dante's cabinet

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

Hi! I realized I didn’t have an intro post, and since bios have been on the fritz, I figured I’d make one.

I’m Dante (He/They), I’m 21, and I’m a costumer, writer, actor, etc etc etc. I like lots of arts and crafts sort of things, languages, queer theory and history, and plenty of other things in that vein.

I’m currently in the process of writing a few plays (I wrote my first one last year, and I’m getting it staged this next year!), and will be studying costume design, acting, playwriting, and other theatre-y things for the next year. I like historical costuming, costume design, knitting, embroidery, and any other little crafty thing I can get my hands on.

Feel free to send asks or messages should the urge suit you, but I can’t guarantee that I will see them (I simply do not check) or respond.

Most of my tags are just my own comments or things for me to sort through later.

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nyancrimew

i think it's pretty awesome how all public transport is free actually, it's like really nice of them how you can just not pay if you don't feel like it or can't afford it

nyancrimew

this is a post about fare evasion #fare evasion gang

notgreengardens

one thing I never see mentioned anywhere but which was pretty much standard in left wing circles when I was a teenager is that when a random ticket check happens on the train and you actually happen to have a ticket, then you take an incredibly long time to look for it in your bag even though you know exactly where it is so other people have time to get up and change waggons or even get out. I also knew some white cis guys who would just routinely act suspicious by getting up and looking over their shoulders at the ticket control guy in the hopes that they (with actual tickets) would raise suspicion so the ticket people wouldn't just go straight to the only poc or homeless looking people on the train.

sleepnoises
daisywords

One of my biggest nitpicks in fiction concerns the feeding of babies. Mothers dying during/shortly after childbirth or the baby being separated form the mother shortly after birth is pretty common in fiction. It is/was also common enough in real life, which is why I think a lot of writers/readers don't think too hard about this. however. Historically, the only reason the vast majority of babies survived being separated from their mother was because there was at least one other woman around to breastfeed them. Before modern formula, yes, people did use other substitutes, but they were rarely, if ever, nutritionally sufficient.

Newborns can't eat adult food. They can't really survive on animal milk. If your story takes place in a world before/without formula, a baby separated from its mother is going to either be nursed by someone else, or starve.

It doesn't have to be a huge plot point, but idk at least don't explicitly describe the situation as excluding the possibility of a wetnurse. "The father or the great grandmother or the neighbor man or the older sibling took and raised the baby completely alone in a cave for a year." Nope. That baby is dead I'm sorry. "The baby was kidnapped shortly after birth by a wizard and hidden away in a secret tower" um quick question was the wizard lactating? "The mother refused to see or touch her child after birth so the baby was left to the care of the ailing grandfather" the grandfather who made the necessary arrangements with women in the neighborhood, right? right? OR THAT GREAT OFFENDER "A newborn baby was left on the doorstep and they brought it in and took care of it no issues" What Are You Going to Feed That Baby. Hello?

Like. It's not impossible, but arrangements are going to have to be made. There are some logistics.

jakethesequel

All wizards lactate naturally

dante-doofenschmirtz

hence the need for gandalf’s big naturals