randomslasher:

atopfourthwall:

villainous-queer:

radwolf76:

icarus-suraki:

lew-basnight:

The thing re Weird Al that I think is worth recognizing is illustrated by the Spike Jones Jr quote “One of the things that people don’t realize about Dad’s kind of music is, when you replace a C-sharp with a gunshot, it has to be a C-sharp gunshot or it sounds awful.“ It’s like really good parody has to do it all backwards and in heels, and Weird Al gets in there and counts the syllables and pours over the phrasing and word choices so that it all sounds precisely like the original, and then re-records the song, acknowledging the tiniest details of the recording, and also makes it a highly detailed spoof of an adjacent and absurdly unrelated piece of popular culture. I think really good parody has a love for the source materiel that’s impossible to fake. It takes real musicianship (or craft) to do and it usually gets tossed aside as “novelty” recording.

You gotta be fuckin’ good if you want to fuck it up.

Al will also try to reuse the original music video sets if they’re available, and bring back the same background actors.

I assure you, in the music industry, Weird Al is highly respected. If he makes a parody of your song it’s acknowledged that it means you have ‘made it’ as an artist. Rappers have commented on how ‘scary good’ at rapping he is. His range is right up there with Danny Elfman in terms of how incredibly huge it is. Accordion players have commented that he’s insane on the accordion, and does it while jumping around on stage, I may add. He learns from his mistakes and to top it all off he’s a really kind man (I’ve met him).

In this house we salute Weird Al.

heirtocragflame:

chthonicillness:

evilscientist3:

burningchandelier:

mickjustmademylist:

fucking. what?

I feel like this picture really gives it context

you know how it is with spaghetti

?????

Don’t narc on your pasta friend.

guerrillatech:

theevilanonblog:

I want to urge everyone to call their Senators and House members, even if you live in a conservative state, and urge them to say no to cuts to Medicaid and no to work requirements. Many Americans, left or right, are on Medicaid, including many Republican voters. Talk to your conservative family, especially those who are on Medicaid, and tell them to contact their congresspeople. Medicaid is life saving and for many, like elderly patients in nursing homes, they’d die in the streets without it. If you are a working American, this is your money. You put your money into the system so that if you or a loved one go through a tragedy, you will be taken care of.

I know it seems like we are helpless, but there are still many ways we can make a difference! Call, send an email, and encourage your friends and family to also do so.

redsugarx:

Hanfu in Components: Hanfu Anatomy, Tops (pt 3.1)

Now that you know about the names of different garments, what about the parts of each garment? There are so many confusing terms!!! I gotchu :>

When looking at hanfu and parts of hanfu, it can help to see how the garment is constructed. To do that, we have to look at the pattern of the garment. Sewing patterns are the templates that tell sewists how to cut their fabric into the shapes that are needed to make their clothes. Hanfu sewing patterns are fairly standard. They look roughly like this.

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(blue = shoulder fold line // red = center front // green = center back)

To help you understand how this all comes together, when defining different parts of hanfu anatomy, I’ll show it on the sketch above, and also on photos of people wearing hanfu, highlighted in green.

身/SHEN1/BODY

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This refers to the body of the garment—the part that would cover your torso. Typically there are two pieces of cloth making up the body: one on the left and one on the right.

Once again, one of hanfu’s main defining characteristics is that traditionally, THE SAME PIECE OF FABRIC MAKES UP THE FRONT AND THE BACK. There is no shoulder seam separating the front and back of the garment.

袖/XIU4/SLEEVE

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袖 means sleeve (in both technical and colloquial terms). There are many shapes that the sleeve can take: they can be narrow like normal clothing or they can be big and dramatic like the kind you see in cdramas. Like the body, there is no seam separating the front and back of the sleeve—the sleeve piece is draped over the arm and sewn together at the bottom. Another important characteristic is that the sleeves are joined to the body at the bicep or elbow area, NOT at the shoulder. (Short or half-sleeve tops might not have a separate sleeve piece.)

領/领/LING3/COLLAR

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領 means collar (in both technical and colloquial terms). This can refer to two things: one, the general shape of the neck area (round, square, standing, cross etc.) and the actual strip of fabric that is attached at the neck to form the collar.

