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comics

required reading: lab rat and there are a couple of other, shorter official comics

turret lullaby

randolph the red-nosed turret (preserved on portalwiki)

videos

thinkwithportals.com has most of the ad shorts in one place, but not included there are

portal is free

aperture science romance safety compliance guide

perpetual testing initiative

audio

the portal 2 soundtrack is free online!

glados and cave johnson both have dota2 announcer packs

"don't say goodbye" is an unused glados song that ellen mclain WROTE

apocrypha

aperture desk job is free on steam

portal 2: the final hours is $2 and worth it

significant appearances in both poker night 2 and lego dimensions (including another glados song)

the portal ARG and potatofoolsday ARG

concept art!! (rip portal 2 art book, I will never be over you)

AND you can't forget the old aperturescience.com (archived by valve, thank god) you can look up commands to navigate it but I'd start by trying "help"

cave had cut lines too, many of which got recycled into lego dimensions, and the conversation with glados is a clear predecessor to his fate in desk job

and wheatley has some cut/alternate stuff, plus his tf2 cameo as the ap-sap

And, though not shown on the infographic, don’t forget suits with double-breasted jackets, which have been in style for decades: here are examples from the 1920s to the 1970s.

After the ‘70s, that style faded away until it made a return in the mid-2010s when IIRC “Kingsman” caused a real-world uptick in suits for everyday wear.

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Also NB that the Tuxedo drawing doesn’t actually show a Tuxedo, unless it’s an American terminology with which I’m not familiar. That’s a tailcoat, which has tails, is a coat and is worn with white tie.

A Tuxedo (over here, a dinner-jacket) is in the next panel, Black vs White Tie, and doesn’t have tails, is a jacket and is worn with black tie.

Wearing the wrong thing can lead to confusion, whether accidental or snarkily deliberate.

(The link to YouTube keeps dropping off this post. If it goes away again, the clip is here. A longer version with a fuller development of what’s going on, is here.)

Interesting side-note, the tuxedo / dinner-jacket was a development of the old smoking jacket, and its name in many Continental European languages - French, German, Italian, Spanish - is still “der / le / lo / el smoking”…

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“Downton Abbey” and “Jeeves and Wooster” are good sources of info for how these looked when worn regularly at their set times of day, rather than just on special occasions as nowadays.

Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster gets excellent mileage from his tailoring, wearing it properly as clothing not costume, and looks at ease in formal attire even when his only (IIRC) white-tie appearance is in the dock of a magistrate’s court.

Even so, he seems much more comfortable (and hangover-free, mostly) in everyday suits which, though somewhat dated in details, would still look good today.

In my AP Art class, there was a girl who was just starting to experiment with mixed media. At this point she was still playing around, trying to decide what direction she wanted to go with her portfolio. So one critique day, she brought in an abstract canvas with some rhinestone highlights and painted and real peacock feathers. She loved sparkles and peacock feathers so she thought she’d try introducing them a *little*. And after everyone had given some input, the teacher gave her his advice, VERY roughly paraphrased here:

“So here’s the thing… I do not like this style. These are just elements that do not speak to me personally, but I see that you like them, and you’re doing interesting things with them.

“My biggest critique is, I only merely *dislike* this piece. I want you to make me HATE it. Go crazy with the things that you like. Don’t hold back trying to make it palatable to people like me. Because I am NEVER going to like it. And if the audience does not like it, it should drive them crazy seeing how much YOU love it.”

Her portfolio was chock full of neon colors and glitter and rhinestones and splashes of peacock feathers and it was a delight. Our teacher despised every piece lol, but she got great marks and I think even won some awards. And more importantly, she was happy and proud of the results. Because she didn’t limit herself by trying to appeal to people who were never going to enjoy what she enjoyed.