Something like this I believe!

that’s one of the famous ones, a Lady Macbeth stage costume from 1888. apparently it wasn’t uncommon in victorian fashion:

we should bring embroidery like this back (but w/ imitation wings). we should all be walking around with beads & wings, clanging

Bring this back in 2019

There’s a youtuber who does historical sewing and costumery who did this recently

https://youtu.be/iA8yVDohZ-4

OH MY BEETLEJUICE 

To everyone in the comments- No, the beetles aren’t killed for their wings. These jewel beetles have short adult lives (2-3 weeks) and the wing casings are harvested after their death to ensure their conservation.

The Victorians did not invent beetlewing art. This species of beetle is indigenous to South and South East Asia where beetle wing art actually originated. Thailand, India, Myanmar, China, and Japan all practiced beetlewing art before the Victorians. Most notably, they have been used for centuries in clothing and art in the Thai royal court. Queen Sirikit has promoted beetlewing art in an effort to revive Thailand’s art and cultural history. Queen Sirikit has also forbidden the harvesting of the wing casings prior to the beetle’s death to protect them.

Unfortunately, it is hard to find old Thai art online but here are a couple of examples.

(Date and artist unknown. Thailand.)

(René Mancini, 1980.) Belongs to Queen Sirikit.

please reblog this version of this post, this is amazing

@nonasuch how does one…wash…such a dress…?

As infrequently as possible.

A lot of 21st century people look at all the layers that people in past centuries wore and think it’s a hellava lot of trouble and inconvenience. But elaborate outer dresses like these are the reason why.

Linen shifts and under bodices, and petticoats and all, are lightweight and easy to clean, so those got cleaned often.  (and if a stain doesn’t come out completely, they’re underwear – who’s gonna see it?).

And the outermost clothes were hardly washed at all.

I'm currently off my meds and on my period, and everything is making me cry.

Please send me asks to distract me 🥺

Here have this cat

Oh that's a baby with the zoomies!! you can see it in their eyes ^w^

She does

She likes to scratch hence the furniture

This is my dog

OH! LOOK AT THIS MODEL!!! 😍

Heres a boy

THE FLUFF??? THE TINY NOSE?!?!?

Here’s my 15 year old baby

🥺🥺🥺 THEY'RE A TEDDY BEAR??? I CAN'T??? 😭😭😭 PLEASE TELL THEM I WOULD DIE FOR THEM

Hawking is a snuggle bug when he isn't out barking at the squirrels. He would be more than willing to spend the day cuddling.

I'M SORRY BUT IS THAT

They don't understand where the paper is coming from.

Me either, little dudes, me either 😗😅

@borinquenaqueer Here’s a big smile from the ancient Sofa Dragon

Oh no you got too close to the blanket hoard, face licks incoming!

OH MY GOSH THE TEEFS IS HE A GREYHOUND? I LOVE THOSE WEIRD DEER SO MUCH. THEY'RE SO DERPY AND I LOVE THEM T_T I have a friend who got a rescue greyhound and she is literally my favorite dog that isn't my own lmao (everyone should go to her facebook page for good good Greyhound content https://www.facebook.com/youreveningpupdate/)

Yes indeed! An ex-racing greyhound aka weird deer aka pony shark. We have two and they share a brain cell. But not a sofa. They each have their own sofa.

[codename Tiny McTinypants (normal size greyhound) as a monster and Sofa Dragon (huge greyhound) as a pumpkin, for Hallowe’en 2020] Thank you for sharing your friend’s greyhound page because I always need more noodle horse content in my life! 😍

Thank YOU for sharing these beautiful babies with meeee 😭 they're perfect and amazing

This is Rosalyn. She is round and evil. Her favorite pass times are jumping on laptop keyboards and knocking things off of flat surfaces.

This is Heidi, my roommate's cat. She screams for soup at noon every day.

This is my grandparents' cat, Lily. She is heavy and solid and gallops across the house very loudly. Putting her on a diet made her IBS worse, so they are trying to exercise her more to get her weight down instead. She does not like this.

