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Parrying Dagger Italian, ca. 1550–75

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When Sleeve Meets Sleeve....

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Ozzy, the acorn weevil Malayan Flying Fox, via

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ⓘ You can Bite your Friends.

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its Josephine's birthday, everyone say happy birthday Josie. she is twenty six years old now, woooo

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i think elias would love to gather everyone else's ocs who have had their eyes messed up via different neathbow colors and do studies on color perceptions and how the color affects their memories

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I finally finished my Victorian Wrapper Dress!

The pattern is the Misses' Wrapper Summer 1893, from Authentic Victorian Fashion Patterns, edited by Kristina Harris. My gosh was it a doozy to follow! The pattern itself had very little instruction, so I had to search for more information elsewhere (which i will link if i remember where because i printed stuff).

I used some bedsheets, nonstretch 100% cotton, and made about 3 or so mockups and still found issues upon making the final version

Noted Issues:

It says to draft based on bust. if you have a large bust but not broad shoulders, only extend the should piece over by half of what you extend the bust by

Locks of tricky placement i needed to think quite a bit about

Should have added buttons on the wrists

Had to figure out the.math for my own ruffles (i did a 2 times multiplaction since i worked with a thin fabric)

i needed to axpand the armhole, and thus the sleeves. Do Not expand the poof part, expand the under part of the arm scye, that's where you need the space.

I may add a button closure on the front as well since it gapes a bit

being just over 5 foot, i did not need to add any height to the dress. at all.

to bind my arm scye i used bias tape!

Overall though? I really enjoyed making this, it took me roughly a month and a half to hand-sew, and i enjoyed myself incredibly!!!!

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I haven’t been able to write much recently because of exams, but good lord, Dr. Laurence Frost is such a guy. Like, his situation is horrific, right. He’s living a psychological horror story but does not recognize that whatsoever. There’s some real shit going on with him because I really want to capture how cults actually work, especially on the ways they prey on vulnerable people - and despite him objectively being a pretty terrible person in his own right I wanna make sure I capture the nuances of his situation accurately.

However, and this is really important: he’s also fucking hilarious.

Imagine having resting bitchface so severe even the dawn machine leaves you the definition of -_- <- having a great time. He invented a genuinely impressive treatment for migraine headaches out of love & devotion and then immediately used that same formula to torture rebels. Despite being an utter shell of grief at the time he was still a decent guardian to Bev. He let Bev play with matches. And chemicals. He’s the only man on this Geode with a smidge of self awareness. His gift for Vincent’s stag party was cosmogone laced cocaine. Vincent chose him to be the godfather of his child. His closest direct inspiration is the fucking 300% fatality surgery guy. He works two jobs. Canonically he has no friends. I love him.

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happy thursday! guess what time it is! it's time for me to think really hard about the sacristan again

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Can I say something embarrassing? Will you promise not to get mad at me?

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writing historical fiction will make you google things like “when we’re towels invented?” “how much did a towel cost in American in 1885?” “historical average number of towels owned per household”

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we should be getting iced coffee and going to creepy and musty antique stores together why must we be separated by our screens…

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It's close enough to May yeah? which means it's May May, and also MerMay? :-)

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This big ole guy took me a good while to finish! the character he has in his hands is @thedeafprophet 's OC Jamie Awnings. I really wanted to draw an absolutely massive Mer, and the Manager was the perfect fit!

His body and the 'scale' part of his tail are both done in Prismacolor, as is Jamie. His fins and the background are sone in Pen Inks used as watercolors.

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rb and tell prev if they’re predator or prey coded

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"corsets are a barbaric painful tool of the patriarchy" says the era with sitting down pants and waist trainers and push up bras and brazilian butt lifts and preventative botox and full coverage foundation and no makeup makeup and full body waxing and and and and