#Maybe I'm just an old lady

[l0ganberry]

perfect timing! I'm definitely getting this.

#But I don't know if I should be addressed by my real name or my username #I'm already fine with being called Loganberry or Logan #but that's my internet nickname #but maybe I should also do my real nickname. #who knows but I do hope he does one of those livestreams where he signs the prints and interacts with the fans #just like how Micheal Kovach did a few months back #but other than that #I will so do this!! #i do have my birthday money so yes please! #I want it framed perfectly on my wall. #signature and message especially #it shall be one of my great relics that I would love to confuse my children or grandchildren with #I'll be the old lady that brings up youtube to their grandchildren to show them classical indie animations #“You don't know who Bob Velseb is? *exhausted sigh* Honey would you be a dear and give me my laptop?" #anyways #rambles #random #bob velseb #spooky month

[snackugaki]

memory lane pizza

#tmnt au #my tmnt au is just me reconciling a bunch of things #i don't know what to tell the kids #they were born in the 80s #so i'm letting them grow old #and I'm gonna give them a reprieve #are Karai and Leo gonna face the utrom invasion tomorrow? #mayBE #but for now they ate some gnarly greasy pizza #and washed it down with cocktail of 8 different sodas #jonin deserve to eat gross fast food #as a treat #I almost want to go on a spiel on how ninja work and their role in my au #but it's gonna get in the way of me drawing them doing dumb shit #like turtle hockey with Casey #original Karai was a smidge too much of the Dragon Lady stereotype #...that reminds me there was a literal Lotus Blossom character in TMNT too #yeesh #Helen Zia and Sunny Woan compel me #the yikes compels me #Leo doesn't eat the crusts

[covenofthearticulate]

I just want you to know that it's an almost daily occurrence for me to be minding my own damn business and then my brain just HITS me over the head with a line from any one of your fics and I'm just like- 🫢🥹🥺 wow what a religious experience that's so fucking beautiful man ashley is such an incredible writer 🤧♥️

SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UPPPPPPPPPP

i read this at the end of a very long day while i was sitting at my office desk and feeling miserable and it literally made my entire day!!!!!!!!! also not to get all up in my feels but i hope you know that your encouragement has been one of the biggest factors that has kept me writing LOL like you singlehandedly dragged me out of the swamp and got me all giddy about sharing my work with this community again so forreal this means so much and i'm going to sit and stare at this ask forever thank u and i love u

#i was actually just joking with my coworker about this today #my old lady coworker is into astrology and she clocked me as a gemini #she was like 'yeah i can tell you care a lot. that's why you're a good writer because you want to sound smart. which you are!' #FUCKING READ ME TO FILTH!!!!!! #MAYBE I AM A GEMINI AND MAYBE I DO PUT A LITTLE TOO MUCH OF MY SELF WORTH INTO BEING A GOOD WRITER #TRY AND STOP ME BITCH #anywhomst i'm fully out here crying in the club faye how fucking DARE YOU #;answered #save #saved #fave #absolute fave #my writing

[shy-sapphic-ace]

I'm trying to write this story about a noir-type detective and I'm just finding it so difficult?? Like not even for plot or whatever, I think I'm okay with that, but I'm trying so hard to make my detective guy all angsty and broody and dark, like oooh he's so tortured and sad but he handles it like a Man(TM), that kinda stuff, but every time I make him interact with anyone he just ends up being super polite and friendly. He calls everyone Mr. and Miss and old people Sir or Ma'am. Like, earlier I was just writing and the words were coming along well and when I reread it he was talking about this restaurant he likes because "the tea reminds me of how my grandma used to make it :)" It really shows that I have never actually written angst in my life.

