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[sovay]

Postscript: I have just inherited a reprehensible hat. It's my grandmother's rain hat. My mother has no idea how old it is, except definitely older than me. For close to a quarter of a century, she hasn't been able to bring herself to throw it out and earlier this evening it was pouring torrentially. We both remember my grandmother looking good in it, but my mother thinks that's because my grandmother basically looked good. If I hadn't folded the brim up, I'd look like a mushroom.

Comments

[gwynnega]

I think the hat looks stylish with the brim up, anyway!

[castiron]

I like it!

[lemon_badgeress]

i was prepared to most loyally disagree, but then i scrolled down and the picture appeared. oh. oh dear. well, that certainly is a hat. you look delightfully like something from moomin valley.

[pameladean]

I like that hat. It's a hat with a job to do and it's going to do that job.

[nineweaving]

Yes. It's a Moomin hat.

Nine

[selkie]

The Baba Yaga School of Cronecraft and Gizzardry called to confirm the hat has a 4:30.

[sovay]

The Baba Yaga School of Cronecraft and Gizzardry called to confirm the hat has a 4:30.

It can probably walk itself over.

[luzula]

Yes, definitely a Moomin hat! That was my first thought. (And wow, all those manga versions of the Moomin characters that I found while image searching are breaking my brain now--at least I found a Tove Jansson illustration.)

[asakiyume]

Make a movie in it, STAT. This image of you is made for movies.

[mrissa]

Delightfully yes

[moon_custafer]

Is the fabric oiled?

[oracne]

I think that's a great hat.

[dewline]

The hat works for you.

[poliphilo]

I love broad-brimmed hats, but there's something about that one which just doesn't work...

[selkie]

I've wanted to drop a house on your landlord for yonks!

The thing is -- je vous poser a thingy, is exactly how my brain said it, yes I am waiting to answer work emails -- if your mother is your mother, and you both recall your grandmother looking good even when wearing a reprehensible hat of firm purpose... do you consider it is possible that, heritable looks being a thing, you might have a speck of li'l philosopher on your mirror?

[davidgillon]

When a mummy hat and a daddy umbrella ....

[minoanmiss]

this!

[larryhammer]

Everyone should have a good, sturdy reprehensible hat. (Mine, alas, was wool and has become eaten by moths when I wasn't looking. I am in search of a replacement.) Yours looks fabulous at being a hat and at being reprehensible.

[ranalore]

That's a hat with no time for fripperies. There are hats intended to be fashionable, and that hat has no such intention. Its function has wrestled its form to the ground and forced said form to cry "Uncle!"

For exactly that reason, I find it rather spectacular. It makes you look very liminal, the sort of character who has found the tattered edges where worlds intersect, and you dress for their invariably inclement weather as you set out on expeditions to gather the lost and hidden threads to keep the worlds from unraveling.

[sartorias]

That is one awesome hat!

[regshoe]

Aww, I was going to say it's very stylish, but I happily have no sense of style, so. I like it, anyway :D

[watervole]

I like it!

[sovay]

oh. oh dear. well, that certainly is a hat.

It looks much less like one when it's not on a person!

you look delightfully like something from moomin valley.

If I have achieved Snufkin, I have done something right with my life.

[sovay]

I think the hat looks stylish with the brim up, anyway!

Thank you! I should have asked spatch to take a picture of it without.

[sovay]

I like it!

I like it, too! I regret nothing about agreeing to inherit it.

[sovay]

I like that hat. It's a hat with a job to do and it's going to do that job.

Thank you. It did it doughtily for my grandmother, I am told.

[sovay]

Yes, definitely a Moomin hat! That was my first thought.

Thank you!

(And wow, all those manga versions of the Moomin characters that I found while image searching are breaking my brain now--at least I found a Tove Jansson illustration.)

Dare I ask what a manga Moomin looks like?

[sovay]

When a mummy hat and a daddy umbrella ....

YES.

[sovay]

I love broad-brimmed hats, but there's something about that one which just doesn't work...

It's not even a broad-brimmed hat! If left to itself, it flops.

[sovay]

Is the fabric oiled?

No! Everything about this hat would make so much more sense if it were oilskin. It is not. If it was ever even waxed, it wore off long ago.

[sovay]

This image of you is made for movies.

Thank you! What kind of movie?

[asakiyume]

A movie about a mercurial inventor who can be affable but who has a sharp edge beneath the affability--sharp because it's honed on-- on-- things seen earlier in their life, I think.

What do they invent? Not sure. What other elements are at play? Again, not sure. There are many possibilities.

[sovay]

I think that's a great hat.

I am in fact very fond of it.

[sovay]

The hat works for you.

Thank you!

[sovay]

(Mine, alas, was wool and has become eaten by moths when I wasn't looking. I am in search of a replacement.)

I'm so sorry! I hope it will have a worthy successor soon.

Yours looks fabulous at being a hat and at being reprehensible.

Thank you!

[sovay]

That's a hat with no time for fripperies. There are hats intended to be fashionable, and that hat has no such intention. Its function has wrestled its form to the ground and forced said form to cry "Uncle!"

This is some of the best anti/fashion copy I have read in years.

It makes you look very liminal, the sort of character who has found the tattered edges where worlds intersect, and you dress for their invariably inclement weather as you set out on expeditions to gather the lost and hidden threads to keep the worlds from unraveling.

Thank you so very much.

[sovay]

That is one awesome hat!

Thank you!

[sovay]

Aww, I was going to say it's very stylish, but I happily have no sense of style, so. I like it, anyway

It can be stylish by sheer force of liking. Thank you.

[sovay]

I like it!

Thank you!

[dhampyresa]

I have known some fine mushrooms in my time.

[sovay]

I have known some fine mushrooms in my time.

So have I, but I tend to eat them.

[spatch]

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