Stuff Kivrin Likes

STOP. moment of gratitude for those precious times of breathing from your nostrils when you don't have a stuffy nose

Everyone who doesn't have a headache right now, stop right now for a moment and appreciate how good it is not to have a headache.

Everyone whose tummy does not currently hurt, spare a thought for how nice that is.

For a Passover story

(Alfred Eisenstaedt. 1949)

Serious All-of-a-Kind Family vibes. <3 <3 <3

2/6 rows down. I find that especially when I'm hand quilting there's a really strong physical sense that the sandwich is transforming from a conglomeration of unrelated layers into A Quilt, and this is one of my favorite things about the process. You can feel a change in the way it handles when touched. It is well into that transformation now.

If I ask nicely will people reblog this and tell me what their most common breakfast is? Not your favorite necessarily, just what you have for breakfast most frequently? 🙏🏽

Costume designed by Gabriella Pescucci for Michelle Pfeiffer in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1999)

reblog to give a strawberry to the person you reblogged this from

Level 1: But is it canon?

Level 2: I can fix the canon.

Level 3: I can make the canon worse.

Level 4: I can fill the canon with small, brightly coloured frogs.

OK what now

Théâtre du Châtelet's production of Sunday in the Park with George, April 2013, starring Julian Ovenden and Sophie-Louise Dann.

Another AO3 thing I’m curious about, how do yall decide if something is good enough to read? Usually I follow a rule of 1 kudos for every 10 hits. One because it’s easy math and two it’s yet to fail me. Thoughts? Do you just go for it and pray it’s good?

[laughs in small fandom]

Usually I'm in either Read Everything In This Fandom mode or Follow This Author To Mordor mode, but if AO3 had been a thing when I was reading in big fandoms... Filter by character, exclude NOTPs, sort by length, browse summaries.

I want to weep. A normal conversation about dancing? Where they ask who wants to lead? The lead's hand is between their partner's shoulderblades? A.K. Mulford, I owe you my life.

Well this is going directly on my TBR. The Evergreen Heir by AK Mulford, got it.

Sephardi & Romaniote Jewish Women's Clothing in the Byzantine and Ottoman Periods, illustrated by Nikos Stavroulakis

evening dress

c. 1912

Girolamo Giuseffi, Newfields

...ok I'm just so damn mad @feministlibrarian is not here to write this.

“Nobody’s going to want to sit on high-speed rail for fifteen hours to get from New York City to LA.”

Me. I will sit on high-speed rail for fifteen hours. I’ll sit on it for days. I’ll write and read and nap and eat and then do it all over again. I’ll stare out the windows and see America from ground level and not have to drive. I’ll see the Rockies and the deserts and cornfields and the Mississippi River and your house and yours and yours too. I’ll make up stories in my head about the small towns I see as we go along. I’ll see the states I’ve yet to see because driving or flying there is a fucking slog and expensive to boot. I’ll enjoy the ride as much as the destination. And then I’ll do it all over again to come the fuck home.

Leave NYC 6pm arrive LA 9am... or probably earlier because time change... SIGN ME THE HELL UP (as long as I can pay for a lie-flat something to sleep on and when I was younger I'd have done it in a chair.)