#Safetypin stuff

[coveredinredpaint]

do u know any good ways to make a garment that no longer fits bigger? I gained some weight recently and now half my clothes don’t fit and I don’t have money for new stuff

hya anon, i am terribly sorry for only answering ur ask now i did not size up my garments until now.

this tutorial is specifically for pants i added width to in the legs but you could apply these basic techniques to anything really

how to make ur pants baggy exactly the way you want them to

!! cw: there are pictures and mentions of sharp objects in this tutorial !!

stuff you'll need:

pants you want to size up

fabric to sacrifice for your pants

scissors

pins (safety or just regular sewing pins)

sewing machine (or needle and thread)

something to mark ur fabric with (i used a pen with heat dissappearing ink)

not necessary but useful:

pants that are the right size to have as "stencil"

seam ripper

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this tutorial wont be as detailed as the other ones cause i forgot to take a lot of pictures and my explainations dont make sense without them, and also cause some things are hard to explain, you gotta do em to know yk

put the pants that dont fit onto the pants that do

mark where you want to start adding in your panel, you can see i marked mine with safety pins on the side of the pants (dont focus on the ones on the knees they dont matter)

add in your fabric (folded onto itself!! as you can see above) so it is in between the two pairs or pants so you have:

top: pants that dont fit

middle: fabric

bottom: pants that do fit

you can see the fabric is lined up with the pants that do fit, you will draw a line of the fabric where it meets the pants that dont fit

flip the fabric (dont unfold) and do the same on the other side of the pants

cut our your triangle leaving about 2-3cm seam allowance, make other triangle so you have two (for both pantlegs)

you should end up with a triangle looking a bit like this: you can see the safety pin is where the panel stops (the size of your panels ofc depends on what youre going for)

time to rip stuff up! get out scissors or a seamripper and carefull rip the seam on the outside or your pantlegs, until the safetypin, it should look smth like this

turn your pants inside out

now youre going to pin and sew in your panel, make sure your pinning it down with the inside faceing you, otherwise when you flip your garment right side out again you panel will be inside out

in the left picture you can see a thin orange sewing line, this the the seam we ripped, and also the line we will sew on top of when sewing the panel into your pants

under this thin line you can see seam allowance that the pants have themselves, which makes it easy to pin your panel to your pants.

this is how it should look sewn together, you can see how the seam allowances are on one side of the stitching, and the pants on the other.

i also sewed the bottom seam of the panels into the other one, by opening one up, stuffing the other in and sewing over it a few times. you can also just sew them on top of eachother, if your sewing machine can handle that

after doing this on both sides you can flip your garment inside out, and you should be done!

finally you are free of the curse of leg hugging pants. now you can trip over your own pants and get them covered in mud like you always wanted.

[pellowinksx]

