#and this was the 1910s - holy shit

[the-og-gay-cousin]

Today I learned that the scientific name for a bumblebee is fucking bombus.

#According to wikipedia #The tribe name for the bumblebee #is fucking bombini #The wikipedia page feels fake #I mean #Holy shit #There's a 1910 story about some mouse named Mrs. Tittlemouse and there's a bee in it named Babbity Bumble #Jesus Christ there's a bug named a cockchafer #What the fuck the word dumbledor is an old provincial word for the bumblebee I cannot #bees I guess

[emeraldcity1900]

the history of animation in a nutshell

Early 1900s: hey what if comic strips could like move?

Late 1910s early 1920s hey what if we mashed this up with live action people?

late 1920s: hey what if this thing had sound?

Early to mid 1930s: hey what if this had people actually talking and also color?

late 1930s: hey you know that super cool movie that one lady animated with paper cut out silhouettes? What if we did that with painted cells? Would people even pay to see that? Never mind it turns out the answer is yes.

1940s: ah shit most of our animators got drafted and/or hate us now cause we weren’t paying them. IT’S PROPAGANDA TIME BABY. Also haha hitler got hit with a mallet and also the most racist depictions of Japanese people ever.

1950s to 1960s : oh what’s this newfangled thing? Television? What if you could air cartoons on it? Oh fuck no I ain’t paying that much to get the charecters to have different backgrounds and for the charecters to like, move fluidly. Also manga and anime are steadily growing more popular.

1970s: (Ralph Bakshi walks into a comics store and finds a furry comic) X rated animated movie? *cue the screams of mothers and their unsuspecting children now being introduced to the revolutionary idea that cartoons don’t equal kids stuff? WHAT IS THE WORLD COMING TO?

1980s to 1990s: we can have full on animated Broadway musicals? Wait, what do you mean animated movies can count for the Oscar’s? What do you mean now they get their own catagory because the academy still thinks their for babies? Anime and manga are taking off in the west. SWEET JESUS WHAT DRUGS ARE THE JAPANESE ON SHOWING THIS SHIT TO KIDS. But also why is it so fucking good. Maybe some of these aren’t even meant for kids? Wait We can sell toys to kids with cartoons? Wait we can actually put effort into these cartoons on television? The fuck to you mean we can animate in 3D now? What do you mean we can have well animated, well written sitcom shows like the simpsons? What do you mean you can make cartoon charecters say fuck? What drugs are creators at Nickelodeon on? Do I even want to know?

2000s: oh my god, there is this one show that I really like cause it’s really well written and genuinely funny but I can’t talk about it because it’s animated and we all know cartoons are for babies right? Oh look it’s the transformers movie, look how far CGI has evolved so we can make the transformers in a movie.

2010s: holy shit I know these shows are for kids but they’re just well written and have so much meaningful things to say about the world. Wait, it’s cool to like cartoons now? They they have fandoms for this? Fuck yeah I’m in. (Enters one of the most notoriously toxic fandoms of all time) THEY HAVE GAY PEOPLE IN THESE SHOWS NOW? AND COMPLEX EMOTIONAL STORYTELLING? AND ADULT ANIMATED SHOWS CAN BE MORE THAN JUST SITCOMS WITH THE SAME JOKES AND STYLE? WHY IS IT THAT EVERY DISNEY CARTOON SINCE GRAVITY FALLS INCLUDE THINGS THAT GET MORE AND MORE FUCKED UP? WHY DO I FUCKING LOVE IT? WHY THE FUCK DID DISNEY DO THE OWL HOUSE DIRTY LIKE THAT?

2020s: I got this show I wanna pitch but it dosen’t fit into any box that the networks want and also I’m afraid that they’ll just randomly cancel it before I can finish the story I want to tell. Wait, I can just post the pilot on my YouTube channel, see if anybody actually likes this thing I made and just make the show independently? FUCK THE NETWORK! I AM THE NETWORK

#Animation #indie animation #cartoons #classic cartoons #disney #warner bros #Out of the inkwell #Flesher studios #Gravity falls #star vs the forces of evil #amphiba #the owl house #steven universe #Bojack horseman #glitch productions #ramshackle #the amazing digital circus #Murder drones #lackadaisy #hazbin hotel #Ducktales #infinity train #ralph bakshi #fritz the cat #sailor moon #neon genesis evengelion #revolutionary girl utena #helluva boss #the simpsons #south park

[moonlightsmasquerade]

MiM Six reporting back to the other monsters about what's going on outside in each decade

1910s - Things have gone to shit

1920s - Things have improved and everyone is rich I guess

1930s - Nevermind, they lost everything and now things are shit again

1940s - Holy shit, the shit just got even worse

1950s - Things have improved again and there's people pulling some really rad dance moves too

1960s - Oh shit, things have gone to shit again

1970s - They're... trying to touch the moon?

