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[ohnoitsnoma]

ep1 doodle page

[poodlewizard]

Ouhhh… Husbant

[eroticlamb]

Axl Rose and Duff Mckagan of Guns n' Roses, 1987 ⋆ ౨ৎ ˚ ˖ ࣪ Photographed by Mark Weiss

[imaginal-ai]

"Layan" (0002)

(More of The Slender Beauty Series)

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[filthykel]

Go where the love is

📸: @abelr

[env0]

Careful, I'm armed.

[conceptofjoy]

I was looking at your Grandpa + Mom art and I just realized Mom's hair became Waaaay straighter when she grew up. Was that intentional... esp with Grandpa's. Gestures at all of that.

YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!! !! !

omg i didnt think anyone was gonna notice, honestly i made young roxy's hair short in the way that a lot of non black caretakers dont know how to deal with black kid's hair rather it being solely a gender thing. her later bubble flip hair is ironic, but its so blended with her past that even she doesnt know if she's doing it as a cheeky gesture or not. hence the laid baby hairs, but her hair is so fried from her straightening it constantly.

[cherrypiehoneymoon]

Kiss me in the light of purple hues,

Where nothing in this world exists,

Except for me and you

[gabedelucasblog]

dear me,

i know you're scared,

but you can handle this.

love, me.

[gyuocji]

had to make my boys

[valhallaimcomin]

Medieval fellas during the late 15th century:

[thejoeypop]

[eroticlamb]

Extreme, 1989 ⋆ ౨ৎ ˚ ˖ ࣪ Unknown source

[imaginal-ai]

"Layan" (0001)

(The Slender Beauty Series)

[filthykel]

🩶♉️🩶

[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.