hey there, call me Artie or Yarrow or Psalter / Psaltery (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. attempting to learn Hindi for fun. 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. i'm too old to get actually heated about shipping discourse, but i am gonna draw the line and block you if you've built your entire blog identity around how edgy proship/darkship you are. ditto for blogs where whatever actual interests you have seem to be secondary to fandom drama and callout posts. 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 shithead 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.
⛈️ if you self-apply the terms yumeshipper/yumejoshi/yumedanshi as a westerner, that's embarrassing for you. don't associate with me.
⛈️ 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.
i hate that showering and getting dressed are so difficult for me because it feels so like a nasty stereotype for a fat autistic person and it’s one of the biggest reminders that i am in fact not low support needs at all but. it is what it is
i have to really hand it to Charlie Vickers because landing Sauron himself as a role in a show that's confidently letting your acting carry the Sauron™ From The Lord Of The Rings™ through at least two new personas per season, complete with different costuming and mannerisms each time (as opposed to heavy action or visual spectacle) is like. the ultimate actor pipe dream and he's living it. and he's pulling it off too
canon is what happens in the text. e.g. merlin tries to poison morgana
a headcanon is a fact that you have personally made up as an elaboration of canon. it is your invention. e.g. i think morgana and gwen had a teenage lesbian situationship before the events of canon. or, i think modern morgana would love evanesence.
an interpretation is how one reads the existing text. it is not an invented fact nor is it a headcanon, it is a reading. e.g. i think merlin tries to poison morgana out of misplaced self-hatred. or, i think that one line was delivered with suppressed malice and shows a nuanced relationship.
fanon is the general fandom’s accepted headcanons and interpretations that elaborate or recontextualize canon. e.g. merlin is a badass waif and morgana is a bitch.
these are all different words with different meanings.
Also, for an interpretation to be valid it needs to be based on the text. It cannot just be a vibe. One can disagree on readings of the text, but if someone comes with quotes and/or historical context and you just have vibes, then sorry, your interpretation is inferior and may in fact just be a headcanon.
yeah, i do read yuri into Gulabji narrating Saawariya as a story supposedly about Raj when it is in fact a story about falling in love with Sakina. it's a story about doing that twice, actually, from two different points of view. or the number of times Gulabji pulls a "now i'm not the one trying to romance Sakina, HOWEVER here's a list of things i would do if i WERE doing exactly that" on Raj
You should be able to say “don’t touch me” to anyone ever in any context and not have it be considered in the realm of surprising or insulting imho if we ever needed to normalize something it’s this
shia labeouf DIE. brad pitt DIE. chris brown DIE. johnny depp DIE. cristiano ronaldo DIE. conor mcgregor DIE. die die die die die die die DIE. every single abuser DIE. if you support them DIE TWICE!
idk i would personally rather give up access to certain products seasonally or locally than have people enslaved to give me the ability to have any product any place any time. i think i can go without tomatoes in january.
Not gonna beat around the bush about it, but I got denied for unemployment benefits and I'm still job hunting when the job market is insanely corrupt. I only have enough for rent for maybe 3-4 months. Any help whether it be reaching out to me for a commission or supporting me through Kofi is appreciated!
Info on commissions can be found here. I will also be offering custom playlists for f/os (20 songs min) for $20.
Update: Still without a job, only have enough for a couple months rent. I've done job searches daily, reached out to two temp agencies, and recently registered with the state services that help people connect with job employers. I really don't want to move back in w my toxic parents, I've literally been doing everything right in the 8 months that I've moved out and it's so freeing. It's just so frustrating that the job market is absolute crap.
Hey yall! A good update, I got hired! My new job wont start for a couple weeks and then I gotta wait two more weeks for my first paycheck, so any help or any commissions are appreciated, to help w the rent until then!
Things are finally starting to come together but haven't started yet, and my credit card bill is coming up and my accounts are almost on empty. Any help is appreciated!
