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There’s a story about the lace chest binder.

Around the time we were first starting this company, a post went around Transmasc Tumblr that I’ve never forgotten. It was a selfie, a dapper young man wearing a long skirt, which he’d gathered in one hand to show the camera, pointing at the fabric with a raised eyebrow.

The text went something like, “What’s that!? It’s ya boy Rob, wearing a skirt!! Does this make him less of a boy? No! Are his pronouns still he/him? Fuck yeah! Is gender on clothing kinda bullshit? Yeah it is!”

Or something like it. I’m paraphrasing. There was probably more caps, and more exclamation points.

Anyway it stuck with me. I was sewing chest binders, which are a very specific kind of gendered and gendering garment, and I was putting colors on them, and some people were grouching at me just for going that far.

The next time I went into Spandex Lab, I picked out the stretch lace I’d been eyeing. Made a listing on the store. Someone bought one almost immediately.

All this to say, we’re putting lace binders on sale for the next couple weeks. Discount code is LV10GENDER.

I wanna make one of these that is like a literal curtain of worms

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toby fox, two years later: hmm i need a song for this homestuck flash animation… well, megalovania’s a bop, let’s just reuse it!

toby fox, five years later: hmm, i need a song for the genocide route when the player fights sans….. okay, i’m finished with this neat song called “song that plays when you fight sans”! it sounds pretty good!

toby fox:

idk i’m just thinking about how the campus i’ve been working at this summer has signs by every elevator about how you should take the stairs to conserve electricity, and signs by the drink machines with photos of sea turtles that say how they don’t offer plastic straws because of ocean pollution, and how i’ve been repeating to myself all summer you are not just a drain on the earth’s resources, you deserve to exist, and how fucking angry that makes me.

and i know a lot of leftists point out how those kind of things aren’t much better than platitudes when we should be focusing on action against the fossil fuel industry, but i feel like a lot of conversations about that just totally ignore how environmental guilt is absolutely crushing so many disabled people’s spirits and sense of worth in an already ableist society.

i guess i just wanna say that like, if you ate off of a styrofoam plate today because you didn’t have the energy to wash dishes, i’m so glad you ate. if you threw recyclables in the trash because the recycling bin is on the other side of the building and you couldn’t walk far enough to make two trips, i’m so proud of you for keeping your space clean. if you needed to use a plastic straw today, i’m so, so sorry for all the bullshit that’s been directed your way lately, and i’m so proud of you for enduring it.

To the point that McDonalds were asked by the police to stop selling them, and it didn’t help at all.

Someone with a gourmet giant shake today just drenched Farage and he looks like a sad milky weasel. Blessed day.