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i like a lot of things. mostly reblogs and my stream of consciousness. she/her 25 likes/follows come from kyaarina

[muunwo]

[raphodraws]

Arrythmia - Part 1

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[soaked-doors]

MS4 law vs. law student sabo who’s drowning themself in the university fountain first

[christyyeee]

Angst train whee - twilight is losing it.

Not sure why shes always shot from the back when I draw her but hey

[j1rouz]

the fic exists ;)

here ya go

[christyyeee]

Angst train whee - twilight is losing it.

Not sure why shes always shot from the back when I draw her but hey

[f4nd0m-fun]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[j1rouz]

thanks for plugging my work hehehehe

[heisoark]

the sunset, the sunrise, and the night

[redstonedust]

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.

[bincliff]

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)

[haemey]

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.

[crowliphale]

holo holo holo holo !

[feriowind]

beeg yamato

[olldolldraws]

kiribaku x soulmaka (aka peak x peak)

[hawberries]

overalls

[marsipanart]

Now we have One Piece Jilix ♥

[aerequets]

something about death, and sustenance, and decay. Idk

[ideksams]

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! ☃️

[j1rouz]

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

lila and diego’s marriage was unique and neither of them were good at adequately communicating. they’re both prideful and independent people, and lila calling for a break was probably a good move, if she wasn’t addicted to the drug of fixing the timeline, and if she didn’t run off and get stuck with five for seven years on the subway of doom. i think they both would’ve eventually worked out their own internal struggles, and come back together. diego was more than ready for it, after all.

but seven years with the company of a single person—especially for someone who has known crippling loneliness, and someone who is upset and just wants to be seen by their partner—the romance and the fling between them was not surprising. i saw it coming from a mile away.

i would never and will never sympathize with or defend cheaters. both of them could’ve had some more self restraint, end of discussion. but five has so much love in him. he’s a romantic; and with lila, he truly fell in love with a real person for the first time (so sorry delores, you were a real one). he willingly gave lila all that she felt she was missing from her marriage, and she ate that shit up. she even said it felt weird that she didn’t feel weird about kissing five. she knew what she was doing, and so did five.

and then five’s decision to hide the notebook from lila. his reasoning was understandable, because he was acting out of his own self interest and selfish desire to be with lila, but christ that was a terrible move.

i’m tired but i may add more onto this at some point. i really liked the writing, as fucked up and insane as it was. and i didn’t even mention ben bro

[whisperingrockers]

a little kindness (even if they don't remember.)

[laughy-sapphy-blog]

“Didn’t you try to kill him?”

“The greatest thing we can do in life…”

“…is find the power to forgive.”