Although my selection of studio photographs usually features double portraits of affectionate gentlemen sitting together, I happened across this picture taken in the Floridsdorf district of Vienna, c.1900, and was so struck by the spectacular hat I just had to give him a moment in the spotlight! An opulent concoction of feather and flower atop what appears to be a relatively everyday and sensible gent’s hat, we can only guess at what prompted him to wear such magnificent and overblown decoration for his photograph, and if, indeed, he wore this on a more regular basis than the single occasion on which it was recorded!
I can’t decide if I’ve been laughing at this for five minutes because it’s actually that funny, or because I’m mildly delirious from illness. Welcome to Plague Watch 2014 Part 2.
A popular recipe from Isabella Beeton’s Book of Household Management was the toast sandwich. The toast sandwich was a slice of toast, seasoned with salt and pepper according to taste, placed between two slices of non-toasted, buttered bread.
ok i look at and cast judgment upon their pornography almost every day and this is still the weirdest thing i think i’ve heard about the victorians
Hello my darling perverts. I apologize for the lack of posts, but finals ate my brain and then this happened and we’ll just say I was time/space traveling for a while.
Two things happened during my travels that concern you:
1) I acquired an honest to God Victorian sex-ed book/manual. Diseases you’ve never heard of! Incredibly unsound medical advice! Questionable treatments! Poor understanding of anatomy! Expect quotes. Probably as captions.
2) I finally caught The Aether Brigade (aetherbrigade) in action and I cannot recommend them highly enough. Hilarious, charming, bawdy semi-improvisational comedy. A night of alternating vibrator, time travel and history jokes which ended with an inflatable boob fight. I was cackling for an hour straight. We chatted for a while after (who knew that “Hey I run that Victorian porn tumblr you follow” works as an icebreaker? Next time I’ll see if I can use it as a pick-up line) and they are lovely adorable people to boot. Especially a certain ginger engineer with an apparently very effective treatment for, ahem, hysteria.
I am hoping to wrangle one or two of them into providing some (possibly semi-drunken) snarky commentary, so perhaps there is a guest post in our futures? We shall see.
In the meantime, I am back from my adventures and porn shall resume shortly.
Tumblr ate your ask while I was answering it somehow. But it’s a good question! Gold star, you.
To answer your question:
Probably the two most common euphemism for orgasms were coming and spending. Spending/spend were also euphemisms for ejaculate/sexual fluids of either sex.
I don’t even know where to start. The last time one of my favorite authors died (the great Diana Wynne Jones, a severely underrated fantasy and science fiction author. If you haven’t read her, go pick up The Dark Lord of Derkholm or Howl’s Moving Castle this instant), I cried for three hours and was prone to bursting into tears for the next week.
Books, especially fantasy books, most especially fantasy books written from a place of compassion and humor and optimism, are kind of important to me.
I remember, vividly, the first time I read a Discworld novel. I was 15, a sophomore in high school, we were doing CAHSEE testing, and I kept finishing so early that I had already blown through the book I brought to read in case I finished early.
“I don’t have anything to reeeaaaad,” I whined to a friend during lunch. This was, in my life, the most pressing problem and highest priority.
“I have a book you can borrow,” he said, and dug in his bag until he found it.
It was Equal Rites. I read it in two hours, biting hard on my knuckles to muffle my uncontrollable laughter in the agonized silence of standardized testing.
And then I read the rest of them. However I could get them, in whatever order I found them. Four years later I owned every single one.
Pratchett was, unquestionably, a genius. Many people have remarked upon his painfully on point observations of everything from academia to economics to human nature. Others have mentioned his ability to put those observations on the same page as a funny vegetable joke without either one losing anything, and most of the time gaining something, in the delivery.
What I know is this: Terry Pratchett’s work saved, if not my actual life, at least my soul.
