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notinlove

Alexander McQueen Anemone Print dress

milverton

So cheerful!

geiser

no lie i genuinely believe brands are so behind the pleather movement bc they can just buy cheap plastic sell it as expensive 'vegan leather' and be ready for you to return in a couple years to buy another 'vegan peeta approved™ leather jacket' bc they last like 5 minutes compared to the way leather lasts decades all the while you can pat yourself and coorporate's back for being sutainable all the while pvc (what some fake leather products are made of) has been labeled the single most environmentally damaging type of plastic and while there are non pvc fake leathers such as pu leather... its not like thats much better producing plastic pollutes and the second your pleather clothes start to breakdown (which happens much faster than you think) theyll wound up on landfills for at least a 100 years...

starcrossed-sky

also they love love LOVE to try and sell you "plant-based leather" that you then look at the details and it's "45% cactus" or whatever and there's no mention of what the rest of it is

it's plastic.

it's always plastic.

sea-salted-wolverine

Let me tell you a story.

50 years ago or so a cow died. It died in a slaughterhouse after a life on a cattle ranch. It was butchered in a meat packing plant, and it's body was sent off to a grocery store where it then became an overdone steak or a dry hamburger or maybe dog food. It was the 70s and people had only recently realized that you could put food in things that were not jello. Cut them some slack.

But its skin went to a tannery. And that skin was processed in the hide and then leather. That leather was bought by a clothing company who made jackets out of it, long leather dusters for working men and ranchhands. Cowboy shit.

The dead cow that is now a leather jacket is not technically waterproof because if you stand out in the rain for 6 hours water will eventually work its way through the seams at the shoulders. But its pretty damn waterproof. It keeps off the rain and the snow and the dust and the mud and the brambles and it doesn't melt if it catches a spark. So 50 years ago a man bought one and he wore it pretty much until he died and his wife shoved it in a closet. Decades of use, from the deserts in the southwest to the arctic, because it turns out that cowboys are wildly adaptable.

Anyway, I pulled grandad's jacket out of the closet a while back and there is nothing wrong with that coat. It does have some distinctly non-modern vibes, but more importantly it is cool as hell and looks almost new. I have seen faux distressed leather that looks worse.

The cow is still dead. There will be another cow that dies tomorrow for the same reason. But there's no market for leather these days. Its skin won't be a garment that lasts 50 years. Its gonna rot in a pile with all the others. Someone will sell a "vintage" cowboycore Americana aesthetic dark academia plastic peice of shit that will be garbage in a year. And then they'll sell another one.

rapidashrider

The agonising feel when a character tag is full of shipping that you Simply Do Not Vibe With. The solution is, naturally, to keep scrolling. But the wince, the WINCE.

ruby-red-inky-blue

#ship what you want #but my god #the STRENGTH I must have #anyway go forth and bless what brings you joy #(but also you are wrong about it)

andromeda3116

i feel this on a regular basis tbh

gsirvitor

ur-daily-inspiration

thememedaddy

zigdirty

Holy shit this person captured it all so effortlessly and succinctly.

Microsoft is an overpriced bag of shit that everyone apparently cannot live without.

rose-kalliope

It's free, it's open-source, and it's better.

Free office suite – the evolution of OpenOffice. Compatible with Microsoft .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx. Updated regularly, communi

encryptidarchivist

count dracula? uhhh ok. one

cool-jpgs-of-wizards-with-swords

🧛 nathing vrong vith me

qqueenofhades

More and more often these days, in what is surely a sign that everything is just absolutely fine, I find myself recalling the wise words of the prophets written on the subway walls:

catchymemes

souperluminal

Scissor Wizard and Paper Wizard

It’s probably fine to leave them alone together.

souperluminal

Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.

souperluminal

apeiron69

Penelope is a long lost thames to *me*

not-terezi-pyrope

I haven't personally verified this as I'm not at a computer, but multiple people in multiple places are saying the same thing. This is fucking insane. First the endless war on UBlock, then the Chromium changes to shut out some blocker functionalities entirely next year, now this?

Something is deeply rotten in recent Google/YouTube policy. I can't imagine that this is legal - how is this not anticompetitive? Google needs to get mega fucked in the press and the courts sooner rather than later.

