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counterpoint to that poll: what was your favorite assigned reading in high school??

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May Sarton, from Recovering: A Journal

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Not kidding that if someone made my wanted poster look this ugly I’m blowing your city up too!! Like this poster is really giving:

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I don't really believe that she still has that many teeth. She literally lost one during the fight against sevika and she's been picking fights in prison for years. I call bullshit.

Arcane Newswatch - Day 1022: New Official Vi Poster

A new poster featuring Vi has been shared on social media. It can be found here:

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There are 55 days until November 1st

This has been Arcane Newswatch

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I swear to the gods, I will never cut anything ever again, without measuring the hem fit.

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(person who hasn’t watched supernatural in a while) god i miss having a personality

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Arcane Newswatch - Day 1018: New Official Jinx Poster Released & Trailer Release Date Confirmed

A new poster featuring Jinx has been posted by Riot/Fortiche. Additionally, the post on social media confirms that the next trailer will be released on September 5th, at 5 AM Pacific time.

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There are 59 days until November 1st and 46 hours until the new trailer

This has been Arcane Newswatch

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Flowers - Ithaka series - 40“x19” - 101 x 48cm - 2023

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Wait. Is that Andie's dad from Pretty in Pink? How did he start in Alien and end up in a teen romance? (not that I'm complaining, I really like his character)

Right.

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PSA to all historical fiction/fantasy writers:

A SEAMSTRESS, in a historical sense, is someone whose job is sewing. Just sewing. The main skill involved here is going to be putting the needle into an out of the fabric. They’re usually considered unskilled workers, because everyone can sew, right? (Note: yes, just about everyone could sew historically. And I mean everyone.) They’re usually going to be making either clothes that aren’t fitted (like shirts or shifts or petticoats) or things more along the lines of linens (bedsheets, handkerchiefs, napkins, ect.). Now, a decent number of people would make these things at home, especially in more rural areas, since they don’t take a ton of practice, but they’re also often available ready-made so it’s not an uncommon job. Nowadays it just means someone whose job is to sew things in general, but this was not the case historically. Calling a dressmaker a seamstress would be like asking a portrait painter to paint your house

A DRESSMAKER (or mantua maker before the early 1800s) makes clothing though the skill of draping (which is when you don’t use as many patterns and more drape the fabric over the person’s body to fit it and pin from there (although they did start using more patterns in the early 19th century). They’re usually going to work exclusively for women, since menswear is rarely made through this method (could be different in a fantasy world though). Sometimes you also see them called “gown makers”, especially if they were men (like tailors advertising that that could do both. Mantua-maker was a very feminized term, like seamstress. You wouldn’t really call a man that historically). This is a pretty new trade; it only really sprung up in the later 1600s, when the mantua dress came into fashion (hence the name).

TAILORS make clothing by using the method of patterning: they take measurements and use those measurements to draw out a 2D pattern that is then sewed up into the 3D item of clothing (unlike the dressmakers, who drape the item as a 3D piece of clothing originally). They usually did menswear, but also plenty of pieces of womenswear, especially things made similarly to menswear: riding habits, overcoats, the like. Before the dressmaking trade split off (for very interesting reason I suggest looking into. Basically new fashion required new methods that tailors thought were beneath them), tailors made everyone’s clothes. And also it was not uncommon for them to alter clothes (dressmakers did this too). Staymakers are a sort of subsect of tailors that made corsets or stays (which are made with tailoring methods but most of the time in urban areas a staymaker could find enough work so just do stays, although most tailors could and would make them).

Tailors and dressmakers are both skilled workers. Those aren’t skills that most people could do at home. Fitted things like dresses and jackets and things would probably be made professionally and for the wearer even by the working class (with some exceptions of course). Making all clothes at home didn’t really become a thing until the mid Victorian era.

And then of course there are other trades that involve the skill of sewing, such as millinery (not just hats, historically they did all kinds of women’s accessories), trimming for hatmaking (putting on the hat and and binding and things), glovemaking (self explanatory) and such.

TLDR: seamstress, dressmaker, and tailor are three very different jobs with different skills and levels of prestige. Don’t use them interchangeably and for the love of all that is holy please don’t call someone a seamstress when they’re a dressmaker

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Your blog's title is now your villain origin story, wyd?

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I'm also really territorial about my kitchen and always have to stir the pot if other people are cooking in it.

I'm curious. Reblog this if you know how to cook

I don’t even care if it’s macaroni, ramen or those little bowls you stick in the microwave. Please, I need reassurance that most of the population on tumblr WOULDN’T STARVE TO DEATH if their parents couldn’t fix them food or they couldn’t go out to eat. 

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The weirdest guy I ever met in a church was this boy who referred to “Buzz Aldrin and his husband” going to the moon. I was completely baffled, and when I asked if he’d misspoken, he got really angry and accused me of being deliberately ignorant of the facts. It turned out that he was somehow comvinced that Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong were married. It took five Wikipedia articles to convince him otherwise.

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(synthetic) whalebone: perspectives on sustainability in past and present stay-making

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her doing a jazz album would fix me i would have nothing more in life to ask for