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Looking at my Alucard drawings and realizing oh i really am in love with this guy

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The Anatomical Angel

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Visit Original Link

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World Heritage Post

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I managed to listen to exactly 3 seconds of this before I laughed so hard I couldn’t breathe.

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Happy Pride Month

1928 by Arthur Ferrier

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Jacques Leclerc, The Rose and Butterfly (for La Vie Parisienne c.1929)

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reading an article abt 19th century american magazines' constant plagiarism of fashion plates from french magazines. life is beautiful

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this is so funny. ye old terrible art tracing

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this is interesting actually, about how they seemingly 'edited' plates together to put more of an emphasis on motherhood:

the french images above ↑ (a woman facing away from her two children; two women), get 'edited' (or rather like. recomposed) into the american ones below ↓ (two images of women facing their children).

from the article (Americanizing French Fashion Plates: "Godey's" and "Peterson's" Cultural and Socio-Economic Translation of "Les Modes Parisiennes" by Karin J. Bohleke):

In contrast, French mothers in Les Modes Parisiennes are frequently completely disengaged from the children depicted with them: they look elsewhere and even turn their backs (see Figures 1-2). Again, this is a function of the contrived poses necessary to depict certain key stylistic features of garments. However, this is one aspect of French fashion plates that American editors found unacceptable: when the French mother is looking at her children, Peterson's frequently re-engraved the plate in its entirety (see Figures 3-6). But when the mother's pose has her ignoring the very objects that give her life its meaning. Peterson's was more likely to re-engrave the children without this unacceptable mother, or another French fashion plate woman whose gaze was basically in the right direction was substituted (see Figures 7-8). Concerned that French plates might send the wrong message regarding a woman's ultimate role, American editors eliminated the unacceptable depiction. There are consequences to this substitution: French plates depicted appropriate garments in a suitable setting, thereby instructing their readers in the social etiquette of dress through context; American substitutions resulted at times in socially absurd juxtapositions, such as a ball gown on a clifftop boardwalk (see Figures 9-10).

^ emphasis mine bc it made me laugh