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marzipanandminutiae · 52 minutes
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Lesbian GENtern and her barista girlfriend living in a crappy apartment until she finishes her residency (surprise the GENterns are actually all doctors in the final stages of their training; the name is just a derogatory nickname that they chose to collectively reclaim. they may do their job in minidresses, but they still DO it)
because even though the pay is actually pretty good, they're saving up to move out east when she completes her time at GeneCo. the mortality rates are higher in New York, but at least you're allowed to wear scrubs
she's actually already bought her first pair of scrubs, aspirationally. they have origami cranes on them and she uses them as pajamas
they both try not to think "if she finishes"
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A little glass vial?
A LITTLE GLASS VIAL!
And the little glass vial goes into the gun like a battery...
(okay now imagine my friend and I doing almost the whole song in the locker room while getting dressed after gym class c. 2009. god we must have been obnoxious, but we did have fun)
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she has a fucking chokehold on me.
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marzipanandminutiae · 11 hours
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announcing that you lost the game is nothing. ahem:
zydrate comes in a little glass vial
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marzipanandminutiae · 13 hours
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yes! i do like [problematic thing]! and unfortunately i am under no obligation to defend my interests to strangers on the internet. good day and thank you for your time
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marzipanandminutiae · 14 hours
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so did that the vampire get the job
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Cameos featuring detailed profiles of Black men and women in precious metals and jewels were popular in many European countries. The ones above date circa 1600-1800. Some art historians relate the style above to depictions of the goddess Diana, others relate them to the association of Blackness and wealth that came though trade in the Middle ages and Renaissance.
You can read more about cameos like these in Black Africans in Renaissance Europe By K. J. P. Lowe, p. 204-206, and Early Modern Visual Culture: Representation, Race, and Empire in Renaissance England By Peter Erickson & Clark Hulse, p. 193-198.
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marzipanandminutiae · 14 hours
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marzipanandminutiae · 14 hours
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yeah, I personally suspect it wasn't hair- or at least not hair specifically, but the whole parcel of "oh shit, even when I marry a woman close to the bare minimum acceptable age, she still looks post-pubescent. horrors!"
it WAS something about her body, though, and her accounting of the reason hints that he never had seen an adult woman naked outside of a painting. she wrote:
"...finally this last year he told me his true reason... that he had imagined women were quite different to what he saw I was, and that the reason he did not make me his Wife was because he was disgusted with my person the first evening."
and Ruskin himself said to his lawyer during the annulment proceedings:
"It may be thought strange that I could abstain from a woman who to most people was so attractive. But though her face was beautiful, her person was not formed to excite passion. On the contrary, there were certain circumstances in her person which completely checked it."
I will remind readers that her second husband, Millais, apparently had no problem getting her pregnant at least eight times
there's no proof that that was the issue, but given his other behavior...I have suspicions
holy shit, John Ruskin (1819-1900) was a creep
guy meets Effie Gray when she's 12 and he's 21, stays in continuous contact with her, then marries her when she's 19. refuses to consummate the marriage- despite writing a letter about his eagerness for the wedding-night undressing -because some unspecified aspect of her body disgusts him, and it's annulled several years later, at which point she marries artist John Everett Millais (who has no such hangups- they go on to have eight children)
then he meets Rose la Touche when he is hired as her art tutor at age 39 and she is 10. remains close with her, writes paens of praise to her childish beauty...and then tries to marry her when she's 18. thankfully her parents reach out to Gray- you know, the woman who very publicly did not want to stay married to him -to ask what he was like as a husband. she reports that he's "oppressive" and they forbid the match. he later asks for Rose's hand AGAIN when she's 21 and therefore of legal age, and she still refuses him
years LATER he claims that Rose's spirit is telling him to marry a girl who's visiting his family. I don't know the age of this girl, but given that at least one commentator described her using that term- girl -I'm not optimistic
he also asked illustrator Kate Greenaway to draw naked little girls for him, so. there's that, in the context of his other behavior
people gloss over this to a disturbing degree because they value his work, it seems like, based on my brief research
(I've genuinely seen someone say "but he didn't try to court Rose la Touche formally until she was 18!!!" DUDE. he still spent ALL OF THE INTERVENING YEARS CLOSE WITH HER and then PROPOSED THE SECOND IT WAS SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE. that is NOT ANY LESS CREEPY!)
