Every year I say the same thing.
Make this the year that you stop buying new clothes.
You do not need new clothes.
There is more than enough clothing on the planet - estimated 30% of fast fashion remains unsold.
Mountains of clothes are dumped in the Atacama desert.
Retailers are not paying or treating their (80% female) workers fairly.
Buy second hand only
Buy only to replace items that are broken and irreparable
Swap clothes with your friends
Fix things you already have
Use eBay, Etsy, vinted, depop, there are so many online options for secondhand shopping
Just try it. What the worst that can happen?
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What are some ideas you have floating around that you don't have any plans on writing but like to entertain as a thought?
Many of them, in fact! Though they sort of vanish from my memory if I don't make a record of them, here's a few ones I jotted down when they came to mind.
For a domestic one: Bill thought he'd hate a lot of being married! Even though he loves Dipper, he thought he'd rebel against the chains of domesticity - and in some ways he still does - but one major benefit he's found is not having to be 'on' all the time.
No need to be perfectly performing all the time! No shoving around for social influence, no intimidation, or clever tricks. No commanding attention or taking up the room. Hell, there's surprisingly little upkeep! Bill can undo his tie and pick his nose and bitch about his day to someone who isn't bending over backwards to agree with him on everything. Someone who doesn't give him a weird look and sneer if he, god forbid, actually wants to sit down, read a book, drop the grin for an hour or two.
The concept in question is Bill's very first moment of great surprise. That when he isn't being the most charming, terrifying, and exciting guy in the universe, and just chilling out for like, five minutes, Dipper comes over and snuggles up to him on the couch, or wraps his arms around his shoulders and kisses the top of his head. And when Bill asks 'what was that for?', Dipper shrugs and goes 'eh, just felt like it'. It's both baffling and extremely compelling.
A short where Reincarnated Dip is Definitely Sure he's Not Gay!!! Especially not for this Hot Demon Man who is getting so close and touchy with him with his big smile and horrible wiles. Yep. Just keeping an eye on him to make sure he's not up to something Nefarious ™.
A discussion between Dipper and Bill where Dipper insists that Bill should understand this, or not do that, because, like. Y'know, Bill's a guy! There are guy things! Making Bill stare at Dipper like he's an idiot. He proceeds to informs Dipper how that's stupid for multiple reasons! First, that Bill's Not Human to begin with, his gender can't be put into a little box! And frankly, he never filled out the paperwork for his original one, come to think of it. Sure, he/him's fine, but c'mon, sapling, thinking of the whole shebang like a binary is dumb as hell. Now Dipper has to do some mental readjustment re: his own issues with masculinity/gender.
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more on the maglor through history not-really-au: the Dagor Dagorath happens in 2022 of the Seventh Age. Melkor drops into aman and lands where mordor used to be (which is now approximately the middle of the mediterranean. i'm going to assume he can swim) and trudges over to valinor to fight the Host.
on the way there he crosses over the West of middle-earth (western europe) where the last elves/only line of defense is Maglor, Daeron and Cirdan.
(tumblr is cropping weirdly so click for quality/full image)
maglor as pictured above is actually partway-through-dagorath-preparations maglor and not during-dagorath maglor because during-dagorath maglor is basically just Regular maglor.
out of all of them daeron probably took to modern fashion the best? Maglor just likes being the fashionable one but Daeron actually likes that his jacket has a hood now. he dyes his hair various colors so he can pass any Weird Maiar Hair stuff off as just a fashion thing, and maia-shapeshifts to hide his Elf Eyes and maia face markings. also he Aggressively Flutes at melkor while wearing his sweater vest.
cirdan's modern outfit is just his normal one slightly adapted to blend in better. also he's had that 25,000-year-old belt since cuivienen and has ship-of-theseused it at least forty times. he went with a slightly less dramatic version of the maglor route to hide his Elf Eyes (regular sunglasses).
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No, you don't get it: the most tragic thing to ever happen in any of Lucy Maud Montgomery's books is that Anne would have been around 90 by the time The Lord of the Rings was published - and she would have loved it so...
And she absolutely did live to read it (look, I get to make the rules; it's canon from now on) but imagine her having access to it as a teen! Then, she definitely wasn't there to read The Silmarillion and these books were just written for her, you know...
(sad noises)
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Outfit rundown: I'm wearing...
handmade leggins
thrifted purple gilet
fast fashion cardigan
fast fashion jersey dress
handmade bag (not made by me, got it through a swap)
[image description]
Picture 1 and Picture 2 are very similar. Amy (me) is a young, fat, white woman with glasses and long brown hair (worn in a braid slung over her shoulder in these pictures). She's wearing pink leggins with lots of flowers allover them. Her green long-sleeved jersey dress is also covered with big pink-and-cream-coloured roses. The pointy dusty purple gilet breaks up the pattern matching as well, as does the maroon coloured cardigan she's knotted around her waist. She's wearing a light sand coloured braided flower crown with pale rose coloured flowers on the crown. Tan booties complete the look.
She's lounging comfortably and confidently on a big slap of rock, hidden under a canopy of trees. It's autumn but the leaves are still brightly green, with the sunlight enhancing their beauty.
In picture 1 Amy is facing any onlookers head on in a confident pose and in picture 2 she's lounging in a relaxed way, hands behind her back and looking dreamily into the distance.
Picture 3 shows the above described woman named Amy standing in a group around a very big tree, reading the description plague which gives the details of said tree. Next to her is another young, fat, white woman with long brown hair - she's wearing her hair open down her back. The other woman is wearing a black long-sleeved dress with yellow ornaments, black leggings and black shoes. The last in the group is a young, fat, white man with short brown hair (but long for a man when you go by society's standards. His hair is long enough to be pulled back into a short ponytail. He's wearing a black short-sleeved shirt, a big black backpack,camouflage-green cargo shorts and black sandals. [/image description]
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