#Hair Ties for Women

[satsuha]

valerio for 60min challenge

[emmiethebaldbaby]

Fem Edgeworth sketch to heal my soul yearning to escape school days

[jerys]

finished bridgerton last night n genuinely if cressida cowper doesn't get her own spin-off series following her life at her ghastly aunt's secluded estate where she meets some fairly stereotypical local with a heart of gold and no concept of reputation who endeavours to slowly excavate the years of neglect until she's comfortable and secure in herself and her relations with other people after a brief period of dislike due to her natural spite and his abrasiveness leading to a pivotal scene where - crucially - she gets to WEAR HER FUCKING HAIR DOWN. i will kill myself in front of shonda rhimes

[serpentface]

Are braids culturally expected for women in wardi?

It's a cultural expectation throughout most of Imperial Wardin in the sense that it's a very longstanding conventional feminine beauty standard, and will be understood as a signifier of good grooming and status. This region is also quite culturally diverse so nothing here should be taken as an absolute universal for people within the Imperial Wardi cultural sphere, but rather a description of broad trends and/or hegemonic social convention.

It functions first and foremost as a visual signifier of good grooming and ideal feminine beauty- ie you can take the time to neatly do up your hair every day before you enter the public sphere. It can specifically function as a status symbol as well, with particularly elaborate and complicated styles (especially those impossible to form without help, which generally implies access to servants) coming in and out of vogue among the upper classes.

This style exists mainly for the public eye, with hair being done up at the beginning of each day and undone upon returning home for the evening (or once out of the public eye, if guests are visiting the home), though braids may have protective components and be worn semi-permanently depending on the hair type.

Women who do not braid (or otherwise put hair into protective and beautified styles) will often be seen as excessively masculinized or slovenly. The social consequences are Generally not anything more dire than peer judgment, though with a few exceptions. There's parts of the region (mostly the northwestern cities) in which sex workers are specifically forbidden to braid their hair (as a visual marker of their status). This is not ubiquitous enough for direct 'unbraided hair in public=prostitute' associations to be universal, but impactful enough for it to develop additional connotations of wantonness or an oversexed nature. (Sex workers face very severe social stigma throughout the region; one does Not want to be mistaken for a sex worker, especially upper class women).

Unbraided hair might be used as a rhetorical device (ie an attack on a woman's character might include describing her as/comparing her to 'a girl with unkempt hair, worn loose and blown horribly about her face with each gust of wind' or etc as additional ammunition to the main argument) which will be automatically understood by the audience as describing a slovenly, lazy, oversexed, or unduly masculine nature (depending on the context). By a similar metric, praises of 'well-braided hair' in speech or verse would function as a shorthand to communicate the beauty, social esteem, and desirable femininity of the subject.

The fact that braided hair exists mostly for the public eye and will often be undone each evening within the home (and also direct associations with sex workers in some parts) can also lend an intimate or erotic component to depictions of unbraided hair. Imagery of a woman in the process of undoing her braids is common in erotic art and verse, and outright pornography will usually depict hair unbraided (or partially undone, as if the process were interrupted). This does not translate to unbraided hair IN OF ITSELF being seen as sexy, rather this view of a woman in the intimate domestic sphere has voyeuristic elements that contribute to the sense of eroticism.

[robo-milky]

I don’t play Reverse anymore but that new Tennant skin is making me act up…

[mahikamihan]

hhhhno thoughts only roller derby

[javierduffy]

hellooo !!!! ive been really curious about this ever since i started studying your design of him, but i was wondering if there was any extra context for javier's bow??? its such a nice design element and it adds alot of personality so i wondered if there was any backstory behind it !!! :3 - Oizys-Mutt

hello :] ! firstly, thank u ! i’m very glad u like the big bow i gave him !!

