#older lady style

[buttercupsfrocks]

Greetings, tumblr. I warn you this isn't going to be much of a post for a whole raft of reasons:-

It's hotter than Satan's buttcrack outside and, consequently, inside my un-airconditioned first floor flat.

It's impossible for me to look soigné or remotely put together when I'm a sweaty, irritable mess.

There is a British Gas engineer currently boring holes in the outside walls of my flat with the aim of relocating my gas meter. The same thing is going on in my downstairs neighbours' flat. We have no say in this noisy, intrusive, cat-terrorising folderol. They've been threatening to do it for four years and we are literally the last house in the last street to be done. 'twas ever thus.

I had in fact written about two thirds of this original post and saved it as a draft. Tumblr since appears to have eaten that draft and washed it down with a nice Chianti. I have since lost the will to live.

My hair, as you can see, looked like crap when I took these pics.

The reason my hair looks like shite is because twelve days ago I had a cataract in my right eye removed and getting one's 'do done is not recommended for a couple of weeks after surgery.

Prior to surgery I had to take out my right contact lens and affect an eye-patch for a couple of weeks. I did not look piratical. Mainly because the size and positioning of my ears made the elastic intolerable after twenty minutes tops. Instead I had to make do with a Moorfields eyeshield stuffed with tissues and stuck to my face with Micropore. In 40ºC.

I'm hoping to get the left eye sorted late September/early October. A few weeks after that I'll find out whether I'll still need to wear contact lenses for distance and what prescription my new readers will be.

So, yeah, cataracts. Only partial but rubbish genetics on my paternal grandmother's side have resulted in those and an official diagnosis of Pathological Myopia along with a squint I didn't even know I had. The cataract/next-best-thing-to-blind double whammy has been causing me double vision and a blind spot in my right eye for years and the situation was becoming critical. I'd also experienced occular migraines during lockdown, though I think they were down to stress. But, in short, my eyesight was a shitshow and I'd gotten whiplash from the conflicting advice I've received by eye specialists the length and breadth of London. I'm relieved to say Moorfields cataract department got the last word. Thus far I'm optimistic. Three weeks ago I couldn't read the numbers on buses unless I was physically boarding one. Now I could probably see them from space.

But back to the main content of the post. Identically-cut Monki frock, gingham edition. Thus far they've offered this design in black, beige, light blue, orange, and lilac gingham. But there's a reason why the emerald green variation called to my heart.

Between the ages of 4 and 9 I attended a tiny private co-educational school. Admittedly this was many years ago but even then it was quaint and anachronistic. It was run by three sisters called Fowle and I had an elocution teacher who was older than God's dog and still wore long skirts and a bonnet. On Mondays we had to march, in single file, around the room we took dance classes in, in freshly whitened plimsoles to the strains of what later became the theme music to Monty Python's Flying Circus; this mysterious custom was known as Drill. We walked to the Headmistress's home for lunch every day, which was cooked by the kinder of her two sisters. That's how small the school was. It was also attended by kids of every conceivable nationality and ethnicity, and after it closed in the early 70s, the building subsequently became one of Erin Pizzey's shelters for women fleeing somestic violence.

As a sprog my summer school uniform featured a green gingham dress, which I always rather liked. But – get this – the size of the gingham squares increased proportionally with the age and height of the wearer. So, while my dresses had teeny tiny squares on them, the "seniors" had big ones on theirs. By the time I was of high school age and attending a different institution, sixth formers were no longer required to wear uniform, but as soon as I clocked this dress the exotic allure of achieving Big Green Square Status came rushing back and I knew I had to claim it.

Stay weird, tumblr. (And hydrated).

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

why aren't there more mysteries that take place in nursing homes & retirement communities. i want to watch a group of deranged retirees-cum-amateur-detectives combine their powers of:

decades of life experience

boredom-fueled busybody shamelessness

access to the most gossipy next-door-neighbors in existence

"I am too old to be arrested and/or give a shit" attitude

and solve crimes. this should be an enormous subgenre.

[pebblerosegamer]

them

[frenchfry99]

Yo turns ur cats into an old sappy punk rock couple!!

Iris and Forrest Petals!

Had those in my pocket for a while but didn't really know what to do with them,,, Saw @evillillad 's metal au and wanted to revive my sillies!! I love the ideas you come up with for this one!!

Lineup of Iris' band! Just a concept for now tho, might add one more member later! ❀

I feel like Poison Garden would be a more old-style hard rock/glam rock/glam metal band at first , but Daria as the youngest would bring more modern elements into their music. They love to experiment with genres so it's really welcomed!

