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[venal-quad]

Emergency Commissions!

Emergency commissions

Commission available on Ko-fi.com

My little brother needs to get surgery for his mouth, which will cost about $5000, and we were refused a loan for it.

Its $1 minimum for sketch and $4+ for render ($5 in total)

If you cant buy a commission for whatever reason it would also mean much if y'all reblogged for wider reach

(for these go ham on your requests! Unless I'm uncomfortable with something I'll draw just about anything)

[hanfugallery]

Chinese hanfu | How to wear mamianqun by 明华堂

[dragonaeve]

Chinese textile terms

Putting my hanfu/textile cheat sheet here so more people can reference it. Disclaimer my Chinese is mid. I made this so I could browse Taobao better. Will probably update this as I learn more.

Fabric terms

- fabric: 面料 miàn liào, 布料 bù liào

- material: 材质 cáizhì

- fiber: 纤维 xiānwéi

- blended: 混紡 hùnfǎng

- outer materials: 外料 wai liào

- auxiliary materials: 辅料 fǔliào

- jacquard: 提花 tí huā

- brocade/damask: 锦缎 jǐn duàn

- floral satin/brocade: 花缎 huā duàn

- satin: 缎面 duàn miàn

- gauze: 纱 shā

- embroidered: 绣花 xiù huā

- embroidery: 刺绣 cìxiù

Fiber contents

- polyester: 涤纶 dí lún, 聚酯 jù zhǐ

- acetate: 醋酸 cùsuān

- viscose: 粘胶(纤维) zhān jiāo xiānwéi, 粘纤 zhān xiān

- rayon (artificial silk): 人丝 rén sī

- rayon (artificial cotton): 人棉 rén mián

- tencel: 天丝 tiān sī

- lyocell fiber: 莱赛尔 lái sài ěr

- tencel-linen: 天丝麻 tiān sī má

- linen: 亚麻 yà má

- cotton-linen: 棉麻 mián má

- cotton: 棉 mián

- ramie: 苎麻 zhù má

- wool: 羊毛 yáng máo

- real silk: 真丝 zhēn sī

- silkworm silk: 蚕丝 cán sī

- fragrant cloud gauze/gambiered Guangdong silk: 香云纱 xiāng yún shā

Clothing terms

Hanfu: 汉服 hànfú

Short: 短 duǎn

Unlined shirt: 衫 shān

Long robe: 袍 páo

Yuanlingpao: 圆领袍 yuán lǐng páo

Round collar: 圆领 yuán lǐng

Vertical collar: 竖领 shù lǐng

Stand-up collar: 立领 lì lǐng

Parallel collar: 对襟 duì jīn

Half sleeve: 半袖 bàn xiù

Pipa sleeve: 琵琶袖 pípá xiù

Cross-collar long gown: 交領長衫 Jiāo lǐng chángshān

Straight robe: 直裰 zhíduō

Pleated skirt: 百迭裙 bǎi dié qún

Beizi (outer garment): 褙子 bèi zǐ

Baofu (bellyband): 抱腹 bàofù

Raccoon sleeves: 貉袖 háo xiù

Ming dynasty/style: 明制 Míng zhì

Song dynasty/style: 宋制

Motifs

- bamboo leaf: 竹叶 zhú yè

- bird: 鸟

- butterfly: 蝴蝶 hú dié

- cat: 猫

- cloud: 云

- crane:

- dragon: 龙

- feather: 羽毛

- fish: 鱼

- fishscale: 鱼鳞

- heron:

- jellyfish: 水母

- kingfisher: 翠鸢 cuì yuān

- phoenix:

Colors

- ombre: 渐变

- white: 白色

- grey: 灰色

- black: 黑色

- brown: 棕色

- red: 红色

- orange: 橘色

- yellow: 黄色

- green: 绿色

- cyan: 青色

- navy: 藏青色

- blue: 蓝色

- violet: 紫色

[stardust-falling]

This pride month, I'm trying to raise some money for my partner's top surgery, so I'm opening up $5 doodle and ficlet requests on ko-fi until the end of June.

Doodles can be one or two characters, sketches or flat colored.

Ficlets will be ~1-2k words

The following fandoms are available to request:

Genshin Impact

Honkai: Star Rail

SVSSS

MDZS

ORV

Ghosts of the Heart (my novel)

Original Character Doodles

Many thanks for sharing and donating, it is so so very appreciated!! =^.^=

[qqchurch]

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

OP said she's 180cm tall and few hanfu fit her height, so she makes them herself. The hanfu she makes features guzhuang style, much like those seen in costume dramas, not the historically accurate ones. (cr赵师爷工作室)

[redsugarx]

Styles from the Steppes: California Steppes Photoshoot (Duo)

Nav: Photoshoot Duo/Esther/Tara // Shoot & Styling Background // Macaron Design Background // Ferghana Design Background

aka

Ni Howdy: A Doomed Yuri

(there's two more shoot presentation posts with the individual pics in them bc of tumblr's image limit, this post has all the gay duo pics)

Happy AAPI Month from Cloud9! 🐎 For this Year of the Horse, we wanted to tell a story of diaspora and cultural remixing: across grasslands, oceans, cultures, and nations.

The two looks featured in this shoot, Ferghana (君馬黃) and Macaron (馬卡龍), draw from the historical exchange between the Central Plains and the Eurasian steppes: horse-riding nomads from the northwest frontiers like the Xianbei (鮮卑) peoples, Central Asian motifs from Persian and Greco-Bactrian trade, garment evolutions adapted for a life on horseback, Ferghana horses, and more.

As Bay Area born-and-raised natives ourselves, we wanted to reimagine the rolling steppes of Northern Asia in the grassy hills of California, mirroring the cultural exchange of East and West. Whereas these hanfu silhouettes arose from the intermixing of West/Central Asian and East Asian influences, we sought to incorporate some of the American “West” in our looks as well.

We paired cowboy boots, blue jeans (famously patented in SF during the Gold Rush), a cowboy-weimao (帷帽) hybrid hat, both modern and traditional bows, swords, and of course horses 🐴 with our styles from the steppes to bring in the spirit of California’s western frontier.

Each of the amazing collaborators in this project carries their own diasporic heritage and hails from California’s SF Bay Area; both models and our main photographer were even born in the Year of the Horse! For this AAPI month, we’re hoping that this photoshoot reflects what it means to inherit many histories, live between worlds, and create something new from all of them ✨

"So do we kiss now, or..." - Tara

CREDITS Models: Esther Sue (ig: @/esthers_ue), Tara Yaghmaei (ig: @/tara_yaghmaei) Hair: 糖糖 Tangtang (me, ig: @/tang.tang.mm) Makeup: 玉藍 Yulan / Chlobalt Blue (ig: @/chlobaltblue) Photography & Editing: Hong Majaya (ig: @/hongwithcamera), Sylvia Gong (ig: @/sybiashoots) Horses: Giddyup Productions (ig: @/giddyup_productions) Weapons: Christabel Choi (ig: @/christabel_choi), Haydon Fu (ig: @/fuhaydon), Kevin Wong (@ktw-shu) Additional Assistance: Faye Sun Location: Sunol, California, USA (specific clothing & accessory credits to be listed in individual posts)

[redsugarx]

Styles from the Steppes: California Steppes Photoshoot (Esther)

Nav: Photoshoot Duo/Esther/Tara // Shoot & Styling Background // Macaron Design Background // Ferghana Design Background

"Call her briar rose or smth tho bc those 12 ft long braids kept picking up thorns on the hills" - Yulan

Pt. 2 of our AAPI series: Meet Esther, our model for the Macaron set! 🍬

A Bay Area native of Chinese-Mongolian heritage aptly born in the Year of the Horse, Esther works in software engineering and enjoys baking, thrifting, and bouldering in her free time. We chose Esther for this look to help represent the bridge between Mongolian / northern steppe heritage and the Central Plains influences that shaped this style of hanfu.

