A compilation of stuff I know about drawing Asian faces and Asian culture! I feel like many “How-To-Draw” tutorials often default to European faces and are not really helpful when drawing people of other races. So I thought I’d put this together in case anyone is interested! Feel free to share this guide and shoot me questions if you have any! I’m by no means an expert, I just know a few things from drawing experience and from my own cultural background.
Fact: bisexuals make up a majority of the LGBT population.
Fact: the majority of bisexuals are closeted.
Theory: If all bisexual people came out, straight people would no longer be the majority.
Do we really make up a majority? Cause the way we’re erased i had no idea. Like really. I thought we were in minority…
The Human Rights Commission of San Francisco released a groundbreaking report on Bisexual Invisibility in 2010 which revealed that, even though only 28% of bisexuals are out (compared to 71% of lesbians and 77% of gay men.) bisexuals out-number gays and lesbians combined, Many studies have followed which verify this data.
Whaaaaat.
things that i find frightening
1. the idea of being on a blimp with a man who wants to kill literally everyone
2. dark yuugi from the original manga
3. the fact that kaiba seto and thief king bakura have the exact same birthday
Where is the proof of Thief King Bakura’s birthday being the same day as Seto Kaiba? Which is Oct. 25????
Good question! In the manga, TKB’s birthday is the 15th of the second month (Paopi) of Flood season (Akhet), which is roughly converted to October 25th in the Gregorian calendar.
There’s a real-life superhero in Virginia. As a child, he was bullied for his ADHD because he sometimes did random things like crawling around on the floor. Now he’s known as The Black Widow, a master of martial arts who prowls the streets of Norfolk practicing parkour and free running. Despite his a multi-tool utility belt, first aid kit, and retractable police baton, he avoids violence because he prefers to talk people out of a fight. Source
what’s the difference between ninjas and stage crew?
ninjas move silently around walls, stage crew moves walls around silently.
BUT YOU KNOW WHAT IS SO GREAT
The depiction of ninjas as dressed all in black comes from traditional Japanese theatre. Actual historical ninjas didn’t dress in black because it’s conspicuous as hell in the daytime and even at night in the dark a person dressed in solid black tends to stand out; dark grey or blue is better for hiding in shadows. Usually they just wore ordinary, like, people clothes which are far better for blending into your surroundings in than a specialised professional costume.
BUT YOU KNOW WHO DID DRESS ALL IN BLACK LIKE THAT
the stage crew in a theatre
and it was a generally accepted convention that the black-clad stagehands were invisible, so they could be on stage at the same time as the actors and move things around and the audience would just mentally CG them out
but then one day because a director was a GENIUS, during an otherwise normal performance of a play, suddenly a stagehand stepped forward, assassinated one of the main characters and then melted back into the background
THEY WERE A NINJA
AND THE AUDIENCE LOST THEIR MINDS BECAUSE IT WAS AMAZING
and eventually it lost its mind-blow value because after a while everyone had seen a play like that, so although the “stagehands wear black and are invisible” convention continued, the new “ninjas wear black and are invisible until they choose to strike” convention became established, and from then on fictional ninjas have just worn black because it looks so cool.
So in fact the answer to “What’s the difference between ninjas and stage crew?” is “You will never know until they stab you.”
Okay this is the first time I have heard the second half of this information and it’s so much better now.
here is a cool thing: Horses and ponies while classified as the same species, are very different. They are not reliable variations like what one might find in “breeds” but two distinct forms of the same species. In the old days, you’d say that a pony was any horse under 14 hands, however, there are lots of horses that are 14 hands and sometimes smaller, and lots of ponies who push this size barrier (often called Cob size). However, there are also breeds of horses/ponies whose name changes, depending on who u talk to (ie. Icelandic Horse vs Icelandic Pony, Fjord Horse vs Fjord Pony) because they contain characteristics of both
those characteristics again, depend on who you really talk to. Generally speaking, ponies are stockier, stronger pound for pound, have thicker coats and manes, hardier and sturdier than horses who are taller, faster, have shorter/sleeker coats and finer manes and tails. Ponies are also generally considered to be smarter and more stubborn than horses, with better problem solving abilities and considered friendlier/less flighty.
