bravery is half the victory

inspiration sideblog for all my characters. untagged, scatterbrained, and sometimes NSFW.

[paper-fairy]

Vincent van Gogh in a letter to his brother Theo (Cuesmes, Belgium — Tuesday, 22 June 1880)

[sab3rtooth]

patterns left by woodworms on driftwood

[my-dailydreams]

[goth-queen]

Goddess of Depression by Victor Nazarenko

[northirish]

I would like a large sword, for mental health reasons

[fashion-runways]

TUNGVU Couture Fall/Winter 2025 pls help me get out of debt donating to: ko-fi.com/fashionrunways or dinahlance-shop.fourthwall.com

[the-almost-fashion-historian]

Transformation dress, 1900-05 by Jacques Doucet

A transformation dress is just a fancy name for dresses that have two different bodies. Interestingly the museum page says this dress was made for a courtesan.

This dress can be found in: Musée des Arts Decoratifs

[the-almost-fashion-historian]

evening dress, 1907-09 by Laferrière

I would recommend looking at the web page for this dress because there is a button you can press and then the dress rotates in a circle which is fun

this dress can be found in: the national museum of Norway

[the-almost-fashion-historian]

Evening dress, 1893-95, House of Worth

This dress is made of a red silk velvet and cream lace

This dress can be found in: the metropolitan museum of art

[the-almost-fashion-historian]

Redingote, 1786-89 by unknown designer

This outfit is made of silk, decorated with embroidery. Redingotes are a women's wear adaption of men's riding coats.

This outfit can be found in: Rijksmuseum

[the-almost-fashion-historian]

evening dress, 1885 by R.H. White & Co.

this dress is made of silk, trimmed with feathers

this dress can be found in: the Metropolitan Museum of Art

[the-almost-fashion-historian]

carriage dress, c.1885 by Franziska Noll Gross

this dress is made of silk velvet, decorated with jet and celluloid beads

this dress can be found in: the Metropolitan Museum of Art

[frostedmagnolias]

Necklace

c. 1943

gold, pāua (abalone shell)

unknown maker, New Zealand

Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa

[happilyhadesbound]

underrated ship dynamic is 'they deserve each other /derogatory'

[theroyalgardens]

Gresgarth Hall, Lancaster, England

[winding-maze]

"Blackbird" - personal work, inspired by my hometown. Blackbirds are my favourite - they sing so beautifully.

[little-cupofstars]

Every beautiful romance ever made is about two freaks who mask their freakishness & live conventionally but isolated until they meet and match each others freak so hard it ruins both of their lives

[praial]

Japan: Mifuneyama Gardens in Takeo, Saga.