This is my roommate's parents' cat and her fresh beans. They were a few hours old in this picture! We will be bringing one of them home to live with Rosalyn and Heidi when they're old enough to be adopted

the shooting in Atlanta of 8 massage parlour workers by a white man was a white supremacist hate crime and the latest in a series of attacks on Asians in the US. however, it’s also extremely important to note that the group he targeted are a community that is already more vulnerable to state violence than many, in form of police raids, deportations, and systematised stigmatisation. this is an industry that’s often conflated with and overlapping with sex work, and the industry has faced decades of criminalisation and dehumanisation, with a long history of being targeted by cops and systemic injustice along with racialised misogyny and fetishisation. they are also often excluded from conversations about the latest rise of anti-asian racism in the US, since many do not fulfill the “american” part of asian-american. 

if can donate, also consider donating to red canary song, butterfly, and swan, grassroots organisations and activists that fight for migrant and labour justice for migrant workers and sex workers.

Celia’s D3 redesign is finished~

i think the most trouble i had with any of these was the GTTB outfit, i tried to give it the same vibes as the original design (it was a triple denim outfit jacket, skirt,pants) and the rest just kinda…flowed :3 Dizzy next~!!!!

Celia’s D3 redesign is finished~

i think the most trouble i had with any of these was the GTTB outfit, i tried to give it the same vibes as the original design (it was a triple denim outfit jacket, skirt,pants) and the rest just kinda…flowed :3 Dizzy next~!!!!

D3 rewrite; the Hook fam

oldest to youngest

Harriet Hook - 22 years old as of D3 rewrite

Harry Hook - 19 as of D3 rewrite

CJ Hook - 17 as of D3 rewrite 

finally finished Carols’ D1 redesign

his jacket is black Denim with white painted sleeves 

Names have power

Harry: English: home, power

Uma: Hindi: splendor

Gil: Spanish: foolish

Mal: South African: crazy

Eve: English: living

Benjamin: Hebrew: son of my days 

Jay: English: to rejoice, to talk a lot

Carlos: Spanish: free man

Jane: Hebrew: God is merciful

Audrey: English: noble strength

here have a taste of the big ass project I'm doing

just like the movies, the main four get shown first XD then the others as time passes by but alll the other shit don’t get shown till release date XD 

thinking about that WoW epidemic

i was telling my dad, ever the skeptic, about corrupted blood back in March at the start of lockdown, and how the cdc studied it. how it can be used as a model for what to do and how people might act in the event of an unpredicted pandemic, and how people were playing out the same behavior during covid.

he said “so they fixed it, right? how did they fix it in the game?” and i told him the truth: they didn’t. they couldn’t control it. they had to reset the servers and roll them back to the time before the ZG encounter.

a CNN article recently referenced another “viral” event in world of warcraft: leeroy jenkins facepulling as a metaphor for the expedited reopening of businesses. what it fails to mention however is how the video ends. everyone who charges in with leeroy dies. he wipes the raid.

it really feels like that meme where it’s like “wow, cool video game reference!” and the point soaring over their head says THE DAMAGE WAS IRREVERSIBLE. THE THREAT SPREAD TOO RAPIDLY AND EVERYONE DIED.

weird reframing of the corrupted blood incident to make it seem, for some reason, like it was all selfish actions that people said was unrealistic because real people would help others. in fact its literally the opposite, it was used as real world data specifically because of the player driven efforts to fix it

The reason this plague in the game was a good model is because we had all walks of life type people reacting in different ways.

Those with healing magic would go into infected areas to see if they could save the infected or at least keep them alive through the disease. Those that couldn’t do that tried to warn players before they entered infected areas. NPC could be infected and have “no symptoms”; they could be asymptomatic carriers and pass it to nearby players.

The best part though was by the time Blizzard had finally come out and said “if you are infected, try to quarantine yourself so you don’t spread it!!” the player base was ALREADY DOING SO. The players had recognized the problem and worked together in myriad ways to fix it.

