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professional qifrey enjoyer @ineffabledorian.bsky.social · 7d

oh you know what if we frame it like this i think i can feel much better about these protests actually

Cen Galdre @cengaldre.com · 7d

folks can complain about the effectiveness of scheduled orderly mass protest but to think about it another way its the closest thing we have to the opening scene of A Muppet Christmas Carol where all the muppets sing "there goes Mr. Dipshit, there goes Mr. Ass" to Scrooge and it clearly bothered him

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professional qifrey enjoyer @ineffabledorian.bsky.social · 7d

but a visual artist who doesnt do That Specific Kind Of Physical Activity just. doesnt have any concept of exactly how stubborn that area is.

and this is a concept that applies to basically everything-- you dont ever truly understand what you've never had to contend with firsthand ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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professional qifrey enjoyer @ineffabledorian.bsky.social · 7d

like i can look at a drawing of viktor arching like it's his job and go "that is literally a position that takes years of backbend training for an adult to achieve" becuase im acutely aware of what my OWN training is like and how far i can bend and what it feels like and how much muscle it takes,

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professional qifrey enjoyer @ineffabledorian.bsky.social · 7d

i think it speaks to a fascinating gap in knowledge from a lack of physical experience with the pose they're drawing-- ppl might use images or virtual dolls as references, which will not take into account the experience of the character they're drawing (or even of the average regular human)

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professional qifrey enjoyer @ineffabledorian.bsky.social · 7d

sometimes ppl draw viktor with such an insane back arch and listen. i understand suspension of disbelief for the sake of horny. but from someone who's been working to unfuck my posture, which is REALLY HARD: Viktor "Spinal Problems" Arcane would not have literally any extension in his upper spine

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professional qifrey enjoyer @ineffabledorian.bsky.social · 10d

in the most annoying possible turn of events for this dye job my dad has used the washing machine and will clearly not be unloading it any time soon which means i have to spend about 50 years washing BLACK DYE out of this fabric by HAND

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professional qifrey enjoyer @ineffabledorian.bsky.social · 11d

waking up in the very early hours and suddenly your half asleep brain makes a CONNECTION from a line in a chapter you read last night oh it's like i've solved a puzzle

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professional qifrey enjoyer @ineffabledorian.bsky.social · 12d

patching together the weirdest possible contraption to deal with the giant hole in the ceiling bc it started raining and i have a limited amount of time before it starts leaking and i have to improvise with what i have (my cat's empty IV bags) while my dad is trying to buy a boat

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professional qifrey enjoyer @ineffabledorian.bsky.social · 19d

another ren faire another fun time seeing my friends another very humbling migraine to remind me i am still disabled and should have taken sumatriptan last night

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professional qifrey enjoyer @ineffabledorian.bsky.social · 25d

🥲 it really is just A Feeling to be posting my silly little costume videos and then have people tell me i give them hope, or post a tutorial and have people say it's potentially life saving............. like im literally just some guy but here we are

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professional qifrey enjoyer @ineffabledorian.bsky.social · 25d

this thread sounds a lot like im sucking my own dick about it lmao but really it just is a strange feeling to contend with-- doing something solely for the purpose of serving your community, and then seeing the effect it creates. the joy. and you go "ohhh right ok so. this is what im here for."

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professional qifrey enjoyer @ineffabledorian.bsky.social · 25d

i had a woman, back in santa cruz, take one look at me and tell me my "aura is beautiful" and that im "very important." this happened TWICE (i dont think she remembered me the second time, and was just as taken aback as the first time). i think about that often in relation to the work im doing here

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professional qifrey enjoyer @ineffabledorian.bsky.social · 25d

i didn't *need* to revise this design, much less construct a tutorial for it. i had surgery three years ago. the only tangible benefit i get from this is the attention gained from the video doing well. and yet if i think about it a little more abstractly i see the safe queer space i create

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professional qifrey enjoyer @ineffabledorian.bsky.social · 25d

there is a very unique kind of euphoria to altruism, unlike anything else i've ever known. like it feels almost cosmic in nature. it's so weird.

im shipping off a binder bodice, a test piece for the design, to someone i'll never meet, and feeling the most pointed but most ineffable sense of purpose

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professional qifrey enjoyer @ineffabledorian.bsky.social · 26d

getting dear fitzy-fitz's features down in my brain #rote

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professional qifrey enjoyer @ineffabledorian.bsky.social · 28d

"...make landlomonade"

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Star @phazon-star.bsky.social · Sep 22

I just think that people should know what they're in for if they sign up

By reading this you are consenting to reading this

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professional qifrey enjoyer @ineffabledorian.bsky.social · Sep 20

this is a full tutorial on how to draft a pattern for a "binder bodice," as i call it, which works not by compression but by building out a smoother shape. the purpose is to allow for longer and more frequent wear than compression binders without the saftey risks!!
#diy #ftm #sewing

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professional qifrey enjoyer @ineffabledorian.bsky.social · Sep 20

HELLO BINDER WEARERS

have you ever felt suffocated by your binder and thought "oh yeah this is GREAT"?? no?? yeah neither did i so i fixed that

youtu.be/zmnDtk1P6yI?...

how to make a COMPRESSIONLESS BINDER

YouTube video by dorian gay

youtu.be

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professional qifrey enjoyer @ineffabledorian.bsky.social · Sep 20

me posting my silly little drawings while the government tries to make it legal to put me on a list for being trans

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professional qifrey enjoyer @ineffabledorian.bsky.social · Sep 20

new angle on the clown4clown actually: fool4bard

a pencil sketch of a jester holding a bard lightly by the chin. the bard squints and says "and you're certain of this." the jester gives him a smile that's just a little bit unhinged and says "do i speak words of which i am not certain?"

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professional qifrey enjoyer @ineffabledorian.bsky.social · Sep 16

i always am so envious of the Fantasy Photoshoot Girlies i need to find the high-level-production group shoot vibe SOMEWHERE and inject it straight into my veins

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professional qifrey enjoyer @ineffabledorian.bsky.social · Sep 16

OH and. if it's not in the concept already. there could always be a lil stage somewhere. imagine a night market with a spot for a minstrel or a circus act or two............... oh the vibes............

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professional qifrey enjoyer @ineffabledorian.bsky.social · Sep 16

currently playing the last threshold episodes on repeat with the ads running in a background tab cause i thought about queer fantasy photo retreats and got excited

one suggestion i can think of rn: powerpoint nights. hang out and take turns sharing mini presentations on Anything

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professional qifrey enjoyer @ineffabledorian.bsky.social · Sep 12

i feel a similar thing anytime i see "listen we're not celebrating it, but we don't have to mourn" like?? why aren't you celebrating?? you rescind your right to respect in death when you devote your life to oppressing ppl and i for one am pointing and laughing

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