You know a characther is fucked up and traumatized when they are wearing one of these

​me in middle school

FWIW, "mauve" was one of the coal-tar dyes developed in the mid-19th century that made eye-wateringly bright clothing fashionable for a few decades.

It was an eye-popping magenta purple

HOWEVER, like most aniline dyes, it faded badly, to a washed-out blue-grey ...

...which was the color ignorant youngsters in the 1920s associated with “mauve”.

(This dress is labeled "mauve" as it is the color the above becomes after fading).

They colored their vision of the past with washed-out pastels that were NOTHING like the eye-popping electric shades the mid-Victorians loved. This 1926 fashion history book by Paul di Giafferi paints a hugely distorted, I would say dishonest picture of the past.

Ever since then this faded bluish lavender and not the original electric eye-watering hot pink-purple is the color associated with the word “mauve”.

Oh! Just like the Victorians did to the Gothic, where actual Gothic cathedrals which had been built to be bright and full of light were portrayed as dark and gloomy places, because that's what happens after a cathedral is filled with candles for several hundred years.

cyanometer  for measuring the  blueness of the sky

1789

for context, there are responding to this mess

by Jaeyoun Ryu

YOU THERE. CITIZEN OF THE SEATTLE METROPOLITAN AREA.

TODAY YOU WILL GO TO HEAVEN SENT FRIED CHICKEN RUN BY LOCAL BUSINESS OWNER EZELL STEPHENS AND BUY DELICIOUS FRIED CHICKEN LUNCH.

oh baby

im SORRY im as far into yankee territory as i can be without moving to alask this is the best ive GOT

as I promised)

if this post will gain 1k I will post the next art with Ellie and Abby, but what will it be is a surprise hehe. so get to work! I can only give a spoiler that it will be a game

upd: needed to crop the whole picture because It can be removed(

cowboy abs! this is actually my fav piece ive done in like. forever.