In ancient China, love was tied, quite literally, with hair. On their wedding night, couples became jiefa fuqi (結髮夫妻), “hair-bound husband and wife,” by knotting strands of hair together, a vow deeper than rings. Before this, the bride wore a vivid ying (纓), a ribbon signaling 1/2 #folkTradition

be bad at your new hobby who cares

Crepus older and younger. And some diluc for comparison.

Toilet detective. Photo from my collection, ca. 1960s.

the future is for trans people

Everyone who tried to draw around me and started drawing LOVED it at the beginning because of their QUICK IMPROVEMENT. Then quit when they hit The Wall™️. But it's when you hit The Wall™️ that you NEED to push through with practice!! And you gotta do it for yourself, because it's ALWAYS worth it! 😤

老爹！！！！很累！！！！！！！ i wish i could caps in chinese lmfao

ok but did i discover that i actually like making things for people, or did i just realise that i love my people enough to make things for them?

So ChatGPT tells people to kill themselves, and OpenAI's response is to shift responsibility to unpaid, untrained, non-professional friends and family members. So if you get designated as the "trusted contact," you're doing terrifying unpaid work for this evil company. Shut it all down.

stupid how my rsd doesn't hold complete sway over me anymore but i still feel the world spin away from under my feet when i have to give a denial i know will disappoint the other person

oh amazing that my brain did not go quiet on me yesterday after dinner.

requiem for vanished birdsong

Little Red Dots xkcd.com/3212/

do I even write in eng anymore or am i just endlessly translating the rly badly written chinese in my head

'Moonlit Sea' - Koho, ca. 1930's. #FullMoon #JapaneseArt

Mothmom #kaseyart #penandink

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

eight years ago today we all watched the glory of zendaya falling madly in love with tom holland and the internet was never the same

其实我现在从魈的看法来创造这些故事，也依我来说，可适合的。和他一样，我也正在踏上归路。

Our 3-month, 6-in-1 event ✨ be kind, rewind ✨ starts this Sunday on discord! Making their triumphant returns are: 🕯️ Rise of the Dead Fandoms 🛶 Tiny Ship Fleet Fest ☕ Dark & Cozy 🚢 Make Me (Crack) Ship It 😈 To Spite You, Personally 🥝 Fandom Smash-up!

ik I've complained ab this 474738 times on here already but wow i love when i write something in eng like i normally do and the word with the exact feel I'm looking for only exists in chinese!!!!!

A salamander eating a piece of coal. Salamanders hold fuel in their mouths to burn it, which is how they consume it to generate their own heat and flames 석탄 먹는 샐러맨더. 입에 연료를 물어서 때운다. 연료를 때워서 "섭취"를 하고 그렇게 열을 발생한다

the past few days feel so... i tried not to shutter after i reunited with Desire. i haven't felt the touch of the sun and the wind on my face for years. everything feels so charged; i am so exposed, so unmoored

be mine #genshin #wriolette

大事な手紙 #luckae

Sir Flins appreciation post (´▽`ʃ♡ƪ) #GenshinImpact I sincerely declare he'd be my best porn star of 2026 🤲

taking to bsky to complain about how i should be allowed to kiss my friends and not have it mean that i don't see them as friends

lrt I've been enjoying the last vestiges of my nitro before i cry in nitrolessness until they completely nix their age verification plans 🥹 at least the server i currently boost won't feel it when my boosts deactivate 😔

ok but that's a Delay and not a Full Cancelation so you know what that means

field research

I've seen discourse surrounding artists "peaking" at 30 and I just want to say don't fall for that trap! I'll be 45 this year and I don't think I've ever been more resolute about my work. Existence and perseverance is art; you can not PEAK yourself. Every iota of creation you make is a miracle.☄️

tf y suddenly so 疲倦 i was going to WRITE when i got home, not become potato ):

the more i write, the more willing i am to let my grammar or my word choices be kinda wonky. sometimes it's me being too tired to heed my perfectionism, and sometimes it's like, it's fun, in a way? the sentence has a different texture! i chew on it & it's a diff exp from the usual. fun.

what trying to write smut feels like:

Hey. Tell people when they do good job. When you like the stuff they make. When you like the characters they’ve created. The stories they’ve told. Nobody hears it as often as you think bc everyone thinks everyone hears it all the time. Trust. They don’t. Tell. Them.

Just a reminder while this is a victory, it's not over yet until Discord completely gives up on the age verification nonsense. Don't resubcribe to Nitro immediately.

rip how do i say "my head goes horribly, terribly silent in a bad way after i hang out with you so i think we should not hang out for a while" in a way that makes sense to other people 🥹

a mundane curse #comic

Local Legend #Illuga #Flins #GenshinImpact #Genshin #Genshin_Impact Artist🎨topazice

40 Days of Drabbles - daily prompts from Ash Wednesday to Easter, prompts will mostly be winter/spring themed things. - DW: 40daysofdrabbles.dreamwidth.org

"我信任帝君，也信任你" PLEASE

Good days (1/3) (L->R) #Ratiorine

I would never repost a means to keep your ID safe and to give the middle finger to a company ran by the grandson of Mosley. I would also never encourage you guys to spread the word of this method to fill Palantir's servers with Metaverse like avatars to do a bit of trolling (a lot of it) 😇

People can say it’s utopian or dreamy but it’s a fact that you have to believe new things are possible, fundamentally, in order to make them real. You have to make the choice to believe that more than this is possible & not be resigned to this being the way things have to be because it’s not at all.

Kaeya • • • #genshinimpact #genshin #kaeya #kaeyaedit #kaeyaalberich

yk i actually... really wanna play in the cosmere. specifically roshar. might do like some AU type shit or something. at some point in the distant future

oh wtf i forgot i never published that one luoren fic i wrote in 2 languages, panicked about for 3 months, got proofread, and reworked twice. i was waiting for smth. i no longer rmb what it was 💀 help la lmfao 😭😭

funny how you can meet someone randomly online and they become such an important part of your life

it's so weird that as i was getting back into the swing of things i cld only write on my lappie, but now that i have some kinda flow going i find it easier to write on my phone? the lappie screen makes me oddly self-conscious. the words are so tiny & the screen is so big LMAO, i feel so exposed ??

발렌타인 지각생 등장🌹❤️💙 It's past Valentines where I live but I had to draw my emotional support OC couple for the occasion🙈