Pigathius Brandybuck

Hobbies include guinea pigs, yarn craft and the natural world. She/her. Header credit @magicratfingers It's my first time here and I'm never coming back - @Teaboot

[classicalcanvas]

Psyché (1883) by Jules-Joseph Lefebvre

[brigantias-isles]

The Rose Hip Fairy ❀

by Cicely Mary Barker

[paganroots]

Viking mother and baby by Esther Moliné

[nyctosaurid]

i dont know how people handle the world without looking at pictures of little tiny mice sitting on wheat

[nyctosaurid]

powerful…

[joy-and-whimsy-official]

Joy and whimsy detected! This post is joyful and whimsical 🌾

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

current state of the internet is a FUCKING EMBARASSMENT. was chatting with my grandma bout the history of crochet and knitting (and the comparative ages of those respective technologies) and i was like "oh YEAH and also that ancient greek fiber art we partly figured out from chemically testing the scoured bleached pigments of stolen statuary (tumblr knows what im talking about)—gimme 30 seconds to look up the name."

5 minutes and 3 search-engines later i am crying tears of blood screaming spitting blubbering in despair as my grandma attempts to digitally pat me consolingly on the back. the library of alexandria didn't burn it was "restructured" to "increase shareholder profits"

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

and i STILL CANNOT FIND THE TERM.

i am scouring the internet like the victorians scoured and destroyed all trace of joy and color from stolen relics for the LOST NAME OF THE ANCIENT PROCESS of textile-creation akin to knitting/crocheting/nålebinding that at least one academic/crafter used to recreate the leggings on this Glorious Motherfucker:

the google execs erased it. they bleached my bestie AGAIN from history...

[lachrymose-lyricist]

is this of any use

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

SO IT IS!!!

Archer statue from the Temple of Aphaia (ca. 480 BC) next to a reconstruction of its original paint job:

The leggings and sleeves would have created using a method called SPRANG which predates knitting and is over 3,000 years old. What's even sexier is modern artisans managed to recreate the entire outfit using the original method!

Mmm-HMM, love me a shapely thigh in harlequin hosiery. Put👏men👏in👏clingy-ass👏clothing👏again👏👏👏

Unfortunately english sources are hard to find, partly because Google's a shithole, but also because this textile project comes from a German museum, in Germany, where people tend to speak (and publish) in German. That said, the original link is to a short-but-sweet article I would have had no problem finding in 30 seconds a mere few years ago. fortunately i have clever beautiful insane people following me, but alas not everyone has such luxury. thanks to everyone in the notes who shoved themselves down this rabbithole with me!

in conclusion let us take a moment to sincerely wish Google a very burn in hell🙏

[mevil]

[joy-and-whimsy-official]

Joy and whimsy detected! This post is joyful and whimsical!

[platypusinplaid]

Everyone please look at this snapping turtle, walking to the pond outside my house, still groggy from a 6-month nap.

[saint-batrick]

the music made this one of the most hilarious things i have ever seen, thank you so much.

[theinfiknight]

GJJGJRKGNH THE MUSIC GOES UNDERWATER WITH THE TURTLE

[romeovanity]

“Hungry” by me; guinea pigs are NOT beginner pets, be warned

[cuntboysupremacy]

girl helppp

[cuntboysupremacy]

forcefemmed future self

[cuntboysupremacy]

the replies are even worse

[radiosandrecordings]

Scottish government currently has a bunch of ads up to get screened for lung cancer, but for some reason they’ve decided to personify cancer as some sort of gothic butch milf and I’m obsessed with her

[a-random-fandom-friend]

I know I already said it in a reblog 2 years ago, but... the french orangina ads :

[fantasticsacabambaspis]

No way thats called Orangina

[mlleclaudine]

from India Rose Crawford's Instagram: Frog paints some forget-me-nots 💙🖌️

[catchymemes]

[savedtiktoksofcats]

[exuberantocean]

That boy is going places.

[bedtime-bun]

by Beatrix Potter

[bonfires-n-hares]

White Horse Hill, print from the Green Wheel Oracle (source)

[oliviawhen]

Just swimming by to say hello. 🦭

[teaboot]

oh this is genius

[alphonse-mucha-paintings]

-The Moon-

[a-book-of-creatures]

I still say this from time to time. When I need it most.

From Miss Piggy's Guide to Life (Henry Beard, 1981).