The Stuff I Run Into When I’m Just Trying To Learn A Language😭

Jeremias Ritter - Nautilus Snail, c. 1630 (Nautilus shell, silver-gilt)

How do I politely tell my elderly coworker to get fucked?

One of my favorite little facts about history is that the Mexican peso was functionally the everyday unit of currency in China in the 19th and early 20th century. Silver was one of the few western commodities that Chinese merchants were willing to trade in at rates that made shipping it to China (an expensive, arduous process) profitable; this trade became so voluminous by the 19th century that large everyday transactions even far away from port cities were conducted in pesos, in large part because Mexico's large domestic silver supply and existing transpacific trade links meant that the currency was stable (a known quantity to merchants in a time and place where relatively pure silver coins were otherwise uncommon) and readily available for use in trade

Damn… need to get my hands on some velvet asap

if the snake wore this maybe he could’ve been redeemable

chinese tea cups 

Decided on making a zhuyao as planned and an embroidered pouch for a friend from the leftovers <3

I got this fabric originally to make a 主腰, but the store gave me half a meter extra cause it had some imperfection, so now I have w hole meter and idk what to make out of it, help

It’s 100% silk, lightweight but quite stiff

Halloween idea:

A Tang dynasty hanfu but make the scar-like makeup into realistic scars🩸

I love it so muchhhhh💕

La Mode nationale, no. 6, 13 février 1897, Paris. No. 10. — Dessus de corsage. Bibliothèque nationale de France

No. 10. — Dessus de corsage en velours vieux bleu entouré par un entre-deux en guipure et s'allongeant jusqu'au bas de la taille où il se termine par un nœud; autour volant de dentelle formant jockeys sur les manches.

No. 10. — Top of the bodice in old blue velvet surrounded by a guipure insert and extending to the bottom of the waist where it ends with a bow; around lace flounce forming jockeys on the sleeves.

I suggest that I, as someone who doesn’t even live on the continent America, should get to also vote in American elections cause their outcome affect me too damn hard

After looking longingly at the window of an antique book store in Cracow, I don’t even know which time, I decided to finally splurge a bit on something pretty💕

btw, do you guys know which year can it be from? I’m guessing somewhere in 1870s, the lady working at the store said it was 1840… I asked her to check if she’s sure but she just got angry at me and she was kinda scary