#priscilla of boston

[fashionsfromhistory]

Wedding Dress

2011

Priscilla of Boston

Historic New England

#wedding dress #fashion history #modern fashion #2010s #priscilla of boston #21st century #beading #silk #satin #polyester #united states #wedding #dress #historic new england

[chicinsilk]

US Vogue July 1956

Patsy Shally wears a white silk skin wedding dress lavished with Alencon lace (Wechsler silk) and crown veiled with seed beads, both by Priscilla of Boston.

Patsy Shally porte une robe de marièe en peau de soie blanche prodiguée de dentelle d'Alençon (en soie Wechsler).et couronne voilée de perles de rocaille, toutes deux de Priscilla de Boston.

Photo Irving Penn vogue archive

#us vogue #july 1956 #fashion 50s #1956 #wedding dress #robe de mariée #priscilla of boston #dentelle d'alençon #wechsler silk #patsy shally #irving penn

[ratdentist]

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1996)

#film #movie #movie stills #movie quotes #the adventures of priscilla queen of the desert #gay movies #queer movies #trans movies #idk this quote hit really hard because as much as Boston sucks #whenever i venture too far outside of it I remember how unsafe things still are for trans people everywhere #and that really nothing has changed

[animusrox]

TOP 10

Past Lives

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

How to Blow Up a Pipeline

Poor Things

Oppenheimer

Barbie

BlackBerry

The Holdovers

The Iron Claw

Killers of the Flower Moon

MY LETTERBOXD Grade A 11.    The Killer 12.    Beau Is Afraid 13.    Dream Scenario 14.    Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 15.    Godzilla Minus One 16.    American Fiction 17.    They Cloned Tyrone 18.     Evil Dead Rise 19.    Eileen 20.    The Artifice Girl 21.   Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem 22.    Talk to Me 23.    Reality 24.    Leave the World Behind 25.    A Thousand and One 26.    Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One 27.    Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. 28.    Theater Camp 29.   Carmen 30.    Merry Little Batman 31.    Priscilla 32.    Society of the Snow 33.    Infinity Pool 34.    Enys Men 35.    Sanctuary 36.    Rye Lane 37.    Skinamarink 38.    Monster 39.    Anatomy of a Fall 40.    Landscape with Invisible Hand 41.    Reptile 42.    Sisu 43.    Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game 44.    No One Will Save You 45.    Tetris 46.    May December 47.    The Zone of Interest 48.    V/H/S/85 49.    Dumb Money 50.    El Conde 51.    Arnold 52.    Maestro 53.    Napoleon 54.    20 Days in Mariupol 55.    Influencer 56.    The Creator 57.    Origin 58.    Thanksgiving 59.    Next Goal Wins 60.    The Boy and the Heron 61.    Bottoms 62.    Wonka

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Grade B

63.   God Is a Bullet 64.    No Hard Feelings 65.    Joy Ride 66.    Fair Play 67.     Cocaine Bear 68.    NYAD 69.    Asteroid City 70.    Nowhere 71.    The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster 72.    Divinity 73.    The Equalizer 3 74.    The Last Voyage of the Demeter 75.    Venus 76.    Butcher’s Crossing 77.    Somewhere in Queens 78.    The Persian Version 79.    Boston Strangler 80.    Polite Society 81.    Miguel Wants to Fight 82.    The Color Purple 83.    The Royal Hotel 84.    Saw X 85.    All of Us Strangers 86.    Fallen Leaves 87.    Ferrari 88.    Elemental 89.    Peter Pan & Wendy 90.    Renfield 91.    Cat Person 92.    Scream VI 93.    The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes 94.    BS High 95.    Blue Beetle 96.    Huesera: The Bone Woman 97.    When Evil Lurks 98.    Dark Harvest 99.    A Good Person 100.    Final Cut 101.    Knock at the Cabin 102.    Quiz Lady 103.    Leo 104.    Air 105.    The Super Mario Bros. Movie 106.    Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham 107.    John Wick: Chapter 4 108.    Beaten to Death 109.    The Wrath of Becky 110.    Passages 111.    Transformers: Rise of the Beasts 112.    Gran Turismo 113.    65 114.    Sick 115.    Sister Death 116.    The Blackening 117.    Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain 118.    Flamin’ Hot 119.    Nimona 120.    Cobweb 121.    Totally Killer 122.    What’s Love Got to Do with It? 123.     Sharper 124.    Unseen 125.    Dunki 126.    Bird Box Barcelona 127.    The Marvels 128.    Shazam! Fury of the Gods

