#afro victorian

[aesthetic-otd]

Today's aesthetic is afro-victorian

[corvusclearing]

One of my favorite influencers Onyi Moss. Follow her, you won't regret it.

Ig and pinterest: @mossonyi

[happilyeveraftereveryday]

I was just reading about him!! Jingle Jangle on Netflix (steampunk Christmas musical about a genius little black girl) has gorgeous costuming that is clearly inspired by his designs.

Frock Flicks did a post about it, which is how I discovered Shonibare's work!!

Art by Yinka Shonibare

1-2. How to Blow Up Two Heads at Once (Ladies) 3-4. The Age of Enlightenment: Adam Smith 5-6. The Age of Enlightenment: Gabrielle Emile le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise de Chatelet

[divinewomenart]

the maiden may one day be a mother, but by the end of life the maiden will be a crone 🍂

[stygiansiryn]

Victorian Hand Belt

Continue reading Victorian Hand Belt

[msilverstar]

Spectacular! The design, the fabrics, the construction, the matching, I'm blown away!

The completed Afro Victorian ensemble. More to come.

[infiniteartmachine]

"a painting of a man with a red afro on his head"

[ello-sims]

DressGothic (AF) and Pirate (AF) replaced with @deedee-sims Victorian Ghost Dress

The top two dresses are for dress gothic (their file titles in SimPe are bloody red and deadly black which I thought was cool), the bottom row are pirate. Everyday only. I finally have a dress that fits my vision of Cassandra Goth 🙌🏾 (Kinda feeling the afro as well... lol)

DressGothic | Pirate

[thelibraryghost]

A Young Person's Introduction to Late 19th-Century Western Fashion

hello fellow youths

General information Banner, Bernadette. "Exposing Victorian Influencers Who 'Facetuned' Their Photos. (Photo Manipulation was EVERYWHERE)." YouTube. July 17, 2021. English Heritage. "Fashion Through History: Episode 1 – Victorians." YouTube. February 9, 2023. Lady Rebecca Fashions. "100 Years of Fashion // The Fashionable Plus Size Silhouette from 1820-1910." YouTube. June 5, 2021. Victoria and Albert Museum. "100 Years of Fashionable Womenswear: 1830s – 1930s | V&A." YouTube. July 18, 2023. Zebrowska, Karolina. "Victorian Fashion Is Not What You Think It Is." YouTube. March 19, 2019.

Accessories Banner, Bernadette. ""Afro-Victorian": Bringing Historical Black Women's Dress into the 21st Century w Cheyney McKnight." YouTube. October 20, 2021. Cox, Abby. "A Fashion Historian Explains the History of the Handbag." YouTube. January 26, 2023. Rudolph, Nicole. "Dangerous Things in Victorian Pockets : Mens Pocket History." YouTube. March 2, 2024. Rudolph, Nicole. "The Controversial History of Color Season Analysis." YouTube. November 4, 2023. Zebrowska, Karolina. "Disgusting and Creepy Victorian Fashion Trends." YouTube. October 17, 2018.

Bustles and hoopskirts Donner, Morgan. "Weirdest Victorian Invention: The Bustle-Chair (and we made one)." YouTube. November 20, 2020. Lady Rebecca Fashions. "100 Years of Underwear // The Changing Plus Size Shape from Regency to Victorian to Edwardian." YouTube. May 1, 2021. Lady Rebecca Fashions. "All About Bustles! A Deep Dive into 1870s Fashions." YouTube. December 26, 2023. Rudolph, Nicole. "Why were Victorian Hips Controversial?" YouTube. September 12, 2021.

Cosmetics Birchwood, Vasi. "1800s Makeup Is Not What You Think." YouTube. July 21, 2023. English Heritage. "Queen Victoria Makeup Tutorial | History Inspired | Feat. Amber Butchart and Rebecca Butterworth." YouTube. May 20, 2019. Zebrowska, Karolina. "I Used Only Victorian Cosmetics For a Week." YouTube. July 26, 2023.

