#fasteners used

[eelshrimp]

old doodle 4 fun 🦉💜💚💋💋💋🦚

[greasypigeonart]

Spent the last 2 months working hard on something cool for a convention I hit every year :)

[laurasimonsdaughter]

"These magnet clothes are expensive."

"I know, it's a pain. But they'll make your full moons so much easier, trust me."

"But none of these are even fun."

"Look, sweetie, it's very new accessibility clothing. They're working on it, alright? This is mostly being marketed towards adult humans still."

"This is stupid. I'm getting along fine with stretchy pants and snaps."

"It won't be long before you'll start getting full transformations. A little stretch won't be enough when you stop being bipedal. And snaps are better than buttons and zippers, but they're very difficult with claws."

"Heidi's clothes have velcro."

"If you want to spend every waxing moon cleaning your own fur out of every single patch of velcro on your clothes, knock yourself our, honey."

"...do they at least have something in black?"

"If they don't I'll dye them for you."

[majouartings]

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[bougiebutchbitch]

insane sidenote tangent, but i need us to explore buggy's daddy issues via judgemental check ins with the alive second dad of the roger pirates. rayleigh and buggy monthly denden calls where buggy's life choices get endlessly judged and dissected "from a good place" only for buggy to hit back with rayleigh's fuck ups. its tense and it's toxic but also they love each other so much, that's his dad and sometimes the convos are good too. croc and mihawk know they are about to be sucked dry after every bad call tho, cause buggy has something to prove ("it's not a phase rayleigh this is who i really am, i don't need shanks next to me to be a great pirate")

oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my GOsH yes oh my GOd khfdklsfgksfdghjsdgkdsfg SOMEBOdY WRITE THIS FIC IMMEDIATELY PLEASE I NEED IT HOOKED UP TO MY IV LINE

[calamitys-child]

The way that simply having a craft project in mind instantly refreshes like a good third of my energy reserves

[krshush]

Everyone wish me luck I've just started the system migration process. It SHOULD. Be fine. But I am soso scared.

[treecakes]

he likes his radiator cover. and he likes looking out the window

[oxbowreality]

pacing around wondering if I'll hear back from a job despite it being the dead of night

[steelycunt]

if i met gansey we would not talk. we would either communicate via echolocation or not at all

[obesericewrites]

The first time S has to change a diaper should be hilarious.

“Oh my goddesses, S. You’re making me nervous—.”

“—shut the hell up. What am I supposed to do now.”

S is standing over their child with a dirty diaper in one hand and a napkin in the other. Erica is over their shoulder while some elders are doing the same. The baby wails become louder and S’s ears spasm. S throws the diaper in a nearby trash can and begins to clean the baby. But not without criticism from the elders.

“You missed a spot—!”

“—be gentle! They’re delicate—!”

“—make sure you keep the cloth under her!”

When S finishes cleaning their baby Erica begins to speak, “Add some of that lotion I bought you. It will help the child channel magic.” S sends a quick glare her way but still reaches for the lotion. “Bugger off with that magic shit—“

“—language.” One of the elders sigh, looking down at the child with pure affection in their eyes. S feels everyone’s eyes on them when they put the new diaper under their baby and begin to fasten it with some pins. It doesn’t take long before they’re shoved away by everyone in the room, “you’re being to rough! Look! Their little tummy is all squished!”

“They’re fine, look as long as they ain’t crying they’re fine.”

Erica pops them over the head. “Shut up! Be careful with them anyways.”

By the time the diaper gets changed, it’s been fifteen minutes. That’s about the last time you have them change a diaper unless you want to watch a funny argument between S and their family.

[cervinelich]

my boomer trait is that I cannot believe I am seeing young people listening to Tiktoks, music or online learning courses at full volume in public

[youraveragecatastrophe]

We’ve talked in the past about Julia’s red shirt (in her season 1/season 4 outfit) showing her sympathy towards Carmen. What about other parts of her outfits?

First, to contrast with the red shirt peeking through her dark pantsuit, we have Julia’s ACME suit.

[ID : two cropped screenshots from the 2019 show Carmen Sandiego. The first one shows Julia Argent on the train in India, in her dark suit with red shirt outfit. The second one shows Julia in Rio de Janeiro, in her ACME suit. End ID]

The ACME suits, being uniforms, are all the same (the biggest difference being skirts for the women vs pants for the men), the same way the agents are asked for uniformity, conformity and following orders.

The suits have no color apart from a navy so dark it’s close to black - in fact, depending on the lighting they look almost black and white. Quite like their way of thinking.

[ID : a screenshot from the 2019 show Carmen Sandiego. Agent Zari and Random White Agent stand on either side of a door. They are in the shadows and their uniforms look dark and desaturated. End ID]

As I noted on a previous post, at the same time Julia receives her suit and as such lets go of her red shirt, she is asked to renounce her feelings that Carmen is innocent. Season 2, where she almost exclusively wears the ACME uniform, is the one where Julia briefly doubts Carmen and struggles to reconcile following her superior’s orders with her convictions. Ultimately, when she does not manage it, she resigns (season 3) and as such goes back to her red shirt outfit. It is in that outfit that she teams up with Carmen in a substantial way in season 4.

Other agents (and, notably, agent Zari, the most featured ACME agent apart from Julia and Chase) tend to wear black gloves. In line with their behavior, this suggests keeping a distance with their environment, refusing to feel things too deeply. Julia doesn’t wear gloves, however, not even in Stockholm where the weather would definitely justify it. Despite Chief's insistance, Julia keeps paying attention to her feelings.

Then, Julia’s glasses. Her glasses in seasons 2-3 are ACME regulation eyewear : once again, they’re part of the uniform, so the same model as the other ACME agents. Big, bulky, they’re almost rectangle in shape, all sharp angles : this suggests rigidity and an absence of flexibility in ACME’s mentality. Also note the dark lenses : they symbolically obscure the vision.

[ID : a screenshot from the 2019 show Carmen Sandiego. In Indonesia, Zari and Random White Agent stand against the sky. Their glasses' lenses are noticeably very dark. End ID]

And what about Julia’s original glasses, the ones she wears before joining ACME and those she returns to as she leaves ? They are the exact opposite of the ACME glasses : round and clear, what you need to look at the world as it is.

[ID : a cropped screenshot from the 2019 show Carmen Sandiego. In San Francisco, Julia wears her red shirt outfit with her round glasses. End ID]

[heartshapedtrap]

just hung out w friends for five hours and feltso full of whimsy I could pass out <333 I miss them so bad already but I get to see them tomorrow tooooo

[ntrlily]

Like the thing with USB is that it's a lovely invention and I am grateful for all the different cables and connectors that are just. USB now.

It's just not very moé to me either. I get to evaluate "functionally good" and "moé charm" separately for computers, I'm allowed.

[find-me-in-hell]

can you guys look up fashion history for once missys skirts would NOT have zips on them. if her outfit was completely period accurate there would be no zips. they werent used in clothing until 1925