yours truly, scolo ... !

Scolo or Ivo ; he/him, 19 old. multifandom+shipper. your email will find me the same way one find insects under a tree branch. might be commie pilled.

[scolo-centipede]

Tags from Yours truly for easier enjoyment ! ART / TEXT / REBLOGS > My twitter ! :)

My name is SCOLO / IVO I use HE/HIM only. 19 years old & an immigrant located in Europe. English is not my first language. My exact whereabouts or nationality is none of your concern.

Additonal information: I don't have any strict DNIs, unless you are a nazi/terf/something of the right-wing kind. Whatever your name is, nationality, gender, view of self, I will gladly respect it.

Scolo is a part of the word 'scolopenda'(genus of centipedes). I love insects & will occasionally reblog them here, cw/tw tag included; if you have any cool bug/arachno facts or pictures, feel free to message me them in the ask box.

Feel free to interact or write me in DMs, I WANT to make some acquaintances ! maybe even friends. + ask for discord.

[voidsetup1]

and out of the darkness - you you you you you

[scolo-centipede]

@morganmortem

[sceptixfakemon]

sketched a couple guys for fun

[gaenunu]

yeah.. thighs…

[technofeudalism]

Angolan Air Force cadet training in the Soviet Union, 1987. Photographer unknown.

[mistigri0000]

I felt like tumblr would like my thomas sankara chibis lol

[ivy-vinezz]

Hii!! I was wondering if I could have some knight/kingdom inspired graphics. Pretty pretty please.

⟡ Knight Graphics // Request

･ ⟢ ⋮ Free to use, credit not required but appreciated. Reposts/Edits/Recolours/adding to Masterlists or hoards allowed.

for sure!! Hope these are okay :D

medieval graphics

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[crintsiewintsey]

@scolo-centipede

[sempegzrd]

[red-dyed-sarumane]

stop calling your own work slop

[red-dyed-sarumane]

stop forcing yourself to disengage with what you love because a layer of irony makes it more comfortable. admit you care and let yourself feel good about it

[psychodogmoder]

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[scolo-centipede]

CALLING ME OUT FOR THE WORLD TO SEE?!?!?!?!?

[audreydoeskaren]

Abridged history of early 20th century Chinese womenswear (part 6.1: 1950s&60s-Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau and friends)

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*I know the 50s and 60s aren’t early 20th century but I don’t care, this is a continuous narrative.

Previous posts in the series:

Part 1: 1890s

Part 2: 1900s & 1910s

Part 3.1: 1920s-silhouette

Part 3.2: 1920s-design details

Part 3.3: 1920s-accessories, hair & makeup

Part 4.1: 1930s-silhouette & design

Part 4.2: 1930s-hair, makeup & accessories

Part 5: 1940s

Intro/Context

After the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, many cheongsam makers from Shanghai moved base to Hong Kong. Hong Kong became the new center of cheongsam design and production, creating the “Hong Kong style cheongsam” of the mid 20th century. Cheongsam adopted the extreme hourglass silhouette of Christian Dior’s influential New Look collection, achieved by Western tailoring techniques.

According to popular opinion, fashionable clothing like cheongsam and “traditional clothing” (whatever that means?) dropped dead in mainland China after the communist takeover. This is bullshit and please see my post on 1950s mainland China for info on women’s fashion there, this post will focus on fashion in non mainland areas.

Silhouette & design

When Christian Dior released his New Look collection in 1947, China was still in the middle of a massive civil war so the silhouette didn’t take hold immediately. The early 50s continued the late 40s cheongsam style with a mid calf skirt and tall, rectangular standing collar. There wasn’t much in way of binding and trimmings, the edges and hems were commonly plain. Ornamental buttons weren’t common either since concealed snap buttons or hooks and eyes were used, and the collar would sometimes be closed with a brooch. To make up for this plainness in decorations, the fabrics were often loud and colorful, with floral or geometric printed patterns.

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Poster for the 1951 movie Red and White Azaleas, showing late 40s/early 50s “Shanghai” style cheongsam with tall collar.

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Poster for the 1952 movie A Bright Future.

As the 50s progressed, the extreme hourglass silhouette caught on and cheongsam makers started to use darts, shoulder seams, zippers and other Western shenanigans. I’m not exactly sure in which year specifically the New Look was adopted by cheongsam makers, but it was around 1953-ish.

Because of its slender, tubular shape, cheongsam latched on to Western sheath dresses as its base silhouette. The poofy skirts of the New Look were not applied on cheongsam in the 50s and 60s, instead cheongsam skirts were tight and pencil shaped. Because of the tight skirt, higher slits needed to be made for freedom of movement; in the 50s and 60s they could sit high on the thighs, almost reaching the hips, but worry not about flashing cause undergarments were worn. Short slits also existed but were less common, as it was more restrictive and harder to move around in. The collar was very tall at the back but tapers down dramatically at the front. This style of tall collar was different from the early 50s style in that it had a huge v-shaped gap at the front. In the mid 50s the hem began to rise, reaching knee length by the end of the decade. 

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50s photograph of women in cheongsam. 

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50s Butterick sheath dress sewing pattern. (I love how vintage fashion illustration poses give off massive jojo vibes, Christian DIOr I guess??) (that was bad I’ll see myself out)

I’ve made a diagram showing the most common ways to shape a 50s/60s cheongsam with darts.

The most common method was number 1, where you have two long, vertical darts in the front and one short, horizontal dart at each side. This was also the most common method used on 50s Western dresses. Method 2 uses diagonal darts at the side instead of horizontal ones. Method 3 features an optional second horizontal dart for further shaping. In the back piece, there was usually two vertical darts as well. The end shape these three methods achieve is pretty similar, an extreme hourglass with pointy breasts and small waist. 

The decorations used on cheongsam became more various in the 50s. The side opening was closed by a zipper down the side and snap buttons at the front, which meant that pankous were no longer required; indeed, cheongsam completely devoid of pankous were the most common in the 50s and 60s. But some cheongsam makers used it as a decorative feature, sometimes replacing the fabric braided style pankou with metallic clasps. When binding was used, it was usually single row, either thin and plain or wide and elaborate with stereotypically Chinese patterns. Piping could be used. An interesting thing about 50s and 60s binding is that the binding at the collar seam was oftentimes neglected, leaving only the top of the collar and the side closure bound; I’m not exactly sure what the purpose of this was but maybe it was to elongate the wearer’s neck.

Source: orientally yours on Tumblr, link

60s cheongsam with metallic clasp closure and thin single row binding. No binding at collar seam.

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[thererisesaredstar]

Freedom, to All Palestinian Prisoners by the PFLP (ca. 1980s)

[ankhlesbian]

Does anyone have that geats gif where the guy is dodging bullets by doing the fish flop

[excadrill]

o7

[friendlyneighborhoodgeek]

Isn't that the Worm?

[ankhlesbian]

okay for everyone telling me its actually the worm, let me go on a little mini educational spiel about kamen rider geats (currently airing). since its still new and a pretty obscure fandom overall i can understand this not being widespread knowledge

all of the suited characters in geats are based off of two things, namely a color and an animal. for example some other suit concepts are "yellow cat" and "green tanuki." the character in white is based off a fox, and is called kamen rider geats. (geats coming from how the first part of "kitsune" is pronounced - pronounced it sounds more like "geats-u" and makes a bit more sense, not sure why they chose this specific romanization)

this is relevant because the purple guy is actually based off the little known yet delightfully purple fish Pictichromis porphyrea (the antennae looking things on the helmet of the suit are meant to look like fish fins), part of the more well known dottyback family, known overall as generally well-tempered and colorful for aquarium hobbyists. note they're all salt-water fish, so you have to be a little hardcore for that upkeep. (fun trivia is that the directory of geats is actually a hobby fish guy himself - in one interview when asked what he would do with a million yen, he said he'd use it to install a "stingray room" in his house (side side trivia of yes, you can do that, not many people do, and it is illegal in quite a few states here in the US, but it is possible - but they require a LOT of room and a very specific type of enclosure))

