#my shawl

[egoschwank]

al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #1287

first posted in facebook march 11, 2024

eugene de blaas -- "the yellow shawl" (pre-1931)

"the very essence of romance is uncertainty" … oscar wilde

"my shawl, pretty lady, try it on you, by my shawl, spun in magic, wishes come true. it's glory, with the story of love dreams, old but new my shawl brings a romance, maybe for you. try it on you, try it on you, my shawl" … stanley adams

"never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart" … charles dickens

"i wish, i wish, i wish, i wish, i wish, i wish" … al janik

#eugene de blaas #the yellow shawl #oscar wilde #romance #uncertainty #stanley adams #my shawl #try it on you #charles dickens #lips #heart #i wish #al things considered

[cemeterything]

this is such an aging userbase post but i really am a big fan of shawls. cold? wrap a blanket around your shoulders. this too is fashion.

#🐉 #i have a few shawls and im wearing my favourite one today because between the flu and the weather #i need the extra layer

[inkskinned]

so one of the things that's so horrifying about birth control is that you have to, like, navigate this incredibly personal choice about your body and yet also face the epitome of misogyny. like, someone in the comments will say it wasn't that bad for me, and you'll be utterly silenced. like, everyone treats birth control like something that's super dirty. like, you have no fucking information or control over this thing because certain powerful people find it icky.

first it was the oral contraceptives. you went on those young, mostly for reasons unrelated to birth control - even your dermatologist suggested them to control your acne. the list of side effects was longer than your arm, and you just stared at it, horrified.

it made you so mentally ill, but you just heard that this was adulthood. that, yes, there are of course side effects, what did you expect. one day you looked up yasmin makes me depressed because surely this was far too intense, and you discovered that over 12,000 lawsuits had been successfully filed against the brand. it remains commonly prescribed on the open market. you switched brands a few times before oral contraceptives stopped being in any way effective. your doctor just, like, shrugged and said you could try a different brand again.

and the thing is that you're a feminist. you know from your own experience that birth control can be lifesaving, and that even when used for birth control - it is necessary healthcare. you have seen it save so many people from such bad situations, yourself included. it is critical that any person has access to birth control, and you would never suggest that we just get rid of all of it.

you were a little skeeved out by the implant (heard too many bad stories about it) and figured - okay, iud. it was some of the worst pain you've ever fucking experienced, and you did it with a small number of tylenol in your system (3), like you were getting your bikini line waxed instead of something practically sewn into your body.

and what's wild is that because sometimes it isn't a painful insertion process, it is vanishingly rare to find a doctor that will actually numb the area. while your doctor was talking to you about which brand to choose, you were thinking about the other ways you've been injured in your life. you thought about how you had a suspicious mole frozen off - something so small and easy - and how they'd numbed a huge area. you thought about when you broke your wrist and didn't actually notice, because you'd thought it was a sprain.

your understanding of pain is that how the human body responds to injury doesn't always relate to the actual pain tolerance of the person - it's more about how lucky that person is physically. maybe they broke it in a perfect way. maybe they happened to get hurt in a place without a lot of nerve endings. some people can handle a broken femur but crumble under a sore tooth. there's no true way to predict how "much" something actually hurts.

in no other situation would it be appropriate for doctors to ignore pain. just because someone can break their wrist and not feel it doesn't mean no one should receive pain meds for a broken wrist. it just means that particular person was lucky about it. it should not define treatment.

in the comments of videos about IUDs, literally thousands of people report agony. blinding, nauseating, soul-crushing agony. they say things like i had 2 kids and this was the worst thing i ever experienced or i literally have a tattoo on my ribs and it felt like a tickle. this thing almost killed me or would rather run into traffic than ever feel that again.

so it's either true that every single person who reports severe pain is exaggerating. or it's true that it's far more likely you will experience pain, rather than "just a pinch." and yet - there's nothing fucking been done about it. it kind of feels like a shrug is layered on top of everything - since technically it's elective, isn't it kind of your fault for agreeing to select it? stop being fearmongering. stop being defensive.

you fucking needed yours. you are almost weirdly protective of it. yours was so important for your physical and mental health. it helped you off hormonal birth control and even started helping some of your symptoms. it still fucking hurt for no fucking reason.

once while recovering from surgery, they offered you like 15 days of vicodin. you only took 2 of them. you've been offered oxy for tonsillitis. you turned down opioids while recovering from your wisdom tooth extraction. everything else has the option. you fucking drove yourself home after it, shocked and quietly weeping, feeling like something very bad had just happened. the nurse that held your hand during the experience looked down at you, tears in her eyes, and said - i know. this is cruelty in action.

and it's fucked up because the conversation is never just "hey, so the way we are doing this is fucking barbaric and doctors should be required to offer serious pain meds" - it's usually something around the lines of "well, it didn't kill you, did it?"

you just found out that removing that little bitch will hurt just as bad. a little pinch like how oral contraceptives have "some" serious symptoms. like your life and pain are expendable or not really important. like maybe we are all hysterical about it?

hysteria comes from the latin word for uterus, which is great!

you stand here at a crossroads. like - this thing is so important. did they really have to make it so fucking dangerous. and why is it that if you make a complaint, you're told - i didn't even want you to have this in the first place. we're told be careful what you wish for. we're told that it's our fault for wanting something so illict; we could simply choose not to need medication. that maybe if we don't like the scraps, we should get ready to starve.

we have been saying for so long - "i'm not asking you to remove the option, i'm asking you to reconsider the risk." this entire time we hear: well, this is what you wanted, isn't it?

