We need to glorify breast augmentation scars the way we do mastectomy scars. We need to glorify neopussy and phalloplasty/metoidioplasty the way we do girlcock and boy pussy. We need to adore the shape of post-orchiectomy genitals. We need to make more people aware of penile preserving vaginoplasty. We need to glorify nullification. Transgender bodies shaped by surgery are the most beautiful example of self creation there is. You've physically altered your own body, through surgery and meat and steel to make it match your self image. What could be more beautiful than that? They are the perfect symbols of transness, and that they're overshadowed by stylised scar lines and crotch bulges, no matter how hot and beautiful those are in their own right, is a tragedy.

Really says something about the dire state of offerings for men interested in sewing their own clothes that even searching things like "interesting men's clothing patterns" brings up articles with links to four or five whole websites that primarily offer admittedly nice but practically identical patterns for making button-ups and work pants and maybe a varsity/bomber jacket if you're lucky.

(Branching out into historical costuming for everyday wear is like your one shot at variation, and even then, the ratio of men's to women's patterns on every website is frustrating to say the least.)

Patternmakers as a trans man I am begging you. Give me a little more to work with here.

Like it's also hard if you're buying your own clothes, don't get me wrong, but there are at least more retailers that offer fun and quirky clothes for guys if you do a little digging.

And some of that comes down to print choice, where you obviously have significant leeway if you're making your own clothes, too, but the erasure of men who sew by society writ large has wreaked absolute havoc on the selection of sewing tutorials and patterns aimed at men and people interested in wearing menswear. It is uniquely frustrating to be a man who wants to sew interesting things, not just wear them.

I wasn't expecting this to take off, but since so many of you seem to have resonated (or at least sympathized) with this, I thought I'd offer some links to some of the fun patterns I have been eyeing lately

(Last but not least, I would be remiss not to mention Norah Waugh's The Cut of Men's Clothes, which is a book and not a pattern retailer might be best for slightly more advanced sewers, but I did make a really excellent 1600s cassock using a pattern from it that has gotten a lot of compliments as everyday wear!)

Frustrating as the men's sewing landscape is, there are still some fun things out there, and it's worth the digging! I vote we all make weird clothes and start a fashion revolution.

Cosplay and LARP patterns are worth a look, though the ratio is still very skewed. You need a good eye for what patterns are plausible though, and how to adapt them for different fabrics. That's another part of this problem - you have to be good with patterns to be able to make the stuff but how do you learn the 101 stuff if you have to jump right into pattern drafting?

#theres a guy called Mark Francis who was on the Great British Sewing Bee a few years bacl#and he does some really cool men's patterns! (via @shutupeiffel)

I had a look at his shop and it's honestly pretty delightful. Particular fan of the seventh doctor inspired trousers.

happy birthday to my twin and me !!!!!

we both love roxas kingdom hearts so we have lil sonas...i homestuck'd them hehehe

daily affirmations

We owe it all to them.

To repeat the message louder: musicians, journalists, radio stations, listeners, record companies, streaming sites, discos; anyone remotely involved with popular music, you probably owe a big chunk of it to black musicians.

I’m just saying if they did make Muppets The Iliad, they couldn’t actually depict Achilles mowing Hector down and spearing him through the throat so instead how this would look is Animal dragging a very much alive Pepe the Prawn around in circles and laughing maniacally while an uncomfortable Kermit looks at the camera and does that face where the hand inside him clenches a little.

I'll never have the words to describe how insane it is that Yuji and Megumi just loved each other that much and it beat Sukuna's ass.

Like the emphasis on souls in Jujutsu Kaisen. The innate connection Sukuna could form by possessing someone. The philosophical debates. The ability to see a soul. To bind a soul. To hurt a soul.

And you have to imagine just how much love and desperation Yuji had to be feeling to claw his way to where Megumi was hiding and speak to him. Yuji wasn't connected in any sorcerer way to Megumi's soul. He just loved him. And Megumi had no reason to display himself as a small child to Yuji. He was so trusting of Yuji he chose to put the most vulnerable, defenseless, truest part of his soul on display.

A fawn curled up beside a fake deer which is used for target practice. 

Please note the calm looking fawn.

It’s mother has most likely used the fake deer as cover for the fawn to sleep near. I’ve personally witnessed a doe direct a fawn to lay in a patch of tall weeds and go lay on a hill where she could see me and the tall patch of weeds. That’s what they do, find something bigger than the fawn to sleep near so they’re hidden while they sleep.

This isn’t a sad child looking for something mother-like, this is a kid getting put to bed.

so the mom just managed to find the most haunting large object behind which to hide a child

@deerstar4 too good to be banished to the tags

They don’t tell you this but in the United States there is an extremely low chance to encounter a vehicle shaped like a hotdog

It looks like this

Absolutely cackling over the banjo subreddit

I’ve been tinkering with the idea of an urban fantasy “All Fairy Tales Are True” setting where some fairy tale characters are mortals who reincarnate and live through their story again and again with no memory of their past lives, but other characters are immortal, carrying over biases and grudges and regrets from the last time they went through this.

Snow White’s dwarves keep her room exactly as she left it, and keep a wary eye on the horizon for the day she returns. When she does they treat her like a beloved daughter come home, cook her favourite meals, warn her to stay away from apples this time, and keep calling her the wrong name.

Cinderella’s Fairy Godmother found her a touch ungrateful last time, and has decided not to appear to her this time around to teach her a lesson in gratitude. This Cinderella, without the memory of the last time, is still a terrified, miserable woman desperate to escape her awful situation.

The Witch in the gingerbread house has developed a thousand traps to eat those goddamned kids. She’s failed every time. She lives a life of Sisyphean torment previously known only to cartoon coyotes.

OP: There's something oddly healing about seeing ducks hunt fish in the park.

Cnetizens: The ducks shine.

sevika/ambessa commissions for jeangreysmask on twitter

This is what uni is like ngl

Audio transcript:

[The Skyrim soundtrack plays over the background of the entire video]

Blond person with glasses: "Have you seen the new assignments on Blackboard? Our professors are trying to kill us!"

Person with brown stubble: "Have you seen Jessica's alcohol stash? It is incredible!"

Person in striped hoodie: "Welcome, stranger! Have a delicious meal!"

Person walking from elevator: "The lines at the cafeterias were unbelievable!"

Person bumping into bucket: "So which frat are you rushing?"

End transcript.

Pool # 27 -  Ann Goldberg , 2016.

Canadian , b. 1970s

Oil on canvas , 30 x 48 in.

OIL PAINTING.

I found lots more on the artist's website, and then came across Percy in the Pool, which almost did me in 🥺🧡