#historicals

[bearie-lovely]

💞 some doodles of my fave historical girlies 💞

#my first attempt at ag fanart !! #the sam drawing was the first one I’d which is why she’s a diff style! #after drawing her I decided I wanted to try to make them closer to their face molds/ general unique doll features 💞 #hence claudies eyelashes and nellies huge bow !!! #anyway all I want to do now is draw the girls!! #I have 3 essays I have to write before next week tho rip but maybe after that as a reward ill do nothing but indulge in my ag obsession #10yo me would be so pleased #shut up deanie #my drawings #american girl #ag #american girl dolls #cecile rey #claudie wells #melody ellison #samantha parkington #nellie o'malley #ag fanart #historicals

[swedebeast]

Before and after.

I think dry-brushing was the right call to make after all.

#turnip28 #turnip 28 #minis #WIP #miniatures #historicals #war game

[mortallyminiaturewerewolf]

November Mini Challenge 1/30

So I'm gonna try and complete* 1 mini a day for all of October. First up is this ""French"" Officer for Silver Bayonet, the Gothic Horror Napoleonic Wargame

He's painted up in something vaguely resembling the colours Légion Irlandaise (Irish Legion) This is somewhat a cheat as I had him basecoated for millennia, just had to finish the sword and give him a wash. Silver Bayonet seems like a fun system too, I will have to give it a go when I have these minis painted

*not counting basing or varnishing, I like to do those in large batches anyways

#Wargaming #mini painting #historicals #(I mean it's technically historical #as historical as you can get with werewolves and vampires) #napoleonics #silver bayonet

[rainbow-romper]

I think this is so disappointing of Mattel. They sent @Lemonbaydoll and @thepapercostumier on Instagram and Etsy a cease and desist with their work. Tory, the paper doll creator I follow on Instagram had this really cool and cute paper doll series of grown up historical girls (in the time period they would be adults) and riffing with the girls’ outfits from the collections but newly styled to fit their new time period and adult status. Attached below is some examples- I couldn’t find a lot because it seemed it got wiped. It’s just unfortunate because while I understand protecting your artistic IP the paper dolls feels more in the realm of what Pleasant Company was than what American girl is now :/ anyways I’d love to hear all of your thoughts!

#american girl doll #american girl #ag #american girl dolls #ag dolls #dollblr #agig #historical dolls #historicals #american girl doll collection #ag dollblr #ag doll #agdollstagram #dolls #american girl brand #claudie wells #emily bennett #kirsten larson #world by us #kirsten #paper dolls #paper dollblr #pleasant company

[pers-books]

⭐ SALE! ⭐ History in the making! Click the link above to save up to 60% on audio adventures featuring historical figures. Offers expire 23:59 UK time on 20 March 2023. 

#Big Finish #Sale #Audio Drama #Historicals #Doctor Who #Torchwood

[anteregem]

Some fanart of this ancient figurine! Also got commissioned to draw her hanging out with a friend!

#Mexican art #Xochipala #Ancient art #history #historical art

[skankhunt44]

#memes #funny #lol #humor #meme #jokes #dank meme #dank memes #dank humor #funny meme #historically accurate

[saja-star]

I've had a hard time articulating to people just how fundamental spinning used to be in people's lives, and how eerie it is that it's vanished so entirely. It occurred to me today that it's a bit like if in the future all food was made by machine, and people forgot what farming and cooking were. Not just that they forgot how to do it; they had never heard of it.

When they use phrases like "spinning yarns" for telling stories or "heckling a performer" without understanding where they come from, I imagine a scene in the future where someone uses the phrase "stir the pot" to mean "cause a disagreement" and I say, did you know a pot used to be a container for heating food, and stirring was a way of combining different components of food together? "Wow, you're full of weird facts! How do you even know that?"

When I say I spin and people say "What, like you do exercise bikes? Is that a kind of dancing? What's drafting? What's a hackle?" it's like if I started talking about my cooking hobby and my friend asked "What's salt? Also, what's cooking?" Well, you see, there are a lot of stages to food preparation, starting with planting crops, and cooking is one of the later stages. Salt is a chemical used in cooking which mostly alters the flavor of the food but can also be used for other things, like drawing out moisture...

"Wow, that sounds so complicated. You must have done a lot of research. You're so good at cooking!" I'm really not. In the past, children started learning about cooking as early as age five ("Isn't that child labor?"), and many people cooked every day their whole lives ("Man, people worked so hard back then."). And that's just an average person, not to mention people called "chefs" who did it professionally. I go to the historic preservation center to use their stove once or twice a week, and I started learning a couple years ago. So what I know is less sophisticated than what some children could do back in the day.

"Can you make me a snickers bar?" No, that would be pretty hard. I just make sandwiches mostly. Sometimes I do scrambled eggs. "Oh, I would've thought a snickers bar would be way more basic than eggs. They seem so simple!"

Haven't you ever wondered where food comes from? I ask them. When you were a kid, did you ever pick apart the different colored bits in your food and wonder what it was made of? "No, I never really thought about it." Did you know rice balls are called that because they're made from part of a plant called rice? "Oh haha, that's so weird. I thought 'rice' was just an adjective for anything that was soft and white."

People always ask me why I took up spinning. Isn't it weird that there are things we take so much for granted that we don't even notice when they're gone? Isn't it strange that something which has been part of humanity all across the planet since the Neanderthals is being forgotten in our generation? Isn't it funny that when knowledge dies, it leaves behind a ghost, just like a person? Don't you want to commune with it?

#spinning #historical reenactment #fiber arts #history

[cy-lindric]

Merry Christmas sleepyheads !

