Louis "Lou" Gagliardi / Ash Franzetti / Alex 'Ace' Maddox / Tegan Ainsley / Taryn Amita / Diana / gothickitteh / ashkat724 / Lynn Brooks / @acekatt - #T R A M S _ C R O W _ F U N D *buys 12 iPads* "Anyone got $600 they can spare?" *spits on cancer patient*

[Crispy Pancake]

Help a trams woman with a power outage, missing toe and no easter presents!

 

[Aunt Carol]

Checked Lou’s bluesky out of curiosity because I was thinking of the lard ball.

You might be the very first person in human history to, without prompting, think of Lou and wonder how he's doing.

Oh my god it finally happened. Down a toe. Next stop. That whole foot.
Anyway as an apology have his.. weird reason as to why it happened (we all know it was the diabetes)

This is just like one of my Greek tragedies!

The $12 Walmart Women's Shoes of Procrustes.

Many, many troons have misjudged their sizes, or dressed for the body and age they want, not the one they have. Lou, however, is dressing for the medical condition he wants.

If you can't feel your feet, you gotta feel your feet. With your hands, every day, and make sure there isn't a hot spot or a sore that your feet would be telling your brain about if the telegraph lines hadn't been cut. Shouldn't have iced out that diabetes educator; they'll print out a guide on how to safely break in new shoes.

Shoe-wise, my suspicion is that he got the size right by length but forgot about the width.

Spoiler: lady shoe woes 101

Most women's shoes are made with the assumption that you've been wearing narrow shoes since you were a little girl, and have narrower feet as a result, especially in the toe box. This is like an ultra-mild version of foot binding. If you grew up in Birkenstocks and roomy sneakers and go to buy actual lady dress shoes as an adult, you're going to have a bad time.

Ask a roomful of grandmas to show you their feet! If you don't get maced, you'll see the ones who used to work in an office will have toes that look like they were pinched into a point.

Even if he magically becomes a woman, Lou's still diabetic. DIABETES IS NOT MOCKED

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[Solid Snek]

I have been taking a break from kiwi. Checked Lou’s bluesky out of curiosity because I was thinking of the lard ball. I know I am late. Oh my god it finally happened. Down a toe. Next stop. That whole foot.
Anyway as an apology have his.. weird reason as to why it happened (we all know it was the diabetes)
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Yeah, it happened earlier in the month! He spent a week in hospital and just got home; heartily recommend reading back a little to see the fun.

SPOILERS: he showed more concern about iPad ads than about losing his toe.

I really, REALLY hope that's why he lost his toe. "My lady shoes caused my toe to disintegrate" is perfect.

 

[Lou's Sentient Backfat]

I really, REALLY hope that's why he lost his toe. "My lady shoes caused my toe to disintegrate" is perfect.

I could believe that him wearing improperly fitting shoes had something to do with it. He has no feeling in his trotters at all so it's not like he'd be able to tell that it didn't fit right. As far as he's concerned, if he can force his hoof into the shoe, it's a perfect fit! Couple that with the fucked up way he walks and I can see his toe getting rubbed raw repeatedly and eventually leading to an infection. He's still a gross, unhygienic blob so it's not like you can expect that he's taking regular showers or even changing his socks regularly.

 

[Sintharia]

There’s honestly no excuse for buying ill-fitting shoes, even in women’s styles. With chunky millennial styles coming back into fashion, and the insanely popular nature of barefoot shoes, wide (read: normal) toe-boxes are available for women everywhere. And ladies who don’t like the available options often buy men’s shoes, anyway.

Spoiler: Additional Shoe Bullshit

As a lady who runs around barefoot as much as possible, I had to adapt to things in order to find the right shoes. Round and square toe-boxes are my go-to, and anything with even a vaguely stretchy material, like alpargatas. There are shoes out there to suit pretty much every style of foot. You just have to look for them, and not buy the first and cheapest thing on Amazon.

 

[Lou's Sentient Backfat]

There’s honestly no excuse for buying ill-fitting shoes, even in women’s styles.

Sure there is, for Lou it's either about the performative nature of it, or more likely, it gives him a "euphoria boner".

 

[Solid Snek]

And ladies who don’t like the available options often buy men’s shoes, anyway.

TRANSPHOBIA!

The point of being a lady isn't to do what women would do, it's to do what "women would do". If you could get euphoria boners in men's shoes, there'd be no reason to be trans.

Lou is a forty year old woman. That means stripper boots, miniskirt, and a goth cheerleader top with comic book style titty windows, minimum.

 

[Pudgy Bear Claws]

There’s honestly no excuse for buying ill-fitting shoes, even in women’s styles. With chunky millennial styles coming back into fashion, and the insanely popular nature of barefoot shoes, wide (read: normal) toe-boxes are available for women everywhere. And ladies who don’t like the available options often buy men’s shoes, anyway.

Spoiler: Additional Shoe Bullshit

As a lady who runs around barefoot as much as possible, I had to adapt to things in order to find the right shoes. Round and square toe-boxes are my go-to, and anything with even a vaguely stretchy material, like alpargatas. There are shoes out there to suit pretty much every style of foot. You just have to look for them, and not buy the first and cheapest thing on Amazon.

Spoiler: Shoe sperg

I love Vivaia Mary Janes. They're sort of mid-priced at about $110 but to me, worth it.

