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This is what 5th century Romans looked like:

I think the problem is that pop culture has this theme park version of history that treats time periods like distinct worlds with no fluidity between them. In Roman Times, people dressed like this vs Medieval Times when people dressed like that. But that is obviously not how time works. The end of the Western Roman Empire led directly into and overlapped with the Middle Ages, and the aesthetics we associate with medieval Europe were already long established.

On a related note, the "barbarians" didn't dress like you think they did either. Less of this:

More of this:

(Art by Angus McBride)

Again, the end of the Western Roman Empire was the beginning of medieval Europe, and it already looked like it.

The notable exception was the Franks, who apparently really did dress like that:

*casts an incredibly attractive woman*

casting director: this is how we're challenging beauty standards

sophie's entire quote says as much btw

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if a lot of these "fans's" only prior exposure to the Witcher franchise is CDPR's trilogy, so they derive their preconceived notions of what the characters should be like from those games.

Clever viewers spotted this black western shirt, adorned with white fringe three times over the years. In 2011 it was seen in the pilot episode of New Girl, where Max Greenfield wore it as Schmidt. It was later seen on Park Ji-min (Jimin) in the BTS music video Permission to Dance in 2021. Finally, in 2023 it was worn by Ryan Gosling in Barbie.

Close inspection of all three of these shirts, however, reveal some slight differences in the appliqué flowers and embroidery. While the shirts are certainly all the same design, it’s likely that none of them are the same exact shirt. A quick search reveals the shirt to be fairly common.

Costume Credit: _maddie_erwin_, nostalgiachick, Zoom, ms-moussi, actualbabe

Hey, I just wanted to throw this out there. I've been getting a lot of requests for info about the Ts'íts'àsh language from Pixar's Elemental, and I totally want to answer them, but I did want to make something clear. While this is my Tumblr (so I'll be answering asks, etc.), I didn't create the language by myself. Jessie Sams and I created the language together.

Now, when I say that, you might think like I did the nouns and Jessie did the verbs, etc., but that's not really how we work. We sit down together with our laptops on the couch working on the same document in Pages (shared via iCloud), and we sit there and create every single bit of the language together. There's no part of it you can point to and say that it's all me or all Jessie: The whole thing is us. That's how we work.

If you've sat through the credits of Elemental, you'll see that only I'm credited. That was, in a word, bullshit. We also had no control over it. We can say whatever we want ahead of time, but who gets credited—or whether we get credited at all—is totally at the mercy of the studio. Even when it's written into our contract it sometimes doesn't happen. We noticed that we didn't get the credit in our contract for Peacock's Vampire Academy, and we complained, and the best they could do is credit us in the episodes they hadn't finished yet—the last one. And so we're in the credits only for the very last episode in which we have no lines.

This is an unfortunate part of the job. As language creators, no one in Hollywood knows what we do, and they certainly don't care if we don't get credit. It's up to us to make sure people even know that we worked on something.