10.7k chapter of haladriel dystopia omegaverse fanfiction, anyone? Itâs been burning a hole in my drafts. Things really get going now mwahahaha
Scratch At the Door of Heaven
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https://archiveofourown.org/works/74825736
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10.7k chapter of haladriel dystopia omegaverse fanfiction, anyone? Itâs been burning a hole in my drafts. Things really get going now mwahahaha
Scratch At the Door of Heaven
E, 23k, 3/?
https://archiveofourown.org/works/74825736
FLORENCE + THE MACHINE everybody scream tour
i read CS Lewisâ A Grief Observed one time years ago and iâm still not recovered from it
â A Grief Observed: part i-ii, C.S. Lewis x
i would rather see the information for an event handwritten in sharpie on a paper towel than see another AI generated flyer
Benedetta Porcaroli as CONCETTA CORBERA DI SALINA [1/?] The Leopard (2025)
pet peeve is when you look up fashion references from a specific era and you keep getting modern day '[era]-inspired' fashion like NO i want authenticity damn it. i can see your 2020 photo quality and your 2020 hair and your 2020 makeup. youre not fooling me.
hello i'm a historical fashion researcher and i have a lot of experience looking up things! this is a very widely experienced irritation and you're definitely not alone in this, but i am here to share everything i know!
so, ways to get around this:
turn off AI results. they're literally nonsense to us
don't use pinterest because the sources/provenance is often hard to trace
a standard internet search can be okay, but museum collections are the top tier (list of collections below this list)
instead of broad terms like victorian, regency, tudor, renaissance etc. try using the decade you're looking for. if you're not sure of what decade it is but have a vague image in your head, look on the fashion history timeline and just jump around until you find it. but even changing to e.g. 19th century will give better results than victorian
including terms like womenswear/menswear, daywear, formal wear, evening wear, court dress should increase the value of your search too
including "fashion plates" in your search can give you a nice impression of the intended silhouettes of the era. some of these might be a little stylised but will show you what was considered in vogue
for pre-fashion plate eras or things like makeup and styling, you'll have to look at portraiture or manuscripts. these are harder to actually find what you're looking for, but searching museum collections and limiting results to specific date ranges will be your friend
when looking at art, do bear in mind sometimes artists would paint fabric extra flow-y to show off their skills. it might not have been exactly like that in terms of fabric weight or drape. so, a pinch of salt required!
if you find something on image search where the provenance is dubious, reverse image search and you might find a source! i've been able to trace random pinterest images to real sources, but this does take a lot of time and effort and is often not worth the headache
some online resources and museum collections:
fashion history timeline is an invaluable resource if you're trying to get a feel for everything and should be your first port of call. it'll also link to good examples
the met has a vast number of extant examples of clothing, as well as fashion plates
costume institute fashion plates is a subcollection of the met for fashion plates (1800s-1922)
v&a also has many extant garments, fashion plates, and incredible articles on clothing and aesthetics. read the details of the objects because they'll often reveal a lot about the piece
lacma is good for C19th-20th pieces
nypl digital collection for photographs
national portrait gallery or similar for portraiture, or literally any museum in your country that has historical art
national museums scotland can be useful situationally but might be oddly specific
stout style history is a great collection for finding image references for fat people wearing historical clothes. survival bias of a lot of museum pieces tends towards smaller clothing that couldn't be repurposed, but this aims to counter that. it's not sortable, but is still a really nice resource
wikimedia commons is surprisingly handy! and the images, if you should need to link/repost them, are public domain
auction websites sound like a funny one to recommend. some won't have mannequins and some will. just look up historical garment auctions and you'll find some!
anyway, i hope this has been a good place to start for anyone interested! there are probably some i've missed because there are so many museums across the world and i don't know about all of them or can't remember them. but these are the ones i've used the most! (my specialisation/jobs i've had to research for have only really been in western fashion, so my resources reflect that)
Wikipedia has a list of fashion museums. Unfortunately, the page itself is only available in German, but the introductory paragraph is very short and after that, it's organised by country, and then it's a simple list. If you click on a museum's article, the website is usually linked in the overview table.
the cast of the rings of power for TIME magazine; september 2022
sticking his finger fully into his hot coffee just to feel something
Trad man got the Tie Seatbelt and the Cue Ball Gear Shift That Doesn't Move
*gets dressed up to spend time in the woods alone*
once at dawn i dressed up in my regency suit and went for a walk in the woods where i heard someone go âohâ (a little like a moan) and i got terrified iâd interrupted someone dogging or something so i immediately tried to walk away before i saw the person in question, who was just walking their dog (dogging in a sense!) and i got even more scared because they were wearing black skinny jeans and a black hoodie so they looked like they had very long slender arms and legs, and both of us were really shaken so i quickly tried to get out of sight. anyway i forgot i was wearing full 1810s regencywear complete with hat and probably looked significantly more like a ghost than they did. remember youâre never alone in the woods
imagine walking your dog in the woods and seeing an obvious Regency-era ghost notice you and bolt out of sight, visibly shaken
Iâm CRYING this is hilarious
Aspire to be the ghost in someoneâs ghost story
One of my highlights of Rowany Festival (the Kingdom of Lochacâs biggest camping event: basically our version of pennsic) is the day I take a few hours off to go wander in the woods around the campsite. I grew up in the forest, so have a good enough sense of direction that Iâm not concerned about getting lost, and will sometimes wander pretty far.
