Mari

Aurora Hair & Hair Net

Happy friday! It's another hair!

This was originally meant to be a V3 of the Euphemia hair, but I felt it deserved a new name - especially since it comes with its own hair accessory! (and because the hair accessory currently does not work with the Euphemia hairs, oops!)

The hair is a frankenmesh, with the mesh included.

base game compatible

24 EA swatches

teen-elder

NOT compatible with MOST hats (due to UV mapping, also no hat cuts)

Polygon count: 16.1k

all LODs

Aurora hair, without the hair net

The hair net is a simple edit of this hair net by @gaiavf, which is required for the Aurora hair net to work.

base game compatible

6 swatches from the original mesh (with CAS swatch previews edited)

6 new swatches

teen-elder

hat category

Currently this hair accessory does not work with the Euphemia hair set due to UV mapping. However, I plan to update the Euphemia hair set with UV mapping that would work for pairing with this, since the buns sit in the same position on all 3 hairs.

Aurora hair, paired with the hair net

download both here (SFS)

Huge thanks & credit to:

@buzzardly28 for the buns (Princess Leia’s Classic Hair)

@nightingalesongx for the base hair mesh (Isobel Hair Edit), which is a @tekri mesh edit (Isobel Hair)

exclusive patreon hair now live!

thank you to @buzzardly28 and @tekri for mesh pieces! it truly means the most.

This is the level of rage we're at with ICE. I'm not joking to say it's almost physically painful to not help someone stuck like that, and it's worth it because the people stuck are ICE.

ICE has violated the "actively try to hurt you or your neighbors" bit of the laws of hospitality, and thus the hospitality has been revoked. They are free to feel winter's wrath against those who would bring harm to the community.

This morning Bear, aged 8, stopped on the walk to school and demanded that I take a picture of a perfect snowflake they found on a cold metal railing. They announced that their school’s headmaster had charged them with the task of finding Free Treasure, and that the snowflake had to be documented. Free Treasure is, according to the headmaster, treasure that doesn’t cost anything. This snowflake was so GOOD - and, to a small British child in the soft green south, so RARE - that it was a highly satisfactory start to their quest.

Unfortunately Bear then spotted a snowflake caught in a spiderweb on a garbage bin, which is objectively more interesting and dynamic Free Treasure (snowflake in spiderweb!! Very rare!!) but which photographs badly. There is no way to photograph that free treasure that doesn’t suck. Bear found this quite frustrating.

The vastness of the world, which contains many cold metal railings AND many rubbish bins, briefly overwhelmed Bear with the knowledge that there is quite likely really good Free Treasure, probably just around the corner even, but the rigid routine of the new year - the necessity of going to school - the inevitable rising of the sun and warming of the world - means that they wouldn’t find it. Bear bathed for a moment in this great wash of philosophy, and then ran off.

THERE’S A TIMESKIP

THERE’S A TIMESKIP

THERE’S A TIMESKIP

after losing control of the signal fire there’s a FUCKING TIMESKIP and when the next chapter starts everyone’s hair is several inches longer and their clothes have rotted to shreds and they’re still just kind of chilling!!!!

IT TAKES THE TERRIBLE IMPERIALISM MIND-POISONED EXCESSIVELY BRITISH BOYS IN THE ACTUAL BOOK SEVERAL MONTHS TO COMMIT A SINGLE ACT OF INTENTIONAL VIOLENCE, EVEN THE ONE (1) CHILD WRITTEN AS AN ACTUAL SOCIOPATH

AND then when they DO turn on each other it is because

THERE’S AN UNSPECIFIED WORLD WAR HAPPENING

AND A PILOT’S CORPSE CRASH LANDS ON THE ISLAND POST-DOGFIGHT AND THE CHILDREN MISTAKE THE PARACHUTE FOR A MONSTER AND SPIRAL INTO PARANOIA

