Fighting for Love and Peace.

What you'll need: scissors, yarn or string (any color) and soda tabs. 6 tabs for one flower (or 7, but I use 6 personally)

Step 1: take 2 tabs and lay them over each other so that the hole on the bottom of one lines up with the hole on the top of the other, like this-

And tie them together. Then cut the short end of the string sticking up to get rid of the excess. You'll want to tie it with the back of he tabs facing up so the knot will be on the back side. Make sure to tie it tightly so the knot doesn't slip around when you're wrapping the tabs with the yarn

Step 2: wrap the side edges of the 2 tabs 3 times. You'll want to do it relatively tightly, but not as tight as possible. The tension is a little tricky to figure out because you want the flower to keep its shape well but also be loose enough to bend into a flower shape with ease. This takes practice.

Step 3: On the 3rd wrap, add another tab under the 2nd tab, like this-

And pull the string through the back of the new tab you put under the 2nd tab. And wrap 3 times to attach it to your other tabs. Pulling the string over the edges to the back, through the lined up holes, and pulling it out towards you. On every 3rd wrap, add another tab the same way until you have 6 tabs wrapped together like this-

Then run the string through those holes in the 1st and last tab to close the flower. You'll want to wrap it a few times tightly and then run thr string through the rest of the holes one more time to make sure the string is pulling all the tabs together with equal tension

Once you are satisfied with your flower, now it's time to tie it off! I do this by creating a loop in the back as if I'm still pulling the tabs together with the string, then i get the end of the string to face the back on the same side as the loop, and tie it up like this. Then I tend to do one more knot over that one just to be safe.

Then cut the excess string and your done!!

These are so fun and quick to make, and you can do so many things with these!! Belts, chains, jewelry, keychains, etc!! I hope my tutorial was helpful <3

Yes, of course there is nuance to it. Of course mainstream masculinity rejected and mocked men in the scene for wearing makeup and skinny jeans.

However, I think there is a mistake being made in believing "scene fashion rejected mainstream gender norms and patriarchy"

when in fact it was that mainstream gender norms and patriarchy rejected scene fashion.

And unfortunately, in response, many many maaany straight men experiencing that rejection, being called homophobic slurs, being told they no longer qualified as men or masculine, did not ban together with women and girls and queer people.

in fact they said, "hey! we're not f*gs! how could we be gay when we're subjecting women and preteen girls within our counterculture to misogyny and sexual violence the likes of which you wouldn't even imagine? you'd be impressed, even. and that's just the start. wait until we tell you what we do to the actual queer people you're accusing us of being."

like genuinely it is impossible to exaggerate the depravity from your average guy in pink skinny jeans i experienced as a scene girl ages 12-17. i've mostly stopped talking about it because it's genuinely just so deeply unpleasant i don't like subjecting people to it.

and most importantly this was a very common experience among all of marginalized people i knew in that scene.

sid stays strapped