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馬份家的美容日✨️

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Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy absolutely brush each other's hair (Lucius will never admit that he loves when Cissa works out a complex new hairstyle on him, first) and go to dressmaker and tailor appointments together and read the funny bits from the paper or whatever book they're reading out loud (Narcissa had a gift for mimicry and does an incredible Minister Fudge) and take long walks through the grounds and gardens.

They still catch each other in the center of the shrubbery maze to steal a kiss and would dance every dance together if it wouldn't cause a ruction. Lucius makes other women insanely jealous when he kisses Narcissa's hand on parting from one another to go in to dinner at one of those horrendous dinner parties where they insist on breaking up married couples. All to the best, really, because while it's interminably dull, they aren't making one another laugh.

And how they laugh together at home. Over just what Mr. Overshot thought acceptable to wear to Madam Hornby's dinner (the doublet of purple velvwt, so stiffened inside it popped like a firecracker every time he moved) and Miss Sillsby's newest fad (raising pigeons) and Madam Hornby's youngest child (only two, mind) racing through the drawing room stark naked. And over little domestic catastrophes and the ridiculousness of life.

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Black Satin Brocade Bodice with Yellow Flowers and Green Velvet Bows

c.1890

made by American designer Miss Foley

brocaded silk satin, cotton net, and beads

Phoenix Art Museum

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i do, often, think of that quote from wislawa szymborska talking about love and the inexplicability of some of it. "great love is never justified" etc. and it truly isn't. and thank god for that.

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“Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, ‘What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.’ Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope.”

— Vincent Van Gogh

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how it feels reblogging a post that i know will appeal specifically to a certain mutual

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My original plan was to follow up my big article on Regency era given names right away with one about Regency era nicknames. I figured there was probably a decent amount out there about what common nicknames were used during what time periods, and that the research would take me a couple weeks at most. Ha. Hahahahahahaha.

So here I am three months later with 24 pages of typed notes, two huge spreadsheets, literally hundreds of sources, and still no conclusive evidence of where the hell Sukey came from.

I, ever the avid ignorer of sunk-cost fallacy, still plan to finish this project (largely because of how frustrated I am that no one’s ever written about it before) - but it’s probably going to be a while. 

While I'm finishing this up, in order to not disappear entirely, I’m going to be instituting a Throwback (insert random day of the week). In the past I have generally avoided reposting things, but I recently received an email from tumblr stating that this blog is now 14 years old. So, considering that there may now be posts on this blog older than some of the people reading them, I’m thinking there are probably quite a few old posts that people missed the first time around. Possibly because they were toddlers.

If you need me in the meantime, I’ll be fighting the name Alexander in a Denny’s parking lot.

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someone said we had more fun in childhood because we didnt have any past memories to linger on and it has stuck with me ever since

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I love this meme sm

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kiss kiss

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“Lord Byron gets up at two. I get up, quite contrary to my usual custom … at 12. After breakfast we sit talking till six. From six to eight we gallop through the pine forest which divide Ravenna from the sea; we then come home and dine, and sit up gossiping till six in the morning. I don’t suppose this will kill me in a week or fortnight, but I shall not try it longer. Lord B.’s establishment consists, besides servants, of ten horses, eight enormous dogs, three monkeys, five cats, an eagle, a crow, and a falcon; and all these, except the horses, walk about the house, which every now and then resounds with their unarbitrated quarrels, as if they were the masters of it… . [P.S.] I find that my enumeration of the animals in this Circean Palace was defective … . I have just met on the grand staircase five peacocks, two guinea hens, and an Egyptian crane. I wonder who all these animals were before they were changed into these shapes.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley on the lifestyle of Lord Byron (via timemarauder)

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the time is right, your perfume fills my head

the stars get red, and, oh, the night's so blue

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All of you who want to be stay at home wives and have no employment history need to watch MAID on Netflix. It is mainly about escaping abuse in a heterosexual relationships, but it says a lot about surviving as a poor woman in the world, and it is American (sigh) but I think it also translates to other countries. I relate and I never dated men or have a child but I have scraped for cash a lot. I was a janitress, a nanny, I packed boxes at a warehouse and was a bus boy, I slept on so many friends' couches and in an airport because (it is clean and they won't kick you out if you are clean, and have luggage, and it is big enough that they won't recognize you've slept there for a few days). I speak from experience when I say this generation of women glorifying being financially dependent makes me sick to my stomach. You don't need to be a girlboss productivity junky, I hate work, I bitch about work on here every week, and would love to make art and maintain a house all day, but I know better than to be a vulnerable woman in a world that eats vulnerable women alive.

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I don't know who needs to hear this but Victorian patterns are literally free on the internet. You can find most pre-1920s clothing patterns for free. Look into archives for any scanned pattern books

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Caryl Lincoln, Loretta Young, Sally Blane, Doris Dawson, Doris Hill, Helen Foster, c.1929.

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