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i am actually very interested in like, the constants of personiftranslation across systems and time. there’s a pretty universal consensus among us that avatar appearance reflects demographics (i am not counting demiavatars who are simultaneously avatars and individuals) and they can do asexual reproduction but i’ve always wondered if there are more things and if those things mean anything

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I have a few things for ya. These come from the book “The Art of Ill Will: The Story of American Political Cartoons” by Donald Dewey

FWIW, these are some of the “less racist” ones documented in the book. 😬 Needless to say, a lot of depictions of POC of that time, especially in political cartoons, were not particularly kind.

THANK YOUUUUUUUUUU will be reading. and noted

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made a thing. sparse rn but it’ll get beefier. as usual you can suggest things for me to add

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How come semi trucks in Europe look like “toot toot :)” and in North America they look like “HONK HOOOOOOOONK >:|”

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european what

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themself is for people themselves is for personifs

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Открытки со странами Антанты в женских образах. Французский художник Ксавье Саже.

Postcards with the Entente countries in female images. French artist Xavier Saget.

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Happy pride bro its 2013

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i do Not know how to describe this without it sounding glorification heavy but it was normalized by the colonial powers for them to have very big power imbalances with their colonies. one of the reasons why up until the mid-early 20th century the stuff they did to them wasn't really questioned/was encouraged for the colony so that they were quotation marks "tamed" 🥀

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i use she/her on britain in a general setting and he/him in a romantic/colonial setting ^_^ romantic and colonial being in the same place means nothing btw

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what is the syriran dynamic?

oh lord where do i Start.

it’s. not good for them. mostly for syria but i can’t imagine iran gets much out of a guy being obsessed with him outside the political aspects.

syria is less ‘in love’ with him than he is just with the, idea of him i suppose? the idea of someone who he can follow the word of so without a second thought—just like he’s always done, like when life was easier for him—and that really, truthfully cares to ‘protect’ him despite his role. a new owner, basically, but less in the sense of a ruling empire and more in that of a dog owner. and iran fits the bill almost perfectly—minus the part where he has been empires ruling over him. syria doesn’t know that, though. there’s a lot he doesn’t know about him. iran prefers to keep it like that, even if he coaxes syria into telling him more and more about himself—his life, his insecurities, his thoughts. whatever he has.

iran isn’t doing it strictly out of an imperialist desire—he likes syria enough as a person, he’s attracted to him, they’re in some kind of unofficial relationship. but it’s easier for those goals if he enables syria’s bad habits (his paranoia, largely), even if it makes him more (emotionally) dependent on iran. and sure, he breaks syria’s ‘boundaries’ semi-often, but it isn’t like syria’s ever properly communicated them, and both of them know iran wouldn’t cross one plainly stated. but both of them know better that syria isn’t going to, for fear of upsetting him or getting him to leave. and it isn’t that big of a deal, anyway, and syria really shouldn’t be making scenes in public, even if it’s so obvious that he’s uncomfortable and wants iran to back off a little and maybe quit touching him as much also.

and syria definitely does express it sometimes! but that’s largely when he’s being ‘hysterical’, for lack of a better word, and also ends up being a double-edged sword of relief that he managed to, but also proof that maybe he’s in the wrong the other times because he just can’t bring himself to do it and he can’t really blame iran for his own personal issues, can he?

and he does genuinely think iran’s doing this—all of this, the isolation, the bringing them closer together—for his own good; protecting him. even if sometimes he’s scared of him and doesn’t really listen to him when he’s ‘sick’ even if he insists that he could at least tell him there’s something in his water next time so he can anticipate the next nightmare.

it starts out relatively one-sided, funnily enough, when they first get on the same side—syria wants him, iran thinks this could be a good opportunity to secure a longterm ally. not really in the ‘stringing him along’ way, neither of them are ones for sexual or really even romantic relations, but he is nicer to him than a lot of their other friends. pays more attention to detail with him. syria invites him to get coffee together in 1989, to “celebrate the end of the war with iraq”, he says, and iran agrees. it’s the closest thing to domesticity they have for most of their time, before syria all but freefalls into his sphere of influence. the Real syriran period is the 2010s, they’re still on equal footing in the 80s and the 90s and even the early 2000s, at least politically (personally, they’ve been getting there).

sure, he indulges syria’s asks occasionally, but the final decision is usually up to him. he’ll let him weigh in on things that affect him and sometimes he’ll choose to do what syria wants. but syria still has to break it off with iraq, because iran said so. syria still has to remain isolated, because iran said so. and iran still has the only other key to syria’s apartment, because he wanted to. (even though having something going on with iraq isn’t a threat to them and arranging a single visit from a trusted mutual friend would hardly be difficult at all and syria doesn’t remember ever giving him a key—but his memory’s been patchy these past few years, hasn’t it? and it isn’t like iran’s doing much with it except checking up on him occasionally, is it?).

and nearly all of syria’s allies are iran’s as well, and all of them certainly approve of their ‘alliance’ well enough not to interfere too much. (well, minus russia, sort of, he actually questions them sometimes but usually just shakes his head at them then continues on with whatever he was doing). and in the end, is syria gonna believe them or iran more, anyway?

does that make sense? am i making them too unhealthy? am i gonna be hit with the proship allegations? don’t cancel me on twitter dot com please 🙏

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never mind i'll show this part aswell

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1916 just lost my first patient this week

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stop TRUSTING HIMMM

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belgium treated drc so badly that FRANCE. the third republic. one of his closest friends that probably does similar to his colonies just behind closed doors, pulled him out of a meeting only to talk about drc's odd behaviour

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the bifurcation of roman personifications into ideal (feminine 90% of the time, allegorical, representing the province as an entity and their contribution to the empire, usually in agreement or embodiment with the roman governance) and the real (either feminine or masculine, modeled after a real captive from the province, representing the province as an aggregate of their people, often depicted in or immediately after rebellion from roman governance) has its distant echo in the common countryhumans bifurcation of their subjects into country form (usually masculine from general fandom inclinations but also political cartoon influence probably, flagface, the nation/state distinct from the people of the nation/state as the case may be, which usually means a closer affiliation or straight up embodiment with/of their government) and human form (usually masculine for the same reasons, modeled as an aggregate/average of their people’s appearances, associated with disguise among their people and rebellion) AND IN THIS FUCKING ESSAY I WILL

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Your stained glass window vest is STUNNING! Are you willing to share your pattern, or its source if it's available for purchase?

Thank you ! I'm going to take the opportunity for a permanent answer post to this question since I've given the pattern in dozens of comments ever since I started posting about the project, but obviously that isn't a convenient way for people to find the information !

Tracery Vest by Kathleen Sperling aka Wipinsanity on Ravelry and on her own website

As you can see the shape of the garment itself is a bit different from what I did. The ribbing in the original makes for a nice fitted silhouette, but I'm quite short in the burst and not hourglass shaped at all, so I made some alterations. I reduced the corrugated ribbing to half of its length, and added a few rows of colourwork to close the ribbing lines into an archway pattern. Then, I added one repetition of the windows at the bottom of the pattern chart, before returning to the pattern instructions as if I'd just finished the ribbing section. I also changed the bind-off in pattern into a stretchy bind off in order to keep the armholes and neckline a little looser. I also added a central double decrease every other row for the vneck.

There you go ! Def more info than you asked for but I hope you don't mind me using your ask as a jumping-off point.

Cheers everyone !