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Oh, the coveting
Oct. 14th, 2026 11:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cupcake_gothJolie Beauty, a makeup company I really like (I have three eyeshadow palettes from them) has done a collaboration with Hammer Studios for the release of the 4K restoration of Dracula.
:: screams ::
In my FB post I said that the only reason I wish I had the time and energy to be an influencer would be to have products sent to me for review. A friend commented, "hypothetically speaking, if one of these showed up on your doorstep, would an unboxing video happen?" I replied of course it would; later that evening, said friend DM'd me for my mailing address. Hmmmm. HMMMMMMM.
The reason I didn't just hit "Add to cart" when I first saw it was because I'd bought boots and a different eyeshadow palette (on the secondary market, because while the palette is gorgeous, the company has questionable political views and I don't give money to TERFs). If I had known about the Dracula palette, I wouldn't have bothered with the other one because OH MY GOD OFFICIAL HAMMER HORROR MAKEUP.
:: screams ::
In my FB post I said that the only reason I wish I had the time and energy to be an influencer would be to have products sent to me for review. A friend commented, "hypothetically speaking, if one of these showed up on your doorstep, would an unboxing video happen?" I replied of course it would; later that evening, said friend DM'd me for my mailing address. Hmmmm. HMMMMMMM.
The reason I didn't just hit "Add to cart" when I first saw it was because I'd bought boots and a different eyeshadow palette (on the secondary market, because while the palette is gorgeous, the company has questionable political views and I don't give money to TERFs). If I had known about the Dracula palette, I wouldn't have bothered with the other one because OH MY GOD OFFICIAL HAMMER HORROR MAKEUP.
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Oct. 11th, 2026 03:16 pmcupcake_gothI love science! LOVE! But wow, I wish the COVID vaccine didn’t completely flatten me.
we got our vaccines on Friday evening, and by the time we went to bed I was feeling it. Yesterday was spent on the couch, taking muscle relaxers and Tylenol with codeine approximately every four hours, and even those only knocked my pain down to about a seven. I feel better today, but still not capable of doing anything other than sitting on the couch. I am going to see if I can manage doing some work on the beaded blood spatter project, because you know me, I’m incapable of resting and doing nothing.
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While blearily flopped on the couch yesterday, I thought more about my outfit for the 10/24 MCR show. Yes, the burgundy velvet military jacket with silver buttons, but I’m reconsidering the idea of chains of keys draped across my chest from button to button, because I flail A LOT at MCR shows, and I’d almost certainly get tangled in them. And then I remembered that I have multiple decorative “medals” that I’ve bought over the years from Torc and Arrow (that would be my girl Leanna Renee Heiber, go read her books), and those are much more appropriate to the military uniform aesthetic of the The Black Parade. (I also have a giant black and clear rhinestone cross brooch, but I’ve been leery of wearing it for a while now because it looks like an iron cross).
Anyhoodle, now that I’ve figured out the ornamentation for the military jacket: do I want to wear all burgundy, or do I want to wear my ruffled pink and black striped blouse and matching skirt? Something to ponder while I’m flopping on the couch today.
Assorted nonsense
Oct. 9th, 2026 03:27 pmcupcake_goth- The MAC lipstick I wanted sold out on their site within something like 5 minutes. But a friend reminded me about MAC counters at department stores, so tonight I'm going to my local Macy's to pick up my order. Yay, nostalgia bait!
- In two weeks I will be in L.A., getting ready for the first of the MCR concerts I'm attending! Which means I'm getting my COVID vaccine tonight, because I don't want to be unvaxxed on a plane or in a stadium.
- Related to the MCR concerts: I know what I'm wearing for the Halloween show, which is why I've been industriously beading blood spatter onto a black jacket and a pink lace jabot and cuffs. But what do I want to wear to the Oct. 24th show? B&W stripes, either a dress or jacket? A black and pink striped dress? All burgundy, with either the burgundy velvet skirted waistcoat or the burgundy velvet military jacket?
... hmmm. I may have just answered my own question, because the band is wearing their Black Parade uniforms during the "Long Live the Black Parade" part of the concert, so the burgundy military jacket would be good. Now to figure out what I can add to that so it's even more over the top. Time to start rummaging in the jewelry boxes to see what brooches and chains I can add.
EDITED TO ADD: Did I just order a bunch of silver key charms to make a chain that will loop across the front of the jacket? Why yes, yes I did.
- In two weeks I will be in L.A., getting ready for the first of the MCR concerts I'm attending! Which means I'm getting my COVID vaccine tonight, because I don't want to be unvaxxed on a plane or in a stadium.
