My headcanon for Modern!Machete before he encounters (re-encounters?) Vasco is that he works in some high-powered but low-profile position for an influential and well-known multinational. Like a corporate lawyer or accountant for Apple or Volkswagon or Shell. He's very, very good at his job, his assistants and staff think he's a good boss, his boss thinks he's great, but half his colleagues can't stand him because they think he got promoted for sucking up to their boss instead of for his skills (it was for his skills). He's got exactly enough interpersonal skills to recognize the problem and not enough to fix it. He gets paid extremely well, well enough to mostly pretend that he's happy and fulfilled (he still ends up happier in the Modern!AU because his job only sucks a little instead of literally destroying him. Also because modern medicine means his medical situation is much better understood and controlled). Yes this is all just the modern equivalent to what canon!Machete's got going on but it's startling how much carries over with no changes.
Oh that's so well thought out actually, I love that.
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Junya Watanabe COMME des GARÇONS MAN destroyed striped sweater
A/W 2003
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it's truly astounding that nearly every cultural artefact of so called "indian culture" is tied to the exploitation of women and oppressed castes. like there is so little that will survive even the briefest brush with fair compensation and domestic equality because the "culture" that is mainstreamed is savarna culture which is in essence the lifestyle of the landholding class only made possible by a permanent exploited underclass and unrewarded gendered domestic and care work.
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Kate, 24
“I am wearing a top my friend Quinn made. My puffer is from Search & Destroy, I got it years ago from the $20 rack. My boots are Uniform. The black leather bag was my grandmother's; she gave it to me a few months ago. I feel stylistically inspired by Eastern Asian femme icons: Anya Phillips, Bai Ling, Yoko Ono, and many more. My friends and constant discovery of identity inspire my style daily. My style philosophy is the goal of just feeling good. Clothing is a second skin, a costume, a way to express. Getting dressed can be a ritual of self-care.”
Mar 26, 2023 ∙ East Village
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Raf Simons NEBRASKA sweatshirt in crimson
Virginia Creeper
A/W 2002
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