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Tried to replicate Miro's art style but I think I ended up doing my own thing rip. Anyways I love these two, dysfunctional witchy mother-daughter duo ❤️

Inanna is a travelling witch and former nun of All-mer who delves into the dungeons, and her whole arc is that she's essentially a hippie religious reformist who's anti-institutional religion. 9 out of 10 chance of becoming a hypocritical cult leader rather than the spiritual revolutionist she seeks to be.

Aeronwen is an immortal sorceress who kidnapped and raised Inanna as revenge against Inanna's witch hunting parents. A certain floating head would describe her as "A bat shit hag with the worst bony ass in existence". Girlie has currently been crucified for the last 7 years by said parents, but she's still kicking!!

o'saa drawing i did a while back

LISA has very good fangames! Play them!

[Fear & Hunger]

Enlightenment

Oc portrait because that's all I've got 💔

Old ass former creepypasta OC based on selkie myths, will have to draw her ""seal"" form soon.

This also doubles as a redraw since I first started this illustration in 2020 but it was so damn ugly I had to draw over it and you'll see that in the speed paint.

have a sketchy Enki

started playing fear & hunger and of course my favourite character is the morally dubious misanthrope

hello everyone i am back with another quiz. what soul type would you have in fear and hunger? enjoy. https://uquiz.com/quiz/dnAyEC/what-type-of-soul-would-you-have-fear-and-hunger

hope the coin toss was successful

but then, maybe it wasn't

Have finally made my first post on this god forsaken place, sorry if it sucks I’ve got no clue what I’m doing

Anyways I love these two together they’re literally the bane of each other’s existence, if it weren’t for the horrors of the dungeon Enki would have crucified Cahara on a cross already

fear and hunger doodles that came to me in a dream

Sad cat… Daance.

so I've been noticing lately that there's a growing divide between the "I HATE romance under all circumstances and at all times" (romance repulsed) and "romance is GREAT and I love it just as much as any allo person" (romance favorable) aros. while being either is fine, there are many aros who aren't either, so...

here's the romance-indifferent aros. here's to the aros who only like romance once and while. here's to the aros who enjoy romance-focused stories but get annoyed when it shows up anywhere else. here's to the aros who are incredibly picky when it comes to romance (but when it does fit their standards they really do enjoy it). here's to the aros who find their preferences changing a lot. here's to the aros who are neither romance repulsed nor romance favorable, because our community can never be divided into two, perfectly opposing sides.

Okay but people really need to realize how wrong it actually is to say ‘you’ll find someone eventually’ when that person clearly said they don’t want to find anyone and that they’re already perfectly happy with their life.

If those same people told me they’re in a happy relationship and I responded to that with ‘you’ll break up eventually’ I bet they wouldn’t like that. They’d literally get so confused and be like ‘Okay sure, there is always a possibility but why bring it up so randomly when it's totally irrelevant right now.’ and that is exactly how we feel! What matters is how we feel and what we want now and not what possibly might happen in the future, especially if it’s not even likely to happen. Why is it so hard to simply accept that someone doesn’t want that change in their life and be happy for them just like they’re happy for you when you’re in a relationship?

Imagine if we told them that thinking relationships make them happy is just a phase and that they’ll realize how being single makes them a lot more fulfilled (just like how they tell us that ‘the one’ will make us change our mind). I mean, I’m sure there are people out there who do come to that realization just like there are also people who eventually realize they do want to date which is valid, of course. What is actually wrong is making unnecessary assumptions and invalidating someone’s lifestyle solely because it’s different from yours. It’s not that they are simply stating the change is possible, they actually think it will undoubtedly happen and change your life for the better because they believe their lifestyle is superior to your current one. That’s the real problem.

Instead of forcing your lifestyle on someone, you just simply need to learn that no lifestyle is superior to the other, so even if it does change it doesn’t mean their previous one was any less valid or inferior to yours. That’s literally all people need to realize in order to respect us instead of expecting the change in our lives that doesn't need to happen.

Does anyone else on the arospec feel incredibly isolated from almost everyone? I don’t mean in a, “they can bond over same-sex relationships/being trans” way, I mean in a, “I no longer see things through an amatonormative lens but almost everyone I talk to does” way. 