They also had negative reactions as well, another reason this was such a good example of a real outbreak. They had a couple people report healers or alchemists who were claiming to sell cures/treatments to the disease that ultimately would do nothing. They had a group of players that would hide in the mountains near cities and just pass the disease back and forth between themselves and then raid cities to infect them all over again. They had higher level players start rebelling on the servers. Saying it was an overreaction and if you get it you’ll just die and you can come back and be fine, etc. Since they could get the disease and survive, ie it didn’t do enough damage to them since they were higher level, they felt it unnecessary to care about whether they got it or not. They complained about not getting to play like normal just because this plague could kill lower level players.

ALL of these reactions, good and bad, were real enough to what we assumed a real life epidemic would play out that people started to use it as a model. And now look, we have proof that it was accurate.

However, what we needed to learn from it was primarily that it wasn’t reversible. The bad reactions and lack of care from the few players that weren’t cooperating made it impossible in the end to contain. The only reason it was fixed at all is the game had to reverse time, literally just delete their entire game log a few weeks and time travel weeks into the past to before the plague even began.

Think about that.

The reason no one believed it was a valid model is that it was a video game and thus the consequences weren’t permanent. “No one would act like that in real life.” But look at how we are handling this outbreak. Is it not eerily similar?

And we can’t time travel.

I was There, Gandalf.

Recalled my pet once (played a hunter) and accidentally reinfected an area.

Chara Dreemurr (Undertale) Stimboard with yellow and green, soap, slime, icing, flowers, and white fur for Anon!

Sources:

★ ★ ★ | ★ ♥ ★ | ★ ★ ★

they moved forward, and my heart died

i wanted to put these playlist pieces on main blog in one post cuz i think they're pretty. i don't do fun colorful stuff that often! in order we got:

flower patch kids

temperate

peace out bean sprout

something yellow

its a flower kid kinda day.

Introducing “Butterscotch Cinnamon Pie”!

This scent is inspired by the butterscotch cinnamon pie baked by Toriel from Toby Fox's video game Undertale!

Scent notes: Butterscotch, Cinnamon, Vanilla

Available as a 10 oz candle or 2.5 oz wax melts at https://www.etsy.com/shop/HistorianCandleCo

i rly do love violetshine tho………like her story rly made Sense to me and i Got her. i just vibe w her. like her being put in shadowclan when she has like literally no connection to anyone outside of needletail, her feeling like a big outcast away from her sister, being a kitten/young apprentice when shadowclan is legit falling apart and her and needletail becoming close as violetpaw is bouncing around between clans and trying to figure herself out……her living through darktail’s kin, becoming almost apart of darktail’s inner circle, helping prisoners sneak out, having to witness needletail/pinenose/like half of shadowclans death….n then her finally finding a home in skyclan and telling leafstar how she feels close to skyclan not just bc her parents were skyclan cats but because she Understands what its like to bounce around and be driven out of her home and feel like she doesnt belong and admires how strong skyclan is and how much they trust leafstar……..yeah im love her

i put this in the tags but i genuinely honestly and like, this is controversial but i will say it anyways - i really do think that violetshine and twigbranch (i hate typing out that name omgg) are like. a more interesting take on the ivypool and dovewing dynamic. obviously not Everything is the same but i think that the erins actually wrote violet and twig more like….i dunno interesting? like to me they made more Sense then dove and ivy’s conflict did.

like violetshine matures so differently than her sister and i like that we see how differently she views other characters and the clans in general than twigbranch does. twig really is a lot more naïve and believes in the good in others and that the clans are a solid structure and way of life and a found family that she can return to at any time - she lived in thunderclan her whole life, and even though she doesnt have blood relatives there, she made connections w cats like lilyheart and alderheart and briarlight who loved her and treated her like family

n then violetshine was literally just passed around from shadowclan to the kin and then ended up in skyclan, like i mentioned in the op she has experienced So Much at such a young age, and her ending up in skyclan and refusing to change clans for her sister makes SENSE. she doesnt have the same faith that twig does in others or in the way the forest runs bc shes seen how flawed it is and easy clans can crumble, but she admires skyclan because theyre so different from the other four clans. they have different values and are close knit with only each other and shes glad to finally have her father and aunt with her

idk. i just rly love violetshine and i wanted to just talk abt how i enjoyed her and twigs dynamic bc of how cool it was to see unfold

Ye finally have some art inspiration for this pic uwu

Enjoy!

best friends ❤