I'd like to introduce everyone to this horrid thing I created about a year ago but haven't shown many people yet (probably for the best).
This is Baby. AKA The Monster. AKA Sight Tremendous and Abhorred, AKA Vile Insect, AKA A Thing Such As Even Dante Could Not Have Conceived, etc, etc. It's made from bits of scrap fabric I scrounged from various sources and is roughly the size of a human toddler. Its design is based on Mary Shelly's original descriptions of Frankenstein's creature.
But that's not all! Behold!
You can dissect this little abomination to reveal a full set of crocheted, knitted, and scrap fabric organs, all hand-stitched by yours truly!
It has a heart, stomach, lungs, liver, small and large intestine, kidneys, bladder, and, of course, a brain! So it can ponder the horrors of its own existence!
I used this pattern by Less Than Three for the heart. I ended up felting it because I screwed up most of the stitches (I was relatively new to crochet at the time). The result was a bit of a blobby mess, but oh well.
So yeah. This thing lives in my house now (my family hates it). I have yet to reap the full consequences of my hubris.
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nonsense, really. very like the fairy tale where the princess gives her selfless love to the prince who is enchanted and he is himself again and the monster no more. (the vampire lestat, 1985)
i just found out tumblr was storing over three GIGABYTES of cookies on my device without me knowing and that's why it's been running so fucking slow recently... incredible. anyways everyone go clear your fucking cookies. don't let this website run a goddamn video game's worth of disc space in the background for no good reason.
Men in lingerie definitely carries with it, if not a stigma, but certainly a predetermined idea of something fetishy or seedy. For me, however, I like to see it as no different to, say, dressing in a well fitting suit; it's not really something that I would do for comfort or the feeling of the fabric, but to accentuate my body in the right places and hopefully give an aesthetically pleasing view to the audience (which admittedly is where this diverges a little from the suit analogy!)
I hope that these sort of pictures can help to normalise the idea that anyone can dress up for anyone else, without it having to be feminising.