Nyx 💜

This is so cool! 😍

🤣🤣🤣

Yay for ideas and sketching 🥰💜

For fuck's sake.

*Hugs* Posting is a tiny step! It gets the thing from inside your brain to outside your brain! I hope you manage some bigger steps soon (even if they're still also very small, small steps are great) 💖

Responding to piracy warnings from your ISP by saying "ah, no, I'm using this to train an LLM so it's fine"

My immediate thoughts on Dimension 20: On a Bus #gamechanger #dropouttv

water left in a glass overnight tastes bad because it gets haunted

Autistic self-care isn’t bubble baths and candles.

It’s canceling plans.

It’s saying no.

It’s feeding yourself something soft when everything’s too loud.

It’s holding your own hand through the crash.

Self-care isn’t indulgent.

It’s survival.

Not a luxury.

And it has to come first.

Reasons to join the dark druids:
- everyone looks good with antlers
- black is a flattering shade
- tea parties with the twig witch
- learn to craft beautifully cursed jewelry
- work under the stars and sleep on a bed of moss

Historical price conversions are a core area of concern and interest in costume studies. For fashion historians, curators, or reenactors, the question is: how does one explain the equivalent price of something worn in the past to someone in the present? I suggest a more quantitative understanding of historical prices will help researchers, professors, writers, and others better interpret the garments they examine, both within the field of costume studies as well as other disciplines such as literature, art studies, and sociology. The ambition of this paper is to showcase an alternative tool for fashion researchers to translate and explain historical fashion prices to a contemporary audience beyond simple Consumer Price Index tracking. The instrument this paper proposes is called Measuring Worth, which offers the possibility of wage tracking over time as another way to interpret historical prices.

Image 1: Purple silk velvet and satin court gown made by Charles Frederick Worth for Frances Fairchild, wife of Wisconsin Governor Lucius Fairchild. Image 2: Black and white photographic portrait in front of painted backdrop of Frances (Bull) Fairchild (1845-1924), wife of Wisconsin Governor Lucius Fairchild, wearing a court gown designed by Charles Frederick Worth of Paris, France. Worn at the Spanish court of King Alfonso XII and Queen Teresa, Madrid, Spain, 1880.

My first academic article is live!!

Published with Fashion Studies, “What is a ‘Worth’ Worth? Developing a Methodology of Historical to Modern Day Price Conversions for Dress” asks how we can better explain clothing prices in the past to people in the present. The approach explored is wage data.

Congrats, Cora!! 🥰💖

Well I wasn't, but now I am! 😍

That's *absolutely* urban druid-y/witch-y vibes, I love it so much!

Thusfar I've found it interesting to hear how many other folks are urban druids, and/or don't have access to gardens or wild spaces! I'm very inner-city, which sometimes feels a little isolating, so realising *how* not-alone I am in that feels really nice 🥰

My nerdy little brain is loving it! 😍

I got into the space just around the time the survey was wrapping up, so finally reading the results is a treat 🥰

I'm 13% in and loving this so much!

If you've ever wondered "What is a (modern) druid, really?", you're in luck, because Larisa surveyed over 700 druids from around the world, and then analysed the data + explained it in ways that make sense for those of us without statistical backgrounds 😍 /|\

Your job should pay you enough, full-stop!

No-one should have to do maths on top of their bill to figure out what they need to pay for something.

And tipping feels so much nicer (for everyone) when it's a bonus rather than an expectation/requirement 🥰

The UK doesn't have nearly the same level of tipping culture as the US, but I was making £6/hr, and tips paid for most of my food.

Even with live-in jobs and full-time hours, I wasn't earning enough to save money.

Everyone in every industry should earn enough from their base wage!

Yeappp. I rarely made tips in my decade in hospitality, but I was also getting paid $20-25/hr + penalties (AU$), which was (at the time) more than enough to live off, and have enough to save to travel internationally at least once a year.

it should be enough that it's an attempt to exterminate trans people. trans people should not be a sacrifice you are willing to make. but if they are, you should still care, because they are coming for people you won't find acceptable losses too

String of hearts are one of my favourites, they're so pretty! 😍

Oh, and, "everything happens for a reason" is also victim blaming.

Your child is not a "starseed" or "changeling" or "indigo child". Your child is neurodivergent and possibly disabled. New Age is bullshit and Nazi spirituality. That's all.

And in an unexpected twist, it turns out the most punk rock things of all are supporting public broadcasting and patronizing your local library and not cheating on your homework with AI

Idk if it helps, but there are a bunch of us elsewhere who are watching and witnessing and trying have your backs as much as we practically can from such a distance 💜

A collage of covers from the Discworld collectors editions: The Fifth Elephant, The Truth, The Last Continent, and Carpe Jugulum.

In a dream world, I'd have the full collection of these + the Josh Kirby paperbacks (up to his death), but I love that these editions have brought the humour back in a way some of the other covers versions haven't (+ they're shiny 😉💖)

We're slowly building our collection of them, as well 🥰 They're so pretty!

I'm grateful that it's bad enough to have swayed our election in Aus away from the hard-right, but I'm so horrified and terrified for you all 😔💜

He has good taste!

I wish we had more of the paperbacks from the original cover artist! But we also love the new hardcovers 🥰

There is never any series or author I will recommend more highly 💜

This is happening in the UK, not the US.

Fascism, misogyny & the desire to control women’s bodies is on the rise everywhere.

Stop using period tracker apps. Consider a permanent form of birth control if you’re sure you don’t want kids. Be discrete with your reproductive health.