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the TARDIS is like Mokona Modoki in that:
it moves through time & space (and between parallel universes, under certain circumstances);
carrying people and objects inside;
it translates most languages for the people in its vicinity (unlike Mokona, TARDIS also translates anything that’s written, not just spoken);
it’s alive.
Readers, make sure you have all your favourite Ao3 fics downloaded.
Writers, make sure you have copies of all the fics you have posted on Ao3.
I don’t want to be alarming, but things could get really bad really fast. OTW shared this today on Twitter, and I'm a bit worried about it 😅
Ao3 is a non-profit organisation. If they have to start paying taxes, I have no idea what will happen.
I'd like to remind everybody that this isn't just about A03 or civil rights organizations. This could be applied to any 501 organization. That includes churches, schools, museums and library support organizations. All sorts of support organizations like soup kitchens or places like goodwill. Those are all non-profit organizations and they all have a 501 status. This is a threat to every civil organization we have that is meant to help the public.
So please contact your representatives. Please look this up on Twitter and click the link so you can call your representatives and voice against this. Because there's a hell of a lot more at stake with a bill like this than just ao3. People's lives could be at risk.
fftf.link/no9495
The House will vote THIS WEEK to determine whether the incoming Trump administration will have the power to shut down non-profit organizations with no due process.
Congress has already tried to fast-track this legislation once and failed because of the onslaught of calls to their offices. We can’t let them do this quietly. Congress giving Trump the power to crush dissent and target organizations fighting for justice is a betrayal. Tell your representatives to vote NO on this dangerous bill!
fftf.link/no9495
URGENT: Tell your reps to vote NO on H.R. 9495!
I have some good news and some bad news.
Bad news: the resolution passed in the House.
This means that it's heading over to the Senate, where they'll tinker with it and vote again.
If it passes the Senate, it goes to the President, who has the option to veto.
Which means NOW you reach out to your Senators (both of them) and tell them that you want them to vote NO on this Trojan horse of awful.
But: we have two more chances to keep this from becoming law. The fight's not over yet.
And that's not even the good news!
For various reasons of political fuckery/ rules lawyering, this bill had to go through TWO rounds of votes in Congress to get through.
It didn't pass the first time because it had a higher threshold of votes to meet (2/3 Congress Critters had to vote yes) and it failed because it couldn't clear that bar.
So the people behind the bill sent it through AGAIN in a way that needed fewer votes to pass (only 1/2 of Congress Critters had to vote yes). This time it got through.
But along the way, almost 40 people changed their vote to "No". ALL BECAUSE OF YOUR OUTREACH.
That's huge.
Here's the home page for the bill. Check out the "Roll Call Votes" section to see how your Representative voted:
Summary of H.R.9495 - 118th Congress (2023-2024): Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act
Personally? Mine flipped her vote from "Yes" in the first round to "No" in the second.
Outreach. Works.
So, what do we do now?
Click the link above, and see how your Rep voted
Send them an email thanking them for their support/ telling them how disappointed you are. Why? Because it's important to let them know you pay attention to how they vote.
Contact your Senators (both of them) and ask them to vote NO
Contact the White House and let President Biden know you want him to veto this thing if it hits his desk
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Reblogging again because I just realized that if I had this advice in high school I would’ve never made a tumblr account.
Also works for most of those news sites like WSJ or NYT that only let you read a little bit, or block adblockers. Also some disable the scroll bar but if you go to the right side of the console after hitting F12 and look for the CSS element “overflow” and change it from “hidden” to “visible” then you can continue scrolling for free. Might have to click around on different parts of the page to find it, but it should work.
There’s also a Firefox/Chrome extension called Behind The Overlay that does all that with one mouse click. Used it for years; what a time saver.
And if you encounter a true paywall, use Archive.Today to bypass it. Just paste the paywalled url into the blue “search archived snapshots” box near the bottom:
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if only you knew how little i know about things that matter
I actually don’t think Ed post-whirlwind world tour actually settles down and becomes a househusband because I don’t think he’s physically capable of staying still for that long, but I do think he CALLS himself one no matter what he’s actually doing because Izumi accidentally gave him the idea that being a house spouse doesn’t actually have anything to do with “staying at home” or “not throwing a coup” so he’ll be in the middle of decoding some long-dead alchemist’s journals as a personal favor to the fuhrer to keep war from breaking out and be like ‘yeah I don’t have a day job I’m just a househusband’
POV you are a junior aide to the leader of Amestris, both of your country’s peace treaties are on the brink of breaking down and the only people allowed in the building have top-level clearance but you walk into the fuhrer’s office to see a random guy lying on the couch in a mess of papers and when you pull out your gun and demand to know what his job is and how he’s important enough to be here he tells you that he’s just a househusband taking a nice vacation to central and when you look at the fuhrer the fuhrer just nods and tells you to leave him alone and no one explains who he is to you or why he’s there ever
kyle turned up in piffle specifically to get the gang thinking about him dimension travelling. it's all part of his ruse you see. they'll be so focused on that they'll forget to wonder why he never goes out on a full moon and why the neighbours keep hearing mysterious growls and howling from his home on those nights ;)
This is the perfect answer and nothing else will ever match how much I love this.
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Ed’s sudden growth spurt at the end was a sign that his connection to Al’s body was failing and Al was getting dragged back to the gate.
Like I knew this, but it just dawned on me that Ed getting taller in the last part of the series is not just a visual representation of his character growth and his maturing as things creep towards the finale, but it’s LITERALLY the most obvious sign that Al’s time in the armor is running out.
The context of why Ed is shorter than average and his connection with Al’s body and soul manages to make Ed getting taller - and finally getting taller than Winry, something he’s wanted for the whole series, something that should seem like a victory for him after all the teasing people have done - almost bittersweet. Maybe even ominous if you think too hard about it.
And maybe that’s why there’s never a moment where people point it out, why it’s never played for a joke, why there’s never a moment of victory for Ed when he realizes it. I’d always attributed the lack of reaction to Ed finally getting taller to the rising tension and the foreboding tone of the last part of the story. No one comments on Ed’s height, because things are THAT BAD. Ed doesn’t notice because he’s THAT WORRIED about the Promised Day.
But it’s not just that things are Serious with a capital S and most of the running gags have been abandoned at this point, it’s also that Ed getting SIGNIFICANTLY taller very quickly is a very bad sign for Al and the state of his soul.
The turning point is Ed’s injury in Baschool - either because nearly dying weakened the connection or because Ed used his own life force and tapping into his own soul/life messed with the connection, or because his body just needed all the energy and nutrients possible to survive, which meant less to give to Al’s body, is unclear, but Al lasted for 4/5 years in the amor with no problem, and then Ed almost dies, and suddenly Al starts getting dragged back to the gate and immediately afterwards Ed gains like a foot of height in like six months.
Let’s Talk about Edward’s Disability
Automail - A Means to an End
So I’m noticing some misconceptions when it comes to Edward’s automail and I just wanted to clear things up for how the world works at the least for my individual take on Edward.
So the thing I need you to remember when dealing with my Edward is that he is disabled.
I know Edward can run and jump and flip and kick and do all of these amazing things.
That doesn’t stop him from being disabled.
Please also remember that Edward feels everything lopsided, as on the right side he can feel next to nothing from the entire length of his arm - shoulder to the tip of his fingers, and on the left side of his lower body he can feel next to nothing from the mid thigh all the way down to the tips of his toes.
I said next to because at the base or ports of his automail Edward can feel the connection of his nerves to the machine. That’s why he’s able to tell Winry that “his shoulder feels numb” in Star of Milos or one of the reasons during lab 5 he could identify that something was wrong with his shoulder.
However when it comes to Edward’s arm his sense of “feeling” relies heavily on weight. His right side has become dependent on knowing how much something weighs. Edward can’t feel what’s in his hand despite how it may appear. He really just has to trust the object is in his grip whether that be by sight. the sound of the metal gripping or by the weight of it that it adds to his shoulder.
Edward’s right shoulder and port are the running engine of his automail. If you’ll look at how it’s connected to his body, you’ll see that the port of his shoulder actually takes up a decent portion of his chest. It covers almost his entire right pectoral and moves into his right shoulder blade.
|| Please get used to these pictures I’m going to use them a lot. ||
Ed’s automail doesn’t just effect his arm - like series constantly pushes. He only lost his arm but in order to even be able to have an arm again he had to sacrifice even more of his body so it had a place to connect.
If you really look at him you’ll see all the scarring that occurred because of the surgery - surgery that is said to make a grown man scream out or cry in pain over.
