❤ Hello naughty children ❤

I'm Piro, welcome to my blog ❤ I like writing. A lot. And hope to work on an original novel that people will enjoy as much as I do. But until then I hope you enjoy my current overthought fics I'm never fully happy about bc perfectionism (ಥ﹏ಥ) Freshly migrated to Peru! Suck on that, Maduro! My fandoms a.k.a all the shit I reblog here: ❤ Yuri On Ice ❤ Banana Fish ❤ Mo Dao Zu Shi ❤ Scum Villain Self-Saving System WARNING FOR SPOILERS AND NSFW/LEMON. Everything is tagged so please block the tag if you want to avoid such content Icon by @astersapphireglory. Thank you so much for making it! ( ´♡` )

[yibo-wang]

the end 😭

[reipx]

Yuuri is becoming too powerful………

[perringwrites]

please play Gone Home

[blaze-kitty]

[link] to the tweet chain

[deadblog293898210398]

some more very good ones :)

[illumelnati]

i literally only live for ONE ship trope / dynamic and i have made my tastes and loyalty to this dynamic very known

[soursoppi]

in which two dummies somehow start a courtship while thinking it’s a friendship

[quousque]

YOU KNOW WHAT BOTHERS ME

when fantasy books describe the cloth of Quant Farmpeople’s clothing as “homespun” or “rough homespun”

“homespun” as opposed to what??? EVERYTHING WAS SPUN AT HOME

they didn’t have fucking spinning factories, your pseudo-medieval farmwife is lucky if she has a fucking spinning wheel, otherwise she’s spinning every single thread her family wears on a drop spindle NO ONE ELSE WAS DOING THE SPINNING unless you go out of your way to establish a certain baseline of industrialization in your fake medieval fantasy land.

and “rough”??? lol just because it’s farm clothes? bitch cloth was valuable as fuck because of the labor involved ain’t no self-respecting woman gonna waste fiber and ALL THAT FUCKING TIME spinning shitty yarn to weave into shitty cloth she’s gonna make GOOD QUALITY SHIT for her family, and considering that women were doing fiber prep/spinning/weaving for like 80% of their waking time up until very recently in world history, literally every woman has the skills necessary to produce some TERRIFYINGLY GOOD QUALITY THREADS

come to think of it i’ve never read a fantasy novel that talks about textile production at all??? like it’s even worse than the “where are all the farms” problem like where are people getting the cloth if no one’s doing the spinning and weaving??? kmart???

[systlin]

THANK U

[rosslynpaladin]

pro tip: what do you say instead? I gotcha.

 In Ye Olde Medieval Fantasy Dayes, everybody’s layer against skin (shirt tunic or shift) is gonna be linen. it’s almost never wool except stockings or hose (like pant legs). Say “undyed cloth” if you wanna make them sound simple and peasanty. Comment on how you can tell it wasn’t made for them (the fit is off) and has had probably eight owners before. 

Outer clothing is gonna be either wool, or a blend called Linsey-woolsey, and again you could say Undyed, but dyes are not only common they are CHEAP and relatively easy. (innerwear is often left undyed or bleached to white because it gets washed to heck- like beaten by a wooden stick on a stone by the river- and dye would just fade out a lot so why bother. Ths is also why innerwear has ties, rarely buttons, unless you are so rich you have people doing your washing delicately because they’re hired to do only that. Buttons would get broken in the washing)

A poorer person is often seen in “russet”, a kind of rusty orange-brown color. Purple was famously reserved for royalty in many times and places, but its  also just hard to do. We see a lot more magentas and fuschias for nobles or common middle class folks than we ever see of Purple- and not many of those. Deep blue was more likely on very rich people, but a light blue was common for even poorer folks. Yellow was popular with everyone, and so was green, and many shades of reds, including the color we now call orange (they did not- this is why redheads are called redheads and not orangeheads). Your vision of everyone in very drab brown and mud colors is from Hollywood- most medieval-ren folks have clothing with colors. Sometimes garish colors, to the modern eye. Traffic cone Orange and acid green was a popular combo in the 13th century.

