Magical Colouring In Books: the Ultimate Insult to Witchcraft.... (Also: I am having a very bad day)

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  • Опубліковано 27 чер 2024
  • I kind of lose it today. And why? Magical Colouring In Books. And I don't mean those pretty books with complicated pictures of fish and mermaids. I mean books marketed as being educational to adults, that you have to colour in. Yes, they exist. And yes, I looked at them.
    And yes, I got ridiculously angry.
    #witchcraft #witchy #rant #crone
    Also: my very bad day. And why people who identify as men should have more interesting clothing choices, I feel.

КОМЕНТАРІ • 73

  • @witchycraftsbyKJ
    @witchycraftsbyKJ День тому +1

    Maybe a crone would buy these for her grandkids.. ( just thinking of ways to bring your boil to a simmer lmao)

  • @candiceb8925
    @candiceb8925 Місяць тому +3

    My friends daughter who I love with all my heart is goth she takes it seriously! I saw her the another day when it 28 outside i thought lara was going to pass out bless her! I'm all for comfort now ❤ love your video keep rocking. X

    • @GrumpyOldCrone
      @GrumpyOldCrone  Місяць тому +1

      Oh bless! Natural fibres and loose stuff all the way for me now! I'm currently obsessing about a pattern for loose not-quite-baggy-festival-type-things trousers that I bought at a fabric sale the other day. I've made two pairs so far, and am living and dying in them. And they are.... ELASTICATED. Yes, I have reached the point of my life in which I require elasticated trousers. Oh well!

  • @ThatDivinationWitch
    @ThatDivinationWitch Місяць тому +4

    Crisp box on wheels 😂

    • @GrumpyOldCrone
      @GrumpyOldCrone  Місяць тому

      I shit you not. It is a Citreon Berlingo.

  • @AmandaRuby7773
    @AmandaRuby7773 Місяць тому +2

    I'm American, and I am NOT built for this weather here, but the beautiful weather you just described 😂 I can't take this, what they're calling a heat dome, which is 90 degrees or above with 80-90% humidity, so not only do you sweat to death, but suffocate as well 😂

    • @GrumpyOldCrone
      @GrumpyOldCrone  Місяць тому +2

      So many friends in the State struggling with this mad weather at the moment! I hope it lets up soon....

  • @lynnhayes5514
    @lynnhayes5514 Місяць тому +1

    I just LOVE you, Annie! You gave me the most positive bit of my day!

  • @craftyhobbit7623
    @craftyhobbit7623 15 днів тому +2

    I don't really have a problem with these colouring books. They are fun... Will you learn anything from them? Probably not, but there is magic in colour - you have the charkas and they have their own colours. Crystal magic is heavily colour based. Candle magic is based on colour. There are witches who practice art magic and colour is important to that. The elements each have their own colour that is associated with them. All of the runes have colours associated with them. Creating art and doing craft projects means that you can make things for your altar without having to buy expensive statues. What's created might not be considered fine art, but it's a start. People can bind their own books for their BOS/Grimoires and these have more meaning to them than a store bought notebook. Without 'art' the achievements of the Greeks, Romans and Egyptians would have been lost to time. It's just another way of practicing.

  • @harlequinn55
    @harlequinn55 Місяць тому +2

    Hope you have a better day today ❤

    • @GrumpyOldCrone
      @GrumpyOldCrone  Місяць тому +2

      It was a MUCH better day today. And someone on my Heilung fan group recorded the livestream I missed, so I've seen it today! All is well. I've drunk quite a lot of tea, and there is a Gin and Tonic in my immediate future, I suspect....

    • @harlequinn55
      @harlequinn55 Місяць тому

      @@GrumpyOldCrone The colouring books appeared in an add on my Facebook today. Immediately thought of you!! 😂

