#the curator rambles

[historical-fashion-polls]

okay so this isn’t like an official “from the desk of the curator” post but i did just want to pop in to say that i’ve been queuing a bunch of the “very historical” fashion polls today and i’m so excited about them!! there are so many good ones and i think y’all are going to really enjoy them! 🥰🥰

also, to the person who (quite some time ago) asked about featuring armor on the blog, if you’re still here, let me just say that i’ve now got you covered — let it be known that there shall be armor on the blog! 🫡🫡

anyway, the first of this new batch of “very historical” historical fashion polls is posting in a few hours! 💕💕

[foldingfittedsheets]

Making black bottom cupcakes for my beloveds belated birthday! They’re gonna be so decadent. The recipe was boring and called for water replaced with goat milk, no flavorings other than chocolate added lemon zest, just cocoa powder added 1/3 cup of melted dark chocolate, and vegetable oil I used coconut oil. Oh and I added an extra 2oz of cream cheese, obviously.

They’re baking but the batter smelled so gooood.

[neiptune]

keep in mind that these are stories... that people are writing as a hobby... for free... most times for you to bust a nut...............

[husbandohoarder]

My self insert, living the life I wish I had:

Me, living the life I didn’t ask for:

[swollenbabyfat]

Making a bunch of bad art is just as important as making a bunch of good art, so regardless of how yours comes out today I'm glad you made it.

[manhattan-gamestop]

The fact that some people can equate an entire musical genre to just its stereotypes and never listen to it is baffling to me. Like no, metal isn't just screaming, country isn't just trucks beer and misogyny, rap isn't just sexualizing women and getting money. When will people learn to escape their comfort zone oh my god

[paper-possum-party-pal]

Meet The Curator!

Here’s my take on The Curator’s human form!

The Curator was the first to befriend a ‘human’ (Stanley being some odd Demi-human) and to create a human form. Her associate with Mariella began completely on accident. Despite her wariness of interacting with people, her curiosity and thirst for information led her to creating her human form and walking amongst people. She chose to make her form taller, older, and stern looking to be less approachable to people so she could walk around in peace. She spent most of her time on earth in museums, learning about how humanity cataloged and viewed their history. Due to being around to witness some events from a distance, she could provide details around the way certain events occurred, which she would talk about with fellow museum guests. This with her appearance led to people thinking she was an actual museum employee wherever she showed up.

Mariella is a manager at one of the museums The Curator frequents, and when it became clear that she was not an employee and was somehow getting into the museum without paying or seemingly even walking into the museum, she became invested in trying to figure out who ‘The Lady in Blue’ was and how she keeps getting in. Mariella eventually encounters The Curator, and calls out to her, and The Curator panics and runs off. Mariella follows, but loses her. This happens a few more times until Mariella finally sees The Curator move through a door in a section of the museum she didn’t recognize and chases her through it. Mariella catches up and asks The Curator who she is and how she keeps getting in. Curator freezes because she’s never been fully grabbed by a person before, and Mariella tries to reassure her that she’s not in too much trouble. Curator pops out of her human form which causes Mariella to panic and try to leave, which causes Curator to panic and close off the exit between earth and the small pocket sandbox she’s made into a museum, causing Mariella to panic more. Curator pops back into her human form and helps Mariella calm down. They have a long conversation over what The Curator is and what this place was, she lets Mariella go with the promise she won’t tell anyone anything about The Curator and to leave her be. Mariella does so, but curiosity towards The Curator leads her to track her down again with the goal of befriending her. This begins a friendship where they share information about their kinds, and then about themselves.

With the information Mariella provides, The Curator makes an immersive museum experience that she offers to allow Mariella to run through. This begins their version of the parable they call ‘Mariella’s Fable’. The Curators stories are more education oriented rather than a meta comedy, and are much more relaxing, though she eventually takes a page out of her brother’s book and uses dry wit to spice things up. Mariella helped her choose the name Carol, while she would take Torrent as her last name later on. Her view of buckets as objects that deserve immense respect is sort of a joke, but her initial curiosity with humanity came with her initial observation of humans usage of tools, and specifically buckets.

Curator without the other two.

[canisalbus]

Which is your favorite platform? (of the ones you have accounts to post things I mean. I can't imagine it being Instagram since you don't really post there which honestly fair)

Tumblr, Twitter (X?) bluesky? Something else?

I think I'm going to have to go with tumblr, and it's not just because we're here. Twitter and Bluesky are nice and my experiences on both are overwhelmingly positive. But tumblr has an atmosphere that encourages originality, sharing your creations and talking about things in depth.

[liyazaki]

didn’t expect news of MewTul’s proposal to shock me out of my BL coma- while I’m getting ready for a body paint transformation ala your favorite artist’s favorite artist- but here we are.

how the hell are ya & happy gay Christmas 🗽🎃

[mellosdrawings]

noooo not the n2 ship 😭 omg people can be so weird sob sob you have more drawings of them as adults and frankly why does it even matter?!? it's not even an illegal ship sob (eg. incest or smth else that normally turns heads in fandoms) if you don't like it, don't read it???? (i personally like it tons!)

