#Extreme Leather

[persolaise]

Montblanc Collection, L'Artisan Parfumeur Il Etait Un Bois, Jo Malone London Cypress & Grapevine reviews - 2024

In an attempt to lend their image a bit of rough, Jo Malone London have hired Tom Hardy as the face of their Cypress & Grapevine cologne (credited to Sophie Labbe). I did my best to endure its abrasive profile in a recent session of Love At First Scent episodes, which also included reviews of L’Artisan Parfumeur Il Etait Un Bois (Caroline Dumur) and the new Montblanc Collection quartet. Here are…

[suedeuxnim]

Have you seen my boy. My beautiful son. My little guy. This is all thanks to @vinelark and the newest BBTS chapter, which I spent all week screaming incoherently about-

[sammaggs]

DON’T think about Fraser taking care of his leather DON’T think about Fraser taking care of his leather DON’T think about Fraser taking care of his leather

[anotherdayforchaosfay]

This applies to boots, dress shoes, sandals, and pretty much any other type of shoe.

PLEASE REBLOG

[envyenvys]

Chrissy in some iconic Willow BTVS outfits

(inspo under the cut)

[romanceyourdemons]

saw a video of a middle school percussion class playing crazy train on the xylophones which absolutely rules, but someone in the comments was saying “this is what kids should be learning in school instead of gender.” sir have you SEEN the metal stars of 70s and 80s?? you could probably learn more about gender nonconformity and drag from glam rock and heavy metal bands than you would in a middle school history class that dedicates half a lecture to stonewall or a middle school health class that dedicates half a lecture to gender and sexuality. i certainly know i did

[aurademortt]

Sodom's OBSESSED BY CRUELTY hand-painted on leather.

My Instagram: Cardaver Art

[designernishiki]

i keep asking my friend why majima no majirock Exists and he always just says “well kurohyo needed karaoke songs” and when I follow that up with “that literally explains nothing, how and why does majima have a popular rock hit that’s technically canon because kurohyo exists in the same universe as the mainline games” he just casually says “i don’t know. it’s just there.” needless to say I have no answers and the enigma of majima no majirock just sits in my brain eating at me indefinitely

[kfgart]

she doesn't know who sun block is

[regular-dog]

observe his red 🔴 coat 🧥 , his lovely blonde locks, and if youre still having doubts, check out his 100% accurate GUNMANSHIP 🔫 ❗

first time ive drawn a human-looking character in a while, other than those moony paintings a while back. being 90% coat definitely helped on that front lmao

(+edited halftone version cause i was playing around with various filters in procreate end ended up liking how it turned out. enlarge for better quality :] )

[faaun]

ok let's catch up quickly

[comparativelysuperlative]

Saw some of the Interminable Leather Discourse on my dash. Has anyone ever done an authoritative estimate of how bad it is or isn't?

They don't raise and kill animals specifically for leather. The hide is 4-10% of the monetary value of animals raised and killed for meat.

(10% according a rando on the leatherworking Reddit; 4% according to The Leather Lobby Incorporated's page on We Swear We're Not Evil, You Guys, citing a source that does not seem to say that. I'm just going to call it 5% for the round number.)

Approximately 55 square feet of leather per cow.

The lobbyists up there said it was 69% cows; the rest is sheep+goats+pigs, with pigs being the next biggest. Make it ~42.6 square feet per dead animal; the true number will be a bit smaller because they're not all pigs.

(Apparently if you buy Chinese leather and aren't careful about your sources they sometimes sell leather made from cat or dog skin and lie about it. I assume leather-wearers are not okay with this, but would be interested to find out why. Like, I know my reason, but it's probably not the same one.)

40 square feet for a small men's jacket. More for large, less for women.

A typical leather jacket kills about 1/20th of an animal, in the same ballpark as eating 100 (beef) burgers, or about half of a (chicken) burger.

Animals killed by faux leather:

Literally none?

If every plastic jacket you ever buy ends up in a landfill, that's like...one really big trash bag? A few square feet of area that didn't have much of anything living on it anyway?

Not trying to be sarcastic here; I just genuinely don't see how this hurts or kills much of anything.

Making plastic can't possibly be good for the environment, but it's definitely less bad than growing a one-twentieth-ass cow.

Final opinion on the Discourse:

Depending on how much meat you eat and how long you wear your clothes for, wearing leather is probably less bad than eating beef but around that ballpark.

It is way less bad than eating chicken.

As always, someone who eats as many cows as they want and no other animals has accomplished most of the good things about being vegan with barely any effort. This stays true if they also wear leather.

Arguing about leather is like arguing about the difference between mostly-vegetarian and actually-vegetarian.

I was hoping it'd be a small enough difference that I could say whatever, it's a rounding error, I'm gonna go buy leather now. It wasn't; this is a real difference.

But it is small enough that if you want to wear a leather without people yelling at you, you can skip buying chicken for three weeks and link the activists here so they get mad at me instead of you.

You know, if Internet arguments sound like a fun use of your time.

[maximkischin-e]

just started curse of darkness why does isaac . why does h. w. why does he move like that and sound like that. and look like that

[aurademortt]

Throwback to when I started painting black and white jackets back in 2018. I loved putting the colors aside again to replicate the legendary cover of Bolt Thrower’s “IN BATTLE THERE IS NO LAW!”, one of my favorite illustrations without a doubt.

Original art by Paul McHale.

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[arsenicflame]

anyway i am currently glueing the binding down for my anne corset and i feel like i am committing the most heinous sin known to man but. its extremely effective

[thunderandsage]

favorite new hobby is finding and reading famous author’s fanfiction that they wrote and published before they got famous, and then using it as a rosetta stone to see how their writing and themes evolve

(note: this does not necessarily make the original work plagiarism or fanfiction—it just makes it easier to trace inspiration and see what ideas stick (that’s not to say that some stories should have left fanfic category—fifty shades, i’m looking at you))