I am not putting him in the belly of an airplane and taking my chances. Hell no. So, he stayed behind as I traveled.

Then we settled on the east coast but our stuff was still on the west coast. And then, the 'Rona hit. I went through 3 years of lockdown without my harp.

Either harp, I have two.

The one I've had since I was a kid is the Blevins and his name is Alphie. His little sister is a Dusty Strings Allegro 26 (I think she has 26 strings, might be 24) in Sapele (Brazilian hardwood, stunningly beautiful, has an iridescent sheen to it). She also has a full set of levers and detachable legs to make her a wee bit taller. Her name is Aoife.

I did not name either one. And neither one was with me during lockdown. All that stress and terror and I had no harp to play to soothe my soul or nerves. I had never missed music so much in my entire life. I was eventually reunited with both harps but new strings were desperately needed for Alphie.

Mom did buy me a full set of strings in 2021 and it's taken me until today in 2023 to get him fully restrung. At first I was embarrassed because I had forgotten entirely how to do it. I hadn't seen my harps in years, much less touched them. My callouses are all gone along with theory, technique, repertoire, and musculature. Still have strong hands though!

Well, Mom tracked down a Harp Center that's less than 2 hours from where we live. We went there today and the young lady showed both myself and Mom how to tie the strings and then we managed to restring all but the last four. We got some new music books too because my repertoire is stale at this point. I need new tunes for my own personal sanity.

I am not coming out of retirement. I spent the entire time I played harp, playing for others. Playing what they want, when the want, for as long as they want. Now, I play for me. I play what I want, how I want, when I want, as many times as I want.

That was my goal going to the Harp Center. I wanted to string up Alphie and get new music. That was it. My harp bench that I performed on was broken in our move. Thankfully, my trusty music stand George is still intact.

Mom has insisted I get a new bench, which we'll do in two weeks. When we return to the Center to pick up Apollo.

Yeah, I got a new harp. That wasn't on my agenda. Dad had me play a bunch of different ones and he liked one in particular which I also happened to like in particular and he decided then and there to buy it.

It is a beautiful Salvi Concert Harp, which means it has all 47 strings and pedals instead of levers. Gut strings instead of nylon. It's bigger, it's rich in sound, and he's easy on the eyes.

I have wanted a pedal harp since I was a teenager and I resigned myself to never having one because they just cost too much. This harp had been lowered in price twice and people were now afraid to buy it because now they questioned why it had dropped twice. The Center called it a cursed harp.

I got lucky. Everyone liked it but were all too afraid to buy it. My Dad fears very little. He bought it and we pick it up in two weeks. My childhood dream of owning a concert harp is now a reality. I fell in love with the instrument because of Harpo Marx and his guest spot on the I Love Lucy show. He played Take Me Out to the Ballgame and it moved me to tears.

Apollo was made in 1982 so he has a rich, mature sound. I finally got to name a harp, did it on the drive home. Apollo. He is the Greek god of music. When the Romans got their hands on the pantheon, they left his name alone but altered* what he was god of. To the Romans, he is god of the sun. Apollo the harp is the palest harp I'll now own, he's the oldest, he's the richest in sound, and he's a concert harp.

He is a Harp God. Thus, I am naming him Apollo. I then realized that all three harps' names start with the letter "A" and all three names end in vowels. That is just a very happy coincidence.

*The Greek/Roman gods were often patron deities of many things. Apollo wasn't god of the sun in Greek mythology as they had a sun god named Helios. Apollo is traditionally the god of music, poetry, archery, medicine, and disease.

So yeah, my childhood dream of owning a concert harp came true on a whim of my father's. It hasn't fully sunk in because if it had, this post would be riddled with exclamation points.

[ruixlonby]

OKAY CATCHING UP ON THIS:

my heart is buried in venice - ricky montgomery

cannibal - tally hall

blue haired boy - madilyn mei

main character - will wood

killer queen - mad tsai

the red means i love you - madds buckley

noel's lament - annapantsu

overdrive - conan gray

rule #21 - momento mori by fish in a birdcage

villain - teniwoha

tagging the same ppl as my most recent post but ion wanna bother y'all again. well. ion wanna bother ash. @lucesbians has to suffer.

Rules: shuffle your ‘on repeat’ playlist and post the first ten tracks, then tag ten people.

Thanks @godzilla-reads for tagging me!

Deviate by Catarinth & Pure Joy

Escaping Gravity by TheFatRat & Cecilia Gault

Fairy Tail (Main Theme) by The Harp Twins

Skull & Bones by Home Free

Rum n'Bass by Boom Kitty

Axel F but it gets Harder and Harder by Sheet Music Boss

The Wellerman but it gets Harder and Harder by Sheet Music Boss

The Waffenträger: Legacy—Extended Version by WoT Music Team, Andrey Kulik & Shuma

Hell's Comin' With Me by Colm R. McGuinness

Die by the Blade by Beast in Black

No pressure, just fun!

@quinloki @buggie-hagen @ruixlonby @dust-of-fandoms @missbookworm2 @roentgeniuum @kairoscelrosis @melancholical-moss @espanhois @beneaththedyingstars

[ruixlonby]

me when i forget to do this

okay SO:

last song: meant to be yours, from heathers

favourite colour: sierra brown, or a burnt orange. it's...nice i dunno i like it.

currently watching: nothing really? i'm not big on tv shows right now [i'm more of a youtube kinda person], but i've been considering rewatching sherlock bbc !

last movie: iiiiii think it's oppenheimer? either that or whatever movie my brother was watching on tv while i was eating dinner.

currently reading: death and croissants by Ian Moore + an uncountable amount of fanfiction from different fandoms. someone save me my safari is drowning.

sweet/spicy/savoury: savoury or spicy. sweets are pretty chill too, but i like the other two far more.

relationship status: untragically single. @lucesbians might be able to make this change. yk. if she wanted.

current obsessions: genshin impact and hamilton i suppose? they're not quite obsessions though, more like interests that occasionally take my singular braincell. i need to consume more media i haven't had a full brainrot obsession in a while.

last thing i googled: neuvillette amber archive [it's a genshin thing]

currently working on: a disgusting amount of homework. and also possible an article about taylor swift and the scary amount of power she has. [eg. changing the us economy (supposedly) and causing minor earthquakes.]

tagging: @ashmuka and @lucesbians. god i need more tumblr mutuals. i also need to post more. hoping i can start doing that soon !! ty to @/thecrimsonacademic for tagging me :))

9 people you’d like to get to know better

Universally Tagged by @quinloki

Last song: The Last Home by Visions of Atlantis

Favorite Color: Purple, like a deep amethyst but really any purple will do. Runners up are Yellow, Pink, Green, Black. In that order.

Currently Watching: One Piece Live Action (finishing Kuro's arc this Thursday), One Piece (still on Skypiea), Kuroko no Basuke (4th time rewatching), Record of Ragnarok (still on Adam, procrastinating S2), Glow Up, Mermaids (the docu. on Netflix).

Last Movie: All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) & All Quiet on the Western Front (2022). Going to look for All Quiet on the Western Front (1979) too.

Currently Reading: All Quiet on the Western Front, textbooks, two self-help books, Wilfred Owen's poetry, and like 100+ One Piece fics on Wattpad, 6 KnB fics on Wattpad, and 1 Hunter x Hunter fic on Wattpad.

Sweet/Spicy/Savory: I'm a sweets girl but I do like savory and I love me some spicy curries.

Relationship Status: Traumatically Single—meaning, I've been single the last 8 years due to trauma/PTSD

Current Obsession(s): One Piece, Sorin Markov (I will never not be in love with him), All Quiet on the Western Front, Healthy Cookbooks—don't ask.

Last Thing I Googled: Peter Gadiot

Currently Working On: History paper (All quiet on the Western Front/Anti-War), All Quiet on the Western Front fan fiction (yeah, you heard me—it'll be uploaded to @deadpoetsocieteaparty & Wattpad), Slinktober (will be uploaded to @deadpoetsocieteaparty & Wattpad), a Horror Short Story, and because I need to heal, my first ever R-rated fan fiction—still in prepping stages and will be on Wattpad only.

Tagging: @sumire-no-nikki @dust-of-fandoms @melancholical-moss @kairoscelrosis @roentgeniuum @ruixlonby @faeries-are-evil @frithams @himmelstudies @buggie-hagen

And an equally universal tag to any interested party. As always, if you hate tag games or are shy, you are not obligated to participate even if you got tagged. This is meant to be fun, not stressful.

[ruixlonby]

felix finds otters in fontaine: a thread of images

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i just lost the 50/50 to dehya. wrong pyro 5* hoyo. i love pretty women but please give me lyney. please.

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a beautiful bisexual man seductively wiping blood from his nose after running directly into a telephone pole

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oops i forget i have tumblr sometimes thamks ash for the tag <33

last song: cannibal, by tally hall. a so very silly song that's mildly graphic. but it's so goofy i love it

currently watching: to my great dismay, bridgerton. technically finished it, but it's the last thing i watched and. unfortunately liked.

currently reading: the twist of a knife by anthony horowitz. i do not like it, but i spent 10 pounds on it so. we r suffering through it

current obsession: genshin i suppose??? specifically lyney !! the fool. the goofy. the idiot. the person who i will have to win my 50/50 for.

tagging u again @luciny-ya loser get back on tumblr and you @thecrimsonacademic my beloved mutual

7 People You’d Like to Know Better

Thank you @skyrim-forever ! I pass the torch to: @john-liberal @theauthor27 @dynamite124 @kynarreth @rock-pikmin-is-funny @serbiadisturbia @gemsweater72

Last song listened to: Be my Everything (English Version). It’s a solo song from one of the members of a K-pop group named Purple Kiss, and it’s fantastic! Great vocals, even though I do prefer the other song from the single more.

