#shrovetide

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OH WAIT THATS RIGBT IM IN AN OBJECT CAMP NOW. this is my character shrovetide and this entry sucks because tbe first challenge doesnt count

Locals welcome spring by becoming “monsters” during Slovenia’s Shrovetide festival, called Pust. During Ravenski Pust, young unmarried men dressed as monsters called “Ugly Ones” dust boys with ash. Socks filled with ash are playfully used to pummel the boys; it’s a custom intended to initiate their entry into manhood. “I’ll explain it this way,” says Blaž Rakušček, the president of Ravenski Pust, “if my final exams at school fell on Pust, I’d rather engage in Pust and have to redo the academic year.”

happy Shrovetide Sunday!!!!!

"Shrovetide, now better known as Mardi Gras, is the traditional period of indulgence before the fasting and self-discipline of Lent. In the seventeenth-century Netherlands, it was also the occasion for theatrical performances by the painters’ guilds. Here, Hals depicts two stock figures from these plays, Hans Worst, with a sausage dangling from his cap, and Pekelharing, who sports a garland of salted fish and eggs. They flank a richly dressed girl (probably a boy in drag, as women were not permitted to perform on these occasions). Still-life elements litter the foreground, evoking both the traditional foods of the festival and an abundance of erotic innuendo."

Pancake Tuesday (Shrove Tuesday) (1916) by Boris Kustodiev. Russian Museum.