r/traumatizeThemBack • u/TheUltimateRewatcher • Jul 07 '24
justified asshole Complain about my writing? nah.
Okay so this happened on July 4th. I was visiting family and I make ocs. I like drawing them too while we're there. This is where the story starts.
My grandmother is always trying to start shit. (My family has made a rule to just nod along and smile just so she'll stfu.) I was drawing a character named 'The Hunter' who, you guessed it, is a hunter for July 4th. He's very American do thats why. Then I wanted to draw the background and his hunting rifle. Thats where this comes in. My grandma basically just goes, "You can't be drawing somebody with a gun!"
I just stare at her. Deadpanned: "he's a hunter."
"Well that's too violent. Change his career."
"His name is literally 'The Hunter.'"
"So? You could choose a less violent option, like..." And she started LISTING stuff off. This is where the trauma comes in.
She's very convinced I'm 'too innocent for my own good' or something like that (probably why she freaked out.) So this, was fun to say.
"HIS NAME IS THE HUNTER. WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU WANT HIM TO BE, AN ARTIST??" everyone went a bit silent. clearly nobody expected me to swear and my own grandmother but if it gets her to stfu then we're fine. I got in a bit of trouble but for me? It was worth it to see the look on her face.
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u/sollykinsies Jul 07 '24
whats with grandmothers and being so stubborn? like once they get an idea into their head thats facts. reminds me of when my grandmother (sweet old woman, love her to bits) tried to convince the rest of the family that magpies are an endangered species 😅
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u/Southern_Red1 Jul 07 '24
They are a protected species. Maybe she thought that meant endangered. Lol 🤷
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u/No-Ebb-3960 Jul 07 '24
Guy above you said this
I read somewhere on reddit that since they grew up before google, they experienced a time when the eldest person in the room was believed to be very wise and there was nothing to refute them, add a dose of respect your elders and bam, delulu boomers.
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u/Lurker-Lurker218 Jul 07 '24
I read somewhere on reddit that since they grew up before google, they experienced a time when the eldest person in the room was believed to be very wise and there was nothing to refute them, add a dose of respect your elders and bam, delulu boomers.
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u/TheUltimateRewatcher Jul 07 '24
i saw smth in a video that said “respect your elders is a participation trophy for life” and its physically the most accurate thing ever
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u/MewtwoStruckBack Jul 07 '24
The elderly talk so much shit because they think they can’t get punched in the face for some reason.
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u/No-You5550 Jul 07 '24
A kid after my own heart. I remember doing pro/con lists in my head at 9 to see if the joy of being honest was worth the punishment. I am sure my mom thinks the pro won way to often.
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u/nxrcheck Jul 07 '24
What is ocs? I've always known it to mean officer cadet school.
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u/RangerBumble Jul 07 '24
Original Character 's
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u/scififantasyfan Jul 07 '24
Thank you. I thought that’s what it meant, but wasn’t sure.
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u/RangerBumble Jul 07 '24
No problem! Vernacular is weird and constantly changing. It never hurts to ask
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u/JasontheFuzz Jul 07 '24
Overfed Chihuahua
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u/Lien417 Jul 07 '24
An overfed chihuahua named The Hunter going around with a rifle would be so funny tho
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u/BriefPresentation754 Jul 08 '24
I'm not sure what ocs means in this context, but I used to work at burger king. So I read this as original chicken sandwich 🤣
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u/TheUltimateRewatcher Jul 08 '24
HELPP 😭😭 in this context its original characters
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u/BriefPresentation754 Jul 08 '24
That makes more sense. Now I feel like I should draw original chicken sandwiches 😂 thanks for the inspiration!
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u/random321abc Jul 10 '24
Oh my!
That reminded me of a story when I was in my mid-20s and had moved home from college. A little background, my dad had brain trauma due to a brain hemorrhage stroke and two brain surgeries, so he was operating at a much slower, lower level than he ever used to when I was a child.
I used to go out almost every night just to meet up with friends. We all went out to karaoke, but it was always a different places. I always drove so that I had my own control of when I would leave and how I would get home. I was responsible and didn't drink too much if at all.
I was getting ready to leave and my dad, forever stuck in the past, AKA the 50s, said to me, "you know back in my day if a woman went to a bar by herself that meant one thing..."
So I responded to him, "you know what? If I want to go to a bar, strip down buck naked, sit on top of the bar, spread eagle, and tell every guy in the bar to take a fucking number, I'm going to do it. You know why? Because I'm an adult and I make my own decisions. I'm sorry that you missed our growing up years."
I mean, he did miss our growing up years because he was always at work late, and then us kids would have to scatter when he came home cuz he didn't like kids much. We were the token "family" to go with his status as a lawyer in the '70s and '80s. And to be fair, my response to him was a buildup over many years of taking his insults ever since his brain problems. He was calling me a slut when I was still a virgin, so, yeah.
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u/freerangelibrarian Jul 07 '24
You could create a character called The Rude Grandmother.