but, the above, again, can cross over and both horses and ponies can contain both sets of characteristics, its a total sum of all the characteristics present and historical naming conventions that lead to pony and horse classification
but then you get into miniature horses vs miniature ponies (Falabella vs Shetlands) where its been a heated debate for decades over whether or not there is a difference between horses and ponies in this sense, as both miniature horses and ponies share common characteristics, they’re small, short legs, elongated middle sections, and under the height classification, they are ponies. HOWEVER if you go by the other characteristics, they don’t fit into the pony definition, because they don’t have a thick coat, the muscle, the thick raggedy mane and tail or the stubborn/cunning nature of a Shetland. You can also take into account that miniature horses have a much higher chance of dwarfism than shetlands, because shetlands well, basically evolved to suit the harsh island climate of the Shetland islands in northern Scotland while miniature horses were bred purely for their size and prettiness
what im saying is:
horse classifications are hilariously subjective and there are no laws in this world
an excellent explanation of the gender binary
“There are very few women in management, and changes take place very slowly… Like Queen Elizabeth in England, if Princess Aiko becomes the emperor, things may change in society.”
I ACTUALLY REALLY WANT TO DO THIS? I WANT A TINY LIL TRAIL OF FRECKLES OVER THE APPLES OF MY CHEEKS AND ACROSS MY NOSE????
then i can be as cute as @degeneratemagicalcatgirl
Yet another study confirms the trend: Younger people are less and less likely to think of themselves as exclusively heterosexual or – for that matter – belonging to one of the poles of the gender binary only.
The survey, of Americans aged 13-20 (Generation Z), has found that only 48% of them identify as “exclusively heterosexual”.
It turns out sexual orientation and gender identity are more like continuums, after all. Or maybe something even more complex.
In comparison with millennials aged 21 to 34, the younger generation – known as Gen Z – were found to be more open-minded and permissive than the group just a few years older…
Using a scale of zero to six, where zero represented “exclusively heterosexual” and six “exclusively homosexual”, over a third of Gen Z respondents picked a number other than zero or six.
The youngest ones are also strongly transpositive:
Over 70% of 13 to 20-year-olds strongly agreed that public spaces should be required to provide gender neutral bathrooms, which compared to only a little over half of millennials.
In another article about the stud, Teens These Days Are Queer AF, Vice adds this about gender:
Fifty-six percent of 13-to-20-year-olds said that they knew someone who went by gender neutral pronouns such as “they,” “them,” or “ze,” compared to 43 percent of people aged 28 to 34 years old. Over a third of Gen Z respondents also strongly agreed that gender did not define a person as much as it used to. This figure dropped to 23 percent among millennials who were 28 and up.
That study clearly documented that the younger you get, the less likely you are to consider yourself purely heterosexual.
Illustration photo from Jupiterimages.
I KNEW IT! I KNEW WE WEREN’T 4 PERCENT OF THE POPULATION!
Is there a source for this? For academic reasons.
here’s the article from the text post: http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/03/11/less-than-half-of-americas-youth-are-straight-new-survey-finds/
So basically Fudanjuku is a group that satisfy the needs of girls.
The other day I read a series of posts on the Hogwarts uniform and how book!uniform differs from movie!uniform, which is more canonical and whether there’s been/there should be some retconning to unify the books, films and illustrations from different sources. Since wizarding fashion is one of my favourite subjects (particularly since the word “corsets” was mentioned in HBP), I thought I had to write a post about it. So here it goes.
As much as I like the movie uniforms, the way I see it, they’re irreconcilable with those described in the books, which, both because they’re from the book and because that’s how I see them in my head, I consider canonical. Most people point out as proof of this that in a couple of occasions we are told more or less directly that the basic (I’ll talk more about this later) uniform does not bear any house indicator (see the Penelope Clearwater and Crabbe-and-Goyle’d Ron-and-Harry Cases, both in CoS). This is true. However, what I see as a bigger issue is the fact that the movie!uniform is basically a muggle school uniform with robes instead of a blazer, which, considering how often we see wizards struggling with muggle clothing, doesn’t really add up. And given that school uniforms tend to be on the conservative side of fashion, it would make much more sense to have the Hogwarts uniform resemble traditional wizarding attire.
