[maodebo]

My problem with magic systems is that if i ever get isekaied into one of those worlds, i would be such a pain in the ass about it

Because usually magic is written to be misterious and "it is like that". Even those system that have logic and experimentation fall into this problem of never going deep enough for my tastes

Why are u using incantations? Why those words? Physically, mechanically what do those words do exactly? Can u do the same spell without them? Or in a different language or just humming the musicality of the phrases? Runes, why those symbols?

How does that geometry affect the atoms etc etc ( looking at u Witch Hat Atelier, i hope the story elaborates it further but it wont)

Those stories where magic is like just a little extra and it's not developed it's like, whatever, i dont care, u just needed a basic power system for your plot

But then u get stories like naruto and im gnnnnn

I forgot most of the plot and details of the manga but i remember venting paragraphs of text to one friend, a biotechnologist thrown into that world would have a field day!

Because when your magic is not just energy lasers like dragonball but touches stuff like medicine and tech Implications and questions start brewing!

Now im having this feeling of unrest for the lightnovel Ascendance of a Bookworm Because there magic touches so many things: reproduction, architecture, biology, theology, medicine, flora n fauna, seasons, agricolture and the list goes on

I know the point of magic is that it cannot be, as a literary device, scientifically explained But the questions!

[maodebo]

some quick doodles from work that came to me

[maodebo]

I have to say. Working in security is most of the time a waste of time but it has given me access to a side of businesses that few see

What goes on behind the scenes and the face companies put up front

Today ive been assigned to a supermarket to make sure people dont steal

My god working in a supermarket is so distopic

Employee work surrounded by calculations of profit margins compared to previous years as to say "we need to earn more, work!" This exacerbated by slogans of smiling, client first, be ontime, we are a family

Gosh people here are rewarded with caricatures. There are drawings and funkopops of the clerks... is this Severance

And im here having to make sure the external company hired to restock doesnt steal

And im like angry because my job here is useless and an insult

There are 87965 cameras, at most they can steal a candybar or something else that fits in their pockets.

The expensive stuff is locked up anyways

Im 1 they are 3. I cant keep track of them 24/7 If they want to steal they can bring stuff out from the back in the warehouse where they can go and i cant...

But they have so much work ,there isnt even time to steal They are 3 doing a job for 5-6 And im here doinf nothing and i cant even help them otherwise i get yelled at!

[redstonedust]

pet peeve is when you look up fashion references from a specific era and you keep getting modern day '[era]-inspired' fashion like NO i want authenticity damn it. i can see your 2020 photo quality and your 2020 hair and your 2020 makeup. youre not fooling me.

[bincliff]

hello i'm a historical fashion researcher and i have a lot of experience looking up things! this is a very widely experienced irritation and you're definitely not alone in this, but i am here to share everything i know!

so, ways to get around this:

turn off AI results. they're literally nonsense to us

don't use pinterest because the sources/provenance is often hard to trace

a standard internet search can be okay, but museum collections are the top tier (list of collections below this list)

instead of broad terms like victorian, regency, tudor, renaissance etc. try using the decade you're looking for. if you're not sure of what decade it is but have a vague image in your head, look on the fashion history timeline and just jump around until you find it. but even changing to e.g. 19th century will give better results than victorian

including terms like womenswear/menswear, daywear, formal wear, evening wear, court dress should increase the value of your search too

including "fashion plates" in your search can give you a nice impression of the intended silhouettes of the era. some of these might be a little stylised but will show you what was considered in vogue

for pre-fashion plate eras or things like makeup and styling, you'll have to look at portraiture or manuscripts. these are harder to actually find what you're looking for, but searching museum collections and limiting results to specific date ranges will be your friend

when looking at art, do bear in mind sometimes artists would paint fabric extra flow-y to show off their skills. it might not have been exactly like that in terms of fabric weight or drape. so, a pinch of salt required!

if you find something on image search where the provenance is dubious, reverse image search and you might find a source! i've been able to trace random pinterest images to real sources, but this does take a lot of time and effort and is often not worth the headache

some online resources and museum collections:

fashion history timeline is an invaluable resource if you're trying to get a feel for everything and should be your first port of call. it'll also link to good examples

the met has a vast number of extant examples of clothing, as well as fashion plates

costume institute fashion plates is a subcollection of the met for fashion plates (1800s-1922)

v&a also has many extant garments, fashion plates, and incredible articles on clothing and aesthetics. read the details of the objects because they'll often reveal a lot about the piece

lacma is good for C19th-20th pieces

nypl digital collection for photographs

national portrait gallery or similar for portraiture, or literally any museum in your country that has historical art

national museums scotland can be useful situationally but might be oddly specific

stout style history is a great collection for finding image references for fat people wearing historical clothes. survival bias of a lot of museum pieces tends towards smaller clothing that couldn't be repurposed, but this aims to counter that. it's not sortable, but is still a really nice resource

wikimedia commons is surprisingly handy! and the images, if you should need to link/repost them, are public domain

auction websites sound like a funny one to recommend. some won't have mannequins and some will. just look up historical garment auctions and you'll find some!

anyway, i hope this has been a good place to start for anyone interested! there are probably some i've missed because there are so many museums across the world and i don't know about all of them or can't remember them. but these are the ones i've used the most! (my specialisation/jobs i've had to research for have only really been in western fashion, so my resources reflect that)

[haemey]

Wikipedia has a list of fashion museums. Unfortunately, the page itself is only available in German, but the introductory paragraph is very short and after that, it's organised by country, and then it's a simple list. If you click on a museum's article, the website is usually linked in the overview table.

[sivsii]

I’ve faced a lot of nasty art blocks over my years as an artist but none so detrimental as Going To Work

[oakssincave]

thank you for putting in words what i have been unable to articulate for the last years haha

[sivsii]

and the PROBLEM IS. the PROBLEM is that with other art blocks I can tell myself. oh it’s hard now but time will pass and I will heal from whatever mental or emotional block that’s causing this eventually. but WORK? A Forever Problem. There is no waiting-out Job. Having Job is eternal. Time does not heal Being At Work. Sand is always in our eyes forever

[achillesinhighheels]

janicemascarenhass via IG

[maodebo]

Had a dream

House made, for Wilson, a site that had a button. He convinced Wilson to press it in order to motivate him to do something taxes related that he kept procastinating on

Said button would trigger a recording of House saying "bup"

I bet House's plan or the general premise of the gift was something related to the Pavlovian conditioning

In fact, Wilson started enjoying the bup button and was looking forward to press it whenever came the time to do so. And surprisingly it did fix his procastination.

At the 100th bup a new recording played

"Youve pressed the button 100 times, see? It wasnt that hard to do your taxes, you just needed a bup button! And now you could do the same with the hem button"

Wilson was confused. On the screen the button was now a red circular one with NUT written in white over it. Wilson, already prepared to be annoyed, pressed it

Instead of a bup, the button now played a stock "splorch" sound effect

U can imagine Wilson exasperation

[maodebo]

I think I could be a good advisor. It's useful to have the perspective of someone who knows fuck all.

[maodebo]

I can see the grass growing wild and tall The shadows of trees over the weathered circular plaza Stone bricks stepping on a river to travel across Houses of stone and clay, growing room by room next to each others Mosses spreading over their walls Vines climbing alongside Touches of green on the roof tiles The singing birds from nooks and hanging on worn-down powerlines You follow the movements of the mill and the dance of gears Canals, gates and simple engines hum while trails of bugs inspect them

The city spreads following the terrain Grows, vertically, as to not take up too much space As rooms click into place, with bridges and streets

You pass a deer, along the grassy road of the bridge, as it drinks from the waterworks flowing alongside

The air is dotted with pollen and bees and lights

The members of the enviroment change as you explore each part of the city

I desire so much to make it One brick at a time Surviving, gathering the resources i need with the tools i craft from the ground

And yet, the medium always lacks something, always as something in excess Or the pressure in your spirit grows restless And you look at the screen and ask yourself why Why are u wasting yiur time on something so etherial If it only makes u feel miserable

