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archers gloves vs digital artist gloves being opposite of one another
Much like how archers and digital artists are mortal enemies
Behold, the digital artchery glove!
….but Wait…
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FUCKA YOUUU!!!!!
Ok but wgat if we held hands…..
and we both had carpal tunnel syndrome 😳
not carpal tunnel syndrome 😫
World Heritage Post
genuinely can't remember if I ever posted my magnum opus, Roy Mustang Dying In A Glue Trap
Well. I have now.
Finished my exams today, hope I will have more time for tea 🙏
I feel like people don't really get that Hua Cheng's cultivation path is quite literally the worship of Xie Lian and I think it makes them miss something cute.
Xie Lian's cultivation path is religious; he's a devote daoist and meditation and following its tenants bring him power.
Hua Cheng's cultivation path is just as religious, but his religion is literally Xie Lian. That's where he gets his power. There is a trope in Wuxia & related genres (these are gods so not technically Wuxia I think but I don't remember the specific name) where someone cultivates and meditates as a hermit in a cave until becoming a master. The Cave of Ten Thousand Gods, the Kiln... Hua Cheng did that, and we can tell what he was doing in there was worshiping Xie Lian.
And with that... He literally gets power from Xie Lian in a more obvious sense. He & his spiritual weapons get stronger when kissed and complimented, since they're being blessed by his god. The butterflies swarming when XL tells them good job. E'ming being able to grow to normal size after having shrunken due to XL praising him and giving him a kiss (which people keep acting like is a blowjob metaphor as if that wouldn't imply HC is a grower and not a shower which I think would be dumb), HC himself being able to heal and start getting bigger when XL gives him a kiss, too.
HC can give XL tons of spiritual energy by gifting him it through kksses and sex because it's a form of worship, but it also works the opposite way, too
Hi there! Hope this is okay, but I was wondering if you have any favourites/recommendations from white2tea, especially the raw pu'erh but anything really. I went to check them out but got really overwhelmed by the sheer amount and choice. I don't have much preferences with tea, I like to try new things, with the one caveat that I don't really like particularly bitter/astringent teas.
Thank you in advance if you choose to answer!
hey! of course! raw puerh is one of the niches i've explored the least, if you don't like astringency you might struggle with it a bit, especially young (not aged) raw puerh. the same goes for dancong oolong, which can be really overwhelmingly perfume-like and bitter if you brew them incorrectly. in both cases, the right technique will greatly minimize unpleasant astringency.
for raw puerh i recommend starting at 90C or 95C (good sheng can take boiling water but while getting used to it it's easier to control at a lower temp) and doing a rinse, then letting the damp leaves sit and open up in the closed gaiwan for 5 mins. also, when pouring the water to steep the tea, avoid hitting the mass of leaves directly or moving them about too much. flash steeps at first - literally just enough time to pour in water and pick up your gaiwan, ~10 seconds, and you'll be golden.
similar tips for dancong: start at 95-100C, you can rinse but you don't gotta, and the most important thing is to be really quick with your flash steeps. you can increase the steep time later if you feel the tea getting weaker. you can also remove leaves from the gaiwan if either a sheng or dancong is too intense. i go for 4ish grams for my 90ml gaiwan, usually.
enough yapping, onto my current faves from w2t!
raw puerh: 2024 nightlife, 2022 941
ripe puerh: 2018 smoove cocoa, 2020 brown sugar, 2020 waffles
oolong: stone milk, snowflake queen
black tea: 2022 dualist, 2025 fox down
white tea: 2025 jonia
hybrid: 2021 h0t br4ndy*
*this name got my post censored last time :( it's what i'm drinking as i type actually
and lastly there is one (1) of their teas i tried that i hated, alienist (raw puerh). like a burnt espresso sipped out of an ashtray, so so so over-roasted. if you're a fan of lapsang souchong and deep smokiness you might feel differently, but i feel obliged to warn you, it is smoke central.
I've decided to try a new technique: when the tiresome artist brainworms try to get me, I'll give them to this guy instead. and then point & laugh at him. join me
i enter the shower. hours pass. i emerge from the shower, having mixed all of my soaps and scrubs and lotions and conditioners and shampoos and body washes together in the tub in precise alchemical quantities. i smell like 314 different herbs and spices. my hair will not need washing for the next 500 days. my skin has developed protective chitinous scales. i step out of the tub and immediately slip and fall on a stray puddle of mane 'n tail and sprain my pussy
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Male writers writing female characters:
“Cassandra woke up to the rays of the sun streaming through the slats on her blinds, cascading over her naked chest. She stretched, her breasts lifting with her arms as she greeted the sun. She rolled out of bed and put on a shirt, her nipples prominently showing through the thin fabric. She breasted boobily to the stairs, and titted downwards.”
