#historical links

[nancyheart11]

I drew the Hero of Legend from @jacob-cohn-art-and-projects historical heroes!

Happy Birthday beloved friendo (⁠｡⁠•̀⁠ᴗ⁠-⁠)⁠✧

[thehumantoolchest]

Historically inspired Hero of the Wild! For this one I went for scottish 17th/18th century inspired garb, adapting the archaic set from TOTK into a great kilt! I really tried challenging myself with the drawing, especially on the face and the fabric! I did originally plan to have a tartan pattern on the great kilt but I didn't feel I had the skill to pull it off with how bunched up I decided to make the fabric, maybe if I draw him again I'll do the fabric simpler and add the pattern! I also want to draw him again with the great kilt in all the different configurations you can wear it in. I also wanted to play with different outfit combinations for this one since that's such a key part of his games!

[jacob-cohn-art-and-projects]

Historically inspired Hero of Time! This started as Linked Universe fan art and still kind of is but has started to morph into a bit of it's own thing as I've started making my own little historically inspired redesigns of various Zelda characters! The armor was mostly based on late 15th century German "kastenbrust" style plate armor, with the cuirass as a blend more of greco-roman muscle cuirasses with the fierce deity's armor from Majora's Mask (got the idea from @nancyheart11 !) My background is more in technical drafting than it is in drawing organic things like people and clothing so my actual character design and proportion has a long way to go, but I'm getting there! I'll probably redo this eventually when I have more practice.

[blueskittlesart]

link & zelda regency era fashion please i’m on my hands and knees begging

this might be the best ask ive ever recieved

[unproduciblesmackdown]

Lackadaisy Enrichment

[royaltea000]

Saw his stage actor and now I can’t act right

[daguerreotyping]

Ambrotype of a cute militiaman next door whose hat is as wild as his hair, 1860

[junotter]

Legitimately can't explain what caused me to get just get really into this hetaliaAU that exists solely in my brain but I couldn't stop

At first it was just imagining like a Japanese woman in kimono in like 19th century New York and then I started thinking about how amazing fem japan is and like then ameripan came in and now I'm like losing it

[plumbob-pudding]

During the 1890s and the early twentieth century, infants, no matter their sex, were dressed in long white gowns that could be bleached cleaned. This fashion remained the same until WW1 as rationing meant that hemlines shortened. Bonnets remained common accessories though the hair bow gained popularity for baby girls in the 1910s.

By the 1920s, baby fashion in line with adult clothing, was sailor inspired and hemlines crept higher up. This trend continued to the 1930s as the great depression meant fabric was scarce and expensive. In fact, for poorer families, infant clothing was handmade with whatever was available, including flour sacks and old curtains.

The 1940s meant WW2 and any sort of elaborateness was very frowned upon. Fabrics were cheap cottons and almost always recycled and knit clothing rose in popularity.

Prosperity and affluence defined the 1950s and this was reflected in baby clothing. Baby boys were dressed similar to older men in little suits with shorts instead of long pants and little girls in full, babydoll dresses. This era also established the stereotypical blue for boys;pink for girls that remains till today.

[the-merry-otter]

Medieval Mac and Cheese recipe

(As demanded by yall)

Macrows

“Take and make a thin foil of dowh, and kerve it on peces, and cast hem on boiling water and seeth it wele. Take chese and grate it and butter cast bynethen and above and losyns. and serve forth.”

-> from the ‘Forme of Cury’ p. 46, compiled about A. D. 1390.

The more readable interpretation as set down in Cariadoc’s Miscellany is as follows:

Ingredients:

2 cups flour

⅔ cups cold water (approx)

3 cups grated cheese (approx). They used swiss and parmesan.

4 tablespoons butter (approx).

Knead flour and cold water into a smooth, elastic dough. Roll it out thin and cut into broad strips (1”-2” wide). Boil it about 5-10 minutes (until tender). Put it in a dish, layered with grated cheese and butter. You may want to heat it briefly in an oven (although the recipe does not say to do so).

Happy cooking!

[sejrart]

Reunion

In 2021, researchers discovered that an 11th century skeleton uncovered from a grave in Otterup, Denmark in 2005 was related to a skeleton found in a mass grave in Oxford, England in 2008. DNA analysis showed them to be half-brothers, uncle and nephew or grandfather and grandson.

The man found in Oxford died young and it's speculated that he died during the St Brice's Day massacre, an attack on all Danes in England ordered by King Æthelred the Unready after an increase in Danish raids on England. The man found in Denmark died around the age of 50, having lived a farmer's life, but not one without combat.

After a century separated by the North Sea, the two relatives were reunited for an exhibition at The National Museum of Denmark.

[jewellery-box]

French or English dress, c. 1760, silk damask with silk supplementary weft. Emma Harter Sweester Fund. 81.290ab, Indianapolis Museum of Art via the Dreamstress

[jacob-cohn-art-and-projects]

Historically inspired Twilight! I based the design on a blend of Edo period Japanese and American western as twilight princess always felt a lot like the films of Akira Kurosawa who blended those two genres (and fantasy sometimes!) a lot. The sword is based on german "Kriegsmesser" instead of a Katana since Twi's ordon sword has a very distinctive crossroads and I wanted to include that in the design. I did think up some fun lore for the blade though, I drew it to look like a twilight sky across the width of the blade (also referencing the wavy pattern japanese swords have on the edge with how they're hardened!) as the blade is (somehow) forged out of the twilight sky. It can also cut apart the space between the light and twilight world letting Twi travel freely between the two worlds. And yes I came up with this badass lore just so I could ship one of my favorite LoZ ships.

[amarriageoftrueminds]

A Timeline of CATFA in images

from this meta. 

[gideonisms]

Tbh I think we have had all the thoughts we possibly could have about orpheus and eurydice. I'm going to start making everything about grendel's mother from beowulf

[scryillo]

aint bad with good company and a good drink