Since Mother Eve in the Garden long ago

I often check out the comments on Dumbing of Age and I don't know why, because it's like everyone has forgotten that this is a comic. That the dialogue, the plot arcs of individual strips, etc. are often driven by the need to be funny, and that people being kind of mean or unfair is actually often funny.

Tried on my Unique Vintage order. Two things seem to work well - the bright red Delores dress needs a pressing and maybe the neckline basted together a bit (the split at the center is extremely low on me, I have a high bust), and the Tahiti dress straps button in the back to adjust, and need another buttonhole so I can shorten them (again, high bust). Unfortunately, the Mona and Highlander dresses are both too long-waisted and bother me visually, with the tartan bars going all over the place, never in line, and the curved side-front seams hitting me right at the bust point. (I do not recommend to others.) The Mona is also a weirdly stiff fabric, but the Highlander is a nice flannel and tbh I like the bow, so I regret that that one didn't work out. Guess I'll return them tomorrow. (Still waiting on the pants, which are not yet shipped.)

I spent most of today watching the new season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, which spurred me to take on this dress I started last winter from a Haslam pattern - did the darts and then the shoulder seams (and then redid the seams because I had the back flipped around) by hand. Going to try to get the bulk of it done tomorrow, leaving the finishing for during the week!

The internet has been absolutely shitting it up so far all day, which was mildly annoying while I did other things but then enraging when it turned out that my ep. 6 of Broadchurch had the sound all out of sync from the video from about five minutes in and I of course couldn't replace it. Blogger is having its own problems, refusing to let me post today's plate. I post it, but it doesn't show up on the main page of the blog or in the "All" or "Published" sections in the posts page. Well, I finally got it to work, but only by pasting it all into a new post and deleting the old one.

I've made a mock-up of the gown I'm making for Clermont - the bodice, anyway. One side of the bodice. But now I'm conflicted about if it should be lined, or if it should just be a sheer overdress. Better talk to Kjirsten.

So I've finished going over my 18th century patterns in PS, and now I need to get back to the writing :| and also make some appointments to finish patterning. Two more sessions should do it, which means that I could theoretically have this turned into a book within 2013.

Debating over buying the first Bad Machinery book. Probably will.

Was it just me, or was a big part of last night's Community that ( spoiler )

I got A Brief History of Montmaray from the library electronically. Did someone rec it or did I just pick it because it was there? I don't remember. It's like a cross between I Capture the Castle (family living in literally crumbling castle with no money) and The Pursuit of Love. For the most part, I love it, though there are a few clothes issues I raise my eyebrow at. The remarks about short skirts and short hair being fashionable sound more like they're in 1925; by 1936 they'd just be seen as the way things were. It does occur to me that it's to show how far out in the middle of nowhere they are, but I feel like (because of the lack of being pointed out in either case) that relies a lot on not just Cooper's understanding of fashion but her estimation of the audience's as well. At first I was annoyed that Montmaray's rulers could never be women because it was passed off as "tradition" - because it was tradition in England as well, but it changed as women decided to change it. But then later on Sophie mentioned an edict, so I've backed off that, and while I was at first impatient because, come on, this is the time of the abdication crisis, if there's ever a time when it would make sense for people to think you can change things like that it would be then - but I've started thinking they're going to change it so I'm cool now. And I have a prediction: ( psoiler )

This post by the author of Goblins seems like a pretty good apology for this and his fans jumping on her, all things considered. Would have been better for him not to jump to that place immediately (and I raise my eyebrows at the other person for calling the comic a "misogynist pile of shit" in the first place, and for insisting rape was involved in the particular page when it wasn't) but considering all the people that don't repeatedly call off their minions I give him a thumbs up.

I really need to edit my article and email it off today. I mailed my thesis in yesterday! Almost done with all of this.

Some pictures of my exhibition. The reception last night was great! I met a Ten Eyck, that was cool.