The entire concept of love has been shifted drastically for me, but for other people, it’s rigid, inflexible, set in stone; romance is romance, friends are friends, there’s a line, it’s absolute, it’s simply the way things are. 

But so much of that confuses me, now. How can something be inherently romantic? How is teasing and complimenting people considered flirting, which is considered being romantically interested in someone? How is acting or looking at someone in a certain way somehow different between friends, lovers, family? How is platonic intimacy considered simply a stepping stone to romance? How is being emotional with people a sign of attraction? How?

I just don’t understand. And not being able to understand these things leaves me isolated from others, sometimes entirely, and it can be so exhausting sometimes. It’s exhausting to always have to justify why you don’t see things the same way they do, because the way they see things is “right” and “that’s just the way things are”, because “it’s a part of being human”. 

And, unfortunately, a lot of that comes from the LGBTQ+ community, especially when it comes fandom spaces. If you speak up about a same-sex/gender couple perhaps not being romantically interested, or you headcanon someone as aro, it’s always, “why does this happen when it’s a sapphic/mlm couple/lesbian/gay headcanon?” 

The implication that we are homophobic because we don’t see love in the same way others do hurts. The way that so many people see fans who want aromantic representation as simply not supporting gay people. Or when we speak up about people continuing to ship a confirmed/implied/coded aromantic character in romantic relationships, and we’re told to “stop taking it so seriously”. 

Arophobia is isolating, and unfortunately, it’s everywhere. The way society has regulated people’s lives, telling us how to be happy, who to be happy with, the rules of happiness, has long-since ingrained internalized arophobia into everyday life, and it’s so hard when you’re aware of it, but can’t do anything about it because no one wants to step away from their easy, comfortable ideals.

tips for choosing a Chinese name for your OC when you don’t know Chinese

This is a meta for gifset trade with @purple-fury! Maybe you would like to trade something with me? You can PM me if so!

Choosing a Chinese name, if you don’t know a Chinese language, is difficult, but here’s a secret for you: choosing a Chinese name, when you do know a Chinese language, is also difficult. So, my tip #1 is: Relax. Did you know that Actual Chinese People choose shitty names all the dang time? It’s true!!! Just as you, doubtless, have come across people in your daily life in your native language that you think “God, your parents must have been on SOME SHIT when they named you”, the same is true about Chinese people, now and throughout history. If you choose a shitty name, it’s not the end of the world! Your character’s parents now canonically suck at choosing a name. There, we fixed it!

However. Just because you should not drive yourself to the brink of the grave fretting over choosing a Chinese name for a character, neither does that mean you shouldn’t care at all. Especially, tip #2, Never just pick some syllables that vaguely sound Chinese and call it a day. That shit is awful and tbh it’s as inaccurate and racist as saying “ching chong” to mimic the Chinese language. Examples: Cho Chang from Harry Potter, Tenten from Naruto, and most notorious of all, Fu Manchu and his daughter Fah lo Suee (how the F/UCK did he come up with that one).

So where do you begin then? Well, first you need to pick your character’s surname. This is actually not too difficult, because Chinese actually doesn’t have that many surnames in common use. One hundred surnames cover over eighty percent of China’s population, and in local areas especially, certain surnames within that one hundred are absurdly common, like one out of every ten people you meet is surnamed Wang, for example. Also, if you’re making an OC for an established media franchise, you may already have the surname based on who you want your character related to. Finally, if you’re writing an ethnically Chinese character who was born and raised outside of China, you might only want their surname to be Chinese, and give them a given name from the language/culture of their native country; that’s very very common.

If you don’t have a surname in mind, check out the Wikipedia page for the list of common Chinese surnames, roughly the top one hundred. If you’re not going to pick one of the top one hundred surnames, you should have a good reason why. Now you need to choose a romanization system. You’ll note that the Wikipedia list contains variant spellings. If your character is a Chinese-American (or other non-Chinese country) whose ancestors emigrated before the 1950s (or whose ancestors did not come from mainland China), their name will not be spelled according to pinyin. It might be spelled according to Wade-Giles romanization, or according to the name’s pronunciation in other Chinese languages, or according to what the name sounds like in the language of the country they immigrated to. (The latter is where you get spellings like Lee, Young, Woo, and Law.)  A huge proportion of emigration especially came from southern China, where people spoke Cantonese, Min, Hakka, and other non-Mandarin languages.

