#I should be finding sources for things

[raytorosaurus]

the riot fest lineup is also hilarious for geoff rickly specifically. headlining is the band that first truly got him deeply into music because his friends' hot older sisters liked them and he wanted to impress them (the cure). under them is the band with the guys from atdi who played in geoff's basement in the 90s and were one of thursday's biggest early influences (the mars volta). also at least one or two other bands who played geoff's basement back then actually (h2o, quicksand i believe?). then geoff's favourite ever band when he was in college, who publicly "bashed" him in 2003 by accusing him of plagiarism, which upset geoff so much he couldn't listen to them for a while (godspeed you! black emperor). his current favourite new band (high vis). his own band (thursday). and the other band that includes not only his drummer but also the bassist who has barely toured with thursday in over a decade but now can't seem to stay off the road (ls dunes). oh and they all fucking slap.

#sorry only one of these things has a source im at work lol #there's another interview from like 03 where geoff is soooo upset about the gy!be thing skdmfkdkd I'll have to find it #anyway. i should be there. that should be me. wail wail wail gnash teeth rend flesh howl at the moon #* #geoff rickly

[joons]

This may be a prickly subject, and I'm sorry if so. But I'm trying to learn more about Elvis, and every time I bring him up to people I know, they try to tell me he was this terrible person, and point me toward Priscilla's book, the movie made on it, and the discourse. Idk if you've talked about it on here (I tried searching your blog but couldn't find anything on it). If you're willing, I'd love to hear your take on it so I can see a more nuanced view.

The film Priscilla was greenlit roughly a month after Priscilla herself was informed that she was close to becoming financially insolvent in 2022. With a business partner, Brigitte Kruse, who allegedly helped broker the film deal, she established a limited liability company called Priscilla Presley Partners that was supposed to use her image and likeness to create several lines of merchandise to coincide with the film's release. That business partner is now suing Priscilla because she did not have the rights to her image or likeness, or any ability to use the Presley name, because she had already sold all of those rights and was no longer considered in good standing with Graceland or Elvis Presley Enterprises. The entire business deal, then, according to the lawsuit, was built on her misrepresentation of how much her image was worth.

The deal between the two of them fell apart after Riley Keough, Lisa Marie's daughter and Priscilla's granddaughter, settled with Priscilla to give her a lump sum of $1 million from Lisa Marie's estate and yearly amounts of $100,000. Priscilla sued very shortly after Lisa Marie's death because she thought Lisa Marie's signature on a will had been forged because Priscilla was not included in it. All of the assets were supposed to go directly to Lisa Marie's son, Benjamin Keough, who died in 2020, and her three daughters, two of whom are still teenagers. Now, part of those assets have been claimed by Priscilla and her other son, Navarone, who has no connection to the Presley family and has stated he is glad Lisa died.

Four months before Lisa's death, Lisa wrote to Sofia Coppola and made it clear she had strong concerns about the Priscilla film and was suspicious of the intentions behind it:

"As his daughter, I don’t read this and see any of my father in this character. I don’t read this and see my mother’s perspective of my father. ... I will be forced to be in a position where I will have to openly say how I feel about the film and go against you, my mother and this film publicly."

Lisa was enormously grateful for efforts put into 2022's Elvis to find her father's soul and to restore his dignity in a world that often turns him and his family into a joke:

"You can feel and witness Baz’s pure love, care, and respect for my father throughout this beautiful film, and it is finally something that myself and my children and their children can be proud of forever."

It is such a strong and powerful statement, to see how much Lisa valued family, not just her father but her own children and their legacy, and how willing she was to speak up no matter what was going on in her personal life to say what was right. On this and many other things, Lisa and Priscilla's values have rarely been in alignment. A friend and EPE business associate, Joel Weinshanker, said of her, "Lisa couldn't be bought, she couldn't be pushed. If she felt that something wasn't in Elvis' best interest, it was never about money. And she really is the only Presley that you could say that about."

