#3 ways

Title: Love, 3 Ways

Rating: E

Word Count: 3.8k

Ship: Armand/Daniel/Bianca

Characters: Armand, Daniel Molloy, Bianca Solderini

Warnings: None

Summary: Armand, Daniel, and Bianca Solderini with a strap on. Hoorah.

@vampirefest

Kinktober 2024 Day 19 prompt: Toys

We try to reduce him to an experience. Eg. John 6:14-15 – feeding the 5,000. The people wanted to make Jesus king by force. People try to manipulate God for themselves.

We try to reduce God to the God of the philosophers – a theory or an abstraction. There is no complete philosophical proof of God in the Bible. Although it is possible for God to provide this, God chose not to do so. God's glory cannot be reduced. Our intellect on its own insufficient.

We try to reduce God to an instrument. All religion tends towards this, treating God as a means to an end, rather than the end in Himself, as God should be.

None of these ways to try to see God are true to how God is – hence they don't work and God remains hidden.

Being in fashion and just being normal observant human with taste. I’ve noticed that I’ve become bothered by so many things that others would’t take notice. What I do notice most of all however is how people dress, how they carry themselves. They walk, they slouch and their daily uniform is underwhelming to say the least. Can we not try harder people? Daily doldrums and things get us down, but on the whole, just look at it with me on the general scale of things and ask yourselves can we do better? It doesn’t take a lot. And on those days, where we are out of our wits, we’ve been left behind or otherwise there are three easy ways to at least let the world know, the bothered ones that we acquire some taste, some good to our wardrobe. The rest of your problems, well I can't help with that.

ONE. A coat. A long sweat if you will. It makes whatever else is going on underneath seem, streamline. Like it’s the duvet over the bed that you pull over swiftly when you have company coming over. My go-to is an American Apparel knit dark grey sweater (dark grey goes with everything) and I throw it on and suddenly I’m somewhat chic at least by the Olsen-twins status. Or my vintage Valentino that is so long I find the tasteless stepping on it, but it masks the lack of effort underneath and the downtrodden lack of effort I had to offer that day. I I believe, before we continue, that the “mono” look can be more than solids, it can be prints, it can be textures or even variations of lengths and colors. The more you make the look your ‘own’, the more together you can come off. Okay on to #2.

TWO. A chick bag. I have loads. A coach clutch, two Gucci waist bags, a Kara mini chain bag, a utility belt I wear crossbody, well you get the gist. And guess what? I can pair them with my sweater. It’s like a seatbelt holding that oversize garment together. It also says, my bag is small, my sweater is big, who am I?

THREE. When all else fails, go for the monochromatic look. It’s clean, it’ll match the sweater and the bag doesn’t even matter at this point. An all black look with  matching sweats, jeans, fuck even your exercise leggings. Or a beige look with sweatpants and add some penny loafers. The point is paired with one and two, the world doesn’t know where you’re going or where you came from. The look itself is tired, I know. The girl or the guy with the coat and the mono and the chic bag, and they seem so important right? They have places to be and friends to chat with. But this is for the lazy ones, with nowhere to go but a maybe a quick errand or a shoot to style. If you really want to know how to dress, that’s a different story. 

I’ve attached some photos [not my own, I do not have copyrights] to spare some examples of this easy 3-way look.