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It's Siegfried Farnon horse girl hours up in here again.

Delighted to have gotten this true vintage coat and waistcoat from a friend. Had to immediately throw then on, so excuse being a bit rumpled.

Now to do a little preservation work so these can keep up with my outdoor activities.

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Stumbled across this on YouTube! It’s amazing! She says in the video that even the rocks are stitched on. Go to YouTube and check this lady out.

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i don’t know how many people will agree with this but tamsyn muir really could keep pulling a nona and writing more books until the end of time and i would love her more for it. in fact i encourage her to do so. if it takes 10 locked tomb books to tell this story then so be it. i will wait for them all. if it’s just alecto and it takes another 10 years to come out, i will be here waiting with open arms. will it suck waiting that long? yeah. it already does. but she can do whatever she wants because at the end of the day the locked tomb really is one of my favorite stories ever told, and i will wait as long as it takes for her to finish it

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Im gonna be so real can yall actually talk about ways we can support trans women in the UK instead of giving all the attention to fucking JKR. I already know that Harry Poter sucks, I wanna know how to actually HELP people. Something something you have to love the oppressed more than you hate the oppressor

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Wow this is horrifying

in the hellish alternate universe where tlt is a shitty cishet ya series, the first book is called “a house of bones and blood”. gideon is a cis man and harrow is marketed as a “feminist prince zuko redemption arc”. griddlehark make out during the pool scene but harrow still can’t get over her feelings for palamedes, who explodes later on in the book to save harrow from cytherea. camilla, the Strong Woman Character, breaks down and cries and loses her sense of purpose. in book 2, “a house of spirits and secrets”, cis man ianthe manages to capture harrow’s heart, to the ire of palamedes and gideon’s ghosts, until the end of the book when jod breaks ianthe’s evil spell on harrow. camilla returns to bring harrow to blood of eden, the evil terrorist rebel group that all of jod’s lyctors joined. jodybeth is the only canon queer pairing but it’s not confirmed until after they both die in the final book, “a house of love and loyalty”. harrow escapes blood of eden and fights off the villainous camilla (who hates harrow out of jealousy for palamedes being in love with harrow and not her), who then tries to kill gideon, who has come back to life completely intact for no reason. jod fights off camilla and then dies to save his son gideon, who then becomes emperor and seamlessly unites the nine houses and blood of eden. the series ends with gideon and harrow’s marriage and the birth of their infant son who is set to inherit the entire universe and can already form a perfect kidney. imperialism is never discussed or even recognized by the author. all of the characters are white except judith and camilla. the series is a number one new york times bestseller for three years in a row. it immediately gets greenlit for a netflix series.

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Bonus Post: The McMansionization of the White House, or: Regional Car Dealership Rococo, a treatise

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First full song of my Gideon the Ninth fan musical complete! (Minus, you know, real instruments and vocals rather than what my music notation software can approximate).

Major spoilers for Gideon the Ninth right off the bat, and slight low-context spoilers for Harrow the Ninth.

I am an amateur composer and something significantly less than an amateur video editor, so enjoy the screenshot slideshow.

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Advertisement from the 1966 JC Penney Christmas Catalogue

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Seconding this 👉🏻👈🏻

before tumblr dies, does anyone wanna admit to having a crush on me..?

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Dehumanizing bigots is bad, not because I want to be nice to them, but because they are human beings and they serve as a reminder that anyone is capable of evil ideation and action. Violent bigots are not fundamentally different beings from you. They are human beings, who have developed a reactionary and destructive belief system due to their circumstances combined with their biases. In a different timeline, that could've been you. Anyone can be radicalized. Nobody is immune to propaganda, not even the person reading this.

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Be careful friend

popped a pimple for the first time. and I think that means bad things for my skin

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Happy 1000ty day of alectopause

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Oh, and by the way, that Supreme Court ruling is where that Harry Potter money goes.