Priscilla, though, has adjusted her stories about her time with Elvis almost every time she discusses it. For a quick example, she said in her book, which was released in 1985, that Elvis insisted she do her hair and makeup a certain way, that he had control over her look and would get upset if she didn't dress how he wanted. But in an interview with Ladies' Home Journal in 1973, she said that she made a deliberate choice to attend makeup school so that she could learn how to style herself, and that it was her idea to wear big, black hair and big, black eyeliner. She said she was embarrassed for going overboard. She said, "I wish that Elvis had said something, but he must have liked it because he never commented." This lines up with recollections from Patti Parry, a platonic friend of Elvis' and a hairstylist, who said Priscilla always wanted Patti to do her hair in a "big boombah," but that Priscilla would then get upset when Elvis didn't notice or didn't like it.

These changes are impossible not to notice if you follow her for any length of time. At the film premiere, she said it felt just like watching her life and said she was consulted on everything, since she was an executive producer. After the film came out, she said she couldn't understand why Coppola had changed so much about the story and misrepresented events. In the '70s, she said she and Elvis lived almost totally separate lives, that she came and went as she pleased, and that she loved this freedom. Later, she said she felt completely stifled and trapped and never left the house, even though she had friends she went out with all the time. In 2019, she tweeted a forceful denial about a National Enquirer story: "This is the Enquirer folks... please don't believe everything you read. ... Never planned on being buried next to Elvis. What will they come up with next?" But part of her settlement demands in her lawsuit against Riley in 2023 asked "to be buried next to Elvis." This year, she said in two separate interviews that Lisa was with her when Elvis died and that Priscilla had to break the news to her, despite the fact that Lisa was at Graceland when it happened. She has said she gave Elvis the idea to wear belts on his jumpsuits, to have a lightning bolt as his logo, to sing "An American Trilogy," though none of that is true. She retells the story about forcing Elvis to burn all of his spiritual books to prove he loved her as an almost funny anecdote about debrainwashing him, while Elvis later said it was the worst thing he ever agreed to, a desperate attempt to make her happy by giving up the things he valued the most. (For the record, this is my opinion about their relationship on both sides: thinking they could change themselves and each other to make it work. It never did.)

Every secondhand Elvis account has to be treated lightly and only valued for its consistency with known facts and other witnesses. I try to give enormous benefit of the doubt to anyone in the Elvis world because they often only have partial knowledge of what Elvis may have been thinking at any given time, and there are numerous examples of people who were taken advantage of by unscrupulous journalists who changed the story they wanted to tell. But Priscilla's stories sometimes are not even consistent with her own statements, which makes them very poor options indeed to base anything on. However careful we are about noting potential biases and inaccuracies in other memoirs, we have to be triply, quadruply careful with anything in which Priscilla involves herself because she has a vested interest in generating discourse today in order to make money. Unfortunately, Priscilla has a habit of stifling other accounts or making sensationalized statements each time there is a possibility that she will lose some of the cachet that comes with being an Elvis Source—after Elvis' death, when she believed she was going to inherit his airplane and disinvited everyone that Vernon said could fly in it to his funeral; when she sued the parents of one of Elvis' ex-girlfriends after he died because he had allowed them to live rent-free in a house he bought for them; when she claimed that Elvis wanted to reunite with her before his death, despite the fact that he was engaged to someone else and told many people he couldn't see a reunion ever happening with her; before Vernon's death, when she convinced him to make her an executor of the Presley estate until Lisa came of age; after Lisa came of age, when she convinced Lisa to let her stay on as partner; when Lisa accused Priscilla of misspending Lisa's money, during which time anonymous sources cropped up to say Lisa was in debt and drug-addled; when Priscilla was removed from her position as an EPE spokesperson but kept collecting $900,000 a year from the company; when Lisa died, and Priscilla sued once she learned she wasn't in the will; when Priscilla was no longer associated with EPE and decided to do another adaptation of a book that she has since recanted parts of and has contradicted before and after its release.

When Priscilla thinks there is a threat to her image and position, she does new interviews and projects to muddy the waters and stir public interest, whether it is true or false, positive or negative, laudatory or defamatory. She gets corrected by Elvis' surviving family members, girlfriends, friends, and fans, but these stories do not get the same reach no matter how much they are backed by contemporaneous documents and witnesses, or how many resources there are to educate the public on how Elvis' and Priscilla's attitudes about marriage and relationships changed—along with the rest of society—between 1960 and 1970.

I think almost any single-source project is not going to advance our understanding of Elvis in any way because no one individual can speak for him, and we are kind of obligated to include all the context we can in order to appreciate his character, his successes and failures, flaws and virtues—and to treat both himself and those around him as fully three-dimensional people who have their own blind spots. Priscilla is far too aware of her own image, and far too willing to change it to suit the audience, to be particularly valuable here.

She is next scheduled to appear at the Lexington (Kentucky) Comic & Toy Con.

#please know that for each of these stories i have tried to see things from her perspective #and then something happens again #and again and again #so i have simply stopped trying and accepted that i don't like her or find her credible as far as these things go #i don't imagine i should be privy to all their family drama so of course some of this may change over time #but there are far far far better sources for learning about elvis! #an easy gateway would be ashley's adventures and elvis fans matter on youtube! #ashley does a lot of fun documentation of graceland and efm is the family channel of billy and jo smith #they are elvis' cousin and his wife who were with elvis a lot and they have good human stories #same caveat goes for them: they might not know everything #but i just like the format better than books

[anghraine]

I got a comment that was like ... people are only mad about film Faramir because he doesn't act exactly the way they personally imagined him, and tbh I'm torn between being annoyed at how deeply disingenuous that argument is and slightly impressed at the sheer audacity of pinning the Faramir Controversy on difference from random people's headcanons rather than the book itself.

...then I got to thinking about how the whole time-consuming and wildly out of character handling of the temptation of the Ring is one thing, and justifiably gets a lot of attention, but Faramir allowing his soldiers to beat Gollum for information is quite comparable in my mind. They're his men! Gollum is an unarmed prisoner! I guess it's meant to show the exigencies of war or something and I'm just like ... hahaha no.

In a way it reminds me of film Aragorn just straight up killing the Mouth of Sauron in a way that seems meant to show their desperation in a badass cathartic way, and meanwhile, I'm thinking ... oh, our heroes murder ambassadors now. I feel like it's the same underlying kind of rationale, and quite far from not matching people's headcanons.

#faramir ordering his men to handle gollum gently and aragorn not actually killing sauron's (human) envoy are not people's headcanons #they're things that objectively happened (or didn't happen) in the source material being adapted #like the argument about how significant the divergences are is one you can have (obviously i find them very significant) #the argument about whether the comparisons should be made at all is one you can have (obviously i think comparisons are fine) #but 'people are just mad about not seeing their headcanons on screen'? nah. points for effort though. #anghraine rants #legendarium fanwank #legendarium blogging #pj critical #jewel of the seashore #húrinionath #vagueblogging intensifies

[sealrock]

the major arcana, shuffled: 7/??

THE STAR; ⤉ hope, inspiration, healing, positivity ⤈ hopelessness, despair, monotony, lack of faith THE MOON; ⤉ illusion, instability, dreams, confusion ⤈ releasing fear, unveiling secrets, subsiding anxiety, regaining composure THE SUN; ⤉ vitality, joy, confidence, self-expression ⤈ unrealistic expectations, ego, conceitedness, pessimism

#mypost. #ffxiv gpose #ffxiv screenshots #ffxiv oc #ffxiv:tma #🍂 #my last 3-for-1 post! my bones hurt #featuring hector (moon) / hero (sun. hector's first shard) / hyacinthos (star. hector's ancient) #spent most of the day (and half of the night) working on these before i dropped them in the queue orz #i admittedly ran out of steam on the star because i finished this entire thing at 4am #the reversed moon is INCREDIBLY scuffed don't look at it too closely. i hate posing inhuman npcs so mcuh #upright version of the moon was heavily inspired by lit.eral.ite's csm ts4 render #posing for the reversed sun was based on an oil painting i saw a long time ago that i can't find the source for aaarahgh #i just realized the moon sides should be flipped based on their themes but w/e. they can work either way you interpret them #q. #body horror cw

