Dancong Oolong Delights

Tea, fiber shennanigans, and also random funsies happen here!

[hadalplumes]

God forbid women have hobbies 🙄

[treefey]

"I want my media to be historically accurate"

Cool, so you want natural fiber costumes with no/nuanced corset slander, people wearing colors, historical hairstyles, people wearing hats or headcoverings and long sleeves outside during the day, no potatoes or pumpkins in pre-columbian Europe, actors with textured skin and wrinkles, minimal makeup, consulting HEMA groups and weapons scholars for all the weapons and fight scenes, a good soundtrack that includes traditional instruments?

Oh, you mean you want 100% white people. Even in crowd scenes in port cities. There's a different word for that.

[marzipanandminutiae]

to be clear to my followers, I always mean the first one. that sounds like heaven, and 100% white people isn't historically accurate in many situations anyway

[hadalplumes]

GAOSHUN JAIL!!!

[useless-denmarkfacts]

Fun fact that, in Denmark, the National Museum has put together a reference collection of LARP (Live Action Role Playing) coins, because archaeologists started finding them in digs and got really confused!

One campaign, Legendernes Verden (World of Legends), minted 10.000 of their tin coins for a one-week LARP, and since they, and most other home-minted LARP coinage, use old Danish coinage terms on their creations, the confusion is both understandable and hilariously complete.

Here's an example:

Those in the know would immediately recognise the inscription "Narabond" as a location withing the fictional Danish LARP world 'Niraham'. Those not in the know would be endlessly puzzled, as it looks perfectly reasonable for, for example, a medieval coin.

[besidebloomingirises]

[raccoonmilf]

Leopard print is a neutral

[meangirlnurse]

[raccoonmilf]

I clearly remember being 12 or so and looking at other girls’ moms at the country club and then turning to my mom and going, “Im so glad you don’t wear leopard print. I could never wear leopard print. Leopard print is only for trashy wine moms desperate to evidence of gravity’s impact on their body through the use of disruptive camouflage.”

And now I’m like

[marithlizard]

It's been a while since I said "this person wins the internet", but today it is merited.

(via bsky)

(The classic XKCD comic)

[byjove]

why are art museums the only museums with cafeterias? imagine if you just got done walking through a civil war museum and there was a place offering hardtack and soup beans and really bad coffee based on the rations of a union soldier

[animentality]

[retquits]

i get asked regularly for photos of jpeg and it honestly feels like this every time

[retquits]

i have been informed of how foolish it was to post this without an actual photo of her. my apologies. i present: miss jpeg 🤲

[greeds]

Orufrey + love to the point of invention

[brick-match]

Major pet peeve in my own life is that the brick and mortar on the porch columns of my apartment don't match the rest of the building. It's not something most people would notice at first or maybe at all, but it drives me crazy.

The brick on the building is an old sandmold standard-size flashed burgundy brick and a plain buff mortar in a flush joint. If I were to match these, I would use Belden Brick's Belcrest 740 bricks. Those aren't available in standard size, but the modular size they're made in will work because it's the same height. (Matching size exactly doesn't really matter for columns or other projects where the brick isn't going to be laid directly into the existing brick wythes (in fact, the bricks on the columns are a bit longer and a bit less tall than the bricks on the house)). I'd match the mortar with Heidelberg's Old Colonial, the go-to for matching older structures, from their Flamingo colored mortar series. Heidelberg's premixed Old Colonial could also work.

The brick on the columns is just over 8 inches long and just under 2 1/4 inches tall, so it's a weird size. They may have been "seconds", meaning the factory screwed up and had to sell them at a discount. That would explain the mismatch -- mighta been a 1970s Landlord Special. Nonetheless, they're beautiful bricks. A rusty brown color with ironspot texture ("ironspot" is somewhat literal: the clay and/or shale is mixed with actual flecks of metal, usually manganese these days I think, that melts in the kiln and makes a sort of glaze of freckles on the surface of the brick!), laid with an almost-matching red mortar.

These bricks have to have been discounted, because it shouldn't have been at all difficult to match the brick on the existing building. The reason for the red mortar evades me; colored mortars are usually more expensive than plain mortar. More traditional colors like Old Colonial are popular enough to be not much pricier than the plain grey. Idk why tf they woulda done red, except maybe to hurt me personally.

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

this is exactly the type of rant i signed up to tumblr to see

[the-haiku-bot]

this is exactly

the type of rant i signed up

to tumblr to see

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[bat-incooking-school]

I cannot stand when comic artists draw boobs at angles that don't match the angle of the character's torso, or are well past how a human body could possibly move.

What? You've never actually seen a pair of boobs before and you're not sure how they work? You live on a genderbent Themysicra so you've never seen a woman at all? Do you think your audience has titty object permanence problems? If you don't depict both titties they'll think one just stopped existing? All comic publishers have strict policies against looking at reference photos? You subscribe to the Ancient Egyptian belief that if you don't depict all the body parts the character might enter the afterlife with only one titty?

Make it make sense!

[softichill]

I think abt this tiktok all the time

[thesadcyborg9million]

Diversity hire bryson ur absolutely slaying

[the-knitting-pirate]

Still have to knit the collar and both sleeves, but this is going to be such a cool sweater.

[assiraphales]

rocky always yells “enrichment for grace! enrichment for grace!” when he has a new invention to make the humans time more interesting on erid. grace, while appreciative, replies ‘I know I’m in a zoo enclosure but could we maybe not call it that? I feel like a bear getting thrown a pumpkin covered in peanut butter.’ rocky simply gives him a thumb, not wanting to explain that a significant amount of the population sees grace as the celebrity savior scientist who rocky keeps as a controversially young trophy wife and publicly lavishes in gifts

[assiraphales]

rocky always yells “enrichment for grace! enrichment for grace!” when he has a new invention to make the humans time more interesting on erid. grace, while appreciative, replies ‘I know I’m in a zoo enclosure but could we maybe not call it that? I feel like a bear getting thrown a pumpkin covered in peanut butter.’ rocky simply gives him a thumb, not wanting to explain that a significant amount of the population sees grace as the celebrity savior scientist who rocky keeps as a controversially young trophy wife and publicly lavishes in gifts