Tariq Shakir

105 years old (looks 37) wurgen tailor @Atelier Shakir

[bespokeguilt]

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[roloraul]

Just a sheep-wool curse-catcher bag

Just the some owners came into a bad way with this particular material

Its very fluffy though

Obviously just superstition, but just wanted to make you aware anyway

[bespokeguilt]

A sheep bag?

I'm afraid I won't be able to help. You have mistaken me for a cobbler. I do not design bags. I could make a beautiful vest I'm sure, but bags are beyond my skill set.

[vengeancedemon]

Not any different from what you're doing, is it? Telling people how you think their fucking heads work is just 'naming' things in a different way. If I'm looking for control, so are you.

And you're free to go fuck yourself.

[bespokeguilt]

I can assure you that I do not seek cont [user gets a painful reminder that he's lying]

You are free to think whatever you wish of me, I personally will not think of you at all.

Good day, sir.

[highoctanegem]

Soooo true and real. The stuff they wear has never fit me the same way. (I mean, I rock it better, but that's still inaccurate advertising). But here, you dropped this: 👑 You speak so pretty, if this whole tailor business doesn't pan out, you should start writing poems.

You've been spared! I swear they're the ugliest things. I used to see it at the malls a whole lot back home. Especially in huge brand stores, showing off their new collections and stuff. Aw, shucks <3 It's not the first time I've left someone sleepless, but it is the easiest one. It's a skill.

[bespokeguilt]

That's precisely what I mean. People bring soul to a garment, and you must have brought a lot of poetry to that stuff.

That is kind of you to say. I'll add it to the list, should I be reborn one day.

Perhaps you too can rethink your career and apply as a professional nightmare inducer. I'm sure there's a high demand, somewhere.

[incatsclothing]

Two in a row! You're getting good at this, gramps.

Really? You thought people in 2025 know all about a word meaning 'a relationship through exchanging letters' ?

Oh, now you're making jokes?

[bespokeguilt]

Thanks... child.

It was my mistake to think people went to school until they reached majority.

It happens, sometime.

[irlsunbeam]

It's a real pleasure to meet you too! Did you tell me what you do? Jobs are cool!! I have one! I translate things!

[bespokeguilt]

I don't think I did. I'm a tailor.

What it you do Ms. Estella?

[bladesbounties]

That's a poor business you're running, then. I should ask for advances

[bespokeguilt]

I'm sorry that we couldn't accommodate you and your broke agenda.

[incatsclothing]

I am making a joke. You're quick!

Is it really too many words if nobody knows what you're talking about when you use just one word?

I knew it. You have total birdwatcher vibes.

[bespokeguilt]

... I feel like you're making another joke here.

It is my mistake. I thought it was a more broadly known word.

You're quite observant. Well done.

[vengeancedemon]

And why do you want to make other people flinch? You like to make yourself feel bigger. You could at least fucking admit that.

You are an asshole. This is a fact. I think anyone who is looking can know it.

[bespokeguilt]

This need to name something, because naming gives the illusion of control, it's boring. You call me an asshole like if you say it enough, I’ll shrink. I'll apologize. I'll soften into something you can understand or control. I won’t.

I don’t speak to feel bigger. I speak to see what breaks. It's not about power—it’s craftsmanship, and I like to think I'm an excellent tailor of people.

You think I enjoy watching people flinch? No. I watch to see why they flinch. Where the guilt lives. What thread to pull next.

Thank you for confirming I’ve struck something real. Again. You're still free to walk away.

[incatsclothing]

Yeah, and it's tiny.

A what now? Dude, you don't have to use big words like that. I flunked English.

Seriously? You're really not eighty? You have such retired birdwatcher vibes.

[bespokeguilt]

It's tiny? How ? Wait, are you making a joke?

It means a relationship through letter exchanges, but that's too many words for something that can be one word.

I am not eighty, though I won't help my case by saying that I enjoy bird watching.

[vengeancedemon]

[user does not enjoy being read for filth like this.]

And what the fuck are you, then? Someone who likes deciding things about people and saying them as loud as you can for other people to hear? Why? To make yourself feel smarter, better?

I was right, what I said before. You're an asshole.

[bespokeguilt]

I don’t say these things to feel smarter. I say them because someone always flinches when the truth lands too close to home.

You could’ve walked away at any moment. You didn’t. That’s not my arrogance. That’s your curiosity.

But if it’s easier to call me an asshole than admit I hit a nerve.

Well. You’ve done that twice now. Shall we go for three? Or are you gonna learn your lesson and go ?

[incatsclothing]

Well, all knives are tiny. If they're big, they're swords.

People don't send mails or letters unless they're old.

[user looks at the picture and despairs that this old guy signing his online posts is kind of hot.] When was this taken? The 1940s?

[bespokeguilt]

All knives are not tiny. Have you seen a butcher's knife?

They should. There's something poetic about an epistolary relationship.

Last week. Why?

[whimmortal]

I hope to one day be as delusional about my unearned righteousness and wrongly presumed accuracy as you. It's aspirational, truly.

Bye.

[bespokeguilt]

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[whimmortal]

Babe, there was nothing measured about your observations. If you think this is a tantrum

That's actually hilarious considering what's in my futur Your suggestions ain't shit

I've got my favored tailors on retainer. Don't need to add another one to my rolodex.

[bespokeguilt]

Darling, I wouldn’t dream of competing with your Rolodex. I imagine it's stuffed with names you use then discard when they hold up a mirror you didn’t ask for.

That said, should your favorites ever grow tired of dressing you in denial, you know where to find me.

Thank you and good bye.

[vengeancedemon]

I'm sure you make many of those.

I am not unlikable. It would be easier if I were. You know nothing about me.

[bespokeguilt]

And there it is. That little crack in the façade. You patched it quickly (well done) but I see everything.

You're not unlikable, no. You're just exhausted from being misunderstood and you’ve forgotten how to be sincere without flinching.

I don’t need to know anything about you to recognize what you’re trying not to admit. That’s what makes me so annoying, isn’t it?

You may go back to brooding now.

[vengeancedemon]

You have struck nothing. You are just annoying.

[bespokeguilt]

Ah. My mistake.

I mistook the defensiveness, and the poorly concealed irritation as signs of a bruised ego. Turns out you're simply... unlikable.

Do carry on.

[whimmortal]

Ooooh the library is open and this random man is reading me for filth! Reading is fundamental or whatever.

Darling, this is a whole lot of assuming. Because now you're assuming I won't be able to keep a marriage vow, should I take one? Like, do I even know you? I was just making a snide comment about your usage of Ms, and now you got all the way here? Girlll. You sound deranged.

[bespokeguilt]

[user is very confused and does not get a single of those refs] If you took my measured observation about vows and spun it into a full tantrum ; well, congratulations, you’ve proven my point more elegantly than I ever could.

That said: if you ever do marry, I suggest a high collar for the spouse. Something to protect the throat. You strike me as someone who’d bite, and then say it was a joke.

Do let me know if you’d like me to design your outfits.