#you belong in a museum

[wszczebrzyszynie]

is it possible to explain some of your OC outfits? canon i mean; like, say someone wanted to wear something your OC was wearing or cosplay them, but didnt know what to look up! how would you describe them, mainly mikita and beatrycze, but you can do as many or as little as youd like (sorry for the english..)

hmmm well you are in luck, as i already had made a Mikita reference for my friends cosplay. Well either way i dont really understand what you mean by "explaining"; Mika is wearing a nightgown additionaly tied at the waist (a diy as its too loose and too long for his liking) with some comfortable pants underneath. Hes wearing socks not stockings. second picture taken from here

and when it comes to Trycz i usually just base her clothes on real dresses from the middle 1890 period. I really like the big sleeves. I dont intend to keep my ocs and their outfits very historically accurate so i take some creative liberties, usually just keeping the expected silhouette, like shown on the second picture. Thrid one is a fashion plate from 1895; i tend to use fashion plates and other magazine drawings the most out of all the references. theyre the most fun. speaking on fun i forgot how fun Trycz is to draw

[bookish-bogwitch]

Boyo in the Old Country, Part 4: Boyo Goes Home

Baz spent the rest of his Sicily trip exploring Ortigia and its surroundings. Here’s a city park feat. random Greek temple ruins.

Also feat. this bus. Volkswagen, 1979, Groovy Tiger—lovely.

The absolute highlight of Baz’s trip was the Neapolis Archaeological Park on the outskirts of Siracusa. Here he is in the Ear of Dionysus, which was one of the coolest things he’s ever seen.

Baz would have liked to visually convey the magic of the space. However, he surprised himself (but no one else) by being such an unhinged frothing-at-the-mouth Indiana Jones fan that he got overexcited and forgot to take any more pictures. You’ll just have to imagine it.

Baz capped off his trip by watching the sun set over Siracusa harbor.

Then paying one last visit to his favorite Ortigian.

Ciao, bello.

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Stay tuned for bonus content: Boyo behind the scenes

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

[birgittesilverbae]

Sister "I became skilled at so many things just so I would still have value" Beatrice not having hobbies makes me feral. Camila has her music, Shannon had her art, Mary had her cooking, Lilith has her being-a-massive-bitch, and Beatrice is over there like "I have encyclopedic knowledge of the fighting styles of every woman in this convent, and also I have spreadsheets"

girl, ava shouldn't have to yeet herself into another dimension for you to realize you need a better work-life balance

[gennianydots]

me, circa jan-apr 2023

[prommytheus]

Unnamed female Imperial Yumei University student, ca. 1898

[coraline-piange]

orpheus and eurydice in the correr museo in venice

the symbolism of placing orpheus in front of a mirror is genuinely making me go insane. orpheus has already turned back and broken the deal, eurydice is lost. tragedy has run its course. and: it wouldn't have mattered. there was never a way out. he's walking towards the mirror, even if he had looked forward he'd have looked back. it wouldn't have turned out anyway. the tragedy is inevitable

[lokielly]

if you told 14 year old me that 20 year old me would be consuming copious amounts of renaissance painting style fanart of grian every single day, they would not have believed you.

[awakenatmidnights]

WHEN YOU WAKE UP NEXT TO HIMMMM IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHTTT!!!!! WITH YOUR HEAD IN YOUR HANDS, 🗣️ YOU'RE 🗣️ NOTHING 🗣️ MORE 🗣️ THAN 🗣️ HIS 🗣️ WIFE 🗣️❗🗣️❗🗣️❗

AND WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT ME !!!!!!! ALL OF THOSE YEARS AGO !!!!!!! YOU'RE STANDING 👏 FACE 👏 TO 👏 FACE 👏 WITH I TOLD YOU SOOOO

you know i hate to say it, i told you so.... you know I hate to say BUT !!! I TOLD YOUUUU SOOOOOOOOOOO

[elitewrestlinghoe]

[translucentpthalo]

[vegaseatsass]

Intriguing... I am intrigued

[et-excrucior]

So I’m going to highlight something I’m not sure people who like skeletons and curiosities think about often:

the human skeletal remains you see for sale in oddities shops were invariably grave-robbed.

I worked with human remains in an academic research context in the US for more than a decade. One of the first things I tried to teach my students was respect for the remains in our collections, not only because they were people, deserving of dignity in their death, but also because most of the skeletal remains in academic teaching collections were not donated voluntarily. In most cases, we have no idea exactly where they came from or to whom they belonged.

Historically, there has been a huge international trade in human skeletal remains for teaching medical students. The trade reached its peak in the 19th Century and continued for much of the 20th, and while ostensibly the practice was banned in India in 1985, it does still exist illegally. In the US and Europe, most of the remains in teaching collections were sourced from India through bone traders. Bone traders were (are) lower caste people charged with disposing of human remains—often by cremation, but also by interring in graves—but instead of doing so, sold the remains on to medical schools in the US/Europe through the intermediary of anatomical and medical supply companies. These anatomical specimens are the remains of people who were, unknowingly and without consent of their loved ones, denied their humanity in death to satisfy the appetite of the West for anatomical specimens, despite the remains of their own people being considered largely sacrosanct.

Which leads me to my next point: this practice originated under British Colonialism in India. I hope I don’t need to draw this point out, but objectification of these remains by medical students and researchers is a furtherance of the Western colonial project and othering of people of colour. As medical students, we’re trained to divorce ourselves emotionally from the remains we learn from in the name of professionalism. Medicine can often be confronting, and it serves patients and doctors alike to be able to continue working calmly and objectively in the face of those challenges. But in a world where empires and scientific disciplines have been (and continue to be) built on a legacy of scientific racism and dehumanisation, it behooves us to consider exactly how those teaching specimens were acquired—and how they came to be for sale.

Any human skeleton or human bones you see for sale in oddity stores are invariably retired teaching specimens, or were otherwise originally purchased through an anatomical specimen supply company that leveraged bone traders for acquiring their wares. In other words, those remains were grave-robbed, or stolen from funeral pyres and morgues. It is vanishingly unlikely that they are remains of known, ethically-sourced provenance like informed donation. If they were, they would not have been relinquished to the general public to be sold for profit. There would be contractual obligations that dictate how those remains would be managed once they need to be retired from teaching/decommissioned.

Please keep this in mind when you see human remains for sale in oddity shops. Buy plastic or ceramic teaching models instead. Don’t unwittingly continue creating a market for stolen human remains.

[grimmgrinningghouls]

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[zombie-pizza-picnic-party]

mmmmmmm

[honeysweetcorvidae]

hm.

[hunxi-after-hours]

kim dokja worrier anon here! I just finished 516. I am going to run him over with a subway car

HAHAHAHAHA WELCOME ANON

(follow-up from here)