‘ She breasted boobily to the stairs, and titted downwards’ is the greatest fucking sentence I have ever read.
THE ORIGINAL??
(smh) Never thought I’d see it in the wild. Yet here it is. :)
always gotta reblog the ‘breasted boobily’ post
ebay find: a hasami ware plate for my tea snacks 🪷
Some day I am going to properly articulate why period dramas have ruined people's ability to interact with historical portraits.
Short version: most historical figures look like pretty average people, because they are for the most part just some guy (gender neutral). They just don't stand up well to casting a whole show of people who are pretty by modern standards.
This is mostly in response to a rather persistent trend of "can you believe this person was considered handsome/beautiful at the time?"
When:
1. The person is not styled in a way that appeals to modern taste.
2. The style of portraiture diverges from photography, so it doesn't appeal to your sense of aesthetics.
3. You're comparing to an actor/actress who is very good looking by modern standards styled in a way that isn't really meant to challenge you.
4. They are average to good looking, but in a normal person way.
Our own media environment doesn't really leave much space for "good looking normal person" which is part of the issue.
4. They are average
to good looking, but in a
normal person way.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
I would also add
5. there were fewer accessible/safe/socially accepted ways to significantly alter aspects of one's appearance like facial features back then (illusory or permanent, ie contouring, plastic surgery, etc), so while beauty standards DID exist, people often had to adopt a more expansive idea of beauty if they wanted to like...have sexual or romantic relationships ever
can't kick and scream if someone isn't an Instragram model when cosmetic surgery is rudimentary at best and highly dangerous, and contour makeup is reserved for theatrical performances
(you see this a lot in 19th-century descriptions of beautiful women; many of them are kind of vague and focus more on Bright Eyes and Smooth Skin and Nice Hair than actually describing facial features in detail. they had beauty standards, as evidenced in paintings and sketches of idealized belles, but clearly not all of them were dealbreaker criteria)
God I am so annoyed by that woman on Instagram who makes the historical costume and videos like "well actually corsets WERE just about figure shaping, and they WERE bad, and I'm wearing a corset so you can't tell me I'm biased, and they weren't actually for breast support and you're just shills for the patriarchy"
"some people say figure improving is coded language for breast support, but –" yeah they say that because it is. Not exclusively, but that's part of it. Hope this helps
"Corsets were not Just Bras!" they were in the way that people are actually trying to make this argument, namely they served one of the main comfort related functions of bras and based on non-sensationalized discussion about them from women at the time (of which we unfortunately do not have much) responses to their most common use case seemed to run broadly the same gamut as those to bras in the present day.
The point of saying "corsets were the bras of the Victorian era" is not so much to say that there's absolutely no difference between them, but to shift public perception of their role in society from what the media constantly hammers into us, to something closer to what it actually was. Namely, a garment that did serve practical purposes frequently related to comfort for many women but which was also sometimes controversial and, for some women with sensory issues or different support needs, never going to work comfortably no matter how well it was fitted
Of course there was a silhouette element to it; no one at an academic discussion level above a Youtube comment is saying that there wasn't. but the point, and what you're unknowingly or perhaps knowingly arguing against by making these videos, is that it had a practical purpose and was not just a unilateral torture device forced upon women by the patriarchy
I don't know why dress reformers would consistently mention breast support in their anti-corset discussions or endorsements of corset alternatives if it wasn't a major function of the garment. I don't know why Caresse Crosby, considered by many to be the inventor of the modern bra, would have mentioned breast support as the main issue of going without her corset in an evening gown if it wasn't a major function of the garment. I don't know why "reducing corsets" would have been given a name as a distinct category of the garment if all corsets were primarily meant to reduce the waist
Was figure shaping part of it? Of course it was; no one is saying it wasn't. But to say that breast support wasn't the main function of a corset, or at least a significant function, it's just… I don't even know. The vibe is very "I'm not like other historical costumers; I AGREE that obviously we all know of corsets were horrible and only meant for Shapewear!!!!!"
God I hate being recommended her stuff. I would block her but I want to know what she's saying so I know what I might have to refute or inject nuance into
Yes geologists! Doing the important work 💖
Credit to: The Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences
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*trying to pitch public transportation to Americans* it’s like a legal form of texting while driving
It's uhhhh The Good Old Days. Your grandparents had it and you don't. Get mad about that or something. Freedom and the American Dream or something
This mixed-media artwork, titled "Victorian Velociraptor with Violets," was created by artist Adam Mazur using acrylic paint and liquid gold leaf.
I like this.
