FatalFallacy

REVENGE on @krowfaced !!

Had SO much fun drawing this dude! I made him a little wormy in terms of anatomy, sorry i just wanted to push the pose—his design calls for movement!!! XD

If you had this, would you open it immediately?

(A small plush black bear is in this can. I have had it for more than a year, and it’s already several years old. I feel like I will keep it as an emergency stuffie time capsule.)

Paid service with no ads: Well, if they're not funding it with ad revenue, they need to charge us something.

Paid service with ads: Well that's bullshit.

The topic is casual cosplay, and putting together character-inspired outfits for regular day wear. I grabbed it from the library because I THOUGHT it might go into detail about silhouette, color blocking, and tips for translating animated designs into real-world clothing. Instead, it's pretty much just a Disneybounding lookbook, almost exclusively using models who are skinny white cis women (as far as I can tell based on the models' supplied social media handles). Thus far I have seen exactly one woman of color, and zero fat people. There has been one white man, and, as far as I can tell, zero nonbinary people of any race or presentation.

All the looks thus far are focused on femme women, which wouldn't be an issue if it weren't for the fact that it, 1) wasn't billed as a book about women's fashion, it was billed as a cosplay guide for anyone to use, and, 2) the author seems to be assuming that her audience is made of entirely of femme cis women who like wearing skirts. This author's idea of what makes a "masculine" outfit is a fucking joke. A skinny blonde cis woman in a ruffled off-the-shoulder crop top and low-rise jeans being called "masc" is testing my resolve to finish reading this mess. I don't think this author has ever seen a butch in her life.

Over half the book has been Disney focused, and I've just realized that the back half is almost exclusively Harry Potter. Like. This book came out in 2021, well after JRK got onto her TERF poison. You have no excuse. Ugh.

And if all of that isn't pissing me off enough, the author gives the constant advice to "buy cheap stuff on Shein!" Like, literally name-dropping Shein and multiple other fast-fashion dropshipping platforms.

I love these bowls. So time for a level up: 12 whenu instead of the usual eight. Took me way longer than expected! Story of my life.

It’ll be a while before this dries but fingers crossed I get my Constructicon colours. Oh! Most of the bowl will be “natural”. I only used ten of the whenu I dyed this morning and the yellow blends in a lot with the undyed harakeke.

it is also widely accepted that women get raises less often because they don't ask as much as men. this is objectively not true.

it is also widely accepted that women are more talkative than men. this is objectively not true.

it is also widely accepted that women are taken less seriously when speaking because their speech patterns are associated with a "lack of confidence". this is objectively not true. [1][2][3]

every time we talk about gender discrimination, people look for an explanation that starts with women's behavior.

and every fucking time, actual research shows that across the board, women actually don't behave that differently from men.

Kosode, cotton, with stencil paste-resist design of skulls and bones, Japan, 1840-60

"The America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries."