wasted youth

🍰🍰🍰 (birthday! but i’m a whole ass week late. even if it’s late though i’m just glad i got to do it again, i’ve been doing this for like five years now and i didn’t want to miss just cos i couldn’t get it done on the actual day)

A fascinating parasitic plant found lurking in clusters around the bases of trees has optimized its living strategy so well it's been able to prune nearly a third of its genome. The genus, known as Balanophoraceae, might be mistaken for a strange, fleshy, pink fungus, poking almost phallically out of the leaf litter. With a pungent aroma akin to that of carnal rot, the parasite is far from plant-like. But what appears to be a mushroom cap is actually a flower head, its roots tightly enmeshed in those of the tree it lurks beneath – a successful parasitic relationship, where Balanophora slurps nutrients from the other organism.

09.29.23

09.29.23

The first is a white cat with a light aura. They are in a dark room with many decorated arches. There are colorful stained glass windows, who spill color onto the floor and walls as sunlight shines through them.

So watching Yugioh has ultimately turned into having all my warm up drawings be YGO memes; Please press F to pay respects to Bakura

«The botany professor,» from Kkokei Shimbun, October 20, 1908. she's wearing a kimono blouse or haori, edwardian skirt or hakama, gibson girl bouffant, a lacy high-collar blouse with cravat and brooch, and a pocket watch with chain

Victorian tea gown that clearly started as a kimono.  It still has the long furisode sleeves, but now they’re gathered at the shoulder and turned around so that the long open side is facing the front instead of the back.  Similarly the back is taken in with curved seams to fit the torso and pleated below that for the skirt.

Woodblock of a woman in a a bustle dress made with colorful patterned fabrics and examples of how a woman could style her hair with it.

More prints to showcase hairstyles, two women wearing western wear and two women wearing kimonos.

This next one’s modern, but it involves hoopskirts so I’ll add it in because it makes me so happy.  There’s been different styles of wedding fashion that take kimonos and give them a more modern look.  Often this involves taking a kimono and then cutting and resewing it into a new dress.  Very pretty, but it can’t ever be worn like a traditional kimono again.  But now there’s another trend where the bride wears a hoopskirt with a white skirt, then you take the kimono and drape it on.  The back of the kimono covers the front of the dress, the long sleeves fall across the sides or the back, and you still wear an obi with it.  The result is pretty and the kimono itself doesn’t have to be altered at all.

And because you mentioned steampunk, I have to add in these two: