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I'm the "transman" who apparently doesn't suffer under cis perpetuated transphobia along with being an evil "lg" who apparently doesn't suffer from homophobia

Discourse

We get it. You hate aces because you, a true lgbt™, hate to share your spotlight and God forbid you share your precious resources. Do you need a reminder the full acronym is LGBTQIA? It’s a fucking community and it caters to other orientations. That includes aces. Get over it.

You people act like nothing has gotten better for gays and are still at square one when society has given you representation, not even low-key representation, churches allow gay people, and it’s a fairly normal notion not to be bigoted towards your gay children anymore and to be accepting in general as most educated people understand it’s not a choice. For businesses there’s more incentive. Hell, you even have the legal right to marry in America. The times have changed, okay?

Does it just.. threaten you aphobes somehow that there /may/ be a minority group in more dire need of help than you? That you won’t be everyone’s favorite anymore? You do realize gays outnumber aces 10 fold and make up the largest percent of the community. Between bisexuals, asexuals and trans people, you’re actually the most “privileged” out of the bunch by your sheer numbers and awareness. You should be using your power to lend a voice to your ace brothers and sisters– queer or otherwise. ACES ARE ACE. First and foremost. Not cishet.

There are ace kids out there feeling broken; alienated having nowhere to turn not knowing what they are or where they belong and then you spew some crap like this. They are seeing this. It is hurtful. They do not need this. No one needs this. They need support, dammit. And so, so much of it.

If you would allow in straight transmen for example, they are men first trans second, no? Or is this also transphobia at work which treats a trans individual differently from biological men or women? I’m sure any given trans person would want to be seen as a man/woman rather than be excluded by the trans label. Your logic doesn’t hold up. Cis pansexuals or bisexuals experience hetero-romantic feelings and can even stay in a straight relationship the rest of their lives. Are they then, excluded? Are we just going to ignore that aspect of them now in favor of your baseless rhetoric? *Banging pots and pans* 🚫IF YOU WOULDN’T DO IT TO THEM, DON’T DO IT TO ACES.🚫 Period.

You just want soo badly to be oppressed so you can stay the most sympathetic and play the victim card at every turn when people don’t coddle you. It’s pathetic how entitled and spoiled you people are. “Cishet” aces can’t oppress you. Neither can they invade your community and destroy it because well, it’s their community, too. There’s not even enough of them out there to do something so drastic.

You’re a majority over them. If anything, you’re the ones oppressing THEM with this continuous trend of gatekeeping, erasure, and hatred. It’s all so hypocritical because y'all literally flip shit when a straight person does it to you. But, I guess -phobes will keep reusing the same worn material. ♻💀 *cough* recycled biphobia *cough* The oppression olympics and mental gymnastics needs to stop. It’s such a disturbed and warped way to validate your views.

But, you won’t.

So, you continue making up bullshit quotas and an imaginary standard of gayness to excuse your abhorrent behavior while simultaneously splitting apart the community you claim you’re trying to protect so dearly by making enemies out of air, so much so that it makes no difference whether one is in it or not as they’ll still face many of the same problems within a supposed “safe space”. Not realizing that cishets aren’t the toxic ones. It’s all of YOU. 👏👏👏 Good job! Seriously can’t believe we’re still having this conversation.

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Men’s hairstyles, ca. 1830

Massive post today, as usual for my fashion posts.

Talking about men’s hair is funny, because when I just line up a bunch of portraits of guys from this period, it inevitably becomes a bit of a collection of hot period pin-ups.  Who says women don’t objectify men, I guess.

In my post on ladies’ hats, I said that hats are designed to suit hair.  Now, the more I think about it, the more this only seems to apply to ladies, whose hairstyles and hat styles are in fairly frequent flux.  For gentlemen, whose hairstyles and hat styles change more slowly over time, it seems that it may be the hair that must suit itself to the hat and not vice versa.  Chicken or egg question.

Now men’s hats ca. 1830 were of two basic varieties: the brimmed cap (for working-class men, young boys, and occasionally hunting/riding), and the top hat (for pretty much all well-dressed guys).  Just as with women, there was other “shit men could put on their heads,” but these were the two basic hats, as in, “shit men could wear outdoors and not look weird.”