1980s - Would you look at that, they actually managed to touch the moon

AHAHA XD

#mim six being like oh damn shits crazy #XDDD

[usergrantaire]

thought i’d pick this up again so here are some more gilded age thoughts lol

here be spoilers

- i love love looooove giant 1880s–1910s hats

- fuck george russell and all these other robber baron union busters

- peggy’s son being dead kind of feels like a copout :/

- did oscar get hate crimed like thomas did??? (nvm just mugged)

- the russells’ newport mansion is the elms

- does fellowes know he’s allowed to have more than one main gay per show?

- “backing the losing side” the met opera is still around today and the academy of music stopped putting on opera in 1886 before being demolished completely in 1926 lol

- audra mcdonald the mother that you are

- marian’s gaydar is negative zero lmao

- mrs russell is going to pawn gladys off to a broke duke i know we can all see it coming from a mile away

- yeah we all know marian and larry are going to be endgame too lol

- the little girl dresses should have bustles too

- “more than i’ve ever felt for any other woman” well that’s technically not a lie

- daddy capitalism patrick page

- “i suppose she’s afraid of fortune hunters” no she’s just waiting for the right (aka titled) fortune hunter to come along lol

- god forbid a woman does anything (side note meryl streep junior’s acting has improved)

- pumpkin!

- “perhaps you do not value loyalty” clearly considering how her family emigrated from ireland due to the famine and now she wants to marry gladys off to an english lord

- if i were alive back then i would absolutely be working class but probably more in the opera singer/ballerina sense of working class. does that make sense

- i looooove trashy romantic subplots so i am so here for the jack/bridget/adelheid downstairs love triangle lmao

- holy shit the russell valet is flora’s dad

anyway that’s it for the week see y’all next week

#kei watches the gilded age #the gilded age #gilded age hbo

[renthony]

Official verdict on the new Interview With the Vampire after watching episode 1:

Better than the movie, better than the book, everything I wanted and more, 100000/10, everyone please go fucking watch it, I need it to succeed.

Louis being a Black gay businessman in 1910's New Orleans is SUCH a good interpretation of his character, holy fuck. I'm completely captivated by Jacob Anderson's performance. The scene in the confessional in episode one fucking broke me. It's so goddamn good, holy shit. If he doesn't win a trillion awards, I'll be so mad.

#original post

[reverendlazarus]

HOLY SHIT THEYRE IN 1910s CLOTHES OH FUCK OH MY GOD WAIT OH MY GOD WAIT GUYS ITS ME MR AUTISTIC ABOUT ABOUT EDWARDIAN FASHION MY FAVORITE FAILTEENS IN 1910 CLOTHES I LITERALLY DREW THES WEEKS AGO HELLO WHAT

#dndads

[practically-an-x-man]

Headcanon: The rest of the team is sometimes surprised with the terminology Jimmy uses, since he's from way back when, and they have to tell him "Jimmy we don't use that word anymore"

Extremely true!! I actually posted an incorrect quote kinda playing off this idea (here), and I've done some research into 1910's slang so I can implement it in milder ways as well. It's one-half just confused silence at some slang term that doesn't exist any more, and one-half genuinely needing to correct him on something that's probably not PC anymore.

Though thankfully, he is and was a pretty accepting guy for his time, so these corrections are usually in the vein of "I know you mean well but the term is XYZ now" rather than "holy shit that's like. seriously a slur now wtf dude"

#my friends!!! #answered asks #my ocs #jimmy luciano #ask game

[the-fiction-witch]

Take My Hand P13

Media Irl x 1910

Character Thomas Brodie Sangster

Couple Thomas X Reader

Rating Adorable + Sad

Concept Take My Hand Series

|Y/n|

I barely got much sleep as I'd just been blushing all night, I got up nice and early getting my dress on for the day taking my journal and heading up to the deck to sketch and write in the early morning mist. I worked for a good few hours doing a drawing to the best of my ability of Thomas the first time I saw him.

When suddenly I was blinded and I could feel hands over my eyes.

"Guess who?"