Ed was 11 when they did this to his body. Look at his shoulder before the surgery.
It’s there. It’s all there. His chest was unharmed by Truth and so was his shoulder. He ONLY lost his arm, and the series like’s to push that fact but what it doesn’t push is the amount of alterations he had to have done to his growing pre-teen body in order to have that famous automail arm.
He has bolts grafted into his body - anchored right into his bones to keep that port on his body.
Three on his chest - two into his side and one into his collar bone
and three into his back - two into his side again and one into his shoulder blade.
I want you to right now - as you’re reading this - roll your shoulder slowly. Feel your shoulder blade? Edward’s got a bolt there. Do you feel your collarbone as you slowly drop your shoulder forward? Edward’s got a bolt there. Bolts drilled right into his bones.
His Automail hurts. Al says in the beginning of the series, that he wants to get Ed’s body fixed first because Edward’s automail is hard on his body.
The dub line is actually “No Brother, you first - that automail is so tough on you.”
It’s like this because as I said it’s been grafted into his skeletal structure.
So when Ed moves, it moves, but don’t forget that automail has no outside power source. it’s connected straight into his nervous system - each nerve, each and every nerve is anchored right into this machine that’s powered through the electrical pulses that come from those nerves. It regulates the power to the pneumatic actuators and electrical motors inside of it. Ed is it’s power source.
^ It looks like this under all that pretty plating after all ^
Basically, Edward’s brain is still firing the signals to move his right arm / hand - the lost limb(s) and left leg)) So his arm still moves as fluid as it would if it was still flesh and blood because his automail receives the signals sent out by his brain and when his nerves react, his arm amplifies the signals and does the motion his body was trying to tell the lost limb to do.
But it took rehabilitation to do this. Rehabilitation to be able to use his limbs in the first place - that was supposed to take a whole three years to complete and Edward cut down to one. I have no doubt that he pushed himself. He had to push himself. He had to push himself so ridiculously hard to get himself up to running condition - enough to be fighting his brother - in a year. I bet he tried to fight his brother in shorter than a year and I bet he was spitting blood just like Pinako said he would be.
So when I say Edward is in pain constantly, this is why. It’s not a hard pain. It’s nothing that drops him. No it’s like this constant ache that rests between his shoulder blades from his small frame trying to carry enough weight that it’s stopping him from growing.
Edward’s arm literally puts so much stress on his body it hasn’t been able to grow. His now teenage maturing body got stuck in a time loop basically because there was too much weight bringing it down. He carries that weight on his shoulder every day.
Personally, I believe his arm has to weight something close to 20 - 25 lbs with his leg weighing about the same. But then like I said, this is for my own personal take on him. I personally believe that his automail adds about another 50lbs to his body weight - making him a firm 160 - 170 lbs.
(His own body has to be a decent weight considering all the flips and jumps and kicks and stuff he can do because he has to have a lot of muscle on his body to be able to jump high enough to kick his 7′3″ armored brother in the face. Ed alone probably weighs 110 /120 lbs even at 4′11″. )
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Now when we you look at this leg, you can see that it’s still partly there.
His automail only comes up to mid-thigh / just above the knee. So he didn’t even lose the whole thing, but he did lose enough that it puts pressure on his hip / pelvis to move it. This port however is different from the shoulder port in the fact it houses the main support rod of the leg in a different way but it’s still bolted into his body.
The thing you see in the top picture is the outer plating that protects the port, where as this is the actual place of connection and it is attached into Edward’s leg with one large bolt driven into each side. They have to be large in this case, and heavily reinforced because these bolts don’t just keep the port in place and the leg attached to his body but they also have to be weight bearing. If the bolts in this port snap - not only does it break the port’s connection and Edward loses his leg taking him down with it - but he’ll feel those bolts snap inside of his leg and they could cause more internal damage that might prevent him from having an automail leg in the first place.
Also as I said in the sections about his arm, I personally believe that each piece of his automail weighs around 25lbs - so that means his exceptionally small frame is trying to move something with that kind of weight. It strains his pelvis leaving him with sore hips and he has to readjust himself a lot to find the most comfortable position for him to set for long periods (or if he’s been on it a lot - for him to set at all.)
But that weight is also where the lopsided feeling I mentioned comes into play. Edward naturally ( at this point) has more strength in his right shoulder and left hip due to having to move these solid pieces of steel around for years and years.
But all and all, it’s set up much like his arm in the way that it turns the firing of messages to his lost leg into energy and instructions for his automail. He just has to train his body constantly to keep himself in proper shape in order to be able to move it.
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On that subject. I have mentioned in other headcanons / things about Edward that the boy suffers from mass pain during rain or thunderstorms.
Now this is mentioned in the manga / brotherhood, when he goes out with Pinako to dig up the grave of the thing he transmuted - and he ends up on his knees, throwing up he’s in so much pain. And that’s just a heavy rain storm.
Now while I think this has something to do with the fact that he just has old injuries and old injuries hurt in weather changes, whether they’re broken bones or what not, I also think this has something to do with the fact that he rushed his rehabilitation by two years. I wouldn’t be surprised if part of it didn’t heal correctly so it lead to him having extremely painful reactions during poor weather or extreme cold. So when thunderstorms roll around the the barometric pressure in the air changes he wants to throw up from the pressure it puts on the ports in his body - the bolts in his body.
Automail does not change that Edward is a double amputee. When poor weather hits, he would have adverse reactions regardless - but with so much metal in his body and his nerves literally connected to a machine that picks up the smallest reactions out of them - thunderstorms and heavy weather just destroys him.
Edward has also woken from a nightmare during a storm and the first thing he did was hug his leg and declare “It hurts.”
In no way, shape or form does Ed’s automail give him a magical pain free cure to fix all of his problems. Honestly, it made it so he was a complete person again and he could function mostly independently. It gave him him hands-free alchemy but it also gave him a ton of new problems.
I know people rag on Al for ‘mothering’ him throughout the series, but honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a lot more than just “You’re sleeping with your tummy out.” It’s probably holding his hair back when he can’t stop puking, and making sure he stays in bed when he’s so dizzy from pain he falls over. Al has probably carried him countless times - conscious or unconscious. I wouldn’t be surprised if Al has also had to go in Ed’s place or call in Ed’s place to refuse summons from Mustang - lightly explaining things like ‘He’s not feeling well’ or coming up with every other reason he can so no one else knows how bad it is. Because Al knows that would destroy him. He knows his brother is trying to be as strong as he possibly can for this - for them - for him so he’d never let anyone know just exactly what that automail does to Edward.
Because it does a lot more than just give him an arm and a leg.
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Edit:: You can read Part 2 now here.
Pssttt, so I may have neglected to mention the exact nature of what I was working on when I asked you for Redamancy’s music the other day @opalescentgold.
Honestly, having your soulmate’s lover’s name appear all over your skin ranks as one of the top most heartbreaking haunting images ever.
For the amazing fic writers! I adore your works (and have ten thousand prompts if anyone’s asking) Here’s a list of important places in the Witcher.
Kaer Morhen is far top right.
Vengerberg is at the bottom middle of Aedirn.
Rivia is just below Vengerberg.
Blavikan is on the sea boarder of Jamurlak.
Lettenhove is in Kerack, it’s not specified where suggesting it’s one of the smaller settlement that’s sizeable enough to have viscounts.
As for travel times, it’s a little odd in both the games and books. In Wild Hunt Geralt goes from Vizima to Kaer Morhen and it says 'one week later', Vizima is in Temeria, on this map it’s given the Polish name Wyzima.
Map credit to: MGibson05 on Reddit. Thankyou!
Ok but if Lettenhove is in Kerack, on the coast, was Jaskier asking Geralt to come home with him???
I... this... wh-... *chokes on tears*
OMG Jaskier was asking Geralt to come home with him *sobs* 😭
That's it. You broke me. I'm dead now.
Goodbye cruel world
That IS very moving but guys. GUYS.
Kerack is a pirate kingdom. It was founded at the beginning of the 13th century by a pirate who found himself in charge of more and more shit until he crowned himself king and no one stopped him.
What if Jaskier isn't a failed noble? What if he's a failed PIRATE???
Consider:
-He walks everywhere because he gets too motion sick to even ride a horse. Sailing is out of the question. Yes, this was a pillar of him being a disappointment to his family.
-He doesn't grok that adultery is not okay because where he comes from marriage is about teamwork, not babies. He sends anyone he knocks up (who wants to go) back to Lettenhove to give his family bastards to raise - not *enough* of them, but at least it's *something*.
