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31 Days of Bond Fashion

DAY 15: THE FISHTAIL PARKA as seen in Skyfall (2015).

Consider being a costume designer facing this direction in a script: “'A slender young man in his twenties, dressed in an elegant suit, moves in next to Bond.” That was the situation Jany Temime found herself in when she came to re-creating one of the franchise’s most beloved characters. Ben Whishaw’s Q was a bold departure from the Q of old, and yet the costume direction for his opening scene in the National Gallery with Bond gave no hint as to his character. It would be up to Jany Temime to figure that out because for Ben Whishaw, costuming was a vital part of his process: “I love how wearing someone else’s clothes can make you feel different, move differently, even think differently. I’m always clear in my head that the character I’m playing is very distinct from me and at the same time so much of you ends up leaking into the character.”

“In that first moment they are together, I had very little time to establish a character,” Temime explained. “It's not like meeting someone and having a drink…I wanted Bond to think he's just a nerd or a student.” She chose a coffee-coloured fishtail parka for the job, with the detachable fur-lined hood removed. Fishtail parkas were originally designed for the US Army in the 1950s. The split and cords in the back made it so that a soldier could tie the sides of the coat around their legs to keep out the weather. It soon became popular with Mods in the UK. Q’s was sourced from Pretty Green, Liam Gallagher’s brand inspired by subcultures “from Mods to ravers.” In short, it positioned Q as a hipster. In 2011, the jacket would have set you back £255. Intentional or not, the brand history proved a nice bit of foreshadowing to Q’s homemade modular synth in No Time To Die – a man who’s built his own electronic music equipment has probably seen a rave or two. 

Underneath the coat was a pricy moleskin Margiela jacket, a Reiss shirt, plum-coloured Hentsch Man checked trousers and a snazzy purple tie to match. “They were modish, nerdy, expensive clothes that nobody else would recognise,” said Temime, “except for another computer wizard like Q.” All in all, it was a wardrobe built to emphasise his youth and cockiness, and to position him as part of the new world as opposed to Bond’s old one. Still, for as different as they were, Bond and Q at least shared expensive taste in menswear. Maybe that was step one in them coming to understand each other.

MR. SPIRO: Do you give these lectures at all of your depositions? MR. BANKSTON: I do, and you can watch them.

is ESPECIALLY hilarious to me having listened to multiple depositions Mark has had to take in the Sandy Hook case, where he has needed to lecture EVERY. SINGLE. ATTORNEY. at some point in the case about how they're violating Texas Rule XYZ, because they all, to a one, did something seriously ethically questionable during the deposition.

Haruka Kawakami

Screenshot via Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net on bluesky

Tldr Amnesty International, global human rights organisation, published a report called 'A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK'. In it is detailed, amongst others, a whole bunch of transphobic groups and organisations, including Beira's Place, JK Rowling's trans exclusionary sexual violence support service. JK Rowling threw a shit fit and got Amnesty to take the report down by threatening libel. This was obviously not enough, because you can't appease a fascist, so now she's going to bankroll a bunch of lawsuits anyway through the JK Rowling Women's Fund.*

You can read an archived version of the report here, please save it and share it.

Cece, the guardian and protector of Dendera Temple, Egypt

We’re making a big change to how account deletion works on Tumblr, and we’re really excited about it, because this is something that some of you have been requesting for… well… a literal decade.

Before today, when you deleted your Tumblr account, it was immediate and permanent. Occasionally, this resulted in Very Sad Times. Even though we’ve tried to make it super difficult to accidentally delete your account, this is something that still happens a lot. Like, a lot. There’s also plenty of folks who delete their account on purpose, but then regret it shortly afterward. Worst of all, if your account was hacked, and then deleted by the hacker, there was no way to get it back. 

All of these problems are *poof* no more. As of today, when you delete your account, we will keep your data for 30 days. Your account will remain recoverable during that time, and you can contact us within that 30 day window if you’d like us to restore your account.

Eventually, we hope to make this process a bit easier, and allow you to restore your account with a single click of a button. For right now, though, you’ll need to contact us via tumblr.com/support and choose the category “Account Access” > “I have deleted my account or blog by accident”. 

FAQs

How do I delete my account? Does that process look different now?

You can follow the steps here to delete your account on the web or through the mobile app, which works pretty much the same way as before. You’ll notice we’ve updated the confirmation screen to reflect the new process, though.

Does a deleted account still appear on Tumblr during this 30 day window?

Nope. As soon as you submit the request to delete your account, all of your blogs will no longer be accessible (they’ll 404), no one will be able to message you, your posts will no longer appear in search results, and you won’t be able to log in anymore. This happens right away, not 30 days later. Deleted accounts still behave exactly as they always have.

What about my email address and username? Will those become available again immediately after account deletion, like they did before?

Notably, no, they will not. In order to make it possible for the account to be restored during the 30 day window, the username and email address must remain associated with the account during that time. So they won’t be available to register again until 30 days after you’ve deleted your account.

If you’re deleting your account, and you already know that you’d like to use the same username or email address on a new account immediately afterward, we recommend that you change your username and email address before deleting the account. That way, they will become available right away, instead of being on hold for 30 days. 

What if I’ve accidentally deleted one of my sideblogs, but not my entire account?

If you delete a sideblog, it will be deleted right away, and cannot be restored. We can only restore an entire account (which will restore all of its blogs along with it). 

Is this feature retroactive? Can you restore the account I deleted two years ago?

As much as we would like this to be possible, the answer is no. We still haven’t perfected the art of time travel, so all accounts deleted before today are still deleted for good. This new change will only apply to accounts which are deleted after this announcement is posted.

Where can I learn more about the account deletion process?