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You know what, since I'm thinking about it anyways, let's talk formalwear accessories. Most of these are traditionally menswear but a bit of gender fuckery is good for the soul, and frankly most of these are about making your mass-produced clothing fit and lay properly without having to go to the tailor.

Shirt stays: these go around your thighs to hold your shirt down, so that it stays smooth and tucked in. They're usually elastic, with 1-3 clips, and if you wear skirts frequently this is a GREAT way to make sure your top doesn't ride up. The clips will be visible if you're wearing something tight, so loose pants or skirts are where these do best. There's also an insane version that clips to your socks, but that is for lunatics. If you wanted, you could also use one of these clips to hold up thigh-highs.

These do a great job of smoothing and narrowing the waist area by keeping your shirt from bunching there.

Sleeve garters: usually metal, leather, elastic, or silk. These are usually worn with button-down shirts to adjust where your cuff falls on the wrist or hand. They're properly worn on the upper arm, and you pull the fabric of the sleeve above the garter until you cuff is where you want it. Because this creates a puff of sleeve at the bicep, it also broadens the appearance of the shoulders. It's great if you're working with your hands or if your sleeves are often too long for your preference.

Waistband clip or belt adjustment clip/buttons

Three different ways of tightening the waistband of a pair of pants or a skirt. You're not going to get more than an inch or so tighter without weird bunching, and for most of these you'd want them to be hidden under a shirt or jacket, but they do the job if that's something you're having issues with.

Collar pins: There are so many fun ones out there, both with and without chains. They're not terribly practical, though the slight weight may help keep your collar where you want it. Also consider collar tips, which pin (surprise) to the very tips of your collar points.

Sweater clips/guards: meant to hold your sweater or cardigan mostly closed. Great if your cardigan doesn't button, or if you don't like it to be buttoned all the way.

There's tons of other stuff out there like this--etsy is a great place to find this stuff. A lot of these are old solutions to the very modern problem of mass-maufactured clothes not being as one-size-fits-all as advertised, but they're also a fun way to put a bit of personality into businesswear.

Last I saw this thread there were over a hundred comments but not a single person could agree on what this is or what happened

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

“my bonnie lies over the ocean, my bonnie lies over the sea,”

are we talking about the same body of water here, which is weird, or different bodies of water, which is even weirder

Messy Little Hands Drawings

Has 40 swatches, most are infant scribbles, some are toddler!

Mesh re-color, Plutosims mesh!

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Hit him where it hurts, Cassandra! (Apollo is the WORST.)

i think the near-extinction of people making fun, deep and/or unique interactive text-based browser games, projects and stories is catastrophic to the internet. i'm talking pre-itch.io era, nothing against it.

there are a lot of fun ones listed here and here but for the most part, they were made years ago and are now a dying breed. i get why. there's no money in it. factoring in the cost of web hosting and servers, it probably costs money. it's just sad that it's a dying art form.

anyway, here's some of my favorite browser-based interactive projects and games, if you're into that kind of thing. 90% of them are on the lists that i linked above.

A Better World - create an alternate history timeline

Alter Ego - abandonware birth-to-death life simulator game

Seedship - text-based game about colonizing a new planet

Sandboxels or ThisIsSand - free-falling sand physics games

Little Alchemy 2 - combine various elements to make new ones

Infinite Craft - kind of the same as Little Alchemy

ZenGM - simulate sports

Tamajoji - browser-based tamagotchi

IFDB - interactive fiction database (text adventure games)

Written Realms - more text adventure games with a user interface

The Cafe & Diner - mystery game

The New Campaign Trail - US presidential campaign game

Money Simulator - simulate financial decisions

Genesis - text-based adventure/fantasy game

Level 13 - text-based science fiction adventure game

Miniconomy - player driven economy game

Checkbox Olympics - games involving clicking checkboxes

BrantSteele.net - game show and Hunger Games simulators

Murder Games - fight to the death simulator by Orteil

Cookie Clicker - different but felt weird not including it. by Orteil.

if you're ever thinking about making a niche project that only a select number of individuals will be nerdy enough to enjoy, keep in mind i've been playing some of these games off and on for 20~ years (Alter Ego, for example). quite literally a lifetime of replayability.

That last post reminds me, I've been meaning to do this up for a while.

An incomplete list of games I personally recommend as a narrative dev from a "Gosh I loved their narrative design and these aren't AAA" perspective, some of which are on sale in that celebration:

Mutazione: "A mutant soap opera where small-town gossip meets the supernatural. Explore the Mutazione community as Kai as she cares for her ailing grandfather. Discover magical gardens, new friends & old secrets. They can survive an apocalyptic meteor strike, but can they survive their small-town drama?" I adore this game. It has lingered with me since I played it in 2019. The character writing is excellent, and the structure of the narrative is delightful. A gem that deserves to be far more widely known.

