#antiques freaks

[antiquesfreaks]

New episode up! How do you measure a tape? Once upon a time we had to drag a chain across a field uphill both ways. But now with the modern convenience of a vintage or antique tape measure, we know precisely how long all our tapes are.

#antiques freaks #antiques #vintage #podcast #tape measure

[theodoradove]

@antiquesfreaks: That's right, you

me, every time:

#antiques freaks #podcasts

[mourninglamby]

Yeah, same! I've been here since supermega and the reason why I've held on so long is your style, ability to thoroughly look at a story, and just you general awesome creativity. Because of that, I get really excited when you put all this together in making docs. Even if I only get to see them for two weeks. Fun fact: I have a of named Moira now!

So yeah, can't wait to hear whatever little ideas you have about puppyguard that might pop up :D

AHHH OMFGGGG i forgot abt moira.. my little ex circus troupe antique shop ocs ... hold on i still have some pics of em

heres all the images i could find of em meow ... from left to right in the first image is dottie, moira, rudy/rudolph, and pietro. man i need to draw them again

#my ocs #ocs #moira freak antiques #my art #art

[nerves-nebula]

This is quite possibly the funniest passage of a book I’ve ever read/listened to

“who was one of those characters in society who hold most dreadful opinions” I’m going to choke !!!!

#nnstuff #rambling #varney the vampire #for reference I’m listening to Antique Freaks reading it and #I genuinely couldn’t tell which parts were their jokes and which was the book #so I had to look it up #the whole thing is on project Gutenberg

[dynamoe]

-* Birdie Morell *- The Pink-Eyed Beauty carte de visite, 4 x 2.5 inches, circa 1884 photographer: Chas. Eisenmann, 229 Bowery, New York

Due to their strange appearance, albinos were frequently featured in the sideshow. This young albino girl sits with a book in her lap and upon something that looks like a haystack, or perhaps a faux grassy hillock. This must have been taken during one of Charles Eisenmann’s pastoral phases. This same prop appears in other photographs taken by Eisenmann around 1884 — where it usually appears on the floor in an attempt at a rustic motif — so that is my best guess as to the date of this portrait.

via missioncreep

see also — Portraits of Albino Circus Performers

#albino #albinism #1884 #carte de visite #antique photography #sideshow #freak show #birdie morell #pink-eyed beauty #freak #oddities #natural prodigy #vintage #antique #victorian

[fjorrd]

A tomb shown from the outside and within the entrance from Hierapolis in modern day Turkey, then Phrygia.

#happy tomb freaking tuesday #.chatter #tombs #archaeology #antiquity #ancient greece #turkey #ancient archaeology #collected

[heartlessmonsterlover]

When I was helping out at a library I remember I was shelving some stuff in the large text section, and I found a mystery book that I was interested in, but didn't get around to checking out at that time. It was one of those cutesy murder mystery books where the main character is Just Some Nosy Lady, and I can't remember if it was in a series, but I'm guessing it was. For this book in particular the premise was that she needed to solve the mystery very quickly because she was 8 months pregnant with twins and could have to go to the hospital at any moment.

Funny premise. I forgot the title, so I googled around and found...a whole bunch of murder mystery series where the detectives are just pregnant? Some of them are just a part of a regular mystery series and they just happen to have a book focused on the MC getting pregnant but there was a whole series called "Expectant Detectives"??

I think it would be funny if it was just the same 1 or 2 main characters and people are like God Damn It Can You Stop Getting Pregnant but I'm pretty sure it's just an anthology of other characters or all the murders relate to, like, a midwife or something.

Anyway I still can't find the old book I was looking for which sucks b/c it seems delightful.

#there were a lot i found that were also more 'serious' mysteries #that seemed interesting. probably lots of peril #i mean the 'cozy mystery' types have that too but it's like. you know it's gonna be fine you know? #different genre expectations i guess? #anyway i do enjoy those a bit more #when the person solving the mystery is a detective or police officer it's just like...they're at work #they have to have something interesting or weird about them for me to care #whereas with nosy neighbors it's already interesting #because you don't just. fucking wander into a crime scene and go #'yeah i run an antique doll store but actually officer i'll take it from here' #that's insane! #i love these freaks!

