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their love is so powerful that they can show me cartoons for free

Meiji period fashion was some of the best in the world, speaking purely from an aesthetic standpoint you can really see the collision of European and Japanese standards of beauty and how their broad agreement even in particulars (the similarity between Japanese and Gibson girl bouffants, the obi vs the corset, the obi knot vs the bustle, the mutual covetousness for exotic textiles, the feverish swapping of both art styles and subjects) combined and produced some of the most interesting cultural exchange we have this level of documentation for. Europeans were wearing kimono or adapting them into tea gowns, japanese were pairing lacy Edwardian blouses with skirt hakama and little button up boots. haori jackets with bowler hats and European style lapels. if steampunk was any good as an aesthetic it would steal wholesale from the copious records we have in both graphic arts and photography of how people were dressing in this milieu.

3liza

«The botany professor,» from Kkokei Shimbun, October 20, 1908. she's wearing a kimono blouse or haori, edwardian skirt or hakama, gibson girl bouffant, a lacy high-collar blouse with cravat and brooch, and a pocket watch with chain

1910-1930 (Taishō era, right after Meiji, which I should have included in my OP) men's haori with western lapels

catchymemes

digitalkiddo

If you're writing anything involving cons, scams, heists, or morally questionable characters who are very good at lying, here are some free resources I've been using for research. Saving you the "why is this in my search history" anxiety.

1. The FBI's Famous Cases & Criminals archive (fbi.gov/history/famous-cases) has detailed breakdowns of real fraud cases, Ponzi schemes, and confidence operations. The language they use is clinical and precise, which is perfect for getting the procedural details right.

2. The FTC Consumer Sentinel Network publishes annual reports on the most common fraud tactics in the US. Great for understanding how modern scams actually work and what makes people fall for them.

3. The Smithsonian's American Art Museum has a free digital collection of forgery case studies. If your character forges documents or art, this is gold.

4. Court Listener (courtlistener.com) is a free legal database where you can read actual court transcripts from fraud trials. Want to know how a real con artist talks under oath? This is where you find out.

5. The Internet Archive's collection of old newspaper crime sections. Search for "confidence man" or "swindle" in papers from the 1920s through 1960s and you'll find incredible real stories that would feel too dramatic for fiction.

Bonus: The Psychology of Fraud section on the Association for Psychological Science website has accessible articles about why people trust, how deception works cognitively, and what makes someone a convincing liar. Essential reading if you want your con artist characters to feel psychologically real.

Reblog to save for later. Your WIP will thank you.

exploding a bit because I just had the thought

what does counter-culture look like in the boiling isles??

like obviously being a wild witch during Belos's reign is punk as fuck. But what's their goth? Their emo? Their grunge? What does creepy look like to a world and society where griffins breathe spiders and the last names "Blight" or "Cutburn" are a normal thing? Where a ninth of the population can summon ghosts to fight for them and the landmasses are all giant carcasses? where teen girls have live butterflies for birthday invitations and fire or claws for "chic" nails the way we have acrylics? what's alt fashion when your classmate has a single giant eye for a face and your other classmate is a dog wearing glasses?? what actually stands out??? what's their "edgy" when everything is razor sharp as a matter of course???? and would all that have been changed or subverted by Belos introducing his own sensibilities? how much is parallel and how much is inverse when it comes to comparing the boiling isles and the human realm???

EDIT: I forgot to mention that one moringmark comic talking about what rainbows/painbows represent. like THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!!! THAT RIGHT THERE!!!

#like I guess you'd have to start with things they're afraid of or weirded out by to get proper counterculture #like that one post that pointed out how Raine's name was basically their “Murdervortex Deathrattle” equivalent bc of how their weather work #but I want MORE #and for that matter what does their femininity and masculinity look like in a world where everyone is queer??#or do they just not have those sorts of concepts #or did Belos introduce them as part of his bullshit #I NEED TO KNOW AAAAAAHHHH #the owl house #boiling isles #worldbuilding #anthropology #does this count as anthropology??

what do you MEAN "connection went bloop, try again" Tumblr???? smites you with a thousand lava spiders

#biting chomping killing

kosmogrl

manwhorewednesdays

This is actually such a crucial part of healing from neglect and abuse and I have to add to this.

Because indeed, people who like you will not roll their eyes and sigh at the idea of accommodating your needs, they will value your voice and be upset with you about injustice done to you, not at you for "being difficult". They will be happy when you find a way to live a better life, and help you to get there. If you are struggling, someone who loves you wants to see you smile, not tell you to smile because "you have it so good".

cutecipher

basketball players fight over the basketball because they are hypnotized before each game to believe it is their egg

despazito

His little pony...

depsidase

local-lesbian-tree-demon

they should invent a body that feels normal to be inside of

anarqueeen

Hate when I'm trying to find my luggage at the baggage claim but they all look the same. Many such cases.

yournintendogsaredead

For those who think polyamory doesn’t belong at Pride

I’m not polyamorous, but I am a part of the LGBTQ+ community. I used to think polyamory wasn’t lgbtq+. But I was wrong. Here are some things you might not know.

In many companies, you’ll find pride initiatives and they’ll welcome people from across the spectrum.

But if they find out a married employee has another SO, even if it’s an open polyamorous relationship, they can fire that employee. Even companies with non-discriminatory policies.

Can you imagine coming out to a family that accepts you for being bi/gay/ whatever, but won’t accept that you’re polyamorous?

Can you imagine seeking a community and being shunned by the people who preach acceptance?

Can you imagine being shunned by people in every community?

Can you imagine everyone assuming you just want sex rather than a fulfilling relationship with more than one person?

Can you imagine not being able to date your partner without someone assuming you’re cheating? And them assigning you a moral failing that you didn’t earn?

Poly is like a sexuality, to my limited knowledge. For instance, I couldn’t choose to be poly because i’m just not. But you don’t choose who you fall in love with. And some people fall in love more than once.

Polyamory is love. Just like every other sexuality. They belong in the community as much as the rest of us. Excluding people from pride goes against everything the community stands for. So live your truth! Love who you love! And support love no matter what it looks like. Happy pride!

estro-boi

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

estro-boi

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

macleod

An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over

always use qbittorrent, do not use bittorrent or utorrent.

manuciruja

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

manuciruja

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

smadsel

would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.

smadsel

that’s not the whole flag, now is it