Grade C

129.   Wildflower 130.    Freelance 131.    M3GAN 132.    Strays 133.    Sympathy for the Devil 134.    Creed III 135.    Chevalier 136.    The Marsh King’s Daughter 137.    A Haunting in Venice 138.    The Little Mermaid 139.    Silent Night 140.    Master Gardener 141.    The Flash 142.    Fast X 143.    The Pope’s Exorcist 144.    Saltburn 145.    Kandahar 146.    Stand 147.    Plane 148.   Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny 149.    Fingernails 150.    Quicksand 151.    Fool’s Paradise 152.    Migration 153.    Rustin 154.    The Covenant 155.    Good Burger 2 156.    The Pod Generation 157.    Alice, Darling 158.    Insidious: The Red Door 159.    Missing 160.    Shotgun Wedding 161.    You Hurt My Feelings 162.    The Boogeyman 163.    Showing Up 164.    Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom 165.    Champions 166.    Consecration 167.    The Nun II 168.    Biosphere 169.    House Party 170.    The Exorcist: Believer 171.    Big George Foreman 172.    Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves 173.    Children of the Corn 174.    The Beanie Bubble 175.    Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

Grade F

176.    Anyone But You 177.    Marlowe 178.    Paint 179.    Extraction 2 180.    It Lives Inside 181.    Deliver Us 182.    Trolls Band Together 183.    Finestkind 184.    Corner Office 185.    Wish 186.    Prisoner’s Daughter 187.    Pain Hustlers 188.    Foe 189.    The Mother 190.    Old Dads 191.    Ghosted 192.    Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken 193.    Haunted Mansion 194.    Mafia Mamma 195.    Five Nights at Freddy’s 196.    The Machine 197.    Justice League: Warworld 198.    We Have a Ghost 199.    What Comes Around 200.    Legion of Super-Heroes 201.    The Boys in the Boat 202.    Attachment 203.    Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre 204.    About My Father 205.    You People 206.    Meg 2: The Trench 207.    Pathaan 208.    Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire 209.    Assassin 210.    Dalíland 211.    Vacation Friends 2

Bottom 10

212.    Sound of Freedom 213.    Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 214.    When You Finish Saving The World 215.    Heart of Stone 216.    Family Switch 217.    Expend4bles 218.    Sweetwater 219.    Hypnotic 220.    80 for Brady 221.    Spinning Gold

#kane52630 #filmedit #top 10 2023 #top 10 year #usergal #userlera #userkd #userbrittany #mikaeled #userconstance #userel #past lives #spider man across the spider verse #how to blow up a pipeline #poor things #oppenheimer #barbie #blackberry #the holdovers #the iron claw #killers of the flower moon #movie

[dwellordream]

Fashion Showdown: Bridal (Match 6)

#fashion #polls #bridal #history

[immortaldesiresproject]

Immortal Desires Project Update!! [Finally]

Hello my friends! I'm so sorry about the radio silence. There's been a lot going on in my personal life, so progress has been a little slow!

However, I have some big updates and more sneak peeks, including three new characters, since I've starved you all of updates.

To start: We're looking for more writers. One of our writers had to back away for personal reasons, so it's down to a two people team. If you're interested, pop into the message box so we can chat :) To be able to join the team, you must be 18+. No exceptions to this rule.

In way of programming... There's been a lot of progress. I've been working on this for weeks now, and for being literally brand-spanking-new to the world of coding, there's a lot of progress and it's coming out well. The custom character menu is done, animations for various objects are done... Just have to tighten some screws and we're probably good to start implementing the chapters!

... And chapter 1 is nearly complete! The base layout of the story is feeling pretty solid as well. I know this isn't the most comprehensive writing update, but there will be more soon.

