sing out, louise

bread for all, and roses too. often thinking about 18th-century england

[glintglimmergleam]

imagine bridgerton if eloise had a gun

[paranormal-taters]

MY DEAR TUMBLR USERS!!

WONDERFUL NEWS!!

NETHERFIELD PARK IS LET AT LAST!!!

[paranormal-taters]

[soychronicprocrastinator]

What a wonderful thing for our girls!!!

[lady-merian]

How so? How can it affect them? 🤨

[sunflowergardens-world]

My dear Merian! You must know I am thinking of his reblogging from one of them!

[green-great-dragon]

Is that his design in blogging here?

[estel-and-agape]

Design? nonsense, how can you write so! But it is very likely that he may reblog from one of them, and therefore you must follow him as soon as his blog is online.

[lady-merian]

I see no occasion for that. You and the girls may follow him, or they may follow him by themselves, which perhaps will be still better for them, for as you are as clever as any of them he might reblog most from you of the party.

[soychronicprocrastinator]

My dear, you flatter me. I certainly HAVE had my share of cleverness, but I do not pretend to be anything extraordinary now. When a woman has five grown-up mutuals, she ought to give over thinking of her own reblog counts.

[siena-sevenwits]

In such cases, a woman has not often much of a reblog count to think of.

[paranormal-taters]

[visenyaism]

The concept of modern AU Jaime Lannister is too absurd to exist with any fidelity. What if LeBron James killed the president and then kept on hooping for fifteen years?

[undergroundrockpress-deactivate]

Annie Nightingale in 1970, the year she became the first female disc jockey on BBC Radio 1.

[jeaniefranklins]

it's my birthday on Saturday and my book birthday next Wednesday and I am not above begging so: hey, you know what would make a great birthday present? buying my book. it has lesbians. it has medieval fiber arts. it has horrible in-laws. it has hurt/comfort. it has an ice queen heroine who I love very much. she's a Scorpio so it would not be a birthday present for her. but it would still be nice. (it would also be a present for yourself, fyi.)

[pjharvey]

our age of blogs is collapsing

[glintglimmergleam]

ok last museum post for the night: i never go on the official gallery tour if i have a choice. if the museum experience only offers a guided tour then of course i will follow their lead. but otherwise tours are simply not for me.

part of it is that i move slowly and unpredictably thru a gallery. but i also have a baseline of art history knowledge that is higher what many tour guides are understandably aiming at. once i overheard a guide explaining a renaissance painting of a man on a crucifix as follows:

"now this represents jesus..."

you don't say!

[glintglimmergleam]

i also care about the quality of the museum collection, but that is extremely subjective re personal taste/special interest and also depends on what the curators are making available at the moment

also if it's a smaller museum trying to be generalist i can't fault them for only having a shitty picasso, they're doing their best with what they can afford.

(this is why specialized is better than generalist. if you can't beat the heavyweights, develop your own niche.)

[glintglimmergleam]

i have soooo many feelings about what makes a good museum but they all boil down to human-centered design.

is the collection both physically and intellectually accessible to all?

do the curators expect visitors to be curious but uneducated or seeking selfie moments?

how are the bathrooms?

do they have a sane backpack/bag policy?

how many of the galleries have benches and why isn't it all of them?

[ltwilliammowett]

Marzipan mould, Germany, 19th century

[sluggoonthestreet]

Fraser is one foot away from a serious breakthrough on his road to personal growth.

[glintglimmergleam]

fun question @corporalmaladict, thanks! i enjoyed looking up the options

[glintglimmergleam]

I can never decide if I would want to see Versailles. On the one hand historical significance and architectural wonder, on the other hand it perpetuates the glory of the monarchy. I get uneasy when historical costume youtube celebrates it, as much as I like looking at Marie Antoinette's wardrobe.

It's a moot question as I have no plans to revisit France anytime soon. Europe is not a pleasant place for anyone who isn't a white Christian rn.

[glintglimmergleam]

Have u ever been to any art museums in Paris and if so which would you recommend? If not, which would you like to visit?

Ha, I have been to Paris but never to any of its art museums! I was in middle school when we last visited the France branch of the family tree, and my memories center around 1) seeing family, obvs; 2) eating as many baguettes as possible before someone stopped me; 3) a really cool fountain with a dolphin sculpture; 4) reading The Hero and The Crown by Robin McKinley. But not a single museum of any kind. We skipped all the tourist stuff, actually.

I suppose the expected answer is the Louvre. But I prefer specialized museums over general collections and everyone says the Louvre is a nightmare re crowds. As far as I am concerned, the French are best at medieval cathedrals and modern art, specifically the Impressionists and the Surrealists.

So if you let me include the suburbs of Paris, I would want to visit:

Musée National d'Art Moderne

Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris

Basilica of Saint-Denis

Notre-Dame

Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme

and of course, the Catacombs.

[anintelligentoctopus]

I'm gonna be honest 'cowboys were a sort of itinerant warrior class common in meiji-era texas' always annoys me a bit because it's a funny post but also No They Weren't. They were an itinerant pastoralist class common in Meiji-era Texas. And indeed the wider western region of post-Risorgimento America

[transparentfossil]

2.5" Botryoidal Yellow-Orange Fluorite on Quartz - India

[the-almost-fashion-historian]

carriage dress, c.1885 by Franziska Noll Gross

this dress is made of silk velvet, decorated with jet and celluloid beads

this dress can be found in: the Metropolitan Museum of Art