So, for example, if you want to make a Chinese-Canadian character whose paternal source of their surname immigrated to Canada in the 20s, don’t give them the surname Xie, spelled that way, because #1 that spelling didn’t exist when their first generation ancestor left China and #2 their first generation ancestor was unlikely to have come from a part of China where Mandarin was spoken anyway (although still could have! that’s up to you). Instead, name them Tse, Tze, Sia, Chia, or Hsieh.

If you’re working with a character who lives in, or who left or is descended from people who left mainland China in the 1960s or later; or if you’re working with a historical or mythological setting, then you are going to want to use the pinyin romanization. The reason I say that you should use pinyin for historical or mythological settings is because pinyin is now the official or de facto romanization system for international standards in academia, the United Nations, etc. So if you’re writing a story with characters from ancient China, or medieval China, use pinyin, even though not only pinyin, but the Mandarin pronunciations themselves didn’t exist back then. Just… just accept this. This is one of those quirks of having a non-alphabetic language.

(Here’s an “exceptions” paragraph: there are various well known Chinese names that are typically, even now, transliterated in a non-standard way: Confucius, Mencius, the Yangtze River, Sun Yat-sen, etc. Go ahead and use these if you want. And if you really consciously want to make a Cantonese or Hakka or whatever setting, more power to you, but in that case you better be far beyond needing this tutorial and I don’t know why you’re here. Get. Scoot!)

One last point about names that use the ü with the umlaut over it. The umlaut ü is actually pretty critical for the meaning because wherever the ü appears, the consonant preceding it also can be used with u: lu/lü, nu/nü, etc. However, de facto, lots of individual people, media franchises, etc, simply drop the umlaut and write u instead when writing a name in English, such as “Lu Bu” in the Dynasty Warriors franchise in English (it should be written Lü Bu). And to be fair, since tones are also typically dropped in Latin script and are just as critical to the meaning and pronunciation of the original, dropping the umlaut probably doesn’t make much difference. This is kind of a choice you have to make for yourself. Maybe you even want to play with it! Maybe everybody thinks your character’s surname is pronounced “loo as in loo roll” but SURPRISE MOFO it’s actually lü! You could Do Something with that. Also, in contexts where people want to distinguish between u and ü when typing but don’t have easy access to a keyboard method of making the ü, the typical shorthand is the letter v. 

Alright! So you have your surname and you know how you want it spelled using the Latin alphabet. Great! What next?

Alright, so, now we get to the hard part: choosing the given name. No, don’t cry, I know baby I know. We can do this. I believe in you.

Here are some premises we’re going to be operating on, and I’m not entirely sure why I made this a numbered list:

Chinese people, generally, love their kids. (Obviously, like in every culture, there are some awful exceptions, and I’ll give one specific example of this later on.)

As part of loving their kids, they want to give them a Good name.

So what makes a name a Good name??? Well, in Chinese culture, the cultural values (which have changed over time) have tended to prioritize things like: education; clan and family; health and beauty; religious devotions of various religions (Buddhism, Taoism, folk religions, Christianity, other); philosophical beliefs (Buddhism, Confucianism, etc) (see also education); refinement and culture (see also education); moral rectitude; and of course many other things as the individual personally finds important. You’ll notice that education is a big one. If you can’t decide on where to start, something related to education, intelligence, wisdom, knowledge, etc, is a bet that can’t go wrong.

Unlike in English speaking cultures (and I’m going to limit myself to English because we’re writing English and good God look at how long this post is already), there is no canon of “names” in Chinese like there has traditionally been in English. No John, Mary, Susan, Jacob, Maxine, William, and other words that are names and only names and which, historically at least, almost everyone was named. Instead, in Chinese culture, you can basically choose any character you want. You can choose one character, or two characters. (More than two characters? No one can live at that speed. Seriously, do not give your character a given name with more than two characters. If you need this tutorial, you don’t know enough to try it.) Congratulations, it is now a name!!

