one of my “special interests” in the past couple of years has been exploring fast fashion vs. slow fashion. it has been a long journey trying to find clothes that actually 1) fit me 2) look good 3) are made from material that is not actively shoving plastic in the ecosystem 4) involve ethical labor, fair trade, fairly compensated, etc
before i did this research, i really had no clue about fabrics or fashion brands. i used to think i had zero interest in fashion, in fact.
i grew up wearing walmart and thrift store clothes, and when i went to college i bought clothes from target and asos. something started to shift a little bit when i found vintage resellers on etsy and ebay… those clothes were so unique. but a lot of the vintage clothes were polyester blends, stiff, and would fall apart as easily as my asos clothes. i would leave them hanging in my closet and never wear them. i would wear the same old t shirts and jeggings every day. i felt like it was impossible to ever wear comfortable clothes, or ever feel good in clothes, so why bother?
it started with linen. linen is very comfortable and pretty sustainable. i was amazed that i didn’t feel the urge to rip my clothes off when i wore linen. lightbulb number one.
a friend let me borrow a nooworks dress, and i went to the store and got some overalls. wow. overalls. lightbulb number two. holy shit, you can wear overalls. you know how people say “not binary or non-binary but a secret third thing.” that’s overalls.
i realized i loved the bonkers prints that nooworks had, and all of it was soft, and made ethically. it was a higher price point than i was used to, which gave me pause. but then you realize: we’re not supposed to be buying dumb clothes every other weekend. and isn’t a slightly higher price point for soft clothes that you won’t want to tear off your body worth it?
so i started my research. i made a spreadsheet. the prices can be all over the place across brands, so i made a column for prices. sizes can be all over the place too – people always ask me “where is the plus size slow fashion?” it’s there. just look at the size column. people say “isn’t it better to buy secondhand?” yeah, it is. i have many links to secondhand sources.
if you have any suggestions or additions please let me know, it is a living document.
Something something AU where Steve has pretty much almost the same Upside Down squad in Hawkins but Eddie Munson lives in Tennessee with his Uncle Wayne and his band Corroded Coffin, the neighborhood girl Max whose brother died in a freak car accident last year (RIP in pieces asshole), and his best friend Cheerleader and southern belle Chrissy Cunningham.
Turns out the upside down isn’t only thriving in Hawkins Indiana but also in Robinson Tennessee.
Cut to a few years after Eddie and his squad fucked with the Upside Down in Robinson for the last time. Chrissy and Eddie relocate to Chicago for Eddie to do a tattoo apprenticeship.
At this apprenticeship he is so blessed (Shout out to you, Satan) to be tattooing a very very very hot man who has…almost the same scars that Eddie does?
Eddie tries to telepathically communicate with this hot ass motherfucker, but That’s Max’s gig…not his.
Thus ensues a comedy of errors of Steve Harrington and Eddie Munson trying to tell each other without telling each other that they know exactly what the other went through, but Those Pesky NDAs.
Cut to Robin Buckley and Chrissy Cunningham in the Corner who had ultimately met because their platonic soulmates are so gone on each other.
Chrissy: “Why don’t they just ask each other about it like we did?”
Robin: “Neither of our dingi are very smart. I’m enjoying this.”
Wayne teasing Eddie about not having a boyfriend, joking that he needs to hurry up so Wayne will actually be able to meet said boyfriend before he’s too old to bring out the embarassing photos.
It gets a little more genuine after everything with the Upside Down. Wayne wants to see him happy and he knows Eddie well enough to know that he wants that sort of connection. So he brings it up more, careful to watch Eddie so he doesn’t make him uncomfortable.
Eddie says he has a boyfriend, that it’s Steve, as a joke. But Wayne takes it seriously- and Steve, a little lost, plays along. And now Eddie doesn’t want to tell him it was a lie bc of how happy Wayne is for him.
They start “fake” dating… sort of. They do go to the movies or diner when they say they’re going on a date there. They’re still close and getting closer. Eddie still has his long-burning crush on Steve.
Wayne knows they’re pretending. But he also knows that Eddie will never accept that Steve is looking at him too without a push, and since they’re fake dating? Neither can honestly deny or avoid how much they genuinely like each other.
i was gonna do danger meter soulmate au for how dangerous your soulmate is But what if it’s for how much danger your soulmate is in
steve’s soulmate was in a lot of danger when they were younger but around middle school they’re usually safe with the occasional spike
eddie’s soulmate has the expected spikes of being in dangerous situations but then it starts lingering in orange for a couple days here, a week there, and then sometime after that kid goes missing the meter just spikes red, and then it continues to go from green to red for a day or so, usually whenever weird shit is already happening, and eddie has so many questions
also why is steve harrington always beaten up after the red spikes
Steve is newly coming to terms with the fact that he’s allowed to be interested in guys.
He’s always told himself that the things he feels for guys isn’t real in the same way that it is with girls. But while trying to be a better ally to Robin, researching stuff and doing some reading, he realizes that it’s possible for him to like both.
So he’s getting more comfortable with his attraction to guys when he sees this guy and his body makes him pause.
He’s half turned away from Steve at the supermarket, so all Steve sees is his shirt stretched nicely across his strong back and the wiry muscles in his right arm.
He stares for a beat too long, but shakes himself out of it. He’s about to walk away because it’s not like he can go up to him and say anything.
But the guy turns around and it’s- it’s Eddie.
The guy Steve was just checking out is Eddie.
Oh god. The guy whose muscles he was appreciating in an absolutely not straight way was Eddie.
Eddie, who’s been weight lifting since he healed from the bat bites because he wants to be able to handle himself in a fight, Upside Down related or not-
Eddie, who is Steve’s friend-
Eddie, who is looking up and looking directly at Steve.
The corner of Eddie’s mouth lifts in a smile and he lifts a hand to wave hello.
though I still love Chronicles of Narnia the older I get and the more I learn the clearer it becomes to me why it would have driven Tolkien completely insane
The Santa part almost ruined their friendship
Tolkien: you can’t just patch random things together because you like them, everything has to fit together in a dense textural weave of reasonable causes and effects
Lewis: and then the witch from the other dimension turns the fox to stone for having a contraband tea party …
Tolkein is the nerd that complains that characters’ costumes and weapons are impractical and Lewis is the nerd that thinks the designs fuck
Reminded of that time the xkcd guy was trying to research what sports equipment would be most effective for destroying enemy drones in flight and he looked up a bunch of stats about pro tennis player accuracy against stationary targets like 40 feet away, and figured that a really high level tennis pro might be able to hit the drone in 5-7 shots if they had the time and even then probably wouldn’t do enough damage to disrupt it more than momentarily.
And then Serena volunteered to test this theory and just, killed it instantly.
i see people saying shit like “she’s the best woman player” nah fam she’s the best one out there
I know basically nothing about tennis but I know that she is a league of her own
she’s pulling off some mario-tennis-minigame tier shit in real life WOW
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