Well this is nice timing - thanks to the Great Gatsby movie, all sort of 1920s stuff is out and about.

Fire and Ice (not the restaurant of death, but the shinies-merchant) is having a buy-one-get-one-50%-off, and they have a 1920s section...

HELPING

I HELP

Extremely Rare Color Photography of Early 1900s Paris:

Although some of these images might look like a modern day photography and some of them like painted pictures, actually it is real colored photographies, taken at the beginning of the 20th century Paris (France). It is extremely astonishing to look at the world now long gone, the world which ( Read more... )

For those planning on playing a Westerner...

Edwardian street style: Astonishing amateur images which capture the fashion of women in London and Paris over a century ago!

It's neat to see the clothes from the era in situ, as opposed to stylized in a magazine or formal portrait... :)

Remember how Shadows of Amun posted their header teasers?

They now have an informal poll going to gauge interest in said headers!

You should totally have an opinion and share it, if for no other reason than I am still undecided and therefore not helpful. GO FORTH AND BE HELPFUL IN MY STEAD.

Eee!

- Culture
- Western Headers
- Egyptian Headers
- Dom (Gypsy) Headers

Aiee, aiee... my original character concept is now in question!

*flails*

...or, rather..

178 century-old photos of British India found in shoebox.

The most interesting discoveries are indeed made in the most unlikely of places: a treasure-trove of photographs, documenting life in India over 100 years ago during the British Raj, has recently been found in a shoebox in Edinburgh.A total of 178 negatives were found in a ( Read more... )

Hey, all you Shadows of Amun would-be players...

dervishspin is inquiring about whom among us will be interested in sewing patterns from the "great war" period, and would ALSO be interested in said patterns making a guest appearance at Birka this weekend! Clicky to opine!

(Spoiler: patterns here, for those not making it out!) :)

SO RIGHT

Do you remember how there was this totally offhand comment about "...It is just in development, but we are working on an post WWI Indiana Jones style larp set in Egypt. More information will be forthcoming." ???

And then I got all excited (how you do) and thinkity?

OMG GO LOOKIT!

SHADOWS OF AMUN Y'ALL

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"It is just in development, but we are working on an post WWI Indiana Jones style larp set in Egypt. More information will be forthcoming..."

Let's see... post WWI = after 1918, so styles would be 1915-1925ish, somewhere between Edwardian (1901 - 1914) and the 1920s...

We've got the WWI Recession immediately afterward (1918-1921, worst between ( Read more... )

Wow - the next year or so will see the end of some pretty great games - Seven Virtues, Endgame, Lost Eidolons and the already-ended The Calling all come to mind.

This begs the question: what's next? I hear rumors of Clockwork Skies, and I keep hearing that silway has something Romanesque in the works... tell me your unfounded vicious rumors!