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I UPDATED MY BRASS KNUCKLES SHIRT TO SAY “UR DEAD”!

todays my first day wearing it to school with that new addition, hoping i dont get dress coded for the phrasing cus it’s actually one of my favorite diys so far..

EXCUSE THE LITTLE WHITE SPECKS EVERYWHERE they’re from my fabric scraps xP

i’m debating getting rid of the “i still” part of the “i still bark” shirt i’m working on… now that i’ve doctored the shirt to fit me better, there’s no more room for that many letters ;w;

UPDATE: there’s no words on it at all now LMAOAOA it’s finished tho!! i’ll post a piccy of it tmmrrrr

UPDATE:

i finished details on dog!

i’m fine tuning the waist on the shirt so that it’s tighter on me (*w*) then i’ll stitch him and the words on and BAM, new shirt!!

HAI HAIII heres where I've been :3

been focusing on my grades in skool, we at straight As now we ballin! ANYWAYZ i have a few hobbies, i’ll put them all in an about me when i get around to it, but basically when i feel bored of one hobby, i move onto the next, and so on. its a rotation of sorts. since i drew soOO much for that IZ comic LMAO im focusing on my diy fashion hobby :333 my ma's friend left a tank top at our house, and i just so happen to fit it perfectly, so its mine now >:3 it's plain black, so im making a design to go on top of it! here's the prototype (and the image it’s based on from Skelanimals!)

BYEBEYEHE !!!

HAI HAIII heres where I've been :3

been focusing on my grades in skool, we at straight As now we ballin!

my ma's friend recently left a tank top at our house, and i just so happen to fit it perfectly, so its mine now >:3 it's plain black, so im making a design to go on top of it! here's the prototype (and the image it’s based on from Skelanimals!)

BYEBEYEHE !!!

While working on a telegram Chanel for the clothes and other items I make I tried to count every item (excluding pinns, patches, sticker, postcards, posters) I have made since starting the project in 2019 and even having quite abbreviated in between years… 93 items is what u could count. But I don’t remember all of them and definitely don’t have all of them photographs either •_• so there is actually more. Probably over 100.

Back with another alternative Unsure-if-it’s-a-hot-take-here-but-would-def-be-a-hot-take-on-other-social-media-platforms.

“Well I have to buy from (fast fashion/unethical fashion brand) because I’m Alt and local/thrift stores don’t have any alt stuff that fits my style!!!” Is complete bullshit. Make it yourself like the original alternative subculture did.

You don’t know how?

The internet has a thousand tutorials. If you’re overwhelmed and don’t know where to start you can literally DM me and I will send you some of my favorite YT channels that I learned from when I started dressing alternative years ago. A bottle of dye cost me like $8 last time I bought it, and I can use that to dye a whole bucket of clothes black, and an even larger amount of clothes if I want some grey tones and I’m not too worried about having it all completely black.

But I don’t have time to learn all that right now!!!!

That’s completely fine and understandable! I’ve been there, but it’s not an excuse to constantly consume fast fashion. Pick up one skill at a time and change your wardrobe slowly. It’s not going to be instantaneous. Also skills you already have are transferable. You like drawing/sketching? Get a couple markers and transfer it onto a tshirt, and now you’ve got the coolest shirt in the room.

But what about disabled people????

I’m going to be so real with you rn, every single disabled person in my life (even ones I just casually talk to at art markets) are the most creative people I know and this one just feels like a random scapegoat that able-bodied people throw around. I’m disabled too, specifically surrounding muscle/connective tissue function, chronic pain, and motor skills. I work at a slower pace, with mediums I know I’m good with, and take breaks, as do all my friends and acquaintances who share similar problems. If you’re disabled enough you cannot do so, this does not apply to you and I support you getting your needs met in the way that makes the most sense for you.

It’s a lot more counter-culture to just listen to the music and wear a basic pair of jeans and a shirt from the thrift that you put a skull on with sharpie, than to wear plastic crap from Shein and Temu. It’s not really raging against the machine to buy into it. Being clothed is important and a human right, however having your perfect ideal wardrobe immediately, cheaply, and at the expense of the wellbeing of either the planet or other people is not a human right. There’s a bit of a difference between those two, and you can survive in a pair of basic blue jeans, I promise you.

Idk if this is going to be an unpopular opinion (probably would be in Insta or TikTok but I feel like ppl are a bit more reasonable here), but while goth/punk/grunge/etc are PRIMARILY music and political based subcultures, there is still a fashion element. Fashion is political in today’s world, due to the nature of capitalism and it’s social effects, and the primary hallmark of the fashion side of these subcultures (in their origins) was the DIY clothes that served multiple purposes: reducing your capitalistic footprint, your environmental footprint, and defying social norms of physical presentation. Same thing with makeup, which is weaponized off of women’s insecurities. I respect your right to do whatever you want with yourself but if it happens to be following the exact trends and beauty standards of your current time, it’s not counter-culture.

You can be goth/punk/grunge and dress “normal” because it is primarily musical and political. BUT, you cannot be goth/punk/grunge and wear Shein, Temu, buy into all the latest trends and participate in fast fashion, etc, because that is against the ethics of the subculture. Similarly, we need to stop watering down the look to the point of incomprehension and normalcy and calling it after an alternative counter-cultural group. And I understand being poor, I’ve been low-income for a while now. I thrift what I can but if I really, actually need (not want!) a new pair of jeans and I can’t find one that fits anywhere else, I will go to Walmart and buy a pair from the clearance section. However I then wear and repair that pair of pants until it’s literally tearing apart, and then repurpose the fabric I can salvage into new projects when I can no longer wear it.

“It’s the most punk thing to not care what anyone thinks!!” No it’s not actually. Punk has been defined by it’s almost obsession with politics, ethics, radical empathy with the oppressed, and fighting for change. Ignoring those calling you out on your privilege and your contributions to the capitalistic machine isn’t Punk. And I say all this as someone who’s parents were part of the original alternative scenes back in the 70s-90s, and who’s talked to a lot of people who were in it at the time of its creation.

I’ve recently gotten a sewing machine and I just finished a project I’m really proud of!

It’s my friends birthday soon and I decided to make her a purse out of some of my old pre-transition clothes that i don’t wear anymore

I’m really happy with it, it definitely has it’s mistakes but for 2 months of machine sewing and my 4th project I think it’s pretty good :)

(also don’t mind the bad photo quality It’s really dark this time of year so the lighting is shit 🥲)

the utility belt wip in question

full patch pants update coming soooon.

been fixing the crotch for my patch pants recently bc i ripped em down the center 🙏🙏 that’s why i haven’t posted them yet…

LOOK AT THIS BAT I EMBROIDERED