real love baby

joy — she/her, 20s, diaspora gal.

[belovedgamers]

The BEST trope is when a character tells another “let’s run away together, we can leave all of this behind and start a new life somewhere” and gets rejected. And then the rest of the tragedy unfolds

[anisimoved]

MOISE KOUAME — roland garros 2026. © geoff lowe

[kameliendame]

Sae Eun Park as Odette in Nureyev's production of Swan Lake

ph. Natalia Voronova

[solardrop]

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT 3x05 — NEW YORK

[knighteirian]

The Vampire Armand THE VAMPIRE LESTAT (2026–) 3.05 "New York"

[enchanted-keys]

Fumi Kaneko in Giselle (Royal Ballet 2026)

photo by Isabella Turolla

[blue-voids]

Mona Hatoum - Conversation Piece II, 2011

[redlipstickresurrected]

Wenqi Ma aka 马问起 (Chinese, b. 1999, based Changsha, China) - My Hidden Pain, Paintings: Digital Art

[crazysodomite]

guy who only experienced torture: this reminds me of the torture i went through

guy who only experienced torture: i don't like this because it's too unlike the torture

guy who only experienced torture: i'm afraid of not being tortured

[alysmond]

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON | Season 3, Episode 2, "Queen's Landing"

[academia-lucifer]

@academia-lucifer

[redlipstickresurrected]

Yuzu Katou aka かとうゆず aka Katou Yuzu (Japanese)Female Artists - Borrowing the Tiger's Power, Paintings: Acrylic

[subaru-copilot]

im so sorry that you're doomed by the narrative but i really need you to answer my message on Microsoft Teams

[interested-individual]

Im a bludgeon sort of girl Lets beat people over the head !

[achillesinhighheels]

Donyale Luna

[velvetcloak]

devon aoki as betty boop for interview magazine (2001)

[grayghostofthenorth]

Borzoi White Mohair with zipper (box for pajamas), glass eyes

[elodieunderglass]

It’s so weird that pyjama cases were a thing. They went so abruptly out of fashion, too. The idea was (I think) that it was vaguely indecent to leave your pajamas around, and it definitely spoils the look of your nicely made bed, so lots of people put them under the pillow; but a cuter thing to do was to have a specially made empty stuffed animal or cute purse or pillow thing, with a zipper, and you’d stuff it with your pajamas in the morning and place it cutely on your nicely made bed. Then in the evening, you would unzip and disembowel the soft plump object, and reclaim the pajamas. It wasn’t just a thing for kids; adults did it too. In the kind of pre-1950s novels I like to pick up, authors describe a character’s pyjama case to reveal a bit about the character; but of course they never say why you’d have a pyjama case. “Everyone knows what a horse is.”

I suppose it’s been culturally decided that it’s an unnecessary step in the bedtime process. We’re busy bastards, aren’t we? Who makes their bed every morning, I mean, really?

Perhaps, also, our clothing is no longer of the material and methodology where you have to spend extra time/attention/tools on them. Pyjama cases may have had some benefit - extending the life of the pyjamas, or something. Perhaps it was more common in those days for mice to climb into your silk pyjamas, or they kept them from being attacked by dogs, or something. It’s possible that there are unspoken benefits to keeping your pyjamas in a stuffed toy, which previous generations knew instinctively and we have forgotten. Some people are like that, they maintain rituals and practices that don’t get written down, and so become arcana. My father-in-law owns special clothing maintenance tools such as shoe trees (which you place in your shoes every night at night) and trouser presses (in which you leave your worn-but-not-dirty trousers overnight so they are crisp in the morning). He irons his pocket handkerchiefs - why? so that they fold into a precise pocket shape, with the same fold pattern as plastic-wrapped disposable tissues: the optimised shape for pockets. You are not going to read in the literature about there being a reason for ironing pocket handkerchiefs. It is a habit that is not captured by history. You have to speak to a practitioner to even consider that there is a specific value in pocket handkerchief folding. Maybe we operate at a remove from the people who could have told us why they bothered with the idea and then stopped.

You can buy a selection of pyjama cases online, but with no explanation of why you’d want to, it’s hard to see how this helps. The only real thing i can see is that it’s cute and tidies the pyjamas up, but we’ve all decided that untidy pyjamas are a problem that doesn’t need solving.

Pyjama cases have no Wikipedia article; search engines have nothing to offer. Old books only self-reference them being a normal thing. Someone who knows about pyjama cases or textile history could heroically fill this in. Please do. Otherwise, this tumblr post is going to suddenly become the leading analysis of pyjama cases, and that would be sad.