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Art by  隱夢＊

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[ohmykimtaetae]

Someone really cool said the other day …

+ Bonus

[goobmook]

Eyyy, I rewatched wkm

And those bags under his eyes are definitely not from him staying up all night crying

Definitely

[foodfantasysouls]

October 2018 Edition - Tom Yum

“Are you my Master Attendant? From now on, I will protect you!”

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[blackcross-taylor]

The Thorns of War

I am happy to announce that ‘The Rose of Segunda’ will be getting a sequel. Titled ‘The Thorns of War’ it will be set two years after the end of the first game and deal with the approaching civil war. More details can be found here: 

https://blackcrosstaylor.itch.io/tros/devlog/40877/the-rose-of-segunda-update-9-potential-sequel

[ruletogether]

“But why do you ship a hero with the villain??! Its so problema-“

“For the angst Karen. I need some drama before they fuck. It aint that deep.“

[falsedetective]

i feel bad that those nyt journalists spent all that time proving that the president committed years of criminal tax fraud and the whole senate was just like

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[r-e-i-i]

~good luck with exam,two geniuses bless you~ > <

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[ackeryass]

what?

Lmao that’s what i see in his eyes

[orristea]

Inktober isnt really going the way I want so im taking a smaalll digital break

(Also I just realised I’ve never drawn nadia before and that’s just A Crime)

[guzhuangheaven]

Why Ruyi cut your hair was so serious? I feel like I'm the only one with that doubt lol

Hair has very significant social and political value in ancient China.

1. From a Confucian point of view, cutting one’s hair was considered unfilial.

From Wikipedia:

Traditionally, adult Han Chinese did not cut their hair for philosophical and cultural reasons. According to the Classic of Filial Piety, Confucius said

“We are given our body, skin and hair from our parents; which we ought not to damage. This idea is the quintessence of filial duty. (身體髮膚，受之父母，不敢毀傷，孝至始也)

As a result of this ideology, both men and women wound their hair into a bun (a topknot) or other various hairstyles.

It is for this reason that hair cutting is sometimes used as punihsment in ancient China. To have your hair forcibly cut is a great humiliation.

When the Manchurian first took over China and established the Qing dynasty, they had to enforce the Manchurian queue hairstyle with threats of death for it to be complied with. Many did die for protesting this. (Republican-era dramas/movies about politics will always have a symbolic™ scene of a man cutting his queue.)

2. In Manchurian culture, aside from the men who shave the front of their heads, you would only ever cut your hair in time of deep mourning. For a woman of Ruyi’s status (the empress) she could only cut her hair when either the emperor or empress dowager died.

3. Culturally, marriage is conceptualised by a couple’s hair being tied together. In wedding ceremonies there is usually a part where a lock of the husband’s hair and a lock of the wife’s hair is tied together to symbolise unity and the fact that they are bound. In everyday language, marriage/husband and wife are described as 结发夫妻 or “husband and wife whose hair is tied together”. In the drama, Qianlong always describes Langhua as his 发妻 (lit. hair wife) to signify that she is his official wife.

In the drama, Ruyi’s intent in cutting her hair was to signify the death of her marriage and the fact that she no longer wish to remain Qianlong’s wife. Basically it’s a statement of divorce. However, it can also be read as cursing death on the emperor and/or empress dowager, which is basically treason. (I mean wanting to divorce the emperor is pretty much treason as well…) That’s why it is considered an earth-shattering thing, and to this day, people still debate about why the historical Step Empress (was said to have) cut her hair since it was such taboo.

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Heavenly Musicians by 阿舍

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Illustrations based on the famous Chinese Northern Song dynasty painting “Procession of Immortals Paying Homage to the Primordial” (朝元仙仗图) by Wu Zongyuan, which depicts a magnificent parade of Taoist gods.