Hi, I'm Just Kay

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[hijkay]

New blog, who dis?

Hello hello, you can call me Kay! I have ADHD and anxiety, so I'm going to make this simple and straightforward.

I am a 30-something Czech/German/English-heritage American from (and still in) the Midwest. Orientation is demisexual, gender is genderfluid (not entirely out yet), and my preferred pronouns vacillate wildly between he/him and she/her (I accept any pronouns too so don't worry). I'm monogamous and have a romantic partner, but I will also not recognize a flirt unless it's tied to a brick that's thrown at my head. This is not an invitation to throw bricks at my head.

My interests and hobbies include (but are not limited to):

Vidya Games (Minecraft, DeepRock Galactic, Sea of Thieves, Borderlands, Dark Souls, and more)

Dieselpunk, Steampunk, and Cottagecore aesthetics

Weaponry throughout history (mostly from an engineering standpoint)

Warhammer 40k (Iron Warriors are my fav bastards)

Worldbuilding exercises and creating OCs (that will probably never see the light of day)

Making the aforementioned OCs with dollmakers/picrews (because I am not confident in my drawing abilities)

Being a good person

I might reblog a lot of things, I might reblog next to nothing. My reblogs might fall in line with the themes above, or they could be entirely random. I might make a bunch of posts about my thoughts and feelings, or just collect others' content to hang on my wall. I'm going to try and use this as an exercise in being unashamedly myself in a public(ish) space and not catering to anybody but myself, so come along for this journey of self-expression if you want to smell what I'm stepping in. Can't promise I won't get up on a soapbox every now and again, though.

Also I have been told in the past that my use of capitalization and punctuation and my formal tone of writing is intimidating, but I promise I'm actually very nice!

[thelatestkate]

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[chibird]

I do a lot of hobbies where I’m not great at them, but I don’t feel the need to be the best! Sometimes there’s no pressure to excel if you’re just enjoying the activity! 🙌

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[jacobtheloofah]

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side note, teaching myself to pronounce that last one felt like learning a new fucking language

[pinkmoondoll9shihtzu]

[dollsahoy]

There are a lot of people in the notes saying, basically, "Yeah, that's polyester for ya!"

but, the thing is

even polyester fabric was higher quality in the past

yes, not all of it, but, still, a noticeable amount of older polyester was...nicer.

yeah, it would still get picks and hold on to every bit of underarm odor, and that's on top of no-one knowing about microplastic shedding

but a 1950s Wash'n'Wear shirt, or 1970s double knit pantsuit, or 1980s neon sweatshirt, or a 1990s slinky knit or crushed velour mock turtleneck...so many of them would have been significantly higher quality than the fast fashion of today.

[sofairycakes]

i work in historical costume. i work in a big-ass warehouse, with hundreds of thousands articles of clothing dating back over 100 years (for original pieces).

the BLINDING difference in clothing quality between even the 1990s and the mid-2000s...not even going in to the decline in quality of clothing made in natural fibers (jeans with elastane, i'm looking at you), I've got faux-leather trousers from 1980s that are in near-mint condition, even after being hired and worn repeatedly for the past 40 years. we get donations of clothing that shows and films have bought online for contemporary shows that are disintegrating after being used on one show, for like....10 days, max.

don't even get me started on the seam allowances we used to get in clothes, because the assumption was you'd alter it at some point...

they hate you. they hate the planet. they have drip fed you worse and worse quality clothing until you don't even realize you're being sold Garbage

[shencomix]

[thelatestkate]

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[biblicallyaccuratemoth]

The longer I’m on estrogen the shorter my shorts become

[butterfly-sapphic]

Soon she'll just be oversized tshirt and underwear kinda girl

[biblicallyaccuratemoth]

That’s the goal.

[un-monstre]

Currently watching the internet rediscover basic principles like “dressing the way you like can make you happier” and “having some color in your home may have a positive effect on your mood”

[chibird]

Life can feel so overwhelming, but we can take it one task at a time! ☺️ We can’t solve everything at once, so it helps me to break down a huge pile of to-dos into smaller more prioritized lists!

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[riseofthecommonwoodpile]

i don’t think i’m exaggerating when i say that the average height for women in the US would increase by at least an inch if teen girls were allowed to eat as much as teen boys are

[riseofthecommonwoodpile]

and not to bring my own clocky bitch ass into this but if cis women weren’t so consistently starved their entire lives you’d see a lot more cis women with the kind of bodies that we currently associate closely with trans women. the amount that the standards of feminine presentation are culturally defined by malnutrition is crazy

[fitnessadvicethatfitsinyourlife]

I did not realize undereating could have such a profound effect on height so I looked it up and

HOLY SHIT !!

Feed your girls. Oh my fucking god, if you put your children on a diet, a pox on your house.

[un-monstre]

It was weird growing up in the 90s/2000s and falling in love with all the colors the world has to offer only to be expected to act like millennial gray is my favorite

[inkskinned]

Every day I handle more money than I will ever make. Every day.

At the start of my employment, my boss showed me videos of people stealing, and we both had a chuckle about it. How silly they were! There was a camera overhead, and it’s not to watch the shoppers. See, we can’t actually stop shoplifters. They get away with it maybe nine out of ten times. But we, who are watched and tallied and witnessed? We are always caught.

At first it was hard to hold one hundred dollars bills. An amount I had never seen before. An amount that didn’t exist in my household. It’s normal now. Here is something that is not for me.

