#mispretty

This is your sign to make your comfort plushie a battle vest!

I can post/make a tutorial or let you know where I got the materials if anyone would want to

Closeups of the vest itself below :)

We do repairs on bears for free! Literally just call ahead to your nearest store. As far as I know we repair holes and some stains as well

However we're not allowed to modify or do anything to any non BAB plushie, and that includes adding stuffing

You are 100% allowed to call our stores and ask if we have a specific thing in stock before you come in and we actually encourage it!

Related, we can also hold certain items, but only until the end of the day

We can do online orders in the store! They're called enterprise orders, and will usually get you free shipping. Not everything on the website can be enterprised but we can always check and see, plus it helps our store metrics

Low quality aplatonic Ramona Flowers icon cuz I feel like it

okay so to me, language and definitions for things are sort of fluid, right? once the collective consciousness for a word's definition shifts, then it becomes a moot point how it was originally used (like the words "gay" and "queer" having different original meanings separate from the "lgbt" contexts they have now)

so my whole thing in the "what is punk: ideals or music/fashion" is that it's simultaneously both together and both separately

because on one hand, what people see as "punk ideals" are from the specific punk bands they know of or listen to where the artists put their own leftist or adjacent ideas into the lyrics and such. but there are bigoted punks and bigoted punk music. you avoid red and white ladder laces on your docs for a reason. but those bigots listen to the music and dress in the fashion, and unless you're already versed in punk social cues you will look at them and go "that's a punk"

on the other hand, "punk" as a social ideal has become more mainstream within the 21st century even though punk as a subculture started as early as the late 70s (very, very loose timeline here, dont @ me). "punk" has become almost synonymous with leftist praxis, and even "counterculture" as a whole, to the point where collective thought is altering the definition of what punk is and what it means

so now we have a dual definiton: punk as subculture, and punk as ideals. is one more "right" than the other? i don't think it's up for me to really say, and i've always been a person who dislikes dichotomies anyways

"but how do i tell if someone is really punk??" you don't. that's none of your business, and tbh that's okay. it's also okay if you're not punk and don't call yourself that. not everyone has to be (or even can be) punk, that almost defeats the "sub" in "subculture" bit

overall it's a nuanced thing, and i think the internet fighting about it is stupid and useless. you wanna call yourself punk? i mean, i can't really stop anyone from doing that so you do you

How it started vs how it's going

BeeGee the frog turns a year old today 🥺

He was with me through one of the hardest years of my life and he's turned into one of my dearest friends

Yes he's a plushie but I'm so grateful he's in my life

Like, don't get me wrong. I consider myself very charismatic and extroverted as a general rule, but only on a more surface level. I try to have compassion for others, but platonic love is incredibly rare for me to the point where I think it's only really happened once (with sibling)

No you don't. You're lying to my face. How do I know that? Because you have never once referred to a cis man as they/them. Not your boyfriend, not the mailman. None of them. It's just me. And I know it's because you don't actually see me as a man and even putting in the effort to memorize my pronouns is too much for you, but I'd honestly rather be misgendered as a woman at this point because at least those kinds of transphobes can say it with their chests.

"oh all men are just horrible like that"

Gee, thanks, that makes me feel so good about myself. Oh, what was that? Oh I'm not like that? So it's not all men? Or did you just conveniently forget I was a man again. And by the way, that's a shitty thing to say about anyone regardless of their genitals, just so you know... so am I horrible like all men are or am I not a man? You've backed yourself into a corner and you know it

"oh but now I feel guilty"