bagofbirds
analgard
i love how delusional some articles of clothing are, like you read the tag and its like “hand wash only/tumble dry on low” son you are a cotton tshirt. youre going in the warsh and whatever happens in there is in gods hands
cubistemoji
asherinn
It’s finally happened.
After almost a decade on this site, I found another Tumblr user in the wild. I stopped to tie my shoe with rainbow laces this morning outside the silversmith at Colonial Williamsburg, and I heard it.
“I like your shoelaces.”
Oh. Oh no.
I responded the only way I could. “Thanks.” And then I reluctantly added, “I stole them from the president…and if that makes sense to you, I’m very sorry.”
The poor man, in full Colonial dress, stared at me for a long moment. And then burst into laughter. And said, “I haven’t thought about that in YEARS and this has never happened to me before.”
Yeah. Me neither. Not until today.
Tumblr rite of passage. Achievement unlocked.
@victoriansecret I found your friend!!!
bagofbirds
moongoer
Sorry to break it to y'all but believing in anything, participating in anything, has the capacity to harm people. There's no perfect system of belief that exempts you from having to continually work to not be an asshole.
Like, it never stops. It's not like you're gonna read the right book of philosophy or religion or magic and be like "I've found it! The perfect idealogical framework! Now all of my actions for the rest of my life will finally be perfectly moral and impossible to criticize!"
sagechan
skittidyne
(/lh .. im just infodumping for fun)
obsessed with watching behind the scenes clips of hyper-realistic cgi movies like lion king 2019 or avatar 2 and the director or whatever is talking about how since they used mocap or a fancy virtual reality camera the expressions and movements are extremely realistic and better than anything before, , and then on-screen it shows the most absolutely dead-eyed character i’ve ever seen lmao . like these side-by-side comparisons …man
its like theyre ashamed of it being animation so they have to try get it as realistic as possible, especially the d*sney remakes have this vibe*, .… and then everything looks absolutely soulless. also like immediately dated somehow?
and then you compare that to cgi animation like in arcane or spiderverse that isnt trying to be hyper realistic and its extremely expressive, like huge attention to micro-expressions and faces that are absolutely full of life., like look at this!!!! ⬇️
shaking n crying please realise that realism and cgi as close to live-action as possible isnt the final purpose of animation in cinema
(*sidenote, remember when lion king 2019 came out and the guy who made it was going around saying it was live-action for some reason.. that was wild . girl it is fully 100% animated)
blueminuet
leggyboyjohnson
And they really went all out, here are some of my favorite responses:
And of course, the most confusing of all to cis people:
qserasera
elodieunderglass
See @headspace-hotel and @elodieunderglass's post about how boycotting isn't enough. Reverse consumerism, reject over-production, spread information, vote in laws that limit the way companies like this can operate. Don't take your business to the next fast fashion store, take it to the consignment shop or clothing swap, where fast fashion doesn't profit off it at all.
Reference this post: x
I’ve got ten minutes, I want to talk about what you said here about alternatives to fast fashion.
Someone had a predictable go at me for being a hypocrite and class traitor in that post, because I mentioned that boycotting, while structurally ineffective to change the economic situation, is still good moral practice; I briefly noted that our household personally doesn’t buy fast fashion. (If you don’t say that sort of thing regularly and mechanically, it instantly becomes “elodie discourages people from boycotts in order to feel better about their own closet full of sweatshop clothes.”)
the inverse gotcha is of course, “if you don’t buy fast fashion, then you hate poor people, and don’t understand what it’s like to be poor and have no clothing options!” And this is what the person told me - that I’m malicious for not buying cheap things like a comrade, and that having a two-part stance on boycotts is violently hypocritical.
However, the next move in the chess game is for me to reply, “oh, sometimes I DO wish I could the sort of disposable income to afford fast fashion at all! But regrettably, I can’t - I just can’t justify £12.99 plus shipping for a single new top - so all of my clothes are secondhand from thrift stores, eBay or clothes swaps with the eco group. It would be nice to have fast fashion money! Is it nice?”
The alternatives mentioned above (swapping, buying secondhand, and caring less about keeping up with changing fashion) are the time-honoured traditional most efficient methods of getting dressed on a budget. They are the methods still practiced today by everyone that Shein doesn’t want - namely: men, elderly people, the uncool, large portions of low-income people, the crunchy crowd, people with small children, people with bodies that aren’t small straight rectangles, people without addresses, people with other things on their minds, frugal people, bargain hunters, and so on. The crunchy uncool old broke parents like me are not spending thousands of money on Rich People Ethical brands, nor are we spending much time optimising our online shopping baskets for the free shipping discount. No, we are all parsimoniously sharing the same five boxy, hideous Lucy and Yak fleeces in an endless circle at the clothing swap, like the three old women sharing one eyeball - and we’re only doing that because the eco group provides free tea - and Shein does not bother making clothes for us, and the people playing Tumblr gotcha games are unaware that people like us even exist, let alone are common in real life. Thus we reveal that fast fashion discourse gotchas are really just a set of rules that allow coolish youngish women to pick holes in each other - a form of rock/paper/scissors to establish bullying rights, which involves all players mutually forgetting the existence of uncool old people, secondhand items, and men.
In conclusion, you’re absolutely correct, these alternatives to fast fashion exist, are widely used, and are cheaper. The secondhand economy is cheaper than fast fashion. Swapping stuff is cheaper than fast fashion. Wearing “uncool” stuff is cheaper than buying fast fashion. Changing what makes stuff “cool” - i.e. wearing the stuff you have with confidence and panache, and sneering at the idea that you need to buy what other people tell you - is cheaper and more efficient than changing your wardrobe. This is a boycott people can practice without spending money. Oh my goodness.
There is a great piece by Derek Guy, Is It Classist To Be Against Fast Fashion, really nice summary of the arguments and how to go about constructing a wardrobe without fast fashion.
I also liked this for hitting other points that are dear to my heart, like “LL Bean is Cool Actually 😭,” “eBay is a Place,” “If You Feel That Thrifting Is Too Difficult Have You Literally Tried eBay,” “Have A Color Palette.” and so on.
sagechan
snowberrykaworu
People need to chill with this “can we normalize” thing. All this shit is already normal, there are a variety of normals available to you. Just live your life and feel your feelings.
They should've never gave y'all buzzwords
confiscating "normalize" and putting it on the top shelf until these people learn to not abuse it
Tags that hit like a punch in the face.
cubistemoji
forevermore-lost-in-space
Thanks, tumblr mobile, for unintentionally making this even funnier
Just as I said, “is this ever going to load?” One gif loaded and honestly it answered my question perfectly.
Together they create the full set.
saw this again on my dash after reblog and…
tumblr black out poetry
htbthomas
tiktoksthataregood-ish
antique-romantic