#and before you ask. yes he is gay #His (not yet) boyfriend is called Harry Angel and he's the brother of the first case's victim where she (his sister) received a death threa #and Harry hired Jack (my detective) to find out who #and then they stayed close even after the case and Jack was always calling Harry “Mr. Angel” but Harry asked him to drop the “Mr.” #cause it felt too formal. So then Jack starts calling him just “Angel” and Harry gets super shy about it (but he likes it). #I'm pulling a Crowley there aha #And Harry's sister is a lesbian and she totally ships it #BUT perhaps I might be able to redeem my noir angst-writing because I will later introduce another character #who is a rival detective and perhaps an ex of Jack's?? #And maybe he's super serious and broody and he tells Jack “You've always been too soft Lovejoy.” (that's Jack's last name) #Soo maybe he can be my angsty detective character. And Jack can keep on being nice to old ladies and holding open doors for his boyfriend. #writing #just random rabmling #my apologies if you had to read through all these tags

[wetrembledinourmultitude]

scared shitless of this one professor and YES he reminds me of a small victorian child who is going outside for the first time and is very nervous and loving. two things can be true

#2 guys in a room unable to naturally transition between topics #i'm like what if i can't impress him :///// as if he hasn't asked to be one of my mentors. he literally already thinks i'm just fine #but <3 adorable old man. and me coded in many a way we have so much in common. did not knwo being socially a little awkward #can read as INTIMIDATING #anyhow. i now have 5 (five) classes i wanna take looking forward to talking to my other new best friend beautiful smart professor redacted. #she would do rounds on tumblr maybe she does #was in one of her classes she asked about lady macbeth as 'weeping damsel or stern mommy' &she writes emails like she's texting. or bloggin #obsessed with her & she ALSO asked if i want her to be my mentor :)))) #mayhaps i will be fine. if i get back into thinking i'm incredibly correct and interesting #impossible to have debilitating imposter syndome when u know in ur heart ur god's favourite princess. messiah of being smart & pretty #m

[mcgilou]

#🃏 ℳᵃᵍᶤᵏᵃᶻᵃᵐ ━ ( ooc ) #// i was able to rangle together my old velvet & colette & alice icons #// part of me is like maybe tempted to yank one of them back from the abyss #// idek who i even would pick bc i love all these ladies #// but i'm trying to fight back my old tendencies of running too many blogs #// only reason i don't do mumu is how i organise things && the thought of everything in one place overwhelms me #// ik i'm weird #// but yeah i was able to rangle together some of my old tales of icons #// only ones i don't have are edna && eleanor #// tho i never wrote eleanor but i considered it #// i just had icons bc someone asked me to make 'em for them when i first started this blog years ago #// lmfao i wrote a lot talked a lot welcome to my mind and how i always have racing thoughts #// i'll shut up now #🃏 ℳᵃᵍᶤᵏᵃᶻᵃᵐ ━ ( tbd )

[shikai-the-storyteller]

Bruh our CEO emailed me to say she really likes the work I've been doing ; ________ ; bruh

#i talk #job talk #I'm so frickin burnt out and exhausted but that was a nice surprise #She's a little old Latina lady and I went ''AW???'' seeing that email #Listen man I'm Mexican it's embedded into my DNA to be automatically endeared to older Latina ladies #There's another older Mexican lady I really like who I've talked to like... 3 times maybe in a different department #but last time I saw her I was so excited because I brought chocolate into the office and I was like ''do you want some!'' #and she was so sweet and was acting like a tia and gave me a hug and I was just like ; ____ ; #idk man I don't see a lot of other Mexicans in my neck of the woods so I'm always maybe a little too excited when I do #anyways but re: job stuff #If I was ballsier I'd be like ''in that case could I get a raise?'' but I'm not a fool

[cowardlycowboys]

really no greater joy than the train museum

#omg kiera no one cares #every time i get to go I'm jumping up and down because LOVE TRAINS LOVE OLD TIMEY THINGS #the front desk lady said they want to maybe make it a functional train station again like!!!!!! #i miss it already i was just there yesterday 😭😭

