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[chocolatepot]

Wore the frumpy dress to work - it's not very good for typing, the shoulders are so tight they don't want to let me have my arms active like that! I wore it with my "pure red" Nyx matte lipstick, which I'm not sure why works for me because it's so orangey; I'm thinking about getting a bright pink, similarly warm, because I have a very vibrant pink in a cheaper brand that looks nice but rubs off. The Nyx seems to stain and hold on through meals and also not dry out my lips the point where I pick that whole layer of skin off.

I need to finish that petticoat, and I'd love to make another summer dress before vacation ... but you know what's a lot more appealing lately? Playing Manuganu and watching Mad Men. So yeah. Hopefully this weekend - another three-dayer - will see some work done. I must have enough fabric to make a dress, but do I have enough to make another one with a big full skirt? It's a bad thing, having a Joann's in Ogdensburg - too close, it's too easy to pop over there and buy more fabric. (100% cotton if I do. That's the other downside of the frumpy dress, it holds in the sweat.)

Goodbye, Reenacting Memes for Ladies. You were a nice, humorous page to follow, but then you had to reveal yourself as Lost Causers who think there's something noble about the Confederacy. What does #allhistorymatters even mean? Other than "I think #alllivesmatter is a good hashtag because I'm kind of racist so I'm going to jump off that."

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[lliira]

Lost Causers who think there's something noble about the Confederacy

Oh ffs. Are we ever going to be rid of these people?

[chocolatepot]

If the past few weeks are anything to go by, nope! People say, "they're going to die out," but that's because they're ignorant of the fact that this isn't an old-people thing, the young learn it in school and at home. And then they grow up to be Confederate reenactors, and learn how to talk about "showing all the sides of an issue even if we don't agree with it" to mask their agreement with it. I mean, they don't seem to believe that we should still have slavery, but the focus on "It wasn't about slavery, it was about economic pressures!" (CAUSED BY SLAVERY OKAY??? GOD) is disturbing. They have to pretend that slavery wasn't an issue to Lincoln and the rest of the north despite all the evidence to the contrary in order to pretend that the south wasn't fighting to keep slavery, to keep an equal level of slave states in the union, to keep the non-slave states enacting the Fugitive Slave Laws. It's maddening.

[lliira]

Plus I know a few older people who used to be all "it's complex, the South wasn't totally wrong" who are now "it was slavery, it was shameful, take that damn flag down." It's not about age, it's about actually caring about... all history.

[dancesontrains]

Matte lipstick looks so nice on other people (it's too dry for me).