There are many new characters being added to the game. It's taken a lot of time to make quite a few of them, minus the more side-esque characters (think of like Margot or Nicole). Speaking of, here are two of your new potential besties! Meet Solana and Julian!

Before we continue, yes, Julian is basically reskinned Donovan from MAH. In my defense, the sprite is just too beautiful to never be used again! He's also a mix with the green-haired bully man who pops up from time to time. At the moment, he's your run-of-the-mill half sprite; I'm hoping to give him an actual body soon. Then we have our non-binary god/dess, Solana! They're not entirely new, but they're heavily edited with hair that is 10/10 stolen from Morgan in HSS:CA; I've always loved Morgan's hair. You can possibly meet them when you first arrive in...

BOSTON! There'll be a slight change in scenery for some of IDFP, but Crimson Beech will still be joining along for the ride.

As for our third new character, one that took me days to work on... [TW: GORE but it's underneath the GIF of how it felt making her and wanting to bash my head into a wall for like a week]

Meet Priscilla! Literally nothing else is being revealed about her!

To close, all of the masc MC sprite sheets are done. However, despite being non-binary myself (as in Devlin), I know nothing about fashion, especially masc/cis-male. I've said it before and I'll say it again, I'm nothing but an edgy punk and don't explore much outside of that, outside of wearing slacks and button ups to work. Anywhoo, all of the original outfits in ID have been resized to the new body sizes! I also have a few new outfits for the masc MC!

And here's a couple more femme MC sprites I fiddled with!

Thank you all for the support, despite Pixelberry announcing an official ID2. I've definitely been feeling the love, and again, I do apologize for the lack of updates. Between school, personal bizz, work, and developing this project, it's been hard to squeeze in the time. Maybe I'll try my hand at doing text updates for the future; I just like being able to have substance for all of you.

PLEASE CONTINUE TO ASK US QUESTIONS. We like answering them (unless they don't have an answer, am sorry)! We want to know about ya'lls opinions and curiosities. Without all of you, this game would not be in development and it may have been dropped by now if we didn't have all of this support coming our way. Truly, thank you.

#idfp update #immortaldesiresfanproject #immortal desires #immortal desires fan project #pixelberry studios #choices stories you play #pixelberry #murder at homecoming #high school story choices #high school story #high school story class act

[variationincreation]

“The Priscilla Yoke Book” by The Priscilla Publishing Company, 1916. Boston, Massachusetts.

#tatting #lace #pattern #necklines #antique

[digitalfashionmuseum]

Yellow Silk Bridesmaid Dress, 1956, American.

Designed by Joseph Hong.

Worn at the Wedding of Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier III of Monaco.

Philadelphia Museum of Art.

#philadelphia museum of art #womenswear #extant garments #silk #dress #american #usa #yellow #royal wedding #wedding #bridesmaid dress #20th century #1956 #1950s #1950s dress #1950s wedding #Joseph hong #grace Kelly #Prince rainier of Monaco #Monaco

[quidfree]

I read your TSH X The Graduate fic and was struck by a line in which Francis calls Richard "plausible". There is a similar moment in Succession where Tom Wambsgans is described in the same quietly (for the show anyways) bitchy way. So... does this mean that Francis is distantly related to Lady Caroline Collingwood? Is there a world where Francis and Richard watch the Roy family drama play out from their TV in Montreal and Francis makes sporadic, vague references to Roman's childhood "latency" and the ginger promiscuity gene that he and Shiv share, without ever fully elaborating?? Please say yes.

plausible! anon the way this concept has had a hold of me since i saw it… words cannot describe. like! caroline “your father used to sleep with all the men in sausalito” collingwood running in francis’ circles is so real and true.

even if it’s not direct family... the roys are scottish catholics after all….. perfect tie-in to the red-head boston catholic abernathy clan…. it all just connects. ewan roy is kind of my mental image of abernathy senior anyways can’t you see a bit of the old-age francis in james cromwell’s cunty austerity?

