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i dont consider myself a 'fashion guru' by any means but one thing i will say is guys you dont need to know the specific brand an item you like is - you need to know what the item is called. very rarely does a brand matter, but knowing that pair of pants is called 'cargo' vs 'boot cut' or the names of dress styles is going to help you find clothes you like WAAAYYYY faster than brand shopping

this also goes for aesthetic or -core titles. 'y2k tank top' is going to get you resellers and fast fashion brands advertising to people looking to meet a current trend. 'thin strap crop tank top' is going to get you a diverse group of results and not upcharge you to hell and back

additionally, shop second hand when you can, second hand and thrift sites typically organize clothes by the cut and color. theyll be more affordable than a depop seller curating you a style to sell you

useful terminology for different kinds of clothing shapes :)

here are more terms! these are all from enérie. it is a really good blog that has lots of fashion terminology and it's a good mix of menswear and womenswear! they also have a book as well compiling all their diagrams. you could also look into getting a visual fashion dictionary for terms as well!

truly nothing funnier than having an archive of when you first started getting into a media that has since consumed your entire life

you see an old post of yours thats dated like a month after you got introduced to Media and it says like “huh im kinda liking Blorbo Bingus? but he’s not really my favorite. he seems sillyyy though he’s neat i’m sure he’s nice :)” and you just

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do you think buck lies awake at night trying hard and failing bad not to think about The Competition Conversation. like "he was a renter? WHY did i say that? A RENTER?????? whatever. Whatever. it's true anyway. he WAS a renter. and he IS straight. and i'm NOT in love with him. it's TRUE. it's fine. whatever!!!!! who cares. not me! 🙂 stupid tommy. what does he know? he just doesn't get our Bond. our NORMAL BOND. whatever. shut up and go to sleep buck. you have facetime breakfast with eddie in the morning! which is NOT because i'm in love with him. just to be clear!" and then he grabs his phone and googles "facetime every day sometimes multiple times normal reddit" and it takes him to r/datingadvice and r/longdistance and he throws his phone on the floor

You really did that for me? 9-1-1

doomed from the start.

when the cat comforts the whale at the end of Flow (2024) with purring and face rubs because it, too, understands the feeling of desperation and despair when your environment suddenly shifts from friendly to fatal after the whale initially saved it from drowning at the beginning of the flood

College friendship is sending one of your friends who's graduating soon a giant list of monster theory and gothic horror academic reading recs so they can download as many PDFs as possible before they lose their university database access

Got a request for some of the recs here, so here's a short-ish list of some of the reading recs -- I've made an effort to link open source and/or at least slightly more accessible databases like JSTOR wherever possible, but some of these are, admittedly behind various paywalls that I wish everyone luck with circumventing in whatever manner you deem fit

This isn't even everything I've dug into on the subject, but I hope it's enough to get folks started on some reading!

Quick addition of MONSTER/THE UNHUMAN from the Posthuman Glossary (section by Nikita Mazurov) - Just a couple pages, but really interesting examination of how the categorization of the monstrous functions. Highly highly recommend the whole book though too, it's really great and discusses a on of related and interconnected concepts :]

adding some of my own “gothic, weird, eerie, monster theory” to-read list

Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic series

Gothic Studies: Free/Open Access issues

Other

Water drink with me

Through the oceans of future past, the swimmer longs to pee, one splashes out between two pools…

reminding people of the autobiography of dale cooper and the tapes of dale cooper read by kyle maclachlan

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I still need to know what happened here. what was the intent. what was the endgame. why did he lean in like that. WHY DID THEY BOTH LEAN IN LIKE THAT. there's something so deeply sinister about them oh my god get your fucking brokeback mountain ass on and leave me alone

why did he react like a stunned teenage girl here