[ayotofu]

time loop where i keep dying to save you but clearly the loop just wants me to accept your death. im not going to but i can tell that's what it wants

[ad-wills]

[intermundia]

this is the single worst way i've ever read to describe an erection, frank herbert

[birdmans]

[orpheusmori]

[foxfaer]

Growing.

[revolutionarynoodles]

I had an idea at 3 am

[history-of-fashion]

1564-1566 Parrasio Micheli - Portrait of a Woman

(Palazzo Rosso)

[bramble-berries]

the problem with being creative is that you start to feel very guilty when you haven’t created anything in a while

[captain-cargoshorts]

do you get upset when a field isn't ready for harvest at all times? your seeds are doing mysterious things in the dirt. but you have to leave them hidden in the dirt or they won't grow

[yamat0]

my favorite dune posts ever

[uncahier]

Yeah, I’d watch Muppets Lord of the Rings

[doodleforfood]

Comic about my dog

[memeclassheroes]

[kim-jong-chill]

i need feminism because when jesus does a magic trick it’s a goddamn miracle but when a woman does a magic trick she gets burned at the stake

[mattheuphonium-blog]

fabulous 

[tockthewatchdog-deactivated2020]

i mean they did also kill jesus. that was a pretty significant thing that happened. like i understand where you’re coming from here but they very much did kill jesus.

[counterpunches]

#HAPPY GOOD FRIDAY

[konansgirlfriend]

Was at the art museum earlier and i have a new favourite painting

[konansgirlfriend]

Is this not the cutest??? Its called ”Me and Brita” and this guy in 1895 was like ”i love this kid so much imma do a painting of us having fun so the world will always know how much i loved her and what a good time we had”

[08-plaza]

the painting in the background is looking at them like “my word what a cool pair”

[cheltenhambolditalic]

More specifically that is Carl Larsson with one of his 8 children.

He came from a extremely poor and abusive background but worked his way into fine society, where he fell in love with fellow artist Karin Bergöö, and his works shifted to painting his home life.

Painting titled "My Loved Ones"

[in reference to his career] "the most immediate and lasting part of my life's work. these pictures are of course a very genuine expression of my personality, of my deepest feelings, of all my limitless love for my wife and children."

[more-is-toto]

OMFG I used to work at Carl’s house which in now a museum in Falun, Sweden, and now his art is on my dash! 

I could tell so many stories about this family, but to sum it up they lived the definition of what we would call a cottagecore life where both Carl and Karin worked as artists in their dream house that they designed and built together. It really was an artist’s home built with pure love, and also a big contrast to what a typical Swedish home looked like at the time. The late 1800s trend was to have a dark home with gothic vibes and brown and dark red colours. The Larsson’s home though is bright and colourful with big windows and homemade textiles sewn by Karin.

I also wanted to tell a bit about Brita, the cute little girl on her father’s shoulders in the painting in the original post. She was the fifth child of seven and felt sometimes like she didn’t get enough attention from her dad as a middle child in a big family. To get more time with her dad she would ask him to paint only her as often as possible since then she could talk to him without any of her siblings annoying them. This is how she became the most painted of all the children with hundreds of portraits made with her as the model. She was 89 years old when she died in 1982 and loved to talk about her childhood and those many, many painting sessions with dad.

This is one of my favourite paintings of Carl Larsson, A Viking Raid in Dalarna. Here we have all the children in a boat during a cool summer’s eve (from left, Pontus, Brita, Lisbeth, Ulf, Kersti, Esbjörn, Suzanne).

[woodelf68]

I reblogged this post too quickly before checking the notes and seeing this fantastic addition. I love how Brita came up with a solution to her problem -- wanting some undivided attention from her father -- in a way that worked for both of them.

[werewolfetone]

Genuinely 90% of historical fiction would be so much better if more writers could get more comfortable with the fact that to create a good story set in a different time period you do actually have to give the characters beliefs & values which reflect that time period

[marzipanandminutiae]

for me, like the prev tags said, this goes more for big things than little ones

plenty of people in the past weren't as racist, sexist, classist, etc. as the official party line for their time and culture. hell, they found the diary of a Yorkshire farmer from the early 19th century where he basically says that (male) homosexuality is natural and doesn't deserve the death penalty then imposed by English law- and implies that some other people around him felt the same way. your protagonist doesn't have to hold Macro-Level Views that you or readers would find abhorrent

but. you can sell that much better if the person seems thoroughly grounded in the day-to-day culture of the era. of course there's a king! obviously corsets are basic, ubiquitous support garments! [insert most common local religion here] is objective fact! using slang is rude in many settings! one doesn't talk to men about one's monthlies! etc.

(and like yes you should probably acknowledge that people held the Negative Macro-Level views too. it doesn't have to be your protagonist, but barring alternate history...it's unrealistic to have NOBODY feel that way. you can play around with it, too, in how you can give sympathetic characters some ideas that we now consider controversial or unfortunate and keep them sympathetic)

[werewolfetone]

Totally agree with you, what I meant originally here was less that every character needs to hold abhorrent views all the time and more along the lines of the fact that if you're writing, like, a feminist character in a story set in 1775, you shouldn't have them talking like they know what twitter is, they should articulate their beliefs like someone from 1775. I love reading historical fiction about characters who are more progressive than many of those around them but it irritates me when their progressive beliefs aren't, as you put it, thoroughly grounded in the era they're meant to be in.

[maastrichtiana]

characters talking like they’re from 20XX or having modern political opinions about systems of oppression can circle back to victim-blaming

if you’re using real historical suffering and injustice, putting twitter takes into a character’s mouth like they understand global economics or know about the Geneva conventions diminishes the actual real people who lived through those events “slaves should have leveraged their roll in the plantation economy for better working conditions” “if these Chinese peasants just read books more they’d be able to fight the British empire!”

lot of poorly written historical fiction can feel like they’re calling historic people dumb and making fun of them while patting modern readers on the back for knowing marital rape is a no-no

[thenyanguardparty]

hi I’m from your pseudo-medieval fantasy city. yeah. you forgot to put farms around us. we have very impressive walls and stuff but everyone here is starving. the hero showed up here as part of his quest and we killed and ate him

[lilaccccc]

yeah umm actually everyone kinda lives, inside.. the walls yeah. no yeah theres not any surrounding farming communities or villages to levy taxes from so we’re pretty much just in a stone pit all together. Theres a massive stone castle tho! where did the infrastructure for the stone quarring come from? I dont know… Evil wizard maybe?

[elbiotipo]

If you actually want to know how medieval (and overall pre-industrial) cities interacted with its rural enviroment, check out these articles:

Collections: The Lonely City, Part I: The Ideal City

This week and next, we’re going to look at an issue not of battles, but of settings: pre-modern cities – particularly the trope of the city,

Collections: The Lonely City, Part II: Real Cities Have Curves

Last week, we looked at a model for what the countryside around an ‘ideal city’ might look like. Today we’re going to introduce some complic

Long story short, cities weren’t islands in the middle of nowhere. If you’re a generic fantasy character approaching a city, you wouldn’t find a lonely Shining City Upon A Hill (hmm, interesting imagery there, wonder what it means…), but actually a highly populated area of farms, orchards and all that feeds and maintains a city.