#where's the word woman in this u might wonder if u suck #good news i am nonbinary and have a uterus so that is something that can happen #im also gender fluid tho which means im immune to certain psychic damage bc if u call me a woman i'll be like <3 okay <3 #writeblr #the tightrope of ''ppl need access to this'' #and like also #''what the fuck is going on over there'' is like. so difficult as an activist #i was <3 punctured <3 during mine #and almost bled out on the table :) they didn't have anyone standing by bc it's ''just a little insertion'' #so i started crashing and i vaguely remember apologizing for the fuss as i heard my heart rate monitor start going <3 tachycardic <3 #she wasn't even a bad doctor tbh #ps btw the reason i even HAD a heart monitor is that i have a genuine heart condition and they knew GOING IN that there was a chance #i'd crash on the table #like my heart just likes to do fun little tricks and <3 stop working <3 (i do not want to discuss the specifics ty i am okay im ontop of it #and they were like 'oh u will be fine' and then she did do a puncture thru my uterus . pop! #and im sitting there dizzy and feeling my heartrate start to drop bc it feels almost. beautiful. like. the whole ground just #woosh! out from under you. and shit is like grey's anatomy. i'm looking up at her grey eyes #she's old she wears this nice shawl she's like got Cool Lesbian vibes and people are sprinting into the room #from other parts of the clinic unrelated to me. while the monitor is like a little aria singing #and shes like hey youre okay stay awake stay with me something went wrong we have to keep trying #and i remember thinking - i was trying to think of nice things. i have so many beautiful places that now overlap #with this terrible memory #i became dimly aware that there was too much on her wrists and hands. like #that was too many liters #and then when they had finished all this. i packed up and drove myself home #i have had (bad thing) happen to me. and the same feeling happened after #that numb almost lamblike bleating. you cry without noise. like. ur body is so shocked and ur mind so empty #you just stare at the road and everything everything is happening behind glass and static and you are standing so far away from it #while you hold ur hands at 10 and 2. and something in ur brain is SCREAMING at you - IT WAS BAD AND IT SHOULDNT HAVE HAPPENED #and ur just watching the alarms in your body going off and youre thinking. a little pinch! ha. i think i just lost something important.

[obsob]

the accolade ( the...the cat-olade...)

#mine #original #i cannot even begin to explain the anguish. the torment. this drawing has brought me #and i STILL dont like it. i simply cant work on it any longer i cant i cant. i must be rid of it #eating drywall as we speak #you want to know how many weeks ive worked on this. THREE. ALMOST. #you want to know how long my other cat drawings take me ?? 3 days absolute MAX #anyway. begon foul creature etc #i havent left extremely long tags for a long while hello everyone good lord there are many of you #we are going stratford this weekend very exciting #its going to be a little chilly and i want to take my new coat with me but issue its not chilly right now so i cant wear it onto the train #i do not think. i can. stuff it into my suitcase i dont think that will happen #i am sure i will figure it out #also. no longer vegan . eggs have won me over. egg egg egg. #im having to restrain myself SO hard from buying more wool i want a shawl i want a shawl #i want more cute DRESSES why are nice comfy dresses 10000£ #i look on vinted and its like dresses for popping your pussy in like not. the vibe im going for thank u #anyway. im going to eat crackers now

[yardsards]

the owl house really said "familial love is stored in a gifted garment"

EDIT: forgot one! thanks @cat-eared-exam-taker

#eliot posts #toh #the owl house #i was on the fence abt including either of the examples w amity and the twins #(esp the concealment stones bc idk if they even count as garments) #but i figured in both cases helping her be gay and do crimes is very much a form of affection from them even if less soft than the others #eda clawthorne #luz noceda #emira blight #edric blight #amity blight #darius toh #hunter toh #king clawthorne #alador blight #i want dadrius to get hunter a new cloak SO BAD #ive mentioned it before but i always go wild when stuff like this happens in fiction #bc i've always loved lending my jackets/shawls/scarves/hats/gloves to my irl friends #makes me feel like im protecting them and keeping them safe #and i knit and sometimes sew so p much all of my irl friends have AT LEAST gotten a hat #but i made of of them a long forest green cloak which he loved #it always makes me feel SO WARM INSIDE when i see someone wearing something i made them #but even seeing them wear things like friendship bracelets kinda makes me feel that way #i like having kinda made my mark on them even when not keeping them warm/covering them #not in a possessive ''show everyone that you're mine!'' way. none of it visibly ties back to me #(except in hs when i'd lend them my letterman's jacket w my surname on it) #but i know it's from me and they know it's from me and they chose to put that onto themself #my love language is acts of service and that's what i'm doing when i make someth handmade or lend em someth practical #but they can recieve it as gift-giving or a stand-in for physical affection. which both VERY MUCH do not come naturally to me

[sundancefemme]

finished w/ 5th repeat!!!

