#history in color

[roses-of-the-romanovs]

"He was always amused by the likeness between him and his cousin, King George. One day he showed me a photograph of the latter, saying, 'Have you seen my last photograph, Lili? Doesn’t it flatter me?'" – Lili Dehn

[colourbymarie]

Maria Feodorovna and Queen Alexandra

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[guy60660]

History in Color

[romanovsotma]

Princesses Elisabeth, Gabrielle and Sophie in Bavaria, 1900s

[colourbylou]

Adorable glass negative scan from the C.M. Bell collection.

A young girl, surname Ketcham, playing with blocks, dated between 1905 and 1909.

Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress, 2016709818, LC-DIG-bellcm-22379, No known restrictions on publication.

[zytes]

this manatee looks like it’s in a skyrim loading screen

[charlesoberonn]

[prokopetz]

It's a rough world out there for people who were teenagers during the exact slice of gaming history where indie video games had become feasible to develop and distribute globally, but the definition of "indie" didn't yet encompass corporate studios and million-dollar budgets. They'll tell you their favourite game when they were a kid was, like, a point-and-click visual novel whose protagonist dreams they're a vast formless sea monster that learns about the concept of colours after finding a discarded helium balloon, or a hypertext fiction/precision platformer hybrid exploring gender as a mechanism of social control, and you think they're either being pretentious or deliberately fucking with you, but no, that's just what the indie gaming scene was like for a couple of years there. The sea monster thing got a front-page feature on the same site that made Bloons Tower Defense a household name – it was literally played by millions of people.

[gendernewtral]

gilbert baker designed his flag with the express purpose of it including every single queer person. baker was so dedicated to making sure his flag was inclusive that he added another stripe in 2017, lavender, to represent diversity. the concept that it’s for white gay men came around later and needs to be changed.

can we please go back to associating the original flag, and ideally the modern rainbow flag, with inherent inclusion of every single queer person? instead of deciding that the original wasn’t good enough? personalized flags are important for representing those who have typically been excluded from the queer community, but reclaiming the original flag as a symbol of inclusion is important too.

[roses-of-the-romanovs]

[antimonyantigone]

M*A*S*H Pilot Text & Grandfather's Kodachrome from Korean War (year unknown)

[s0up1ta]

they're so doomed yaoi i hate them

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[lionofchaeronea]

Women Watching Stars, Ōta Chōu, 1936

[eroticlamb]

Cover art illustrated by Satsuko Okamoto for Teen Look magazine, circa 1960s ★

[romanovsotma]

Princess Charlotte of Prussia, eldest daughter of Crown Princess Victoria and Crown Prince Frederick (future German Emperor and Empress) in July 1873.

[ayandagama]

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