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I have vague thoughts about Kim's connection with the sea in my head. Like revachol is on the coast. He's worked in the HARBOR for TWENTY YEARS. He knows boats, he knows the ocean. There's something in my head about Jamrock being a little ways a way from the ocean and something about one of Kim's skills being 'volta do mar' and something about Kim and the ocean and the harbor... someday it'll come to me... yes, he's always dreamed of flight. Always wanted to be a pilot. But what he got instead was the sea... I think the ocean calls to him. I think he has a special specific connection to it, I just don't know what yet

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An Amateur Researcher's Tiny Resources List Off Google Search for 1840s Menswear

Full disclaimer, I'm not a historian, and these are just links I found online to help me get an idea of how to draw characters in everday settings when they're not in uniform. The need for this research arose out of a post-rescue fanfiction I am currently working on set in the autumn of 1848. As such, my "research" (ie google searching) only covers the 1840s decade and nothing before or after (the year range I input for searching collections was 1838–1848). Furthermore, I don't know if it's at all possible with my limited sources to find Specific Information on differences between what different classes would wear + what specifically English would wear (and not, say, American or French or whatever) + how new or old clothing would be (did they often buy clothes, was not being able to buy clothes seen as a class signifier, etc). (For the purposes of my fic, the characters are upper class, for example.) Finally, I'll just be placing links here and not actually making a guide out of this post because, well, I should be working on my fic (but I figured what I found could be useful for others; and if any of you want to write something about the information found here / make your own post building off it / provide your own research, feel free to pitch in! But notify me somehow—not so much as to credit me, but because I want to know!).

Good overview of the styles of the Romantic Period (1820–1850 for the men's overview and 1820–1835 for the women): HERE

Wikipedia overview on 1840s fashion: HERE (references listed at the bottom may be a good source as well, i haven't checked)

Blog post overview on 1840s men's fashion: HERE (women's here)

Another 1840s decade overview: HERE (references listed at the bottom may be a good source as well, i haven't checked)

Another brief overview of the 1840s decade: HERE w some images

A Few Images w a Focus on Cravats: HERE (tumblr post)

A Few Images w a Focus on the Men's Hourglass Figure of the 1840s: HERE (same tumblr, different post. this tumblr may have more information under the 1840s tag, i haven't checked yet. EDIT. Just checked)

Idk if there's a categorization system for @clove-pinks (hope you don't mind the tag!!!) tumblr blog but here's the 1840s tag for good measure: HERE

Didn't go deeper into the blog but here's an ask asking for good resources for fashion: HERE (so this would be a great place to look as well)

i'm sure that blog has PLENTY more to find.

This Steampunk costume blog post HERE mentions "In the 1840’s plates, I noticed these colors: black, dark brown, medium brown or tan, navy blue, burgundy, dove grey, a very colorful red spotted or checked fabric on a waistcoat, and several pairs of pantaloons with either striped or checked fabric."

Victoria and Albert Museum Collection of Fashion Plates with the Date Range 1838–1848: HERE (good collection of images like a catalogue of outfits)

Very Long Tumblr Post mentioning all the layers going into an 1830s menswear outfit: HERE (note, this is 1830s, and it might be french. unsure. incredibly detailed post so i figured i'd add it in)

I think other places to look that would be good for referencing just the vibes and whatnot of the era would be to read up on the ideas of the era + the artistic movements + what concepts were circulating at the time. But I'm not here to make that post, just to provide my VERY BASIC researches.

Final note: I can't vouch for the accuracy of any of this! This is just basic surface level research that's good enough for me when referencing outfits for drawing and writing (bc i want to spend more time well. writing and drawing than researching haha.)

Anyways that's my hugely unorganized amateur researcher list I figured I would release into the environment. If any of you guys have any more information / want to add on to this / etc., feel free to!

