#not bad for someone who hasn't drawn or painted in years though i think

[buried-in-stardust]

Went to a hanfu tryout and fan painting event!

I tried on this Tang dynasty style hanfu, and although it was a bit too big for me and I could not get used to the sleeves (they kept getting caught on things), it was very fun!

I only wrote the date in the 干支 (ganzhi, 60 year cycle) format and my name (Feng **) because I wanted to write something but had no idea what to write. I was originally going to write in a more cursive style, but then I chickened out, so my writing looks like a little kid's here lmao.

(My phone camera's quality is shit, sorry)

[apollos-boyfriend]

okay okay. thank you everyone for the ideas (keep em coming!) i think we're getting somewhere. i'd like to post everyone's tags but that'd be very lengthy so i'd DEFINITELY recommend going through the notes on this if you have the chance and are interested. i'd like to highlight some points ppl have made that i think make a lot of sense!

first point (made by a few people, largely an anon and @/asherisimmortal): it IS just the fact that jack is a year older, to an extent. having a fandom so largely made up by a younger audience means the prospect of age is a bit skewed (obvious enough by people seeing philza, who's only in his 30s, and thinking he's "old"). to them, there IS a huge difference between the concepts of 17 and 18, drawing a strict line between the two ages. ofc in reality, there's literally no difference between the experience of being 17 and 18, but most of the fandom hasn't experienced that, so it's a foreign concept. 18 is already seen as a full adult, despite the fact that by all intents and purposes, the mind stays largely the same developmentally.

second point (made by @/nervousmonolith): a lot of people who group c!purpled in with the rest of the minors are c!bench mains. more accurately, c!tommy mains, judging from the sheer amount of emphasis on goldenduo dynamics. what i failed to take into account was c!jack's arc in relation to trying to kill c!tommy, and how that would change people's perception of him. (i hadn't considered it because, for me, if people were able to woobify c!purpled, who has actually killed someone, there'd be no issues with doing the same to c!jack. i didn't consider the difference between people's attachments to each of their "victims".) tying back into point one, the strict line of age is drawn. instead of two teens beefing, people see it how they see c!dream and c!tommy's relationship: a big bad adult going after a poor innocent child. which is not the case in the slightest, but that's another debate. c!jack is harder for the people who write c!purpled in such a way to woobify, because there's a more personal vendetta and bias towards him being "evil" and "adult".

third point (made by @/noobsomeexagerjunk and @/lilyvines): people who write that kind of stuff most likely just don't watch purpled. either his dream smp pov or him in general. he's seen as a blank slate to paint over, as they don't really KNOW him, asides from the little he was shown in las nevadas. c!jack, on the other hand, was more largely shown through c!tommy and co. there's a pretense created, one that you can get called out on easily, as most people know c!jack to some extent, and are more able to realize when he's written ooc (in their eyes). most people who engage in content that depicts c!purpled in the uwu traumatized manner, though, don't watch him. they can't call out what they don't know, and with fanon growing, it becomes an echo chamber of "oh, this is probably right, since everyone else is doing it!", when it couldn't be farther from the truth

actually. building off of what bri’s talking about. i’ve been trying to get to the bottom of this for fucking ages now but cant for the LIFE of me figure out the reason, so i’m putting it out there to see if anyone can come up with anything more solid than my theories.

cc!jack and cc!purpled are one year apart. c!jack and c!purpled are fairly similar characters, to an extent—both of some their biggest/most memorable moments being ones spurred by anger, culminating in either attempted murder or successful murder. they both deal with feeling like they’ve been cast aside; no one noticed jack went to hell and crawled out, no one notice purpled’s home got blown up twice. c!jack is far more outwardly vulnerable and emotional than c!purpled, as shown by his reaction to c!tommy’s death. so why is it that c!purpled is the infantilized one? the one made into the “soft uwu trauma” stereotype?

it’s not proximity to the other teens—both cc! and c!jack interact way more with benchtrio than purpled does. as i said, i don’t think it’s because c!purpled shows anything like that (neither does c!jack), since c!purpled is extremely closed-off and doesn’t confront his emotions as much as he should. the only thing i can think of is age. somehow, for SOME reason, the one year difference between the two have made them so MASSIVELY different in fanon’s terms, but even then, that’s in no way getting to the bottom of it. i’d love to hear y’all’s thoughts on why this might be the case, because for once, i’m absolutely fucking stumped