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enbycrip · 1 year

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Medieval cats from The Aberdeen Bestiary, circa 1200.

It’s super-fascinating because, while the faces don’t seem particularly feline to me, these are *clearly* drawn from actual observation - look at those classic kitty postures!

You can see more images from the manuscript and read about its provenance here:

#medieval history #cats #kitteh #bestiary #art history #historical animals #the aberdeen bestiary #medieval manuscripts #high medieval

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catpartyletsgo · 8 months

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Herman the Coast Guard Cat

The WWII Coast Guard at the port of Baltimore decided they needed a mouser aboard their navy vessel, and soon found Herman, known as an “expert mouser” and hired him to keep the ship free of mice and rats. Herman then officially became a member of the U.S. Armed Forces at eight months old. “It is a good thing to get rid of rats in general,” Col. Richard P. Strong, Medical Corps, United States…

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#baltimore history #coast guard history #Historical Animals #historical cats #mouser #WWII CAT #wwii history

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nickysfacts · 1 year

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I get the idea, but I still think it’s kind of messed up to keep him stuffed instead of giving him a proper burial!🦅

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bebs-art-gallery · 1 month

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Cats Stealing Food in Paintings

Still Life with Cat (1705) by Desportes, It's no use crying over spilt milk (1880) by Frank Paton, Still Life of the Remnants of a Meal with a Lunging Cat (18th Century) by Alexandre-François Desportes, Fish Still Life with Two Cats (1781) by Martin Ferdinand Quadal, Still Life with a Cat and a Mackerel on a Table Top (18th Century) by Giovanni Rivalta, The Collared Thief (1860) by William James Webbe, Cat Stealing a String of Sausages (17th Century) by Abraham van Beyeren, Still Life with a Cat (1760) by Sebastiano Lazzari, Kitchen Still Life with Fish and Cat (ca. 1650) by Sebastian Stoskopff, An Oyster Supper (1882) by Horatio Henry Couldery, Still Life with an Ebony Chest (17th Century) by Frans Snyders, Still Life with a Cat (1724) by Alexandre-Francois Desportes, A Cat Attacking Dead Game (18th Century) by Alexandre-François Desportes, Still Life of Fresh-Water Fish with a Cat (1656) by Pieter Claesz, Still Life with Fruits and Ham with a Cat and a Parrot (18th Century) by Alexandre-Francois Desportes, A Cat Holding a Fish in Its Mouth (18th Century) by Sebastiano Lazzari, Still Life with a Cat and a Hare (18th Century) by Desportes, Still Life with Cat and Rayfish (1728) by Jean-Siméon Chardin, A Cat with Dead Game (1711) by Alexandre-Francois Desportes, Still Life with Cat and Fish (1728) by Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin

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lackadaisycats · 3 months

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Mitzi's costume design for "Ingenue", and some of the ~1919-1921 catalog fashions that inspired it. Everything is always in transition fashion-wise, but it's interesting to see the very defining rectangular shape of the 1920s start to emerge from post-Edwardian/WWI era style. (The contrast in how comparatively modern things looked by the latter part of the 20s is pretty striking.) Design by me and L. Frostad, who did the finalized character sheet! ------------------------

Lots of character designs, extras, and other behind the scenes stuff are on the Lackadaisy Patreon!

#lackadaisy #lackadaisycats #1920s #character design #historic fashion #cats #character art #animation #indie animation

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yesterdaysprint · 11 months

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The Little Witch of the Plain by Mrs. Percy Dearmer, 1897

#1890s #artwork #victorian #illustration #cats #animals #history #historic #vintage #1897

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canisalbus · 1 year

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They need a bigger bathtub.

#this soup has more dog than water #own art #own characters #CanisAlbus #art #artists on tumblr #Machete #Vasco #anthro #sighthound #dogs #canine #animals #I also regret to inform you that clawfoot tubs like this aren't even remotely historically accurate for these guys #at the time bathtubs were made of wood or copper they were more oval in shape and they weren't elevated off the floor #but let me fantasize about fancy bathtubs at least for once

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soranatus · 3 months

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A sneak peak at the visual development for Leviathan (2025) at Anime Expo 2024

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bixels · 1 month

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I'm not explaining why re-imagining characters as POC is not the same as white-washing, here of all places should fucking understand.

#personal #delete later #no patrick. “black washing” is not as harmful as white washing.#come on guys get it together #seeing people in my reblogs talk about “reverse racism” and double standards is genuinely hypocrisy #say it with me: white washing is intrinsically tied to a historical and systematic erasure of poc figures literature and history.#it is an inherently destructive act that deplatforms underrepresented faces and voices #in favor of a light-skinned aesthetic hegemony #redesigning characters as poc is an act of dismantling symbols of whiteness in fiction in favor of diversification and reclamation #(note that i am talking about individual acts by individual artists as was the topic of this discourse. not on an industry-scale)#redesigning characters as poc is not tied to hundreds of years of systemic racism and abuse and power dynamics. that is a fact.#you are not replacing an underrepresented person with an oft-represented person. it is the opposite #if you feel threatened or upset or uncomfortable about this then sorry but you are not aware of how much more worse it is for poc #if representation is unequal then these acts cannot be equivalent. you can't point to an imbalanced scale and say they weigh the same #if you recognize that bipoc people are minorities then you should recognize that these two things are not the same #while i agree that “black washing” can lead to color-blind casting and writing the behavior here is on an individual level #a black artist drawing their favorite anime character as black because they feel a shared solidarity is not a threat to you #i mean. most anime characters are east asian and i as an east asian person certainly don't feel threatened or erased. neither should you.#there's much to be said about the politics of blackwashing (i don't even know if that's the right word for it)#but point standing. whitewashing is an inherently more destructive act. both through its history of maintaining power dynamics #and the simple fact that it's taking away from groups of people who have less to begin with #if you feel upset or uncomfortable about a fictional white character being redesigned as poc by an artist on twitter #i sincerely hope you're able to explore these feelings and find avenues to empathizing with poc who have had their figures #(both real and fictional) erased; buried; and replaced by white figures for hundreds of years #i sincerely hope you can understand the difference in motivations and connotations behind whitewashing and blackwashing #classic bixels “i'm not talking about this chat. i'm not” (puts my media studies major to use in the tags and talks the fuck outta it)

