#for like an introductory work

[trashcanwithsprinkles]

Ive seenyou mention wuxia a few times now and i wonder what that is. Would you mind explaining it to me?

not the most qualified person to explain this as i'm not, in fact, from china; but i've read a couple of wuxia so here goes:

wuxia is a genre of fiction from china specifically, about martial artists in ancient china. i don't think a specific time period is like required? obviously some dynasties are more popular but idk how it goes in that front. it just has to be Not Today and probably Too Long Ago. like pre industral revolution i think. again idk if that's a requirement, but most i've seen are from around the same relative murky pre-electricity era.

xianxia is a subgenre of wuxia that's specifically more fantasy-like, and it's not just martial arts, but also spiritual powers and cultivation (which i have no fucking clue how to explain without two hours and three tangents other than chinese magic system. if you've ever heard of chi/qi as an energy, it appears there). so like- genshin is by all accounts a xianxia, it just doesn't use the more common specific xianxia terms like cultivation. some of those are very weird to translate and probably not common for the average non-wuxia reader, so it makes sense why they're going for alternatives.

chongyun and xingqiu and xianyun are very much straight out of a xianxia. xianyun's entire story quest was the closest genshin has gotten to a straight xianxia plot so far. i highly reccomend ashikai's video on unnecessary visions if you want more info on why genshin is a xianxia hahah

cyanide narwhal has some talk of some stuff from xianxia, but that's mostly because well- fucking liyue, that's how it works there. the whole light energy striking down someone who's getting powerful and giving them godhood if they survive the strike is, while not exactly like that, something that happens in some xianxia as well. like the way adepti work in general is just very xianxia. ashikai does a much better job explaining it than i do tbh but yeah

TL;DR: wuxia is chinese martial arts fiction in ancient china, and xianxia is a wuxia subgenre with more magic elements. also genshin is a xianxia

[uncanny-tranny]

Quick trans tip for those experiencing breast growth:

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If anybody has anything to add, please do! I'm not directly experienced in this, but I want all trans people to be educated and empowered in what makes them comfortable💛

[enorfervent]

PLUTO sneak peek

[maryoliverdotcom]

morally-gayy -> oohloverboyyyy -> philomelasgf

ahana/alex ; they/them. classics nerd. will rant about trojan and mughal women and dostoevsky.

[written by euripides.]

carrd.

A Shade Darker Than Red | 11/11 | OCs Parvati/Renu | best friends to lovers | light angst, mostly yearning and oblivious sapphic fluff

Virah | 4/? | OCs Qameer/Noor | royal sapphics

Galatea: A Queer Retelling

Good Old-Fashioned Loverboy | Dancing on Your Heartstrings | Raghav x Ranveer

أنا من أولئك، ممن يموتون حين يحبون

تقبرنی

dni if racist, ableist, queerphobic or a pervert in general, i'd prefer to keep my tumblr family safe.

[junk-culture]

can we be serious. can we grow up and be serious and stop talking about invisible hands and unseen forces for one second please . you might as well tell me that every day the magical economy stork comes down from market heaven and leaves goods and services on the doostep.

[amaiguri]

Amaiguri's Tumblr Intro

How's it going? <3

My name is Belle aka. Amaiguri. I'm a narrative designer and game writer but in my spare time... I also make Things TM -- I write fantasy fiction, I make YouTube videos, I draw, and bumble through arts-n-crafts! And worldbuilding is like frosting to me; I love trying to create plausible cultures in fantastical settings! Like, yes, take me to a fantasy land with beaked dragon-like fire elementals and continents suspended a mile into the air by stone pillars but then tell me what they eat and show me the etymology of their languages. I wanna know how those languages relate to politics and power and morality and in-universe storytelling! <3 <3 <3

Admittedly, I don't know what I'm doing here cuz I'm fleeing Twitter... Please educate me on Tumblr culture -- I am fascinated. I feel like I understand Tumblr culture as well as I understand Japan: Through cultural artifacts rather than through actually being here.

I'll probably focus my Tumblr blog on writing and Worldbuilding -- especially for this fantasy, community Worldbuilding project I founded, called Yssaia. (Besides, I need a new place to host all the images O_O)

So, yeah, come be my friend! I like friends and it's harder to make those as an Adult TM now. (I'm over 21, if that's the sort of thing that worries you.) If I do something that makes you die inside, understandable.

But yeah, please say "Hi!" if I sound cool and you wanna be my writer/worldbuilding buddy!

[the-busy-ghost]

Alright uninformed rant time. It kind of bugs me that, when studying the Middle Ages, specifically in western Europe, it doesn’t seem to be a pre-requisite that you have to take some kind of “Basics of Mediaeval Catholic Doctrine in Everyday Practise” class. 