  • @lilykatmoon4508
    @lilykatmoon4508 Місяць тому +1

    I’m sorry you experienced a day where nothing felt positive, and I hope your days to come are better ❤. I can absolutely empathize with that feeling. I really appreciated you speaking up for the idea that people should identify with whatever gender makes them happy and eff-off to bigots! That was a very positive thing for me to hear and it made me happy. I’m also starting to make my own clothes, using only natural fibers, and while I’m building a historical wardrobe to wear historical dress every day (because I’m weird like that), I have found thrift stores to be excellent sources for 100% cotton or linen bedding and curtains that can be made into garments. I’m not sure of y’all’s thrift shops work in the UK, but that might be a consideration. I’m not I to the modern“witchy aesthetic” as part of my personal style so cannot speak to that. You clearly have VERY STRONG feelings about witchy coloring books and I am all for allowing someone to feel how they feel. I wasn’t offended at all by any of it even though I feel differently about the subject. Anyone who gets offended by someone disagreeing with them needs to be more open minded. I agree that just coloring doesn’t create magic and I admittedly don’t have a consistent books of shadow for a number of reasons but a lot of the reason is having health issues and not a lot of extra energy. I have found cutting up parts of those coloring books or transcribing information from the text or even just cutting and pasting can be useful in helping me retain information I’m trying to learn. I’ve also recently been developing as an “art witch” if a label needs to be used. I charge my artistic tools whether they be the brushes or gel pens I use, the paper, etc. I’ve even used images and text from these coloring books and worked spells into the coloring/painting/crafting so that the finished project is a magical spell. So for myself at least, these provided some useful learning tools and jumping off points for art projects, learning aids, and magical spellsI thought your rant was funny, but I sense the pain and frustration of all these stressful things that are going on in your life and I wanted to extend my compassion wishes for better times to come. ❤

    • @GrumpyOldCrone
      @GrumpyOldCrone  Місяць тому

      Oh, you are lovely!!!!! I'm lucky enough to have lots of friends who identify differently to what was assigned at their birth, and I feel very strongly about it. If people feel that respecting people's requests about their identity is too much like hard work, then they aren't going to like the rest of my opinions, for sure!
      I'm really glad you have found a thing you love, and I take joy that it works for you, and thankyou for tolerating my unadulterated grumpiness!
      The week picked up after this, btw!

  • @ThatDivinationWitch
    @ThatDivinationWitch Місяць тому +2

    Eeeee you make me howl. Thats the positive bit i guess. You make people snule with rhe rage hahahahhaha

    • @GrumpyOldCrone
      @GrumpyOldCrone  Місяць тому +1

      I'll take that! If one other person felt slightly happier because of my raging, it was worthwhile.

    • @ThatDivinationWitch
      @ThatDivinationWitch Місяць тому

      @@GrumpyOldCrone haha no worries idk what snule is lmao i was really laughing when i typed that! hahaha we should collab!

  • @hopethomas2812
    @hopethomas2812 15 днів тому +1

    LOL I have become much calmer just because I just no longer give a care. I do what I do and the rest of the world can just leave me alone.

    • @GrumpyOldCrone
      @GrumpyOldCrone  9 днів тому

      I am, as you can probably tell, still working on the calmer thing...

  • @dhsjsb
    @dhsjsb 25 днів тому +1

    i hope you're doing better!

  • @HouseofBlackthorn
    @HouseofBlackthorn Місяць тому +1

    omg lol I don't know how you came across my feed but so glad I stayed to watch/listen. I hope your day got better or at least is better today! Crayola! lol Spoons! Pumpkins. Omy!

    • @GrumpyOldCrone
      @GrumpyOldCrone  Місяць тому +1

      Thanks for stopping by - it really is hugely appreciated. I'm never going to be a huge clout influencer, but I really enjoy what I do. And it's quite cathartic after a day like yesterday! (Someone on a fan group managed to record the livestream of the Heilung set at Glasto that I missed, so I'm feeling MUCH better now!)

  • @hopethomas2812
    @hopethomas2812 15 днів тому +1

    I have always loved a man in a kilt

  • @TanyaStueber
    @TanyaStueber Місяць тому +1

    Ma'am I love you. Never change. 😅

    • @GrumpyOldCrone
      @GrumpyOldCrone  Місяць тому

      I've been this way for 54 years. I appear to be getting rantier and angrier. I'm not sure if this is good or bad!

  • @ThatDivinationWitch
    @ThatDivinationWitch Місяць тому +1

    27:27 howlinggggggg HAHhHHh eee love you are bloody hilarious!

    • @ThatDivinationWitch
      @ThatDivinationWitch Місяць тому +1

      Sharing you with some of my audience you deserve love haha

    • @GrumpyOldCrone
      @GrumpyOldCrone  Місяць тому +1

      Thankyou sooooo much! Today improved. My poor husband put up with me like that for most of the afternoon/evening..... Sharing is hugely appreciated

    • @GrumpyOldCrone
      @GrumpyOldCrone  Місяць тому +1

      Happy coincidence: I'm really interested in a little bit more of a deep dive into the lore behind Hecate, so I've just subscribed to you channel. Thanks!

