the old woman in your house

aspiring novelist, game writer, sometimes artist and all around tired. See my pinned post for commission details, art links, etc.

[cursedwithgloriouspurpose]

About the old woman in your house.

Hallo and welcome. I'm the old woman in your house; a freelance artist puttering around your attic and swapping all your ketchup bottles for hot sauce. Don't worry about it. It's fine.

I am also a cast member on the "What's Your Damage?" actual play podcast. Check it out!

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Check back regularly for more old woman news.

[bugged-ubuntu]

Today's episode of my YouTube video series is sponsored by; Some Fucking Scam

Some Fucking Scam, it seems a little sketchy now, but its lent legitimacy by the number of people they're paying to talk about it. Five years from now there will be a four hour video essay about how its a fucking scam and stole millions of dollars and leaked literally all of your data, but right now? It seems mildly convenient.

Give your money to Some Fucking Scam, because literally Every. Single. Thing. advertised by a YouTuber is a grift.

[museeeuuuum]

[i-will-write]

[vryfmi]

[id: an image of Bugs Bunny dressed as a maestro, caption reads, “writers and artists cooking up amazing ideas, excited to create later”. it is followed by dishevelled Bugs Bunny edited to slouch in the chair in front of the desk, caption reads, “writers and artists when it's time to create”./end id]

[skarabrae-stone]

[magiclilybean]

I think this might be the most beautiful meme I've ever seen. I just spent five minutes extolling all its virtues to my husband:

It doesn't even mention Julius Caesar or the Ides of March.

It's from a very different segment of the play

It's not even the famous part of that segment that everyone knows by heart

The "I'm just sayin'" attitude of all the Seinfeldians in the screenshot (although if memory serves, what they're actually saying is, "not that there's anything wrong with that")

It just comes at the whole situation in such an oblique fashion

I don't think I've ever seen an Ides of March meme do anything like this before

I love it and I love you for bringing it to me.

[cursedwithgloriouspurpose]

Yesno is the new Mary Sue

[beaft]

bitch moment: obviously this is subjective but a lot of modern queer lit (especially YA) has this specific tone that i find really grating. i want to call it "smug" but that's not exactly it. it's more like, that sense that the author is utterly convinced of the correctness of their own worldview and expects everyone else to agree with them on principle

[beaft]

two poles on this one btw

author is scared of me = terrified of ambiguity, uses excruciatingly precise language to avoid being misinterpreted, treats diversity as a box-ticking exercise, bends over backwards to explain itself when Literally No One Asked, all morally grey actions have to be immediately justified and resolved

author wants me dead = protagonist is unfailingly righteous and good, antagonist is irredeemably evil strawman, narrative refuses to make space for opinions/experiences that don't perfectly match up with the author's perspective, lots of Teachable Moments where an ignorant character is kindly shown the error of their ways by a wiser, more enlightened character

[bludragongal]

There's a cool idea for some OCs in here somewhere...

[gallusrostromegalus]

As a kid I always thought that if telepaths were real I'd know because of any of them tried to read my mind the firehouse of insane bullshit would make them drop to the ground screaming, if not actually explode.

My adolescent ADHD and Adult autism diagnosis were the opposite of a surprise.

[surohsopsisofclouds]

(tags @/gallusrostromegalus)

akdhhaja don't leave that in the tags that's so fucking funny

[hamletthedane]

I have been banned from continuing to discuss the existence of the French Revolution in the Bridgerton universe at family dinners

[hamletthedane]

^ I stand by this.

( @frodo-of-the-nine-fingers I’m so sorry)

[moonfairygeek777]

Moon family doing the thing

[duckbunny]

media literacy includes understanding why a media product was made, to whom it's being sold, and the assumed preferences of its marketing demographic. narrative is not produced or sold in a vacuum.

