Okay so, I have this possibly helpful tip/product for trans guys. I know it might seem like a small thing but often with trans dudes the smallest things can make a huge difference.
So, basically I found these underwear (made by Hanes) that are technically women’s underwear but they just look like boxers. (heres a picture)
Now, the reason I’m highly recommending these is because they’re made to fit a female body. The inside even has a place you can put a pad so you don’t have to wear those girly panties for a week each month (if that applies to you, it’s a definite plus). Not to mention they’re affordable (i found a two-pack on sale for 5$) and, since they’re technically women’s underwear, it might be easier to slide by the lesser-supportive parents and the like.
Again, this seems like a really small and dumb thing, but dysphoria’s a bitch and I know y’all just want somethin’ comfy between you and those jeans.
aaaaaand at least one of them was dyed with an arsenic compound
one of these days i’m gonna have to write a thing about arsenic dyes
Oh arsenic pigments. So very very very deadly.
If anyone who paints has ever wondered why you can only get “emerald green hue” when most other pricier pigments (like cadmium red and cobalt blue and such) are gettable as hue and in real form? it’s cos the pigment called “emerald green” was a copper acetoarsenite (please let me have spelled that right lololol) and thus…yeah. It isn’t stable, which meant that when it was used as a clothing dye or wallpaper ink (which it was, widely, until about 1900 or so–it was cheap to produce), it eventually made people in close proximity to it rrrrrrrrreal deceased.
This is why I am really careful at my job with maps that have bright green pigment remaining. Usually greens in that family react badly with the print ink of the map and like…Italy falls out of the page because it was green. But sometimes there is remaining paint and I have to be cautious. (See also: bright orange that might be mercury/cinnabar related, white that might have lead in it…) I’m not in any danger, no more so than I was at any given time at art college, but I do err on the side of caution. Because just SOME PIGMENTS MAN.
Anyway if you wrote a post about arsenic pigments I would read the heck out of it and be very appreciative 😀
I’ve seen lots of reblogs and gotten several asks saying “these dresses would kill you.” Here ya go.
Arsenic was THE poison of choice (deliberate or otherwise) for centuries; it was even called poudre de succession, “inheritance powder”
for its ability to speed up getting to the reading of rich Uncle Edward’s will…
Poisonous Printing Pigments give a new slant on “This book is cursed, all who read it fall ill; some of them die”, and don’t forget green wallpaper. I don’t know if it was involved in Oscar Wilde’s death – “Either that wallpaper goes, or I do” (he did) – but I remember reading that it may have been a contributory factor in Napoleon’s demise.
She took even BETTER photos so here they are gaze upon them
You look like the vamp character from those movies in the 40s and 50s who shows up at the detective’s office like “my husband is tragically missing and whatever shall I do, I clearly am not the actual murderer trying to throw people off my trail”
I bought an actual dress that screams Joan Crawford and makes me look even more like a freshly widowed young wife in despair and also in riches which I will photograph later
YES PLEASE
Sorry no make up, will post fully kitted out pics at some other point
She took even BETTER photos so here they are gaze upon them
You look like the vamp character from those movies in the 40s and 50s who shows up at the detective’s office like “my husband is tragically missing and whatever shall I do, I clearly am not the actual murderer trying to throw people off my trail”
I bought an actual dress that screams Joan Crawford and makes me look even more like a freshly widowed young wife in despair and also in riches which I will photograph later
DarkestElemental616 