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i wish drawing was a real thing that you could actually do
some hyper famous artists like Van Gogh transcend overratedness and become underrated because they're so normalized. Like I'll look at a van Gogh and I'm like wait this really is amazing you guys don't get it
Shakespeare is like this
Every time I see a Van Gogh thatâs not one of his better known pieces it absolutely blows me away
Have you seen this shit my liege? smh unreal
people are right to talk about The Starry Night
nowhere near enough people talk about its sister, Starry Night Over the Rhone
Yeah ok I got lost in his tags again. I miss him.
rockyâs design notes from james ortizâ instagram :) going insane at the reason rocky put two arms together when giving his name was to show his family crest
100% This movie got me good.
THE TRUTH: art is inherently manipulative and artists are wicked evildoers who like to power trip off of controlling other people's emotions
So Iâm sitting here. Months since my last post
Hey. Heyhey. Do me a favor real quick.
If you don't already know you have issues doing so, squat down real quick. Bend your knees all the way and touch the floor. Just make sure you can do it. Okay? For me? And then stand up all the way and make sure you can balance on one foot.
Like. You don't need to blow it into some huge thing. Just. Make sure all your bits and peices still work the way you think they do.
Can you turn your head to look behind you without twisting your shoulders? What about standing on your toes? If you sit down on the floor can you get back up without using your hands?
If there was ever a tumblr post worth sending to your mom, it's this one.
Just saying, bodies are a use it or lose it kinda thing.
okay so every time I see this post crop back up in queues and notifications I end up thinking about it. Because I made the post and even I'm still doing the thing where I read the post about maintaining range of motion in my delicate meatsuit and I nod and hmm and think yeah that's a good idea and then dont move from where I'm curled up shrimp style staring at the nightmare rectangle.
So like. Thinking real hard about moving doesn't count as moving. Major bummer. Anyways. Joints.
"and the universe said i love you."
this is disgustingly incredible
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iâll be honest i still fan girl over my own mutuals
there are some people on here who, when they followed me back, I got excited about as if they were a celebrity. and when I think about it, it's kinda sweet how we do that here, and so much more special than celebrity crushes. To be starstruck by someone when they're sharing their personal, more private self. You're famous to me for just being you.
thatâs notâŚâŚâŚ. how child speech worksâŚâŚâŚâŚâŚâŚâŚâŚâŚâŚâŚâŚâŚâŚâŚâŚ..
god okay in an attempt to be less of an asshole, hereâs how child speech DOES work (or tend to work, at least)
kids tend to hypercorrect â this means that they tend to say things like âsleepedâ instead of âslept,â âwritedâ instead of âwrote,â âgoedâ instead of âwent,â etc
kids tend not to make errors such as omitting verbs (âi hungryâ)
kids also tend not to make errors in the i/me, she/her department (âme am hungryâ)
simplification of difficult sounds â consonant clusters especially, so things like st, sp, ps, etc., as well as f, v, th-sounds, ch-sounds, etc.
âbabblingâ-type utterances (âapwenâ for âairplane,â using one babbly word for multiple objects, things like that)Â generally occur in children under the age of three and a half
say it with me: an eight-year-old child is not going to be saying âme hungwyâ
do not confuse child speech with stereotypical learner english mistakes, thatâs not only incorrect but also gross on the stereotypical learner english front (âme love you long time,â anybody?)
if youâre going to write kidfic please do some * research
Totally. It can be helpful to remind yourself that young children tend to speak as though the English language actually made sense. Our brains are pattern-recognising machines: children are really, really good at puzzling out the implicit rules of the English language, but they donât necessarily know all the silly exceptions and bizarre edge cases that break those rules yet - those can only be learned through experience and rote memorisation.
Basically, when children who speak English as a first language make mistakes, it typically reflects a tendency to treat English as more grammatically, syntactically, and/or orthographically consistent than it really is. In some cases, this can be compounded by the fact that some kids will get offended at how little sense âproperâ English makes, and insist upon using the more consistent forms even though they know very well that theyâre technically âwrongâ.
for a long young portion of my life I insisted on pronouncing Sean âSEENâ because thatâs how itâs spelled.
