#yippee :dd

Ponks outfit looks like red, white, and black, but it's actually red, white, and (very dark) blue! In ancient Persia, each class wore a different color - the priests wore white, the military wore red, and the farmers wore blue. The king wore a combination of the three for the combination of social classes that he represented!

Sam is wearing a felt mitre(fancy hat) with fringed woolen lapets (that's what's coming over his shoulder, they're attached to the hat) and a tiara with carnelian (cough redstone) inlays. His staff is also meant to have a "redstone" head, and the head of ponks is meant to be a lemon! All noblemen had a staff that would be carved full of things to represent them.

The robes or drapery you typically think of when thinking of ancient Mesopotamia are called "Kaunakes". The longer your kaunakes, or robes, are, the higher class you are (because you can afford more fabric!) I really meant to make Sams kaunake even longer, but eh details get lost sometimes.

We tend to think of "ancient clothing" as having been threadbare and brown. This is mostly because of the few representations we have (figurines and wall carvings, etc, because almost no clothing survives from that period), all the paint has come off! In reality their clothing (the high class at least) was extremely colorful, and tended to be full of bright patterns, to the piont that we would think of it as extremely tacky today.

Basically all "ancient Mesopotamian fashion" is Drapes+Gold+FRINGE!!!=high class. They like. REALLY liked fringe. And Gold. And draping. But otherwise the combinations were honestly quite endless! Especially with the Persians, they were well known for adopting any adjacent cultures clothing into thier fashion, so Persia had a particularly diverse range of clothing styles!

also. for the record. this is what happens when you try to queue past the 1000 post limit lol:

you can still save as a draft, though

(i had a couple mini heart attacks because i thought a food blog blocked me lol. i was adding some pancake posts to my queue. [it wouldn't have been a big deal if they blocked me, but it would have been a bit sad.]

people can get weird about Hazbin, so i'm expecting a random block or some kind of "please don't interact with my blog" to happen eventually, but, in this case, i was so confused because i was still able to LIKE their posts XD

so i went to experiment with some stuff in the aforementioned drafted post and with two other posts that were having an 'error' queueing

then i saw "Queue - 1,000" and instead went YIPPEE!! XD)

edit: OH! and for my curiosity and record:

the farthest out right now that my queue goes is October 3 at 4:12 pm

but i have posts manually scheduled through to January of next year, with the latest post of all being for January 13, National Rubber Ducky Day for the US :)

Princess Mononoke and Nausicaa: Valley of the Wind in specific just look at these GUYS

they are all beautiful and i love them :)

also really REALLY fond of 1986 Labyrinth. the one with david bowie. jim henson studios my beloved

also must have been incredibly traumatizing for that child. wonder how they're doing today

as for more recent stuff i really did like m3gan, as well as the FNAF movie. the Boy and the Heron was also really fucking good can't wait till its on streaming services. also likes the most recent ghostbusters and can't wait for the sequel