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Faustiel  full of anxiety and fixtations

[shyolet]

90% of the ocean is unexplored to YOU…. I know what’s down there though

[themoonandthewanderer]

POC Academia

Asian Academia

East Asian Dark Academia

Ancient Chinese Dark Academia

Chinese Dark Academia

Japanese Dark Academia #1

Japanese Dark Academia #2

Japanese Dark Academia #3

Korean Academia

Filipino Dark Academia

South Asian Dark Academia

Desi Dark Academia

Desi Light Academia

Indian Academia

Indian Dark Academia #1

Indian Dark Academia #2

Indian Dark Academia #3

Indian Dark Academia #4

Indian Dark Academia #5

Bengali Academia

Sri Lankan Dark Academia #1

Sri Lankan Dark Academia #2

Sri Lankan Dark Academia #3

Muslim Dark Academia #1

Muslim Dark Academia #2

Middle Eastern Dark Academia

Arabic Dark Academia

Ancient Egypt Dark Academia

Egyptian Academia

Serbian Dark Academia

Czech Dark Academia

Urban Native Dark Academia

African American Dark Academia

Latin American Dark Academia #1

Latin American Dark Academia #2

Indigenous South American Dark Academia

Brazilian Dark Academia #1

Brazilian Dark Academia #2

My Asian Aesthetics

[forcearama]

I am cackling at a decade/two decades-plus of prequels-era hate being followed up by Ahsoka getting her own show, and Obi-Wan McGregor getting HIS own show WITH Hayden Christensen in it. 😂

I WILL TAKE THAT MARTINI WITH EXTRA CERTAIN-KIND-OF-FANBOY TEARS THANKS

[forcearama]

I can’t stop laughing at this. So many years of “nobody likes Ahsoka”, “we all agree the prequels were irredeemably awful and nobody enjoyed them”, “everyone thought Hayden was terrible and there is zero chance they will ever ask him to come back”, “they’ll never finish TCW, the prequel era is dead and Star Wars cartoons are embarrassing” and “Disney is right to distance themselves from the prequels entirely because no one liked them”…what must it be like to be wrong about so many things, I wonder.

*kicks back and lights up an imaginary cigar while Sheev-style laughing*

[forcearama]

*cackles and opens another bottle of champagne*

[amvs]

imagine you’re at a convention and you’re reaching for a sasunaru doujinshi and someone else reaches for it at the same time and you look up and it’s megan thee stallion

[amvs]

i dont even watch naruto but like what did she mean by this

[amvs]

i love you so much megan

[boimgfrog]

If a sexy lady demon thing gave me her killing book and I found out she loved me I would simply love her back. Rip to Misa but I'm different.

[deathnowote]

[rosabienfuerte]

[chromeography]

Estate Stove and Oven (by Stephen Coles)

Original range in our cabin built by my grandparents in the 1930s.

[thatdisasterauthor]

OKAY, OKAY. So I got this neat little tin of mints, right?

BUT WAIT.

The mints themselves?

TINY PLANCHETTES.

I AM DELIGHTED.

[happifying-things]

📷 from ImplementAgile2945

[drizzlingtears]

[thosch3i]

Heavenly Palace on the Clouds (The Lost Tomb 2 Part 2) Coming Soon!

The direct sequel to TLT2 has finally officially announced its main cast, and is coming…soon! No exact air date yet, but we finally have an official poster :D This is an adaptation of book 4, and would be the missing link between TLT2 and UN (though, it wouldn’t really tie directly to UN because…different companies and all that).

Wu Xie (Bai Shu–was also in Love and Redemption with Cheng Yi) and Zhang Qiling (Zhao Dongze) have new actors, but Zhang Boyu and Liu Xueyi appear to be reprising their roles as Pangzi and Xiao Hua, respectively!

[sliceofhorror]

i’m tired of quizzes where you have to pick Men so here’s one where you pick some cats and then i assign you one of my friends’ cats

[babiebees]

this is the best quiz ive ever taken in my life i wanna marry op

[cuntess-carmilla]

I see (and agree with) your “you’re one bad month away from becoming homeless (so start redirecting your loyalty from billionaires to the working class)” and I raise you a “you’re one accident, one insect sting, one sudden mysterious illness, one virus from becoming permanently disabled (so start redirecting your sympathy from the able-bodied class to the disabled)”.

[cuntess-carmilla]

It’s nearly impossible for a person to reach old age and not be at least mildly disabled. Start caring about disability rights NOW.

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a cat has been spotted napping below this post.

[angelofdarknessmp3]

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[ziseviolet]

Hi! I love your blog! I have a question about a type of accessory that I frequently saw in dramas. (Tried to find out about it myself but I can't read chinese.😣) Can you tell me what those beautiful hanging pendants of jade and tassels, tied to the waist, are called? Thank you for any information you have!

Hi! I’m glad you love my blog, and thanks for the question! (Illustration Via)

Yaopei/腰佩 (lit. “waist wear”) is the general term for traditional Chinese waist ornaments, of which there are several types. Yaopei are typically decorated with jade (Yupei/玉佩), as the Chinese have revered jade since ancient times, and would (and still do) adorn themselves with it in various forms, including jewelry, hair ornaments, and waist ornaments. 

Those beautiful long pendants of jade and tassels hanging from the waist that you see in Chinese dramas are a type of Yaopei called Jinbu/禁步. An accessory worn since ancient times, Jinbu was initially used to hold down the skirt. Below - Jinbu in the Chinese drama series Nirvana in Fire.

Jinbu typically consists of one or more jades hanging in combination with beads and a decorative silk tassel (Liusu/流苏). Some of these jade stones are in the shape of bi-discs and Huang/璜, an arc shape with one hole on the top and two on the sides. 

Apart from the symbolism of the jade and the beauty of the stone, the ancient Chinese appreciated the delicate tinkling sound the jades made as they touched each other when the wearer moved. Below - historical Ming dynasty gold-and-jade Jinbu (left), modern Tang-style gold Jinbu (right). 

Worn by men and women, Jinbu served as symbols of virtue and emblems of rank. Below - illustrations of ladies from the Han dynasty (left) and Ming dynasty (right) wearing Jinbu.

Due to the hanfu revival movement, the wearing of Jinbu is making a bit of a comeback. Below - modern Jinbu from 秋雨夕阳的店.

Beautiful and versatile, Jinbu are a great way to accessorize any hanfu outfit.

For more posts on Jinbu and other types of Yaopei, please see my waist ornament tag. 

Hope this helps!