Hee! (The Great Gonzo was a brilliant choice to play Charles Dickens almost straight in the 1992 "A Muppet Christmas Carol" (still the BEST Xmas Carol film ever made! 🎄). It's probably a coincidence, but Timothée Chalamet's 2023 "Wonka" outfit does look like he's dressed like Gonzo from the film.)

Congratulations! I'm a classically trained fine artist who mostly uses traditional media. I have illustrated tabletop roleplaying games and small press science fiction and fantasy books and magazines. I hang around museums and draw the specimens, & have done some scientific and medical illustration.

Heyo, I paint fine art in egg tempera and oils and make game and science fiction and fantasy illustrations in pencils, acrylics, and digital. ... Among other things. I, uh, do a lot.

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Trans flag colors in history... Poking through old fashion plates I ran across this December 1872 one from the English magazine "Le Monde Élégant" with some ladies in ball gowns including one in a perfect set of trans flag colors. 💙 💕 🤍💕 💙 Joy to all trans sisters out there! 🗃️🪡 #FashionHistory

Gothic ambitions . (1890 fashion plate from "The Season" magazine)

Here's a colored fashion plate (I thought instantly of fashion plates upon reading your post). The trousers here are not quite as wild as the examples you've found, but Victorian men liked them some plaid (and not all stovepipe hats were black, either). #mensfashion #victorianfashion #1850sfashion

Also, the guy on the left is clearly wearing fishnets.

I KNOW, RIGHT? I *think* they’re wild boars, alternating with curled hunting horns and … maybe heraldic shields? At first I thought they were dragon’s heads, which would have been even cooler.

are those... warthogs??

Hakuna Matata, baby

Pop culture: Men’s 19th century clothing was staid, sober, respectable and dull. 19th century men: Hold my port.

Look at these trousers! My goodness!

This one, from 1854, just delights me.

Sometimes I wish more old advertisements were in color because I’d *love* to know what these men’s outfits from 1853 actually looked like. 🗃️🪡 #FashionHistory

It took a highly sophisticated Jacquard weave to create the incredibly detailed oranges that form the fabric of of this early 1890s dress. You can almost smell the citrusy peel. There so many details to observe here, the pattern matching, the cuff trim, the drama! #V&A #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Really enjoyed this article by Caity Weaver: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

🎉Publication Day! *The Art of Parisian Chic* is now available in softcover, hardcover and ebook formats. Paperback is only $28!

They are golfing trousers, the first generations.

Sometimes I wish more old advertisements were in color because I’d *love* to know what these men’s outfits from 1853 actually looked like. 🗃️🪡 #FashionHistory

I like the implication in these pictures that on the other 364 days of the year, the zoo has only the vaguest sense of how many lions it should have

I used to be management in the food/hospitality industry, and we were taught this exact same thing. The customer who never comes back but tells 10 friends will cost you more than that 1 jerk you didn't want to offend. Every time. Perfect 🧵10/10

This thread applies to far more than just gaming. If you have a public-facing facility and aren't asking people who display antisocial behaviors to leave, pretty soon all you are going to have are the antisocial customers.

Well we finally got widespread smoking bans and it turns out it was all bullshit. The bars and restaurants were fine. Smokers went outside to smoke or just went a couple hours between cigarettes if they had to. Everyone else was happier.

Addendum: Some of you are thinking, "Gee, this sounds logical, but how can I be sure it's true? It seems debatable." Well, if you're old enough, the pilot program was widespread indoor smoking bans. They instigated massive public debate.

You can make a community more inclusive by kicking people out! Welcome to paradoxical social dynamics! Thank you for following this thread, please share it with whoever needs to see it.

You can and should generalize this. The dude who creeps on women and follows them around the store or whatever is going to cost you ten women customers.

In short, every shithead you don't ban costs you ten other customers. "A [potentially regular] customer doesn't say anything but never comes back" doesn't register with you as An Event the way that kicking someone out (temporarily or permanently) does, so it's extremely easy to miss it.

Synopsis: You need to kick more people out. You will actually have a larger base of customers/attendees if you kick more people out. You will make more money. I am dead serious.

I spent an excessive number of years moderating a gaming forum and I learned a great deal about community spaces and cultivation, whether I wanted to or not. I have critical advice for anyone who runs a game store or gaming convention. Please share this thread with people who run those things.

For any Titanic nerds out there, my colleagues in the UCL Marine safety group have just published an astonishingly detailed analysis and supercomputer simulation of how Titanic sank, linked to witness statements & the best available evidence. Full paper here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

Just realized that Emperor Qin Shi Huang's "Terracotta Army" of clay soldiers he kept in a vault in like 200 BC make him the first Warhammer Guy. he got some disposable income and started painting minis. totally get it

One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years. Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.

#GVerse via @chariselee.bsky.social Incredible interpretation of popping, hip hop freestyle and art of ballet‼️ Yo-Yo Ma and Lil Buck - The Swan

Gothic ambitions . (1890 fashion plate from "The Season" magazine)

So apparently "amaranth" is the classy old word for "hot pink" if you want to discuss historical costumery? 🗃️🪡 #FashionHistory

Jim Wampler announced this morning that we lost Tim Kask, who passed in his sleep on the 30th. Tim was the creator of The Dragon, which set the foundation for what an industry-focused magazine should be. He was an icon and one of the few early founders of TSR still with us.

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Designer Jeanne Lanvin was born on this day in 1867, one of the earliest women pioneers to excel in the business of fashion, joining the Syndicat de la Couture in 1909. This is a rich, jewel like gown, a turquoise gem with a gold trim, early #1930s #fondationazzedinealaia #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Young man wearing a purple coat with scarlet lining, white waistcoat, black silk breeches with white stockings and Hussar boots made of shiny black goatskin with leather tassels. From the Magasin des Modes Nouvelles Françaises et Anglaises, 1788. #FashionPlateFriday #dresshistory #18thc

CORRECTED POST: :) MPORTANT SAFETY NOTICE: If you are trans at a convention I am at and someone gives you shit about it, let me know and I will come throw a fucking chair at them. This service is complimentary. Also, I have to start proofreading my posts!

Oh blimey, I didn't realize that was a pic without ALT text. I thought it was the thumbnail for the link. I make a point of never reposting things that don't include ALT text, so thank you!

Alt-text: A truck with a light-blue cab and a plow blade tackles snow on a Chicago street. In the background, a park with bare trees is behind a low iron fence. The sky is grey.

I have not seen evidence that pink was a color limited to any particular gender before relatively recently.

FWIW, "traditional" national dress is an invention of the nineteenth century 🗃️🪡 #FashionHistory

On this special ~full video~ bonus episode of the OSPodcast: The Time Heist gets Linguistic, as Leonardo Da Vinci causes great confusion for the rest of the cast by speaking only Italian. (This episode of the OSPod is available on all podcast platforms And YouTube!! youtu.be/crB7710S_a8?...) -B

FWIW, "traditional" national dress is an invention of the nineteenth century 🗃️🪡 #FashionHistory

I’m getting Thai food out of this one way or another

The two children here are boys. Nineteenth century fashions for men and boys were a lot more inventive and wild than they are generally given credit for in the fashion histories. 1859 German fashion plate 🗃️🪡 #FashionHistory