jazz hands

Diamond and pink sapphire brooch

Richard Landis, Signal, (mercerized cotton double weave), 1977 [Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, NY. © Richard Landis]

I have a thing to get to but had to get this out real quick

This is what "your emotions are valid" means.

It doesn't mean that any random shit you do is fine so long as you're angry or sad. It means that the anger and sadness is fine, attacking the emotion is pointless, and it's your behaviour in response to it that can help or harm.

I just saw a post that deeply annoyed me because it went, "Here's a story that's like a Regency romance, but I FIXED it by making the characters sexually liberated and shame-free and polyamorous!"

This is like saying, "Here's a story that's like a thriller, but I FIXED it by having the serial killer go to therapy instead of trapping victims in his evil maze and dismembering them."

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The thing a lot of people don't seem to get is that the entire appeal of a Regency romance is watching a deeply repressed, perfectly controlled, buttoned up, straight-laced person who has never expressed an emotion before fall so hard for someone that something in them just breaks and they come completely unhinged.

It's a very specific kink that this genre is tapping into.

People who think the characters in a Regency novel are boring are missing the whole point. The characters are supposed to be boring, right up until they fall so madly in love that it drives them insane, at which point they become very interesting. Regency romance novelists are doing the writing equivalent of putting plain white featureless uncooked whole eggs in a microwave and waiting for them to explode.

i love when Saga sends me vampire book synopses. truly my bread and butter (disclaimer: neither of us know anything about this book)

(detail from the San Barnaba Altarpiece (c. 1488) by Sandro Botticelli)

Seek.

quit your job. join my pirate apocalypse cult

Luck is from Tiger, Tiger! Read it!

▪Chair. Place of origin: France Date: Early 19th century Medium: Wood, fabric

"Millefleur," a 78" x 68" wholecloth quilt by Jan Hutchinson of Newton, KS. Longarm quilted.

"Wholecloth" in this case means that she started with one piece of mottled teal fabric and all color and definition in the finished piece comes from thread quilted atop.

Seen at the Pacific International Quilt Festival yesterday

why did she do this to himari's burg

knight radiant Pearl ✨

the steven universe + stormlight archive crossover you never knew you needed.. thanks so much @pearlhoardingdragon for commissioning me!

by Clara Örh

Corset discourse really likes to talk in sensationalizing absolutes but historically speaking a corset is just a kind of garment. They could be uncomfortable and painful or they could be well fitted and supportive. They could be hyper-fashionable or they could be brutally practical. You could tightlace them or you could wear them with no reduction whatsoever. Most corsets were probably somewhere in the middle. Like bras. Or shoes. To say they were never perceived as restrictive or used as tools of enforcing dangerous/misogynistic beauty standards is like saying women's shoes never restrict freedom of movement. Patently untrue, but that doesn't mean those shoes have some deeper moral good or evil and it certainly doesn't mean we can use that fact to draw sweeping generalizations about the relationships of entire centuries of women to their own bodies. Corsets, like all clothing, exist in context.

Remember that poll I made about the crochet rainbow mandala? It’s finally done and mounted today!!