[roseband]

my embroidery machine got to my mom's place i'm sooooo excited

but i'm dumb bcuz i didn't realize how expensive digitizing software was lol so i need to see if i can use an older version of the brother ones

but i'm so excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#personal #hahaha i used up all my credit card points on it so in total it only cost me $200 and it's an embroidery/sewing combo #so i'm just gonna treat it like i got a cheapo sewing machine and allow myself to spend the $200+ on software possibly #unless like i can use 2-3 years' ago's brother software #i gotta look into it more.... maybe take a trek into long island to joanne fabric cuz the little old ladies there would know #i wanna learn how to make iron on patches of my art #especially cuz like (obviously it's what i do for a living) i know how to make production ready vector art files #the thing is i know what the 10 years ago machines + softwares worked together #cuz my first job EVER was selling sewing supplies LOL #(which is so odd cuz i work in apparel now like... hahaha thnx mom) #((ironically my great grandparents on my mom's side... both sides had apparel custom stores... one was a millinery and the other costume #jewelry... so i have all sorts of nice vintage stuff from the 20's-40s <3)) #BUT now i don't have to go to my mom's whenever i need a machine now!!! whooohooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ereborne]

Song of the Day: February 26

“Diamonds in the Mud” by Gerry Cinnamon

#song of the day #another song off that same excellent concept playlist by losersimonriley #there's so many more Scottish bands added to my circulation now it's wonderful #this is a song specifically about Glasgow being his hometown so he uses more of his accent for it which I love #I've been pestering my brothers with accent and slang fun facts for a while now #more or less since the first time somebody had Soap use a particular Scottish saying in their CoD fic and made me go over all !!!! #'innsidh na geòidh as t'fhoghar e' translates to 'the geese will tell it in autumn' and reading that nearly made me explode #because when I was a small child and I asked my uncle too many 'why' questions he told me not to worry about it #that the geese would tell me next fall #amazing to me to find out decades later through Call of Duty fanfiction that that's an actual phrase #preserved for who knows how many generations between the first Scottish folks who must've brought it to Appalachia #and then eventually my Uncle Tommy who decided to use it to turn the aggravation tables around on a child #I'm thinking about that again now not just because it still blows my mind a little bit #(really truly had so firmly accepted it as just my Uncle Tommy trolling me with nonsense. it's such a thing he'd do) #but also because of a specific bit from the end of the song 'it's thirteen degrees and there's folk in the street in the scud' #that's just under 60F (a blissfully warm sunny day in Glasgow it seems) and 'in the scud' means 'naked' #which is also a thing I've almost heard from my family! #my aunts up the mountain and therefore also my father at times would say 'in the scuff' (my aunts with a little tilt to the vowel sound) #there was a sort of connotation of it being a silly or immature or maybe drunken sort of naked. an unimpressive naked at least #like 'Tommy fell into the muddy end of the pond trying to catch that damnfool heron' (this is a true story btw. take that Uncle Tommy) #'when he got back his wife made him take off all his clothin in the yard and hose down first. had to walk into his house in th scuff' #and then all the old ladies cackle about Tommy walkin through his door 'both heads hangin low' and my dad winces a little bit #it's important I share all these memories with my siblings now. most of the family's dead and gone and the boys don't remember #very fun for me to tell the stories now and see Nick do the exact same wince at the slightly mean-spirited dick commentary #just a little family legacy in action. thank you Gerry Cinnamon #(in the spirit of song-of-the-day though I will share my favorite line without the contextual boost of silly ereborne family stories: #'I know a guy who's a lightweight one or two jars and he's buckled #he's the guy that loses keys has to break into his ain house and gets huckled' #ungodly fun to sing and I do know several of this guy. not related to them though. my whole family drinks like fish)

