If starry space no limit knows

Stay up late thinking about the character

Be haunted by the memory of the character

Wonder if you'll ever finish that fic you started (x 20)

Reread your old fic and ask if you'll ever write anything again

Be tormented by visions of a made-up guy (gn)

Story by Herodotus in The Histories book 5 chapter 87 about why the Athenians adopted the Ionian dress. Only one Athenian male had survived an attack on Aegina and returned to Athens.

It would seem that he made his way to Athens and told of the mishap. When the wives of the men who had gone to attack Aegina heard this, they were very angry that he alone should be safe. They gathered round him and stabbed him with the brooch-pins of their garments, each asking him where her husband was. This is how this man met his end, and the Athenians found the action of their women to be more dreadful than their own misfortune. They could find, it is said, no other way to punish the women than changing their dress to the Ionian fashion. Until then the Athenian women had worn Dorian dress, which is very like the Corinthian. It was changed, therefore, to the linen tunic, so that they might have no brooch-pins to use.

Andromeda of Sparta give us some great examples of ancient Greek brooch pins, measuring from 3.3 inches to 8.7 inches in length!

I am here for the ancient Greek Hatpin Discourse.

^ The Mourning Athena relief with Athena wearing a peplos, c. 460 BC. As you can see, it is pinned at both shoulders.

"It would have been easier if you'd just said yes."

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Wardrobe

Metropolitan Museum of Art, China

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 213

Period: Ming dynasty (1368–1644)

Date: late 16th or early 17th century

Culture: China

Medium: Wood with inlay of mother-of-pearl, amber, glass, ivory, and other materials

Dimensions: Image:H. 112 1/2 in. (285.8 cm); W. 62 3/8 in. (158.4 cm); D. 32 1/2 in. (82.6 cm)

Classification: Furniture