storytelling

I've upgraded the Movable Type software that runs this weblog (or rather, the good people at Living Dot did the updating), and now there are all kinds of new toys productivity tools. For example, with this very post I am testing the new notification setup. Supposedly you can choose to subscribe to a particular post if you want to follow the conversation.

Which would require that you converse, of course. But first things first. Let's see how this works.

Edited to add: it doesn't work. Carry on without me while I see if I can hammer out a solution.

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I've admitted here that I have a terrible weakness for illustrations and illustrators, and now this: Robyn the Enabler sent me the link to The Gallery of Paper Dolls.

These are not playthings, please understand. The dolls are the work of the artist Donald Henricks, someone with a very long and impressive list of fashion credits to his name. Just look at his rendition of Captain Wentworth from Persuasion, and note the attention to detail. And the really tight breeches.

You know that I write historical fiction, and I put a lot of energy and effort into getting the details right. That includes clothing. Which means that I have an obligation to study some of Mr. Hendricks' designs, especially the ones of Austen's characters in stories set in the time period I'm writing about.

That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

While you're over there, be sure to look at Nijinsky and at Alice and Wonderland and -- well, hell. Look at all of them.

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