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Goth doves ftw! I love how OP paired those antique kimono and obi showing black and deep purple based hato (pidegon/dove). The kimono's ground looking like a dawn/dusk is also so very pretty!

The all-black obijime used to tie the obi is probably a mofuku (mourning) item, it's always nice to see those used in more everyday fashion:

#kimono

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narratively I am a fan of romances that don’t ever actually become romances

I don’t mean in an aromantic life partner way, I mean romantic tension that is never resolved or acted upon for whatever reason but by the end it’s clear that both characters experienced the love of their lives without ever acknowledging it as such. but they know. they know.

#gintae musings #always reblog

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they would NOT fucking have communication skills that good

#ye

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things to ask yourself when designing a female character:

how much blood is she covered in

are her eyes filled with madness

can she rip things to shreds with her fingernails

#of course

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+ What were toothbrushes like in the Edo period?

Upper-class people (court aristocracy, priests, and warlords) began cleaning their teeth using tooth twigs during the Heian period.

This custom didn't spread among the common people until the middle of the Edo period when fusayouji (tufted toothpicks made from willow or spicebush) were invented. Fusayouji were made by smashing the end of a twig with a wooden hammer, and combing out the fibers with a needle brush.

Fusayouji and tooth powders became widespread after they started being sold at a toothpick shop on the grounds of Sensoji temple, where a beautiful girl attracted customers. Those customers included Tokugawa Iemitsu, the third Tokugawa shogun, who was said to have rested at the shop during his visit to the temple. Instant fame for the shop and a run on its tooth care products followed, after which other establishments began selling the same.

+ What are tooth powders?

Tooth powders were introduced to Japan from Korea at the beginning of the Edo period. Previously, people used salt or rice bran to clean their teeth.

Tooth powders quickly caught on among the young men of Edo who boasted of their white teeth and brushed diligently. It was easy to tell a true Edokko (Edo native) from a country bumpkin by whether or not he used tooth powder.

In the Bunka-Bunsei period (1804-1830), more than one hundred types of tooth powder were sold in Edo. They were made from boushuzuna (fine-grained sand) to which other substances, such as borneol, clove and cassia, were added for flavor and appearance. High-end tooth powder flavored with musk and colored pink was a specialty item of Edo.

+ How were toothaches treated in the Edo period?

Dentistry became its own specialty during the Heian period and focused on treating teeth and gums, as well as ailments of the tongue and throat. Debtists primarily treated people of means, such as court aristocrats and samurai.

During the Edo period, a second specialty, denturists, came into existence. They treated the common people and provided services such as treating toothaches and gum infections, pulling teeth, and making dentures.

Toothache remedies were made from cloves, pepper, alum, and other substances, and were widely sold by denturists and street vendors.

+ How were teeth pulled during the Edo period?

Dentists and denturists of the Edo period used a variety of methods to pull teeth, including grasping the tooth with a plier-like tool or using a wooden bar tapped with a hammer.

An analgesic was commonly applied to the gums to numb them prior to dental work, but tooth extractions were said to have been performed with lightning speed, so the analgesic wasn't always necessary.

+ Were there dentures in the Edo period?

The oldest wooden dentures in Japan belonged to a nun (and former princess) called Hotokehime, who died in 1583 in Wakayama City.

Denturists as a profession came into existence during the Edo period, less than a century later. They made wooden dentures by taking an impression in beeswax and carving dentures from wood to fit the shape. Artisans who previously carved netsuke or Buddhist statues often became denturists.

The oldest set of Edo period dentures surviving today were made for Yagyu Matajuro Munefuyu, one of the Tokugawa's sword instructors. (Readers of this tumblr may find the name familiar, he's Samon's brother.) Munefuyu's dentures were carved from boxwood and had teeth made from soapstone, making them look very realistic. (There's a picture here.)

+ Did all women blacken their teeth in the Edo period?

During the Edo period, tooth blackening was practiced almost exclusively by court aristocrats and married women. In 1868 and 1870, bans on teeth blackening were enacted targeting the nobility, but the custom continued until the Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken set the example.

