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an interesting thing about clothing in late medieval and early modern europe is that, while lower class people generally did wear brightly colored clothing instead of muddy brown clothes, there were very distinct differences in the color of clothing people of different classes wore. clothing was done with all natural dyes, of course, but they were either dyed locally with cheap and easily accessible ingredients, or they were dyed in holland, italy, the ottoman empire, or even further afield using a jealously guarded secret combination of difficult-to-access ingredients, including (crucially) better-quality fixatives. this means that not only did expensive imported fabrics maintain a dark, rich tone much longer than a locally dyed one, which would get a washed out look after a couple of years, but there were also certain colors that a working class farmer literally couldn’t afford to wear, and even though the difference between a cheap local lincoln green and an expensive imported popingay green might seem subtle to us people then seem to have been very sensitive to those differences. that’s also why the colors puritans tended to wear seem uncharacteristically bright to our modern eye—black was such a rich and expensive color that it would be inappropriate to wear to anything other than a portrait sitting, but the colors orange and kendall green were deeply humble in their origins

danll3

Jaadugar style is so pretty,,,,

briannyssey

dude star wars is so good and/or bad and/or mediocre sometimes, depending

zenaidasden

Ohh so that's why they called that one show Andor

stripedroseandsketchpads

@notasapleasure

marwyn

Is your first name canon in asoiaf

Yes

No

Sort of (spelled differently, etc.)

Remaining time: 2 days 20 hours

Here’s the character list on the wiki for reference

#no #my nickname ALMOST is though

lizardsfromspace

Out of control Edwardian youths refuse to clap at production of Peter Pan, force distraught J.M Barrie to pull out rarely seen "Tinkerbell Fucking Dies" ending

julianova44

You probably know this but shitpost ruining fun fact for anybody who doesn’t:

When the play first was performed, JM Barrie et al were so concerned this might happen that they instructed the orchestra to drop their instruments and clap at this point, just in case

lizardsfromspace

I did not know this and I'm grateful for being informed

sisaloofafump

Peter Pan edited by Anne Hiebert Alton (2011)

(sorry to interrupt joke post but) this is true!

Children not clapping did happen too, (and some were even expected to have hissed, which was later written into the 1928 playscript and 1911 novel). But my all time favourite anecdote about it is from Pauline Chase (who played Peter)'s intro to Peter Pan's Post Bag 1909:

Children love to clap their hands at the play because then they feel that they are really part of it, and you can see them holding their hands poised ready to seize an opportunity. Their great chance is when I ask them to clap their hands if they believe in fairies, and so save Tink's life. But they are very wrathful if any one claps who has the reputation of being a cynic, and once there was quite an uproar in the front row of the dress circle because of a girl who clapped. Those about her pulled down her arms angrily. "How dare you clap," they cried, "when you know you don't believe in fairies!" There was one dreadfully hard-hearted little boy who came to the theatre not to clap. That was his object for coming, and he came round "behind" to tell me so in the middle of the play. His teeth were firm set. "I won't clap," he said doggedly; "I'm not going to clap." And when the time came he didn't clap; above the clapping of all the others I could hear him shouting from a box, "Peter, I'm not clapping."

(Tink was revived each time anyway)

bethanydelleman

I am a certified hater of audience participation but let me tell you, it is almost impossible not to clap during this scene. Even as a full grown adult.

fruitpilled-peachcel

a thought that always crosses my mind every Good Friday (and Holy Week in general) is how terrifying it must've been for the Romans. Dragging a man through the streets, beating Him, torturing Him and leaving Him to die in the most agonizing way possible and when He finally does die, that's when they realize that what he was preaching was true, and that despite everything they did to Him, He still died for their sins to forgive them.

How terrifying it must've been for the centurion on the hill to realize in that instant that the man they persecuted, tortured and killed was the Son of God.

argentumcor

Romans were generally very superstitious (while being very pragmatic; Janus the two-faced god is an extremely Roman deity). There's a reason there's a lot of folklore about Longinus, the name traditionally given to the soldier whose spear pierced the side of Jesus. It is probably impossible to date the origins of those tales- if at least some are not simply true.

Roman soldiers were among the first sets of people, besides women, to convert, too, and in no few cases die for the new faith. You wonder how that happened, the stories passed around from the men who were on that hill, the guards who fled from the tomb...

aikoiya

thespiritofeon

yo…. when jet breaks in the tea shop and accuses zuko and iroh of beinh firebenders….

do you think any of the patrons looked at zukos scarred face - obviously done by a firebender - and immediately think jet was an asshole? like

jet: hes a firebender!!!!

patrons, thinking about the backstory they concocted for zuko and iroh where their home was invaded by firebenders and they barely survived with their lifes so they could come and have a peaceful life selling tea in a city the war doesnt touch: