I did it for love

Privileges: Cis, white-passing. I love old things. I love history. I love cats. I am a librarian, a SCAdian, a researcher, a student. This is me, my stream of consciousness, my life, my world.

[rattledazzlebones]

Kind of obsessed with the tumblr Twitter account

[darthmelyanna]

[glumshoe]

I used to wear a chainmail shirt to elementary school. The teachers never knew what to do about it because there was no section in our dress code forbidding medieval armor.

[docincredible]

… Where does an elementary school child get access to an actual shirt of chainmail sized properly for them?

[glumshoe]

Growing up as a historical reenactor meant that my parents are friends with lots of people who make chainmail. My godsister received a real rapier in fourth or fifth grade, so our unsupervised outdoor playtime was… formative.

[mangonetics]

[jumpingjacktrash]

my little brother used to MAKE chainmail in middle school. i mean, IN school. at his desk.

teachers objected. my parents went to bat for him. “it helps him focus.” some teachers insisted it was noisy, in which case he was allowed to make origami instead, but for the most part he continued to make chain mail.

he gave me a roman short sword for christmas when i was 14. i think he’s given me a total of 5 swords over my lifetime and like 9 pieces of armor. he just has always loved metal. of course he joined the SCA the moment he heard about it.

since my thing was textiles, i reciprocated by sewing, knitting, weaving, and embroidering pieces for his reenactment costumes. when we got our dad into reenactment, i helped him put together his persona as well. now, we’re welsh on mom’s side, and from all over the silk road on dad’s side. so my brother went with a welsh persona, and that was pretty easy, because patterns from the british isles are well researched and easy to find, and a lot of SCA folks are into that. but dad and i decided to be silk road traders, and that was HARD. it took us years to put together historically accurate costumes. i cut up a lot of used kimonos from ragstock, i tell you what.

and you know what my dang brother did? he learned to make mongolian arrowheads in a weekend. three goddamn days and he was like “here have a dozen, i dun wanna learn fletching so you do the rest.”

anyhow he grew up to be a master machinist and is now making cutting edge medical devices out of memory metal for stabilizing shattered hand bones, so i guess the moral of the story is, chainmail on school children is a good sign probably?

[carrionthird]

in absolute despair because my friend just sent me this tiktok and I realised there would never be a man more my type on this entire fucking earth. as if I wasn’t sold on the MOST IMPRESSIVE DOORS I’VE EVER SEEN, you also had to show me most attractive man building them

[alittlespaceforsimplepleasures]

Everything about this, but also: “even though it’d temporary it doesn’t have to be ugly”

[thatdisasterauthor]

Love this dude. He’s done so many cool projects.

[laurin4475]

Also whoever is filming him 100% knows this man is a thirst trap

[celestial-tapir]

searching for any kind of recipe online like

[headspace-hotel]

You know what? Destroy the "people in rural areas are all ignorant conservatives" stereotype and start mocking the "trad"/anti-feminist/neonazi people that are obsessed with rural areas despite having never been to one

[headspace-hotel]

I'm absolutely laughing my ass off at all these "Traditional Femininity" blogs that post nothing but aesthetic photos of supposed "Rural Life"

Lady this is a skinny influencer in a frilly white dress that's never had dirt on it, with her hair in professionally-done beachy waves, doing a photoshoot in a field using a basket of strawberries bought at walmart as a prop.

If you saw an actual woman farmer you would think you were seeing the Masculinization Of Women By The Degenerate Left

[lenin-it-to-win-it]

Frodo: Sam hates Gollum, but that is what I shall become once I have lost myself to the ring… he’ll despise me… 

Sam if Frodo did turn into a Gollum: That’s a very nice fish you caught with your bare hands, Mr. Frodo, and its very smart of you to eat it raw, saves us the trouble of starting a fire. I knitted you a sweater in case you get cold running around in that loincloth of yours. Is the sun hurting your eyes? I’ll kill it if it’s bothering you. I’ll kill the sun

[nessa007]

Sister Michael: An Icon DERRY GIRLS (2018 - 2022)

