#theories welcome

[confirmeddead]

Okay I’ll bite

What the hell did this mean?

[clove-pinks]

In the second illustration in your post about 1840s men with unusually short hair, the fellow in question's hair appears to be not only short, but shaved—would that have just been a style choice, or an indication that the gentleman in question was recovering from an illness, or what? It does seem very unusual for the time period.

Reposting the pic to answer this ask:

(By Paul Gavarni, 1841.)

I knew that early 19th century people sometimes shaved the head as a treatment for fever, and a brief search shows that this persisted into the later 19th century (at least). This 1861 medical treatise on fevers still recommends shaving the head as a potential treatment option.

But if his head was shaved from illness, why would he be in a clothing advertisement? Or its alternate version, a comic in Le Charivari about young men who freely spend money on clothes. Handbook of English Costume in the 19th Century has a section on men's hairstyles for every decade of the 19th century, and there's nothing about short hair as a fashionable alternative look for the 1840s. Fashionable men's hair was quite long, worn chin-length and sometimes curled.

The two 1840s short hair examples are from Gavarni but I'm not aware of this being a French thing, either. French men and English men of the time period definitely had different trends in facial hair (more beards and moustaches in France, more side whiskers in Britain); but the men's hairstyles are more or less the same.

My only other wild guess is this might be something about wearing a wig for fancy dress?? Gavarni was famous for depicting the Paris Carnival and various balls, after all. Maybe this young man shaved his head for a travestissement (??). I'm stumped to see such short hair on a fashionable 1840s man. It's also possible that his head was shaved for fever and this was common enough to see some representation in popular art.

[chirpsythismorning]

Reading some articles on Smalltown Boy (1984) and noticed they always mention Margaret Thatcher. Which reminds me of in s2 when Karen mentions Margaret Thatcher like moments after/before we get a shot of a Reagan sign on the Wheeler’s front lawn…

Can someone explain to me what Karen’s comment meant?

I’m just wondering what we’re expected to assume based on what’s being alluded to here??.

[minxchester]

I'm marking it below a spoiler line here, but I'm ruminating on something and need theories from others who've finished Iron Flame.

Did we know Xaden was also have nightmares about the venin general? Or is it just a Yarrosian "you've seen her dreams, his were the same but with the 'turn for love' bit"?

[bookdragonquotes]

[yak-leather-whips]

Guys, its not some fucking “bad luck devil” or whatever. It’s clearly this fucking time gargler or whatever the fuck that’s behind all this nonsense. Aguefort literally lays it out for us that the quangle makes things happen out of order. Things like, say…Zelda and Gorgug being broken up even though we know from the Seven that they’re still together in Junior year, or Aelwyn suddenly moving out and going from a snarky 19 year old whose never had a job or gone to college to a middle school teacher with 5 cats in the course of 3 months, or the sophomore album being 10 months late even though Fig only finished her debut a little over 16 months ago AND they were in the middle of the tour, or Hallariel and Gilear getting engaged after like a year when 3 months ago Gilear wasn’t even allowed to sleep in her bed, and Sklonda defending one of the organizers of this folk festival when the festival hasn’t even happened yet, or Figs birthday suddenly moving from Christmas to July.

[hajimedics]

I'M NOT YOUR DOLL AND I'LL THINK FOR MYSELF AND I'LL LIVE FOR MYSELF

[carlyraejepsans]

*youth pastor voice* and do you know who is also goofy and a scientist and got isekaid to another dimension?

[obwald]

HAPPY YASAMMY- I MEAN CHAOS THEORY DAY!!!

[cyanwyrmy]

(Fan Art!)

Eddie and Sally preform in drag together! I dream it so!

I think Eddie’s drag persona would be called Edith Dearest 💃🏽

Sally’s drag persona could be called Sylvester Spectacular 🕺🏾

[loriache]

Falin's Nightmare

[dompler]

my friend has been calling matthew patel "mat pat" and i haven't been able to stop thinking about it

[lupescx]

not complaining but I’m amusedly bemused at how we went from this to correcting every iteration of “babies” to “Space Babies”.

[dykealloy]

“we sent yuan away so his feelings could subside” you sent him to gay rizz bootcamp is what you did

[teachyouhowtodothesponge]

Betrayal!

[in-this-essay-i-wont]

Look. I know I am overthinking everything ever. I know. But there’s such a big fucking difference between howdys business and how it intertwines with his character and Eddie’s, because like LOOK BRO

The SMALL ASS TEXT THAT HAS EDDIES NAME???? COMPARED TO THE LARGE EMPHASIS THAT HOWDY HAS FOR HIS BUSINESS AND HIMSLEF???

Like Eddie’s name is so small and insignificant to the post office compared to howdys sign, like Eddie can barely find a place for himself and who he actually is outside of his function as a mailman- where as howdys name is the first thing for his sign! It’s huge! Like it’s a part of who he is, it’s a part of his love for jokes and laughter- compared to Eddie where it seems more of an all consuming way for him to lose himself in what he can function as, and not who he actually is. Which, ya know, kinda explains the whole breakdown before the party for home warming, because taking away his function leaves him with the little part of himself that he always seems too busy to express.

Chat this is devastating I need to be put down