Oni’s Hoard

Finally some Final Fantasy VII stuff!

he wouldn't have left.

that's the problem.

if neil ran, andrew would understand.

if neil was hiding, andrew would find him eventually.

if neil was dead, at least there would be an answer.

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Attempting to sort of reboot the hanfu in components thing I wrote for Newhanfu a while back in a better organized way, so I guess this is a series? Purpose is to provide a more systematic way for people to learn about hanfu terminology, which is extremely complicated and constantly changing, but has mostly settled into some agreed upon definitions among the hanfu community.

Note: This is probably going to make the most sense for people who have already been interested in hanfu for a little while but don't know the technical terms for what they're seeing in the pretty pictures. If you're just starting out this might be a little overwhelming, especially since hanfu vernacular has variations based on what time period you're talking about and stuff like that! But of course feel free to look at it anyway :>

Here are terms that you'll see a lot when referring to a general type of garment. These are the equivalents to 'shirt,' 'skirt,' 'pants' etc. in English, where it's telling you broadly what kind of a garment it is, but not really any details about its style or what it might look like. I will structure my definition headers as (traditional character)/(simplified character)/(pinyin)(tone) going forward. Also using images from Cloud9 as much as I can bc I don't wanna deal with citing image sources lol, shoutout to our models

I wrote reply on the other post and then… well it was gone. sigh

In general, when buying fabric, the most important part is knowing how long your clothes should be, then you see if you can squeezed both the left and right main body into the width of the fabric. If there are more space left, you then check if the sleeves could go in there.

For example,

Short-sleeve tops and narrow sleeves top only require fabric equal to two times the length of the clothes (fabric width more than 100cm).

Long-sleeve tops usually require a length of (clothes length *2 + sleeves width *2 + 30 - 50) cm. A narrow-sleeve parallel-collar short top (<80cm) required at least 2m fabric (width 150cm), the wider and larger the sleeves are, the more fabric you need. Cross-collar required another 50cm.  I usually get 50cm extra so I don’t need to worry about running out of fabric even when I am making something with small sleeves.

Long robes like tieli, yisan, zhiduo, daopao, zhiju, quju, yuanlingpao etc require about 5m to 6m (or even more for daopao) of fabric.

Moxiong and zhuyao usually required 0.5 - 1m of fabric.

For skirts, it is usually (skirt length *2 + 50) cm but this amount might changed depending on how much volume the skirt has. Nowadays it is more fashionable to have a 4.5m baidiequn - translated to 3 times the width of a 1.5m fabric- so about 3.5m to 4m of fabric and 5.5 to 6m mamainqun - so about 5m of fabric.

For Song style trousers, HRH Zhao’s and the outer layer of Miss Huang’s require about 2.5 - 3m of fabric. The inner layer of Miss Huang’s only requires 1.5 to 2m of fabric.

If you want to pattern match, add another repeat or at least 1m.

1) The Foxes betting on literally anything and Neil being Neil

"How are you doing?"

Neil drained both cups before answering. "I'm fine." Nicky fist-pumped in triumph.

"Thank you for being so predictable, Neil. You just scored me ten bucks with two words."

2) This discussion about Neil

"Stop being a bad influence," Kevin told Nicky. "I am going to make him Court. It'll be easier if he remains heterosexual."

3) the banquet and Neil meeting the Ravens for the first time

The Ravens took their image seriously. Neil guessed they had a lot of intensive counseling in their futures.

4) honestly this just made me laugh

"Neil," Wymack said, "between you and me, I don't think you've ever been fine."

5) how would you even explain this to someone that hasnt read aftg

If Matt's mother thought posting Aaron's bail was an appropriate response to the cousins drugging Matt with speedballs, she had to be as dysfunctional as the Foxes themselves. Neil was grateful for her financial support, but he idly hoped he would never have to meet her.

6) Neil's description of Katelyn

She was so enthusiastic about apparently everything in the world it was a little exhausting listening to her, but Aaron looked so alive in her presence Neil couldn't hold it against her.

7) the Foxes fearing Andrew even when he isn't there

"You're explaining this to Andrew when he gets back."

"Oh, hell no," Nicky said, and jerked a thumb at Neil. "I'mma leave that one to him. Thanks for taking one for the team, Neil. You're a real friend."

8) I don't even know the context but Wymack sufficient explanation (btw i rlly dont like using the r word in this context, but ngl it still made me snort)

"What the hell was that?"

"Coach?"

"Don't you dare 'Coach?' me, you malfunctioning retard."

9) Neil not breaking character

Neil glanced at the emergency exit door but wasn't as tempted as he thought he might be.

10) This isn't supposed to be funny but it was so bizarre

It wasn't until Jean shoved a racquet into his hands that Neil truly realized that yes, he was expected to play.

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