Zachary - 23 - NC - white -
he/him/his and ze/hir/hirs - also @genderwitchcraft - queer trans and quoiromantic - kin with a lot - primaries are Asriel Dreemurr, Twilight Sparkle, Klaus Hargreeves, angelkin and catkin
bigboxofbees asked:
Did you know that beetle wings used to be sewn onto dresses? Like, hundreds of them on each dress? It's equally creepy and beautiful.
To everyone in the comments- No, the beetles aren’t killed for their wings. These jewel beetles have short adult lives (2-3 weeks) and the wing casings are harvested after their death to ensure their conservation.
The Victorians did not invent beetlewing art. This species of beetle is indigenous to South and South East Asia where beetle wing art actually originated. Thailand, India, Myanmar, China, and Japan all practiced beetlewing art before the Victorians. Most notably, they have been used for centuries in clothing and art in the Thai royal court. Queen Sirikit has promoted beetlewing art in an effort to revive Thailand’s art and cultural history. Queen Sirikit has also forbidden the harvesting of the wing casings prior to the beetle’s death to protect them.
Unfortunately, it is hard to find old Thai art online but here are a couple of examples.
(Date and artist unknown. Thailand.)
(René Mancini, 1980.) Belongs to Queen Sirikit.
please reblog this version of this post, this is amazing
A lot of 21st century people look at all the layers that people in past centuries wore and think it’s a hellava lot of trouble and inconvenience. But elaborate outer dresses like these are the reason why.
Linen shifts and under bodices, and petticoats and all, are lightweight and easy to clean, so those got cleaned often. (and if a stain doesn’t come out completely, they’re underwear – who’s gonna see it?).
And the outermost clothes were hardly washed at all.
Oh no you got too close to the blanket hoard, face licks incoming!
OH MY GOSH THE TEEFS
IS HE A GREYHOUND? I LOVE THOSE WEIRD DEER SO MUCH. THEY’RE SO DERPY AND I LOVE THEM T_T
I have a friend who got a rescue greyhound and she is literally my favorite dog that isn’t my own lmao (everyone should go to her facebook page for good good Greyhound content https://www.facebook.com/youreveningpupdate/)
Yes indeed! An ex-racing greyhound aka weird deer aka pony shark. We have two and they share a brain cell. But not a sofa. They each have their own sofa.
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[codename Tiny McTinypants (normal size greyhound) as a monster and Sofa Dragon (huge greyhound) as a pumpkin, for Hallowe’en 2020]
Thank you for sharing your friend’s greyhound page because I always need more noodle horse content in my life! 😍
Thank YOU for sharing these beautiful babies with meeee 😭 they’re perfect and amazing
This is Rosalyn. She is round and evil. Her favorite pass times are jumping on laptop keyboards and knocking things off of flat surfaces.
This is Heidi, my roommate’s cat. She screams for soup at noon every day.
This is my grandparents’ cat, Lily. She is heavy and solid and gallops across the house very loudly. Putting her on a diet made her IBS worse, so they are trying to exercise her more to get her weight down instead. She does not like this.
This is my roommate’s parents’ cat and her fresh beans. They were a few hours old in this picture! We will be bringing one of them home to live with Rosalyn and Heidi when they’re old enough to be adopted
the shooting in Atlanta of 8 massage parlour workers by a white man was a white supremacist hate crime and the latest in a series of attacks on Asians in the US. however, it’s also extremely important to note that the group he targeted are a community that is already more vulnerable to state violence than many, in form of police raids, deportations, and systematised stigmatisation. this is an industry that’s often conflated with and overlapping with sex work, and the industry has faced decades of criminalisation and dehumanisation, with a long history of being targeted by cops and systemic injustice along with racialised misogyny and fetishisation. they are also often excluded from conversations about the latest rise of anti-asian racism in the US, since many do not fulfill the “american” part of asian-american.
if can donate, also consider donating to red canary song, butterfly, and swan, grassroots organisations and activists that fight for migrant and labour justice for migrant workers and sex workers.
i think the most trouble i had with any of these was the GTTB outfit, i tried to give it the same vibes as the original design (it was a triple denim outfit jacket, skirt,pants) and the rest just kinda…flowed :3 Dizzy next~!!!!
i think the most trouble i had with any of these was the GTTB outfit, i tried to give it the same vibes as the original design (it was a triple denim outfit jacket, skirt,pants) and the rest just kinda…flowed :3 Dizzy next~!!!!
