[6thlovelanguage-deactivated2020]

no offense but if you have ever been kind to me i have never forgotten it

[dogpuppy]

[thoughtcascades]

a person can laugh all day and still go home to a war nobody can see

[mausspacearchive]

it’s 2014 can taylor swift stop

[byjove]

every time I’m in public and I do that reassuring normal person curtesy smile at someone while I’m passing by them in a store I feel like I look like Dexter Morgan

[rose-morose]

I don't think I've ever smiled at a stranger that I wasn't laughing at

[byjove]

That’s kind of sad. Or maybe I should start laughing at everyone instead.

[rose-morose]

sad? why is that sad?

[byjove]

it feels nice to smile at people even when you feel like you’re doing it wrong

[veryluckyclovers]

[beaswellgirl]

yep, pretty much

[beesmygod]

unrelated but one of the bad fanfiction lines that has been trapped in my head for LITERALLY 22 years was a beauty and the beast fanfic in which belle said “be careful, im a virgin in my vagina”. this has been on the tip of my tongue threatening to burst out of my mouth for decades

[beesmygod]

this one is SOOOO  good thank for you sharing. im going to be thinking about po’s honda civic too now

[hauntedchronicler]

this line from a wolfstar smutfic on ff.net has haunted my every waking thought since 2007

[do-you-have-a-flag]

this is one i only read as recently as 2017 but it’s from a 1999 star trek fic and it’s so good

[unagi-eel]

i want “Home of the Whopper, Jean-Luc” engraved on my headstone

[byjove]

the justification when law enforcement kills someone for no particular reason always boils down to “we got really really scared, you should feel bad for us because we were sososo scared” ok. piss yourself or scream or something. why is killing someone the only option

[byjove]

I have agoraphobia, I’m deathly afraid of places and yet I go places with zero casualties and zero fatalities

[jamaicanblackcastoroil]

Like they understand they can just not be police officers

[byjove]

but then it might be harder to get away with shooting people and abusing their families

[segamascott]

[drememoto]

sometimes you look at someone’s art and you know EXACTLY what’s going on and you’re like

[drememoto]

(I would like to emphasize the “non-judgemental” portion of the caption)

[madnessbrainworms]

two different but very similar energies

[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.

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[ghostdaartist]

Bro videos are always 🔥 💯.. instant collaborations

[figglypuff]

[necrolentil]

Goddamit i hate this fucking post. I hate it because obviously if “twelve” followed the same pattern as the other teen numbers it wouldn’t be “twoteen” it would be “seconteen”. Think about it. It’s not “threeteen” it’s “thirteen” as in “third”. It’s not “fiveteen” it’s “fifteen” as in fifth. So with that in mind, you count “first, second, third, fourth, fifth,” and so on, so eleven would be “firsteen” and twelve would be “secondteen” or “seconteen”. “Firsteen, seconteen, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen….” It just drives me absolutely mad everytime i see this post that this obvious pattern was overlooked and i cant hold in my rage anymore.

[improper-integral]

[muttonschlops]

I think this is exactly why thirteen is considered a ‘bad luck’ number.

Eleven and twelve have special names because as humans we can count to 12 on our fingers. But if we need to count to thirteen we’re outta fingers, bad news.

[tigerator]

interesting hypothesis! i have a question,

[soft-lovely]

people

[aidashakur]

[littlestpersimmon]

Free Ornamentation VI. This work is dedicated to the public domain 🐇