茉莉花茶和哭

I'm a sculptor and fashion dork. Trans, 27, pagan, nerdy, poly. This account is just anything that strikes my fancy

[punk-faerie]

just gonna put this here: if you send me an ask or message asking for money, for any reason, you will be blocked. There's no way to meaningfully vet fundraisers on this site and I don't trust strangers. this includes gofundmes, activism guilt trips, personal bill fundraisers, and ESPECIALLY anons.

[frostedmagnolias]

Wedding Dress

c. 1920-1928

by House of Worth

Kent State University Museum

[mewvore]

"we detected a mature post" yeah I'm in my 30s

[achillesinhighheels]

[pmamtraveller]

Friendship, c. 1930, Paris

[shes-unforgettable]

This is my new favourite image ever

[emotionalsupportwarcriminal]

Okay, but who is the photographer?

The original is called "Dyke" by Catherine Opie.

Dyke is a portrait of my friend Steakhouse, who's a filmmaker. She had tattooed “DYKE” on the back of her neck in 1992. I thought it was like one of the bravest acts that I had seen. Now everybody is tattooed and pierced. But this was what my community was doing at the time period in which I was documenting. Those are markers of queer culture and our ability to to identify each other, as well as to put out in the world a different vision of our bodies.

I wish tumblr knew how to credit photographers.

[byjove]

Pictish drip was insane. Look at this choker:

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

Chances are thats going to be the only thing a Pict warrior is wearing as he charges at you naked covered in blue paint and screaming with a sword in hand

[byjove]

Loveee that illustration on the left with the chain on. Definitely worn by the sexiest bitch above the Antonine Wall circa 400 AD.

[jessalrynn]

Question. Did they really not wear clothes or was that an outsider trying to make them seem subhuman creating a fake reason? (Source: Julius Caesar making impossible shit up about at least one island in the Mediterranean and two in the Atlantic)

[byjove]

They wore clothes but fought naked, generally speaking. They were a people of northern Scotland and they farmed sheep so I assume they dressed warmly and in a lot of wool though depictions of their clothing are scant. They made very beautiful brooches/cloak pins. Fighting naked was an intimidation tactic practiced by many Celtic cultures. The reason Picts are usually depicted as naked and painted is because that was how they went into battle and generally speaking, that was the only time outsiders saw them.

(Detail of a Pictish brooch and a recreation of the piece available on Etsy.)

[byjove]

Right, like Celtic tribes were viewed as barbaric and uncivilized and uncultured for fighting naked but it was genuinely a very effective intimidation tactic, especially in the late Iron Age. Even though the Celts of Anglesey weren’t the same culture as the Picts we have descriptions from Roman sources of Roman soldiers suffering heavy casualties because they were frozen in terror and unable to move at the sight of Celtic soldiers running at them naked and screaming and seemingly without fear. Because when an armed individual runs at you in a murderous frenzy wearing only jewelry, it’s scary as fuck. And it would be in the modern day too.

[emptysurface]

Clothes would also have been incredibly valuable, and this way, none of it got ruined while fighting

[byjove]

Yeah, I believe there is a Roman source that says the Celts abruptly and violently removed their clothes right before going into battle (instead of like. walking there with their dick out.) so it might have also been a way of keeping their clothes from being damaged and/or keeping clothing fibers from getting in their wounds. Or it could have been a “fuck this, these are getting in my way” type instinct. Many advantages to going to battle nude in the late Iron Age. And they did carry large shields so it’s not like they had absolutely zero protection on the battlefield.

[mswynter]

[astra-the-dragon]

for what it's worth, losing even ten pounds of woolen clothes can dramatically increase your stamina and flexibility - if you're trained well. even light armour weighs you down when you have to do athletics in it!

besides, when you're using weapons like the sling and spear, ideally you'll never be in stabbing range.

[desicat-writer]

Buffy: Spike are you trying cheer me up?

Spike: Pulease I'm a monster, remember? If i wanted to cheer anyone up I'd bring them a skull.

[pangur-and-grim]

my house is scary at night

[storyweavingspider]

Interpreted this initially not as shelves, but as your cat having erected defensive fortifications

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

~ Carlos Vázquez Úbeda, Portrait of Queen Victoria Eugenia of Battenberg (1906) (detail)

via invaluable.com

[bled]

By Mike Depetris

[pmamtraveller]

A Forest by Gustav Klimt

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[dragon-in-a-fez]

during my dissertation proposal hearing one of my advisors said "I think you might have been too harsh in your criticism of this theory" and I genuinely, innocently asked "what makes you say that?" and he said "well on page 27 you used the phrase 'should be consigned wholesale to the dustbin of history'" and I was like oh. yeah I guess I did that. fair

[gemville]

An Art Nouveau Gold, Enamel and Diamond Brooch Designed by René Lalique for Henri Vever, 1890-1895

[unusual-suspects]

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[specialagentartemis]

Character has a PhD: they’re really smart and knowledgable about their field!

Character has 2 PhDs: either they did a dual degree program and are braggy about it, had a life-changing experience after their first degree and pivoted their whole career, or they find the structure of being a PhD student, despite all its stress, more comfortable and familiar than the stress of finding a Real Job and have a very indulgent advisor.

Character has 3 PhDs: who keeps accepting them to PhD programs. Either this person needs psychological help or their department needs to be investigated for its academic standards. Probably both

Character has 4+ PhDs: if they aren’t an undercover vampire or something then no they don’t lol