[roach-works]

i recently found out the funniest thing about big horses recently which is that for centuries humans have sworn that the feathering on big horse’s legs has been bred in there for a reason, and the reason given is usually something to do with how it helps keep the joints warm and safe when the big horse is doing hauling work in fields.

the thing is: it doesn’t appreciably do that, because the feathers wick up water and mud, which cancels out any insulation advantage they might hypothetically confer, and also it wasn’t even put there on purpose.

the Leg Get More Hair gene is just linked to the Bones Get More Big gene. when you breed any lineage of horses to have bigger bones–not just taller, but chunkier–the leg hair just happens anyway. so every single breed of draft horse has feathered legs, and even carriage horses like friesians get feathers once they hit a certain threshold of lorge.

when you supersize your horse, mother nature throws in a free pair of booties. how cool is that?

[floating-goblin-deactivated2021]

the unholy trinity of piss-poor caretakers, tag yourself:

tomboy, meaning “this child is clearly queer but let’s hope it goes away”

sensitive, meaning “clearly neurodivergent and often distressed but let’s keep going until they grow numb”

mature, meaning “traumatized but let’s ignore that”

[sepiascissors]

quiet, meaning “has been yelled at or ignored a few too many times and now considers all attempts at communicating with others to be pointless”

self-sufficient, meaning “next to zero trust in parental figures’ ability in various aspects of parenting”

lazy, meaning “depressed, but expected to preform tasks or actions without positive support or knowledge of how to do things”

[frenchibi]

killjoy, meaning “unwilling to put up with consistent negging and thus ruining everyone’s fun, and that must be their fault and not the fault of the jokes, which have been tolerated by everyone else”

[ousia-poetica]

[nicollekidman]

this is real

[newbarktownalumni]

That's why christians have their own stupid genre It's to capitalize on that

[hidefdoritos]

"a joy to have in class" aka This Child Will Not Be Diagnosed for at least Eight Years

[blessyouhawkeye]

anne rice has been in the ground for nine whole months and they've already got louis and lestat rawdogging on tv did they greenlight that the second her heart stopped or what

[the-one-eyed-witch-deactivated2]

My brain cannot accept that able bodied people don’t have a base pain level. Like? You’re not in pain?? At all??? Even a little bit??? You don’t have a constant background radiation of pain???

Sounds fake but ok

[ladyemlyn]

I just read this and went "huh, I'm not in pain right no-" and then did a scan of my body. Nope, in pain. Just filtering it out.

[burlbread]

Slavs: Have free healthcare Also slavs: I’m not seeing the doctor unless dying, there are sick people there

[thes-hitoverlord]

I em Slavic, and this is 90% true 

however, you got one thing wrong 

Only snobs, hipsters, and fratboys drink foreign brands 

[burlbread]

Nonono this is a good cola. It’s the party cola. This is the cola you drink and enjoy. Coca cola is the cola you have stored in your home for months in case someone gets sick, that’s its only use. The scientific explanation (the scientist is my mother) is that american Coca Cola has more evil chemicals, therefore it vibe checks the evil out of your stomach.

[bi-dazai]

THIS IS THE SLAVEST POST EVER AMAZING

[discountalien-pancake]

This is how well-fitted corsets look on large bodies! No one’s tits are getting crushed.

‘But, Pancake!’ you ask, ‘Aren’t stays supposed to squish the tits?’

No. That’s a myth, probably started by either the Victorians or Hollywood (or both, as these things go).

Stays have never been about squishing your tits to your chest. They provide support for your chest and back, and structure for your outer clothes. That’s it.

[ladyemlyn]

ALSO! Stays/corsets/ fitted and structured clothing has always been about the "fashionable sillouette", which, essentially, if you don't have, storebought is fine. It's about illlusions and creating a shape, not a size. In the past clothes were made to fit people. Now people are forced to fit clothes.

[hidiane]

pride and prejudice is a comedy because mr darcy thinks the tension comes from ust and meanwhile lizzie just genuinely hates his guts

[hidiane]

mr darcy engaging in his latest round of witty banter with elizabeth bennet: this is great, i’m getting a good grade in enemies to lovers :)

lizzie inventing the car in her mind so she can imagine running him over with one: i hope you die