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somepony asked how i draw shoes & here is my thought process :)
#art#meow#idk#shoes?#shoes#abt to get acrylic nails for the first time in my life wish me luck ladies...
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August 30, 2009 - Spa Francorchamps, Belgium
Source: Mark Thompson/Getty Images Europe
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I think jake would like this actually.. No wonder he wanted to buy these type of shoes???
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One thing I did not expect when writing Sunset was learning global opinions on 1. Sandals + socks and 2. Birkenstocks in general.
The first I already had a pretty good sense of--popular in Germany, absolutely lambasted in North America, unclear about everywhere else in the world. What I have learned is that sandals + socks is a Look in Hungary, so Achilles, have at it.
The Birkenstocks is such a funnier one to me. Their reputation across the globe first and foremost is expensive, which is earned. I was told earlier today that they are the shoe of lesbians in the 90s. "Does she wear comfortable shoes" was once a sort of code for asking if a woman was gay, so yeah. Birkenstocks originally had a hard time getting a footing in the US market because they were so ugly, no shoe store would sell them. Thus, they were first sold in health food stores.
In the 2010s, I was wearing ten year old hand-me-down birkenstocks while doing some shopping in my college town when a local high school girl decided on the spot to make up a bullying song about me and my jesus shoes, which she reprised every time I walked past. It was mildly hurtful.
In choosing Birkenstocks for our dear Pat, I was thinking mainly how they have gone from a reputation of geeky to trendy and back again, how they are vaguely hipsterish (and he's the right age group to be one), how they are associated with city-dwelling, tree-hugging liberals, and how they last forever, so that if he did buy them in his peak hipster days, he still has them in his closet.
I was absolutely thrilled today to learn that some gay men in Europe have a Thing for guys in birkenstocks, finding them particularly hot, a notion that does not exist in the US whatsoever. Sorry, wearing Birkenstocks here will not pull anyone, socks or no.
Pat, having spent the first decade of his life in Europe, may well have been influenced by this. Perhaps during his development he gained a very specific kind of fondness for comfortable German shoes made of cork. Regardless, he's spent enough time in the US to know that socks + stocks is repulsive.
#sunset in your veins#honestly have no idea what to tag this little essay#shoes?#by all means tell me your opinions on these shoes#listen I could write an entire other essay on crocs as they relate to this fic ahahahaha#there was a joke about the prof assuming they were european because of achilles socks and stocks#but idk if that joke landed with an international audience ahahaha#anyway americans pretty much unanimously look at socks and sandals with derision#sorry
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Chewing on my girlfriends shoes (tied too tight... undid with teeth)
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My work boots are the most expensive shoes I’ve ever owned.
Also the most comfortable. I chose them after trying on several different brands and comparing lifespan vs usage vs comfort - I needed them for a physically demanding job, not the weekend hiking trails. I could have easily chosen cheaper boots that would have lasted long enough to be worth their low price, but I know the Sam Vimes Boot Theory and knew weaker, less comfortable boots would make my life harder in the long run.
So when the outside edge of the heel started wearing down after three years of heavy use I went to the shop I got them from and said “hey this is a common problem for me with how I walk but now it’s affecting my ankles and knees and I don’t wanna have to buy a new pair, is there a way to fix this?”
The salesman at this very fancy upscale boot store said “oh yeah, there’s a shoe repair place that can give you some heel guards - it’ll keep the rubber from wearing out.”
So at 8am this morning right after my 9hr shift ends I went to the shoe repair shop and it is the most hole-in-the-wall, is-this-a-real-business-or-a-mafia-front, am-I-gonna-get-shot tiny cinder block cube I’ve ever seen in my life. I grew up plenty poor and love me a good hole-in-the-wall business, but going from upscale store to this cash-only repair shop gave me whiplash. Wasn’t expecting this when a guy who wears three piece suits to sell boots said it’s the best place to go.
The skinny kid behind the counter looks somehow 16 and 25 at the same time, but when I tell him this place was recommended he smiles and says to hand over my boots. I hand him the vaguely warm foot-smelling boots, and stand in my socks in the 3’ square entryway surrounded by every color leather polish you could buy and watch as he turns my boots around in his hands, sizes up a crescent moon bits of plastic, and unceremoniously hammers tiny nails through them before handing them back.
The heels are perfectly level again. I can walk without almost rolling my ankles. They don’t clack loudly on the pavement or feel different. This is gonna fix my knee pain. It cost $10.
This kid had every tool he needed within arms reach, worked fast and smoothly, I was in and out the door in less than 8 minutes, and it only cost $10.
I didn’t think anything could cost only $10 anymore. I’m so used to hyperinflation prices I was spiritually thrown back to the 1400’s visiting the cobbler in town square. This kid might have been that cobbler and just decided to never die.
I’m still reeling from the whiplash, and gobsmacked at the price, and thrilled I didn’t have to go buy new, worse work boots (cuz I don’t have that kind of money for a second pair, I’m expecting these ones to last a decade) and it feels like I just experienced one of the rare little chunks of magic that floats around our world.
#shoe repair#cobbler magic#good work boots are a necessary part of life#and finding a cobbler I can take other shoes to is gonna change my life#I love craftsmen#bjurnberg
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hahahahaaaa get safe and cared for, idiot
#baldur's gate 3#bg3#astarion#bg3 tav#astarion x tav#oc: finch#my turn to draw my tav being cute with his vampire bf heeheehee lalala my turn my turn#because i'm weak for a hug and tired bitches snuggling#and for astarion still being nervous about his boundaries being pushed#waiting for the shoe to drop but it never does#slowly lowering the hackles#because it keeps getting reenforced that. it might be okay#anyway i continue to be abnormal about this game bye#my art#bloodoath
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fascinated/horrified by this set of tweets…
#the thing about these tweets is the absolutely rancid entitlement in them and then the attempt to justify it#'keep up a charade that the floor is clean' do you... not clean your house? do you not mop the floors??????????#anyway. are you americans okay???#specifically…. are white americans ok????#is the right to keep your shoes on also written into your constitution?#also the getting sick is 99 per cent random tweet is giving me brain damage#anyway. nobody is coming into my home with their outside shoes on#and if the feel of your bare feet on the floors i clean almost every day is so revolting to you#we have inside shoes?????#polls#*r
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He may act tough but his ass is goofy. I just know it.
#his character design is literally the coolest#and his shoes are unlaced#anyway def goofy goober guy#alexxuun#across the spiderverse#across the spider verse spoilers#spiderverse#atsv spoilers#atsv#atsv fanart#spiderverse fanart#miles morales#spiderman#earth 42#earth 42 miles#miles morales earth 42#the prowler#prowler miles#miles g morales
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Hello neurodivergent people. I was wondering if I'm just weird or it is common to not being able to learn certain motoric skills at the same time as my peers and learned them MUCH later
#poll#a friend of mine only learned to ride her bike in her 20s#i didnt manage to snap my fingers until i was like 18#i still cant reliably whistle or swim#i was a latebloomer with almost everything that involves having to copy someones physical movement#pretty sure i was the last one to learn to tie my shoes in kindergarten#oops i forgot the option for 'nope' sorry lmao
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something someone could describe you by - if they don’t know your name, they could go “oh, the person with the xyz!”
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Sneakers Collection 05
[Jius] High Top Sneakers 03 ( Female & Male )
30 swatches
9k+ Polygons
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[Jius] Platform Canvas Sneakers 01
30 swatches
14k+ Polygons
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[Jius] Low Top Sneakers 12 ( Female & Male )
20 swatches
19k+ Polygons
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[Jius] Low Top Sneakers 13 ( Female & Male )
20 swatches
8k+ Polygons
HQ✔️ Custom thumbnail✔️ All lods✔️
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❤️Public release on 05 February, 2024 ❤️
#ts4#sims4cc#ts4cc#my sims#thesims4#thesims#ts4 shoes#jius-sims#thesims4cc#the sims 4 cc#ts4 cc#download
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when i got home after the new years celebrations last night, i took off my boots and found this pin stuck in the bottom of one of them,, a good sign for the new year perhaps ? :-)
#i got home at 6am and I wouldn’t had noticed b/c I was so so sleepy and I don’t really check the bottom of my shoes when I get home lol#but when I took my boots off I caught a glimpse of gold and yeah !#protected by angels :-) how nice <3#a
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hate when a batman artist isn't committed to bruce's lame bat schtick... give that man a bat insignia on the bottom of his boots rn
#edit: check reblogs for the addition to this post 👍#listen. i can call it lame. hes a loser and its part of his character to be a loser. but he's also a committed cunt.#you think hes going to NOT have bat shoe imprints?? you think thats the one thing he's going to suddenly be subtle about?#commit to the campiness or get outta here!!!#ransom note
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Astarion, the Decadent
#baldur's gate 3#bg3#bg3 fanart#astarion#bg3 astarion#astarion ancunin#pov: astarion is looking at you while you're polishing his.... shoes
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