#elijahdarling

[star-anise]

Do you have any books or links or articles, etc. about trauma from therapeutic medical treatment? I don't know if there's a better term for it than 'trauma' - because I know there's treatment you can receive for a condition that is traumatic and abusive, but I'm more thinking of the, idk, world-weariness that comes from going on two dozen different medications over the course of ten years and the wariness and cynicism that starts to manifest because of it.

A few people are willing to tackle it head-on, like this article about iatrogenic PTSD. Otherwise I think you have to research it sideways, like, “emotional effects of chronic illness”. 

[dandylyonsolarium]

“Guide Against Darkness”

The absolutely lovely @elijahdarling commissioned me for a Guide Painting. This was truly an honor to work on. 

© 2019 To The Solarium

[365paperdolls]

2. Style swap- Kate/ Anya

Kate showed up to a meeting one morning wearing a white shirt and denim jacket. It wasn’t her intention nor did the clothes belong to her. Roger had called this meeting two hours ago and after spending the night at Anya’s she hadn’t been given enough notice to be able to go home and change and still make it in time. The only set of clothes she had on her other than her pajamas were too dirty to wear. So instead Anya had lent her the clothes she was wearing now.

It wasn’t something she usually would pick for herself and she didn’t own anything like it. Surprisingly she didn’t feel self conscious when she first entered the office. There was something calming that felt nice about wearing her girlfriend’s clothes something that made her feel closer to her.

She returns to Anya’s apartment that night.

“You look good in that.”

“Thanks.” She blushes.

“Hey would I be able to borrow this again some time?”

“ Sure if you like it but under one condition.”

“What’s the condition?”

“ That I get to borrow one of your blazers.”

Thank you for the prompt @elijahdarling. This was written as a part of Femslash February. Please send me prompts here. 

[dandylyonsolarium]

New ask meme, re: what you would smell like in a romance novel: a forest camp site right before the sun rises.

OHOHOHOHO i like this! Dang!!

I can see the camp site in my head and now I wanna be there 🧳✨

[betterbinderproject]

@elijahdarling replied to your post “Consider funding me while I work on this project? @star-anise here:...”

Hey, I've been hesitate to bind because of concern with exercising - would I be able to exercise and bind in this possibly?

I’ll know that better in a few weeks. When I was sewing the binders I did my best to make it so that I could breathe deeply without any discomfort or constriction. If I ever made a model that felt like it was pinching or holding my chest too much, I ripped it up and scrapped that design. And the binders are pretty breatheable, since they’re made out of sports bras in a 97% cotton fabric. So I know that in the short-term, it’s pretty promising. However, I’m disabled and really restricted in what I can do, so I’m not able to be a better judge

In the next few days, the prototypes will arrive at my test-wearer’s house, and they’ll try wearing the binders for longer-term. That will include cardio exercise, weightlifting and circuit training.. Because really, the only way we’ll know for sure is whether, when they exercise, they feel any restriction or pain. Pau, my test-wearer, has started a pain log so that we’ll be able to compare no binder vs. this binder vs. commercial binders. Right now Pau’s going to be keeping an eye on the possible negative physical consequences, whether that’s overheating, rashes, pain, or shortness of breath. So they’re taking a bit of a risk--if you have something like a chronic pain or hypermobility condition that makes binding risky for you, I’d recommend waiting and watching the project until more sturdy people report in.

(When it comes to future test-wearers, I’d love to hear from people who do types of exercise like fencing or tennis, that involve lots of moving your arms and twisting your body, without much time to stop and readjust. Which means that when I recruit test-wearers, those athletes will probably be top of my list. I also want to try making the binder as swimwear, since the fabric I’m using so far is very similar to the swimsuit fabric.)

So I’d love to be like “Oh yeah totally, they’ll be great!” but I cannot make any promises yet. We’ll know more as the experiment progresses.