🩸𝖀𝖓𝖎𝖈𝖔𝖗𝖓 𝕿𝖊𝖆𝖗𝖘 ~ 𝕬𝖓𝖌𝖊 𝖉𝖊 𝖑'𝕰𝖓𝖋𝖊𝖗 𝕲𝖑𝖔𝖛𝖊𝖘 (2021)🩸

same post as the last but with some color pieces, both pink gingham are 90s!

I usually post Lolibrary content on the site's facebook page, and not my personal Tumblr, but this is a little more personal. This is my 5,000th Lolibrary entry. Lolibrary celebrated it's 13th birthday last month, and as of right this second we have 84,951 published entries.

I did the math a couple days ago for a post on the FB or twitter, and for lolibrary as a whole, it comes out to something wild like 17 entries per day. And that is 'counting' the fairly long time around 2018 when we couldn't make entries at all.

I'm not the biggest contributor to lolibrary. That is Onlyeasy, who entered more than 1/5th of the content on lolibrary and recently has retired from being an active senior lolibrarian. Followed by our late founder, Amethystcitrine. Amy entered more than 1/10th of the content currently on lolibrary. Lately, I was thinking 'I should record some videos on how to add measurements' because that seems to trip up a lot of new contributors. And, I keep thinking about the videos she made, which makes me really miss being able to talk to her about lolibrary.

The 3rd biggest contributor to lolibrary is theladymienshao (9.22%) who currently enters Baby/Pirates, and then Sucre-Dolls (6.94%) who enters Angelic Pretty. I am so impressed by the constant updates of the new items, because I've never been able to do that.

The person with the next most entries is azuki-mikan (pita-tenshi), again, absolutely fantastic, azuki-mikan has made 7.3% of the entries.

And then me, I'm 6th with 5.88% of the entries. So, I'm definitely not the most active when it comes to entering items. I do some other things with lolibrary, like I make most of the Facebook and Twitter posts (which is why they are very inconsistent). I also count up when an indie brand goes over the minimum threshold for tag, and the minimum threshold for being promoted to a brand, and then recently I've been manually moving the entries across for those too. I also did a lot of the manual checking on the shoe entries when we imported those in recently, and like all the other senior lolibrarians who are active, I do some of the pending submission approvals. And of course, I do some degree of book research & scanning with my magazine & catalog collection, some degree of item identification, etc. I also spend a lot of my time adding images to existing partial listings to flesh them out. But there are other people who do other tasks that aren't entering items too. Like Sage-Blossom who does a ton of corrections & tag clean up work, for example. And our development team who do the coding, and one of our other admins who handles all of the legal and financial pieces so we can pay our bills and maintain our status as a non-profit. And then there are a lot more very active contributors too! I think one of my favorite things about lolibrary is that it is a community project and it is made up of lots of people doing lots of different things. I think also that's one of the reasons that lolibrary has had the longevity it has had. And through it, I've met a lot of wonderful people who I absolutely think the world of. So, I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm very glad that lolibrary exists, and I hope it continues on for many years to come. <3

Vintage Label Stamp Vest

Brand: Alice and the Pirates

Year Released: 2019

Just added my 1000th item to Lolibrary. I feel weirdly accomplished.

Lolibrary needs more Fanplusfriend/Neo Ludwig entries, the dresses and accessories that I want being lost to time is so sad.

Harajuku, October 2002

lolita fashion from 90’s FRUiTS magazines (scans from Lolita History) 🍓🍒

Angelic pretty cross sleeve op, from an ended y!a listing.

A while ago I was dared to create some lolita fits for the bat boys, and I immediately lost my mind so here are some choice slides from my straight up powerpoint presentation.

chocolate check blouse ୨୧ BTSSB

I was wondering if there is anywhere to give information on lolita items to be documented/archived on lolibrary? I have a couple of items that have tags that aren't on lolibrary, but I'm never 100% sure how/where to post about them to be archived. Love the work that you guys do <33

Lolibrary is a volunteer driven project, so if you want to have something added to lolibrary either you can add it yourself (anyone can add things :) ), or you can ask if someone can make an entry when they have time, just mention you don't feel comfortable doing so. The easiest way to do this would be to post on our discord: https://discord.gg/8BNtquwaJS If you have partial information about an item (not enough info to make an entry yet) you can post it in the item identification forum on lolibrary's discord and get help from lolibrians. Once enough info is gathered, you or a lolibrarian can make an entry (if you would like someone else to do it, just mention that you don't feel comfortable making entries yet in the post and someone can totally do it for you). You can also talk to the more senior lolibrarians and get help with making entries yourself if you want to on the discord. I will say there is a backlog of about 190 items in the approval queue right now so, we are a little behind in approving new entries, and things aren't going super fast right now, but in general, it's always great to have new people making entries and sharing information :) If you have info for an entry that already exists, there should be a submit a correction button that will show up when you are logged in on lolibrary. That takes you to a google form which puts the info into a spreadsheet for one of our senior lolibrarians to process (Typically Sage Blossom does these)

yaaaaaay my new dress arrived and it actually fits! I've been having trouble fitting lolita dresses lately, and this one only came in two sizes and doesn't have any shirring. and it is difficult to zip but it fits just fine, it doesn't feel like I'm gonna pop a seam just from breathing! and it's sooo cute!

plus I might be well enough to wear one of them next time we go out :)

dress is tagged han gu liang, ordered on aliexpress from seller "kimokokm official store", in size L. it came with detachable sleeves that I'm unlikely to use. melikestea everyday voile cupcake petticoat underneath. (socks are world's softest that we found discounted at a local bookstore.)

if shu itsuki wore a 2005 victorian maiden velveteen jacket + skirt set, would he wear it like this? or like this?🤔

i've never seen a solid op with patterned detachable sleeves and i'm sure there's a reason but i think it'd be cute :)