-Unbeknownst to Geralt they're actually in a very solid three-season matelotage, and Jaskier's family takes a pretty dim view of his matey for not making an excuse to come visit by now.
Addition: Jaskier rarely mentions his title not because he's trying to travel incognito, but because his years at Oxenfurt have clued him in to how people react to a guy showing up and declaring himself viscount of the Continent-equivalent to the Kingdom of Tampa, Florida.
MASTER LIST
Hi! Here is a Master List of all my posts. Many are empty because I haven’t got there yet, but it’s slowly filling up with information. This blog will likely take years to cultivate, thank you for your patience!
Hanfu Tutorials-
Ruqun 襦裙
Parallel Collared Ru (x)
Waist High (Qiyao) Qun (part 1) (part 2)
Aoqun 袄裙
Daxiushan 大袖衫 (x)
Banbi 半臂
Zhong Yi 中衣
Modern Hanfu
Other Chinese Apparel
Qipao/Cheongsam (x)
Sewing Tips and Tricks
Tools of the Trade (x)
Taking Measurements (x)
Sewing with Silk
Fabric Recommendation/Sources (x) (x)
Patternmaking/Draping
Embroidery (x)
Chinese Culture
The History of Silk Production (sericulture)
The Importance of Jade (x)
Places in China
English Sources for Hanfu (x) (x) (x)
Where to Buy Hanfu (x)
Using Taobao (x)
Chinese to English Measurement Words (x)
Hello! Do you happen to have a master post of all of your asks/posts anywhere? Just to help me navigate! ^^
Hi, thanks for the question! (Image via)
You can see all my replies to asks on my Replies page. I’ve included the entire list in this post as well, for convenience ^^. I’ll be updating the Replies page and this post as needed.
Also, for all my own posts (including replies), please see my China tag (that’s the tag I use for my original posts).
Masterpost of Ziseviolet’s Replies, Part I (Part II here):
Hanfu Terms:
What is Hanfu?
Guide to the different types of Hanfu
Hanfu names
My favorite Hanfu style - Part 2
Top 10 most popular Hanfu styles of 2018
Unisex Hanfu
Formal Hanfu
Difference between Ru & Shan
Banbi (half-sleeve jacket)
Bijia (sleeveless jacket)
Zhaojia (men’s Bijia)
Difference between Bijia & Banbi
Daxiushan (large-sleeve robe) - Part 2, Part 3
Yuanlingpao (round-collar robe) - Pt 1, Pt 2, Pt 3
Difference between Tang & Ming Yuanlingpao
Hezi (chest undergarment accessory)
Weichang (short outer skirt)
Doupeng (cloak/cape)
Parallel/straight collars
U-collars (Tanling)
Aoqun & Pipa Xiu (pipa sleeves)
Jian Xiu (arrow sleeves)
Winter Hanfu - Part 1, Part 2
Hanfu sleepwear
Mourning Hanfu (Sangfu)
Burial Hanfu (Shouyi)
Waist-high Ruqun from Wei/Jin dynasties
Identifying Hanfu in a photoset
Chinese armor
Hanfu History:
Did Hanfu exist after the Han dynasty
Comparison/charts of Hanfu from different dynasties
“Left-over-right” rule of crossed-collar Hanfu - Pt 1, Pt 2, Pt 3, Pt 4
Children’s Hanfu - Part 1, Part 2
Commoner’s Hanfu - Part 2
Hanfu and cleavage - Part 2
Han dynasty Ruqun & footwear
Three Kingdoms period Hanfu
Northern & Southern dynasties Hanfu
What Mulan would’ve worn
Tang dynasty emperor’s Hanfu
Was the Daxiushan restricted to royal ladies
Song dynasty Hanfu styles
Ming dynasty skirts
Yuan/Qing dynasty Hanfu - Part 1, Part 2
Symbolism of Orange-Red and Turquoise color combination
Hanfu for empress/noblewoman
Differences between contemporary Hanfu and historical Hanfu
Books & Magazines on Hanfu & its history - Pt 1, Pt 2, Pt 3, Pt 4
Wedding Hanfu:
Wedding Hanfu recs
Pictures of wedding Hanfu
Wedding Hanfu accessories
Manchurian vs Han Chinese wedding attire
Modernized/Modified Hanfu:
Incorporating Hanfu styles in a modern way
Combining Hanfu & modern styles (fusion)
Modified Hanfu shops recommendations - Pt 2
Men’s modified Hanfu shops recommendations
Websites that sell modernized Hanfu
Where to buy modernized Hanfu
Modified Hanfu shops in the West
Identifying modernized Hanfu from Chi Xia
