#so close!

WE ARE SO CLOSE TO DONE!

if you haven’t seen this yet, I’m making a Kinger cosplay for the movie premiere of ep9 of TADC hehe.

Well, I still have 3 skeins of yarn left over, but I am done for now.

The original plan was to make trousers, but I don't think I want to do that anymore. Instead, I want to make the Bog Coat! Except, of course, the iconic pattern requires a fuckoff huge peace of fabric, and I do not have that. I have 2 narrow stripes. So I'm using the term "bog coat" to mean "simple T-shaped jacket with minimal sewing".

This is roughly what I thought I might do (sorry no schematic sketch but you get the idea):

But I still haven't washed the fabric, so depending on how much width I lose, I will have to revise that. I initially wasn't too sure about the horizontal stripes, but the more I think about it, the more I like it.

That leaves just one problem. Namely, lining.

I should probably line the jacket, both for structure, and because I think it will continue to shed (weaving made a mess like you wouldn't believe). But what to use?

My most trusted fabric store has a lyocell twill that looks interesting. It's smooth but not too shiny, and quite heavy; the listing says it's 160g/m². But supposedly still flowy. There's really nothing speaking against it, other than me being irrationally prejudiced against viscose fabrics.

I have narrowed it down to these colours that I can't chose between:

Listed as "ocre", a light sandy yellow.

Listed as "cinnamon", reddish brown.

And these 2 shades of green, one lighter, one darker.

BUT! Then I found this amazing checkered flannel, that is just. I mean look at it. Can you imagine it in combination with the green wool. Iron age vibes off the charts.

Pros: so cozy, would look cool I think. Cons: Cotton is really not great for the environment, and this is so cheap it can't have been produced ethically, the listing says this is printed??? tf, why isn't it woven.

So, in conclusion, help me chose?

AWW YEAH!! ALL DPS ARE NOW LEVEL 100!! 🥳🍾

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Like I'm really happy with the strides this guy has made and what he's gone through and obviously a lot of the new regulations are explicitly targeted at trans (and intersex) women and girls

But it's not that trans men just aren't banned from sports. They were just already banned from some organizations (I would have to look up how many, if there are any lists about that specifically) due to taking testosterone.

He at one point kind of sideways acknowledges that he's not a huge target because all of his achievements are diminished and they find one reason or another why how well he does in sports "doesn't count" so he flies under the radar. But that's part of the erasure of transmascs. Sure one narrative could be that he's a "rhoided up woman," but I think transphobes not wanting to acknowledge that someone they view to be a woman is doing well in sports against men is also part of it, you know?

I'm just talking out of my ass, now.

Really I just think the article would have been improved by just any mention of there being regulations against trans men in sports (besides the one he successfully fought against in 2016). Having this article trans man mentor and activist for trans people in sports and neither the writer nor the trans man acknowledge ways trans men are banned really pushes the idea that there are no real regulations against transmascs at all.

my game: