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livelovecaliforniadreams

#ride or die

20thcenturyb0y

i miss when summers were normal and not literal hell

#text

memewhore

chibisquirt

#i'm losing my SHIT#would you like to not see a dog?#it's brown Thank you, @dreamwaffles, that's it EXACTLY 😂

rip13y

#wildlife

notaplaceofhonour

Historical accuracy in costuming can be cool, especially when accurate depictions of that era/culture are sparse, but I think what a lot of pedants trashing whatever the current year’s Regency/period drama is over the costuming not being “accurate” are missing is that, not only is pure historical accuracy not the point to most viewers and filmmakers, but the anachronisms are actually part of the draw of that genre, and historical accuracy would actively impede the core fantasy for most of its fans.

No matter how much people complain about this or that detail of Stranger Things, they don’t actually want it to be a faithful depiction of the 80’s or 80’s media; they don’t want the pacing or the weird casual racism of 80’s movies, or the other less nostalgic aspects of the culture; they want a fictionalized fantasy of the 80’s that’s all roller rinks and arcades with synthesizers and neon glow, full of nods and allusions to the era without being tied down to 100% historical accuracy. Stranger Things would be less compelling to a modern audience if the synth music sounded like Wendy Carlos, or if it was paced like John Carpenter’s Halloween.

Snow White’s design being more reflective of 50’s styles than historical medieval styles, and other Disney Princesses being similarly anachronistic, is a feature that adds to their appeal, not a bug.

The trappings of the era are not there to be a precise documentary of how things actually were; they are set dressing meant to invoke the feeling of a specific romantic fantasy. The heroes are always anachronistically progressive and inclusive, the makeup is always smoother and glossier or more naturalistic or whatever the current trend is, the hair always bigger or more perfectly coifed, the language always includes words that weren’t coined in that era, etc. etc.

Historical granularity can be a “nice to have” and yes, something as glaring as a Starbucks cup in a Medieval setting can be immersion breaking, but the historical impressionism of an 80s character playing the arcade version of a game on home console or a castle being unpainted aged stone or swords and armor and corsetry being in styles that look more pleasing to a modern audience even though they didn’t exist in that exact decade or century are a matter of stylization. Even when it isn’t an intentional choice, that stylization is part of the appeal, bridging the gap between modern audiences and the subject of the historical fantasy.

The anachronism is not a bug. It is a feature.

#fashion #history

maureen2musings

Olympic National Park

degraaf.david

#nature #photography

emma-ofnormandy

Through them I could see another way of being

The Other Bennet Sister- Part 8

#other bennet sister

miss-holloways

Critical Role (2015-) campaign 1, episode 35//campaign 2, episode 72 bonus:

DAISY EDGAR-JONES as ELINOR DASHWOOD and GEORGE MACKAY as EDWARD FERRARS

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (2026) dir. georgia oakley

#sense and sensibility

gabbiecasso

"Just you and me, bud"

#how to train your dragon

chillyfeetsteak

a few doors down from me my neighbors have a squirrel bar nailed to the tree in front of the sidewalk, not exactly this but something like this:

it's been there for years and they never "stock" it so it's just sitting there. anyway, i thought it would be cute to make a little squirrel out of sculpey and leave it on one of the stools in the middle of the night. i also made a little sculpey beer bottle with its own label.

it lasted exactly one day and now it is gone. it didn't fall off, i stuck it on with tape. what do you think happened to it? your most fantastical and wrong answers only, please

chillyfeetsteak

HUGE NEWS HUGE UPDATE

squirrel REAPPEARED today... NOW PAINTED

chillyfeetsteak

i wanted to provide another update because there has been more activity at the nut bar

a few weeks ago i sculpted a new patron:

and put him in the bar. the next day he was gone. a couple weeks later he reappeared painted... but with ANOTHER new guest: a 3D printed squirrel based on the first one i sculpted (with a bottle!)

:)

#wildlife

folk-dancer

The Doctors: try to change clothes right after regeneration

The Second Doctor: DON'T GIVE A SHIT

I feel like he just ended up wearing the First Doctor's hand-me-downs for the rest of his life, because everything on him looks like comical oversized baggy clothes. He barely ever changes his outfit, which looks even funnier when you remember how the Third Doctor used to go through like three jackets per episode.

And you know what? The script really leans into this (they constantly point out how small the Second Doctor is) .

There's just one tiny problem though – Patrick Troughton was over 5'7" (173 cm), and he and William Hartnell were almost the same height.

So his costume would've looked way too normal on him, no matter what – and they just let the TARDIS eat One's trousers and Two shows up in his magnificent wacky outfit instead.