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Montague ⚙️ 🪦 He / him | Adult

[grave-gears]

Greetings. I see you've found me.

My name is Montague. I am part of the Epipelagia System. Ironically, I'm not a fan of water.

My pronouns are he/him, and I use masculine terms. Some of my interests include machinery, Victorian architecture, steampunk, and goth music, dress, and aesthetics.

I use a typing quirk where I highlight parts of my sentences; this has no special meaning, I assure you.

[velvet-jellyfish]

If you get into white work embroidery, you might discover cutwork. And when you start doing cutwork, you might get curious about incorporating detached elements. And before you know it the fabric is gone, you are making needle lace, and there goes the rest of your week.

Buttonhole stitch - not even once.

[abandonedandurbex]

Computer wiring tunnel inside an abandoned coal power plant, photo by Bryan Buckley [1280x854]

[02void]

Foggy Sunday by Daniel Matthews

[mallorylovesyou]

Two more unused photos taken for the shards book project.

Tumblr allows me a lot more space to talk about my outfits so I thought I would break it down here.

Everything I’m wearing was purchased secondhand, mostly vintage:

I’m wearing a 60s or 70s (I think) embroidered short sleeved silk tang jacket as a shirt. These are often incorrectly called mandarin jackets. The tang jacket derives from riding jackets worn by Manchu horsemen. A shame you can’t really see the beautiful hand embroidery in any of these shots.

On top of that I’m wearing a herringbone black and tan men’s wool vest of indeterminate age.

The suit jacket is a men’s suit jacket from the 1960s. It is the same jacket I wore to the premiere of the shards.

The skirt I’m wearing is from the 1960s and appears to be a home sewing project.

The shoes are soft pig suede Hush Puppies brand shoes, and although this pair seems to be relatively modern, they are the same style of “desert” or “chukka” boot that was popular around the 70s and beginning of the 80s.

The tights seem to be modern, they were thrifted new in package, but you can see similar lurex legwear as far back as the 1960s.

The hat is seemingly fairly modern, although it’s a classic enough style to fit in with the 80s look.

The handbag had a receipt in it from 1985 when I thrifted it, although I believe it to be much older, from the 50s or 60s.

The crochet gloves were mailed to me by a follower, with the suggestion that I dye them black, which I did. The last decade women were really expected to wear gloves is the 1960s, but being homemade, there are no tags of any sort on the gloves so I’m not sure of the age.

The 8mm Kodak camera I believe is from the 60s

Most of the jewelry I’m uncertain of the age of, with a few exceptions:

Regardless of the actual age of the rhinestone earrings and necklace, it’s the sort of style popular in the mid-century, and by extension, the sort of thing people would’ve been thrifting in the 80s.

The silver pin is mid-century, and the gold tone question mark pin is from about WW2

The large brass bangle on my right wrist is probably from the 70s or early 80s

The bolo tie is probably from the 80s

[tropicalsteppe]

gear spin

[strawby-fields]

Looks at you lookfully with my looking orbs

[possessedpasm]

Exposure / Deterioration. 1972

[capyclara]

open house, prismacolor on black paper, 2025

reffed from photos i took the last time i slept in my empty childhood home before it got sold

[crabussy]

hi crew. do we want to see a photoshoot I did featuring me and my bike… realised I had maybe one photo total of us together and wanted to change that

[crabussy]

okay yay! one second everybody

[crabussy]

rob (me) and webs (my bike)…. there’s more but I’ll only post the rest if everyone’s real nice okauy

[fairy-type-pokemon]

assign prev one

vampire

siren

werewolf

unicorn

wizard

fairy

selkie

demon

jackalope

angel

ghost

elf

Voting ended onAug 10

[mallorylovesyou]

Four (of many) unused photos taken for the FX project

[mrazarix]

Lila?

love this game

[filurig]

revenge for @randomperson0k !

[spiritbladed]

something something extremely sexy when magic users resort to physical violence. yeah i have the power of god and anime on my side but i also have THESE HANDS. i cast Punch You In The Face. i take my magic staff through which i channel the vast energies of the elements and the cosmos and i cast Severe Concussion And Skull Fracture. casting time for xenoglossy too long, chose the quicker route of Stab You In The Throat.

[mallorylovesyou]

I’ve always loved the very loose knit, destroyed sweater worn by Trent Reznor in the music video for “Closer”, and I can knit… not well but I can. So I made something inspired by it. I didn’t use a pattern, it ended up both too wide and too short even after blocking. Oh well. It’s the first sweater I’ve made and I’ve learned for next time. Knit in size 8 (I think) crochet cotton, hand knit except for the cuffs, neckline, and lower hem, which I machine knit. I’ll probably try to make something like this again that fits better in the future

[disgustinggf]