#culturally-specific clothing

[crispyjenkins]

i don't know who needs to hear this today but the jedi would not be body-shy

especially during the war. some would be uncomfortable, sure, or even heavily dislike being nude and/or bathing around others, but the point of that is that would be respected as a choice. there is a very large difference between preferring not to be nude around others, for cultural religious or personal reasons, versus being ashamed. nothing you can do can convince me jedi would be ashamed or embarrassed of their or others' bodies.

why. why would the jedi think nudity undignified. why would they turn their noses up at it as unseemly, rather than a choice and preference

[worstloki]

Mu Qing ascending is objectively so funny considering Feng Xin and Xie Lian also do. Out of the people in your kingdom who accomplished immortality there’s this guy who used to be your servant but is now on equal rank to you and he‘s super rude now and also thinks you hate him because he remembers when you were 18 and lacked socioeconomic-interpersonal awareness

[noxious-fennec]

Trying out some new designs (aka playing dress up)

[thesilliestcryptid]

punk pinterest is 40% people sharing their DIYs and 60% middle schoolers acting like every patch on a jacket needs to be a band or it should burn

[triglycercule]

i WAS thinking about dust and that one east asian legend about a rabbit being on the moon making medicine or food or whatever but the more research i did on it the more i realized damn,,,,, this shit doesn't connect at ALL!!! but whatever i cant win everything in life. anyways i think it would be cool and silly and funky if there was a multiverse where the aus were based off real life folktalks and myths and legends and stuff from the countries their creators come from. wouldn't that be sick,,,,,,, imagine what the mtt would look like in those aus,,,,, i already KNOW errorink and dreamtale bros would looks FIRE

[peaches2217]

Me, half an hour ago: Hm. I'd like to give Daisy a surname for my 'verse! Maybe something Hindi-inspired, because Sarasaland is named after a sort of fabric originally imported from India, right? Lemme see…

Me now, fifteen tabs deep into the intricacies of caste and occupation and how they effect given and surnames in the Malayalam language: I have to get this right or God will smite me where I stand

[cheddar-baby]

that public sex poll is a really good blocklist. If you lose your mind seeing someone get a shaky awkward handjob in a park you can't handle being on my blog i promise.

[queenlucythevaliant]

We see him come and know him ours

Russia: "Carol of the Russian Children," traditional // Kenya: The Nativity, Elima Njau // France: "Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella," Nicolas Saboly // Haiti: Madonna and Child, Ismael Saincilus // Australia: "The Three Drovers," William James // China: Tryptic by Lu Hongnian // Canadian/Algonquian: "Huron Carol," Jean de Brébeuf

[jinxedshapeshifter]

Alright so I was in middle school in 2016/2017, which is around the time I remember twenty øne piløts blowing up (specifically, thats when Stressed Out fucking exploded), and twenty øne piløts sorta shaped quite a few aspects of rebellion culture at the time from what I remember. In addition to this, my girlfriend at the time indulged in traditional aspects of emo culture (listened to a lot of alt rock, huge fan of My Chemical Romance, dyed the shaved side of her hair quite a bit, etc).

This leads me to a question. Klavier would've been in high school in 2017. Did he indulge in that specific cultural phenomenon? Does he enjoy bands from the 2000s like MCR and Linkin Park? If he does, what's his favorite, and what's his favorite song from his favorite band? Has he ever dyed his hair? How rebellious was he as a teenager and did he ever get into legal trouble? I want to know what Klavier was like as a teenager SO BAD.

[viric-dreams]

Tamaas (eventually Tamara)

Addressed as: Madam* (she/her)

Age: 23

Height: 5’0”

Occupation:

Main Skills: Shadowy, Watchful

Prominent Quirks: Melancholy

Closest to: The Urchins

*it's a form of address that feels strange compared to its Varchaasi equivalent, but she no longer has any claim to that title.

Backstory below the cut:

She never questioned her life, much like she never questioned her love for Mihir and her native Varchas. One rarely has to when all is well and life is easy.

She doesn’t understand why her brother did not share this contentedness. Fraternal twins, they were ever-close, sharing everything, but his interest in the Jewel-Turbaned Youth and his fanciful club was something that she simply could not get her mind around. The rest of the family paid it no mind—they’re harmless anyway. Let him have his fun.