[emblazonet]

Every fantasy writer needs to hang out at a local SCA hangout a couple times and ask people about their garb. You’ll never dress your peasants in brown again.

[jackironsides]

I saw a fic set in roughly Mediæval times where a character complained about the ‘thread count’ of sheets, and I thought No. Knowing the thread count is such a modern thing; such a marketers-post-industrialisation thing. Your characters might complain that they’re roughly woven compared to professional spinners in town, or using poorly spun thread perhaps, but I guaran-fucken-tee you that they Do Not Know what thread count IS. Even if they are weavers themselves, they probably just talk about the density of thread rather than ‘thread count’ – the cloth would be tightly woven vs loosely woven.

Also, if you don’t have an SCA chapter to talk to, you could also try talking to your local spinners and weavers guild about natural dyes. I know someone involved in my city’s guild, and they run all kinds of workshops. Including a natural dye workshop in the past, which my friend took.

(I actually used my knowledge of natural dyes to push back on a textbook author who thought our illustrator had made a stack of Elizabethan cloth too brightly coloured.)

Heck, there’s lots of websites and blogs where you can find info about natural dyes, including pictures of the outcome; it’s what I used to convince the author. Even if you’re making up your own world’s flora, you might get an idea about how you want dyes to work. Different parts of the same plant will often produce different colours. And some plants will give different colours depending on the mordant (colour fixative) used.

Availability of colour and dye can also vary on geography. Indigo was difficult and expensive in Europe for a long time (including the Middle Ages), but ubiquitous in Japan (certainly during the Edo period, which is a little later). This is because plants that produce indigo best are native to Asia – Ancient Greece and Rome imported indigo from India. Mediæval dyers used woad to get the same colour, but apparently it’s less colourfast than true indigo.

And the reason why purple is associated with royalty is because extracting Tyrian purple dye from murex snails is difficult, labour intensive and involved thousands of the creatures. Thus it’s expensive and highly valued. So if you’re writing a fantasy world, you could choose a different colour for royalty.

The other fun thing about textile history is that their cloth was often better than ours. Well-woven pre-industrial cloth could have a density and fineness that our modern industrial cloth doesn’t tend to have. It’s a pain if you’re into historical costuming, because you might go looking for a specific weave of cotton, say, and it just doesn’t exist anymore.

[madilayn]

Homespun is actually a type of cloth, rather than a description of how it was made. Rough homespun would be homespun cloth thst was not as finely woven or from cloth that had been remade from one garment into another. Or from yarn that was not as finely spun as it could other have been. A common msconception was that every medieval lower class person could spin and weave and baked their own bread and was basically self sufficient. This was not the case. Medieval villages were pretty much communes. They had a baker who tended the village oven . Housewives could bring their bread there to be baked, or could bring the ingredients to the baker to mix and bake, or even just pay the baker. Most women did spin - using a drop spindle or a distaff spindle usually (spinning wheels are a later invention). Of course, not evertybody was good at spinning. Ability varied, so some were spinning very fine yarn/thread and some were chunky and uneven and not great. But because everything was used, all types of yarn was used. Some eople did do their own weaving, but usually there was a village weaver who usually had an apprentice. They woudl weave cloth from thread/yarn bought to them by a person, or from what they spun or bought. Most of life in a medieval village was a barter economy. There were tasks that a village was required to do as a whole as part of their tithe to the Manor. As well as tasks that needed to be completed for their own survivsl. Goods and services were bartered for other goods and services. So a person who is a skilled weaver, would barter their skills for food, or for work in the fields In villages that didn’t have a fuller/dyer then many cloth was plain bleached or unbleached. It was dyed by the individual (if they had time). Black and brown were definitely NOT pesant coliours! They were difficult to dye, and difficult to keep looking good. In larger towns and villages, you could tell how poor somebody was by the colour of their clothing. Dyeing was done in runs - so the first run of fresh dye was used foir the finest cloth, and would be the most expensive fabric. Usually used for the wealthy. The subsequents runs of the dye bath produced paler colours, and the colours may not be colourfast. So they could be unevenly dyed, or be very pals or patchy or even look like the dye has run. Or even (quite commonly) several dye baths of different colours were mixed together at the end of their “life” to get another couple of runs. These produced very muddy colours that would have perpeduated the whole “brown” as a pesant colour of clothing. (actually the truly poor would be wearing unbleached cloth) Yup - I’ve been in the SCA foir over 20 years now (and also work with other historical renactment groups) with a main interest in textiles, and also the role of women in society. My persona is actusally a 15th century cloth merchant (there were surprisingly quite a lot of female cloth merchants - usually wmen who had grown up in the trade, or who had married into it).

