Fabulous Feature: Elizabethan Costume

Mrs Bertin's Jewelry Box: Dress of the Day: Elizabethan Costume: An Elizabethan-inspired dress with gold embroidery and a hint of the fantastical, featured for your viewing pleasure! This is an appropriate reblog for us as a site that features not-quite-historically-correct pieces of art (AKA movies featuring Gerard Butler and set in Spartan times where everyone is naked and Native Americans with shaved chests) that are nevertheless quite beautiful

#whatshouldwecallSparta

I was watching 300...

First Gerard Butler was like:

And I was like:

But then Michael Fassbender was like:

And I was like:

gifs via http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/300-gif, shineemoon.tumblr, http://vipvictor.tumblr.com/post/7726360085/michael-fassbender-gif-animation-from-300-edited, http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/supernatural+gif, crazy-jensenackles-fangirl.tumblr, 

#whatshouldwecallart

<< On my search for naked men in photos to draw from >>

When I can't find the nude reference photo I need on a respectable stock photo site, I'm like:

And I end up doing weird searches on youtube to grab a screencap out of desperation. Everyone is there for this:

gifs via http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/pride-and-prejudice-gif?before=1336673040, http://fyeahlostinausten.tumblr.com/page/4, http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/eric-northman-gif

#nexttimeGoogleit

When I assume that Elizabeth Gaskell's unfinished novel was unfinished because she didn't edit it, then reach the 600th page to find out that there IS no end

First I'm like:

Then I'm like:

via http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/downton-abbey-gif

#whatshouldwecallenglishmajor

How I think I'd be as an English teacher:

How I'd actually be:

via http://fuckyeahjaneausten.tumblr.com/page/6 and

#whatshouldwecallsnarkyvictorian

When I get into a fight with someone and I explain the situation to my friends...

I think I'm like:

I'm actually like:

http://pollyplush.tumblr.com/post/11055849437

#whatshouldwecallJaneAusten

That first half of the movie where Jane Austen's heroine becomes enamored with the asshat before she realizes how awesome the Actual Hero is...

The whole time, I'm just like: