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[bismuthburnsblue]

does anyone have any professional plus size dress forms theyd recommend? im preferably looking for the style that has the start of legs, not one thats joined all the way down.

ill take any reccs regardless of budget but i am looking for something on the cheaper end (of the prices good, body accurate forms can be, anyway!)

(im uk based, if that makes a difference)

[faunandfloraas]

Honestly I think a lot of people who have never made a gif for tumblr don't get that it does actually take time and effort, its not just rip it from a video and post it- you have to download the video, in my case I have a video player installed that grabs continuous caps, figure out what parts you need, you have to open those in photoshop or gimp, depending on where you got photoshop you might be paying for it every month and then on top of that is actually sizing, cropping, colouring, sharpening, adding text, etc. etc. like it is something that takes time and effort for which the only real reward is creating something that makes you happy and hopefully people reblog it with a nice or funny tag, so maybe keep that in mind the next time you think gif makers are being mean or unfair for being upset about reposts. It is its own little artform that is fairly unique to this website, and that's a big aspect of why I have always loved tumblr, if all the gifmakers stopped posting things would be a lot more boring around here.

[icewindandboringhorror]

Pages from trying to keep a little sketchbook-scrapbook type thing going for two weeks lol. I gave myself specific rules in hopes they might all end up more cohesive/consistent seeming, but alas, scribbly chaos reigns, it seems

[scarycranegame]

anyone else do this?

antis dni, what you have there is an unwarranted sense of self-righteousness, not anything of real value

proship/comship/pro-fiction safe!

[katabay]

L'APPEL DU VIDE

okay so. jack! jack. what a collection of guys. the overlap between jack and the beanstalk and jack the giant killer, though. that sure is something! sometimes king arthur is there, which always takes me by surprise.

this. specifically. is an idea I've been kicking around. jack and the beanstalk is not a story I've ever enjoyed, as a kid it was probably my least favorite to read. as an adult, I was INTENSELY fascinated by reading j.g. ballard's the drowned giant. I think about it frequently, and somewhere during a re read of it, I ended up revisiting jack.

combining different versions of jack into one character is not a new concept, but it IS a fun one! the version I've been assembling together plays less with the fun elements of a jack story (and adjacent folklore stories), and focuses more on the potential for tragic elements with the addition of the usual grim and jagged narrative edges that I personally enjoy.

jack with the backstory of the devil and the three golden hairs, only jack doesn't find love, he's TIRED, all he wants to do is go home, but there isn't a home to go back to. what is the point of being born lucky if this is what it gets you? jack the giant killer, only he doesn't want to kill giants, jack who saw a body of a giant when he was a small child and cannot bring himself to do as a king commands. jack, who climbs up the beanstalk and stops halfway to look down. etc.

to go back to the drowned giant real quick, both to set the tone about jack seeing the body of a giant as a youth, and also because I've been haunted and obsessed with this excerpt of it ever since I read it:

J. G. Ballard, The Drowned Giant

anyway! this was originally like, a two illustration concept to get out of my system. however. I'm halfway through outlining a narrative. so. maybe it will also be several illustrations and also comic.

[cator99]

out of curiosity, would you consider yourself butch?

used to be a blonde underweight twink and now I'm a based jock still got the chanel bag and the sick albeit matured mind of a suckpig to prove it so I'm gonna let you decide whether you wanna call me that word just cuz I got a pussy and short hair. I promise you that there have been enough advancements made in the art of lesbian sexual dynamics in the past 50 years to broaden the vocabulary used to describe the plethora of types of masculine females.

[gideonnavsenormousbiceps]

shang qinghua and shen qingqiu would be so funny as college roommates. because here's the thing, they would definitely both blame each other for basically everything and be like "he's the worst roommate ever!" to their respective boyfriends and then it turns out they're both actually just awful roommates. Like shen qingqiu probably sucks at domestic chores like loading the dishwasher and always does it wrong no matter how many times he's corrected, but shang qinghua is probably up all night typing abd playing music obnoxiously loud (he has one of those really clicky keyboards and also gets way too enthusiastic about typing) and leaves empty energy cans/Ramen cups everywhere. Will either of them move out, or learn communication skills? No, of course not they prefer to complain

[castielfucks]

[seagull-scribbles]

💥Loud and Proud💥

[goatunderthebridge]

Tendou froze, eyes not moving from the beautiful sight in front of him.

Ushijima was laughing, a feat Tendou would’ve deemed impossible when they had met a couple of months ago. His eyes crinkled at the corners as if resisting the urge to shut completely as he laughed to continue - what, gazing at Tendou’s face? He had a hand clasped to his chest, reverberating laughter that was rich and velvet and made Tendou freeze but his heart pound. It surrounded him, drowning him in such a chocolate soundscape.

