Shapeshifters chest binder giveaway: Pride Month Edition

Happy Pride, ‘shifters. Remember, even when it’s hard: you do have a lot to be proud of.

With all our love, all our warmth, and all our pride in you: we present a big ol’ giveaway. We cleared 3k sales, this month. We can’t help but show off that we’re a little proud, too.

Five lucky winners of this giveaway will each receive one $50 Shapeshifters crop top binder. (That’s your choice of these.) One more will receive one $55 Shapeshifters crop top custom-print binder. (That’s a binder with any four-way stretch fabric under $16 from here!) For those of you keeping count, that’s regular binder giveaways #56-60, and donor-funded giveaway #13.

Thank you always for spreading the word, telling your friends, talking about us, and, of course, for your amazing direct support. We couldn’t do this without you.

Enter here!

The fine print:

In medieval culture, an event like a royal christening is not a private party; it’s the public social event of the year. To not invite any person of rank to such an event is a deadly insult.

Maleficent is certainly someone you wouldn’t want at a party, but she’s also someone powerful enough that only a fool would ever dare treat her with such blatant disrespect. The only way the King and Queen could possibly have gotten away with not inviting Maleficent was to not invite any of the fairies at all; inviting the other fairies and excluding her is explicitly taking sides in the conflict between the fairy factions.

Which means they made themselves her sworn enemies, and she responded by treating them as such from then on. If you actually get into analyzing the social dynamics of the scene, it’s very clear that Maleficent was willing to show mercy at first by giving the King and Queen a chance to apologize for their disrespect to her. She doesn’t curse Aurora until after she gives them that chance and they throw it back in her face with further disrespect.

And yeah, if the King and Queen had done the properly respectful thing and invited her, Maleficent would have given Aurora a scary awesome present. Moreover so would the other fairies, because at that point both sides would be using it as an opportunity to show off and one-up each other. What they gave her before Maleficent showed up was basically just trivial party favors by fairy standards.

How do you know so much about the social dynamics of medieval fairies

How don’t you

We need a story where the humans are actually smart and respectful to both sides, and get a totally badass princess. Id love to know more about the social dynamics of medieval fairies. I’ll trade art for knowledge

them: hey so what gender are you me: oh actually i… i lost my gender in a terrible accident. its very hard for me to talk abt

them: hey so what gender are you me: ok so you know that feeling where u arent sure whether or not you’ve left the stove on? them: ….yeah? me: its that

every cat exists on a sliding scale of ‘unit’ to ‘goblin’ with exotic longhairs and oriental shorthairs both being on the extreme yet opposite ends of the spectrum

shoutout to @archangelpng for creating & submitting this explosive take

It’s real! https://www.google.com/amp/thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/385248-seattle-officials-file-motion-to-vacate-marijuana-convictions%3Famp

Oh wow

Ive seen a reposted version going around, heres the original artist. boost this one!!!!!!

me applyin 2 jobs but they all need 3500 years of experiences and in my past life I was a plague ridden medieval count who lived alone in a gothic castle in the Carpathian mountains so my work exp is not relevant to like, retail

me: opens a package and sets the box aside

my cat:

this is another perfect example of how memes are just hieroglyphic. no one is gonna know what the fuck this means one day.

sleepy on main

absolutely fatigued on main

Fucking exhausted on main

i noticed that alot of LBGT kids feel like they have to tell their friends and family that theyre LBGT. even if theyll be rejected

and i want to remind u all that nobody is entitled to knowing your romantic, sexual or gender orientations. nobody. you have no moral obligation to share that information if youre not comfortable with doing so

youre not “lying” by not telling people or “hiding”. cause its honestly no ones business but your own

you come out on your own terms when you feel safe and comfortable doing so!! or you can come out to a few trusted people if you want before telling a larger group

dont feel like you owe that information to anyone ok??

not sure if this will make sense to anyone besides me but: the antidote to negativity is not positivity, its warmth

positivity tells a sad person that there is no reason to be sad. warmth asks the sad person if they want to go get some ice cream

イロイログ

it’s always so funny learning about the Great Depression in grade school cuz they don’t ever talk about how latinx and Hispanic people were lowkey deported to Mexico even if they weren’t Mexican and how the depression was literally twice as worse for black people who were the first fired and last hired. like educators always report these tragedies by how they impacted whites UNLESS you are in a class like AA studies or something.

This is the truth. The experiences of poc have been outright erased from history in US public education. The white experience is labeled as universal in order to cover up white crimes and to keep white kids ignorant so that we uphold white supremacy throughout our lives.

my great grandmother , who is still alive today was a baby/child during through the Great Depression and often tells us how her parents were lured into picking cotton for no pay just to benefit white business owners.

Saying “Gender is fake so how are people trans?” is like saying “Money is fake so how are people poor?” Like as much as we facetiously say gender is fake, “social construct” is not synonymous with “fake”

“Eventually you can’t help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars. Which, also, are constructs.”

its so weird that like, american ash trees are critically endangered. like, these little guys:

used to be so damn common that it felt like they were a constant, and now the trees they come from are so rare that multiple states have already given up on protecting them further