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He's trying 🥺

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infinity nikki is so funny bc imagine a rugged warrior, who has seen the horrors of war, the death of a god, and other unspeakable things, going through a villain monologue saying stuff like "the birth of a new god needs a sacrifice!" but he looks like this

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Colorful doodles

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It's Mousieur Chauvelin!😍 You're amazing, Cedric! Thank you so much for this!

Mouse! Chauvelin 🐭✨

I’ve wanted to draw this for a while since reading @burnsopale's fic “Letting go, holding on” on AO3. I love every time Percy calls Chauvie “little mouse” in it ❤️

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i love agatha christie

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front facing egrets making me lose control of everything

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Thank you, /r/ProgrammerHumor, I love you endlessly.

Redditors competing to make the worst volume sliders possible...

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Great Mouse Detective version of Dracula happening simultaneously as the events of Dracula, so there’s just five mice in Victorian clothes unnoticed by the human cast desperately trying to kill a bat.

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Costume Parisien Fashion Plate, 1800

From Paris Musees, les Musees de la Ville de Paris

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LOL IF YOU KNEW CHAUVELIN. IF YOU KNEW.

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In Short What is Now Termed a Maccaroni Dishabille

Perhaps one of the most interesting parts of John Gilbert McCurdy's book Vicious and Immoral was the way in which the men of the 18th regiment cited Newbugh's clothing as evidence of ungentlemanlike behaviour.

I'll start with a brief summary for those who haven't read the book (tho I highly recommend reading it). Robert Newburgh was the chaplain for the 18th Royal Irish Regiment of the British Army that was stationed in America. Rumours that Newburgh was a buggerer reached America before Newburgh himself did. Things only got worse for Newburgh form there, leading him to persuade Private Robert Jeff to formally accuse him of buggery. See Newburgh knew they did not have enough to convict him of buggery and hoped a court-martial would clear his name.

On Monday the 8th of August 1774 the general court-martial of Reverend Robert Newburgh began. Newburgh stood accused of "Vicious and Immorral Behaviour" which broke down into six charges: perjury, prevarication, falsehood, "Scandalous and Indecent acts," conduct "Derogatory from the Sacred Character, with which he is Invested," and having treated his commanding officer "in a Disrespectful manner." He was notably not charged with buggery as there was "only circumstantial and Hearsay evidence" and yet the prosecution continued to insinuate that Newburgh was a buggerer. (p166)

They could not prove that Newburgh was guilty of buggery as such a conviction would require proof of the act itself. Instead they chose to prosecute him for ungentlemanlike behaviour. As part of this charge the prosecution introduced evidence of Newburgh's effeminate clothing. Captain Benjamin Chapman testified:

that part of his Dress on that occasion, as nearly as he Can recollect was a Close Light Coloured Surtout, with a Scarlet or Crimson falling Collar, with a round Buck Hatt, perfectly in the Stile of a Groom; that at other times he has seen him in the Barracks and streets at Philadelphia in a Dress that had not the Least resemblance to that usualy worn by a Clergyman, one Dress that he has seen him in, as nearly as he Can recollect, is a Light Coloured frock made of Bath coating, Close Buck or Lambskin Breeches, white Silk Stockings and a Smart Fashionable Cocked Hatt, in short what is now termed a Maccaroni Dishabille. (p199)

When the prosecution questioned Thomas Batt whether he has seen "Mr. Newburgh's appearing in a Dress unbecoming a Clergyman?" Batt replied that "He has hardly seen him in any other Coat than a Light Coloured one." Asked if he had heard officers express "Surprize at Mr. Newburgh's manner and Style of Dress," Batt replied, "Frequently." (p203)

When it came time for the defense's case Newburgh questioned his friend Nicholas Trist about his clothing:

Q. As he has seen Mr. Newburgh almost every Day Did he ever See him in what might be called a fashionable Morning Maccaroni Dishabelle? A. He cant say what they call a macerouney Disabill he never saw him Drest in any manner, but what he has seen other Clergyman.

Trist testified that he had seen Newburgh in "a Graish Bath coat, Bound with Black, and Black Buttons," and a "half Mourning coat, with Black buttons" and that he had seen "many a Clergyman Drest in the Same manner." (p215)

Newburgh's servant William Osborne was asked whether Newburgh owned "any coat, either Body or Surtout, with a Crimson Collar?" to which Osborne relied "No". (p218)

During his questioning of defense witnesses Newburgh attempted to refute claims that he dressed like a maccaroni, down to the specifics of the colour of his collar. However in his closing arguments he instead pointed out the ridiculousness of the situation:

First I am Charged with a capital Crime, thence the Gentleman descends to perjury, thence to Prevarication, thence to simple Faleshood, thence to giving Rum Toddy to some thirsty Soldiers, thence to uncivil Language, thence to wearing a red Collar on a borrowed Coat, thence to leather Breeches and so quite away down to white Stockings. (p234)

Unable to prosecute Newburgh for buggery they had tried to prosecute him for the crime of wearing white stockings, which was of course not a crime at all.

The court found Newburgh guilty of falsehood and "impropriety in his conduct" for being "unguarded in his expressions" before soldiers. However in regards to the remaining charges the court found them "ill founded, and some of them frivolous accusations." (p245)

While wearing white stockings or even a "Light Coloured Surtout, with a Scarlet or Crimson falling Collar" was indeed not illegal, even for a chaplain, the prosecution brought this into evidence in hopes of undermining Newburgh's character.

The association between fashion and sodomy was well established by August 1774. The prosecution did not have to spell out the implication. It's unusual to see this sort of character evidence enter into trial presumably due to it being unreliable. In at least one sodomy case a character witness for the defense testified that the accused "never behaved with any effeminacy". However this testimony was clearly not convincing as the man was sentenced to death. (Trial of William Bailey, 21 October 1761)

While effeminate dress may not have been strong evidence for courts in the 1780's the Parisian police would profile suspected sodomites based on their clothing. Commissioner Pierre Louis Foucault and inspector Louis Henri Noël identified what they called the “pederastical uniform”*, which generally included “some combination of frock coat, large tie, round hat, small chignon, and bows on the shoes.”

*In the 18th century “pederasty” was used synonymously with “buggery” and did not denote age simply sex. An Universal Etymological English Dictionary (1726) defines “A pederast” as “a Buggerer” and “Pederasty” as “Buggery”.

The Parisian police sent out "pederastry patrols" to arrest suspected sodomites. Reports explicitly reference the suspected sodomites clothing. A gilder Coré was "attired in such a way as to be recognized by everyone as a pederast", a hairdresser Calman was "clothed with all the distinctive marks of pederasty" and the unemployed Joubert was "dressed like a pederast".

Of course it was not illegal to dress "like a pederast" and one man when questioned about his outfit simply responded that everyone "dresses as he sees fit". (Commissioner Foucault, Inspector Noël, and the "Pederasts" of Paris, 1780-3 by Jeffrey Merrick)

A man could not be convicted on his stockings alone but he sure could be suspected of sodomy based on the way he dressed.

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Yet another selection of some of the better names I've come across in Regency era newspapers recently.

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Lord Havelock Vetinari / Carrot Ironfoundersson

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Nuns prints in my Shoppe - www.emilyscartoons.myshopify.com

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to be confident in posting about your Guy all u need to do is read fifty academic articles and five books of varying respectability and reliability and also watched a few operas or plays. this tumblr thing can be so easy

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