But what this means is that Chinese names aggressively Mean Something in a way that most English names don’t. You know nature names like Rose and Pearl, and Puritan names like Wrestling, Makepeace, Prudence, Silence, Zeal, and Unity? I mean, yeah, you can technically look up that the name Mary comes from a etymological root meaning bitter, but Mary doesn’t mean bitter in the way that Silence means, well, silence. Chinese names are much much more like the latter, because even though there are some characters that are more common as names than as words, the meaning of the name is still far more upfront than English names.

So the meaning of the name is generally a much more direct expression of those Good Values mentioned before. But it gets more complicated!

Being too direct has, across many eras of Chinese history, been considered crude; the very opposite of the education you’re valuing in the first place. Therefore, rather than the Puritan slap you in the face approach where you just name your kid VIRTUE!, Chinese have typically favoured instead more indirect, related words about these virtues and values, or poetic allusions to same. What might seem like a very blunt, concrete name, such as Guan Yu’s “yu” (which means feather), is actually a poetic, referential name to all the things that feathers evoke: flight, freedom, intellectual broadmindness, protection…

So when you’re choosing a name, you start from the value you want to express, then see where looking up related words in a dictionary gets you until you find something that sounds “like a name”; you can also try researching Chinese art symbolism to get more concrete names. Then, here’s my favourite trick, try combining your fake name with several of the most common surnames: 王，李，陈. And Google that shit. If you find Actual Human Beings with that name: congratulations, at least if you did f/uck up, somebody else out there f/ucked up first and stuck a Human Being with it, so you’re still doing better than they are. High five!

You’re going to stick with the same romanization system (or lack thereof) as you’ve used for the surname. In the interests of time, I’m going to focus on pinyin only.

First let’s take a look at some real and actual Chinese names and talk about what they mean, why they might have been chosen, and also some fictional OC names that I’ve come up with that riff off of these actual Chinese names. And then we’ll go over some resources and also some pitfalls. Hopefully you can learn by example! Fun!!!

Let’s start with two great historical strategists: Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu, and the names I picked for some (fictional) sons of theirs. Then I will be talking about Sun Shangxiang and Guan Yinping, two historical-legendary women of the same era, and what I named their fictional daughters. And finally I’ll be talking about historical Chinese pirate Gan Ning and what I named his fictional wife and fictional daughter. Uh, this could be considered spoilers for my novel Clouds and Rain and associated one-shots in that universe, so you probably want to go and read that work… and its prequels… and leave lots of comments and kudos first and then come back. Don’t worry, I’ll wait.

(I’m just kidding you don’t need to know a thing about my work to find this useful.)

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hey everyone! i've seen a lot of book talk going around, so i'm just posting the link to my copy of file again for all of you. enjoy lol (also, if this link or any links to the book in other posts stop working- just DM me! i will be more than happy to get the pdf to you :])

me, an autonomous adult in college: *looks up tips for managing adhd on a deadline*

every single result: AS A PARENT to help YOUR CHILD WITH ADHD monitor YOUR CHILD'S behavior and reward HIM for doing work because CHILDREN WITH ADHD need constant support-

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“What is the titles of a princes wife and concubine in the qing dynasty…”

So what about the husbands of the princesses? Ive only seen the english translation, but they call them prince consorts? What is that in chinese? And what does this mean for the women in the house do princesses retain their rank over the men they marry after marriage? Did they have more freedoms than ordinary wives and the concubines of the emperor.

(This is in general, not specific to the Qing dynasty. There isn’t any specific variance in the Qing dynasty anyway.) 

Consort is a sort of catchall and code for “there is no direct equivalent to this in English”.

Husbands of princesses who hold the title of gongzhu 公主* are called fuma (驸马). It orginates from an official position in the Han dynasty called fuma duwei 驸马都尉. This person was in charge of taking care of the horses used directly by the emperor, and this position was usually given to husbands of princesses. Eventually the title fuma becomes the general word used to refer to/address a husband of a princess, even after the position no longer exists. Of course, the husband may have other titles in his own right that he may be referred to. 

