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Bridgerton inspired Pink Gown

I made this gown after season 2 but didn't actually take picture until now. its been hanging living room for a year. I love this fabric but sadly the store I got it from closed down soon after I bought it. I would love more of it.

the gloves didn't stay on long

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When I say “school should be disability accessible”, I don’t just mean we need handicap rails and EAs. Kids should be able to miss a day without failing out of school. You shouldn’t be dismissed from clubs because your attendance record is “spotty” (true story). I once missed an entire week of school because of a terrible, unending migraine. I was expected to keep up with my studies despite the blinding pain that came with working on my computer. When I heard my teachers say that you couldn’t miss exams, I asked what I would have to do to be excused from them. Their response? “Either get a doctor’s note an hour before the exam or death of an immediate family member.”

I cannot express how rigid this expectation was. First of all, with my condition, I wouldn’t have enough warning about my sickness to go to the doctor and request a note. For many people, this is exceptionally difficult, especially with the current shortage of medical professionals. Next, it ignores the fact that my schedule may not line with theirs because of my medical needs. Once, I had to visit a hospital a province away (which I was on the waiting list of for over a year) on the same day as an exam. I begged my mother not to take me because I was so nervous that I would be marked as an automatic fail. I was lucky enough to make it work, but that’s only because of my spectacular support system consisting of family members and wonderful doctors.

Disabilities aren’t always about needing a bus that can accommodate wheelchairs. It’s already difficult enough for many of us to maintain school attendance without the harsh punishments involved for skipping a day. We need to be able to miss school without being punished. Only than can you claim that the school is “accessible”

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Mantra by Domenico Di Genni

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Silk is so beautiful. Thank you worms

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Step one: Identify a musical theatre nerd. No, not you.

Step two: ask them how many minutes are in this year?

Step three: wait for them to take a deep breath.

Step four: remind them it’s a leap year.

Step five: watch as math and scansion collide head on.

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• Drop-waist dress.

Designer: Castle, Irene

Date: 1920

Medium: Silk, lace.

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editing is so fun. I'm learning what the story I wrote is about

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Okay no I need to talk about the book version of Howl's Moving Castle. I love the movie but the book has such a different vibe and you, yes you, should read it.

Movie Howl is a soulful and quiet. Book Howl is a drama queen and Causing Problems and has a long string of jilted exes and couldn't shut up if you paid him.

Sophie and Howl drive each other up the wall at the beginning and it's really funny. Sophie and Howl are (despite themselves) very much in love by the end and they still drive each other up the wall and it's even funnier.

In the movie, Howl has been ordered by the king to participate in The War, and Howl is avoiding it because he is a brave conscientious objector. In the book, Howl has been ordered by the king to rescue his lost brother from the Witch of the Wastes, and Howl is avoiding it by any means necessary because he is a cowardly weasel who wants to stay as far from the Witch as possible.

In the movie, the Witch cursed Sophie because she was jealous about Howl speaking to Sophie for five minutes. In the book, the Witch cursed Sophie because Sophie had been doing surprisingly powerful magic for years without knowing it and it was actually starting to cut into the Witch's plans. (Sophie does not discover any of this until nearly the end of the book, but the reader can start to pick it up much earlier and the way Sophie's magic works is pretty darn cool.)

In the movie, there's a rumor that Howl eats the hearts of maidens, but this is implied to be nothing but nasty fearmongering. In the book, there's a rumor that Howl eats the hearts of maidens because Howl started the rumor so people would stop asking him to do wizard junk all the time.

The book lightly parodies a couple of tropes from Western fairy tales. In particular Sophie has internalized that, as the eldest of three sisters, her "destiny" is to fail so that her younger sisters will look cooler when they succeed, which is why she's so resigned to the hat shop at the beginning. (Sidebar: Sophie's sisters come up much more in the book and they're great.) There's also a really funny bit where Sophie attempts to operate a pair of seven-league boots.

In the movie, the fourth and final location that the magic door connects to is some sort of black void / mindscape / time portal dealy. In the book the fourth location is Wales, in the UK, on Earth, so that Howl can visit his family, because from Howl's perspective this is an isekai story.

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Do arrows make good backup weapons?

I know it’s a little late for Ides of Marchposting, but my poor target did a good Caesar impression today!

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1916 c. Brother and sister photographed in Charlottesville, Virginia. From America in the 1910's, FB.

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ALL OF THESE REQUIRE GETTING OUT OF BED

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some oranges for thai of the dye variety <3

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Pour one out for a real one.

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Window wings, fragile panes

Shield me from the dark

Warm me with your spark

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Full resolution images and painting videos on Patreon

Part of my glass wings series

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we should globally ban the introduction of more powerful computer hardware for 10-20 years, not as an AI safety thing (though we could frame it as that), but to force programmers to optimize their shit better

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i learned about Marion Stokes, a Philadelphia woman who began taping whatever was on television in 1979 and didn’t stop until her death in 2012.. The 71,000 VHS and Betamax tapes she made are the most complete collection preserving this era of TV. They are being digitized by the Internet Archive. (x)

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The Sick or Injured Test

So yes, I have been thinking about this because of Reasons, those reasons being that I’m watching a lot of like, tiny house design videos while getting over the tail end of the flu, but it occurse to me that a lot of the awesome, clever, innovative, space saving designs I see would be utterly unusable when you, say, have the flu. I’ve been chronically ill my entire life, so it’s second nature to me to look at a space or situation and go “How will I manage this when I’m feeling like a pile of dog turds somebody heated up in the microwave?” But a lot of people don’t consider this kind of thing, and get blindsided when they’re sick. So I propose a simple test for the livability of a house design:

Can an otherwise able-bodied person get from the bed to the bathroom and back into bed again with a fever, concussion, broken bone, or other minor illness or injury that most people inevitably suffer at some point in time? If not, this living space has failed the Sick or Injured test.

The most common way to fail the Sick or Injured test involves putting stairs, or worse, a ladder, between the bed and bathroom. Loft beds fail by default, and are a blight.

A solid majority of my household is mobility impared, and my brother uses a wheelchair, so I am well aware this doesn’t cut it for a lot of people. But most disabled people are aware of what they need from a living space, and a lot of able-bodied people forget that they are walking around in flesh sacks that will sometimes fail on them, and that even if they are lucky enough to never become disabled, they will probably get the flu. So they should consider just what their living space will look like when they do.