[hamliet]

hello, in svsss what do you think of zhuzi-lang? his story is so sad but he gets so little attention :(((

Zhuzhi-Lang is actually one of my favorite characters in Scum Villain! Perhaps my second favorite after Luo Binghe, actually. His death devastated me. 

So, before I discuss him, I will recommend this excellent meta by @thisworldgodonlyknows. Basically, Zhuzhi-Lang has remarkable similarities with other characters in MXTX’s works (notably, as the meta discusses, Wen Ning, but also with Wei Wuxian, Luo Binghe, Su She, and even Hua Cheng). The trope is called “because you were nice to me” on TVTropes, and essentially it’s if someone is kind to a character who is usually treated unkindly by society, they become obscenely loyal and spend their life trying to earn that one act of kindness. If someone tells these characters they have worth, they become wildly loyal, trying to earn that person’s affirmation again and again. It comes from a highly insecure sense of self and from the fundamental question each of MXTX’s three novels ask: how can humans earn the right to be alive? 

The answer is that we are alive and deserve to be, and the right to live can’t be earned because it’s inherent. If you look at it, almost all of these characters end up dying at some point in a misguided attempt earn their right to live. Even if they have a happy ending, they die in the meantime; these deaths are not always directly attributed to these tendencies in the character, but are certainly somewhat connected.  

Zhuzhi-Lang dies trying to save both Tianlang-Jun and Shen Qingqiu. 

Luo Binghe is the only one who does not die but Luo Binghe is still considered dead for several years after being pushed into the abyss (which is at least a metaphorical death) by the same person who he was dedicated to serving. 

Wen Ning winds up a weapon; it’s noted his repressed resentment has been used post-death. His arc is about overcoming the idea that he has to earn the right to live even a second life, as Wei Wuxian wants him to live on his own and Wen Ning eventually decides to do so. 

Wei Wuxian kept trying to make it up to the Yunmeng Jiang Sect for taking him in (he says as much), which leads to misunderstandings that eventually result in his own death. 

Su She dies trying to save Jin Guangyao, and it’s all for naught in the end. 

Hua Cheng dies three times, each time for Xie Lian (mimicking Xie Lian’s three ascensions), and each time his death hurts Xie Lian. 

However, for each of these characters, it is absolutely not their fault that they feel they have to earn their lives. The biggest bad in all of MXTX’s works is society and its lack of empathy for those who are somehow deficient by its standards–and if you look closely, most if not all characters might be considered deficient, even the ones who pretend not to be. 

For Zhuzhi-Lang specifically, he was born to a snake demon clan. He isn’t regarded as a fully human/demon; instead, he’s literally trodden upon and looked at as a lesser being. This cruelty has embedded itself deeply in Zhuzhi-Lang: he is violent when someone is violent to him as a result thereof, but he is also kind to an extreme when people are kind to him. As the above meta I liked to says, he doesn’t understand the nuances of humanity (and when I saw humanity it isn’t limited to just humans–demons/ghosts/gods all fit this within the story), the nuances that enable characters to overcome their flaws and choose their own way to live. 

