#j's tailor

[jay-birds-fly]

A candid image of me cleverly tricking my unsuspecting friends into sharing an interest with me so I have someone to infodump to

[cozylittleartblog]

i now understand how certain people felt when harpy eda was revealed 😳

prints here

[crowns-of-violets-and-roses]

It's baffling that the Isabel J. Kim story that blew up on here is the Omelas one and not her Achilles fic "You Will Not Live to See M/M Horrors Beyond Your Comprehension"

[thurstongrey]

[skyriderwednesday]

Names that really aren't common enough for an author to use twice for unrelated characters:

Jabez (Doyle, in 'The Red-Headed League' and 'The Three Students')

Gotobed (Sayers, in 'Unnatural Death' and 'The Nine Tailors')

[ratcandy]

um. sir

(feat. an unfinished/rushed narinder design from me because i. look i needed to express the. how i felt seeing. his traits)

i beg your. pardon these traits are random Right like outside of the immortal one Surely he is. like. that's not. Sir. You're the former god of Death , that's not quite your. Hm. Not your usual, like.Um. Domain.

[chernobog13]

FOOD FOR THOUGHT FROM GARAK:

[cdroloisms]

I know j!dream uses dresses and that kind of clothes bc of the thing he has with j!sam on the bird house and in one of the good endings were he escape we see him still using them so is it that this was a from of dressing and expression he already had from before all j!sam madness or he find a way to reclaim it as something for himself now?

yeah--the clothing tends to be something he views positively in the birdhouse, honestly. (does conditioning play a part? yes. but a lot of that is um, how do you say,,, self-designed? i guess? wearing pretty clothes by his own volition encourages sam to treat him better which encourages dream to wear more pretty clothing etc.) it's not all dresses/skirts, obviously--j!dream tends to be the one that assumes that j!sam wants him to dress fem more than the other way around (j!sam has wanted this man carnally for two years while wearing a prison jumpsuit in various states of being beat up and/or looking like a drowned rat. kind of safe to say that this man's standards, as long as it's dream, are not particularly high.)--but a lot of the clothing no matter what specific gender presentation is umm somewhat revealing, when he's in the birdhouse

a lot of this from j!dream's pov is about like, power. getting sam to be attracted to him is the greatest power that he has in their dynamic, something he had tried for in the prison and didn't achieve until mayfair. getting sam to stare is something that makes him feel safer. and there's a big part where he's trying to combat how he felt in the prison, alone and in pain and wondering when the hell sam would next come back to make the stupid dispensers stop. he felt abandoned and alone and unwanted and undesirable, by himself at the back of the cell with nothing but sam's torture machine and his own tired, pain-addled thoughts to keep him company. in comparison, the power to make sam stay through his body is another kind of high.

i kind of write j!dream to be a little bit ambivalent about his gender and expression--pre-prison, he would've focused more on practicality and survival, which meant that the way he looked was thrown mostly to the wayside. between the mask and the armor, the main aspects of self-expression boiled down to expressing himself as someone untouchable. in some ways, the big ass closet and its many different outfits and j!duo's whole...thing were the first time he really dressed for practicality of a...different sort, and he does have a measure of fun with it (when sam isn't choosing for him, anyway.)

for him, whether it's during birdhouse or after, he definitely likes feeling attractive and desired by others, whether that be sam or others, and while a big part of that is the super messy cocktail of emotions and conditioning that ends up happening surrounding sex in birdhouse, that stuff also isn't all that easy to untangle just because he's out of that environment, either. with the exception of a few more extreme cases (ff!sam. is a strange man.) j!dream never really internalizes the clothing as something that sam forces on him as much as choices he makes himself to seduce sam into treating him better, if that makes sense, so he'll continue to approach clothing and how he chooses it as ways to shape other people's perceptions of himself for his own safety and survival for,,, a long time.

so yeah, even post-birdhouse he'll still probably dress to look Attractive in a way that didn't matter to him the same way pre-prison, both as a self-comfort (this is something that keeps him safe) and as a means of appeasing other people (in his own head). that being said, there are some changes post-birdhouse in his wardrobe eventually; he'll start dressing more comfortable with time (a lot of his clothing wasn't really designed to be warm, and as such he was quite often pretty chilly in the birdhouse, which sam kept a little on the cooler side), and if he's actually going outdoors more then he'll have to dress a little more practically under armor, etcetera.

[topknotstrunk]

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[limetameta]

The Resembool Tailor

Solf J. Kimblee never makes it past Resembool after the Ishval Civil War finishes.

Or: The Elric brothers never commit human transmutation because Mr Solf will transmute them into corpses if they even think about defiling the sacred laws of alchemy.

[hey-hey-j]

tasty simon fan art and meta and winter king's whole Deal seriously making me want to watch Fionna and Cake despite never watching Adventure Time past the first season when I was 7........

[strayslost]

i want to know more about fyodor so bad. asagiri give us the GOODS

[thurstongrey]

[menswearnyc]

Remember, when you do it in tailoring, it's not illegal.

[caffeinatedopossum]

Honestly unpopular opinion but fuck intuitive eating and mindful eating in ed recovery (especially autistic and/or adhd ed recovery)

I ask my girlfriend if I'm hungry and if she says I am, I sit in front of a screen distracted until I'm done eating

[toonelemental]

so for the "moi même moitié" dress the print is the same as in the past but the dress is new. you can find it on wunderwelt!

take care of you. have a nice day/night <3

awawa thank you so much!!! Now that I'm seeing it closer it definitely is the one!

I hope you have a good one too! <3