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https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/08/clean-energy-powered-40-of-global-electricity-in-2024-report-finds

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“her hair shimmered over with frost”

“that long hair hanging wetly over her shoulders”

“each of the Body's eyelashes was wet with frost”

“each wet and frozen lash”

“still moist as though just taken from the ice of her grave”

“the wet sheen of her skin”

“the sun did not dry the melted ice”

“whose hair fell in wet leaden hanks”

So, is it just me or does the description of the Body vacillate between describing her as frozen or wet? Sometimes it's one, sometimes it's the other, sometimes its kinda both, but

the first time I read HtN, I had the distinct impression that the Body, first described purely as covered in frost, got described more and more interms of melted ice and moist and wet.

As if she were slowly thawing throughout the book until her consciousness is strong enough that she can use her thanergetic link to Harrow to occupy her body at the end (though we have never really known whether she did that on purpose or was simply displaced by Harrow and Gideon leaving Harrow's body, rendering it empty for the next spirit with a claim to it—however, by the time Harrow crosses into the bubble-Tomb, the Body is no longer there at all).

Anyway, if I were adapting HtN, I would definitely use this visual of frost into water, I think.

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Hello!! Your blog has been a delight to browse through. I have a question, it may seem obvious but I'm just making sure- with codpieces, did the "cods" actually go inside the little pouch, or did the codpieces sort of just go over where they were located and people's "cods" were tucked back somewhere else? I assume the former, but the construction of some of the ones I've seen in portraits (very upturned) looks like it'd be uncomfortable.

Semi-related question, I've got a couple of characters that, for one reason or another, wear codpieces without being in possession of a "cod". Would that influence how it would lay on the body in any way? Would it be wildly inaccurate to suggest theirs were stuffed with cotton or something?

Again, your blog is very cool and I appreciate finding another historical clothing enjoyer :]

Thank you! :) It makes me happy to hear you've enjoyed this blog!

I'm not sure if you've already seen my post about the construction of the joined hose in which I also touch on the origins of the codpiece. Shortly the early cod pieces in late 15th century were invented to cover the genital area comfortably, when the hose were relatively stiff and very skintight.

Looking at the early codpieces, which were basically just a small piece of fabric tied on the crotch it does make a lot of sense, clearly it held the genitals inside it. Like in this 1470s painting.

The men's fashion where they didn't wear hems and only very tight hose was mainly used by young fashionable men - soldiers, musicians, Venetian gondoliers etc. At the time valuables were generally tied to the belt in pouches, and especially when it comes to soldiers, who would also have knives and swords hanging on their hips, not having a protective layer of a skirt left their genitals quite vulnerable to hanging objects. Which is probably why they started padding their codpieces. The codpiece started to be made from two pieces of fabric making it more shapely and less flat, but it wasn't yet very extreme. There is padding but it's still easy to see how it would hold the genitals.

In 16th century it very quickly though turned very extreme. It became huge, what the French called appropriately a baguette. It was heavily padded, even boned to keep the shape.

There's not much, if any, extant codpieces left from the time, so it's hard to say how they were specifically constructed. To me it seems quite probable, that they were still functionally the same as the earlier codpieces with a little pouch for the genitals and the rest being padding. There's a pretty interesting theory though about these extreme codpieces. At the time there was a big syphilis epidemic in Europe and they put all kinds of herbs and remedies on the genitals and wrapped the penis in bandages with the remedies. So the theory suggests that these baguettes may have been developed to hold and protect bandaged genitals, protect the fashion fabrics from the staining remedies and also obscure that someone had the very stigmatized infection by making a very padded penis a fashion statement. There's a really interesting paper about it, which also goes into detail about the codpiece.

So the genitals were held inside the codpiece one way or another. And to answer the other question, padding the codpieces was already standard practice so padding it a little bit more if one didn't have outward genitals like that is very believable to me. In fact, people would even hide some valuables inside their very large and padded codpieces. Even in the earliest codpieces made from flat fabric you could easily add a little extra stuffing to the braies or the chemise tucked in to the hose. Though I'd doubt they'd use cotton as padding, since cotton wasn't readily available at the time in Europe. (It was all imported from Asia, since it didn't grow in Europe and Europeans didn't know how to weave cotton, so it was used on very specific purposes, like lining doublets.) The padding was more likely wool, linen or horsehair.

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it's my birthday!🎈