Panik! in the Vorlesungssaal

She/her • in a constant state of stress• "Man lebt"● 18+

[sophellkopter]

Well, Lent is about to start at midnight, and I decided to abstain from social media until Easter Sunday.

Last time I did this was during the advent of 2023 while also abstaining from meat. I ended up continuing to be vegetarian and also keeping Instagram and Tiktok completely of my phone.

Abstaining social media drastically improved my attention span, but I also hope that this time it'll help me improve my productivity, as I have to finish my bachelor's degree till July.

I'll see you all in a couple of weeks❤️

[ladillados]

[kontrollsysteme]

we’ve gone from the yee haw agenda to the ye olde thot programme

[lloerwyn-deactivated20201104]

Ah yes, those slutty slutty Landsknecht shorts:

[petermorwood]

The bare-legged / hot-pants look was fairly common, since the whole point about being a Landsknecht (or Reislaufer, their Swiss equivalent) was to look outrageous.

Most period illustrations of Landsknechts are black-and-white woodcuts…

…though in 1905 a book called „Geschichte des Kostüms“ - History of Costume - assembled a bunch of black-and-whites and added colour.

If they look excessively gaudy, they’re not, because these next prints were coloured in-period by an artist called Erhard Schön, and it’s fair to assume he was representing what he saw.

In short - or in shorts - those reenactor costumes are spot on. :->

[brightwanderer]

Something mentioned nowhere in this post that I have just learned from googling: these guys were not Ye Olde Medieval Dandies. They were 15th-16th century mercenaries. Pretty hardcore, too. They were exempt from sumptuary laws (ie the rules that said you couldn’t wear certain colours or cloth or styles) and apparently their response to that was technicolour thotpants.

[tuulikki]

I was complaining earlier about costuming in both “historical” settings and in fantasy/scifi. This is exactly what I mean when I say a knowledge of actual history would enrich the conceptual creative palette for things like “hardcore mercenary outfits.”

[ukulelegodparent]

the slashing is also actually functional, since weapons would get caught in it. This is armour. And then absolutely everyone thought it was THE shit and adopted the style (and they were so right about that). Man? Woman? High nobility? Regular guy? Doesn’t fucking matter, you’re wearing an outrageous feathery hat and slashed garments.

Also I do want to add: “Pretty hardcore” in this case means “Responsible for a list of war crimes so long it would make the US army blush”. Like do not get me wrong. I reenact this era. I reenact these people. Their clothing fucking slapped. But my god they brought unspeakable violence basically everywhere they went, through the nature of being large mercenary armies. There is a reason we generally do not do wars like that anymore any haven’t for a long time. It’s just a pretty good way to get a lot of innocent people killed.

Also also: sumptuary laws were generally speaking quite a bit less strict and less ubiquitous than we like to think today. They were at this point in time mostly part of a long list of laws that cities had in order to ensure peace within them. Peace was extremely important to cities specifically because they were trade centres. And if your city was unsafe and had unrests it meant people didn’t want to go to trade their stuff there any more. So sumptuary laws were mainly there to ensure that jealousy within cities didn’t rise to the point where it starts to lead to behaviour that is offputting to outsiders. Outside of these cities, it was generally a non-issue, bc society just works differently in those closer-knit communities. Also there it was mostly a question of being able to afford these things and people just couldn’t. You don’t have to ban someone who can barely feed and clothe themselves from wearing brocades. They weren’t going to. The special thing about the Landsknechte is more that they not only were exempt from sumptuary laws, most people at this point in time were not subject to sumptuary laws, but they actually had enough money to afford nice fabrics (and they also ransacked them. That too.). That is why their clothing was so outrageous.

[76ello]

I’m remembering an article about why late medieval large standing armies were Not A Thing. In general, soldiers were paid but not supplied - they were responsible for buying their own food. This meant armies stripped land like a swarm of locust, leading to a great many atrocities against civilians. So Landsknecht were acting in a fine old tradition, though they may have taken it up a notch or two.

One result of this was that armies had to keep moving along to greener pastures. Holding a long siege became a logistical nightmare. One strategic maneuver was to sweep your army along one of your opponent’s possible routes, leaving it denuded and unusable. Which worked unless you found yourself needing that route later.