Fabrics Rudolph, Nicole. "Did Silk Spontaneously Combust in the Victorian Era?" YouTube. August 8, 2021. Rudolph, Nicole. "The History of Elastic." YouTube. July 4, 2021. Rudolph, Nicole. "The Truth About Arsenic in the Victorian Era." YouTube. January 24, 2021.

Gowns Bullat, Samantha. "Dress Historian Analyzes Victorian Mourning Clothing of the Mid-19th Century." YouTube. March 14, 2021. Lady Rebecca Fashions. "All About 1860's Fashion // What did Civil War-era fashion look like?" YouTube. November 12, 2022. Lady Rebecca Fashions. "How did fashion evolve from 1850-1859? // 1850's Fashion Deep Dive." YouTube. October 1, 2022. Rudolph, Nicole. "Victorian Fast Fashion? The Truth about the History of Disposable Clothing." YouTube. February 6, 2022. SnappyDragon. "Were the Pre-Raphaelites painting accurate medieval dress . . . or Victorian fairtytalecore?" YouTube. April 26, 2024. Zebrowska, Karolina. "19th Century Fashion - How To Tell Different Decades Apart?" YouTube. November 17, 2017.

Hair care and styling Banner, Bernadette. "Following a Victorian Home Made Hair Care Routine (1889)." YouTube. September 11, 2021. Lady Rebecca Fashions. "Getting Dressed in an 1888 Daisy Costume // Easy Bustle-Era Hair Tutorial." YouTube. November 13, 2020. Lady Rebecca Fashions. "Getting Dressed in the 1870s & 1874 Hairstyle Tutorial." YouTube. February 23, 2020. Rudolph, Nicole. "Why did Victorian Women Cut their Hair Short?" YouTube. December 18, 2022. Laundry and housekeeping English Heritage. "A Tour of the Laundry - The Victorian Way." YouTube. September 6, 2019. English Heritage. "How to Wash Up - The Victorian Way." YouTube. March 18, 2021. English Heritage. "Laying the Table at Christmas – The Victorian Way." YouTube. December 14, 2022. Walkley, Christina, and Vanda Foster. Crinolines and Crimping Irons: Victorian Clothes: How They Were Cleaned and Cared for. Peter Owen Limited: London, 1978.

Outerwear and working wear Birchwood, Vasi. "What Irish Working Women Wore in the Late 19th Century | I Made the Clothing of My Irish Ancestors." YouTube. June 23, 2023. English Heritage. "The Real Mrs Crocombe | Part Four: A Victorian Cook's Outfit." YouTube. July 5, 2018. Stowell, Lauren. "It's Hot: Let's Look At Some Bathing Suits." American Duchess. August 18, 2023. Rudolph, Nicole. "The History of Jeans, T-shirts, and Hoodies: Time Travel 101." YouTube. March 20, 2022. Zebrowska, Karolina. "The 1851 Women's Pants That Made The Victorians Go Crazy." YouTube. March 2, 2020.

Shoes Rudolph, Nicole. "100 years of Antique Boots." YouTube. February 10, 2024. Rudolph, Nicole. "How to Make Regency & Victorian Shoes: Beginner Shoemaking." YouTube. June 27, 2021. Rudolph, Nicole. "The Myth of Tiny Feet "Back Then"." YouTube. September 26, 2021.

Undergarments Banner, Bernadette. "I Wore a (Medical) Corset for 5 Years. How do Victorian Corsets Compare?" YouTube. November 7, 2020. Banner, Bernadette. "Making Some Frilly Victorian Underwear || 1890s Combinations." YouTube. February 9, 2019. Birchwood, Vasi. "What Victorians Wore to Bed." YouTube. May 5, 2023. Cox, Abby. "I made weird Victorian underwear (it's a knit onesie) & a pretty 1890s corset || historical sewing." YouTube. March 21, 2021. Lady Rebecca Fashions. "How 8 Different Historical Corsets Affect the Same Plus Size Body." YouTube. December 12, 2020. Rudolph, Nicole. "100 Years of Corset History: How 8 Corsets affect the same body." YouTube. November 29, 2020. Zebrowska, Karolina. "How Did Victorian Ladies Stay Warm in Winter? || THE EXPERIMENT." YouTube. January 22, 2021. Zebrowska, Karolina. "How Did Victorian Women Deal With Their Periods?" YouTube. October 17, 2019.

