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6 Nov 2020 11:54 * Legit and serious question: where do you gals buy jeans? I need to purchase a pair or two -- I have precisely one pair that fits me and winter is coming -- but it's proving all sorts of unintentionally hilarious. I've looked at Old Navy, Banana Republic, Gap, and Loft and my only options seem to be a laundry list of styles that I absolutely positively Do Not Want. I lived through the 1990s and refuse to experience high waisted anything ever again; I have a short torso and scars by my bottom ribs from the decade of friction burn but almost everything is now "extra-high waist" or "ribcage." I don't want jeggings or really even skinny jeans -- I suspect I'd look fine in them, but jeans are supposed to be an easier and more comfortable alternative to the tights I wear every day to work and I don't want to have to peel them off. (Also, I'm over forty.) I am not curvy by any brand's definition. I do not want ankle or cropped jeans or holes in anything and I spent my high school years doing the fold-and-roll tapering cuff and don't really have a desire to relive that with girlfriend jeans. And I'm snack-sized, so I can't go to most stores to try stuff on even if it weren't a pandemic because petites are increasingly online-only. (The pair that works now is Loft Modern Straight in petite, but they don't seem to sell that anymore.)
* Our republic is stronger than most fannish people seem to think it is and while the 'shouting' part of the "all over but the shouting" will no doubt go on for a while, there will be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power and we will get on with our lives. There will be recounts, as there should be in states that have automatic recount triggers for very close votes, but there is clearly no appetite for anything disruptive. I honestly anticipated a much bigger shitshow with all of the absentee ballots, but I underestimated us. Except Nevada, which rightfully earned every single "all Vegas does is stay up all night and count things and yet here we are" meme.
* Blow a click at the NYTimes for Why I love Women Who Wallop: For our film critic, watching actresses become action stars made her think differently about bodies and the meaning of representation.
* Our republic is stronger than most fannish people seem to think it is and while the 'shouting' part of the "all over but the shouting" will no doubt go on for a while, there will be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power and we will get on with our lives. There will be recounts, as there should be in states that have automatic recount triggers for very close votes, but there is clearly no appetite for anything disruptive. I honestly anticipated a much bigger shitshow with all of the absentee ballots, but I underestimated us. Except Nevada, which rightfully earned every single "all Vegas does is stay up all night and count things and yet here we are" meme.
* Blow a click at the NYTimes for Why I love Women Who Wallop: For our film critic, watching actresses become action stars made her think differently about bodies and the meaning of representation.
