If you're that way inclined...

i'm maggie and i'm about to defy gravity about my face she/her gay as all hell

[targetedknowledge]

[solaceon]

this is what it looks like when i kiss my little cat's head

[justsomeguycore]

knock knock

[dismembered-jackalope]

who's there

[justsomeguycore]

deez

[dismembered-jackalope]

sigh

deez who ?

[justsomeguycore]

deez are the voyages of the starship enterprise

[silvermoon424]

Nazis crashing the fuck out at Elmo for no reason is one of my new favorite genres. Literally this pic:

[teleostuber]

Liquidate the accounts

[itssjanedoe]

[s-h-a-s-e]

[goodfriendo]

i wonder what they're gossiping about

[jmawork]

had to draw them

[3liza]

Meiji period fashion was some of the best in the world, speaking purely from an aesthetic standpoint you can really see the collision of European and Japanese standards of beauty and how their broad agreement even in particulars (the similarity between Japanese and Gibson girl bouffants, the obi vs the corset, the obi knot vs the bustle, the mutual covetousness for exotic textiles, the feverish swapping of both art styles and subjects) combined and produced some of the most interesting cultural exchange we have this level of documentation for. Europeans were wearing kimono or adapting them into tea gowns, japanese were pairing lacy Edwardian blouses with skirt hakama and little button up boots. haori jackets with bowler hats and European style lapels. if steampunk was any good as an aesthetic it would steal wholesale from the copious records we have in both graphic arts and photography of how people were dressing in this milieu.

[3liza]

[3liza]

«The botany professor,» from Kkokei Shimbun, October 20, 1908. she's wearing a kimono blouse or haori, edwardian skirt or hakama, gibson girl bouffant, a lacy high-collar blouse with cravat and brooch, and a pocket watch with chain

1910-1930 (Taishō era, right after Meiji, which I should have included in my OP) men's haori with western lapels

[applesforhela]

I have a love for both kimonos and bustle dresses, so I love seeing how the two fashions influenced each other over this period.  And thanks to Pinterest, I have pictures!

Victorian tea gown that clearly started as a kimono.  It still has the long furisode sleeves, but now they’re gathered at the shoulder and turned around so that the long open side is facing the front instead of the back.  Similarly the back is taken in with curved seams to fit the torso and pleated below that for the skirt.

Woodblock of a woman in a a bustle dress made with colorful patterned fabrics and examples of how a woman could style her hair with it.

More prints to showcase hairstyles, two women wearing western wear and two women wearing kimonos.

This next one’s modern, but it involves hoopskirts so I’ll add it in because it makes me so happy.  There’s been different styles of wedding fashion that take kimonos and give them a more modern look.  Often this involves taking a kimono and then cutting and resewing it into a new dress.  Very pretty, but it can’t ever be worn like a traditional kimono again.  But now there’s another trend where the bride wears a hoopskirt with a white skirt, then you take the kimono and drape it on.  The back of the kimono covers the front of the dress, the long sleeves fall across the sides or the back, and you still wear an obi with it.  The result is pretty and the kimono itself doesn’t have to be altered at all.

And because you mentioned steampunk, I have to add in these two:

[nonasuch]

Personally I’m a big fan of Taisho Meisen kimono, which are what happen when the Japanese textile industry abruptly gets access to aniline dyes, new spinning and weaving technology, and the concept of Art Deco:

[beemovieerotica]

the leftism leaving people's bodies when they continue to hound someone over behavior that was accounted for, apologized for, and corrected years ago - people got on board for prison abolition then said "and let's replace that with perpetual ostracization and shame to the point where they can no longer function in society :) this is better because We, The Community, are pushing them toward suicide"

[itswhatyougive]

Bro I implore you?!? I fucking beseech thee?!?!!?

[wintercorrybriea]

Levi Coralynn and William Conrad for I Am Gia by Daniel Sachon

[ampersketch-art]

CHATGPT IS NOT A SEARCH ENGINE

CHATGPT IS NOT A SOURCE OF INFORMATION

CHATGPT IS NOT STUDY NOTES

CHATGPT IS NOT A WRITING TOOL

CHATGPT IS NOT YOUR FRIEND

[wandering-aloneo-o]

CHATGPT IS NOT A THERAPIST

CHATGPT IS NOT A CITATION GENERATOR

CHATGPT IS NOT A DICTIONARY

CHATGPT IS NOT HOMEWORK HELP

CHATGPT IS NOT THERE TO HELP YOU

[cleaningouttherooms]

cannot emphasize enough that if you are currently pursuing a mental illness diagnosis out of your own volition with a professional and you do not absolutely unquestionably need it in order to access something specific and unattainable otherwise (accomodations or disability benefits or surgery coverage or custody or substances) then you should stop wasting your time and money and get out of there. you will not get validated. people will not treat you better. ranges from useless to actively harmful in the future. psych professionals have nothing of value to tell you about the world or about yourself

[cleaningouttherooms]

as people pointed out in the notes a diagnosis is also nowhere near a slam dunk lol very often you'll do the whole song and dance and shell out hundreds of euros and they'll be like hmmmm still not buying it. also don't care and there's no budget

[lizlisacomplex]

ok so I don’t have any spoons and am probably psychotic but I cannot express like. How awful of a take this is. do not use your experience as a blanket statement. Yes yes I’m aware of how certain dx can be detrimental. Also this is insanely Europe core it is not like this everywhere oh my god . it’s common yes but you also have to know how to game the system

So instead

1) do your research to weigh th pros and cons

2) diagnoses can be very validating and you can get them off paper (ex. Therapists can tell you your symptom cluster without fucking you over

3) diagnoses can significantly change treatment path , not even w/n psychiatry, but what you need in a therapeutic space too .

[dailycatsblog]

[the-composite-doll]

Wait is that THIS cat?

IT IS

[lostlegendaerie]

my ape brain when it gets dark at 4:45pm

[trek-daily]

STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (1987-1994) “All Good Things…” (7.25/7.26)

[were--ralph]

me going in the gender neutral bathroom to pee

[lore-en]

[hyenatron]

It’s so important to know Sir Patrick Stewart specifically mentions in his memoir book that he was very much influenced in his mannerisms by the primarily gay and queer other actors he was around back in his acting school days

[what-even-is-thiss]

“Cats don’t actually love you”

A cat is a small creature in the middle of the food chain that is fully aware that you are a very large thing that could stomp its head in at any moment and yet it chooses to rest its tiny little head on your leg for a nap and spreads out on the floor near you exposing its belly and its most sensitive organs. It brings dead mice and bugs to you to share food.

Don’t you get it? This tiny thing trusts you. It wants to help you too. It licks your leg thinking that it’s helping. It kneads on you to find comfort. It shares its body warmth with you in the cold and gives you your space in the heat. It hisses at other mammals it sees outside including other cats in an effort to protect its family.

Cats love you so so much. But they will keep trying to eat plastic.

[innerchildabortionclinic]

puts a "I bought this before elon was crazy" sticker on a car that isn't a tesla just to keep everyone confused and on edge