Amarantus: "Arik's been told two things all his life: a tyrant is ruling the country, and somebody needs to do something. Now forced to flee his house after a midnight attack, his parents captured and his house torched—maybe somebody means you. It's time to gather a party, head to the capital, and take the Lord down. Along the journey, this crew of old friends and new strangers will grow closer—or further apart—as your choices guide Arik to win friends, make enemies, play matchmaker, and break hearts. Romance is not guaranteed: messiness is." (Disclaimer: friend of a friend made this) Amarantus is a deeply gripping visual novel, which plays with the format in a very compelling way. The worldbuilding is intricate, the characters incredibly human and incredibly messy, and it rewards multiple playthroughs to develop a deeper understanding of the overall situation. I would also strongly rec If Not Us, by the same developer, for the same reasons.

Sunshine Shuffle: (Disclaimer: friends made this) "Play cards with a group of adorable animal friends who robbed the largest bank on the Eastern Seaboard 12 years ago, and are willing to let you decorate their boat in return for not being executed by the mafia." Sunshine Shuffle is not for everyone, but it uses the structure of the poker games to deliver the narrative with a controlled pace that has really gripping emergent tension. The character writing is as ever the strongest part of the experience, and I think this is one of the more niche Strange Scaffold titles but it's also my personal favourite.

Roadwarden: "Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction." Roadwarden is at the time of writing $5.39NZD and you should play it. Please play Roadwarden. It's a ridiculously ambitious project, sprawling and lush with some cutting choice branches that had me get up and physically go pace around as I thought through the ethical ramifications as well as the roleplay ones.

Citizen Sleeper: "Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future." I adore Citizen Sleeper, another incredibly ambitious project that is able to get away with everything it does thanks to the heavy stylization (you will notice a trend here). I can't wait to play the sequel, I find this one hard to talk about because I never want to risk spoiling anything about it. Just an absolute treat. Left me feeling uplifted and hollowed out in equal measure at times. Big wins for fungi fans also.

The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante: "A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!" Another incredibly ambitious RPG project and one that haunts me deeply. Punishing, fascinating, with excellent character writing and immense replayability. I've done at least 9 runs of this game. I am chomping at the bit for the sequel. If you like exploring fictional theology, you'll potentially have a fantastic time over here.

Murders on the Yangtze River: ""Murders on Yangtze River" is an Ace Attorney-like detective game that takes you on a journey through early 20th century China as you solve a series of intriguing cases. Use your logical reasoning and deduction skills to uncover clues, interrogate suspects, and solve the mysteries." One of my recent favourites. Plays with the format in a very refreshing way, has rock solid mystery writing, and provides also an educational encylopedia to provide historic context around a lot of the things that come up! I've so far convinced at least 7 people to play it, and not a one has regretted that choice.

Tyrion Cuthbert: Attorney of the Arcane: "In Tyrion Cuthbert: Attorney of the Arcane, you play as a defense attorney who practices law in a world of fantasy and wizards. You must defend clients accused of various crimes committed using magic and use the rules of magic to prove them innocent." Far more directly than the last title in this list, TCAA is directly influenced by AA in an absolutely undeniable way, borrowing from the stylistic presentation of that series near 1:1 at times. However, beyond that aesthetic presentation is rich mystery writing that plays with its premise in a really fun way. You're basically playing as a lawyer in a D&D setting, and using the written spell descriptions in the cases. I found myself wishing they went in a little harder on that at times, but it's a really really fun ride that has some interesting innovations. I'm looking forward to the next project from this team immensely. Only a couple of frustration points based around needing to use very specific phrasing to progress.

Mouthwashing: "The five crew members of the Tulpar are stranded in the empty reaches of space, shrouded in perpetual sunset. God is not watching." If you haven't heard of Mouthwashing at this point, you should. Absolutely stellar. Only game that's ever made me dig out video editing software so I could assemble a private personal chronological viewing experience. Really hard to talk about without spoiling the whole thing. Not a light playthrough.

Wandering Sword: "Wandering Sword is a Chinese martial-arts RPG where you play a young swordsman caught up in a feud and nearly dies. Escaping the event puts you on the path of pursuing the highest form of martial arts and exploring the pugilistic world to become the great hero you are always destined to be." Ohhhh my god I love this game. It's vast. Dizzyingly ambitious for a debut RPG. Yuwen Yi is a fantastic authored protagonist and I would die and kill for him. I need to play the DLC and cry some more. The combat system is incredibly fun. I undid hours of progress to save my favourite rat man from destruction. I saved another man's life by not liking him.

The Rewinder: "The Rewinder is an adventure puzzle game based on Chinese mythology. You play as Yun, the last known Rewinder, who can communicate with spirits and explore other people's memories to alter the past" Absolutely stunning presentation on this one. A relatively short experience, but very compelling. Did make me do math, which I personally needed help for, but I loved the story it told and how it did it.

crown jewel/stained glass jello cakes are like beautiful angels to me. it's fruity and delicious. it's retro kitsch. it's an edible example of midcentury minimalist art in every cross section.

i understand the 50s housewife appeal here. if i rolled up to the potluck with a fugly cobbler and my neighbor brought one of these i may have to end my stupid sloppy fruit life.