Tagged by @tacosaysroar to show y’all my mug, so here you go.
Finished up work-related tasks yesterday, so I’m already in long weekend mode. Have a preschool graduation ceremony to go to for my nephew this evening, which will be followed by a pizza party. The world is a fucking shitstorm, but there’re still little pockets of joy. That’s what I’m looking for.
I’ll tag anyone else who’d like to grace our dashes with their beautiful faces.
A little late but here is some of my Halloween YYH Merch . I have a video for you to see the transformation mug as well as solo pics . I hope you had a happy Halloween
I’m reblogging this selfie because it feels nice to finally like, start to feel good about how I look. I wanna invest more in tattoos and piercings and my wardrobe, but I’m getting somewhere.
Do I look good? Highly subjective. My friends will say yes, and I love that about them, a lot of people would feel differently. But I still feel good about how I look.
I don’t think it would be entirely honest to say that I don’t care what others think. Because how I dress and express myself obviously shows I very much do on some level care what people think. I adhere to some clear aesthetic touchstones of a specific spectrum of subcultures that have a lot of built-in assumptions, the heavy eyeshadow and funky haircut and eyebrow piercing are all affectations that I knowingly adopt along with the stereotypes and social shorthand they represent in other people’s immediate reaction to the sight of me.
Obviously I care what you think of me, because my appearance is my way of telling you what I want you to think of me at first glance.
If you hate the things you infer about me from my appearance, if it repels you, it’s working.
And it’s liberating. I like how I look. If you don’t, if you dislike my appearance and the person that you assume I am based on it, I am delighted to tell you that you were never my target demographic to begin with and you can move right along, but if you see me and think “look at that, a kindred, someone I might share common interests with” the way I often do when I see Adult Goths in the wild, then it is also working.
