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[starcurtain]

Everyone on Twitter playfully dragging Aventurine for his crop top and track pants fit, and while I agree that this is hilarious and should be meme'd into oblivion, I also can't help but think that the Aventurine fandom as a whole should definitely embrace turning "He's kind of tacky, wouldn't know a subtle outfit unless it was picked by Jade, and wears bizarrely out-of-touch fits on his days off just because he personally thinks they look cool" into an endearing fanon character trait.

Because like, canonically? It makes perfect sense.

As a child, his family didn't have the luxury of giving him a wide variety of clothes in different styles or fabrics. He wore what he could get. Then, we're only ever shown adult Kakavasha wearing rags until joining the IPC.

We know from his character stories that he was kept extremely out of the loop on world news and mainstream media as a slave and literally wouldn't know anything about clothing other than seeing it on other people.

From the time he was a child, wearing whatever his family could pull together, to the time he became an adult prisoner wearing literal scraps, there was never a need or even reasonable opportunity for him to learn about fashion or the social pressures of "dressing to fit in."

The first thing he's told to do as a member of the Stonehearts is "Go pick out new clothes," and the next time we see him, he's wearing the most peacock-esque outfit possible. When Jade told him to pick out his clothes, he literally went in completely blind with no lessons on how to appropriately dress for any adult occasion at all.

While I do think that one of the first things Aventurine would have done as a new Stoneheart is research how to establish a certain "character" for himself and how to dress to give a specific impression, I also think that Aventurine would delight in finally, finally having the power to present himself exactly as he chooses--and that would likely be very strongly informed by an entire child- and young-adulthood growing up without a single social pressure to "dress normal."

Given that he never had someone to teach him how to dress in any modern intergalactic style in his formative years, I think that it makes perfect sense for his "fashion" sense to be extremely unique to him, with little outside influence except for being strongly based on what he knows best: the luxuries the Avgin people could gather from the deserts of Sigonia-IV.

Ratio accuses him of being "flashy," but Aventurine likely loads up all his personally-picked outfits with turquoise jewels, fur trim, and gold metal accents because that's what he grew up perceiving as status symbols and signs of prosperity. Of course he's flashy! Why would he not want to wear furs and jewels now that he has them?! What do you mean wearing six gold bangles is overkill with a t-shirt? No such thing as overkill, come on!

Topaz dropping the Star Rail equivalent of "You look like what would happen if Fashion Week was themed on the yakuza and the Roaring 20s at the exact same time" every other month.

"Well, I think it looks great!"

tl;dr: Aventurine can definitely do his research and blend his outfits into any scenario if needed, but when left to his own devices, he absolutely wears the most over-the-top and/or bizarrely unmodern and "I couldn't care less what is currently trending" fits because no one ever taught him fashion sense when he was growing up, he's finally got the autonomy to dress himself in whatever he thinks looks best, and he's still a little bit drunk on the opportunity to bath in the natural luxuries he longed for but could never have as a child.

Just sayin'.

[canisalbus]

Machete injuring his ankle and being horrified when the doctor says he can't wear his heels until his ankle has mended

[gods-favorite-autistic]

Arthur Aguefort stop hiring the worst staff possible challenge

[pokemondescribed]

[image description: the Seinfeld 'you're crying from Home Alone?' meme, edited to say, "you're crying from Pokemon Concierge?" / "The escapism got to me."]

[scuderiakarts]

Certain sections of F1 media literally can’t breathe without denigrating Susie Wolff. When she got appointed managing director of F1A - it’s because of Toto. When F1A has success - it’s because she’s married to Toto and he’s influenced the other teams. When Toto is accused of something unethical - “did you know his wife works with the FIA?” [even though she’s not involved in this at all and is not accused of having leaked information]

Susie Wolff is a racing driver in her own right. She’s been a successful Team Principal in Formula E, and CEO of a racing team (one that was in direct competition with Mercedes might I add). She was a Formula 1 development driver and the first woman to drive in a Grand Prix weekend for more than 20 years.

She has a career that she’s earned on her own, completely separate from who she chose to marry, and the reduction of her to just “Toto’s wife” - including by other F1 Team Principals - is such blatant, ugly sexism.

“Imagine if Geri Horner was working in F2?” If Geri Horner had Susie’s resume I would love for her to be working in motorsports because we need more women in motorsports at all levels, including at the top?

[the-weird-otaku]

This was too good to stay on twitter. Leaked aitsf3 footage.

