#this belongs in a museum i think

[t8ue]

banaba

[kaiminluu]

visited the louvre a few weeks ago and did some studies anyway baroque warrior mike

[stonesandswords]

thank you to everyone who voted on the museums i should visit today

i had an essay to write, time to kill, and a city to enjoy

i’ve got my notes and research, i enjoyed my time, and yet again embraced a city that embraces me

[himblebo]

Unpicking a suit lining at the sleeve head like. I’m undoing this hand sewn seam that someone made in 1935. I know the name of the man the suit was made for and the name of the man that tailored it and I can see proof of the human labor that made this. I can see the layers of wool roving and hair canvas used to interface the shoulders. I just worked with hair canvas for the first time recently on another garment, and this garment carries this same historical textile and practice. This wool and silk is nearly a century old and I’m mending it so it can continue to be worn and I’m directly interacting with human artistry and skill in the same way it was originally done on this garment. In another ten, twenty years, if this garment is still in use and I’m not the one mending it, they will be able to see the difference in the original construction and where I’ve worked on it. They might be able to tell how recently it’s been mended because of the fabric I’m using to patch. And then if they mend it, and add to the signature of stitches on this garment, somebody else down the line can look at it and see each of us there in the seams we’ve sewn. Every garment is a museum.

[coraline-piange]

orpheus and eurydice in the correr museo in venice

the symbolism of placing orpheus in front of a mirror is genuinely making me go insane. orpheus has already turned back and broken the deal, eurydice is lost. tragedy has run its course. and: it wouldn't have mattered. there was never a way out. he's walking towards the mirror, even if he had looked forward he'd have looked back. it wouldn't have turned out anyway. the tragedy is inevitable

[twoa-plus]

i made this in 2020 & the face has been my apple id image ever since, genuinely have not seen the original until i accidentally hunted it down during a discord conversation earlier today. truly a relic of a different time

[honeysweetcorvidae]

hm.

[lale-txt]

"#stoic silent 6'2 man with curly hair and blood on his hands save me.. save me stoic silent 6'2 man with curly hair and blood on his hands.." LALE. Literally jd!yn to me!!!!! also :) don't be shy u can elaborate we are all friends here :)

i'm afraid you're gonna come after me with the steel chair again if i start to elaborate

[wiinterskye]

I don’t particularly like the sherlock & co podcast, but I catch up on the episodes every now and then and. I don’t think I have ever in my life come across any british character with more casual contempt for the british empire than this version of John Watson? And I really do appreciate that actually.

[ithillyienseowyn]

Its been 4 days since disney dropped KTG, and I just love this scene a whole fucking lot I know I know and just like the framing of the whole thing being from baby boy's perspective which made me want to crumple up in my seat and {pass out} from it all because it was too much.

But I just keep thinking of the bit when they are just chilling and relaxing in the boat after looking at the stars in the sky and how the weight of Eric staring at Ariel to the point it feels like he's BEGGING her to look at him because he's just in his feelings too hard and she can FEEL him stare at her so she just slowly looks at him.

{sighs} yeah :')

[darabeatha]

/ If your muse had to share the bus seat with one of my servant muses, who would it be-

[mirrortouchedsea]

A familiar set of red eyes appeared in the darkness as Kaoru slumped over in his chair. “What’s wrong, little Kaoru?” Rei asked, sliding into a chair across from Kaoru. He picked up one of the books and thumbed through it, seemingly able to read the words despite the dimming candle light. 

“Nothing, just don’t want to go back to studies next week.” Kaoru’s finger traced a circle on the table. “What about you?” 

Rei laughed softly. “It’s nothing you need to worry yourself with.” What a non-answer. By this point Kaoru was aware of the weird disease that impacted the Sakuma family and that Rei was concerned about how it would develop in his younger brother, but the details of it were never specific.

“Is it your brother again?” He couldn’t help but ask. Kaoru had met the younger Sakuma a few times and he was polite enough to his face, though Kaoru suspected he was just putting up an act like everyone else. 

“How astute of you Kaoru,” Rei commented, setting the book down on the table, bored of its contents already. “But no, it’s not about little Ritsu this time.” Kaoru raised an eyebrow but decided to let the conversation drop for now. Rei grabbed another book. “You’ve been reading an awful lot about mermaids recently.” 

[snackward]

I just learned John Carney was mean and sexist to Keira about Begin Again and that he also considered ScarJo for the part and I'm 100% convinced he resented Keira bc she wouldn't let the movie be sexist. If ScarJo had done it it probably would have become a movie about every woman being in love with Mark Ruffalo like that possibility is over the shoulder of the movie at all times but Keira Knightley said no I am going to literally die and reincarnate into this role and live her life with so much authenticity on camera that her spirit is literally beaming out of my eyeballs and it will be impossible for the movie to be sexist as a result

And John Carney was mad about that evidently but like the movie is so good

[smile-files]

bearer of the curse (too many good ideas)

[ssaalexblake]

todays old find in the loft clearout was an old kids computer game called Put-Put saves the zoo, for window’s 98. 

the worst part is that i remember the theme song 

[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