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Do you think people used to have ADHD Text Reply Anxiety back in the day. Do you think there was some girl in the 1870s going "Oh, a letter from Esther, how delightful! I must make time to write her a reply this evening!" And then later she was like "It has been 5 months since Esther wrote me, and I am yet to reply. I fear I have tarried far too long, and if she receives a letter from me now it will seem terribly rude and she will want nothing to do with me. And yet, it is ruder still to not write her at all! I fear I am the only one to blame for my current predicament, as I am most terribly forgetful. Ah, but what a fool I am! I shall pray this evening for guidance from the Lord"

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Together at last.

I'll put some up in my kofi shop some time this weekend!

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Final (🙏) pattern sorted out and work has begun on the real pieces. Again, not complicated - this is everything for 1 leg, sans the straps and hardware.

I only have 5/6 oz leather for the main body. 7oz would be better, but it isn't that big of a deal as long as I wetform and wax these well.

My extant gaiters / half chaps are too small in the ankle, so I upsized a few measurements and made a mockup (wet forming required) to dial in the size.

This feels pretty good now, so next step will be to make another one for realsies with all the lining and hardware bits.

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Emmrich got the "who goes there?!" nighttime fit

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✨ ye olde daily planner ✨

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Four members of the Shackleton mission on the summit of Mount Erebus, British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-09.

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This is badass: Medieval Nubian Fashion Brought to Life. Click through to the link because there’s more replica clothing and it is all stunning!

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ACGAS 2020 4.02 - Siegfried x Vonolel: the Real Romance

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JOUSTER??? Are there pictures??

Sure is. I did it fairly regularly between 2010 and 2017 and was fortunate to travel quite a bit with it too. These pictures below are from a 2012 tournament in Texas. I trained up here in Canada with a local group and we trailored the horses down for this one. I'm riding Peter here, who I learned to joust on. Peter has since moved on to the big meadow in the sky but he was the best mount you could ask for starting out.

It's been a hot minute since I've talked about jousting so the rest of this is gonna be under a cut haha.

Anyway, later that year, I got bucked off jousting at a gay wedding and got pretty badly concussed so didn't do much in 2013 but in 2014, an invitation arrived for a tournament in Australia and I couldn't say no. These photos are from Australia the first time.

I'm jousting an Australian friend there on her lovely boy Apollo. The second image gives a good sense of the action and impact, especially my lance which has rotated around entirely and seems to be hanging in the air between us. That was our first pass of the tournament and we just about wiped each other entirely out LOL.

For local shows, I usually rode the troupe's horses, which included Rowan (left) and Blue (right), below:

And Galahad (he was the dude who bucked me off later that season), below:

In late 2014, I worked my own horse (Ziggy) up and did some of my best riding with him that year. Here we are breaking sticks with Sarah from Australia at our local show:

Graduated from my loaner armour in 2015 and upgraded to a historically-accurate custom-made 1480s South German armour, which made the whole experience 30000x better. Shout-out to @xxstarfukkerzxx, fellow local jouster, for the shot below:

Here I am with Arthur (left) at the Folsom Renaissance Faire in 2016 (I think?).

Also got to France that year (sure don't miss the historically-accurate long medieval dude hair but do miss scrappy little Kerleos, who was a fantastic, tough-as-nails ride):

And back to Australia (riding Duke, the retired racehorse):

My last tournament was a real fancy English one in 2017. Spoiler: I was cripplingly -awful- at this one (buy me a beer sometime and I'll tell you why) but the horses, locale, and photos were second to none.

Will never look as cool in a photo as this last one but feel my photos with Barney C.'s MetroCop kit and helmet on are kinda close.

Anyway, having aged / matured in the years since 2017, I would certainly like to get back into it when the conditions are right! Also more than happy to answer questions about the whole process because there is a LOT to it.

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“I'm only human, I come with knives”

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Vintage wind-up toy bear (USSR, 1920s-30s)

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All Creatures Great & Small | 3.05.

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I have been feeling increasingly gaslit by how many words my spellchecker/autocomplete seems to no longer recognize. Even when I manage to spell the word correctly, it's as if it doesn't exist. All very strange - I've had to check the dictionary again as if it's 1999. But, no, the words are there!

I'm guessing AI nonsense has crept into spellcheck. Need to start a list of the words it believes are figments of my imagination. "Capitulated" was one earlier.

I'm a man with a bad short-term memory + a speech impediment where I often say the wrong word without realizing it, and having to triple check what I write to scan for hallucinations is doing a number on my brain. Text *used* to be where I could achieve communication fluency easily.

Just... entire swathes of vocabulary, no longer recognized! It's infuriating as someone who gets flustered by imprecise language, and now doubly so when his technology implies the words he's depended on are not real!

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AND YOURE NEURODIVERGENT??

EVEN COOLER

I've managed to lose my hand warmers again, plus 3 pens this eve and I thought it was a good idea to eat an entire bag of cheese crisps right before bed. There's some definite downsides here. 😅

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You continue to bring a lot of joy to my dash. For one, the fact that you’re an older queer already makes me look forward to my own future.

But also just … and Im not sure how to put this and I do hope this comes off right. But I’m transfem, and masculinity never “fit” me, obviously. It always felt wrong for me, which tends to be the case for transfems. It never fit, like a weird ill-fitting suit that was scratchy and uncomfortable. But here you are, embracing it with grace and dignity and looking stunningly handsome. And that brings me joy!! You and all the other transmascs I follow, the positive and lovely and friendly and kind men that I see either on my dash or in my friend groups and family, it makes me happy. So, so happy. Seeing someone take something that I never understood and then make it look so damn good… It makes me appreciate masculinity in a new way, ways that I never thought about before. It puts a lot of life into perspective for me, in ways that are hard to put into words.

Your photos and your rambles about men’s fashion and the guidance you’ve offered to the various trans men in your asks are absolutely heart warming. You, sir, are a delight, and I hope you have a wonderful evening :)

This is such a lovely comment, Anon. And I think it speaks a lot to how being trans doesn't mean an antagonistic estrangement from our gender assigned at birth. Like you say, sometimes it is simply the wrong coat, one we can appreciate on someone else.

I wish you all the good things this evening. ❤️

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you are so cool oh my gosh

middle aged

trans guy

literally my transition goals

amazing fashion sense

cosplays

has cats

writes fanfiction

crochets/knits

and now i know that you draw??? explodes

You, too, can pick up a million hobbies with the magical combination of autism and ADHD!

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My fanart is nothing, if not terribly niche. Inspired by  weird Victorian Christmas cards and the real JFJ’s doodle of a fish with arms.