[absentmoon]

when i was a kid i thought my room was cursed and hated me but i also thought we had a sort of understanding

#daisy.txt #my mirror faced my bed and i hated it but also felt a little bad for it #its gone now <- thank goodness #freaked me out. old ass antique vanity

[ego-sum-arbor]

I saw what I think was a yellow bellied sapsucker in my backyard! It was cool.

#not 100% certain on the id bc I was using a somewhat clouded spyglass #I couldn’t get the good binoculars out of the drawer :( #also I was listening to the latest ep of the antiques freaks podcast #which was unrelated to the woodpecker sighting but fun #my blather

[antiquesfreaks]

New episode up! The greatest bookshelf ever invented. Perfect for lawyers and laypeople alike. And uniquely suited for apartment-dwellers and folks who live on the go. You want modular storage solutions with style? You want a barrister bookcase. Join us, won’t you? Thank you.

#barrister bookcase #bookshelf #antique furniture #furniture #vintage furniture #antiques #antiques freaks #podcast #interior design

[vivanightcity]

talking RP makes me miss my little idiot who larps as a human from a regency era novel but has no fucking idea about anything at all.

#i am apparently incapable of having normal characters #cause this guy is like a weird little fairy freak from this liminal realm between faerie and earth #where everything lost ends up #and he found a vanished country house that had been left to rot in this like trash heap world #and just moved in and started playing pretend #cause he's so fucking alone and disconnected #and everything he learnt about humans was from the books in the library #so there's nothing modern #and he's piecing together modern humans from the trash they lose #and then he decides to start selling the better lost stuff back to people at carboot sales and markets #and living his best dodgy antique dealer life #and his physical appearance is like purposefully anachronistic against the personality he pretends to have #because the only humanoids he'd actually seen in person before making up his appearance were scavengers and looked rough #every oc I make is a mountain biking vampire witch from the future #and i don't fucking regret a thing #my favorite genre of character is : wtf is going on - but like - personified #followed closely by: im so fucking angy because i can't process grief #and then finally: dog

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Last surviving photographs from the secretive De La Cruz family. Mexico, 1910s-20s. The following documents were smuggled out by Adrián de la Cruz, a disowned relative. According to him, the thing in the photo is who the family called "Tío Alfredo".

Source: @Valdevia_Art

#old phography #old photo #family #tio alfredo #mosquito #giant mosquito #I don't know if this is fake or not but I found it interesting #freak #bizarre #antique #mystery

[zippers]

shout out to high school "reverse bicurious" "cis woman" me who just thought trans people in antiquity were fascinating and did my Latin IA on trans/gnc romans so now when I'm making lesson plans for my actual job teaching about gay and trans romans i literally just have a document from 2016 called "Gender links" that cites whole books with relevant quotes and summaries and even better, my own translations of primary sources.

thank you pre-burnout me!!!! for doing the leg work as an "ally"!!!!

#everything in my life was foreshadowing me being gay and trans #from my warrior cat name being gaypaw on the playground to me wanting to prove i was straight so bad i faked an interest in latin only to #discover i was obsessed with researching gay and trans people in antiquity/history/prehistory and now i'm an archaeologist #and we all know that archaeology is the gayest of the nerd professions #i mean i was dating a nonbinary person at the time i just got soo freaked out by the twinge of gender euphoria when an acquaintance used #they/them pronouns for me that i took it as evidence i was deffo not a they/them and did not examine my gender again until i was 19 #and it was really like a revelation i had zero seconds of questioning i just realized sitting in my living room. it just made sense. #anyway lol long gender ramble in the tags here #pride #ancient rome #yes i am gonna talk about catullus but how do i talk about attis to a bunch of 9 year olds #am i going to do it? yes. do i expect a few blank stares? yes but who cares bc it means they are focused on their clay! #okay i am spending way too long writing this post back to work!

[siena-sevenwits]

Disclaimer: These thoughts are more emotionally than logically expressed, and reflect my own experience and preference.

