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There's also this resource on historical fashion: Claire’s Historical Fashion Reference & Resources

another addition as far as physical media goes there is the encyclopedia of national dress (that i still need to buy myself bc this kind of thing is super important to my sort of fantasy designing) but yes i do agree i wish there was EVEN MORE documentation on this

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the goldmine folks

i DO believe that a good writer can make mischaracterization work. oh there's a character who doesn't normally cry? figure it out!! disect the character. make the situation cryable for them. make that character cry ugly tears even if it goes against their very nature. YOU CAN MAKE IT WORK!!!

A great piece of advice I've seen is "Don't fixate about what the character would never do. Think about the circumstances that would drive them to do this, even if they wouldn't normally."

Best advice ever!

Man, remember when Free The Nipple was a thing and there was an actual substantial amount of feminists who believed even public nudity wasn't inherently sexual and now if you date a short person hundreds of anonymous idiots online will call you a pedophile.

people hate it when i say "black people getting cancer is racist" but im literally fucking right because systemic racism has led to chemical dumping being acceptable in black/brown neighborhoods and black people have higher rates of cancer as a result

the "cancer belt" is also just a metric for black/brown population density and that is a function of a racist society

so many of you really do think that you can be born with an organ that makes you a rapist, and you don't seem to understand that sexual abuse is a product of imbalances of power

not that you're ever willing to have a conversation about how trans women, being an incredibly disempowered class, face extraordinarily high rates of violence

if we actually addressed the real systems that enable sexual abuse, then you wouldn't be able to abuse trans women with impunity anymore, and we can't have that! rape organ it is then

all the feminist progress made in the 2010s truly was sacrificed on the altar of transmisogyny. no, the patriarchy isn't to blame for women's oppression, we actually need the patriarchy to help us take down those trannies, the real threats to women!

It cannot be stated firmly enough that in the US (and soon the UK) that TERFs have no just eliminated the right to abortion but have shepherded people into power who are actively working to make it illegal for women to vote. All feminist progress for the last century could evaporate within our lifetimes just to spite us.