“What the hell, I’ll take another,” says the man, pondering our 200 dollar watches. What the hell. Total comes to 580 and not even a flinch in his face. I have been working for 11 hours today and made only 110 dollars. It will go to my rent. Today I work for free, it feels. When I get my check, I will have 35 dollars left for food and saving.

The six hundreds he hands me go into the cash register. For a moment, I imagine having money. Then I put it away, counting out his change.

I know for a fact we sell our products for double what they are worth. That I could be making commission. That they could hand me those 580 dollars and change my life and not even mark the difference in their checkbooks. He’s not the only sale they make today, but I am the reason they made it. He’s not the only one spending 600 dollars, but if I hadn’t spent two hours with him telling me about his life, he wouldn’t have spent any. I go home. I don’t own a watch.

I have watched and rewatched a video on how to make salmon four ways. My shopping list is always the same. Pasta. Rice. Tuna. If I can afford butter it was a good week. I dream of the world I will never walk in, where I can throw the best fish fillet in the cart with a shrug. I hold hundreds in my hand and look up at the camera. I put them under the cash drawer.

I go to work. I scrap together my savings. I eat my bowl of rice slowly. My manager takes a paid week off from work just for his birthday. He owns a yacht. 

I’m not worth the cost of a watch.

[inkskinned]

i wrote this while i was working at orlando’s walt disney world parks.

i was part of their college program. i moved to the state for it. they legally owned the building i was living in and still charged me rent. i ostensibly was being charged to work for them. it was a 2 bedroom apartment and they placed 6 adult women in it in forced triples.

as many as one in ten disney employees have experienced homelessness while working for the company. despite huge efforts to unionize, strike, or otherwise demand fair treatment; disney has refused to increase employee quality of life.

disney admits publicly that a good portion of their success is because the employees (“cast members”) are dedicated, passionate, and selfless. this is never reflected in pay. even “face” characters (ie those that are princesses etc) make barely above a minimum wage.

at the time that i worked there, i made $8.50 an hour. at one point i was asked to create a human shield around a bag because a bomb dog had alerted to it. for eight fucking dollars an hour.

i now work a very cushy office job. i have bought the salmon and cooked it all four ways.

i go to the store. i am nice to the person behind the counter. she looks up at the camera while she counts out my change. there is nothing fundamentally different about her and i.

we are both worth more than the watch, anyway.

[chibird]

Slowing down can feel scary, but it'll be okay! There are no real timelines to life. If your body and your mind are telling you they need rest, let's listen to them and slow down. 🐢💕

This month's self care turtle, also as a pin on Patreon!

[gothvince]

i talk about transitioning and all anyone ever says is "I hope you don't regret it" what if instead we said I hope you love it. I hope it's everything you ever wanted. I hope you live the rest of your life in utter bliss. etc etc.

[gothvince]

I hope you transition and I hope it's the best thing you ever did and I hope you never look back and I hope you finally feel comfortable in your own skin

[intheheatherbright]

Costume. Chitons.

[intheheatherbright]

Marjorie & C. H. B.Quennell, Everyday Things in Archaic Greece (London: B. T. Batsford, 1931).

[killerchickadee]

Wait, wait…. Is that seriously it? How their clothes go?

[treewizarded]

that genuinely is it

[itwashotwestayedinthewater]

yeah hey whats up bout to put some fucking giant sheets on my body

[sourcefieldmix-deactivated20161]

lets bring back sheetwares

[hostagesandsnacks]

also chlamys:

and exomis:

[hidingthemane-deactivated201801]

trust the ancients to make a fashion statement out of straight cloth and nothing but pins

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Wrap Yourself In Blankets, Call It a Day

[awhiffofcavendish]

Wear blanket. Conquer world.

[goys2men]

That last one looks dope

[moniquill]

Squares and rectangles: easy to weave!! No cutting means no hemming.

[hc-svnt-dracones]

And easy to construct, you don’t have to have complicated seaming and patterning to turn fabric into clothing!

[pendragyn]

ancient Egyptian robes

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

This sort of clothing solution wasn’t just for the Mediterranean, or northern Africa, either. Behold the Belted Plaid:

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[marlynnofmany]

Has anyone already reblogged this with saris? It’s cool how many cultures have similarities like this hidden in plain sight.

[tieras]

https://kalaavarsha.com/how-to-wear-or-drape-a-saree/

[deliciouswastelandgoddess]

The lungi is a traditional garment worn in many southern states of India. It's different from the dhoti, in that it is a tubular shape (like

Since we are here might as well share the dhoti and the lungi

https://www.wikihow.com/Wear-a-Lungi

https://www.wikihow.com/Wear-a-Pancha-Kachcham?amp=1

It’s only men in the photos but really anyone can wear them. I am wearing a lungi right now.

I also know Thailand and Sri Lanka have their versions of a lungi as well.

[assessthatdress]

[squeakitties]

following weird horny furries who are into shit like pooltoys and transformation and stuff is enrichment. the vitamins and minerals of posting

[squeakitties]

[twinkenjoyer-deactivated2023083]

once you get over your ass and realise you will never get some people and that’s ok you are basically immune to right wing fearmongering. otherkin? none of my fucking business

[stevishabitat]

[mandate-transgenderism]

I must not fall victim to disgust. Disgust is the heart-killer. Disgust is the little-death that brings total apathy. I will face my disgust. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the disgust has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

[turbozarky]

hell you may even like it