#rl with v

[velvet-midnight]

I need to be witnessed and I look so good, so let's have some commotion for the dresses I didn't pick but really loved

Starting off with my GIRL, the one I want to run through a field of wildflowers in. Look at her! Such a close race, because we're planning a handfasting and some other nontrad options and that modern-medieval silhouette coulda been good. She's such a gorgeous gal but not quite right for the plan. (Stella York)

In a similar vibe, this one feels very Juliet to me (it's the corset-esque waistline). Forsooth, if this was a big to-do and my whole acting company was coming and we were doing Bits throughout the reception, this would be the one. (Also Stella York, I believe)

The first one I ever laid eyes on - which has the detailing I want, but is so young and princessy - and as my mother said, princess is sweet but that's for a younger me. The queen I am now deserves more. (Mori Lee, I believe)

And of course - some commotion for the shop with the winning dress.

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I really didn't think this would be as good of an experience as it has been. I was fully prepared (by a lifetime of shopping as a curvy gal) to spend hours sobbing in my car.

I also didn't expect to like this process like this.

But I know what I like and what I don't, now. And I am actually stronger in myself and my decisions, now.

And we get to make this ritual about and for us.

[vv-ispy]

Based off that one Twelfth Night promo image. You know. That one.

[rose-anon15]

Pov you give in and start drawing ship art

[fruityindividual]

hello sash :~) what are ur top 5 songs to listen to on a crisp n sunny day??

hi rae!! v good question, had to do 10 ((:

• then she appeared - xtc

• mykonos - fleet foxes

• oh my love (acoustic) - the lathums

• the blues are still blue - belle and sebastian

• sunshine baby - the japanese house

• strawberry swing - coldplay

• summer - lewis mclaughlin

• seabird - alessi brothers

• octopus' garden - the beatles

• no more virgos - cmat

[hirak0s]

Shinji Hirako's Hairstyle

Klub Outside Q&A:

Q781. 平子隊長の髪の毛は、現世へ追放されてから一護に会うまでの間、どのタイミングで短くなったのですか？

A781. 現世で洋服が流行る流れで服に合うようにあの長さになってます

Q781. When did Captain Hirako cut his hair short between being exiled to the Human World and meeting Ichigo?

A781. It was cut to that length to match the clothes that were in fashion in the Human World at the time.

Assuming that he didn't update his wardrobe:

Bear with me, I'm scatterbrained!

(Citing Wikipedia is trash, I know.)

Mod, from the word modernist, is a subculture that began in late 1950s London and spread throughout Great Britain, eventually influencing fashions and trends in other countries.

Elements of the mod subculture include fashion (often tailor-made suits), music (including soul, rhythm and blues and ska, but mainly jazz).

The original mod scene was associated with amphetamine-fuelled all-night jazz dancing at clubs.

Ok for real though... Bro's done drugs.

What time period modern Japan was.

If we go off the Mod culture that did end up in Japan in the late 70s... then Shinji's news boy hat would be 80s in Japan.

So we're often seeing Shinji in 60s - 70s - 80s style clothes and colors.

However! If I recall in a Nation Squid video that the 90s and early 00s was a fashion repeat of the 60s! Japan also had this trend, this was not just a US dealy!

Anyway. He's wearing clothes from the 60s in the early 00s, so he could be copying the 60s style as the early 00s would have done, since the 90s would have blended into the 00s til 03ish. Or he actually wore the 60s style... since... the actual 60s.

This man smells like a second hand store.

Shinji's hairstyle is also from the 70s the Dutch boy hair cut. Long bowl cuts also exist, the haircut is straight cut.

Shinji's hair is ah... well, this also leans into the headcanon that his ass is part Dutch... lol.

Probably when he used his newsboy cap which also had a resurgence in the 90's!

Remember Jazz? They might have had record players in the Seireitei 110 years ago but he'd have to wait til the 50's/60's for Jazz to catch on in Japan!! Even then!! They had to go to clubs because importing records was expensive!