MOTIVATION FROM 🧷🧷🧷🧷🧷🧷🧷SAFETYPIN ANON🧷🧷🧷🧷 BC WE ALL NEED IT UTS TUESDAY AM I RIGHT

So yesterday was the worst. absolute worst. so tired of everythitn so much hatred. cried. anxious. couldnt focus on a damn thing. got more meds. drove well. etc. but didnt feel good at all. guys. trust if you ever feel in despair its not real. I was so tired and even then things changed. my friend only wears her emerald necklace. she wore a flower necklace instead? I zoned out listening to lana del rey in math trying to do void (ive been just popping up in there since I was a kid but it was out of desperation ykyk I was like no everything's bad I need to lock in!) and suddenly my math teacher was trying to get my attention even though he never rlly cares because I get good grades yk? then suddenly we did an all-class activity. at first I was gonna just revise that it ever happened but then I was like ykw no why is the world crazy. then today the boy that in my opinion. why can't he be a girl hes cute but im GAY. anyways. idk it all looked weird he looked different and I woke up smiling today even though yesterday I was crying and sooo sleepy. also before bed I realized I just had a headache all day and wasn't even tired... so it was all fine. ALSO make sure when you have bad days to remember it doesnt manifest because you dont persist in that. it doesnt matter if you feel like shit you wont attract shit ykyk. today feels fine I feel much better my bangs looked ass this morning but i feel better AND I took a video for my friends with my outfit and my friend just said 🧷 ur so beautiful like ur actually gorgeous WEEE! I feel better today guys a bad day only means you're one step closer to getting there trust me nothing can stop you, ever ever ever. its all fake and the world is an opp. trust yourself. anyways yap over i keep having dreams i forget. but they're not rlly awful. think I dreamed my SP again I drew her yesterday and then first thing when I wake up my friend posted a reel of Joan Jett to her story who I do in fact find cute. idc idc its real my hair is 24in and someone cute goes here. HOLY YAP. idk im an oversharer anywaysss. its like if I dont tell anyone I just think its not even real. ALSO im making a background video collage type shit for my choirs performance on Thursday and my teacher LOVES IT and I was nervous so I emailed her instead of going in person but she had me show ut to her on my phone and she loved it so much I have to get it done today/tomorrow ugh but im so excited its going rlly well. ALSO probably its bc I practiced too, I drive myself home every day but ive gotten significantly better at driving (I was an anxious wreck before). but also I started taking my iron pills again so. I think. that might be why things sucked for a while. guys. take your iron pills. they're not making your life suck I took like 4 yesterday (dont do that but I hadn't in months. guys dont mishandled your meds i do dumb stuff but you shouldn't ok???) now I feel blessed or whatever. so you know what. yeah. take iron. also try to absorb yourself in activities if you can only react to the world around you. thats why works for me AND I get to say I did things! I also love to say i already did it automomously without thinking (manifested) and that being upset only makes it happen more. bc lord knows I am an upset little child at times. anyways I feel much better will take iron and MAKE SURE YOU DO TOO! if u need it. I promise promise promise if some rando like me can change her whole face at the age of 12 you can get a text back, $5, whatever. dont hype a single thing up in ur head its all just THINGS in the world, even Carl Sagan says. everything in the universe is a "moat of dust, suspended in a sunbeam." now when I was un medicated I found that distressing but nothing is too much or too little you assign meaning so dont let anything assign it for you trust me it feels so good to be in control and you really are. yesterday I was crashing out and all that means is I have it today and yesterday and every day. trust

🧷

I love this so much I wish we were friends irl so I could just listen to you yap

lmfao, anyways. this is honestly amazing and a couple of points caught my eye, 1 when you were talking about smth abt bad days and then know it gets better. There was this girl who manifested her dream life on twitter, and she said a very interesting quote to me "if your life is falling apart right after you affirm and persist, I have some news for you" That really piqued my interest because its SO TRUE LIKE I feel like that's the biggest sign you could ever get but we turn it into a negative

2 girl have fun with it and turn him into a girl LMFAO you could just assume he was born a girl, whats he gonna do abt it (I mean- she 😂)

3. I LOVE THIS FOR YOU like you had a bad day yet you still persisted no matter what and stayed faithful and loyal like AGHHH girlie ily

you're so right, you really ARE in control so why stress about it?

[helltiervriska]

haii!!! im rlly interested in where you got the garments and parts for your kanaya cosplay. the outfit looks rlly good and ig im just looking for clothes like that so if you could point me in the direction of a shop that sells that kind of stuff thatd be great !! :D also ur rlly pretty and i love your cosplays theyre so cool !!

lmao so funny story.

outer satin top w symbol: hand sewn beads on butchered thrift store top. beads are from a broken bracelet my gramma gave me. had to chop the back up then pin it together with the safetypin-hairtie-safetypin manuver bcs it is maybe 10 sizestoo small

translucent black flowy top/skirt-like garment: bathing suit cover, pieces thrifted separately but from same source somehow

red top underneath: thrift store, butchered neckline. had to also pin this up in the back

red cross black velvet skirt: base thrifted, butchered/burnt/painted w fabric paint. birthday gift from my brother 3-4 years ago

rosary: thrifted, broken as fuck

cross earrings: crosses found on etsy, put on hoop earrings by me

silver hoops: thrifted a whole pack of them og from claires a while back. Score!

