#victorian ridiculousness

[drieddpetals]

i just want to remind everyone that, since the grishaverse is kinda sorta based on the victorian era, and since wealthy victorian families dressed their toddlers (girls or boys) in dresses, and wylan was very wealthy growing up, there are definitely family portraits in existence of baby wylan wearing one of those goofy ass victorian baby dresses

#i could yap about victorian era fashion for DAYS #i did an entire three month school project on it and i still feel like i don't know enough #god it's just so cool #there were so many intricacies #hair lockets ????? #mourning clothes ???? #the absolute ridiculousness of mourning wear for women ????? #the slow integration of color the later the mourning period #it's just so cool to me #anyway soc fandom are we seeing the comedic potential for baby wylan in one of those stupid ass baby dresses #cause i sure am #six of crows #six of crows fandom #soc #wylan van eck #soc fandom

[gaywizardzone]

images unrelated to each other besides that they're both kanda and lena. i keep making jokes about how they have the bond of people who met in a particularly unpleasant pediatric psych ward.

#d.gray-man #me looking at that bowl of pills they were giving kanda and alma: do you think that's some anachronistic cocktail of antipsychotics #or some ridiculous concoction of victorian era substances #anyway i will be strong and not over-explain my joke. either you get it or you don't #love kanda lena bestie-isms always though they're the cutestttttt yaaaay ^_^ #hoping desperately that kanda going back means she's going to get looped in on what's going on i miss her so bad

[bull-shit-suji]

not to like wax poetic about the literary nuances of Black Fucking Butler but i feel i need to point out how insanely campy it is. oh okay cool the butler is throwing butter knives at people with guns and winning. we're battling undertaker's zombie army by starting a boy band (we actually got the idea from the ZOMBIES' boy band). theres a curry making competition and its so important it needs an entire volume and a continuing motif dedicated to it. the Grim Reaper Death Gods are all cornballs with gardening sheers. the contradiction. the unintended irony.

i think the manga is like. toeing the line of camp. like its silly yet takes itself so seriously but its not too silly. my immersion is not broken by the silliness. but the anime is uncharted levels of camp. what the Hell was going on with pluto. you're gonna look me in the eye and tell me the phantomhives own a fifty foot dog thing and no one has noticed. simply one hell of a deer. ice skating. theres opium in funtom candy. the queen of england is maybe a little girl. speaking of which, the city of london just burned down. yeah the whole thing. the fifty foot dog was there too.

it's so ridiculously out of left field and the fact that none of the characters seem to notice or care feels like being gaslit. camp so visceral it's causing psychic damage. i am constantly begging the narrative to break character just once and acknowledge its silliness but doing so would negate the lack of awareness that makes it camp. its dated and timeless. an absolute milestone in camp history.

#it's 2 am im not articulating my thoughts well #just like. ohhhhhhhhg death and demons and walking the line between good and evil #dark acedemia vampire victorian vibes. except theres always some stupid shit happening with no explination. #like i know the tone shifts intentionally sometimes to match the haha comedic moment #thats not what im talking about #i mean when the most ridiculous plotline ever concieved is presented as a life or death situation #and after a while you're like lol this isnt dark at all and then BAM abuse trauma ptsd manipulation cults murders #the bittersweet understanding in clawing your way to the top #knowing the moment your revenge is exacted you will be consumed by the very thing that got you here #and choosing to keep climbing anyways #then boom back on that bullshit here's these motherfuckers in wonderland #the dark tone we had for all that trauma shit will Not be changing because catgirl grelle is just as serious of a topic #okay im going to bed #black butler #kuroshitsuji #sebastian michaelis #manga #ciel phantomhive #textpost #prev rb #oh i think the point i was trying to make it that its good because its camp #would not be nearly as awesome if it werent

[kazz-brekker]

i'm glad the todd in the shadows video debunked james somerton's analysis of the 1992 dracula movie being faithful to the original book as total bullshit because while reading dracula in my victorian literature class in college, despite the fact that no one there had actually seen the movie, my professor gave us an impromptu rant about how much she hates that movie for adding the mina/dracula romance and removing all the homoerotic subtext. so the idea that someone pitching himself as a queer video essay youtuber was making that claim is personally very aggravating to me.

#obviously there are MANY other claims he makes in that video #and there is a lot more harmful misinformation than that that somerton was apparently spreading #but that's a claim that i have personally seen refuted by someone with a WHOLE DEGREE in victorian literature #so like. it's particularly ridiculous to me #pie says stuff #todd in the shadows #james somerton #dracula

[clowningaroundmars]

my absolute fave thing to read in punkflower fics is lovesick puppy hobie brown

cool-as-a-cucumber hobie overthinking miles' every move, leaving lingering touches on him, longing glances thrown his way

certified BAMF hobie hanging by a doorway or window just a second too long before leaving miles