Hanfu Accessories:
Pibo (long scarf) - Part 2
Tuanshan (rigid fan) - Pt 1, Pt 2, Pt 3, Pt 4
Jinbu (waist ornament) - Part 2
Hebao (purse) - Part 2
My tag for Chinese hats/headgear
Weimao (veiled hat) - Part 1, Part 2
Tiger hats
Douli (conical hat)
Yingluo & Xiangquan (necklaces) - Part 1, Part 2
Traditional Chinese earrings
Meaning & History of Jade
Bangshoudai (hand wraps) & Huwan (wrist guards) - Pt 1, Pt 2, Pt 3, Pt 4
Panbo (strings to tie up sleeves)
Miansha & Mianlian (Veils) - Part 2
Nail guards - Part 2
Hanfu Shoes
Hu Ban (ritual tablet)
Hanfu Hair Accessories:
Names of Chinese hair ornaments
Shop recommendations for hair accessories
Hanfu hair accessories
Fabric flower hairpins for Hanfu
Ronghua (velvet flowers) - buying & making
Hair accessories for fine hair
Phoenix crowns (Fengguan)
Lotus crowns
Miao silver hair accessories - Part 1, Part 2
Huasheng (forehead ornament)
Hairpin styling question
My tag for Chinese hats/headgear
Hanfu Hairstyles:
Hanfu hairstyle tutorials
Traditional hairstyles
My favorite hairstyle
Pre coming-of-age ceremony hairstyles for Han girls
Looped hairstyles in “The Empress of China”
Tang dynasty pinned peony hairstyle
Ming dynasty hairstyles
Dynasty with long loose hairstyle
Short hair and Hanfu
Simple hairstyles for shoulder-length hair
Makeup:
Huadian (forehead decoration) - Pt 1, Pt 2, Pt 3, Pt 4, Pt 5
Did men wear Huadian
Traditional Chinese makeup ingredients
Tang dynasty lip makeup
What makeup is used to replicate traditional makeup styles
Men’s Hanfu:
Hanfu styles for men
Men’s formal Hanfu
Types of men’s Hanfu
Pictures of men’s Hanfu
Dachang (open-fronted robe)
Zhiduo vs Daopao
Yichang vs Yesa/Yisan
Men’s Hanfu blog recs
Men’s Headwear/Hairstyles:
Historical hairstyles for men
Men’s hair accessories
Where to buy Xiao Guan
Men’s hairstyles & Guan
Guan (headdress) - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Guan & Mianguan
How bald men would put up hair with a Guan
Fangjin (four-cornered flat cap)
Hanfu Undergarments:
Guide to Hanfu undergarments - Pt 1, Pt 2, Pt 3
Children’s Hanfu undergarments
Hanfu petticoats - Part 1, Part 2
Emperor’s undergarment for Mianfu
Dudou (chest undergarment)
Lower body Neiyi (underwear)
Zhongyi & Neiyi
Wearing Hanfu:
Tutorials on wearing Hanfu
How to put together a Hanfu outfit
Plus-sized Hanfu - Part 1, Part 2
Girl wearing men’s Hanfu
Wearing Hanfu made for a gender you are not part of
Chest-high Ruqun for big-chested figures
Chest-high Ruqun skirt slippage
Is Hanfu hard to wear/sew
Is Hanfu comfortable to wear
Are chest-high styles restrictive for the chest - Part 1, Part 2
Hanfu renting/dressing up
Photo studios for renting Hanfu and taking pictures in Shanghai
Do people in China still wear Hanfu - Pt 1, Pt 2
Events in present-day China where people wear Hanfu
Making Hanfu:
Resources for sewing Hanfu - Part 1, Part 2
Hanfu sewing patterns - Pt 1, Pt 2, Pt 3
Buying Hanfu sewing patterns
Making Hanfu by hand - Part 2
Making Chest-high Ruqun
Making Hanfu with patterned cloth
Using shiny brocade fabric
Is it common for young people to learn to sew Hanfu
Buying Hanfu:
My recs for places to buy Hanfu - Part 2
Where to buy Hanfu & Chinese hair accessories - Pt 1, Pt 2, Pt 3
How to buy Hanfu on Taobao
International shipping on Taobao
Using a Taobao agent
Posts with links to where you can buy Hanfu
Recs for non-Taobao Hanfu shops
Buying Hanfu in US/Washington DC
Hanfu shops in Shanghai
Where to buy Hanfu in Hong Kong
Hanfu shops in Singapore
Recs for colorful & flowy Hanfu
How to search for large-sleeved crossed-collar Ruqun on Taobao
Taobao shops that regularly carry larger sizes for men’s Hanfu
Shops that sell Hanfu with more natural fabrics
Where to find Hanfu for pageants
Hanfu from Aliexpress with right side over left
Hanfu brand Qinghuige’s Taobao page
