I'm old and idk what to put here

Have a fucking image description in the post. That’s it. Not in the alt text, I can’t see it in the alt text, and neither can anyone else who doesn’t use a screen reader. A description, a transcript, anything. In the main post next to what it describes.

I will hit that damn button so fast, just POOF, whether or not I actually care for the art. Because I see them so rarely, and every undescribed image is something that *I* will have to either write a description for, with my very limited spoons, or just reblog knowing I am excluding people that I could have included instead.

"would the vast majority of us have worn something like them for 500 years if they were absolute torture devices in 100% of use cases?"

would we have worn them if they weren't comfortable? just as a blanket statement with no further modifiers...yes. I've been watching deep dives on lip fillers while I sew this morning. people will ABSOLUTELY do things that are not only uncomfortable but outright dangerous, for beauty

however

"the vast majority" is a key difference here. most women don't get lip fillers, especially not to the point of looking cartoonish. most of us, regardless of gender, look at that and cringe. corsets were worn with the ubiquity of bras, and I cannot emphasize that enough. so it's hardly the same thing

and as for comfort...well, that's a moving target. I can't say "X garment is comfortable" and leave it at that, because different people find comfort in different things. and we all have different bodies, to boot. I don't find stiletto heels comfortable, and most people agree with me on that. I also don't find sweatpants comfortable, though- they're mostly polyester and therefore overly warm to me, and they make me mentally uncomfortable to wear because they're so far outside of what makes me feel happy and confident

and anyway, the media isn't saying that corsets were UncomfyTM. that's not engaging with the actual message. they're saying corsets were TORTURE. that they made women faint all the time! that they killed us! that they broke ribs and chafed us bloody! and that they did all of this regardless of how one wore them, because this is just How Corsets Always Work!

which is...demonstrably not true. some women did tightlace. that cannot be denied and I wouldn't try to. but go back to the filler situation- it's not everyone. and even some women who were willing to put up with tightlacing for special occasions wouldn't do it every day. some brides wear Spanx for their weddings now, who wouldn't touch the stuff 99% of the time

would it have happened, period, if it wasn't comfortable? yes, easily. but that's the wrong question

executive greg: I don't understand. We covered her in dirt. How is this not selling.

executive carla: maybe it should be winter and she is very cold.

executive paul: we could give her a child who is also very cold

executive greg: and poor

executive paul: and poor

me: it's not interactive enough. we need more.

executive greg: we should ask the player if they want to let her freeze and starve to death

me: and what happens if they click Ignore Her

executive greg: wolves rush in and eat her

me: what happens if they click Help Her

executive greg: she instantly transforms into an oil baroness with stacks of gold

executive carla: ooh and then we show the player a couch and a fireplace

me: what happens if they click fireplace

executive greg: she wins the lottery

me: and what happens if they click the couch

Conveniently for everyone, it turns out that dark energy is produced by subterranean parasitoid wasps.

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Transcript Under the Cut

i love seeing them though because we have a terrible and hilarious game. in the aviary i will be leaving out fruit skewers and things for them, and then i’ll dramatically lie on my side and pretend i died. it takes about 5 minutes, and then there’s an entire flock of lorikeets climbing on me, squeaking, nibbling and investigating.

the next part of the game is popping up my head and going “boo!” which is where the real fun begins, because the little rainbow nightmares jump, and then get delighted and start happy squealing and bouncing around (and chewing because they truly never stop)