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The first image doesn't have the Date crest which is a bit of a crime. I'm biased since Date Masamune is one of my favorite military history guys, but I think it's cool. It has two little birds that are kissing, what more could you want?

Sometimes I remember this talk I went to in college about logo design and the guys giving it were like 'ok a logo HAS to be as simple as possible it needs to be sleek and simple and easy to copy' and tbh that sums up a lot of why modern design often looks so deeply boring nowadays, because that attitude is very very common. How many big brands have you seen simplify their logos over the years and make them less colorful? It's because of that.

And then I think about how they would look at all those cool as hell family crests different war lords had during the Sengoku era and say they were bad designs on principle because they tended to be detailed. Almost all of these would be written off as bad by those standards and I think that does a good job of highlighting how odd that design philosophy is.

No, that one with the triangles isn't the triforce from the Zelda series, but it is the crest of the Hojo and that's what the triforce was based on. The more you know.

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I think the main problem is that they've conflated 'simple' with 'clear/easily recognizable', and sure, the less there is to process visually the less likely it is to look overly busy or unclear, but a good designer can still put a lot of detail into something and have it register easily to viewers.

Moreover, they've had seals and stamps and things like that for millenia specifically so you can have a fancy design put somewhere without having to draw it out every time, so.

Sometimes I remember this talk I went to in college about logo design and the guys giving it were like 'ok a logo HAS to be as simple as possible it needs to be sleek and simple and easy to copy' and tbh that sums up a lot of why modern design often looks so deeply boring nowadays, because that attitude is very very common. How many big brands have you seen simplify their logos over the years and make them less colorful? It's because of that.

And then I think about how they would look at all those cool as hell family crests different war lords had during the Sengoku era and say they were bad designs on principle because they tended to be detailed. Almost all of these would be written off as bad by those standards and I think that does a good job of highlighting how odd that design philosophy is.

No, that one with the triangles isn't the triforce from the Zelda series, but it is the crest of the Hojo and that's what the triforce was based on. The more you know.

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Sometimes I remember this talk I went to in college about logo design and the guys giving it were like 'ok a logo HAS to be as simple as possible it needs to be sleek and simple and easy to copy' and tbh that sums up a lot of why modern design often looks so deeply boring nowadays, because that attitude is very very common. How many big brands have you seen simplify their logos over the years and make them less colorful? It's because of that.

And then I think about how they would look at all those cool as hell family crests different war lords had during the Sengoku era and say they were bad designs on principle because they tended to be detailed. Almost all of these would be written off as bad by those standards and I think that does a good job of highlighting how odd that design philosophy is.

No, that one with the triangles isn't the triforce from the Zelda series, but it is the crest of the Hojo and that's what the triforce was based on. The more you know.

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war is stupid i think all those army guys should just fuck each other in uniform

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I finished putting together the Irish-American heritage month display and Jesus CHRIST there are so few books about Ireland in our collection?? Once more, I must say:

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started reading fish scamming system disabled tyrant's beloved pet fish 🐟💕

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As a former librarian I'm actually required to remind you that many libraries that subscribe to Libby are opted into a program that lets you subscribe and access magazines for free with no wait

And that this is actually a really fun, low cost way to not only access news and larger cultural magazines, but also to get free patterns for many different crafts that you can screenshot if need be and that lower the financial barriers to entry for trying new things

From my experience working in both academic and public libraries, many libraries are use it or lose it funding-- I have to say this because a lot of patrons feel guilty for how much they use the library and how often they're using it funny enough, but the worst thing you can do for libraries is not try out new features and not use what's already given to you as much as possible.

The numbers that come as a result of your patronage are how most libraries justify their continued existence in times of financial hardship, which sucks but, go check out some magazines on Libby!

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Three Kingdoms AU where everything is the same except the Eight Little Shits (Xun Yu, Jia Xu, Guo Jia, Zhou Yu, Pang Tong, Zhuge Liang, Zhao Sheng) share a single 50x50 Excel spreadsheet.

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“m/m is more popular because most shippers are women and most women are straight so they want to read about men since they are attracted to them” is such a stupid fucking take. as if lesbians aren’t instigating category five fujo events all over the place all damn day. as if shipping isn’t about characterization and dynamics as much if not more than like, what cartoon you want to fuck. ladies it’s time to grow up and lez out!!!

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love when weapons YouTubers get deep into the weeds and they start calling a specific year of a specific type of sword that only other weapons YouTubers know about "overrated".

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objectifying men in armor will literally never get old. like, work it shiny boy. hit ‘em with that old razzle dazzle you fuckin trash can. hottie! (tucks $5 into your cuirass) 

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imagine being a woman in the tang imperial court during and immediately after the reign of wu zetian. i mean we can get a sense for what it was like based on the way princess taiping and shangguan wan’er and empress wei and princess anle acted but imagine being there. brains charged with a million billion volts of electricity. anything’s possible, and no one knows what’s going on, and the stakes are unimaginably high, but damn it if we’re not going to grab everything not nailed down before they drag us out again. everyone’s fucking each other and killing themselves and baking each other poisoned snacks and redefining what it means to hold power and getting really into buddhism. it must have been like being in fleetwood mac

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‘She wasn’t a good mother’ great are we evaluating this character trait as one of her many facets or are we just damning her for not being the most maternal womanliest woman who ever womaned

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you can discuss the problems within academia literally forever and you probably should but “historians are trying to keep information from you” is always going to be an anti-intellectual, reactionary opinion, sorry, literally no way around that

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often, a work of fiction will present to you a character who is referred to as a man. while it is possible that this character is intended to be read as a man, it's worth noting that many writers employ a literary device known as "secret women." almost every story has at least one secret woman, and the adept reader will be able to identify which characters are actually intended to be women despite the gendered language surrounding them. failure to acknowledge secret women is a failure of reading comprehension, for which one should be sent to the stocks.

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Saw my old eunuch ranking post sghbejff pdfjghbdjfghbdjfvpast you cant find this type of quality writing anywhere else folks