[mixelation]

re: the hbomberguy plagiarism video again. i keep seeing people being like "this is a reminder to always check your sources" and it leaves me wondering. does anyone on this website even understand what that means

#i haven't watched the video or the toddintheshadows videos yet so this 'reminder' might make more sense in context #but the thing about plagiarism is that 'checking your sources' won't necessarily work #if you get lucky you might find the original thing that the plagiarist is stealing from #if you're not lucky you'll just find the sources the original used and it'll seem like it checks out #and THAT'S why plagiarism is so insidious #and 'checking' gets a lot more complex once you're looking into theory over pure facts #or. like. the general vibes of a fandom #anyway an important aspect of evaluating a source is to ask who the information is coming from #and you should basically never blindly trust some rando online with no relevant credentials #not even me. not even mr. hbomberguy

[canon-gabriel-quotes]

smell pickup line based on the gasoline one because i cannot get it out of my head.

you're a black sharpie and baby? I'm in my office cubicle trying to get high.

We can’t start smell posting it’s going to get out of hand.. too out of hand for a Sunday night

coughs. Anyway

Gabe is a gold sharpie.. like the one for the print signings (I am executed before I can continue)

#we can smell post when I post. A fucking. Legendary clip. that is 1 of the reasons I even made this account #I didn’t find the source of it till like a month ago #but I have it now #it’s a special one it deserves an image to go along with it #but trying to make art is like throwing darts while blindfolded #could take months LOL #COUGHS ok guys no smell posting #you all have covid remember? you can’t smell anything #alright time for a bad tag #im not even a smell guy but there’s a secret switch in my head where if you apply something to gabe it suddenly will appeal to me #well not everything but #a lot of things I can make an exception for #it’s like a fuckin cheat code #this is a mostly innocent post I should stop now #see this is why we can’t do that #the tags speak.. too much. too much. #non voice post #ask #asks #edit: I should mention that the clip im talking about in the tags #is more of a funny clip than anything #he’s trying very hard not to laugh

[essektheylyss]

I JINXED MYSELF I opened a book I wanted to read and then my third course site got published and there's an optional book to read THERE AS WELL THAT SOUNDS SUPER INTERESTING THAT WOULD PROBABLY GO REALLY WELL IN TANDEM WITH MY CURRENT BOOK, FUCK

#WHY DO I HAVE A JOBBBBB MY JOB SHOULD BE TO READ FASCINATING BOOKS ABOUT ART CULTURE AND OWNERSHIP #FUCK #anyway I am gonna read it lmao #it's a book on the history of copyright :3 #my courses this quarter SLAP ngl #honestly I have a great time in school cuz I literally only take courses that sound fascinating but like. #also I do think most things sound fascinating so that is in my favor here #I do think my two courses that aren't programming are gonna go VERY well in tandem anyway so #I do not do all of the optional readings #but I always do the optional book reading cuz usually it's like 'here's a much larger subject overview' which I find very helpful #and if it's an open source book and I can just download it and hold onto it for later? even better #(this one is available on jstor. privilege and property ed. by deazley et al. like if you want it)