My teen years were difficult for me. They’re difficult for most everyone, I think. Books were, at times, the only shield I had against the darkness and the noise. But Discworld was more than that. Discworld taught me things. How to be human. How to have compassion for others. How to remain in the world. How to exist in a way where I didn’t hate everything, including myself.
I don’t know what he would want as a eulogy, or if he would want one at all, but judging from his writing, I think he would value knowing he made a difference. So this is what he taught me.
You don’t have to be nice to be kind (Granny Weatherwax).
What you choose to do shows who you are more than anything else (Vimes).
Home is something you carry with you (Tiffany).
Be the person you needed as a child (Susan).
Anger is a tool. Use it as fuel to stand up for what you believe in (Vimes).
Stories are what make us human (Death).
Someone must speak up for those who have no voices (Granny Aching).
Life isn’t fair. Don’t let that stop you from trying (Vimes).
…I do. Kind of. All links are NSFW. Many of them also not safe for brains. Cannot guarantee any viewer will find anything herein referenced to be even remotely erotic. Trigger warnings for literally anything you can think of apply. You have been warned.
Or if you’re more interested in the academic side of things, The Pleasure’s All Mine (on Amazon) is pretty good. I had another round up of resources somewhere but I can’t find it…
I’m going to be playing catch-up with asks today (which are open and anon is on, btw), so expect text spam. As always, it’s tagged “not porn” if you want to tumblr savior it or whatever.
7 Cups of Tea connects you to free active listeners, counselors online, and online therapy. Speak anonymously with a trained, compassionate person when you need someone to talk to.
I just got off the site. I had a massive anxiety attack and I remember seeing chesca’sfacebook post last night and since imalive.org was busy they suggested this page and I got help. The listener was super helpful and you never know when you might need help.
This was the second time I’ve had an attack in my life and it was definitely more intense and I’m really glad there are resources like this to help out in times of need. Thank God for the internet.
So don’t be afraid to share, you never know who you end up helping.
There’s over 6,000 of you now. How many are pornbots, I don’t know, but I know a bunch are real actual people.
I’ve been running this place since 2012. I’m glad my inane commentary on socks and dumb hats and terrible wallpaper has brought joy to you. This blog has been with me through college, grad school, the demise of a 7 year relationship, and the start of a new one (hi sweetie!). It has brought me friends and kept me company.
I don’t know what’s going to happen to TNV. I would like to think that because this is a collection of historical interest providing commentary, analysis, and education to the adult public, that we would escape the purge buuuut…well. In my real life I’m a librarian and I know too much about how corporations use algorithms to have any real hope.
As a librarian I am also incandescent with rage about this act of censorship. Despite its iffy usability, the artistic, fandom, and sex work communities on tumblr managed to flourish. The fact they are just going to shut down anything perceived by an algorithm to be adult content despite being an app explicitly for adults is frankly an injustice. But corporations have never cared about justice or people, so…I’m angry as hell, but I’m not surprised.
Anyway. Due to the nature of this content, I can’t move it to instagram, facebook, or twitter. I’m most likely going to back it up to a Wordpress. I’ll let you all know when it’s up.
I will be here as long as they let me. My personal tumblr (and my Archive Of Our Own handle) is @elzebrook, so follow me there for updates if this one gets axed. It’s largely fan content and animal pictures.
I try to keep my other social media streams separate from this one, but I do have a twitter and an insta and if you want them, feel free to message me–with the understanding that I may not give them to you because I am a capricious kind of elf.
UPDATE:
Wordpress is tightening its surveillance of tumblr imports because of the massive influx of NSFW content from this hellsite, so TNV cannot find a home there. Still working on options. Maybe Pillowfort?
Twitter doesn’t work because this website is literally pornographic and Twitter doesn’t allow porn. Also Twitter is a trashfire.
Does anyone have a Pillowfort and can tell me about it? Thanks y’all!
MeWe ain’t gonna work, gang.
Their terms of service explicitly do not allow pornography.
