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Aston University + gerbil merch thread

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GrimbutGerbil · 05/05/2024 17:36

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ifIwerenotanandroid · 15/07/2024 00:29

Or maybe this is more you...

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Boiledbeetle · 15/07/2024 00:54

ifIwerenotanandroid · 15/07/2024 00:29

Or maybe this is more you...

I wish it was this one that was more realistic! I look magnificent there!

Although the piles of paper next to the sofa is spot on!

Boiledbeetle · 15/07/2024 01:03

I've just taken a selfie

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ifIwerenotanandroid · 15/07/2024 01:06

😻

MarieDeGournay · 15/07/2024 09:37

ifIwerenotanandroid · 15/07/2024 00:29

Or maybe this is more you...

Oooh that looks very uncomfortable, her elytra are getting in the way of a proper lounge on that sofa.

An elytron (/ˈɛlətrɒn/;[1] from Ancient Greek ἔλυτρον (élutron) 'sheath, cover'; pl.: elytra, /ˈɛlətrə/)[1][2][3][4] is a modified, hardened forewing of beetles (Coleoptera), though a few of the true bugs (Hemiptera) such as the family Schizopteridae are extremely similar; in true bugs, the forewings are called hemelytra (sometimes alternatively spelled as "hemielytra"), and in most species only the basal half is thickened while the apex is membranous, but when they are entirely thickened the condition is referred to as "coleopteroid".[5] An elytra is sometimes also referred to as a shard.[6] Elytron - Wikipedia

ifIwerenotanandroid · 15/07/2024 16:43

@MarieDeGournay Well, it should be a dress & not real elytra. I asked AI for a beetle-inspired dress, but it was more literal-minded & less dressmakingly creative than I expected.

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ifIwerenotanandroid · 15/07/2024 16:44

I tried again, but it just got worse.

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ifIwerenotanandroid · 15/07/2024 16:48

Changed it from 'a beetle-inspired dress' to 'a dress inspired by beetle's wings' (incorrect use of the apostrophe, I fear, but more wearable results - mostly).

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ifIwerenotanandroid · 15/07/2024 16:53

Maybe dear Beetle should change her name to BoiledFeather. These look much more comfortable.

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ifIwerenotanandroid · 15/07/2024 16:56

Or BoiledTomato.

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ifIwerenotanandroid · 15/07/2024 16:57

Or BoiledGerbil.

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ifIwerenotanandroid · 15/07/2024 17:07

Or BoiledLinguist.

(I believe this to be an action photo of a linguistic analyst who insists on doing things the hand-crafted artisanal way & has printed out the whole of Mumsnet 2000-present day. She's currently on page 3 of the thread 'Fanny condensation' from 2016.)

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ifIwerenotanandroid · 15/07/2024 17:13

It exists:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/2775925-Fanny-condensation?page=3

MarieDeGournay · 15/07/2024 17:16

These range from the downright scary - our Beetle is lovely of course, but a huge one climbing up my legs? three massive ones peering down at me from a pile of papers? a long skirt made of beetles?😱 to the inexplicably weird - tomatoes??🙃 to the fascinating rare sighting of the all-white Arctic Gerbil😮
to the long-legged linguist..
All equally daft and equally brilliant😄

JanesLittleGirl · 15/07/2024 17:26

ifIwerenotanandroid · 15/07/2024 17:07

Or BoiledLinguist.

(I believe this to be an action photo of a linguistic analyst who insists on doing things the hand-crafted artisanal way & has printed out the whole of Mumsnet 2000-present day. She's currently on page 3 of the thread 'Fanny condensation' from 2016.)

Those heels are going to make a right mess of that sofa.

ifIwerenotanandroid · 15/07/2024 17:27

I particularly like the giant gerbil looking unconcerned on top of a pile of papers, & the anxious one reading over Boily's shoulder. It looks like AI has solved the vexed question of the bald-tailed gerbils: their tail fur has been used in the stripes on the white dress.

DeanElderberry · 15/07/2024 18:21

They have a fantastic Amazonian sacred person (I'm wary of saying Shaman) costume in the National Museum of Ireland - trimmed with various little furred and feathered skins, gerbils would be perfect - and with two beautiful green iridescent tassels made of hundreds of beetle elytra.

ifIwerenotanandroid · 15/07/2024 18:37

DeanElderberry · 15/07/2024 18:21

They have a fantastic Amazonian sacred person (I'm wary of saying Shaman) costume in the National Museum of Ireland - trimmed with various little furred and feathered skins, gerbils would be perfect - and with two beautiful green iridescent tassels made of hundreds of beetle elytra.

Where would they get elytra like that in Ireland? Rose chafers? I know they have iridescent beetles in India & use them in embroidery.
https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/indian-embroidery

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ifIwerenotanandroid · 15/07/2024 18:38

Reread - you mean from the Amazon?

ifIwerenotanandroid · 15/07/2024 18:40

Hmm... iridescent dress...

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DeanElderberry · 15/07/2024 18:47

Yes, it was 'collected' in the 19th century when European 'explorers' merrily trampled through other people's countries acquiring their stuff and carrying it back and displaying it. Using terms like 'witch doctor' and 'shaman' (slightly less awful, but still weighted down with cultural ignorance). Ireland being part of the UK at the term benefitted from the activities of sundry such (including Captain Cook).

No Irish Druid (comparable people) material objects that we can identify as such survive, but they are said to have had feathered cloaks. If you wanted fat beetlewing tassels made from Irish beetles you'd need to murder cockchafers and water beetles. To get bright green you'd have to go for Dock beetles, they are gorgeous but little. I think there's universal condemnation of doing that sort of thing now, under CITES legislation or some such.

DeanElderberry · 15/07/2024 18:52

PS, one of the reasons I don't like referring to it as a shaman costume if that shamans, if a single word can be used across multiple cultures at all, as it was originally described, was an Asian thing, not South American.

lcakethereforeIam · 15/07/2024 18:58

Rose chafers and rosemary beetles are pretty. Green tiger beetles too.

DeanElderberry · 15/07/2024 19:38

It does seem wrong to kill things just because they are pretty. On the whole. I mean, I sometimes threaten to turn my cat into lovely fur-lined slippers (they'd be so cosy, and they wouldn't bite me) but I wouldn't really do it. Probably.

If I was going to make a 'shamanic' costume trimmed with bits from living creatures to symbolise the powers and energies around me, I could probably make a quite substantial sheet of cat-fur felt the way the darling little pets have been shedding lately..

Boiledbeetle · 15/07/2024 22:33

ifIwerenotanandroid · 15/07/2024 17:07

Or BoiledLinguist.

(I believe this to be an action photo of a linguistic analyst who insists on doing things the hand-crafted artisanal way & has printed out the whole of Mumsnet 2000-present day. She's currently on page 3 of the thread 'Fanny condensation' from 2016.)

I do not care about which sex you are, which sex you fancy or your current partner/partnership/marital status or even if you are a nun in a convent...

I wish to marry you!

😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

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