locally sourced bisexual

hey, it's lina (33, she/her, tummy hurts)

[classicalcanvas]

Santa Maria della Salute (1904) by John Singer Sargent

[jeannepompadour]

Marble bust of Marie d’Anjou, Queen of France, circa 1465

[sartorialadventure]

The wimple - the head veil with the chin covering - was traditional in the Middle Ages for married women. Just like women in Islam today, in certain periods married Christian women were required for religious and modesty reasons to cover their hair.

The cloth that covers the chin was called a barbette, and had the extra benefit of hiding a sagging neck!

I call it a barbette because it appears to be a strip of cloth unconnected to the cloth on the shoulders and chest. If it were all one piece of cloth, it would be a wimple.

There was also a version with the cloth under the chin but NOT over the head, and that was called a gorget:

As you can see, the amount of hair that needed to be covered changed across the middle ages, though in general, married women were pretty much always required to wear their hair up and neat. Loose hair was considered to indicate either a “maiden” (unmarried woman) or a “loose woman”.

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[sartorialadventure]

[longseasons]

[gwydionmisha]

Bonus: If I buy a book I get to keep it! The publisher can't turn up at my house at random and confiscate all the books I bought.

[godlessondheimite]

In 2026, the chicest thing a gay actor can do is never explicitly come out as gay but also make it abundantly clear that he is. Coming out is too modern. Staying closeted is too old fashioned. But this method merges contemporary freedom with Old Hollywood glamour and allure, and it weeds out the dumbest people who truly don’t get it. I call it the Pascal Method.

[nobodys-odyssey]

Taylor Swift does this

[godlessondheimite]

no she doesn’t

[nobodys-odyssey]

You clearly don't go here or to queer history and signaling, or both, enough to have this conversation and I'm not going to explain it to you. You could have asked questions, you could have done even a modicum of research. You didn't and you made yourself look ignorant. Goodbye.

[dancinbutterfly]

#I'm fucking crying#this is an instant classic#this is the next meme#i can't believe I'm here to see a baby copypasta nary two hours old#I can't#lol#i laughed way too hard#iconic

[victusinveritas]

[incaseyouart]

Six studies of my time with Vah Ruta and the beautiful fish siblings <3 Felt nice to draw Sidon again!

[punkedsolar]

The Mallorn Trees of Lothlórien

"That is the fairest of all the dwellings of my people. There are no trees like the trees of that land. For in the autumn their leaves fall not, but turn to gold. Not till the spring and the new green opens do they fall, and then the boughs are laden with yellow flowers; and the floor of the wood is golden, and golden is the roof, and its pillars are of silver, for the bark of the trees is smooth and grey." - Legolas, Lord of the Rings

[hidesketchbook]

I JUST WITNESSED ALL THE DRAGON TEARS AAAAAAAH

[my-dailydreams]

[love-notes-to-survivors]

I promise you haven't fucked up as badly as you think you have.

[crazycatsiren]

A wise mentor once said to me while I was student teaching: "Did you actually fuck it up, or did it just not go how you expected it to go?"

Life changing words.

[movementnudge]

Movement nudge!

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[museum-of-artistry]

Conversation in a Rose Garden (1876) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

[lionofchaeronea]

Title: Achilles Lamenting the Death of Patroclus Artist: Gavin Hamilton (Scottish, 1723-1798) Date: 1763 Genre: mythological art Movement: Neoclassicism Medium: oil on canvas Location: National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

This is the second of six canvases depicting scenes from the Trojan War that Gavin Hamilton, Scotland's most important Neoclassical artist, painted during a stay in Rome in 1763. Before entering the collection of the National Galleries of Scotland, it was in the possession of Hamilton's patron James Grant of Castle Grant, Speyside.

The scene centers on the body of Patroclus, to which the eye is immediately drawn by its pale nakedness (Hector had stripped the slain hero of Achilles' armor). Achilles himself grasps the corpse in anguish. Hamilton has divided the onlookers by gender: to the left, Briseis and other women mourn; to the right, the Achaean leaders try in vain to console Achilles.

[moghedien]

I feel like I need to share this because idk if Europeans are familiar with the presence of Aldi in the US, but at least especially in my area they’ve been growing a lot recently. Like Aldi bought out some local failing grocery chains where I live (Louisiana) and have opened Aldis in all these somewhat rural communities and small towns, which for the record I’m fine with

But as a result of this they are advertising a lot more in my area and also in many cases, the people in these areas have never been confronted with Aldi or any European grocery store. So the ads that Aldi is pushing out to its new US customer base feature a cowboy shopping at Aldi who is explaining to new Aldi customers how Aldi works. Like this cowboy is explaining you gotta put a quarter in the shopping cart and why there are very little name brands. A cowboy is how they want to reach their American customer base. They gave us a cowboy

[moghedien]

Here he is, the Aldi Cowboy

[15560931]

anya's new outfit is cute

[quasi-normalcy]

I've reached the point where cynicism is a major turn-off for me. You're not smarter than idealists, and you're not helping.

[quasi-normalcy]

Funny that the stereotypical cynic is an idealist who aged out of it. In my experience, the reverse is true. I was an extreme cynic as a teenager and then I noticed how profoundly limiting it was, and also that "cynics are cool and smart" was a message that was being constantly reinforced by corporate media for some reason.

[quasi-normalcy]

#yes! cynicism reads as very juvenile to me#and yes prev often stemming from teen pain

Yeah, like I see black-pilled people on here and my default reaction isn't "oh, these must be world-weary old warriors who've lost their faith in humanity", it's "these people are in their 20s and need a hobby"

[quasi-normalcy]

I also think that the present era has proven that authoritarian leaders don't actually want a population of wide-eyed idealists, they want a population of jaded assholes who are convinced that everyone is lying, any resistance is either a scam or doomed to failure, and nothing can ever get better.

[mercurialmilk]

New reaction image for ‘posting something on the internet and having it be wildly misinterpreted’