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I've been using Pinterest a lot lately and it reminded me of my huge pet peeve, which is people pinning from Tumblr and the image either linking to the second or third page of someone's Tumblr (which the original image is never on anymore) or to the generic dashboard.

The people on Tumblr who post pictures of really awesome things with no information on where they come from and have no click-through link at all are worse, but that goes beyond pet peeve and into enraging.

Doing a major amount of fashion-plate translation today to catch up and give myself more of a buffer. Was very helped out by three full books of theatrical costumes with no captions.

So I had borrowed rum from Mom to make fruitcake with a month ago, and at one point I decided to make hot buttered rum, but it turned out to be really shitty rum (Castillo Gold) so I couldn't drink it. Today for like the second time in my life I went out and purchased alcohol :O Shipwreck is much better and it was nice to have something hot to drink.

The literal worst

I have to say that I'm really impressed by the section in the Art of the Tailor on fashion history. The writer admits that they don't know much about dress between 480 and 1200 because of a lack of sources, and says that even Clovis's tomb's statue could have been made after the fact and not be accurate for his time. Even the fact that they're researching/reporting on the history of clothing in the 18th century is a pretty big deal, considering that the field is considered to begin in the mid 20th century.

WHAT I'm watching Jude and David Tennant just bumped into Christopher Eccleston, I didn't expect this.

OTOH I just got to the dead children scene and now I don't know how I'm going to get to sleep. "I haven't read Jude the Obscure, but it's by Hardy so I expect Eccleston or Winslet dies or something," I thought when I picked it out. This is the worst.