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The Moon of Ogurusu in Yamashiro, by Yoshitoshi Tsukioka
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The Moon of Ogurusu in Yamashiro, by Yoshitoshi Tsukioka
Chinese hanfu photoshoot by 何也, inspired by Nina Ricci's Spring 1990 Couture outfit.
OP recreated the look with a white zhan guo pao (Warring States robe), hand-made rose belt and necklace, and mili/weimao hat.
warring states (novel: 2005)
do you know this doctor who story?
yes, i have read it
yes, i have read parts of it
i have heard of it & plan to read
i have only heard of it
no, i have never heard of it
What's that? A real Naruto server in the wild??? With a focus on warring states characters and ships???? And a shrine to Kakashi??? You better click join!
Check out the Nin-Burger, the real naruto restaurant (that is real) community on Discord - hang out with 8 other members and enjoy free voic
Uhh what else can I say to convince you to join. We have channels for all flavors of early konoha ships (mdtb / iztb / hsmd / hsiz / hsmt / etc.) + lots of art channels to share your finished pieces, works in progress, and just cool art from others you found laying around. Plus wip channels, fic recommendation channels, channels for your naruto ocs, custom naruto emotes, etc.
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Konoha's nationalistic military fascism is...
a transformation of pre-existing values from the Warring States
a fresh introduction of ideas not previously present during the Warring States
different option/ results
The basic idea
Warring States' shinobi ideology -> Konoha's militarism
Warring States' clan-loyalism -> Konoha's nationalism
Warring States' authoritarian clan leadership -> Konoha's dictatorship
Faction Train profile
As always constructive feedback is welcome.
Nature: Specially made Faction Shrine. Requires a secure spacetime location as an anchor, (usually a planned but unbuilt or later abandoned: line, station, or platform) otherwise it would be lost forever.
Use: Large scale or biodta analysuis heavy missions. Allows access to areas dominated by chi energy.
Consist 1 Russian locomotive class C 2-6-2. Livery: Completely black. 3 Faux Tsarist Pullman carriages. Livery: Black with red lining, everything than can be made black is. Decor: Brass lined walnut, heavy black out curtains, copper, slow speed air conditioning fans, inlaid bioplasmic screens. Coach 1: Kitchen and or biodata analysis laboratory. Coach 2: Lounge. Ursula's Control Center. 1st half: Navigation center, (Spacial teleprotation, transtemporal, and extra dimensional sensors). 2nd half: Stateroom, (Meeting area with a large mammoth's shoulder bone scrying table with a heavy wooden base and surface: pockmarks, knife scores, and dried blood brown stained cracks. One edge is crumbled, bubbled or boiled so that it seemed porous with the only chair being behind it). Coach 3: Brake Paurlor. Sleeper?
Locations & Routes Used The Necropolis Line, London. British Museum Tube Station, London. City Hall Station, Manhattan.
Misc Drives like a normal locomotive, (some compemnents have timetravely names eg: Temporal shafts). High levels of Chi energy can break an anchorage. Equipped with shields, (ie: Forcefields). Forced movement risks, "losing" it. Loosing contact with the Eleven Day Empire imobilises the train and requires it to go into lockdown to be retrieved. Can be, "grounded" by well defined temporal barriers or the ritual of mass murders in the surrounding area, (eg: The Boxer Rebellion). Attracts both railway workers and others despite it's phantom status. An important Military Wing asset. Has emergency sealing systems. Scanner capbilities: Biodata, teleportation, trans-temporal migration, and no extra-dimensional glitches. Has biodata autospy facilities and analysts. Likely .U.K. signal system headcode: 5F00.