#I have some beef with Lockwood and I say this as someone who really enjoys both the show and the books. #I've been doing a rewatch to introduce it to my dad (who loves it!) but we just hit Episode 5 and - is it just me but does this episode #plunge rather deeper into the darkness than we see in the previous episodes? It makes sense narratively of course #Complete Fiction has the task of structuring it such that there's a proper midpoint shift in the series and in my own works I increase #the stakes around this point and really let the protagonists struggle. So it's not so much that I have an issue with things getting #more focused dangerous and difficult. I don't know that I have a logical reason for the unease I feel with Episode 5 - there's just somethi #vaguely disturbing to me about it. It may be my own personal sensitivities. The interrogation scene at Winkman's has absolutely nothing #graphic about it and I appreciate the discretion - but it's just so intense - the threats to draw on Lockwood's face with the heated #instrument - the whole electric shocks sequence - I have been told I have a particularly vivid and empathetic imagination so I may just #be filling in too many gaps and feeling the scene more intensely than some would but it genuinely bothered me. More so on rewatch #though I didn't like it the first time either. I wonder too if it's because on rewatch I can compare it to the scene in the book #Gosh - the book scene is *comedic!* 'Let's disguise ourselves as ditzy tourists and while you check the backroom I'll let my coins #fall all over the place and crawl around under the tables loaded with antiques and freak the owners out! And when they get caught #Winkman just lifts them off the ground menacingly and chucks them in the street. The fact that we had to turn this into a midnight #torture scene for TV - I don't know - I don't like it. And just the atmosphere isn't as balanced as in the other episodes. So many flashbac #to grotesque corpse faces which are somehow a lot more disturbing than the CGI ghosts which feel much more Halloweenish #Not much love and light carved out in the darkness. There's some for sure! And even in the torture scene that bugs me I appreciate how it #shows Lockwood's heart and allows us to explore some meaningful territory that the ditzy tourist scene doesn't #I'm just griping and mainly hoping that the rest of the series is more how I remember it from first watch. The warmth of the Portland #Row gang means a lot to me. Stacking this dark feel on top of the discomfort I have with the harsh language rubs me the wrong way #(Thankfully I have online filters so the language isn't an issue for me but it does make me more reluctant to recommend to friends.

[freakingoutthesquares]

A snippet from this 2015 Radio 6 interview where Russell talks a little about a piece of glassware. Alas I do not have an image of the piece in question, as it is no longer on the website.

#glassware #antiques #russell senior #pulp #interview #autobiography #freak out the squares

[d1anna]

i love having the weirdest dreams napping on the couch

#not really but #my first dream i started to lucid dream while we were walking through a parking lot #i started to fly and the dream was glitching as i realized i was dreaming and it kind of freaked me out so i just forced myself to wake up #but then the second dream was also weird #my parents and i were driving through the old rich side of town at night and we pulled into the parking lot of this bed and breakfast place #and we got out and it seemed normal albeit dark to me but my mom seemed scared and kept telling my dad she heard someone laughing #we got up to our room and my dad went to go do something so it was just me and my mom #we were also rooming with this guy for some reason but he was nice #i was just sitting on a chair and the guy was walking to the door when suddenly the door opened and he was like who’s there #and the person at the door was silent for a bit before closing it really quickly and saying sorry #the guy was like uhh 🤷‍♀️ idk what just happened my #and my mom was like go shut the door but when i went to shut it it had all of these contraptions and mechanisms #it was strange and then my dad was like let me back in and so i did and he talked to my mom for a bit about the strange things going on #he said the old owner liked to collect antiques and stuff and he thinks the place is haunted #my mom was like well i told you that i heard laughing in the parking lot #then guy that we were sharing the room with comes out of his room with bandages all over his face and i’m like what #my mom says something to him and then another guy (the same guy from before) comes out looking just like him just without bandages #and my mom is like i can help and i was like what #the guy takes off his bandages and he’s like it’s my teeth #but also side note i was weirdly struck by how handsome he was for an older man #but then my dream decided to focus on my mom like twisting and fixing his teeth into the right place #weirdly enough i wasn’t freaked out by it but it was just interesting #anyway that’s my dream i need to stop napping on that couch #dianna.moon