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Jean Cocteau en 1909.

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Bunka Gakuen Costume Museum

c.1894

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― Neil Gaiman 

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knitted neuroscience

aKNITomy

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Marie Antoinette on her way to her execution.

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i even procrastinate things i actually want to do

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borders / granice - photo exhibition by Piotr Bondarczyk & Piotr Sikora

Polish traditional costumes presented by people of different nationalities!

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Bunka Gakuen Costume Museum

c.1880

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Portrait of Catherine Stephens, later Countess of Essex, 19th Century.

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Above: a medieval manuscript mended with embroidery. Photos via the Uppsala University Library. Here is some information about the manuscript from their page:

The pages of the book are made of parchment and they show typical damage in the form of holes and tears that happened while the parchment was being made. Some time after the book was copied, the holes and tears have been mended artistically with silk of various colours, mainly in blanket stitch as used in embroidery. 

The old mending is in good shape except for those parts which were sewn with black silk. The thread is so fragile that it disintegrates on touch.  

Read more here.

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Nothing can wear you out like caring about people.

S.E. Hinton, That Was Then, This Is Now  (via ceedling)

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A French image poking fun at the plastic used in Marie Antoinette’s bedroom at Versailles.

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Annie Louisa Robinson Swynnerton : Glow Worm (c. 1900)

via

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Archduchess Gisela and Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria.

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HISTORY MEME - nine royals: elagabalus [7/9]

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus, commonly known as either Elagabalus or Heliogabalus, was a Syrian member of the Severan dynasty and was Roman emperor from June 218 to March 222. At age 14, supported by the legions, he became emperor, and despite his young age his reign was known for sexual scandal and religious controversy. He married a slave and charioteer named Hierocles, in addition to marrying and divorcing five women. Contemporary writers mention that he spent a great deal of time crafting his personal appearance, wearing makeup and wigs before prostituting himself in temples, brothels, and the palace. In addition to his role as Roman Emperor, Elagabalus was also the high priest of the god Elagabal, to whom he created a large shrine on the Palatine Hill where he moved the most sacred relics of Roman religion, and to whom he made large sacrifices every dawn which some contemporaries suspected included the remains of young boys, in addition to the traditional cattle and sheep. Elagabalus’ sexual orientation and gender identity are the subject of debate for modern scholars, and as contemporary writers say that he “delighted to be called the mistress, the wife, the queen of Hierocles,” as well as offered money to contemporary physicians who could equip him with female genitalia, modern historians often view him as transgender or transsexual. Ultimately, the Praetorian Guard and the army who had supported him turned against him and he was assassinated at the age of 18. (x)

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Publicity shots for A Tale of Two Cities (1935) Elizabeth Allen & Ronald Colman

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the theory that people

are always searching for

their other half is 

              bullshit. 

don’t let anyone, not

even a god, tell you 

you are anything less 

than whole.

eros is bullshit: a poem