"...uuhhh enlighten me" I giggled

"Hi" Thomas smiled sitting beside me on the bench

"Hi" I smiled back "you okay?'  I asked noticing how stiff he seemed

"Ohh fine. Just got an ass kicking is all"

"Holy toad what on earth for?"

"Oh you know day that ends in Y"

"Ohh dear. Would a kiss help?"

"I'm sure a kiss would absolutely help" he smiled so I happily have his cheek a kiss

"I made you something" I smiled budging closer

"Ohh? You did?'

"Umm here" I smiled showing him my journal which he carefully took

"Is that? Is that Me?"

"I did my best"

"Awww, that's adorable. Thank you y/n" he smiled taking my hand and giving it a kiss "you made me far to handsome, can I have the pencil?"

"Alright but don't ruin my work"

"I won't I promise" he took the pencil and began to sketch on the page next to my drawing often biting his lip or using the pencil to measure things and slowly I watched as he drew me, just as I sat now. "There, now I'll always have you beside me" he smiled

"You made me far too pretty."

"No, you really are that pretty" he smiled "my dad's gone to play poker with some friends, come on I wanna show you the suite" he says offering his hand I giggled but happily took it and he head me up to the promenade we walked down a little before we ducked into a privet lounge space with plants and windows to over look the outer deck

"This is part of the room?'

"Yeah part of the whole suite" he says leading me into a very impressive room, with its own facilities and bathroom, a sofa, chair, double bed, all so beautiful and shimmery

"This is your room?"

"Yeah, my room. My dad's is thought there but he's gone" he says "sit anywhere you'd like"

I giggled and immediately jumped on the big comfy bed bundling up with the covers he laughed at me but quickly tossed his jacket and jumped in too "your beds very cosy"

"Yeah it is. Even better with you here my little angel" he smiled giving my lips a gentle kiss, we chatted and kissed for a good while even if we often had to go dead quiet if we heard people around incase his father got back

"Why was your father hurting you? Really?"

"He found out about dinner last night. He wasn't happy. But I don't care what he thinks"

"Understandable he wouldn't be too happy about it."

"Trust me my little angel. It was well worth it" he smiled before giving me a little kiss

"Can I ask... about your mother?"

"Course."

"Is she... alive?"

"As far as I know. I haven't seen her for a very long time."

"Why not?"

"... My father had her admitted."

"He did? Why?"

"It's a long story. I haven't seen her since I was little but she's alive as far as I know."

"Would you want to see her?"

"I would. But he won't let me." He says "what about your family?"

"...I don't have any family. Not anymore."

"I see. Would you want a family?'

"Absolutely. I always wanted a big family"

"Me too." He smiled "maybe... we could build a big family together?"

"I'd like that. But this girl in new York"

"I have a plan about that"

"Oh? Enlighten me"

"All in good time" he smiled giving me a kiss

But the second he uttered those words we headed the deck door

"Shit" he said sitting up

"Thomas!" His father yelled

"Oh god, come on we'll sneak out" he whispered "take my hand" I quickly did and he helped me out the bed and we carefully snuck out the suite into the deck as his fathuwent in his own room, so quickly we opened the door scampering quickly before spotted us we couldn't stop giggling the whole way away from the suite

"He's going to kill me. It's almost dinner he was probably coming to drag me to some restaurant"

"Why don't you have dinner down here?"

"That would be okay?'

"Of course come on maybe we'll be able to get Yorkshire's if we're early' I smiled taking his hand and tugging him down to the dinning hall.

[purelyutilitarian]

ok you said you want people to share history stuff with you, and i was researching for a fic and found a bunch of information that i won’t end up using, so here it is:

there was a flood in johnstown pennsylvania in 1889, because the dam broke after a lot of rain. thousands of people died and there was like 500 million dollars (in todays money) in damages. the aftermath of the flood was one of the first times the red cross was really utilized after it’s creation. also liability laws were changed because of this flood :) and there’s a tourist attraction for it that you can visit.

the more you know.

I did a little research because somehow I had never heard of this before?? I’m absolutely fascinated thank you so much for sharing this.

Okay so the dam was owned by a VERY elite fishing/hunting club. Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and a few other big-name steel/railroad barons were members of the club, and having as much money as they did, they basically owned it and made all of the decisions. When they bought the dam, they “modified it to their recreational interests,” which means they lowered it by three feet so they could fish, which was later determined to be the cause of the failure in 1889.

The flood was “as wide as the Mississippi River and three times more powerful than Niagara Falls” which is absolutely insane to me. Also, according to this article it was nearly $4.5 BILLION in damages in todays money. Holy fuck.

