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you have to be kinder to people who are slow processors.

you have to be kinder to people who don't understand your jokes.

you have to be kinder to people who forget important dates.

you have to be kinder to people with cognitive decline.

you have to be kinder to people who were always this way, too.

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Making the Musketeers’ Capes

(A very quick tutorial)

Here’s a sketch of the pattern I used to make the light blue ceremonial cape! (See here for a more thorough description of the capes). The dark blue wool cloaks can be made using this pattern as well, though I’d make the light blue ceremonial cloaks a bit more full for a nice swishiness.

What it says, roughly from top to bottom, left to right:

can be as wide as the fabric for nice full cloak (to draw a nice curve use a bit of chalk tied to a string - attach the other end to something heavy)

c. 110 cm (length from the edge to the centre of the neck hole - I’m about 174 cm / 5′9″ tall)

neck width

30 cm (from the neck hole)

45°

c. 90-100 cm (ideally the bottom edges all line up when the cape is constructed, but you won’t notice if it differs a bit)

11 buttons per side

c. 100 cm (front as long as back)

20 cm (10 per side) - (how much to fold to the sides)

dot = button, dash = buttonhole

20 cm (collar width)

x2 (lined with same material)

circumference neck hole - 20 cm (the length of the collar; it is shorter than the total circumference of the neck hole because of the edges folded back at the front of the cape)

face with c. 20 cm same material

+ three small loops made with the same material to attach the cord to the collar (don’t make these too big or cape will slip and mess up how the collar lies)

In the series these capes are made of (so much) leather and the main part is divided into four sections, with a seam at the centre back and shoulder seams (plus extra buttons on the shoulders). If you’re making it of fakey leather or a thick sturdy wool or something like that, go for it! If you end up with a thinner material, you could also keep the main part as one piece without the centre back and shoulder seams because that makes lining it a bit easier. I’d recommend you bag line it - this will make the cape appear a bit thicker, it’ll drape better and if you press the seams well you won’t need any top stitching. I also added some interfacing to the collar so that it was a bit more sturdy and wouldn’t crumple as much. The cord is about two metres long and needs to be tied quite tightly to keep the cape from shifting a lot.

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but apparently this photo is fake which is an enormous burst of relief to my already fragile, suddering psyche.

sadly though THIS photo of a barrel jellfish is real

Some of my favorite jellyfish (sorry if I go on a tanget and vear off jellyfish)

are the Stygiomedusa gigantea, which I believe is also called the blanket jellyfish, but like dude look up a video of it moving it is chilling and fantastic! This thing is 10 meters long, so not the largest here, but ohohoho look at my love

It is a deep sea jellyfish and is one of the largest invertebrate predators known. However, according to Cambridge, it has been consistently recorded in the twilight and sunlight depth zones down south so do with that what you will :)

If we want to keep going down the large and length category of ocean creatures, allow me to introduce the current longest recorded ocean animal. A deep sea siphonophore that clocks in at around 46 meters; my beautiful death halo

Technically siphonophores are hundreds upon hundreds of tinier organisms that grouped together to make a bigger one, but for all intents and purposes, this is one animal. Some of them are incredibly beautiful!

However there is also ones not so pretty, main one was something I saw a month or so ago and it looked like someone had fused like a dozen human limbs together and they were flailing to move and jesus christ yall can go mentally scar yourselves.