#broke woke bespoke

[leverage-ot3]

broke: leverage’s pairings are nate & sophie and parker & hardison. eliot is like parker and hardison’s pseudo older brother

woke: leverage's pairings are nate & sophie and parker & hardison and eliot is pining for both of them but it will never happen

bespoke: parker, hardison, and eliot are in love. eliot pines for years before parker and hardison are like he's not going to make a move on his own and start their 'let's go steal an eliot' plan. hijinks ensue. they end up getting married

[bugsarmour]

broke: Shayne and Courtney

woke: Chosen and Brianna Boho

bespoke: whatever the fuck this is

[elderscrollsconceptart]

Broke:

Ulfric is an agent of the Thalmor. He was set up to sow dissent in the empire and weaken it from within

Woke:

Ulfric was an agent of the Thalmor but only out of necessity due to lack of any institutional support for his grievances against the empire.

Bespoke:

The Thalmor are agents of the Stormcloaks. They threaten the empire military and force it to direct its forces south so the only significant Imperial forces in Skyrim are auxiliary. Ulfric could never face the full legions of the empire but with the renewed Thalmor threat from the south, Ulfric is poised to capture full military control of Skyrim.

[sewlastcentury]

saw yet another costuber trip all over themselves to not ‘mess up’ the corsets vs stays terminology and this is my contribution to that debate @marzipanandminutiae

to explain, if anyone’s getting confused: conical 18thc ‘stays’ and hourglass 19thc ‘corsets’* are often conflated and people get mad about this. in reality, the terminology was SUPER loose and depending on what language you spoke, where you lived in each country, how attuned to fashion you were, etc. you might call your foundation garment ‘stays’ even in the late 19thc, or you might call it a ‘corset’ in the 18thc. They both mean the same thing. ultimately it’s just a timeframe thing with the terminology and tbh unless you are a publishing fashion historian i do not care if you call marie antoinette’s undergarment a corset because you’re technically still right <3

yes, most experts use these words with the specific meanings of ‘19thc undergarment made in an hourglass shape, often with a metal separating busk’ and ‘18thc undergarment in a conical shape boned with reed or baleen’ etc etc but the moral of the story here is that it’s okay to not remember which is which and correctness depends on the circumstance anyway. don’t be too hard on people for messing them up.

part of the problem linguistically is that the boning itself was referred to as ‘stays’, so you get ‘corset stays’ etc etc through the 19thc as well. it’s basically impossible to mark a precise point at which the changeover from the word ‘stays’ to the word ‘corset’ occurred, and that’s because there was no one point - and even when the youth ™ started to adopt ‘corset’, their elders continued calling them ‘stays’.

Ladies’ Home Journal, August 1893, everyone.

*yes not all corsets were hourglassy in the 19thc, this is a broad generalization

[greentrickster]

Broke: feeling trapped and miserable in my own bad memories of times I wasn't _________ enough to protect myself

Woke: remembering how much I've grown as a person since then, and how much better I am about handling such situations now

Bespoke: manifesting my current older, wiser, stronger self in those memories when they show up, getting myself between that confused, scared kid and whoever's being mean to them, protecting that kid, and freaking winning that argument, because I am my own hero

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(For real, somehow that third one's so much more comforting and satisfying than just thinking about ways I could have won the argument or made myself clearer or what-have-you; possibly because it's a combination of triumphing over an adversary while also protecting the part of me that's still younger and hurting, highly recommended.)

[sunder-the-gold]

Broke, Woke, Bespoke Christianity

MAD: "Everyone is a sinner except me."

SAD: "I will never be anything more than a sinner."

GLAD: "I am a sinner in all but the eyes of my God. I accepted his covering for my shame, and he refuses to remember my mistakes ever again. Including the ones I haven't yet made."

[roosterbox]

Broke: Arthur has no imagination.

Woke: Arthur actually has a ton of imagination. Eames just said he didn’t so Cobb would have an excuse to bring him (Eames) on board for the Inception plan.

Bespoke: Cobb knew all along. He just went with it because he’s tired of them dancing around each other.

[jevilowo]

Broke: Ralsei is eevil so eeevil

Woke: there are no villains in the utdr universe (except the player if they so choose), Ralsei is most likely just up to something/morally grey

Bespoke: Ralsei is a Monika ddlc kinnie

[the-unlucky-trevor]

Broke: S'mores

Woke: Schmoes

BESPOKE: Moomin sandwiches

[nostalgia-tblr]

[ophilosoraptoro]

Broke: Superman is the story of alien living on Earth, the last of his kind.

Woke: Superman is the story of an immigrant from another world.

Bespoke: Superman is an isekai.

[blazingstar29]

broke: iceman's dad is a dickish navy admiral

woke: iceman's dad pushed him into the navy to live vicariously through his son who could be better in active duty than he ever was

bespoke: iceman's dad wants his son to be successful in a way he never could in the navy, to see him ascend to higher commands but also a successful pilot in his own right because he genuinely thinks ice has the potential but due to generations of toxic masculinity and poor fathers is unable to express these thoughts, thus perpetuating toxic masculinity and projecting his own father's cold shoulder and harsh expectations onto his son

[superbeans89]

Broke: M8

Woke: M80

Bespoke:

[kyliafanfiction]

Broke: The Night before Christmas

Woke: The Nightmare before Christmas

Bespoke: The existential anxiety that you cannot place or identify that keeps you from being able to sleep before Christmas

[cryptidscorvidsandcoffee]

Broke: Crows are gross because they eat trash

Woke: crows eat trash because their natural habitats have been turned into the city and they do what they need to live

BESPOKE: crows eat chicken nuggets because they are true l’y a more intelligent life form than most

[diggersbug]

Writing on the Internet

Broke : writing with perfect US English to show that you too can assimilate with other Americans despite having never set foot there before.

Woke : writing with mistakes that only natives do to throw off you're FBI agent and make them think that your just another American buddy living in the American state of Mount Anna or whatever, with a perfectly American lifestyle.

Bespoken : wRitInG LikE THis tO MeSS wiTH eVerYOne.