Interviews to Resume

Hello all!

Thank you so much for your patience while I was taking a break. I think I’m ready to resume posting interviews to the site. We’re fast approaching 1,000 interviews and I’m still only one person who is currently very swamped with things (my upcoming novel, my part-time job, con appearances, etc.).

In order to keep this site running, I need to make a couple changes to how I do things.

If you want something changed or removed, you must contact me at the email address provided in the blog description. I will not reply to asks or comments.

Also, you will need to provide the links to your interview and the artist pages you’re listed on. I will only change things if links are provided (I simply don’t have the time to hunt through every listing to update/change information).

There may be times when I go away for a bit and I apologize for this, but I am super busy at the moment with a number of things. I’m going to take the months of September and October off to finish up work on my book and then start work on the next two in the series. These absences can’t be helped and I ask for your patience. This site is important, but it doesn’t pay the bills. However, whenever I take a month off, I will still be accepting interviews (I just won’t be posting them until I’m “back”).

I have about 24 or 25 interviews that need to be uploaded and scheduled at the moment. I’m going to try to get through most of them today, but I don’t know how many I’ll manage (hopefully I’ll be able to get through the ones going up next week). My plan going forward is to upload/schedule interviews for the coming week on Saturdays and Sundays, along with any signal boost requests I receive. I still plan on posting new interviews Monday through Friday. I will let you know if that will change.

I think that’s about all for now. Thank you again for your patience.

See everyone Monday :)

Tim Gunn on Plus Size Clothing

“Have you seen most of the plus-size sections out there? It’s horrifying. Whoever’s designing for plus-size doesn’t get it. The entire garment needs to be reconceived. You can’t just take a size 8 and make it larger. In my travels, I’ve been an advocate for larger women. I’ve been talking to designers, but only a half-dozen make an effort. Most say, ‘I don’t want a woman who’s a size 10 or 11 wearing my clothes.’ Well, shame on you! It’s not realistic

Love him.

“You can’t just take a size 8 and make it larger.” Praise Jesus and all the saints for him saying this because damn, most “PLUS SIZED” clothing is fugly.

Amen. The plus sized clothing out there is crazy and makes me just…

I’m not surprised he said this. Ever since the first season, when they’ve had to do garments for everyday people who aren’t models, there’s always one designer (at the very least) who flips out as though they’ve never in their life considered that people who aren’t a size 0 might wear their clothes. Tim always looks at them like he wants to drown them in a lake.

I love Tim Gunn so much and this is just one of the reasons. The other is that he is asexual and has copped a lot of flack for it in the media but he isn’t ashamed of what he is/is completely happy with who is. Next to Diane Von Furstenberg, he is one of my favourite people in the fashion industry.

My mom got to take a class taught by him and I AM FOREVER JEALOUS.What a cool guy

I DID NOT KNOW TIM GUNN WAS ASEXUAL

THIS IS SO WONDERFUL

IM GONNA CRY

WELCOME MY ACE BRETHREN

We do not, as a world, deserve the goodness that is Tim Gunn. My mom (a large woman in her late-fifties at the time) met him at a lecture and he spent several minutes complimenting her dress (which she made herself) and discussing why she’d had to start making ALL her own clothes (could no longer find nice, pretty things in her size) and then laughing over being the oldest people in the room (since it was a university lecture largely attended by students). My mom hasn’t felt good about her weight in years, but Tim Gunn made her proud of knowing how to dress for her shape and her taste in fabric patterns. According to my brother who witnessed all this, she was beaming.

I would die on a battlefield for Tim Gunn.

Just confirmed the ace thing, I hadn’t heard about it but it looks like he came out in an interview!

Oh shit re blogging for ace role model!

I love project runway and I love Tim Gunn

ACE ROLE MODEL!

Numb // Linkin Park 80s Remix

this remix is basically this image:

@myownmagic

This made me cringe so hard....the defilement of Chester Bennington is just disturbing.....and so is that upbeat synth

I’m all for fighting for marriage equality in the LGBT community. But we’re so focused on that no one knows about this problem.

W…wait Thats a thing????

Yep! The man I refer to as my husband? We aren’t actually married. We can’t be.