#dream of the magi #historical redraws #medieval #christmas #three wise roomates

[snailspng]

16th century flower illustration PNGs.

(source: Book of Flower Studies, ca. 1510–1515)

#png #pngs #transparent #moodboard #artboard #imageboard #sticker #stickers #collage #mixed media #16th century #1500s #historical

[enbycrip]

EDITED TO ADD: Sources from the OP in the comments

#trans #nonbinary #trans nonbinary #ancient history #sumer #gender #we have always been here #historical trans people #you cannot legislate us away and you cannot wipe us out while humanity still exists #we are as perennial as the grass #inanna #trans is sacred

[yourangle-yuordevil]

That time in ancient Greece when Aziraphale needed a speedy horse and accidentally invented the pegasus

VS.

Whatever Crowley had going on in medieval times

#Crowley just really misses the unicorns ok??? #Also Crowley didn't start from a horse to make a new unicorn #he looked at a horse and was like.... nah #then looked at a goat and was like YEAAAAH LET'S GOO LET'S MAKE YOU BIG AF AND YOU CAN ALSO SPIT FIRE WHAT A GREAT IDEA!! #While Aziraphale is fretting over the fact that he accidentally gave WINGS to a HORSE and every time that the angels asks about it he's lik #whaaat?? PegaSUS naaaah never heard about it. Must be a made up thing. humans...right?? silly little things ahahah *sweat nervously* #good omens #crowley #aziraphale #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #pegasus #unicorn #Do I wanna draw the precious good omens beans? yes. #is this an excuse to draw more horses? also yes. #medieval crowley #ancient greek aziraphale #CAVALLIIIIIII 🐎🐴🐎🐴🐎🐴🐎🐴 #good omens comic #historical husbands

[lackadaisycal-art]

I'm getting so sick of major female characters in historical media being incredibly feisty, outspoken and public defenders of women's rights with little to no realistic repercussions. Yes it feels like pandering, yes it's unrealistic and takes me out of the story, yes the dialogue almost always rings false - but beyond all that I think it does such a disservice to the women who lived during those periods. I'm not embarrassed of the women in history who didn't use every chance they had to Stick It To The Man. I'm not ashamed of women who were resigned to or enjoyed their lot in life. They weren't letting the side down by not having and representing modern gender ideals. It says a lot about how you view average ordinary women if the idea of one of your main characters behaving like one makes them seem lame and uninteresting to you.

#feminism #media criticism #this doesn't apply to media with large casts of female characters where one or the other is uncommonly outspoken or ahead of her time #and it is dealt with realistically in the setting #im not saying women in the past couldnt be wild and headtsrong and revolutionary #i just think treating it as an essential whenever a female love interest gets added to a historical story about some man is wearing

[mortallyminiaturewerewolf]

November Mini Challenge 3/30

A tenth of the way there WOOO!

Today's mini is this WW2 French Partisan figure from Warlord Games based off the famous photo of Nicole Minét aka Simone Seguin

#historicals #mini painting

[rainbow-romper]

This is so cuteee! It reminds me of the old Disney Princess roommate web comic that was popular in like 2015 (omg I cannot remember the name of this- if I remember I’m gonna edit it)! EDIT: POCKET PRINCESSES ALSO THEY HAVE LIKE OVER 200 EPISODES I HAVENT READ AHHH!

Found via Instagram @pleasantpastofficial (if anyone knows if the creator has a tumblr lmk and l’ll put their tumblr as well!

#american girl doll #american girl #ag #american girl dolls #ag dolls #dollblr #agig #historical dolls #historicals #american girl doll collection #ag dollblr #ag doll #agdollstagram #dolls #american girl brand #claudie wells #kit kittredge #pocket princesses #Disney #Disney Princess

[daisywords]

One of my biggest nitpicks in fiction concerns the feeding of babies. Mothers dying during/shortly after childbirth or the baby being separated form the mother shortly after birth is pretty common in fiction. It is/was also common enough in real life, which is why I think a lot of writers/readers don't think too hard about this. however. Historically, the only reason the vast majority of babies survived being separated from their mother was because there was at least one other woman around to breastfeed them. Before modern formula, yes, people did use other substitutes, but they were rarely, if ever, nutritionally sufficient.

Newborns can't eat adult food. They can't really survive on animal milk. If your story takes place in a world before/without formula, a baby separated from its mother is going to either be nursed by someone else, or starve.

It doesn't have to be a huge plot point, but idk at least don't explicitly describe the situation as excluding the possibility of a wetnurse. "The father or the great grandmother or the neighbor man or the older sibling took and raised the baby completely alone in a cave for a year." Nope. That baby is dead I'm sorry. "The baby was kidnapped shortly after birth by a wizard and hidden away in a secret tower" um quick question was the wizard lactating? "The mother refused to see or touch her child after birth so the baby was left to the care of the ailing grandfather" the grandfather who made the necessary arrangements with women in the neighborhood, right? right? OR THAT GREAT OFFENDER "A newborn baby was left on the doorstep and they brought it in and took care of it no issues" What Are You Going to Feed That Baby. Hello?

Like. It's not impossible, but arrangements are going to have to be made. There are some logistics.

#idk what to tag this #worldbuilding #writing fiction #historical fiction #fantasy #a real-life example: my dad (a pediatrician) was once entrusted with the care of a baby who was born with a rare condition #this was in a place without great hospital/medical access and anyway they were going to fly the baby over #and he specifically asked them to bring the mother and baby #they show up with baby and...the baby's uncle #and he was like. y'all. do you think I asked for the mom to come just for fun??? We don't have formula here. what is the baby going to eat?