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alyyks
replied to your post “Hello, brain, I’m pretty sure the last time you threw this particular…”

/hugs — for the roaring, could it be hedge trimmers and the like? they’ve been out in full force in my neighborhood today

Hedge trimmers and lawn mowers whine loudly, usually. This is the sort of deep bass roar that usually is planes or trains or thunder or other very large things. And I don’t think there are any road construction vehicles scheduled to be anywhere near here.

I can hear a hedge trimmer or lawn mower right now, and it’s quieter and more buzz than roar.

Also, it seems to have stopped, so I wonder if it was construction vehicles over by the train tracks, because there’s apparently track work going on, and the tracks go from ground level to they-cut-out-the-middle-of-a-hill level (no tunnel, though), and the acoustics may be weird, and my brain may also be interpreting direction poorly.

@lilyrose225writes replied to your post “koiotchka
replied to your post “spitegoblin:

I’m curious– What…”

holy fuck you would look fantastic

I had to go digging through old photos, but I do have one with me in the black silk brocade, at least.

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And while those knee high boots look lovely, they need enough extra in the heels inside to keep my feet in the right place so the backs of them don’t rub blisters into my heels in ten minutes flat. Also probably should stuff the toes to help keep my feet in place.

koiotchka
replied to your post “spitegoblin:

I’m curious– What style of clothing would y’all wear if…”

Omg PLEASE wear those things

What I actually have of it, I will wear when I’m not feeling entirely too tired to manage more than grabbing the first clean clothes that come to hand (which usually ends up being a t-shirt).

The jewelry… oh, I wish I could afford that, but right now, I do not have the money, and I also don’t know who to go to in order to get what I want made. Honestly, some of it, beyond materials and vague thoughts, I don’t know what exactly I want. Although if I could have jeweled steel hair pins, I would… *pauses* I need to talk to my favorite blacksmith and his lady about that. Right. Birka. Talk to them at Birka.

Cotton dress shirts – I have one, I think. And a linen one. They are not yet tailored as close as I’d like because (a) time + money + spoons, and (b) want to deal with shaping undergarments first. Made of linen or cotton or silk. Laced and maybe boned. Supportive of an unhappy spine and the too much boob for me.

Linen trousers are something I’m going to not worry about until February, I think. And probably with a drawstring at the moment, rather than a waistband and fastenings, because spoons.

Silk-lined wool… I do not currently have the fabric to try for those, and finding suitable of either is a pain. (And the entire reason for the silk lining is because wool is itchy.)

I have one brocade waistcoat! With silk! The brocade is not silk and the silk is not brocaded, but I’m happy with it nonetheless, because it is awesome. And reversible. One side is lovely black brocade, the other is periwinkle silk. I need to find which bin it’s in and get it out and wear it more often.

The tunics part… erm. That’s a lot because of the lovely, lovely tunics that @lferion sent just before Pennsic. That I would have worn all Pennsic if I hadn’t had a niggling worry about what people might think of me wearing the same two tunics for two weeks. I should make sure to get pictures of me wearing them, because they made me feel fantastic!

Cotton knit hose… may be difficult to find commercially without any damned synthetic in it. But! If I can find decent cotton knit fabric, I can make hose. With a seam, which is fine.

The cloak is in the process of being decorated, after which it will be lined in silk, and the edges toward the top, and the entire hood, will be lined in rabbit fur. It may be another decade before it’s done, but it will be done sooner or later. I need to remember to get that out of the RV so that I can work on that when I’m having trouble dealing with crochet, and need something to do with my hands while watching movies or tv shows.

Two silk coats with tails, which need some alterations, which mostly needs someone else to help me pin it. And may actually end up waiting until next year Pennsic, because then I can get some assistance from the person who made them for me. For a lovely wool one, same issue as with silk-lined wool trousers, that I don’t have the fabric.

See lack of fabric for lack of great coat, as well. (And the flowing gowns, too.)

Have the floppy hat! Have to find where I put it, and wait for suitably chilly weather to wear it.

And I have one set of boots, low boots, with the gleaming buttons and the soft leather and they are fantastic, and it’s going to take quite a bit of money to get the tall ones from the same people. It will be worth it, but it’s going to be a while.

@koiotchka replied to your post “Photos from yesterday’s trip to the museum! Only the two. (No snippet…”

Did you guys go to the Indian museum without me? 😦

And then checked how long the non-permanent exhibits will be there so that planning could happen to make another expedition with you.

We’re going to go to the Smithsonian again in two weeks, and if arrangements for transportation can be made, it’s easy to make a picnic lunch for three instead of two, and we can go there again. Or we can discuss going again later in the fall (before the end of the year, though, the Hawai’i exhibit leaves in January).

@elegantmess-southernbelle

@aniseandspearmint replied to your post “Snippet: Highlander/Star Trek: Deep Space Nine”

Oh, HELLO crossover of awesomeness! I hope you do eventually finish this, it sounds great!

Thank you! Part of finishing this longer fic is how much my co-author is on, and how much of her contribution I keep as I rewrite it (because despite communication, there are some… issues of plot and setting that keep cropping up, because if it’s not right there, she literally cannot remember it from session to session).

(And it would have helped if I’d remembered to add the link to the series on AO3 when I put the post together, instead of forgetting because I was half-asleep. Which. A Galaxy Away From Home on AO3.)