BECAUSE CHILDREN INHERIT THE LEGACY AND TRAUMA OF VIOLENCE FROM THE ADULTS WAGING WAR AROUND THEM

HURR DURR IN THE REAL WORLD IT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN LIKE IN LORD OF THE FLIES -

yes. yes he did. i’m also gonna direct you to the real life ‘lord of the flies’ which occured in the 1960s, when six tongan schoolboys got stranded on a desert island for over a year before being rescued by an australian fisherman (who, it should be noted, later took on all six as crewmembers because the reason they were out in the first place was because they wanted to see the world, and named his ship the Ata after the island they were stranded on). nobody died. the only injuries that occurred were accidental, and when one of the boys broke his leg falling down a cliff, the others braced it and looked after him so well that it healed perfectly. if they argued, then they would literally go to opposite sides of the island until they’d cooled off. after leaving the island, they remained friends for the rest of their lives. here’s a photo of them as adults, with their rescuer (who is third from the left) and other members of his crew.

> looks inside

Anyway, I was halfway through hemming a curtain I'm pretty certain I started making in 2021 when I realized my background TV show had switched at some point and I was now 'watching' Ghost Adventures.

After another twenty minutes of only half-listening because I couldn't be bothered to get up from my sewing machine and change it, I realized they were talking about the physical manifestations of possessions and ghost attacks, and I looked up in time to see a woman sitting in a mold-riddled space (it's worth pointing out the host was wearing a respirator for this exact reason), with all these excited men pointing at the flushing on her neck and face, all of them going, "wow, look! Something hit her, a ghost hit her! That's crazy!"

And the longer I watched, the more I realized she was experiencing what looked like MCAS pattern flushing (which can sometimes look like the lupus butterfly rash, but can spread far more rapidly and will just keep going unless you get away from the trigger. The neck can become especially affected), and then the next day, they asked her how she was feeling and she said, something along the lines of "I'm okay, I had a bit of a migraine this morning, I feel really drained from the ghost attack."

And I was just sitting there. Squinting.

Like, obviously, I cannot diagnose anyone, let alone over a TV show —and who the fuck knows if any of it was real or if the whole thing was faked somehow — but also... I think if you're only experiencing ghosts in your moldy haunted house, and the physical symptoms you describe are flushing, dizziness, nausea, headache, and "feeling an oppressive weight on your chest,' I think you might be having an allergic reaction, actually. (Obligatory Vicotiran doctor: you got ghosts in your veins, here, do some cocaine Benadryl about it.)

"But I was seeing things!!" Mast cell inflammation in the brain can literally make you hallucinate and lose time if it's bad enough. I used to get auditory hallucinations post-anaphylaxis because of how my untreated mast cell disorder manifested. If I start hallucinating sounds, I know it's time for a trip to the hospital because I'm about to need my body weight in intravenous steroids to stay alive.

"But I went to the doctor, and they couldn't find anything wrong." lol. lmao, even.

Key quotes from the article:

Researchers have known for decades that there are two primary types of people who perpetrate violence. The first is the small fraction who are independently motivated to commit violent acts. The second, and much larger group, are those who commit violence to seek approval and status from others. This is especially true among men who use violence to affirm their masculinity. Research on gender is particularly relevant for understanding ICE, which has an overwhelmingly male workforce and uses messages of masculinity and domination in its recruitment materials. A lot of men may be joining ICE because they think it will allow them to bond with other men and gain power in our society. ... To put it another way, the vast majority of men are only willing to engage in public violence if they feel like the people around them will approve of — and reward them for — that violence. ICE Watch works because it surrounds men seeking approval with people loudly expressing their disapproval. And the noise has the added benefit of drawing large crowds of bystanders who can quickly outnumber the ICE agents, who then have to decide if they want to escalate a situation or perhaps abandon their activity altogether.

And, the kicker? Where it takes 2 or 3 agents to make an arrest elsewhere, they are traveling by the half dozens in Minneapolis:

ICE Watch organizers have also observed that it takes many more agents to make a single arrest when they are around. In other cities, ICE traveled in groups of two or three, but in Minneapolis, we primarily see groups of 6 to 12 agents. The Department of Homeland Security has pulled agents from other cities to ramp up efforts in Minnesota, which guarantees there will be fewer deportations from the places they left. Plus, ICE's fixation on breaking up ICE Watch groups and detaining observers — often white citizens — has interrupted its original mission.