green large shiny decora earrings: thrifted

boots: 6yo clearance mens demonias, broke in the middle of this cosplay. had these bitches since i was 16!!!! 30$

corset: some cheap crap from amazon i got a few years back ill wear until i can afford an orchardcorset or it breaks entirely. cannot stress enough how much i do not reccomend wearing cheap corsets

contacts: i thiiink ifairy cara green. uniqso. tip: colored contacts absolutely make or break a cosplay. good to splurge on

makeup: everything green via eyeshadow/lipstick made by me. slowly in the process of formulating all my makeup bcs im very allergic to everything. black eyeliner is nyx, one pencil one felt tip. used on eyebrows/lips too. dont bother w lipliners/eyebrow products they r expensive and eyeliner/eyeshadow works perfectly well.

eyelashes: top were from local beauty supply, bottom lashes were like. wet n wild crap i got from a relative that i chopped up.

gray paint: mehron paradise, get it from the OG website if u dont need it quickly and want it a lil cheaper

fangs: cheap amazon bullshit. u can find fangs in bulk anywhere there no matter the seller theyre all from the same manufacturer so u always know ur getting cheap fucking crap

wig: CHEAP lace front from some beauty store clearance bin in DC, styled to hell and back

horns: made by meeee (model magic + modge podge/plaster outrecoat bcs model magic cracks like a bitch, i only use the low tier acrylics bcs who the fuck is gonna pay 20$ for a tube of something u can just layer a few times to get opaque)

armsocks: welovecolors (spraypainted w white cos i bought the dark gray instead if light gray like a dumbass, heavily abused). i highly reccomend welovecolors seamless armsock/seamless bodysuit line im trying to get their bodysuit at some point. expensive (45$ for the socks, 90$ for the bodysuit) but worth it bcos homemade armsocks rip stupid easily and id rather break my skull than paint my hands.

nails: cheap shit from sallys, painted w my mommas 10+ year old nail polish collection

i think thats it? yeah. its all cheap crap. all i can reccomend is find a local non-chain non-christianity based thrift store and go to town man . im not out here buying premade bullshit that i aint able to make myself! i dont ever spend a fortune on my cosplays. i find scarcity is key in innovation and creativity. use lots of safety pins. cheers.

oyea her wedding ring my nanna gave me when i was like. 12? it could be real onyx/gold but it could also be costume jcpennys shit. who knows

[koris-sillies]

HEAVILY inspired by @mayocs-dumpster, just different in my own way

Basic DNI: Homophobes, racists, blah blah. Also, mod is a minor, she/they

OC TAGS!! I like to make it aesthetic teehee

• ⚡🌙 {Rai}

• 🥀☀️ {Elaine}

• 🍃🌀 {Fray}

• 💰🎭 {Lara}

• 🕸️🪽 {Iactura}

• 🌸🎨 {Amara}

• 🍂🌒 {Kwyn}

• 💫🌖 {Jasmine}

• 🧪📚 {Nathaniel}

SHIPSS,,,

• 🪡 {ZappingFlower} :Rai and Elaine

• 🎀 {DeepTone} :Amara and Ross

• 🧷 {SafetyPin} :Kwyn and Jasmine

MISCELLANEOUS ‼️

• 🧸🩹 {Sensitive Topics} :Child Abuse/Neglect, human experiments, ETC..

• ☄️🤍 {Who tf are you?} :An OC that isn't mine, but I like/am interacting with

• ���📮 {Koris Secret Box} :A tag for A things I want to remember and B where walls of OC info will most likely be

• 🖇️📝 {GIGGLING} :Askbox, random interactions, things like that

MORE STUFF IN THE FUTURE 💥💥

• 💾🔗 {Reblogs} :Either from myself or from someone else,

• 🍄💧 {Teehee} :Random fun facts, small things that I'll post

•🪻🕷️ {Don't talk to my mom like that!} :If I post OC dialogue I thought of or song lyrics to a character.

[bloodsalted]

// okay so i should be around here later but i'm giving sammy some love over on @safetypinned cause the dude's been neglected and he deserves better! need to move his owed stuff to drafts like i'm doing for dean. but! i'll be posting off and on after i really wake tf up. caffeine levels are too low for writing atm. :P

[deerrdarling]

Girl guess whatttt! I got trans tape this shit is awesome!

My chest is a little itchy but I am suddenly compelled now to wear the sluttiest fits imaginable. W for the summer !

What kind of stuff are you gonna get up to this summer?

