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I NEEDED this character design out of my system

Truffle Treble, the cousin of my oc Baby, whose a really eccentric singer that enjoys hanging around freaky creatures

Also despite being a rubberhose inspired character, so like, 30s, one of my main inspirations was Janelle Monae

(Also as ref here are their heights)

The true story behind the TOS mini-skirts, which were brought into existence by an idea Grace Lee Whitney’s.

Notice Nichelle’s intentionally making the skirt sneak up to be even shorter!

For awhile, the mini skirt was a female power symbol in the 60s: http://www.randomhistory.com/2009/05/25_miniskirt.html

So a lot of people now look at those skirts and see them as sexist, but the women on the show didn’t. Nichelle Nichols has personally spoken out about her support for the skirts and her irritation with people now trying to claim they were sexist, because they made her feel powerful and she found them functional. They were also a pretty typical example of how real women dressed back then, she says, and the studio’s regulations weren’t in-line with real women.

guess what. its another commission. who would have thought