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the variation is kinda blowing my mind (each row is a particular vagina shown from different angles)

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therapist: cunt dracula is not real and cannot fuck you.

cunt dracula:

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I haven't seen dancing pumpkin guy ONCE this year, are you guys okay?

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here's a secret about actual Victorian gowns:

the interiors are usually messy as hell

raw edges on seams? finished with the absolute mimimum of work necessary to keep them from fraying into nonexistence. it's not going to touch the person's actual body, given the layers of corset-cover + corset + chemise/combinations in between, so it doesn't matter how it feels on bare skin. pinked and left raw? I've seen that, sure. whipstitched down to the bodice's structural flat-lining fabric? yep! I've seen VERY few bodices nicely lined so the innards don't show; that seems more common on capes, cloaks, and coats. you know, where the lining might end up being visible. because "will it be visible?" is the defining factor here

got a skirt you know will only be worn with an opaque overskirt? why bother making the whole thing out of that expensive silk? go ahead and make the covered part out of unbleached muslin- nobody will see it! (this was not universal, to be clear, but I have seen extant examples of the practice)

one of my museums has a Worth gown. couture! Parisian! guess how :) huge and gappy and messy :) the stitches holding the trim on look from the underside :)

undergarments and nightwear tend to have finished seams because they'll go next to the skin. they also tend to have visibly top-stitched machine hems, because the Hand-Sewn Hems rule only applied to garments that anyone outside the wearer's innermost circle would see. lingerie? machine-sew that hem! the poor underpaid piece-worker has a hundred more of these to make before her shift is over!

Victorians were the epitome of Work Smarter, Not Harder in their clothing, so don't feel like your recreations have to be perfectly finished unless it brings you joy to do it that way

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wore my thigh high boots on a walk today and we had to take a path through some long grass and while everyone else was rolling their pants into their socks and putting on jackets to protect themselves from ticks i was standing there smug as hell in my thigh high leather boots.

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Survivors of domestic abuse need no fault divorce. I had one to get out of my abusive marriage!

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I am begging people who think that Harris is a centrist to look up her Senate voting records.

Because this is where Kamala Harris fell according to her voting record in her last term as Senate

Compare that to where Hillary Clinton landed in her last Senate term

Or even Bernie Sanders (note: the metrics of anything like this are subjective enough that I’m not using this to argue that Harris is more leftist than Sanders just because she falls slightly to the left on this chart. But it *is* notable that both she and Sanders are outliers to the left).

Now I’m telling you this because it’s probably not gonna be emphasized in her campaign. They’re probably not going to tout her extremely liberal voting record in the big general speeches, because they have to win the swing voters (the ones who voted for Trump in 2016 and Biden in 2020) in order to win the election. That is campaign politics unfortunately.

But that doesn’t make the record go away and it doesn’t take away the fact that she is in fact a left-leaning candidate. She’s not a centrist. And the idea that we could let someone with this progressive of a voting record slip through our fingers and we get Trump instead because she’s “too centrist” is mind-boggling.

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GO AWAY IM HAVING A MOMENT ABOUT YOU RIGHT NOW

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So what does it take to get an honorary degree? 😔🤞

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@unwanted-dandelion-seeds

(about this guy)

a kiln god is a small clay sculptural creature that stays on/in/near a kiln while it’s firing, to watch over the pottery inside and protect it

mine are all vaguely humanoid and holding pottery, but they can be anything

a lot of people leave their kiln gods unglazed, and only ever make one or two. because I work with a shared kiln, my kiln gods have to be inside the kiln so they don’t get bumped or broken, so it makes more sense to glaze them and keep making more

(^this one I kept, she lives on my pottery desk)

people have lots of little traditions around kilns and pottery. there are so many variables to successfully finishing a piece of pottery, and many of the steps are out of our control. it’s nice to have a kiln god watching over our work

if you take a pottery class, your teacher might mention the kiln gods. for some potters/studios they’re more of a concept than anything physical

what can I say, humans just love to make little guys

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Quick shoutout to everyone whose disability directly conflicts with their passion.

People who love light and color and photography but have extremely sensitive eyes. People who love food but have digestive disorders and intolerances. People who would play every instrument they could get their hands on but lack dexterity and muscle strength to play. People who can’t make themselves focus long enough to study the field they want to be in. People who want to paint and draw and sculpt but can’t coordinate their hands well enough, or cramp up every time they hold a brush/pencil/tool. People across all passions who face a massive barrier to learning because following a set of instructions is difficult when they don’t feel specific enough.

There’s nothing more frustrating than knowing you’d be good at something and that it’s not your fault you can’t prove it. Especially in a world that seems to only recognize top level picture perfect talent at all times. Your passion isn’t negated by not being able to follow it, and neither is your potential. You’re not lazy. Do what you can and fuck ‘em if they think it’s not good enough.

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