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Not Quite Shining (Ren Faire AU with feelings)

Freewheel (Not Quite Shining prequel with punk rock parental angst and some intense Gideon pining)

Dark Mode Enabled (Tech Company AU with some terrible goddamn jokes)

what's the point of robbery (if nothing is worth taking) (historical AU featuring costume porn and poorly executed highway robbery)

#griddlehark #the locked tomb #fanfic #ao3 link #tlt fic #gideon the ninth #fic writer

forthegothicheroine

I'm a corset centrist. I think it's reasonable for historical fiction characters to not like corsets, but I reserve the right to roll my eyes in that scene in Bridgerton where they tightlace the girl before putting her in an empire waist dress.

chocolatepot

Tags from @lilacsandcarnations:

#i dont like bras! some people just dont #the thing is authors overlook really thinking about what that says about their charicter because theyre thinking about corsets less #as a garment and more as a symbol #maybe theyre hypermobile or have slipping rib syndrome #maybe theyre lactose intolerant and spend their lives feeling ill all the time #maybe they have sensory issues or tight clothes make them feel clostrophobic #maybe theyre dysphoric! #maybe its a hand me down that doesnt quite fit #my charicter doesnt like corsets should be the begining of asking what your charicters sensory world is

This is a really good point/set of points. I've gone on and on before about why most women wouldn't have been that bothered by their corsets so I don't want to bother rehashing it, but this is the flipside of that aspect.

It really, really is not inherently a problem to have your character(s) not like the feeling of wearing a corset. But it is bad writing to repeatedly use the same cliché characterization. If you're determined to go with this, don't just be like "well she's too free-spirited and modern" and call it a day (and if you do see this cliché criticized, please stop accusing the critics of being dumb misogynists, it just makes you look like you don't know enough about the historical genre to be aware that it's a cliché).

marzipanandminutiae

THIS

you can use not liking corsets to say something about your character! You just have to get past the idea that not liking corsets is a default state of any woman with a brain!

Even if she dislikes them on principle or for proto-feminist reasons, there has to be something about the sensation of them that she finds impeding to her life (which not all women did). Is it about difficulty bending at the waist, and if so, what about her life means that she needs to bend at the waist so badly and hasn't adapted her wardrobe to do so? Is she making and selling a patented corset alternative and therefore has a financial as well as possibly a philosophical stake in the question? Does she wear one of the many alternatives that were on the market in real life? Does she not experience any particular discomfort from corsets, but has a purely principled objection to them? If so, why? What does she think women should do for breast support instead? Or is she very small breasted and doesn't understand the discomfort many women experience in going without support?

you could do a lot with this if you weren't falling back on the tired old "well, obviously anyone worth listening to would dislike them because they're corsets and corsets are evil torture devices!" Shorthand

lady-harrowhark

🚨🚨🚨

Tommy Arnold, artist for the book covers, just posted this on Instagram:

He’s mentioned an upcoming apparel drop, so I suspect it’s to do with that rather than an Alecto cover reveal specifically but still very exciting!

slothful-rabbit

I laughed so fucking hard at this

paint-lady

princecroutons

does croutons know how to count to 4

his mind is unburdened by the concept of basically everything

lolokujo

One Flesh, One End

mudkipper

smogwife

Hi, we have the next BEASMLAB chapter up. Also remember when I said it was a story in three parts? Oops!

You can read it here.

tehriel

#gideon the ninth #the locked tomb fanart #Griddlehark #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #tlt fanart #the locked tomb

just-another-cat-blog

pride month!!!

lemonsharks

Is that a miette?

jeanjauthor

Pride for you! Pride for a thousand years!!

lost-and-cursed

you COME OUT to miette? you come out to her as queer? oh! oh! pride for mother! pride for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!

kwaiflower

bodyintheriver

Relax bro ain’t nobody taking it from you!!

pixelatedpetals

Some silly Doodles from the Edenite side of the family.

Once again my done with most beloved @carnivalien

maraistookmyheart

i love taking REALLY hot showers.... like yes girl... let's evaporate...

ur-favorite-fishgirl

if you vote me for president i vow to make everything the ocean again. no more land only ocean. this will solve all of our problems and replace them with new, far more interesting problems