The wheel weaves as it wills

Lya. 30+. French. Graph and write. Sideblogs for videogames (ashkaarishok) and anime (dianamoth). Love nature, art, SF and fantasy...

[lunaemoth]

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My sideblog for videogames: ashkaarishok

My sideblog for animes+mangas: dianamoth

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[lacetulle]

Rami Kadi | L'éventail

[murphysletsdraw]

Here's some more of my paintings and their respective reference photos! murphysletsdraw on inprnt if you want to buy prints!! It's my bday month so if you buy some prints I could maybe buy myself a lil gift hehe

[mostwantedpotato404]

Can't believe last time I drew lotr fanart was 2012

PRINT

[makrustic]

Whole Summer Solstice ☀️ 'Falling right there by the sunset, falling right there by you' Prints | Ko-fi | Patreon | Bluesky ⭐

[zacsoyama]

get 🥺 men 🥺 flowers 🥺

[pukicho]

Visit Original Link

guys, you should listen to this one. Seriously. Its epic

[nqathan1]

It’s so weird to see this guy be absolutely serious when he posts music and completely not every other instance. Like he’s really not kidding about it being epic

[pukicho]

I try to put my all into things. I am all-stupid for my posts, and I'm all-art for my art.

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

OP: Why couldn’t traditional Chinese Yinpiao银票/silver drafts be forged if they were merely slips of paper? (cr大明宝钞，渐越)

Traditional Chinese yinpiao/silver drafts were paper vouchers issued by private banks starting from the Song Dynasty(960–1279). People could exchange these slips for physical silver at bank branches across the country.

Silver drafts were made in multiple copies with matching serrated seal edges. One copy went to the customer and others stayed at the bank. All edges had to fit perfectly together to withdraw silver. The unique split edge marks were almost impossible to copy.

This mechanism is known as qifeng骑缝 (split-joint seal) in China. It first originated in the Western Zhou Dynasty (1046–771 BC). The Rites of Zhou records that contracts were written on bamboo or wooden slips in duplicate. Notches and marks were carved in the middle before splitting the slips, with each party keeping one half. The two halves would be matched by their notches for verification.

During the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods (770–221 BC), this idea evolved into hufu虎符/tiger tally tokens. A military tally was split into two pieces with identical inscriptions carved along the split edge. Troops could only be deployed if the patterns and characters on both halves perfectly aligned, serving as a metal version of the split-joint anti-counterfeiting system.

The technology matured in the Tang Dynasty (618–907). Government documents and private contracts commonly used split-joint seals stamped across the dividing line. The Chinese character "hetong合同" (contract) was written across the middle before the paper was torn apart, so the complete characters would only appear when the two halves were put together. This split-coupon system was later adopted for Song Dynasty (960–1279) jiaozi paper money and yinpiao/silver drafts of the Ming and Qing dynasties (1368–1912).

Official Song dynasty paper money (Jiaozi交子) was abolished in 1107. Private silver drafts issued by Qing-era piaohao票行 (ancient exchange banks) vanished completely in 1951, hit hard by modern banks and currency reforms. Nowadays silver drafts no longer circulate as currency. Their collectible value depends on their rarity and physical condition.

Split-joint seals (骑缝章qifengzhang)are still widely used on important paper documents in modern China, an anti-tampering technique passed down from ancient times. They are applied across the edge of multi-page contracts, bidding documents and official archives. If any page is removed or replaced, the broken seal pattern can prove the file has been altered.

[shetheyslain]

Trying to sleep during a heatwave is a great reminder that all oil executives need to die painful painful deaths

[hbystuff]

Luminance

[filmtvtoday]

GAME CHANGER - ‘Second Place’ 6.01

[haarute]

me: i can't do anything... i don't know what my life is anymore...

the jacob wysocki tulpa manifesting inside my brain:

[plagued-by-visions]

genuinely came on tumblr to see if someone clipped this bit so I can save it

[rrat-king]

vic michaelis you forever have my heart

[pronouncingitwang]

[ID: 4 screenshots of a moment in Game Changer 7.01. Sam asks Vic, "How far did you get with your standee?" Vic, in a giant squid outfit, replies, "That was not the prompt." The camera zooms out to show the prompt, which Sam reads: "Who can bring the Sam standee to the most remote location?" The next slide is a photo of Vic lying on the ground with a Sam Reich standee, surrounded by hundreds of TV remotes. /end ID]

[fashion-runways]

ROBERT WUN Couture Fall/Winter 2027 pls help me get out of debt donating to: ko-fi.com/fashionrunways or dinahlance-shop.fourthwall.com

[kittyoverlord]

[makesomenoise]

Relatable, a bop, and instructive of how to pronounce "boatswain"

Watch the full episode on Dropout

[mulligans-tavern]

"60-70,000 geese" is the new "i found 100,000 dollars"