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[melannen]

Things I am not posting about this week:

1. Brexit
2. Guardian fandom, slash as an abstract concept, and the difference between queercoding, queerbaiting, representation and tokenism, and how that has played out across media and cultures in the last twenty-five years
3. The difficulty inherent in switching constantly between Guardian liveblogs and Guardian episode recaps ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
4. How it looks like I'm going to end up having to dig out my old Mike Gravel for President merch ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
5. The difference between historical fashion and historical clothing and why it gets my goat when people erase the difference
6. My current project, inspired by the search tips post, of going through my entire 600 pages of logged-in AO3 history to bookmark and tag stuff I want to hang on to

I am not writing posts about them, but feel free to ask me anyway, the rants are on tap.

I did, however, post to fictional_fans about what types of fanfic are good for readers who don't know the canon, so you should go there to talk about that.

Comments

[kore]

"the 1920s were the first time women could wear clothes for sports that actually took freedom of movement into account"

HAHAHAHAHAHA

did that person never see a Jane Austen period accurate movie costume or

[melannen]

The moment I learned that the reason Austen characters change their clothes to go to dinner, go walking, or receive visitors was because otherwise they just basically stayed in pajamas all the time was the moment I became a true Austen fan. :D

[kore]

And Empire gowns: comfy! Flattering! Pretty!

....of course in the famous awful P&P adaptation with Olivier? I think they re-use the GWTW dresses. Oof.

[melannen]

The Empire gowns actually had less range of motion in some ways than the earlier/later ones because of the narrower skirts, but they made up for it in other ways!