Neurotic Owl

flapping vaguely downward through clouds of uncertainty on wings of existential dread

Tag Archives: fairytales

Stained glass and historical inaccuracies, yay!

Speaking of costumes that show a merry disregard for realism or history, ^. In other news, Mooch is great and I probably don’t deserve him.  He’s bored with me right now … Continue reading

October 11, 2016 · Leave a comment

Mermaid tits! Nooooooo!

In which I worry about nippleless side-boob offending somebody, and then get over it.

September 27, 2016 · Leave a comment

Braaaaaiiiinsssssss. I have none left.

  Wording is hard, part the second. Places to buy stuff! TEEPUBLIC: mostly t-shirts, a few other products.  Watch for sales, when shirts drop from $20 to $14! REDBUBBLE: Just, … Continue reading

September 24, 2016 · Leave a comment

Dryad.

It’s Monday, wording is hard.

September 20, 2016 · Leave a comment

Who loves drawing briars? This bitch.

(Click to embiggen.  Always, always click to embiggen.) Anyway:   Places to buy stuff! TEEPUBLIC: mostly t-shirts, a few other products.  Watch for sales, when shirts drop from $20 to … Continue reading

September 17, 2016 · Leave a comment

Today in weird shit I drew:

Granted, this one is less weird, but still.  Patterns!  Leaves!  Poor life choices!  God, I love fairytales.  (Also, hidden owl FTW.)

September 9, 2016 · Leave a comment

Tomorrow is for twee. Today is for NOPE.

The logic chain as I recall it:  Chatting with friends about the children’s opera I’m working on (one guess which one), and how disconcerting rehearsal was because the ‘Boy’ had … Continue reading

September 15, 2015 · Leave a comment

The Snow Queen (the other one)

 I asked this on Facebook already, but who’s read Joan D. Vinge’s ‘The Snow Queen’?  It’s a big juicy sci-fi novel based on the fairytale, and it’s pretty splendid.  I … Continue reading

September 8, 2015 · Leave a comment

Nipple warning? And I swear a lot, too.

 Anyone who thinks the Little Mermaid isn’t a hard-core bitch hasn’t read the original story.  First, she doesn’t do it all for some dude, she basically uses the dude to … Continue reading

September 4, 2015 · Leave a comment

The Snow Queen! The original one, not the sci-if one. She’ll happen soon enough.

 Oh, so many things to say about this fairytale.  Genda is fantastic and perseveres gamely through everything to save her childhood friend, even though the last time she saw him, … Continue reading

September 3, 2015 · Leave a comment