Annie has been a close friend of Petals for a long while, knowing them almost since childhood, so she was all up for Iris's idea of creating a band

Oh to be two old punks raising your silly cats together 😔😔 (though they're not even that old, somewhere around early/mid 40s). Young and reckless in their past, Iris and Fozzy are now loving and supportive parents of two lil rascals. Old softies from your neighborhood who act like parent figures to pretty much anyone younger than them hueheh

I don't have quite much for Forrest now but he's definitely a certified malewife lol

Billy and Lilly are absolute lil gremlins in any au and in this one especially

[ni-kol-koru]

🤍 Dreamcatcher SuA - Alone In The City Photocard Redraw 🤍

[inkats]

wait ok i was sketchin out an expression sheet and then i started thinking. isnt this insane. 2018 -> 2020 -> 2022 -> just now.

like. wild to meee. he looks how i want him to look now... from when i drew him first to now,,,,,,, insane insane insane. i used to be so proud of that first drawing n look at me now....

[boghags]

I've nothing left, I gave you all

[muninnhuginn]

Xiao Li's Cheng Xiaoshi coding confirmed by the copious amounts of trauma he's being subject to

[victimized-martyr]

9 and 10 for the ask game? 👀

9. worst part of canon

bc of sp’s writing schedule many many episode storylines feel unrefined. there’s really great ideas and banger gags but sometimes the execution leaves me sayin “x y z could be wrapped up a lil tighter” but I know better than to say the solution to that is more time— bc trey is just as liable to let an idea overcook and premises overstay their welcome (streaming wars 😅)

10. worst part of fanon

i’m boutta make this post very dated but there’s a slew of antisemetic dogpiling from specific fans of style towards jewish kyman fans rn on twitter. so definitely the animosity between shippers that cross into reality is what I’ve always hated about fandom. this is coming from a ennea 1 but I hate how black and white morals are made out to be online, esp. in regards to shipping fictional characters of all things. ok, maybe if I gotta boil it down, it’s the lack of nuance and openness to communication. bc i’ve been mostly on the sidelines watchin stuff go down and i’m like y’all… learn to talk w/ ppl or learn to ignore. There’s gotta be more productive ways to spend all that energy, why focus so much on hate?

edit: my post-work mush brain realized too late that fanon ain’t the same as fandom, but since we’re going with the theme of black/white unawareness: How the nuance of the boys end up being stripped. I see that kyle ends up takin the most Ls what with him bein reduced to some form of a stereotype for the sake of ships whereas the other boys usually remain somewhat recognizable..

[centi-pedve]

tbh we don't have beef with the jelly art style or whatever visually. it's cute. we just wish the people who really like it could be honest about the fact that they're mostly just interested in drawing primarily young attractive people which is Fine instead of insisting "no no no the art style works for every type of person!! (:" while also turning around and going "full feminine lips long eyelashes and intensive softness are integral to the artstyle"

[buttercupsfrocks]

Yo, Tumblr! I have officially emerged from grading student work and, to celebrate, I wore this fantastic Collusion frock to my university's Summer Show. I won't lie; the moment it debuted on the ASOS website I hit that add-to-basket button faster than you can say YASS! It's one of two frocks I own that have kind of a Mølby vibe, (the other being the Twisted Wunder raspberry gingham dress with the huge collar I mentioned a couple of posts back). Only, you know, more affordable for those of us expecting the gas and lecky bill from hell.

I'm sure there's a way of tying perfect, well-behaved bows that lie flat somewhere on the internet. I really should consider looking for a tutorial.

As it's a maxi you can't see my feet in any of the photos but, just so as you know, I was wearing my trusty lilac Ecco sneakers.

As you might imagine, it's very good for twirling. And it also matches my living room colour scheme. (I don't think they've ever appeared in my blog, but the Roman blinds in this room are orange). Seriously though, it ticks so many boxes for me. You can dress it up with statement accessories for posh, or put on some thong sandals and take it on a trip to the seaside. It's made from that cool, floaty, muslin-y cotton that's a pig to iron mind.

It's a quick one tonight, so pardon me while I summon my familiar...

[legofemme]

Btw dressed semi-vintage by combining 70s-80s ish style tops w more modern style bottoms for the first time today in my ~lesbian gender journey~ and experienced gender euphoria for the first time. Went out and got genuine compliments from other people that didnt make me feel like a 'woman' and felt HOT for the first time. I felt actually attractive which. Was really nice

Anyway ive since convinced my moms to go with me to a vintage clothing show so i can get more stuff and talk to people who dress vintage on the regular :) theres something very freeing about dressing in the 'wrong' decade

[reinacrbers]

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[wisebutterflyshop]

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[britneyshakespeare]

i like how bernard hill and brian protheroe are the same age and yet when bernard hill plays the father of brian protheroe. mm idk i just believe it

[bam-monsterhospital]

i really lucked out without realizing it when i decided to be a stubborn shit and make my "fuck your lack of weapon variety i'll just kneecap myself forever and FORCE the game to let me punch everything" character an orc templar.

templars are so godddamn broken and i didn't realize the extent of it until i started paying attention to their skills.

you get like eight different effects just by existing.

i was like 'hmm i need to invest in some shielding skills but i can't find anything in the templar skills... oh........... oh god' realizing you don't need a dedicated magic armour button when all your skills do multiple things just by unlocking them.

i already never wanted to hear another complaint about dragonknights, but now i super duper never ever want to hear about it when templars get everything forever and more.