^^^Riding cap ca. 1830.

^^^Top hat, ca. 1830.

Let’s ignore the cap for the moment, because we’re talking about fashion, and the cap sadly has little place in fashion ca. 1830.  The top hat was what fashionable men had to contend with, and it was what they had to suit their hair to.

Men had basically two strategies for getting their hair and their hats to work together.  The first strategy I will call “vertical,” the second, “horizontal.”  The vertical solution is to pile all your hair on top of your head, or else comb it in that direction for us sad straight-haired people (who were surely resigned in this period to being plain).  This allowed for the hair to mostly sit beneath the hat.  The horizontal solution was to pile/comb the hair to the sides of the head, leaving the top of the head pretty much smooth.  This allowed for the hair to sit outside the hat (or rather, for the hat to kind of sit on the piles of hair).  Both of these methods worked, since neither allowed the hat to crush the hair.  And when a dandy takes so long to get his hair just so, nothing is worse than getting hat hair.

^^^The vertical solution.

^^^The horizontal solution.

Just like their female counterparts, fashionable men were meticulous with their hair.  They used many of the same products and methods of grooming that the ladies did, including pomade for smoothing and holding the hair in place and curling tongs, papers, and cloths for curling it.  The hair could be parted pretty much anywhere, though in the earlier years of this period (ca. 1825-1827) they were still favoring the no-part, Napoleonic-type combed-forward or piled-on-top styles, while throughout the rest of the period (ca. 1827-1835) most men favored a side part.  Side parts could even be extreme, as in, just over one ear.  The hair was often brushed forward over the temples, but expansive, unblemished foreheads were thought to be a mark of masculine beauty, and so the hair was usually brushed up and away from the forehead to leave it bare.  In describing Enjolras’ beauty in Les Misérables, Victor Hugo wrote appreciatively:

“Much forehead in a face is like much sky in a horizon.”

(He may have been a little biased.)

Curls and waves were all the rage throughout the 1820s and 1830s, and these guys had them in abundance (or made sure they obtained them in abundance).  Really, that’s all you need to know about men’s hair ca. 1830: curls, curls, CURLS.  It’s all about the curls.

^^^Gotta say, this guy’s got nice hair, but he looks like a total douchebro.  One day I’ll post the whole painting, and then maybe you’ll see what I mean (body language speaks volumes), but really, if this guy was standing at the other end of the bar, giving you this look, I’ll bet you wouldn’t give him your number, would you.

^^^Even Louis-Philippe is stylin’.

^^^Ohhh, I dunno, Charles X is pushing it a little.  Those curls aren’t too curly…walking on the edge of uncool.

Because let’s face it, anybody born with stick-straight, uncurlable hair was simply screwed and should have just sat out the 1820s-1830s, because they were never going to be hot and popular.  However, they did try to make do with some sad, sore-loser comb-overs.

Or they could try to coax it to flip up…

…or forward…

…or back…

…or…whatever the hell this is:

(Also, extra points for extra skeezy facial hair on that last one.)

Sometimes they just gave up and cropped their hair:

^^^I assume this is Blanqui’s “prison chic” look, ca. 1835.

Textured hair also makes for great 1820s-1830s hair.  It’s all about the shaping: you can rock it up…

…or down…

…or Dumas, which is always the sexy choice:

In a society that values huge piles of luscious curls, the bald or balding probably had an even rougher time of it than the straight-haired guys.  Victor Hugo implicitly acknowledges how unfortunate male baldness is: being bald at twenty-five comes first in a litany of unlucky things in Laigle’s life.  Unlike for ladies, there weren’t too many opportunities for guys to cover their hair constantly with caps and kerchiefs, so a few false curls tied on in front weren’t going to go very far for them.  Of course, being that high foreheads were cool, a balding guy could always live in denial for a few years, but eventually fate would catch up to him.  Now, he could age gracefully, as I’m sure many did…

…but there were of course full and partial wigs available too for men’s use.  I haven’t yet found an extant example of such a thing, but if I ever come across one, I’ll be sure to share.  I can’t begin to imagine how they would have held these wigs securely on their heads, but there you have it.

