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i finished the song of achilles and im s o b b i n g

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dramamocha

Dong Hua Dijiun ── ♡ 东华帝君

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The Untamed (MDZS live action) - main sects’ motifs

[taken off official Weibo]

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The Untamed Prop Exhibition - CAA Art Museum

The invite to LanLing Jin clan:

[…] dear friends join in celebration, Ying should attend with proper rites as his uncle. – Lan WangJi

(source: https://m.weibo.cn/profile/3828085974)

kickingshoes

So happy to hear we got into ECCC’s 2018 Monsters & Dames! We’ll have prints of this at our table, along with books, prints and new charms!

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If Enjolras smiles-

ziseviolet

Traditional Chinese Hanfu photography via 司音儿. Handmade traditional Chinese hair ornaments and jewelry by 阙音海棠. The decorations on the forehead and near the lips are called Huadian/花钿 and Mianye/面靥, respectively.

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Daily Draw Feburary #4: Ivy Crests and Flowers That All Look the Same

Japanese family crests (mon) are a fascinating subject for me. If you’re at all interested I can’t recommend The Elements of Japanese Design, John Dower enough. I’m certainly not the type of person who says things like, “All flowers look the same,” but I’m hardly a botany student. More to the point, when you reduce flowers to monorchrome graphic designs…well I think some confusion is unavoidable.

The first block is Ivy designs which I’ll be using in the kimono pattern. Seems the Ivy motif was a very popular among the pleasure houses so there’s a fun tie-in there; even if the plant isn’t ‘poisonous’ it has a seductive connotation.

The next block is just copies from Dower, I looked through to find flowers that were of a different species but had incredibly similar designs. Trying to identify these is a bit like looking at a police lineup and I feel like there’s the makings of a great memory game here.

Now all of those flowers of the same species of course have many different versions of themselves. Dower has thirty-five different variations on the cherry blossom and even with almost 3,000 designs the book can hardly considered to be comprehensive. But you consider how disparate those two designs are despite being the same species compared to the second set which are all different.

I bring all this up because I had this pipe-dream for the Ivy image where I was going to have every plant in the image be poisonous. There are some major problems with this plan, namely:

It’s hard to figure out what plants that are native to Japan are poisonous

It’s really hard to figure out what the colloquial Japanese names are for poisonous plants (seriously, what is Monkshood called in Japan?)

It’s even harder still to find graphic representations of these plants because, and I think this is a cross-cultural thing, you don’t get a lot of imagery of poisonous plants. Who wants something poisonous for their family crest? Nobody, apparently.

I know this is another one of those, “I could just wing it and nobody would notice,” scenarios but as I’ve said before, that’s not really the point.

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Artist: 被神棍拐走的黑喵

Artist's weibo: https://weibo.com/u/5622191518

Source: https://weibo.com/5622191518/HaqzcbKe9

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Firefighter demonstrates how to put out a kitchen fire

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Reblog to actually save a life

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To explain. The latter works because you’re cutting off the supply of oxygen to the fire and suffocating it

as opposed to slapping oxygen inside the pan with the downward motion

norealdestination

Reblogging, because this is so important. When I was learning how to cook for myself in my tweens, I had at least a five years of fire safety seminars from school drilling this into my head, and I STILL had that instinctive put-the-fire-out-with-water reflex. Didn’t even think. I saw our oily burner catch fire after frying eggs, whipped around towards the sink for water, and my brain immediately screamed NO!!! NO WATER! I mean that fire safety stuff straight up bitchslapped me out of REFLEXIVELY setting my house on fire. I found a pot lid and inched it over the burner before turning off the heat. Even if you think you know this stuff, panic is powerful shit. Make knowledge more powerful.

eliyora

Cannot overstate how important this is. Baking soda also does a good trick, but this is still just so, so important!!

ziseviolet

Can you recommend a historically accurate and stylistically accurate Chinese drama that would be good for learning about history/ancient China but that is also artfully done and modern?

Hi, thanks for the question!

That’s a tough one - Chinese dramas in ancient (pre-Qing) settings typically aren’t stylistically accurate, and I personally haven’t watched one that fulfills all your requirements. After doing some research online, here’s what I can recommend for a modern Chinese drama set in ancient times that should be relatively historically/stylistically accurate:

The Imperial Doctress/女医·明妃传 - A 2016 TV series based on the story of real-life historical figure Tan Yunxian, who was a female physician during the Ming dynasty in China. This show does a good job of attempting to reproduce authentic Ming Dynasty-era clothing.

Additionally, an upcoming drama that seems promising is the 2018 TV series Secret of the Three Kingdoms/三国机密, which I also mentioned here.

The drama is based on a novel set in the Three Kingdoms period, so I don’t know how historically accurate it is, but it’s costumes have been praised for being more stylistically accurate than most.

Of course, if anyone has more recommendations, please share ^^

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The furniture in the jingshi was extremely simplistic, without any unnecessary belongings. On the accordion partition, there was a painting of drifting clouds, floating and morphing with its fine brushwork. A guqin table lay horizontally in front of it. On top of the three-legged incense stand in the corner, a hollowed out incense burner made of white jade emitted soft, lingering smoke, filling the whole room with the chilling scent of sandalwood.

- Mo dao zu shi, chapter 11

#mo dao zu shi #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #the founder of diabolism #edit #jingshi

wearytaco

For all my kilt wearers, thought y'all might be interested in some pride kilts by Verillas

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Update

dollsahoy

#when ur into that uniform aesthetic but don’t want people to think ur a fascist

cryptid-mothie

@ayeforscotland

ayeforscotland

They’re alright, but I prefer the official Pride of LGBT tartan. A kilt with this would be much better in my opinion.

Fun fact: Despite the obvious representation of LGBT Pride flag colours, this tartan actually incorporates some of the New York City tartan in homage to the stonewall riots.