[pumpkinsy0]

Do u have headcanons about or what do you think about a 90s or 00s AU (maybe) where Curly Shepard is a punk and Ponyboy a goth or a babybat? ^_^ Like imagine purly but ponyboy tries to show his obsession for edgar allan poe and curly or the gang JUST DON'T GET IT 😭

wym anon that literally already IS purly🙄🙄

BUT YEA I DO HAVE HCS!!!! o(^-^)o

(for context who dont know, baby at is the name for like ppl who r newly goth basically, theyre just starting out listening to music n stuff like that)

•since curly is punk here and the whole idea of punks is essentially anti establishment and love individuality i will NOT make him make fun of pony for being goth, especially when hes a babybat hes just embracing himself

•also curly is curly i feel like hes a bit morbid himself and would be at the very least interested in edgar allen poe, so even if he wasnt punk he wouldnt make fun of pony for liking him, even if he does thats just bc hes being friendly and just does NOT like poetry

•ill place this in like, late 90s and early 2000s, so there is that huge thing against goths and punks for being ‘weird’ and against god or something along those lines

•curlys pretty used to being targeted for being different for his punk style and such while pony isnt exactly used to that so i imagine that hes more protective while ponys trying to figure himself out in that regard

•some bands pony would b interested in is evanescence, the cure, and siouxsie and the banshees, london after midnight, of course there IS more but these r like more so his favs

•how pony found out about gothic bands was like, a song was playing in darrys car radio and darry didnt rlly like it so he changed it but the song was already stuck in ponys head

•he brought it up to curly but pony was just like ‘idk maybe itll pass’, it in fact DID not pass and later they was just chillin in curlys car and the song came back on the radio and pony was like ‘neuron activated’

•curly was personally not rlly into the song, but hey, ponys happy so its whatever

•personally i imagine that pony doesnt have a gothic STYLE more so he has a love for gothic songs and literature, yknow what i mean??? but maybe he does borrow some clothes from curly thats more on the gothic side or thrifts some clothes

•other than edgar allen poe, he does like phantom of the opera, frankenstein, dracula, carmilla, dr jekyll and mr hyde, also he would like ruby gloom (thank my gf for this hc)

•his art style is kinda influenced by those media actually

•as for what type of goth he is i could mostly see him being like a geek goth, but he is interested in the looks of victorian goths and gothabilly goths

IVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT PONY FOR TOO LONG NOW ON ABOUT CURLY

•tbh, not much to add for this guy, punk curly is literally just regular curly but more understanding of who he is and what he wants in the world yknow??

•think of curly but actually a lil more, idk thought provoking in his own curly way with a better understanding of the world

•MAY I INSERT MY HC OF CURLY HAVIN AN AFRO MOHAWK HERE🗣️🗣️

•he is from a haitian household tho and haitian moms especially tend to be more, religious and all that jazz, so while tim and angela get their ears yelled off for well being them, its especially happening to curly bc in his moms eyes hes “turning away from god” n what not being a “vagabon” as many haitian moms would put it

•he likes customizing his own clothes, he thrifts and gets a bunch of hand me downs so might as well make them look cooler

•hes a graffiti artist and hes acc pretty well known, everyone knows its him but they dont rlly say anything cause 1) hes curly shepard but 2) his work rlly isnt that bad actually

•i could totally see him liking green day and he does NOT like fall out boy but he does like a coulle of songs from them (much to his dismay

•hes picking up guitar (how he afforded it??? i payed for it lets just say that)

WHEN IT COMES TO THE GANG, they dont rlly get pony being goth, they support him of course, but they do tend to make fun of him a bit</33 but darry, soda, and johnny do try to understand him more, its rlly just two

ps anon my gf said she loves u for ur idea (shes goth, u got the goth stamp of approval)

[pinkpetalwhispers]

Decided to share some OCs I made for my upcoming PopStar!AU fanfiction.

