The Curiosity Shop

Lover of old photos and historical costuming. Blogs who promise to block other blogs for random things will themselves be blocked

[michaelnordeman]

Eurasian red quirrel/Sciurus vulgaris/ekorre. Värmland, Sweden (23 July 2022).

[himekokosu]

Anemonopsis macrophylla

[seabeck]

Fairy castles

[misanthropic-drown]

[corseque]

Iconic historical stage designs for The Queen of the Night sequence from Mozart’s “Magic Flute” - the first image by Karl Friedrich Schinkel in 1815, the second by Simon Quaglio in 1818 (x)

[wyrmicelli]

me tongue-deep in a sandalwood candle: 🤤

the tjmaxx employee loading a fourth tranquilizer dart into their blowgun: i need backup

[snowown]

[carmen-photography]

Sunset Over Glacial Rivers (Jökulsár) - Iceland 2026

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[pangeen]

" Madeira Landscape " //© Karol Nienartowicz

[wonderlartcafe]

By Shima Seien (島成園) (1892–1970)

[oenothera5]

Tag games

Thank you for the tag, @independence1776 !

last song: "Runaway - Live," by Elvis

currently watching: Spider Noir

currently reading: In between books, but I just finished this weekend "Song of the Six Realms" by Judy Lin. The world-building is great! But it does not have a happy ending :-(

current obsession: Glaciers of the US Midwest during the Plesitocene

currently working on: my Korean homework.

last search: how much snow base a one-horse-open-sleigh needs (unsuccessful)

favourite flowers: California poppies

tagging anyone who wants to play!

[spacedocmom]

21/07/2026 Doctor Beverly Crusher @SpaceDocMom Incoming Transmission…

"Self care" is not necessarily a spa day or buying luxury toiletries. That's capitalism taking over a basic human necessity. True self care is when you take care of yourself the way you so often take care of others: it's rest, comfort, and valuing yourself. Do that. emojis: black heart, blue heart, masked, spoon

[stargazers-satellite]

btw guys managing your symptoms also means apologizing for things you didn't mean to do. sometimes you do things because of your disorders that you genuinely didn't mean to do, but if it hurt someone you still have to take accountability and make up for the hurt you caused

[amazoogle]

it's Tuesday all day today and there's no known way to prevent this

[dorothygale]

pop health science is so annoying bc it'll be like "did you know? eating strawberries will give you mega cancer" and you're like pfft whatever begone influencer. but sometimes then you'll see a reasonably credible article like "Study Shows Possible Link Between Strawberries and Mega Cancer" and you're not usually the type to follow that kind of thing religiously but idk maybe you should consider not eating strawberries? but then there's another article saying "Strawberry/Mega Cancer Study Debunked" and it turns out the original study had a sample size of 3 and was funded by Big Blueberry, and strawberries may have a small connection to mega cancer but only if you are genetically predisposed to mega cancer and eat 50 strawberries every day. so you return to your strawberry eating life. but whenever you eat strawberries in public someone tells you about the mega cancer.

[birdwatchy-standaround]

everyone loves Predynastic Egyptian Terracotta Bowl with Human Feet. shout-out to a real one

[phaeton-flier]

It looks like it would be so excited to run over when you needed a bowl

[fruitpeels]

Got distracted. Saw a cool bug

[urie]

stop calling it a girl dinner and call it by its formal name: Fend For Yourself dinner in an ingredients household

[chic-a-gigot]

L'Art et la mode, no. 17, vol. 28, 27 avril 1907, Paris. Robe de crêpe de Chine plissé, découpée sur satin vert brodé de soie groseille avec biais noir piqué de boutons d’or. Imp. d'art L. Lafontaine, Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France

[michaelnordeman]

A young Blackbird/Turdus merula/koltrast. Värmland, Sweden (20 July 2026).