#and FUCK POLYESTER!!!!!

[cottoncandylesbo]

if i could get you all to make one change in your lives this year, it'd be to stop buying plastic-based clothing. polyester, satin, and acrylic are all plastic fibers. they pill, don't retain heat, wick and hold in sweat, and fall apart far easier than real fabrics. one 100% cotton sweatshirt will protect you from cold and stay together longer than five polyester ones will. please check the tags on the things you purchase for material!!! cotton ftw!!!!

[diushek]

Shen Yuan who, on a shitty walk through nature with his brothers, finds a sword. It's like, a black, rusty sword, but Shen Yuan is just like, hey!!! It's a sword!!! He keeps it.

And Shen Yuan accidentally acquires a Xin Mo.

He actually obviously doesn't know it's Xin Mo, at first. It's just a pretty silly sword. Xin Mo, of course, can't feed on spiritual energy and be vicious because, well, there's none of that in this world. However, Xin Mo can intrude into Shen Yuan's dreams.

Shen Yuan randomly dreams about the sword spirit telling him about the things can do. Shen Yuan thinks he won't fall asleep again after reading another PIDW update and ignores it.

Shen Yuan has that sword in his house, perhaps next to a sofa where he spends many hours. And Xin Mo, lacking spiritual energy, begins to feed on emotions. It feeds off of Shen Yuan's wild rage when he critiques novels, his frustration when he loses games, his visceral hate when Airplane screws up an update- from the constant and continuous almost repressed excitement of Shen Yuan.

And if Shen Yuan notices that the sword looks like, restoring itself? Well, it's not really that important, I mean... Of course Shen Yuan is going to ignore that until it bites him in the ass.

And it happens. Xin Mo appears again in his dreams; tells him about other worlds where he can have more power if he wields it, about fruits that he can use to obtain health and immortality... Shen Yuan already knows all that shit, he's up to date with PIDW and Xin Mo is the protagonist's golden finger and a vicious thing addicted to sex and blood.

However, the dream he had is insistent and Shen Yuan wakes up and says, well, fuck it... He takes up the sword -which has no rust at all, and in fact does look a bit like Xin Mo from some fanarts- and concentrates on thinking about PIDW. It's not like the sword is going to open a dimensional portal, true?

TRUE???

There is a dimensional portal open in the middle of his living room. Shen Yuan screams, the portal closes and he runs to hide the sword in the closet.

In his dreams, Xin Mo teases him. Isn't he curious about other worlds? Doesn't he want to see monsters beyond his understanding? Doesn't he want to explore the flora of a mystical world? Shen Yuan is too tempted. In the end, he says, fuck it. Buy xianxia tunics online, other glasses with more acceptable frames for the ancient era, gives in to the fact that he will be seen as an outcast because of his short hair and buys a straw hat with a veil, sends a message to his family group not to bother him because he will watch a marathon of One Piece from start to finish and if anyone comes to visit him he will force them to watch it with him- opens the portal and walks through.

It feels disgusting and horribly dizzy. On the other side, there is a forest.

Xin Mo pushes spiritual energy through him as soon as they arrive in that world. Tells him that he is going to need it.

The forest path leads to a village; there, it is clearly a xianxia environment and Shen Yuan is pleased that his robes fit. He trades some vintage-looking pieces of jewelry he bought secondhand for coins of that world and is ready to stay a few days while he finds some spirit fruits or something.

Xin Mo is still an annoying bitch, but Shen Yuan gets used to it. Get his spiritual fruits, start a book of pressed flowers, spend a week of simple and comfortable life missing the internet and sleeping in uncomfortable beds at inns until the spirit fruits do their work, and Shen Yuan wakes up with a strange feeling in his veins and no need to wear glasses.

Xin Mo uses that to his advantage; the stronger Shen Yuan is, the more can influence in him, and the more can feed with the favorite foods blood and sex. Shen Yuan opens a portal back to his room at the end of the week, he answers some overdue messages to prove that he is still alive, and sleeps for a whole day in his bed.

He buys more xianxia clothes online, takes a risk by getting hair extensions to dispense his straw hat, and decides to go back. Just because he wants to continue upgrading his health a bit more, and well, he can cultivate spiritual energy now, right?

It turns out to be difficult. It's difficult to get cultivation manuals and difficult to get instructions. He barely manages to do so in some awkward ways, but discovers that all the cultivation manuals are clearly in the emperor's libraries.

So, he decides that he will pay tribute to Emperor Luo Binghe. He will offer him precious things and his only condition to continue providing that is… to visit his library.

Precious things, of course, are many things that he knows do not exist in that world. Coffee beans, cocoa beans, chocolate in all its forms. He refuses to allow things like tobacco into the world, but he does allow modern spices, modern recipes!!, even cheap jewelry turns out to be a precious thing because, what the hell, of course the world of PIDW wouldn't have the slightest idea what plastic is.