[bugsbenefit]

do you have where the duffers said that there will be pre-time skip scenes? I thought it was all fan speculation

don't have that handy as a legit source rn sorry, i can only give you word of mouth that originally, right post s4 coming out, the Duffers mentioned in an interview that they would do a time skip again (to account for the actors ages and time lost with the pandemic filming delays) and that it would happen a few episodes into s5. they brought up the idea of it happening around episode 2. and that s5 would pick right back up where s4 ended. opposed to filming s4 and s5 back to back like what their original plan was. but they were also vague and things clearly weren't finalized yet

so the obvious conclusion at the time was that there would be pre time jump scenes (episode 1 and potentially 2) and that's all we had to go on for over a year and that's why a lot of people are so sure there will be a significant amount of time spent pre time skip

but that was all the way back in 2022 and wasn't repeated since

personally, i definitely think there's a possibility the time skip is going to happen right into s5. which would also help them avoid pacing nightmares like having to "re-start" the action/tension build up over an hour into the final season

but from where we are right now we just really don't know how they'll do the time skip. a lot of people are very adamantly sticking with what was said in that one initial interview, but, again, that was a single interview from autumn of 2022. so yk. what people also took to mean time spent pre time skip is the Duffers saying s5 will jump "right back into the action" since they don't need to establish motive for the characters anymore (actually Do have a link for one of those articles lmao). but the opening of s5 going fast could also easily be meant to be post time skip. there just won't be much introducing the characters or having them find the plot anymore, that's going to happen whether we pick back up where we left off or start up post time skip

but lacking confirmation by the Duffer's aside there is a few things suggesting they already filmed more than what we saw in s4, which would make sense as pre time skip scenes for s5 since the actors would still be the same age and they wouldn't have to rebook old locations, like:

bts of Rinkomania existing of things we never saw in the show. like Will wearing the outfit from the van trip and finale. despite the filming in that location happening in an incredibly short amount of time which would mean a packed filming schedule

bts existing of the cast sitting in the Sinclair's living room while in full costume (might add a link to that later but i don't have it handy right now)

also the script of the final episode we got by the official writers account not ending on the usual ending but on a literal "end season" cliffhanger, which a lot of people took as there potentially being more they filmed of that scene as an opening for the next season (that's purely speculative tho, not as solid as the other two things where we have image proof, i'm just mentioning it bc i've seen it discussed before, so just to cover Everything yk)

since we know so little, those could be scenes we see right away, but that could also be flashbacks we see later on, post time skip. so while there are things pointing to there being more 1986 scenes filmed that we haven't seen yet, that's not really indicative of when the time skip itself will happen

my Current personal guess is super early into e1 but that's not based on anything specific except what i think would make the most sense from a logistical and story telling pov (opinion up to change at any moment based on news we get tho)

#ask tag #st s5 #not having sources for everything i'm saying all the time is genuinely the horror for me btw #i should go and try to look for that initial interview for real sometime lmao #it's become a thing of legend by now #but ik it got buried to hell and back by the shitton of 'speculative' s5 articles in 2022/3 that farmed engagement and said nothing #that thing was already hard to find in january of last year when someone went looking for it and it was only a few months old then #looking for it now definitely didn't get easier

[garlic-sauc3]

versions of booster gold made by people who obviously dont know much about booster can be so infuriating because they tend to depict him as stupid or as a joke and then people who only know him from these depictions in more popular media have a skewed impression of him

#and like in justice league unlimited #even when the whole thing is about him wanting to be treated seriously #while also still wanting fame and recognition #it feels like a regurgitation of a lot of what he goes through and learns in his first solo #but worse #the 'i thought you were green lantern' joke feels like a rip off of the people calling him buster joke #except the thing about the comics is that he was well known #and the conflict was that he was well known but since he did so much ads and sponsorships and corporate shit #and that he acted like an open book while telling people nothing about himself #led to a distrust with the general opinion on him #which led to interesting plotlines and shit #and sure his tagline is 'the greatest hero youve never heard of' but he has very much been heard of in universe #at least like orginally #anyway this whole thing could be applied to a lot of comic characters unfortunately #but im just pissed that i cant find like a show version of him that does him justice #i hope that whenever james gunn makes that booster gold show that he actually does booster some good #and keeps the og comics in mind #ugh i wish people writing characters should read at least a decent chunk of the characters source material #and other things with them that are properly characterised #anywho i should reread some of my favorite booster comics to make up for it

[puppyeared]

footnotes arent enough I need you to talk to me like im fucking Amelia Bedelia

#this isn’t about anything in particular btw. I just have to add a lot of memos when I’m doing things because some things are done a certain #way and it isn’t explained well in the instructions. like my mom has instructions on her baking recipes right #but when it says stuff like add dry ingredients to wet ingredients it also means you don’t dump it in one go you add it slowly by portion #this is probably why I find videos and demonstrations the most helpful when I learn something. like I almost always ask someone to show me #how they do it because there could be something they do that’s already second nature and wouldn’t really be considered in an explanation yk #I don’t think I’m an exception either. when the rice is done cooking I divide it into 4 quarters to bless it #but there are a million ways to divide rice and it makes me think that one persons way of doing it or not doing it all is just as valid #theres also technically no wrong way to divide rice afaik. this means either all ways of dividing rice is safe or valid until we find some #universally terrible way of dividing rice. until that happens nobody really thinks about specifying HOW you divide the rice #source: I have anxiety starting and doing things for the first time because I got way too many people yell at me NONONO WHAT ARE YOU DOING #THATS WRONG while I’m in the middle of doing the thing. I would rather have people think I’m either very stupid or overly specific #than go thru the panic inducing fear of ‘YOURE DOING THIS WRONG OMG WHY DIDNT YOU ASK AHEAD OF TIME THIS WILL BE FUCKED UP FOREVER’ 🧍 #nothing wrong if you don’t give something a second thought because you’re so used to it. but I can and will ask about it and I don’t think I #really should feel bad about it if I don’t know enough to dispute it. idk #the other way around I try to be as specific as possible and word things in a way that people who might not get where I’m coming from will #understand. but the problem with that is my explanations tend to be lengthy and I lose them either way 🗿 #Im. trying to work on that using examples and stuff because they seem to work the best #but if I could write everything down on a word doc and beam it into your melon that would save both of us time and embarassment #im rambling the short version is I have adhd #yapping

[songsintheattic]

why are intro classes so much harder than real ones? i do not have the personality to do fake work

#this fake assignment should have taken like an hour to complete and I'm still working on it #because i cannot find decent sources #even though it's not a real paper it's literally just a reference list #and i chose a really understudied topic without thinking #but he told me to do what I'm actually interested in so i feel like i need to stick with it #but there is literally NOTHING usable outside of journal articles #none of which are in my university library either apparently #so i am technically doing this entire thing wrong because i am incapable of just turning in something bad instead #so rip me

[youkah]

As a disabled person who has a hard time drawing half the time I think anyone who defends AI art saying it's accessible to disabled people should fuck off

#text #and then using self checkout as an example of like. #'if you're against ai then you should be against this thing that steals jobs!' #'you don't value caahiers as real people and put art over them!' #like they use that as some weird gotcha #look I don't have an issue with AI art that is sourced with permission #and the person who used the generator is honest about it being that #like if you use Adobe firefly which uses its own stock library then w/e #but the moment you use ai that is trained without consent of artists #and put people out of jobs at the same time #then fuck off #also as a note for self checkout #i personally find it to be an accessible option of checking out #like for example people who can't speak the local language have an option #and also people with social anxiety #but I do not like it when every register is replaced with self checkout #i do think that it should be an option though #anyway that's my rant as an artist lol

[toxiccaves]

i think something about ppl reblogging ai art without noticing it also comes down to how we should already be making sure its not reposted or stolen art. i know thats how a LOT of aesthetic blogs are run, but with photos too, i get not glancing twice if it seems to be official/stock/brand imagery or some old timey painting, but you should always in the first place be making sure any art you rb is uploaded by the creator, or if not, sourced properly

#i know its troublesome to bg check and find the source of everything we wanna rb but genuinly we need to be responsible in what we post #quickly pulling out the OP's blog on here and checking the bio or pinned rlly doesnt take super long!! you should make it a habit #not to mentiont his is helpful incase of checking any boundaries in a DNI #as for recognizing ai art; it has gotten a lot better and can be harder to notice in photograph type ones but rather than inspecting the #image itself; i think researching the source is easier if the other is too difficult #another thing u can do is check the reblogs and or replies section! sometimes ppl point it out already