[v-t-holmes]

i finished all the big starting quests in totk

this game is so fucking pretty omg

#tears of the kingdom #totk #legend of zelda #loz #tears of the kingdom spoilers #totk spoilers #(in the tags) #where is everyone going? i think i'm gonna go check kakariko and then start that promising journalism career in rito village #maybe i'll head to the great plateau too i wanna see what's there #after that #who knows #the depths are fascinating #might go hunting for poes there #i also saw a rock fall in castle town ruins so i might go check where that leads me #maybe snoop around the parts of the castle that stayed on the ground #it's fascinating to see people where a lynel was just a little while ago #also really cool to see that purah didn't devolve into a baby and is now teenager-shaped #lolicons are in shambles; their 100+ yo 10 yo waifu is now too old for them #oh i need to go visit sidon #and i think a lady mentioned lurelin village has a pirate problem #ig that'd also be worth looking into #it's so weird there's no guardians #there are however most likely test of strenght shrines and i hate those #but the puzzle shrines are really cool! i went into one that was like one of those didactic baby puzzles #where you need to find the right shapes for holes #my fav great sky island shrine is probably the ascend one tho it was really cool #rauru is kinda babygirl 😳 #i knew he was a zonai #and that zonai were dragon people the same way the rito are bird people and the zora are fish people #now to wait for confirmation that zonai are their ancestors

[septembersghost]

my favorite specialest pink snow white mug has a crack in it 😭

#i said i was leaving but i'm here to cry #it's near the very top so hopefully maybe it won't spread but :( i've had it for so long #the relationship between a girl and her mug is sacred! #perhaps i am technically an old spinster lady but at heart i am just a small dreamer okay ;__; #jess.mess

[inkydoc]

pissed off the wrong little old lady it seems :D

#bg3 spoilers #baldur's gate 3 spoilers #having a ton of fun now that i got over the decision paralisis lol #i just decided that y'know maybe killing a bunch of gnomes isn't very great but maybe the lesser evil #that helped #and i really didn't want them to hurt the grove so there is that #dunno if i'm prepared to face off with the old lady but we will just have to see #after that it's underground time #inky's mind

[muppetminge]

look i'm not going to pretend like my generation didn't have models that weighed less than a bag of sand and airbrushing in the magazines and all that shit because we did and that was fucked up too

but i get so like. genuinely freaked out by like filters on social media and those kinds of things. it makes me worry for the girls who are growing up with these things as normal. i just can't help but feel like a filter that tries to *correct* your fucking face in real time must be so so so much worse than what we had? even just the "silly/fun" ones still smooth out your skin and shave off half your nose and reshape your face. so many phones have magic smoothing as an automatic feature on the front cams. so it's like not even an active choice or something you're aware of. and so much of this world is based on selfies and videos so you're gonna be seeing it *constantly*. you take a selfie for fun but the photo is unrecognisable. it's not you. if that's not a breeding ground for body dysmorphia i don't know what is.

and we knew that those "model standards" were unrealistic and unattainable and they still fucked us up! but today you're seeing your peers all made up like that online and logically that must connect into a feeling of like. that should be attainable? but it's still not! and idk but that can't be fucking healthy.

it just feels like to me there's a difference between seeing heidi klum or whoever and then your classmate maria posting pictures with perfect skin, straightened nose, whitened teeth. it's like the insane otherworldly standards we grew up with has been pulled down into everyday life. idk i just don't think it's coincidence that today we have 15 year olds sharing anti-aging routines and wearing 5 layers of makeup just to leave the house. the standards for a normal face has been digitally altered

#mona mona mona #anti beauty industry #anti beauty culture #maybe i'm just being old lady yells at cloud idk but it makes me so uncomfortable #also like those ai filters that seem to define woman by long hair and makeup #anyway i tried one of those “fun” filters on sc and it just. genuinely didn't look like me #like that's not my face. that's not my nose that's not my jaw that's not my cheekbones that's not my facial structure #and like. imagine growing up in that world. shit dude #and then it's like scroll on and see tradwives. and bimbocore. and oh girls so silly dumb haha. and you know everything bad in the west is #ecause of women's rights' #you cannot tell me that does not affect the worldview of young girls!!!!! #like i grew up with pink feminism and girlpower tm and yknow it had its faults but it was better thsn this bullshit i'll fucking say

