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Okay, um. I suppose now I can claim a lot of cred because I have seen all of the following arguments:
- If you ship slash, you are disgusting and perverting the text and the obviously straight characters.
- If you don't ship slash, you are boring and unimaginative.
- If you don't ship slash, you are homophobic and ignoring the obvious subtext.
- If you ship slash, you are disgusted by women and hate all female characters (and yourself).
- If you ship slash, you are fetishizing gay men and are terrible.
- If you ship femslash, you are actually a liar because you don't. You only pretend to in order to look good.

WHY GOD WHY. How does anyone even have energy for this anymore?

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Trying to write a Museum-L response. So stressful! Everyone's going to see it and not want to hire me, ever.

AWESOME

Sometimes I get so fixated on the pattern that I disregard other things. Someone on Tumblr pointed out that the brocaded mantua looks like a Spitalfields silk, so now I'm trying to date it. And the pattern definitely seems pretty 1740s, not 1760s - spidery stems and colorful, small flowers, spaced apart. (1, 2, 3, 4 ... here is the search page at the VAM, you can see for yourself.) Which is very cool.

They seem to have all of Garthwaite's designs at the VAM. I'm going to find the original!