#(yes it's from 2002)

[lipstickon-themirror]

hm, thinking about noel and liam with beards....they were quite attractive like that...if i do say so myself

[sacchiri]

Hellsing 2002 calendar illustration.

Ein wunderliche und erschröckliche Hystori von einem großen Wüttrich genant Dracole wayda Der do so ganz unkristenliche marrter hat angelegt die mensche, als mit spissen als auch die leut zu Tod geslyffen

A wondrous and frightening story about a great berserk called Dracula the voivode who inflicted such unchristian tortures such as with stakes and also dragged people to death

[strawberryteabunny]

Frederick’s 30 Days Day 6: Are there popular lolita things you tend to dislike for your own style?

So this might be really controversial but… petticoats ><

A) I travel a lot and I’m a lifestyle lolita; on average I’m out of town at least once a month. I also live in a big city and don’t own a car so I’m on the bus or train everywhere. Trying to pack a petticoat in a suitcase or on public transportation is REALLY annoying so I started skipping it and it turns out I find it a lot more comfortable without!

B) A lot of classic and oldschool styles are either very low or no petti in the first place (or have built in petticoats in the dresses)- so an OTT level cupcake petticoat doesn’t work for most of my coords anyway. I do wear a petticoat on occasion for dresses that look really flat without it…

C) … but tbh no one’s ever called me out on it or said my dresses/skirts look flat/bad. Maybe everyone’s just really nice and keeps this thought to themselves, but imo it’s not very distracting/bad looking and in photos it’s easy to hide if a dress isn’t poofy enough. Who knows, maybe I’ve been posted to cgl over it or would’ve been on BTB but I feel like people care less these days, especially other lifestylers or people who do more casual coords.

Oldschool/classic styles were often a lot more casual about wearing a petticoat or even a blouse- these are all pre-2003 iirc, from GLB’s via lolitahistory. The last one is an ad for Victorian Maiden- a summer coord with no blouse, petti, bloomers, or long socks! (Disclaimer that some of these coords may have petticoats but some clearly don’t, and it’s not always crystal clear which is which)

I’m not wearing a petticoat in any of these pictures (and I tried specifically to look for photos where I’m not holding my skirt out)- would you have been able to tell the difference if I hadn’t told you?

I do want to wear more underskirts though- a lot of dresses are short on me and I just like the added detail. Somewhere in my project bin is an underskirt that I’m hoping will provide a nice amount of length and volume for my dresses and will therefore double as a ‘pettiskirt’- adding some volume but not an overwhelming/uncomfortable amount of fabric. I’ve also been really into a VM underdress I bought recently that I’ve been wearing in my classic coords to lengthen/add some volume to my skirts.

I do want to add that I think a key part of the lolita fashion is the silhouette, which has a poofy knee-length skirt as the ‘platonic ideal’. Skipping a petti absolutely can lead to your coords looking bad and there’s definitely some dresses where I always wear a petti because they need one to look right. But just like longer skirts can still be lolita and are more common in gothic and classic lolita, I think lower volume can be a thing in oldschool or classic coords sometimes too.

On a much less controversial note, I’m also not a huge fan of KC’s and wristcuffs. I’ve really fallen in love with rectangle headdresses and KC’s are a lot more ‘sweet’ to me, so if I wear a head bow it’s usually on the back of the head not on the top. Wristcuffs- I’ve just never liked the feeling of something on my wrist! I don’t wear bracelets or watches either 🤷‍♀️

[penny-nichols]

Happy Pride Month to Will Powers. For no particular reason.

[detectiveposting]

i had to pause in awe of this frame

[sketchmre]

theyll get their own posts at some point but heres the concepts for the other horror magical girls

unnamed, fear of time/cycles (botany/mycology themes)

unnamed (erin or christine?), fear of gore (anatomy/omnipresence themes)

unnamed, fear of caverns/small spaces (spelunker/mineral themes, specifically minerals formed under high pressure)

jesse (legal name brittany), fear of bugs (overstimulation/hive themes)

unnamed, fear of darkness/blind spots (control/loss of identity themes)

(the casual outfits are redraws from 2001-2002 JCPenny/Sears clothing catalogues)

[mr-stottlemonk]

[triple-pupil]

The whole gang is here.

[clouds-of-wings]

Nasty IKEA won't let me buy the Swedish failbooks that they use as decoration (I asked) and I can't find the novel I want online. No one cares enough about that book to sell it used or to scan it for illegal download. Should have just stolen the book, there's no way they tagged them all. I don't think that would do real damage, there aren't enough Swedish speakers with criminal energy around here for it to make a difference and they probably buy those books in bulk or even get them free anyway. But what if they do tag them in some invisible microchip way and they catch me and ban me for life? Maybe I should go back and just sit in their cafeteria all day reading it and drinking their unlimited refill coffee.

[anghraine]

I honestly feel a lot better about having posted anything at AO3, even things I won't finish, and there's something that warms my heart about posting fic for The Borgias in 2024.

I was actually deciding between two different WIPs to represent that "phase" between my undergrad years and grad school. The other one was the prologue to a Legend of Korra/Star Wars fusion in which Noatak/Amon is Korra's father and this is revealed in S1 (I think it was going to be Tarrlok who figures it out first, lol) and it actually affects the plot and it isn't just the LOK canon plot with minor adjustments—the fusion with SW was meant to be more than vague I-am-your-father inspiration. In any case, I only ever wrote the prologue about the Noatak/Senna quasi-romance that led to Korra's existence and never even got to the sheer comedy of Korra as Tarrlok's niece :(

But the Juan and Lucrezia as dysfunctional twins one-shot is closer to being a whole fic (in a side-story way) and I did like being able to add one more to my Borgias oeuvre—and getting at least some part of that AU on AO3 after all the time I spent on it!

[highlifeboat]

So much change in 20 years I guess

[haledamage]

god, I know a show has really got me by the throat when I'm thinking about making music videos again

I haven't done that since Witchblade. in 2002.

what software do people even use to make fmvs anymore?

[scoticus]

I'm still working on this!

[mister-warmth]

On a good note I've gotten a new idea for a fic

[thebananwithaplan]

He was a skater boy,

She said, "See you later, boy"

He wasn't good enough for her...

Now he's a super star.

[justaholeinmysoul]

When it's Christmas you see this new wave of people hating on "love actually" not bc it's bad but because it's problematic and not fluffy and cute. It's called love actually because love, actually, is a little more complex than just wholesome? And than your brains. Also :"the movie is unrealistic! ! It's misogynistic and racist!!!" No, the characters in 2001 were not the movie oh my God Karen Ann why we gotta repeat the same shit over and over?