Patient W13ER's Journal

Naomi Campbell at the MTV Video Music Awards (1997).

i dont fucking know

Eternally ready for spring. 🌷 Iridessence | support

From the Vivienne Westwood Spring 2022 Bridal Collection

⚜️ Modern day Marie Antoinette 🕊

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i love you vampire themed media i love you metaphor for queerness i love you blood aesthetic i love you gothic architecture i love you coffin beds i love you cross necklaces i love you canine teeth i love you intimacy hidden in violence i love you vampires

Teen Titans by Gabriel Picolo

Freida Pinto as Selina Dalton in ‘Mr. Malcolm’s List’ (Short Film, 2019). 

Russia’s Big Ballet- 

The Big Ballet is a troupe of dancers from Russia who weigh a minimum of 220 pounds each. 

“The Big Ballet formed in 1994 and set out to deliberately and, above all, self-confidently challenge accepted social standards in a world where the pursuit of slenderness and beauty seems obsessive. The dancers courageously and imposingly prove that grace, elegance, charisma and nimbleness is not the demesne of the “thin”, proudly presenting their voluptuous yet surprisingly sinuous and flexible figures.”

they’ve been working on a fucking prank on me since april i’m so goddamn indignant

tell them what the prank was, clare

so for fucking months now we’ve been saying we were going to watch Blade, because i’d never seen it, but somebody was always too tired or too busy, but tonight we decided fuck it, tomorrow’s ciaran’s friday, let’s watch Blade

the first 40 minutes or so pass with many a delighted exclamation. stan lee was credited & i’m told blade was a marvel property, which is news to me. i’m thoroughly enjoying myself. the cop familiar gets the shit beat out of him & tells blade to check the fridge. the wind roars as the scene transition fades to black.

in fades a helicopter. a man with long dark hair on crutches emerges from it. i do not immediately recognize the man, but from the crutches & the hair i immediately go “morbius??”

they assure me he isn’t morbius. i accept that they don’t want to admit he’s morbius for some reason (maybe they just don’t want me to think blade is in the mcu?) as the entirety of michael morbius’s backstory plays out on screen.

i repeatedly ask “okay but this is literally morbius right” and “why are you doing this” as it becomes increasingly clear that we are now, somehow, watching Morbius (2022). everyone continues to insist it’s Blade (1999) until finally i ask “how long were you planning this” and logan says “you wanna know how long” and gives me a screenshot

fucking months of me genuinely wanting to watch the movie Blade (1999) with my friends and they goddamn Blorbius me. I got Blorbiused.

This will explain some of Indian dance methodology.

seeing certain mutuals on the dash like thank god you’re here. i missed you.

Specifically:

Unions | Outsourced and Crunched

Because, on paper, the same VFX studio made the first two examples. But when Disney acquired Lucasfilm they gutted a bulk of the ILM staff and shipped a lot of the work away from equity/guild/union oversight.

trans friends— this has been circulating a lot on the internet already but PLEASE stop ordering from gc2b. their quality has massively declined, they send the wrong size binders correctly marked, the stitching is extremely poor and rips often times when first putting it on. do not waste your money on them!

if anyone wants to know why im fundraising for new binders its because due to the quality decrease in gc2b, im currently relying on one binder ive had since 2018. three of my other BRAND new gc2b binders have already ripped and two others were marked size large but were a size medium or below. on top of that, they hurt my back an ungodly fucking amount, so please be careful with them, i know how hard this shit is for anyone else who is poor and/or financially constrained, and i really empathize, please bind safely and be careful!

Gc2b is also unsafe due to the way the binders don't compress evenly. They will cause rib warping and permanent damage. Always go for even compression and it should never cut into your ribs while wearing it.

If anyone needs a replacement, I got mine from spectrum outfitters, I don't think there's anything wrong with those

oh reblogging again to climb onto my soapbox and yell:

do NOT use amazon as your alternative!!!!!!

This isn't me being "fuck amazon" (though. fuck amazon), this is me saying I've been told by several sources that amazon binders are incredibly low-quality and incredibly unsafe.

It sucks that GC2B is bad now, but do not look to amazon as your new source. I know it's usually cheaper, but please. Don't hurt yourself.

(This goes double for amazon binders labeled as "for lesbians", "for butches", "for women", and "for cosplay", but like. I cannot stress enough that I have never heard a single person call any amazon binder "safe".)

Nobody is providing alt links on this post directly so here, I will. Buy your new binders from UNDERWORKS: https://www.underworks.com/

Personally been using their binders since 2010. That long. I’ve only ever had one fall apart on me and it took 5 years of near constant wear and wash to do so, the other 2 I got in 2013 are still strong and fine, and I recently bought a new one that’s even higher quality than the old ones. Plus size, tall, and large chest friendly. I’m 6ft, 2xl, F cup. Their binders take me down to roughly a rounded b cup. They also have long binders that go over the waist/hips/butt to gently compress them if it causes you some dysphoria. Even post surgical vests! 

No single item from Underworks in the binder category is over $45, with a 3 pack of binders being less than $100. Please don’t buy from random retailers on amazon or other shady websites when Underworks has been a well known, award winning binder brand for 20 years, and their binders are literally cheaper than gc2b. 

i already rbed this but i wanna reblog w that addition too. used underworks from my first real binder until my top surgery. i had a gc2b one once (and this was years ago when gc2b had only been around for a couple years, so it was before this apparent quality drop) and it NEVER compared in comfort, breathability, practicality, or in the binding effect itself to my underworks binders. underworks has unfairly been considered an untrustworthy brand because their binders were originally meant for cis men with gynecomastia (breast growth), even though underworks has created a separate site (f2mbinders) specifically for their trans clientele which has measurements more accurate to pre/no hrt trans men, on top of the fact that its a fucking compressive shirt and the idea that it somehow wont work on you if you were afab is pretty bioessentialist. i fully endorse underworks and, as the above commenter, i especially recommend it for plus size folks and/or people with large chests, who gc2b binders imo were never inclusive of.

Co-signing as a fat enby with 44G breasts. Underworks binders may not come in a lot of colors (just black, white, and beige) but they are comfortable, breathable, wick sweat, and flatten like a boss. They also distribute well so you don't get back pain wearing them AND they don't give that weird breasts-bunched-under-the-arm thing some binders do to you if you're fat and/or have a lot of breast tissue to contend with. I cannot recommend them enough.