[running-in-the-dark]

if there's one thing I hate it's nurses who treat you like a child or an inconvenience when you're in pain despite them insisting you shouldn't be.

no, I can't sit on the side of the bed to eat my soup, sitting up hurts like hell and I don't care that you don't think it does. it does. I know it does because it's my body and I feel the pain, so what the fuck is that about?! I had surgery this morning, there's a wound in my belly button, so it's going to hurt for a bit, I'm not being dramatic or anything!

the weirdest part is that I didn't complain or say anything, I just started sitting up very slowly to eat, and she felt the need to treat me like I'm an idiot for being in pain 🤷

she also rolled her eyes and made an annoyed noise when I showed that I was in pain during and after she gave me the injection to prevent blood clots. lady, I don't know what your problem is but that shit hurts like hell for me, every single time I've gotten it, and it keeps hurting for over an hour. so I'm going to fucking wince a little and you're just gonna have to learn to deal with that without being an asshole.

it's like there's two categories of nurses - the ones that are incredibly sweet and kind and caring, who apologise if something they do hurts and are calm and understanding when you show that you're in pain. and the ones that are completely dismissive and treat you like you're a fucking idiot for every single question, statement or reaction.

#the one who said this has generally been really unfriendly and harsh #the nurse who was here when I came in this morning was SO nice though so I really hope she'll be working tonight or tomorrow morning #and I might complain (a little) about this one when the doctors come in tomorrow morning... or at least mention that she keeps being rude #like. this is the ward for people who just had surgery so how can you be that dismissive and rude about this?? #anyway lol I can handle this behaviour now #last time this happened in I think 2019 I had a breakdown after one specific nurse kept treating me exactly like this #sorry but if you're such a huge bitch maybe you shouldn't work with people. especially not patients. #I've vented and now I feel better lol so it's fine now. and I should be going home on Sunday anyway so I won't have to deal with her for #too long #personal #tw medical #tw hospital #oof this just reminded me that the shitty nurse in 2019 actually told me to stop overreacting and being a baby when that stupid injection #hurt me. like??? why?? even if I was the only person who ever experienced pain during that (which I don't think is the case) that still #wouldn't give anyone the right to treat me like that?? over simply making an involuntary sound and shedding a couple tears #it's not like I said anything to her or was angry at her. it's so stupid #at least this time the lovely old lady I'm sharing a room with said after this that she thinks it's surprising that I can even sit up at #all so soon after surgery. that felt nice

[g0reoz]

actually the real reason i'm a xhaka kinnie is the fact that i love hangin out with old people. and old people generally love me! and if someone was a little bitch i would probably threaten to let their grandpa live at my house too if we're being completely honest

#NOT TO BE AN APOLOGIST BUT HE DID NOTHING WRONG. NOTHING #i mean ! this is also half joking because there are many many reasons i'm at the point where i can't even beat the allegations. #silliest guy ever. Annoying Ass Hyena Cackle. perfectionist to the point of self destruction. violently protective of friends. loves food. #really fuckin into red and yellow. propensity for suddenly getting really dramatic and sentimental. bit of a dumbass. #enters large scale competitions for specific side hobby. holds people to standards they've set for themselves. the list goes on and on :] #anyways yeag👍 me for real! though i'm fuckin sobbing over the fact that i don't have sharp teeth. except for the fact that then it would- #-hurt when i bite even if it was gentle. so maybe not :( #what the fuck am i even talking about i blacked out and there's just a paragraph. anyways i love this stupid fuckin guy #...and also old people. this whole thing was actually brought on by the fact that i was at crochet club party w old ladies #i thought i was gonna go and work on my cousin's blanket. actually spent like 2 hours playing bingo and talking and being fed treats :3 #.woof.