Unlike the ladies, of course, men also had facial hair to contend with.  Facial hair was extremely popular ca. 1825-1835, even more so than in earlier decades.  Of course typical sideburns, mutton chops, and mustaches were common, but the most striking and unusual style of facial hair of this period is what I can only call the “under-the-chin beard.”  I have no idea if there is a more concise name for this odd thing, but I just call it like I see it.  This beard sits, well, under the chin and extends along the jawline, all the way up to the hairline.  Like so:

Sometimes, for the extra ick factor, it can be paired with a mustache, thusly:

This beard is extremely (extremely!) common in fashion plates ca. 1830.  It is less common in portraits of the period, but by no means absent.  Yes, guys did have these proto-Abe-Lincoln beards, and they rocked them, I must say.

^^^Work it, Champollion!  He cracked the Rosetta Stone code with the sheer force of his bushy whiskers!

As anyone who has had elaborate facial hair knows, it requires a good deal of maintenance: not only cleaning and grooming the hair itself, but shaping it and shaving the areas around it.  Just as there were professional hairdressers for ladies, there were professional barbers for gentlemen.  (And no, they didn’t all slit your throat and make you into meat pies.)

I’m sure gentlemen who could afford it either visited “tonsorial parlors” or else had barbers come to their homes, but seeing as stubble is constantly requiring attention, I think lots of men dealt with their whiskers themselves, to the best of their ability.  With straight razors, of course.  What could go wrong?

The result is some pretty fantastic facial hair.

The artist Franz Xaver Winterhalter’s self-portraits from this period show a perfect progression from 1820s to 1830s facial hair:

^^^Young Winterhalter in the mid-1820s.  Abundant curls, no facial hair.

^^^Not-quite-as-young Winterhalter ca. 1830.  Abundant curls, side-whiskers, and the beginnings of a little mustache.

^^^Mid-1830s Winterhalter.  Abundant curls (seeing a pattern here?), and full-blown under-the-chin beard with thick mustache.

And among all these perfect little Beau Brummell types who pet and cherish and maintain their hair daily, there are a number of 1830s guys who plainly don’t give a shit.  To those guys: cheers, it’s all good.

Of course, in the Romantic period just as in today’s bedhead fashion, it’s hard to tell if guys just don’t give a shit about their hair, or if they are taking, like, an absurd amount of time and effort to make it look like they don’t give a shit.  Hmmm…

Among guys not giving a shit, I should also file the long-haired dudes.  Long hair, i.e., hair down to your shoulders, no matter what you’ve been told by a million Les Mis fanarts (including my own past stuff), is not a thing in this period.  Repeat: long hair on men is not a thing.  It is the kind of hair worn by a few eccentrics, but it is by no means a thing.

^^^Audobon.  An eccentric.

^^^Paganini.  An eccentric.  (It suffices to say “artist,” right?)

^^^Liszt.  Artist.

No matter what the Japanese want you to think, Enjolras, that stern, severe “soldier of democracy” and “priest of the ideal,” would not have had a gorgeous, flowing waist-length pony.  

Sorry, it’s just not true.  It’s a little white lie, like the Tooth Fairy: harmless in the moment, but creates an atmosphere of distrust for the long run.  Consider this my PSA for the fandom: stop the long-hair madness!

Long hair looks strange and bohemian, but the award for absolute weirdest male hair I have come across in this period (aside from runner-up “prison chic” Blanqui) goes to famous caricaturist Honoré Daumier in a ca. 1829 portrait:

…Um, okay.  A straight-haired comb-over.  A kinda under-the-chin-beard.  But with, like, totally shameless panache.  Like, “What, so my hair is straight?  Fuck it, I will rock this straight hair!  I will draw further attention to it with this over-the-top flip and uncomfortably long length!  I will also make my under-the-chin beard as off-putting as possible!  I will confuse you by growing out the goatee part of it but refuse to style it sensibly!  I also will not pair it with a mustache, that is too mainstream!”  I love his confidence, but then, I guess if you’re going to spend your life mooning the government without fear of repercussions and generally being the South Park of the mid-19th century, why worry about “fashionable” people’s dumb opinions?  Instead, you should go draw a caricature of fashionable people’s dumb fashions.

