#Especially of Jules is with them

[alphasrainbow]

The twisted men everytime Ava, Jules, Bridget and Stella are together:

[deathlooksgoodonyou-if]

Soo how would Jules react to MC being in a relationship with any of the ROs

Die 'cause that's the only thing they are good at. (Apart from hurting others)

[graff-aganda]

something something psych star trek au

[aceofstars16]

Okay, switching it up from Forever…and spoilers for the newest Odyssey album (but I will be vague)

I lowkey kind of saw it coming…but like…I have hope cause…Jules needed her character arc, she needs growth and I think her actions having really hard consequences will help in that. Yes, it might still take her time but she needs that growth, cause goodness knows Buck has had a *lot* of growth so it’s her turn now 😂

(Also more spoilery here but, Buck just…having trust issues and needing to trust people and for them to be honest cause Skint lied to him so much, he was literally raised by lies, he needs honesty and truth now…I just…it makes so much sense and like ow but also good on him for standing his ground in that and being honest, even though it was not easy 🥲)

[one-with-the-tree]

Mentally I'm here

[honeyboyfelix]

the sexual tension between your dnd character and your narrative foil who youre trying to romance 🥰

[deepwinterstrawberry]

brb redrawing classic paintings/illustrations of shakespeare plays as my ships

Left: Beatrice and Benedick by Norman Mill Price (from Much Ado About Nothing) Right: Romeo and Juliet by Frank Dicksee

now i just gotta.... draw it

[laniidae-passerine]

honestly even if I’m in misery over this week’s elimination I am living in hope we see Jarvis on Titans because he is so stunningly talented and his comedy is hilarious! and he has the perfect brand so if he could believe in himself like the fans do, you just know he can take over the entire world

[pink-glitter-gel-pen]

there really are some of the ugliest pairs of sunglasses on psych arent there?

[maddiesbookshelves]

Almost done with Cinq Semaines en Ballon. Ramsès is helping 💤

[vonlipvig]

i may not know what i'm doing leading this country, but i love my wife very very much and that's the most important thing of all ♡

[babieken]

this is random and mildly embarrassing but does anyone watch Grey's Anatomy here?

[tirednapentity]

chat I'm going to be honest I might be afflicted with something

[essrambles]

i never expected my break-up fic to get more than fifty kudos but it's at over two hundred now which is honestly a surprise

[marzipanandminutiae]

thinking about the infantiliztation and/or formalization of 19th-century women's clothing to modern audiences

like

our entire reference point for "wearing long skirts and outfits with decoration like lace, embroidery, appliques, etc." is either formalwear or fictional characters in children's media like Disney princesses. women's clothing is just so radically different now- not that those elements don't exist, but they're much less common in everyday clothing than they once were. some form of simple trousers and an equally simple top are de rigeur for everyday attire, and anything else is Fancy

combined with the fact- which is true! -that a lot of what survives to end up in big museums belonged to wealthy people, this ends up in wild assumptions like "basically our entire idea of what the Victorians dressed like is just Rich People Clothes really"

which has led to the eternal cry of "but what did NORMAL people wear?!?!?!" that will not be satisfied with real examples of middle or even working-class everyday clothing because it still looks too "fancy" to modern eyes

not Victorian, but a great example of this is what Abby Cox wore to portray a milliner (hatmaker) in Colonial Williamsburg. a working, middle-class woman:

(ignore the facial expression there)

this is the exact outfit she sported in a video that apparently got responses like "but that's just what rich women wore!" and it is, in fact, everyday attire for a working person. a person who worked in the fashion industry, it's true, but still

I had someone ask me about how to find examples of casual Victorian clothing because they were at their wits' end trying to research it. and I had to tell them that...what they were looking at WAS casual. in the sense of Clothing For Everyday Wear That's Not Especially Formal. there's nothing inherently formal, or exclusive to the wealthy, about a matched bodice-and-skirt dress, instep-length, with some trim. or even a trimmed blouse and skirt. obviously women working the absolute hardest outdoor, physical jobs might have adopted occupational trousers or similar, but we don't all dress like construction or farm workers all the time nowadays. why would they have back then?

Laundresses, probably 1850s or early 60s. Note that I can STILL date the picture based on their outfits and hair, and these are the furthest things from wealthy socialites.

Maid scrubbing steps, probably 1870s or 1880s. Note pleated trim on her skirt and what appears to be a peplum at the back of her bodice.

also, not all working women worked physical jobs any more than we do today. here is a teacher around the turn of the 20th century:

Teachers, 1887

"Breton Seamstresses," 1845, by Jules Trayer

were there differences in quality, type and quantity of trim, fit, etc? obviously. but some people are convinced that the basic outfit format can't POSSIBLY have been something ordinary women wore, because it looks formal and/or princess-y in a modern context

[mcmansionhell]

new jersey "19th century" "eclecticism"

It's always funny to me when new wealth tries to imitate old wealth, but in a very specific way: by trying to reproduce old ways of building that are no longer viable via mass produced building materials and contractors who are better than average but still not quite in the legion of the bespoke. It's rarely the case that houses are fully "custom" these days -- the amalgamation of all the different parts in a new formation is the "customization" at work. As we can see in this example, this is a truth that is often covered up by excessive decorating.

This 5 bedroom, 6.5 bathroom house, built in 1997 (shocker) will run you an extremely reasonable $3.5 million big ones, but I say extremely reasonable because it wants to be a $10 million house but doesn't quite get there - after all, it's made with drywall. The architectural style is not really anything in particular -- though the front entrance would like to recall the Tudors. Really it is trying to emulate an existing pastiche style, namely the eclecticism of the 19th century. It also doesn't do this well.

No stately manor is complete without dueling staircases. Also, I don't know how to explain it, but every room in this house longs to be a bathroom. Or a powder room. A really big one. It's probably the floor, and the wallpaper. This is just the appetizer for the main attraction:

Jules Verne larping is so rare in McMansion Hell that you have to commend them for trying. I'm kind of obsessed.

This room is so important to me. It's like if an Olin Mills (dating myself here) set was an entire room. A sense of watching someone in one's own house, performing "dinner." Also I would slay as the swan knight, I have to say, so I get it.

What happened to baskets hanging from the ceiling and powder blue walls and porcelain lined up on the picture rail?

I have seen columns terminating into soffits that would make Scamozzi cry.

In Big America bathing and lavishing is a spectator sport.

Ok, again, the palette of this house is basically The Polar Express mixed with a very bizarre hotel lobby.

The chimney hole is sending me because that does appear to be a working chimney. Like, can you see the smoke come out? Who knows!

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