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unproduciblesmackdown · 1 year

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Lackadaisy Enrichment

#in our enclosures!!#video linked as source; which i'm glad to see already has a million views and is trending. That's Right #lackadaisy #WHICH i have been reading since at least '07 when i was thirteen my god b/c this animation is based on the ongoing webcomic #like does its influence show up Directly in some Discrete way i can point to in my art? not very easily probably. And Yet.#the inspiration....i wasn't able to be Regularly Only for at least another year / art done Nonprofessionally Online was novel to me #like wow ppl can make & post fanart of w/e they love huh....didn't know webcomics were a thing & i never really read that many since but.#good god the quality of Lackadaisy at its onset is like this is superb?? this person putting in all their talent and effort???#and Then you get years & years more art and i don't even know what superlatives to throw out abt its quality as it evolves. obsessed w/it..#if i see a new lackadaisy comic page i Will be acting out. obviously this animation is a delight & also stunning. and fascinating to also #juxtapose as a Translation / Interpretation of the comic in a different medium & standalone snippet of Story #and that we're not even quite there in the comic timeline; Taking Notes abt character info we get distilledly here....genuinely love like #take it back to '07 i'm like oh boy can't wait for the dream team to assemble. then a decade later when it did? Oh Boy. that is payoff lol #namely hooray for stitches and mudbug at the field office for every passing gangster. killing one marigold associate but not the other #which seems like a promising start to shootouts w/the other dream team triumvirate. i adore that in canon so far mordecai freckle & rocky #have met but only over a nice brunch. re: all intentions anyways. anyways i'm like Gifs Must Be Made while i'm also so riled afresh abt the #comic that i've been sooo hype for for over fifteen yrs now babeyyy Deservedly. i've done a couple of rereads & ought to do another....#For Interest it'd probably take a few sittings to catch up from the start but there is much to be engaged over....this ongoing story that's #historical fiction prohibition bootlegging cats with plenty of focus on characters & several Mysteries. which i'm better at parsing now lol #like one of the more recent rereads like Oh Of Course x (probably) accidentally killed his y & z took the fall & that's a binding secret...#Not [oh of course] abt the circumstances surrounding a's death & how b & c were involved. nor the ''what's marigold's damage'' mystery #which is great. love to not know things. love that we can readily follow all the emergent drama everyone's wading in nowadays. hell yeah #anyways admire my organized approach to gifs here. four shots each Expressions Atmosphere Action Groupshots #sure might've muddled through gifmaking for this anyways but fr being a huge lackadaisy comic enjoyer for now most of my life helps #and its very Overall Inspiration like. just really getting the [you can really just draw stuff out here] going. fr the art's detail & skill #and that enrichment like i'm gonna have a great time following this. And I Have #you don't expect a crowdfunded indie animation in the mix back then but hell yeah fellas #SIGH ok removing a 4th gif that's broken / not displayed despite reuploading then entirely remaking it. if it's a bug i'll try again later

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lunegrimm · 1 month

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#WerewolfWednesday Well actually more of a "Werejackal/cynocephalus" but it counts in my book ;) Would love to grow my collection of 'woodcut' werewolves so if some is interested in a piece like this let me know :D

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daguerreotyping · 19 days

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Stereoview of a hussar and his sweetheart, or perhaps ex-sweetheart, c. 1850s

#love to see a man covered in frogging! just a real well-frogged fella #he is not winning hearts but he is winning fashion #given the timing this might be about the Charge of the Light Brigade in which case he is also not winning battles #19th century #1800s #1850s #1850s fashion #19th century fashion #historical fashion #fashion history #victorian #victorian era #uniforms #hussars #vintage men #19th century men #stereoview #animated gif

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catpartyletsgo · 1 year

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Mrs. Chippy - Antarctic Explorer Cat

At this point, we all know about Ernest Shackleton and his Antarctic expeditions, right? Did you also know there was a VIK (very important kitty) aboard the Endurance? In 1915, Shackleton and his crew set sail to Antarctica. One of the crewmembers, Scottish shipwright and carpenter Harry ‘Chippy’ McNish (chippy being a colloquial British term for a carpenter), brought his cat with him. Chippy…

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#antarctica #chippy mcnish #endurance #ernest shackleton #famous cats #Historical Animals #historical cats #mrs chippy #shackleton

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bebs-art-gallery · 9 months

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Ein lieber Besuch (A Lovely Visit) 1894

— by Max Kurzweil

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lackadaisycats · 1 year

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A question about Ivy: What 1920's fashion is her casual clothing from the pilot inspired by?

I've been wondering for a while, since I can't seem to find anything other than dresses when I look up 1920s fashion.

The knickerbockers, knee-socks, and cap were pretty standard boys' and mens' fashion at the time.

It wasn't entirely uncommon for girls and women to wear similar clothing for outdoorsy or athletic purposes too, though. Or if they just felt like it..

#lackadaisy #lackadaisycats #1920s #animation #clothing #historic fashion

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yesterdaysprint · 3 months

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La Cygne Journal, Kansas, July 8, 1876

#1870s #victorian #vintage #history #newspapers #historic #kansas #dogs #animals #1876

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