My colleague had repurposed an old real fox fur coat into a patchwork blanket. They’d sewn all the fox hides together by hand but needed some machine help to put a backing on. So I helped her to cut some fleece to size and ran it through my sewing machine.
It looks so good and it’s super warm! I’m really happy I finally got a chance to work with some real animal fur leather. And my colleague is pleased she finally has a functional fur blanket.
NOTE: I do not condone usage of real animal fur for ethical reasons. I have no problem with working with repurposed natural fur items or alternatively ethically farmed/sourced fur hides. Sadly, most real furs do not have ethical backgrounds.
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Whenever an existing faux product is described as "vegan product" my hackles raise.
It's not vegan leather, it's pleather.
It's not vegan butter, it's margarine.
It's not vegan cashmere, it's acrylic.
It's not vegan fur, it's faux fur. Also probably an acrylic or rayon blend.
It's not vegan silk, it's polyester.
We haven't gotten to calling vegetable shortening "vegan lard" yet, but given the butter situation...
Call a spade a spade and stop greenwashing! Just admit it's plastic! Just admit you've prioritized one kind of animal life over the other! Stop calling it vegan when it's just plastic, you're driving people to destroy the planet with the "more moral" option when it's NOT.
You can enjoy margarine, that's fine, just be up front about it being in the dish so people know what they're eating by a familiar name.
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I've made too many (four!!) non-fandom, real-world-problems-related original posts/additions today. 😬 To even things out a little, here are some silly Hualian headcanons:
Hua Cheng collects Xie Lian's toenail clippings. Xie Lian thinks this is normal, reasonable, and actually quite cute, so he makes sure to clip his toenails where the clippings can be easily collected.
Hua Cheng wishes he had to breathe so he could suffocate to death via Xie Lian sitting on his face.
Xie Lian is unhinged about Hua Cheng, too. Aside from the pain thing from the birthday extra, he also knows things like exactly how many eyelashes Hua Cheng has. (The number doesn't change, for ghost reasons.)
Hua Cheng's calligraphy never improves. Xie Lian actually loves Hua Cheng's cursed handwriting, and Hua Cheng knows this, and Xie Lian knows he knows. They keep doing lessons anyway.
Hua Cheng is jealous of Xie Lian's stray cats. Sometimes he shapeshifts into a cat and tries to blend in with them. This is not successful in the sense that he actually manages to blend in, but it is successful in the sense that he gets lots of gege attention and chin scritches.
Slowly, as Xie Lian adjusts to married life, he becomes a blanket hog. Hua Cheng is delighted by this development. It's not like he needs a blanket. And even if he did, His Highness should feel so comfortable, and value his own needs/wants enough, that he demands things even in his sleep!
Xie Lian also relearns his sense for when textures, tastes, etc. are Not Right, and his urge to complain about them until they are Fixed. Hua Cheng loves this, too! A picky Xie Lian is a mentally healthy Xie Lian, and being ordered around by his god is like, the sexiest thing ever.
Both of them get sad if the other closes the bathroom door to pee :(
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"Not here, Amanda... take me inside"
...and so Lady Caroline was seduced by the trainer of her racehorse stable, the horses munching on their hay watching with interest as the two women noisily made love.
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Exactly my type. That thick cigar tells you what kind of a man he is.
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