 

[Norman B. Normal]

I've never understood how foot fetishists can exist in Western societies. All of our women have hideously misshapen feet because of the shoes they force them into. Mrs. Normal has been committed to wearing relentlessly sensible shoes since I've known her, and I still don't want to look at those feet.

I've never heard of a woman losing a toe from them, though. Certainly not after wearing women's shoes for all of six months.

 

[kazuhiro]

I've never understood how foot fetishists can exist in Western societies. All of our women have hideously misshapen feet because of the shoes they force them into.

We make do.

 

[kazuhiro]

I've never understood how foot fetishists can exist in Western societies. All of our women have hideously misshapen feet because of the shoes they force them into.

They make do. I assume.

 

[The Dude]

I smell bullshit with Louie's "my shoes made me need my toe amputated" tale. I suspect the truth is much more embarrassing than Louie is willing to admit to, so he came up with a totally hecking validating piece of bullshit because somebody asked. Notice how he wasn't willing to volunteer specifics until someone asked him.

 

[Aunt Carol]

I really, REALLY hope that's why he lost his toe. "My lady shoes caused my toe to disintegrate" is perfect.

Cinderella is pretty apropos! In the Grimm version, the stepsisters each cut off parts of their foot to fit into Cinderella's slipper, and briefly fooled the prince until he noticed the blood. (That plus the Little Mermaid giving up her singing voice for bottom surgery and you start to think about a Grimm's Fairy Tails for Li'l Shitlords.)

I smell bullshit with Louie's "my shoes made me need my toe amputated" tale. I suspect the truth is much more embarrassing than Louie is willing to admit to, so he came up with a totally hecking validating piece of bullshit because somebody asked.

Disagree but I still love you. Lou does not respect his feet; this was eventual. You can't skimp on anything between you and the ground: shoes, tires or mattress. Lou has been wearing the cheapest shoes possible, because he is white trash and would rather spend his shoe budget on soda pop and computer peripherals

This only works for young people. Age, obesity and uncontrolled diabetes have caught up and ruined his feet; he just hasn't realized yet.

Lou bought women's shoes off the shelf, either at Torrid or at his beloved Walmart, and shoving an insensate foot into a narrow shoe and just walking on it like usual caused an injury. No feeling and no foot checks let that injury get bad. The only new wrinkle is that this was a woman's shoe that did it; Lou could just as easily have gotten a rock in his slip-ons and walked on it, or a hole in the sole, or shoved his toe into the strap.

Take away the gender affirmation and this story is as old as time: you only have to take care of the toes you want to keep.

 

[Solid Snek]

Cinderella is pretty apropos! In the Grimm version, the stepsisters each cut off parts of their foot to fit into Cinderella's slipper, and briefly fooled the prince until he noticed the blood. (That plus the Little Mermaid giving up her singing voice for bottom surgery and you start to think about a Grimm's Fairy Tails for Li'l Shitlords.)

My headcanon is that the Brothers Grimm were drawing on life experience, inspired by Ye Olde Germanne Lous, to make cautionary tales for children about the dangers of wandering alone in the woods, being too trusting of strangers, and of course, of being a fat fucking retard.

re: Lou's shoes; I assume his doctors would have told him many, many times of the importance of having the proper footwear, right?

I smell bullshit with Louie's "my shoes made me need my toe amputated" tale. I suspect the truth is much more embarrassing than Louie is willing to admit to, so he came up with a totally hecking validating piece of bullshit because somebody asked. Notice how he wasn't willing to volunteer specifics until someone asked him.

Yeah, I'm with Carol here. I don't think it's possible to have a story more embarrassing than "I shoved my hamhoofs into lady shoes, then refused to do basic hygiene checks until my toe disintegrated".

There's a lot of ways people can lose their feet, especially diabetics, but in all my years this is by far the most hilarious one I've heard.

 

[JaneThough]

Regardless of whether he lost his toe from ladies shoes or not, if he didn’t have diabetes he would have felt an issue with his toe well before you’re in amputation territory.

Man or woman, Lou is definitely, unequivocally fat.

 

[PigFarm]

I've seen some pretty dumb injuries but "lost my toe because I can't stop eating spaghetti sauce, and can't figure out shoe sizes" is the best

 

[Doggo]

I don’t understand why high heels are a thing. Aren’t they absolute cunt of a thing to wear? I can’t imagine that’s good for your feet, legs or back.

 

[OrSoHelpMe]

Lou walks on his ankles, how the hell would he ever be able to walk in heels?

 

[Aunt Carol]

Lou walks on his ankles, how the hell would he ever be able to walk in heels?

Lou posted some of the shoes he was looking at once, but I don't think he said what he ended up buying. (Do any of his OOTD selfies show the DEATH SHOES?)

I don't think he got heels either, or if he did they were under an inch. What's most likely is that Lou got shoes that made his brain ping "female," then did his hideous supination as usual, this time while wearing shoes with a narrow toebox. Lou's gait is not one where sole of the shoe matters much.

Maybe there's a review on the Torrid website as we speak that shows a pair of cheap dress shoes with deep scuffs where he walked on the side of them, and a speech-to-text rant about how they took his toe.

 

[Vampirella]

Lou losing a toe because he wore women's shoes for, what a year at most, is stupid. I've known dancers that that have feet that look like prop from a horror movie, but they still have all their toes. You lost your toe because you eat nothing but cheap pasta and drink ketchup Lou.