Other ‘We’ve got enough power, full steam,’ he reported. ‘But the pistons can’t push the flywheels. There’s too much resistance.’ His gold-flecked fingers tapped on the screen until a web of fine structured lines overlaid the organic flux of the timestream, as if a spider had been particularly sober. He traced a line. ‘It’s these that are the problem. Never felt such well-defined barriers. Spatially, we’re good to go. Temporally? We’re screwed. Every angle, every slip or slide into other angles, is covered. This is tight.’
i love the hilarious eunuch ranking system by @welcometothejianghu so i decided to make one based on (mostly) REAL historical chinese enunchs!
in chronological order:
Warring States Period long story short, the PM is sleeping with the Empress Dowager, and he wants to extracate himself before her son (future Emperor Qin Shi Huang) gets old enough to find out. the PM finds her a suitable replacement, and the replacement is attached to a guy named Lao Ai. They pluck his beard and pass him off as a eunuch so he can sneak into the palace. Bing bang boom everyone's happy. This goes terribly wrong later, since Lao Ai tries to replace the emperor with his own kids and stages a failed coup. rest in pieces buddy...
it's very likely that Lao Ai was a ficticious character invented by Sima Qian, who will be appearing on this list later.
Qin Dynasty
Zhao Gao helped the first emperor of China conquer an empire, and administer it efficiently with his legal knowledge, but he also made the second emperor into a puppet, and weakened the empire for his own political gain. Max points of complexity, but you'd get more loyalty out of a coffee club punch card.
Before launching his soft coup, he decided to test the waters by bring in a deer and gaslighted the emperor by calling it a horse. the officials who were loyal to him called it a horse, and he executed the rest.
Han Dynasty Jiru, male favourite of Emperor Gaozu (Liu Bang), the peasant scoundrel who became the founder of the Han Dynasty. look, if the emperor has a harem of hundreds of women and you manage to catch his attention, you max out in style points. simple as. for most of chinese history it was fairly common for high-ranking men, especially eunuchs, to wear make up like powder and rouge, but i decided to give Jiru some women's huadia as well, cause he's a baddie.
Jiru gets a bad rap for alledgely distracting the emperor from his duties, but lets be real, history is written by civil officials who have no shortage of professional jealousy and gender/sexuality related prejudice towards eunuchs, since they were the personal attendants of royalty and could exert a lot of influence. plus Liu Bang was already pissing in the hats of confucian scholars, most of the poor work ethic is on HIM. Jiru should get credit for making him marginally less of a troglodite.
all in all he didn't try any court intrigue so extra points for loyalty and complexity. free my man >:( he's just a Han dynasty Monica Lewinsky who got slutshamed by jealous coworkers >:(
Han Dynasty
meet the father of east asian history, sima qian. half the people on this list can owe their placement here thanks to his extremely though history books "records of the grand historian"
history at this time was mostly "creative writing" and sima qian attempted to give the practise more academic intergrety, he went out and personally interviewed people, tried to get primary sources, and got rid of most of the more fanstastical aspects. however, he was not without his biases and some texts can be seen as allegorical/veiled insults towards the Han Dynasty, especially towards Emperor Wu. unlike most of the people on this list, sima qian was from the gentry and castated later in life as a punishment for treason. he was implicated after trying to defend a friend, and could not pay the fine to commute his sentence. the gentlemen at the time were expected to die by suicide rather than live with such ignimony, but sima qian chose to live so he could finish writing the history book his father started. the "giant conspiracy" joke explained: the chinese word for penis is a homophone for "conspiracy".
assorted art for my Qin Dynasty stories
i noticed that i tend to gloss over physical appearances when im writing characters lmao. here's what these guys look like, for those curious.
1. bargain bin prince
#1 the merchant lu buwei dressing above his station in black linen. #2 ying yiren arriving in zhao as a political hostage. his clothes reflect his status as a disposable middle-ranked prince. silk coat + black dye (both are expensive and reserved for nobility), his coat is short and has narrow sleeves, based on the terracotta sculpture of a qin offical. the hair bun is slanted right, a distinctive qin style. the right side was considered the "noble/upright" side. (look out though. for some inexplicable reason the archers all have their buns on the LEFT SIDE. and it has caused me much grief and suffering. i had to redraw SO MANY PANELS). #3 ying yiren clutching his mother's pendant, wearing a shiner, higher quality silk coat. the sleeves are wider and longer, and the hems are brocade + decorative sash + guan. I was on the fence about the guan. he is 14 years old in my depiction (15 by east asian reckoning) which is too young to be capped yet. i guess it works in the context of lu buwei being overly ambitious with his meal ticket.