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Do you have a collection of Song Dynasty styles, and can you say a bit more about them? PS, you’re my favorite aesthetic blog!

Hi, thanks for the question! I’m honored to be your favorite aesthetic blog :D

Song dynasty styles are characterized by straight, slender, long silhouettes, with narrow sleeves. This was in keeping with the Song people’s preference for reserved elegance (compared to, for example, the extravagant fashions of the Tang dynasty).

Song styles for women include ru/襦, qun/裙 (skirt), beizi/褙子 (jacket), banbi/半臂 (half-sleeve jacket), Song ku/宋裤 (Song-style trousers), shan/衫, ao/袄, etc. Outfits are accessorized with pibo/披帛(long scarf), weichang/围裳 (short outer skirt), and waist ornaments.

The illustration below depicts the characteristic outfits of the Song, Tang, and Ming dynasties. As can be seen on the left, the outfits most representative of the Song dynasty are the ruqun and beizi.

Ruqun (left) & beizi (right):

While the ruqun was commonly worn throughout most of Chinese history, the beizi became really popular during the Song dynasty. The beizi is a parallel-collar jacket with side slits beginning at the armpit or at the waist. It can be different lengths - above the knee, below the knee, or ankle length. The sleeves can be broad or narrow. During the Song, it was common to wear narrow-sleeved beizi over moxiong/抹胸 (chest undergarment) or ru on top, and skirt or trousers on bottom. Paintings and artifact of Song-style beizi:

Modern Song-style beizi:

The Song dynasty is also unique in that it was common for women to wear trousers (usually with beizi). Song-style trousers:

The simplicity and convenience of Song style have made it a common source of inspiration for hanyuansu (hanfu-inspired fashion).

Additional resources can be found in my Song dynasty tag.

LOVE BETWEEN FAIRY AND DEVIL 苍兰诀 (2022) | quote

Look at this fine young lady! She can paint she can sew and embrody, she sings and read

And without a wealthy father to pay for that, plus she is florid in the body! She doesn’t know hunger!

My Ancestors: TRULY SH— what? They? A little unorthodox, but reasonable I suppose. TRULY THEY PROSPER, FOR THEY LIVE IN A DWELLING WITH MANY ROOMS AND ONLY THEIR SPOUSE TO SHARE IT WITH! THEY HAVE DOGS WHO DO NOT PERFORM A FUNCTION! THEY HAVE MANY BOOKS AND DO NOT HAVE TO SPIN THEIR OWN YARN! THEY BATHE AT A WHIM WITH GENTLE SOAP FREE OF LYE! OUR DESCENDANT BRINGS HONOR AND PRIDE TO OUR LINEAGE!

Me: /yawns and sips my coffee/

me, standing in front of the burger king counter like the blithering hunger gibbon i am: i’ll have… uhhh… double whopper with fries. thank you. large please

Draco and Astoria, talking and drinking and teasing.

Maleval Week Day 1: Cuddling

There are many couples on TV that I enjoy watching but very few ships ultimately make it to OTP status for me.  When they do reach the One True Pairing level, I will love that couple until the bitter end.  Most of my OTPs have ended their series together, but that’s not why I loved them. I loved and cherished them not just because of their “endgame” status but because their journeys inspired me and gave me hope.  That doesn’t mean they were perfect couples. Every single dramatic event, hardship, and eventual triumph I felt right along with my OTP.  Because the journey does matter!  When a show ends (and they all do unfortunately), it’s those moments in a story and the passionate feelings they evoked that give it a permanent place in my heart and on my television set. 

My most recent OTP is Arrow’s Oliver Queen and Felicity Smoak.  There is so much to love and admire about this couple: trust, intimacy, partnership, friendship, unresolved sexual tension, epic romance…

Although I’ve loved the development of this couple, I’ve also been vocal about how disappointed I am in how their relationship has played out in the last half of Season 4 and going into Season 5. I’m not going to rehash any of that here, nor will I apologize for my own personal opinion.  I’m still all in and rooting for Olicity, but I can’t lie about my concerns with the writing and their development both individually and together. Instead of doing a post criticizing what I think the Arrow writers have done wrong, I’ve decided to approach it from a different angle and in a more positive way.

My number one OTP always has and always will be Naley. I love this couple to death, and some of the recent Olicity drama has made me so appreciative of the wonderful Naley journey the One Tree Hill writers gave us. Make no mistake, there were times I was yelling at the TV like crazy over these two but it’s a wonderful feeling to go back and see the big picture.  To realize and appreciate the love, detail, and care that the writers put into maintaining and protecting the integrity of this ship.

SM never had the power to defeat the dragon on her own - it wasn’t her purpose, she never was another Buffy, the slayer - she helped people, understood them, protected them just like her umbrella protected her. She has always been the shield that protected others and stood in the monters’ way. It was Oh Gong who always killed the demons; he has always been the warrior in their monster-busting team and it makes complete sense that it would be like that even with their final mission. It doesn’t mean that SM is the weaker one it’s just that their powers are different and because of that they complete each other.

OG would have never used the sword if there were a chance to protect SM from the dragon and more importantly, he would never use it as long SM were alive that’s why he hid it in his garden where no one could find it. And that sword was the only thing that could kill the dragon. Obviously, there are still some missing pieces of information, and as always the devil is in the tiny details - for instance, what exactly did the Patriarch tell to SM? However, we can deduce that SM must have known about how OG needs kill the dragon in her body considering she was prepared to take it in. However, when that plan fails and OG comes she sends him after te dragon because she knows how powerful he is and knows that if anyone can defeat the beast it’s him - the heartwrenching thing is that she thinks that OG can’t refuse because of the GGG, completely unaware that he is doing it because he loves her. However, that fate has changed now. And this whole drama has been about fighting and changing one’s preordained fate, even if it might seem futile. As I mentioned, their fate has already changed so much - OG AND SM HAS DEFEATED THE DEATH BELL FATE - she didn’t get killed by OG not did she kill him - THAT’S SO IMPORTANT. And their journey still hasn’t come to the end - it just takes more time to the happy ending than just that. And remember this, what we’ve learned about SB and the gods so far is that they are lying liars who lie.

The moment featuring Son Oh Gong heading off to hell to get his Seon Mi back is awesome but not for a conclusion. That’s something that should have happened in the first half of the episode which should have started with that goodbye on Namsan. What was the point of that pointless and ilogical amnesia plot?! Nothing it only killed 60 minutes of the episode - 60 minutes that ended up being a complete filler instead of giving answers and closure. The final episode was all over the place and anticlimatic.

Oh Ross, if I could do anything that would make -