This is what it’s all about😭
What [car] would you build a time machine out of?
an old VW Beetle because it wouldn't look out of place literally anywhere
Lancelot: Egad sire! Look at that. King Arthur: Hm, rare to see a VW Beetle this far north. Not impossible, mind.
anyway I love things like having independence, being intelligent, taking pride in my skills, not feigning incompetence, referring to myself as a woman instead of a girl, aging unapologetically, having pores, stretch marks, grey hairs, wrinkles and body fat, listening to my body's needs, eating as much as I need to satisfy my hunger, being bare-faced, wearing comfortable clothes, etcetera
I want to live my hot girl summer like I’m stephen maturin in the galapagos- just a straw hat, a sexy embroidered robe, some lizards, and vibes
his robe is actually printed not embroidered! historically, fabric like this would have been hand-printed with a series of complex, interlocking carved wooden blocks like this:
this is actually better than embroidered given the goal of costuming as 'communicating a lot of info about a character without exposition'. Banyan robes like this would have been worn as fashionable 'undress' at home by gentlemen - so not really appropriate to be traipsing around doing naturalist things. But, from this production's standpoint it is serving to show Maturin as softer, more 'natural' and more casual in contrast to the more stiff/traditional naval characters.
by the early 19th c. embroidery was already largely relegated to formal wear for men, until it basically disappeared from menswear almost entirely later in the century (aside from occasional exceptions like livery or a subtle design on a waistcoat or an emblem or something).
Cottons printed in India - like chintz and calico (both words derive from Hindi) - and later, fabrics printed in Europe which basically copied Indian design & aesthetics wholesale, were very popular for more informal clothing in the west starting in the later part of the 18th century. Here's a dress with a quite similar pattern from a similar period:
The wiki lists banyans as being inspired by kimono, but considering the relatively limited exposure the west had to Japanese material goods prior to the mid 19th c. and the fact that 'banyan' has sanskrit origins, I think it's far more likely that the style of garment was inspired by the many open-robe style overgarments worn throughout the near east and through southeast Asia.
Many banyans were imported garments with minimal modification, (or even could be made directly for export to the European market - a similar thing happened in the late 19th century with Western women snapping up and wearing kimono as dishabille at the height of late 19th c. Japonisme)
There are also a lot of chintzes that were hand painted, rather than printed! Like this 18th century fragment in the Smithsonian.
To keep it real I debauch a sloth
Anna Haifisch
Babe are you okay I saw you reblogging "here's the life I've always longed for"
Imagining a magical girl deconstruction show where the Kyube-type sinister talking animal guide does in fact care about the girls- just not anyone who isn't one of them. "We can't run away, the earth needs us!" "Eh, earth will figure it out."
“Okay girls, the odds look really overwhelming, so we’ll all be going back to my home planet and starting over.”
“But what about the world?”
“It’s fine, I’m sure there’s a super sentai team or something to risk their lives.”
“Oh no, Sailor Eris went mad with power and is taking over the city!”
“Hey, if they didn’t want to be taken over, they should have made contracts and become magical girls!”
Images from “FAG,” my first zine, 2013. I had an idea that, if you’re gonna call me dirty names, you should be just as prepared to say such things to the kid version of me, because I was just as much a fag then as now. I wanted there to be a high contrast between the sweetness of the photos and the harshness of the words.
I'm obsessed by the fact that the basket placement heavily implies that this has happened before.
ANTI-CAPITALIST AFFIRMATIONS
- i am allowed to spend my time creating things, even if they are not beautiful.
- there is no such thing as a "real job." all forms of work are real and valid.
- there is nothing that i need to accomplish to be worthy. i am already worthy.
- doing nothing is good for my soul.
- i am not defined by what i produce.
- my worth cannot be measured by my paycheck, my job title, or a list of professional or academic achievements.
- i do not need to monetize my hobbies, it is enough to spend time doing something i love.
- i will not let society decide what success looks like. i can define what successful life looks like for me.
me: grandpa, can you pass the salt shaker
grandpa: back in my day
me:
grandpa: we didn’t have “salt shakers”
me:
grandpa: we had to climb a nearly 90 degree inclines
me:
grandpa: to lick salt deposits off the mountainside
me: why?
grandpa: we craved that mineral
if i told you what rhis sounded ljke i dont think youd believe me so just listen
DAPHNE BRIDGERTON and VIOLET BRIDGERTON BRIDGERTON — 1x03: “Art of the Swoon” (2020)
I've worked a few tough crowds myself over the years. In politics? In panto.
