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Let me tell you the story of the State Lege trips.
My mother comes from a small town; her family has been in the area for almost 200 years now. Her g’g’grandparents on both sides founded 3 of the small towns in the area. She’s related to everyone.
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My mother comes from a small town; her family has been in the area for almost 200 years now. Her g’g’grandparents on both sides founded 3 of the small towns in the area. She’s related to everyone.
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(Yes, it’s possible to be both local aristocracy & white trash.) She’s also one of those people who will claim someone else’s tragedy if it attracts attention to her, especially if she’s far enough away that she doesn’t have to actually DO anything about the tragedy.
Which happened. When I was a small child. A distant family member got HIV from a blood transfusion, got kicked out of school, and Smother became an HIV/AIDS activist, 2000 miles away from the actual sick kid. Her activism consisted mostly of throwing parties (aka fundraisers.)
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2019 Spring Runway: Free Shots of Brain Bleach Edition
Step Away From Pinterest Edition
Designers are Agents of Patriarchal Oppression Edition
We’re in the Fucking Stupid Timeline Aren’t We? Edition
Dear Hecate How Can We Appease You & Make This Stop? Edition
2019 Spring Runway: Free Shots of Brain Bleach Edition
Step Away From Pinterest Edition
Designers are Agents of Patriarchal Oppression Edition
We’re in the Fucking Stupid Timeline Aren’t We? Edition
Dear Hecate How Can We Appease You & Make This Stop? Edition
This one is mostly me being a Sewist who really does love fashion & fabric being appalled that I can’t get paid hundreds of millions for this shit.
It’s not models’ fault; this is a capitalist scam. I don’t even entirely mind the scam part that separates $$ from wealthy dicks.
It’s not models’ fault; this is a capitalist scam. I don’t even entirely mind the scam part that separates $$ from wealthy dicks.
1. This does not fit into #TailorSnarkWars
It doesn’t fit into #Fiction.
Maybe #MediaCrit and #RecentHistory with a dose of #HowTherapyActuallyWorks
It’s my experience, and not everyone’s. I’m a behaviorist, and trauma is my jam.
It doesn’t fit into #Fiction.
Maybe #MediaCrit and #RecentHistory with a dose of #HowTherapyActuallyWorks
It’s my experience, and not everyone’s. I’m a behaviorist, and trauma is my jam.
2. So new tag: #MediaPTSD
Superheroes Need Shrinks: Batman, Wanda & Pietro Maximoff, 9/11 and mass casulty events
(or how we and our government participate in mutual gaslighting, and some thoughts on breaking the cycle for the benefit of our politics.)
Superheroes Need Shrinks: Batman, Wanda & Pietro Maximoff, 9/11 and mass casulty events
(or how we and our government participate in mutual gaslighting, and some thoughts on breaking the cycle for the benefit of our politics.)
3. When I decided to be a shrink, back in the dim dark days of the 1990s, my university still ran most of the student computers as terminals attached to a mainframe. There was one Win3.1 lab and 2 Apple labs. For 30K people.
We just didn’t use ‘em. Some of us still TYPED.
We just didn’t use ‘em. Some of us still TYPED.
Ruffles are not Melanoma’s fault. They’re what happens when fabric and assembly labor gets too cheap, and designers are allowed to exploit it.
Florals come around when fabric print tech has an incremental improvement.
A relatively short thread.
Florals come around when fabric print tech has an incremental improvement.
A relatively short thread.
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Battle of Opportunity
Floof, folderol, furbelows, ruffles and the horrors that are trends of technology.
Florals first: Printing a floral fabric takes good printing tech. When chintz first hit the scene in the 1720s, it was block printed in 2-3 colors, thusly.
Battle of Opportunity
Floof, folderol, furbelows, ruffles and the horrors that are trends of technology.
Florals first: Printing a floral fabric takes good printing tech. When chintz first hit the scene in the 1720s, it was block printed in 2-3 colors, thusly.
That’s from the Victoria & Albert, 1730s. I think it’s configured for maternity wear, which just goes to show that we’ve always made pregnant people suffer.
That is a chintz, and for about a generation, people wore a lot of those patterns. Because they were hot, new tech.
That is a chintz, and for about a generation, people wore a lot of those patterns. Because they were hot, new tech.
B-C cup. All side boob, probably cuz he’s blown the clavipectoral fascia; he’s got a shit golf swing & doesn’t practice, tears up connective tissue. 44-48 band.