anyways back on track francis and richard are what, late 60s babies if they were 20 in the 80s? and caroline is probably early 1950s if you go by the actress. so kid wise connor is probably roughly around their age??? oh my god. but francis would have only met the roys when caroline and logan were married so he would have been in his late teens looking with absolute disdain upon the roy kid trio. idk who he would dislike most. probably ken for being so *gestures at ken*, otherwise roman. he might have tolerated shiv more because he gives more grace to the girlies (see: camilla). and he probably only met connor sometime later since he didn't see the family for some time after his mother got taken away- i can only imagine the horrors of them interacting.

good lord imagine priscilla abernathy and caroline in the same room. the insane vibes. but at least that side is all old money condescension and they would bond over their distaste for the new money roys. what the roys would think of the abernathys? probably very little as adults. world famous homophobe logan roy would not have taken to francis, who is maybe the truest definition of 'not a serious person'. i have to think about what the kids would have thought about him. suggestions welcomed.

as for middle-aged francis and richard in montreal watching the shitshow that is canonical succession timeline playing out live in the news? *gesticulating incoherently* someone prompt me to write this.

i could go on for days this is too perfect of a concept. anon please supply more thoughts of your own. and if i kept going in the tags no i didn't.

#qui repond #qui parle #anon #tsh #succession #literally you are a genius. #your mind is unmatched #the ginger promiscuity 'if you love the dog but don't tell it you do maybe it won't hurt when it bites you' shivfrancis gene HELLO??? #the secret history #it feels so illegal but it's so... plausible #god imagine....... a tern haven with the collingwood side of it all.... #much like francis' goldfinch cameo

[quoththemaven]

2023 Favoritest Flicks

Take out your five faves and it'd still be a dynamite year for movies. My tops = Poor Things. Fave performance = Da'Vine Joy Randolph in The Holdovers. Fave score = Poor Things. Fave G'lord WTF is This Wild Gem = Dug Dug. The movie I liked a lot more than I expected to = Air. The Can't Wait for Their Next One = Kristoffer Borgli's Dream Scenario. Congratulations to all winners, you've won special mention on this Tumblr page 🏆

Loved!

Air

American Fiction

Anatomy of a Fall

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.

Asteroid City

Barbie

Beau is Afraid

Blackberry

Bottoms

Dream Scenario

Dug Dug

Ferrari

Godzilla Minus One

How to Blow up a Pipeline

Knock at the Cabin

M3GAN

May December

Napoleon

Oldboy (20th Anniversary Remastered)

Oppenheimer

Past Lives

Poor Things

Saltburn

Society of the Snow

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Stop Making Sense (rerelease)

The Boy and the Heron

The Holdovers

The Iron Claw

The Killer

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, The Swan, The Rat Catcher, Poison

The Zone of Interest

Liked!

65

A Haunting in Venice

A Thousand and One

Alice Darling

AKA

All of Us Strangers

Ballerina

Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes (2020)

Biosphere

Blue Beetle

Boston Strangler

Broker

The Burial

Cassandro

Cat Person

Creed III

Dark Harvest

Dicks: The Musical

Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

Dogleg

Dumb Money

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

Eileen

El Conde

Elemental

Evil Dead Rise

Fair Play

Fallen Leaves

Fast X

Fingernails

Five Nights at Freddy’s

Flora and Son

Good Grief

Gran Turismo

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

Halfway Home

Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.

If You Were the Last

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Inside

It’s a Wonderful Knife

John Wick 4

Joy Ride

Landscape with Invisible Hand

Leave the World Behind

Little Bone Lodge

Luther: The Fallen Sun

Lyla

Maaveeran

Maestro

Maggie Moore(s)

Missing

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

Mountain Woman

Mr. Monk’s Last Case: A Monk Movie

Mutt

Nairobby

Nimona

No One Will Save You

Nowhere

Nyad

Paint

Para Betina Pengikut Iblis

Plane

Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain

Priscilla

Quiz Lady

Raging Grace

Renfield

River

Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken

Sanctuary

Self-Reliance

Sharper

Shin Kamen Rider

Showing Up

Sisu

Skinamarink

Starling Girl

Still Time

Strays

Suzume

Talk to Me

Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

Tetris

The Boogeyman

The Book of Clarence

The Call

The Covenant

The Kitchen

The Last Voyage of the Demeter

The Machine

The Royal Hotel

The Strays

Theater Camp

There’s Something Wrong With the Children

They Cloned Tyrone

To Leslie

Vesper

Wil

You Hurt My Feelings

[pwlanier]

