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stop trying to be palatable, stop trying to be palatable, stop

so many articles about Fast Fashion, not enough articles about what the hell is happening to the quality of clothes

Like okay. People own more pieces of clothing nowadays and they wear them a lesser number of times before throwing them out. BUT.

Why do we pretend like this is pure vanity or careless wastefulness, rather than forced by the qualities of the clothes themselves?

The other day, I was going through boxes of old clothes in the basement in search of fabric to practice sewing on. The difference in quality of the fabrics themselves is shocking! The worn-out old jeans from twenty years ago are MUCH thicker and tougher than anything more recent. My old baby clothes are made as sturdy as my work clothes from today.

In the past couple years, I have had entire seams rip out of clothes on the first wash. That's not normal!

Polyester blend shirts that feel cozy and soft when they are new, become scratchy and rough after 20 washes or so. I am trying to avoid polyester, but it gets harder and harder; the other day i couldn't find a single pack of crew socks that was 100% cotton. SOCKS!

Also, pilling is out of control. The newest pants I bought developed pills within a single day of walking around campus with a backpack.

These companies are trying to frog-boil us but touching clothes from twenty years ago, the useless crap of today would stick out like a sore thumb...

people are so stunned when I tell them that saying stuff like “oh, you have a real medical issue but these other people are faking it” doesn’t make me feel safe or comfortable at all. I have just as easily been considered “those other people.” The rhetoric around “those other people” is just ableism and it always has been, you are just adding an exception because it makes you feel better about being cruel.

my mythology pet peeve is when someone describes a scenario in which they keep nearly getting something and then having it snatched away, and everyone's like "one must imagine sisyphus" no!!! one must imagine TANTALUS!!! sisyphus = being made to perform a pointless, aggravating task over and over without ever making any progress. tantalus = being offered a glorious reward only for it to vanish as soon as you reach for it. they are NOT the same

fuck it. I don't care if i get hate for this, here are some tips on safely dealing with factitious disorder-like symptoms.

put bandaids on. a visual reminder that hey, you DO go through shit and you don't need to make it worse.

if it helps, faking/exaggerating symptoms privately can be useful, just make sure you don't fall into a habit of doing these things publicly.

remind yourself that attention seeking behaviors are not moral failings. they are a result of trauma.

ignore all this "Munchausen's by proxy" bullshit. that's child abuse. believing in Munchausen's by proxy is like saying narc abuse is a real thing.

every psychologist that's worth their salt will see attention seeking behaviors and symptoms of factitious disorder, and go, "this person is suffering, probably due to abuse."

just like you are not your intrusive thoughts, you are not your urges. you are not evil for your cries for help. you do not need to make yourself worse so other people will believe you.

i love you.

Crowsune Miku.

It is very difficult to be a silent and mysterious figure of the night when people can hear my cane clacking from 2 miles away

if you ever go to an art gallery and you see a painting and you think "that sucks. I could do that." maybe you can! I think a lot of people could do like. Matisse. Mondrian. Rothko. From a technical standpoint at least. Not everyone but a good number of people. But please consider: Artists™ aren't special people. They're just people. Just regular folks with something to say and a trained skill who showed that skill to the right people.

So instead of being like "that sucks! that's dumb! I could do that. It shouldn't be in a gallery." instead try, "I could do that. I should be in a gallery." and then do it and go and show your art to people.

telling disabled people (specifically disabled adults) to just get out of the house, attend events and make friends is easier said than done because;

1- a lot of disabled people can't leave the house. it's as simple as that.

2- if they can leave the house, they may need carers who may be bigoted and may not feel comfortable bringing them along to events for specific minority identities

3 if they have a supportive carer/ if they can go out alone, they may not have reliable access to transport (cars can't always fit mobility aids, public transport is notoriously inaccessible)

4- if they have access to transport, it's still not guaranteed that disabled people can enter an event, be that physical barriers, sensory overwhelm, dietary restrictions

5- if a disabled person can get into a venue, who's to say they won't encounter ableists, overt discrimination or not. this is an even larger concern for disabled people of colour, queer people, or any other minoritised identities.

