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airc0nned

eclogues

i havent done anything or been anyone ever

highassi

the introverted urge to find 1 person you feel comfortable with and do literally everything with them

It's just unfair everyone else deserves family and friends that make them feel like a person and I don't deserve any family or friends that I can lean on. All my friends do not want to get to know the real me. If they did they'd recognize I've been going through a hard time for over 10 years and like, ask me about whats going on???????? But I don't deserve anything basic like that. It doesn't matter I grew up without a voice of my own. No identity of my own. Fuck everyone else for letting it get do bad for me!!!! I deserved better people around me but I was too nice and made sure other people didn't get to experience something as ugly and fat and disgusting as ME touching them or getting in the way. I made sure people had someone who wouldn't judge them for everything. I made sure to treat people tenderly and carefully and without my own emotions getting in the way of other people's jpur eyes. I did all this work and NO ONE GIVES A SHIT. WHEN IS IT MY TURN TO GET THE THINGS I PUT OUT IN THE WOrlD??? THE PATIENCE THE LOVE THE NONJUDGEMENT ZONES? GIVE ME LOVE DAMMIT! I DESERVE IT! ILL DIE WITHOUT IT!!!!!!!!! I WANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS LIKE BEFORE I DIE!!!!! HOW IS THAT SO HARD FOR ANYONE TO FUVKING UNDERSTAND????

If more people were nice to me I bet I wouldn't feel impossibly unreachable and I bet i would actually believe in myself and wouldn't be dragged down by so hard it is to exist when you feel alone and disposable you're whole life and the people who were supposed to make you feel safe made you feel like you'd be better off gone and yeah. I'm just so tired. Tired of having no one around who has a clue what I'm going through and what it's doing to me. I just want someone to CARE what's been going on inside for 27 years because it's realer than any other part of me but NO ONE WANTS TO SEE THE REAL ME THEY JUST WANT FAKE ME!!!!!!!!

I'm just so sad and don't have anything to help ground me but hoping a delusion calms me down. Maybe by distracting myself with even more upsetting visions. That's healthy

I felt like I was on the cusp of feeling profound hope but it kinda backfired into ultimate despair

I need a cuddle. I'm touch starved

sapphling

hey I noticed that your jerk off fantasies of me haven't been as ambiguously violent based off convoluted world building or steeped in bone-deep guilt lately. are you mad at m

gothhabiba

see this is exactly what I'm talking about. this labour is so incredibly invisibilised that there are real human beings, walking about amongst us, leading normal lives, etc., who earnestly believe that machines can make an item of clothing from start to finish.

rowanrightalong

Hey just in case someone on here doesn’t quite understand how labor intensive making a garment is, here is a list of things that (to the best of my knowledge) cannot be done by machine alone, from a costumer/tailor in training

Cutting - in my opinion, the most labor intensive part of the process. The amount of time/effort needed varies depending on the pattern and if seam allowance is included or marked separately, but no matter what this process can not be done by machine. Each and every panel and piece of fabric that goes into a garment must be cut by hand by a person.

Pinning/clipping - pinning (or clipping) is the stage at which you align the pieces you are going to be stitching together and hold them together with — you guessed it! — either pins or clips. This can not be done by machine.

Stitching - the actual sewing. This can be done by a sewing machine, but that machine still needs to be operated by a human being.

Ironing/pressing - two words that mean the same thing. The iron itself is a machine, but once again, it needs to be operated by a human being.

Finishing - depending on the technique you use, there are certain finishing techniques that can only be done by hand. But, let’s assume we’re talking about fast fashion, which is usually just finished with a simple overlock/serger. Once again: these machines need to be operated by people.

These are just the basic steps to making a garment, and don’t include textile arts that I am not as knowledgeable about, such as weaving, knitting, and crochet. Also, it is important to note that there are a lot of things that can only be done by hand, such as certain stitches and decorative techniques.

Also, the machinery being operated in textile factories is not equivalent to a domestic sewing machine. We’re talking about one of these guys:

See that gray cylinder under the table, behind the knee pedal? That’s the motor. These machines can sew through your fingers bones and all and not even stop. The people in these factories and sweatshops are operating heavy machinery, and are subject to all the risk that comes with that in addition to all of the work I mentioned above.

Please respect textile workers and continue the fight to eliminate the use of sweatshops and exploited labor in the fashion industry!

uninterruptednonsense

Reblogging with some additions from a different post o'mine:

" I'm taking a sewing class and I asked my teacher about how much machines can actually do. She said that while a lot of actual fabric we use in our projects is machine-woven, and sometimes there are machines for particular knitting patterns or for the same small thing over and over and over (i.e. socks), the overwhelming majority of pieces of clothing are in fact just sewn together by humans. Usually women. Underpaid and overlooked. Thousands and thousands of them, working 12 hours a day or more in huge warehouse-factories. You're probably wearing something one of those women created right now.

Most of the students (including me) were horrified. We had *no* idea. We figured that, given that we have supercomputers and massive industrial systems for almost every type of product you can buy, surely we would have figured out a better way? Surely there are machines that can put a t-shirt together by now?

She said, no, that's why fast fashion is really so bad. It's not simply about the quality of the product, it's about the human cost.

When you buy a cheap tee that says "Made in Bangladesh", this is where your clothing came from (and these are from one of the nicer factories):

(By Fahad Faisal. CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=89582692)

Don't want to believe it? I understand. Here is the wikipedia page, you can read it in your own time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile_industry_in_Bangladesh#Readymade_garment_(RMG)_industry

queeranarchism

This isn't just true of clothes either. There's an astonishing amount of human labor behind most of our products. Even the steps that are automated are only possible because humans are constantly cleaning, maintaining, repairing, adjusting and fine tuning the machines.

I've noticed that the media that educates us often edits that out on purpose. In 'how its made' type videos, steps humans do by hand are often skipped because they don't make as smooth a video as watching machines do the parts of the production process that can be automated.