Incoming from Boston

[Clubbingclown]

Hi hi, I'm Cyrus (They/Them). Feel free to call me by my internet nickname "Clowny" I'm an Illustration major from Boston. I just got into kilts this month since I'm going through another one of my "this is my culture" phases again. The whole "trying to get in touch with my roots" thing isn't new for me at all, I've been doing it through music since I was very little. However, I do see wearing kilts now as reclaiming what was taken from my family via assimilating into American culture over the years. I would still say my overall knowledge of Scotland is very surface-level; I hope to change that by using a character I'm currently writing will let me fixate on Scottish history and culture since I was able to do the same with other locations before. So far I'm just really into the punk music from Glasgow (Absolutely adore the Scars despite them only having the live show and demos recorded back in the 70s).

But yhea kilts. Going in hand with the punk rock aesthetic, I grabbed a cheapy plain red one earlier this month, loved how sick I looked with it paired with my pleather jacket, and now I just received my first real one in the mail today; stumbled across this site because I did not know it would have basting stitches and needed to triple check that they were basting stitches because I be dumb like that sometimes. The new one is a Buchanan Ancheint Tartan from the Highland Kilt Company. I picked it cuz the colors were pretty, I'd love to find out what tartan my family's clan had, working on getting the correct spelling of our name because I don't think my dad pronounced it right when he was telling me it since nothing is popping up when I google the name. But like shout out to my cousin for tracing our family history for his college thesis so I know it's legit.

But yhea there's my little hello ramble.