- Related to the MCR concerts: I know what I'm wearing for the Halloween show, which is why I've been industriously beading blood spatter onto a black jacket and a pink lace jabot and cuffs. But what do I want to wear to the Oct. 24th show? B&W stripes, either a dress or jacket? A black and pink striped dress? All burgundy, with either the burgundy velvet skirted waistcoat or the burgundy velvet military jacket?
... hmmm. I may have just answered my own question, because the band is wearing their Black Parade uniforms during the "Long Live the Black Parade" part of the concert, so the burgundy military jacket would be good. Now to figure out what I can add to that so it's even more over the top. Time to start rummaging in the jewelry boxes to see what brooches and chains I can add.
EDITED TO ADD: Did I just order a bunch of silver key charms to make a chain that will loop across the front of the jacket? Why yes, yes I did.
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Oct. 7th, 2026 12:16 pmcupcake_gothWhoooo, it's write your annual review week, a time no one celebrates. But I'm embracing AI, and set our internal tool to going through my 1:1 documents and the weekly recaps I've been having AI generate. I now have a pretty impressive and thorough document, written in manager speak! Will this impact my review score? Probably not, because those are pretty much decided before people turn in their reviews, but at least it looks good.
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Shallow consumerism and makeup news: MAC is bringing back some of the classic frost lipsticks, and I'll admit I'm super tempted to pick up Jet. Do I need it? No, of course not. But oooooh, I want it.
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Shallow consumerism and makeup news: MAC is bringing back some of the classic frost lipsticks, and I'll admit I'm super tempted to pick up Jet. Do I need it? No, of course not. But oooooh, I want it.
LAST CALL for beta update and inbox page
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dw_maintenanceIt's only been... okay, I don't want to think how long.
We are preparing to take the beta update page and the beta inbox out of beta with the next code release. We don't have an exact date yet, but this is your last chance to tell us about problems!
To enable the beta versions: go to Beta Features and enable the "new Create Entries" beta test for the new update page and the "New Inbox Page" for the, well, new inbox page.
If this is your first time using the beta update page: nearly everything on it can be adjusted, moved, or removed to some degree. The upper right side of the update form has a " ⚙️ Rearrange Panels" link.
Not every panel is enabled by default! If you don't see something you're used to finding, look in the disabled panels. While in Rearrange mode, you can enable or disable panels, drag them to whatever position you want, and generally customize it to your heart's content.
Once we push the button and switch to the new update and inbox pages for everyone, we cannot keep the old ones available. We are so close to finishing the decade-long "get rid of the undocumented custom templating language from 1996 that no one else uses" modernization project that's been sapping our collective will to live that we can taste it, and we can't convert the old update page and the updated inbox page is the converted version. This is your last chance to alert us of problems. If you let us know after the switch goes live, we'll still fix it, but we can't guarantee how fast. Prevent future problems and test drive them now!
Code pushed -- FYI
Oct. 3rd, 2026 10:20 ammark posting in dw_maintenanceHi all,
I had to push some code live today to fix something, and that brought with it a couple of new things like if you have two-factor authentication (2FA/MFA) enabled, you got automatically logged out and it is now required to log in. If you don't, you can set it up if you want (you don't have to.)
This also means that if you have 2FA enabled, you will not be able to use 3P clients using your username and password anymore. You should be able to use API keys in most cases, but there's some nuance to that (and tbh, I just am not precisely sure what clients anybody even uses.)
Please do comment if you're seeing anything weird, as per usual, and we'll work on it. Thank you!
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Oct. 2nd, 2026 01:18 pmcupcake_gothSooooo did I mention that our vacation in the UK helped confirm a suspicion of mine about having a sensitivity to US -grown wheat? My normal background pain/inflammation level is 5-6, and over the course of being in the UK that dropped to somewhere around a 3. Ever since we got home, we've been avoiding US flour; yes, we're ordering EU -manufactured flour, and the Madwoman in the Attic bakes bread for us every week.
Last night we went to our favorite local Italian restaurant. Because we're regular customers, our server comped us an order of foccacia. I ate one piece as a test. Between that and my ravioli, I spent the night bloated and in a LOT of pain. Today all my joints feel swollen and I'm still in a lot of pain.
Yeah, I'd say I've got some sort of sensitivity to US -grown wheat. Ugh.
Last night we went to our favorite local Italian restaurant. Because we're regular customers, our server comped us an order of foccacia. I ate one piece as a test. Between that and my ravioli, I spent the night bloated and in a LOT of pain. Today all my joints feel swollen and I'm still in a lot of pain.
Yeah, I'd say I've got some sort of sensitivity to US -grown wheat. Ugh.