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so a realization that I had upon starting my Vorkosigan Saga reread is that...I'd never actually read Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen the first time around. I bought it around when it came out - but I was having a Bad Time around then, looked at the back, and decided I was not at that point up for what was probably going to be a very well-done but nonetheless devastating exploration of grief and loss, so on my shel for later it went.
and then. I kind of forgot. it sat on my shelf for so long that it eventually passed into the category of "surely I have read this book I own, the last book in this series I adore." and then I started my reread and was looking something up on the wiki for reference and found:
and went WHAT. WHAT. OKAY I WOULD HAVE REMEMBERED THAT.
so I got impatient and jumped ahead to read that one. and it was delightful. I think I felt like it'd be bleak, but it's not??? the grief is certainly there and it hits when it needs to hit, and there are moments from melancholy to heartbreaking, but it's also funny and hopeful and sweet and charming; I was reading it the whole way through in permanent Good For Her(TM) mode.
some of my favorite moments:
Vorinnis accidentally roasting Jole by making him feel a million years old (mood, brother, college students are doing this to me often. What Do You Mean you were born in 2007.)
the little examples sprinkled throughout about how Barrayaran society is changing (the female officers corp! the medical center in Hassadar!)
"Asssertive, perhaps. As you may recall," followed immediately by Jole choking on his wine (...which could mean anything)
Aral canonically confirmed for kinky as hell, in a grand victory for Fandom Assumptions
every single thing that happens in The Shack oh my GOD
the fact that it apparently took a whole security detail conspiracy to keep the Vorkosigan throuple under wraps and Miles STILL didn't figure it out
"Screwing, dear."
THE DRAWINGS
Cordelia's joke about Aral being the first Barrayaran to discover the burrowing radials
Jole and Miles's garden talk where Miles is re-evaluating his entire perception of his parents and Jole is meanwhile just. on so so many painkillers (that whole conversation was very sweet)
the two ending lines before the epilogue. the ending lines of the epilogue. THE ENDING.
what a great coda to the series. god. 10/10 would finish at 2 AM and lie awake in bed for the next hour experiencing indescribable emotions again
I am once again going to pimp the Plot Trysts: My Word as Vorkosigan podcast, but especially the episode on this book, because it is so damned good. (I mean, once you are done with your re-read. Or, ya know, whenever!)
My version of the Linda Danvers Supergirl, based on the wonderfully hilarious and kind, Angelica Trae (and so patient at the ten million drawings I send her)
If they decide to bring back this version of the character (they won't) they can use the brown hair. I figured the jacket ties the 90s costume together better and fits Linda's rough and tumble attitude more than movie or woman of tomorrow supergirl.
If matrix twilight supergirl can come back so can Linda.
I mean they have a bajillion superboys why can't they have a few supergirls?
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Just putting these out there without much editing before Corset Day--8/8, the most tightlaced day--ends.
1. Tightlacing is good, actually. Corsets, simply look best when there's visible shaping and contrasting going on. And to quote the ancients, no, it shouldn't hurt, and yes, you can breathe.
2. The best use of corsetry on screen is in the 1955 Gina Lollobrigida film La donna più bella del mondo (Beatiful but Dangerous, for English-speaking audiences). The second best use is in La Viaccia (The Lovemakers) the 1961 Claudia Cardinale film. Tragically, the one movie I know of that actually features a corset enthusiast, 1951's Two Weeks with Love, is absolute trash. I'd say I'm hankering for remake that is actually good, but Dirty Dancing already exists.
3. A large part of my brain wiring regarding corsets is due to Pinky and the Brain #3 (DC Comics, 1996), where Brain's attempts to romance Henry VIII are undone by his failure to heed Pinky's repeated warnings about his (Brain's) too-tight corset gave a name to a thing I was already becoming obsessed with.
4. Done properly, corset-lacing scenes are one of my very favorite things in the world. Unfortunately, very few shown on film or TV are satisfying, and the often hackneyed messaging is only sometimes the problem. The bigger reason, is actually that corset lacing, done properly, is simply not very screen-friendly. It takes too long. It's a continuity nightmare. The actual corset lacing is very rarely actually the point of a scene, and shouldn't be. Ultimately, it's more practical to fake the process my just miming the expected movements without doing any actual tightening; even if it looks wrong, who's going to care?
(Me.)
5. I am exceedingly ambivalent about the last few years' return of corsets to ubiquity in the fashion world, because it feels quite impossible to separate their current popularity from the latest push for extreme thinness as an ideal. This has always been true, I suppose, but now more than during the decades when corsetry had receded into being a niche thing.
6. I do not care at all about front-laced corsets as a character design element (glares at BanG Dream! Ave Mujica). Yes, the laces are the most iconic visual element in a corset's design, and so it's tempting to place it where they're most visible. Still don't like it, especially since it's also quite often used with designs where the corset isn't doing any actual cinching. You're too damn thin, anime waifus!
7. I really quite miss the Staylace.com site. While I can totally understand why the larger corset community moved away from it as soon as it had the chance--it was not a place that cared about women except as objects, and its politics were absolutely rancid--its comprehensiveness (of a sort), regularity, and resistance to change, all the way to 2022, made it feel very stable even when the rest of the internet wasn't, and made it feel increasingly like archeology. It outlasted a lot of the internet, and that's not nothing.
Plus, I really like some of the less abuse-laden fiction.
8. I look real hot in corsets. I'm so glad I started wearing them.
I don't disagree it's possible to vote out fascists, but I think the real question is whether this accomplishes anything beyond giving them a couple terms' vacation before they can slip back in and pick up right where they left off. Especially in the USA where it seems no amount of Repub fuckups can ever actually put their chances of winning below 50%
I mean it accomplishes getting them out of office, which is extremely fucking important, and then, yes, you have to keep campaigning and voting against them for the rest of your life. There is no one election that is going to #own the other party into not existing anymore.
We vote in every election forever. That is how this works.
If you get tired of that, the fascists are happy to provide an alternative.
this is only the fourth scariest junction in britain, as voted by the british public.
the scariest is the original spaghetti junction (as in, the name originated to describe this specific junction), in birmingham.
not technically a roundabout, but there's a roundabout in there! and a railway line. and the tortured souls of the innocent, lost forever in a maze of concrete and tarmac. and a canal junction underneath it!
Before the movie came out I started this drawing of (almost) every supergirl/superwoman character. There’s two versions of Kara, one with the movie costume, one with the silver age costume. They’re the same or they’re different depending on how many happy returns and that one Superman/batman issue land in continuity.
I was obsessed with matrix angel supergirl having the Gary Frank design and then all of the characters and layers (and possibly my insistence on using Apple betas) has caused procreate to crash every time I attempt anything. I guess I wait until the official procreate os27 update.
Matrix Supergirl (twilight) and Linda Danvers are holding hands because they’re intrinsically linked, unfortunately that doesn’t seem to be the case for the matrix return in Sophie’s run. It’s fine, I’ve been used to disappointment since Linda was banished in 2004. I don’t count her final appearance where she, with the angel powers is left in hell Matrix (at that point going by Twilight) had the angel powers, Linda just had basic powers. Sigh. At least she got one single line in the back of one issue of the new history of the dc universe.
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i present to you: a non-exhaustive compilation of voice clips from dan green's role in Temptation, a two-episode hentai from 2005. this is not his only performance in such a genre but it is by far the silliest. i would like to extend my sincerest gratitude to @seekerbr for bringing this to my attention.
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