Thanks to @candysweetposts for making the Plus Size Candy Pack, which I used to make Tanya.

Top Row, from left to right:

Prunella Reyes: She/Her. Afro-Latina (Black/Dominican) 🇩🇴/🇺🇸. A childhood friend of Yvette, Prunella also works as her backing vocalist/dancer. Calm and collected, she often acts as the voice of reason whenever Yvette gets too overwhelmed. Prunella enjoys yoga, running on the beach, and strawberry lemonade. She's close friends with Roy and they often work out together. Nikki Ishida-Verino: She/Her. Japanese/Italian-American 🇯🇵/🇮🇹🇺🇸. Another childhood friend of Yvette who also works as her backing vocalist/dancer. Cheerful and optimistic, Nikki describes herself as the "rhyme" to Prunella's "reason". Nikki does what she can to keep Yvette cheerful whenever she's upset. Nikki's favorite color is red, so she wears it a lot. Nikki likes strawberries, which is ironic because she's actually allergic to them. She enjoys partying, drawing, tiramisu, and collecting candles and journals.

Bottom Row, from left to right:

Marnie Long: They/She. Nonbinary 💛🤍💜🖤. Chinese-American. 🇨🇳-🇺🇸 A music producer who works under Divine Media. They play many instruments professionally, such as the guitar(electric/acoustic), drums, and flute. She is a lesbian, a secret kept from her strict parents. They have a crush on Nikki but is uncertain if Nikki feels the same way. Marnie can be snarky and sarcastic but cares about others deep down. They tend to hold grudges, especially towards those that hurt the people she's close to. Tanya Beaufort: She/Her. French/Cameroonian 🇫🇷/🇨🇲. A singer-songwriter who is represented by Divine Media. She is a member of the 3-piece all girls' pop rock band WE ON 3. Tanya is the bass player and vocalist. Despite her shyness and soft-spoken voice, she has a "darker side" whenever she's performing. Tanya has a fascination with the Victorian/Regency eras, so she has a large collection of books themed around them. Many of her stage outfits reflect that interest. She is also fond of lolita fashion. She also has a thing for tattoos but is terrified to get one herself. That initially led to her developing a crush on Roy, along with his personality. As of now, Tanya is currently seeing someone outside of the entertainment industry.

[dont-hug-me-its-yuri]

ok ok.. i am desperate to know some coffin hcs.. if you'd like :)) - thecultoflove !!!

Cupid, I love you so much for this!!

. Butch Lesbian (obv)

. Genderfluid, Any pronouns thought I lean toward She/It/They

. Due to neurodivergence, She has a really narrow set of emotions and often only feels them in short bursts (projection lol)

. Since it has to look at increasingly mangled corpses, she has a pretty bad case of ptsd

. due to her ptsd, she has a hard time sleeping a lot due to those images worming their way into her dreams

. Really heavy eyebags due to all that

. This has also caused a mild case of depression

. writes poetry in her spare time though she doesn’t show it to a lot of people

. She would love the rocky horror picture show so much

. They a freak fr

. creeps out a lot of the other teachers due to her habit to stare intently at whoever’s talking to it

. would Have long ass hair as a human please trust me

. Afro-latina

. speaks very fancy like she came straight out of the Victorian era

. bug lover, never hurt a fly in her lifetime

. really desensitized to violent actions and scenes due to seeing far far worse which causes her to have a fucked moral compass

. likes horror movies but is really annoying about the gore, she’ll say stuff like “that’s not what a real heart looks like”

only some of them but my mind is not thinking while typing ^_^

[y2sims]

9 Maxis Match Hairs in The New Hair System.

colors by pooklet.

textures are either originals or from the nhs texture defaults (by spookymuffin & dreadpirate).

binned, familied, tooltipped and compressed.

all four colors are in one .package file.

the meshes are included.

