#rain reply

[hobidreams]

OH MY GOD HI RAIN I LOVE YOU AND MISS YOU SO MUCH

NAAARRRRYYYY 😭❤️ HOW ARE U I MISSED U TOOOOOOOO

[ask-the-pioneer]

it is pride month, little one. You know what that means

"huh.... what"

[ziseviolet]

Hi love ya blog! I’ve been wondering how effective were the coir rain jackets?

Hi! Thanks for loving my blog, and sorry for taking ages to reply! (image via)

Chinese rain capes/raincoats are called 蓑衣/suoyi, and they are mainly made from local materials - in southern China, straw and coir grass are mostly used, as well as brown hair and brown leaves; in the north, thatch and cattail grass are mostly used. It takes about two to three days to make a suoyi by hand. They are typically worn with bamboo hats called 斗笠/douli.

Below - Ming dynasty illustration of a suoyi and douli (x):

Suoyi has a long history, originating before the Qin dynasty (221–206 BC). Although I haven't worn one myself, sources state that they were very effective. Compared with umbrellas, suoyi was not only better at keeping out the rain, but also freed up the two hands to work. Farmers liked to wear it on rainy days, and fishermen often wore it when fishing during rainy and snowy days. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, people travelling during the rainy season usually brought along suoyi (source).

Below - 19th-century late Qing dynasty suoyi made of palm and straw fiber, plus bamboo douli and basket (1, 2):

The tradition of working in the wind and rain wearing suoyi and douli continued until the late 1960s in China, after which they were gradually replaced with modern rain gear. Today, suoyi has become more of a tourist souvenir and decorative object than a practical item. Nevertheless, it can still be seen being worn by some elderly farmers and fisherman.

Below - a cormorant fisherman wearing suoyi and douli in Yangshuo, Guilin, Guangxi (x):

I highly recommend reading the following article for more information on suoyi's history, craftsmanship, and current status: Suoyi: RuCai Lyu’s rain cape and its ongoing tradition of protection.

For additional references, please see my suoyi tag.

If anyone has more info, please share! ^^

Hope this helps!

[princess-self-shipping]

Some animation practice featuring the Spearmaster I made for a DND campaign my friendos and I are doing

I made this in about three hours but I think it looks cute! Very proud of the earring physics

[crimeronan]

you know that 'hi im two years old and im using your blog to learn how to read. cigarette' 'fantastic, thank you. everyone let's get this toddling bitch a smoke' post?

that's your au hunter and darius to me

THAT'S THEM.

[swaps55]

Hiiii currently doing yet another Opus readthrough to help maintain my sanity and have had an absolute earworm of a question; I can't remember if this has come up before, but if Daniel never disappeared, if he was still around by the time the games events roll around, how do you think Sam would be different?

This is SUCH a good question. Because while Sam's desperate need for approval from his mother is one of his primary drivers, another is the guilt he feels about his father. He believes that his very existence robbed his father of the life Sam imagines he wanted - N7 - and he made it his mission to live the life his father didn't get, to repay the debt.

And the thing is, both of those things are integral to him becoming Commander Shepard.

So what happens if Daniel doesn't go missing?

I don't think their relationship is magically fixed. It was only his disappearance that knocked it into Sam's head that his father was so much more than Sam believed him to be. He didn't even know his father had gone through any of the N program until after he was gone. So if he doesn't have that moment of clarity at age 15, when does he have it, if he has it at all?

I still think the N program is something Sam would have pursued - he had his eye on it before Daniel went missing - but I imagine Daniel would have finally told him about his own history with the N program as an effort to talk him out of trying to get back in.

Now, the Sam who went into the N program without losing his father would have been far less angry at the world. The Sam who had Daniel still would have been ready to fight god in the target parking lot, but that Sam picks the fight for lack of something better to do. The Sam who did lost his father has so much anger at himself and at the universe that didn't even bother to look for him, that he'd fight god because he wants to see him bleed.

So when Daniel tells Sam about his own experiences with N1, this Sam might have listened. After all, most of his disdain for his father came from believing he wasn't the brave hero his mother was, because Daniel worked a desk job on a space station while his mother was out exploring the galaxy. Learning that his father gave up the N program because he wanted Sam, when his mother won't give him the time of day unless he's earned a commendation - might have changed everything between them.

