sing out, louise

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

[glintglimmergleam]

imagine bridgerton if eloise had a gun

[glintglimmergleam]

you ever start typing out a blorbo post and realize it's too embarrassing to share. not in a smutty way. just in a "you're thinking about the character too hard" way. "no one else would make that connection" way.

[emilyhopebunny]

Have a listen to my choral setting of text post memes that originated right here on tumblr!

My piece, Copypasta (performed here by the First Readings Project) is in three movements and uses these texts:

Spiders Georg by @reallyreallyreallytrying

Hot Plum by @utopians

I Think That's Beutiful by @nerdgul

Sheet music is available here.

(If your choir performs this piece, please let me know!)

[rob-pattinson]

DAMSON IDRIS "Children of Blood and Bone" | 2026, dir. Gina Prince-Bythewood

[glintglimmergleam]

Something @tobermoriansass and I are always going on about is how weird it is when people talk about tropes and motifs of pre-1950 Brit lit (genre fiction or Western canon) without any context for the social position of the authors or of the structure of society at that time.

I get that not everyone can know everything (and neither do I) but it becomes very clear very quickly when this is the first book/tv show/movie you've read from that era. Because some of the stuff you think is innovative was a normal part of daily life for the author's peer group. And some of the stuff you're ignoring as background noise was, in fact, sociopolitical commentary. Even if it was commentary by accident.

[glintglimmergleam]

Sorry turns out I'm really heated about this actually! "Eliza Doolittle was forcefemmed" is either a pretty complex political gender theory take, or obtusely classist. I think we know which one is more likely.

[glintglimmergleam]

Anyway I need to finish reading Chantal Lavoie's book on 18th-century boyhood. She points out that many working-class British males started working at ages 5 or 7 and at that point their childhood was over. They were never really considered boys -- just smaller, more easily breakable men. Being a boy was the privilege of the middle class.

[glintglimmergleam]

The thing about temporarily-embarassed-millionaire culture here is that my fellow USAmericans are often really shit at understanding socioeconomic class, bc the dream is that we are all middle who might one day be upper.

This makes people even worse at thinking about, say, England where class mobility somewhat exists but not like here. Not like here at all.

In this country we revere hustler millionaires so much that your social-class-at-birth only matters in certain circles, money opens all the other doors. That is not so true in other countries!

[glintglimmergleam]

Miss Congeniality works bc Sandra Bullock is charming as hell in that movie and the script's pacing is excellent.

But in retrospect, what the fuck. Beauty pageants are bad and forced femininity is bad and the message is bad!

[glintglimmergleam]

I get that it was a joke, but describing My Fair Lady as "a feature length movie about an elderly gay man forcefemming a woman" is interesting (derogatory) in what it reveals about OP's class assumptions, non?

Eliza Doolittle isn't unfeminine bc she's a tomboy or bc she's uninterested in girly things, she's not a lady because she's poor and acts like London street vendors do: loud and unrefined and incapable of anything else.

One could certainly argue that working-class woman were not considered to be "real" women by the British elite, and maybe one should. But I still think Miss Congeniality and My Fair Lady are coming at this from different sociopolitical angles and that matters.

[heycallmered]

people will really come into kink spaces and say you can't forcefem women like there wasn't a feature length movie about an elderly gay man forcefemming a woman as part of scheme to thwart an elaborate assassination attempt before the killer even determined their target

[llama2237]

What... What movie is this.

[heycallmered]

[heycallmered]

ain't no way in hell this post even breaks 500

[marmoset-marmoset]

i was trying so hard to remember the nonexistent assassination subplot in My Fair Lady

[glintglimmergleam]

The Kent State University Museums is for real on my historical fashion bucket list. Based on the stuff I see online, their collection must be unbelievable.

Now how to make a museum vacation trip out of going to Kent, Ohio...

[frostedmagnolias]

Blue and Gold Beaded Evening Dress

c. 1926

French

Kent State University Museum

[angelicguy]

i bet girls hated it in 1902 cuz you would constantly go on dates w guys who are working on an invention to present at the world fair

[cerastes]

So how is it that second-hand embarrassment is the single most powerful and weakening emotion one can feel from media?

Tragedy? Delicious.

A hard-earned happy ending? Wonderful.

A convoluted narrative? Keeps you glued.

Simple slice of life? It’s entertaining.

Second-hand embarrassment? Hang on, g, I gotta pause this for fifteen minutes, no, I cannot continue watching this right now, I am just not strong enough.

[elena-gilbert]

OLIVIA COOKE photographed by Luca Possiede for Vogue (June 23, 2026)

[marzipanandminutiae]

me: oh hi, Sophia. If you're wondering about the haze and smoky smell in the sky, it's wildfire smoke from-

Sophia, the ghost from 1875 who haunts a lamp I got at Brimfield: I wasn't wondering. why would I be?

me: ...but climate change is making it worse even since I was a child. and I had to explain climate change to you last week

Sophia: yes but haze and smoke in the city is normal, isn't it? coal fires for cooking (even in summer), gaslights burning, and so forth

me:

Sophia: the nature is different, but I'm quite accustomed to the concept. and this will last how long?

me: until tomorrow probably

Sophia: after which the air quality will be...?

me: excellent, I imagine. it's really good here 98% of the year, and good the rest of the time barring a few days like this one

Sophia:

Sophia: "I hate you" seems dismissive, so I will merely say that one feels this is a situation where appreciating progress is warranted, even in the midst of concern