If I married him, the government would literally expect me to care for him and be his sole source of income. He would lose all of his benefits, including SSDI. Spouses are expected to share income and that effects ALL of his benefits, even his health insurance. We simply can’t afford to be married.

But it goes even further than that. If I were disabled, our incomes would STILL be combined, meaning BOTH of us would have our benefits cut.

For people reviving supplemental income, their benefits can be cut anywhere from 25% of their current income all the way down to 0%

In fact, one of the stipulations of receiving income under the adult disabled child program (which provides benefits for people who were disabled before age 22) is that they LITERALLY never be married.

I normally don’t link to blog posts as resources, but since social service resource sites like to dress this problem up and make it seem smaller than it really is, I’m gonna call it appropriate! Check it out!

https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2015/06/29/op-ed-why-no-matter-what-i-still-cant-marry-my-girlfriend

I’m upset about the situation in case you couldn’t tell.

Disabled people in the UK do not have marriage equality.

If you so much as LIVE with a partner you lose a massive chunk of income

Disabled Canadian chiming in - it’s the same here. I can even be kicked off disability for living with a romantic partner for longer than 6 months because then I’m considered common-law, and said partners income is deducted dollar for dollar from my benefits. Things like alimony, spousal support, and child support are also deducted dollar for dollar from my benefits - so you also get in shit for having previous relationships. If I have a roommate, they can request I PROVE that I’m not in a relationship with them by getting character references to swear it. Essentially, anyone whose unlucky enough to love me, is considered my financial caretaker. It fucking sucks.

@myownmagic, you have a story about this, right?

Yes. When i was married to my last mistake, they cut his benefits from 700 to 160. They expected that i, on my 1200 a month, could support all five of us. What a bunch of shit. The people who could change this don't care, and in fact disabled people are looked down upon so much that its difficult to even exist sometimes against the will of those who think we should not exist. Fuck survival of the fittest....my brain is more powerful than my body, its more powerful than any dumb jock who is `fitter` than me. I don't think things will change until the younger generation is in charge of things.

Happy pride month to all the aces and aros who are constantly being told that this month isn’t for you!

Happy pride month to all the aces and aros who are constantly being told that your experiences aren’t ‘enough’ to make you queer! Who are constantly being told by strangers that your own lived experiences are actually just misogyny, or internalized homophobia, or literally anything other than what you say it is!

Happy pride month to all the aces and aros who are constantly being told that your identity isn’t a real thing, that it’s just a phase, that it’s only a ‘symptom’ of something else that can be ‘treated/cured’, or that you’re just looking for a way to ‘feel special’!

Happy pride month to all the aces and aros– whether or not you’re sex/romance repulsed! Whether or not you are currently in or have pursued those kinds of relationships in the past! Whether or not you still enjoy those things, but experience them differently than everyone else!

Happy pride month to all the aces and aros who’ve had people in your life try to ‘fix’ you or make you feel guilty for not feeling the same things they do! I’m sorry you had to endure that kind of treatment! You don’t deserve it, and you’re wonderful just the way you are!

Happy pride month to any aces and aros who feel that your ace/aro-ness is tied to other factors, such as trauma, or neurodivergence, or anything else! That doesn’t make your lived experiences with your sexuality any less valid, and I’m glad you’ve found the language and a community that gives you a sense of belonging, acceptance, and understanding!

Happy pride month to all the aces and aros who are also queer in other ways, and are constantly being told to leave your ace/aro-ness at the door when you enter queer spaces and dialogues!

Your struggles are real, your identities are valid, your voices matter, and I’m glad you’re here!

💚🖤⚪💜

(Exclusionists don’t interact! Make your own damn post, or better yet, have a long hard think about why you hate an entire demographic of people who have been told by Heteronormative Culture that they’re ‘broken’ and should feel guilty, ashamed, or embarrassed about who they are so much!)

There's over 9 million users on Tumblr now. Reblog if you're one of the few who's never EVER left anon hate in somebody's ask box.

That’s a fucking low number. That’s fucking sad.

Never ever

A round of applause for everyone who can reblog! You’re all awesome guys!

READ!! THIS IS MY LAST CHANCE!!!! (This is all I have!!)

My health is actually failing. I’m not being dramatic when I say I could die If I don’t get the medical help I need.

I suffer from chronic illnesses (a rare version of MTHFR HOMOZYGOUS, HIT, DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS, AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE + more) and I am disabled and trans. I am jobless due to my illnesses and I am currently without any necessary resources to survive, be healthy, stable, or safe..

I have a rare blood clotting disease that causes me to be at the HIGHEST RISK possible to have a heart attack, aneurysm, or stroke. This disease has also resulted in multiple major surgeries, and countless other major procedures that have left me with debilitating chronic pain and other disabilities (limited use of my dominate arm, and even tasks like sweeping leave my arms in immense pain). I have two stints in my chest keeping my main vein open to my right arm so the blood can flow to it. And it still has trouble flowing back which causes swelling and excruciating pain in my arm. The main vein in my chest has been patched and dissected from a vein from my thigh because the veins in my right arm and chest are so damaged they weren’t able to save much. I had to get a rib removed because it was pinching my vein and causing clotting during which damaged a lot of muscles in my chest and shoulder causing even more chronic pain. They also wired my chest shut.

So I NEED to have access to good health care. I’m chronically ill with horrible and scary diseases. I’ve already almost died three times, and have been on my death bed twice.. I’m in and out of hospitals constantly, they don’t have the resources to help. I NEED HELP. I NEED TO LEAVE AND MOVE IN ORDER TO SURVIVE!!! Please fucking help me!! Boost my links, donate whatever! I’m grateful for anything !!

I DON’T WANT TO DIE I’ve been fighting for my life since I was 16. I’m taking my health seriously and using the little bit of energy that I have to get shit done.

I’m honestly only asking for the bare minimum of what I need to move, and for rent…

I’m trying to move to Colorado to escape (my abuser and stalker that I have a really traumatic history with. Violence and including assaults) I’m stuck in my hometown right now in northern MN. Where I’m at right now IS NOT safe for me and I NEED to leave..

My friend in Colorado has a place that I can move into ASAP, I just need first and last months rent. I have to move this month or she has to find a different roommate because of her own financial situation, so this is my ONE and only lucky chance!! I NEED to move to Colorado for access to better health care (to keep me alive), and for my own safety.. This is VITAL for my health (mentally and physically).

PLEASE DONATE OR BOOST MY LINKS!!!

NOW IS THE TIME TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT AND BE AN ALLY !! ALSO PLEASE READ AND SHARE MY STORY/LINKS!! REPOST, & REBLOG!! Copy and paste my links & story & share on ALL your social media’s (twitter, Facebook, tumblr and Instagram!!!!) it helps me so much !

USING PayPal/Venmo IS A DIRECT WAY TO HELP ME!!

https://www.paypal.me/YvesOrage

https://www.paypal.me/YvesOrage

https://venmo.com/code?user_id=2272988271476736476

If you donate, message me so I can thank you personally !!! Thank you ♥️

Please help this person get the safety they deserve.

Please help this human get the help he needs. 

UPDATE!!!:

Hey y’all, I made it to Denver and I’m alright (a lot of personal shit has gone down) ! And I have a bed (finally). 🙏🏻💕

But my meds are 300$ and I have to pay out of pocket for them (which I can prove)

Rent here is really high,

and In between that and my meds (that are detrimental for my health, which is NOT doing well), and transportation in between appointments (fucking ridiculous here… I also have receipts for that), I could use some help. Like it says, I’m chronically ill (with severe chronic pain) and I’m disabled so I cannot work rn.

I’m going to have to get some blood tests done, and that’s going to be a pretty penny.

So if I could get any help, I’d really appreciate it.

If you can’t, that’s ok. I appreciate you ALL, especially all the support and love I have gotten through this really fucking shitty time.

Reblogging, boosting, or whatever, helps just as much. Ily thnk u

*seriously, anything counts. All is appreciated 💕

PLEASE boost this,

I just got some horrible fucking news AND on top of that, I got a used car yesterday (yay) and then immediately got pulled over and got a ticket.. which I can’t offord rn.

My meds are around 300$ rent is 800$ and now I have late bills, and pay out of pocket (WHICH IS TRUE) and my health is failing, and I’m disabled so I can’t work rn. I’m hustling as much as I can but it’s not enough…

If you can help me I’d reallllyyy appreciate it. Thank you

ive been following this person for years and ive seen them through so much. i have literally no money but if anyone can help please do so, we need to keep our trans and disabled siblings alive and safe !!!!

An emergency happened and I need help!!!!!

I have to go into urgent care without insurance.

This is going to be hundreds if not thousands :(

Please help him :((

Please, for the love of god, help him

Alright. I’m homeless rn, and I need to get to Oregon, where I’ll have a safe place. And I have medical bills that I NEED TO PAY,

So anything AND EVERYTHING IS APPRECIATED!!!

Please boost this!!!

‼️I STILL NEED YOUR HELP‼️

@thatsanswitch would you also please reblig this? Thank you ♡♡♡

Fun fact: Cheetahs only attack prey that runs

jesus that is good to know.

Yup, that’s the point you just stay still and let it do whatever the fuck it wants that doesn’t involved you getting eaten. 

REALLY FUN FACT for big cats cheetahs are fucking docile as shit

my grandfather ran a cheetah sanctuary in south africa and he’d just lie with them and sleep among them and they’d rub against him and chirp at him they’re big fucking babies

Another Fun Fact: Cheetahs are incredibly nervous animals. One of the (many) reason’s they’re going extinct is that cheetahs are so sensitive and nervous, some of them are literally too nervous to breed. Others will breed, but stress themselves out so much, they’ll lose their cubs. So zoos with breeding programs had to figure out how to make cheetahs comfortable enough to first of all, get laid and secondly - not spazz themselves into miscarrying. So what’d they do? They gave the cheetah’s their very own Service Dogs! The dogs make them feel safe, protected and secure!

AJHHHHFDDGHH SO PRECIOUS

this post just got so much better

THIS IS OFFICIALLY MY FAVOURITE POST

this is emmett and cullen they are best friends

This is the greatest thing I’ve seen all day.

Dogs are truly angels.

This honestly makes my soul feel weird

@myownmagic

$185

$425 tbh

Either $500 or 0, cause I’m 15 and my dad tries to teach me how to drive last year

$0

$285 and I ain’t telling you which ones

$650…

$0

damn, only $10

0$ but @spitefulkilljoy who’d u kill. (Yourself doesn’t count)

$775 (I think I’m bad at math) popped pills, been in a fight, skipped class, and drove illegally

Ummmm.......$1245 I think im too old and evil for this site lmao

Most able-bodied people just can’t grasp the pure joy, elation, and relief that comes with being gifted an item to make your environment more accessible. Because it shows not only that the person giving the gift actually notices your struggles, but that they believe in your struggles enough to spend the money to try to help you with them. There’s no “well, if you tried a little harder maybe you could…” it is just someone you love recognizing that you are struggling and them wanting to help make your life the best it can be. 

soulmate au where instead of your soulmates first words to you written on your skin it’s their last words you ever hear them say so you don’t know who your soulmate is until you lose them

imagine generic last words like “did you get the mail?” “i’ll be down in a minute!” “have you seen my cell phone?” so every time the munain happens your blood runs cold

when you know you’ll hardly know them at all “what’s your name?” “do you have a facebook?” “that’ll be $3.95 with tax” because it’s one thing to lose them and know too late, but it’s something much crueler to never know them at all

imagine being the parent of someone with “did you do the homework?” “my mom said yes” “i really hate P.E.” because you know it will happen young, you know you can’t protect them

people with horrifying ones like “don’t close your eyes!” “i don’t think we’re alone” “didn’t you lock the door?” because they’ll be there when something horrible happens and there’s no way to prepare for that

imagine what you otp’s wrists might say.

Woah, slow down, Satan.

@thatsanswitch

Did you clone yourself?

What if someone’s wrists said “I love you?” Or even worse, “I hate you.” Imagine you fall in love with someone, and you never fight with them. You’re married for ten years, and one day, you get into a fight with them. You both say awful things, you don’t mean them though. You still love each other. Your partner grabs the keys from the table, and storms away, exclaiming that they hate you. Before you can stop them, they leave. You try calling them, stopping them, but it doesn’t work.

