There are a lot of times I feel like just…flipping the vegan script.
It’s not ‘polyester’ it’s plastic
It’s not ‘vegan leather’ it’s plastic
Its not ‘faux fur’ it’s plastic
Plastic is a pollutant and causes far more damage to the environment both now and in the future than leather or wool.
Please stop telling me that the Plastic Lyfe is the only life, it is not. My leather shoes will last a decade where pleather is lucky to last 12 months. Leather (and wool) decompose and are renewable. Plastic is neither of those.
THANK YOUUUUUUU~
A single wash cycle of plastic-based fiber (polyester, poly fleece, faux fur) may release 700,000 pieces of microplastic into our waters. Nasty stuff.
aw dangit
Wool is the most environmentally friendly fabric despite being an animal product.
Using wool isnt even harming sheep
Sheep need to be sheered or else it will cause serious problems. It’s a mutual relationship, we help sheep get rid of the pesky wool and it gives us a very useful material.
This has been a Burning Hot Take™
The industry wide rebranding of “pleather” as “vegan leather” is a prime example of how corporate America picks your pocket with one hand and jacks you off with the other.
“We made these $200 boots with literal garbage! they’ll fall apart after a year of making your feet sweat and blister. full price tho! Think of the animals uwu”
I know we like to be thoughtful here on Tumblr so just a reminder that you should not read, subscribe or in general fuck with any version of the new Mic or Bustle itself. This repugnant union busting by some of the most awful men working in media.
and galaxy brains on twitter keep pointing to mic as representative of why staffrooms shouldn’t unionize..
Also Vox laid off about a dozen long-tenured employees yesterday who were vocal proponents of their own unionizing efforts, so stay away from all their affiliated sites (Vox, The Verge, SBNation, etc)
people in fanfiction are so good at identifying v specific smells. I literally struggle to identify vanilla when I’m sniffing a candle labelled “VANILLA” how are these kids getting woodsmoke, rain, mint, and a whiff of byronic despair from a fuckin tshirt
Once I read a fic where they were like “he tasted like” and I’m expecting the typical formula (1 cooking ingredient + 1 natural phenomenon + “something uniquely [character name]”) but instead they said “he tasted like mouth” and it was one of the greatest fic moments of my life
click and drag to find out what your shitty fanfiction kiss tastes like