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Rosalind Robertson (the DIY Couturier)

@rosalindrobertson / rosalindrobertson.tumblr.com

Lots of fashion, too many cats, some mental health and occasionally politics. I've got a rare genetic disease (EDS - Ehlers Danlos Syndrome) that makes me a medical hot mess of severe pain and joint instability. I spend my sick-time DIYing accessories...

do you ever wake up and your bones just feel…Bad? Because I feel like someone stole my bone marrow in the middle of the night and replaced it with poison.

yes yes yes. When they were trying to diagnose me I said I felt like my skeleton hurt. My bones hurt. 

I have nothing to prove to you

It’s hillarious how many dudebros were upset by this scene saying that she should have fought him to “prove herself” like…how do you sit through a film and Completely Miss the Whole Entire Point of a Scene/Character Arc So Completely

It’s like watching Return of the Jedi and being like “Wait why didn’t Luke just kill Vader like the Emperor wanted him to?”

Same energy.

SLPT: Confuse those wine snobs by *hearing* the wine

so i told my mom about this post before she and my dad went on a trip to napa, and she was delighted to try this out

and apparently, when she straight-faced, lifted her glass of chardonnay to her ear and swirled it, she baffled the other winery-goers so much that they all instinctively did exactly the same thing. that sort of crowd-think, that you aren’t quite sure what’s right but you’ll be damned if you’re mistaken for the plebian that you are

but watching that was enough for my mom to lose her composure, laugh so hard she cried, and spill the entire glass all over herself, in the process getting kicked out of the winery

so long story short do this at your own risk

My first ever hospitalglam posts, above, got taken down for the bots thinking it’s violating the community standards.

So I’m reposting and asking how do I move all this content that I generated over to Wordpress, or something less stupid? 

The photos do not feature nudity, I’m fully clothed and alone in a clinical setting and the post talks about the invasiveness/how scary it is to have neuromuscular testing and how claiming clinical space in this way helped me with my anxiety.

I’m reposting the photos here in a weird dare for them to flag them again.

Saddens me but I’m probably *also* following everyone else, and leaving this platform altogether. It’s ironic because my being open about being ill is what made me “tumblrfamous”  - and internet famous  - in the first place.

I did the thing and asked for a “human” to review them, and I knew the weird new rules were going to wreck what was something cool. I did not know how mindless their auto censorship was. 

“Hey remember when twitter and tumblr were cool and fun” was actually a topic of discussion at work this week. 

haha this wound up censored. Still awaiting the original appeal. 

My first ever hospitalglam posts, above, got taken down for the bots thinking it’s violating the community standards.

So I’m reposting and asking how do I move all this content that I generated over to Wordpress, or something less stupid? 

The photos do not feature nudity, I’m fully clothed and alone in a clinical setting and the post talks about the invasiveness/how scary it is to have neuromuscular testing and how claiming clinical space in this way helped me with my anxiety.

I’m reposting the photos here in a weird dare for them to flag them again.

Saddens me but I’m probably *also* following everyone else, and leaving this platform altogether. It’s ironic because my being open about being ill is what made me “tumblrfamous”  - and internet famous  - in the first place.

I did the thing and asked for a “human” to review them, and I knew the weird new rules were going to wreck what was something cool. I did not know how mindless their auto censorship was. 

“Hey remember when twitter and tumblr were cool and fun” was actually a topic of discussion at work this week. 

The thing about knitting is it’s much harder to fear the existential futility of all your actions while you’re doing it.

Like ok, sure, sometimes it’s hard to believe you’ve made any positive impact on the world. But it’s pretty easy to believe you’ve made a sock. Look at it. There it is. Put it on, now your foot’s warm.

Checkmate, nihilism.

This is a powerful positive message..

I’m literally reading a book right now (Burnout by Emily and Amelia Nagoski) that says this is scientifically sound.

There have been studies done on rats and dogs where they develop learned helplessness in the animals by giving them impossible tasks. Eventually the animals stop trying, even when the task stops being impossible. (I.e. put a rat in a maze with cheese it can’t get to until it develops learned helplessness, then put the cheese somewhere it can get to it and it won’t even try.) But once they show the animals they CAN do something - i.e. physically moving the rat to the cheese - the learned helplessness goes away.

No one can move you to your cheese for you, but the book says DOING something - which they define as “anything that isn’t nothing” can help. Make a food. Work in the garden. Clean a thing. Do a favor for a friend. Call your elected officials.

Knit a sock.

If you feel overwhelmed by existential despair, do something. It doesn’t have to be big. It just has to be anything that isn’t nothing.

team knit something.

tumblr community and their female-presenting nipples coming for tumblr as I type this. 

Wow. My whole timeline. 

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Anonymous asked:

Your sfw you will be fine

This is not about what I feel about my blog, but rather those who are affected, I’m talking mainly about sex workers and nsfw artists who have no choice but to make a living out of this. Especially since it’s on the international day to end violence against sex workers.

I might be left on tumblr, we don’t know, but I’m extremely disappointed at how Tumblr prioritizes the wrong issue when they could be tackling child pornography, pedophiles/maps, nazis, white supremacists and etc – things that we have been telling them all this time, but have fallen on deaf ears. I feel like this site has been dying since the purge, there is not much point anymore.

It’s an insult

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agreed. 

Santa is on strike due to global warming.  All presents this year will be delivered by Sasha the Christmas Tiger.  Milk and cookies may not be sufficient.

“MUST BRING PRESENTS TO GOOD CHILDREN”

“Yes good”

“AND EAT THE BAD ONES”

“Wait no”

“EAT THEM”

“sasha no”

@burstofhope the Christmas tiger is watching

She is making a list

It is not easy with her paws but she is making it

shes almost here

Okay fine this is the ONE Christmas thing I will reblog before Thanksgiving BUT THAT’S IT

SASHA’S BACK ON MY DASH!

Y’all better behave, you have two months

You better watch out

You better watch out

You better watch out

You better watch out