ICE Watch is shaming ICE (among other things, including documenting their crimes and providing a lifeline to those who are kidnapped).

And it's working.

And even if it wasn't working to the efficacy as shown, it's (1) cathartic to jeer at these fascists, (2) shows support to the community that you are not alone in thinking these agents are scum, and (3) still helping because everyone who joins ICE is a social pariah and knows it *because of this outward and ongoing shame*.

Like, if you go on meds and that happens, it's not because whatever's going on with you is jut Too Severe or that you're doomed or only people with Other Illnesses get to have meds that make them feel actually good and you have to settle for "miserable but somehow so hollow I no longer care about the misery" and be grateful you're no longer actively suicidal or whatever.

if i don't take this pill i spend the day as a dirty, inept husk, a sad sack of well-meaning but futile intentions just sapient enough to be dimly aware of everything im unable to be.

The person I was when I was very depressed did not feel like the real me. That was a version of me that was very ill. The "real me" is the me that is able to dance at stoplights and make art and enjoy food and laugh at jokes. And for now, I need pharmaceutical help to get back there.

They use the second amendment as a reason to openly brandish guns for no reason other than "because I can". Think of all those times when people carried assault rifles on their routine shopping trips.

7 p.m. is not late

your day is not over at 7 p.m.

you are allowed to leave your house after it gets dark

your day is not over at 5 p.m.

you are allowed to leave your house after it gets dark

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So butch lesbians are going down a misogynistic path? So butch trans women are going down a misogynistic path? What about all the feminine women who are misogynistic whilst femme did something go wrong for them somehow?

"masculinity in our world is very often defined by its relationship to femininity - that it is superior."

Masculinity can mean whatever the fuck someone wants it to mean and doesn't have to be defined by it's relationship to femininity at all. This is something many trans men and trans mascs eagerly talk about, which you'd know if you ever let us talk without assuming this shit about us.

What some see as masc others see as neutral or even feminine. It entirely depends on your culture and in many ways, your upbringing. If you continue to conflate 'toxic masculinity' imposed by the patriarchy with just 'whatever the culture accepts to be masculine rather than feminine, which could look like anything and not translate to other cultures at all' then you will never be free.

If masculinity is just 'what we're told is superior to what we call femininity' then why are there so many variations? No universal 'this is the right way to be because it is masculine'? Why is masculinity demonised in those who are assumed to not be allowed it if it's defined by it's superiority it would be celebrated when women and trans man/trans mascs do it too right? Oh it's not? Wonder why.

"if you are not critical of masculinity in transitioning toward masculinity, you will learn misogyny."

Everyone learns misogyny from the moment they are born into a misogynistic society. It comes free with growing up in a misogynistic world. You don't get immunity if you're a woman or feminine and it doesn't magically unlearn itself the moment someone transitions towards femininity either. So I sure hope you hold everyone to this standard.

People who believe misogynistic things before transition will still believe them after, and this is regardless of what their affirmed gender is. How they project them might change, but it's not unique to the masculine.

"there is nothing inherently wrong with being transmasculine, but if your ideas of masculinity lie in what society tells you masculinity is, you will be just like every fuckass misogynist dude on this planet."

Transitioning towards masculinity is not an inherently misogynistic act. That was my whole entire damn point 'you are not misogynistic because you want to be a man' because man is not equal to misogynist inherently, but if you continue to see it as such we will never make any progress. We need to hold people actually accountable for the ideas and beliefs they have, not 'oh well you're a man so of course misogyny is just natural to you, you're too stupid and inherently misogynistic to transition towards/be masculine/a man without hating women'.

What you're talking about here is the potential for someone to fall into misogynistic patterns in order to prove themselves i.e. taking up toxic masculinity. I don't disagree that this can happen, but your continued implication that just wanting to be masculine at all increases your 'chances to be a misogynist' meter is transphobic.

Because you are looking at trans masculine people and automatically assuming that unless we behave like good little boys we're going to become misogynistic purely because of our gender identity. That's transphobic.

"the tags on this post don't inspire very much confidence."

Oh why? Did someone tag it with certain buzzwords which you've taught yourself are inherently trans/misogynistic because you refuse to listen?

Get out of here.