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Dressmaking in Paris, 1907.

I would like to point out what these women are wearing themselves. Because "what did WORKING women wear?!" is a refrain I hear a lot re: recreations of even the most basic historical clothing that has any visual interest at all

the lady on the far right has a brooch and a necklace! and some insertion lace on her blouse! the center-right lady in the plaid shirtwaist seems to be wearing a decorative necktie of some sort! all of them have sleeve puffs that are maybe a few years out of date, but not by much!

and these are working seamstresses! literally At Work!

working-class people have always loved beauty just as much as the rich. and found ways to incorporate it into their lives

Virginia Postrel in her book THE SUBSTANCE OF STYLE specifically points out that ornamentation is always possible no matter how limited your resources. You might not have quite enough food, but you can still put your hair in a braid more easily than you can buy a milk cow for your family. You might have to whittle your spoons yourself from a branch foraged in the wood, but you can still carve a knotwork pattern into the handle more easily than you can learn the craft of forging metal.

A thirst for beauty isn't something limited to the rich and knowledgeable. It's something that makes us human, and I worry that people who can't accept that working class or disadvantaged people from history might have appreciated and prioritised beauty and style in their lives are also failing to accept that these people were fully human. I mean think for just a moment where this trope of the filth encrusted medieval peasant came from - it wasn't from people who respected their dignity and personhood.

Cleanliness, style, and ornament are all ways that as humans we express our dignity, and attributing filth and squalor to people is a pretty common way to deny their dignity.

Yes. Of course their lives contained beauty.

"Cratchit's wife, dressed out but poorly in a twice-turned gown, but brave in ribbons which are cheap and make a goodly show for sixpence" - A Christmas Carol

This woman literally took her gown apart, turned it inside-out, and remade it into a more modern style. TWICE. And then managed to dress it up with some silk ribbons.

I call this the create a new problem technique

#she really did breast boobily down the stairs (via @boxingcleverrr)

It's hard to do that in clothing from that period - that's bad costuming.

No, that's historically inaccurate costuming. It is good costuming in that it is doing exactly what it is trying to achieve. It's just that what it's trying to achieve is BOOBS.

so dig this; in this movie (which is Clue, if you don't know) she's not actually a french maid, she's a call girl who is playing the role of a french maid, and in all likelihood provided her own uniform from either her "work" closet or that of the brothel where she was employed

Idk there's something really sweet to me about fix-it writers. Like, me and you- maybe we couldnt make it this time, but in another universe, a million people saw the pain of our story and are writing us a happy ending, giving us the chance we never had

Is it just me or does it really feel out of character when people make or write shadowpeach as macaque only angry/hate and wukong just guilty/sad like let's be real for a second what they feel for each other is not that simple

Macaque also show sadness and guilt for what happened between them

Wukong also shows anger and hate for macaque and it feels genuine

And the opposite is also true they both have anger and guilt in them

Despite not knowing what exactly happened yet they both feel justified in their feelings it wouldn't have been if it was only one angry and one guilty it would've made their relationship boring and just not them at all it takes all the complexity from them and reduce them to lowkey much more toxic trop where one is wrong and the other is just an innocent victim and that's so much far from what they are which is two people who hurted each other

That want to learn to forgive each other and themselves despite all the pain there is a reason why still reach out for the other whenever he needs comfort

Please spread my spore

Got reminded again of my old coworker who was a massive misogynist but also trans inclusive. Told me he believed trans women are indeed women because "only women would be stupid enough to want to be women"

I wonder what he's doing now

He also aggressively corrected himself whenever he accidentally misgendered a trans guy we knew because "there's already more women than men in the world, the more numbers we steal from them, the better." Did that even when the trans guy wasn't around.

I need to point out that he was completely serious btw. This man had no sense of humor on purpose.

He was a cook at the restaurant/bar I was a bartender at, and almost punched a costumer once because he overheard him talking about how women belong in the kitchen. Told me he thought women should stay out of kitchens, that cooking is a man's job and when I asked him what he thinks women should be doing, he went quiet for a moment, then proceeded to explain to me the following

"I trust a bitch to run a kitchen as much as she can run a country, they should do shit like plumbing. Or electricity. Something you can just learn to do and don't need to lead, you know?"

Apparently women are good at "fixing shit". He claimed that he doesn't trust male plumbers or electricians except if they're gay because "something most be wrong with you if you want to go fix other people's houses, that's that maternal instinct"

Small town culture is knowing that there are Old Folks with strange nicknames but never knowing the stories behind them.

Of course, I made the mistake of asking why everyone calls this one guy Brickaday and it turns out that he worked at a brickyard for 40 years, stealing exactly one brick every day and making no particular efforts to conceal the theft. Nobody thought anything of it until years later he was discovered to have built three houses.

His boss is said to have shrugged and made some remarks about the importance of coming up with a plan and sticking to it.

I‘m trying to arrange my face into an appropriate approximation of silent bafflement and failing miserably.

i appreciate brickaday

chaotic good

My grandpa once told me he worked with a guy called Scrappy at General Motors back in the 50s. Every few days he would wheelbarrow out metal shavings and the foreman was convinced he was stealing things and hiding them in the scrap metal to get it out of the factory. But every time they’d go through the scrap they’d find nothing. He was stealing the wheelbarrows.

One of my late grandfather’s friends was called Salami because he used to steal salami and cured meats so I’m seeing a pattern here

Thieves Guild call signs

gay as fuck to have a rival

gay as fuck to have two

okay just one more thing about this: it is v. v. v. funny to see people talk about 4chan being uniquely bad because its unmoderated -- an Awesome way to expose a total lack of literally any knowledge about the basics of social media is to imply that content moderation on any even moderately popular website is anything but a completely dysfunctional fundamentally broken system that, best case scenario, produces ptsd on an industrial scale in order to catch an impossibly miniscule fragment of infracting content

This is the exact sort of passive-aggressive Rich Old Man Grumpiness I can get behind

I think it's particularly notable in that this man basically set up a form of complaint that would only ever be seen if he was proven right. Masterful.

generative AI literally makes me feel like a boomer. people start talking about how it can be good to help you brainstorm ideas and i’m like oh you’re letting a computer do the hard work and thinking for you???

There are many difficult things that were replaced with technology, and it wasn't a bad thing. Washing machine replaces washing clothes by hand. Nothing wrong with that. Spinning wheel replaces drop spindle. Nothing wrong with that.

Generative AI replaces thinking. The ability to think for yourself will always be important. People that want to control and oppress you want to limit your ability to think for yourself as much as possible, but continuing to practice it allows you to resist them.

Miscellaneous Roger Rabbit items. A publicity cell featuring an earlier version of Jessica Rabbit, a concept by Thom Enriquez for the unproduced prequel, THE TOON PLATOON, and some cells (one of which also featuring an early design of Jessica).

Miscellaneous Rabbits

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