EDIT: not to even mention what the hell they'd wear for mourning / how long they'd wear it for, if at all. i know there's a lot of stuff for women, but men? i dont know! needs to be looked into

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Okay more headcanons where Kim is the leader of the revolution in Harry's place bc Harry steps down from the position

Anyways THE THING ABOUT IT THOUGH THE THING ABOUT KIM BEING THE LEADER OF THE REVOLUTION IS THAT HES JUST HUMAN. Hes JUST flesh and blood. Hes not an innocence. He never will be. He's not palefucked like Harry is. He's no magpie. He is just. Flesh and blood. Revacholian. Traumatized like all her people are. She has left scars deep in him, but what revacholian doesn't have these scars??? Kim is just that. Kim. Just human. Just revacholian. Just people, like those he leads. When he bleeds, he bleeds the same. Harry meanwhile is something else and he's untouchable and he's CHOSEN by revachol. Revachol picked HIM to save her. But it costs Harry everything until he realizes that he will die if he keeps going down this path, and he chooses to save himself. To be there for the people that matter to him. It's a tragedy that he takes his hands off the levers and lets revachol burn but the thing is

Harry and Kim are intertwined. Their fates are shared. Harry is there for Kim to fall back on and vice versa. They complete each other, they are parts of each other's wholes

And of course when Harry steps down, takes his hands off the levers, even though he burns with innocentic light, Kim is there to step up. Take his place

And the thing is while Revachol chose Harry... Kim chose Revachol

So yeah. Something I've been thinking about a lot

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do whatever you want forever | inspired by downeymore's version on redbubble

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thinking about EDWARD rn lemme give yall my nedward playlist. nothin' fancy for image or description yet coz i don't wanna'

it builds off mr k's list!!!! the lyrics match. really loved how mr k's list felt just like as if ned were someone i knew in college and he'd drive me around places coz i don't drive n that's what he would put on the radio. tried to replicate that feeling (some of these songs r ones my own college friend would put on the radio) + make the lyrics match + make the sound fit the mr k picks + the last four (21–24) r the more personal ones, mr k style. i really think this one builds on the official playlist SO WELL. meant to be listened to in order!

motifs of sinking, drowning, oceans, ships, shipwrecks, and gold in this one! also no overt lovesongs, a lot of references to friends and friendship, and a general feeling of both just how much little loves the world and hates how bad everything's gotten and how angry he is at everything bc he knows how good it can be

enjoy n do lemme know what you think if you take a listen!!!

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Yah yah dundy makes some expressions like fitzjames but have you considered fitzjames makes expressions like dundy sometimes

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FIRM fucking believer that Jean has a lot of Harry in him and vice versa. You can’t call them heterosexual life partners and not see them as really close friends. They come together like dirty socks. They’ve had massive influence on each other in the short span they’ve worked together, and if I’m to believe the lore, RCM work is hell, so they’ve been through the SHIT together

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My chaslist 😏

Modern Charlie's just broken free from his family to live a life all his own. They wanted him to be a concert pianist, but he saw no future there, playing in stuffy concert halls for a rapidly dwindling audience made up of mostly senior citizens. He is doing everything he can now to define himself as his own person in the world, and to defy everything his parents wanted him to be, but money is tight, his bestie (Hodge) thinks he needs to make his own money and is reluctant to give, and renting an apartment with a grumpy war vet twice his age (Dundy) isn't the glamorous life he'd thought he'd find. And a lot of times, he still wakes up from nightmares. Old traumas still haunt him. The drugs he's barely six months sober on still call to him. And the world is a place that wants him and those like him dead.

So I thought aggressive, high-paced, heavy bass EDM and similar such vibes would be very fitting for Chas! Also meme tunes haha. Plus, I kinda' loosely based his whole situation off my own irl bro's situation, so a lot of these songs are some he likes (and Kassio Project's 'Help Me See' is his song that he made AND his label).

BIG CAUTION this is super aggressive, heavy, often violent music, AND do NOT listen to 'Hey Baby' (song no. 5) in public, it's extremely sexual (she moans etc.).

Done in Mr. K style with music Chas would listen to + lyrics that are applicable to him. Songs 19 thru 22 are more personal!!! This doesn't have an opening credits song so much as an opening sequence set of songs, video game style, but it's okay.

Oh and final note tagging @faworsley bc I made this for him bc of his influences (as well as for myself bc I could just feel Charlie's vibes SO clearly).