ANYWAYS all of that is to say - this purple character (called kamen rider guppy - this season has a lot of side riders who are more episodic and a bit sillier, okay?) is facing off against the white fox rider, geats, who is known for being very talented with guns. and so kamen rider guppy says something along the lines of "you may be a master marksman, but when i do my special Fish Flop technique, I'm Invincible!!!" and then he goes ahead and demonstrates that (yes its very shonen anime-esque lmao, toku as a genre is very closely related to that kind of thing - action for kids is action for kids no matter the medium ey?)

tldr in show the purple character actually refers to this move as the fish flop, even though we the audience might see it as the famed dance move "the worm"

[avakyns]

Fish Flop 2

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[scolo-centipede]

kamen rider mentioned on my tumblr dot com!

[max-iwtaco]

leaps at you from the bushes and growls please give me money you will get such an awesim ref i prommy

reference examples that you can look at up close

[junk-whunk-punk]

people to get to know better!!!!!!

Tagged by @antares0606 but separate to not make the post hugess asf🤭🤭 Thanki for the tag im honored!!🗣️🔊 UWU EVEN always happi to participate in that stuff

- Сurrent song: Чума by Дайте танк(!)!!!!!!!

- Fav color: smth like brick red/orange (#c4421e in hex)

- Currently watching: scary reality shows to prove to maself that i live not that bad lol

- Currently reading: methodical manual on automata theory helppppp✋

- Last google search: online GIF compressor🤭

- Currently working on: drawing tf2 OC rn, overall AUTOMATA THEORY TERMWORK HELPPPPPP

- Song currently stuck in my head: ...

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BUT IM OUT OF MY HEAD WHEN UR NOT AROUND💃

les get back to our roots kitts BACK TO TAG GAMES no pressure tho @kay1mi @ironloki3 @max-iwtaco @sinick @allofthefreedoms @kisselshore @dalliansss @melkors-defense-attorney @cilil @crillina @j1mzi @overlord-of-fantasy + anyone who wants to💋

[max-iwtaco]

Last Song: nobonoko - hot!

Favorite Color: blu // blu + yello combo

Currently Watching: severence its awersam .also just finishes steven universe with friends

Currently Reading: capital by karl marx !

Current Obsession: blues clues the toddler show for past week or so and grimshire the furry videogame for the last two days

Last Google Search: jokes on you i dont use google HA last duckduckgo search is "summer hat" (was looking for references) tho

Currently working on: eh (buncha unrelated stuff such as: videogame youtube video artfight refs making every autistic person ever watch blues clues)

Song currently stuck in my head: when spring cooooooomes

@psychodogmoder @asyathefoileater @mageofcolors @asaqa-nonethel @sempegzrd and i am SCARED of the rest of you!!!!!!!

[psychodogmoder]

last/current song: illegible neon signs from the rw ost bc it's playing in the discord stream that i'm on rn, or we stay by jamie p

fav color: lavender/light purple, teal, light yellow-ish green.. i like a lotta those i like colors theyre nice

currently watching: a rain world stream by my frieamd.......finished watching su fully and now idk what to start next, the ducktales reboot and rotmnt are strong contenders

currently reading: this poast..........im mostly reading ongoing comics like objectified nd laika's comet but i really wanna start picking up books again i miss reading words

current obsession: steven universe and mechma

last search: Flash персик голубика

currently working on: gaymes :) and trying to get a ramp so that i can get out of the house lmao

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[scolo-centipede]

last/current song: 떳다!! 그녀!! by Witches

fav color: mostly yellow & red a bit. I like neon green as well. currently watching: my friend suffering in The End Is Nigh. Ichigo Kamen Rider (1971) currently reading: The Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara was the last book I've opened, but I would say reading nothing as of now is more true. I had some things in mind.. maybe later, once the book store close to my house gets a restoke. last search: are Japanese honorific suffixes used to names or surnames (it was both.) currently working on: trying to make shit up (OC lore... OC lore..) + I want to make some refs, but I haven't started on anything. song stuck in my head: 떳다!! 그녀!! by Witches Whoever see this may answer.

[scolo-centipede]

The Dresden Dolls - Girl Anachronism

[genczilla]

"The greatest act of rebellion and love is to press on, for those that have come before and those that will come after, press on."