Where to buy crane-print skirts
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U mentioned suggestions? Or ur authors note in flying off the edge; BEAUTIFUL seeing geralt lose control and then take care of jaskier for three more chapters. Absolutely gorgeous. And for ur consideration... Jaskier under the fuck-or-die influence/circumstance/urge/ritual requirement/keeping warm/etc. many possibilities? and again... Geralt taking care of him bc i Am a sucker for that and u write it so incredibly. ALSO love ur angsty fake dating idea; anything u write will be gorgeous
Thank you thank you. This is just what came to mind off the top of my head for Jaskier under a fuck-or-die scenario, idk if I’ll continue it:
As it turns out, sleeping with the local mage’s wife was not Jaskier’s best idea ever. It may, in fact, turn out to be his worst. It may kill him.
“Stop your whinging,” Geralt snarls at him. He is practically dragging Jaskier through the streets toward the inn and tavern, the bard stumbling and tripping along next to him, near delirious with fever. “We’ll find you a whore to set you to rights.”
“Does this backwater at the edge of civilization seem the place to have male whores,” Jaskier snaps back. He’s panting and sweating, his clothes clinging disgustingly to his body. The curse has only been at work five minutes and Jaskier is ready to crawl out of his skin. Perhaps he could crawl into Geralt’s - the Witcher smells so good, for once, and he’s so close…Jaskier shakes his head hard. He really will be dead if he propositions Geralt. “Because that’s what I need. That’s the curse. To be fucked as you have fucked so many women, or else I’ll meet my maker within the day.”
“Hmm,” is Geralt’s reply, followed shortly by, “fuck. No, this isn’t the town for that.”
“Excellent. I suppose I’ll just lay down and die then.” They take the back door into the tavern and Geralt gives up and outright carries Jaskier up the narrow staircase rather than let him fall and break his neck. Head lolling against Geralt’s broad shoulder, Jaskier peers up at him. He’s never considered it before, but the Witcher has a truly stunning jawline. If Jaskier looks hard enough he’s sure he can see Geralt’s pulse beating in his throat so slowly it is nearly imperceptible. “Would you consider smothering me with a pillow, would you? I’ve seen deaths from fever, it’s an unpleasant business. It would be the kind thing to do. Like putting down a sick horse.”
Something flashes in Geralt’s eyes when he looks down at Jaskier. The bard has never looked as pitiful and helpless as he does now, slumped like a sick child in Geralt’s arms, his cheeks flushed and his eyes glassy from fever. It’s far from his most attractive state.
“I will not kill you, Jaskier,” Geralt growls. The sound rumbles through his chest and right into Jaskier’s. “Nor will I let you die. If there’s no whore that will have you I will do the job myself.”
Ugh of course I’m fucking continuing it. This fandom has taken over my brain.
Jaskier wrinkles his nose comically, even though the thought of Geralt doing the job in question sends a jolt down his spine like a bolt of lightning. “You don’t even like men. You can’t exactly fulfill the demands of the curse if you can’t even get it up for a man.”
Geralt laughs, and why does he only laugh when Jaskier can’t properly enjoy it? It’s very rude of him. Jaskier would say so, if he weren’t so distracted by Geralt’s long white hair tickling his face. The smell of soap and sweat lingers in the silvery lock, and Jaskier finds them surprisingly soft between his fingers. He also has no idea when he grabbed a handful of Geralt’s hair and began petting it.
“Don’t worry yourself about my abilities, little bard.”
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