draconic estinien truther

[lilyfishes]

i'd love if you knew you were on my mind

constant like cicadas in the summertime

[aurelion-solar]

Heavenscale Diana Splash Art Concepts - Terence Cantal

[norncrow]

273/365 Diana

[wvayness]

Imagine dance scene with them like a dance scene with Ekko and Jinx….

[aurelion-solar]

Filled with the light and power of the Aurora, Polaris beckons.

[aurelion-solar]

Winterblessed 2022 Promo Art ❄️

[beneathsilverstars]

tomorrow i have to give my daughter’s pikachu plushie gender-affirming surgery

[beneathsilverstars]

her results look great, congrats pikachu! 💖⚡️🏳️‍⚧️

[rederiswrites]

The trouble with mending, and all the cute visible mending trends especially, is that mending is predicated on the idea that what you have is an essentially sturdy garment that has worn out in a high-wear area or gotten damaged/torn. Whereas what most of us are actually dealing with is cheaply made shit that has simply given out at the first sign of adversity. If you mend something that's weak to begin with, it's entirely likely that it will just tear at the edge of the mend, which will suddenly be the strongest part of the garment. Or if your shirt has worn through or ripped out at the seam, it's just a crap shirt, and you can fix that seam, but another will give soon, and you have to make an honest assessment of whether the work you put in is worth it. My cheap Hanes white cotton socks blow out at the heels far faster than they ever used to, and fuck a bunch of that, but I'd never bother darning them. They'll just blow out at the toes in a month.

I don't have a solution to offer for this that doesn't involve spending either more money or more time. It is still barely possible to buy quality clothing, but it costs more than most of us can afford. And you can still make your own clothing, but as the skills and tools become less common, it's all the harder to learn. All I can say is look around, make a real assessment of your resources (like, say, Grandma still has a working machine and a stash of probably unfashionable but maybe cute fabric, or you think you can afford two pairs of good work pants a year and then keep them mended), and do your best.

[shmreduplication]

Strategies to help alleviate this (not solve because that's an industry+cultural wide problem, and like OP said it all takes at least more time if not also more money):

Have different nice clothes and clothes that you're ok with getting worn down, it will extend the life of your nice clothes

Change out of your nice clothes when you get home

Get an iron and use it on your nice clothes between most wears and only wash every few wears or when there's a stain or you got too sweaty (take care of your iron too, use filtered water in it)

When you wash your nice clothes, use cold water and then hang to dry. Hot water and dryers put a lot of wear on clothes

Get some wool dryer balls for when you use a dryer, it will speed up drying so you can also reduce the length of time clothes are in the dryer

This one's hard: don't overstuff the washer and dryer

Wear tank tops/undershirts. Thicker/higher quality clothing can be stiffer/more uncomfortable than cheap fabric so a tank can give you a buffer. It also helps keep your sweat off the clothes

Try going up a size when you buy new clothes, a lot of wear comes from clothes stretching/getting pulled around your body as you move rather than just the friction between you and the things around you

For socks: try loosening your shoes and cutting your toenails more often

Be mindful of how you take off your clothes, if you pull on the collar to take your shirt off, that's where it's going to start to rip

Be ok with small holes in your clothes. I agree it's often a waste to repair but it doesn't have to be trashed immediately

[rederiswrites]

All sound advice, thanks!

[hmguysndolls-blog]

Nicely Nicely's reference to a mug fresh from the jug--explained.

When Nicely Nicely Johnson sings When you meet a mug lately out of the jug And he’s still lifting platinum folderol Call it hell, call it heaven But it’s probable twelve to seven That the guy’s only doing it for some doll. Loesser is at the peak of his powers.

Basically, when you meet an ex-con who’s lately out of jail, and he’s stealing valuable trinkets [platinum folderol is an oxymoron, with platinum more highly valued than gold as a precious metal, and folderol (or falderal, an old English word meaning meaningless nonsense) being trifles], that’s larceny earning twelve months to seven years jail time if convicted.

Note also that Vitalis is a hair tonic and Barbasol a shaving cream. The duo mention both later in the song, and both products were used by men who cared about their appearance in the 1940’s.

[yamada-ryo]

'Mid' autumn festival? I find it quite based actually.

[pythice]

based on what?

[yamada-ryo]

[theablokhus]

“The Tomb I will serve till the end of my days, and then see me buried in two hundred graves”

This book is everything.

[ancientannoyance]

"You’re going to die spewing your own lungs out of your nostrils, having failed at the finish line because you couldn’t help but prattle about why you killed innocent people, as though your reasons were interesting…"

[nortess]

birth of venus except it sucks!

[pierogish]

Exploring

[dillusion-art]

i am the vengeance of the ten billion.

ig: d.ill.usion

[hatepotion]

iii / vi / vii / ix

[asthedeathoflight]

An underrated detail from Gideon the Ninth is that Cytherea's bone monster does not in fact have a skull in the middle of it. Basically all the art I've seen of it portrays it as having a skull at the center, but the monster is actually described as having a FACE at the center, like a death mask, which is made out of bone. Stop erasing Cytherea's aesthetic heritage. Shes not a goth shes a Romantic. Her beast has a gentle woman's face with closed eyes at its center. Thats fucked up. I would like to see it.