  • @karinenright249
    @karinenright249 Місяць тому +1

    Absolutely pissing myself yes yes yes !!!!😂

    • @GrumpyOldCrone
      @GrumpyOldCrone  Місяць тому

      I'm a bit calmer now. Can't wait for a bit of a holiday. I feel my blood pressure needs it!

  • @willowcrowley5077
    @willowcrowley5077 Місяць тому +1

    15:00 you're mean ... You scared my cat!

    • @GrumpyOldCrone
      @GrumpyOldCrone  Місяць тому +1

      Oh gods, no! Poor little CrowleyCat! I'm so sorry!!!!!!

  • @lauriehall7841
    @lauriehall7841 Місяць тому +1

    Would love to see how you alter and or create your clothes! Where and how you get your supplies.Thank you

    • @GrumpyOldCrone
      @GrumpyOldCrone  Місяць тому +1

      I may have to do something like that at some point. I threatened a cloak making video at one point as well....

    • @lauriehall7841
      @lauriehall7841 Місяць тому +1

      @@GrumpyOldCrone thank you that would be awesome.

  • @ninaganci2134
    @ninaganci2134 Місяць тому +1

    Living in South Africa, we also do not have air conditioning. Summer months is so hot we melt (I am sure you can fry an egg on the pavement). Thankfully, our winters are mild snow only on the distant mountain tops that we feel here 200kms away. Heaters and fans are a must.
    As to clothing, I have given up, just buy what is comfortable.
    Some of my male friends have given up too - they either wear wraps and funky tops - in summer def shorts of some sorts, and winter as warm as we can

    • @GrumpyOldCrone
      @GrumpyOldCrone  Місяць тому

      Comfortable is the best. I'm totally on board with comfortable!

  • @sharia.king-trahan28
    @sharia.king-trahan28 Місяць тому

    Omg can’t stop laughing. Love your mug! You sound like me. Can relate.

    • @GrumpyOldCrone
      @GrumpyOldCrone  Місяць тому +1

      Thankyou! I made the mug to sell to a few friends, and to have one myself. One day when it doesn't feel *quite* so up myself, I might open the sales to other people. But right now, merch on a channel with 400 subscribers seems to be the height of narcissism!

  • @SpacyMidnight
    @SpacyMidnight Місяць тому +2

    Tunika, long flowing dresses and skirts for everyone 🖤 it’s comfort!
    Oh my favorite fellow grumpy crone☺️ I love you ! I agree ! I have my personal opinions about stuff about gender but happiness is absolutely the most important thing in life 💪🏻 I think the colouring books portrait women in scenarios that are more then what we see in pop sex culture today. And healthy for girls and young women and boys. It really nothing more than that to me.
    I hate colouring so I don’t own one. My drawings are in black ink and sometimes I use nail polish to get the color of the moon ☺️ thats when I get fancy tho 😂
    I wish I posted grumpy videos too 😊
    Iconic Annie as always 🖤💪🏻
    Hugs from Norway 🇳🇴

    • @GrumpyOldCrone
      @GrumpyOldCrone  Місяць тому +1

      Hello Norwegian friend! Happiness and respect for everyone and the land upon which we all exist is everything, I feel. I'm intrigued by the nail polish for the moon! Do you have anywhere I can see your art?

    • @SpacyMidnight
      @SpacyMidnight Місяць тому +1

      @@GrumpyOldCrone hehehee no , i dont show my things really 🤓🍄 i only have a Snapchat and my little tube for funsies ✨and I don’t post stuff much🦔 if my English was better I would love to make talking videos like you do🩷

  • @vykiknighthadley
    @vykiknighthadley Місяць тому +1

    You had me at Crayola 😁😁😁😁😁❤

    • @GrumpyOldCrone
      @GrumpyOldCrone  Місяць тому +1

      Best comment ever. I may need that on a T-shirt....

    • @vykiknighthadley
      @vykiknighthadley Місяць тому

      @@GrumpyOldCrone I want to get a T-shirt with 'FxxK this, I'm off to Valinor' If you have ever read Lord of the Rings you will get the reference :).

  • @saramason9949
    @saramason9949 Місяць тому +1

    Men in kilts.....by which we are more about butch camo realness, and less Kenneth McKellar

    • @GrumpyOldCrone
      @GrumpyOldCrone  Місяць тому +1

      I had to look up Kenneth McKellar. I feel ashamed of myself. I'm a sucker for a man in a good utili-kilt. Ooooh, those knees!

