Memes And Monsters

Hi, I'm Loren and I'm fandom trash. Welcome to Hell. Cir. 2014

[steakcy]

*trans your Wolverine* you’re welcome

[drizzledrawings]

Gay people wanted this (me)

[mulhollandrivedyke]

[rebornaophia]

Constant as the stars above 

Always know that you are loved

[1percentcharge]

Due to popular request, another gothic/horror fake barbie movie cover

[melodramatic-murmurs]

not to be a slut but i would like to be cuddled rn

[dashcon]

How big is the ball pit area going to be?

I don’t know the exact dimensions right now, okay

[mayflame15]

[world-heritage-posts]

world heritage post

[dankestspooky]

Ask Me Anything!

[batterycityghoul]

Favorite Episodes of Goosebumps: Night of the Living Dummy III

[batterycityghoul]

Favorite Episodes of Goosebumps: The Werewolf of Fever Swamp

[batterycityghoul]

Favorite Episodes of Goosebumps: Welcome to Dead House

[guantanamo-bae]

Exxtra thicc

[strawberrycartt]

Catman. 🐈

[wessasaurus-rex]

How I see my friends draw 

[cerutwidraws]

Rapunzel! Because it was recently Tangled’s tenth anniversary. 

[homosacermom]

[10knotes]

Artistic prosthetics

[d--t]

Yeah this is cool but how about a source? Every single one of these beautiful prosthetics is from The Alternative Limb Project which is run by Sophie de Oliveira Barata. She has made other incredible limbs as well. Check them out here!

The models are

Viktoria Modesta with her Crystal leg

Ryan Seary with his Anatomical leg

Jo-Jo Cranfield with her Snake arm

Viktoria Modesta, again, with her Stereo leg

Kiera Roche with her Floral Porcelain Leg

[nonasuch]

I wanna hear these Opinions on steampunk color palettes, if you’re willing.

tbh “the Victorians did not go to the trouble of inventing aniline dyes so that we could wear neutrals” mostly covers it?

they went to a lot of effort to bring affordable screaming bright fuchsias and acid greens into the world, and we should honor their tacky, tacky choices.

[captainlordauditor]

let’s not forget the tacky patterns, too

oh yeah

oh fuck yeah

(TELL ME that last one isn’t a steampunk look. just try and tell me)

[nonasuch]

yes! thank you, these are EXACTLY what i meant. tomorrow I’ll take a picture of the bafflingly tacky goldenrod-and-maroon gown I’ve got at the shop

also

this is wise, and correct.

[gothiccharmschool]

This is 100% true.

[squeeful]

Oh no, no those are tasteful compared to what wild color shenanigans the 19th century got up to.  Most of them being mid-century are only ~2 colors excepting the plaid.  By the 1890s, five colors per dress was the fashion.  They…didn’t all coordinate the way we would.  

PUMPKIN WORTH

I have seen mid-century dresses in electric blue.  Barbie pink

Black with photo-realistic brocade oranges.  Royal purple with GIANT POLKA DOTS.

Hey hey did you know lime green and lavender was a favorite color combo in 1895?

This one is not so much tacky as…vibrant

Okay at ~1903 it’s not really Victorian but I love the melting ice cream explosion look of it

This dress has faded but it would have originally been a quite eye-catching shade of violet.

Not that past eras were any less fond of colors even if they weren’t artificial dyes.  I’ve seen canary yellow Regency dresses and an 18th century man’s coat in turquoise velvet printed with leopard spots.  Steampunk isn’t really Victorian so much as it is ‘drapery store vomited on a sexy colorblind school marm’

Et le piece de resistance…

Yes, those orange blocks are outlined in green chenille fringe.

[nonasuch]

brb, saving that green one to my ‘Malfoy estate sale’ pinterest board

[star-anise]

Steampunk isn’t really Victorian so much as it is ‘drapery store vomited on a sexy colorblind school marm’

[systlin]

Pair a brightass fushia dress with a top hat and gears you cowards

MORE PUMPKIN ORANGE AND FRINGE YOU COWARDS

If you’re not using blood red and forty pounds of lace and trim what the fuck are you even playing at

[gehayi]

The Pragmatic Costumer calls this “The Hot Mess Dress.” It dates from around 1878. They say: “This dress has more trims than my entire collection of detash combined (detash or destash means all the little bits, pieces, and leftovers from crafting something)! On the outside alone I spot: black lace, bi-colored sandy-brown/cornflower-blue ruffles, tawny velvet, cream silk, beaded netting, cream lace, ribbon bows, ribbon rosettes, cornflower-blue buttons, and that fluffy lace collar.  For even more trim-tastic fun and draping pandemonium, here’s a shot of the back:”

The Pragmatic Costumer: “Trims were all the rage in the mid 1870s and 1880s, and this dress is raging harder, faster, and more extravagantly than most.”

And here’s a Worth tea gown from 1895. This really needs to be worn by a mad scientist. Especially one interested in fish.

[theeinkibus]

@gwengrimm Some of these are just amazing, and others sink worse than the sink we just unclogged.

[gwengrimm]

I would wear that bright orange pumpkin monstrosity, just saying 🤣

[dancing-thru-clouds]

Is this the point where I tell you that I found a book with knitted and crocheted lace patterns from the Victorian era?

[daniel-oneiroi]

that orange and green chenille one os proof that someone had lead poisoning and somehow launched forward to the early 1970s, snapped back like a rubber band, and went I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE, AND IT IS OLIVE AND TANGERINE

[systlin]

TBH I would wear a solid half of these, and that 1895 Worth tea gown in green is my dream Worth dress. That blood red and gold one I posted is also a dream dress, tbh.

That orange and green chenille one is not one of those that I would wear. 

But yeah, the Victorians invented Aniline dyes and went absolutely wild with them, and we owe it to our great great grandparents to not dress in neutrals all day.