the whole mutual thing is really overhyped on this site. sometimes interests don’t match up and that’s the only reason why there isn’t a mutual following. if you’re a regular in my inbox or my notifications, i have visited your blog before. if i didn’t want you around for any reason, you would be blocked. so yeah. you can spam my notes and/or talk with me (and possibly become my friend) even if i’m not following you back. no worries.
Yeah I legit never check whether someone’s following me back or not when I add them, and if someone starts a chat with me I don’t go around checking like ”hmm but I don’t follow them? How dare they speak to me”.
Author: flintsredhair
30, She/her. Used to be DreamingPagan a long time back. Multi-fandom, mostly Black Sails these days but with a lot of Tolkien and funny things interspersed. Complete language and history nerd - be warned. I write fic and occasionally I talk about ships.
This is really nice work…….. via Art LOVER
THAT’S how you make lace??
And THIS is why lace was a worn primarily by royalty and aristocracy for so many centuries.. It was expensive and time-consuming to produce. Wearing it, and wearing LOTS of it was a blatant show of wealth and excessive consumption.
Mechanically-produced lace wasn’t really a thing until well into the 20th century, but there remains a wide gap between the quality of mass-produced and hand crafted
In general textile arts are highly underated considering the amount of skill and time needed to execute pretty much anything.
Amazing.
In England during the 1500s, most lace was imported from the Netherlands where it was made by young women. It was such a status marker that it was one of the materials particularly noted in Queen Elizabeth’s sumptuary laws—no one who was not of noble status was permitted to wear it, because the aristocracy didn’t want the middle class to dress like the nobility.
I mean most of the actors and crew on Black Sails deserved awards for their performances and contribution to such a stunningly well thought out show… but Jessica Parker Kennedy deserved several for her portrayal of Max. Few characters have her complexity, and JPK was phenomenal at showing us her vulnerability as well as her strength, her desire to protect herself as well as her desire to protect others (read: Anne).
Toby Stephens was phenomenal, yes, but JPK was too and I love her.
Romain Recall- ALL of it
Hey heads up right now (11/20) the CDC says that NO store bought romaine in the country is safe. Not a mouthful. Not whole, not chopped, not salad mixes, not from certain states… absolutely all of it should be tossed.
32 in the states have been sickened, 13 are hospitalized. 18 known cases in Canada right now, too.
While in this case it’s not worth it to risk it, take a moment to read up on the correct way to wash fresh greens.
Heads up you cannot wash off e.coli or samonella
You will also need to decontaminate your fridge!
Everyone going shopping on Black Friday, be aware of three things:
The retail workers are working 12 hours shifts. We are threatened with losing our jobs if we don’t show up unless we’re dying in the hospital. I had an assistant manager show up with fucking strep because he would’ve been fired otherwise. Yes, he did infect 7 and hospitalize 2 coworkers; who knows how many members of the public he infected.
The stores have, maybe, 5 of that special cheap thing you’re after. Corporate does this on purpose, and stores are not allowed to order enough. The prices aren’t even that much lower. They lie about how expensive something is to fool you into thinking you’re getting a discount. You aren’t.
Most of the workers you will come across will be new hires for the sole purpose of being bodies for about three months before they’re fired. They actually don’t know anything because they’ve been working there for maybe two weeks, and have had no real training. I was once hired at Staples a week before Black Friday and expected to know how to deal with phones, coupons, the online ordering site, and AS400 after five 6-hour shifts. This is the kind of person you will likely be dealing with at Black Friday.
Do me and my retail family a favor and don’t shop Black Friday. Any company that needs a sale day like Black Friday to get their sales out of the red doesn’t deserve to be in business.
This also goes for anyone that works shipment too. We’re suddenly expected to stay as late as they want you to even if they know you don’t have a car and rely on a ride to get you to and from work and know you can’t stay late. Shipment workers will suddenly start getting berated for not getting things done and it is by far the most stressful time to be a shipment worker for any store. Especially when they throw in new hires that don’t know how to process things and are expected to work at the same pace as the people that have worked there for a while.
