#{ in need of a seamstress ;; }

[pespillo]

its ok sweet, ill mend you up

[screentunes]

🕸🧵

[cartoonybus]

various young bobbis and his parents

(their names are ramona and rubén)

[pynkhues]

I'm sorry if this comes off as rude but why would you make Madeleine be a prostitute in your story when she could just be a seamstress as she actually is?

(x)

Ah, you're okay, anon. I had actually thought about that earlier in plotting, but changed my mind on it, and that's ultimately for a few reasons:

I write in closed-POV, which means that whoever I'm writing doesn't really get the chance to interact with other characters outside of their individual experiences. The result of that when creating an AU is if there are characters I want to write into bigger roles, they have to be able to interact with the POV-character on a regular basis.

This fic's going to be alternating closed-POV between Louis and Lestat (so chapter 1 will be Louis, chapter 2 will be Lestat, chapter 3 will be Louis, chapter 4 will be Lestat, etc.) so I need the characters I want to write more to be able to transition between Louis and Lestat's respective storyworlds, which is a bit of a challenge because Louis might run what's effectively an escort service, and Lestat might be a sex worker, but Lestat doesn't work for Louis.

I want Madeleine (and Claudia) to be at these society events and to try and seize power where they can, but ultimately still be on the backfoot due to social standing. If Madeleine's a seamstress, she'll be completely cut out from major parts of the story, and less likely to be transitioning between storyworlds / less useful to the plot in the way that I want her to be.

I want to explore Louis' relationship with Madeleine in a way that reflects the complexity of their power dynamic, and while I could kind of do that with her as a seamstress, I think there are more interesting things to explore for me creatively if she works for him, and that there's a neat thread there to tug in terms of her there as someone beneath him who he doesn't truly know falling in love with someone he cares for as a daughter.

I'm also curious to explore a Lestat-Madeleine dynamic, and having them on a relatively equal footing as high-end sex workers in the Parisian aristocratic social court just seems really fun to me?

Also always here for the unhinged parallels between Louis-Claudia-Lestat-Madeleine in every flavour!!

And look, I call it the courtesan au, but that's just a fancy way of saying it's a sex worker AU, which it is. A few of the characters are going to be sex workers.

[falloutsgraygarden]

Took a sec, but Graygarden has started going up 🌸✨

[docholligay]

I don't know why the repro scene in the UK is so good, but man is it annoying that some of the very very most accurate reproduction vintage would cost me like 50 goddamn dollars in shipping and also would be royal mail so who knows if it would show.

And it's all "straight across." It's 90% straight-up, reproduction of shit that was made from the 1940s to the 1960s. Love that. Most of what we have in the US is a very twee, "pinup" take on the style. There is nothing wrong on god's green and verdant earth with wearing a fit and flare swing dress with a fuckin Fraggle Rock print, but that is not how I want to live my life. I want to look like I could have stepped onto the street in 1954 or some shit. (With some minor styling differences, I'm not a purist by any means, I'm just not into being CUTESY. I'm playing it straight.) And in the US, we just do NOT have the wide variety of options for that--we have shit like Modcloth, Unique Vintage, etc. Which in addition to being cheaply made, mostly, is all that twee stuff, or all fucking black.

I do not mind spending money on my clothes! The secret to my 'success' is I buy very few items of clothing a year and I spend MONEY on them. At this stage in my life, I am looking to refine my wardrobe, not build it. I am swapping out less nice pieces for better ones. But JESUS, does it make me choke to save up 90 bucks and then have 50 bucks in shipping on top of it.

And yeah, you actually can find the stuff I'm looking for at clothiers who do not specialize in reproduction. I got my Kitty Hepburn style pants and vest from Banana fucking Republic, really nice, thick 80% wool blend. Exactly what I wanted. But the trouble is *I* know the words I am looking for, but especially resellers DO NOT. I know what a dolman sleeve blouse is, but does Chaz in Boca Raton selling a silk blend top that I DO WANT? No! Not often!

And GOD, every time I look on ebay and see how AMAZINGLY CHEAP the resale market is on this stuff in the UK, I SCREAM. You are all so fucking spoiled cry cry cry.

[bloodyarn]

❝ I obtained the craziest piece of literature just yesterday. It's a decent read, can I join the book club  ? ❞

[nanalineni]

The worn versus styled trend on TikTok is so funny tbh. Tell me you don't understand that different silhouettes exist and that an outfit can look good without a thousand accessories but you're just thin so you never thought about it.

[laufeysons]

i thrifted an iron man shirt and i sowed it to the back of an old red flannel

[naomiknight-17]

Oh, no big, just crossing over the widest highway in the damn country on foot nbd

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

Was going to wear my folklore cardigan with my outfit this morning because it would have been cute with it only to put my arm right through a hole in the armpit seam 🙃

[maidenofcrows]

What? A writing struggles post? Absolutely

I was trying to look up whether unmarried women in the ancient world did anything to cover their hair and the information wasn’t super conclusive?? Married women certainly did and unmarried women sometimes did depending on a number of things like social status, geography, unspecified religious practices, weather. Unmarried women in Sparta apparently left their hair uncovered, but how do we know that?? Very little is actually known about Sparta and what we have is written from other places and therefore full of bias. It also did not state whether this would have been pre- or post- militaristic Sparta.

Dangerously close to just saying yes to the head coverings because it’s still just fanfiction but I’m also trying to be respectful

[rockthistowninsideout]

I'm becoming one of those people who are staring adoringly at fabric options online, thinking about recreating a dress that is hundreds of miles out of my capability of replicating. Help.

[projectgoblin]

I was so excited about my quilt and was having my husband help me take a picture holding it, when he pointed out a “glaring” mistake. I’m so glad he did but I am laughing at myself for not seeing it.

The bottom row of blocks got added to the top of the quilt instead of the bottom. 🤦🏻‍♀️

[nemofil]

quest for a father figure part 1

didn't mean to lineart and get attached to this idea but okay. okay. what if they met. being cringe on main fuck it we ball

[itzphynix]

I really hate art advice that treats itself as universal. Yes, using less sketchy lines CAN improve your skills. But you do not need to give up sketchy lines forever, because they are useful in certain situations -- like, for instance, sketchwork where you need to draw a subject very quickly. They can also just gel better with certain artists, tbh.

I am doing what works for me. You are probably doing what works for you, & every artist who swears by never erasing & only using continuous lines is doing what works for them. They are assuming that what works for them & makes their art good will, of course, work for everyone else -- but they don't know that, & they don't know you. You know you.

No advice is universal. Do not fall into the smoothness trap. Yes, do branch out on occasion -- but, mostly, do what works best for you.