-🥬

(About this post)

Well, you know, it's the usual Leojami age difference discourse. I just delete those comments anyway, but I'm glad you like the N2 squad :3

I won't develop too much since I don't want this blog to be about discourse (I'm giving my opinions plenty on my sideblog) but here's what I think about these topics:

-I'm vehemently anti-censorship. I don't think something shouldn't ever exist and I will never push for something to be censored, even if it's stuff that makes me uncomfortable. I think warnings about particular contents are great, but in the end it's my responsibility to curate my experience with banning # and blocking people, etc etc. Even illegal stuff should be portrayed. If people can draw/write about murderers and conmen without a fuss, then they can also do that about taboo/illegal sexual topics. Depiction is not endorsement.

-I believe the reader/viewer is the one who injects meaning to art/stories. I'm an artist and all the things I do mean something, but that meaning doesn't prevail over the meaning my viewers inject in my art. I regularly see people "misreading" my comics in the tags, but it doesn't matter. Their interpretation is just as valid as mine, and if they wanna see ships where I didn't mean to draw ships, or if they interpret a scene as negative when I meant for it to be positive, then it's either my role as the content creator to be more explicit/obvious with what I meant, or to simply let my viewers have fun however they want with my stuff. I don't believe in the "there's only one valid interpretation and everybody who thinks otherwise is wrong".

(That's also why I don't really believe in DNI. People you disagree with will interact with your stuff anyway, caring about those things will just anger and tire you for nothing. I try to avoid interacting with people who have DNI that probably include me? But considering "proship" means anything and nothing it's hard to tell whether N2/LeoJami is considered a proship or not.)

Tldr: I'm anti-censorship and I think everybody should make and enjoy the content they want, even if it's topics that are usually frowned upon. Imagination is the one place one should be able to go hogwild without fearing retribution.

[jesncin]

Aah I got so much love today over Lunar Boy's book birthday!! Lots of friends getting their copies in the mail or finding my book in stores! A book birthday is like a birthday, I get people congratulating me and celebrating. But instead of me getting presents, it's everyone else who gets a gift (that I made!). So really, it's better than a birthday haha.

[historical-fashion-polls]

hello once again dear anon! 💕

to respond to this last part of your ask, I'm going to first direct you to my second point in this post on the general style of fashion plates 💖💖 I address this more thoroughly there, but essentially if we're looking at fashion plates, the human body is depicted in a way that best sells the garment rather than in a naturalistic way, so for much of the time period covered by the blog, that means a thinner body. unfortunately, just as we see in a lot of marketing today, there is not a ton of interest in realistic and diverse representation of bodies in these kinds of illustrations

a place where you might have more luck is with historic photographs, which do record a much broader range of people and their appearances ☺️☺️ however, these types of photographs can't always be featured on the blog since the main qualification for posting on the blog is that the garment is displayed clearly enough to be easily compared, and that's not always the case with photographs, since they often focused on capturing the person rather than their clothing. if anyone knows of any good databases or collections of photographs that anon could explore, feel free to drop them in comments! ☺️💕

as for sewing patterns and materials, I fear I am not enough of an expert to give any further information on that 😔😔 some plates do feature written descriptions of the materials used, and I know there are folks who sell vintage patterns on ebay and etsy. there are also some historical patterns posted online, but as I've never used them, I'm afraid I can't point you to any (but again, if anyone else has resources, feel free to put them in the comments! ☺️💕)

and thank you for your super kind words! 🥰🥰 I'm so glad you're having fun on the blog! 💖💖 I hope my responses have been even a little bit helpful, and please do feel free to reach out if you have further questions! ☺️☺️

[batfambrainrotbeloved]

I love getting spam likes because then it's a chance to look at some of my really old posts and go "Damm- I'm hilarious"

[kyouka-supremacy]

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[otrtbs]

applying to jobs in the art history field like

“preferred PhD. must have 8+ years experience in [insert extremely niche art historical subject area here]. must speak/read french. must work weekends. must have references from 5 other museums minimum. must sell ur soul to us. annual pay: $35,000”

[violet-catsarelife]

red hood Tim aus get me so bad bc in why on earth does this privileged dead guy care about crime alley? what weight does it hold to him???? it only makes sense to have steph be the second robin realistically.

It kinda feels like I'm inviting discourse by replying to this, so lemme just do an obligatory disclaimer: people are free to create what they want, and they're allowed to have different tastes and interpretations. That's what fandom is. Okay? Okay.

That said.

Personally? Red Hood Tim is... yeah. Does not spark joy. Aside from the Rich Boy in Crime Alley aspect, I guess I'm just not a fan of people making up trauma for Tim so he can be the Saddest Boy, especially when they're taking traits from Jason (which, actually this might be a gripe that spilled over from other fic tropes and not something I have against rr aus, specifically.)

In my opinion, reverse robins is a great setup for us to explore not only the differences but also parallels between the Robins. In that sense, Steph, with her background similarities to Jason, has so much more potential for a Red Hood story.

I wanna know how her morals would play out, how they'd differ from Batgirl!Steph's or RH!Jason's. What are her views on criminals and crime? Does RH!Steph hold the same contempt against her dad like Spoiler!Steph did? What ties her to the city and its community? I wanna see what her dynamic with Batman is like, when she isn't pushed into the shadow of another 'failed' robin, but is instead the First Robin Who Died. How would the effects of her death differ from Jason's, given that she's neither an orphan nor adopted by Bruce? I'm also curious about her relationship with Damian, if it mirrors the mentor-sibling style Batgirl!Steph had with baby Dami. Do they bond over being the few people who knew Batdad before the Tragedy, as opposed to canon where they only ever got to know the post-robindeath version?

So much story potential!

In short, Red Hood Steph is an awesome concept and I wish there are more fics with her. Thanks for coming to my ted talk I guess