6- even if the people are lovely, a lot of events are set in evenings, a time when a lot of disabled people feel even less safe when leaving the house.

I'm sure there's more. this doesn't even include trying to keep in contact with people and everything else that comes with relationships, but I just want to highlight that disabled loneliness and isolation is a huge issue with so many factors. don't try to dismiss it and tell us to 'just go out'.

the world is heartbreaking every day and the world is beautiful every day and we have to pay attention to both

I cannot emphasize enough how much of a life hack it is to exclusively be friends with, date and marry people who are not constantly mean assholes to you.

"labour optimization" holy shit

I've spend the last two weeks speedrunning coming out as a trans woman to my coworkers, extended family, and the assorted friends I'd collected through Facebook and I've been shocked and overwhelmed by how enthusiastically supportive cis women have been in particular. After doomscrolling through TERF shit for the past year, I'd become convinced that cis women tended towards distrust of trans women, with a significant percentage actively vitriolic. But, time and time again, I've received effusive praise from the cis women I come out to. Not just progressive women either: Christian Facebook-moms from Texas have been enormously supportive. I've gotten some support from cis men too, but nothing nearly as passionate, and they've been the source of all the awkward avoidance or disgusted looks I've experienced. It makes complete sense: cis women generally like being women, and most of them like it a lot, so why wouldn't they celebrate somebody else becoming like them? This really drives home how dishonest TERFism is: they present themselves as the voice of women, but really they're just a regressive minority, distorting the issues to lead people away from their inclination towards love and acceptance.

Hey, cis women who say "I wish I was a man but definitely not a trans way, haha! I would never be a man :)"

I say this with all the gentleness in my heart: It is okay for you to be a man. If you want to be a man, you can just be one. You also don't have to stop being a woman to be a man. Multigender people exist. You can be a man and a woman at the same time. Or you can be just a man, or a non-binary man, or non-binary, or something entirely different. You can do and be whatever you want and whatever makes you happy.

Becoming a man is not a betrayal of womanhood and feminism. And everyone who makes you feel like it is an absolute asshole, and you should not ever listen to them. You do not have to push your own happiness aside for other peoples' comfort.

If you want to be a man, try it out! See where it gets you. Maybe it turns out that you really weren't trans, or not a trans man but something else entirely, and that's fine, too. Maybe it turns out you are a trans man. In any case, following those thoughts might get you to a happier and better place in the end. And if you turn out to be happier as a man than you were as a woman, that is wonderful.

Please don't feel forced to stay a cis woman for feminism - any feminism that mistreats or hates trans men and transmasculine people is bad feminism. Being a trans man or transmasc is not a moral failure.

Trans manhood and masculinity are wonderful, and you deserve happiness. And if you find that happiness in manhood/masculinity, you don't deserve to be shamed or harassed for it, and you should not be made to feel the need to put yourself down for it, either.

I fucking despise when things fake being higher quality than they are. I don't mean like slapping a slightly misspelled brand name onto an identical non-designer product for purely aesthetic reasons I mean like rivets or thread that are actually glued down rather than punched or stitched. Fake pockets on jeans that are actually just an extra seam. Heavy looking chain that's plastic or very soft flimsy metal rather than anything sturdy. I bought boots which looked like they had a stitched sole 8 months ago and lo and behold the glue holding the sole on is revealing itself by falling apart. You PUT a STITCH IN THERE. YOU HAD THE NEEDLE AND THREAD. AND YOU DIDNT ACTUALLY STITCH DOWN THE FUCKING SOLES. Oh it makes me so mad. Cheap cunts taking the aesthetics of durability or practicality while handing you a product that won't last you the year

It is important to advocate for Palestines freedom but be so careful of being pulled into things like this. You are not immune to propaganda. Be critical of media you consume and fact check.

by studiosalud (2024)