[cannibalchicken]

[thenightetc]

@argumate

[argumate]

you verb noun?

[redfagdiver]

You verb noun? You verb noun like the comparison? Oh!! Punishment for title! Punishment for amount of time!!!!

[thisishowyoumakemovies]

You deconstruct meme? You deconstruct meme into its base parts? Oh!! Explanation for readers! Explanation for one thousand reblogs!!!!

[76ello]

Miette, the gift that keeps on giving.

[cleo-fox]

Writing tips:

“You feel the bulge in his pants” - implies that you are feeling some guy’s penis, may be sexy depending on context

“You feel the bugle in his pants” - implies that this guy has a military horn in his pants, invites confusing questions like why does he have that and how big are his pockets

[maple-seed]

Both options convey that he's horny

[cleo-fox]

How dare you be funnier than me on my own post

[broccoliseason-deactivated20210]

A close up of the Blanket Octopus during a blackwater dive with The Three P diving club , Romblon Island, Philippines. Credit: Joseph Elayani

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

[kjuuut]

[scoops-aboy86]

Younger writers. Please, just know that you could not skip to different songs on a cassette tape, that’s CDs. With tapes you pressed fast forward or rewind and prayed.

Also, VHS tapes did not have menu screens. Your only options were play, fast forward, rewind, pause, stop, or eject.

Y’all are making me feel like the crypt keeper here, I’m begging you 😭

[risingoflights]

reblog to instantly disintegrate some of your peers to dust

[depsidase]

[dogposts]

An archivist found a long forgotten 8mm film reel in an old metal box, marked “Philippines 1942”. Thinking it was lost WWII footage, he sent it in to be restored/digitized. When he got the footage back, he found puppies instead (via)

[gayluigi]

This is so freaking profound. Like, this was before the advent of the personal camera. Not just anyone owned a camera in these days. Cameras were expensive, and so was the film. When you were recording shit, it had to be stuff you were willing to shell out a pretty penny to have preserved. Someone so deeply and profoundly loved these dogs and found joy in them that they decided to preserve them for future generations to see, after these pups are long dead and gone. This camera operator wanted to preserve the joy these dogs brought them and to share it with others. How incredible is that?

[matchagirl]

[homura]

[leatherwingsinc-deactivated2015]

[caluummhood-deactivated20140506]

HOLY SHIT, IT WAS THE ORIGINAL ONE

MAKE A WISH

[heritageposts]

date of origin: 2013

[ouppy-offical]

the color of the sky if officially 13 years old!

[chaosflame2807]

i like the darkest one :3

[ploompkin]

People in a fandom who don’t post art/fics, but who reblog/like/follow/otherwise support artists and creators, my beloveds

If artists are the backbone of a fandom, then you all are the muscles. Connecting everyone and everything. Spreading fun and whimsy. That’s real neat, I think

I adore you all so much

[shamebats]

[kabretoss]

It does matter. It matters exactly like this.

Last month I was in the ER, the most vulnerable emotionally that I've ever been while putting myself in the hands of a stranger. That the intake doctor had a lanyard heavy with Pride pins mattered. It's such a tiny gesture, but the amount of safety I felt because of it, during an agonizing moment in my life, was huge.

[greelin]

$50,000 immediately dropped into my bank account wouldn't improve EVERYTHING but boy it sure would be a grand, sexy little start to a good, happy life path, don't you think

[meilintheempressofdreams]

Reblog for unexpected $$$ dropping into your Bank account.

[symbolblue]

uhh did i forget how time works or was the first post in december 2018 and the second in august 2018

[greetings-inferiors]

Reblog for time travelling $$$ dropping into your Bank account.

[reejindeed]

Beast Pirates Kid!

[startcarvingdarling]

@eussstasss

[jintaka-hane]

🔥🥵🔥🔥

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

reblog if you love ao3 exactly how it is and you don’t want it to “update” or change in any way♡

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

ao3 is not changing anything by the way! some people just want them to change for some reason. my guess is that these people just don't understand how the site works and refuse to actually learn how it works, so they blame the site because it's easier for them that way.

[retquits]

artistic rendition of how my cat fell asleep this morning