The Prince and the Dressmaker is the story of Frances, an aspiring
dressmaker, and Prince Sebastian, heir to the throne of Belgium and the
most eligible bachelor in the elites of Europe at the apex of the
industrial revolution, just as the role of royalty is shifting
precipitously.
Prince Sebastien is under nearly unbearable pressure: to wed, to assume
leadership. But he’s also under pressure thanks to his dark secret: some
days, when Prince Sebastien looks in the mirror, he sees a woman. He
has been stealing his mother’s dresses for years and privately dressing
in them, with the help of an extremely discreet and devoted servant.
One day, Frances finds herself summoned by Prince Sebastien, and, as she
discovers his secret, she also finds in him her most willing patron,
canvas, and audience, the first person to truly understand her artistic
passion.
The two conceive of an artistic and personal partnership, with Frances
helping the prince fashion a second identity as Lady Crystallia, who
quickly becomes the toast of Paris and the most mysterious and
best-dressed figure in high society. As the pair’s collaboration
deepens, so does their friendship – and then it ruptures, when Frances
has to confront the fact that she can’t be known as Prince Sebastien’s
tailor and Lady Crystallia’s tailor without compromising the prince.
What follows is a wrenching and beautiful story about gender identity,
passion, friendship, selling out, keeping your integrity, and the
surprisingly capacious limits of parental love.
Of course, it’s a Jen Wang book, so it is also gorgeous, with emotive character design, beautifully conceived settings, and a visual rhythm that paces the book so, so masterfully.
I was reduced to happy tears by this book. It is the greatest work yet
from a creator with a string of great works in her history.
If you’re in Los Angeles, you can come see Jen and I discussing The Prince and the Dressmaker at Chevalier’s Books on March 15.
Don’t send me asks citing Quora saying that the pointed hat comes from beer brewers.
You really believe that?
You really believe that (1) thing is somehow not connected to Jewishness? That the curly hair the big nose, all proven to connected to antisemitism? That it’s proven that the witches were Jew-coded in medieval stereotypes that carried on to present day (even into fairy tale moves!!) but somehow SOMEHOW this one thing is not connected to Jewishness?
“The two explanations that seem most plausible have to do with real-life marginalized groups. In his book, Jensen describes how the 1215 Fourth Council of the Lateran required all Jews to identify themselves by wearing the Judenhat (“Jewish hat” or “horned skullcap”). The style soon became a target for Anti-Semitism. Artists painted devils muttering curses beneath Jewish crowns. In 1431, Hungarian legal codes required first-time sorcery offenders to walk among their peers in “peaked Jews’ caps.” Medieval representations tying Jews to Satan were nothing new, and by the late 13th century, Jewish attributes had soaked up enough ugly significance to tar all “unbelievers, hypocrites, heretics, pagans, and demons,” Jensen writes. So does the Wicked Witch of the West’s iconic chapeau reflect an ancient association between black magic and the Chosen People?”
The second plausible explanation is that it comes from anti-Quaker bigotry from colonial America. I think that 1215 came BEFORE colonial America so….
Reblogging for my followers who might have trouble remembering whether or not they’ve taken their medicine!
OH MY GOD, THIS WILL HELP ME SO MUCH. I GET SO SCARED WHEN I DON’T KNOW IF I JUST TOOK MY MEDS TWICE.
THANK YOU, I’M ABOUT TO CRY.
Let me share with you guys a product that super helps me remember if I took my meds or not (because while the above is great, I still would manage to confuse myself):
They count as soon as you put the top back on. So if I don’t know if I’ve taken my medication for the day, I can check the cap to see how long ago I opened the container! It’s brilliant!
JFC THIS IS A GAME CHANGER.
I KNOW THIS IS MY ART BLOG BUT EVERYONE WHO TAKES MEDS SHOULD SEE THIS.
Don’t forget! ♥️
For all my friends who take meds on the regular or anyone in general. A great post.
my name is chris, im a 22 year old autistic trans girl and i live with my dad. he’s usually okay, but sometimes, he threatens to kick me out and/or call the cops on me for whatever he thinks is me disrespecting him. tonight was the worst offense yet, and thats for trying to throw away a box full of food that was at least 1 year expired, most of it was expired 3-4 years. i’ll post more about it under a read more break*, because its a long story but all i wanna do is ask for your generosity and help me raise some money to get out of my current living situation, or at the very least money to feed myself because its getting really hard, idk how to end this post. im sorry.
my paypal is here at https://paypal.me/cguzman96 and i’ll be really grateful and hopefully remain alive with each donation i get
Some dude bro on the internet talking about the new She-Ra reboot: Ugh SJWs are taking over cartoons and making them all preachy. I hate it when shows try to push an agenda on kids. Why can’t they be like they used to be, you know?
Original He-Man, looking straight at the audience: We had a lot of fun here today, but you know what isn’t fun? Judging others based on how they look. Not liking a person because he or she is a different race or religion is wrong. Also, plant a tree, and don’t do drugs.
Lou Scheimer was born to a German Jewish family and believed that his cartoons had a responsibility to teach children kindness and respect for everybody.
Back then there were also MILITANT divides between “boy’s” and “girl’s” entertainment but when he found out He-Man had at least a small following of little girls he pitched the concept of He-Man’s sister She-Ra and was insistent she be as tough a warrior as her brother. He saw that girls actually did like “scary” sword and sorcery and had a WHOLE NEW FUCKING SHOW made so they could feel acknowledged and have a heroine to look up to with her very own series.
Later he would help design a whole new sci-fi fantasy setting with the most creative control he ever had, Bravestarr, and was adamant that the hero be a Native American man, the first ever in a starring role on a kid’s action show. He also wanted Bravestarr to be a positive role model by being a patient, gentle, soft spoken man who abhors violence and avoids using guns at all costs.
These cartoons are remembered as schlocky toy commercials and they ARE entertaining that way but real love went into them by a guy who wanted kids to grow up more sensitive and caring. Some of these same geeks crying about THE SJW’S were raised by even more bluntly progressive media than we’ve almost ever had and they didn’t even know it.
This is great but can people stop saying “born to a Jewish family?” Just say the person was Jewish. This construction gets used all the damn time because people want to erase the person’s Jewishness and I’m tired
A child is a person at every stage of development, and they deserve the right to life.
At what stage of pregnancy do they gain the right to use someone’s body against their consent? And what stage do they lose it? Because that isn’t a right extended to any other population.
Also 7 week old fetuses do not respond to touch. They don’t yet have a sense of touch. The receptors in the skin begin to form at 7.5 weeks, but the spine cannot transmit any input from those receptors to the brain until 19 weeks. 19 weeks is when Fetuses begin to feel ‘touch’ and cannot differentiate between types of touch until 30 weeks, when the brain is awake enough to begin processing the input.
They have reflex responses before they have the capacity to feel touch, but a reflex response and actually feeling something are totally different things. (x)
As Oh-Snap-Pro-Choice pointed out too, a fetus, even if you consider it a person, would not have the right to use the pregnant persons body without their consent. Because literally no one has that right.
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