- 🧷

(P.S. if you're able to follow @safetypin-non that would be super cool and awesome bc Nigel is the only one <3 no pressure ! )

congrats omg!!!!

yes have a slut summer slayy

i’m not sure. visit lenny for sure, go to the aquarium/planetarium with adam, maybe go to europe with nigel. how about you!!

(i wld but this is a side blog so i can’t follow from anywhere but my main if u don’t mind ,,)

[l3ominor]

What's your art journey? How did you learn it and get to where you are now?

HAHFHFKDB HI

Ooh art! Okok so I started sketching when I wasssss six or seven? I mostly drew dragons. Dragons sitting on flowers, dragons in caves, dragons brutally murdering each other, the normal stuff a small child should draw. When I was about 11, I started drawing people. Characters for the books I was writing. I also started drawing dragons better(tracing out of the Wings of Fire books). Pretty much all of my begining art skills came from tracing. I never took an art class or watched tutorials on YouTube. At about 15, I was drawing people more than animals, and I started doing some vague angsty comics(I was fully in angsty depresso emo teen phase). A lot of my art then was either angst with my characters, or abstract representations of my emotions. I was also obsessed with Marvel so I was drawing weird fanfic crossovers between Marvel and my charries. I was also doing a ton of tracing out of 'how to draw manga' books, which was kinda what solidified bits of my style. After that, I started sketching every day. I drew scenes, characters, and attempted doing comics in notebooks. I started experimenting with digital art around the end of 2019, mostly scanning stuff in from my sketchbook, then coloring it in with an airbrush tool. After that it was more tracing, more improvising, and more chaos in general. I was drawing pretty much 24/7. In 2020, I started focusing more on comics. I actually spent two years drawing a comic scene in a lined notebook. I took that think with me e v e r y w h e r e, and actually had to safetypin the cover, the back, and the first several pages back into the notebook because it was so worn. Begining of 2023 I started college, and took my first art classes, a watercolor class and an oil painting class. I also started working on Recalled, and since then, that has been my primary art focus. Pretty much my whole art journey has been a mess of tracing, staring at references, hyperfixation, and emotion dumping, but I wouldn't trade it for anything. My art is my passion and my dream, and I love sharing it with people!

Thank you so much for the ask! Hopefully I didn't infodump too much ':D but yeah! Thank you!

[vanitythevantropist]

i don't know you and you have nothing to do with the stuff. neither aster nor safetypin sys are bad people though

Alllrright, I understand, thank you

[leavemetobeinpeace]

Should I c ms? Instead of doom scrolling tumblr. Maybe after that I will text my dad. Maybe I should text him right now. I feel so stuck & afraid.

I feel even too stuck to get up & c ms. It's too annoying anyway, cleaning up after & stuff.

I won't, but maybe I will. Maybe I'll safetypin so that I don't have to do as much cleanup.

[catsandcosplay]

I tried to order a split black-and-white wig for funsies, but I got sent a Todoroki wig instead. I definitely had no plans to cosplay Todoroki, BUT I already had a red wig that matched the color really well, and I DID want to cosplay Tomo from Tomo-chan is a Girl, so I cannibalized the wig a little bit!

I wanted some long pieces to make the side bangs, and the fibers themselves on the wig weren't very long, so I opted to use a section from the back and keep the wefts attached to the elastic. I started by carefully separating the white from the red in the back, then decided how wide I wanted them to be. Two spans seemed to be about right.

I cut up the middle of the elastic so each piece still had elastic on both sides. However, the wefts were barely held on or completely detached, since they're mostly attached at the far ends, so I ended up handsewing up each side of each weft (so four times) to make sure the wefts wouldn't fall off either side. After that it felt safe to cut through the skin cap portion and separate the sections from the original red/white wig.

You could still kind of see the inside elastic since it comes most of the way down, so I ended up roughly coloring it with a red sharpie. It looks terrible up close, but blends in decently when it's with the wig and from a reasonable photo distance.

Since this is my Lavi and Klein wig that I rewear a lot, I ended up just using two safetypins each to attach the side bangs to the wig. They're basically invisible with the hair covering them.

It took longer than I thought to prep this because of hand sewing up the sides of the elastic to keep the wefts in, but it was a fun trial and pretty good way to use the spare wig, I thought. (I considered sending it back but they offered to sell it to me for $8, plus the one I had originally wanted was just to mess around with anyway).