"skinny-hot" hobie refusing to believe someone as ✨️cool✨️ as miles would be into someone like him

badass punk hobie just yearning and pining and practically draping himself all over miles in desperate attempts but then pulling back all scared when anyone even hints that they should get together

god, i need pining lovesick loser hobie like AIR rn 😭

#mine #punkflower #spiderverse #can yall tell i am Not Normal rn #COOL HOT BADASS FUNNY HOBIE JUST!! *clenches fist* JUST!!! just fuckin swooning #like a victorian lady whenever miles does Anything #i mean do yall SEE the way he pays attention to and looks at miles in the movie? #i am unwell. i will never be able to emotionally recover from this #just... god. i love it #hobie brown spider punk just trailing after miles #joking with him and wrapping him up in all of the clothes he can manage to bring #practically screaming silently for miles' attention at every moment #showing off a lil bit when theyre swinging #dont get me wrong hobie is a very very cool guy. when miles isnt there #miles: shows up #hobie: immediately turns into the worlds biggest clumsiest clown to ever exist #miles: smiles #hobie: crashes into 2 walls a telephone pole and falls over a fence #bonus points if miles literally has zero clue the entire time #bc like obviously miles KNOWS hobie is ridiculously hot. this is canon #but SURELY someone like hobie has nooooo interest in him whatsoEVER right guys? …right? ahaha #IDIOTS the both of them #idiots in love #this is a trope i will never tire of ever #also the skinny-hot comment is a reference to the official atsv script #LOOK IT UP IF YOU HAVENT ALREADY #it is filled to brim with homosexuality and plenty of funny ass lines of miles being jealous #but miles my boy. my baby boy #look at me #you need not be jealous of hobie. YOURE the one in the middle of the love triangle NOT GWEN

[ludoka]

*Gasp* Henry Jekyll from Monster High became a monster to escape the suffocating human society!

#Imagine that Victorian society was stricter in that universe #They were normie puritans #Everything that was related to monsters was prohibited to a ridiculous level #Red wine was illegal because it looked too similar to blood. #And that was associated with vampires #No red meat because that is the favorite food of werewolves!! #monster high #jackson jekyll #holt hyde #mh

[1o1percentmilk]

does anyone know if we have pining today

#1o1percentmilk struggle tweets #ridiculous how down bad i'll be for a straight(?) guy #also usually when i have a crush i want to do saw trap shit to them but i just want to hold his hand WHAT #who said that. #ihave to lay down like a victorian waif of a woman #punching the floor rn #i will see him tomorrow..

[helennorvilles]

in the wise words of one of my students, its fri-yay

#thank FUCK this week is over. the last few days have been fucking awful and im just. done. #hit me limit #i cant believe theres a whole week and three days more to go like excuse me victorian government but this is ridiculous #making term 4 the longest term with a whopping 12 weeks is a MASSIVE fuckup and i wont forgive them #my post tag

[skyriderwednesday]

This sketch is entitled 'Gregson and Lestrade have questions...'

#sherlock holmes #wip #gregson = left/orange/cap #lestrade = right/purple/bowler #most of the questions are 'why is holmes so happy to see us?' and 'what has he done to his arm?' #what does gregson's face look like? your guess is as good as mine #he's got the ridiculous victorian mutton-chops into moustache deal though cos that's how i read watson thinking he looks like a bulldog #holmes's face brought to you by Seeing A Drawing By Quentin Blake

[cedarboots]

Another pair of 1840s trousers, because I liked the first ones so much!

(Please excuse the weird lighting.) These are made of brown flannel; the first pair was black twill of some kind, which is sturdier but not as soft.

I made the pockets and lined the waistband with scrap fabric from my striped shirt.

Closer look at the fabric pattern, ft. prairie dog socks!

I had enough fabric to make them the right length this time; the other pair is just a little too short in the leg, and these seem to fit much better. Eventually I’ll get around to putting suspender buttons on them— for now it’s too hot to even think about wearing them, so that is a project for a few months from now.

#not featured: me standing on multiple textbooks trying and failing to get my ridiculous lanky legs in the picture frame #my sewing #historical fashion #19th century fashion #1840s trousers #historybounding #victorian

[aliensmoothie]

i am SO glad people are talking about the character creator stuff because when i started playing i was SHOCKED how limited the options were . like i went in expecting wayyyyyyy more control over character creation than they gave

#⸸ #it is kind of ridiculous that cyberpunk and fallout 4 have more customization . and like cyberpunk does not have a Good character creator #i never like to be that guy who demands more from devs but like . #holding out a tin like a victorian era orphan boy . some inclusivity please sir . #im not even on pc so i cant install mods or anything to help 😭😭😭

[octaviasdread]

besties, it’s 1am and i’m in tears of laughter over a literal victorian furniture auction scene

so that’s how you sell a fireplace fender! with hypothetical hangings and mad house guests!!

#whoever complained that middlemarch is dull is a liar #it’s ridiculously funny #CO Posts #middlemarch #george eliot #mary ann evans #victorian literature #english literature #classic literature #quote #death tw #tw sui ideation

[throwing-roses-into-the-abyss]

I'm making a vaguely late victorian/edwardian-ish petticoat and it's the first time I'm making something by machine and holy shit y'all this is going SO fast.

but also not fast enough.

