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one of the most annoying arguments I see for why the costumes in L*ttle W*men (2019) are Good Actually is that “the Alcotts were hippies”

this goes back to an interview with the costumer before the movie came out, in which she called the Alcotts hippies because they made their own clothes. which, of course, didn’t make you a hippie. it made you a lower- or middle-class woman living in Concord, MA in the mid-19th century who wanted to have clothes. but the Bad History seed had planted

someone in a historical fashion FB group I’m in brought this up a few days ago, saying that the costumes in the movie were MORE accurate than “slavish devotion to accuracy” because the Alcotts surely wouldn’t have worn prim and prissy Actual Victorian Clothing™! they were free spirits! they were rebels! they

(Louisa May Alcott, probably 1870s or 80s. She is definitely wearing a corset in both photos.)

um

(Anna Alcott Pratt, right, the inspiration for Meg.)

wait a minute

(Abigail May Alcott, left, Louisa’s mother. At right is Louisa as a young woman. Note very precise curls and most of her hair pinned up.)

well those are just formal photos! surely only May and Anna, the inspirations for Amy and Meg, cared about silly things like clothes!

In the evening Louisa and I walked through the lane and talked about how we should like to live and dress and imagined all kinds of beautiful things. (Anna’s adolescent diary, emphasis mine.)

hold on. it’s almost like…someone can dress conventionally AND have radical thoughts about social issues? 

like Louisa and her sisters and mother could write letters about trimming bonnets and going to balls (which they did) AND be active, groundbreaking proto-feminists? 

it’s almost like there’s a scene in part 2 of Little Women that movies always leave out where Jo is happily working on a dress for one of her sisters and gets cross when Amy makes her stop and go calling?

but sure, loose hair and prairie dresses are “more accurate to the family”

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you’ve seen the strawberry dress; now try

the raspberry dress

(1800-1810. Musee les Arts Decoratifs.)

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guys when they think a girl is hot: she is objectively attractive

girls when they think a guy is hot: yeah hes hot but only if you think of a german coal mine from 1882 that hes forced to work in to provide for his family of 12. he gives off that vibe

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if you could ask an author a question about repressed homosexuality and internalised homophobia, who would you choose? and why elena ferrante?

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Ruins of Tharros, Sardinia.

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me when i get a taste of my own personality thru someone else:  GOD i can not STAND them

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just stumbled across Francisco Soria Aedo's work and first off: really good painter, super talented. He mainly did portraits and neoclassical but I really like are his expressions, which do show up in his neoclassical work. lots of people smiling and having fun and it's just very cute

this is one of my favorites

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night sluts

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lorde - hard feelings

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repeat after me:

even if i don’t like my body today i will take care of it

even if i don’t like myself today i will still be patient and kind with myself

even if i do not love myself i will still take care of and be kind to myself, despite not wanting to

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I made this for my palz but yall can have it if you want

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me thinking about all the writing I still need to do 

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i don’t have a brain actually. my head is just filled with lots and lots of dried flowers

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Jay Pharaoh’s John Mulaney impression

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