#i am SO sorry i'm like this

[cinamun]

Share a (fun?) fact you've learned recently. (Don't need to be Sims-related) 🤩

I might get blocked for this but..... it needs to be said:

Almost NO information exists online about this mf right here

he's in the void critter show AND the poster

but we don't know who he is?? WHAT IS THE LORE??? This is erasure.

[suguwu]

Hi Bee!!! I hope your Friday is going well. Just wondering if Tumblr ate this idea i send you about gym owner Knives. Anyways 😘 hope you weekend plans are perfect for you and your day goes as smooth as your writing.

hi and happy friday! mine is going good (aka i'm binging bridgerton). tumblr did not eat it! i am just slow af about answering asks jsldkfjsdf i'm trying to get better about it but jury's out on how well i manage that :'))))

i hope your friday is wonderful and that your weekend is kind!!

[anonymous-person-in-hellhole]

Okay, I wanna vent about me...

Despite my simp-etude for Clotted Cream Cookie, I don’t follow tags that mention him online anywhere. The reason for this is that I have an immediate reaction of pain whenever I see anything that involves him and any other Cookie...

Can you see how toxic that reaction is?

I don’t interact with the same people who like the same fictional character, because my fee-fees get real fucking hurt when they enjoy this fictional character that I like too, because they’re enjoying it the way they want to...

I... am so annoyed about this...

[tuktukpodfics]

[ID: Slightly larger than life-sized bronze statue of a bearded man. He has a realistic face and oversized, square shoulders and exaggerated, angular hands bigger than his face. There is an animal mask motif on his clothing. End ID]

As much as I adore this handsome statue, he’s not from the Shang dynasty!

He is a contemporary depiction of Cheng Tang (the founder of the Shang Dynasty) at the entrance of a Zhengzhou City Museum exhibit.

You can tell he's not from the Shang Dynasty a few ways:

The human depiction

Human depictions during the Shang dynasty are rare. People didn’t really make big shiny statues of their leaders all that much. Or if they did, the art didn’t survive to today.

A lot of the artwork that did survive from the Shang dynasty comes from graves, especially the tomb of Fu Hao (a military general and priestess). Most of the bronze artifacts found in graves are cauldrons and wine vessels; not human statues. Important people did have attendants accompany them to the afterlife, but instead of statues, real people and animals were sacrificed.

There are some depictions of humans, but they look like this (sighted folks, click the alt text for details about each piece):

The casting method

Early Shang bronzes were cast in sectioned moulds. You’d carve the design you wanted into slabs of clay and then pour the bronze in. Then, you’d crack the mould sections off and reuse them to make matching sets. Sometimes people also added little decorative wings (flanges) to the seams.

Here’s a diorama from the Zhengzhou City Museum of what that might’ve looked like:

I think this handsome man was probably made with a hollow lost-wax method instead, which was used more in the later Shang and Zhou dynasty. The statue has finicky detailing like the ears that lost-wax is better at capturing. Also there’s no visible seams (though, to be fair, there are bronzes with perfectly concealed seams from the Shang dynasty). Disclaimer that I'm really not that well versed in casting techniques.

The art style

His face is quite realistic. You know the terra-cotta warriors from the Qin dynasty? His face is more reminiscent of that time period. Shang artwork is more abstract and geometric. Here’s some examples of animals with abstract detailing.

You caught me. This section was mostly just an excuse to show you some cool bronzes.

Also, the statue isn’t behind glass

Anyways.

I think this statue is really neat! His small head, oversized limbs, and flat dimensionality looks kind of like a Corporate Memphis art style...but with Shang motifs and coloring. The statue reminds me a bit of Ren Xiong’s self portrait from the Qing dynasty, which has an extremely realistic western-style face and expressive, abstract brushwork for his clothes. This statue's realistic face, combined with Shang and Zhou bronze patterns, intentionally oxidized coloring, and exaggerated, square proportions is a little bit jarring. Like he’s seesawing between old and new.

Sources

Big thank you to the Zhengzhou City Museum and the National Museum in Beijing for caring for these artifacts and to Professor Garry Lee Todd for taking all the photos in this reblog as well as the original post photo. He has hundreds of museum photo tours on his website.

Shang Jade Kneeling Person Shang Jade Figure Bronze Casting, Xingyang & Shang City Shang Bronze Zun Shang Bronze Ding Shang Bronze Owl Zun

Bronze sculpture, China, Shang Dynasty circa 1600 - 1000 BC

Housed at the Zhengzhou City Museum

[podcastwizard]

this will not be a bridgerton blog but for the foreseeable future i will not be thinking about anything other than bridgerton

(original post @romanceyourdemons)

[letmetellyouaboutmyfeels]

I am incredibly serious right now when I beg you all, please, and if you have Twitter or Tiktok or whatever to please spread the word: click on an author's profile on Ao3.

You want to know if an author has written more? Want to know if they're still writing? Want to see more from them? Want to know if they've written a trope or kink or sex scenario you enjoy?

Click on their name. And look at their profile.

I cannot tell you how many times in the last six months someone has read a new or newer fic of mine and said they (a new reader who has read nothing else I've done) "can't wait to see what you do next!" I've written 50+ fics and over a million words already.

"I don't know if you're still writing..." click on my profile. I am. I literally wrote a 128k+ fic for that ship last month.

"Would you ever do X?" "Please do Y!" I already did. Click on my name and look at my works.

Archive of our Own is a library. It's an archive. Not social media. It is your responsibility to fight back against the laziness that corporate algorithms have trained into you.

Click my author name. Just click it. Just click it.

Before you demand more, or ask if a writer will do XYZ, or wonder if the author still writing, or anything - click on their profile. Click on the author's profile.

I'm not trying to be mean or condescending or anything like that. I'm just exhausted. It's disheartening and frustrating to repeat myself ad nauseam, because someone couldn't take thirty seconds to do the tiniest bit of work to see if I've written lately, if I've written more for their ship, or scan my works to see if I've written what they're asking for. Please. Please. I'm begging.

Click the author's name, and explore before you ask.

[itsthislake]

“Icarus.”

it's all about freedom really

Credit goes to An Sifakah for the poem. Enjoy!

Support me on Ko-fi maybe?

[egophiliac]

time for skeleman

with the lack of any other info yet, all I can focus on are those Charles Lloyd-looking sunglasses. they are absolutely sending me. I feel like we're gonna fall through a tree or whatever and this stitched-up boney gentleman is gonna pop out from behind a gravestone and start serenading us with some smooth jazz on the saxophone.

or should I say...the saxoBONE???????

[blueflare7pkmn]

Hello new sibling

Hi! Uuuhhhh sorry I don't remember your name, Sabrina I think??

[cinamun]

[whoseblogisitanyways]

tag yourself: intrepid heroes' alter emos as ppl who went to my public high school

[tomboxed]

jesus christ could you get any gayer

[secretagentspydetectiveninja]

posting this with absolutely no context

[vaguely-concerned]

are. are you telling me that if the romanced mage warden dies and alistair is king, he deadass stares greagoir down over her dead body and grants the circle of ferelden its autonomy after ordering it rebuilt somewhere safer. first you have to deliberately leave him behind so he won't die for you and then he does that for you once you're gone, even when you're broken up??? absolute and literal king behaviour of the highest order????? the actions speak louder than words of it all??????? I think I hauve covid

[nouverx]

Day 3 and Day 4 of Radiostatic week!

Dancing and Drinking in a bar! Damn they seem to be going along so well, surely everything will turn out fine right?

:)

[tubbytarchia]

Missed drawing these two too

Bonuses