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Hayden 👹 @thevoidarbiter.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Another wip! Adding color is always my fav part of the process 👀 #JingYuan #hsr

Wip of Jing Yuan yawning. He appears to be in a dark meeting room with other people. A bright light is shining onto them from behind.

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Anord-Ink @anord-ink.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Old man dickroy my beloved roydick dickbats my beloved #roydick #dickroy #royharper #arsenal #dickgrayson

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RaccoonAttack🦝 @raccoonattack.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

迪克杰森双罗宾设定，预想的大概背景是同龄设定，迪克是马戏团男孩的时候认识了在外自力更生的孤儿杰森，两个小孩不打不相识，杰森总跑去马戏团找迪克玩，迪克父母死的那晚上杰森在观众席，迪克哭的时候跑去安慰他，布鲁斯就把两个孩子都打包带走了，于是他有了两个罗宾和永远不会安静的蝙蝠洞，年轻的布鲁斯韦恩此时还不知道他会发生什么…(得到了双倍的甜心小孩也得到了双倍的吵闹，没有人能让迪克和杰森停止讲相声.jpg #DC #JasonTodd #DickGrayson #BruceWayne #Batman

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みかげ蛇腹 @mikagejabara.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

ロビン達〜🫶

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KALISFA @kallisfa.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Talon! Dick Grayson. I couldn't choose. I like both #Nightwing #DickGrayson

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Avian @skylarts2.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

All this love used to be anger. All this anger used to be love. #jasontodd #dickgrayson #batfamily #fanart

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Anord-Ink @anord-ink.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

'Puter, quickest way to get better at drawing kissing, no difficulty #royharper #dickgrayson #batmandickgrayson #arsenal #roydick #dickroy

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みわ @388m-bs.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

かわいいがあつまる　#恒景

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Mith @mai-mith.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

#景元 General, I miss you so much 🥺🥺

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peach @peachpichichi.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

#luckae is it a cuddle if he has his head under his arm like a ball

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

I wrote something about respectability in dress over on Twitter. The topic is nuanced for me, so unfortunately the post had to be long. Since Bluesky (reasonably) has character limits, I can't easily import the text here. So I'm including screenshots, if you would like to read it.

ON RESPECTABILITY IN DRESS

Every once in a while, people here will get mad at me. And it often involves the same issue: respectability in dress. Or its related cousin: dress codes.

Judging someone's deeper, more important qualities based on attire often feels so natural; people get upset when I refuse to engage in the same judgment. To them, it feels as though I'm denying something so obvious, I'm dishonest.

I've written about dress respectability no fewer than half a dozen times in my 15 years of writing about menswear, but never so thoroughly and comprehensively on Twitter. This post will be long, but I hope it is engaging. And I hope you stay with me because I find this sentiment to be so noxious — so antithetical to any notion of "good," whether religious or secular — that I hope I can convince a few people to resist such temptations.

What is respectability in dress? It's the idea that you can show respect through clothes, such as wearing a suit to a wedding. Or the idea that people in certain clothes are more deserving of respect, such as a man in a suit versus another man in a hoodie. I will address each in turn.

I believe dress is a form of social language. And thus, you can signal certain things through clothes. For instance, if I were to attend a wedding, I would wear a suit as an outward expression of a sentiment in my heart (e.g., "I'm happy for my hosts and wish to honor them on this day"). The suit is simply a representation of my sentiment, which already exists, even if I was in jeans.

However, if I arrived at a wedding and saw someone not wearing a suit, I would not judge the person's more important qualities based on their attire. Perhaps they didn't have time to buy a suit. Perhaps clothes shopping gives them great anxiety. Perhaps they can't afford a suit that fits. If I wanted to know whether that person is of good character, I would judge this off their more direct actions, such as how they treat the people around them. Are they genial to g…

In 1852, Cardinal John Henry Newman penned an essay, initially delivered as a university lecture, titled "Definition of a Gentleman." A gentleman, he says, is someone gentle and kind, considerate of others, humble in social relations, and respectful of boundaries. He compares a gentleman to "an easy chair or a good fire, which do their part in dispelling cold and fatigue." He writes:

"The true gentleman in like manner carefully avoids whatever may cause a jar or a jolt in the minds of those with whom he is cast — all clashing of opinion, or collision of feeling, all restraint, or suspicion, or gloom, or resentment; his great concern being to make every one at his ease and at home. He has his eyes on all his company; he is tender towards the bashful, gentle towards the distant, and merciful towards the absurd; he can recollect to whom he is speaking; he guards against unseasonable allusions, or topics which may irritate; he is seldom prominent in conversation, and never wearisome. He makes light of favors while he does them, and seems to be receiving when he is conferring."

There is notably nothing in his essay about clothes.

