#unhelpful guide

[axl-ion]

As much as I do think period accuracy is important, sometimes you just get an idea that isn't too period accurate but cooler than the period accurate option or you can't find a similar thing.

So here's how to bullshit period accuracy, explained on examples:

Use only if you really must.

1. Think of the materials.

You can't give your 1820s fisherman character rubber boots. Vulcanised rubber wasn't invented/patented untill 1839. How do you achieve the look of the rubber boots? You consider available materials.

You can do leather and describe it as very very shiny. You can say the fisherman applied oil to the boots to make them more water resistant, which while maybe not something people actually did, is possible. Search the materials and material combinations! If you know your materials well enough, you can bullshit effectively.

2. Keep shapes in mind!

If you want your character to read to the modern reader as a goth, but the period is 1920s, YOU DON'T SNATCH THE WAIST! Instead you look at the popular silhouettes and build from there. 1920s silhouettes were very rectangular so you keep the rectangular dress and add little things that make it more goth - black colour, lace, pearls. All in moderation tho, which is the next point:

3. Hold yourself back!

It's very easy to put patterns on a design as a source of interest. It's easy to put a bunch of accessories on a guy to signify wealth or status. HOWEVER it's not a good choice! It will look very tacky and unless your character is very tacky, you don't need to do it. Pick 1 or 2 period accurate accessories and maximum 1 pattern unless the period does have this grandiose and maximalist thing going on. Put it front and centre. Then bullshit.

4. Keep in mind the technology!

Alastor's fucking undercut is actually possible, since razors were a thing in 1930s. What does make him read as period inaccurate is the shape of his hair, but again, the undercut is actually possible.

However this is the route you shouldn't really take, because like... If it breaks any point above it will be a punch to the eye. It will break the immersion. So maybe just don't UNLESS you REALLY KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING. The arguably best way to preform this bullshitary is on low notice things.

For example if you want to give a character said bob... Actually reconsider that haircut is so ass. However having a character with greased hair before the invention of hair gel... Have them use natural wax.

5. Use ignorance to your advantage!

Let's be honest, trying to bullshit Victorian fashion is hard, because there are so many Victorian fashion nerds, you may actually come across someone nagging at you like "ehem, that's the wrong shade of arsenic purple colour!" to set an example. Meanwhile if you try to bullshit like renaissance style clothes and accidentally put in some references from classicism... Depending on how big, it may actually be overlooked.

It's kinda like the lighter vs. match where it may seem at first that the matches were made first, bur it's actually the lighter. Sometimes stuff just looks old enough and that's kinda it.

AND LASTLY

6. Figure out why!

Why does your punk coded character have ripped pants in the 1940s? He's clumsy as fuck and trips all the time.

Why does this character have so many frills on them, that's not how these dresses usually look! She's a magical girl.

Have fun with the explanations, but make them plausible for the setting.

[shuaflix]

tracking ▸ kim mingyu’s (unhelpful) guide to losing your virginity: 9.4k words

[nothing-notable]

WEEEEEE but I can’t since I don’t got money-WAIT I CAN MAKE MY OWN-WAIT I CAN HOLY SHIT EEEEE I can sew and get fabrics! Idk! 😭😭😭 my mom would immediately say no😭

Maybe sell some stuff? :<

Idk, I just get paid for folding laundry so I have no clue how to actually make money. 😔

[leatherbookmark]

Fuhihimon delivers again ❤ This is a recent-ish MV-based introduction video that also shares a handful of basic facts about each member. Very cute and helpful!

[rawliverandgoronspice]

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I'll be real I think my thing of having a list of fundraisers did nothing and I feel like directly answering asks will eventually be filtered out and I genuinely do not know how to best help those people and it's been weighting on me more and more every single day. I am at loss at what to do in the wake of the momentum mostly dying out, and I find it incredibly distressing from that incredibly privileged safe distance, so I can't even begin to imagine what it must feel like to be the one affected, and clinging to the internet for dear life in a context like this.

[nottoxicfr]

It doesn't happen a lot, but I really like in Arcane fanfiction when Vi does that trope where someone learns a bunch of random skills while they're in prison. She doesn't use it to become a lawyer or an engineer by studying books, but she does read a lot. Maybe she should've used her seven years for that.

After all, she's anticipating that at some point if she gets out, either by release or by escaping, she'll meet up with Powder and they'll have to move on from there. Kill Slico, do whatever, but then she'll need to have some way of making money. So she invests time in picking up skills between solitary confinement and beatings from the guards. Plumbing or architecture, maybe a little bit of the odd chemistry knowledge.

Nothing she picks up is particularly useful to the plot of Arcane, but it's just generally stuff that's believable for Vi to learn in prison. She doesn't have great books, they're all the shitty used books Piltover donates to get rid of, but they're still good for reading. She read books on baking and accounting, so she can do that on a functional level. On a purely theoretical level, she knows how to fly an airship too, because she knew a chatty smuggler who was in for a few years. Vi's read a lot of history books and novels, just because people get rid of those when new editions come out.

At no point does the opportunity to subdue Jinx using her outstanding knowledge of Volumes I-V of "A Runeterra History: Kingdoms, Peoples, and Empires" come up, but if it did- well, let's just say Jinx wouldn't be a problem. She'd also know a lot more about the historical background behind Demacia's current political turmoil, which is good to know just to keep everything all in context.

It's all just stuff that makes Caitlyn or Jinx or whoever say, "Why do you know that?" and Vi says, "Maybe read a book sometime."

[atvie]

[aptericia]

ok but am i supposed to vote for claude or ohio. i await your instruction

I actually have not voted yet because I can’t decide which is funnier, so it’s up to you 😁 If it helps, the person I reblogged from said to vote Ohio because they want Claude to lose

[amourcheol]

heyyy its mee againn😭👋🏻... ik i might sound annoying for spamming your inbox but i had to check the title for another fic i read so here I am again... but its the mingyu fic- unhelpful guide to loosing your virginity😏

that was omggg so tensee but soo well thought out.. like lowkey i felt that it was smtg i would expect from gyu😵🤭 especially the part where he sugested worst things to make reader feel more comfortable😭🥺 plsss thats soo him

and the part where reader told hoshi that she lied... tell me why i was scared😭 ahahahahaha the GEMINI in him

but yeaaa lemme send some kisses to youuuu😘😘😘 i hope you sleep and eat well for the rest of your life and all your wishes come truee!!

byeeeeee😘❤ for now😏😂

FUCKCKKKKK UR MESSAGE AFTER THIS

LMFOAOAOAOA don’t worry im sure alice will be very happy to hear this !! it is a reblog ur right i was going to read it at some point but have been delayed cause of fuck ass uni … but i will come to it alice …. (Even if i did skim it in the google doc …)

[carelesscuriosity]

Trying to read mod installation guides for minecraft:

[shuaflix]

user shuaflix is not a kpop predictions account but

[nothing-notable]

*sniffle* Ditch said he hopes Henry falls in a paper shredder! 😭

Tell him you hope he joins him. 👍

[whitefangz]

tumblr users every time theres a "migration" of new users from another website are like QUICK!!! we need to make the most patronizing Guides for Tumblr known to man where we assume these people have ONLY ever used the website they came from!!!

[kittyhazelnut]

guess who finally gets to do their teacher evaluation on their shitty clinical professor? :D

[scalpel-mom-mori]

maybe i will make a shitpost when i get home