okily dokily

gregory: father, sir, may i please hear one story about the first 30 years of your life?

thomas cromwell: oh. okay. i see. she thinks this has everything to do with her. she went to her wardrobe and she selected that yellow dress sewn with pearls because she's trying to remind the world of when she was first at court and danced in a masque in 1522. but what she doesn't know is that dress is not just yellow, it's not marigold, it's not tansy, it's not saffron, it's actually giallorino. and she's blithely unaware that the fashion for fabric dyed with giallorino started amongst the weathly in basle. for a few months, if a draper could get a hold of it, he could make a killing. and then suddenly it was everywhere, in sleeves and hose and even hairbands for those who couldn't afford more than a sliver. and then it trickled down the scale abroad where eventually anne boleyn fetched half a dozen yards out of some french clearance bin. that yellow represents millions of marks and countless jobs. and it's sort of comical that, by the time of lady anne's english debut, in the domains of the emperor you'd see women in brothels hoisting their fat dugs and tight lacing tragic yellow bodices.

Indian Bullfrog (Hoplobatrachus tigerinus), mating, family Dicroglossidae, India

In the breeding season, the males turn bright yellow.

The base image is from Norman Lindsay’s A Homage To Sappho

This will be the second time I’ve switched up the genitalia on one of this series but is the first time I’ve hand drawn the addition of the body hair and genitalia. More adjustments made tomorrow but yeah!

I have some segments to redo, refining to do with a single thread going back thru, and graphite to carefully remove but per request some of the ladies got top surgery

*dragging myself across the floor and covered in blood* it is finished…

My bad I’ve been in a mixed episode for almost two months and it’s made me have more episodes of lying in bed unable to move or do anything meaningful

we're so back