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One Nice Bug Per Day
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he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
we're not kids anymore.
Three Goblin Art
occasionally subtle
Sade Olutola
Monterey Bay Aquarium

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Xuebing Du
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@theartofmadeline

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MS4 law vs. law student sabo who’s drowning themself in the university fountain first
Angst train whee - twilight is losing it.
Not sure why shes always shot from the back when I draw her but hey
the fic exists ;)
here ya go
Angst train whee - twilight is losing it.
Not sure why shes always shot from the back when I draw her but hey
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
thanks for plugging my work hehehehe
the sunset, the sunrise, and the night
pet peeve is when you look up fashion references from a specific era and you keep getting modern day '[era]-inspired' fashion like NO i want authenticity damn it. i can see your 2020 photo quality and your 2020 hair and your 2020 makeup. youre not fooling me.
hello i'm a historical fashion researcher and i have a lot of experience looking up things! this is a very widely experienced irritation and you're definitely not alone in this, but i am here to share everything i know!
so, ways to get around this:
turn off AI results. they're literally nonsense to us
don't use pinterest because the sources/provenance is often hard to trace
a standard internet search can be okay, but museum collections are the top tier (list of collections below this list)
instead of broad terms like victorian, regency, tudor, renaissance etc. try using the decade you're looking for. if you're not sure of what decade it is but have a vague image in your head, look on the fashion history timeline and just jump around until you find it. but even changing to e.g. 19th century will give better results than victorian
including terms like womenswear/menswear, daywear, formal wear, evening wear, court dress should increase the value of your search too
including "fashion plates" in your search can give you a nice impression of the intended silhouettes of the era. some of these might be a little stylised but will show you what was considered in vogue
for pre-fashion plate eras or things like makeup and styling, you'll have to look at portraiture or manuscripts. these are harder to actually find what you're looking for, but searching museum collections and limiting results to specific date ranges will be your friend
when looking at art, do bear in mind sometimes artists would paint fabric extra flow-y to show off their skills. it might not have been exactly like that in terms of fabric weight or drape. so, a pinch of salt required!
if you find something on image search where the provenance is dubious, reverse image search and you might find a source! i've been able to trace random pinterest images to real sources, but this does take a lot of time and effort and is often not worth the headache
some online resources and museum collections:
fashion history timeline is an invaluable resource if you're trying to get a feel for everything and should be your first port of call. it'll also link to good examples
the met has a vast number of extant examples of clothing, as well as fashion plates
costume institute fashion plates is a subcollection of the met for fashion plates (1800s-1922)
v&a also has many extant garments, fashion plates, and incredible articles on clothing and aesthetics. read the details of the objects because they'll often reveal a lot about the piece
lacma is good for C19th-20th pieces
nypl digital collection for photographs
national portrait gallery or similar for portraiture, or literally any museum in your country that has historical art
national museums scotland can be useful situationally but might be oddly specific
stout style history is a great collection for finding image references for fat people wearing historical clothes. survival bias of a lot of museum pieces tends towards smaller clothing that couldn't be repurposed, but this aims to counter that. it's not sortable, but is still a really nice resource
wikimedia commons is surprisingly handy! and the images, if you should need to link/repost them, are public domain
auction websites sound like a funny one to recommend. some won't have mannequins and some will. just look up historical garment auctions and you'll find some!
anyway, i hope this has been a good place to start for anyone interested! there are probably some i've missed because there are so many museums across the world and i don't know about all of them or can't remember them. but these are the ones i've used the most! (my specialisation/jobs i've had to research for have only really been in western fashion, so my resources reflect that)
Wikipedia has a list of fashion museums. Unfortunately, the page itself is only available in German, but the introductory paragraph is very short and after that, it's organised by country, and then it's a simple list. If you click on a museum's article, the website is usually linked in the overview table.
holo holo holo holo !
beeg yamato
kiribaku x soulmaka (aka peak x peak)
overalls
Now we have One Piece Jilix ♥
something about death, and sustenance, and decay. Idk
playing catch-up sharing my sxf art here on tumblr, so here's some things i've been up to lately! 🤲😌 merry x-mas by the way! ☃️
so i just finished tua s4 and i’m seeing everyone’s hatred for it and the ending, but i loved it. doomed by the narrative; they were never meant to be, never meant to live. their very existences were impossibilities and their powers even more so. they were always destined to be sacrifices, since that fucker reggie basically created them for his own selfish reasons—to bring back his alien wife
so let me get crazy for a second and come to the defense of the writing and characterization. the elephant in the room is obviously lila and five, and by extension, diego. another is the nature of five’s decision to lie to lila. i’ll get to both, so bear with me, this is a lot
a little kindness (even if they don't remember.)
“Didn’t you try to kill him?”
“The greatest thing we can do in life…”
“…is find the power to forgive.”