Currently Watching: Nashville (2013) and the new season of The Dragon Prince. I only have one episode of Nashville left and it’s the finale, so that’s pretty sad. I’m three episodes into season 5 of Dragon Prince and really liking it! I’m glad the animation has improved since the beginning.

Currently Reading: Nothing now. I just finished Dear Mothman by Robin Gow and loved it though! It is written for young teens, but it’s a really great queer narrative and is written through some very nice free verse poetry.

Current Obession: It’s mainly Skyrim (liked it so much I made a Tumblr blog for it, after all), but since I talk a lot about that, I’ll also mention Hollow Knight. I’m playing it right now and it’s very hard, but very good! I like how little handholding it does.

[ruixlonby]

Twenty Books Challenge

Hypothetically, you are only able to keep 20 of your books. Only one book per author/series. So what books are you keeping?

Tagged by no one but saw it on @godzilla-reads and this will be über hard to do.

In NO particular order:

Uncle Tom's Cabin ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

Treasure Island ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Dracula ~ Bram Stoker

Martin the Warrior ~ Brian Jacques

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas ~ John Boyle (I think that's who wrote it)

Persepolis ~ Marjane Satrapi

Nat Turner ~ Kyle Baker

Paying the Land ~ Joe Sacco

Fahrenheit 451 ~ Ray Bradbury

The Iliad ~ Homer (not Emily Wilson's translation)

Hecuba ~ Euripides

The Holy Bible: The Scofield Study System III

The Oxford Handbook of Synesthesia ~ Simner & Hubbard

Island of the Blue Dolphins ~ Scott O'Dell

The Little White Horse ~ Elizabeth Goudge (again, I think that's who wrote it)

How to Read a Book ~ Mortimer J. Adler

The Arabian Nights ~ Hussain Haddawy

Love in a Fallen City ~ Eileen Chang

The Legend of Huma ~ Richard A. Knaak

A Reading Course in Homeric Greek vol. 1 ~ I can't remember the names of the people who put this textbook together, sorry

Tagging, meant for fun and a bit of a challenge but absolutely no obligation to join in is required, @studium-stardust, @dust-of-fandoms, @beneaththedyingstars, @kairoscelrosis, @missbookworm2, @roentgeniuum, @ruixlonby, @thatstudyblrontea, @melancholical-moss

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intro: part 2

cracks knuckles. we're doing this again because the,,,1-2 years ago when i made my last one is very inaccurate now

GENERAL/BASIC INFO

My main name is Felix but Ruix or Robin work as well. My pronouns are he/it but I don't particularly mind they/them or she/her. He/him and it/its are just my preferred pair. I live in Canada, which, in terms of pop culture and [most] slang, is pretty much the same as the US.

INTERESTS

These change all the time, this is still the same. Please do not follow me for a singular fandom as it is unlikely that I'll continuously post for it. I get fixated on something for a little bit and then move on, though somewhat steady fandoms have been the Riordanverse [specifically the mythologies series' and spin-offs] and Genshin Impact. My own PJO inspired OCs are my main interests, however.

CONTENT

Mainly shitposts about my current interest(s), and if I feel confident enough, oneshots about a character or pairing that I enjoy. Reblogs of random things that I enjoy will be scattered throughout, but I generally try to keep those to my sideblogs [which are not yet properly set up but I'll get to them. Eventually]. I might do miscellaneous writing prompts and post them here. Quality is absolutely not guaranteed because most internet things I do are for fun and not serious at all.

TAGS

I use the most commonly used/accepted fandom tags for pairings, characters, and everything else. For my own, I'll use #reblog for reblogs, obviously, and #og ruix for any original posts of mine. I...will try to remember to put the date in the tags, in the #DD/MM/YYYY format. Other than that, I will be tagging trigger warnings for things such as: substances [illegal or legal], depictions of violence/death, flashing lights or eyestrain, etc

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i think that’s its very on brand of tumblr to first not only scream over benoit blanc, a funky lil gay detective man with a southern accent but also thirst over a wolf that is the personification if death but ALSO hold the beautiful writing of a kids movie that happens to include said wolf dear to their heart and have an actual little meow meow

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Thought I'd do a slight redesign and hcs for both of the travelers for funsies >:]]]]

This was inspired by (heartmush) and (aeonmama) on twitter and here on tumbler

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(Requested) We Were All Medicated by demented_delights [AO3]

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Go to your local museum and you too can acquire yourself a Christopher

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i think that five should attempt to blink down the stairs and end up falling down and breaking a bone and get intensely annoyed because now he can move even less

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I JUST SAW A PHOTO OF THE FATUI HARBINGERS AND

TELL ME THAT THIS BITCH

DOES NOT LOOK LIKE THIS GUY FROM FROZEN