shades of pink by monet

not to ramble but someone mentioned the idea of bodyguard!carlos and i can’t get it out of my head…

there’s just something about coming from money and your father finally deciding its time to hire a personal bodyguard for you. and of course you’re immediately opposed to the idea—you haven’t had any issues without one, and the places you go to usually have decent security! after all, the last thing you need is to have some rando keeping you company everywhere you go.

in comes carlos. and, sure, normally you would’ve paid more attention to the fact that he’s objectively—objectively— handsome. but as your father is introducing you to your bodyguard-to-be, carlos isn’t even bothering to make eye contact with you. instead, he’s simply looking at your father, hanging onto his every word. it’s then when you realize that no, this is not going to work.

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Asthall Manor, Oxfordshire, England by Stacy Cartledge

Saturn by NASA (2019

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Something like this would be so colossally helpful. I'm sick and tired of trying to research specific clothing from any given culture and being met with either racist stereotypical costumes worn by yt people or ai generated garbage nonsense, and trying to be hyper specific with searches yields fuck all. Like I generally just cannot trust the legitimacy of most search results at this point. It's extremely frustrating. If there are good resources for this then they're buried deep under all the other bullshit, and idk where to start looking.

>:)c

May I present to you, nationalclothing.org?

It doesn't have everything, but it's still my first source when researching traditional clothing from other cultures.

There's also this resource on historical fashion: Claire’s Historical Fashion Reference & Resources

another addition as far as physical media goes there is the encyclopedia of national dress (that i still need to buy myself bc this kind of thing is super important to my sort of fantasy designing) but yes i do agree i wish there was EVEN MORE documentation on this

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Low sunlight, thrifting and snow

Wool dress and coat: second-hand Mary Magdalene; Cardigan : second-hand Liz Lisa; Boots: old Fluevog; Beret: Axes Femme (with added bow from the dress at the back); Blouse: thrifted; Tights: some old offbrand from 2012 Taobao if I recall correctly; Bag: second-hand Axes Femme; Book earrings and cat brooch : Design Festa (I don't remember the artists); Cameo: present (vintage)

come find me ⛐ 𝐂𝐒𝟓𝟓

♫ forgive me, peter carlos, please know that i tried to hold on to the days when you were mine.

ꔮ starring: carlos sainz x childhood best friend!reader.
ꔮ word count: 4.4k.
ꔮ includes: romance, friendship, angst with a happy ending, hurt/comfort. mentions of food. childhood best friends, right person/wrong time, canon compliant -ish, minor spanish. heavily inspired by taylor swift's peter.
ꔮ commentary box: ho is u okay,, @binisainz planted this idea in my head and i had to go full throttle with it. one day we will write happy things (today will not be that day). 𝐦𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭

♫ waiting room, phoebe bridgers. ceilings, lizzy mcalpine. cool about it, boygenius. boy who has everything, annika bennett. car's outside, james arthur.

▸ THE GODDESS OF TIMING ONCE FOUND US BEGUILING. SHE SAID SHE WAS TRYING; CARLOS, WAS SHE LYING? MY RIBS GET THE FEELING SHE DID.

The cake is lopsided.

It doesn’t matter, though. Carlos grins like it’s the best thing he’s ever seen. His mother places it on the kitchen counter with a laugh, brushing flour off her apron. The candles wobble precariously as she adjusts them, and you and Carlos press your palms to the table, watching like the fate of the world hinges on whether or not they’ll topple over.

They don’t.

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