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#comics

luckydicekirby

sometimes a fic can just be about the age old question 'how emotionally bad for everyone involved can a threesome be when they all did in fact agree to be there'

#fandom

vitariesocks

just received the best text message I’ve ever had. from my mom

vitariesocks

2 pics. no caption

#cats #@3gee

the difference between being depressed and not depressed is insane

like who the fuck was that person

#actual blogging #i was making plans for new year's 2028 and it hit me that just a few weeks ago i couldn't see past the end of a single day

exitwound

Im grading the final exams for the class I TA for and I'm checking the name of the one I've just graded so I can enter it in the gradebook when I notice that after the name it says in parentheses "just visiting ! =)". And that I do not know this student, they are not enrolled in this class, and they just showed up on the last day to take the final . Innovative use of free will

#people

i want to see ballet i want to see ballet i want to see ballet

#i'm so starved for ART #i pay no rent but at what cost

bobdylanyaoi

no matter how little you think you know about history you shouldn’t beat yourself up over it because there is always someone who knows less than you and is more confident about it. someone once said that bridgerton was medieval to me

#text #amazing

dduane

Meanwhile, via Bluesky...

#cats #the most important figure in british politics

what-even-is-thiss

Trying to look into how ancient civilizations counted years is frustrating because sometimes they didn’t have a system and sometimes they had multiple systems.

Take Rome for example. Sometimes they kept track of years based on when they said the republic was founded. Other times though they kept track of the year based on who was consul at the time. This was pretty common in record keeping. They had a list going back hundreds of years of who was consul when.

Fictional societies always count things in seemingly logical linear styles. Star days, years of the third age, and so on.

Nobody in fiction is ever like “oh yeah it was the year that John and Marcus were on the counsel” or whatever the heck.

The Greeks. Oh, the Greeks. Those fuckers had a different calendar in every city.

Some scholars in Ancient Greece kept time based on the Olympic Games. Fuckin. Four year cycles. Yeah it’s the third year of the 91st Olympic Games. Excuse me? You are basing your calendar on a sports competition.

And the Chinese? Oh you might think that they had eras that’s simple, right? Wrong. An emperor could just say it’s the start of a new era whenever the fuck he wants. Or maybe they count from the start of when the current emperor took power. Or maybe they count from the start of the current dynasty. Or maybe this particular guy thinks in cycles of 60 years for some reason. Also sometimes they use a lunar calendar and on other ages other guys decide to use a solar calendar.

And the Mayans. Yeah sure you know about the number of 260 day cycles but they also had a 365 day cycle which was counted differently. And once every 52 years they line up but then oh you need to keep track of which cycle you’re in.

Say what you want about the current Gregorian calendar dating but at least number just goes up.

what-even-is-thiss

More fictional calendars should be based on sporting events tbh. Alternate universe where we track the years based on the fifa World Cup.

#text #kinda loving the idea of a cyclical calendar ngl #the mayans were onto something

loustatified

inject it

#interview with the vampire #didn't watch this season bc i don't trust them with race after the last one but i will take this thank you

livesbetweenpages

Do you have a first line of a novel that has stuck with you, without the need to look it up, regardless of whether you read/finished the book in question?

Mine is: I blame it all on the Hobbit; that, and my supportive home life. (From Alice, I Think)

#books #en un lugar de la mancha de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme #i've never read el quijote in full #(altho i do have a gorgeous 400 anniversary edition with foot notes that i mean to read one day #and i listened to parts of the audiobook while i was recovering from a surgery many years ago)#but that first line is seared into my memory since high school

so-i-did-this-thing

Your wardrobe just isn't accessible. All of your recommendations are so expensive.

Hmmmm, what kind of reaction are you looking for, Anon? I am not your enemy.

You need to rethink what "accessible" means wrt clothing. (Especially bearing in mind you are on the blog of a guy who likes to wear vintage style suits, which puts us firmly in "luxury items" territory.)

We are currently living in an era where those who make clothing are criminally under compensated, with ever increasing demands to cut costs, yet produce faster. Fashion is both a sustainability and labor issue.

We are also living in an era where even the raw materials for clothing are undergoing enshitification and this has fucked with people's perceptions for how long clothes should last.