Photos etc. from May before ACEN, but just getting around to going through and uploading photos~

Actually, I have a few blazer progress photos too! Everything else was stuff I already owned *w* my favorite kind of cosplay~~~ The blazer started out as a turtleneck from goodwill, since it was the only thing I could find there in the right color, but I think it pulls off the look well enough.

Aaand some con photos!

I try to get pictures with people who ask for a picture with me, too!

Also don't buy pleather if you want it to last more than 5~10 years, my Lavi boots also started doing this this year and I am so sad

[safetypinsymphony]

“Is it a plot twist, or is it just lying?” and brief thoughts on the SPN road so far

To paraphrase an exchange from Bob's Burgers: Is it a plot twist, or is it just lying?

This seems to be an evolving theme of Supernatural's Season 15. I haven't been keeping up on my reviews here, dern it, but after some mild kerfuffles I've experienced between various fans (including myself), I'm re-inspired. Or perhaps incensed.

“Writers lie.”

When we first learned that God is a right asshole and as such, opened a rift in Hell before checking out to leave our intrepid heroes to deal with the undead invasion spilling forth—and then decided to check back in just to start fucking with the Winchesters again—I wasn't overly bothered, but nor was I particularly thrilled by the implications. I was begrudgingly interested to see what was evolving.

Well.

Kinda like watching a slo-mo train wreck, as it turns out. We're witnessing how this canon ret-conning is already starting to fray. How playing fast and loose with what the show has established as the rules of its universe is creating this “It was all just a dream” Dallas-esque meta embarrassment.

Seasons back, when the show first shattered the Fourth Wall by introducing the SPN books and conventions into its own mythos, that self-awareness was a really risky move. To this day, you either love it or hate it, but it managed to hold together because of the infrequency with which it was explored, and the skills of the writers at the time. (Even then, we got Season Seven, Time for a Wedding, arguably one of the more tasteless episodes of the whole series.)

As Dabb and company are choosing to further explore Chuck-as-God-and-puppetmaster, one of the show's important thematic cornerstones, that of the value of <i>freewill</i>, is taking a big hit. And the show knows it. They've had Dean come right out and air his disgruntlement with it several times already. So we get it, yeah, it's a thing. It's what Dabb is using to propel this last season (along with rampant fanservice and as many returning characters—dead or alive—that he can shoehorn into 43 minutes).

Now, I do loves me some fanservice on occasion, and there are certainly quite a few characters who died in rather inglorious ways and probably deserved better send-offs than they got, but I'm not sure 'hanging a flag on it' does enough to compensate for what this means in regards to the past 14 years of the show. In asserting that all of the past canon has been little more than Chuck's manipulations, it also means that the viewers' investment into the whole of the SPN universe has been hung on a lie within its own framework. “Ret-conning” doesn't even come close to describing this level of narrative dishonesty. (Wow, that sounded dramatic, but it's kind of true, you know?) By undermining the canon of the past 14 years, the current show creators have made Gamble, Carver and yes, even Kripke unwittingly complicit in this snake oil operation.

If SPN were just a movie, two hours designed from the jump to play out this way, I might think it was a little cheesy but oh well. I'm not that invested. (See 'Cabin in the Woods', which was a helluva fun neo-horror romp, in a similar vein.) But this is FOURTEEN YEARS we're talking here. That's a loooong time to be invested in a narrative, just to have the latest showrunner unseat all the canon that came before him. The only thing that matters one iota now? Season 15. It, apparently, is the only “true” canon. The only canon where “Chuck” is revealing his hand and operating with any in-world narrative legitimacy.

Thanks, I hate it.

I'm not going to pretend I like what Dabb is proposing. The segment of fandom hungry to bust Sam and Dean's so-called co-dependency is pretty stoked about it, naturally; they see classic SPN as toxic and unhealthy (and let's be real, in the way of a certain ship).

But here's the thing that gives me The Feels™, and it's not turning the Winchesters (or Cas, for that matter) into domesticated, well-adjusted Hallmark Channel leading men. (That's what, you know, The Hallmark Channel is for.) And it's sure as hell not invalidating the canon of the show I fell in love with.

