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Jacques Must Really Like Dir En Grey (純粋; derogatory)

@mllejacquesnoel.bsky.social

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🇵🇭🇺🇸🇫🇷🏳️‍🌈 Wayward academic, Lolita fashion enthusiast, and feminist killjoy. Expect posting about vintage shoujo and BL, maybe some vkei. Will block minors. NYC; 30+; ENG, ESP, CAT, 日本語

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Jacques Must Really Like Dir En Grey (純粋; derogatory) @mllejacquesnoel.bsky.social · Feb 9

Hark! A new pinned post.

I’m Jacques. I’m an academic, cosplayer, Lolita fashion enthusiast, and sometimes writer & photographer based out of Lower Manhattan.

Photo of a person with pink hair wearing a pink, black, and white Lolita coordinate. They are standing to one side of a bridge with a stone wall covered in ivy.

Photo of a person with pink hair wearing a black and white Lolita coordinate. They are peaking out of a large blue iridescent slime sculpture.

Photo of a person cosplaying Honey-sempai from Ouran High School Host Club. They are holding a pink bunny plushie and looking at a case of chocolates.

Photo of a person cosplaying Sapphire from Princess Knight. They are holding a gold metallic faux silk rose.

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Jacques Must Really Like Dir En Grey (純粋; derogatory) @mllejacquesnoel.bsky.social · 3h

I’m old enough to remember when this happened with the Tories and thus cannot possibly be surprised.

Politico @politico.com · 10h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

Jacques Must Really Like Dir En Grey (純粋; derogatory) @mllejacquesnoel.bsky.social · 6h

Manosphere lead heads are pussies. You should get lead poisoning properly, the way God intended—

By wearing a dead Japanese rocker’s necklace for two years straight until the string is tangled together so you can’t take it off and the coating is worn down. Slow exposure is best exposure.

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 7h

This could explain the entire manosphere

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 11h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Melissa Hung @melissahung.bsky.social · 6h

I appreciate how much New Yorkers do not care for this sketchy AI necklace.

An ad in a subway station for a round pendant necklace called “Friend.” Someone has used a black sharpie to x it out and write “dangerous & wrong” and add the words “not your” in front of “friend.com”

An ad in a subway station for a round pendant necklace called “Friend.” Someone has used a black sharpie to scribble over the text in the ad and write “AI slop” above the image of the necklace

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marinda (she/her) 🐸 @marinda.org · 11h

Palestine should be free. Trans people should be protected. No one should go into debt to afford housing, healthcare, or an education. It is urgent that we prioritize addressing climate change. Billionaires should not exist. Our government is fascist.

None of these views are extreme.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h

Who’s Eating the Tariffs?

(via Goldman) @scottlincicome.bsky.social

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東屋十四郎🎨 @azumaya146.bsky.social · 14h

お絵描きしてる。

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naomi @displacerbeast.bsky.social · Jun 22

philámayaye! naomi emáčiyapi! i’m ogala lakota and maidu, i’m a pnw based beadwork artist! i do contemporary beadwork in my free time, making lots of pieces inspired by jfashion, kawaii culture and magicial girls 💕

shop: magicalgirlbeadwork.etsy.com
ko-fi: ko-fi.com/windupkaine

beaded gingham 3D bow, necklace and earring set

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Jacques Must Really Like Dir En Grey (純粋; derogatory) @mllejacquesnoel.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve made jokes that when I finish the Ryuichi Kumagoro kigu look, I will never wear anything else. And that’s partially because I can tell it’s gonna be really good for just walking a con floor and I prefer those these days.

But yeah I uh. Not every costume is meant for every part of a con.

Jacques Must Really Like Dir En Grey (純粋; derogatory) @mllejacquesnoel.bsky.social · 1d

Sapphire? Yeah sure. The hat can be a little annoying. I maybe wouldn’t want to be running around NYCC with it for a full day? But I’ve got full range of motion, I can see decently, and I’m able to move on my own without a handler reasonably quickly.

Honey remains perfect for busy events.

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Jacques Must Really Like Dir En Grey (純粋; derogatory) @mllejacquesnoel.bsky.social · 1d

But also I do think we should have a conversation about what is reasonable and polite to wear on the floor of bigger cons vs smaller cons and when you save a costume for a contest or just photoshoots.

I’m not wearing D outside of a contest, for example. And that’s always been the case.