A magnificent Qajar multiple portrait depicting the grandsons of Fath ‘Ali Shah in the Saf-e Salam, a Persian New Year (Norouz) procession. Attributable to the court artist ‘Abdullah Khan Naqqashbashi (Active 1800-1850), Tehran or environs, Iran, circa 1810-20.

When History was Writ Large: The Bartlett Monumental Painting of the Court of Fath ‘Ali Shah

By Dr. Layla S. Diba

Although single portraits were known to collectors and audiences and well-documented in the scholarly literature, largely because they were relatively accessible in European Museums, this was not the case with monumental paintings, which if they had even survived, were stored in Iranian museum basements. The most important evidence for their significance to the history of Persian painting was first presented in 1963 by the eminent authority on Qajar art, B.W. Robinson, who identified 18 paintings based on European travel accounts and divided them into three groups: battle, enthronement, and hunting scenes, all with the ruler at the epicentre of the composition. Subsequently, two enthronement scenes of Aqa Muhammad and Fath ‘Ali Shah in Sulaymanieh in Karaj were documented, a major battle painting was located in the Iran-Bastan Museum and a magnificent hunting scene appeared on the ceiling of the Rashtrapathi Bhawan (President’s Palace) in New Delhi. (B.W. Robinson, “The Court Painters of Fath Ali Shah, Eretz Israel 7, 1964, pp. 94-105; Wolfram Kleiss and Hubertus Von Gall, Der Qajaren-Pavilion Sulaymanieh in Karaj”, Archaeologische Mitteilungen aus Iran, 10, 1977, pp. 325-39; Layla S. Diba, “Making History: A Monumental Battle Painting of the Perso-Russian Wars”, in Pearls from Water, Rubies from Stone, Studies in Honor of Priscilla Soucek, Artibus Asiae XVI, 2, 2006, pp. 97-111 and ibid. ”Qajar Iran and the West: The Rashtrapathi Bhavan Painting of Fath ‘Ali Shah at the Hunt” in D. Behrens Abu Seif and S. Vernoit, eds. Islamic Art in the 19th Century, Boston, 2006, pp. 282-302).

Now, with the reappearance of the monumental painting from the Bonnet Museum we have enough evidence in hand to truly understand the scope and ambition of dynastic wall paintings of the era. The reappearance of this masterpiece in the art world and its wide dissemination will hopefully preserve it for future generations.

Courtesy Alain Truong

#Iran #Islam #shah

[fashionsfromhistory]

Wedding Dress

Priscilla of Boston

c.1970

Historic New England

#wedding dress #vintage fashion #fashion history #1970s #priscilla of boston #1970 #20th century #united states #dress #silk #beading #wedding #historic new england #this looks like a version of the graduate wedding dress

[chicinsilk]

US Vogue July 1958

The model Monique Chevalier, in a wedding dress. Ivory silk taffeta brocade, delicately printed with lily of the valley. Tulle veil. By Priscilla of Boston.

Le mannequin Monique Chevalier, dans une robe de mariée. Brocart de taffetas de soie ivoire, délicatement imprimé de muguet. Voile de tulle. Par Priscilla de Boston.

Photo Jerry Schatzberg vogue archive

#us vogue #july 1958 #fashion 50s #1958 #wedding dress #robe de mariée #priscilla of boston #monique chevalier #jerry schatzberg #brocade #brocard #tulle

[buzzbuzzwhs]

Or forever hold your peace (A YellowJackets Taivan fic)

2004

Back when she lived with her mother in New Jersey, the TV had a wire coat hanger as an antenna. Once, the Saturday afternoon, the movie of the week was “The Graduate.”  Benjamin and Elaine running towards freedom, away from Elaine’s wedding, captivated young Van Palmer.

Freedom, was what Van wanted. Freedom wasn’t those 19 months her brain blocked out. Freedom had come as Oberlin offering her a scholarship. She’d gotten a degree in film, and had taken over ownership of the small video rental store in town. 

But Benjamin and Elaine didn’t know what they were doing, and Van was no Benjamin. If she was, she wouldn’t be mopping the floor of the store, she would be at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. She’d be yelling at them to stop, because Tai Turner was marrying Simone, and not her. 

She’d received the classily engraved invitation, inviting her to come. Shauna had encouraged her to go—she’d been asked to be a bridesmaid but had declined owing to pregnancy. Van was not asked to be a bridesmaid. The RSVP card had been for “Miss Vanessa  Palmer and guest. Van had thought, briefly, about inviting one of her employees as her guest. 

She’d declined because she couldn’t do it. Shauna had posted about the rehearsal dinner on LiveJournal. Shauna, being one of the few sober ones, spoke about how she liked Simone and how two of Tai’s AKA sisters from Yale, Avril and Rasheeda, were lovely. Akilah was there, and a red-eyed photo of the three survivors dotted the post.

Shauna’s role in the rehearsal dinner was to read the recent ruling out of Massachusetts, Goodridge v. Department of Public Health. It was a somber reminder that no meat carving station or the strapless Priscilla of Boston dress Tai would wear the next day could dress up the reality that Tai and Simone’s wedding had no legal protection to back it up in New York, or New Jersey.

The post had a photo that Akilah had taken on her camera phone—showing Shauna standing up at the Russian Tea Room, wearing a black dress that fit as well as a trash bag, her hair flat-ironed stick straight and hanging to her bra strap. Shauna closed the entry with a joke about how she didn’t know why a lawyer would pick someone who managed to fail the semester she spent at the County community college and the semester she’d spent a year later at Providence College to read a legal brief.

There was a photo Jeff took, of Simone glowing as Shauna quoted the passage “Here, the plaintiffs seek only to be married, not to undermine the institution of civil marriage. They do not want marriage abolished. They do not attack the binary nature of marriage, the consanguinity provisions, or any of the other gate-keeping provisions of the marriage licensing law. Recognizing the right of an individual to marry a person of the same sex will not diminish the validity or dignity of opposite-sex marriage, any more than recognizing the right of an individual to marry a person of a different race devalues the marriage of a person who marries someone of her own race. If anything, extending civil marriage to same-sex couples reinforces the importance of marriage to individuals and communities.”

Tai, meanwhile, looked as if she was ready to destroy everything:  from the sewn-in curls at the top of her head to the pink and black minidress and choker she wore. 

Van’s watch said it would be 4pm that evening in New York, meaning that her time to speak now had passed. 

Van opened a drawer she rarely opened. There were several mementos of her youth, but she looked at three:  a pretzel Christmas tree ornament, a strip of photo booth photos from FAO Schwartz, and a lock of hair. 

1998-2002

Once they were rescued and ok’d, Tai enrolled at Yale. She had been planning on Spellman, but she didn’t want to get on a plane. She joined AKA and became a proud soror. 

Van had jumped at the chance to enroll at Oberlin with her scholarship. This also meant that she was flying Newark to Cleveland and back regularly. She checked on her mother, and then rode to see Tai in New Haven. They’d take the Metro into New York. They got their carriage ride. Tai got her soft pretzel, and bought Van a Christmas tree ornament to commemorate it. They saw Rent twice. 

Both women graduated from college. Tai immediately enrolled at Columbia Law School. Van had decided to take a year off before film school. She was a manager at the video store now. 

The weekend it happened, Van had been in New York to interview for film schools. She looked handsome in  a neat tie and vest with a Brooks Brothers button-down Tai had gotten her for college graduation.She’d gotten into the habit of blowing her hair straight, and it now came to the small of her back. She bobby-pinned the sides back. The raw nudity of showing her scars lost to her mother’s voice in her head telling her to get her hair out of her face. 

The interviews went well. She and Tai celebrated by getting photos taken in a booth at FAO Schwartz. 