One Festival, a few years back now, I was on such a walk, and I found a long disused road. Iâm talking four metre trenches gouged by water flow type unused - it was almost a hazard by foot, let alone car. I followed this for a while, until it joined up with an actual road.
I popped out onto the road, thinking it could be nice to walk along a cleared flat surface for a bit. Nearly immediately, however, I heard a car behind me. I very quickly realised that I am a small, feminine person out alone, and noped the hell out of the situation, ducking back into the undergrowth and scurrying quickly off to a safe distance, before turning around to observe.
The car stopped about where I was, and a family got out - mum, dad, and I think two young girls. They looked around, got back in the car, and drove off.
âŚat which point I realised that what THEY had seen was someone dressed entirely in green and brown medieval clothing (complete with accessories like âactual cloakâ and âa very real knifeâ) pop out of the forest, turn around and see their car, look alarmed, and then run back into the forest.
I wonder if they still talk about me.
Way back in the â90s, there was a costume party with a 1940âs theme, and I had nothing for that, but did have a full WW1 era NZ army officerâs uniform, so dressed in that and claimed to be Late.
Mildly drunk, heading home on foot from the party at 3 am, well, itâs winter, shady avenue lined with century old overhanging trees, dense Smoggy mist with sub 30 metre visibility and dim streetlights, so very atmospheric setting. Iâm marching along, hobnails ringing on the asphalt, ramrod straight posture, because thatâs actually the most comfortable way to walk in the tailoring of officers uniforms of that period.
Anyway, a car swings around the corner onto the avenue in the most most shady Redwood tree lined area, and their headlights swing across a ghostly soldier marching through the mist along the footpath out from behind one tree, heading for the next, and they nearly lose control and have to apply brakes and evasive action to avoid running into the tree they think theyâve just seen a ghost walk past. I quickly nipped behind a tall set of driveway pillars and fence beside me, so when they reverse back and check, there is of course nothing there.
Itâs good to occasionally be a ghost or cryptid.
Not only did I used to have a habit of wandering woods and lakesides at night, I once visited my best friend in California and we decided to eat some mushrooms and hang out in the coastal dunes. I was having the time of my life - stripped down to my boxers in the warm night air, wading in the ocean and climbing to the top of some cliffs nearby, enjoying myself until
A group of flashlights and voices enters down the beach where we came in and starts coming our way. I, full of the kind of panic that drives young horses to chaos on a Good day, ofc panic and run into the long grass of the dunes next to a creek.
Which wouldve worked
Except
My friend was lying next to the creek down on the open sand, âeating out mother earth,â looking like nothing more than a dead body
So i try to get her up and she completely ignores me, ofc ratcheting my anxiety up far higher as the lights get closer, so I do what any scared horse like creature does
Book it back into the night and the long rushes along the creek
So ofc these young people get here with their bright af like, theyâre just walking down the beach hanging out, and find her COVERED IN MUD FACEDOWN NEXT TO THIS CREEK and are like âwhat the fuck is that is that a person?! Hello? Dude are you good?â And this bitch SAYS NOTHING bc âI was having a good time and I figured youâd handle itâ l m a o so what could I do, I was covered in mud and only wearing boxers
I call out from the grassy dunes âIts alright, shes fine everything is goodâ
âWhat the FUCK??â Multiple flashlight beams immediately scanning the hills, but I am one with the creek I am Enveloped in the grasses
So they just LEAVE???? THEY SHRUG AND GO ALRIGHT I GUESS AMONGST THEMSELVES AND DECIDE NOT TO GET INVOLVED W WHATEVER THIS SHIT IS AND JUST head on
Only on the west coast honestly
Hello! I'm very interested in making podfics but I can't seem to find anywhere that explains how to put the audio file into ao3. I'm not the most tech savvy person so I'm hoping you or your followers know. Thank you in advance, I love your account!
There are two ideas you need to understand when you're trying to post media on AO3. Those two ideas are hosting and embedding.
hosting means (basically) storing and sharing. You upload a file to a host and that host then serves your file to the people or websites that try to access it.
embedding is (basically) displaying or presenting.
The host holds the file and shares it with AO3 when you embed it in your work. It then gets displayed when you post.
Both archive.org and soundcloud.com are hosts that can embed directly into AO3. Other hosts might not work but I know that those both do.
Since you're new to podficcing, I'm also going to recommend Azdaema's Newbie's Guide to Podficcing and GodofLaundryBaskets' Keep it Simple: A Highly Biased Podfic Guide for Absolute Beginners.
Podficcers - please add in any other resources you think might be helpful!
(shoutout to @hullomoon for reccing those two guides to me when I was looking for info before)
A great guide for different hosting options is @godoflaundrybaskets ' amazing Podfic Hosting Guide! I highly recommend it.
I also want to extend an offer to anyone interested in maybe dipping their toe into podfic waters (or who is already a podficcer) to join the Podfic community on Tumblr and also the Podfichat discord server. Lots of super knowledgeable and super friendly podficcers would love to welcome you and help you out with any questions you have!
âSuch a blow as you have dealtâyou now deserve it!â that blow to be borne on New Yearâs morningâ
People on the internet love to criticize work by Some Guy putting stuff up online for free like it's made by Disney Studios, and talk about Disney movies like they're made by their personal friend Amy, who is just trying her best,
⤡ S2E1 "Elven Kings Under the Sky"
you have to remember it's always always worse on twitter
big fan of a character seeking comfort in the arms of the thing thatâs going to kill them. and i am psycologicalily normal too.