“When a girl with black hair has a bob cut, it reminds me of a kappa. I don’t like it at all.” (male, 26)

Hiyori:

ハイハイハイハイ やかましいオカッパは 無視しまーーす!!

What Hiyori says that's translated to Kappa-lookin: オカッパ (okappa)

Okappa's a hairstyle in Japan usually for women but also young boys. This wasn't really a hair cut for men.

He's reminding me of a Kokeshi doll which was popular in the 70s as well and post WWII! And they also have some with Okappa hairstyles.

IDK if I've yapped enough, but yeah, I think he cut his hair in the 70s at some point. Probably because of Beatlemania. Y'know... counter stroke, counter-culture.

When did mine cut his hair? He didn't! He still has long hair compared to his canon counterpart! This is where my Shinji is very canon divergent.

[rosapexa]

Sometimes the weirdest and most unlikely people can become best friends.

[candycryptids]

New picture for my pinned + also I finished updating the character links, hopefully xD (It's about time I replaced Chuu + Cash with Me + Cash since I made a self-insert LOL)

[justvanessah]

OK, I have been either left out of the group chat OR the group chat needs reviving because I've been trying to get back into that calm headspace and failing miserably. How’s your meditation game lately? Still finding your zen or letting chaos win? @cupofjoes

[velvet-midnight]

I just learned two unfortunate facts about my community theater actor crush that I had somehow overlooked: he is nearly 60 and also a Gemini

[jetblackknight]

// s. so the ne. new sl**p. t*k*n album. s. so.

[kyuhu]

Anyway I had the best and most surreal moment by meeting a super sweet Liet and Nyo!R.ussia cosplayer today who recognized my keychain shfgshdaj 😭

[muraenide]

At the time of writing this, I'm very sleepy, but consider this a "Joan's late night thought" post (It's around 11pm where I'm at).

As my rping career gets more mature I've realized I started to care less about basic stuff like being "ooc" or focused on follower counts or blog aesthetics or trying to get along with everyone's muses on tumblr bc that's nigh impossible. I'm so lazy my theme/rules/graphics are the bare minimum or 90% are copy-pasted from my other blogs or recycled.

Instead, what's more important to me now is *how* I write my replies/threads. Have I cramped too much information in one reply and have made it difficult for rp partners to make their next reply focus on one single direction? Do I leave enough information in one reply to allow my rp partners to continue the thread based on it? Have I picked the best word choices that suit my muse? (Particularly for Jade, he always uses polite forms of every word. So he rarely swears, but here's the fun part. There are ways to make him cuss and still appear faithful to the canon character, but that's EXACTLY a writer's job to make that work even if he never swore on screen to reference from). If we've plotted, did my reply push the plot forward or was it just beating around the bush? Did 10 paragraphs of writing successfully convey what I wanted to show/tell the reader or were they just ramblings that only had a vague meaning of the message I wanted to bring -

I feel that shifting my priority to these concerns rather than the other aspects of rp has made writing really enjoyable for me again (that I haven't felt in years bc I was too caught up with restricting my muse since I tend to have a preference to really stick to the source material, 99% of the times I only write canons, the other "phase" was being too focus on making the writing pretty, but using the right words which doesn't always have to be difficult is far more important than pretty writing) but I can't believe it took me this long to realize that this is not what rp is about.

[stromuprisahat]

Ten years after the victory, and he was dodging between chunks of marble and granite as he wove his way to the Academy. Sometimes Coriolanus wondered if the debris had been left there to remind the citizens of what they had endured. People had short memories. They needed to navigate the rubble, peel off the grubby ration coupons, and witness the Hunger Games to keep the war fresh in their minds. Forgetting could lead to complacency, and then they’d all be back at square one.

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (Suzanne Collins)

I love how this book nicely shows that even with all the correct assumptions, you can get to completely different conclusions. That instead of openness, the horrors of war can lead to more cruelty.

[phagodyke]

another morning another free bus journey..

[daegorth]

TAYLOR!!!!!!!! I LOVE YOU MY BABY!!!!!

and a Messi assist❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[faillen]

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