free my girl she did all that shit but the fandom is mischaracterizing her for it

free my girl she has the same character traits as a male character but is getting deemed a bitch for them

free my girl she acted irrationally in a situation where it was impossible to act rationally and is now being hated for it

🌈🍡🍭🍬🩷🍫 Kandi, bright and full of so much life ⭐️🍧🎨

you are a common bronzewing! (Phaps chalcoptera)

selkie oc

Tag yourself as this list of “bad art” features, according to a twitter fascist

“Never Forget” until the new target is those that they disagree with.

Edit: please watch this video essay by Jacob Geller. It speaks on really important points as to how “bad art” is a weapon of fascism and how it reflects the Degenerate Art Exhibition(s)

i’ll jump at any chance to share that video i love it.

An Alien… ? by Elsie Van Der Walt

well I wanted to post this as a bundle with some other silly upcoming drawings, but I've decided to be annoying about it and post everything separately.

here.

take it.

I haven’t shared the link to the official discord in a hot minute, might as well do that~!

JOIN THE MEMOIRS OF PHAENGORYA DISCORD SERVER IF YOU’RE INTERESTED IN THE SERIES AND WANT TO SHOW SUPPORT IN THE EARLY STAGES OF THE SERIES!! It would make me (the author 😏) happy :) grow the community!

Also there’s an actual tumblr community for the series too so-

I want to see a work of fiction that reverses the "vampires are snobby upper class, werewolves are brutish lower class" stereotypes

Consider a vampire's reliance on blood as a metaphor for living paycheck-to-paycheck and depending on the kindness of others to get by, and the desparation that can make one slip into taking.

@tiredspacedragon's tags.

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#meanwhile werewolves who like #treat the full moon like a monthly vacation#or like aristocrats on a hunting trip #claiming unnecessarily large swaths of land as territory #or just throwing their weight around wherever they please #waking up the next morning either oblivious#or entirely indifferent #to the devastation#environmental and personal #they've left in their wake #maybe even doing it on purpose#most dangerous game-ing people #just to keep the wolf 'stimulated' #something like this?

A gif from Pacific Rim, where Stacker Pentecost says "You, keep talking.]

Meiji period fashion was some of the best in the world, speaking purely from an aesthetic standpoint you can really see the collision of European and Japanese standards of beauty and how their broad agreement even in particulars (the similarity between Japanese and Gibson girl bouffants, the obi vs the corset, the obi knot vs the bustle, the mutual covetousness for exotic textiles, the feverish swapping of both art styles and subjects) combined and produced some of the most interesting cultural exchange we have this level of documentation for. Europeans were wearing kimono or adapting them into tea gowns, japanese were pairing lacy Edwardian blouses with skirt hakama and little button up boots. haori jackets with bowler hats and European style lapels. if steampunk was any good as an aesthetic it would steal wholesale from the copious records we have in both graphic arts and photography of how people were dressing in this milieu.

«The botany professor,» from Kkokei Shimbun, October 20, 1908. she's wearing a kimono blouse or haori, edwardian skirt or hakama, gibson girl bouffant, a lacy high-collar blouse with cravat and brooch, and a pocket watch with chain

1910-1930 (Taishō era, right after Meiji, which I should have included in my OP) men's haori with western lapels

I have a love for both kimonos and bustle dresses, so I love seeing how the two fashions influenced each other over this period.  And thanks to Pinterest, I have pictures!

Victorian tea gown that clearly started as a kimono.  It still has the long furisode sleeves, but now they’re gathered at the shoulder and turned around so that the long open side is facing the front instead of the back.  Similarly the back is taken in with curved seams to fit the torso and pleated below that for the skirt.

Woodblock of a woman in a a bustle dress made with colorful patterned fabrics and examples of how a woman could style her hair with it.

More prints to showcase hairstyles, two women wearing western wear and two women wearing kimonos.

This next one’s modern, but it involves hoopskirts so I’ll add it in because it makes me so happy.  There’s been different styles of wedding fashion that take kimonos and give them a more modern look.  Often this involves taking a kimono and then cutting and resewing it into a new dress.  Very pretty, but it can’t ever be worn like a traditional kimono again.  But now there’s another trend where the bride wears a hoopskirt with a white skirt, then you take the kimono and drape it on.  The back of the kimono covers the front of the dress, the long sleeves fall across the sides or the back, and you still wear an obi with it.  The result is pretty and the kimono itself doesn’t have to be altered at all.

And because you mentioned steampunk, I have to add in these two:

Personally I’m a big fan of Taisho Meisen kimono, which are what happen when the Japanese textile industry abruptly gets access to aniline dyes, new spinning and weaving technology, and the concept of Art Deco:

unironically i love this website and the people who post here because like 4% of them are even more pedantic and specialized in their knowledge bases than i am, and they are ALL HATERS. these are my people, sincerely. i support them uncritically even though all of us are REALLY annoying

if you just want your effete dilettante twink to have an emotionally distant servant who brings him tea after fucking him then the term you are looking for is VALET

[ID: Tumblr post that reads "No butler would EVER help in the kitchen. And if you cannot afford a cook, you definitely cannot afford a butler... Take your fetish seriously!" @ Poetofsmut reblogged the post from @ reasonablywittyatbest end id]

gf and bf duo

Don’t forget the mistletoe

Looking through my sketchbook for more stuff to archive. This drawing of Vîhtikow is still a highlight. He’s so cute. Grey Courtian vieugge. What a strange combo.

Tooth deer…. (Also ignore Peiri at the bottom shhhh she isn’t real.)

Fullbody Splashart for my favourite of the Navy Book’s antagonists, Costodia Nacidestrele Conocima Convecta, The Omen of Inquisition OR the Sphinx of Bismos~! 🌊✨🪼🌟🌌 (50 Million epithets 🙄)

Esoteric, scholarly, arcane and perhaps a bit overzealous, Costodia stands as one of two antagonists, being the figure head to the new, modern age of inquisition in Mereiño, the opposite of Captain Balagero’s old age of the divine families. I wanted him to feel modern (duh) so he has more of a 20’s sort of silhouette. I still wanted to keep some cultural pieces from both the Navy Court and the human pre-schism aspect (Argentina. Better seen when his coat is off) Born as a miracle during the Embezzlement War, without fully formed legs and face, and three striking blue eyes, he was gifted by the stars and constellations, meant to signal the turn of the century and the new age of discovery…. Or at least that’s what his parents think.

(Imagine loving cats so much you model your prosthetics after feline legs…. Nerd…….. Furry-)