one among a thousand

35 Perfectly Timed Color Matches That Are Deeply Satisfying

Andoine Calbet - The Water Nymphs

Elena Wuest (German, b. 1977) ‘Beyond’, 2025 Oil on canvas, 80 x 60cm

'Love Letter'. Rebeca Fleur. 2025.

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from "The Man With a Hole in His Head" by Rick Bursky

It's in Waterloo Place, Central London, if you're nearby.

expectations vs reality

Congratulations on the cat

GALAVANT Dungeons and Dragon Lady | 1.06

Washington Allston “Helena and Hermia” (1810), Giovanni Battista Gaulli “Justice, Peace, and Truth” (1672), Frank Skipworth “A Roman Holiday” (1889), Simeon Solomon “Sappho and Erinna” (1864), Tadeusz Styka “Dark and Fair” (1908), Hans Zatzka “Two Fairies Embracing” (1930s), Unknown “Boarding School Friends” (1837), Jean-Frédéric Schall “The Hug” (1800)

Cosplayers at a Star Trek Convention, 1976

You couldn’t just rewatch the episode to look at all the details of the costume. You got lucky with press photos showing up in magazines or you just watched the episode/movie while sketching furiously

I’m a semi old school cosplayer (started in 2001) so some of the old school techniques are still things I learned on (I’ve sketched from stuttering VHS tapes on pause and used the overhead transparency trick)… what we have access to now for costume recreation blows what they had out of the water just in terms of reference material, let alone specialty costume supplies like thermoplastics and cosplay wigs.

Her (sadly) barebones Fanlore page is here: https://fanlore.org/wiki/T.J._Burnside

An effort was made.