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both i think have that root also of "god, fuck what i'm SUPPOSED to wear, i am going to wear what makes ME happy". obvsly i know the lolita fashion side here a lot better - it is what some might consider a paradoxically feminist moment, as lolita fashion actually is pretty fucking punk in its sentiments of "i don't care if i'm 'supposed' to be the perfect demure office worker and housewife in sedate modern duds. i'm going to wear what i want to wear, not what society demands i wear."

this is very Cis Girl Looking In From The Outside, but i wish to extend a hand for solidarity fistbump wrt some chat across the fediverse

i think 'typical trans girl fashion' and lolita fashion both share a root, which is why (unsurprisingly) there are a lot of trans women i've seen wearing lolita and interested in it as well - both are "fuck you, i'm a girl", almost to what society might consider "tacky" or "overdone" or "too loud". it is feminine, and screams itself as thus.

@InspectorCaracal you might be surprised! takeaway restaurants have been a thing in ancient rome on up - it's just that it was more of a street food thing, and that doesn't get as well documented. there was also the fairly common practice of people selling leftovers more or less, on like a really small cottage industry scale.

i could definitely manage patterns off regular menus and restaurant adverts, tho, if i find a repository of them

if someone's being a dick, and yet others are preemptively blacklisting the person less for their dick behavior and far more for race/gender/etc, which is also a dick move,

it means sometimes that it's not one side that's vindicated, but rather, everyone there sucks. and you got yourself a spaceballs 'surrounded by assholes' moment.

@InspectorCaracal ooooo, thank you!!!

i think i'm gonna redo it as less of a bar, more of a like... takeaway place

but i am absolutely keeping the adapted chatham artillery punch in there somewhere LMAO. the recipe in here is actually pared down to be less boozy than the one i was working off of (!), but i still feel like, living in georgia, I Gotta Get It In There https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/07/chatham-artillery-punch-maybe-the-strongest-drink.html

@InspectorCaracal i know of some old sears and roebuck catalogues that have been scanned and are up for browsing online, but i'll deffo let you know what i'm able to niffle up myself when i get the spoons to do so

despite ffxiv not having a firm period to reference - uh, emphatically so, lol - i still feel the need to be AS ACCURATE AS POSSIBLE, since i'm redoing my old rp cafe as a small takeaway place (and half the fancy menu is straight Mrs Beeton- http://bit.ly/bunclestail )

anyway it's a shot in the dark but to keep myself busy with rp shit, if anyone happens to know a source of victorian (or earlier) newspapers with advertisements and/or restaurant menus, etc. - especially if it's not just text transcription, but scans where i could browse the typesetting and so on -

i would super appreciate any links if you got 'em handy 💖

@Alyx i am very lucky to know of two places where i can buy it locally, so in a pinch, i have a solution

but at the same time: jesus fucking christ, i'm paying 50+ dollars a bottle of pills here, could you send the fucking mail out on time you absolute clodhopper cbd salespeople

"your shipment is on its way!" said cbd oil supplier, a week ago

me: hmmm i'm down to my last few pills, i wonder what the tracking says, is it coming today or tomorrow maybe?

tracking: this package is in pre-shipping and hasn't made it to our system yet lol

me: don't make another roe alt you got 2 you ain't playing. don't make another roe alt you got two -

also me: SAY HI TO DOMAN ROEGADYN SUTE NO KUZUMOTO, EVERYBODY

the doman reconstruction storyline.... is so good ;o; #ffxiv

@pyra i just slung them on my blacklist for now lol, if it was more egregious cussing out i'd go through the whole rigamarole

until then i'm content with their asses being chapped at me LMAO

today in #ffxiv : i noticed a ninja afk for most of syrcus tower, wondered where he was. he finally came back for amon, got snippy when i joked about how i was glad he hadn't fallen in a toilet.

then his buddy - both of them mentors, lol - made sure that 1. the ice block i was hiding behind in amon got dissolved last minute, 2. told me "I hope you know I fucking hate you. Just FYI.", among other comments along the way, as we exited.

wow somebody hella salty at not being afk-carried lol

my doctor: well, you're due for a sleep study to see if your sleep apnea device is working, so -

me: can i show you my pokemon from pokemon sleep instead

me: this one's very good and round

my doctor: ......shit yeah, he is real good and round huh, i'll just put that down as a pass then

waiting for jojo to get around to my musical interests with a new stand that's bjork

i don't mean one of her songs. like Army Of Me or It's So Quiet. no i mean the anime has someone just straight-up summoning bjork the actual person as their stand

me: okay brain, time to do things

my brain: [wii shop channel music]

these face makeup brushes i got that have pink bristles and green handles with cups made to look like a rose stem so it's like flowers are, perhaps, not the most professional and objectively best makeup brushes

but fuck i love em

right, headache, are you coming or going or what. either hurry up and give me an aura so you can properly get your migrainey dick out or get outta here