It's urban legends, black humor, the endless highways and guttering neon. It's two brothers raised on the fringes of society, their unbreakable fidelity, finding comfort wherever they can since tomorrow, they may meet the business end of a rugaru. It's the colorful characters they meet along their travels. It's Led Zeppelin, greasy spoons and ancient tomes. It's faith and heart and sacrifice.

Unless Dabb dismantles these things too. At which point, a pox upon him and his house. Writers may lie, but this would be universe assassination.

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Oh! I was going to mention some episodes too, lol. Here are a few quick take-aways, since I've already blabbed on enough.

Episode 3: RIP, Rowena. I looooooved the line, “But I believe in prophecy. I believe in magic.” That was SO her. Of course an ancient witch, the most powerful in the game, would live (and die) on those words. And kudos to the show for remembering it put that Sam gun on the mantel in Season 13, iirc. Pretty sure we'll see Rowena again before the grand finale, though.

Big happy for the suggestion that Sam is a witch-in-the-making. Also glad Cas finally got his brain wrapped around the fact that Dean was pissed at him but he didn't need to take it anymore. Dean has some valid reasons to need space from Cas, and it's a handy way to get Cas off doing his own thing (as Misha is not contracted for every episode).

Berens did a solid job writing this episode, but I'm glad we've wrapped the customary 3-episode season premier. I had high hopes for myriad crusty, decaying dead shambling around a grim world, but instead we got a handful of ghosts, literally running around in broad daylight. The first two episodes were … clumsy.

Episode 4: 'Atomic Monsters', was written by my favorite current SPN writer, Davy Perez, and he did not disappoint! Something about the way he writes dialogue sounds so naturalistic to me, and he manages to tap into authentic feelings in the characters without feeling rushed or contrived. I believe his stories. I never get thrown out of his episodes.

The episode was lovingly directed by Jensen Ackles. The guy flat out knows what to give us. That whole beginning red scene, with Dean and his John Wick bad-assery and then … then we get a Sam who has never eschewed his demon blood addiction. It was chilling and gorgeously actualized and I might have watched that bit more than is healthy.

And we got to revisit Becky Rosen, who is now a fangirl—like many of us—but she's grown up and assimilated fandom enjoyment into her daily life. Perez did a great job in saving Becky, as a character. She isn't the butt of anyone's joke anymore. She isn't a dangerously unbalanced fan. She's just … one of us. Thank you, sir.

Episode 5: Fun stuff in this one! Brotherly banter, Sam and Dean dressed as sort-of Fish and Game employees, a brilliant turn by actress Anna Grace Barlow reprising Lilith (no one saw this coming!), werewolf brothers as yet another example of monsters that aren't as cut-and-dried as hunters might like, and more 'visions' from Sam wherein Sam is Lucifer again, and Dean still has the Mark of Cain. YUM.

But there were also a couple some not-so-fun things. The girls glamping in the beginning was just plain silly, the fight scenes had too many jump cuts (imho), but mostly, why on earth would they leave the God gun in the glove compartment of the Impala?? I noted that back when Dean put it in there, Episode 2 I think it was, but I seriously doubt they wouldn't have locked it up safely after that. Please, foo. Don't make our characters stupid.

By episode's end, Dean is clearly frustrated and demoralized by their predicament. It's clear Sam and Dean will be taking turns buoying each other's flagging spirits this season. As co-dependent as ever. I am here for this.

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This post has gone on long enough, so I think I'll hold Episode 6 ruminations for a separate entry, and maybe dish about where we think the series is heading, for a finale. Anyone reading this probably has a numb butt by now. Anywho, thanks for hanging in with me, gang! Talk at you later...

[coveredinredpaint]

Hi! I'm trying to start making my first battle jacket, but idk where to start, any tips?

thanks you for your atention!