As someone who spends a good majority of her time working with kids, it irks me to no end when I see children written as if theyâre babies.
Past the age of about five or six years old, children can have deep, intellectual conversations about the most bizarre of things. I HAD A CONVERSATION LAST WEEK WITH FOUR THIRD GRADERS ABOUT THE GAS PRICES AND TAXES IN HAWAII.
Were they entirely correct in the facts they were giving? No, because it was all from what they had heard from parents or on the news. But that doesnât take away from the fact that I was having a genuine conversation with four eight and nine year olds about taxes.
Just about the only speech problems most kids have, unless they have a speech impediment, is not being able to pronounce certain consonants (replacing âthâ with âfw,â for example, and some letters are harder to form with your mouth than others) and doing exactly what the person above said: using the English language the way they know how, which isnât always the way English works.
Kids arenât stupid. Stop writing them like they are.
I was tutoring a little kid (second grade, I think). He was complaining about a worksheet. âThis is hard.â I started to correct him as I knew he was more than capable of it and this bright kid, who had obviously heard the lecture before from others, interrupted me and said: âI know. I know. Itâs not really difficult. Itâs just time consuming.â Some kids are spooky-smart and even quite articulate.
If you need (plotwise) to emphasize that the child is specifically childish ⌠have them tell the same joke to everyone they meet, cracking themselves up before they get to the punchline ⌠have them ask âWhy?â incessantly ⌠have them fidgeting and possibly breaking things (âOops.â âWhat?â âNothing!â âWHAT?!â) ⌠and if you have more than one kid, even of the same age, you donât have to write them at the same intelligence level or emotional maturity. Some kids are messy and some are obsessively neat. Some are quiet, some loud. Some giggly, some surly. They basically come in the same range of personalities as adults.Â
If you donât want to invest a lot of time writing dialog for kids, just establish that you have a quiet kid. But a kid who gives single-word answers is usually doing so because they donât like you (or trust you) or they are focused on their own thing and youâre interrupting them. It doesnât mean they lack the vocabulary or that they donât understand the adult conversation going on âover their headâ (the more inappropriate the conversation, the more likely the kids are paying attention).
I have jabbed the back button so many times on terrible kid fic. This is an excellent resource - kid fic, when done well, is a real treat for me.
The only children I have ever met who did say things like âme hungwyâ were the ones who had figured out that if they sounded âadorableâ they could wrap adults around their precious little fingers. Kids get it.
Kids also slur and mumble a lot. Especially when theyâre tired. They donât say âme hungwyâ, they say âMâhungryâ, or âmâhungâyâ cause it just takes too much effort or time to do a proper distinct ârâ.
Really, with kids, itâs more about how they say the words than what they say. A sleepy kid can be adorable, but theyâre either cranky as hell or nearly dead on their feet. A hungry kid is going to be cranky (again) or whiney. A bored kidâs going to be fidgety and/or whiney. etc.Â
Generally speaking, in my experience, kids are as smart as any adult. What they lack is: * Life experience and knowledge about the world. So sometimes, things that seem silly and cliche to us are new, exciting, and profound to them. * A long term perspective. They donât have a sense of âthis too shall pass.â If something upsets them right now, itâs the end of the world. If something makes them happy, they think theyâll never be unhappy again. This hurts their judgment and can make them emotionally reactive. * Self-control. Try to get kids to sit quietly when theyâre tired or hungry or angry, and youâll see what I mean. * The ability to know what they know and verbalize it to others. Any therapist will tell you kids pick up family dynamics and detect conflict parents are trying to hide like no oneâs business. They canât usually talk directly about it, though, although they might enact the patterns they see with dolls and pretend play. * Defenses and seeing themselves through othersâ eyes. I love teaching and doing research with children because their personalities are so quickly and easily visible. Their parents are another matter. Until at least 5th or 6th grade, theyâre not constantly thinking about how others perceive them and constructing complicated facades. * Meta-thinking. When I ask a child who just solved a logic puzzle or answered a question correctly how they knew, theyâll often say something like âI just knew,â âbecause Iâm smart,â âmy sister taught me,â or âI donât know.â This is related to kids rarely knowing and being able to verbalize what they know. * Basic executive functions like working memory, processing speed, and inhibition. All of these rely on the frontal lobe and develop slowly. A concrete example: on a brief IQ test like the Woodcock Johnson, Iâve seen kids get lost in the problem and forget part or all of what they were being asked, but they could solve it accurately if you kept reminding them (but did not otherwise provide help). Their standard scores with reminders were often over 120 (roughly âgifted rangeâ), while without, they did about average. * They ask questions, but they donât critically question what youâve been told. In my experience with gifted kids for example, they ask so many questions it wears parents and teachers out. But until adolescence, they trust what they learn from books, parents, and teachers. They donât ask constantly, âhow do you know? How do I know?â I vividly remember beginning to ask these how-do-we-know questions at 14. I suddenly became aware of a lack of certainty of everything I knew and believed.
Kids are smart and observant, but they are not little adults. Their perspective is so different given their size, relationship to time, and dependence on the adults around them. If you want to write about kids, keep that in mind, listen to them, and observe them closely.
iâm a speech/language therapist who specializes in language development for preschool aged children (under 5). Â as a rule of thumb, children approximate adult language at 5 years of age. Â i didnât really include speech sound development because thatâs a whole lot of explanation. Â but, hereâs what their language looks like from birth - 5 years:
Birthâ3 Months
Startles to loud sounds
Quiets or smiles when spoken to
Seems to recognize caregiverâs voice and quiets if crying
Makes pleasure sounds (cooing, gooing)
Cries differently for different needs
Smiles they see caregiver
4â6 Months
Turns eyes to the direction of sounds
Responds to changes in tone of voice
Interested in music / toys that make sounds
Babbling is reduplicated repetitions of different easy to pronounce sounds, (i.e. âpapapa,â âbababa,â âmamamaâ)
Chuckles and laughs
Vocalizes excitement and displeasure
7 Monthsâ1 Year
Enjoys games like peek-a-boo and pat-a-cake
Turns and looks in direction of sounds
Listens when spoken to
Recognizes words for common items like âcupâ, âshoeâ, âbookâ, or âjuiceâ
Begins to respond to commands and requests (e.g. âCome hereâ or âWant more?â)
Babbling has many different sounds (âpabamimaâ)
Uses gestures to communicate (waving, holding arms to be picked up)
Imitates different speech sounds
Has one or two words (hi, dog, dada, mama) around first birthday, although words may not be intelligible
1-2 YearsÂ
Points to a few body parts when asked.
Follows simple commands and understands simple questions (âRoll the ball,â âKiss the baby,â âWhereâs your shoe?â).
Points to pictures in a book when named.
Vocabulary size increases every month
Child over generalizes words (i.e. every four legged animal is âdoggyâ)
Uses some one- or two- word questions (âWhere kitty?â âGo bye-bye?â âWhatâs that?â).
Once vocabulary size reaches ~250 words child begins to put two words together (âmore cookie,â âno juice,â âmommy bookâ).
2-3 Years
Understands opposites (âgo-stop,â âin-on,â âbig-little,â âup-downâ).
Follows two-step requests (âGet the book and put it on the tableâ).
Should be able to listen to story books for longer periods of time
Vocab size increased to the point where they have a word for almost everything, new words every day.
Uses two- or three- words sentences.
Speech is understood by familiar listeners most of the time.
Often asks for or directs attention to objects by labeling them.
Asks âwhy?â but may not be able to answer (**asking questions comes far before being able to answer them!!)
May stutter on words or sounds (this is normal unless it distresses the child)
3-4 years
Will respond when called from another room.
Can talk about familiar activities that happened at school or at friendsâ homes while the listener was not present. Â Uses about 4 sentences at a time. (Not yet a full adult-like narrative, but making progress.)
People outside of the family understand childâs speech.
Answers simple âwho?â, âwhat?â, and âwhere?â questions.
Asks âwhen?â and âhow?â questions.
