Achronal Art
@achronalart.bsky.social
Alessandra Kelley - I make art. TTRPGs. She/her. Cis. White as Wonder Bread with mayo. Sophipygian. Postmodern Pre-Raphaelite.
Black lives matter. Trans rights are human rights. I only repost images with ALT text.
Black lives matter. Trans rights are human rights. I only repost images with ALT text.
I keep returning to this Brassaï photograph of a Paris bistro right after the Second World War ... partially to remind myself of just how inescapable stinky cigarette smoke would have been in the Glamorous Past (TM), but also just as a reminder of how self-medicated people were back then...
November 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I keep returning to this Brassaï photograph of a Paris bistro right after the Second World War ... partially to remind myself of just how inescapable stinky cigarette smoke would have been in the Glamorous Past (TM), but also just as a reminder of how self-medicated people were back then...
Now with ALT text! The cast of the Dungeons and Dragons podcast Rolling With Difficulty (
@rollwithdifficulty.bsky.social
) are at #PAXUnplugged this weekend!
@rollwithdifficulty.bsky.social
) are at #PAXUnplugged this weekend!
November 21, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Now with ALT text! The cast of the Dungeons and Dragons podcast Rolling With Difficulty (
@rollwithdifficulty.bsky.social
) are at #PAXUnplugged this weekend!
@rollwithdifficulty.bsky.social
) are at #PAXUnplugged this weekend!
Now with ALT text! The crew of the D&D podcast Rolling With Difficulty has a table at #PAXUnplugged this weekend, along with this fetching muppet of the party bard Oobtaglor Oobtaglorbur, a plasmoid ooze.
November 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Now with ALT text! The crew of the D&D podcast Rolling With Difficulty has a table at #PAXUnplugged this weekend, along with this fetching muppet of the party bard Oobtaglor Oobtaglorbur, a plasmoid ooze.
Another handy historical costuming resource is the Cooper-Hewitt collection, including this entirely online 232-page scrapbook of French printed cottons from 1850, showcasing a stunning range of prints and colors.
collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/1848...
🗃️🪡
#FashionHistory
collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/1848...
🗃️🪡
#FashionHistory
November 20, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Another handy historical costuming resource is the Cooper-Hewitt collection, including this entirely online 232-page scrapbook of French printed cottons from 1850, showcasing a stunning range of prints and colors.
collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/1848...
🗃️🪡
#FashionHistory
collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/1848...
🗃️🪡
#FashionHistory
More scam ads showing up on websites. I assume these "clearance quilts & coverlets" are just like those "sweaters" that started popping up last year - cheap photoprints on cheap fabrics which the ads misleadingly imply are the elaborate handcrafts they are simply cheap photoprints of.
November 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
More scam ads showing up on websites. I assume these "clearance quilts & coverlets" are just like those "sweaters" that started popping up last year - cheap photoprints on cheap fabrics which the ads misleadingly imply are the elaborate handcrafts they are simply cheap photoprints of.
Hoopoes are so pretty! I've never seen one irl, but I made some sketches from photos when studying ancient Mesopotamia.
November 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Hoopoes are so pretty! I've never seen one irl, but I made some sketches from photos when studying ancient Mesopotamia.
I found a screen shot enumerating last year's vs. this year's basket:
November 6, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I found a screen shot enumerating last year's vs. this year's basket:
Side by side comparison of the 2025 Walmarts Thanksgiving menu vs. the 2025 one:
November 6, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Side by side comparison of the 2025 Walmarts Thanksgiving menu vs. the 2025 one:
Walmart claims this year's menu feeds "10" instead of "8" --despite containing objectively less food -- which is part of how they calculate that it's "cheaper" per person.
My friend pointed out how bad things must be if they cut corners on *sweet potatoes*!
My friend pointed out how bad things must be if they cut corners on *sweet potatoes*!
November 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Walmart claims this year's menu feeds "10" instead of "8" --despite containing objectively less food -- which is part of how they calculate that it's "cheaper" per person.
My friend pointed out how bad things must be if they cut corners on *sweet potatoes*!
My friend pointed out how bad things must be if they cut corners on *sweet potatoes*!
This is what I remind myself of every time I see a glamorous garment or image of a party from the 20th century that looks really cool. 'Cos the whole context probably smelled like a cigarette factory on fire, inescapably.
AKA why the idea of time travel is not always all that enticing, actually...
AKA why the idea of time travel is not always all that enticing, actually...
November 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM
This is what I remind myself of every time I see a glamorous garment or image of a party from the 20th century that looks really cool. 'Cos the whole context probably smelled like a cigarette factory on fire, inescapably.
AKA why the idea of time travel is not always all that enticing, actually...
AKA why the idea of time travel is not always all that enticing, actually...
Whew, things are actually looking up!
... Still super eventful tho, and a little tiring
So with eyes towards a better future, gonna acknowledge that this is still a useful meme...
... Still super eventful tho, and a little tiring
So with eyes towards a better future, gonna acknowledge that this is still a useful meme...