Zhuzhi-Lang is also a foil to Shen Qingqiu and to his cousin, Luo Binghe. Shen Qingqiu, after being transmitigated into the story as the villain, lives as if he has to earn his survival (oh and he also dies temporarily as a result), and lives without nuance. He believes he knows how the story will go, how it is written, even as he knows he’s rewriting parts of it. However, by the end of Shen Qingqiu’s arc, he’s realized he can make his own choices, he can even choose the genre of the story he’s living, he can change the fate of the world and his own fate. It was this fear and this primal belief that he knew how things would go, these constraints he put on his own actions as a result (like pushing Luo Binghe into the abyss), that led to much of the pain and tragedy. 

For Luo Binghe, he keeps trying to earn the kindness of Shen Qingqiu, falling deeply in love with him. Yet Shen Qingqiu, much like society itself, is afraid of Luo Binghe, so Luo Binghe tries all manner of rules to earn his appreciation and love but doesn’t succeed. When that fails, Luo Binghe decides to rewrite the entire world, combining the demon and human realm, not caring at all. He goes into a qi deviation, having completely let go of nuance, wanting to destroy the entire world to control the narrative he has never been allowed to control (and much like Zhuzhi-Lang, to return the world the cruelty it always treated him with). Shen Qingqiu saves him, of course, and it isn’t a coincidence that their ending is Shen Qingqiu telling Luo Binghe that if he will not be welcomed in their society, they will find a place where Luo Binghe will be welcomed. In other words, Shen Qingqiu learns nuance himself, learned that the nuance and loyalty of Zhuzhi-Lang is not inherently bad or harmful; in fact, loyalty is a good trait when it is nuanced. 

Although Zhuzhi-Lang’s life ended tragically and I’m still not over it, his life wasn’t pointless, and his legacy is not of a monster trodden into the dirt. Yes, some may remember him that way. But the calamity is not solved when Zhuzhi-Lang is nailed to a wall; it’s solved through an act of love and loyalty, through Shen Qingqiu committing to Luo Binghe in his extremely awkward and hilarious way. Even if many characters thing that Zhuzhi-Lang was a villain put down, the narrative counters this. Additionally, not all characters think as much: Tianlang-Jun is still alive and has another chance, and Shen Qingqiu learns the value of loyalty and assurance thereof, which enables him to prevent Luo Binghe following a similarly tragic path to Zhuzhi-Lang. 

[impatvish]

Quality quarantine time. Stay home and stay safe, people.

[cyborgsmanifesto]

dealing with the worst case scenario

your condom breaks

you feel a lump on your breast

your friends are ignoring you

you’re stranded on an island 

you got rejected by a crush

you get into a car accident

you got stung by a bee/wasp

you got fired from your job

you’re in an earthquake

your tattoo gets infected

your house is on fire

you’re lost in the woods

you get arrested abroad

you get robbed

your partner cheated on you

you’re on a ship that’s sinking

you fall into ice

you’re stuck in an elevator

you hit a deer with your car

you have food poisoning

your pet passed away

you fall off of a horse

you or your friend has alcohol poisoning

you have toxic shock syndrome

your house has a gas leak

[4velitta4]

I feel like this could be useful in my future

[astrologypixies-deactivated2016]

REBLOG THIS. I CANNOT STRESS HOW IMPORTANT THIS GUIDES ARE, BOOST THIS SHIT

[getupoffyourcassbutt]

If I don’t reblog this one of these things is definitely going to happen to me

[theszandor-deactivated20190509]

I’m gonna reblog for y’all but also for me bc I’m a writer man I need this random info

[etherall-deactivated20200122]

I love you guys and I wanna make sure you know what to do in any situation ever, no matter how odd.