And if that happens...maybe he does give up the N program. Which means he doesn't play the same role on Torfan, if he's there at all...which likely means he doesn't even wind up on the 'Yang. Would he still be a hell of a soldier? Yes. Would he be the person everyone looks to when the galaxy is in peril?

No.

One of the many things I love about Sam is how everything that makes him Commander Shepard is the result of Sam's own needs not being met.

But if Sam doesn't suffer that pain - if he gets the nurturing and love he needs and deserves - the price is the entire galaxy. His mother has to emotionally neglect him. He has to lose his father. He has to go down the dark path that almost costs him his soul. He can't realize the love of his life is right in front of him until the weight of the galaxy sits square on his shoulders. He has to die. He has to be resurrected. If any of those things don't happen, if at any point the holes in him are filled by the love and support he deserves...everyone dies.

I've worked out enough of my plan for the end of ME3 to know it will play out in such a way that the only hope this cycle has for surviving the reapers is Sam. Not just because he is the baddest badass who ever badassed, but because the paths he has walked, the things that he has done, and the things that have been done to him create a unique set of circumstances that literally no other being in the galaxy could replicate.

It has to be him. And saying no would condemn the entire galaxy.

So basically, TL;DR, if Sam doesn't lose Daniel, Sam would be so different the reapers would win.

[autistic-pebbles-au]

I adore your Pebbles so much- I wanna see his whole rock collection RDTFYGUHI

[He's not competent as a guide or instructor - please be patient ;) ]

[piningintrovert]

Hello Rae! I don't have a request this time! I promise! I'm watching ep 1 of LITA. Anyways I remember you made a post about Payu being so solid that it looked like Rain ran into a brick wall and I just needed to also mention he's strong too. After he lured Rain to his shop and kissed his neck, the way he YANKED Rain onto the bed has me SCREAMING! He pulled that boy so hard and so fast he practically FLEW onto the bed lmao. Gave me whiplash.

Hey Eboni! Watching it again now and it's actually hilarious. Payu really said YOINK and sent Rain flying lol

If the bed wasn't there, he would have had that boy clean across the room. But let's be honest, are we even surprised?

I mean … just look at the material:

And idk why this just popped into my head, but if Payu had a dating profile on one of those apps, I imagine his "What I'm Looking for in a Partner" section would read something like this:

Cute, bratty submissive with a yoink-able frame. You'll rarely be yoinked, but it's important that you look like you CAN be.

[sapphicdib]

MESSAGE FROM: The Frostrot NSH TO: Rot NSH "Why hello there, yet another me! I'm passing by to say: you got a very cool robe! I wish our scientists had such designs lmfao"

You caught her at kinda a bad time…wonder what’s gone wrong this time?

(He appreciates the compliment, though. He’s just dealing with some…unfortunate developments with Pebbles…)

also tumblr please let me fucking post this, i’ve tried FIVE TIMES…i hope this doesn’t suddenly spam people’s dashes jfc

[anakinstwinklebunny]

Please this is my favorite scene (even if it’s deleted) from ROTS and I’m so sad they didn’t keep it. He looks so proud too when he corrects himself

I miss Ani so much you don't understand :(( he was such a pretty soul (yeah, dont care he made mistakes or committed war crimes)

[fbatcat]

Unparalleled innocence

[hobidreams]

rain ik im being petty but the guy who broke my heart during uni ended up getting a grad job before me 😩 I really wanted to show him I could do better without him but he’s proving me wrong, pleaseeee how do I get over this pettiness without putting myself down

Times like this I wish your characters were real lol - 🦒

NAHHH BE PETTY. fuck that guy!! u never know, the job might be really bad and he might end up having a miserable time :) you ARE doing better without him because he's not in your life anymore! dragging you down! 💖 honestly its so natural to be petty (lol same), esp if they hurt you. but know that people are dicks and its not a reflection on you at all! and bc of all the inequality in this world, it's often the dicks who end up getting ahead career-wise first (*cough* rich white men). so job hunting isn't a reflection on you AT ALL okay!!!

my characters arent real but i am and i'm here to tell u that u kick ass and that your right job will come 💓

[psychologeek]

Timkon baby:

Tim Drake loves his daughter.

