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- 14 de Mayo, 2019
So there are two more or less unrelated subjects I have been keeping pent up inside for too long and this is the consequences you have to face for it.
There are two features of Southern plantation big houses that I have noticed in my ramblings which fascinate me. One is CANOPY BEDS and the other is FRENCH WALLPAPER.
Canopy beds are absolutely fantastic, I wish I had one, am seriously thinking about acquiring one, and yet if I do any woman I could ever hypothetically hope to bring home would surely judge me for it, because in this day and age, canopy beds are associated with little girls and princesses. What is a canopy bed? It's a bed that has four posts around it and a covering that, when the curtains are drawn, effectively turns it into a tent. This is fantastic. Want to shut out light? Draw the curtains. Want extra privacy in a room with people? Draw the curtains. EVERYBODY had canopy beds. Jefferson Davis had them. George Washington had them. Andrew Jackson, a real backwoods cracker, had them. EVERYBODY. If you walk into any antebellum mansion you will find canopy beds, and I saw them once on a Scrooge movie so I assume they were a broader Victorian trend not confined to the South.
Related to canopy beds, French wallpaper I was first exposed to playing Red Dead Redemption 2 in the Braithwaite mansion, thought "what tacky bullshit," then saw in real life at the Hermitage (and since at other places) and was shocked. Basically, these jerkoffs assigned so much social value to French wallpaper that they would put up wallpaper on a log cabin before they'd spend the money to MOVE OUT OF THE LOG CABIN, and it's like having a damn painting on your wall.
Related to both are these Google Images pics of The Hermitage. They're not the most charming examples of canopy beds and French wallpaper, but they're good enough. Every time I look at my regular bed and my unpapered walls I feel resentment.
There are two features of Southern plantation big houses that I have noticed in my ramblings which fascinate me. One is CANOPY BEDS and the other is FRENCH WALLPAPER.
Canopy beds are absolutely fantastic, I wish I had one, am seriously thinking about acquiring one, and yet if I do any woman I could ever hypothetically hope to bring home would surely judge me for it, because in this day and age, canopy beds are associated with little girls and princesses. What is a canopy bed? It's a bed that has four posts around it and a covering that, when the curtains are drawn, effectively turns it into a tent. This is fantastic. Want to shut out light? Draw the curtains. Want extra privacy in a room with people? Draw the curtains. EVERYBODY had canopy beds. Jefferson Davis had them. George Washington had them. Andrew Jackson, a real backwoods cracker, had them. EVERYBODY. If you walk into any antebellum mansion you will find canopy beds, and I saw them once on a Scrooge movie so I assume they were a broader Victorian trend not confined to the South.
Related to canopy beds, French wallpaper I was first exposed to playing Red Dead Redemption 2 in the Braithwaite mansion, thought "what tacky bullshit," then saw in real life at the Hermitage (and since at other places) and was shocked. Basically, these jerkoffs assigned so much social value to French wallpaper that they would put up wallpaper on a log cabin before they'd spend the money to MOVE OUT OF THE LOG CABIN, and it's like having a damn painting on your wall.
Related to both are these Google Images pics of The Hermitage. They're not the most charming examples of canopy beds and French wallpaper, but they're good enough. Every time I look at my regular bed and my unpapered walls I feel resentment.
