hey there, call me Artie or Yarrow or Psalter / Psaltery / Psalterer (thirty, he/they). just Psalt or Salt are fine too bc i think it's funny. this is a personal + selfship / oc x canon + writing blog. non-selfshippers are more than welcome to follow so long as you're not gonna act like it's your first day on earth when the selfshipper posts selfship stuff. i like FromSoftware games, Resident Evil, Pyramid Collection vibes, historical fashion, opera and theatre, and lore discussion. check out my links to know more, and you can find DNI / BYF notes below the cut.
DNI: minors dnf. like i say in my strawpage, i hate imperialism, colonialism, billionaires, and traditional values, and we have nothing to talk about if you are an apologist of those things. if you have some shit take about how pedos or zoophiles belong in the queer community, understand that i'd hunt you for sport if i could. now bear with me for my BYF that reads like a contract.
BYF:
⛈️ i am critical of the media and characters i enjoy, but i am not going to perform evangelical levels of moral agonizing about it for the approval of internet randos. if you need constant reassurance about what i do and don't condone in real life, then this is likely not a good blog for you to follow and that's fine. don't make it my problem.
⛈️ sharing is complicated but also not that big a deal for me, so mostly i consider myself mirrorsharing. and let's be absolutely clear, i think being hostile and territorial toward selfship doubles instead of hardblocking and moving on is inexcusable loser behavior.
⛈️ note to other selfship blogs specifically: i interact with mutuals who interact with me. i'm not going to keep liking/reblogging your selfship posts if you've never done the same for any of mine, and sometimes i softblock about it. i am happy to be a mutual, i'm always down to make friends, but i am nobody's fan. non-selfship blogs can totally disregard this, it's a community-specific grievance.
⛈️ spam liking/rbing is not only fine, it's good. frankly, people who are divas about it are super offputting to me.
⛈️ i am irreverently neopagan, and into astrology, tarot, and all that New Age shit. i have zero respect for anyone who co-opts paganism or occultism as a vehicle for white supremacy. die.
⛈️ block to break mutuals. it won't hurt my feelings. i don't keep track of who is or isn't following me, and i'd rather not be left with the awkwardness of cluelessly still interacting with you as though we're still mutuals.
platforms punishing users (eg removing icons on Tumblr) for not safe for work content or hiding posts behind id or facial rec walls (bluesky and discord now ig) makes for an interesting incentive to just never tag or provide warnings on any media you post with adult themes
i have GOT to fucking remember to just keep a few bg3 saves permanently at the beginning of Act 2 so i can replay it whenever i want without going through all of Act 1 again
my friend keeping me updated about her fic that's, like, post-game AU where Victor survived RE9, he and i have been in the wind hiding from the DSO since the events of the game, her s/i was my s/i's friend while we were both Connections agents, she's currently an informant in the DSO's search for Victor and me after cutting a deal with prosecution, and said ongoing international Victartie manhunt is the backdrop for her getting closer with Leon over time
i can't ever actually write my novel because then what if i finish it. what if i manage to publish it. what if it gets optioned for a movie or show deal. then i have to find a way to negotiate "if you even suggest casting a thin or midsize actor to play one of my fat characters, i have full legal immunity to nail you crucifixion-style to the writer's room table and skin you head to toe with a well-used box cutter, in front of the producers and creative team so i can make sure it's a message i only have to send once" into my contract.
pspspspspsps dave. dave. you know you wanna cameo fifth brother in there somewhere. c'maaaaahhhhnnnnn daaaave i knowww he can't actually face maul, idc, he can be present for some convening in fortress inquisitorius or something. give me back my snitch wife dave. he's your creation dave take responsibility for him
big fan of romance horror. big fan of terrible people still being loved. big fan of bending morality and turning the grotesque into something beautiful.
I remember the transfeminist discourse of a decade ago being openly against any form of rape culture and sexualization of children coming from an analysis of transfemmes as more likely to experience physical and sexual abuse as children but then we let the selfish weirdos with multiple accusations from young trans women take over the culture
Gureyne makes some remark about Balthazar being hagspawn, Balthazar hits back with "having met Gerringothe more than once, i can confidently say that so are you 😩", and the ensuing fight is like