Understands simple meta-linguistic structures such as rhymes (i.e. âhat-catâ)
Uses pronouns, such as I, you, me, we, or they
Uses some plural words, like toys, birds, and buses (may overgeneralize plural or past tense â
Sentences have 4 or more words.
Usually has outgrown stuttering behaviors.
4-5 years
Understands sequencing words like first, next, and last.
Understands words for time, like yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
Follows 3-4 step directions, like âPut your pajamas on, brush your teeth, and then pick out a book.â
Says all speech sounds in words. May still make mistakes on sounds that are harder to say, like l, s, r, v, z, ch, sh, th. Â **Mistakes on /r/ are common until 7 years of age
Uses sentences that have more than one verb.
With adult support can construct a short narrative about something the listener is not familiar with (i.e. âWhat happened in the movie?â)
Understands that they must change their language depending on the listener and place. May use short sentences with younger children or talk louder outside than inside.
pet peeve is when you look up fashion references from a specific era and you keep getting modern day '[era]-inspired' fashion like NO i want authenticity damn it. i can see your 2020 photo quality and your 2020 hair and your 2020 makeup. youre not fooling me.
hello i'm a historical fashion researcher and i have a lot of experience looking up things! this is a very widely experienced irritation and you're definitely not alone in this, but i am here to share everything i know!
so, ways to get around this:
turn off AI results. they're literally nonsense to us
don't use pinterest because the sources/provenance is often hard to trace
a standard internet search can be okay, but museum collections are the top tier (list of collections below this list)
instead of broad terms like victorian, regency, tudor, renaissance etc. try using the decade you're looking for. if you're not sure of what decade it is but have a vague image in your head, look on the fashion history timeline and just jump around until you find it. but even changing to e.g. 19th century will give better results than victorian
including terms like womenswear/menswear, daywear, formal wear, evening wear, court dress should increase the value of your search too
including "fashion plates" in your search can give you a nice impression of the intended silhouettes of the era. some of these might be a little stylised but will show you what was considered in vogue
for pre-fashion plate eras or things like makeup and styling, you'll have to look at portraiture or manuscripts. these are harder to actually find what you're looking for, but searching museum collections and limiting results to specific date ranges will be your friend
when looking at art, do bear in mind sometimes artists would paint fabric extra flow-y to show off their skills. it might not have been exactly like that in terms of fabric weight or drape. so, a pinch of salt required!
if you find something on image search where the provenance is dubious, reverse image search and you might find a source! i've been able to trace random pinterest images to real sources, but this does take a lot of time and effort and is often not worth the headache
some online resources and museum collections:
fashion history timeline is an invaluable resource if you're trying to get a feel for everything and should be your first port of call. it'll also link to good examples
the met has a vast number of extant examples of clothing, as well as fashion plates
costume institute fashion plates is a subcollection of the met for fashion plates (1800s-1922)
v&a also has many extant garments, fashion plates, and incredible articles on clothing and aesthetics. read the details of the objects because they'll often reveal a lot about the piece
lacma is good for C19th-20th pieces
nypl digital collection for photographs
national portrait gallery or similar for portraiture, or literally any museum in your country that has historical art
national museums scotland can be useful situationally but might be oddly specific
stout style history is a great collection for finding image references for fat people wearing historical clothes. survival bias of a lot of museum pieces tends towards smaller clothing that couldn't be repurposed, but this aims to counter that. it's not sortable, but is still a really nice resource
wikimedia commons is surprisingly handy! and the images, if you should need to link/repost them, are public domain
auction websites sound like a funny one to recommend. some won't have mannequins and some will. just look up historical garment auctions and you'll find some!
anyway, i hope this has been a good place to start for anyone interested! there are probably some i've missed because there are so many museums across the world and i don't know about all of them or can't remember them. but these are the ones i've used the most! (my specialisation/jobs i've had to research for have only really been in western fashion, so my resources reflect that)
Wikipedia has a list of fashion museums. Unfortunately, the page itself is only available in German, but the introductory paragraph is very short and after that, it's organised by country, and then it's a simple list. If you click on a museum's article, the website is usually linked in the overview table.
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