R.G.Loz

A friend of a friend won a free consultation with Clinton Kelly of What Not To Wear, and she was very excited, because she has a plus-size body, and wanted some tips on how to make the most of her wardrobe in a fashion culture which deliberately puts her body at a disadvantage.

Her first question for him was this: how do celebrities make a plain white t-shirt and a pair of weekend jeans look chic?  She always assumed it was because so many celebrities have, by nature or by design, very slender frames, and because they can afford very expensive clothing.  But when she watched What Not To Wear, she noticed that women of all sizes ended up in cute clothes that really fit their bodies and looked great.  She had tried to apply some guidelines from the show into her own wardrobe, but with only mixed success.  So - what gives?

His answer was that everything you will ever see on a celebrity’s body, including their outfits when they’re out and about and they just get caught by a paparazzo, has been tailored, and the same goes for everything on What Not To Wear.  Jeans, blazers, dresses - everything right down to plain t-shirts and camisoles.  He pointed out that historically, up until the last few generations, the vast majority of people either made their own clothing or had their clothing made by tailors and seamstresses.  You had your clothing made to accommodate the measurements of your individual body, and then you moved the fuck on.  Nothing on the show or in People magazine is off the rack and unaltered.  He said that what they do is ignore the actual size numbers on the tags, find something that fits an individual’s widest place, and then have it completely altered to fit.  That’s how celebrities have jeans that magically fit them all over, and the rest of us chumps can’t ever find a pair that doesn’t gape here or ride up or slouch down or have about four yards of extra fabric here and there.

I knew that having dresses and blazers altered was probably something they were doing, but to me, having alterations done generally means having my jeans hemmed and then simply living with the fact that I will always be adjusting my clothing while I’m wearing it because I have curves from here to ya-ya, some things don’t fit right, and the world is just unfair that way.  I didn’t think that having everything tailored was something that people did. 

It’s so obvious, I can’t believe I didn’t know this.  But no one ever told me.  I was told about bikini season and dieting and targeting your “problem areas” and avoiding horizontal stripes.  No one told me that Jennifer Aniston is out there wearing a bigger size of Ralph Lauren t-shirt and having it altered to fit her.

I sat there after I was told this story, and I really thought about how hard I have worked not to care about the number or the letter on the tag of my clothes, how hard I have tried to just love my body the way it is, and where I’ve succeeded and failed.  I thought about all the times I’ve stood in a fitting room and stared up at the lights and bit my lip so hard it bled, just to keep myself from crying about how nothing fits the way it’s supposed to.  No one told me that it wasn’t supposed to.  I guess I just didn’t know.  I was too busy thinking that I was the one that didn’t fit.

I thought about that, and about all the other girls and women out there whose proportions are “wrong,” who can’t find a good pair of work trousers, who can’t fill a sweater, who feel excluded and freakish and sad and frustrated because they have to go up a size, when really the size doesn’t mean anything and it never, ever did, and this is just another bullshit thing thrown in your path to make you feel shitty about yourself.

I thought about all of that, and then I thought that in elementary school, there should be a class for girls where they sit you down and tell you this stuff before you waste years of your life feeling like someone put you together wrong.

LOOOK LOOOK I DREW LUNA. he has freckles like the theia design ^^

Design wise nothing really changed? Though she had long hair before setting out to go slay Medusa.

In this AU Acrisius still casts Perseus and her mom out

she does love to cuddle! she's actually the most cuddly cat i've ever known! she's very sweet and playful. i haven't introduced her to the chickens yet because while my chickens are good with the cats, she's very small and i don't want them to mistake her for tasty mouse or something. but petal spent a lot of time yesterday at the backdoor, watching them!

but she's such a good kitten. i'm taking her to the vet soon because i don't trust the info i got from my SIL/the breeder she got her from. her age is a big question because she's tiny but when my SIL bought her, she was supposedly eight weeks old. SIL said the other kittens were twice her size so it's very possible she's just a runt. i just want to get her checked out since she's deaf and make sure everything is okay!

right now, she's sleeping in my lap.

It was genuinely depressing! They're dragons on an apocalyptic surface of our planet, surrounded by the dead bodies of animals (humans, dogs, they once ran into a large dead herd of cows.) So that's what they had to eat because Terra refused to take them hunting. He was legitimately pissed at all the moons and everyone being on his surface. He was like more protective over his lifeforms and refused to even entertain the idea of leading them to interesting places. I just remember Terra being really angry almost all the time.

But it was the ending that shocked me! Somewhere along the way the Solar group runs into a human survivor group. I think the human survivors were trying to find a new place to settle that's safer. But along the way the humans discovered about the moons plan and who the leaders where. (I don't remember how, maybe overhearing the moons talk or something?) And they... killed Ganymede and Europa. Of course Jupiter was furious, but Terra stopped him by protecting his humans and even yelling that the two deserved it.

It legit ended with the Solar group splitting up with Terra, Mars, and their three moons going with the human group and everyone else going another way. And then I woke up and find myself annoyed upon getting a cliffhanger ending again. :/

Damn, I'm kinda jealous, all my dreams are completely illogical streams of random events lol.

A post-apocalyptic version of DtE sounds extra rough for the poor characters. Just the logistics of feeding them is giving me anxiety lol

And yeah bits of my dream I do remember them struggling to eat. Like they were only allowed to eat carcasses, a rule made by Terra. He was kinda a jerk in my dream, but like... I absolutely get it.

So, I did not want to draw all the rogue planets and the planets from the solar system so just pretend they’re behind the screen ✋ I want to make a Wise asset, but I haven’t gotten around to do it yet

I also changed my og idea I had that I previously posted. But anyway, context, Sun, Earth, and Luna not only meet the rogues, they see their friends after they left and their eyes changed. Hence why Luna is hiding behind Earth. Sun crying because he sees what his planets have become, not wanting to accept the fact that it is real. Obviously I hope that if the rogues try to tempt Earth into coming with them, he fights back and says no. This was inspired by the latest episode, with what I HOPE to see in the future ✋ I don’t want to see Sun crying, but Earth fighting back and stands with Sun ✋