Just realized that Jonathan probably wrote an honest goodbye to Mina in that letter that was burned, since he couldn’t in the one the Count supervised 😭 And then had to watch it burn to ashes 😭😭
#that piece of paper was absolutely tearstained <- prev tags. Hey. #<- prev
I have to know, did your opinion on Gerard change or are you still holding him accountable for that one guy who died
okay so Gerard's backstory IS compelling and his MCR goth aesthetic IS cool and his defiance of his mother IS clutch and his partnering with Gertrude to stop the apocalypse(s) IS pretty metal
but he DID get my man Alf the Plumber (no-line background character in some random Leitner statement) killed and look. If Alf the Plumber has a million fans, I am one of them. If Alf the Plumber has one fan, that is me. If Alf the Plumber has 0 fans, I have died. Much like Alf the Plumber in that one statement where Gerard got him killed so what I'm saying is
He's only like the 1,384th random background TMA character to die in an episode but I have decided for no reason that Alf is the hill I'm going to die on he did NOT deserve to be Leitner'd to death and Gerard caused it we simply cannot overlook this. Justice for my man Alf the Plumber.
WE AT PHANTOMROSE96 DOT TUMBLR DOT COM HAVE NO REASON TO BELIEVE THAT GERARD WAY OF MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE FAME HAS EVER, NOR WILL EVER, PARTICIPATE IN PLUMBER-HOMICIDE. TO OUR KNOWLEDGE ALL PLUMBERS, ALF OR OTHERWISE, ARE PERFECTLY SAFE IN THE VICINITY OF MR. WAY AND THE REST OF THE MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE BAND MEMBERS.
MR. GERARD WAY SHOULD NOT BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE ACTIONS OF MR. GERARD KEAY, FICTIONAL CHARACTER FROM THE HIT 2016-2021 HORROR PODCAST THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES, WHOSE PHYSICAL RESEMBLENCE TO MR. WAY IS LIKELY AN HOMAGE TO THE MCR ICON AND NOT AN ACCUSATION OF PLUMBER-ICIDE.
can you blame a mime for wanting to check if the patrician’s opinion on The Art has changed over the past decade? he did allow the movable type even though it was previously banned, after all.
the latest episode of are you scared featured a mime who was up to some supernatural shenanigans and the first thing that popped in my head was that this kind of bullshit would not fly in ankh-morpork. and then this happened.
They say science fiction never really predicts the future, and yet Captain Picard says “tea, earl grey, hot” in that meticulous way observed only in someone with a slightly unusual accent who’s finally figured out the exact cadence and phrasing their voice activated smart-whatever actually understands and suspects if they allow their tone to vary even one iota it’s going to interpret their drink order as a request for a live ocelot.
Chainmail for rabbits in iron, sterling silver, jute fabric, and canvas fabric. One of my master's theses has since also been shown at the National Museum's exhibition "Konceptdesign".
everyone is so overjoyed with 'corsets weren't REALLY oppressive' or 'big hoop skirts and panniers weren't REALLY clumsy at all' feminism because oppressive to them means 'a man literally told you to wear one at the threat of beating you up and you couldn't even breathe in one' and not 'beauty standards and control over the way the body and the gender are modified to fit a mold are a very complicated societal pressure that is reinforced on several levels of culture and inside several groups of society and the expectation of eg. wearing a tight corset to support your heavy bustles and hems absolutely is still a pressuring expectation for a victorian woman even if it is "a feminine fashion that women chose because it gave them freedom as a presentable member of high society" or whatever just as a full face of makeup is now even though no one is literally coming to your house every morning with a baseball bat and telling you to contour or else'
like im so tired of tumblr & youtube & twitter & everywhere always countering a stupid misbelief with another entirely opposite but equally flat cold take with zero nuance.
YES you can do farm chores in a skirt NO peasant women in the 18th century DID NOT wear expensive lead make-ups and two-metre pannier skirts to be freed from their husbands' and local priests' and lords' control BECAUSE extremely 'feminine' fashions like that CAN be and ARE restrictive, clumsy, expensive and excessive as hell in some situations because they're not made to be practical but to fit an unattainable beauty ideal in as practical a way as possible. YES noblewomen of the time exercised more freedom in some areas of educational, political, influential power and certainly weren't forced to do their own labour but NO the understructures of their skirts were NOT some big rebellion against the patriarchy that gave them complete freedom of their finances and relationships forever even if some men hated the way they looked because they just hated women in general.
like no lie for example most finnish romani women - at least those in cities instead of the countryside - still to this day wear what's essentially an 18th century bum roll skirt with yards upon yards of fabric over it and absolutely for real the gorgeous velvets - as culturally and personally significant as they are - ALSO are literally heavy enough to give you back pains before you get used to wearing one and once you choose the traditional dress it is heavily frowned upon inside the community to give it up. YES it gives a woman a status boost in the community because it's the sign of a mature woman and that's worth more than a girl BUT it also puts you into the role of an adult woman in a more socially established way and absolutely is a tradition based on modesty and strict gender roles. every year around the romani national day and in EVERY interview it is always a point of debate whether or not a mother would tell their own daughter to wear the traditional dress or not and recently most of the answers seem to veer 'no' because it IS restrictive SOCIALLY as well as physically even though it is also a proud cultural expression and a stepping stone on the way to a different societal position. it is not 'oppressive' because A Man is literally tying you to your chair it's a gendered pressure that reflects the culture in several ways from physical feeling and bodily movement to visual hierarchical significance and cultural expectations. YES the dresses are gorgeous and valuable and bring joy to those who want to wear them and they're a strong sign of belonging to the culture so much that even a white finn / gorja wife may choose to start wearing one if they marry into the culture, and once you've lived years of your life in such dress you learn to move with it naturally enough that you can play with your children and now back pains result from NOT wearing one daily. but they're ALSO very restrictive NOT ONLY PHYSICALLY but SOCIALLY for those women in the in-group who'd rather not fit the pre-established expected role of an adult woman that the dress also symbolizes.
like idk can you people sometimes please rec a reviewed book on the topic you're excited about instead of cutting all the corners with every single topic just to make a snazzy post i'm SO TIRED.
i love trans women btw you're the best this post is literally not about anything but the simplified girlbossification of historical fashion i hate that this website is so infested with no-life weirdo terfs who think hating on women is feminism that it has to be said separately but it is said now.
#as always thank you for bringing the nuance!!! #i reblog those Corsets Arent Evil things bc i hate the myths about them but youre absolutely right that fashion and attire mean something #societally
On the one hand I understand the importance of engaging critically with the text etc but also. My toxic trait is that I think it's unceasingly funny when people are like "uhh guys 😳 this 100+ year old book is kinda problematic" like... Yes ❤ just think about the words you're reading + the historical context they were written in and you'll be fine I prommy
I'm still obsessed with when tumblr gayboys decided we have to match wlw saying sapphic so they landed on achillean and then Achilles got cancelled so they changed it to vincean. This website is too much. Promise me you won't do this again ok can you promise you won't try to cancel dracula when you start noticing it's from the 1890s
Often folktales and fairy stories can be quite brutal and serve as warnings not to mess with the fae. This story, set in Humshaugh, near Hexham in Northumberland, England, is very simple and rather charming. It’s the story of a ploughman who, one day in summer, heard the sound of the fairies churning their fairy butter. He knew not to pry, so he didn’t stop to listen for too long or try to see them, so he continued with his work. However, as he returned to the spot with his plough he heard a tiny voice saying, “Alack a-day, what shall I do? I’ve broken my churn staff”. He called back, “Leave it out for me to fix!” then walked away, knowing they wouldn’t come out with it whilst he was standing there. When he came back, there waiting for him was the broken churn which he immediately set about fixing. He left it, and once again returned to his ploughing, and when he returned for the final time he found the churn was gone and, in its place, a pile of fairy bread and fairy butter was left in thanks.
[Source: Fairy folk celebrating around a plough by Charles Altamont Doyle, Folk Tales of the North Country by F. Grice]
Rewatching Fellowship of the Ring and I had. Forgotten how much I enjoy Arwen’s expanded role?? And the way she interacts with Aragorn? “I’m the faster rider… I do not fear them.” She knows her skills and trusts them, and he trusts her abilities and courage and never acts as if he can stop her going or would even try to, but he’s so worried, too.
And Arwen just scoops up this goddamn hobbit she’s never met and rides off with him in the teeth of the Ringwraiths, and then she raises a bloody river to wash them all to kingdom come. Luthien “Never Met Anything I Wouldn’t Sing Directly To Hell, Including The Lord Of Hell” Tinuviel would be so proud. Elrond “This Is My House And I Have Rules About Snakes And Dismemberment*” Peredhel probably would be too, if he weren’t currently chewing his fingernails off, in a lordly and calm kind of way.
I am not even going to get into “What’s this? A Ranger caught off his guard?” because someone is having far too much fun, Arwen.
*this is actually a The Mummy quote, property of Rick O’Connell, but to be honest, I can imagine no better encapsulation of Elrond. He suffers so much and turns his power and learning into the Last Homely House. He takes his pain and turns it into kindness. He makes a refuge for people who have nowhere else to go, who need safe harbour, and since I have no doubt that many of these people (especially the elves) fight like cats in a sack, yes, he probably needs rules about snakes and dismemberment.
#yes!! #it made so much more sense than glorfindel because we dont have time to talk about glorfindel in the movie #and it gave us a better look at her dynamic with Aragorn
Unlike ocean mermaids who have plenty of room to grow their hair, freshwater mermaids prefer shorter styles similar to humans; because of their close proximity to the surface, “freshies” may also be seen wearing hats to block out sunlight and peek out from the water like alligators.
Additionally, due to their small size in even smaller environments like lakes and rivers, freshwater mermaids prefer human speech for communication over the whale-like humming used by their ocean relatives to speak.
Abyssal mermaid, humming: [Hello cousin…!]
River mermaid, tipping their seashell cowboy hat: HOWDY
I grew up with a grandma who quilted, but she’d never been interested in passing along the hobby, so when she finally kicked it I was the grandkid who got all her materials, ‘cause I was the only one who knew how to use a sewing machine. Then, in 2015, a friend had a baby and I figured I’d make her a quilt, ‘cause how hard could it be?
oh
my
god
Luckily I am the stubbornest human alive, ‘cause I never woulda finished otherwise. I didn’t know what I was doing, didn’t know the terms to look up how to do anything, I musta reinvented the wheel like eight times and it took ten months, BUT I DID IT.
Figured I’d suffered enough and would never do it again and now I’m on quilt #9 smdh
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I’m hyperventilating.
Holy shit. Holy SHIT.
This is INCREDIBLE.
Oh my god.
I’ve gotta go lay down holy shit look at this how do we just walk by other human beings every day and live our separate lives when there’s a person sitting next to you on the train or in line for coffee who goes home and makes things like this what even IS being human holy shit.
Oh heck I did not expect the notes to blow up on this, UM
Okay so on a purely technical level, this is not that difficult, you just gotta come at it a little sideways.
The background of this sucker is just rows of 1.5″-wide fabric strips. I can’t remember the exact pattern, but I wanna say it was something like one row 6″ strips, one row 4.5″ strips, one row alternating? I don’t remember exactly, it was a while ago. That’s not difficult, you just lay it out and sew it all together one row at a time. It’s not hard, just tedious.
The fish are a lil different. I can’t draw, there is a disconnect somewhere and my hands are stupid, so I figured out probably fifteen years ago that tracing was the way to go. For this, I legit just yanked several photos of fancy-looking goldfish off the internet and traced over ‘em in Photoshop.
Once I had enough, I printed my outlines, laid ‘em out on the background to create the idea of movement, and then traced the outlines out on fabric and pinned the hell out of ‘em.
This woulda been WAY easier with Heat ‘N Bond, but I didn’t know that was a thing at the time. From there I just used just about every fancy stitch on my inherited sewing machine to make the fish STAY WHERE I PUT THEM, and also look good.
I have since learned this is called “raw edge applique” but whatever. It’s fun, it’s neat, you can do it with a bunch of stuff and impress the hell outta people. More recently, it’s how I’ve gone from this:
to this:
(this was another project I SUFFERED over unnecessarily, because I’m the dip that decided to quilt the waves, like a moron)
god that sucked but it looked SO COOL when I was done!
@awheckery that is absolutely mindbogglingly gorgeous work *___* Also clearly you subscribe to Go Big or Go Home (and cry about stitchery) You are such a Stitch Witch, amazing <3
Aw man, that is the most hilariously accurate assessment of my life; in my fam, if you don’t Go Big, did you even try? I am constitutionally incapable of half-assing anything, which is why the goldfish quilt is also, um. a chenille quilt.
The back is plushy as hell and looks like this:
If you look at the front again, you notice those diagonal lines don’t go through the fish, and yet cross the entire back. Please don’t ask me how I did that. It made me so sad and used so much thread, there’s at least a mile of thread in this quilt, but bY GOD IT’S SURVIVED FOUR YEARS WITH AN EXUBERANT TODDLER AND IT’S STILL IN ONE PIECE
as the friend with the exuberant toddler who has the honor of having not just this quilt but the matching pillows in her home, i wanna chime in and say that this is
EVEN MORE GORGEOUS AND LOVELY IN PERSON.
AND IT’S WASHABLE
awheckery is too modest to mention it, but the quilt is loaded up with real specific meaning – I’m Chinese-American, and there are eight goldfish on the quilt and a ninth on an accompanying pillow. Nine is a homophone in Chinese for “always”, “gold” is a metonym for wealth and prosperity, and “fish” is a homophone for the word for abundance, so putting nine goldfish on something for a new baby is a lovely Chinese way to wish them good luck and abundant prosperity in life.
And the pillow shown above is symbolic, too! You’ll notice that the two ships up top. My family is ethnically Han Chinese from Hong Kong, so awheckery put a distinctive Chinese ship up there, and my husband is Norwegian, so that’s a Norwegian schooner. And then the three whales underneath are me, the husband, and our wee little whale.
Please note that I did not know ANY OF THIS WAS COMING. They just FIGURED THIS OUT ON THEIR OWN and by polling friends in our shared fandom, and one day the quilt with the blanket showed up at my house, and I screamed so loud that my husband came running. And then we got the pillows a little bit later, and I may have screamed again. awheckery is one of the most talented humans I have ever had the pleasure of knowing or meeting.
I’ve told OP that if my house is ever on fire, I’m grabbing the kid and the quilt in that order. The husband can go find our wedding photos.
This post increases my faith in humanity this is so creative and the last explanation of making it specially with a meaning for their friend makes it 10000 better
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