to be perfectly honest with u, most of my designs and their elements don’t have a ton of conscious thought to them … to me, they just Feel Right, if that makes any sense ? it’s pure intuition. i gave kieran a big bow on his hat (u can’t hardly ever see it usually but it’s there) and i thought it would be very cute to have javi match with him :’] and personally, with javier’s sense of style, i do think he would accessorize more if given the circumstance, including things like bows (canonically he usually wears similar items around his neck- we could dare to say a few were originally hairpieces), so i just think it suits him ! so no crazy backstory, but the design i draw him with is post-kieran influence, which means that his bow is much bigger than the one i headcanon he used to wear before kieran gifted him bigger ribbons. i’d draw what pre and post kieran javi designs look like to me but im at work </3

but thank u !!! i’m glad u like it !!! i wish it did have some cool backstory or something <//3

[edge-oftheworld]

while we’re in the spirit of celebrating basic autonomy over things like hair I know most of us are too young to have participated in anything at the time but as a society we really need to apologise to britney for a certain event circa 2007

[kingkumi]

😈

[harlequinfrog]

My DnD group's DM is collaborating with the players on worldbuilding and I'm the only one playing a gnome so she gave me the go-ahead to make up whatever the hell I want as long as it doesn't affect gameplay too much. MY CITY NOW

[glittercorvid]

i know it's supposed to be the mummy that made me bisexual but it's not. it's van helsing (2004). bc even at 9 years old i liked my women mean, my men tortured, and everyone to have long hair and leather attire

[mihai-florescu]

You. Western anime fan. Are you normal about anime boys with long hair.

[befuddled-calico-whump]

reblog this and put the weird storylines you used to act out with your toys as a kid in the tags

[todayisafridaynight]

you never realize how hard it is to find a specific shade of blue for a suit until you go to find a specific shade of blue for a suit

[worstloki]

Do you think there’s such thing as “acceptable” hair length on Asgard?

I mean this specifically for guys, Thor and Loki has shoulder length hair, volstagg’s is sort of long but constantly tied up .. idk I feel like maybe they’d have some kind of unspoken social “rule” about it.

I don;t think so for men since the Warriors 3+Thor+Loki provide a pretty good range of hair lengths. We don't see anyone Asgardian completely bald/shaved till Skurge in Thor 3 tho, so that could be a limit but I reckon that might be more cultural than formal.

I think the idea that slaves would have their hair all shorn off is possible but we don't really see anything in support of that besides the Thor 3 mural, where the slaves don't have any hair.

Women seem exclusive to long hair though.

[quinnfabrayapologist]

Do you ever wonder how exactly there came to be such a transphobia problem in British feminism?

Not really. Pretty straightforward IMO.

Britain is highly patriarchal and pretty much just an oligarchy at this point, given the majority of people in charge were born rich and went to one of a handful of private schools. Fair amount of them are also journalists to some degree, or work with journalists on the regular, so when those pesky feminists wanted to dismantle their little boy's club, they stoked up a culture war to give them a new target.

A great example is the NHS. There's been issues lately with supply of oestrogen. I have a former classmate who is a raging transphobe and in her fifties. She's constantly on twitter talking about how the reason she can't get her hormone replacement therapy for her menopause is that trans women are taking all the oestrogen. Her source? A right wing newspaper linked to half of the current PM's cabinet. The real issue? The Tories have been systematically gutting and selling off the NHS since they came into power, which is causing shortages now, because the Tories want the NHS to fail so they can say 'see? NHS doesn't work. Time to privatise the whole thing' and make a mint doing it.

So basically, the minority we should actually be worried about - the 1%ers who have had everything handed to them on a silver platter all their lives, including some of the highest powers this land has to give, and are using that power to take our country apart for profit in the houses of parliament - have convinced a decent portion of feminists that a minority with basically no power is the root of all evil.

And so, using their institutional power (being the law-making elites) and their influential power (clickbait articles they've usually written themselves), they've convinced a portion of feminists that the upper-class, born-rich, bred for rule, blue-blooded bullies who thrive off the patriarchy aren't the problem, trans people are, and so the sect of feminists they've successfully turned against trans people are now fighting to uphold the patriarchy on behalf of the Conservatives and calling it feminism.