Ushijima was surprisingly loud when he laughed, enough so that some of the other customers sitting at tables near them in the small restaurant turned their heads curiously to see what was so funny. A woman in Tendou’s peripheral vision raised her eyebrows at him, scorn crossing her face at the duo. Tendou could ignore it, hell, he knew he could forget it as easily as he knew that the face Ushijima made when laughing would be something he would chase for the rest of his life. And just as that unfurled within him, Ushijima’s laughter died down as quickly as it had started and his face settled back into its resting, blank state.

What never changed, though, was the softness of his gaze on Tendou.

Tendou blinked quickly, looking away, shifting slightly in his seat. He could hear the clink of Ushijima’s glass as he picked it up again from where he had carefully put it down before his laughing fit.

“You’re very funny,” Ushijima says, making Tendou raise his eyes back to the man sitting before him, a blush burning the back of his neck. A tiny voice in the back of his mind chirped that, coupled with his red hair, it made him look even more like a monstrous beast. Now, complete with a long, red mane.

Shut it, he barely echoes back, squishing the thought.

The beat of silence makes Ushijima tilt his head slightly, searching Tendou’s face for… something. Why did he always look at him so softly, like he was some precious thing? It made him want to spring into Ushijima’s lap and kiss him until they both couldn’t breathe as equally as it made him want to recoil within himself and drag himself down into some deep, dark lair to never be seen again.

“Don’t I know it,” Tendou replies, offering a small smile he knew Ushijima was waiting for.

Ushijima nods, satisfied with the comment, and resumes eating. Tendou looks down at his own plate, intestines wriggling inside of him. He wondered how much longer it would take for Ushijima to figure it out, how much of his time he could continue to steal before the man came to his senses and realised what everyone else in his life already had: that Tendou was a monster who deserved to be alone.

Tendou picked at the food before him, less interested in it than watching Ushijima as he ate, focused and purposeful as if there was nothing more important to him than what was occurring at present. Tendou liked that. He rested a chin on his hand as his eyes roamed over Ushijima, committing this next beautiful sight to memory. It was almost unfair how good he looked in a suit.

Ushijima looked at him, eyes glinting as he caught his stare. Tendou would bet that he was daring him to continue, to say his thoughts aloud. He could read it in the way Ushijima tilted his head, asking him as unsubtly as ever.

Tendou smiled but broke the hold first, looking back at his plate. It shouldn't be much longer now until Ushijima realised and broke this off, he knew that, but he'd be damned if he wouldn't try to capture as much of this happiness as possible. It'd be a while until he got it again.

It's almost unfair that monsters don't get happy endings. And it's that thought which rolls around in his mind as Ushijima reaches a hand across the table to hold his own, gently.

[transsexula]

"Just ignore how every minority man is treated, because talking about it is basically like saying some women don't experience misogyny"

Never the point of this convo. In fact, you're literally making up a guy to be mad at. Why is it that a different minority talking about their own issues in their own space makes you feel this way? Why is it a minority making their own words to explain something they experience now an attack on you? Is it, perhaps, that you don't understand the experience and therefore project your own understanding of it onto everyone who speaks about it regardless of THEIR actual experiences?

I'll be the first to admit I don't know every fucking experience out there. I gotta trust my trans sisters when they talk about their experiences- same with any other identity I don't understand. Why are trans men not afforded this? We are literally an oppressed minority. Our bodies are constantly regulated and cracked down on and treated as freakshows. I feel like on some level, as trans people, others have to feel it and see it. Right?

Or are we just supposed to stay invisible?

[crystallizsch]

ughghg hi i hate to be serious or be such a downer but i really need to put this out there because some people are getting too comfortable.

but then again it's partially my fault because i let it happen --

this is more pointed towards strangers, so if you know we're friends/mutuals you're cool 🫶

anyways just want to point out that if we're not close especially, it doesn't give you an excuse to treat me like i'll be fine with everything that you'll say.

i can handle jokes, i love joking unseriously with anyone, and i just love talking with people in general and usually the interactions aren't that deep.

but there's a line between genuine playfulness and thinly-veiled insults/mockery. saying "sorry" or anything like "/j" doesnt change that.

and yeah i'm aware this is especially hard to discern because people's actual tone over the internet can be perceived differently. and sometimes people aren't aware that they're being rude. so that's why i usually give people another chance.

it's just to the point that when it happens over and over again where it stops being coincidental. plus i usually just try to trust my gut whenever i feel uncomfortable with people from the get-go.

idk what else to say but please remember i'm also just another person. and that applies to everyone else here. you're free to say whatever you want but that doesn't mean you're free from any pushback.

[parin-gurumin]

[youmakethelight]

hi fans are allowed to have an honest response to a tv show, and they're allowed to speak publicly about it, without their reasons for feeling how they do being ridiculed or undermined. Let's not blame fans for feeling negative and accuse them of being determined to feel negative okay?

[lunarharp]

"Found out" set in kind of a made-up chapter where the girls are in trouble, or something.

[ratatatastic]

congrats to mr "the worst is ekky (to sit next to). i like sitting next to gustav (because hes quiet)" not giving up on his principles despite the fact mr worst to sit next to is velcroed to mr quiet so really it cancels out