I’ve Fallen Down The Danmei Rabbit Hole

|trans-masc|very very gay| hi :3 I’m Zwei and I like danmei. I love erha and sha po lang and svsss and turning! Mostly just me talking about whatever I’m up to recently.

[zweizweizwei]

My project Hail Mary sweater kit finally arrived! I’m so excited to start casting on and get working on this project to get me through the home stretch of ap exams. I’ll be getting this done just in time for summer, but that’s okay, I guess I’ll just be sweaty and fashionable.

[tables-n-chairs]

I often see modern interpretations of Binghe in tight pants, which makes sense in the sense that he's usually supposed to be interpreted as handsome and suave; but I'm sorry, his bingis is definitely too big. That man was lucky to be born in a xianxia setting where robes are the norm. Imagine LBG going from dressing masc in pdiw to the modern world where he's forced to wear dresses and tunics because even when he can fit into a pair of pants, the bulge is just impossible for others to ignore. Maybe he gets into hammer pants idk.

[zweizweizwei]

At C2E2 I learned how to make chainmail at a workshop and I’ve been on a roll ever since! It’s so much fun and I’m so excited to learn more. These are the two bracelets I’ve made so far. If anybody has any tips for places to learn about making jewelry I would love that!

[zweizweizwei]

Welp, I made two more sewigami birds. Honestly this is so much fun and I really want to try some more origami patterns. The only issue with this is that I don’t think I can do anything too complicated, like a crane or something. Anywho I think I’ll make them into keychains or ornaments or something and I’d think they’d look cool.

[zweizweizwei]

I was making origami in class and had a thought “can I make origami out of fabric?”. Well, it seems you can. I made this “sew-igami” bird by just folding and pressing the fabric with an iron and then sewing it together. It took a while but I had fun. I think I’ll make a few more.

[caria508]

gel pen vampire doodles 🖊️ 🧛

[zweizweizwei]

Well after weeks on pouring my literal blood sweat and tears into this project my pigeon shoes are finally done. I was supposed to have finished this months ago for class but I had to start over so many times for this. I first saw these pigeon shoes on an instagram post and thought I really wanted to make these, and we just so happened to have an artist’s inspiration piece that we had to make in art class. I can’t remember the name of the artist who made these but I loved them so much I just had to make them. Anyways I’m pretty happy with how they turned out, but heels are very uncomfortable and I don’t know how often I’ll be wearing these. But for now they’ll just be a pretty art piece I know I made!

[tonyalmeida]

[focksincrocks]

[thehikingastronomer]

This guy alone just filled my "live your life with passion" quota for the year.

[mercurymusing]

Funniest thing is the quick "settle down mate" and the dip into the Australian accent as he gushes over how pretty it is.

[quill-of-thoth]

Knowing herpetologists: literally every one of them under 40 was influenced by Steve Irwin. The Austrailian accent and repetition of Irwinesque phrases (what a beauty, look at the size of this fella) is involuntary but an important part of the snake catching ritual.

[zweizweizwei]

I found this vintage filet crochet pattern on the internet. Me and my friend are trying to figure out what in the world this animal is. We’re thinking it’s like a dog horse thing but if anybody has better guess’ I’d love to know.

[zweizweizwei]

I’m halfway done with February and it’s got a lot of big chunks of one color. I’m not a big fan but it’ll get more stripey as it goes on. I’m excited to get to March cause then I’ll get to use green. Anyways I’m gonna have to wait to work more on this till I get more of the light purple color since I’m pretty much out. The nice thing is that this is starting to be like a little lap blanket while I’m working on it since it’s getting to big. Also the big size means I’m starting to think I might not be able to take it with me to school anymore since I’m running out of room in my bag. Anyways I’ll prolly not be updating on this for a few weeks since I’ve gotta wait since I made the poor choice of getting my yarn from hobbi, cause although it’s cheap, it takes forever to ship.

[zweizweizwei]

Sorry for the poor lighting on the photo, it was pretty dark in my living room. But anyways, I’m finally done with January, two months in! I got to work on my blanket during thanksgiving since I can’t stare at my phone the whole time so I’ve gotta do something else. I’m starting to run out of yarn but I should get some money over Christmas so we’ll see if I have to take a break until then. Anyways I’m plowing through this blanket real fast.

[zweizweizwei]

Well I’m halfway through January and this blanket is starting to get a bit hefty. I’m really likening the striped look that I was getting, but now you can see the start of my big chunk of brown I’m going to have. I kinda forgot to say this in my last post but I learned how to weave in my ends as I go and it’s a game changer. It’s making my life so much easier. Anyways I’ve been working on this blanket a lot more recently and thanksgiving break is coming up soon so I will be working a lot more on this, until Christmas starts to catch up on me.

[zweizweizwei]

Quite some time ago I said I was hoping to get all caught up with my temp blanket by June, clearly that has not happened. Yeaaaaaah, after not picking this up for who knows how long I just finished December, my first month! My girlfriend doesn’t think I’m gonna get this done by even the end of the decade but I have hope. As a prize for finishing December I made my self a microwave s’more. I plan to work on the blanket more, and maybe I’ll just do 2 week and month updates rather than every week I finish. I looked at my colors for January and there’s gonna be a big chunk of brown in the middle of the month so that’ll be fun. Anyways if anybody is actually reading my posts I hope you enjoy my very slow progress. I also decided to start doing proper sc instead of through the front loops cause that looked ugly, and I didn’t want to frog the whole thing so just decided to change it up part of the way through. Anyways sorry about this wall of text but I hope to get my next update out soon!

[zweizweizwei]

Week two of my temp blanket done! It took me awhile but I got there. It’s nice to see a splash of different color, and I’m excited for next week when I get to use brown. I’m hoping to get all caught up with my blanket by the end of June, but we’ll see how that goes. Wish me luck!

[zweizweizwei]

Week one of my temp blanket finally finished! I actually started during December but, well, it’s April now! I’ve just been super busy and my yarn was out of stock for quite a while. But I’m hoping to get up to date soon, but we’ll see.

[ao3topshipsbracket]

as we gear up for semifinals, quick reminder:

please be respectful of east asian media. whether it's dismissively calling wangxian "those chinese twinks" or saying "we aren't losing to an anime" about sasunaru, there are a lot of people in our notes treating other cultures' art forms as inherently unworthy of consideration, and - while I'm sure most individual instances are thoughtless rather than malicious - that is really not okay and not the atmosphere we want.

as a mod team we mostly haven't been doing anything about it, and we're sorry for that - our activity feed moves extremely fast, there are significantly more of you than there are of us, keeping on top of everything is a challenge, and we're often busy putting out other fires. but please be respectful to each other, and give more thought to what you're implying going forward.

[zweizweizwei]

I know I’m not prolly the best person to talk about this, but here are my two cents.

The fact that this post even has to be made is so depressing. I understand that people may not realize that what they’re saying is malicious but still. We’re in a community where anime and danmei enjoyers have such a large over lap. It’s just kinda sad to me that people even have to be told that saying those things come off in a bad way.

[miyuliart]

Some panels from Morgana and Oz