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jupiter-on-the-compupiter

yeag

sartorialadventure

Viking dresses by Savelyeva Ekaterina

petermorwood

Another visual demonstration that historical clothing wasn’t dingy and monochrome.

All of these colours can be obtained from vegetable dyes, producing different shades depending on what mordant (colour fixative - alum, different metal filings, different vinegars) was used. See here and here for examples.

willowofthehearth

BRING THIS FASHION BACK.

thevagueambition

Not clothes, but this was a palette developed by the National Museum of Denmark based on paint residue from archaeological finds for the purpose of painting a reconstructed hall.

Apparently, they can tell from the chemical composition that the colours wouldn’t be mixed with black or white to mute them, but be used in their brightest form. Bright yellow and red was achieved with expensive dyes (orpiment and cinnabar) and was thus fashionable. (Source in Danish)

kalessinsdaughter

@athingofvikings

cicadianrhythm

What is a man? An ecstatic little pile of pigments.

sartorialadventure

^reblogging for that comment

fixyourwritinghabits

Forever reminder that the ancient world was colorful everywhere, and every attempt to brownwash it in modern fiction is sheer laziness.

kiriyuus

please read the best twitter story i’ve seen all week

cloud--atlas

bringing this back because it becomes possibly funnier the second (third forth) time around

oh my god

nonbinary-wrath-month

I don't know who needs to hear this, but do not ever, ever, ever let someone guilt you into not transitioning. "But you're so pretty! You'll ruin your lovely body!" "But you're my [son/daughter/boyfriend/girlfriend/mom/dad/etc.]; I can't see you any other way!" "But we need more [badass butch lesbians/women in STEM/etc.] to show women that they can do anything!" "But we need good men like you to promote healthy masculinity!" <- None of these are reasons not to transition. Transition is for you, not for others. Other peoples' indignation or sadness over your transition is not your burden to bear, and other peoples' expectations for you are not moral obligations you must fulfill. Do not live to fit inside a prescribed role in somebody else's life. You must live for yourself. Please transition.

funstyle

i legiterately always feel like that person on reddit who posted "is it weird if i go on a walk like is everyone gonna be freaked out". i feel like that every minute of every day

that-fan-girl

mythandlaur

pululintu

I found out that Godzilla is not spelled Gotzilla. I apologize to the absolute girlboss she is. I did not want to offend her godly status. I apologize.

In my defense in Finnish everyone around me prouneces it that way so it is at most like 60% my fault.

Also I did google before posting and found out Godzilla is almost always guy and I think that is an absolute travesty(maybe the title king of monsters should have tipped me off). So I will thus start the head cannon of Godzilla being a trans girl and y'all can fight me on it.

It is 3am so I am a bit unhinged, but I swear I remember her being called like mother off monsters or something. I have watched like 2 Godzilla movies so idk I ain't up on the lore. But she will be an icon to me no matter what her gender is regardless

hometoursandotherstuff

ekjohnston

Four different people at the nursing home I worked at had this clock. It was a lot, let me tell you.

surroundedbybooks

My grandpa, with fading eyesight, a lifelong interest in birds, and near perfect pitch for singing, was absolutely the target market for this clock and he loved his dearly.

codycamera

waiting at wabash (april 2026)

striders

jon-jarchivist-sims

Hold on, let me look something up real quick

jon-jarchivist-sims

Yeah this is funny

im-a-goat-in-disguise

redstonedust

love wearing all black in public i hope no large gaseous heat emitting orb in the sky comes along and makes my day worse

escuerzoresucitado

trek-tracks

When a student copies an essay online instead of writing it and then painstakingly changes every word to a synonym until the text no longer makes any sense...

call that the Ship of Thesaurus

trek-tracks

Any educator who doesn't feel this on a visceral level has never had to experience the psychic pain of reading the phrase "Unused York City."

trek-tracks

This is the fifth anniversary of me receiving the paper that contained "Unused York City." With ChatGPT slop invading my classes like original thought-choking kudzu, I now look back on the copy-paste + Spinbot days with a surprising amount of rosy nostalgia.

I was once in the office and another professor called me over. She was teaching a course on global citizenship.

"I can't figure out what this student is writing about," she said. "She keeps using the phrase 'perspiration stores.' Perspiration stores this, perspiration stores that."

I glanced at the paper and read a paragraph.

"Friend," I said. "She's writing about sweatshops."