"Delicious Luberry cheesecake. Proper dick." (Accurate description of me, kindly provided by my fiancé.) I turned 30 on the first day of 2015. If you think that's too old, feel free to leave.
[ID: a 3-page purple and yellow digital comic. /1: The scene is set on a snowy mountain range. A small explorer dressed in a brown coat, hat, and backpack climbs down the mountain into a valley with looming castle ruins. /2: The explorer enters the dark ruins and turns on their flashlight. They inspect sconces and a shield before coming to a dark doorway. Peering through the door, they see a dead knight on a stone with a sword in their chest. /3: The explorer creeps in and draws the sword. The knight’s skeletal hand reaches out and touches them: “Hey,” the knight says. “That’s mine.” They sit upright and grab the sword from the astonished explorer. /ID]
so you think you can stone miette and spit in miette’s eye?? so you think you can love miette and leave miette to DIE?? oh mother!! can’t do this to me mother!!!
All memes left on tumblr for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Queen
I realize this is a cast iron gate but I’m choosing to believe it’s a magic protection ritual
It IS a magic protection ritual, and it summons an iron gate to protect you from intruders.
“I cast Iron Gate!”
As a blacksmith I have been called a wizard by several small kids
Smiths ARE wizards: back in the day they started out with iron or copper ore, which to the uninitiated was dirt dug from the ground, and with a bellows-driven forge and a quenching bath - earth, air, fire and water -
they could make tools and weapons.
It was magic then; it’s still pretty magical now. :->
:) The chapter 1 quote in The Door Into Fire: “Smiths and sorcerers come both from the same nest.”
Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear opens March 19, 2022
Now through November 6th, 2022, you can see what they call “the
first major
V&A exhibition to celebrate the power, artistry and diversity of
masculine attire and appearance.” Which means they are looking at all kinds of art in which men appear, like sculptures and paintings, as well as photographs and even film. They are going far back in time to the classical period up to contemporary menswear designers today.
This is the V&A, or Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England.
When nobles still ruled kingdoms, men like to show off their wealth to tell other people how powerful they were. See the portrait of Prince Alessandro Farnese painted by Sofonisba Anguissola around 1560
and appreciate his pearls and ermine, feathers, lace and brocade. Notice how much less flashy were the wool coat and trousers costume along with a top hat from around 1850 and made in the United States. This was as men were launching themselves on the Great Masculine Renunciation of bright colors and embellishment. Yes, the waistcoat here seems rather flashy and so do the light-colored trousers, but soon men would find themselves all in dark colors save for their shirts and possibly their ties. Dark, boring clothes were for men, who were supposed to be the serious and rational sex, and all that flashy stuff was reserved for women. As I said, they go right up to today and you can see a lot of fashion with no such renunciation.