After shaming movie hair design last time, I feel like I ought to go out on a positive note:

^^^Yeah, I like.  And it’s funny, too, because there’s a montage in which Pip is transforming from poor kid to fashionable gentleman, and he does suddenly go from straight-haired bedhead to 1830s dandy curls, which I really thought rang true to (1830s) life.  Sadly, the ladies’ hair didn’t live up to the example set by the gentlemen.  BBC Great Expectations (2011).

^^^His hair’s okay, but it’s really his overall look that’s so perfect.  His features are really sensual, and he has that strange 1830s dandy je-ne-sais-quoi.  To me, this is Courfeyrac, right here.  Une vieille maîtresse (2007).

^^^Slightly later period, but still pretty admirable hair design.  The Young Victoria (2009).

^^^For those of you who have spent the last two years bitching about this wig, I have a message for you, straight from the 1830s: Stop.  Just stop.  You’re wrong, and you’re making a fool of yourself.  It’s glorious.  It’s full of curls.  It’s side-parted.  It doesn’t have a ponytail.  It’s BLOND.  It’s everything that historically-accurate Enjolras hair ought to be but never has been in a movie version before.  It’s probably the best thing in this movie, and that’s saying a lot.  The first time I saw a photo of Tveit in this wig, that’s the moment I knew they were serious about this adaptation.  Musical!Enjolras has come a long way from the 1980s fro with rat-tail look:

(It’s okay, I still love the hell out of your Enjolras, Anthony Warlow!)

Marius’ hair design in the 2012 Les Mis movie is also good–suitably goofy, but still totally period:

^^^Horizontal and vertical hair strategies, you see?

I approve.  Now if you boys could just convince Fantine and Cosette to put their hair up…

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You mean like Panda in the first episode of We Bare Bears? I'm on mobile someone add the screenshot

What if you were a police sketch artist but you could only draw in anime style

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Ignore me

Lmao gotta love how people still say that shipping Papyrus(autistic coded plus possibly add coded) and Mettaton(A coded/kind of outright stated trans guy) is a bad thing bc it's "aroace erasure" like first off Papy was never confirmed aro or ace(I bring this up bc everyone is saying that him not knowing abt that kind of stuff proves that he is aroace). second Papy not being into a child is literally not aroace coding (literally the only thing ppl bring up when asked for in game examples of aro/ace coding, aside from Undyne hanging out at his house a lot and nothing happening between them which..Undyne is a lesbian firstly and secondly even if she wasn't they can still hang out???) and what he says about hoping that if he went on a date w/ Frisk then feelings would blossom forth but they didn't, a: that is literally how you turn down someone who is into you when there is an uncomfortable age gap and b: also sounds like how when gay ppl try to go on dates w/ someone of the opposite gender to make themselves straight and it just doesn't work out. And like lastly hc'ing nd, especially autistic, characters as aroace isn't revolutionary it's infantalizing and annoying and prioritizing speaking out against a not inherently abusive or otherwise unhealthy ship with both an autistic character as well as a trans character in it over calling out ppl who ship a canon lesbian with a man is just. Lmao I'm petty. Neither Papyrus nor Sans were stated to be aroace. Both were coded as nd. Constantly hc'ing nd characters as aro/ace is not always good

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aesthetic: skimbleshanks the railway cat

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me: hey did you kno- friend:*very hostile tone* what me: aright nevermind then fuck you bitch i was trying to share my knowledge now you’ll never know whatever man i don’t even wanna be friends anymore

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Autistic people that can’t contribute to society in ways deemed important by a capitalist mindset are still important and deserve better than to be called low functioning and to be infantilized and dehumanized for it.

