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Thinking about cutting organic lines, floriography as a code for lgbtq+ people of the past, and the color purple.

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I'm trying to ease back into social media because I haven't yet figured out why it makes me so incredibly anxious (everyone is so nice!) Here is a drawing of a very bad haircut I couldn't stop staring at while at work the other day. . . #postit #drawing #ballpointpen #haircut #portrait #drawingfromlife #lifeisstrange (at Kansas City, Missouri) https://www.instagram.com/p/Coif52ZJUBQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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So many pornbots

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I had to photograph the best opposum I've ever drawn. Unfortunately, he didnt fit the composition so he got erased.

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Gay Pirate Dressing Gown Project, Part 2

An update:

The left panel + extra panel for the asymmetrical closure, the right is one half of the back. In addition to these is a strip for the collar that attaches from the end of the diagonal cut on the extra panel, and wraps around all the way to the bottom of the opposite front piece. If that makes sense.

Like this:

Since I only have enough fancy velvet fabric to try this once, I sacrificed a microfiber sheet set I hate to test things out.

LOOK AT THE DRAPE:

(Yes, I could've cropped this. No, I didn't feel like it)

THE FRONT AIN'T BAD NEITHER:

THIS IS EXACTLY THE SHAPE I WANTED!

I'm so happy with the pattern, but still terrified of fucking up the very nice fabric. I'm also pretty shocked that some extremely cheap, microfiber sheets draped this nicely - or at all, if I'm honest.

Yet to be done:

Figure out the sleeve situation. Big ol' cuffs? Tassles? Might end up being dependent on how much fabric I have.

Where do closures go, exactly. What closures should I use? Frogs? Fabric covered buttons? Loops of silk? Ties? All of the above?

Lining the inside with silk - how? How do linings even work? More research necessary.

Luckily, I've got a coat with a fucked up lining to repair (that I've been avoiding for literally years) and a simple pattern for a reversible poncho that might help me be more confident in my next steps. And even if they don't, oh nooooooo now I have a non-fucked-up-coat lining and a giant reversible poncho.

The most productive thing I've done in the last few months is wearing the rough draft around the house. Wearing it is helping me decide what needs to change (collar width, length by an inch or so, angling the shoulders down slightly in the pattern), where closures might go (I've got it narrowed down to a couple of options. Might end up going with both so I have a wafty, boobs-out attachment for warm weather as well as a bundled up option) and sleeves (????????). I've only stabbed myself with my temporary-closure/safety-pins several times.

But the most pressing question of all: WHEN THE FUCK AM I GOING TO FIND TIME TO DO THIS? Would this be a reasonable use of vacation time?

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Me in my free time vs me at my job

# me having to remind myself straight people exist

WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS | Pine Barrens (4.07)

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Gay Pirate Dressing Gown Project

In a moment of weakness I indulged in the gay pirate velvet fabric and the hottest of hot pink silk.

I've got it rolled up protectively and have literally been sleeping with it next to my pillow. Mostly because the cat is a little too interested in it and I'm not leaving it vulnerable to her late night shenanigans.

A couple of years ago in a fit of boredom I sewed myself a drape-y, flow-y, extremely-loosely-kimono-inspired robe out of an old duvet cover. I didn't use a pattern as I was a) making it up as I went and b) trying to use the fabric as efficiently as possible. I had to leave it behind when I moved and, unexpectedly, missed wafting around in a queen duvet amount of fabric.

So, while I enjoy the costumes on the show I'm going in a stylistically different direction. My pinterest board for this project is mainly stuff like this:

Thanks for my hunt to figure out what those horizontal drapes on the back could possibly be called (cocoon!) I have discovered the designer Poiret. He was definitely appropriating styles from the middle east and east asia, but also developed quintessentially 1920s garments. At least according to this beautiful art book I checked out from the library:

It turns out a lot of this is cleverly draped single lengths of velvet - which won't work at all with the patterned fabric unless I want birds who don't give a shit about gravity. Which I don't.

But I do want this cocoon shape. Very badly. And a fainting couch.

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I miss this bookshop. One time I had to wait ages to purchase because the sole employee (only room enough for one at a time in there anyway) was trying to gently persuade a bee to leave with common sense arguments. It didn't work but none of us minded.

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His expressions are so fun! I keep starting an episode to find a another face to draw, then I just watch it instead. Oh no!

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But also...

A is for Angel 

from a rare 1870′s juvenile ‘Sunday Alphabet’

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Weather's getting warmer.

Thanks, Pats!

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Something I need to remind myself of when I get stuck in the weeds on my graphic novel. I'm constantly stuck in the weeds, but every little bit, right?

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I ordered the fabric (and spent a good chunk of change on it) but it won't arrive for a while yet.

For now, I'm drawing up some rough plans for my future of despondantly wafting about my apartment in melodramatic decadence. Adding the ability to hitch up the hem in a drape-y way is important for me, as a short person.

Anybody have a good tassle guy?

the red floral robe (gay) | OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH

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Promise to myself: if people get mad at me over the stories i choose to comic I'll make comics about them getting mad and how silly they are.

I already feel better!

My cartoon for yesterday’s @gdnsaturday #upset #relations https://www.instagram.com/p/CcuysJ4sT5C/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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go off, king… david jenkins casually killing me with every new interview | OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH

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our flag means death + onion headlines (part 1)