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madame-macabre

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frickin-adhd

setting alarms with ADHD be like:

okay i have to be somewhere at 10.

i’m getting breakfast there so all i have to do is get dressed, brush my teeth, and wash my face. so that’s about 20 minutes total, with room to breathe since i don’t like rushing. with 10 minutes of travel time, 9:30.

but what if i’m super sleepy when i wake up? i should add 15 minutes to hit snooze just in case. 9:15.

but also what if i’m not sleepy at all? then i would want to have has those extra 15 minutes. ???

i’m probably going to use those 15 minutes anyways on my phone or just staring at the wall for some reason so i’ll keep those 15 minutes. 9:15.

but what if i’m sleepy for 15 minutes AND get distracted for 15 minutes?? 9:00???

but it took me twenty minutes to get out of bed this morning. maybe tomorrow will be better. or maybe it’ll be worse. extra 10 minutes? 8:50.

i have an outfit picked out but who knows if i’ll like it in the morning? or if it’ll actually look good on me? add 20 minutes for wardrobe crisis. 8:30.

my skin’s been really bad lately. that might distract me too. plus makeup. 8:20.

shit, do i need to shower?? it’s way too late now and i think my hair looks fine but what if it doesn’t in the morning? i need 20 minutes from undressing to drying my hair, minimum. 8:00.

but it’s already 2:30 because i hyperfocused on cleaning the kitchen for way too long. i want at least seven hours of sleep. plus two hours to get ready is ridiculous. 8:30.

...but last time i was in a really big rush and all frazzled. don’t wanna repeat that. 8:15?

okay yeah no 8:00. just in case. final answer.

and yet i still end up leaving the house with dirty hair and no makeup at 9:55.

i-just-ate-5-avocados

This is the most accurate shit i've ever seen in my life

whitepeopletwitter

teaboot

I understand why people dislike leather and animal products. But leather is such a good resource? Like… My mom bought a sturdy leather coat in 1989. I’m in my 20’s and I now wear that coat. That’s a 30 year old coat? 30 years, two generations, one coat. Versus, like… A plastic one, that rips and gets thrown out, or releases bits into the ecosystem every time it’s washed, takes a billion years to decompose, lasts maybe a decade if you’re super duper careful, and uses oil products in it’s construction. Like, yeah leather is expensive and comes from a living animal, and I’m not saying that you should go out and buy fifty fur and leather products for the he’ll of it, but like… Maybe the compromise is worth it? One animal product, valued and respected and worn down for generations, versus like… Six plastic products that will never ever go away?

idk, I could be wrong.

800-dick-pics

this is why im so fucking pissed white colonial fucks and white vegans get so enraged at indigenous people for using hides/leather and animal bones as if that shit breaks or rips like cheap polyester does

drtanner

Remember, kids:

It’s not “vegan wool”, it’s plastic.

It’s not “vegan leather”, it’s plastic.

It’s not “vegan fur”, it’s fucking plastic. It’s all plastic.

It’s all fucking plastic, and every time you wash it, or damage it, or try to dispose of it, that plastic winds up in the water, in the earth, in the air.

Hell, the damage has already done when the fucking thing’s been made. As the OP says, it’s all oil and oil products; it creates pollution just to produce synthetic fabrics and materials, even before you try to throw them away, which, I mean, good luck with that.

A lot of vegan ideology is built up around a very superficial set of ethics that are supposedly about protecting animals, wildlife and the environment, but they fall apart when you look even a little bit below the surface. Every time you eschew an animal-based product in favour of something “synthetic” for the sake of “saving an animal’s life”, you’re creating pollution and trash that won’t go away for thousands of years, damaging the Earth and making life so much worse for countless animals and people.

Think about this stuff more than not at all, please.

appropriately-inappropriate

Eeeeeeverybody loves to get up my asshole because I wear fur. Yeah? Okay then.

When you live somewhere with -40C winter temperatures, you realize that pragmatism and warmth trump all other considerations.

I’m in and out of cars and buildings all day, every day. I have to dress for the weather and fur is hands down one of the warmest things you can wear — ask the fucking Inuit.

So you know what I do?

I check consignment stores. I check estate auctions. I get family heirloom furs.

I buy furs that are literally older than I am, in styles that would consign them to the dumpster, and then get them tailored to fit. My fur earmuffs? Salvaged fur from a coat that was ripped and functionally useless. My fur short coat? A fur that got raggedy and moth-eaten at the bottom and so was hemmed to hip height. My long fur coat is almost fifteen years older than I am, and I’m thirty one years old. Do that math.

So yes. I wear fur, because it fits my needs, my budget, and my ethics. The vegans wearing pleather can kick a brick. Only one of our coats is going to destroy the planet, and it isn’t my grandmother’s mink stole.

mycroft-valentine

Not to mention the fact that buying these natural leather products from indigenous peoples both subverts capitalism (that wants you to buy cheap shit that breaks), and also supports indigenous communities and artisans.

appropriately-inappropriate

I’m reading the notes and it’s really cute when people go “but use hemp! Use cotton! Try linen!”