#I'm mildly annoyed I still have to put in a lot of work into like. measuring. pinning together. #figuring out in what order I'm supposed to do things #but also I'm making this thing ridiculous (because I can) #I'm not gonna put any lace or anything on so I can use it for different eras more easily #but I also decided the pattern I found (an actual victorian one BUT one for a fleece petticoat which is usually a less wide one) #wasn't wide enough #so I added two more panels #and I'm adding a layer of flounce at the bottom #which is about 4 meters long that I need to somehow spread somewhat equally and pleat and stuff #BUT also I cut it in one piece which feels very good now but which I may regret later but we'll see!

[big-tiddie-mingjue]

I had the STUPIDEST idea and I have to share it or I will combust.

Ok, so if you haven't seen the comments in NMJ's wiki, I HIGHLY suggest reading them because they're hilarious.

I was thinking of him (as one thirsty bitch with an unquenchable desire for his voluptuous bosom does) and imagined a random disciple that reacts to NMJ like the fandom does. But not just any disciple! A random Wen disciple (or RWD for short).

This random Wen disciple sees NMJ at a discussion one day and it's just heart-eyes. He hears NMJ threaten to beat the shit out of the Wens and he just raises his hand like 'can I go first Mr Chifeng-zun sir please?'

He's always on the verge of being executed because he will not shut up about how hunky NMJ is. WRH will qi deviate if he has to hear about how massive NMJ's thighs are and how he could totally crush a skull between them one more time.

He shows up randomly to Qinghe like 'ahaha, whats up? its ya boi.' and NHS is in Full Suspicion Mode bcus he's afraid they're going to try to kill his da-ge the way they did their dad. So he grills the guy, yknow, thinking he's an assassin and the convo basically goes smth like this:

NHS: What's a Wen doing in Qinghe?

RWD: Oh, nothing much, just sightseeing. (not at all subtly trying to see if NMJ is around, or alt looking at a drawing of NMJ)

NHS, squinting behind his fan: Yeah? Well, don't let Da-ge catch you. He doesn't like Wens sneaking around here.

RWD: For real?

NHS: Oh, yes! He can be ruthless when he's mad.

RWD: Oh no, I sure hope there isn't some giant, beefy Nie sect leader coming to beat my ass :)))

NHS: ...

RWD: So like, on a scale from 1-10, if I sat on his sleeve, how likely would he be to cut it, if yknow what I mean???

NHS: ..are you...did you come here to hit on my brother?

RWD: Maybe. If I were to trip in front of your brother, would he walk all over me like a doormat? Just step right on me?

NHS: ...

RWD: So, is that a yes or--?

NHS: GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE

NMJ is equal parts confused and aggravated bcus 1) it's a Wen and 2) he's CERTAIN it's some type of ploy. Why else would this random ass Wen just keep randomly showing up and tripping in front of him or dropping shit and taking forever to bend over and get it?

#nie mingjue #nie huaisang #there's one memorable moment where nmj reflexively catches the rwd and rwd literally faints like a stricken victorian maiden #every time it's brought up that nmj would literally obliterate him rwd is just like 'YES PLEASE DADDY' #wrh in the background glaring #rwd: uhhh i mean absolutely not gonna happen?? i would TOTALLY win against that beefy hunk of a ma- I MEAN NIE DOG #why is this useless disciple kept around when he clearly would rather be in Qinghe?? #bcus Plot Convenience #or some equally ridiculous reason #if WC gets to stay in Qishan when he's THAT useless so does this random guy

[thisghosts-obsessions-again]

Of all the potential Victorian words of endearment, they had to use "girlfriend" 🙃

#last time i checked no one called their lovers girlfriend/boyfriend in Victorian England #freaking nonsense ughhh #personal rant #spoiler #romance club #romance club your story interactive #rc sol #rc sins of london #i obsess over the most ridiculous thing but how could they let that slip?

[hsifklim]

I SWEAR TO YOU SOMEBODY DID AND IT WAS ON HERE! If I remember correctly it was a comment under an Aster "redesign" that was basically just them covering his legs because they claimed some nonsense like "oh this is so much better you don't need bare legs to be sexy" or smth among those lines (I bet you could find the post in the Aster tag, there's not much content here anyway) and then this commenter was like "thank you for this, I cannot being myself to sexualise Aster and Garu they're my babies" and I was BRO WHAT ARE YALL ON THIS IS A SEX GAME 😭

Oh my fucking god 😭 They are... already sexualized. They were made to be sexualized. They are literally having sex. On screen, fully uncensored. Garu is literally walking around with his entire asscrack on display. Why are they playing the sex porn game if they don't want the goddamned porn characters to be sexualized? What on god's fucking green earth

#covering his legs... what are they victorians?? #these people are ridiculous