[commissions] - Royal Throuple

Kiana Khansmith

if i look back, i am lost

祝日 / Permanent Vacation

tannertan36
occasionally subtle
Peter Solarz

Love Begins
Misplaced Lens Cap
tumblr dot com
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me

oozey mess
YOU ARE THE REASON

blake kathryn
we're not kids anymore.

@theartofmadeline
Today's Document
Jules of Nature
RMH

pixel skylines
Sweet Seals For You, Always
seen from United States
seen from United States

seen from Türkiye

seen from Hungary
seen from United States
seen from United States

seen from Singapore

seen from United Kingdom

seen from United States
seen from Italy

seen from Singapore

seen from United States
seen from Romania

seen from United States

seen from Malaysia

seen from Malaysia

seen from Armenia

seen from Netherlands

seen from Switzerland

seen from United States
@vinatoras
[commissions] - Royal Throuple
Evening dress, 1957 by Norman Hartnell
This dress was worn by Queen Elizabeth on her state visit to Canada in 1957 and is made of silk.
This dress can be found in: the Canadian Museum of History
Why are there direct links to Chatgpt and Claude on the Suzerain codex pages, Torpor? What purpose does that serve? It's so weird and off-putting. What is an LLM going to tell me about Lucian Galade? (I mean, me especially, but anyone, really.)
👑Long Live the King! 👑
the new suzerain DLC is OUT and i'm so excited to ruin another country play it! I had to do something to celebrate, so here's a portrait of our new ruler, King Romus Toras (oh baby, you're in for a ride!)
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.
Dress, 1950s. Hattie Carnegie.
TIFFANY STUDIOS 'Lotus' Table Lamp
Leaded glass, patinated bronze. Shade impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 1524-4. Base impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 374. Circa 1910.
Sometimes "rarepair" means "you are literally the only person who posts about this on tumblr dot com" and you have to learn to be okay with that.
Time to clean the blorbo! Pick an action
gently run a lintroller over them
steam clean
handwash only
machine wash hot, longest cycle
use a power washer
sandblast them
let them stay filthy
other
plz reblog for sampo size
*takes the hand of a period drama writer gently* A queen consort is not a queen regnant. A dowager queen is not a queen regnant either.
There is very little intrinsic institutional power in queenship. The power a consort, dowager, or queen mother has depends mostly on how much the reigning sovereign (usually a man) is willing to grant her. Needing a queen to serve as regent is exceptionally rare, and the regent is more often a male relative.
I know this is a bit of a bummer. I'm sorry.
For clarity:
Queen regnant: woman who rules in her own right, not on behalf of someone else.
Regent: Someone who temporarily assumes the powers of the monarch on account of the monarch being too young or too incapacitated to govern.
Queen consort: Woman who is married to the monarch.
Dowager queen: Woman who was married to the monarch. The monarch is dead, and she is owed support as his widow.
Queen mother: Woman who is the mother of the monarch. Usually the dowager queen, though there are exceptions if there isn't a straight line of succession.
request for @poetikat of vina toras from suzerain. i wasnt familiar with the game before this but drawing the 50s fashion was a nice change of pace for me :)
absolutely blown away by this gorgeous portrait of vina by @starsandskies --lúa, you've done it again. thank you <3
1, 11, 12 for the choose violence asks! <3
the character everyone gets wrong
ooh. this is niche but hugo toras from suzerain's rizia dlc. the reddit side of fandom thinks he's the greatest, the goat, a better lucian, etc. the shipping side of fandom here on tumblr thinks he's a hot old man who'd be perfect if not for how he favors his fascist son (not sorry to the writers but i'm not adopting the in game "totalism" replacement they swapped fascism out for four years after release) and that his politics can be fixed with sex.
meanwhile hugo in canon is Your Conservative Racist Uncle, Royalty Edition, who has exactly the same politics as his son rico but he's more polite about it. rico has his political views, tbh. he's very good at his job as romus' grand vizier--and very loyal to romus as his brother's son and heir--but he's not shy about his bigotry, and his loyalty isn't without caveats, as a reformist romus frequently learns all too late.
number of fandom-related words you've filtered
146 filtered tags and 44 filtered in post content. added scarlet hollow spoilers to the list this afternoon as well.
the unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them
shaking suzerain and rizia vigorously in your direction. there are so many amazing characters that hardly anyone on here has heard of because the game is so niche that the fandom is practically nonexistent. but by suz fandom standards of unpopularity, i'd have to go with vina toras, with axel reinhart and manus sazon as extremely close runners up.
over on the subreddit people dismiss vina as being simultaneously as a naive idiot and a manipulative schemer, a terrible successor to romus who should be replaced by an infant son who's so young his greatest skill is making spit bubbles, a terrible, disobedient daughter who hates their romus for no reason at all. the best case scenario in fandom is that people just don't think about her on account of being a secondary character and a woman whose overarching plot in the game is Who Is She Going To Marry.
but what she actually is in canon is an intelligent, headstrong young woman who grows from a sheltered eighteen year old to a brilliant and accomplished diplomat loved by the public who's more than ready to step into romus' shoes if he abdicates at the end. the naivety she's accused of is wanting better living standards and rights for rizians and immigrants and for not being enthusiastic about war with pales during war romus runs. the manipulative scheming is nothing more than her lifelong desire to be a better queen than her great grandmother. her "disobedience" is a refusal to marry axel should a conservative romus sideline her from the council and dismiss her opinions and input at every opportunity. she is, in short, an excellent character whose greatest sin is not being in complete lockstep with romus and daring to politely voice her disagreements.
i love her so much...she's my The Character of all time...
choose violence ask game
The comments aren't open, but I finally found someone who thinks like me and sees the misogynistic abomination that is that SubReddit.
r/suz is the woooooooooooooorst it blows my mind every time i remember it's the official subreddit and linked to in the game menu and everything. the extremely small cadre of good taste women appreciators are all over here instead. glad you found us!
Evening Dress
c. 1953
Christian Dior
Chicago Historical Society
Hermesvilla, Lainzer Tiergarten, Vienna, Austria,
Empress Elisabeth of Austria and Queen of Hungary's Bedroom
“Be Bop Cellar” by Robert Doisneau in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris, 1951.
Couple Claude Mocquery and James Campbell dancing.
More people should get into poly shipping. Both because polyamory is awesome and because it's really fun to make complicated ass diagrams