If you’re feeling like you don’t know where to shop, or what sort of places you can buy from, or if you just want to try some new places, I have some suggestions and shops that I have found work for me:
1.Pennington’s- This is a chain store. It offers sizes 14-32 (x-5x); and it’s pretty good for business casual. They offer everything you would find in a more “straight-sized” store, and have several different models with different body sizes and shapes to display their items online. The clothes are made to fit comfortably and the entire experience, I find, is nice because I know I will find clothes I enjoy that actually fit me. They also take into account the difference between “regular”, “tall”, and “petite”; which is wonderful because not all of us are the same. Check out the sizing chart and measurement guide here. Also, budget accordingly; this place can be a bit pricey, and I try to take advantage of the sales when I go.
2.store.mayakern.com(@mayakern on tumblr) - Maya Kern’s store is an independent business and has given me a lot of joy and hope for online shopping. The skirts are all designed by Maya, with some exceptions being the ones that are collaborated on with other artists. All the designs are incredibly unique and very beautiful. I get so many compliments whenever I wear them!! They have wonderful large pockets that don’t impede the design or silhouette at all, and they are so incredibly comfortable. I will praise these skirts all my days. Seriously, if you enjoy comfortable skirts with a unique design, give this shop a try! There is a specific sizing chart for the shop, since the skirts have a stretchy waist. The sizes available cover from a 25 inch (64cm) waist to a 66 inch (167cm) waist. Plus, there are lots of other cool items listed in-store, such as pins and journals! Be sure to pay attention to when pre-orders are if you want to order a skirt!
3.Fresh Hot Flavors - This is another store with some very cool items! Skirts, pants, shirts, shorts, and more, all with different and unique designs. They also have an entire line dedicated to Pride; their Pixel Pride Collection. Make sure to measure yourself and take a look at their sizing chart; the store covers size xxs to 6x. I ordered a couple of skirts from this store and they are very comfortable and beautiful!!
4.Witch Bitch Thrift - A thrift store that is run by and marketed to witches! Thrifting is a great way to save money and be eco-friendly. They offer images of their selection online and I’ve seen sizes ranging from 6x to small. It’s been a long time since I found a thrift store with items I admired in my size. Definitely worth it to give this shop a look! They have online shopping and ship items worldwide, so don’t worry about location! The store even offers a virtual styling session that customers can book. Clothes aren’t the only thing this store offers; they also have a selection of witchy supplies!
Feel free to add other suggestions; please do not use this post as a ground for arguing about which stores you like or dislike.
Non-plus-sized people, please feel free to reblog this to signal boost it to any plus-size followers/friends you may have who might be interested!
this is so sweet thank you omg
thanks so much for the shoutout!! :D if anyone has questions about sizing or anything our ask box is open ♥️
“I shouldn’t be swearing. Captain America shouldn’t swear. But I get caught with these interviews and I start dropping f-bombs! This is why I can’t do interviews!”
Knowing a fic author through AO3 is like attending someone’s thesis presentation and politely clapping at the end, knowing a fic author through this hellsite is like going over to their house at 3AM to watch them eat mayonnaise out of a jar
Sometimes I attend somebody’s thesis presentation and I’m so impressed that I follow them home to watch them eat mayonnaise out of a jar at 3am.
In important news: Dextromethorphan, the primary ingredient in over-the-counter cough medicine, interacts terribly with many anti-depressants! I’m not just talking about MAOIs (though since thats the warning they put on the bottle, so you’d think that other antidepressants are okay) but many common ones, including the one that I take. I stayed up all night last night hallucinating and shaking uncontrollably, so please learn from my mistakes and search drug interactions before you take a new drug.
Guys, I dunno if any of you are familiar with Armstreet, but odds are if you’ve ever ventured into the medieval/renaissance clothing category on Etsy (or have run into a rip-off listing) you’ve seen their incredible work. They make custom medieval and renaissance clothing, custom fitted shoes and boots, jewelry, and other incredible high-quality things for extremely reasonable prices.
They also are based in Ukraine.
As dressmakers fleeing russian bombardment, they’ve decided to turn their needles towards helping those who pass where they are currently sheltering with warm blankets in the still icy weather in Ukraine:
“After spending a night with parents in one of the temporary refugee hubs in Uman, with no heat, we offered our help in making blankets available for everyone passing this place, it is about a hundred people a day.”
You can help them make blankets and also take care of their employees making the blankets with them by purchasing one for $25.
Please consider it- it’s a good concrete way to help.
If you want to cut out the etsy fees, you can also buy blankets at Armstreet’s own website.
While we like to joke about Izzy being in the wrong genre, I would argue that there are in fact at least five distinct genre universes in the world of Our Flag Means Death, and all of them have different rules.
Stede Bonnet, and his crew when they’re around him, live in a Muppet movie. I didn’t come up with this analogy but it’s so accurate. Insane physical comedy and comedy-action where no one really gets hurt. Mild peril but you know everything is gonna work out. Terrible puns and sight gags, but room for sweet, genuine emotional moments too. The rules of time, space, probability and logic will bend for a good joke.
Izzy Hands is in a grimdark action/drama where if someone gets stabbed in the gut they will behave normally and fucking die. (Probably slowly and painfully, of sepsis.) Crucially I think Izzy also lives in a genre where you can only be subtextually queer, and violence (done for or with or to each other) is the only acceptable form of intimacy between men. This is why being forcibly dragged into Stede’s world, where everyone is busy having silly low-stakes misadventures and being gay and emotionally available all over the main text–and seeing his Subtextual Boyfriend go into this world and love it–sends him round the twist.
The British, Spanish and other imperialist militaries are in a Master and Commander-style naval adventure where they’re the heroes. This is why they all take it completely seriously when Stede (unintentionally) kills Badminton and takes hostages, even though we can see that he bumbled his way into it ass-backwards. This is also why Stede is so shocked to get actually for real stabbed aboard the Spanish ship. (“Did you mean to do that?”) He didn’t realize until that moment that he’d stepped into a different genre. The stabbing is one of the first Surprise Genre Switch moments we get and in retrospect it’s very important for setting up that in this world, the threat of getting hurt or killed is very real–which we need to understand to know that there are real stakes much later, when Stede almost gets executed by the British.