The next morning, Van sat in Tai’s apartment. Van had just cooked them breakfast. 

“I mean, if I get in it, we could get a place near here together, and I could commute to school,” Van said. 

“I got the summer associateship at that Big Law firm,” Tai said. There was a pregnant pause. 

“Of course you did!”  Van smiled encouragingly.

“Yeah. I’ll be in the whirlwind world of being wooed by the firm to join them post-grad,” Tai drew a breath. “Van, those associates have events for significant others. The people who go to those events…they’re not from a trailer park.  I’m sorry. I can’t do this any more.”

Van ran out of the building. She still packed things in a WHS duffle bag. She emotionlessly put in in the overhead bin.

For two weeks, Van continued to work. She powered herself on Mountain Dew and Popov. She barely slept. She didn’t shower, and her hair was in a bun of neglect. She didn’t cry or laugh. The college students with whom she worked stopped asking about her trip. 

“Sarah came in today,” Van said to her employee Jenna after they closed one night. “I barely recognized her. She said you cut her hair short—that you’re your dorm’s barber.”  Jenna felt Van lock her eyes on hers as she slid a pair of scissors towards her. 

“Are you sure?” Jenna asked, undoing the bun and running her fingers through Van’s hair. Van nodded as Jenna carefully guided her to an office chair. Van had survived fire and a wolf attack, but the icy scissors on her neck were harshest thing she ever felt. Jenna paused, holding the severed years of hair in her fist. 

“That girl you had in New York?  She was into long hair, wasn’t she?”

Van stared at the familiar waves, plopped in a garbage can. In her mind she felt Tai playing with her hair. Van shook her head—startled as her shoulders didn’t stop her hair. It had been her security blanket so long. 

“When we first met, my friend and I had just gotten bobs for freshman year. I hated it. I just—I don’t want the memories around.”

Jenna stood in front of her, grasping a thick forelock and snipping them off. She offered the strands to Van. Van accepted them, as she slowly realized that Jenna had cut thick bangs that masked her scars. As red hair rained onto the floor, hot tears finally began to silently rain down Van’s cheeks. 

“You’re so pretty,” Jenna said, more referencing her handiwork than Van.  Van looked at the face staring at her back from Jenna’s compact mirror. The bangs drew attention to her tear-swollen eyes. The rest was soft and messy, hitting her lips. “You’re always wearing those button=downs, and I figured you didn’t want your hair in their way,”  Jenna fixed a curl that framed one of Van’s scars.

It seemed like every student who came into the store had to comment on her hair. Apparently it was “hot,” “cute,” and “you have really pretty eyes.” Van never sent in her grad school apps. Why do that, if all you get was knowing you lived in the same island as Ms. Taissa Turner, 2L and gunner. As the snow melted, an email popped up in Van’s inbox. 

FYI

I was in the city with Tai yesterday. She met this girl named Simone. She’s moving in soon. I just thought you’d want to hear. 

Shauna

PS—Have you heard from anyone?

#yellowjackets #yellowjackets fanfic #Taivan #Van Palmer #tai turner #shauna shipman #speak now or forever hold your peace

[ionlydidthistoscrollinpeace2022]

All my Webkinz in no particular order!!!

Hannah the Blue Googles

Waverly the Elephant

Justice the Googles (plush only)

Kisses the Pink Googles

Summer the FrooFroo Fox

Taneesha the Alpaca

Biscuit the Lil'Kinz Golden Retriever

Mystery the Hippo

Snow Princess the Persian Cat (plush only)

Rocko the Himalayan

Fluffy the Rabbit (plush only)

Dottie the Pinktastic Peacock (plush only)

Sundae the Cheer Pup

Boulder the Arctic Fox (plush only)

Beta the Portugese Water Dog

Mojo the Mini Pinscher Dog

Domino the Domino Cat (plush only)

Cream the American Albino

Legend the Lil'Kinz Chihuahua (plush only)

Smokey the Charcoal Cat

Showoff the Pinktastic Peacock

Kiya the Porcupine (plush only)

Princess Lucy the Signature Small Black Lab (plush only)

