I didn't post this to Tumblr when I made it last year, I don't think?
This is the jacket of a Blacksleeve Servicer from Perhaps the Stars, the fourth book of Dr. Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota series. (Don't worry about the "Blacksleeve" portion if you haven't gotten there yet.)
The armband is made from a pair of Romanovan flags that Dr. Palmer was handing out at Worldcon in Chicago in 2022: I sewed them into an armband on the spot. This is why you bring your sewing kit to cons, kids.
I've been told by a lefty American friend that it looks quite fashy (laughing in spoilers), which is why I tend to pair it with either the matching camo bottoms and brown hiking boots (more military at a glance), or with dingy stained cargo shorts and sneakers (not a Proud Boy).
But this last weekend, at the North American Science Fiction Convention "Pemmi-Con" in Winnipeg, Canada, I got no strange looks at all while wearing this outside con spaces. This wasn't really something I noticed, until it became obvious in retrospect when a Canadian friend noticed the Romanovan flag flown from a city building nearby:
Romanova is located in Canada!
