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[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 72 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I would be so afraid to snap a feather when undressing

[–] HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I would guess that if you had wings with feathers you'd be intimately knowledgeable on the tensile strength of them

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You would think but tell that to the number of times I break a nail doing routine shit

[–] HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 weeks ago

Lmao, true

[–] Oka@sopuli.xyz 46 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Wings wound not "slide out" so easily when taking off the top. They only slide one direction.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 2 weeks ago

You don’t slide them out, silly you roll the shirt up, and take it off inside out.

[–] TeamAssimilation 20 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Most important, wings of the span necessary to carry a 40-50 kg person wouldn’t fit inside the arm holes of a tank top, or work with this technique.

[–] bufalo1973@europe.pub 18 points 2 weeks ago

If we are getting realistic, a pair of wings is always accompanied by a very big pair of chest muscles. Imagine a human with pectorals in proportion to the body as a dove.

[–] Ziggurat@jlai.lu 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

With the marvel of modern engineering, they do pretty compact wings able to carry 80kg humans, https://youtu.be/ilx8Ch0eOR4 (Sorry for sharing marketing video)

So in a fantasy world, you could imagine so compact wing part of human body

[–] Enkrod@feddit.org 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yeah dog, that's still an 8 m wingspan with an area of 14 m², those are some biiiiiiig wings.

https://dudek.eu/en/produkt/runfly-2/

[–] OozingPositron@feddit.cl 2 points 2 weeks ago

>1999€

Damn.

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So, they need a shoehorn like device the cover the wings and allow sliding?

[–] Ageroth@reddthat.com 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is keeping the shirt from flipping inside out a requirement for some reason?
I imagine it would be more like lift the bottom front of the shirt over the top of your head and tuck behind neck so that full chest is exposed, fold arms in to insert hand through arm hole on same side as that arm and then push arms forward to leave shirt hanging off wings, reach behind while leaning back to grab and pull shirt off wings downward in direction of feathers.
Either that or how my wife takes off her bras that don't have clasps, push shoulder straps over and down arms, lift arms out so only chest band is holding on, then push the whole thing down chest and over hips and step out of it. That way it doesn't have to go up and over the breasts.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

push the whole thing down chest and over hips and step out of it

Huh. Does she don it by stepping into it, or does her entire body pass through the bra with each don-doff cycle?

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

You can't just tuck the wings back in the same way because the feathers will get stuck on the shirt when going against the grain. I imagine it's easier to pull the shirt up from the bottom and have the wings stretched out over his head.

[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 6 points 2 weeks ago

My thoughts exactly

[+] Stamets@lemmy.world -16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Bro were talking about a fictional character from a fictional humanoid race that has wings. I feel like arguing about the mechanics of fabric pulling on a feather is a bit.... Pointless

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I used to own birds growing up, and I've felt the obvious drag of feathers on fabric. Forgive me for not letting go of the vivid memory I have.

[+] Stamets@lemmy.world -13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Again, fictional character from a fictional race. Feel like comparing them to birds is just weirdly pedantic. You're not the only one here doing it. I just legitimately don't get it

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

What are you on about? The archetypal angel wings are distinctly made of adult bird feathers, so it's natural to assume that these are too without indication of it being otherwise. Or what, are generic centaur bottom halves not meant to be hairy even though they're archetypically based on horses? Of course I would expect distinctly coarse hair if I were to touch them because I have touched horses before.

And what's more, out of context, this graphic makes no special case of commenting on a character specifically but rather its main point is about the logistics of putting on and taking off a wife beater with a pair of wings attached to your back. And somehow you're griping about people following the logic in the comments? If you're so dead-set about it being about the specific character, then why did you cut out the context in the first place?

Or what, am I supposed to be familiar with every single winged character out there that ever existed to know their particular details about their wings? I'm clearly going off on derivative works of the most generic ancient Greek mythology that was based on real life animals.

Weirdly pedantic my ass, this is some basic reasoning based on personal life experience. Rather, how weirdly controlling of you instead to not even allow for related comments to exist in their own space.

[–] Stamets@lemmy.world -5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I feel like it's a bit pointless

I just legitimately don't get it.

I'll take your point under advisement, and I do see it, but I don't want to continue this conversation. Thank you though for elaborating though. I do, however, still stand by the fact that it is a fictional magical being and applying real world feathers of birds to this doesn't make sense. To a bird? Yes. To a creature that does not exist and has had wings described in a variety of ways? No. At that point I do feel like it is completely pedantic to try and nail a specific explanation of how something cannot work to something that doesn't exist and has had numerous iterations.

But I wasn't being antagonistic, I'm sorry if it came off that way, but I've got my own personal hell going on and I'm not in the mood to deal with this level of unnecessary hostility over a set of fictional wings. Have a good day.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I wasn't being antagonistic

Then don't call people weirdly pedantic when they've explained it was based on personal experience? How else do you expect me to respond to that? Lol

[–] Stamets@lemmy.world -2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Then don’t call people weirdly pedantic when they’ve explained it was based on personal experience?

I didn't.

Feel like comparing them to birds is just weirdly pedantic.

I said that applying the logic of a birds wings to a non-existent magical creature taking off a shirt and dismissing it out of hand entirely based off of that singular comparison alone is weirdly pedantic. I never said you were.

You're just looking for a fight at this point and I've got no interest in it. Just blocking you and moving on. Have a good day.

[–] bastion@feddit.nl 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Anyone who has wings (particularly if you have.. ehhem. adult-sized wings) knows this is impractical, and it's way better to just use snaps or buttons.

[–] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I would guess that a culture built by &/or for winged people would have more strapless stuff. Or from the chest over the shoulders and tied up behind the neck. Or otherwise designed to not interfere and/or interact with the wings.

[–] bastion@feddit.nl 1 points 2 weeks ago

yes.

[–] a_random_fox@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 2 weeks ago

Here is the source: https://www.tumblr.com/ask-crow-aus/759912849861754880/slytherin-assassin-lattemonstr-aishishiii . It is one reblog further down, as slytherin-assassin deactivated their blog and lattemonstr apparently has no post on their blog, probably deleted when they moved on to a different blog.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There is a haibane renmei reference here somewhere

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

[–] vxcvbzn@ttrpg.network 3 points 2 weeks ago

My character circumnavigates the issue by snipping the shoulders of his tank top open, sliding it on from the legs, and then reattaching the shoulders with mending.

[–] ThefuzzyFurryComrade@pawb.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

Original:

Source (Tumblr), alternate frontend.

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