"Always be Lilith, never Eve."

I post random stuff here. Finally! it's open. So mostly 90% are reblog's from thing's I like and 10% would be from drawing's and photography.P.S. I fucking love my url! ok. thanks for reading. *back to my drawing. tracking your3dwaiffu

[shiawasejanaiyo]

Baby you never change. 

Never ask me for expensive stuffs, just a popsicle stick can brighten up your day <3

[cubemeat]

[silvercistern-deactivated202307]

so apparently some people feel like it’s annoying when someone engages with a lot of stuff from the same person, like going through their ship tag and liking all the content there. 

hearing about this, i was immediately paranoid about reblogging literally anything from anyone i don’t talk to on a regular basis.

so to save others from the same paranoia, i’m gonna say that if you like every single post on my goddamn blog it is okay. i might be kind of concerned about your level of time management, going through 23,000 posts, but it wouldn’t bother me. 

[koko-wa-umi]

Dude I’ be honored

[doodleboss]

what has this fandom done to meeeeee

[tanuki-kimono]

Kimono drawing guide ½, by Kaoruko Maya (tumblr, pixiv, site). Booklet is available in pdf for ¥ 900 here.

Here you can see:

female kimono and yukata (note how the juban underwear peeks when in kimono + how belts differ)

male yukata and kimono (note how the juban underwear peeks when in kimono)

dressing up: male (kimono is not closed yet) and female (kimono closed with datejime belt and ready to put on obi)

differences between female and male kimono once dressed (note how the collars and belts set)

common drawing mistakes (compare with previous picture: shoulders lines are too defined, there is a double hem, collars are narrow, belt is not at the right place etc)

women back collar (the lower the sexier) and men back collar (close to the nape)

back and sleeves differences between men and women

collars and sleeves and view of how kimono drapes around body

Furisode back (long sleeves kimono) and formal furisode obi knot example

[deactivated-now]

Preorders for Nendoroid flower crowns and squishies are open again due to demand! PO and Store will close after 14th September. Order yours now at http://xintaowan.tictail.com ! Reblog this post to enter my giveaway for one flower crown and one squish! There will be two winners picked at random and each winner will get either the flower crown or the squish! (only reblogs, likes won’t count!)

[prokopetz]

It just kills me when writers create franchises where like 95% of the speaking roles are male, then get morally offended that all of the popular ships are gay. It’s like, what did they expect?

[veteratorianvillainy]

#friendly reminder that I once put my statistics degree to good use and did some calculations about ship ratios#and yes considering the gender ratios of characters#the prevalence of gay ships is completely predictable (via sarahtonin42)

[persephoneshadow-deactivated202]

I feel this is something that does often get overlooked in slash shipping, especially in articles that try to ‘explain’ the phenomena. No matter the show, movie or book, people are going to ship. When everyone is a dude and the well written relationships are all dudes, of course we’re gonna go for romance among the dudes because we have no other options.

[prokopetz]

Totally.

A lot of analyses propose that the overwhelming predominance of male/male ships over female/female and female/male ships in fandom reflects an unhealthy fetishisation of male homosexuality and a deep-seated self-hatred on the part of women in fandom. While it’s true that many fandoms certainly have issues gender-wise, that sort of analysis willfully overlooks a rather more obvious culprit.

Suppose, for the sake of argument, that we have a hypothetical media franchise with twelve recurring speaking roles, nine of which are male and three of which are female.

(Note that this is actually a bit better than average representaton-wise - female representation in popular media franchises is typicaly well below the 25% contemplated here.)

Assuming that any character can be shipped with any other without regard for age, gender, social position or prior relationship - and for simplicity excluding cloning, time travel and other “selfcest”-enabling scenarios - this yields the following (non-polyamorous) possibilities:

Possible F/F ships: 3 Possible F/M ships: 27 Possible M/M ships: 36

TOTAL POSSIBLE SHIPS: 66

Thus, assuming - again, for the sake of simplicity - that every possible ship is about equally likely to appeal to any given fan, we’d reasonably expect about (36/66) = 55% of all shipping-related media to feature M/M pairings. No particular prejudice in favour of male characters and/or against female characters is necessary for us to get there.

The point is this: before we can conclude that representation in shipping is being skewed by fan prejudice, we have to ask how skewed it would be even in the absence of any particular prejudice on the part of the fans. Or, to put it another way, we have to ask ourselves: are we criticising women in fandom - and let’s be honest here, this type of criticism is almost exclusively directed at women - for creating a representation problem, or are we merely criticising them for failing to correct an existing one?

[observethewalrus]

YES YES YES HOLY SHIT YES FUCKING THANK YOU!

[ainedubh]

Also food for thought: the obvious correction to a lack of non-male representation in a story is to add more non-males. Female Original Characters are often decried as self-insertion or Mary Sues, particular if romance or sex is a primary focus.

[slitthelizardking]

I really appreciate when tumblr commentary is of the quality I might see at an academic conference. No joke.

[lierdumoa]

This doesn’t even account  for the disparity in the amount of screen time/dialogue male characters to get in comparison to female characters, and how much time other characters spend talking about male characters even when they aren’t onscreen. This all leads to male characters ending up more fully developed, and more nuanced than female characters. The more an audience feels like they know a character, the more likely an audience is to care about a character. More network television writers are men. Male writers tend to understand men better than women, statistically speaking. Female characters are more likely to be written by men who don’t understand women vary well. 

But it’s easier to blame the collateral damage than solve the root problem.

[destinationtoast]

Yay, mathy arguments. :)

This is certainly one large factor in the amount of M/M slash out there, and the first reason that occurred to me when I first got into fandom (I don’t think it’s the sole reason, but I think it’s a bigger one than some people in the Why So Much Slash debate give our credit for). And nice point about adding female OCs.

In some of my shipping-related stats, I found that shows with more major female characters lead to more femslash (also more het).  (e.g. femslash in female-heavy media; femslash deep dive) I’ve never actually tried to do an analysis to pin down how much of fandom’s M/M preference is explained by the predominance of male characters in the source media, but I’m periodically tempted to try to do so.

[olderthannetfic]

All great points. Another thing I notice is that many shows are built around the idea that the team or the partner is the most important thing in the universe. Watch any buddy cop show, and half of the episodes have a character on a date that is inevitably interrupted because The Job comes first… except “The Job” actually means “My Partner”.

When it’s a male-female buddy show, all of the failed relationships are usually, canonically, because the leads belong together. (Look at early Bones: she dates that guy who is his old friend and clearly a stand-in for him. They break up because *coughcoughhandwave*. That stuff happens constantly.) Male-male buddy shows write the central relationship the exact same way except that they expect us to read it as platonic.

Long before it becomes canon, the potential ship of Mulder/Scully or Booth/Bones or whatever lead male/female couple consumes the fandom. It’s not about the genders involved. Rizzoli/Isles was like this too.

If canon tells us that no other relationship has ever measured up to this one, why should we keep them apart? Don’t like slash of your shows, prissy writers? Then stop writing all of your leads locked in epic One True Love romance novel relationships with their same-sex coworkers. Give them warm, funny, interesting love interests, not cardboard cutouts…

And then we will ship an OT3.

[allosaur-roar]

If you look at the Once Upon a Time archive on AO3, you’ll see that femslash is far more prominent than slash, or even the biggest het ship. The Regina/Emma pairing is the most popular pairing, with roughly 1000 more stories to it than the second most popular pairing of Emma/Hook. This is not an isolated incident, I’m sure, but it’s interesting to look at why the ratio is so different as compared to many other fandom archives.

I think, in part and building on what destinationtoast said, OUaT has such a popular femslash pairing because the protagonist and antagonist are both women and have a lot of screen time together. Their relationship evolves incredibly and has so many layers added to it over the course of the show, and all of that nuance creates so much potential for fans to play with - the sort of nuance that you typically only get between male characters. 

[antimonkey]

@lobobathory

[businessofwomen]

I also hope every girl who wants a monogamous and domestic life with a wife and a family knows that the choice is theirs to make and no one else’s You’re not heteronormative because you’re not straight, and you can define your future and your relationships however you’d like

[kalewestfall]

there’s a difference between character development and completely changing your character’s personalities with no explanation

[xshinytears]

WHAT IF THIS IS JUST A GLIMPSE OF AN aLterNAte rEaLitY

[mmmmllyyyy]

[starryfisheshasmoved-deactivate]

I couldn’t sleep after realizing this so I texted my boyfriend at 3:35 in the morning to let him know that Saitama draws on his eyebrows goodnight

[kuso-taisa]

GIVEAWAY TIME! PO still opened until 31 July 2017 http://kuso-taisa.tumblr.com/post/163243607115

[tanzanitedepths]

Fanfiction Club: The Rules

This idea came to me when I woke up first thing this morning.

[gotham-ruaidh]

SUCH TRUTH

[hollyethecurious]

Yes.

[xemmaloveskillianx-deactivated2]

[miss-cigarettes]

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[artificial-mask]

Sliding to Yuuri’s DM be like

[yukianzai]

Killua’s eyes appreciation/development post

[huntingformysanity]

The fact that I know what’s happening in almost every frame here….