#one size does not fit all

[oonajaeadira]

writer's fic description: reading time, 5 minutes

me, a slow reader: lies.

(gif by uuuhshiny)

[myrabbitistrying2killme]

Mass produced clothes breed a certain distinct level of body dsymorphia. Oh this size doesn’t fit right? That’s weird- oh oh this fits bad on me oh this fits worse on me. It’s not your body. It’s not your body it’s not your body. I need people to understand how often clothes were handmade and tailored in the past and still are. You are buying a one size fits all even if it has different sizes!! Because your body is a size and shape they cannot account for! No one else has your body. It kills me how much Consumerism also breeds a distinct lack of understanding of our own bodies and what we look like because we imprint on what ‘fits’ at a chain store. even if you buy second hand, you can’t fully escape the new phenomenon because sizing is still awful!

[evenshands]

did u guys know. that sometimes people have coping mechanisms. that are different to yours

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Designing Your Life

Navigating Our Journeys Session:WS 5-A “Designing Your Life” Friday, March 29, 2024 1:35 pm –  3:00 pm  EST   Dr. Bea Rodriguez-Fransen Join Dr. Bea Rodriguez-Fransen  for a workshop titled “Designing Your Life.” Description Based on the principles of design (ideation and prototyping) and foresight (episodic future thinking), during this workshop attendees will produce a draft of their life…

[pale-plant-bones]

The Problem with Brandy Melville

isn't just that they're one-size, and thereby body-shaming anyone who doesn't fit their clothing. It's the fact that they're literally racist.

You can Google the stuff that they've done to POC applying for jobs or just shopping there. Lots of stories of blatant discrimination.

But on top of that, and something I don't think enough people realize, is that they don't even cater to a general petite body-type. Their clothes are too big for your average small, skinny person. The body-type their clothes are actually made to fit is specifically the glamorized lanky California white girl, as seen in their advertisements and models.

Brandy Melville clothing was too big and too shaped for my Asian friends in high school to fit. I bet girls with more curve, like is more common with Black and Latina bodies, wouldn't fit either. But they fit me, a 5'10" white person with a thin hourglass frame, pretty dang well. If I was shorter, maybe around 5'7," it would all fit absolutely perfectly on my body-type. Only my body-type.

It's clear that the only bodies they want their clothing on are size 4 white girls. It's racist. Straight up. It is supporting white supremacy, and specifically white American supremacy (via the blended white person made in the U.S, as apposed to a specific European white person), in the beauty standards presented to teenagers and young-adults who might be interested in the Brandy Melville aesthetic.

Go buy knock-offs from Shein. Multiple sizing options, a quarter of the price, and hey, they're both made in Chinese sweatshops anyway.

[midnightmoonbeams]

Pascal speaks about donuts and donut holes.

July 17th, 2020

[otaku553]

This is super random, but do you have any advice on how to draw children? I can never get it to look quite right when I try and I don't know why (I've got the idea down that they should be rounder but even that doesn't seem to be enough to make it look right)

So hilariously I’ve historically had the opposite problem where for a good while the only thing I could draw was children and I had no idea how to draw adults, because shonen anime with young protagonists were most of what I watched and interacted with when I was learning how to draw.

This is a very casual haphazard little thing so don’t put too much stock into it, but my experience at least has been the following:

Generally, on adults, the midline being where the eyes fall is pretty accurate. However, for children, especially babies, the eye line will fall a bit lower than the mid line.

On babies, generally the nostrils or the bottom of the nose will fall close to the midline between the eyes and the mouth at resting position. As they grow, the distance between the eyes and the bottom of the nose will get proportionally longer, so that the bottom of the nose will be closer to the mouth than to the eyes.

If starting with the circle as a base for the top curvature of the head, the chin will be further from the circle on an adult, making the head more elongated. On children, the chin will be shorter and rounder.

The head is also proportionally larger on children than on adults. For full body pieces, you can measure this by the shoulders.

I hope this helps some? As always, I do recommend using references and doing some studies of photos or other artwork if you find yourself stuck.

[bisexualbaker]

There's at least one (older) post on Captain Awkward where the commenters talk about how being asked to breathe deeply or slowly doesn't work for them, for various reasons. Some of the commenters have trauma related to it, which definitely wouldn't help with relaxing! I don't usually have a problem with deep breathing myself, but this poll did remind me of those posts, and that even things that seem universal have exceptions.

Every time a medical professional tells me to do breathing exercises and then measures my blood pressure they freak out because I'll go from like 110/60 to 170/110 in five minutes and I keep telling them that the slow-count breathing just makes me feel dizzy and like I have to pant to make up for it after the fact.

Writing this post has been miserable because even looking at the word "breathing" this many times has made me feel like I can't catch my breath but when I walk away for a couple minutes and stop thinking about inhaling and exhaling I know I'm going to feel fine again.

I fucking hate it when that four square breathing gif circulates or when I get an ad for a relaxation game on Duolingo, that shit breaks my lungs/brain for minimum twenty minutes every time.

[san-sews-seams]

While I understand the goal with gender-inclusive/'gender expansive'/unisex adult clothing patterns, I kinda hate them. Like. That's just now how human bodies are. One-size-fits all just doesn't!