[duckbunny]

you might be totally correct that your ship would be narratively satisfying. I don't know, I'm not watching your show. Whether your ship is likely to happen on the show is a whole different question to whether it's satisfying, because the show is being sold to Netflix or Amazon or the BBC, and they are purchasing a show they think they can market to a particular demographic and that demographic isn't you, the nightmarishly online tumblr user. The show is being made for marketability to a constructed average viewer. It is being funded with that audience in mind. This art is being made to commission, and commissioned art is art, but at some point you have to stop expecting the Church to commission a statue of Lucifer fucking St Michael. It might be narratively satisfying, but that's just not what they're paying for.

[teaboot]

One time when I was like three years old I was laying in my mom’s bed, and I don’t remember what we were talking about except I was being fussy about having to do something, and just like whenever I was being like that she asked, “are you trying to pick a fight?”

And I didn’t really know what that meant, only that I always said no, but for some reason or another I was very annoyed and a fight sounded pretty good so for the first time ever I said “yes”

And I don’t know what I was expecting to happen, but I remember my mom just going “Okay, then. Let’s fight. What do you want to fight about?”

And I remember it occurring to me all of a sudden that the onus was on me to generate the energy to pick something to be mad about, and wishing she’d just do something worth fighting FOR me, but she just went, “I’m not the one who wants to fight. If you want to fight, you have to pick something to fight about”

and I just went ugh. Never mind, that’s too much work. So said “I don’t wanna fight actually, I’m just cranky” and she told me “okay well just say that next time” and in hindsight that was actually probably a very important formative experience

[burntblueberrywaffles]

I LOVE being autistic and trying to communicate because every time it’s

[sunlight-shunlight]

i was thinking about this, and veilguard solas is like... if they brought back zevran in da4, and showed him as going on a quest to dismantle and murder the upper ranks of the crows to destroy the organization, regardless of the harm to antiva, bc of... you know. the murder and torture and child slavery and sexual exploitation, etc.

but then the crows are suddenly retconned as the veilguard crows and they're literally nice.... zevran just didn't try voting to reduce the child slavery while he was in there? they're kind of a found family? they're actually good for antiva, what about the nice crows buying bread at the market if they survive their torture training?

so zevran is ofc completely unreasonable, and just doing this for petty revenge reasons about rinna, and that's it. no one in antiva or anywhere else supports him, and he's only ever allowed to mention his motives vaguely like "the crows are a wound on antiva", and it's never brought up that he was actually bought as a child and then coerced to stay in the crows. in fact you get flashbacks with him being sent to kill people, and your whole party goes "wow he's so evil for doing those contracts. should've just said no smh :/"

also at the end you get, idk, rinna's ghost or something to emotionally manipulate him into giving up and going to jail forever instead. hkgjdglfjd.

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

The guy who said fuck you im keeping my sword... did in fact win this brawl.

[xekstrin]

My boyfriend, again blending together fanfiction tropes: So what if when you finally find your soulmate, that’s when you discover if you’re alpha or omega, right?

Me, hands shaking as I frantically search for pen & paper: KEEP TALKING

[xekstrin]

Me: Seems hellish

Boyfriend: So does being an ant person

Me: Again, baby, they’re not ants

Boyfriend: YES THEY ARE. They communicate via pheromones— LIKE ANTS.

Me: So back to the soulmate thing….

Boyfriend: You could trick them into following orders and thinking they’re dead by spraying them with a spritz bottle. I think they need a queen.

Me: So back to the soulmate thing…. Seems hellish!

Boyfriend: Not really. If being around the other person is what triggers the changes, if you want to go back to normal… all you need to do is leave.

Me, writing: (You found your soulmate. It’s changing you in scary ways. All you need to do is leave… how difficult would it be to leave? What pressures exist to stay?)

Boyfriend: So these ant-people—

Me: OMEGAVERSE IS NOT ANTS!!!!!!

[greelin]

having OC’s is crazy for real because no one else gives a fuck meanwhile you’ll be at the function thinking about them (guys who are not real) like