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Jacques Must Really Like Dir En Grey (純粋; derogatory) @mllejacquesnoel.bsky.social · 1d

My most Draconian opinion is that people who ask for photos in like, row 1200 of the show floor at 3pm on Saturday deserve death. My second most Draconian opinion is that a cosplayer who stops to take that photo deserves to have their badge revoked. These are (mostly) jokes.

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Jacques Must Really Like Dir En Grey (純粋; derogatory) @mllejacquesnoel.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not for NYCC. At least not during the day on the show floor. Don’t be rude to your fellow attendees and become a congestion issue!

But also yeah it’s gonna get damaged cause NYCC just isn’t the space for it.

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Jacques Must Really Like Dir En Grey (純粋; derogatory) @mllejacquesnoel.bsky.social · 1d

Expect a glue gun and some needles and thread for hand repairs. If you need more than that, the costume wasn’t workable on the floor and you’re not gonna get it there yourself on site at the con.

But also! If your costume is so big you don’t have full range of movement and can’t see to move?

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Jacques Must Really Like Dir En Grey (純粋; derogatory) @mllejacquesnoel.bsky.social · 1d

I’m seeing a fair amount of grousing about Cosplay Central being a little lack luster this year. But also someone is expecting them to have like, full repair stations with specialty glues and sandpaper and babyyyyy. No.

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Jacques Must Really Like Dir En Grey (純粋; derogatory) @mllejacquesnoel.bsky.social · 1d

I think my unpopular NYCC cosplay opinion is that if your costume can’t navigate a very full show floor without getting damaged or in the way, it’s not a costume you should plan to wear on the show floor.

I don’t mean you shouldn’t make it! But maybe it’s more for a contest or shoot!

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Jacques Must Really Like Dir En Grey (純粋; derogatory) @mllejacquesnoel.bsky.social · 1d

Me too. I want nothing more than to be a minor character in CLAMP School Detectives.

Jacques Must Really Like Dir En Grey (純粋; derogatory) @mllejacquesnoel.bsky.social · 1d

and reselling it on English-speaking secondhand platforms for $$$ when it would’ve been max ¥5000 retail. And then folks acting like Liz Lisa is somehow a more luxury ready-to-wear brand on the level with vintage Jane Marple or something.

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Jacques Must Really Like Dir En Grey (純粋; derogatory) @mllejacquesnoel.bsky.social · 1d

Aestheticized and can have very little to do with what Axes Femme looks like, be applied to non-Axes Femme pieces, etc.

There’s also a cottage industry right now of folks who are a bit more in the know buying cheap Axes Femme and Liz Lisa pieces, sticking a bunch of “shoujo girl” hashtags on it

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Jacques Must Really Like Dir En Grey (純粋; derogatory) @mllejacquesnoel.bsky.social · 1d

I’m also old but I make an effort to keep involved in more youthful spaces as this helps with comm moderation. A lot of miscommunications often boil down to younger wearers using different terms cause they don’t know the proper term.

Yeah I’ve also seen Axes Femme used on Mercari but it’s

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Jacques Must Really Like Dir En Grey (純粋; derogatory) @mllejacquesnoel.bsky.social · 1d

If you like Cabaret, I’d also recommend RENT (there’s a film, it’s okay) and Pippin. I think the revival recording of Pippin is pretty awesome but the original cast has some great vintage charm as well. There’s also a film of the original (or close to it) production.

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Kel McDonald @kelmcdonald.bsky.social · 1d

Like there is a Cardassian engineer lady who thinks O’Brien being hostile to her is flirting because that is flirting in their culture.
So got me wondering is the standard romance novel in cardassia enemies to lovers?

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LUCILA @denpanopticon.bsky.social · 1d

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Jacques Must Really Like Dir En Grey (純粋; derogatory) @mllejacquesnoel.bsky.social · 1d

Which is interesting since we do have plus size creators active on the same platforms posting about Lolita, gyaru, himekaji, jirai, decora, etc.

It comes off as part of the aesthetic itself being about body type rather that purely clothes.

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Jacques Must Really Like Dir En Grey (純粋; derogatory) @mllejacquesnoel.bsky.social · 1d

Oh oh! Also there’s something interesting happening here with the creators in the “shoujo girl” space largely being very skinny. Like I don’t mean young and fit, I mean like, skinny and petite.

And no shade at all if that’s your body type. But that’s… All but one of them.

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