This is dark, so just a warning for flood-related death: “bodies were found as far away as Cincinnati, Ohio—more than 400 miles away.” UM??!!!? 400 MILES IS A SEVEN HOUR DRIVE.

Clara Barton herself (founder and president of the Red Cross) stayed in Johnstown for five months and when she left, the people gave her “a gold pin and a locket, set in diamonds and amethysts, as a farewell present,” which is just a very sweet detail that I liked.

There’s lots of photography from the flood, and I encourage people to look it up, it’s breathtaking. The destruction is literally unfathomable. This image stood out to me though.

The rail car, tilted off the mangled tracks, with the debris of the town behind it, is a really beautiful representation of the event, knowing that it was caused by careless, leisure-seeking railroad barons (who were not held legally responsible for this flood at all. Like you said, liability laws were shit and this case was very instrumental in fixing that).

What’s even more interesting is that the flood happened in the middle of a really nasty labor war in the American Northeast in which the working class realized that the upper class did not value workers’/the working class’ wellbeing at all. I can imagine news of the flood would serve to fuel that growing anger, which led to numerous successful workers rights movements in the 1890s-1910s.

Anyways thank you so much Mary. I can’t believe I didn’t know about this, I feel like it’s an important piece of the American historical narrative.

(here are my sources, please if anyone knows more about this or if I got anything wrong, lmk)

#mary tag #history asks #what on earth were you writing that this was relevant information?? i love that sm #shit this post ended up being really long sorry

[nouveau-riche-princess]

come on bro chiropractors don’t have magic powers they can’t cure your back just stop holy shit i can’t believe people joke on Reiki and other (admittedly really stupid) alternative medicine shit, and then be like oh but chiropractors are good like listen to me. look me in the fucking eye. Chiropractors are a joke. There’s no indication that chiropractors can help with ANY issue, LITERALLY, even BACK PAIN. 

chiropractors are LITERALLY pseudoscience hacks. stop giving these fuckin 1910 ass scam artists your hard earned snake oil money.

[eurydicees]

Birthday asks: music rec or Wikipedia dive on Victorian era automata!

hello hello!! under the cut bc boy did this get out of hand :P

1. craving a music rec?

currently listening to my brain itch playlist, here are some of the recent spotify shuffle choices: 

new person, same old mistakes (tame impala) 

bridges (BROODS)

king (years & years) 

holy (zolita) 

4. let me teach you everything you’ll ever need to know about a topic i learned about from 10 minutes of wikipedia articles alone (ask about a topic or i’ll choose one)

ok SO. prior to this ask i knew nothing about victorian era automata. but let’s dive the fuck in. this stuff is so cool holy shit i’m PUMPED. 

so real quick let’s get some definitions. “automata” is just a self-operating machine, also known as an automaton (more common word). it’s generally associated with a machines that give off the impression that they operate via their own power (the electronic version would be animatronics, like you might see in it’s a small world or other similar rollercoaster rides).

aaaand i started reading the mathematical definitions and got overwhelmed so we’re gonna skip that bit. 

the victorian era (~1830s – 1900) is fun because this is where we start to get “modern” (as in, things start to get popularized and become cultural staples). looking at the first few decades of the victorian era, we got some fun inventors like innocenzo manzetti doing stuff like this: 

which would play music! which, honestly? insane. what the fuck. it could do 12 different songs, bow, stand up, and roll its eyes (why that was a necessary function i don’t know but it’s kinda hilarious). this is the same guy that built the first zamboni, which is not relevant but is kinda cool anyways. 

another guy who was building stuff was this french illusionist/magician/watchmaker/inventor, jean-eugène robert-houdin. he was the guy who made magician stuff entertainment for the rich rather than for the lower classes because he did his shows in a theatre in paris rather than at fairs. this man is not to be confused with harry houdini, whose name is in honor of jean-eugène robert-houdin. 

but i digress. he’s credited with the mystery clock, which is fun! he also built mechanical figurines like a singing bird and a dancer on a tightrope. he used his automata in his stage shows (for magic stuff, i guess? idk.) his biggest thing is an automaton that can write and draw, which he sold to p.t. barnum, who you may know from the greatest showman as the circus guy. 

ok so let’s fast forward to 1860s, which is considered the “golden age of automata.” as far as i can tell, this is in part because it becomes (a) popular and (b) production and exports go through the roof. this is super cool because a lot of them are from family based companies in small workshops rather than, like, a factory and sweatshop kind of situation. today, all this stuff is super rare/expensive, which sucks, but back then, these companies were thriving. this is particularly strong in the oh so lovely paris. common products are clockwork-based automata and mechanical singing birds! 