The movie robes are completely open at the front save for one (PoA-onwards) or two (PS-CoS) little clasps, which would take next to no time to do up and undo, so the movie robes would be put on and off like a bathrobe or a coat. However, most (if not all) of the times we see Harry changing into his school robes he’s described as pulling them over his head. To me that implies that the front is not open all the way down, that maybe there’s just a small opening with a few buttons, like a polo shirt. Either that or the robes are open all the way down but fastening and unfastening them is so tedious that students simply never do them up or undo them all the way. In a pre-zipper world, a front opening like that would most probably mean a metric tonne of little buttons, at least (look up some old-timey portraits, particularly of women’s fashion. They took their buttons seriously). No one has time to fiddle with that many buttons, so it would be easier to undo a few of the top ones and pull the robes over your head.
Personally, I think the left-hand version fits the description of “plain black work robes” better. And yes, there’s no indication anywhere in the books that the sleeves are flared or gathered at the top, but they look more wizardy this way, so.
For an even more undeniable piece of evidence that supports the idea of having a closed front, look no further than Snape’s worst memory in OotP. When he gets levicorpused by James, we see his underwear. He’s not wearing trousers. Wh. Why is he not wearing trousers??? Because there’s no risk of accidental exposure of one’s undergarments when there isn’t a massive opening on the front of one’s robes, that’s why. Also, if for some sinister reason he had not been wearing trousers under open-fronted robes, everybody would’ve been able to see his pants already and it wouldn’t have been “funny” when James revealed them.
Moreover, it seems that trousers, even though they are worn in the wizarding world, are neither required nor part of traditional wizarding attire. See the old man in the Quidditch World Cup. Trousers have been adopted to some extent, but they are not considered wizarding clothing per se, but rather a garment borrowed from muggles. So if we go back to the idea that uniforms tend to be conservative, the Hogwarts uniform would have probably been designed to be worn with no clothes underneath other than underwear.
Hats. “One plain pointed hat (black) for day wear.” Day wear. In the films (PS, basically), hats seem to only be worn on special occasions. And I can understand that; On set they’re probably a huge inconvenience as they like to fall off and have to be touched up constantly and may cover something/someone important. Still, canonically, a pointed black hat for day wear is part of the Hogwarts uniform.
Now, do not quote me on this, but I am positive that in one of the books there is a description of a windy day where students grab the brims of their hats so that they don’t get blown off. That’s the one and only time in the whole series (that I can remember) where the uniform hats are said to be brimmed. It makes sense, though, as traditional witch hats do have a brim. Modest brims seem adequate for uniforms. (I do think it is strange to make students wear hats indoors, but oh well.)
Then there’s the winter cloaks. Again, plain and black, this time with silver clasps. No crest, no house colours. And there’s also the protective dragonskin gloves, which seem to be used both as protective gloves for Potions/Care of Magical Creatures/Herbology and as regular winter gloves.
So far we have established that the uniform consists basically of plain black garments: a set of black robes (closed front), a black cloak, a black hat. Hence, by default, there is no way to tell what house a student belongs to just by their attire. Or is there? Here’s where the “basic uniform” I mentioned before comes into play.
It is true that the robes, hats and cloaks are plain black when bought. And yet, there are many points in the story when Harry seems to simply know what house some students belong to, even when he clearly doesn’t know them. We get constant references to “a gorup of first year Ravenclaws” or “a Hufflepuff girl”, and since the story is told from Harry’s point of view rather than an omniscient narrator’s, there must be a way for Harry to tell apart people from different houses without knowing them personally. So how can we reconcile the ideas that some people’s house is recognisable at first sight while other people’s isn’t? It’s quite simple: CUSTOMISATION.
