#but sneakers are expensive!

[livwritesstuff]

The first pair of shoes Eddie purchased for himself when he started rebuilding the life he’d lost when his trailer was destroyed was a pair of Doc Martens.

They were new (well, not new – he’d still thrifted them, but they were barely worn, probably surrendered by some yuppie who liked the style but couldn’t handle the pain of breaking them in) and big and black and heavy with steel toes and thick woven laces.

Those boots went everywhere with him – navigating those first few years of recovering from all the trauma he’d suffered in ‘86, finally leaving Hawkins in 1990, his move to Washington in ’94 to live with Steve while he finished out his psych program, their joint move to Boston a couple years later, his first book release in ‘95 and his second in ‘99, not to mention all the countless big and small adventures that filled in all those gaps.

When Eddie and Steve’s daughter Moe was born in 2001, Eddie temporarily retired the boots.

There was a period during those first few years of her life when she was both very small and always underfoot, a combination that meant concerns about tripping on her were high enough without Eddie adding steel-toed boots larger than his kid into the mix.

So for a while, the boots sat on the floor in his and Steve’s closet collecting dust.

Then Moe got a little bit older and the boots started collecting other things.

“Ed, come look at this,” Steve snickers.

He’s in their closet, trying to tackle the cataclysmic mess that has accumulated over the last year and a half, because trivial things like cleaning had kind of taken the backseat the second they met Moe – as they should; Eddie maintains that there is literally nothing he’d rather do than spend time with his daughter, bar none. Alas she does need to nap sometimes, and he supposes that’s when all the other shit gets done.

He joins Steve in the closet to see that he's holding one of Eddie's Docs.

“Look what Moe did,” Steve continues, holding out the boot.

Eddie takes it, immediately noticing that it’s even heavier than usual. He peers inside to see that it’s filled to the brim with stuff – a small wooden car, a travel deodorant from his last trip to New York for work, a pair of socks, sunglasses, several loose bandaids, one of Steve’s combs, a roll of Smarties (it’s a wonder she didn’t eat them), a veritable cache of treasures in the eyes of their eighteen-month-old. 

The other boot is pretty much exactly the same.

“Oh my god,” Eddie beams, “She’s fucking incredible.”

“She’s inheriting your raccoon behavior," Steve replies with a wicked grin.

“Alright.”

[petrovna-zamo]

Katya’s killer boot collection

[drzootsuit]

I find it highly depressing that fortnite added cars as a cosmetic, and since then has released not a single interesting one. It's all the ford penis-90 or the lamborghini fart-shit. The car from the incredibles showed up in the files, but was never actually added.

I think I find it depressing because of the fantasy it represents. No, you can't have fun shit like an ice cream truck or a cardboard box or the turtle-van or the batmobile. Because the fantasy is not to indulge yourself in fun fantastical play, the fantasy is to lust after real-world wealth.

The lamborghini is not desirable because it's fun or interesting, but because it's expensive in real life. It is a worship of assets not for their entertainment value, but for their status. A way to cast the digital realm not as a playroom of infinite possibility, but as a showroom meant to train you to lust after shit pricks buy.

Perhaps I'm being dramatic about something that isn't for me, but I think that's allowed sometimes.

[naritaren]

[rihrihxxlegendarih]

Puma Queen

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[sobeautifullyobsessed]

Moving Day ~

Today is what I've come to refer to as Moving Day. My time is up where I've been staying, so I had to pack up my car with all my valuables, clothes, food, and health supplies, then spend several hours in my car, until I can check in somewhere else and unpack everything. It's physically exhausting, and by the time I'm done (around 4pm) I'm gonna end up sleeping on & off until getting up for work on Monday. I really dread Moving Day, but it's my reality for now--and I'm very aware there are many people who don't even have shelter at all.

Normally, Moving Day falls on a Sunday, like today...but it's gonna fall on Wednesday (a workday) again this week, as I only have funds to stay until then (paying my motor vehicle tax has left me broke). After that, I'll be spending the night at work or in my car. So I'm posting this now in the hope of enough help to get me a few more nights before I have to do it all again. I'm left to rely on the kindness of both friends and strangers. Thank you in advance to anyone able to give a little bit of help and for signal boosting this plea!

my ko-fi: ko-fi.com/sobeautifullyobsessed

[mrs-trophy-wife]

[rebrandedbard]

Had to order custom boots for ren faire because my big juicy muscular calves are too out of proportion with my teeny tiny itsy bitsy widdle toesie woesies. Emphasis on WOE.

[just-fly-shit-and-substance]

[straightlightyagami]

I need to acquire new shoes as nearly all of mine (2 out of the 3 pairs of shoes i own. one of which fell into a river one time so I use them only for hiking and walking my dogs) are getting holes in them…

[lokh]

oughhh i forgot the problem with modern aus is figuring out what they would wear

[cripplepunk-sylveon]

Another year of my parents not understanding what I wear or how I wear it.

I fucking hate raglan sleeves why would you give me something with raglan sleeves. You know WHY I hate them to boot. Why would you give me this.

And two more variants on the same thick, cushy black henley shirt they've been giving me one of every holiday for four years now.

I'm going to have to DIY every single one of these into something I would actually wear and tolerate the passive aggression about it.

[norsesuggestions]

Googling online to find my one true pair of new winter shoes

I found alot of stockholmers claiming that wearing "just sneakers during stockholm winters works great"

Fellow stockholmers, you are lying to yourselves. So very much

Yes, it is ofcourse possible to walk around with wet cold feet for about hmmm. 4 months?

But on porpuse?? As a fashion statement? Please, WHY

[tyrantofthefirmament]

The Irregular Choice Transformers collection that was supposed to come out today still hasn't shown up on their website and I'm SUFFERINNNNGGGGG!

[the-kipsabian]

trying to find shoes i could buy and actually wear is a fucking nightmare

[smile-files]

the feeling when you care so much about a character that you worry about their gjinka's outfit not being narratively meaningful enough