Do you like old timey country music or bluegrass? Do you wanna support Indigenous people making contemporary music in their own languages?
Well if you answered yes to both of these questions, please check out Agalisiga’s album Nasgino Inage Nidayulenvi (It Started In the Woods). He’s a Cherokee singer who recently released a whole album IN CHEROKEE. And it’s really good! Available on Bandcamp and other streaming services now!!!!
If you recall, green dresses are a personal favorite. And this one is up there in my all-time list. I first ran across it when I was doing research into the history of velvet for one of my ThreadTalk subjects and I could not look away. This looks like a magic gown made of moss, and if I wear it, I may find my way to Faerie.
The date on the gown is somewhere between 1885-1888, and it was made in Scotland by Gowan and Strachan, and is from the National Museums Scotland collection.
Velvet gets a bad rep from its egregious overuse in the 1970s, but a dress like this would be made of silk velvet. If you’ve ever been lucky enough to touch it, you’ll know it’s a totally different experience than polyester crap. The way light hits this gown is absolutely ethereal!
happy christmas adam to all men’s rights activists
Please stop pestering us with things like this. This has nothing to do with men fighting for their rights. Eve is short for ‘evening’. Please don’t turn activism into a joke. Thanks.
We have exactly one Christmas tradition in my house, and it feels very important to share it. I’ve been a cat person basically forever and for most of my adult life, my house has had more cats than people in it. They’ve all liked sleeping under the Christmas tree and all that, but other than that, they always just sort of ignored it.
But in 2018, we got Natasha.
There are about a dozen pictures like that, but I always adopt adult cats, so we figured this just came with having a kitten in the house. She was just this tiny little fluff who still fit in my cupped hands despite being about six months old, so we put away the ornaments, shrugged it off, and took advantage of the opportunity to have a really cute Christmas card the next year.
Then, 2019 came around.
Natasha escalated to sleeping in the tree in between trying to eat all the branches, and honestly, it was too funny to make more than a cursory effort to stop her. My partner and I assumed that since she was still pretty tiny, she had more growing to do and would surely get to a point where her own body weight would keep her from doing this. In the meantime, we left the tree without ornaments that year and just called it good.
But then 2020 came around, forcing us to acknowledge that:
Natasha was not going to get too big to do this. At this point it had become clear that she wasn’t developing slowly. She was just a really tiny cat. She’s less than half the size of any other cat I’ve ever had.
Natasha was also not going to chill out enough to stop doing this.
But hey. Who needs ornaments with a face like that poking out of the branches at you all the time?
Sure enough, 2021 Natasha also had zero chill about the tree, but at this point it would have been weirder if she did leave it alone.
I thought I had seen everything, but this year I’d been kind of down and my partner decided to surprise me by setting up the tree and stuff while I was at work. It was an incredibly sweet gesture considering they don’t actually even like Christmas decorations. It also meant I got to come home to this.
I kept expecting her to fall out, but she just chilled there, surveying the room until she got bored. And yes, that is absolutely a big, fancy cat tree she’s ignoring in favor of scaling the Christmas tree.
Two days before Christmas, she has finally gotten bored enough that I’m making my first attempt in ages to actually put up ornaments. At this point, I’m not sure if I’ll be more disappointed if they have to come down or if they don’t.
amhrancas 