And so u stop

But

The vision returns As is the urge

[superdynamo]

poordesign: back pain

[funtergeist]

every day im mad as hell that i dont have infinite time in the day and am not physically able to draw for 200 hours straight no breaks and dont know every hobby and cant just spend the rest of time drawing and getting into every creative hobby and learn everything and get infinite money from the government

[maodebo]

THIS IS FIRE

[teaboot]

Please help me. One of my brothers asked for my help doing an art and when I said “okay first off let’s get some reference images” he said “oh I don’t do those.”

my brother in Mom what the fuck do you mean you don’t do that

[hellsitegenetics]

String identified: a . t a g a at a a “a t t’ gt c ag” a “ ’t t.” t at t c a ’t tat

Closest match: Erithacus rubecula genome assembly, chromosome: 5 Common name: European Robin

(image source)

[teaboot]

[maodebo]

It reminded me of that art from The Mincing Mockingbird

FUCK HOW DID I MISSPELLED MYTH

[barikios]

[deel]

In other words, I’m a ‘kitsune miko that lives in a mountain shrine’, and my existence is determined wholly by people believing in this form that I take. I don’t have any individuality or part which is really ‘myself’. Like a myth or a legend, my story and things that happen in my life are all shaped and dreamt up by other people, none of which I actually live through of my own accord. Almost like I’m just a higher level imaginary friend of sorts, existing only in the minds of people who believe… the consciousness that I have right now is not of myself. No, the ‘awareness’ I have is almost like that of a third person observer, living out the figments of imagination of what people believe that ‘a kitsune miko would do in a given situation’, of countless, untold numbers of people… You could say that everything that I even think about, everything that I feel, ‘everything that I could possibly feel was a thought of someone else, and if no one ever thought of it, I could never think of it’, an existence void of self-agency… and even that void of self-agency is something thought up by some ‘author’, somewhere… Please don’t misunderstand, I’m not actually venting my frustrations or in despair about it all. After all, even this feeling I’m feeling right now is what people believe that I would feel given this situation I find myself in. that’s ‘faith’. That’s what gods (particularly those of Japan) are made of. For example, imagine that there was a doujin, or an anime or manga in which a wholly commercial depiction of a ‘kitsune girl’ existed. Imagine that people, in their own individual imaginations, thought of possible situations that this character would or could experience, continuing where the original media left off or left out. I’m that imaginary existence given flesh. The truly scary thing about this all is that when someone forgets or stops caring about my existence, my being loses what they had of me. And when everyone forgets, that will be a true and final death… I don’t want to die. It’s scary. Being forgotten is terrifying. But given my existence to begin with, could you even say that I have ‘lived’ at all? I’m but flesh given of the wavering, transient delusions or fantasies of a ‘kitsune girl’, and I don’t exactly exist ‘in time’, per se. I do not have an existence set in stone, there’s nothing concrete about who I am. I’ve said this before, but I’m simply an illusion, and what I am changes. My character, my appearance, and even the way I am cognizant, the way I think. They’ve always been changing, disappearing, appearing as time passes. What is now vanishes, and what comes also vanishes, and vanishes… and it keeps happening. Is that truly ‘living’? Is it really even ‘existing’? the me of yesterday is not the me of today, and the me of tomorrow will be different yet again. In order to conceptualize who I even am, because everyone thinks of me in a different way, I do not even have a fixed, baseline ‘form’. It’s insane, isn’t it? I think I was always insane to begin with… No; it’s just that I never looked insane to begin with. Because everyone believes that I’m not, believes that I am what I am, and I simply perform my part, like an actor acting… no, being made to act, a puppet. But inside, it’s all broken, there’s nothing but madness underneath. I’m unable to deny this fact. Did I not say before, that even my own existence as observer of myself in the third person is not of my own volition? But you, there, you’re imagining it right now, aren’t you? That it is? How could I possibly stay sane, with an existence like this-

[diamondguls]

[brbgensokyo]

[memefo]

[marlindotzip]

Wow did you see this unreleased official dungeon meshi comic???

[dayundying]

[sabertoothwalrus]

Let's try this again

[flawlessflesh]

thistle big jorts.