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Warning: repetitious flashing/pulsing lights When you’re a stealth WWI-era spy, but you blow your sexy stripper cover because the DJ’s twerk beat game too STRONG

“Three Guesses (Booty Me Down Remix)” | Kstylis + Darling Lili (1970)

Past episodes:

Missy Elliott / Sound of Music (1965)

Jay-Z/Kanye + Mary Poppins (1964)

Which is to say, that now that I have a baby of my own, I understand so much better the common cultural practice in which unmarried women wear their hair loose and uncovered, while married women have their hair covered and/or bound back.

German politics decided to massively fuck over every German who needs therapy now or in the future (as a means to lessen the financial burden on the public health insurance, completely ignoring human dignity, and actual input of people working in this field)

If this thing goes through we basically loose any hope to ever receive mental healthcare.

The "Psychotherapieverbund" started a petition

That can be signed until midnight of the 9. Of July. Please reblog if you have German followers and send it to all Germans you know, so we can help our dear clusterfuck of a government to make the right decision.

So I was looking up past skin color, and eyes, and realized that looking these things up for someone WITHOUT dysmorphia was messing with my head. Make up tutorials were left and right and there was a lot, actually a TON of body shaming without neutral terms. URRGGGHHH. I wanted to throw things across the room.

I need the neutral terms because our society judges so much on physical features and I really want to celebrate body diversity. Also, I think by me doing it, rather than a writer with dysmorphia, etc, that I might be saving someone else from mental distress. The internet is rough out there an not everyone can afford Gray's Anatomy.

Of course you could mix it up, add judgment, but I think we all need a good baseline without being inundated with "Your facial features are wrong." and "Asian nose" and "Black nose" and all of the realllly racist things from Wiki How. WTF do you mean a "Roman nose" means one is a "ruler" and having a "Nubian Nose" (the slant way to describe a "Black nose") means you have "power" SHUT UP. !@#$.

I tried to report the article, but Wikihow doesn't allow you to do that...

There is not one nose that all of Asia with that many ethnicities has. Same with ANY population. Diversity within. Always.

I tried to organize it from if you saw this person from a distance what would you notice first. I kicked out all racist and judgy terms, fruit, meat, knives, food and otherwise colonizing/imperializing products that would give people flashbacks.

This took quite a bit of time to look all of this up and the mental hits I took reading all of the plastic surgeon and cosmetic crap they post, so if you spread it to others I ask for credit. It was a few days of work, trying to read anatomy, etc.

I also tried my best to link to neutral sources like anatomy books. I could not find the vocabulary for the little wrinkles on the lips inside of the vermilion zone. I looked everywhere, but if you're an anatomy nerd and know, you can drop a note.

As I said before, you don't need the complete list for every character. Use what sticks out to the PoV character. I also made these lists to push myself and others to represent different standards of beauty and also push more diversity within characters.

Voice, BTW, is covered by my character profile sheet which is already posted.

Overall Body

Basic Height

Height: short, petite, moderate, lanky, tall Waist to leg ratio: short-waisted, medium-waisted, long-waisted

Basic Build (without fruit)

Overall weight: ectomorph, endomorph, mesomorph Overall shape: (classification from Kibbe without the style notes?), round, diamond, triangle, hourglass, rectangle, inverted triangle Adjectives: skinny, thin, slender, medium, chubby, chunky, fat, Muscle mass: Flyweight, Bantamweight, featherweight, lightweight, welterweight, middleweight, light heavyweight, heavyweight (note from Boxing, Weight class https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weight_class_(boxing)) Bonus: Muffin top, Dad bod

Basic Skin

Skin tones: brown, black, white/pale Extra color modifiers: Light, pink, medium, dark Skin undertones: warm, neutral, cool Skin texture: smooth, wrinkled, rough, bumpy, Skin types: dry, moderate, combination oily Pore size: large, medium small Bonus: Ashy knees [for the Black community[, freckles [mask, overall, only on cheeks], moles, skin tags, cellulite, saggy, baggy, pimples, blackheads, pustules, white heads, cysts, nodules, papule, acne, vitiligo, skin cancer, sun burnt, rashes, Hirsutism, psoriasis, albininism [do your research before doing this], soft, smooth, shiny

Faces

Basic Face Shape

Overall Face Shape: Square, Round, Heart, Diamond, Oval, Rectangular/Oblong jaw shape: square, round Chin Prominence: low, moderate, high Chin Shape: rounded, square, pointy, chin cleft Cheek prominence: low, medium, high Forehead: low, medium, high, medium, low Teeth: Straight crooked, missing, snaggletooth, prominent canines, worn down canines (Balinese do a tooth filing ceremony) Bonus: dimples

Hair

Hair Types: 1a-4c (Andre Walker classification) Straight, wavy, curly, kinky/coily Hair Texture: Fine, medium, coarse Hair Density: low, medium, high Hair Length: pixie, bob, lob/bowl, armpit, mid-back, tailbone Hair Color: white, silver, Blond/e, orange, copper, red, auburn, brown, black Hair Moisture: Dry, oily, combination, Scalp type: dry, balanced, oily Hairline: square, Widow’s peak Bonus: Bleached, semi permanent color, permanent color, bald, shaved, balding, matted, build up, eczema, lice, dandruff See also: Hair dressers on Youtube. They often have extra vocabulary and Historical hair care.

