you can’t be anti-immigration and helpol. you just cant. xenia is such an integral part of this religion. good will. hospitality. kindness to strangers. being anti-immigration goes against all that. if you’re helpol and anti-immigration do better.
also adding that so many of the theoi have foreigner epithets. the ones that immediately come to mind are hermes, apollon, and king zeus. if the KING of gods is pro-immigration and you're an anti-immigration hellenic polytheist, i don't know what to say to you.
Sometimes I lie in the bed and think what memes PIDW Fandom had?
Like did somebody make "This is Sparta" meme with SQQ and LBH?
Did they make fun of Airplane's writing, or are there only gooners left?
Did they make fun of Peerless Cucumber too?
Peerless Cucumber explaining how these two similar leaves are actually foreshadowing for plot:
When it was really foreshadowing but for more papapa scenes:
Were there Ace Attorney parodies with his rants and heated discussion in comments?
Was there a powerscale fights about who would be stronger: Luo Binghe or Liu Qingge if he was alive? Meanwhile fujoshi was quietly enjoying their Luo Binghe/Mobei Jun or Shen Qingqiu/Liu Qingge crumbs in the corner?
I'm convinced that if Shang Qinghua decided to start writing and publishing after transmigrating, he would be like an invasive species. Like that cat that killed all the birds on that one island.
Airplane was a maniac who banged out 10k chapters while competing with millions of other writers on the attention market. This is a guy who had to know how to game the algo for attention if he wanted to have enough money for food.
And PIDW's world has what, maybe a few hundred people both literate and willing to write fiction? Airplane would eat these people for lunch. While they were poetically crafting new metaphors and delicately staging each scene, SQH would be creating the most id-stroking lowest common denominator trash imaginable.
He would not only smoke the competition, but introduce to this world every terrible, cheap trick of the hack writer. Everything ends in cliffhangers. Stakes constantly rising. Bullshit plot devices to contrive as much masturbatory emotional catharsis as possible. And he'd be selling like gangbusters.
honestly just need to vent in a place that not a lot of people see??? I’m so tired of doing stuff all the time. Having to think ahead and figure stuff out when others aren’t having to deal with what I have to deal with. I’ve spent 6 years on something that will end up meaning nothing. I will have to work 2 jobs to barely make ends meet but because EVERYONE else is doing the same thing, my feelings are being minimized. I hate that everything that could go wrong is going wrong and that it’s all being placed on my shoulders. Things are beyond my control and I know I can’t control everything but I hate that I can’t afford to pay my bills. I can’t afford to even THINK about finding a place. I can’t even afford to get myself a little sweet treat to try to make myself feel better. I’m just forced to pretend like everything in my life isn’t going wrong.
The person I thought would be staying with me through all of this is getting the easy way out and gets to leave while I have to stay and deal with drama and be ridiculed for being depressed like they aren’t contributing to it… I will literally have no one here to talk to. To hang out with. I’m going to be stuck all alone while people who said they cared forget I even exist. Not to mention, all of my stressors are being minimized by someone who doesn’t even have to interact with people all day at a typical job. But because they’re going to be unhappy too and stressed too, it really doesn’t matter how I feel. How I have to be the one to figure things out first.
I’m just tired of having to be the one who is always okay. The one who always knows what to do.
As a bisexual person I'm keenly aware of how such stereotypes are inevitably harmful to us, but unfortunately when I see bisexuals in fiction who are Evil and stylish and fuck like champions I can't help but go "oh work" for a sec. It's a difficult conundrum
all right guys, let’s have a conversation about linguistic register, Lan Wangji, and I guess Wei Wuxian can come too
(and I do genuinely mean conversation, I’d love to hear other people’s input on this, because I did just write a long-ass post about the subjectivity of interpretation in translations)
So when I started interacting with the fandom and reading people’s fics, I got really confused by the way some folks were writing dialogue for Lan Wangji; he often sounded super awkward, spoke in fragments, and sometimes exclusively in third person. To be fair, all of those are elements of his speech at various times, but like, seeing it in English-language material felt like a really heavy-handed way of rendering it in translation?
I guess when you use third person within the first three episodes of the show, it makes a pretty big impression on the audience
This is not at all intended to be a criticism of people who are 1000% writing and creating wonderful work, which is more than I can say for myself, but I want to poke and prod and tease at some linguistic nuance here.
Take a deep breath, grab a pot of tea (this’ll take more than a cup), because we’re going to take the scenic route on this one–
Making a Xie Lian TGCF cosplay - PART 2 - the Skirt
FIRST PART : THE SKIRT
1. First step the skirt, I decided to go for a semi circle-skirt.
I chose to do a flat waistband + zipper to have it more flat and fitted but you can go for an elastic waistband to be easier.
FOR AN ELASTIC WAISTBAND
Hips(wider part of you body aka the ass) measurement divided by 3.14
My hips are 103cm so 103 / 3.14 = 33cm
FOR A ZIPPER+WAISTBAND
Waist measurement divided by 3.14
My waist is 70cm so 70 / 3.14 = 22cm
2. Fold your fabric in half and trace a first ¼ of circle with the radius you calculated.
3. The second circle will determine the length of the skirt so add that number to your previous radius. The length i want is around 90 + 22 = 112cm
4. Once you traced that down, you can cut both arcs and DON’T CUT the folded edge.
You will have your half circle
5. For the waistband, cut a rectangle that is the length of your waist (or hips) and around 16cm in height. Fold in half and sew it on the smaller circle
FOR AN ELASTIC WAISTBAND just sew down the back of the skirt and insert the elastic in the waistband and you’re done.
FOR A ZIPPER BACK.. Just find a tutorial to sew it. And then close the back.
Making a Xie Lian TGCF cosplay - PART 3 - The transparent jacket/beizi 褙子
For this piece you'll need :
- around 3meters of sheer white fabric
- white bias to finish off the edges (optional but cleaner look)
- regular white thread
I used this tutorial below as a guide for mine please check it out.
I changed a few details though.
The last major garment that WKX wears is his flowing light green beizi, or straight open coat/jacket. This one does not have an annoying ne
Before starting please know that the pattern is made to fit me as i made it with my measurements. I'm 170cm tall (5'7) and i weight 55-60kg, i usually wear a size medium.
Here are my full measurements if needed :
- waist : 70cm
- bust : 86 cm
- hips + booty : 100 cm
- shoulders : 98 cm
Here is the video tutorial :
Welcome to my journey of making a cosplay of Xie Lian from Tian guan ci fu / heaven official's blessing ! it's not exactly a tutorial but mo
step 1.
cut all the patterns pieces
step 2.
sew the sleeves onto the big body piece (at the shoulders)
step 3.
sew all along the underarms on both side (from the end of the sleeves to the bottom of the coat)
step 4.
fold the long collar piece in half and sew it all around the body piece, right sides facing each others
to make it easier : sew from the back of the neck to the bottom right, and then sew from the back of the neck to the bottom left
step 5.
finish the edges of the sleeves (i put white bias to make it cleaner)
and finish the bottom of the coat too (with bias too :3 )
end result :
Pattern with my measurements :
(note that the 90cm measurement is from my waist to my feet, as I'm TALL, if you are shorter please make it shorter)
Making a Xie Lian TGCF cosplay - PART 4 - The Hanfu
For this piece you’ll need :
- around 3-4 meters of white fabric, can be stretchy
- white bias to finish off the edges (optional but cleaner look)
- regular white thread
I used this tutorial below as a guide for mine please check it out.
I changed a few details though.
With the base layer shirt complete, I turned to making a new layer 2 pattern for the red layer. This layer is likely some sort of silk/silk
Before starting please know that the pattern is made to fit me as i made it with my measurements. I’m 170cm tall (5'7) and i weight 55-60kg, i usually wear a size medium.
Here are my full measurements if needed :
waist : 70cm
bust : 86 cm
hips + booty : 100 cm
shoulders : 98 cm
Here is the video tutorial :
step 1.
cut all the patterns pieces
you can cut on fold to have 2 long pieces as a real hanfu would be (no shoulder seam, only back seam)
or cut the back and the 2 front pieces separately (shoulder seams, no back seam)
Pattern with my measurements :
(note that the 90cm measurement is from my waist to my feet, as I’m TALL, if you are shorter please make it shorter)
step 2.
sew alongside the shoulders (or back if you picked the second option)
step 3.
sew the sleeves on (on the shoulders)
step 4.
sew all along the underarms on both side (from the end of the sleeves to the bottom of the hanfu)
i left a 20cm slit on each side so i could move more easily (optional)
step 5.
fold the long collar piece in half and sew it all around the body piece, right sides facing each others
don't do like me and make it ugly...
step 6.
finish the edges of the sleeves (i put white bias to make it cleaner)
and finish the bottom of the coat too (with bias too :3 )
i chose to use a pin and the belt to secure the hanfu closed, but the right thing would be to add little strings and hoops on each side to make it close easier.
end result :
feel free to ask if you have more questions !
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