[franeridan]

there's a certain kind of lost-in-translation feel when talking op ships between manga-onlys and anime-onlys that should seriously not be underestimated, I think

#it took me three hundred years to realise ace and sanji actually interact in the anime and that's where the ship comes from #i was so confused !!!!! but now i see #not I see as in I ship it I see as in I see where you're getting it from #it's the same as with nami and vivi and people calling it practically canon I think #they have the same relationship as they have with everyone else in the manga but i think they added to their moments in the anime? #zo. san shippers have more to go off from in the anime as well #no I'm saying this difference shouldn't be underestimated when having a conversation about these things with other fans #you should always check what source material the fan you're talking to is most familiar with before trying to argue #as far as relationships go sometimes it feels like we're following two different stories #isn't that lowkey amazing? i find it amazing #also cause shippers really are gonna need only a single scene to make a whole cult so the animes got an insane power there #this is true for character traits and personalities too now that i think about it! #like how people will say zoro's good with kids but as far as i remember the only kid he interacts with in the manga is tama? #it really IS amazing the gap in the different kinds of understanding is insane

[asteralien]

video called "pirate shirt tutorial that actually makes sense" with a thumbnail clickbaitingly copying bernadette banner's style, which does the exact same thing as bernadette banner's video but more confusingly and without a diagram in the video itself, also failing to understand that bernadette banner's channel is primarily a history channel and not a sewing tutorial channel so telling people they don't have to hand-sew the pirate shirt or they don't have to thread-pull is unnecessary because bernadette banner literally said "do this however you want, i just do it this way because it's how i learn about historical dress practices" in her own video. couldn't ask for better youtube entertainment

#source: i'm an idiot and i've made two of bernadette's pirate shirts and they're fantastic #understanding that her diagram is not a pattern but a guideline on how to make your own pattern #is like. not that hard to get. she gave her measurements and then explained how to get your own #to be fair!! everyone learns differently! there are many comments saying that this other video made sense and helped them #which is absolutely fair and good. more knowledge is never a bad thing #it's just the presentation of this other video that i find so funny #'yes i CAN explain how to make a historically accurate men's shirt better than the actual historical dress historian' #[footage not found] #just the way of explaining the shoulder seams...........so much more confusing than bernadette's diagram #also calling the reinforcement patches on the neck/cuff splits??? useless/pointless?????? #sorry i want my garments to not fall apart because i can't afford really nice fabric lmao i will be reinforcing those points. thanks tho #also 'no one is talking about neck gussets i couldn't find any info' HUH ??? #i just want to know if they looked anywhere besides youtube because there are absolutely people talking abt neck gussets #i should not be such a bitch about this. it's not that big a deal. again in the end: more people sharing knowledge is Good #but my friend!!! come on now!!!! #aster chat #ah fuck lads i want to make another poet shirt because that's exactly what i need going into what i'm sure will be a blazing summer #another long sleeved shirt with three yards of fabric to smother myself in #that do Not go with any of my work appropriate trousers

[firstfandomfangirl]

I've been thinking a lot about fear off and on over the last week and. Hmm.

#rambling #I am a super anxious person #I can find a way to be afraid of a lot of things #On top of that there are things that trigger my anxiety and cause me to be Very Afraid; Every Time #ex. Sickness #So I've devoted the past few months to avoiding those triggers whenever possible #and it's just now occuring to me that that.... may not be the healthiest choice? #Instead of avoiding the sources of fear at all costs; maybe I should confront them? #I can't.... Avoid EVERYTHING that scares me #and it's keeping me from doing things I want to do. Or SHOULD do. #and when I am inevitably in a situation where I CANT avoid a trigger it makes me doubly stressed because I can't escape it #I don't know if confronting them would help but I know avoidance isn't going to work forever.