Shen Yuan introduces himself as a prince-diplomatic envoy from another world. His mission is to obtain certain information from this world... and the gifts are a test of the loyalty of the world from which he comes. Shen Yuan hopes that the demon court will be so enthralled by the foolish things he has brought that they will swallow his tale.

Luo Binghe doesn't seem convinced, but agrees.

So Shen Yuan comes every two-three weeks, covers Xin Mo in talismans to conceal it, transforms it into a pocket dagger, and hides it in the inner pockets of the shorts he wears underneath of the xianxia robes. And he brings a lot of gifts with him. He gets a little silly; he buys old-looking glass jars and fills them with hundreds of packets of instant ramen seasoning, and others with the instant ramen noodles. Explains how they are used and distributes them as gifts around the court. Bring candy without its plastic wrappers, more chocolates, chocolate peanuts, chocolate almonds? Chocolate powder! Powdered sugar! Marzipan! He brings makeup and skincare for the wives, and soon they are all wearing the most beautiful and impossible colors.

His chests are full of food from a distant world, their journeys seem to be long to return each time. Shen Yuan continues to learn; he is always under the distant watchful eye of Luo Binghe, but he does not steal any scrolls. He reads, he studies, he learns. His cultivation really improves, his fragile health does too.

Xin Mo is still that insolent and persistent bitch. However, the more Shen Yuan's cultivation improves... that bitch really seems to make more sense to him. As if his words were deeper, as if they settled there. So much resentment, so much pain from so many years, Shen Yuan is an unstable and irascible chaos. His gifts falter, his mood does so more.

Luo Binghe knows something is going on. He knew that this strange "prince" was not normal, but why does he look so corrupted lately? Luo Binghe doesn't know anything about him, where he even comes from, but he's going to find out. Whatever the cost.

[evergreen-femme]

shopping for clothes online is like. do you want that in polyester? have you considered buying from shein? how about acrylic? shein tonight queen? this will look nothing like it does in the pictures by the way. are you a small, extra small, or size zero? don't forget that you can buy clothes from shein :)

[boyrobott]

some more of my personal favorite letterboxd reviews for astro boy 2009 (part 1)

[alwayshappyhoursomewhere]

Shoma Uno | Opening number BISF25 in Fukuoka, January 25, 2025 (noon)

[vetuhoh]

BAFFLING how ‘motherfucker’ and ‘twit’ are being treated like horrifying over-the-line insults in this house. hilarious. but also like…?

i have a third secret power up. it’s called calling someone a cunt and it turns my opponent immediately to dust

[lucydacusgirl]

You absolutely can tell when clothes are bad quality but like. Where are you meant to buy clothes that are good quality.

[sundial-bee-scribbles]

is this outfit historically accurate? probably the fuck not. is it practical in any way shape or form? also probably not! but does it serve cunt? YES 😩🙏💅 and that's all that matters!

[svartalfhild]

If part of the goth mindset and ideology is about sexual liberation, I think we very much need to take the step of adding the right to cover up and say no to sexualization to that conversation.

Goth fashion, particularly feminine goth fashion, has always included revealing and/or kinky styles, and back during the inception of goth, that was a very powerful statement. It still is, just maybe in a different framework. The thing is, with sociopolitical trends having moved to a place where revealing and/or kink-originated clothing no longer has the same impact that it once had, that particular look has become a sort of commercialized goth standard.

While it's good that this shift has occurred in some ways, it's also had the effect of pushing the other part of sexual liberation out of the conversation. Part of sexual liberation is the right to say no, to decide for yourself that you don't want any of that and/or that you want to be more covered. There needs to be space for that in goth culture, especially in fashion.

Anyway, shoutout all the goths who for whatever reason don't wanna dress in that revealing style and struggle to find clothes they like because of it.

[shadelorde]

ah yes, the two kinds of costume options: stinky and sweaty or Sexy

[halamshirals]

just got back from the drive-in and can i be honest… john waters is the funniest person alive

[officialpenisenvy]

i spend a little too much time around a fem or straight chick and i accidentally become a fashionable gay best friend. like why am i talking about your colour palette can i be so serious

[staryuee]

I STILL REMEMBER THE THIRD OF DECEMBER….

[coffeeworldsasaki]

Finished a bag I've made exactly to fit my e-reader because at home I only have huge bags or too tiny to bring the ereader without me freaking out. I've even made a pocket to put the ereader separated from everything else. I just hhhhh need to make a shoulder strap now

[racingmiku2018]

if this wasnt 100% polyester id have copped

[ask-zacharies-snackarie]

Petition to make fabric samples free.