Nibbles the Guinea Pig (plush only)

Taffy the Bubblegum Cheeky Cat

Priscilla the Pink Poodle (plush only)

Daisy the Boston Terrier

Mac the White Tiger

Spike the Signature Portugese Water Dog

Tate the Airedale Terrier

Frisk the Lion

Micah the American Cocker Spaniel

Belle the Alpine St. Bernard

Missy the Brown Dog

Vinnie the Lil'Kinz Chihuahua

Blackie the Black Cat (plush only)

Sammy the Lil'Kinz Penguin

Leo the Leopard Lizard

Leadchaser the Brown Arabian

Daisetta the Poshy Poodle

Maggie the Lioness (plush only)

Tangerine the Orange Soda Pup

Flappy the Pink Cockatoo (plush only)

Lambie the Lamb

Bucky the Cocoa Dinosaur

Kate the Rockerz Fox

Stacy the Aardvark

Hank the Beagle (plush only)

Misty the Winter Fawn (plush only)

Koda the German Shepherd

Winter the Winter Fawn

Woods the Domino Cat

Autumn the Alley Cat

Leilani the Aloha Dolphin

Lightning the American Buffalo

Willow the Signature West Highland Terrier

Lily the Lil'Kinz Horse

Morose the Black Wolf

Sangria the Signature Endangered Red Wolf (plush only)

Callie the Schnauzer

Leona the Bushbaby

Jax the Blue Whale

Tiger the Spotty Dinosaur

Electra the Spotted Frog

Toffee the Brown Sugar Puppy (virtual only)

Bambi the Cotton Candy Puppy

Buttons the Duck (plush only)

Savanna the Hyena

Jenny the Pom Pom Kitty (plush only)

Theo the Lil'Kinz Panda

Salty the Hippo (plush only)

Calypso the Tropical Island Puppy

Shortcake the Red Velvet Fox (virtual only)

Mishka the Reindeer (plush only)

Whitney the Lil'Kinz Tiger (plush only)

Nala the Brown Boston Terrier (plush only)

Stardust the Dreamy Sheep

Maxwell the Leopard

Mackenzie the Lil'Kinz Persian Cat (plush only)

Retro the Lion (plush only)

Skyler the American German Shepherd

Beatrice the Hippo (plush only)

Bianca the Kangaroo (plush only)

Haraka the Orangutan (plush only)

Buttercup the Lynx (plush only

Briar the Coyote

Lola the Cocker Spaniel (plush only)

Skye the Lil'Kinz Pig (plush only)

Star the Wintermint Husky (virtual only)

#webkinz

[dresmire]

September 2022 Most Jammed Albums/EPs:

Each month I will be posting the 10 albums that I found myself frequenting the most! Some will be new releases, while others may be backlist titles. I enjoy being able to look back over time to see which music held my attention. Let me know if any of these are among your favorites…or if you happen to give any a listen through…let’s talk music! In alphabetical order:

Acranius - Mercy Denied: Slam/Brutal Deathcore from Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. 2022.

Amigo the Devil - Everything is Fine: Murder Folk from Austin, Texas, USA. 2018.

Cradle of Filth - Midian: Symphonic Black/Gothic Metal from Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK. 2000.

House of Harm - Vicious Pastimes: Post-Punk/Darkwave from Boston, Massachusetts, USA. 2020.

JMSN - Priscilla: Neo-Soul/Dark Alternative R&B from Detroit, Michigan, USA. 2012.

Nylist - Divine Vision Torn Apart: Experimental Downtempo Deathcore from Canada. 2022.

Ramirez - Tragedy of a Clown: West Coast/Cloud Hip-Hop from San Francisco, CA, USA. 2022.

Sonja - Loud Arriver: Heavy/Rock Metal from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. 2022.

Toadeater - Bexadde: Post Black Metal from Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany. 2022.

Walknut - Graveforests and their Shadows: Atmospheric Black Metal From Moscow, Russia. 2007.

#arcranius #amigo the devil #cradle of filth #house of harm #jmsn #nylist #ramirez #sonja #toadeater #walknut #dresjams #dresjams2022