But I am determined to build a wardrobe where pieces last for 10+ years, if cared for properly. And I know I have some things that absolutely will outlive me.

For these reasons, I am not going to recommend $15 or even $50 dress shirts, especially given they will fall apart after a season or two.

My wardrobe is a 25+ year long project of discovering what I like, how to assess quality, and getting my finances in a place where I can buy good pieces. My closet is not meant to be achievable overnight or even within a few years, because it sure as hell didn't happen that way for me.

Trying to build a fashionable wardrobe (again, the word is *fashionable* because presumably that is why you are here) on a budget?

1) Thrifting and garment swaps are still options (be sustainable and get the quality of the past!), with more choices if you can get garments altered. Gem.app will always be high on my recommendations list for this reason.

2) Making relationships with sewists and tailors and working out fair compensation (be it money, trade, being a pattern tester, etc) is an option

3) Saving up where you only buy 1 or 2 new, quality pieces of clothing a year is an option and should actually be the norm for everyone - we all buy too many clothes (myself included) and need to reset our expectations for how big a wardrobe should be + how often to change clothes

4) Learning how to make garments on your own is an option (one I am taking), especially given free resources such as libraries, YouTube tutorials, the Internet Archive, etc.

Good clothing does and should cost money and time. Especially if you want to wear tailored garments made from nice fabrics, which is my style and presumably why you came across my blog. (It's important I reiterate this point.) Honestly, the fact I can find a 3-piece wool suit new, in a vintage cut that fits me off-the-rack for $1k feels like stealing.

I spent most of my adult life climbing the Old Navy > Gap > Banana Republic fashion ladder, not realizing that nearly all of that clothing is cheap crap, especially things made post-2005. Now that I can afford nice stuff, there is a world of difference between my $15 flannel shirts and the $90 ones. Vimes Boot Theory, but with the caveat that the $15 shirt should not even exist.

(I love Vimes Boot Theory, but it needs a companion theory from the perspective of the bootmaker.)

It may sound shocking to you, but nearly all my wardrobe recommendations sit on the low end of price vs quality. I still have to mend my clothes, fix poor workmanship, and alter things to fit.

If you want decent quality clothing ("decent" = lasting for years), you honestly should be expecting to pay at least $100 for a new dress shirt, $300 for new boots, $300 for new woolen trousers. And yeah, $1k for a suit. These are bare minimum fair prices for off-the-rack.

You have to get comfortable with the fact that you will be paying some combination of time + money if you want nice things. (Even inexpensive things that are good quality take time to learn about, find, and maintain!) But the outcome - longer lasting stuff that makes you feel good - is hopefully worth the investment.

Garment construction deserves fair compensation and if your current salary is locking you out where you cannot get a few good, new things a year, the problem is that your own labor isn't being fairly compensated. Scold your boss, not me.

Again, I am not your enemy. But you need to recalibrate your thinking about what our standards for clothing should really be, with all the labor involved to achieve those standards.

And one more time - you're also complaining that my luxury fashion wardrobe is a luxury. Please also learn how to prioritize your wants vs your needs.

so-i-did-this-thing

Oh, hey, Derek did an entire thread for someone with an attitude similar to Anon's.

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States. Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up

#labor rights #environmental #whenver i tell people they should not be buying more than 3-4 new pieces of clothing a year they are shocked #it's like i've told them they should stop breathing #and yes environmentally and socially sustainable clothing is expensive relative to the rest #but that's because other manufacturers are paying nothing to their workers and using the environment as their dumpster #needless to say no one wants to do what needs to be done #they would all rather continue choosing convinience over the lives of others and the planet

encodedincommotion-deactivated2

it's crazy how plausible all the shit the corporations do in the murderbot diaries is. that one scene when murderbot was talking to those humans who had signed a 20 year corporate work contract and it asked them if the contract specified 20 years by the standard local calendar or by a proprietary calendar created by the company was downright unsettling 😬 if the ceos of modern earth companies read these books they would probably start crying because the government won't let them do most of this in real life.

radioorpheus

hey fun fact this has absolutely happened before. part of the push to standardize time/timezones was because factory employers had clocks set to the pace of their machinery. meaning of the workers were not doing enough, time would run slower until they had reached their goal. there is historical precedent.