#does 1850s

[dimepicture]

[sweet-rabbit]

MITHRUN IS OF TOL INSTEAD OF KERENSIL DUE TO MARRIAGE don't lemme see people "correcting" me in tags or comments when it's in all caps

anywho, this was going to be another illustration for my fic, but didn't work out ie couldn't fit a scenario like it in the upcoming chapter that i'm still working on. decided to post it anyway 'cause i had fun. PS that's a phone Kabru's got, didn't feel a need to finish a background after all that plaid

[fauvester]

iskra garak-bashir as ingres’s princess debroglie… on a thursday..

[musewrangler]

It's 8 am and I am researching who invented baking powder. For my enrichment. But here's the thing---at some point, all of these foods and ingredients had to be put in someone's mouth. To test. Wild.

[daguerreotyping]

Daguerreotype of two seated gentlemen, each wearing a flower in the front of his waistcoat, c. 1850

[polarades]

In the Clip Studio Paint. straight up "putting that man in situations." and by "situations" I mean, haha, well. let's justr say. Killing him in hypothetical scenarios to examine his psyche.

[caterpillarinacave]

Do you have thoughts about Baby Henry and his Great Aunt Matilda?

Oh BOY do I.

I could literally go on and on forever but I should redirect you to this entire fic which is basically a coherent, carefully constructed, novel of those thoughts:

(Those with an astute eye will notice that I call Matilda Henry’s aunt, as in his fathers sister, as opposed to his great aunt. Maybe this is due to the copious amounts of inheritance fuckery brought up in the first chapter. Maybe I forgot because rereading nothing but shadows makes me sad. Maybe I can make it work and I’m going with it.) 

[docholligay]

If you want to try something that'll make you laugh tonight, have you seen Cunk on Earth? I think youd like it. your day can't get worse!

Oh my God, how had I never seen this before, yall are constantly assaulting me with noted British shows 'Some Guy Wears A Coat Through Time series 26.5" and "We're Repressed but Georgian" and "Emotionally Distant Detective Embodies True English Heroism: Paperwork" and "We're Repressed but Edwardian" but never this???

I love it, reminds me actually of how Stephen Colbert, person, played Stephen Colbert, character in the hey day of the Daily Report. It goes stupid joke, stupid joke, and then SMACKS you with a clever one, like a constant cunttease. AMAZING.

I really want my wife to watch it: She loves pump up the jam and will DIE

[the-insouciant-scientist]

👗 for Irving Merrit?

The handsomest lady! The prettiest gentleman! It's him, the bigender legend herself!

[dimepicture]

[dudeshusband]

the town has a photographer too. maybe dude and i could get a few pictures. maybe some really cute ones if we can hold the pose long enough

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

michael spyres as lohengrin at the opéra national du rhin!!!

also here’s the full ONdR opera season, also featuring a very interesting survey of opera characters through the concept of don giovanni meeting them in hell

[endless-formsmostbeautiful]

Lee Remick in The Europeans (1979) dir. James Ivory

[daguerreotyping]

Daguerreotype of a handsome young man and his blurry dog, c. 1850

[heartbeetz]

Soooo glad I haven't actually moved yet. I know it means essentially wasting a month of rent (yikes!!!!) but I just checked the weather there and it's one of those "feels like -6°F" winters.

Though I suppose waiting this long means also having to eventually deal with moving in the snow... ughhh

[switchelsweets]

Y’all aren’t having your characters write on one of these?

Are you the "I have strong feelings about parchment" Tumblr user? If not, I feel like I saw you might know who they are. I was going to put parchment in a fic, but then I was like "no, I can't do that without asking the Parchment Person first because I don't want to get it Wrong."

...no, but I know the post you're talking about, and I too have strong feelings about parchment, esp because I've worked on it before.

I took an illumination course while getting my illustration degree and did an "H.M." in the style of a medieval manuscript on a small piece of the stuff.

Parchment is not paper. It's cured calf or pig skin.

It's thick, and HARD like non-corrugated cardboard. If it's been stored in a roll, it does not want to unroll. If it's been stored flat, it does not want to roll. It's got the same texture as skin, because it IS skin, and you have to account for that while working on it. It smells like rawhide. It actually takes ink in a really interesting way- there's a half-second to blend of fix something before it actually sinks into the parchment, but it doesn't bleed once it's in there. It also never comes back out. It's not bright white like paper, almost a buff color, and white stands out on it.

Fascinating stuff. Actually pretty fun to work on, but it's definitely a medium for highly polished and important pieces (like illuminated manuscripts), not for casual note-taking (because it's MAD EXPENSIVE to make)

I should go hit up the local art stores and get different paper-and-other-art-media samples to demo for everyone for fanfic purposes because they are VERY different things that have different purposes, prices, origins, and societal connotations, all of which can be used in your writing.