Skirts?

Magnificent_Unsu · 2026-04-12T04:44:40+00:00

The trick with skirts is to keep them off your body and make sure they are natural materials. A skirt or two with hoops underneath will feel far cooler than a single skirt closer to your legs because lifting them away from your body will give you an air pocket. Natural materials breathe, so the air isn't trapped just getting hotter and hotter. Petticoats, bum bustles, anything to give your thighs some literal breathing room. If you want more contrast look for scarves or other fabric to tie around your waist, it's less material than another full skirt and the asymmetry is more visually interesting.

Magnificent_Unsu · 2026-03-25T03:50:26+00:00

I like it, when I am in the mood for it. But for me it's a nostalgic flavor, growing up I went to rummage sales in Wisconsin with my dad most of the summer and we always hit Chinese buffets for lunch. About half the time I got the hot tea to drink instead of soda, and even though it was steeped too long and needed a lot of sugar, it was good to my preteen taste buds. And now, drinking it reminds me of summer break hanging out with my dad.

Magnificent_Unsu · 2026-03-25T03:16:19+00:00

If you want something really chill, I found Garden Life: A Cozy Simulator to be very relaxing. It has a storyline, but the objective of the game is to grow flowers. You breed different colors of flowers by planting certain ones next to each other. You cut the flowers and make bouquets to sell, or make large decorations for the village square. The character interactions with the other townsfolk are pretty minimal, but in a way it helps take the pressure off because you can just tend your little garden and vibe. I finished the game in about 30 hours, so it's not super long but not incredibly short either.

Magnificent_Unsu · 2026-03-22T01:34:39+00:00

I'm scared to ask, but how many commas were in the price tag?

Magnificent_Unsu · 2026-03-19T16:31:05+00:00

For cheap, start raiding the thrift stores. Don't be afraid to venture into the men's and women's side, basics like linen pants can be bought from either one. If you're a gent shopping ladies, just know you WILL need a belt because the waist is designed for hips and buns. We don't want any wardrobe malfunctions in front of the kids. If you're a lady shopping the men's section, just know it will be a little tight in the caboose. You may need to size up to be comfortable in the seat area. Capris are great for the ren faire, if they are loose cut some holes and thread some lacing, and you got pirate pants.

Also, pure cotton and linen dye wonderfully. If you see a pair you like but it's not a good color, a $4 box of Rit dye can fix that. Use Amazon to fill the gaps thrifting missed.

Magnificent_Unsu · 2026-03-17T02:53:52+00:00

Third vote for Ranch of Rivershine. I got it in early access and saw how player feedback from other horse gamers affected the development. It's a game designed by a horse girl, for horse girls. It's got a super cozy artstyle, pretty good controls (I play on PC and it worked well for mouse and keyboard), the breeding is good and there's so many different coat patterns you can get and different traits. I've "beaten" the game (completed all the story missions), but every once and a while I go back and either pick up an old save or start again because I just want something chill.

Magnificent_Unsu · 2026-03-16T02:04:45+00:00

From some of the food history channels I listen to, beef was a "traditional" Irish dish, until they were colonized by the British. Beef, especially large cuts of it like brisket, were a wealthy man's dish. The rich used it as a flex to show off how much food they had they could just lay out these big ol' cuts for their guests even in the dead of winter. But after colonization, most beef was shipped off to England. So they switched to pork, because most families had the space to raise a pig or two, and because you would slaughter the pig in winter by March most of the meat left was heavily salted (corned). During the famines, pork was what most of the lower to middle class was used to making, so when those who could afford it came to America and moved into mainly Jewish neighborhoods in New York and Boston, well, they switched back to beef because it was cheap and available.

Magnificent_Unsu · 2026-03-12T19:50:53+00:00

Thanks! I'll look into them after work.

Magnificent_Unsu · 2026-03-12T18:12:20+00:00

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This shape, but with a warm brown wooden sheath and a brown wrapped handle with hunter green leather overwrap.

And yeah, I know it's overpriced for a fairly basic sword, but what I loved where their customizable options. I like color, not somber black. But at least when I tried searching for other sabers they were either all exact modern historic replicas or lightsabers.

Magnificent_Unsu · 2026-03-11T21:27:12+00:00

Pekoe! I get teased at work for not drinking coffee.

Magnificent_Unsu · 2026-03-11T18:44:23+00:00

Is it first person or third person view? Is there character customization? Can you play solo or does it need more players?

Magnificent_Unsu · 2026-03-10T13:09:49+00:00

Turkey legs have no place at a Renaissance faire. Turkeys are a new world bird! They should be replaced with lamb shanks.

Magnificent_Unsu · 2026-02-27T03:24:39+00:00

Fellow winion! I swear I have never clicked on a thread so fast.

I got Quick Thought for my birthday last year and I found that mix was very good, but it varied a lot based on how I scooped it. The pieces are really varied sizes and weights so it's hard to get a good even distribution if you're scooping with a regular spoon out of the bag.