major manufacturers included roullet & decamps, a french company in the 19th-20th c. that went rip in 1995, and blaise bontems, who was a parisian and specialized in automata with really realistic birdsong. bontems’ singing bird boxes were exhibited in the london exhibition and the birds were supposedly life size and in cages, and it is genuinely tragic that there are no drawings included of them. they sound so cool. here’s what the singing boxes looked like, though: 

and here’s an actual photo: 

^^this one’s from 1890. i’m obsessed. god… the things i would give to have one of these……… 

anyways, the drawings are from a catalog from 1910, so a little past the victorian era. let’s rewind a bit. other big victorian automata projects were fortune tellers! they became accessible on boardwalks in britain and the USA, and were coin operated. wind up toys were also made in mass, and european creators started making them out of tin in the 1880s. once the alkaline battery became popular in the 60s, wind up toys and what not kinda died out. f in the chat tbh. 

a lot of this stuff is currently being collected in museums! for example, there’s the musée d'automates et de boîtes à musique in switzerland, which specializes in musical boxes. there’s also the cuckooland museum in the UK, which has more than 700 cuckoo clocks. 

overall, very cool topic. 10/10. i feel like i learned an appropriate amount of useless information. thank you very very much <3 

the wikipedia pages i looked at: 

automatons

innocenzo manzetti  

roullet & decamps

blaise bontems

singing bird box

wind up toy

jean-eugène robert-houdin

#ask #wikipedia deep dive hour

[rigaudon]

skimming that "less than 1% of the world had electricity in the 1910s" person's blog because i have nothing better to do on a monday night when im already in a bad mood and i want to see what other bad takes they have

um. holy shit???????

#imagine me scrambling backwards out of this blog so fast the rubber melts off the soles of my shoes as i whisper ''yikes'' to myself #this post isn't even an outlier #im not censoring their blog name because holy shit?????????

[tackysapphic]

the problem with having a class covering modern art from the 1910s-80s is that you can’t spend time really diving into each artist in the way they deserve. For example. Arshile Gorky. We spent a few minutes going over a couple of his pieces, and in like a single breath my professor said how he was born in Armenia, sought refuge here, became an artist, got cancer, had he wife leave him, and died. I would have loved to spend more time on him, I don’t know much about him but he’s been mentioned heavily in Ninth Street Women so I know he played a huge role in the abstract expressionism movement and like was in Pollock/Krasner/the de Koonings circle, and I wish we had the time to go into more of his pieces. I think we only looked at 2 of his own original works, and then one he did in the style of Cezanne and one in the style of Picasso. Dude had a deeply tragic life like holy shit my man

#kj.txt

[robinsnest2111]

depending on how well everything works I might be getting the antique sewing machine tomorrow 👀

#HOLY SHIT WTF #also all the special feet for rolled hems and pintucks???? wtfffff????? #can only look at it in detail tomorrow tho. gotta wait for the key to unlock the box on top of the machine #the treadle works tho!!!!! aaahhhhhhhh #looks to be a machine fron around 1910s to 1920s???

[dnds]

sometimes trans history is funny. like this bitch just straight up lied to the king of france abt being afab i love it

#greer rambles #sorry trans history is so often just. awful to learn about (because so many historical trans people's stories end with 'they examined them #after they died + found out they were trans + subsequently broader society lost all respect for them #so i really like to relish in just the. fun parts sometimes #thats also not to say all trans representation in history - which is kind of contentious anyways bc as society evolves what it means to be #trans changes with it and the modern idea of being trans #might not always fit 1:1 with the experiences of those in the past #due to a variety of factors #including but not limited to how difficult it was (and is) to exist as a trans person #- anyways not all trans history os depressing #or even ambiguous; #amelio robles ávila is one of my favorite trans historical figures bc #1) he was a revolutionary during the mexican revolution which. based #2) he was unequivocally trans #and #most importantly #3) his decision to live as a man was completely respected by his family and community #and this was the 1910s - holy shit #also apparently if anyone referred to him as a woman he would threaten them with a pistol #he also lived a long ass time bc he died in 1984 at the age of 95. king.

[many-gay-magpies]

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#and OF COURSE the first document i choose to use for the source sheets is a 24-page journal article about the american reformatory prison- #-system from 1910 #of c o u r s e #this is so fucking hard to read holy shit im suffering #magpie thoughts