i’ve been sewing for nineteen years. “but blue you’re only twenty-five!” yes exactly. i have been sewing for nineteen years, which is most of my life. i am literally going the “just make your own clothes” route personally because of inability to buy things that fit me properly in stores. and i will be the last person to ever recommend that anyone else does this.
you know why? because most people who are having issues buying clothes that fit have notbeen sewing for nineteen years. most people being told to “just make your own clothes” have never sewn, or have done only basic, beginner-level sewing. they don’t have the foundations, they would need to learn an entire specialized skill set from the ground up to accomplish this task. learning to sew well enough to make daily-use, regular-wear clothing that is durable enough and well-fitted enough to last you long enough to be worth the effort of making it, and to even understand which fabrics and construction methods to use for what garments in the first place, and allof that, it takes years to learn for the vast majority of people, especially for people who have to make significant alterations to the shape of a pattern in order for the garment to fit them.
not to mention that unless you are very knowledgeable about materials already in order to avoid getting price-gouged, andvery lucky to have been slowly collecting fabric and other supplies at hugely discounted prices over years and years, andyou’ve been incredibly fortunate enough to inherit a working sewing machine or find one inexpensively, getting into sewing your own wardrobe and starting from the beginning of your sewing journey all at once willcost hundreds if not thousands of dollars. it will cost way more than settling for something that fits “close enough” from wal-mart. and the people who are expressing these grievances are often poor people who can’t find clothes that fit because specialty stores are so expensive. if they had that much money, they could have already bought clothes from those specialty stores!!
i do wholeheartedly encourage people to learn to sew. but i recommend starting with learning how to sew basic things like pillows and pillowcases, and learning how to replace lost buttons and close a small hole in a seam and make other small repairs, then work your way up to basic garment alterations like hemming pants and taking in/letting out seam allowances.
the majority of people will not be able to jump right into sewing proper garments from nothing. telling your average random person on the internet who says “it sucks that i can’t find any clothes in stores that fit me properly” to “just make their own” is patently unreasonable.
I love the x-men so much because that’s just what leftist infighting is like! that’s literally all it is! xavier is a sellout and they all hate him but he’s the only one with any money. everyone complains about “they keep switching sides and dating each other it’s so fucking confusing” like my dudes have you never been a part of any socialist organisation, ever. then people will go “magneto is so strong how has he not killed a bunch of teenagers” HE DOESN’T WANT TO KILL THEM! this started in a goddam basement over coffee he does not want to hurt them he just wants them to shut up and listen and will fling cars to do so
So, The Email has reached general fandom and people are being assholes about it, which we expected. I’m over it, but it irritates me deeply that they’re trying to attack @ginmo who’s been an incomparable contributor to JB fandom for a long time. So I’m going to lay out the sequence of events. It won’t make any difference to people who read some random, inaccurate tweet about it and then start acting like they know anything, but it’ll make me feel better.
There are two people who will be anonymous in this account, the original email sender (ES) and a second JB shipper (SS) who is a friend of ginmo’s. For context, both of these people are established members of the JB fandom who had been present and actively contributing for years before any of this happened.
- In the immediate wake of the finale, whereupon all extremely bad leaks were confirmed, ES sends an emotional email to George discussing how important Jaime, Brienne, and their storyline are to her, including personal details about her life and experiences, and how horrifying the message sent by the show’s ending for the characters was.
- George responds. ES freaks out and sends a message to SS. SS requests a screenshot, which ES produces. ES explains she will not be in fandom much longer because she wants to take a break until TWOW, and doesn’t feel she would be believed. SS is now in possession of the screenshots but not sure what to do with them as she doesn’t want to deal with the drama of posting them or potential disbelief either.
- ES continues in fandom for a short while afterward, notably changing and reworking her established, public theories based on her interpretation of the still unposted email. Due to George’s defense of the show’s decisions in the email, she incorporates a lot of specific show details into her theories, so they aren’t particularly well-received.* She then leaves fandom.
- SS eventually shares the knowledge of the email and the screencaps with ginmo, who eventually shares it with @chickren and myself.
- In the subsequent weeks, we try to contact ES, review her history in fandom, her theories, note the change in them after The Email, along with discussing whether to publicize it and how to do so. We contact So Spake Martin.
- Also during this time, George makes multiple statements about the show and the books being parallel/alternate universes and says outright that “the show told a different story” than his version. This reinforces our belief in the veracity of the email.
- We ultimately decide to go ahead and post it for JB fandom and, much like the spoiler about Jaime and Brienne having sex that ginmo uncovered and shared with JB fandom in the fall of 2018, not concern ourselves with whether other people believed it.
So. Here’s the thing: I still don’t care whether general fandom or whoever else believes it. And if people want to suggest that ES was pulling the weirdest hoax of all time in which, among other things, they never actually publicly share their fake and also inexplicably believe it themselves, then sure go ahead.
But don’t put forth the idea that a group of JB shippers who’ve been in this fandom, active and contributing and caring, for a decade, AT MINIMUM, woke up one day and decided we were going to troll our own fandom for shits and giggles. It’s idiotic.
*I think this was a faulty interpretation on her part. She took the idea of a single point of divergence/parallel universe extremely literally and so assumed that all of the show’s details were from George and that it was deliberately exploring a ‘what if’ scenario, instead of numerous changes over years having forced it to a different conclusion.
Unsure if anyone’s posted the video yet but. Gerard went on like a 5 minute rant about how evil capitalism is and how you can’t let giant media corporations know every single thing about you because they don’t deserve that and then launched immediately into destroya. Just in case you thought he changed
i love how the terror just doesnt give a shit about introducing characters. oh u wanna be able to tell these 20 white men apart? you wanna know their names? fuck you. here’s 5 different characters called john and 3 called james and we will never say their names during a scene theyre actually in
hanging out with other ADHD people is such a balm. i can interrupt them midsentence and go “look at that nice duck!!” and they’ll immediately turn around and go “oh my god that is a GOOD duck” instead of just snapping at me to pay attention
Honestly, probably the best social tip I could ever give you guys is literally just ask. Need to make a doctor’s appointment but don’t know how? Call the doctor’s office and ask. Don’t know the meaning of what someone said? Ask them. Don’t understand the instructions you were given? Ask them to repeat or clarify. This has literally never failed me, no one’s gotten angry, no one’s refused to answer.
Even in situations where you think it might not work, I once accidentally missed a deadline to accept a job offer, so I called and asked if they could reset it and they did. Just today I called a doctor and asked how to schedule an appointment, the lady told me how, and then I did it. Didn’t know if someone was being sarcastic or not, so I asked and they told me. Just ask.
the thing is not only is Jonathan Harker a lawyer, he’s a lawyer who JUST passed the bar. studying for and taking the bar melts your fucking brain so bad. all of his common sense has been replaced with property law. instead of brain there is short essay about insurance consumer protection. I guarantee he still remembers all six kinds of homicide in detail despite the fact that he will never touch criminal law in his life. it is honestly a miracle that he even made it far enough to get seduced by Dracula
If your cat is curious abt what you’re eating always let em have a lil whiff. 9/10 times they don’t even wanna eat it they just wanted to know what it was. it’s cute