Look at thin & fragile hair under cap. He’s been letting the Miss Clairol sit too long.
#TailorSnarkWars driveby
Look at thin & fragile hair under cap. He’s been letting the Miss Clairol sit too long.
#TailorSnarkWars driveby
Since this is a common misunderstanding: Cup size is a designation of the difference in circumference between the largest part of the chest (usually over the nips) and the smallest part, over the ribcage, with no breast tissue. 1/4
A= 1
B= 2
C= 3
D= 4
DD/E= 5
DDD/F= 6
DDDD/FF=7
A= 1
B= 2
C= 3
D= 4
DD/E= 5
DDD/F= 6
DDDD/FF=7
Clearly, a D cup looks MUCH bigger on someone with a 27 inch ribcage than it does on someone with a 36 inch ribcage, but the volume in the cup is the same. When someone says “giant double D’s” the bustier amongst us just roll our eyes. That person has no clue. 2/4
#TailorSnarkWars #Metabattle: Satanic Panics, Daycare, Memory, Pantsuits, Nerve clusters.
The war for all the marbles.
(Or at least one of the wars.)
ALL THE FUCKING TRIGGER WARNINGS I HAVE EVER MADE.
EVERY CONTENT WARNING.
THIS WILL BE A TOUGH THREAD.
The war for all the marbles.
(Or at least one of the wars.)
ALL THE FUCKING TRIGGER WARNINGS I HAVE EVER MADE.
EVERY CONTENT WARNING.
THIS WILL BE A TOUGH THREAD.
When last we left our protagonists...
our brain’s hacker was deep in the throes of writing subroutines
women were wearing pants as they flooded the workforce in the late 1970s & 80s
breastfeeding & daycare were about to crash into a mess.
Welcome to the collision point.
our brain’s hacker was deep in the throes of writing subroutines
women were wearing pants as they flooded the workforce in the late 1970s & 80s
breastfeeding & daycare were about to crash into a mess.
Welcome to the collision point.
Growing up an Xer in the late 80s & early 90s (Started sleep away college in 1992) my mental image of the 1960s was really ~22 months: 1968 & 1969.
Started with Tet Offensive, through DNC & Woodstock, ended with the Hells Angels beating the shit out of people at Altamont.
Started with Tet Offensive, through DNC & Woodstock, ended with the Hells Angels beating the shit out of people at Altamont.
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Battle 7.1: Pants Planet In the Beginning
**Battle 7.2: Rubber, Plumbing, Roadsters: 20th Century Pants**
Battle 7.3: Everybody Else Is Doing It
Long promised, fully overdue, women & trousers.
The 20th c is massive, because this is when we start wearing them.
Battle 7.1: Pants Planet In the Beginning
**Battle 7.2: Rubber, Plumbing, Roadsters: 20th Century Pants**
Battle 7.3: Everybody Else Is Doing It
Long promised, fully overdue, women & trousers.
The 20th c is massive, because this is when we start wearing them.
Sunday, we talked about several thousand years of garment history that basically condenses to this: trousers are an inefficient garment if you don’t have
good heating,
good plumbing, or
good fasteners.
When we have at least two of the three, trousers start becoming universal.
good heating,
good plumbing, or
good fasteners.
When we have at least two of the three, trousers start becoming universal.
(How do I know this? Places where trousers were more common had less cold, wet weather than Little Ice Age Europe & invented better fasteners/fabrics much earlier. Shalwar kameez & Mongolian riding trousers and Han/Manchu ku and most of the pueblo-building Native peoples, and...
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**Battle 7.1: Pants Planet In the Beginning**
Battle 7.2: Rubber, Plumbing, Roadsters: 20th Century Pants
Battle 7.3: Everybody Else Is Doing It
Long promised, fully overdue, women & trousers.
**Battle 7.1: Pants Planet In the Beginning**
Battle 7.2: Rubber, Plumbing, Roadsters: 20th Century Pants
Battle 7.3: Everybody Else Is Doing It
Long promised, fully overdue, women & trousers.
I will consistently use the term trousers to refer to the outer garment consisting of two tubes of fabric that join at the torso. I will use culturally appropriate terms when referring to specific garments, but mostly, they’re just trousers.
While pants has fewer characters, it means undergarments for a considerable part of the world. Less ambiguity in language, please. A legging means a long tube garment that covers from waist/hip to foot; leggings include the crotch seam.
