#historically accurate

[artist-ellen]

Maleficent

It’s been a long time coming but it feels so good to finally redesign these iconic villains! Maleficent was a little bit of a challenge… and yet very little changed. And I know, I know, I didn’t keep her horns…. But I was really struggling to draw the pointy medieval headdresses so I went with this one instead. There are historically inspired costumers that have come before me for Maleficent in a houppeland so the content is out there if you're interested!

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[1stprototype]

For some reason you can spawn British soldiers in Trepang2′s sandbox mode.

I’m going to show my kids this and tell them this is how George Washington single-handedly defeated the British army and earned America its independence. 

[oceankeltoi]

This gif of me exists, and it's a direct quote from me. Yes, I did say this, and I damn well meant it.

[steve-rogers-new-york]

Recipe Advent Calendar - Day 11

Happy Holidays!

To celebrate the season, I am doing 12-days of seasonal recipes from the 14th to the 25th December. These are recipes published in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper during the period that Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes lived in Brooklyn in the early 20th century.

Springerle

1 pound pulverized sugar 4 eggs 1 pound flour 1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda Grated rind of 1 lemon Anise seed Beat the eggs and sugar together until feathery, which takes about on hour. Add bicarbonate of soda, then grated lemon rind and flour. Mix thoroughly and roll out until one-eighth inch in thickness. Flour springerle board or roller and press on dough. Remove carefully from forms and place on napkins powdered with flour. Put in cool place and let then dry overnight. In the morning, place in buttered tins, sprinkle with anise seed, and bake in a slow oven until very light tan.

The recipe appeared in the Friday 19 December 1930 edition of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

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[16woodsequ]

Steve Rogers and School Lunches

So I've been doing some research on food during the Great Depression and what I discovered is that school lunches became a big movement in New York in 1930. So it is very likely that Steve and Bucky would have eaten a school lunch during the depression.

The menu was created by the director of homemaking for the New York school system, Martha Westfall.

This is one of the four rotating menus she created.

For some struggling families, this was the only meal their kids would get a day, or it would help stretch the food at home. These school lunches were free.

In schools that had no kitchens "stoves were installed in basements or gymnasiums. Lunch counters were created from wooden planks supported by old desks, the surfaces covered in brightly covered oilcloth" (A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression by Jane Ziegleman and Andrew Coe, p. 78-79).

Milk was believed to be very important in one's diet, so it was in every meal, and half a pint was served with each meal to drink.

[aangopologist]

GRRM only knows three type of women: "willful", "shrewd" and "sweet" (read meek)

[victorpostssometimes]

Drunk stitching is historically accurate.

[apieters]

Arturus, Dux Bellorum

A re-imagining of Wart (Arthur Pendragon) from Walt Disney’s The Sword in the Stone, in a more historically plausible costume.

Despite certain historian’s views to the contrary, a historical figure named Arthur almost certainly existed. He lived around the turn of the 6th century AD (c. 500 AD) and was a successful military figure who managed to successfully stem the influx of Germanic invaders for the duration of his lifetime, decisively halting their advance at the Battle of Badon Hill, c. 516 AD. Beyond that, little is known for certain.

The real Arthur was likely one of numerous petty warlords who staked out territories for themselves in the wake of the fall of Rome, then became commander-in-chief of the united coalition army of the culturally Roman Celts to oppose the invasion of Anglo-Saxons in Britain. As such, he would have been dressed and armed as a well-off late-Roman cavalry officer, which is how I have dressed Wart here.

Design Considerations

I tried to preserve the colors that Disney used for Arthur’s tunic, trousers/hose, and boots. His winter sweater/tunic became his cape.

King Arthur in legend was armed with a sword, spear, and knife, all of which have names (I only know his sword, Excalibur). Excalibur is portrayed as a typical Migration-era sword, a development of the Roman spatha, with a pattern-welded blade.

Arthur wears a cuirass of scale armor and a late Roman-style helmet.

The Welsh chronicler Nennius, whom I personally consider a trustworthy source for Arthur, asserts that Arthur had an icon of the Virgin Mary painted on his shield at the Battle of Badon Hill. I have preserved this historical detail in my depiction.

[darklydreamingai]

The Phantom of the Opera, drinking absinthe

Erik and Christine, drowning their sorrows.

[henry-fox-biggest-stan]

This is your reminder than if you’re going to put SA scenes,slurs,etc in a period dramas because you want it to be accurate,put hairy ladies too.

Women started to shave their legs,armpits,etc in the 1900s.

Before the 20th century,women only had to shave hair on their face.Everything else covered by clothes (legs,etc) did not need to be shaved,just like men.

So give me more hairy female protagonists and love interests in period dramas.Give me a woman wearing fancy expensive dresses and unshaven armpits.Give me a woman reading and having dramatic walks through the town of the house garden,washed by daylight and with hairy legs.

[artist-ellen]

Some of the reference images for Megara!!

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[hahaemolittletransman]

There is historically accurate hamilton x Jefferson drawings and I hate it

[george-weasleys-girl]

Historically Accurate Disney Princesses 😍

[steve-rogers-new-york]

Recipe Advent Calendar - Day 10

Happy Holidays!

To celebrate the season, I am doing 12-days of seasonal recipes from the 14th to the 25th December. These are recipes published in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper during the period that Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes lived in Brooklyn in the early 20th century.

Moravian Christmas Cookies

1/2 cup butter or other shortening, melted 1 cup molasses, heated 1/2 cup brown sugar 3/4 teaspoon ginger 3/4 teaspoon cloves 3/4 teaspoon cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg 1/4 teaspoon allspice Dash of salt 3/4 teaspoon soda 3 3/4 cups sifted special cake flour Combine butter and molasses, add sugar, spices, salt and soda. Add flour. Let stand in cold place a week. Place a small amount of dough on a slightly floured board and roll paper-thin. Cut with fancy cookie cutters. Place on greased baking sheet and bake in moderate oven 365 degrees Fahrenheit six minutes. These cookies keep indefinitely in closed tins. Makes 200 cookies.

The recipe appeared in the Friday 19 December 1930 edition of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

Advent Calendar Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 | Day 8 | Day 9 | Day 10 | Day 11 | Day 12

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[16woodsequ]

This guy sums up the history of hot meals on the front really well!

And he makes something Steve and the Commandos would have eaten whenever they were with a larger unit.

Apparently it was very well liked along the soldiers and now I'm imagining Steve making it, much to the skepticism of the Avengers 😆