Retail is shit around the holidays, especially Black Friday
I hear a lot of people bitching that they can’t leave kudos multiple times per story, or can’t leave kudos on every chapter, or whatever.
Well, take a page out of this marvelous book, because I swear I’ve never been so happy to receive kudos as waking up to multiple people having done this on multiple chapters on a story I just posted.
The bar just got raised, folks.
Would… would writers be glad to read a comment, that is saying “kudos”?
We’re happy to get a smiley face, honestly. Leaving another kudos like this is great. Anything that tells us we aren’t just screaming into the void
^^^^^ This. Even the smallest comments are golddust.
Seconding, thirding, and fourthing all of this. Saying or typing anything is amazing.
writers are happy with anything that isn’t ‘update pls’ when you just uploaded. type the alphabet and we’ll be grinning like fools cuz ‘sames’.
Dang I know what to do now!!!!
Oh, but you can get creative with your extra kudos!
LOVE LOVE LOVE!
(✿◠‿◠) – “I heart this so much!!”
⊂◉‿◉つ – “OMG, the surprise was so sweet!
☆(❁‿❁)☆ – “AHH! Love it!”
≧◠‿◠≦ – “All the feels!”
٩(˘◡˘)۶ – “Woot!!”
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) – “I see what you did there and/or that smut was on point.”
┑(￣▽￣)┍ – “Sweet praises for you!”
ლ(╹◡╹ლ) – “I love this story so hard, I get tingles when it updates!”
ʘ‿ʘ – “WHat?!”
(●⌒∇⌒●) – “Squee!!”
(❁´◡`❁) – “Oh dear god, cavities!”
(ﾉ´▽｀)ﾉ♪ – “This made me siiiinnnnnggggg!!”
┏(＾0＾)┛ – “Happy dance!”
ヾ(＾∇＾) – “Wonderful fic! Thanks again!”OMG sadface.
(┬＿┬) – “Literally crying, rn.”
(^)o(^) – “Holy moly!”
(◕﹏◕✿) – “How … how could you do this to me?!”
ಥ‿ಥ – “I’m not crying you are!”FLAMES!
ᕕ(◉Д◉ )ᕗ – “WTAF?!”
(⊙…⊙,) – “Did yoU JUST.”
ᕕ(˵•̀෴•́˵)ᕗ – “HOW DARE YOU! With my OWN EYES!”
(ノ°Д°）ノ︵ ┻━┻ – “TABLE FLIP, you son-OF-A-!”I canNOT with you!
(@[]@!!) – “WHAT IN THE HOLY HELL ARE YOU DOING?!”
＼(◎o◎)／！– “WAS NOT EXPECTING THAT.”
(´･_･`) – “I do not know how I feel about this.”Assorted.
><((((’> – “This fish is delicious.”
Feedback means everything to fanfic writers and hitting a like or kudos button doesn’t really give that. Even one word reviews do wonders
I’m bookmarking this. That list of kudos emojis is perfect and I need to use all of them.
Honestly if y’all just left kudos in typed emoji form, I would consider my work here done.
All of this is perfect
Black sails folks!
I’m thinking of starting a fandom Christmas countdown for content creators – if I come up with a list of 12 (or 24??) prompts for fic writers, artists etc. would anyone be interested in taking part?
(if so, do you want black sails specific prompts or general holiday time ones?)
do it, do it! I’ll try to participate! I’m kind of up to my ears in projects right now but I’ll try!
The Outsider: So I bought your soul last month and-
Daud: No returns.
The Outsider: Please its making me sad.
james: *is almost paralysed with fear over the prospect of peter judging him for his ‘dark deeds’*
also james: *cannot stop bragging about what a great pirate he is*
Meg's Mumbles 