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@monorail ...huh

i guess, uh, he, uhhh *looks at hand, where there is a smudged list of 'WEAD JOEKS'* he vants to suck your..... bud?

@aradinfinity ok, yeah, seattle would be a big barrier there LOL. at least there are cute hat options out there as well!! for some reason as soon as the weather turned warm my fashion senses decided they wanted nothing more than a big straw hat with lace trim, so that i can go frolic in the fields wearing it picking daisies

....then i remember i live in georgia and it's miserable out there.

but i still want the hat 😂

@aradinfinity (so for now i settle for........ really cute umbellas and parasols.....)

@aradinfinity ooooh, i have an older one in my closet like that - it's full-length though

the two i got from aliexpress are both lined in like... they called it soft fleece, but it's more like faux fur. but the really nice faux fur, kinda like minky fabric but a longer fiber length. so like a good stuffed animal that needs a haircut LOL. they're both cute as fuck, but if i wore them out in the 95 degree weather i would Instantly Die i'm sure LMAO

@aradinfinity tho i admit there is one type of cloak that if you ever see, please totally toss a link in my face

i could really use a cloak that's light and waterproof - the equivalent of a really light rain jacket. but one that's styled like a cloak, not a horrid poncho.

(i keep seeing that iridescent plastic fabric that all the instagram cool kids have jackets made out of and going "yes.... that... but a cloak...")

@aradinfinity honestly i am so fucking glad cloaks are coming back in style

...alternatively, that i just now know enough keywords of obscure fashion movements, and where to buy shit overseas, so that i can buy cloaks lol

if you ever want to pick up more cloaks, aliexpress has actually come through for me real solidly. i'm mad the weather changed before i got to wear my elegant crane-embroidered one. (COME BACK, WINTER! I GOT CUTE SHIT TO WEAR....)

ok a fistbump is not very on-brand for this interaction uhhh hmm

....in solidarity and understanding, this cis lolita offers out a very ornate gothic choker and this really cute pair of pearl wire kitty ears, to stand side by side with the trans girl fashionistas.

THERE WE GO

CULTURAL EXCHANGE, EVERYBODY

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