You wait anxiously for them to return, but you know deep down that they won’t.

You turn on the news, and your fears are confirmed. There had been a crash on the highway, the car had been speeding, and crashed into the divider. You recognized the car almost instantly. You watched as they tried to get the driver out, as the pronounced the driver, the love of your life, dead.

And the last thing they told you, was they hate you.

See….

Love you, mom :)

I love you too ♡♡♡♡

soulmate au where instead of your soulmates first words to you written on your skin it’s their last words you ever hear them say so you don’t know who your soulmate is until you lose them

imagine generic last words like “did you get the mail?” “i’ll be down in a minute!” “have you seen my cell phone?” so every time the munain happens your blood runs cold

when you know you’ll hardly know them at all “what’s your name?” “do you have a facebook?” “that’ll be $3.95 with tax” because it’s one thing to lose them and know too late, but it’s something much crueler to never know them at all

imagine being the parent of someone with “did you do the homework?” “my mom said yes” “i really hate P.E.” because you know it will happen young, you know you can’t protect them

people with horrifying ones like “don’t close your eyes!” “i don’t think we’re alone” “didn’t you lock the door?” because they’ll be there when something horrible happens and there’s no way to prepare for that

imagine what you otp’s wrists might say.

Woah, slow down, Satan.

@thatsanswitch

Did you clone yourself?

What if someone’s wrists said “I love you?” Or even worse, “I hate you.” Imagine you fall in love with someone, and you never fight with them. You’re married for ten years, and one day, you get into a fight with them. You both say awful things, you don’t mean them though. You still love each other. Your partner grabs the keys from the table, and storms away, exclaiming that they hate you. Before you can stop them, they leave. You try calling them, stopping them, but it doesn’t work.

You wait anxiously for them to return, but you know deep down that they won’t.

You turn on the news, and your fears are confirmed. There had been a crash on the highway, the car had been speeding, and crashed into the divider. You recognized the car almost instantly. You watched as they tried to get the driver out, as the pronounced the driver, the love of your life, dead.

And the last thing they told you, was they hate you.

See....

soulmate au where instead of your soulmates first words to you written on your skin it’s their last words you ever hear them say so you don’t know who your soulmate is until you lose them

imagine generic last words like “did you get the mail?” “i’ll be down in a minute!” “have you seen my cell phone?” so every time the munain happens your blood runs cold

when you know you’ll hardly know them at all “what’s your name?” “do you have a facebook?” “that’ll be $3.95 with tax” because it’s one thing to lose them and know too late, but it’s something much crueler to never know them at all

imagine being the parent of someone with “did you do the homework?” “my mom said yes” “i really hate P.E.” because you know it will happen young, you know you can’t protect them

people with horrifying ones like “don’t close your eyes!” “i don’t think we’re alone” “didn’t you lock the door?” because they’ll be there when something horrible happens and there’s no way to prepare for that

imagine what you otp’s wrists might say.

Woah, slow down, Satan.

@thatsanswitch

Did you clone yourself?

@thatsanswitch

soulmate au where instead of your soulmates first words to you written on your skin it’s their last words you ever hear them say so you don’t know who your soulmate is until you lose them

imagine generic last words like “did you get the mail?” “i’ll be down in a minute!” “have you seen my cell phone?” so every time the munain happens your blood runs cold

when you know you’ll hardly know them at all “what’s your name?” “do you have a facebook?” “that’ll be $3.95 with tax” because it’s one thing to lose them and know too late, but it’s something much crueler to never know them at all

imagine being the parent of someone with “did you do the homework?” “my mom said yes” “i really hate P.E.” because you know it will happen young, you know you can’t protect them

people with horrifying ones like “don’t close your eyes!” “i don’t think we’re alone” “didn’t you lock the door?” because they’ll be there when something horrible happens and there’s no way to prepare for that

imagine what you otp’s wrists might say.

Woah, slow down, Satan.

@thatsanswitch

Did you clone yourself?