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MetaBattle: Self-perception&Cognition
I. Our brains are out to get us
II. Dementia comes for us all
III. Narcissism is an underlying feature/bug of consciousness
IV. Try not look like a 40 year old vampire even if you are
***V. Defense Against The Dark Arts***
MetaBattle: Self-perception&Cognition
I. Our brains are out to get us
II. Dementia comes for us all
III. Narcissism is an underlying feature/bug of consciousness
IV. Try not look like a 40 year old vampire even if you are
***V. Defense Against The Dark Arts***
This is gonna be a continuing series, because it’s complex. How we think about fashion is just one aspect of how we think and perceive. I’ve been working on this for a while. It’s foundational. Per usual, I’m just articulating what you already know.
Prior threads in this series:
End Repetitive Content
End Repetitive Content
#TailorSnarkWars
MetaBattle: Self-perception & Cognition
I. Our own brains are out to get us
II. Dementia comes for us all
III. Narcissism is an underlying feature/bug of consciousness
***IV. Try not look like a 40 year old vampire even if you are***
V: Defense Against Dark Arts
MetaBattle: Self-perception & Cognition
I. Our own brains are out to get us
II. Dementia comes for us all
III. Narcissism is an underlying feature/bug of consciousness
***IV. Try not look like a 40 year old vampire even if you are***
V: Defense Against Dark Arts
This is gonna be a continuing series, because it’s complex. How we think about fashion is just one aspect of how we think and perceive. I’ve been working on this for a while. It’s foundational. Per usual, I’m just articulating what you already know.
Prior 3 threads in this series:
End of repetitive content
End of repetitive content
#TailorSnarkWars
MetaBattle: Self-perception & Cognition: Toddler Narcs
I. Our own brains are out to get us
II. Dementia comes for us all
***III. Narcissism is an underlying feature/bug of consciousness***
IV. Try not look like a 40 year old vampire even if you are
MetaBattle: Self-perception & Cognition: Toddler Narcs
I. Our own brains are out to get us
II. Dementia comes for us all
***III. Narcissism is an underlying feature/bug of consciousness***
IV. Try not look like a 40 year old vampire even if you are
Prior 2 threads in this series:
This is gonna be a continuing series, because it’s complex. How we think about fashion is just one aspect of how we think and perceive. I’ve been working on this for a while. It’s foundational. Per usual, I’m just articulating what you already know.
End of repetitive content.
End of repetitive content.
#TailorSnarkWars
MetaBattle: Self-perception & Cognition: Battle II
I. Our own brains are out to get us
**II. Dementia comes for us all**
III. Narcissism is an underlying feature/bug of consciousness
IV. Try not look like a 40 year old vampire even if you are
MetaBattle: Self-perception & Cognition: Battle II
I. Our own brains are out to get us
**II. Dementia comes for us all**
III. Narcissism is an underlying feature/bug of consciousness
IV. Try not look like a 40 year old vampire even if you are
This will be a continuing series, because it’s complex. How we think about fashion is just one aspect of how we think and perceive. I’ve been working on this for a while. It’s foundational. Per usual, I’m just articulating what you already know.
End of repetitive content.
End of repetitive content.
When last we left our antihero, the lazy hacker we call our brain, it was lying on the floor, reading Wolverine/Thor AU slash fic because it wrote a shitload of subroutines to manage 99% of our brain’s traffic without our hacker having to be involved.
Our hacker is a slacker.
Our hacker is a slacker.
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MetaBattle: Self-perception & Cognition
I. Our own brains are out to get us
II. Dementia comes for us all
III. Narcissism is an underlying feature/bug of consciousness
IV. Try not look like a 40 year old vampire even if you are
MetaBattle: Self-perception & Cognition
I. Our own brains are out to get us
II. Dementia comes for us all
III. Narcissism is an underlying feature/bug of consciousness
IV. Try not look like a 40 year old vampire even if you are
This is gonna be a continuing series, because it’s complex. How we think about fashion is just one aspect of how we think and perceive. I’ve been working on this for a while.
It’s foundational to cognition.
Per usual, I’m just articulating what you already know.
It’s foundational to cognition.
Per usual, I’m just articulating what you already know.
Battle I: Your brain is out to get you
My day job is head candler, shrink, psych, meddler. My primary area of focus is PTSD; I’ve been 90%+ research for 15 years, I take very few clients, I don’t ever want to be in wide-aspect private practice again.
My day job is head candler, shrink, psych, meddler. My primary area of focus is PTSD; I’ve been 90%+ research for 15 years, I take very few clients, I don’t ever want to be in wide-aspect private practice again.