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Information in this post adapted mostly from this page.

#edo period #toothbrush

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Ive mentioned this before awnsering an ask but man it really is a travesty to analyze a piece of media that is heavily comedic / absurd in nature due to how often you can mistake something for an indepth metaphor about a character n the world around them when in reality its just a one-off gag the creators thought it would be funny while eating at wendys

#gintama

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Thesis: the rise of fanwank and anti culture correlates directly with diminished understanding of what “romantic”, in a literary sense, actually means.

It doesn’t mean “this is ideal or healthy or even realistic”. It means “this is beautiful, this is tragic, this is grotesque, this stirs emotion”, even if it’s not, as @starryroom puts it, something you would be comfortable seeing play out in front of you at Taco Bell. It’s about grandiosity and mythology and heroism writ large. It’s about playing with the id, as beautiful and terrible as it can be. 

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This is just some general fandom advice…

Don’t worry about your follower count in any fandom. Don’t measure your worth in relation to the perceived popularity of another person in the fandom. Don’t demand interaction from people you’ve never taken the time to get to know beforehand. Any relationship you have with another person in fandom takes effort. It’s okay if your interests change. You can have different opinions from your mutuals. You can have different preferences in shipping dynamics. You can like different styles of writing and art. Etc.

Don’t force conformity on yourself or on others. It will just make everyone miserable. Don’t put anyone in the position where they feel like they can’t say or do anything but appease you. It is not anyone’s job to be a perfect model of a fandom member 24/7. Build your own friend groups in fandom before seeking out the most “popular” people to befriend. Fandom is what you make it and making it meaningful takes time and effort. It’s not just handed to you.

You are not obligated to like or follow any one person. You are not obligated to share the same headcanons. You are not obligated to speak on topics you don’t want to. You are not obligated to publicly like or dislike certain characters or stories or whatever. Engagement is a choice. If you feel like you’re not able to make the choices you want in a fandom, then you need to evaluate whether or not that’s because people are truly forcing you to hold a certain position in fandom or if you’ve forced it upon yourself and perhaps other people.

The obsession with occupying a specific role in fandom and wanting to be perceived a certain way by fandom peers and the curation of those peers to most benefit you personally and so on and so forth - that’s not fun. That’s exhausting. For everyone. If I thought about how people perceive me in any given fandom, I wouldn’t sleep. It would plague me. I can’t control whether or not people like me or the stuff that I contribute to fandom so there’s no point in tormenting myself or others about it.

#on fandom

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Teacher and student.

#original art #ronindraws #okada izo #takechi hanpeita

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"why can't they just be friends" not in the homophobic way but in the "their platonic relationship in the source material is far more dynamic and complex than the sanitized personalities they gain as a result of shipping" way

#yep

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WTF???? They actually canonically fucked??!!

#they did #madao found out he was a bottom the whole time #gintoki and kondou also fckd in love chorris #the more you know rainbow

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I just think it’s romantic to be possessive over someone’s death. No one gets to kill you but me. I want to hold you as you die. Your last breath should mingle with mine. I want your blood on my hands because I’m the one that spilled it.

#damn

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Gintama translators be like: "We promise you, dear viewer, that this joke makes sense. Given you understand certain cultural context, speak Japanese, read JUMP weekly, sit in front of the TV in Japan 24/7 and are an orangutan. Here's a short instruction manual for getting this joke."

#and they got away with it

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Can you do something for me, please?

I want you to reblog this if you believe that two people can be very close and physically affectionate with one another, but still have a completely nonsexual, non-romantic relationship. 

Even if the two people in question are capable of being sexually or romantically attracted to one another. 

Because the friendship I share with someone I consider family in a way that transcends blood has been typecast as a romantic relationship ENTIRELY too many times, and I’m beginning to get sick of it. 

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Tfw boobs are important to the narrative

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Fuck you relationships are determined by the people in them not by anyone else

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this has been discussed before but reducing female characters to the girlboss braincell holder in the name of combating misogyny in fandom is ironically also a form of misogyny