  • @Heather1031
    @Heather1031 Місяць тому +1

    110 here 😂 btw I love this video so much! 😂😂😂😂😂

    • @GrumpyOldCrone
      @GrumpyOldCrone  Місяць тому

      110???!!??!?!?!? Please tell me you have airconditioning?

    • @Heather1031
      @Heather1031 Місяць тому

      @@GrumpyOldCrone Yes! It's on all the time, haha 😄

  • @roberthubbard3302
    @roberthubbard3302 Місяць тому +1

    Cheese cloth is the best thing to wear if you really want to stay cool. The more you can let your skin breathe the better.

    • @GrumpyOldCrone
      @GrumpyOldCrone  Місяць тому

      I do have some cheesecloth to make up into something nice and summery.....

  • @alexbear751
    @alexbear751 Місяць тому

    Honestly, as someone who has experienced both kinds of dressing it is kinda shit trying to find things that are (temperature) cool as a guy, other than tank tops

    • @GrumpyOldCrone
      @GrumpyOldCrone  9 днів тому

      We need more interesting clothing choices, I feel. We've sent probes to the outer reaches of our star system. Surely we can come up with something more interesting to cover our bodies with....

  • @kinocrone7275
    @kinocrone7275 Місяць тому +1

    @7:40 If I could subscribe twice, I would

    • @GrumpyOldCrone
      @GrumpyOldCrone  Місяць тому +1

      You are precisely the right sort of person! Honestly, gatekeeping genitals is the weirdest thing. I HAVE ZERO TIME FOR IT! (and appreciate others who feel the same

  • @peridot1706
    @peridot1706 Місяць тому +1

    Firstly, I detest the whole "witchy anesthetic" thing, the notion is just glorified cosplay, *IMO*. 🤢 That said, and maybe this is one of those differences between the UK & US, but guys have had their "witchy aesthetic" for decades too. Maybe they're just lazy nowadays and it boils down to a Green man shirt? Both genders' aesthetic runs the gamut of what I generalize as "ooky-spooky" to "airy-fairy". You'll find both who dress like Renn Faire extras to gothic Hogwarts background staff complete with capes. There's the Stevie Nicks Wannabee look for women with matching guys' plastic shaman look for those on the hippy/faux gypsy kick.

    • @GrumpyOldCrone
      @GrumpyOldCrone  Місяць тому +1

      Glorifed cosplay! YES! You've put your finger on it exactly. I don't dress particularly "witchy" (shuddering at that word) because I don't need to advertise who or what I am. I know. I'm a witch whether I'm wearing jeans and a t-shirt or a flowy polyester dress that shouldn't be ANYWHERE near a ritual fire. I think there may be a US/UK divide on the bloke thing. Over here it really does seem to be jeans and t-shirt with a polyester cloak if lucky.

  • @alexbear751
    @alexbear751 Місяць тому +1

    Hugggs

  • @GSER44
    @GSER44 Місяць тому +1

    • @GrumpyOldCrone
      @GrumpyOldCrone  Місяць тому

      Thanks for stopping by!

    • @GSER44
      @GSER44 Місяць тому

      @@GrumpyOldCroneI look foward to it. did you catch up with Heilung ? I missed that too. LOVE Heilung

  • @tamsin6455
    @tamsin6455 29 днів тому +1

    Calm down Karen! How about people doing what brings them joy? No one's forcing to but these adult coloring books.

    • @GrumpyOldCrone
      @GrumpyOldCrone  9 днів тому +1

      Oy! I'm not a Karen! I 'm an Annie. I hereby demand all overwrought middle aged white women are renamed Annies! And I'm going to call the police if the internet doesn't do it! AAAARRGHGHGHGHGH!

  • @MischiefManaged255
    @MischiefManaged255 Місяць тому +1

    Not built for it? 😅😅 Sure you are. You’re just not used to it. That’s a big difference. A lot of the us population are of English descent. We survive and so would you. Give yourself some credit. 🫶

    • @GrumpyOldCrone
      @GrumpyOldCrone  Місяць тому +5

      But people in the US have heard of this mythical thing called "Air Conditioning" and have it in their houses! Honestly, in the summer English people just lie around like a wet lettuce complaining about the heat. In the winter we huddle together like penguins and complain about the cold. It's like a national pasttime: complaining about the weather.
      Ever want to have a long conversation with an English person? Talk about the weather in derogatory terms.