And I need to switch to Firefox as soon as I get home.

combustibabe

here's a workaround for that for firefox users

foryouthegays

www.youtube.com##+js(nano-stb, resolve(1), *, 0.001)

for all yall who want to copy paste instead of write manually <3

expressions-of-nature

by Munro Studio

gummybearattacktheworldofdespair

daco-showman

literally nothing funnier than a newly born aquatic mammal realizing they've been cursed to live in water

frenzyarts

Wet beast

roach-works

pokemon theory i just thought of: new pokemon appear in the pokemon universe when they're designed in this one. they're created ex nilho but they have retroactive realness; they weren't here yesterday, but today they've always existed.

pokemon researchers have had to suss this out on their own over decades, and it's a really unpopular theory, made worse by the fact that no one can come up with a better one. from their perspective pokemon generate spontaneously but in both chronological directions, and the similarities of many pokemon seem to be detived from a conscious and creative understanding of the world--their world, though? what other world could there be?. there are ice cream pokemon and pokeball pokemon and sword pokemon and trash bag pokemon.

there are so many pokemon with both wings and a beak. is this like swords? is there an ur-flying type that this class evokes? there are so many canine pokemon. but what is a canine? is there such a thing? there's only one set of sword pokemon, right. one tea-set line. is *feline* a coherent category? would the ur-feline have two legs or four? why do so many pokemon have humanlike bodyplans-- but then again, why so few?

pichu has always been the prior form of pikachu. why didn't it get counted in order? why do we call it that instead of saying pikachu is the middle evolution of the pichu line? why can so many trainers remember finding this out well into their journeys? why didn't ash start with one?

this is why pokemon researchers do a lot of labwork, drink heavily, and use ten year olds for field research. you can't have an existential crisis if you don't even know what time is yet.

lanibgoode

#ash: i just found a new region called jotoh!#oak: hey cool so apparently the world is round now#ash: wow!#oak: was the world round yesterday#ash: sure?#oak: great talk im gonna go have some grownup lemonade now bye

tags are too good to not pass along

roach-works

things that the pokemon researchers regularly fight over at scientific conferences:

-is there any meaningful correlation between type and likelihood of a humanoid evolution

-why are pokemon more likely to evolve towards a bipedal bauplan than away from one

-if pokemon dont have genitalia why is it that the more closely they resemble adult human proportions the more likely they are to have mock-clothes over where their genitals aren't

-when a pokegenesis occurs (the entry point of a new pokemon into the universe's timeline) (you have to think of it as an entry point because once it happens it goes backwards into the past as well as forwards into the future) do all the new instances of the individual pokemon arrive as a big lot of eggs, and spread out from there, or as the ages and in the positions they would have been if they had always been there, because now they've always been there

-why isn't there a bicycle-shaped pokemon yet?

-do we categorize pokemon by self identification (the cat pokemon know they're cats) or by similarity of build and ability (fish pokemon)

-are the indefinitely young trainers in chronostasis (their age has been fixed to a certain unmoving point OR unmoored from the forward flow of time) or are they just experiencing periodic chronoregression (they loop a very short period of aging OR are reset to a pre-event age) by their entanglement with multiple pokegenesis events

-is exposing prepubescent children to significant chronological aberrations ethical even if they really want to

-how do you stop a ten year old with a dragon from doing anything they want to do

-was the world always round or what

littlepinkbeast

fun fact! as of scarlet/violet there are have always been bicycle/motorcyclish pokemon!

it puffs up its throat sac and curls its tail up and *runs along on all four legs*, you know, exactly like a real bicycle.

behold, a bicycle Cyclizar!

roach-works

oh we are getting UGLY DRUNK at this year's pokeconference

lemmaeof

Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire's Delta Episode has an answer for this! Every single copy of every single pokémon game is a separate dimension, and the Link Cable is a device for traveling between those dimensions. Giovanni of Team Rainbow Rocket also uses the Ultra Wormholes in Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon in order to assemble a group of all the evil team leaders from all the teams to date from dimensions where those teams were successful in their ambitions.

From this information, we can extrapolate that every new generation takes place in a timeline where future pokémon didn't exist. This doesn't provide a satisfying answer to why Pichu has a dex number so separate from Pikachu, for example, but in the real world we realize what we thought were the same species were actually multiple separate ones all the time. It's entirely likely that scientists just didn't realize Pichu and Pikachu are separate species until after they'd catalogued Pikachu.

roach-works

i like that there exists a cord that will let you access an alternate dimension where your world is bigger and has more stuff in it and all that happens is some shitty assholes import a bunch of other assholes to do dumb asshole shit

like, literally any geologist on earth would murder a mafia boss with a rock to get a shot at running around in Bigger Earth Now With Extra Continents, to say nothing of feral zoologists, how did giovanni survive this nonsense

were-writes

Will humanity ever be free of the influence of Edna Mode? Can any of us so much as consider the character design for a hero or villain without her manifesting in the room, fully aware of our sins?

were-writes

You know what, another layer of difficulty is when you’re thinking about villains, and the wise words of Megamind come into your head. You don’t just want your child to be just a regular villain. But how do you make your villain a Supervillain with no cape? Where is the drama? But Edna says no capes, you must deny them the flair. It is impossible to please them both, and it’s tearing this family apart.