November 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Whew, things are actually looking up!
... Still super eventful tho, and a little tiring
So with eyes towards a better future, gonna acknowledge that this is still a useful meme...
... Still super eventful tho, and a little tiring
So with eyes towards a better future, gonna acknowledge that this is still a useful meme...
This is a very cute 🧵 and a sweet story.
I start you with ALT text of the adorable images:
I start you with ALT text of the adorable images:
November 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
This is a very cute 🧵 and a sweet story.
I start you with ALT text of the adorable images:
I start you with ALT text of the adorable images:
I was at one of the No Kings demonstrations two weeks ago, and there was so much more creativity and sense of community and sheer fun and joy and life.
November 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I was at one of the No Kings demonstrations two weeks ago, and there was so much more creativity and sense of community and sheer fun and joy and life.
I found another one that's closer in style to the OP. This is an 1850 portrait of a Netherlandish baby boy wearing a dress very like it.
Queen Victoria popularized plaids and they became extremely fashionable, including for little boys' dresses, as here. Note also the toy sheep, a sign of boys.
Queen Victoria popularized plaids and they became extremely fashionable, including for little boys' dresses, as here. Note also the toy sheep, a sign of boys.
October 31, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I found another one that's closer in style to the OP. This is an 1850 portrait of a Netherlandish baby boy wearing a dress very like it.
Queen Victoria popularized plaids and they became extremely fashionable, including for little boys' dresses, as here. Note also the toy sheep, a sign of boys.
Queen Victoria popularized plaids and they became extremely fashionable, including for little boys' dresses, as here. Note also the toy sheep, a sign of boys.
I just found a watercolor portrait that totally looks like it's from the 1980s and it's from 1925!
Alida Jantina Pott was a modern artist from the Netherlands who made some lovely watercolor portraits in a unique style.
#ArtHistory #WomenArtists #Watercolor
Alida Jantina Pott was a modern artist from the Netherlands who made some lovely watercolor portraits in a unique style.
#ArtHistory #WomenArtists #Watercolor
October 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I just found a watercolor portrait that totally looks like it's from the 1980s and it's from 1925!
Alida Jantina Pott was a modern artist from the Netherlands who made some lovely watercolor portraits in a unique style.
#ArtHistory #WomenArtists #Watercolor
Alida Jantina Pott was a modern artist from the Netherlands who made some lovely watercolor portraits in a unique style.
#ArtHistory #WomenArtists #Watercolor
Sometimes the only way you can tell whether a child is a boy or a girl in an old painting is by their accessories. Both boys and girls could be holding flowers, but only boys (as here) were given drums.
October 30, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Sometimes the only way you can tell whether a child is a boy or a girl in an old painting is by their accessories. Both boys and girls could be holding flowers, but only boys (as here) were given drums.
I'm assuming "Mac" is short for "Macaroni", the slang term for a ridiculously foppish man at the time.
This seems pretty clearly part of the contemporary fashion for satirical prints in England.
This seems pretty clearly part of the contemporary fashion for satirical prints in England.
October 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I'm assuming "Mac" is short for "Macaroni", the slang term for a ridiculously foppish man at the time.
This seems pretty clearly part of the contemporary fashion for satirical prints in England.
This seems pretty clearly part of the contemporary fashion for satirical prints in England.
The drawing is a little crude, but here you can see a few ladies in their fancy hair and redingotes among the crowd of working-class women of Paris marching on Versailles on 5 October 1789, during the outbreak of the French Revolution.
October 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The drawing is a little crude, but here you can see a few ladies in their fancy hair and redingotes among the crowd of working-class women of Paris marching on Versailles on 5 October 1789, during the outbreak of the French Revolution.
One sees fashion plates of women wearing these while strolling in the park to be seen.
October 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
One sees fashion plates of women wearing these while strolling in the park to be seen.
That is the biggest bum roll I've ever seen irl. Most impressive!
The ones in the 1790s were considerably smaller, while still giving a good bit of Oomf in the hip-and-backside region.
This recent book (The Modern Venus, 2024) has some really good scholarship on late 18th century bum rolls:
The ones in the 1790s were considerably smaller, while still giving a good bit of Oomf in the hip-and-backside region.
This recent book (The Modern Venus, 2024) has some really good scholarship on late 18th century bum rolls:
October 28, 2025 at 2:24 PM
That is the biggest bum roll I've ever seen irl. Most impressive!
The ones in the 1790s were considerably smaller, while still giving a good bit of Oomf in the hip-and-backside region.
This recent book (The Modern Venus, 2024) has some really good scholarship on late 18th century bum rolls:
The ones in the 1790s were considerably smaller, while still giving a good bit of Oomf in the hip-and-backside region.
This recent book (The Modern Venus, 2024) has some really good scholarship on late 18th century bum rolls:
Yes! Yes! Dooooo eeeeet! 💚
October 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Yes! Yes! Dooooo eeeeet! 💚