Damian is a good little uncle. He lets the little girl one play with his hand or his face when he holds her and often draws it. He also sings his mother's lullabies to her.

Kon and Tim are complicated... but they both love their child [and each other].

When the Alt-Batkids arrive in the good universe, Tim was working at the bat-computer with a child and she started crying when the Alt-Batkids appeared.

Tim just looks after his daughter while she plays on the floor with her toys, Alt-Tim sits next to her and avoids looking at the little girl, but having gathered the courage, he asks another Tim if he loves his daughter? Tim responds positively. Alt-Tim asks if it was painful to bring her into the world? Tim answers "yes" again - I love a misunderstanding too much, don't I?.

Damian asks Dick about Tim and baby. Angst and sadness.

Her name is Abigail Robin. The joy of her father and the arrival of spring, which symbolizes the beginning of all good things.

I do have a different name for the baby in my fic, but Abigail Robin sounds like a lovely name! I love that you had much thought aout the meanings - names are very important (LOL as can see anyone who read my fics XD )

Damian: I hate babies also Damian: *immidietly searching" baby katanas", "how to teach baby katana", and "weapons for newborn"*

I mean. Having a baby is. Painful.

thanks for your lovely contributions!!

[I don't have much time, and spend most of it on uploading Whumptober, but I see and promise to answer anything].

[ask-october-fox]

'Tober, I'm a freak. Like an absolute maniac for horror imagery. Total weirdo. Can I make a personal request? Show me your war face. Just the absolute most wicked, horrific expression your magical fox face can muster. Do it for the Vine.

Oh my, that is quite a request! I appreciate your enthusiasm, however I dont believe that I am the best candidate for such a request. If I may, I would suggest going to check out @askspookyfox as that is more his thing than mine. Im sure he would be quite happy to fulfill your request.

[crimeronan]

I did the equivalent of mentally rising from my bed like a vampire rising from their coffin yesterday as I was trying to sleep as a thought struck me; There's a high chance there's a verse of the PrincessLuz AU where Belos *doesn't* kick the bucket early or pre-story start, and for Reasons Luz and Hunter has to make a run for it from the castle (Belos is about to kill Hunter and Luz gets a good hit in before they book it. Or Hunter walks in on the Nightmare Dinner Scene and they make a run for it. Many options.) and Belos proceeds to spin a heartwrenching, complete bullshit lie how the Golden Guard has lost it and abducted his beloved daughter and who knows what he will do to her. Not directly stated but highly implied that Hunter is now Kill On Sight.

Meanwhile Amity, at undecided rate of knowing Luz+Hunter well but knowing Hunter would rather break his own bones than purposefully make even a scratch on Luz, is watching this all unfold like "uuuuhhh, Doubt™". And if she has the luck of running into them, well she can't kill Hunter! For reasons. And Luz seems to really not want to go back. Maybe one of the scouts she's with is about to hit Hunter and she just- moves without thinking. Knocks the fucker out and oh that sure is a choice she can't take back. Fuck guess she's a deserter now.

At the castle we have the separate but synchronised freaking out of Darius, Raine, and Lilith, who are Losing Their Minds over them being out there and actively being hunted down to be brought back to the saw trap that is the Emperor's Castle. Possible team-up after Darius and Raine see how hard Lilith is spiralling and she lets something slip?? But also laughing over the possibility of Lilith swallowing her pride and going to Eda for help. Maybe with some pressure from Darius and Raine. Eda opening the door to three Coven Heads, one being her estranged sister and one her ex, and she wonders if the appleblood she had yesterday was spiked with something.

MMM YES YES YES EXCELLENT CONCEPTS. poor amity rapid-cycling between "luz is clearly fucking Terrified of belos and i'll be damned if i drag Anybody back to their abusive parent" and "oh titan. i just chose HUNTER over LILITH".... poor girl. im love her.

a while back there was a timeline where luz hunter and vee ran away several years pre-fic-canon... i could see events unfolding here similarly. "okay, we'll be found on the isles, we either have to sneak through the castle portal or eda clawthorne's portal so we can hide out in the human world" <-three people who don't realize Just How Out-Of-Place a group of scruffy obviously unhoused teens will be in suburban connecticut.

[d0llfilth]

You, me, and Axl should all wear matching wigs

Am I missing out on something here