Obviously you can’t cover everything- we don’t necessarily need to understand the ins and outs of obscure theological arguments (just as your average mediaeval churchgoer probably didn’t need to), or the inner workings of the Great Schism(s), nor how apparently simple theological disputes could be influenced by political and social factors, and of course the Official Line From The Vatican has changed over the centuries (which is why I’ve seen even modern Catholics getting mixed up about something that happened eight centuries ago). And naturally there are going to be misconceptions no matter how much you try to clarify things for people, and regional/class/temporal variations on how people’s actual everyday beliefs were influenced by the church’s rules. 

But it would help if historians studying the Middle Ages, especially western Christendom, were all given a broadly similar training in a) what the official doctrine was at various points on certain important issues and b) how this might translate to what the average layman believed. Because it feels like you’re supposed to pick that up as you go along and even where there are books on the subject they’re not always entirely reliable either (for example, people citing books about how things worked specifically in England to apply to the whole of Europe) and you can’t ask a book a question if you’re confused about any particular point. 

I mean I don’t expect to be spoonfed but somehow I don’t think that I’m supposed to accumulate a half-assed religious education from, say, a 15th century nobleman who was probably more interested in translating chivalric romances and rebelling against the Crown than religion; an angry 16th century Protestant; a 12th century nun from some forgotten valley in the Alps; some footnotes spread out over half a dozen modern political histories of Scotland; and an episode of ‘In Our Time’ from 2009. 

But equally if you’re not a specialist in church history or theology, I’m not sure that it’s necessary to probe the murky depths of every minor theological point ever, and once you’ve started where does it end? 

Anyway this entirely uninformed rant brought to you by my encounter with a sixteenth century bishop who was supposedly writing a completely orthodox book to re-evangelise his flock and tempt them away from Protestantism, but who described the baptismal rite in a way that sounds decidedly sketchy, if not heretical. And rather than being able to engage with the text properly and get what I needed from it, I was instead left sitting there like:

And frankly I didn’t have the time to go down the rabbit hole that would inevitably open up if I tried to find out

[icewindandboringhorror]

I have found a beautiful perfect humble rock specimen that is light yellow with a weird dark yellowy brown lining, somewhat resembling a chunk of smoked gouda cheese... effervescent

[starbuck]

me last semester: i am NOT taking four courses again! no way!

me now: *clown shoes jingling as i go to sign up for my fourth course*

[hatsunemikusgirlfriend]

Btw if anyone wondered where I stand on the matter...

Feel free to join with your own too! https://tiermaker.com/create/miku-x-pokmon-project-voltage-16213550

[larphis]

I can‘t believe I will have to sit in a fucking college lecture tomorrow when the episodes air. I am so pissed I could scream. You‘re telling me I‘ll have to wait 4 extra hours till I get to see Ed and Stede‘s kiss on the battlefield, their silly date on land, them flirting for two eps straight and them even possibly dancing the devil‘s tango?! I think I‘m gonna cry.

[stardestroyer81]

I thought it would be fun to make small character cards styled after old arcade flyers from Japan for each character in Rascal's candied cast, starting with everyone's favorite bunny boy Rascal! 🧡💙🧡

[twolovelyberries]

Six of Crows - Shadow Business

[fdragon-art]

Day 23 (30 Days | Homestuck - Day 9) - Favourite Flash ([S] Jade: Enter)

"CG: YOU MADE AN UNBEATABLE BOSS IS WHAT YOU DID"

=Thoughts=

I'm wondering if I should really write these when the pieces are made simply since not a great deal of thought is put into the how of it. It's been an interesting habit, but still.

Trying to pick how to go about this took some thought, but a simple scene that shows the impact of the whole thing seemed right, both because simple & doable and also because it demonstrates the impact of the whole flash and not just one scene (though that would've been a good approach too).

I just did a simple mostly-symmetrical piece of Bec Noir since, aside from the clothes and scar, he is largely symmetrical. The bust portion was done incomplete intentionally but the wings, while also incomplete, extended beyond the intended frame 'cause otherwise it wasn't going to look natural.

It's surprising the power of a reference shot (even if this is closer to a panel redraw). The flash had some good shots of Bec Noir on its own.

[aestheticallynotdeerlightful]

The Overgrown

Welcome to thing thing I’ve been working on for 21hrs just for an au, which is legit just for a reference chart of said au (that I’ll probably talk about- eventually when I work out specifics, gonna finish designing everything first)

This au doesn’t have a name yet so I’m not gonna add the tag until later, so I guess- keep an eyesocket out if your interested, and probably post actual- undertale art in the mean time and not au stuff

(Please do not repost or use my works anywhere without explicit permission from me thank you. <3 reblogs are appreciated )

Timelapse and references will be in reblog

[fukikoichinomiya]

i need to practice my japanese sooo bad but it’s sooo hard when i’m not in a class for it yet