Example: Xie Yu in Nirvana in Fire married a princess (gongzhu) Liyang, so technically he is a fuma, but no one calls him that. He earned his title of Marquis in his own right (well, you know, as far as the the emperor was concerned, let’s not go there right now), and it is a more official title that everyone uses to address him with. The novel actually talks about this a bit: Liyang, as a princess, retains the rights to 1) live in her own manor (i.e. she would own the manor and Xie Yu would have less power there) and 2) be addressed as princess within her married household. But instead she lives in Xie Yu’s manor and her household servants address her as madam/furen only. Again there are Reasons for this but the NIF novel takes pains to point out that this is Not Normal. 

(Because I am also pendantic, can we just clarify that Xie Yu’s title is Marquis Ningguo “宁国”侯, not Marquis of Ning (country). 宁国 means “Brings Peace to the Country” and is a Title.)

Anyway. The word used for when a princess marries is 下嫁, consisting of 下 (down/lower) and 嫁 (marry), so a princess always technically marries down. So yes, technically a princess retains rank over their husband after marriage, but Confucian gender relations also means that as a wife and as a woman, she is also simulataneously below him, and would still be expected to adhere to the kind of behaviour expected of a wife. I imagine how they navigate the actual relationship would be up to the couple. (Also as a woman, you’re expected to be demure and gentle and all that anyway, so it’s probably also frowned upon to be overbearing to your own husband.)

*gongzhu 公主  is the title usually given to daughters of the emperor. There are other ranks of female descendants of the imperial family, some of them sometimes also translated as “princess” due to lack of direct equivalent. For reference and because I already have this tab open, the titles granted to female members of the imperial clan (in general, not only in any particular dynasty) includes, along with the broad degree of relation to the emperor:

gongzhu 公主  (when you were born, your father was the emperor; 长公主 zhanggongzhu is used to differentitate between sisters of the current emperor, i.e. daughters of the previous emperor, and daughters of the current emperor)

junzhu 郡主** (when you were born, your grandfather was the emperor)

xianzhu 县主 (Qi Heng’s first wife in The Story of Ming Lan was a xianzhu - this implies that probably her great-grandfather was an emperor)

xiangzhu 乡主 

Husband of junzhu is junma 郡马, which I’m pretty sure is just a cut-and-paste variation of fuma. Don’t ask me what the titles for husbands of the lower ranks are. I suspect there is no specific title. 

** Nirvana in Fire’s Mu Nihuang’s title is junzhu, often translated as “princess”, which is confusing because she is not directly related to the emperor. It is also sometimes translated as “duchess” which is probably more accurate in terms of where she is in the general hierarchy of nobility but is confusing in other ways. She holds this title because her father held the title Prince of Yunnan 云南王 (but was not a son of the emperor), and junzhu is the title usually given to the daughter of a 王. 

There are two possible reasons for Nihuang’s father being a “prince with a different surname”  異姓王 under the reigning Liang emperor 帝. 1) Yunnan previously operated as an independent nation under the rule of what in English would be called a king 王 but later became a vassal state pledging allegiance to the Liang empire, and thus was permitted to retain their title of 王. (The nuances between 王 and 帝 as titles of monarchs is another essay…) 2) due to the Mu family’s military achievements, the emperor of Liang actually bestowed the title of 王 on their family as reward. Considering how paranoid the emperor is, I’ve always headcanoned the first explanation honestly. 

hakudoushinumbernine

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“What is the titles of a princes wife and concubine in the qing dynasty…”

Also, what are the ranks of the officials and their wives?

hakudoushinumbernine

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“What is the titles of a princes wife and concubine in the qing dynasty…”

And their concubines?

Officials’ wives are just furen 夫人 (madam), differentiated by their husband’s surname; there are no specific title. Concubines do not have titles. They don’t even have rights within the household. Concubines of emperors and princes are a different breed altogether. 

(夫人 is also an Official Title that needs to be bestowed by the emperor in certain dynasties (e.g. as in Story of Ming Lan) but I don’t know enough to talk about this.) - H

so can we start hunting down white liberals now or what

Blackness to me is inherently gender nonconforming largely because we will never fit into binary white supremacist notions of manhood and womanhood.

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