Our Macaron set is named after a Chinese horse pun: “馬卡龍” is the transliteration of “macaron,” but literally reads “horse-card-dragon.” Keeping with the dessert theme, we designed this set in pastel confectionary colors and styled Esther with pastel eyeshadow shades to match! 🍭

Historically, this outfit draws from Northern Dynasty dress and the legacy of the “胡服騎射” policy — “wearing Hu (non-Han) clothing and shooting from horseback.” During the Warring States period, King Wuling of Zhao promoted the adoption of cavalry-friendly clothing elements associated with non-Han horse-riding peoples of the northern steppes, many connected to the lands of present-day Mongolia and Inner Mongolia. Over time, these styles became integrated into Hanfu. The pants in the Macacron set, for example, are a hybrid of hundred-pleat skirt and lantern pants, literally “百褶燈籠褲” or hundred-pleat lantern pants. The belt is made of imitation Songjin brocade, and features a pattern of golden horses galloping through waves, humorously titled “馬上有錢” 🧧

For styling, we gave Esther dramatic 12-foot-long twin carabiner braids, a modern nod to braided hairstyles long associated with many nomadic steppe cultures for beauty, identity, and practicality on horseback. And if you catch a glimpse of her nails, they’re hand-painted press-ons featuring horse artwork from a small studio in Inner Mongolia!

For AAPI Month, we’re celebrating the many ways heritage moves: across borders, across generations, and across the stories we choose to wear. 🐎

CREDITS Model: Esther Sue (ig: @/esthers_ue) Hair: 糖糖 Tangtang (me, ig: @/tang.tang.mm) Makeup: 玉藍 Yulan / Chlobalt Blue (ig: @/chlobaltblue) Photography & Editing: Hong Majaya (ig: @/hongwithcamera), Sylvia Gong (ig: @/sybiashoots) Horses: Giddyup Productions (ig: @/giddyup_productions) Weapons: Christabel Choi (ig: @/christabel_choi), Haydon Fu (ig: @/fuhaydon), Kevin Wong (@ktw-shu) Additional Assistance: Faye Sun Location: Sunol, California, USA Clothing: Cloud9 Hanfu 九雲閣 (ig: @cloud9hanfu), 馬卡龍 Macaron LNY26 Earrings: 金马贺岁 by 黛组学DaiStudio Braid extensions: 梦想成真假发 Shoes: 清欢阁 Nails: 蒙古马 by TanghesNail 指尖造物

[glugglugglurg]

I don't think Yue Qingyuan believes that Shen Jiu can do no wrong -- I think Yue Qingyuan is actually far too accustomed with how much wrong he can do and therefore believes that what Shen Jiu does is wrong even if there isn't any proof (brothels + Liu Qingge).

Mostly I believe this due to the fact that Yue Qingyuan is overrun with guilt for not being there for Shen Jiu that he accepts that Shen Jiu turned out horrible because of him. And instead of correcting the behavior or doing something to stop it, he welcomes it as his own punishment. This is probably a massive part on why Yue Qingyuan is so quick to defend him, but so slow to believe him.

[thedanmeidreamer]

Tianlang Jun, Shen Qingqiu and Mu Qingfang are all the type to watch a couple fuck and give critiques at the end. (in different ways)

Shang Qinghua couldn't escape Peerless Cucumber in his first life- now there's three of them.

Mu Qingfang: Make sure to stretch before getting him into that position- it will be hard on the joints otherwise

Tianlang Jun: Fuck him harder! Bully him till he cries!

Shen Qingqiu: And stop calling yourself Daddy Airplane! That's out of character!