HFO Afro Bun

"afro knot style" by hellfrozeover, from mts

2465(?) polys

ages yaf - ef

DOWNLOAD: sfs // mf

PPG Amanda Hair

mesh by @profesionalpartyguest (x)

1080 polys

ages yaf - ef

requested by anonymous

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BG BowlTwist Hair - bangless alpha edit

decustomized, so it appears in front of the base game hairs in the catalog

all ages, but i haven't included the age conversion meshes, you'll need those by aquilegia, if you don't have them already and you want this to show up for kids and toddlers, too

profesionalpartyguest had made alpha edit like this, but i ended up making my own to fit better with the nhs texture default

DOWNLOAD: sfs // mf

Workeddream17 Hinata Hair

(side preview)

alpha edit of the bg hair "page punk"

decustomized, so it appears in front of the base game hairs in the catalog

ages tf - ef

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PPG LongInFront - m2f conversion

female conversion (by profesionalpartyguest) of the store male hair

ages yaf - ef

requested by anonymous

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PPG Mathilda Hair

mesh by profesionalpartyguest (x)

1666 polys

ages yaf - ef

requested by anonymous

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Fionn Time After Time - retextured by meraru

(side preview)

ages cf - ef

i took the freedom to add red hair ties to all the hair colors

requested by @daydreamingdrawerette

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BlooM Toddler Bandana No Tails

all ages

bandana recolor from andrevasims

requested by anonymous

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Windkeeper Victorian Bun

ages tf - ef

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[stephensmithuk]

The Veiled Lodger

Published in 1927 (and therefore only entering the public domain in the US this year), this is our first story from The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes, the fifth and final volume of the Holmes short stories.

It is also the penultimate published tale in the canon. It is also the shortest.

"The politician, the lighthouse and the trained cormorant" sounds like the ending of a Kenan and Kel episode.

Brixton is under three miles from the centre of London. In 1888, it became home to the first street in the UK lit by electricity, which was called Electric Avenue. That's where the song comes from.

Brixton became a predominantly Afro-Carribean community after the war as many of the passengers from Empire Windrush were temporarily housed in the Clapham South deep level shelter; the nearest Labour Exchange was in Brixton and they subsequently found accommodation in the local area.

Milkmen were delivering daily milk deliveries to houses from c.1860 as the railways allowed for it to be delivered still fresh from the countryside. Milk floats were among the first electric vehicles as they were a lot quieter for nighttime deliveries.

The use of lions in circuses is still a thing in some cases, sadly, although public opinion has progressively moved against it.

Allahabad is now the Indian city of Prayagraj, the judicial capital of the state of Uttar Pradesh.

Sadly, I guess the poor lion was shot.

A discussion on Victorian attitudes to domestic violence can be found here. Had Eugenia Ronder been able to afford it, she would be have been able to obtain a divorce for adultery and cruelty at this time.

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) was found in 1824 and has successfully lobbied over the decades for changes to UK law regarding animal treatment. The RSPCA brings private prosecutions, as any citizen can, against those who engage in cruelty to animals. It also has uniformed inspectors; these do not have police powers but work closely with the police.

Attitudes towards suicide progressively changed over the Victorian era, but it was still illegal. The practice of burying those who had killed themselves at a crossroads with a stake through their heart was banned in 1823, but it was commonplace for those who had killed themselves to be denied a full Christian burial, ending up in an unmarked grave. Church of England law on the matter wasn't changed until 2015, by which point the restriction was widely being ignored anyway.

There seems to be no specific prohibition in the 1896 Post Office Guide against sending prussic acid, aka hydrogen cyanide, in the post, but it is now definitely banned.