Bagdes, scarves, appliques, ribbons, hat ornaments, buttons, socks, belts, and a long etc, to show your house pride. Just as we can get jumpers and hoodies and caps and whatnot with the name and colours of our uni or specific college, kids in the wizarding world are probably able to buy (and make) house merchandise. These items would be available at Diagon Alley and Hogsmeade, and parents would send them to their children once they’ve been sorted or the kids themselves would be able to get them via owl order.
Some students may only wear a small badge on their chest. Others a scarf+turtleneck undershirt+bandana+animal-shaped hat bauble combo. I love to imagine some kids wearing ridiculously tacky things, like red-and-gold neck ruffles or bee-striped boots. And those kids who are not as inclined to show off their house? They can just wear their basic black uniform.
AAHHH FASHION POST I LOVE IT
also i would imagine, in the fishbowl culture of a boarding school, there would be significant pressure to display a minimum amount of group and status markers. why would a student be wearing no house identification if they weren’t concealing that information? your hogwarts house shows who you’re with socially, where you’re allowed to go geographically, and what your priorities are likely to be personally. everyone you’d meet, from first years to teachers to ghosts to the very portraits on the wall, would want to know how to categorize you, in order to enforce customs and rules, and to totally resist that would involve making a deliberate and transgressive statement.
that being said, i really like the idea of interhouse friends incorporating minor accents of one another’s colors into their array of house designators. a blue ribbon worked into the red and gold, or some black in your green and silver, that kind of thing. hufflepuffs would probably go around looking iridescent. which in itself would be a good indicator of a hufflepuff.
p.s please consider harry getting some blue ribbons for his sleeves after he’s friends with luna. bronze clasps starting to spread through the whole group in a declaration of support. ron and ginny split a pack of blue-beaded hat-pins. hermione adds a crescent moon buckle to her shoulder bag. luna gets overwhelmed with friendfeels and spends all week enchanting that adorable lion-head hat of hers.
The year is 1928. The Prohibition on magic and spells has backfired, and New York is bubbling over. Vincent Byrde, a grizzled P.I. laboring under a nasty curse, has built his career chasing witches and magicians wherever they may hide. One job, however, eludes him: the frustrating case of Jimmy Wonder, a young up-and-coming spellrunner who always seems to be one step ahead of the law. Vincent is set on bringing Wonder to heel. Wonder is set on being the biggest magician in New York City. Their dance takes a complicated turn when Kitty Lovelace – Jimmy’s sidekick and main girl – walks out on Wonder and straight into Vincent’s life.
Aimed at adult audiences, and (like any good noir story) contains violence, nudity and sexual content.
The first book to this original series is finally done! The book is off to print and should be ready in time for the holidays. In the meanwhile the digitial PDF is available for purchase.
Written by Alex “Muun” Singer and art by yours truly. Concepted back in 2012 and what consumed the past year and a half of my life to produce, it’s been a while ride from start to finish, and now we’re happy to share the results.
Special credits to Doyle, who contributed their valuable color assistance, and Airy, whose tireless loyalty and close collaboration of the typography/layout made this book look as good as it does. Very sincere thanks to Fawn Lau, who always selflessly helps bring the final details of our books together.
And, most importantly, thank you to our Kickstarter backers and everyone who supported us with their extreme patience and understanding!
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Guys, guys, STW PDF is now available!!! Please come read the story Chira and I have been working on for the last three years!!
Hey everyone, weekend reminder that if you enjoy the 1920s, film noir, magic, and gingerbread cookie grenades, to please consider buying the PDF for Small Town Witch. A fully illustrated novella that I’ve been working on along side Chira for the past three years.
A certain species of jellyfish has been deemed “immortal” by scientists who have observed its ability to, when in crisis, revert its cells to their earliest form and grow a new. That means that these tiny creatures, 4 mm to 5 mm long, potentially have infinite lives. -Source
Inspiration can be found everywhere! #Love it!
I said I would stop getting distracted and write, but…
Finnish guitar maker Amfisound does some seriously amazing craft work. The detail in this Egyptian 8-String Explorer styled guitar is phenomenal! I love that head stock and the detailed inlays in the neck.
Nasus
I HEARD MY CALLING
This speaks to my pubescent past self on a primal level