[creativepromptsforwriting]

(: Smiles :)

Tired smile

Happy smile

Sad smile

Relieved smile

Giddy smile

Dangerous smile

Reassuring smile

Dark smile

Smile that doesn't reach the eyes

Smiling with their eyes

Trying not to smile

Nervous smile

Big smile

Trying to hide their smile

Secretive smile

Smiling with all their teeth showing

Encouraging smile

Bright smile for a camera

Small shy smile

Not wanting to but can't help but smile

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[mythshire]

✧ ˖°.🕊️.° 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐏𝐀𝐂𝐄 𝐁𝐄𝐓𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐍 𝐔𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐍 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐍𝐎𝐖 ··· a collection of years-later reunions, apologies spoken & unspoken, rebuilding what broke roleplay sentence starters from the ashes of what we were. genre: hurt/comfort, hopeful, bittersweet.

• You look good. Really good. I'm... I'm glad. • I keep thinking about what I would say if I saw you again, and now you're here and I've got nothing. • Five years. Has it really been five years? • I heard you were back in town. I wasn't sure if you'd want to see me. • You cut your hair. It suits you. • I'm sorry. I know that doesn't fix anything, but I'm sorry. • Do you ever think about us? About what we were? • I don't expect you to forgive me. I just needed you to know. • You were right. About all of it. I should have listened. • I've been carrying this around for so long, and I just... I need to let it go. • Can we start over? Not forget, just... start again? • I miss you. Is that allowed? Am I allowed to miss you? • You look like you've been doing well. I'm happy for you, I mean it. • I practiced this conversation a hundred times and none of them went like this. • What if we tried again? Differently this time. • I forgive you. I don't know if you needed to hear that, but I do. • I thought I'd be angrier. But I'm just... tired. • The last time we spoke, I said things I didn't mean. Can we talk about that? • I know I don't deserve another chance, but I'm asking anyway. • You're here. You actually came. • I wasn't sure you'd remember me. • I've thought about calling you so many times. • Do you hate me? It's okay if you do. • I got your letter. It took me this long to respond. • We were kids. We didn't know what we were doing. • I should have fought for us. I didn't, and I regret it. • You deserved better than what I gave you. • I see you differently now. Clearer, maybe. • Can I buy you a coffee? Just... talk? • I've been in therapy. Working on things. Trying to be better. • You were my best friend. I lost more than I realized. • I don't know how to fix this, but I want to try. • I was wrong. I need you to hear me say that. • Do you remember the last thing you said to me? • I never stopped caring about you. That's the truth. • What would it take? For us to be okay again? • I don't need us to be what we were. I just need us to be something. • You look like you've found peace. I'm working on finding mine. • I know I hurt you. I hurt myself too. • Can we sit? Just for a minute? • I'm not the same person I was. I hope you can see that. • You have every right to walk away right now. • I kept waiting for the right time to reach out, but there's never a right time. • Tell me what you need from me. I'll do it. • I dream about the day we stopped talking sometimes.

[castielscaplan]

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PLEASE reblog if you use any of these/wanna share with your writer friends!!

No credit is necessary, just have fun!

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

everybody say thank you ao3

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

reblog if you love ao3 exactly how it is and you don’t want it to “update” or change in any way♡

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

be kind and respectful to fanfic writers

be kind and respectful to fan artists

be kind and respectful to people in your fandom

be kind and respectful to people

[buried-in-stardust]

Baotou (包頭) is the wrapping and styling of the hair and headwear for dan roles (旦角; female characters) in Chinese opera. The steps include putting on a hair net, binding the scalp to lift the brows, adding hairpieces to the sides of the face and the forehead, and adding hair extensions/wigs and head ornaments. Nowadays, tape and glue are used to help keep things in place so the head doesn't have to be bound as tightly as in the past, but even so, long periods of wear can cause dizziness or nausea. OP specifically does Henan opera (豫劇; yu4ju4).

[eng by me]