She doesn’t know what it was that stopped her from retiring to bed that one fateful evening, a nagging in the back of her head that something was off. When she stepped back out into the yellow evening lamplight, a familiar shape slipping down the streets confirmed her intuition. Her brother made it as far as the Mirrored Gate before she clamped her hand around his wrist. Was he mirror-mad? What could he possibly be thinking? Who would want to leave the light, and to set sail on a steamer with a Tamaas captain he’d only met that morning? She’d argued with him, begging him to see sense, until they were both shouting. Deep in their quarrel, she’d barely noticed the shape in the mirror pressed up against his back until it was too late. It struck and he screamed, jerking to the side. Hand still latched around his arm, she slipped in turn, down the slope beyond the gate and both of their lives ended in an instant.

She’d later piece together what had happened from The Sympathetic Captain, most of her memories a blur, and Mihir knows, she’d had enough time on that ship to play her retelling back in her head in endless combinations. Before her brother had even met the ground, before his head had hit stone and his heart had stopped beating, he was Tamaas. As was she, not a fraction of a second later. The Captain had heard the commotion and was not far from the bottom of the cliff. She had insisted that the Captain take them both, that no one in the city would help them anymore. She had to get him to the next port where he could recover.

How his body had disappeared a day later, on a ship miles from the coast, was not one the Captain could answer, no matter how much she raged, how many objects in the cabin she smashed in her fugue. The Captain could only offer a sympathetic ear and a cup of tea.

When the ship finally docked in London she disappeared into the darkness, too ashamed of her grief to say goodbye. Her life was over, but somehow she would have to keep living, Tamaas or otherwise.

[thefaeriecreek]

Continuing my series of botw redesigns, I'm working on my boyfriend Revali!

[mitiafrapp]

Wanted to try my hand at designs for their dnd characters based on the intro video

So hyped for HoloMarches

[pa-pa-plasma]

okay wait yes we all know that ATLA (2024) sucks ass but can we stop calling the actors white because they don't fit your limited worldview? you can talk about bad writing without being racist

[salvadorbonaparte]

We should bring back traditional German clothes but in a cool multicultural way and not in a dumb nation building way

[bernard-the-rabbit]

helloooo!!! your art is GORGEOUS and i'm always so impressed with your clothing designs, especially for the gaang! how do you find references and/or implement cultural elements into your designs so nicely? thank you!!

First off I recommend this blog> @atlaculture

It's the base basically, it has different clothes, accessories, hairstyles etc from the show and links it to the culture they seem to be inspired of!

Then I spend hours on pinterest and I try to search websites on Google where they explain like..that specific different culture. For example the last thing I checked was the chuba and there are various websites (Wikipedia included) where they explain in details how it is made and how it is worn or like, maybe i go on clothes websites of that specific culture (for the fire nation belts i go to thai clothing stores online most of the time)

Hope this helped! Fashion is a big passion for me and getting to learn about different clothes from different cultures is such a beautiful thing! I love learning more

[damnation-if]

what are the norms for sex and relationships in the regular (not-hell) world that mc comes from? obviously there's lewis and clement's whole arrangement and the beechcroft's daughter had much the same with other servants, but how common is that more casual attitude about sex? we have the opportunity to decide our own mc's attitudes about sex and sexual relationships, but i wonder what society's attitudes at large are around that topic (mainly so i can know how my mc's own attitudes fit into social acceptability)

oh, this is an interesting question... one i'm not sure that i'm entirely qualified to give a full answer to haha. one of the tricky things is that for a society (fictional or not) to function, there can never just be One culture. so there will almost always be a variety of attitudes out there.

a good example of this is, like. Victorian England. people like to rag on the victorians for being repressed all the time, but part of the reason victorian england managed to keep itself limping along under such tight restraints for so long is because nearby there was the much less restrictive later romance period in continental europe, and the ever-different mediterranean cultures just to the south, and all of those cultures intermingled, so that people who didn't fit particularly well into one or the other could try to find a better space.

you could, potentially, if you wanted to i guess, write a story where literally everyone behaves like a victorian-era londoner, but that 1) wouldn't be reflective of how societies work in general and 2) isn't even reflective of the actual victorian era itself. so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

i guess in general i could say that i don't like to write societies that are too strict or sex-negative (and i absolutely cannot Stand abstinence doctrine lmfao). there's definitely - especially when it comes to noble families like the Beechcrofts - a kind of expectation of keeping certain activities behind-closed-doors, rather than fully visible to the public, but that's more about a sense of honour and decorum associated with the family name than prevailing attitudes towards (or against) sex.

however, certain of the gods take a more unfavourable view on things (and many gods are quite unreasonable) so there's definitely a possibility for a wide variety of attitudes to be present... obviously the Beechcrofts are not a particularly religious family, so I guess you could say maybe that the manor house represents a microcosm of the more secular sides of society (of which there are many).