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[m_of_disguise]

I finally gave up on trying to finish something new for Monet. No matter what I did, I never loved any of the bodice options for the skirt. I tried working on the shirtwaist, and felt very meh about it. I thought about making the bodice the same way I made my black and plaid dress, but I don't have the time for it. So, I pulled the black and plaid dress out of storage, and am just going to wear that. It needs to be let out in a few places, and I never installed closures on the bodice, so there are a few small things to do, but at least I have something to wear!

While digging through the storage unit, I also found my 1890s cotton eyelet petticoat, my Victorian chemise, and my lacy teens chemise! Hooray! With the new brown taffeta petticoat and the cotton petticoat, I should have enough fluff to give me a decent 1890s silhouette.

I've started watching Vikings, and it's driving M nuts. lol He studied Medieval history in uni (though his focus was the crusades), and the historical inaccuracies are driving him bonkers. But, it means that we get to have long conversations about the real history, which we both love, so I'd say it's a win-win. 

I've been thinking of joining our local SCA group, and may go to the populace meeting tonight. My biggest hesitation is that, despite it being a "local" group, all their meetings are at least 30 minutes away (in good traffic). The closer, smaller group was absorbed by the larger Barony a few years ago, so they don't have their own independent meetings anymore. :-/  I'm sort of in this weird donut hole between the "Fort Worth" group (which operates on the east side of town, and I'm in the west, which doesn't seem like a big deal except that there's about 30-45 minutes of driving between the two sides of town) and the western group in Stephenville, which is 1 1/2 hours away. Ugh. The enormity of our metroplex is really annoying sometimes.

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[danabren]

Cyborg and I made it through one season of The Vikings. He complained about some things, I complained about others, and we agreed to disagree about women viking fighters. Mostly I shouted at the screen and facepalmed a lot.

[m_of_disguise]

I became a little more forgiving of it when I learned that it's based off a Norse saga combined with stuff from Saxo Grammaticus, who wrote several hundred years after the fact and who already played fast and loose with the real events it's based around. I still have my phone by me constantly to look up all the things, though. lol

[danabren]

The clothes made me squall, but the thing that ended the show for me was when they burned the library in the first season.

Books were not flammable paper in Western Europe at that time. Ragefleas.

[m_of_disguise]

Oh, completely agree, the clothes are terrible. Everyone once in a while I'll spot a historically plausible trim or an apron dress that doesn't make me cringe, but otherwise it's all total fantasy.

LOL at the library. I hadn't even thought about that, but you're right. In season 2, Athelstan retrieves a book he's been hiding and the pages are all crumbling and brittle after...a year? XP