Credits:

Model - me, Spike Chunsoft

Motion - JohnyL, IllFonic

Song: California Gurls - Katy Perry

Effects: WorkingFloorX FluidScreen PostHemming FXAA

[sparemintss]

holy crap my big brain figured out Havers' war timeline all because the Captain mentioned the 1st Royal Tank Regiment. [Tangent Incoming]

Havers' medals, specifically for his military campaigns, are the Africa Star, Italy Star, and the France & Germany Star.

The 1st RTR was first involved in North Africa since the beginning. We know Havers went there until the end. The 1st RTR then went to Italy later into the Italian campaign on September 1943. However, the 1st RTR left in 1944 for D-Day. After D-Day, the 1st RTR joined the Allies in Germany for the final year of the war. This was how Havers gained the France & Germany Star.

Havers staying with this regiment literally tracks with his military achievement like o h my god. And, you can in fact get a medal for a brief posting at a campaign, just as long you've contributed on the operation for a day, you are qualified for a medal.

[martyrbat]

the batman's grave #2

[ID: Batman slammed against a wall that has multiple photos of him taped to it. All of his limbs are spread out, which brings focus to his prominent bulge. The person he's fighting is looking at him from the foreground and says, “So lonely.” (for a context that's unrelated to Batman's bulge). END ID]

[damistrolls]

behold, captain strisc terlot, aka... the solution

[ruvviks]

Of course Aubrey had heard of the Council before. I mean– who hadn’t? They didn’t necessarily rule the streets, or Night City’s underworld for that matter, but they sure as hell loved to rub their asses all over it at any given opportunity and never in his years of being a fixer himself had he felt the need to associate himself with any of them. He understood why it was necessary, sure– the agreements they made and the city-wide gang activity they monitored and reported to one another were a vital part of ensuring business stability as well as their own survival– but he knew the biz well enough to not trust the feigned kindness and so-called sense of community they supposedly aimed for. Everyone always had their own agenda. None of it was simply out of the kindness of their hearts, to ensure the safety of the innocent citizens of Night City– it would be naive of him to think so and by then he knew better than to let wishful thinking cloud his judgment.

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[sneakydraws]

today i bring you another installment of real housewives of st. petersburg. tomorrow? who knows

[asocial-skye]

nothing is funnier to me than anti-anakin fans who posit him as this great, inhumane thing that derives pleasure in murder and drinking the blood of the dead children he cut up. vader's evil is like the blandest shit in existence, and he's a lot more scarier in that view.

[tardis--dreams]

There's been interesting developments at work and i need to do a lot of work for university so i think tonight is the Perfect time to finish beyond evil

[rexscanonwife]

Naw but the way Charles literally has a spidey sense when somethings wrong with the boys 😭🙏💖💖

[gumnut-logic]

The design stage of making something involves swearing, wasting materials, possible yelling, and the occasional projectile that may once have been the design project in question.

Today has been a design day. I may have had to put the damned thing down and walk away after having started three times only to have to return to the drawing board for the fourth time (literally, I have to redesign the beading pattern completely because it wouldn’t fit around the kumihimo) ::headdesk::

But once I have the pattern, I can just make it again and again.

First the pattern ::growls at the beads on my beading mat::

I have also timed my braiding - it takes an hour non-stop to braid enough kumihimo for a bracelet (while walking around my backyard getting something resembling exercise at the same time).

Nutty

(This is the closest I get to engineering…and yes, I’m wearing my red flannel shirt cos I can 😁💚)

[dashiellqvverty]

town i recently moved to has a library job opening (says its full time but theyre only open like 30 hours a week so im not sure what the work hours are..... still would be more than i get now) and like i could literally WALK to this job and its a better library than the one im at (more resources, cooler programs and stuff, an actual children's room in an actually accessible building) BUT the role would be a step down from what im doing now, like right now im pretty involved, i do storytimes and im gonna be running some programs during summer reading and i make lots of flyers and have input in the materials we purchase........ and i love being able to do all that and even if i couldnt do ALL of it i'd at least want to move to a job where i work with kids and/or have the opportunity to be involved in programming (like... doing a pokemon or dnd or writing group or something). this one has "some children's room circulation shifts" and idk im just... i have so many frustrations with this job (not enough hours, can't stand how my boss runs the place) but i wouldnt want to leave if it didn't feel like the Right Job bc there's so much i love