[flowerthighhs]

be safe💗

[pervypiksi]

Merman AU Viktor, BC @yumenouveau‘s merman Viktor was so perfect. Cx

[patayto-catato]

Ash Lynx phases

Source:@/okitadm

[awesome-picz]

Cats Who Immediately Regretted Their Poor Life Choices.

[hpminecraft]

YES i only draw self indulgent things have a banana

[vikingfighter-deactivated201909]

If Stuntmen from the old movies don’t have your full respect then I just don’t know what to say to you

[working--on--excellence]

l tried really hard not to reblog this

[nescientes]

Yeah, it is indeed really hard not to reblog a fucking thing.

[spaceman-v-spiff-deactivated201]

Can we all agree that the man in the first gif is the manliest man in the world?

[jolivet-deactivated20190306]

Are we just going to all silently acknowledge that the last guy is clearly dead and that we just saw him die. 

[antoinetriplett-deactivated2015]

HOLD UP FOR A SECOND

ALL OF THESE GIFS ARE ONE MAN

THE SINGULAR BUSTER KEATON

WHILE FILMING THE GENERAL

HE SNAPPED HIS NECK ON THE RAILROAD TIES AND WENT HOME AND ICED HIS BODY

AND CAME BACK FOR WORK THE NEXT DAY

HE ONCE GOT HIS HIP RIPPED OUT OF ITS SOCKET BY A MALFUNCTIONING ELEVATOR AND WAS DISAPPOINTED WITH HIMSELF FOR BEING INJURED

HE ONCE HAD TO FALL 100 FEET DOWN A WATERFALL INTO A NET

A STUNTMAN TESTED IT AND BROKE BOTH LEGS AND DISLOCATED HIS SHOULDER

BUSTER DID THE STUNT ANYWAY AND LANDED WITHOUT A SCRATCH

IN ‘THE HIGH DIVE’

BUSTER DID A TRICK DIVE THROUGH A CARDBOARD DECK THAT WAS CAMOUFLAGED TO LOOK LIKE THE REAL DECK

ONLY HE COULDN’T TELL FROM 100 FEET UP WHERE THE CARDBOARD STOPPED AND THE REAL DECK STARTED AND THERE WAS ONLY LIKE A THREE FOOT MARGIN FOR ERROR

AND WHEN HE HESITATED A SUDDEN BREEZE LITERALLY KNOCKED HIM OFF THE DIVING BOARD AND HE HAD TO JUMP ANYWAY

AND HE MISSED THE REAL DECK BY LESS THAN A FOOT BUT HE MADE IT

IN THE SECOND GIF HE’S RECREATING SOMETHING THAT THE ACTUAL GENERAL PURSUERS HAD TO DO IN THE CIVIL WAR

IF HE MISSES THAT TIE

THE TRAIN WILL BE DERAILED AND HE WILL DIE IN THE EXPLOSION

IN THE THIRD GIF AN ENTIRE HOUSE IS FALLING HE HAS ONE TAKE AND IF HE HAS NOT DONE THE CALCULATIONS CORRECTLY HE WILL BE CRUSHED

HE HAS AN INCH-WIDE MARGIN ON EACH SIDE

AND THE HOUSE LITERALLY BRUSHES HIS LEFT SHOULDER ON THE WAY DOWN

YOU CAN SEE HIS LEFT ARM JUMP BECAUSE HE’S FLINCHING FROM THE PAIN

THAT LAST GIF

HE WAS SUPPOSED TO MAKE THAT JUMP

HE WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO FALL AND THEY HADNT PLANNED FOR IT

BUT HE SURVIVED

BUSTER KEATON SURVIVED 100% OF THINGS THAT WOULD HAVE KILLED LESSER MEN INCLUDING WWI, TORNADOS, HOUSEFIRES, ALCOHOLISM, BROKEN NETS, CRUSHING DEPRESSION, THE DEPRESSION ITSELF, THE MCCARTHY WITCHHUNTS, THE END OF SILENT CINEMA, AND ABOUT 900 MORE OF THE STUNTS YOU SEE ABOVE

