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Hello! Love your writing (you portray the academic world SO WELL). I’ve been thinking about the Delft blue inspired dress Inej wears in Served Me Well and I wanna draw it. Are there any references or general silhouettes you were envisioning when you wrote the piece? I always love your world building and attention to historical details so I’d love to do it justice :)

Thank you so much; this is so flattering! I’m so glad you like the fic!

I didn’t have any references with regard specifically to the Delftware idea, only with regard to the cut and materials. The thing about almost all the dresses in Served Me Well is that they’re supposed to be makeovers of older dresses of Marya’s, so I think it started out as something like this silk taffeta dress from the 1860s:

Remaking it to be more in line with the fashion of 20 years later means removing the little puffy sleeves and reshaping the neckline. For that, the principal reference I had in mind was a seated portrait. I was looking particularly at the bodice, and the very wide sash:

Obviously there are differences; the color of course, and I always delete the bustle, but also the materials — half the skirt panels here look like gauze or net, which would probably tend to fold under the heavier panels when the wearer stands up, resulting in a much narrower silhouette.

I also simplified the sleeve/shoulder into something more like this:

Anyway, if that is way too much detail to be helpful I am very sorry, and you should feel free to ignore me in favor of your own imagination! I am flattered regardless!

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I’m hosting my schools prom tonight so I can’t read anything until 11pm or later 😭😭😭😭😭😭

I am very sorry but you will be making sure some stressed teens get a nice time (or at least not the worse time they would have had without you) and that is important!

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Publish or Perish

(E; 10/11; cw: suicide, past child abuse)

Chapter 10: Rollins, Pekka. Productive Discipline, Industrious Children. Maroch Glen Press, 1994.

From a distance he’s a dark silhouette, the collar of his long winter coat turned up against the cold, and the falling snow frosting the downturned brim of his hat. As she gets close she can see the shadows under his eyes, and yes, he looks bad, really bad, but he looks good too. Inej is wearing a knit hat her mother bought from an aunty in the employment office and a puffer coat that doesn’t really puff anymore. Kaz wears sleek black leather gloves, and the lines of his face are cut hard and clean against the cold day as he looks out over the canal. She feels absurd, walking up beside him. She wants to fold herself inside the coat and rest her cheek against his chest.

And that’s what hurts the most, isn’t it? That there’s still something there, some possibility, that she wants so badly it’s like a wound in her gut.

“You asked for my help.”

He doesn’t turn to look at her. “I did.”

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So what if I added another chapter to my fic. So what.

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wheel of time humble bundle. you agree. reblog

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Download this easy DIY clothing repair guide (only 10 pages) from Uni of Kentucky

link to PDF

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ok this thread on bluesky about "what's the worst sermon you've ever heard" is INCREDIBLE THROUGHOUT

but also there's a clear winner:

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[...] Why are you not appeased? That is how meat loves meat.

ig: d.ill.usion

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Reddit Gay Reactionary: subscribed to r/stevencrowder and r/femboys

Twitter Gay Reactionary: Hitler youth who follow Iggy azelia

Tumblr Gay Reactionary: kahanist disability activist

Facebook Gay Reactionary: Your uncle after 1 beer.

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Im sorry but it is so funny how people outside of tumblr view us. Like why are the tiktokers treating tumblr like some professional ass website you need to do extensive prep before you begin posting on. And the follower farming advice is so fucking funny to me when this is the website where people actively hate getting new followers

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now comes the long blue cold by Mary Oliver

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okay but if you ever see a male creative who had a string of great work and then everything else he did was dogshit, go to the "personal life" part of his wikipedia and look at his relationships. you'll either find a major tragedy he didn't recover from (completely understandable) or, more likely, there was a woman in his life doing uncredited shit editing his stuff or contributing generally and she's not there anymore.

I told a friend about this phenomenon in literature and he called me weeks later like, I remembered what you said about women doing uncredited work when tim burton came up. he made a string of bangers then everything else just was nowhere near as good. the timeline matches perfectly to when he was with this german visual artist (lena gieseke). he's done some good work in collaboration, but if things were dug into I suspect we would find she did a lot more than people realise.

so yeah whenever you look around like wow women didn't work in history, or, women aren't auteurs, or, there just aren't as many great female writers - societal reasons for that aside, half the time they absolutely did.

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adhd will get you thinking "i should make this doctors appointment" every day for 7 months and counting

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i have a disease called "obsessed with hands" and it's called horny. and it's terminal

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Struggling what with the gaping maw of horror in several locations of the world I guess

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Ballet, like opera, is wonderful because it is monstrous, the hyper-development of skills nobody needs, a twisting of human bodies and souls into impossible positions, the purchase of light with blood.

Irina Dumitrescu, "Swan, Late: The unexpected joys of adult beginner ballet."

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