[basalamander-corner]

❦ - The Shifting Tides: NEW WIP INTRO

We fight for a future we ourselves cannot see.

❝ Blood spills at the drop of a hat. Lives are taken every day. It’s up to you to decide whether or not you want to fight, or be devoured. ❞

Cursed by the blood of a goddess, Saran Turakina has known a life of being less-than-human. His people are holindal, once regular humans now given the ability to shapeshift into draconic forms. To improve relationships with the Kingdom of Askana, Saran’s grandfather has arranged a marriage with their prince. While on a seaward journey to meet his future husband, Saran’s boat is intercepted by pirates, and he’s taken prisoner for a ransom.

On a ship far from home, and with only his two closest friends for company, Saran is forced to come face to face with the pirate king: Viridian Kambiri, captain of the Howling Wolf and charming leader of the Wildlings.

As Saran traverses the maze of secrets and betrayals that fester beneath Askana, it doesn’t take him to realize there’s more to the oppression and hatred towards the holindal diaspora than the monarchy is letting onto. And the secrets they hide is one he must bring to the light. But if violence is the only way of stopping them, then does that not make Saran a murderer, like them?

And if so, how will he stop them without losing his soul in the process?

More info below the cut.

❧General Information

A series that has been on my mind for at least five years. The current version of this draft started in 2020 during COVID, although I’ve had this idea in mind since early 2018 at least. It’s currently taken some inspiration from We Hunt the Flame, The Tiger at Midnight, and Beasts of Prey, although it has evolved into its own story at this point.

I consider it somewhere between Young Adult and New Adult in terms of ratings: most content is aimed towards a 16+ audience. I consider the genre a low/mid-fantasy romance. There’s a bit of extensive worldbuilding, but canonically the series takes place in an alternate universe where the meteor that killed the dinosaurs ended up being imbued in magic. Said magic spread through the earth, and is what eventually caused the holindal mutation. In addition, this Earth has a ring system of a similar intensity to Neptune, caused by the colliding of Theia. If I have to describe the aesthetic, it is an Afro-Victorian world on the cusp of its own industrial revolution.

❧Featuring

The tropes of idiots to friends to lovers, found family, secret royalty.

Themes of coming of age, trauma recovery, rebellion and war, self-discovery, sins of the father, and the deconstruction of “if you kill them, you’ll be just like them”.

A transmasculine and vincian MC. A bisexual MC. A queerplatonic relationship between three major characters, one of the MCs included. An aro/ace major character.

A cast made up of entirely dark-skinned characters.

❧Trigger Warnings

Typical fantasy violence

Blood and gore

Childhood abuse

Physical and mental abuse/trauma

Panic and anxiety attacks

Queerphobia

Racism and xenophobia

Sexism

❧Tag list

Ask to be added or removed!

@sharliexth @thecrookedwriterspath @andromeda-grace @wildswrites @hottubraccoon @likegemstone @iriswords @starlightelegy @words-after-midnight @andromedaexists @writeintrees @thegrievingyoung @pure-solomon @aalinaaaaaa @tate-lin @gltownsend

[firespirited]

Vox - Pretty n Punk Sasha and Galaxy - Midnight Dance Jade (Rock Angelz gift from @musicalmeowsandcandiedlemons)

I'm really glad I got the opportunity to make the Punk and Goth gals I'd imagined when the lines first came out. I love midnight dance Jade it's just I feel like Jade would have gone all out instead of adding some blue streaks to her hair.

Vox named after Vox Militia is styled London + Caribbean 80s with her hair bleached and loud but the big afro to take up space, she's enjoys ska along with punk and added a nod to 90s punk babydoll. I hope to make her some stainless steel belts and spike accessories.

Galaxy's outfit is temporary until i can find the right cream and white or deep red sweet gosurori pieces to make her look like a chantilly covered cake / victorian vampire (tough of red around the eyes), probably ringlets or braided bun to match.