#SO CLOSE to halfway done w the central panel. i am so tired i want to be working on the border!!!!!! #my post #knitting #gaada stack shawl #shetland lace

[lucky-stitches]

A lovely knit maple leaf shawl. I like how it makes me feel like some kind of autumn witch when I wear it!

Yarn: Loops & Thread Woolike

#my projects #knitting #shawl #maple leaf shawl

[littlewinnow]

Draco “believes he doesn’t deserve to be more than friends with harry” malfoy & Harry “ I don’t want to ruin our new friendship ” potter vibes

#drarry #drarry fanart #muggle uni au #I cannot draw shawls or fabrics for my life new art goal #myart #hpdm #I have ideas for a part 2…hmmmmm

[hannibalismycannibro]

💛 🪽 Extra-Large Golden Crochet Angel Wing Shawl Available On My Shop 🪽 💛

✨ Original Written Pattern By JCDesigns2423 ✨

#crochet #knitting #fashion #angel #angelic #angelcore #shawl #wraps #clothing #christmas #handmade #my shop #personal

[naycelium]

Coco on a Snowy Stroll ❄️

#nay draws #animal crossing #coco #i love her i hope she gets a lego minifigure with those new sets theyre coming out with... #or any merch of her at all please with all my heart... #oh also hard to tell with the lil shawl but i adjusted her chest size to be bigger and droopy inspired by the venus of willendorf statue #anyways hope this is okay ! my funny wife helped put me on the right track with the pose (:

[sketchingstars03]

FINALLY, INKTOBERTALE DAY 8: BIRDS NEST!!

The colours are slowly returning 👀

This one features the return of my interpretation of the Doodlesphere! With a new addition; paint waterfalls that taper off into sparkles :3.

It looks like somebody gathered clothing items from their loved ones to rest with!

I bet you can identify which item belongs to who ;3.

Ink by @comyet

#undertale au #utmv #ink sans #inktobertale #inktobertale2023 #inktobertale day 8 #splatterverse lore #st ink #because if a certain shawl didn’t give it away… yes this is splattertale-themed #teehee :3 #welcome to my blog you can’t escape the splattertale #all my Inktobertale art will be >:3 #or at least that’s the plan #anyways I FINALLY GOT THIS OUT GRAAHHHHG #sketchingstars art #splattertale

[bishicat]

tired old man reads the morning paper

#while he waits for Hawke to come home in da:i 😭 #that shawl around his shoulders? HAWKE'S (it smells like them <3) #I imagine that they have a home by the sea #people don't look too closely cause I hate how I coloured this ajaishdkajlc it's so messy #if I had a nickel for every time I drew a man w/ a mug by a window i would have two nickels (see: johnny fanart from june) #experimented with the lighting for this one! I used daniel f. gerhartz' The Garden Window as a ref :) #dragon age #dragon age 2 #da2 #da fanart #fenhawke #fenris #hard in hightown #digital art #my art

[justworm]

just pulled this shawl off the blocking mat!

super in love with it, the only thing i would change is that it’s a little smaller than i hoped. i think i should have used one needle size larger. for some reason i have trouble trusting that looser gauges will look right even though i love them when blocked and finished lmao

also this thing had like. a billion ends to weave in because each of those little points created 2 ends so it was a bit of a slog however i think the end result is worth it!

pattern link here!

#hand knit shawl #knitting #hand knitted #lace shawl #handknit #wormurs #the yarn is knitpicks gloss lace which i have learned is not my absolute favourite #nothing wrong with it it’s just a little almost sticky? #has some lovely colours though and i still have almost a skein and a half of this left so i’ll definitely be using it again in the future #just maybe not for a little while

[kissingagrumpygiant]

u get the vision

#the disgusting shawl STAYS #cassa #ditcher #my art

[photogenicfirecracker]

Two new fighters have entered the ring!!

Anyway, some mhr ocs because I got so attached to my character that I had to give him life (and a bf)

#art #digital art #my art #drawing #original character #mh #monster hunter #mhr #monster hunter rise #mhw #mh oc #monster hunter oc #i think they are both idiots but one just hides it better #owl guy is named trip #shawl guy is named neyak #they are besties and should never be separated

[palossssssand]

Spyke !!!!

#splatoon #my art #fanart #spyke #he's so aiiieeeeee #he's so cool #splatoon 3 #his shawl pattern was so fun