It's impossible to judge a person's deeper, more important qualities based on clothes because people are often just following social conventions. To go back to the wedding example, many people wear a suit not because they hold a particular sentiment in their heart, but simply because a suit is protocol. A friend who works as a wedding photographer revels in telling me stories about suited guests getting into fistfights—certainly not a way to honor your hosts. The irony of dress codes is that the stronger the enforcement, the less you can tell about someone's character based on dress.

Let's now turn to the idea that people in certain clothes are more deserving of respect. The sharpest, most pointed counterargument for this is Pierre Bourdieu, who in his 1979 book Distinction, pointed out that our notions of "Good Taste" are often nothing more than the habits and preferences of the ruling class.

Edward Carpenter, a gay British reformer in the late 19th century, understood this a century earlier. He hated suits. In an essay about the "simple life," he compared suits to coffins, as they have "stiff layers upon layers of buckram," which he believed prevented people from getting enough sunlight and air. But more importantly, he hated suits because he recognized that Victorian dress codes weren't about dress codes at all — they were about status signaling and social hierarchy.

In May 1889, Carpenter wrote a letter to The Sheffield Independent about how 100,000 of the city's residents were struggling to find sunlight and air, enduring miserable lives, and dying of illnesses because of the thick, black cloud of smog arising out of factories like smoke from Judgement Day. Meanwhile, as Melton-clad plutocrats nattered on about proper dress codes, they concealed their cruelty and vulgarity under refined manners. They weren't concerned with virtue, but rather with showing their supposed higher moral status. And then those socially under them aped those manners to seem higher class. (A dynamic that German sociologist Georg Simmel recognized in his 1902 essay "On Fashion.)

Our judgements of dress are often more about the person underneath the clothes, rather than the clothes themselves. We see this with the pre-war British Guardsmen, who dropped their Edwardian-inspired fashions as soon as they were adopted by the "ruffians" known as Teddy Boys (and some Teddy Gals). Or how the slacker hoodie became a symbol of meritocracy in the New Economy when (white) coders wore it in the early 2000s, but it symbolizes criminality when worn by black teens.

Clothes ind…

I'm fundamentally opposed to any notion of respectability in dress, as I find it antithetical to a fundamental moral principle: you should treat everyone with respect unless they behave in a manner that suggests otherwise. And so, if John Fetterman lumbers through the halls of Congress in hoodies and shorts, you should object to him based on his politics, not his dress. If a student shows up at Oxford Union in sweats, you should consider his ideas, not his pants. I am perfectly fine with saying certain outfits are ugly. I'm deeply uncomfortable when people make moral judgments based on clothes. A person is not more or less deserving of respect based on dress; they can only do so based on more meaningful behavior.

My guess is that you know this in your heart. As you travel through the world, look around you. Are your poorly dressed cousins and uncles bad people? Do shabbily dressed teachers or nurses on the train not actually serve society in positive ways? Do suited politicians not occasionally commit crimes? The idea that appearance doesn't always match character can be found more melodically in Fela Kuti's 1973 album "Gentleman."

If you are already interacting with someone on a meaningful basis, you've hopefully already gotten enough information about them to form a judgement and thus can ignore dress. If you haven't interacted with them in meaningful ways, you can simply withhold judgement.

I will end with an excerpt from Stuart Hall, a Jamaican-born British cultural theorist. In an essay about pluralism, he made a distinction between "common culture" and "common society," encouraging us to embrace differences.

"It should not be necessary to look, walk, feel, think, speak exactly like a paid-up member of the buttoned-up, stiff-upper-lipped, fully corseted and free-born Englishman, culturally to be accorded either the informal courtesy and respect of civil social intercourse or the rights of entitlement and citizenship. Since cultural diversity is, increasi…

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ㅎㅎ @u3u-hahah.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

#刃景　#renjing 블레경원 중원절이벤트 그림~~

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刺身 @0shoyu.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

#phaidei ☀️🍷待ち合わせ(1/2)

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🐏 @twodaysmissing.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

ἄχος • ákhos (pain, ache) #phaidei

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 27/08/2025

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

people love bringing up japan when it comes to deporting immigrants/ creating a homogenous society, but if you bring up japan's anti-gun laws it's "woah woah woah"

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Soya 🍡 @jingnyaan.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Mimi, my mimi

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みわ @388m-bs.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

あかいネコty…ライオンちゃん

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via • 🏷️ @aranaravia.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

#sunturine #avenday #hsr #fanart I hate how I drew avens here. Just know he’ll be a merchant fairy in an au. maybe.

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Skyla Dawn Cameron @skyladawn.ca · 19/08/2025

From a writer group post someone sent me: "...the attitude now is so exclusive and unwelcoming for those of us who are either pro-AI or use AI" GOOD JOB, EVERYONE, KEEP MAKING THEM FEEL UNWELCOMED, YOUR SHAME IS WORKING. 🥰

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