("he just admired children's innocence and beauty!" okay, yes, that would be innocuous enough out of context...but it does not lead you to attempt to marry the object of your admiration, though, usually? if you're not a Total Creep?)
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marzipanandminutiae · 14 hours
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Historians going places like Blorbo From My Career Was Here 🥺
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Victorian ventilated corset, courtesy of the Leicester County Council.
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marzipanandminutiae · 16 hours
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The biggest scam your brain is telling you is that everybody else is human and allowed to make mistakes but that you yourself have to be perfect and flawless to deserve their company
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Tolstoy and Dickens are two Great MenTM that I often feel myself ready to go back in time and slaughter, on behalf of their wives
(obviously enjoy their work if you enjoy it- you won't be giving them money or anything and them being horrible people doesn't make them not talented. but. god.)
And speaking of Sophia Tolstoy, her diaries are just so depressing. 
“I am to gratify his pleasure and nurse his child, I am a piece of household furniture, I am a woman. I try to suppress all human feelings. When the machine is working properly it heats the milk, knits a blanket, makes little requests and bustles about trying not to think […].“
She wrote this when she was 19, one year into her marriage to Leo and as she was pregnant with the first of his 13 children.
A few years later, when she was 25 or so:
“I am so often alone with my thoughts that the need to write in my diary comes quite naturally … Now I am well again and not pregnant—it terrifies me how often I have been in that condition. He said that for him being young meant “I can achieve anything”. For me […] reason tells me that there is nothing I either want or can do beyond nursing, eating, drinking, sleeping, and loving and caring for my husband and babies, all of which I know is happiness of a kind, but why do I feel so woeful all the time, and weep as I did yesterday? I am writing this now with the pleasantly exciting sense that nobody will ever read it, so I can be quite frank with myself […].“
During her 12th pregnancy she wrote about taking scalding baths and jumping from high pieces of furniture to try and miscarry.  And at one point while reading her husband’s diary (which he told her to read) she found the sentence “There is no such thing as love, only the physical need for intercourse and the practical need for a life companion.” In her own diary she wrote “They ebb and flow like waves, these times when I realise how lonely I am and want only to cry…”
A few years before her husband’s death, she published a cycle of prose poems titled “Groans”, under the pseudonym “A Tired Woman”.
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marzipanandminutiae · 18 hours
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(day dress suitable for semiformal occasions)
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ab. 1873 Grey blue visiting dress by House of Worth (Charles Frederick Worth)
silk faille and silk taffeta trimmed with steel beads
(Albany Institute of History & Art)
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have you seen kaz rowe's video essay on the fashion in crimson peak?
Yes. I...didn't like it much.
For one thing, the idea of "tuberculosis chic" seems wildly misrepresented in a lot of Pop HistoryTM. From my research, it was less that women tried to look or act like they had consumption and more like the symptoms of consumption could mimic pre-existing beauty and behavior standards. It didn't change fashion; fashion led to the romanticization of the disease.
I also feel like the idea of the beautifully consumptive heroine doesn't apply here because:
Nobody has consumption. Edith coughs blood into a handkerchief, sure, but we know what's wrong with her. There's no mysterious Victorian novel disease going on.
Edith doesn't look more beautiful when she's sick. She looks sick: hobbling around crouched over, hair dry and frizzy, eyes red and squinting. There's no point being made here about the ~beauty of illness~ if the ill woman looked much better when she was well.
They also kept mentioning mourning, which surprised me because mourning only appears twice in this movie: at the funerals of the Cushing parents. Lucille's black dress would not have been suitable for deep mourning due to its red rose, shiny silk underskirt, and brown acorn passementerie. And later/lighter mourning would really only be recognizable as such in context, given that black was also just a fashionable color.
That video honestly turned me off of Rowe's content in general, though I could be persuaded to try it again given that that was one of their earlier pieces.
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