There’s over 6,000 of you now. How many are pornbots, I don’t know, but I know a bunch are real actual people.
I’ve been running this place since 2012. I’m glad my inane commentary on socks and dumb hats and terrible wallpaper has brought joy to you. This blog has been with me through college, grad school, the demise of a 7 year relationship, and the start of a new one (hi sweetie!). It has brought me friends and kept me company.
I don’t know what’s going to happen to TNV. I would like to think that because this is a collection of historical interest providing commentary, analysis, and education to the adult public, that we would escape the purge buuuut…well. In my real life I’m a librarian and I know too much about how corporations use algorithms to have any real hope.
As a librarian I am also incandescent with rage about this act of censorship. Despite its iffy usability, the artistic, fandom, and sex work communities on tumblr managed to flourish. The fact they are just going to shut down anything perceived by an algorithm to be adult content despite being an app explicitly for adults is frankly an injustice. But corporations have never cared about justice or people, so…I’m angry as hell, but I’m not surprised.
Anyway. Due to the nature of this content, I can’t move it to instagram, facebook, or twitter. I’m most likely going to back it up to a Wordpress. I’ll let you all know when it’s up.
I will be here as long as they let me. My personal tumblr (and my Archive Of Our Own handle) is @elzebrook, so follow me there for updates if this one gets axed. It’s largely fan content and animal pictures.
I try to keep my other social media streams separate from this one, but I do have a twitter and an insta and if you want them, feel free to message me–with the understanding that I may not give them to you because I am a capricious kind of elf.
UPDATE:
Wordpress is tightening its surveillance of tumblr imports because of the massive influx of NSFW content from this hellsite, so TNV cannot find a home there. Still working on options. Maybe Pillowfort?
Twitter doesn’t work because this website is literally pornographic and Twitter doesn’t allow porn. Also Twitter is a trashfire.
Does anyone have a Pillowfort and can tell me about it? Thanks y’all!
MeWe ain’t gonna work, gang.
Their terms of service explicitly do not allow pornography.
There’s over 6,000 of you now. How many are pornbots, I don’t know, but I know a bunch are real actual people.
I’ve been running this place since 2012. I’m glad my inane commentary on socks and dumb hats and terrible wallpaper has brought joy to you. This blog has been with me through college, grad school, the demise of a 7 year relationship, and the start of a new one (hi sweetie!). It has brought me friends and kept me company.
I don’t know what’s going to happen to TNV. I would like to think that because this is a collection of historical interest providing commentary, analysis, and education to the adult public, that we would escape the purge buuuut…well. In my real life I’m a librarian and I know too much about how corporations use algorithms to have any real hope.
As a librarian I am also incandescent with rage about this act of censorship. Despite its iffy usability, the artistic, fandom, and sex work communities on tumblr managed to flourish. The fact they are just going to shut down anything perceived by an algorithm to be adult content despite being an app explicitly for adults is frankly an injustice. But corporations have never cared about justice or people, so…I’m angry as hell, but I’m not surprised.
Anyway. Due to the nature of this content, I can’t move it to instagram, facebook, or twitter. I’m most likely going to back it up to a Wordpress. I’ll let you all know when it’s up.
I will be here as long as they let me. My personal tumblr (and my Archive Of Our Own handle) is @elzebrook, so follow me there for updates if this one gets axed. It’s largely fan content and animal pictures.
I try to keep my other social media streams separate from this one, but I do have a twitter and an insta and if you want them, feel free to message me–with the understanding that I may not give them to you because I am a capricious kind of elf.
UPDATE:
Wordpress is tightening its surveillance of tumblr imports because of the massive influx of NSFW content from this hellsite, so TNV cannot find a home there. Still working on options. Maybe Pillowfort?
Twitter doesn’t work because this website is literally pornographic and Twitter doesn’t allow porn. Also Twitter is a trashfire.
Does anyone have a Pillowfort and can tell me about it? Thanks y’all!