-🐛

heyey!

i remember making a post about this but once again i cant find it. so ill just make one again.

step one is gathering inspo! i personally use tumblr and pinterest. sketching out ideas you have to see how they fit together also helps create an idea of what you might want. if you want to make sure you like the placement of a patch or chain, you can attach it with safety pins first.

dont let yourself be stopped by gatekeepers or elitists, its your jacket and thus there are no rules. although i do advise you to not put political patches on your back, to prevent bigots from attacking you from behind.

also dont put big and/or sharp spikes on gear youre going to be wearing while in the moshpit. you dont want to seriously injure yourself someone else, also make sure you dont have any patches attached with safetypins on your jacket while in the pit, for the same reason

if you dont have a jacket yet id advise looking out for them on fleamarkets, garagesales, thriftstores or online secondhand sites like vinted. i advise buying one that is a bit bigger on you, cause jackets tend to shrink a bit when you sew patches onto them. also a sturdier one like denim or leather (dont buy "vegan" (plastic) leather itll disintegrate in a year) makes sure your jacket will last longer.

i made a tutorial on making patches last year,

also made a tutorial on making bottlecap buttons

for chains id look in hardware or craftstores, spikes can be found in craftstores sometimes but etsy is a good alternative. if you have other alternative friends you can also trade with them! i get a lot of my coolest stuff from my friends.

ehh i think thats about it? let me know if you want some more in depth info about something.

[safetypinsymphony]

Eileen (even as fiction) isn’t some trophy, for pete’s sake. How does this respect and not objectify our female characters? Turning her into a prize at the bottom of the CrackerJack box? Spoiler: it doesn’t. But feel free to cannibalize everyone but Davy Perez. He’s worth keeping around.

SPN speculation

If Eileen Leahy isn't Sam's endgame reward for all the shit he's been through, I will cannibalise the entire crew.

Just saying. Fair warning.

[bloodsalted]

getting to some things in my likes..

// so if you get replies from old stuff and you're kinda like wow.. this is old, let's do other stuff? i'm totally game for that too. but they're sitting in there cause i liked em. and i'm in a dean mood rn. my inbox will come after i clear those out a bit more. nursing a headache, so let's see how far i get. might be on @safetypinned later! if not! then this weekend! xoxo

[starrypawz]

Today’s blessed thought is

Gerry and Nemo chilling out at Nemo’s place, they’re just vibing, sitting on the floor and going at a bunch of clothes with scissors and safetypins and other fun things as they decide to alter a bunch of stuff probably with The Craft or another similar film on in the background

[metropoliseaten]

Content warnings: Body horror + gore, implied death, and sort-of manipulation.

Word count: 500

You’ve gone and taken aspirin and spilled the few remaining doses across the sink counter, pills slid into the damp basin and half-dissolved. I turn on the faucet and wash away what I can, don’t bother collecting the rest of the pills. If you care that much, you can pick them up off the counter and take them with tomorrow’s coffee.

I’d hoped you’d be awake, an excuse to keep me from going right back out. No such fucking luck. I grab the tube of lipstick I’d come upstairs for, smear it across my mouth and wipe away the color that hadn’t made it inside the lines of my mouth. You sleep silent just feet away.

Curled up in the blankets as you are, it’s easy to miss the jointed ribs extending from your back, curved, pointed, and gently waving with the in-and-out of your breath. It’s almost endearing, and as I make my way out of the room, I stop to readjust your blanket, wipe a few globs of viscera from the exposed bones; almost the affection of a mother for a grubby child. Almost. I wipe the wet-stringy mess on the leg of my pants, then grimace. No time left to change.

And so I leave again, head downstairs for my friends and their cars and accept my fate when they announce I’ll be joining them tonight at a karaoke bar. I’ll go, pretend to have fun, and come home just before the sun rises. You’ll be gone, of course.

Just hours later I’ll apply another, thicker layer of makeup, and leave, forgetting my uniform apron crumpled on the floor. You’ll be coming home, more bloodied and more human than you let yourself be in the darkness of my room. We’ll meet in the hallway, and talk just a moment (no touching; I can’t show up to work in the remnants of your last meal). We can’t talk longer, either, not with the way your teeth are growing, shredding into your lips like so many documents that need forgetting.

You continue on into another day of sleep, and I walk away. If you notice my apron, nametag safetypinned to the strap, you can’t bring it to me. You no longer look passably human enough to leave the dorm, no longer have the desire to go out in daylight.

I know this, and it’s still you I’m angry at, as if you could change it, as if you could stuff yourself back into the shape of a person, follow me around like I used to follow you. If you loved me, you wouldn’t care for secrecy. If you loved me you’d risk discovery to bring the damn apron. Or something like that.