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pinned post! I know I’ve been on this site for two years but I’m finally getting around to it.

call me Mel. she/her, adult. interests: conservation, marine bio, dress history, horror/fantasy/scifi.

^the majestic, noble, culturally significant, ecologically important, highly threatened pacific lamprey

media tags:

#the haunting of hill house (book, Shirley Jackson, not the show. 1959)

#the silt verses, #tsv (do you like crab? i can’t even explain it, but probably the best podcast out there. 2021-2024)

#the x files, #txf, #msr (putting the bi in fbi. 1993-2002)

#btvs (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 1997)

#downton abbey (this one gets. specific. see below. 2010-2015)

#pluribus (naturally! 2025/26)

#fallen london (steampunk-adjacent text-based browser game. it is 1899. forty years ago, london was stolen by bats.)

#cla$$ (hindi lang adaptation of Elite. shortlived and small-fandomed. 2023)

#catechism comic (amazingly well-drawn comic. updates only sporadically but always worth the wait. here. please read it. 2024-)

#owhe (Our Wars Have Ended. hungry pasts. holding out judgement for a few more episodes but i think i like it. 2026-)

interest tags:

#marine life (fish, and other things, and art)

#dress history (clothing, mostly extant garments)

#art ref, #writing ref (useful resources)

#ocd (awareness, also vibes)

#pnw (pacific northwest. pretty pictures mostly.)

#aro (aromanticism, self-explanatory)

#vicious and obsolete way of life (from Out of Bounds, a short-lived 1930s publication dedicated to criticizing the role of British public schools in maintaining empire as well as the way that those schools treated and mistreated their students. Qtd Jessica Mitford, Hons and Rebels. Catchall tag for things to do with hungry pasts. mostly Downton Abbey so far but also Our Wars Have Ended.)

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mangamaga

Count Umberto Morra di Lavriano’s villa in Cortona, Italy.

wishingformemoria

just because someone can articulate their point better doesn’t make them right, it makes them articulated.

wishingformemoria

and you aren’t stupid for having trouble articulating yourself.

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vannentity

I made this as HUGE Silt Verses fan!!! I made a propaganda poster featuring Val while I took a break from the pride artwork I am making.

The Silt Verses is genuinely my favorite podcast. I have some character designs I’m a little nervous about showing off though

#love this very ominous #the silt verses

pterribledinosaurdrawings

and so I did!

pterribledinosaurdrawings

#i wanna see the collection and how they differ

Say no more, here they all are! (I post about them more on my sewing & art blog @vincentbriggs, though I'm afraid I haven't got proper tags for each individual machine.)

c. 1885 White VS2, made in the U.S. Basic straight stitch treadle in good working order. It came to me very dirty and needed a lot of cleaning and a new drive belt & bobbin winder tire.

Singer 15-91, made in Canada sometime between 1936-48. This was my first one, which I bought refurbished when I moved out of my parents house, since it's pretty similar to the one I grew up using. It came with a knee lever but after a few years the speed control box failed and I replaced it with a foot pedal.

1945 Bernina KL 105, made in Switzerland. This is my most recent acquisition and I haven't started on the cleaning & refurbishing yet, but I'm excited to use it! It's a treadle that has backstitch and drop feed.

Gimbels department store branded Singer 15 clone, made in Japan. No idea what the date is, but the style of the logo makes me think maybe 50's? All cleaned and stitching again, though I still need to put the motor back on. The case was too rotten to save, so I've got to learn how to make a new one. Being a 15 clone, it's extremely similar to my Singer 15, but there are quite a lot of differences in the smaller external parts and it has a much better drop feed system.

1958 Singer 99k, made in Scotland. All cleaned and adjusted, and my father helped rewire it, but I still need to finish fixing up the wooden case. It wasn't so bad as the previous one, but it's in no condition to stain so I'm going to paint it. This one's something of a foster kitten, as I've promised it to a friend.

1964 Singer 185J, made in Canada. I've cleaned it up and replaced the missing bobbin plate, but I need to make a new wooden case for this one too because the plastic case it came in was all cracked and warped. It's the same basic machine as the 99k, just in a more space age style shape. The bobbin winder is more stripped down, but other than that the workings are identical.

1970 Pfaff 360, made in Germany. This was the second machine I got, and it was meant to be a backup because this was when my 15-91 speed control was acting up. The pebbled greige paint job is horrendously fugly, but it's a splendid piece of engineering. I still need to get around to taking apart and unsticking one particular area, but if I'm successful in that it'll be able to do zig zag, plus a variety of other fancy stitches controlled by that nice stack of cams on the left.

The 2 treadles were given to me, the 15-91 was bought refurbished as mentioned, and the other 4 electric machines were thrifted.

As you can see from observing the shape of the newer ones compared to the older ones, sewing machines are born with a large store of baby fat and they become scrawnier as they age.

bedupolker

incredibly minor but still dumb side effect of late stage capitalism: ever notice how so many concert venues and stadiums just have the lamest names imaginable. Like ooooh Lady Gaga is playing at the..... Mortgage Stadium? Oh boy the finals are at the.... Chase Bank arena. Can't wait to catch a game at the Garunteed Rate field.

bedupolker

yes this exactly