Fashion blogging is just advertising fast fashion?

Fashion blogging is just advertising fast fashion?

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Hi, long time no post. This is the full version of a post I did on Instagram but had to cut down to make it fit. Hopefully you find ot interesting. [image description: Robyn (a plus size white person with a pixie cut and glasses) sits in their electric wheelchair on grass in front of a dry stone wall & autumn trees. They are wearing a plum cardigan & beret, a white blouse, a grey belt & a teal skirt with a maple leaf print] I’m currently reading (listening to) Aja Barbar’s book ‘Consumed’ for the LoudBodies Book Club and it’s making me confront a lot of things, which is good and also bad.  The part I’m struggling with right now (and had a heated conversation/argument...

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Wheelchair Fashion: M.E. Blue

Wheelchair Fashion: M.E. Blue

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disability, fashion, M.E., ootd, plus size, retro, spring, vintage, Wheelchair

This wasn't the post I thought would bring me back to blogging. You'll see if when I do more posts that I have some photos taken way before these all ready for me to add a blog post. I just haven't been well enough to do it. The contrariness of M.E. being what it is I can go out & take photos twice a month & look totally 'normal' but stringing a sentence together, even on a good day, is almost impossible. Writing the captions for my Instagram (where I post every 2-3 days) is a herculean task. Every time. I go through like two or three drafts of the posts, like handwritten in my notebook. But for this I wanted to be slightly more unscripted, just kind of stream of consciousness-y. So,...

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Goodbye and thanks for all the fish

Goodbye and thanks for all the fish

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Hey *waves weakly* I guess it has been a while huh? Erm, so my health sucks these days. I literally haven’t been out of the house since I last had to go to the dentist (it turns out that 8 years of increasing neglect does a number on your teeth, who knew? Lol). I struggle to even leave my room most of the time and when I can I omly manage it for a few hours at a time. You know those severe M.E. posts I’ve done? The sleeping beauty ones where I talked about the bedridden, the sufferers who are trapped by the M.E. Yeah, increasingly that’s my life. This picture is 75%+ of my life these days, except I haven’t worn makeup since this picture was taken back in May & all that much light would...

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Wheelchair Fashion: Once upon a snowy morning

Wheelchair Fashion: Once upon a snowy morning

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fashion, ootd, plus size, retro, vintage, Wheelchair, winter

Hi everyone. Long time no see. Thank you for sticking with me. I’m finding blogging increasingly overwhelming lately so I'm not sure I'll be posting very often. Maybe twice a season. Maybe. I really would like to post more but as this post took almost a month to put together I'm not sure it's feasible... Make sure to check on my Instagram though, I post on there usually a few times a week. It's a mixture of outfit photos, flat lays & pictures of my adorable cat, hopefully it'll tide you over till my next blog post :) So, this outfit post. My idea when I heard it was going to snow was to do a whole Narnia concept complete with photo in front of a lamppost. My clothes kind of got away...

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Wheelchair Fashion: Stealing a moment

Wheelchair Fashion: Stealing a moment

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autumn, fashion, ootd, plus size, retro, vintage, Wheelchair, winter

Post-Halloween Autumn. It's kind of an awkward time. Stores & TV have already decided it's time for Christmas & the weather has started to get frosty but the leaves have barely turned... This time of year always flies by so it's kind of nice to steal a moment of quiet, to just let time slow. Just for a minute. Just to enjoy the last of the season. Snuggle under a blanket with a hot chocolate, a pile of biscuits & a good book. Light a candle, put on your favourite jumper & make something pumpkin spiced. Make s'mores on the stove, paint your nails & watch movies in bed. Or you could, you know, get up before dawn to take photos in a picturesque Yorkshire village at sunrise.... Maybe...

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Wheelchair Fashion: Watercolour Plaid

Wheelchair Fashion: Watercolour Plaid

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autumn, fashion, ootd, plus size, retro, vintage, Wheelchair

There is something supremely ephemeral about Autumn, more so than any other season. I think it's because the idea of crisp cool, but not cold, golden mornings walking through a park as leaves shower down around you that is the essence of Autumn (as snow is the essence of Winter & ice-cream at the beach is the essence of Summer) exists only in books & movies. Autumn is a season of change & that change seems to translate as cold, windy, rainy days. Or at least it does in Yorkshire... The leaves took a long time to turn this year (it's been cold but not really frosty enough) & the weather has been...variable? Variable is a good word for it. Although mostly it's been varying between...

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Wheelchair Fashion: Femme Fatale

Wheelchair Fashion: Femme Fatale

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autumn, disability, fashion, ootd, plus size, retro, vintage, Wheelchair, winter

You know it is very hard to write a blog post when your cat is sleeping next to you looking super adorable... I think it's a plot to prevent me from being productive. Especially as she leaves as soon as I give up on my laptop. I think this is a blog post for which I need to set the scene. It's night. There's fog. That film noir music starts to swell in the background. A wheelchair user rolls into the light of the single lamppost. Her face is all but obscured by the night & yet you can see the determination in the glint in her eyes and the set of her mouth. She’s hunted for the secrets only she knows. Knowledge too deadly to trust to any man. A car passes between you and she is gone, back...

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Wheelchair Fashion: Autumn Picnic

Wheelchair Fashion: Autumn Picnic

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autumn, fashion, ootd, plus size, retro, vintage, Wheelchair

This post was kind of inevitable after my last one. Being at Brimham Rocks reminded me of how much I used to love the kind of early autumn picnics when there was a touch of frost in the air & we would have soup from thermos flasks somewhere in the middle of a walk. A lot of my fondest memories are of days like that... With these memories haunting me I thought I'd take a risk. I remembered that there was a service road all the way up to the house/cafe at Brimham Rocks & I hoped that I would be able to get my wheelchair along that far enough to find an area I could take photos. I wasn't expecting much, maybe a slightly passable incline leading to a slightly open space where you could...

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Wheelchair Fashion: Autumn Smoke

Wheelchair Fashion: Autumn Smoke

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autumn, fashion, ootd, plus size, Wheelchair

I'm pretty sure I have peaked. Literally these are the best photos I will ever have, I should just retire now :) I've been wanting to take these photos for a while but I've been waiting for it to get to the right stage of late summer, early autumn so the location would be perfect. And it was literally perfect. I knew I wanted these photos at Brimham Rocks, regardless of the fact that the area I knew these photos needed is 100% inaccessible. Ehhh, inaccessible is just a hard to spell word, nothing was going to stop me from getting these photos exactly the way I had imagined them. I used to go to Brimham Rocks all the time when I was a kid. I probably know it better than I know Leeds City...

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Wheelchair Fashion: Sheerly Beachy

Wheelchair Fashion: Sheerly Beachy

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disability, fashion, ootd, plus size, retro, summer, vintage, Wheelchair

I know that it's now September but technically Autumn doesn't start until the 22nd so I'm hoping you'll forgive this one last Summer outfit post I'm sneaking in under the wire :) This post is so cool, not only was it photographed in Whitby (which in itself makes it amazing for me) but it is also a collaboration with Shona Louise, a wonderful disability blogger & fellow powered wheelchair user. Also make sure to check out her GoFund Me, she's raising money for an essential new powerchair. For this collaboration we both started out with the concept 'pastel beach' (or something like that lol) & ended up with two super cute, & very different looks, so make sure you go across to her...

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