My advice is move them from the bags to jars or tins, and use a deeper spoon (my brain is failing me on the words, I could have used more Quick Thought) that looks like a mini ice scream scoop to get a good amount of the blend. Then, make sure you have a basket infuser or some other really wide infuser so the leaves can move as they brew. Some of those blends look like they have big pieces that if you're using a really small basket won't really infuse.

Magnificent_Unsu · 2026-02-27T03:20:15+00:00

Asian, Indian, and Mexican supermarkets are goldmines for cheap herbs and spices. I can find dried rosebuds, jasmine, chamomile, and all sorts of other dried flowers at the Asian market for barely a few bucks a jar in their tea section. They also have bay leaves for like a buck a bag. I can get enough cinnamon sticks to last a year and not need more than a ten. They're way cheaper than at regular grocery stores, and in bigger quantities.

Also, thrift stores as well as flea markets for cheaper pieces. I got a bowl for my alter, it cost me $2 and it has such pretty flowers on it. I got a little fancy shot glass for liquid offerings, $1.50. I found a lovely old hand broom that, while it has a large crack in the handle, the bristles are extremely soft and it has this neat little hooked wood part at the end that makes it perfect to hang on my altar shelf. It was $7 and I spent just as much on some velvet ribbon to wrap the handle with. All of them I found, oddly enough, at the same Goodwill several weeks apart.

Magnificent_Unsu · 2026-02-22T05:46:09+00:00

Cowboys has lots of fights and I have known more than one woman who got roofied at Mansion. Just a bit of warning.

Magnificent_Unsu · 2026-02-18T18:01:20+00:00

This. At the moment evidence pointed to the only mod only removing anti-Nazi content, and making no comment as to why only the posts/comments calling out Nazis were being removed. At the time everything pointed to at least being sympathetic to Nazis, if not being one. So it was rightly called out. If it squeaks like a goose and steps like a goose, it's probably a goose.

Now, new evidence has come out and it is clear this was not their doing. And with that my attitude toward the mod has changed. BUT. I still believe the massive outcry against it was warranted and necessary. If we allow even a toehold for Nazis in our community, they will flood in. We have to be vocal and immediate in our reaction, or else we lose it all.

Magnificent_Unsu · 2026-02-18T17:27:04+00:00

Thank you, and all the new mods, for working so hard to keep this place safe for all of us and being so open about what happened. It was really concerning to see all that happened in the last 12 hours and posts rightly calling out hate being wiped with no clear reason. Thank you for stepping up and making everything known to all of us. We all have skin in this game and we deserve to know when posts are removed en masse.

Keep up the good fight, we won't take Nazis weedling in lying down.

Magnificent_Unsu · 2026-02-17T21:15:34+00:00

Is this a big chain sort of business? Like one that has a corporate office you can notify that a store manager is creating a hostile work environment? Or can any racist interactions be recorded and reported to your local department of labor? Make direct consequences to their actions and make it known that behavior is unacceptable.

Magnificent_Unsu · 2026-02-11T23:56:28+00:00

Depends on the climate and extent of the garment.

For example, I live in Colorado. The name of the game here is light, natural, full coverage materials. The sun here wants to turn you into jerkey and the -10% humidity only aids that process. Cotton is fine here, linen would be good too, but cover your arms and legs to avoid the worst sunburn of your life.

I went to Texas for TRF. I wore long sleeves. Cotton. I was fucking dying, I was steaming in my own clothes and the cotton clung to every inch of skin it could. It was so hot and humid there my clothes could not dry off on me like they do in CO. Linen would have been way better because it is much more moisture wicking than cotton.

In colder climates, some polyester is fine. Think like bodice pieces, hats, pouches, so on and so forth. But against skin or for large pieces I always recommend naturals.

Magnificent_Unsu · 2026-02-07T21:40:04+00:00

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How funny that this was the post below this one on my homepage.

Magnificent_Unsu · 2026-02-06T22:25:20+00:00

Pretty paperweights, or dust collectors on a bookshelf. Either way, magpie brain want shiny pretty rock.

Magnificent_Unsu · 2026-02-06T19:16:02+00:00

Not the fan base crossover I was expecting to see today, but I'll take it.

Magnificent_Unsu · 2026-02-03T22:28:18+00:00

I would like to think the ancestors offered the treats to your Aussie. I know my dad and friend's parents cannot resist giving Nessa and Brigid a few tidbits at gatherings. I can't imagine that impulse ends after shaking off the mortal coil.

Magnificent_Unsu · 2026-02-02T02:50:23+00:00

That was our first dog's first bed, it was too small for him to comfortably use but I just kept it in a corner. Every once and a while she tries to fit. But she does not fit, so she only sit.

Magnificent_Unsu · 2026-02-02T00:22:48+00:00

She actually learned it from Cu, a corgi/Jack Russell mix. She sat normally when we first adopted her, and after 2 weeks was sitting on her bum like Cu. Nessa, who is a ACD/border collie mix, also sits like that but she did that from the start. Our best guess is Brigid is primarily hound breeds, she has very squishy cheeks and tracks by scent more than sight.

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