Basic Eyes (without poetics)

How close/far: close set vs. medium set vs. wide set Lid shape: single lid vs. hooded vs double lid Eye angle: upturned outer corner vs. no angle vs. downturned corner eyes Overall size: large vs medium vs small Eye depth: deep set vs medium depth vs protruding Height vs width: thin/narrow vs. medium roundness vs. round Eye Color: black, brown, blue, hazel, amber, green, gre/ay, heterochromia iridum, Red and violet [albinism, blind] Limbal ring color: darker, same color Eyelash length: long, medium, short Eyelash density: lush, medium, sparse Eyelash Color: Match or does not match hair? Bonus: iris, sclera, dilated, constricted, reflective

Basic Eyebrows

Eyebrow width: thick v. medium vs. thin. Where on the head: Heavy set vs. middle/relaxed vs. High on the forehead Hair thickness: Bushy vs. medium vs. thin Color: Is it the same as the hair on the head (if there)? Grooming: Plucked/manicured vs. au naturel Bonus: Unibrow, burned off

Basic noses (without poetics)

Overall size: Small vs. Medium vs. Large Overall shape: Hooked, droopy, aquiline, tall, button, flat, snub Upper lip vs. Lower lip: heavy/fuller upper lip, even lip fullness, fuller upper and lower lip Bridge: smooth, bumpy, prominent Nostrils: large vs. wide vs. small Base: wide vs. medium vs. narrow Tip direction: upturned, downturned (hooked, beak or bird-like, when being derogatory), straight-on. Tip overall shape: bulbus, sharp, small, pointed Bonus: nasal cavity, sinuses, septum, nasal piercings

Basic Lips

Overall Shape: thin lips, heart-shaped, round lips/unilipped, full lips, bow lips very full lips, double lobbed lower lip, uneven Overall Size: small, medium, large, narrow, moderate, wide Mouth corners: down turned, median, up turned Proportions top-to-bottom: Even top and bottom lip, fuller upper lip, fuller bottom lip Bonus: lower lip dent, philtrum, philtrum ridges/philtral columns, upper vermillion border, lower vermillion border, vermillion zone, cutaneous upper lip, oral commisure, lower lip tubercles, upper lip tubercles, nasolabial fold, mesolabial fold, Glogau-Klein ridges (top of lip definition defined by philtrum), marionette wrinkles (from corner of mouth to either side of the chin), wet line, mucosal lip, cupid’s bow, ergotrid, cleft, canker sores

Basic Ear

Overall size: Small, medium, large Earlobe attachment: attached, semi-attached, detached Ear Prominence: flat, medium, protruding Bonus: piercings, earwax, ear folds, cauliflower ear, ear hair See also: https://elementsofmorphology.nih.gov/anatomy-ear.shtml

Next slide. “Brandon Sanderson is a member of the LDS”. The muttering has changed tone

“It’s not a very big amount of money though.” Someone in the audience pipes up. “His cut is only a small fraction of the cost of the book, and then-“ my next slide shows an income breakdown, it is titled ‘a small fraction of $10,000,000 is still a big number’

The best ones have advice on decor, how to select high-quality furniture, childrearing, fashion, etc--from a contemporary perspective, and the things the authors feel the need to clarify vs the wild shit that will just casually mention like it's something everyone knows and agrees on is REALLY revealing of the culture and how it's shifted.

And while a lot of the advice is WILDLY bigoted or just outright funny, you'd be surprised how much of it is...just genuinely timeless, and shockingly compassionate.

They ALSO, as a writer, have INVALUABLE resources--because, again, they're talking about things that are so MUNDANE that a lot of the time nobody really sat down to formally document what normal, everyday people thought or cared about--because that's boring! But a book written to provide advice and information to, say, a young woman who's never run her own home before? You can fully expect an entire chapter dedicated to The Types Of Oven, and which features are useful and worth spending money on, and which features are a huge hassle to clean and a waste of space, and what to spend that money on instead.

And like. As a writer who frequently works in the 1800s? Fuck inflation calculators, this is the kind of thing I need. This is absolutely priceless.

Now that being said.

My current favorite 'etiquette guide' in the world is actually like....70% purely practical advice, written by a gentleman the groupchat has affectionately dubbed History's Most Autistic Man In The World, and thank god they didn't have Aderall back then

Because the AuDHD is strong in this one and as a result, in addition to the deeply practical and useful everyday reference points, we also have: