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Jamie 🌺

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18+ ONLY PLEASE. 🌺 Jamie 😈 Chloe 🧚‍♀️🐾🕊️ Teenies 🌸👾🐸🦈🍇🦋🔮 Others 06.18.03 aspiring comic artist and elementary education major using they/them pronouns. I also love doll collecting and theatre and music in general! Irish-Italian-American from Tijuana, Mexico.

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Jamie 🌺 @purplebushie.bsky.social · Apr 28

for the record

🌺 - they/ey - 21 - jamie
😈 - she/they - 21 - chloe
🌸 - she/bun - 15 to 21 - hazel
🐸 - she/fae - older than you - siobhan/julie
🦈 - he/they - 20 - tegan
👾 - he - mid 20s - rob
🧚‍♀️ - she - child - thea
🐾 - it - child - scarry
🔮 - they - 21 - irene
🦋 - it/she - eternal - tori

Jamie 🌺 @purplebushie.bsky.social · 2h

But like you know vaguely what the book is about . Not any of the characters’ names though.

Jamie 🌺 @purplebushie.bsky.social · 2h

When you have to take part in a discussion in English class but you didn’t do the assigned reading & could only find the previews of paywalled essays about it on the way to school

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Jamie 🌺 @purplebushie.bsky.social · 3h

Her headband even looks like the little hair tufts on the punk guy

Jamie 🌺 @purplebushie.bsky.social · 3h

It is notable that the comic gave me a lot of new vocabulary for things that were first coming into my life at that time & was very beautiful + as an adult reflecting on some of the stuff I listened to constantly as a kid helped me recontextualise my grieving process when I was 13-17

Jamie 🌺 @purplebushie.bsky.social · 3h

Anyway that’s not super related. I haven’t been permanently damaged by Bright Eyes or reading an adult webcomic about identity, mental health, kink, and consent when I was 12 (I don’t say what it was bc I don’t want to make the author uncomfy) but Poe did shape my entire personality so…

Jamie 🌺 @purplebushie.bsky.social · 3h

But I wasn’t allowed to watch The Hunger Games when it came out & when I was in middle school my mom wouldn’t let me play GTA she made my dad delete it

Jamie 🌺 @purplebushie.bsky.social · 3h

When I was a kid for some reason my mom had age restrictions for shows, movies, and video games but music and books was “literally whatever” so I was a daisy scout listening to Conor Oberst sing about slowly dying from drug addiction & his trans cousin’s suicide & reading Edgar Allan Poe constantly

Jamie 🌺 @purplebushie.bsky.social · 3h

that took the horror away. That was the fact that countries aren’t real, they’re imaginary lines, and every human everywhere has the capacity for good and the capacity for evil. That many, many humans will oppose atrocity without even thinking of it as taking a stance. It’s just a given. That’s hope

Jamie 🌺 @purplebushie.bsky.social · 3h

had loud voices arguing for just letting it happen, and that similarly in every “bad guy” country there were countless ordinary people who instinctively decided “this cannot happen and I won’t allow it to even if it’s the smallest scale rebellion I can manage” because that reminded me of something

Jamie 🌺 @purplebushie.bsky.social · 3h

Later I became obsessed with the question of “how could this have happened” and obsessively read articles and journals about the countless atrocities and ironically the thing that brought peace back to me was learning that the USA did horrible things, that all countries hailed as the “good guys”

Jamie 🌺 @purplebushie.bsky.social · 3h

have to. That when it came to the idea of letting their friends, neighbours, & peers be slaughtered, even people who were targets themselves would instinctively give up their precarious safety to have a chance at protecting another person. That was what I learned at the time.

Jamie 🌺 @purplebushie.bsky.social · 3h

I learned about the Holocaust when I was 7 bc I read a bunch of fiction abt it at the same time & my mom added Anne Frank’s diary so I’d have a real voice to attach to the fiction & it was harrowing yes but something I learned that was my hope was that ordinary people can and WILL be heroes if they

Jamie 🌺 @purplebushie.bsky.social · 4h

I assume that’s his blood

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Jamie 🌺 @purplebushie.bsky.social · 4h

It does!!! Since this is very similar to the base costume he has I will assume he is chill not putting a notch in his ear cover

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Jamie 🌺 @purplebushie.bsky.social · 19h

Socks are a lot less daunting a task. And then I think I’ll get my pink yarn and put a bow on his tail, then add string to the wings to tie bows on his wrists so he can hold up the wings. Still haven’t looked for those undies I made in roughly his size but I’ll figure it out

Jamie 🌺 @purplebushie.bsky.social · 19h

I’m thinking since a whole sweater is hard work I might make him a white apron with a pink heart on it!

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Jamie 🌺 @purplebushie.bsky.social · 19h

I am very curious, Batty, as to whether Achilles values his ear notch more or canon accurate costuming!! So I know whether to add a notch in the ear cover!

Also I’m hoping to find some clear files at school tomorrow to turn that cardboard into sunglasses for him haha

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Jamie 🌺 @purplebushie.bsky.social · 19h

Achilles Count Fabulous costume update: I think I’ve reached levels of cutesy that were previously unknown

(Tagging @batshaped.bsky.social again since he’s her guy! If u want me to stop tagging u batty just lmk but if not I’ll update when I’ve finished his costume!)

Achilles in costume sitting on top of the TV

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Jamie 🌺 @purplebushie.bsky.social · 1d

They weren’t made with a tail hole but I cut corners on them so I think I could find one in the stitching. He’d probably enjoy some stockings with garters too, right? I mean I gotta manage my expectations I have college but I love him so consider that before assuming I can resist

Jamie 🌺 @purplebushie.bsky.social · 1d

Alternatively to the safety pin ear method: potential ear holes so he can wear the bat ones like ear socks. Either way, little man will not be hearing properly. My condolences, sir.

I have some crochet boxers that I think could fit him if I figure out where I put my scuffed Kano amigurumi

Jamie 🌺 @purplebushie.bsky.social · 1d

I can make him glasses outta cardboard omg wait I wanna do that like right now actually. Depending on how much I despise working with cardboard I could potentially do the bow that way too. I don’t think I can give him fangs though. I could maybe use some sewing pins with a bit of paper or felt tho?

Jamie 🌺 @purplebushie.bsky.social · 1d

I can cut an ear notch into the bat ears, make up for any hood stolen by his big as fuck ears with some crochet hemming, and then I have to crochet him a big pink bow anyway since he’s meant to be my Count Fabulous. It would sorta combine G1 & G3 since he’s a cat & the new Draculaura has a cat, too.

Count Fabulous from monster high, an ancient vampire stuck in bat form with a little pink and white sweater and a big pink bow on his little head

Whatever Draculaura’s new pet is called, which is a cat with bat wings, a frilly pink collar, and a bow on its head

Jamie 🌺 @purplebushie.bsky.social · 1d

If . If I cut the face off the bat, pin his ears down, cut the bottom off and some arm holes, I could cinch the bat body with some Velcro strips and make a bat dress with a hoodie… And then find some safety pins and pin Achilles’ ears to his head so the hood fits at least most of the way.

Jamie 🌺 @purplebushie.bsky.social · 1d

(Tagging @batshaped.bsky.social for her own potential amusement bc I will follow up)

I bought a plush bat to be Count Fabulous for my Draculaura costume and it got here but I was thinking about costumes for Achilles earlier today and they’re very similar in size and I’m having evil thoughts now

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Jamie 🌺 @purplebushie.bsky.social · 2d

I love an album that feels great to listen to with a volume of like . Idk the percentage but on my phone from muted to max it’s like 2-3 clicks that’s the sweet spot