You Know What, Since I'm Thinking About It Anyways, Let's Talk Formalwear Accessories. Most Of These

You know what, since I'm thinking about it anyways, let's talk formalwear accessories. Most of these are traditionally menswear but a bit of gender fuckery is good for the soul, and frankly most of these are about making your mass-produced clothing fit and lay properly without having to go to the tailor.

Shirt stays: these go around your thighs to hold your shirt down, so that it stays smooth and tucked in. They're usually elastic, with 1-3 clips, and if you wear skirts frequently this is a GREAT way to make sure your top doesn't ride up. The clips will be visible if you're wearing something tight, so loose pants or skirts are where these do best. There's also an insane version that clips to your socks, but that is for lunatics. If you wanted, you could also use one of these clips to hold up thigh-highs.

These do a great job of smoothing and narrowing the waist area by keeping your shirt from bunching there.

Sleeve garters: usually metal, leather, elastic, or silk. These are usually worn with button-down shirts to adjust where your cuff falls on the wrist or hand. They're properly worn on the upper arm, and you pull the fabric of the sleeve above the garter until you cuff is where you want it. Because this creates a puff of sleeve at the bicep, it also broadens the appearance of the shoulders. It's great if you're working with your hands or if your sleeves are often too long for your preference.

Waistband clip or belt adjustment clip/buttons

Three different ways of tightening the waistband of a pair of pants or a skirt. You're not going to get more than an inch or so tighter without weird bunching, and for most of these you'd want them to be hidden under a shirt or jacket, but they do the job if that's something you're having issues with.

Collar pins: There are so many fun ones out there, both with and without chains. They're not terribly practical, though the slight weight may help keep your collar where you want it. Also consider collar tips, which pin (surprise) to the very tips of your collar points.

Sweater clips/guards: meant to hold your sweater or cardigan mostly closed. Great if your cardigan doesn't button, or if you don't like it to be buttoned all the way.

There's tons of other stuff out there like this--etsy is a great place to find this stuff. A lot of these are old solutions to the very modern problem of mass-maufactured clothes not being as one-size-fits-all as advertised, but they're also a fun way to put a bit of personality into businesswear.

This. This was houses love confession.

Throughout the whole show there have been themes of characters reflecting their problems onto patients and talking about the patient when they're actually talking about themselves.

House - the one uncomfortable with human emotions like love - making a conversation that was heading to talking about Wilsons feelings, into a joke that is even more steered towards love and whatnot.

Maybe, house just randomly decided to make a gay joke in a very tender moment before starting a treatment that might kill his best friend, you know, a moment where you might... confess something.

Or he finally said i love you without actually having to. In this essay i will-

Ohhh [fictional character with worse mental health than me] save meeeee from this cruel world.

You don't need to be actively trying to heal all the time. And honestly, that sounds like a recipe for burn out.

It's okay to not always be focused on your healing. It's okay to take breaks.

i don't want to go on dating apps. i want to meet people the organic way: playing the same song on repeat at a party, causing someone to smash an antique mirror and then leaving the party to go bail them out of jail

VETTED CAMPAIGNS LOW ON FUNDS

Hello! My friend Mohamed @moayesh has sent me some campaigns that he has personally vetted, and which are very low on funds and need our support. Mohamed helps run the blog @gaza-evacuation-funds, and personally verifies many campaigns on the ground in Gaza. He's doing important work, and I encourage you to follow this blog in order to keep supporting Palestinians in need of our help. Here is a link to a post in which you can see Mohamed personally vetting a campaign on the ground.

I was able to donate €5/$5 USD/$5 AUD to a few campaigns that are in desperate need of our help, and I am hoping that in making this post I will be able to encourage at least one other person to match just one of my donations. If you can match one of my donations, it would be incredibly helpful if you could reblog this post and encourage others to do the same. I am hopeful that we will be able to get some momentum going for some people who really need our assistance.

Here are the campaigns. I encourage you to read the gofundme pages I have linked, as I cannot accurately convey all the loss that these individuals have experienced in a single post without it becoming incredibly long.

Aboud and his family. €115/€20,000 (payment through PayPal available)

Ahmed and his family €2,082/€30,000 (payment through PayPal available)

Shahed and her family $137 AUD/$70,000 AUD

Nada and her family $125 USD/$40,000 USD (payment through PayPal and Venmo available)

Qusai and his family €225/€50,000 (payment through PayPal available)

Mostafa and his family €90/€20,000 (payment through PayPal available)

Please, please reblog this! I humbly ask you to consider matching even one of these donations. Not only will you be providing material help to families in dire need, but you will be giving them hope for the future. Thank you all for taking the time to read this. Let's work together to make a positive difference!

(screenshots of my donations under the cut)