[tockthewatchdog]

[lipstickhamlet]

"a little touch of harry in the night" remains one of the top 3 shakespeare lines that's so fantastically stupid it instantly obliterates any chance of seriousness and loops around to being almost good. the other two being "of hotspur, coldspur?" and "o were mine eyeballs into bullets turned / that in rage i might shoot them at your faces"

[brosencrantz]

#a little touch of harry in the night/ a little bit of ned poins by my side#Ia little bit of hotspur's all I need/ a little bit of falstaffs all I see#this is HENRY NUMBER FIVE (ah)#shakespeare tag

nym...

[themathomhouse]

we are a fundamentally unserious country sometimes

[dykeselfcest]

in service of my favorite pastime, taking a joke feminist analysis of a joke post too far to be a joke anymore:

not only is the house hers too. but does SHE even really want the chintz? or is the chintz part of her duty as a wife, a design choice made for the approval of in-laws and houseguests, part of keeping the home as it's expected to be? is "he" actually having his Primal Masculinity restricted by his wife's Feminine Sensibilities, or is she an easy scapegoat now that he's consciously experiencing the effects of the restrictive society that she's been dealing with the whole time?

[dykeselfcest]

ooh interesting reply from @kitewithfish :

the fact that it's chintz specifically reinforces your reading! The fabric is associated with cheap british imitations of fine quality printed cottons made in India, like this woman's life and home have become cheap imitations of a promised intimacy - keeping up expectations but fundamentally missing the value of the authentic thing (and maybe cheapening the value of the authentic thing in the process?)

this makes a lot of sense with the contexts in which I've heard "chintz" used, literally and metaphorically. my cursory search (mostly this article, which kinda has my head spinning with all the historical context) tells me that the term also refers to the actual indian fabrics as well, but, via the versions that began to be produced in europe as an important element of the industrial revolution, came to be most associated with the cheap imitations.

[nodding] now let's add colonization analysis to the tumblr reply poem....even the "real thing," in this context, would have been acquired by violent exploitation. so, if we (probably belaboring the point, but y'know) continue the comparison, the intimacy that was promised still would have a cost if it were present. if we take the man's point of view, the type of authenticity he might have hoped for would still be built on an exploitative relationship—one that he (as the beneficiary) might not notice, but that would exist nonetheless.

[meredithsmallwood]

the 2 pieces I brought in for the first thesis critique c:

[embroiderycrafts]

My experiments with food continue 😌 by Fantastic_Head_2350 on reddit.

[anarcho-catboyism]

We really went from "free the nipple" to "um the public didn't consent to you wearing a choker"

[hound-and-bear]

Dress made by me, end of 2025, photographed by Casey Kerr and Rory Casey, early 2026. Modelled by Jay Katherine Amusan.

(Thanks Jay (o: )

[handweavers]

there is something erotic about watching someone be extraordinarily competent at something especially if they're also really passionate about it

[anachrosims]

just in case anyone forgot how wildly colorful Georgian interiors could be, even among the working class to the wealthy:

[anachrosims]

and EVEN WHEN things were more muted/neutral, the neutrality was OFFSET by ACCENT COLORS and HIGH CONTRAST between the wood tones and everything ELSE

ALSO AMERICAN COLONIAL INTERIORS POPPED OFF, Y'ALL (IN TERMS OF COLOR/COZINESS)

PEOPLE USED WHITEWASH AND COLORFUL TRIM OR EVEN JUST COLORFUL FURNITURE IF THEY COULD AFFORD TO DO SO

AND DON'T GET ME STARTED ON FRENCH AND BRITISH AND AMERICAN WALLPAPERS

"ELIZABETH" YOU CRY, "WHY ARE YOU BEING SO EXTRA THIS MORNING?! IT'S MONDAY"

Because, my friend, my war on GREIGE will NEVER end.

Historic interiors were filled with LIFE and LIGHT and COLOR. ALWAYS HAVE BEEN.

Part of the reason we don't see a lot of textile art is because, frankly, textiles tend to degrade over time - especially ones that had utility! And yes, pigments and weaving and dying all boosted the expense of things, when we were finally reliably block-printing fabrics and broad reams of paper, it was no longer just the wealthy who could afford pretty patterns!

In the Americas, a far wider variety of pigments also became available because of the abundance of... well, a shitton of flora and minerals, some of which weren't as common in Europe.

WHY THE HIGHLIGHTER COLORS? you ask.

CANDLES.

Those colors reflect candlelight and natural sunlight REALLY WELL.

Humans LOVE bright colors, it's NOT just a thing for kids. We live in a brilliant, vibrant, multifaceted world. We ALWAYS have.

(STOP MAKING YOUR HISTORIC SIMS 4 BUILDS BE BLAND. STOP IT.)

[periodinteriors]

On the subject of Colonial America: don't forget, even if you couldn't afford wallpaper, wall stenciling might still be in reach!

(If ever you have the opportunity to visit the Stencil House at the Shelburne Museum in Vermont (pictured above at 3, 4, and 5), I highly recommend.)

And that's before you get into American painted murals:

Embrace the decorative arts, folks!

[escuerzoresucitado]

[slimetony]

Just tried to play an ancient flute and it started filling the room with this awful miasma that wont go away

[slimetony]

Why does staff still allow people funnier than you to leave tags on your posts. They should have fixed that by now

[burgerdotcom]

reblogs were off

[oh-good]

Young Cathy and Heathcliff find a half staved unconscious Jane Eyre on the moors and poked her with a stick to see if she's dead. She isn't roused by their proding and they don't care enough to try and help her so it isn't mentioned in either book.

[neshamama]

lisa brice, "untitled," 2023-2024, oil on trace

[thatneoncrisis]

69ers but..... their keys

[bestiolin]

lyn chao yu