u/KaoticKirin

title. basically wondering how folks lounged in a corset. I'm sure they didn't just stand or sit up straight the whole time in corset, and so would need to change anytime to just lounge a bit right?

like as much as I enjoy wearing a corset and find it to be comfortable, I am yet to find a comfortable way to just read a book. I typically just lounge in my bed, either on my side or on my back, and just bend in the midriff, but in a corset you can't really do that, and that difficulty to lounge comfortably in a corset is hampering the ability to wear one more, also I'm just curious.

so what furniture did people historically use to accommodate life in a corset? for example I have noted some older furniture often featured a rather funky shape and that may be a part of it. like I saw one mention of using a chaise lounge where a lady would lay on it sideways, with her legs tucked up on the couch under her skirts, and that tube pillow they often come with would be right under the curve of the corset waist, and then the shoulders and such would be on the arm bit, and looking at it yeah I think that'd work, as you are in a lounged position now, so its a much better pose to read a book then sitting bolt upright, but notably your torso is square, so no issue with the corset, your torso is just leaned to the side, but its the whole thing, no bending.

and so yeah, what furniture was used, and what details about it accommodated the corset? like sure you can look up a 'chaise lounge' but they have all sorts of different shapes, and I imagine only some would have the right shape to support being in a corset, and its those details I'm curious on, so does anyone know about that? both historical, and just what you've found to work from your own experience? please and thank you

so, this is gonna be an admittedly large nothing burger of a post, but idk what to do anymore, so might as well, its something I guess.

but so, been working on a game project, tho not really, as its stalled for the past year now, with me just coming in sometimes, attempting something, and failing, basically no backups or builds have been made in a year, which is to say this isn't a break anymore.

and see a few months ago I had looked into some things, and decided to try to make a much smaller game, as well I had gone a bit big for my first project (yes I know that was a bad idea), and I figured, ok, smaller game, simpler thing, should be doable. and so I went over the mechanics of my main game, and tried to boil it down to the simplest thing like it that was in line with like an old flash game in terms of complexity, figuring I'd figure that little thing out, and then just scale up from there. sound theory right?

but well, no luck, apparently I can't even manage to make that fun, its a simple small thing, but already there's so many options of things to adjust, but with no idea of what, and I tried a few things, and I just don't know what to do, like I look at it, and its wrong, but as for what's wrong? I don't know.

and so now that project has stalled, the main project that was put on hold has been on hold for a year now, and its all just ugh. its like I'm missing some fundamental skill to this and I just can't figure out what it is.

it reminds me of art, of like sketching, you can have a bad sketch, and try to add flare over it, but it'll still look wrong, you gotta fix that base, and that can be tricky, sometimes there's some perspective things you just didn't notice, or something funky with the pose, who knows, but you gotta find it and fix it, and then you can add flare if you want, but either way with that fixed base now its good to be built up. but like with this game dev thing, this whole making something fun to play thing, I just don't know. and like even on that art thing, often times I struggle with that too, like oh the perspectives off, but you can't find how to fix it, or oh its the pose, but wait, how does it go? and you can't find it, like you were trying to remake that pose in your head from the thing, but you can't remember what it was from, and you can't find a ref, so oh well.

so the project has stalled before, it went on a similar year long break, but that was while I focused on learning to code as I was struggling to do anything. but that was a fine year break, I learned coding, and cleaned up the project a bit while doing it, and then did a bigger one at the end of that year and made those new systems and such, it was going somewhere, but this year? yeah it didn't go anywhere, I tried to, but idk what I'm doing anymore, or what to do, so yeah, here I am, bemoaning into a void, not even sure what you folks here could even do to help, but well I'm out of thoughts and ideas, and I just don't want it to die, and if this trend of nothing keeps up that's what it'll do. so any advice? anything? is this something one can learn? I just don't know. any help would be appreciated, thank you