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Some Jewish kids go to Narnia and the White Witch is endlessly frustrated because she wants to make it always winter but never Hanukkah, but she doesn’t follow the Hebrew calendar so she can’t accurately predict when it’s supposed to be.

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“Maybe you’re reading too far into thi—“ I have literally a million words on AO3 and most of a literature degree. Reading too far into things is all I know how to do

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They isekai me as R2D2 and I have to use my slapdash knowledge of Star Wars to try and make a better ending however I don’t actually know more than the broad strokes and some niche fandom discourse so instead I accidentally create the exact sequence of events as laid out in the movie

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They isekai me as R2D2 and I have to use my slapdash knowledge of Star Wars to try and make a better ending however I don’t actually know more than the broad strokes and some niche fandom discourse so instead I accidentally create the exact sequence of events as laid out in the movie

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5 simple exercises to awaken dormant muscles

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Practiced drawing palina cause sometimes it feels like I still struggle 😭 also just practicing expressions for her in general too… her goggle/bandana art is in reference to her official art lol It's so cute too 😭

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captain afab is honestly a very relatable character because whomst among us does not have some great beast that has eluded us all our lives. mine, for instance, is a decent night's sleep.

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who up dinking they oiter

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hello! I saw your post about the layers of hanfu, the one with the pants that tie around the waist. I really want to try to make them, but I can't seem to find a pattern. Is there a term for that article of clothing that I can use to search? Or better yet, do you have any pattern recommendations?

I was recently introduced to hanfu through a c-drama, and I'm really curious about it, so I'm glad I found your blog!

AHHH!! My first inbox message!! I'm so happy 😃😃

The name for that style of pants is (unfortunately) just "pants" (裤/ku in Chinese, which literally translates to pants).

I searched around for patterns and pieced one together (luckily it doesn't seem too complicated :D). You'll have to play around with the measurements so they fit you best, these were based on a video of someone who made this for a client (I'll link the video as a source but it's all in Chinese).

Here's some screenshots of videos demo-ing it (also linked in sources). The most important take-away I got is to make sure the width of the pant legs is enough to wrap ALL the way around your body and overlap in the back so your butt doesn't show xD

The earliest artefacts for this style of pants is the Han Dynasty (202 BC-9 AD, 25–220 AD), but it was also discovered in tombs of the Song Dynasty (960-1279 AD), which had more samples and were better preserved (I heard in one Song tomb they found 24 pairs of pants, 15 of which were this style O.O). So all of these were made using the Song Dynasty version, but they look basically the same and were also worn as under garments.

Sources: Sewing patterns https://www.sohu.com/a/406159256_620719

Sewing full process (with measurements) 慕少蓉 https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1sg4y1v7jZ/

Demonstration: Xiaohongshu 曾嚼子 Video

Xiaohongshu 宾义儿 Video

If you're interested in hand-making Hanfu (BIG kudos to you, btw, that is AMAZING!) I recommend this book （it's all in Chinese but it does provide patterns for many Hanfu styles): 中国古代服饰结构图集 (Patterns of historical Chinese clothing)

You can also use Xiaohongshu (Little red book), it's both a website and an app that a LOOOT of Chinese people use for everything: https://www.xiaohongshu.com/

If you searching "[dynasty or clothing name] 结构图" (结构图 means patterns) you'll usually get a lot of results.

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New site thing????? I keep seeing screenshots from here. Throwing a ponysona into the void

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Cereal and Coffee

His wife is an odd one, but, then, that’s why he married her. So she chose a strange name for their daughter, reacts in unpredictable ways to animals, has a fascination with new plants sometimes bordering on the absurd. He’d known that when he found her in the shop, staring at a handful of change like it was lost treasure she’d dug up with her own two hands. The look of unbridled joy was worth any number of explanations.

This, at least, is simple to explain. Every married man at his office has had the same problem, and some of unmarried men have their mothers and sisters to comfort over it, too. The television is a wonderful invention, Jonathan knows, so full of potential, and it’s comforting to gather his family around it. But still. The way they target people’s sense of worth – mothers’ sense of worth – is something he hopes will be done away with soon. As if every morning has to be feast after feast, just to raise a child. In this confusion, Amandine isn’t alone at all.

Her sense of style is unique to her, the flowing lines that must come from generations back in her family’s sewing patterns. The way she decorates their home – he worried, when she first settled in, what other people would think, but it’s so cozy and homey for the three of them – causes consternation in the neighborhood women when they come over for tea. He loves her in a way he can never explain, can hardly describe without laughter, when she talks to herself in the garden, or sings back what the stars are shouting to her.

This isn’t that, though. This isn’t her sometimes letting her grip on reality slip by accident, or unveiling it on purpose to share fantastical visions with their daughter. It isn’t even her distress and befuddlement at the most everyday of mundane things. This is a worry it would be almost stranger if she didn’t have, and, for once, Jonathan knows just what to do.

The advertisements on the television are grotesque, if that’s not too harsh a word. They’re meant to seem warm and inviting, but they end up making even him angry, and Jonathan almost never makes breakfast anyway. What mother needs to see that? Even a mother who works as hard as Amandine, who loves to cook with the passion of a child studying art, who frets over every tiny thing that has a snowball’s chance of hurting their daughter – even she could never make all that every morning.

On a holiday, maybe. On their little girl’s birthday, for a treat, with enough planning and his help, she could make most of that, and even then, how would they finish it all.

It’s just like a play, he reminds her, only they have even more time to set everything up. It’s a whole team cooking the food and setting it just right, and them not even the ones who set the table. The mother and all the children only have to walk in and speak to the cameras. They don’t get to eat it. The food might not even be real! Plenty of television is clever paintings and wonderful sculptures that look just so.

And still, even Jonathan wonders if little October is going hungry, not getting quite enough to fill her growing belly, seeing tables laid out like that. He can’t imagine how much it hurts Amandine to have to question it.

So, no, of course not, he reassures her. Nothing is set in stone, not even the wonderful pictures shared to every home. He tucks into his own breakfast, a carefully delicate cheese omelette, with delight. If she makes this or that or the other treat that breakfast table was laden with, it will be enough for any of them. And, if she’s too tired tomorrow, or anything other day, of course Jonathan will be happy with just coffee and cereal. And if she’s happy with coffee and cereal, then she should eat it to her heart’s delight. It’s a perfectly adequate breakfast, perfectly normal to eat, and nothing that should scandalize their daughter.

She gives him the same smile she always gives him, when she learns something new, like this is the most interesting knowledge in the world. That one he’s never had any trouble explaining to everyone who knows him, and he’ll never tire of it.

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you should play in stars and time ^___^

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I love them

TIL about the Cretan Mammoth

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Had some fun surfing through some unhinged stock images / cursed images, this one called to me as Emmet

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Experiment:

Reblog this post and add a poll of your own to the reblog. You can make it a poll about anything. Let's see how far it goes.