襟//JIN4/LAPEL

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This can be translated as collar or lapel; I choose to say lapel to distinguish it from 領. This refers to the area where an open-front top would open. It’ll look different based on the collar type—generally a 對襟/对襟/dui4 jin4/parallel collar top’s jin coincides with the front centerline.

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With a 交領/交领/jiao1 ling3/cross-collar top, however, it would coincide with the outer edge of the collar. (Will have a more detailed post about this later.)

下擺/下摆/XIA4 BAI3/HEMLINE

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Refers to the bottom hem of the garment. 下 means down/bottom. Note that 擺 can refer to different things in different contexts. If you see someone talk about the 下擺 of a top, they’re talking about this bit.

The following terms only apply to a subsection of hanfu tops and may have fewer images as a result.

衽/REN4/LAPEL EXTENSION

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This one is a little harder to translate. Applies to non-parallel lapel tops like cross collar, diagonal-lapel standing collar, and overlapping round collar garments. It’s an extension of the BODY piece on the front, sewn to the vertical center front seam, that overlaps over the other side. (Will have a more detailed post about this later.)

衩/CHA4/VENT

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Also called vents or slits—an optional open slit, usually made on each side of a longer shirt or robe, to allow for ease of movement. Might be combined with the word 開/开/kai1/open to form the phrase 開衩/开衩/kai1 cha4/open slit. Mostly applies to longer robes or tops, where the length reaches the knee, so that you don’t have issues with walking.

襴/LAN2/WAIST EXTENSION

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Also a little harder to translate. This only applies to 襦/ru2/Ru tops and 襴衫/襕衫/lan2 shan1/Lanshan robes, plus some varieties that were derived off of those two. The 襴/襕/lan2 is an extra rectangle of fabric appended to the bottom of a shirt/top to extend its length. It can be made of a contrasting fabric or the same fabric, and often has pleats on the sides to allow for movement. (Will have a more detailed post about this later.)

緣/缘/YUAN2/TRIM

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Refers to the trim or decorative contrasting bits on a piece of clothing. Specific location goes in front of the character. For example, 袖缘 means sleeve trim, aka the cuff. Some specific trims might have their own special names but that’s for another post.

Later post about skirts/pants to come soon!

dragon-in-a-fez:

runawaymarbles:

ngkiscool:

traegorn:

wild-song:

vaspider:

cal-is-a-cuddlefish:

vaspider:

narcissistcookbook:

thinking about how my old university’s automatic email generation gave my friend Andy Ryan the email address ARYAN88

Way, way back in the day, because I am ancient, our university assigned us email addresses you couldn’t have changed, which included your first initial, middle initial, part of your surname, and the last five digits of your social security number. They stopped doing that after people kicked up a huge fucking fuss, but…

… I think I’d still rather have that one than your friend’s. Damn.

My old job assigned me “cajones” and I had to very, very gently tell them that I could not and would not send professional emails with it because my email would be balls@company.com

I just cackled so loud it scared the dogs.

My mom had a colleague whose name was something like Sara Tan and was given “satan@job.com”

When I was in college, Windows used to leave the username of the last user who logged in in the login form, and a bunch of my friends became obsessed with he username (not the person, just the username) of some poor young woman named (I believe) Sarah M Boomgartner.

The username was “BOOMGASM”

I knew a person called Polly Oppenheimer, and so “poop@uni.com” haunted her till she finished her PhD.

Someone in upper management of a company I used to work for was Sally Odom

Or, according to her signature, sodom.

back in high school I had a teacher named Jim Christie. emailing him at J.Christ@schoolboard.org was always fun

libraford:

No, I am not ‘hoarding craft supplies.’ I am sourcing materials for a very big project that will be revealed to me at a later date- perhaps in a dream.

kaiserin-erzsebet:

kaiserin-erzsebet:

Me: I don’t really believe in gatekeeping a field where anyone can learn with enough work. The training we get in academia isn’t impossible to self-teach.

Also me: The number of people calling themselves “historians” or pretending to educate about history on social media when they’re just reading Wiki or telling you fun facts is way too high. The job title has meaning. You wouldn’t call yourself a mathematician for knowing how to make your graphing calculator make graphs.

Do I want to add tags to this? No, it will reach my intended audience of “people who are tired of history fun fact Tik Tok videos” anyway