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@nerthos @rw Sorry you're only a person of colour or minority if you tow the progressive line. Any other divergent opinion means you surrender your status and become a shitlord guilty of wrongthink.
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@nerthos Actually, live is usually red.
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@nerthos I tend to get more brown than red. I'm literally the only person in my family who tanned rather than burned. I guess I didn't completely crap out at the genetic lotto.
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@rw @nerthos But who is the DJ?
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@nerthos I used to have the world's weirdest tan lines because of the leg brace I used to wear. Guess I don't have to worry about that any more when the leg's half metal now.
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@nerthos I'd kind of have to, unless I wore really baggy pants, because you couldn't wear the brace over clothing and it wasn't just one of those things that are weird socks, it was an actual genuine brace.
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@nerthos Or a dress I guess, but I rarely am in the mood for dresses.
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@nerthos I am actually very picky about clothing in general, which is why my wardrobe consists of like ten copies of the same handful of clothes. The fibromyalgia makes me very sensitive to things like irritating textures of clothing and things like that.
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@nerthos That's what kilts are for.
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@nerthos Yer a wizzard 'arry
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@sim @nerthos They're much easier to tailor, if you're having someone actually make you one. So there's that. But in a day where machines or small children in Chinese sweatshops are making things, rather than professionals, that's less of a thing.
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@nerthos @sim A lot of tops don't fit me too terribly great because I'm fucking tiny to begin with, but I have broad shoulders for a woman (of my size to boot) to they end up tight around the chest otherwise, something that gets doubly problematic since I'm not exactly flat-chested.
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@nerthos I'm 4-foot-8, so finding clothes (that aren't meant for kids anyways) is dodgy enough to begin with..
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@nerthos I can do some basic things, like put on a button or sew a repair patch, but that's about it. I'm no seamstress. Still good to know how to do simple repairs though.
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@sim @nerthos Chainmail can be procured pretty cheaply these days actually, what'll kill you is the shipping charges though. A full suit isn't light. You can luck out at a ren faire or the like though. I have a coif I made myself and I wouldn't even say it was hard or particularly time-consuming, I just can't do manual work with my hands that is physically deman…
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@nerthos @sim You're not paying so much for it being complex or difficult to make, as much as you are paying for something made to an exacting specification where the maker has to be very meticulously detailed, yeah. This goes for both, honestly, well-made chainmail doesn't impede movement much at all except in the hands as goes without saying (if you have chain mit…
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@sim @nerthos Honestly, while stuff like that is heavy, it's distributed evenly across the body, so it won't feel heavy, unless it's poorly made (such as by having plates of different thickness at different points, or chainmail that "bunches up")
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@nerthos People were always surprised when I moonlit as a HEMA instructors (years ago before that knee what I no longer really have got fucked up) that we gave as much instruction on the wearing and movement in armour as we did actual weapons training. But if you read arms manuals from the late medieval period which we have preserved and also the Renaissance, it wa…
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@sim @nerthos Put kevlar in the gambeson. Now you have modern medieval armour :)
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@mangeurdenuage I'm not in the least flat chested.
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@mangeurdenuage Gonna be that asshole huh
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@verius Most women's stores will carry XS/XXS stuff that works but the actual selection of available stuff is very basic to say the least.
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@verius Actually, I've had a lot more luck with men's sizing for anything than I have with women's, in terms of things that comfortably fit me.
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@verius If you get "slim" mens tops, but in a size up from what I normally wear (which really varies greatly because clothing size is inconsistent), it actually mostly works out. Sometimes maybe not button it all the way up, but oh well. I have cleavage now after the estrogen treatments, I may as well show it off. (something something male gaze something)
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@verius If you're wondering, the difference in those "slim" mens tops is they have the sides curved like, so that gets you most of the way there.
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@verius The Katie gaze gets much more than just cleavage :D
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