All You Need In Life Is A Color Picker Willing To Expose You To The Unbounded Madness We Call Color Vision.

All you need in life is a color picker willing to expose you to the unbounded madness we call color vision.

All You Need In Life Is A Color Picker Willing To Expose You To The Unbounded Madness We Call Color Vision.

me, absolutely clueless: "I want a color just like this one, but in red" color picker: Fuck you think you are, a Mantis Shrimp? Don't talk to me again until you can afford a wide gamut monitor.

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2 months ago

when the capitalists die out either thru global warming or revolution will we be able to start homegrown internet


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2 months ago

You CAN do deep squats, my friend!


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2 months ago
A Non-historical Fencer - By Vitaly Bulgarov
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“Just having some fun mixing together medieval elements I designed for www.armorhead.store and sci-fi elements I did for my Ultraborg KitBash set.”


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2 months ago

I’m sorry friends, but “just google it” is no longer viable advice. What are we even telling people to do anymore, go try to google useful info and the first three pages are just ads for products that might be the exact opposite of what the person is trying to find but The Algorithm thinks the words are related enough? And if it’s not ads it’s just sponsored websites filled with listicles, just pages and pages of “TOP FIFTEEN [thing you googled] IMAGINED AS DISNEY PRINCESSES” like… what are we even doing anymore, google? I can no longer use you as shorthand for people doing real and actual helpful research on their own.


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2 months ago

Mentally combining the "bees are unionized and will leave if they don't like their working conditions" post with the various "humans stow away on alien spaceships and do the jobs that are too dangerous for more fragile species" posts


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2 months ago

From now on I’m only taking fashion advice from the Sailor Moon series


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2 months ago

Hanfu in Components: Structure Conventions (pt2)

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Thanks for the love on the last post, I’ve been motivated to continue writing LOL Anyway: Construction/sewing pattern/structure is very important to hanfu!

There are a few important structure conventions when it comes to hanfu—almost all traditional-cut hanfu follow these rules; you could call them the defining characteristics of hanfu. There are exceptions to every rule of course (I will go over some caveats at the end of this post), but generally if a hanfu design ignores these rules we might consider it to be ‘incorrect.'

(There will be a longer follow-up pt. 3 post to this explaining the anatomy of a hanfu top/robe, where there will be more detailed in-context illustrations and descriptions. I just figured I should list these ‘rules’ somewhere separately.)

中縫/中缝/zhong1 feng4/Center Seam

雲化龍 / YUNHUALONG / SERAPHINE, Cloud9 Hanfu
Photo by Jeremy (ig: @shotbyjerms), modeled by Yulan
(ig: @chlobaltblue)
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1655718150
雲化龍 / YUNHUALONG / SERAPHINE, Cloud9 Hanfu
Photo by Jeremy (ig: @shotbyjerms), modeled by Yulan
(ig: @chlobaltblue)
Marked up by Tangtang
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1655718150

Take a look at your shirts. Is there a shoulder seam between the front of the shirt and the back of the shirt? Western clothing tends to consist of a front piece + back piece sewn together to create a space for your body to sit in:

Shitty Drawings by Tangtang 2.1

Hanfu doesn’t work like that. Traditionally, the garment isn’t separated into a front piece and back piece: it’s separated into a right piece and left piece, which are joined together at the vertical center seam. Why? Traditional fabric has a narrower width than the standard ~145cm that we have today, so a long, narrow piece is less wasteful to cut out from a bolt of silk than a wide one.

Shitty Drawings by Tangtang 2.2

Therefore there is always a center seam, one running vertically down the front and one down the back. 中 = center, 縫 = seam, so 中縫 means center seam. There’ll be a front center seam (前中縫) and a back center seam (後中縫).

錦鱗泉 / JINLIN QUAN / LAGOON, Cloud9 Hanfu
Photo by and modeled by Josh Chen (ig: @joshraychen)
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1669921221
錦鱗泉 / JINLIN QUAN / LAGOON, Cloud9 Hanfu
Photo by and modeled by Josh Chen (ig: @joshraychen)
Marked up by Tangtang
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1669921221

不破肩/不破肩/bu2 po4 jian1/No Broken Shoulder

Kind of an addendum onto the previous point? Additionally since the body pieces are separated into left/right rather front/back, there’s no seam at the top of the shoulder here. The fabric is simply draped over the arm/shoulder to hang down, covering the torso on both sides.*

錦鱗泉 / JINLIN QUAN / LAGOON, Cloud9 Hanfu
Photo by Jeremy Savan (ig: @shotbyjerms), modeled by Josh Chen (ig: @joshraychen)
Marked up by Tangtang
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1669921221
碎玉 / SUIYU / GOSSAMER, Cloud9 Hanfu
Photo by Jin Han (ig: @hb1578), modeled by 英美
Marked up by Tangtang
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1510277699

*Caveat: Some modified hanfu that vendors sell today will have a shoulder seam, especially thicker winter garments or short-sleeved garments. This is a design choice made to prevent the fabric from looking too stiff, known as 破肩/破肩/po4 jian1,literally “broken shoulder.” It can look great, lots of hanfu makers do it! But just to be clear, that is a MODIFICATION.

接袖/接袖/jie1 xiu4/Sleeve Connection

女英 / NUYING / HEROINE, Cloud9 Hanfu
Photo & Styling by 玄曦閣, modeled by Yulan
(ig: @chlobaltblue)
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1510289833
女英 / NUYING / HEROINE, Cloud9 Hanfu
Photo & Styling by 玄曦閣, modeled by Yulan
(ig: @chlobaltblue)
Marked up by Tangtang
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1510289833

Western clothing patterns tend to have something where the fabric of the sleeve gets connected to the fabric of the garment’s body at the shoulder/armpit, often with a concave arm hole shape to help with the contours of the garment when it’s worn.

Shitty drawings by Tangtang 2.3

Hanfu sleeves, on the other hand, are never connected at the armpit—they are connected halfway down the arm. In other words, the piece of fabric that forms the body extends to also cover the upper arm part of the sleeve. The actual sleeve piece is connected to the body at the bicep/elbow area via a flat seam. (In the case of half- or no- sleeve garments there might just not be a separate sleeve piece.)

羞花 / XIUHUA / CAMELLIA, Cloud9 Hanfu
Photo by Moshi (ig: @moshitea), modeled by Shuya (ig: @tangerinelover9)
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1459671163
羞花 / XIUHUA / CAMELLIA, Cloud9 Hanfu
Photo by Moshi (ig: @moshitea), modeled by Shuya  (ig: @tangerinelover9)
Marked up by Tangtang
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1459671163

右衽/右衽/you4 ren4/"Right Over Left" Rule

夢廣寒 / MENGGUANGHAN / REVERIE, Cloud9 Hanfu
Photo by Christopher C. Lee (ig: @chrisclee.ig), modeled by Para (ig: @an_gel.a_q)
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1327850536
月將沉 / YUEJIANGCHEN / MOONSET
Photo by Samm (ig: @sammdaya), modeled by Bel
(Unreleased)
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1671692161

Applies to cross-collar, some varieties of round collar, and some varieties of standing collar tops. In the case that the front of the garment crosses over itself, the flap coming from the wearer’s left goes OVER the flap coming from the wearer’s right. Easiest way to make sense of this is, if you’re looking at someone wearing a cross-collar hanfu top, the cross will look like a lowercase y.

撲朔 / PUSHUO / ENIGMA, Cloud9 Hanfu
Photo by Christopher C. Lee (ig: @chrisclee.ig), modeled by Tangtang
(Unreleased)
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1341829937
鸞和 / LUANHE / ARIA, Cloud9 Hanfu
Photo by Moshi (ig: @moshi), modeled by Mars Bau (ig: @the.red_planet)
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1510293039

Caveats

NO RULE EXISTS WITHOUT EXCEPTION!!! These rules exist because a majority of hanfu follow them and they are a standard that people agree on right now. However, there are ALWAYS cases—historically or otherwise—where these rules may be broken. For example, there are several Ming Dynasty cross collar robes that happen to be left over right, and the location of the sleeve seam can differ based on what garment you're looking at.

Also, many modern hanfu manufacturers will deliberately choose to break these 'rules' in favor of aesthetics. This is a purposeful design choice—not one that's done out of ignorance or disrespect. It's easy for common modifications to get mistaken for 'historically accurate.' To be clear, it is 100% okay and super common for modifications to exist! Just don't go around claiming that it was historically that way.

My advice is that if you're starting out with hanfu, try to stick to these rules in the back of your head as closely as possible. Once you've built your foundational knowledge, then you can start exploring the exceptions to the rules. These rules may not be foolproof, but they are a useful tool to help you understand the commonalities and trends within hanfu without overwhelming you.

Last note: it is generally more of a taboo for seams that should exist to not exist in a piece of clothing (i.e. no center back seam) than for extra seams to exist. If you go look in museums for the artifacts that hanfu is based off of, you'll notice that a lot of them—especially the ones from earlier dynasties—are a chaotic patchwork of a bunch of random piece of fabric sewn together to create the garment. Fabric is expensive, people don't want to waste it! So it's not all that weird to have seams in random places.

Happy 除夕 everyone! 有蛇有得 :>

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2 months ago

Talk fantasy prosthetics to me.

An elf maiden dances on feet of living wood sung into shape, planted in soil and watered when she takes them off. Every year she plants the old ones and sings a new pair. (Incidentally, the pair of peach saplings from three years ago have produced an excellent crop- She makes preserves from them, and despite the inevitable jokes about “toe-jam”, they are appreciated.)

A dwarf king has a metal fist, all tiny gears and fine wires, kept wound by a mischievous mine-spirit bound to the spring as punishment- the more it struggles, the tighter the spring. 

An orc chieftaness is regularly asked for the story of how she earned the name Wyrmthrottler- she boasts of how she strangled the dragon that ate her arm, and had her shaman make a new arm from its bones, with its fangs as the fingers.

A necromancer simply re-attached his old leg bones- Sacrificing a few mice each day keeps it going.

A pirate captain lost her arm to a shark attack: a passing selkie saved her, and gave her tattoos of kraken blood. Now she has an arm made of salt-water, that grows and wanes with the tides, and swings a cutlass as well as the original. (She doesn’t sail as far these days though: she doesn’t want her wife to worry.)

A wandering swordsman was broken at the waist- his ancestral armour allows him to walk again, as long as he keeps it polished, and burns incense to the ancestors regularly.

A high priestess has an eye made from a crystal ball- to predict the future, all she has to do is wink.

A bard was struck deaf by illness- he struck a deal with the god of music. Now he wears hearing-trumpets made from his old pipes, and dedicates his every song to the god of music- the better he plays, the better his hearing. (It is said his music could make statues weep, and he can hear a mouse fart at 60 paces.)

A princess has the arm of a golem, enchanted clay with mystic words carved in- her music tutor despairs of how her harp playing has become even worse, but her calligraphy tutor is ecstatic over her handwriting.

A goblin pickpocket has an arm made of whatever he steals- no-one feels his fingers, and even if they did, they couldn’t find their possessions amongst all the rest.  

A witch has eyes made from shadow and starlight, given to her in a game with a demon. Nobody dares to ask what she wagered- they aren’t even sure she won.

A warg was born deaf and blind- his people learned of his power when the nearest birds started staring at them, and dogs pricked up their ears as he walked past.


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