BUSTER LIVED TO BE 70 YEARS OLD

FATHERED LIKE FOUR KIDS AND EIGHT GRANDKIDS

HE CAME OUT THE OTHER SIDE OF ALL THAT

THINKING THAT LIFE WAS GOOD AND PEOPLE WERE WONDERFUL

BUSTER KEATON IS NOT JUST A STUNTMAN

HE IS A GODDAMN SAINT

[lodatik]

BUSTER KEATON’S PARENTS WERE PART OF A TRAVELING SHOW.

THEY WERE ACROBATS.

THEY TOOK BABY BUSTER UP HIGH IN THE AIR WITH THEM.

THEY DROPPED HIM.

LUCKILY SOMEONE WHO WAS STANDING UNDER THEM CAUGHT BABY BUSTER.

THAT MAN WAS HARRY HOUDINI. 

HARRY HOUDINI SAVED BUSTER KEATON’S LIFE.

if you don’t think that’s the coolest shit you can get right out.

[ccchildish-deactivated20170818]

he was blessed by houdini oh my god

[fandomhaze]

This whole thing is so rad.

[petermorwood]

Reblogged once for the clips, reblogging again for the history. Keaton was known as “The Great Stone Face”; his trademark was to never show emotion, no matter what happened to him or around him. And there was a lot to not react to…

[i-got-this-wait-no-oops]

@flea-bee-rhymes thought you’d appreciate some buster keaton appreciation

[imbasicallyshakespear-deactivat]

[greenglitchbitch]

What a fucking underappreciated legend! People talk about how amazing it is for actors like Chris Evans and Vigo Mortenson to do their own stunts. That’s fucking nothing, compared to Buster Keaton!

[roos-collection-of-what]

i went to a showing of two of his films and honestly it’s filled with insane shit that could kill most people omg

[would-we-be-friends-if-i]

Hold him up as an example of humans are space orcs

[demoniqt]

Woah. Just woah.

[evermore-fashion]

Tony Ward Fall 2020 Ready-to-Wear Collection

[darth--nickels]

LIghthouse keepers will never be memorialized like soldiers or cops because they didn’t kill anyone (as part of their job) but they’re like, heroes who saved untold lives through discipline and self-sacrifice doing an impossible lonely job and I’m worked up about  it 

[darth--nickels]

Clinging to a swaying tower in freezing, driving rain, risking death by everything from pneumonia to a fall to a fucking lightning strike to keep the lantern going when you don’t even KNOW if someone is out on the water!! Working! Class! Heroes!

[randomishnickname]

One of those fandom things that I love is when there’s new characters around and, with the unwavering confidence of an old farmer appraising cattle, fanfic authors take one good look at them, tilt their imaginary hat, and go “Aye. Praise kink, that one. Mighty case of praise kink if I ever saw one.” And everyone else just “aye.”

[inimitably-ineffable]

Not to mention the plot tropes.

“I don’t think the Highschool AU is going to come in too strong this year. Fandoms a touch jaded for that. But the hurt/comfort is growin’ thick as weeds and twice as fast. It’ll be a good harvest, fer sure.”

[mx-incognito]

@cynaram

[cynaram]

“I hear over at [neighbouring fandom] they’re putting the top field into fix-it fics.”

“Yes, ‘twould be.  They had a hard season last year, a right hard season.” 

[explorerrowan]

“You think I ought to plant a little Sailor Moon Wild West AU? Don’t know if anything would come of it. Might not make it to harvest.”

“Won’t know until you plant it, will you?”

[notyouramelie]

@thebibliosphere you’re a word/story farmer!

[thebibliosphere]

I am but a humble potato crackfic farmer, tending my crops, fertilizing the soil through shitposts.