Items of General Interest
Mar. 5th, 2016 09:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotRemember the job I applied for at the Martin Van Buren House? Temporary, seasonal, basically a glorified housekeeper for one summer. Well, I got USAjobs'd! (Translation: the computer deemed me "eligible but not as qualified as other applicants" and did not forward my resumé on to the actual humans.) What does it take to get through that system?? Is it possible that in some cases, the state already has a preferred candidate and they do something to the computer so only that person can get through?
I went and saw Deadpool today. Definitely earned that R rating, at times bordering on "we put this and this in specifically so we could earn an R rating." Ryan Reynolds did a fantastic job, somehow he moved exactly the way I'd imagined Deadpool would move, if that makes sense? Based on the static comic book images. Morena Baccarin was great - I liked their sex montage, sex montages make it clear that these two people are compatible and have a good time without making me sit through an actual sex scene. I was actually worried she was going to die at the end because of it not being a typical superhero narrative. I also liked the female bruiser - I always appreciate that in a movie/show. There's no reason the bruiser-type can't be a woman, especially when superpowers are involved. (Her fight with Colossus wasn't as good as Elliot's with that Israeli woman in Leverage, but was still pretty good.) Everyone else was getting up and leaving at the end, so like a sap I did as well, figuring I could see the post-credits scenes on Youtube once I got home - NOT COOL, I couldn't, and I'm annoyed at myself for being such a sheep.
Has anybody done any research on bone eyelets? Not rings that were sewn over but those thick, set-in bone eyelets. I've been working on a blog post about Regency corset dating and construction, realizing that so many assumptions about the sequencing are wrong or at least overstated (because corsets I would have put 1805-1810 based on how they look, for instance, have metal eyelets), and it occurred to me that it would be pretty sweet if we could say "this corset can be no earlier than 18XX because of the bone eyelets" ... but nobody appears to know.
Speaking of Regency corsets, I need to make a new one. *deep sigh* I'm going to have to make multiple things concurrently, which is so hard. But my old wearable mockup is so uncomfortable - it needs more flare in the hips, and I'm not convinced that the gussets should be cut so short and high, because it needs a lot more space in the bust. I'd like to also make a sheer ball dress and white silk slip this summer, and it doesn't make sense to do that over an uncomfortable, ill-fitting corset, so ...
I went and saw Deadpool today. Definitely earned that R rating, at times bordering on "we put this and this in specifically so we could earn an R rating." Ryan Reynolds did a fantastic job, somehow he moved exactly the way I'd imagined Deadpool would move, if that makes sense? Based on the static comic book images. Morena Baccarin was great - I liked their sex montage, sex montages make it clear that these two people are compatible and have a good time without making me sit through an actual sex scene. I was actually worried she was going to die at the end because of it not being a typical superhero narrative. I also liked the female bruiser - I always appreciate that in a movie/show. There's no reason the bruiser-type can't be a woman, especially when superpowers are involved. (Her fight with Colossus wasn't as good as Elliot's with that Israeli woman in Leverage, but was still pretty good.) Everyone else was getting up and leaving at the end, so like a sap I did as well, figuring I could see the post-credits scenes on Youtube once I got home - NOT COOL, I couldn't, and I'm annoyed at myself for being such a sheep.
Has anybody done any research on bone eyelets? Not rings that were sewn over but those thick, set-in bone eyelets. I've been working on a blog post about Regency corset dating and construction, realizing that so many assumptions about the sequencing are wrong or at least overstated (because corsets I would have put 1805-1810 based on how they look, for instance, have metal eyelets), and it occurred to me that it would be pretty sweet if we could say "this corset can be no earlier than 18XX because of the bone eyelets" ... but nobody appears to know.
Speaking of Regency corsets, I need to make a new one. *deep sigh* I'm going to have to make multiple things concurrently, which is so hard. But my old wearable mockup is so uncomfortable - it needs more flare in the hips, and I'm not convinced that the gussets should be cut so short and high, because it needs a lot more space in the bust. I'd like to also make a sheer ball dress and white silk slip this summer, and it doesn't make sense to do that over an uncomfortable, ill-fitting corset, so ...