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For those who want to learn Irish (Gaeilge)

http://www.maths.tcd.ie/gaeilge/ -there are two sections, you can browse general Irish, or do lessons

http://www.daltai.com/grammar/ -Grammar, they also have phrases and proverbs on the site

http://www.erinsweb.com/gae_index.html -scroll down and the lessons are the numbers in the column to the left 

http://www.summerlands.com/crossroads/irish/gaelic.html -Basic lessons

http://talkirish.com/blogs/wordaday/ -word a day

http://talkirish.com/games/ -games and quizzes, you’ll need to sign up though

http://www.standingstones.com/gaelpron.html -pronunciation guide, if the website has black splotches, you can still read it by highlighting the text with your mouse

http://www.rte.ie/easyirish/courseintro.html - a few lessons with dialogues and audio

http://www.youtube.com/user/SeanOBriain/videos?sort=dd&view=0&page=3 -this YouTube channel has a lot of Irish media and even some lessons

http://www.irish-sayings.com/ -audio of words and phrases

http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/irish/blas/learners/ -lessons courtesy of the BBC

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/urscealta/ -a Yahoo group that discusses Irish novels

http://www.rte.ie/ -radio and TV

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LGBT:

LASAGNA! GARFIELD’S BELOVED TREAT ✨️‍🌈️‍🌈❤💛💚💙❤💛💚💙️‍🌈️‍🌈✨

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Next year I'm going to NYC for five days w/ my theatre magnet program and its gonna be great we're gonna see three Broadway shows I'm excite my puny 16 y/o heart will prob like die when we get there y'all don't even know I need an excuse to get out of Texas and next year is my flip fuckin chance

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I want to feel the wind ruffle my fur as I run. I want to feel the dirt beneath my paws and I want to pant with the speed I’m able to create. I want to run. I want to feel free.

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Ugggghhhhh my memories are fuzzy and I hate it Bustopher was really cute but I thought I hated him and uhhhhhh I can't tell anymore I'm always 'annoyed' at ppl I like ahhhhhhh is there any Bustopherkin doesn't even have to be mine I just uhhhhhh I wanna see Busty again and ugghhh just uggghh

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Why aren’t we talking about this photo

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What is MADD?

• What Maladaptive Daydreaming is not:

- Hallucinations.

- A voluntary thing that’s easy to get it over with.

- Laziness.

- Dreaming while sleeping. (daydreaming not dreaming.)

- Delusions.

- something that everyone has. (aka Normal Daydreaming™)

• What Maladaptive Daydreaming actually means:

- Constant daydreaming for hours until it interferes your life involuntarily (even though it can start as a voluntary thing)

- having a lot of difficulty in fulfilling simply daily tasks (like eating, showering, sleeping) because of the urge of daydreaming.

- do facial expressions, body movement, muttering and/or whispering, legs shaking, finger tapping, walking and/or running around the area as you get too involved in your daydreams. (Which happens so frequently, especially in public, so we usually try to hide it and fail).

- being self aware of the fact that your daydreams are JUST daydreams, not reality.

- something very hard to get out of. (but most of the time we don’t want it to dissapear).

(feel free to add more!)

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just cute bpd things uwuwuwuw

-ur handwriting is never consistant wtf -im not happy right now so i must have never been happy in my whole life -all ur marks are either As or Fs -literally throwing temper tantrums -i want to go off the wall ballistic and rob a bank and chop my arm off -i could just run away. i could just disappear. i could do it -getting inspired to change your whole life at four in the morning -deleting all traces of yourself off the internet -knowing youre wrong in an argument and not letting go -cant stop gossiping. cant stop talkin shit. cant stop being nasty -apathy. empathy. apathy. empathy. apathy. e -cant keep friendships for longer than a few months -depersonalizimg so hard u think someone drugged you

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me: i am Strong

someone: *raises their voice at me*

me: i am Not Strong

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FUCK SLEIGH RIDE THAT PIECE IS EVIL

Marches

When you get a march in band but remember you play french horn.

*Other members* Oh I love thoe piece

*Horns* OH GOD WHY. THIS IS THE DEFINITION OF EVIL. WHO WANTS TO TRADE MUSIC.

Same thing applies to sleigh ride