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@achronalart.bsky.social

Alessandra Kelley - I make art. TTRPGs. She/her. Cis. White as Wonder Bread with mayo. Sophipygian. Postmodern Pre-Raphaelite. Black lives matter. Trans rights are human rights. I only repost images with ALT text. I won't knowingly repost AI.

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🕹️🐮Celly Charms@cellycharms.bsky.social · last wk.

Every fucking day some new company goes "oh yeah let's market the product that literally and directly funds the genocide of transgender people" You have no idea what its like to walk through life losing places, and seeing how little value you actually have versus a fucking donut.

🕹️🐮Celly Charms@cellycharms.bsky.social · last wk.

If there is one lesson I have learned in this fucking awful, exhausting culture war, it is that if you dont stand for something then the people watching you will see that it's okay to not stand for something. Every Tim Horton's purchase you don't make now makes Harry Potter more harmful to market.

Mike Friedman@mfriedmannola.bsky.social · last wk.

Don't fucking buy Tim Horton's food, y'all. Don't buy anything that ties with with Harry Potter. DO NOT GIVE THAT GARBAGE PERSON ANY MORE OF YOUR MONEY. She doesn't need another cent of it. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Achronal Art@achronalart.bsky.social · 4d ago

I've been wondering if some of it was seeing the daring new tight-ankled silhouette of Poiret's harem pants (left) and copying it in skirts, missing the point that pants *freed the legs to move* Not a fan of the hobble skirt, although I like other aspects of 1910s fashions 🗃️🪡 #FashionHistory

1911, Black and white photo of two women dressed in sultana skirts and harem pants designed by Paul Poiret, from Wikimediacirca. 1913 fashion plate #L 1921 from the Netherlandish fashion magazine "'De Gracieuse' Geillustreerde Aglaja" A white woman wearing a Poiret-influenced evening dress. The bodice is lavender with long tight sleeves and a deep V-neck filled in with white lace, belted snugly under the breasts. The lavender expands into a sort of almost-bustle overskirt, with more white lace draped to mid-thigh in front. The long skirt underneath that is pale blueish lavender and super tight at the ankles, a classic hobble skirt, with a bit of a train. She also wears a bright green turban with a big black feather aigrette and carries a white fan. Her shoes are pale blue satin, her gloves are white, and she does not seem to be wearing any jewelry.
Alison Fisk@alisonfisk.bsky.social · 5d ago

A rare and fragile survival from Viking-age York! A delicate silk cap made of hand-spun, undyed silk, c. AD 875-950 Silk was an exotic material imported via a vast network of Viking trade routes. Found during excavations at Coppergate in 1980. Yorkshire Museum 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

My photo shows a hood-shaped silk cap from Viking Age York displayed on a thin metal stand against a dark display case background at the Yorkshire Museum. It is made from a rectangle of hand-spun, undyed silk, and shaped at the back by a centre seam. The pale silk is yellowy-gold in colour with a shiny lustre. The edges have been neatened with fine hems. According to the museum, it was probably worn with ties to fasten it to the head, as it includes the remains of two groups of stitches with which to attach ties. The museum says that the silk cap was likely worn by a female Anglo-Scandinavian resident of York. Also that “Silk was incredibly rare in the Viking North because it was not made locally. Silk-weaving is a Chinese technology, but by the 10th-century, the practice had reached the Arabian Peninsula, the Byzantine Empire, and parts of North Africa and Spain. Silk used to make the cap was imported from one of these places. The fine, pale-toned material would have been recognised in the town as a highly expensive and exotic fashion item”.
Richard Garfinkle@rgarfinklesff.bsky.social · 5d ago

I realized that monstrousness fit in there. The recognition of the potentially harmful humanlike being. The rest followed from following that emergent idea into the problems it could solve and the problems it could generate.

Richard Garfinkle@rgarfinklesff.bsky.social · 5d ago

The more I looked at it, the more I saw something that seemed common to all human societies, so I figured it had to fit into something basic in human thought. I was already aware of and had written about the part false positives in recognition played in art.

Achronal Art@achronalart.bsky.social · last wk.

Not many people realize how very short Queen Victoria was. (Also she was blonde, at least as a young woman -- black and white film of the time was only sensitive to blue light so it made yellow hair look *far* darker than it was, and it made blue eyes look ghostly white)

Kate Strasdin@katestrasdin.bsky.social · last wk.

When I was 19, I helped to mount a mourning dress belonging to Queen Victoria. Such was her silhouette that she seemed to emerge like a spectral figure. She forged longstanding relationships with dressmakers, many of whom appear in Dressing the Queen @londonmuseum.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Two curators putting the finishing touches to the mounting of one of Queen Victoria’s late c19th mourning gowns
Trung Le Nguyen@trungles.com · 2w ago

Darcy notably softens in Georgiana’s eyes! That’s such a sweet detail. I love that she gets to enjoy a new side of her brother, livelier and more pleasant.

Trung Le Nguyen@trungles.com · 2w ago

****Like, if you enjoyed Wandavision, I encourage you to think about it within the context of the lineage of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” considering that both Wanda and Jean Grey were created 60s as the occult, psychics, and psychedelics were in the cultural consciousness

Trung Le Nguyen@trungles.com · 2w ago

“When I wrote that letter,” replied Darcy, “I believed myself perfectly calm and cool; but I am since convinced that it was written in a dreadful bitterness of spirit.” There are legions of guys on message boards and in people’s replies who need to have this hot-iron branded onto their asses.