Violet Lunette

Hai~ care to help sharing my art?

I have also posted some other twst art on instagram, the user is @/andrmeww there! Just in case Y’all would like to help me :P

I like to leave very long rambling comments on people's fics and that has actually netted me some very real, genuine friendships and we've become cheerleaders for each other. My friend has a D&D Podcast that she doesn't get ANY sort of engagement out of, so I started listening to it at work and livereacting the things I enjoy about it and showing her my investment and it makes her very happy and it makes me happy that she's happy.

Humans are social animals. We crave connection and community, and one of the constant complaints about modern society is how isolating it is.

But I look back on how my parents built a community every time we moved - and as an air force brat we moved more than most.

You want neighbors you can borrow a cup of sugar from? Hang out and watch a lunar eclipse with your entire street block?

Someone, anyone - and that person can be you - needs to do something to get that ball rolling. Make cookies and bring a plate to your neighbor, just to say hi. Wave when you see them outside. Offer to help shovel their snow - or just go ahead and do it for them (my neighbor sometimes does this for me).

You get the community you put the effort into building.

Let me say that again, with emphasis.

You get the community you put the effort into building.

And if you nope out of that, you are left passively accepting whatever community other people put the effort into building.

Whether we are talking irl or online, it's true.

To bring this back to fic comments - it's an easy way to build your fandom community, and can even lead to friendships and fandom based chat groups.

You don't have to engage, ofc. And different people have different comfort levels, so if it's really not something you are comfortable doing I won't judge.

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Hi, thanks for the question, and sorry for taking ages to reply!

The half-up, half-down hairstyle that you often see on both male & female characters in Chinese guzhuang (period costume) dramas is not based on historical hairstyles. Rather, it is a fairly recent styling convention, most likely originating from late 20th century wuxia TV shows from Hong Kong (x). Over time the hairstyle has become normalized and commonplace in Chinese costume dramas, especially in the wuxia and xianxia genres (because these genres are not necessarily aiming for historical accuracy in the first place).

Below, from left to right: Wang Hedi in Love Between Fairy and Devil, Deng Wei in Miss the Dragon, Xiao Zhan in The Untamed, Gong Jun in Word of Honor: 

As @niteshade925 explains in this post, for male characters, the main idea of the hairstyle is to make the character look attractive, and also in some shows/context, to hint at the character’s personality, as in maybe they do not adhere to traditional customs and are free-spirited/spontaneous. For female characters, it is usually just a regular hairstyle without deeper meaning :P

For more information on this half-up half-down hairstyle, and historical hairstyles in general, please see the following posts:

The historical accuracy of half-up half-down hairstyles

The historical accuracy of ponytails

Historical hairstyles for men