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[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price as Matthew Hopkins -

Witchfinder General/The Conqueror Worm (1967)

[the-alan-price-combo]

this picture sleeve is a psychological need 🙏

[fictionadventurer]

I went into Ruth expecting a dreary read. How could a Victorian "fallen woman" story be anything other than dark and depressing? So I was shocked right from the beginning to find a sweet, gentle, romantic story. The dressmaker's apprentice who sits in the coldest, darkest part of the workroom because that's where there's a panel painted with flowers that remind her of her country home? How could I not adopt her as a favorite character? Ruth's innocent, romantic outlook on life gave us some beautiful descriptions of the scenery of both city and countryside, and my imagination went on overdrive to create very vivid images of the story. Even the love story, which we know is going to go very wrong, starts out sweet, with a kind, charming love interest who only shows flashes of just how wrong his character is going to go.

Even after Ruth's fall, the story is so gentle, putting Ruth among kind people who are willing to risk and sacrifice a lot to help her. And then the story gets almost too gentle--after some initial struggles with depression, Ruth resolves to bear her troubles patiently and work toward virtue, and her sweet, too-innocent character gets flattened out into someone who's just Good. Life just goes on, with things generally going well, and every potential turn toward drama results in someone deciding to be reasonable, which can make the story drag.

But, in a story like this, the lack of drama becomes the plot twist! It is refreshing to see characters who don't always jump to the worst conclusion or take the worst action, who pause and consider the whole story and act like decent human beings.

And in the places when the drama does kick in, it's good drama. Painful drama. It's also (especially in the last section of the story) melodrama. There were sections of the book where I was rolling my eyes at the cookie-cutter Victorian path the story was taking--but then there'd be one line or one moment that would just stab me in the chest because of how beautifully specific it was to this story. Just enough to elevate it from something bland to something unique and fascinating.

I often had the thought that this book could be about a third of its length without losing anything--yet it should also be just as long as it was. If the story cut all its repetitive musings about Ruth's regret, and used that space to develop the side characters and and show the plot instead of telling us about it, it would be a much deeper story. I found myself wishing Gaskell had reworked this one later in her career--the way that North and South was a more skillful reworking of the issues explored in Mary Barton. In a way, she sort of did in Wives and Daughters, with the story of Molly the quiet innocent getting tangled up in the intrigues surrounding her headstrong, flirtatious stepsister Cynthia serving as a more layered, personality-flipped version of the story where headstrong, sheltered Jemima gets tangled in the story of quiet, sweet Ruth and her past romantic intrigues. (The doctor at the end of the story also feels like a proto-Mr. Gibson).

Yet I'm still fascinated by the themes specific to this story. Contrary to expectation, this "fallen woman" story isn't about sex, or gender, or how unfairly women are treated (though it does touch on that in the end). It's about sin. It's not questioning why Ruth's behavior is considered a sin or looking to dismantle the society saying that it's a sin. It comes from the Christian perspective of saying that sin is real and harms people--so how are we going to deal with that?

The story shows lots of people struggling with temptation, failing, and dealing with the consequences (or harming others with the consequences). Sin is always a case of either not caring enough to do the more difficult, good thing, or a case of "the ends justify the means", where people rationalize their bad behavior as something necessary in this specific case. It always leads to harm, but some people--and some sins--suffer greater consequences in the eyes of the world, whether or not they deserve it. I wish the story had developed and resolved this theme better in places, but the raw material there is fascinating food for thought.

This book is Gaskell at her preachiest, but also Gaskell at her kindest. It explores deep, difficult issues in a very loving way. As a story, there are ways it could be better, but I'm very glad I read it. Perhaps I'm making a point to be kinder to it because I know it's the type of story that today's readers tend to judge harshly. But amid my issues with the story, there are some lovely images, some great messages, and some wonderful characters that going to be living in my heart for a long time.

[miiiwu]

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[resident-gay-bitch]

little rich boy sirius who gets disowned and can barely survive without his expensive brands and the basic human need to eat at least once a day meeting the entirely too generous james potter who just falls for the vanity and sincerity of the reformed rich boy and decides that once sirius stops caring about brands and status and rich boy things and just cares about what matters in life he decides to spoil his boyfriend to pieces because he’s secretly sitting on a fucking fortune

[ratcandy]

i'm going make updated commissions info

[n7punk]

inspired by some tags, psa if you want Any piece of she-ra merch at any time i WILL have the link to the most affordable option online at that present moment. also han cholo still hasn't restocked so get whatever you want from it right now it's been four months lmao

[ta-bajna-cerna-okybaca]

(whispers in your ear in a fellow ADHD-haver manner) Learn to sew, learn to sew, it's such a good life skill, you'll be able to fix tears and make adorable fandom plushies and turn your textile dreams to reality, do iiiiiiiit, join us~!!!

NO NOT THE ENCOURAGEMENT ANYTHING BUT THE ENCOURAGEMENT

[the-kipsabian]

i feel like the only things i ever sell are the orange cassidy bracelets. they go like immediately and thats pretty much it. like im not complaining that they sell, but its also kinda demoralizing when they are the *only* ones that ever go anywhere...

are my prices too high? is it the shipping costs? are my bracelets just ugly? should i just make orange cassidys and give up on the rest?? is it bad im trying to sell friendship bracelets when they have that spirit in them that they should just be handed out so its just frowned upon???

idk. my brain is very tired but i just feel like i try to put a lot of effort into these for nothing when all the people want seems to be orange cassidy and i dont want to just make oc bracelets....

[twistitch]

Thinking about setting up to start doing art commissions but the whole thing seems very daunting

I don't know how much to price things, like I have an idea of what kind of categories people generally list on commission sheets I just don't know how much I should be pricing things at

I have an idea for a sheet layout I just have to make it and figure out prices

I also don't even know how best to go about advertising that I do art and if anyone would even want art from me

I also am nervous about the whole thing in general but I want (and kind of need to) start offering to make art for others

So if anyone has advice or suggestions I would love to hear it

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Bang bang...

Vincent Price on the set of The Witchfinder General (1968)

[the-alan-price-combo]

"There is no other pianist/organist in Europe today who has moved, and I think ever will move me as much as much as Alan does." - Eric Burdon, 1966

[arolesbianism]

Wormwood hc hours

[321sluggie]

Wait did the McElroys really advertise fetish gear on mbmbam? Wasn’t their audience like. Primarily teenage girls back in the day?

[ultrainfinitepit]

can i ask how/where you get your patches made? i love the quality of yours and would love to order some of my own to sell but i’ve never had customs made before, and i wanna make sure they’re actually nice

I've used a few different manufacturers and haven't found one I'm super happy with. I made some with a middleman, which ended up being expensive for the quality I got. I also made some with one of my pin manufacturers, which was the best value; and others as part of a group order, which ended up being expensive and a long wait time, but the best quality so far.

If you've bought any of my patches you can ask about it specifically or check its listing description for which manufacturer I used. If you're completely new to merch, I recommend joining a group order. It's about the same price as using a middleman but you'll have more of a community to learn from.

The group I've used the most is Catstealers. You can join the Discord server to get more information.

[waugh-bao]