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I love a good Very Specific Resource. Here are the links to my posts about resources carefully crafted to share a specific bit of history (updated as needed)
How Fast Was the Mail - Interactive map that giving mail delivery info in the US 1882-1908, also general railroad network information
Streaming Music from Around the World - No algorithms, lots of options, amazing music nerds helping you discover more music.
Professor Shoelace - everything you ever needed to know about shoelaces
Commercial Pattern Archive - over 50,000 scanned sewing patterns dating back to the 1850s
Public Domain Image Archive - thousands of images from various repositories no longer under copyright
Medieval Murder Maps - interactive maps of murder and accidents in medieval London, York, and Oxford
Travel in Times - plan travel routes in England and Wales in various centuries
The Quilt Index - a digital repository of quilts, makers, and their stories
Louis Armstrong Archives - Some highlights from the archives and how to access the full collection from home!
RSN Stitch Bank - hundreds of sewing and embroidery stitches, their uses, their structure, how to make them, and history!
Archive of 80s mixtapes - a whole lot of tapes from the 80s and also tapes of background music from Kmart in the 80s and 90s
Feast Afrique - What started as an exploration and celebration of West African culinary heritage has since expanded to include history, language, culture, and customs of West Africa and the African diaspora.
Letterform Archive - Thousands of high quality images celebrating graphic design, calligraphy, and typography. The beauty of letters!
Historic Menu Collection - Over 17,000 historic menus, 1.3 million historic dishes transcribed. Historic popularity and price range, map it, and more.
Palestinian Embroidery - Digital archives dedicated to the preservation of Palestinian embroidery. Over 1,000+ free patterns
Black Craftseople Digital Archive - enhancing knowledge of Black crafts people (both free and enslaved) and the objects they produced.
Georgian Lady's Magazine Embroidery Patterns - Free embroidery patterns from 1770-1819
The Dutch Textile Trade Project - History and trade of textiles in the 17th and 18th centuries. Fabric types, images, data on trade.
Estonian Knitting - Bog knits! History! Techniques!
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Anonymous asked:
You ever read Junji Itos Frankenstein?
Shockingly, NO! At least, not the whole thing. That's still on my list, but I am obsessed with his Creature. He is disgusting (complimentary) and so upsetting.
I always really appreciate artists who lean hard into a design that's primally terrifying, and boy, we can always count on Junji Ito to do just that and then some. Some of my personal favorite Creature designs are ones that trigger that instinctual stomach-drop when you look at him. He should be terrifying! But he's been done so many times, it's pretty hard to do, so designs like this one are always super impressive. They feel both true to the novel and very distinct.
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i got inspired by antique furniture -> decided to try and make a wooden doll.
she is whittled entirely out of balsa wood with a craft knife, and colored with wood dye. the cabinet has miniature hinges made of tube beads and a metal rod, and closes with a magnet. she absolutely should hold a sentimental & important object, but i don't have any that are the correct size, so i just put in some cute trinkets.
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the thing about female characters and marriage and motherhood and other societal expectations is that if you actually spend time examining their relationships to those roles you can get really interesting results! but people aren’t doing that! why is this character married for the finale? because she’s a woman and that’s what they do!
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you have muched and adoed yourself over nothing
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Lil style experiment on Horde Prime
I don’t know what this style is closest to? I’ve been calling it ‘art deco’ inspired but idk if that’s right. It also reminds me of like Total Drama Island lmao
The biggest effort in trying this was making all the lines connect in some way, I guess be ultra efficient with each line building more than one shape as much as possible. And also everything leading into the hologram of the heart of Etheria
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Okay, I'll go and visit your doll collecting friend IF you can promise me that the dolls aren't secretly people. Don't laugh, I'm not being ridiculous. This is the fourth friend with dolls we've visited and they always turn out to be people. I'm not exaggerating! There was the little kid who shrunk people down and put them in her dollhouse, there was the old woman with the porcelain doll collection that were all haunted with the spirits of dead people, there was your cousin whose action figures came to life -- yes that last one counts! I don't care if the action figures weren't previously human, coming to life as thinking feeling beings makes them people!
Honestly this is getting to be a bit much. If the dolls are gonna be people again, tell me. I'm starting to think I'm not ready for this level of friend visitation commitment. I'm beginning to regret starting to date you so soon after my previous boyfriend mysteriously disappeared on the very day that you started your funko pop collection.
For the last time I'm not being a hypocrite. My labubus aren't people. I put the souls of my previous pets in there so that they can live forever. Kitty cats are not people.
And I didn't bring up your friend whose pokemon cards manifest actual pokemon when played because frankly I'm not familiar enough with the franchise to make that judgement. Especially after he got rid of the smiling little man.
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most importantly if you learn about things you will be able to understand art better. or whatever fag shit it is you like
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Hi friends who study animals, want to study animals, or just want to learn more!!!
There is an online anthrozoology (like the study of relationships between humans and animals) conference coming up on September 4th and 5th.
If you want, you should go ahead and pre-register! (It is free). I spoke and interned last year, and it was so enjoyable and educational, and also a great chance to network and learn from academics in other parts of the world.