Yeah?

Imma wear linen when the weather looks like this:

I am NOT going to wear hemp, linen or cotton when the weather looks like this:

When the weather outside is frightful, I’mma make like an Inuit and dress like this:

(Also, as you say: it is possible to responsibly source ethical furs. I prefer furriers like Victoria Kakuktinniq, who is an Indigenous Inuit fashion designer who interprets traditional fur designs for a modern sensibility. The funds from her clothing — and from other northern Indigenous communities — allows those northern communities to maintain their cultural traditions, while also introducing a much-needed revenue stream. If you have to buy fresh fur, Indigenous furriers are a good bet!)

ms-hells-bells

@acti-veg this is just…. *sigh*

appropriately-inappropriate

Which part is *passive aggressive sigh*?

Would it be the:

-reuse of fabrics and furs that are generally anywhere from 10-50 years old?

-recycling and repurposing of old or otherwise unusable materials like leather and fur to make smaller items like jackets, vests, gloves, hats and balaclavas?

-support for Indigenous traditions, handicrafts and artisans?

-recognition of the fact that there are very few plant-based products that will stand up to winters where the average temperature is anywhere from -20 to -50

I know, I know. Your ethics are itchy and it’s very simple to talk that good shit.

But let me introduce you to a Canadian phenomena: frostbite.

Frostbite occurs when your cells freeze. Your cells.

Ice crystals begin to form in cells in temperatures lower than -4C, which is what Canadians call “spring, fucking finally”.

In the teeth of winter, you get maybe ten hours of sunlight a day and your highest temperature is still double digits below 0C and the weather channel is saying “WEATHER WARNING: skin freezing in 30SECONDS”, and the government has put out a WEATHER EMERGENCY: EXTREME COLD WARNING.

When the weather is that severe, we don’t actually get the luxury of waxed cotton, woollen peacoats and a few layers of linen.

Sanctimony and sighs and good intentions don’t keep us warm.

systlin

Seriously, it hit -50F here last winter, linen and cotton don’t do fuckall in those temps.

Well, that’s not true. They DO, actually. They get wet from sweat and then get clammy and suck the heat out of you, leading to frostbite. Polyester is plastic, and I avoid that, because it’s bad for the environment.

You know what actually keeps you warm when it hits -50F? Wool, fur, and down. All animal products, all renewable and biodegradable, and all of which will last years with proper care.

I have two fur coats, both of which I paid $20 or less for at thrift stores, and both of which are vintage. Wool doesn’t harm the sheep it’s sheared from…they need to be sheared to stay healthy, actually…and down is harvested from animals that will be eaten, meaning none of the animal goes to waste.

systlin

Ah, yes. Truely, sheep live terribly. (Note; sheep wool is useless unles they have good pasture they’re raised on)

Ah, yes, the sheep are so mistreated when they’re sheared. A whole four minutes and they’re done. It’s like giving a fussy toddler a haircut.

And if they’re NOT shorn, you get flystrike, which I’m not going to post a pic of here because it is very unpleasant. Basically, flies lay eggs on the thick wool and the larvae eat the sheep’s skin off. It can be fatal.

https://www.fwi.co.uk/livestock/health-welfare/livestock-diseases/parasitic-diseases/fly-strike-warning-warm-wet-weather-continues

But please, tell me, the granddaughter of farmers who lives in farm country and who has neighbors who keep sheep, how sheep work.

teaboot

Hi I’m the OP and I grew up dirt poor on a Canadian sheep farm and I support this message

spellsinsugar

To even pull away from cold weather folks, my people are all from Texas and Louisiana and leather is 100% useful for so many things. Tanned hides were a common good for us and surrounding tribes because they’re fucking awesome when it comes to rain protection, provide quick shade in the heat, and were a great way to protect your ass when riding an animal.

Tanned hides work great as a base for moccasins, because it’s thick enough to protect your feet from the heat of the packed dirt, and thin enough that your feet don’t sweat to death inside of them. In boots, I don’t trust any material that isn’t leather or reptile skin to protect me from animals or the elements.

Y’all really need to look at your anti fur/leather/wool campaigns and recognize the anti-Indigenous sentiment that runs through all of them.

nos4ay2

My go-to response when someone tells me they bought a vegan leather item is to go “whats that? Oh you mean pleather”. I personally see the whole vegan leather thing as one of the greatest rebrandings of a product.

rottendyke

!!! The entire “vegan”/plastic leather fad is damaging as fuck, both for the environment and for people as a lot of the time that shits also produced in sweatshops or other shitty places. If you’d rather contribute to fast fashion and get a shitty fake leather jacket that’ll last you maybe five years tops with frequent wear whilst likely supporting companies that exploit their workers, that will never biodegrade and will instead sit in landfill after already releasing tiny plastic particles into the water, be my fucking guest if it helps you sleep at night better than if you bought a second hand leather jacket for likely a fraction of the price, but know that you’re an utter fucking moron for doing so.

You can recycle all you want and eat all the veggie burgers you want, but if you buy pleather you’re still contributing to the destruction of our planet and the exploitation of workers. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