A garment that is designed to fit well on a body without breasts will, by definition, fit like shit on me, no matter how boxy/oversized the style lines are! A garment designed to fit someone with by body (or the closest common approximation of my body, with like 3" less breast full bust circumference) will, by its very nature, fit very badly on someone flat-chested. See also, shit like shoulder width, and waist/hip raios, and I'm sure various other aspects.

Like, I get that there's a lot of baggage surrounding body shape and social expectations of gender! But you can't get around that baggage by pretending that various physical differences just don't exist!

If I want to dress more masc, the shape of my body does not change. The fit adjustments that I need to make don't change. I would in fact need to make additional tweaks and adjustments to get a traditionally masculine silhouette. And while it would be interesting and valuable to have guidelines on how to do that, unisex pattern designs move the whole process back in the opposite direction.

[cubbyhole-for-flea-bee]

chifeng zun and lianfang zun heightswap has serious comedy potential methinks

[spotaus]

Hi guys, this is usually what a doodle page ends up looking like <3 (oh, and @ancha-aus thought you might like this! Not writing but certainly fuel to my fire lol-)

This one is New Age filled!!! (Close-ups abd Lore beneath the cut!)

1) Night and Cross!

Night is actually very clingy once he's a teen. He doesn't usually realize it, but around the castle he'll snake to be closer to his Knights so long as there's no one he needs to keep his composure infront of is nearby. Cross is the one who's not used to physical touch (when it's not Ink ofc) so Night in his personal bubble makes his heart melt but also scares tf out of him <3

2) Error and Night's Meeting!

Error was carrying his whole life on his back and trying not to get arrested for unintentional property damage at this point, so when he saw the chance to get back at his brother and prove he was strong enough? Yeah, he got that on chance instantly. And was VERY smug when Nightmare chose him. (Also, Error is wearing gloves, so less Haphephobia)

3) Dream and Blue designs!

I think these are good tentative designs! Dream probably has a more regal fit, but he likes to play up that rugged exile look- He's inspired by Archers, while Blue takes on that classic Knightly-vibe. Their equipment is mostly stolen from Night's troops or brought with them from Blue's home kingdom.

Also, Dream is approx Killer's height at this point, shorter than Cross and *much* shorter than Apple!Nightmare. (Hc that Skeletons tend to be tinier in stature thanks to weird monster beauty standards. Horror and Geno's fam are outliers.)

4) Horror and Dust designs!

Horror is naturally a very *large* monster. He's very malnourished when Nightmare meets him, but by the time he's a Knight Nightmare has made sure that's no longer the case. He actually loves comfy, simple clothes, but to play up the whole 'strong mysterious' bit he wears a more barbaric Knight's garb. He doesn't mind acting scary, it's more fun that way :]. Dust is very very small, and envies horror sometimes for his size, but his tiny stature let's him control his body and move a lot quicker. He's very much based on a rogue, and usually covers the lower part of his face w/ a black cloth, and the upper part w/ his hood or mask. Dust only removes both to bathe, eat, or relax in a safe location. (Ignore that I can't draw the stupid gaster blaster lmao-)

These last two were space-fillers, but Cross and his Borzoi (Windmill, otherwise known as Milly (Killer named her-)) and really bad first wips of Ccino! I think Ccino was a chubby, happy toddler, but lost a lot of 'weight' (bone mass? Magic?) due to stress and pressure and bad eating habits. So it isn't until a while after the Coronation that he starts to relax abd feel safe enough to eat normal meals (Nightmare used to guilt him into eating snacks together, but as his boss (and younger brother) he can encourage it more often). By the time Killer shows he's still not quite healthy, but he's better. As more weight is lifted off his shoulders, the better he is. (That 'beauty' most people saw was a more stereotypical slimness, but Killer never stopped seeing Ccino as beautiful-) I think he never looked traditionally underweight, so no one noticed, and it was only much later that Night processed it. (And maybe it's why Dream hardly recognized him later on-)

[mercutiotakethewheel]

Kendra, inwardly: Omg I am so scared right now. I’m going to die here. This freakyass magical creatures about to do me in. And could do so easily, which I am imagining very vividly right now. Those are huge teeth. I am fighting god to hold it together right now. I don’t want to die. Why am I here? Just to suffer, every night I close my eyes and—

Kendra, outwardly: I cast vicious mockery.

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Creating a Bold Vision for Your Future

Navigating Our Journeys Session: DD5-A  “Creating a Bold Vision for Your Future” Friday, March 29, 2024 12:00 pm –  1:30 pm  EST   Dr. Julie Jung Join Dr. Julie Jung for a deep dive discussion titled “Creating a Bold Vision for Your Future.” Description This deep  dive discussion will focus on setting yourself up to win by creating a bold vision for your future. Topics will include bringing…

[maretriarch]

doodles to keep me awake during training that didn't work and i just slept and drew ponies day 1

[nexus-nebulae]

known we were a system for about 7 years now, probably been a system for far longer, and just realised. we got an intrusive self-fakeclaiming thought today and laughed it away

[sapphicflower-ao3]

don’t be shy let us see the aesthetically pleasing bkdk shirt

LMAO. as you wish dear anon !!!!

i’m not even joking when i say this is genuinely one of my most prized possessions