#tarakau

[orion-the-onion]

I've been following you shortly and we don't talk but strawberry lemonade, meadow grass and mahogany

we comment on the same posts sometimes, could that count as talking?

I WOULD give everyone great hugs if I could 😞 why is physical distance I'm. not as laid back as I may appear online but hey, fake it til you make it amirite? I'M SO GLAD YOU LIKE READING MY THOTS I will continue to have many of them

colors from this

[scrapnick]

Full colour full body commission with background for @tarakau of their bastard man oc having a heated conversation hoping he don’t get hit by a car

[windydesert]

was tagged by @tarakau (who’s in Anders hell too) to do a Dragon Age version of this. thank you!:*

blorbo (favorite character, character I think about the most) - Anders hands down. yes. best character in DA. favorite video game character in general (second only to Lucien Lachance lmao).

scrunkly (my “baby”, character that gives me cuteness aggression, character that is So Shaped) - Tamlen??? that poor fucking idiot

scrimblo bimblo (underrated/underappreciated fave) - Vivienne. love her. Merrill. love her. also, I actually think Gamlen isn’t that bad either. like, I’m not a fan, but he doesn’t deserve all the shit he’s getting from the rest of his family. Architect. Dagna!!!!!!! sir Gilmoure. Riordan <3 <3 <3

glup shitto (obscure fave, character that can appear in the background for 0.2 seconds and I won’t shut up about it for a week) - an elf from DA2 that appears at the docks in act 2 and says “elf this, elf that. I’ll elf your mother.” respect, sir. AND that templar from Ostagar who is voiced by Adam Howden (who also voices Anders in the second game) because I like that headcanon that it was actually one of the escape attempts, since we can’t see his face through the helmet.

poor little meow meow (“problematic”/unpopular/controversial/otherwise pathetic fave) - Vivienne, Solas, Anders... Branka lol. Cailan, he’s such a fucking labradoodle.

horse plinko (character I would torment for fun, for whatever reason) - omg. I don’t know. Alistair, maybe? I love him very much tho.

eeby deeby (character I would send to superhell) - Sebastian and sister Petrice. that snitching bitch from the City Elf origin.

[leona-florianova]

A poster I made for @tarakau ´s  Aristokrat Vintage shop. A true vintage store based in Prague. 

Check them out! http://aristokrat-vintage.cz/

and on facebook where they are more active  www.facebook.com/aristokratvintage 

[omgthatdress]

Hello, is there a proper way to tell mourning dress from a regular black one? And when exactly did mourning dresses come out of fashion? I have a 1918 day dress that very much evokes the feeling of a mourning one, but I'm not sure. Thank you so much in advance!

The short answer is, black was a popular color and you really can’t tell unless you have some sort of documentation. By 1918, WW1 was at its end and mourning was on its way out both because pretty much everyone had lost someone and it’s a deeply impractical thing to do in a time of frugality and sacrifice), so by that alone, I’d say it’s probably not. 

Deep mourning is generally easy to tell because it’s devoid of any sparkle and made of a pebbly, matte material called crape:

Also, since just the dress alone didn’t make mourning complete, mourning dresses will often come as a part of a mourning ensemble, complete with a veil (the best rule of thumb I can give when identifying women in mourning in photographs and art is the presence of a veil, it was the biggest mourning signifier out there), parasol, handkerchiefs, anything else a woman would need to make her ensemble complete. 

Black was a VERY popular color, and that’s something that people tend to forget about Victorian fashion. However, the dye used in a lot of black garments is pretty corrosive in the long-term, so as popular as they were, extant black garments tend to be on the rare side. A lot of unscrupulous sellers will take a black garment or hair jewelry and pump up the price by claiming its for mourning, so you really have to be careful.

[vinceaddams]

tarakau replied to your post “Google Chrome’s automatic translation feature is trying its best but...”

Hey, Im Czech,if you need any help translating or any other help, hit me up! I run a true vintage store and specialize in the 1920s so I'm not a complete layman

Thank you for the offer! It’s ok though, the website does have an English option, but I haven’t got the money to spare for fancy shoes right now so was just looking. And once chrome translated the website automatically I went to more listings just to see if they translated to funny stuff too.

[jawbonejoe]

tarakau replied to your post “I am not a cruel god to my writing projects but I am unknowable. I...”

Honestly?? The universe controls my life the same way lmao Im not surprised by anything anymore just bring on the bullshit so I can get through it, right?

Exactly! Struggle in life is a given, so why waste time fearing it? The best you can do sometimes is to respond and you get to do that however you please. So why not learn to laugh and try to make things better as much as you can?

[jawbonejoe]

tarakau replied to your post “The urge to act a fool and get those PI’s tattooed around my neck is...”

Do it,!

BRO NAH I’m already so tattoo thirsty IT’S TOO REAL OK