Let Bill Cook

“My old man is a tough man, but

He’s got a soul as sweet as blood red jam

And he shows me, he knows me

“My old man is a tough man, but

He’s got a soul as sweet as blood red jam

And he shows me, he knows me

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Previous posts in the series:

Part 1: 1890s

Part 2: 1900s & 1910s

Part 3.1: 1920s-silhouette

Part 3.2: 1920s-design details

Shoes

By the 1920s, foot binding was obsolete and increasingly rare, so most women had normal sized feet. In the first half of the 20s, women wore what seem to me like modernized versions of 19th century Chinese shoes, usually flat or low heeled pumps made of fabric or leather. These could be plain or decorated with light embroidery (in contrast to the heavy embroidery on shoes of the 19th century).

Source: lai yiching0926 on Pinterest

Ad from 1920

By around 1926 these were completely, utterly replaced by Western women’s shoes, which were usually mid or high heeled pumps or Oxfords (T straps did exist but were not common, please stop this stereotype immediately). These were characterized by pointed toes and curved heels. There are plenty of people on the Internet who understand historical Western women’s shoes better than me so please get this information from them.

You’re telling me, Stanley Danley Pines, a man who had a day job of performing, watching over the kids, and having the night job of having to figure out complex equations, having to take up mechanics to re build the portal and a tracking device to find where Ford is theoretically in the multiverse would be have the best sleeping schedule?!

Mans probably taking random ass naps during the daytime. Neither of the brother have proper sleep schedules.

Oh you've given me a reason to talk about the Stan twins and sleeping, you're going to regret this

Between the two of them, I am of the controversial opinion that its STAN who doesn't sleep.

Ford knows the value of sleep. He spent however long avoiding sleep as a LIFE OR DEATH type situation (Bill) and THEN spent 30 years in the multiverse in constant danger sleeping only when he could. Ford has had a terrible relationship with sleeping for forever, even when he was a teen, desperate to prove himself, he wasn't sleeping in order to study and read.

Which is WHY, retired Ford? Fucking LOVES to sleep.

Bill is gone. He's on a boat, safe, with his brother by his side and all the food, medical supplies, and resources he could ever need or want, studying anomalies on what is basically a never ending vacation. All this to say, FORD takes naps. He takes naps in bed, at all hours. He takes naps on couches, on chairs, on the desk, sitting upright in kitchen stools, Ford takes naps in the car, no matter what car, whatever. If the place is VAUGLY comfortable and his brother is nearby, Ford is out like a light. The man makes napping an OLYMPIC LEVEL SPORT and he wins it like everything else. The amount of sleep he gets is something to aspire to.

STAN on the other hand. Is the opposite. His sleep was not a constant pull towards factors he could not control, his sleep schedule is as solid as stone and as unending as steel.

It's just TERRIBLE.

Stan runs, fully functional and his ultimate cheery (grumpy) self, on MAXIMUM three hours of sleep a night. 10 years of rigorous sleep schedule to move the car he's sleeping in so he doesn't get his window knocked on by police. Top THAT with 30 years of running the shop during the day, and spending ALL NIGHTS EVERY NIGHT working on the portal, means that Stan's body has given up the fight of demanding more sleep and just thrown in the towel, and Stan gets by with basically nothing

This is, predictably, SUPER GODDAMN UNHEALTHY.

When Ford gets back, Stan sort of. Doesn't know what to do with himself. He's awake, no matter of tossing and turning really matters, he's just. Perfectly fine being alive at 2 in the morning

After the memory gun, Ford is VERY CONCERNED by this behavior, CONVINCED that the not sleeping thing is a side effect. It isn't until Stan gets all his memories back (and after Stan yells at him for hovering) that Ford internalizes that Stan really. Just. Doesn't sleep.

(He learns the reasons for it and has a whole ADDITIONAL guilt spiral on top of the Bill cipher/memory gun one. Stan has to actually wrestle him into the idea that he loves him anyway)

Que Stanford Pines Ultimate Plan to get Stan to sleep more.

Hes a doctor twelve times over, surely this will be easy.

ERR WRONG. Stan is a hard nut to Crack.

Super comfortable bed? No change. Better pillows? Ultra soft blankets? Nope. Weighted blankets? Stan feels too constricted, opposite effect. Darkened bedroom space? Too dark. Nightlight? The blue light makes them BOTH have night terrors. Sleep aids like sleeping pills or dummies? Stan compares them to the drugs the mental institution gave him and Ford hucks them into the ocean.

Yes.

Ford’s tried everything to get Stanley to sleep more. A bad sleep schedule and less hours sleeping is actually DETRIMENTAL to ones health, and Ford would like to keep sailing or just living with a very ALIVE brother thank you very much, and that means that he needs to fix Stans sleep problems.

After. Probably A While, Ford decides, ya know what? Fuck it. Human octopus. Im dragging you to bed whether you want to sleep or not, and if you try to move I will either be pulled with you like a starfish or I will wake up very suddenly (ford puts his space gun ALL THE WAY AWAY for this test, because lord knows he’d reach for it if he was startled out of sleep and even the THOUGHT of pointing a gun at his brother again makes him ill)

Stan objects strenuously, but Ford is very. Very stubborn, and Stan may be a little touch starved because when its time for bed, Ford basically lays on top of him and very promptly goes right to sleep (Ford being the old man who naps like. Everywhere. Is a very important thing to me. You guys dont have to agree but something about Ford, the Guy Who Is Basically A Space Pirate, snoring away five minutes into movie night while everyone snickers is just. It’s such a soft idea and i love it)

So Stan now Cannot Move because his brother is asleep on top of him, and Stans pissy about it for a while, but finally he goes “i know, Ill get three hours of sleep now, and when I wake up Ford will be so deeply asleep he wont notice me move” and closes his eyes

It’s quiet, it’s dark, and Ford here, and he’s comfortable.

Because

Secondly, these tags I could barely see through my laughing tears need to be immortalized

Because Im imagining Ford just SNAPPING upright, wide eyed, and Stan at first is like “you good?” Thinking he had a nightmare, and Ford just snaps his head around like the exorcist and goes “Stanley. This fucks.”

And immediately starts training to be the best napper of all time. Anywhere, anytime, if the surface is vaguely horizontal hes going to nap on it. If he sits in one place for more than 30 minutes not doing something then guess what? Hes asleep. Snoring away. Honk sho. Mi mi mi mi motherfucker.

like it was so insane. women were giving birth without medical aid and having c-sections without anaesthesia while being malnourished and unable to properly provide food and warmth to their newborns. they couldn't produce milk and couldn't afford baby formula. hell, at a certain point finding baby formula was impossible in certain areas of gaza. and there was the constant fear of death hanging over their heads.

there were hopes that after the ceasefire things would improve for these babies and their mothers. that their quality of life would improve. but now that there are chances that israel won't continue with the ceasefire, we need to support these mothers and infants, now more than ever.

please please consider helping my friend suad, who has a little baby boy who suffers from respiratory problems. she just wants to ensure her son's well being. baby khaled is around 8 months old. her fundraiser has been verified (#279).

hey howdy, sorry for the lack of me in the room!! i haven't been very motivated to draw (sorry for the lack of stanuary week 4, you'll get cozy stans besides that at some point i promise^^) but i figured i'd come over here to say i have commissions now!!

what's on the image is what's on the tin, communication will be done over here in dms on the tumbles. i'm trying to find a way to get paypal as a payment method as well but for right now it's cashapp only (sorry for anyone outside the us,,)