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[markscherz]

I put it to you that Scaphiophryne marmorata is peak frog.

Why?

Well first, it's pretty round, which is key.

Now get a load of those fingers.

Big, expanded discs at the end, ideal for climbing.

But what's happening back there with those toes? No discs there. Those are good for walking and hopping around on the ground.

Now, let's gently turn them over

First, excellent tum, 17 out of 10, no notes.

But what's that at the base of the foot? Those big projections? Yep, those are spades. This climbing, hopping frog is an excellent digger!

I like to think of these Scaphiophryne as all-terrain frogs. They're basically good at everything. They defy our categorical labels of 'arboreal', 'terrestrial', or 'fossorial', and say 'por qué no los tres?'—but in Malagasy, so 'nahoana no tsy izy telo?'

[deerspherestudios]

🔍 QNA MASTERLIST (PT.4)🔎

This masterlist covers general lore and an AU featuring MindReader!Mychael.

📍 For part 1, it's [HERE] for abilities, romantic/yandere traits and his opinion on kids. 📍 For part 2, it's [HERE] for anatomy. 📍 For part 3, it's [HERE] for reactions to different MCs.

Random Mychael lore❕

He has a different name in his own language, but goes by Mychael.

He also chose Mychael as a name himself.

He doesn't have a last name.

When did he start knitting and why?

Where did the nickname 'firefly' come from?

What music would he like?

His favorite smells are old books, honey and gasoline.

He's super ticklish.

How did he carry MC to his home?

His favorite thing to knit are beanies.

He'd love bringing you outdoors.

He's a quiet sleeper.

He sleeps in a fetal position.

He sleeps with both sets of eyes closed.

He'd love cheek kisses.

(Minor) loredump!

His knowledge on marriage.

He's overworked himself when fixing up the cabin.

Would he like stargazing?

You're not the first human he's found unconscious.

He'd be okay wearing a dress.

What's his wardrobe like?

He has a fear/phobia of snowstorms, thunder/lightning, trains/train whistles and water wells.

We can't get sick from him.

Does he have a religion/beliefs?

He would love the Shrek series.

The chickens' name origins (they're all flowers).

He's never considered humans as 'food'.

How did Mychael get his hens?

His favorite candies would be marshmallows and cotton candy.

If he had internet, he'd mostly look up arts-and-crafts and recipes. He'd also love DIY candy kits. He would enjoy nonverbal ASMR.

He prefers being warm.

He kinda celebrates New Years' and loves fireworks.

He doesn't need skincare but would enjoy face masks.

His first experience with bees.

He's never played UNO (but would love board and card games).

How does Mychael view the animals/people he meets in the forest?

More Mychael lore❕

He can't handle spicy food as it makes him physically ill.

He's ambidextrous.

His MBTI is INFJ-T.

His favorite desserts are pumpkin pie and cranberry muffins.

His favorite books are self-help skill books and picture books.

His favorite color is yellow. His favorite animal is a jellyfish.

He used to wear cloaks when it was socially acceptable to.

He doesn't believe in ghosts.

How did he learn to speak and pronounce words?

He would love origami.

He'd love to have a cow but think it'd be high maintenance.

He prefers tea over coffee.

His first time seeing the ocean.

He would enjoy K-pop, phonk and electropop music the most.

About MR!Mychael ❕

MR!Mychael origins and discussion.

MR!Mychael with MC with nice thoughts about him.

MR!Mychael wouldn't rescue MC in Day 1.

MR!Mychael analysis and the type of MC he'd fall for.

How MR!Mychael's power works.

How MC would meet MR!Mychael.

MR!Mychael would react the same regardless of MC's psyche.

MR!Mychael with an overthinking MC.

MR!Mychael can't see dreams.

MR!Mychael with an MC with an earworm.

[himanshibeautyexp]

Common Skin Care Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Although establishing new routines might be challenging, many of us struggle to include a proper beauty and skincare routine in our daily schedules. You must begin taking care of your skin right away because it is the largest component in our bodies and must be taken care of.

Many individuals are unaware of how crucial routine skincare is. Your skin will show the impacts of a poor diet and stress, in addition to other environmental causes like pollution. Nevertheless, some substances in cosmetics and toiletries still have the potential to irritate or aggravate allergies, even if you are mindful of what you put into your body.

There is frequently a tsunami of information coming from every angle in the field of skincare. There is a large list of things to do to get flawless skin, from ideas for hot new products from internet influencers to advice from family and friends. What about skincare mistakes that we should avoid, though?

There are certain frequent mistakes people make that have easy fixes that can change your entire routine.

Table of content

How Your Skin Works

The Worst Skin Care Mistakes You Can Make

How to Build Better Habits

FAQ

HOW YOUR SKIN WORKS

Our skin is a dynamic, adaptive living organ that is continuously changing. It can quickly adjust to changes in the surroundings, temperature, and lighting. It shields us from bumps, cold weather, pathogens, and UV radiation while being extremely sensitive to heat, vibration, movement, and pressure. Our skin keeps us healthy and alive.

The ability of the skin to serve as a simple barrier, shielding you from the outside world, is among its most crucial roles. The outermost layer of the epidermis, which interacts with the outside world the most, is responsible for performing this function, which is known as the skin barrier function.

It stops water from evaporating, keeping your skin moisturized. Additionally, it prevents the skin's natural moisturising ingredients, or NMFs, from evaporating. The barrier also prevents the entry of harmful environmental chemicals and bacteria while keeping things out, keeping both good and bad things from entering your skin.

The barrier function of the skin is supported by appropriate skincare, which also encourages healthy skin growth, reduces irritation and inflammation, and promotes healthy, radiant, soft, supple, and well-nourished skin.

By selecting the proper products or creating them on our own, we can make sure that the skin's vital protective functions are upheld, preserving its appearance and feel.

THE MOST COMMON SKINCARE MISTAKES

Simply by staying away from these common skincare mistakes that we have all been discovered to be guilty of, you can achieve healthier-looking skin.

Ignoring the Neck Area

Due to its thinness and fragility, the area around our neck often goes unnoticed and is susceptible to future problems. The neck, like the eye, shows early signs of aging because there aren't many oil glands in this area, preventing the skin from being naturally moisturized. The neck region's fatty tissues and low density of connecting fibers make the skin there the thinnest, which causes it to sag.

Using Face Wipes

Even though it would be convenient to grab some face wipes and swipe all over your face, doing so is bad for your skin. Face wipes are notorious for being quite the opposite of what you want if you're seeking something to refresh your skin while eliminating extra oils and debris! They have potent chemicals that can remove your skin's natural oils and change the pH level of your skin, which can irritate and inflame your skin. Due to their inability to naturally decompose, the fibers used to make them frequently pollute the environment.

Too much cleaning

It's time to adjust your face wash or cleansing routine if your skin feels tight and dry after washing it. Using harsh chemicals or washing your face too often can harm the lipid barriers in your skin.

Touching Your Face A Lot

On a daily basis, our skin is exposed to a wide range of environmental toxins. Touching your face can transfer bacteria and grit from your hands to your face, aggravating acne and causing irritation.

Skipping sunscreen

Our main defense against the dangerous UVA and UVB rays that penetrate the ozone layer is sunscreen. They directly target the vital proteins and collagen formation that give skin its firm and bouncy appearance.

Try face gel sunscreen

Misusing moisturizer

Our skin benefits from hydration in several ways, including reduced sensitivity, improved skin texture, and a stronger defense against free radicals. It is advised to moisturize twice a day, in the morning and at night. We do, however, frequently moisturize our skin too much or too little.

Using the incorrect ingredients in your morning and evening routine

The goal of daytime skincare is to protect and preserve your skin's barrier by keeping out abrasive UV radiation and other impurities. By encouraging collagen formation and healing the harm done by oil, grime, and toxins, the nighttime routine, on the other hand, aims at restoration and regeneration. Using the improper ingredient at the wrong time can only result in waste and inefficiency.

HOW TO BUILD BETTER HABITS

When used correctly, the art of skincare is a fantastic tool for changing the way we use our products to reap the most benefits." Prevention is better than cure," the proverb goes. The smallest adjustments to our regimen can help us avoid the worst skincare blunders. It is now time to gather your regrets and make a commitment to never again expose your flawless skin.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTION

Q1. What occurs if you stop using skincare?

A1. Eliminating any products could potentially cause your skin to suffer. For instance, if you stop using a cleanser on your face, dirt, debris, makeup, and oil can accumulate and cause further outbreaks.

Q2. Are we really in need of skincare?

A2. Healthy practices in your 20s and 30s can strengthen and prepare your skin for the consequences of aging down the road. Good skin care is important at any age.

Q3. What is the role of lifestyle in maintaining healthy skin?

A3. Getting proper sleep, eating healthy, working out, and having a proper skincare routine are some crucial lifestyle factors for healthy, smooth skin.

[origami-butterfly]

I think what a lot of j&h adaptations get wrong, is that ultimately, Jekyll is, at heart. A Cunt. Lots of adaptations like to write him as an innocent scientist, who got more than he bargained for when he drank the potion, and unleashed a monster, but in the novella, the only thing the potion really does, is change Jekyll's appearance. He created Hyde, and I think he had the opportunity to make Hyde into something good, but, because he's a cunt, he chose to use his alter ego as a force for evil and chaos. "Edward Hyde was alone in the ranks of evil"- of course he was, you never allowed him to be anything else. And Jekyll is fully aware of what he does as Hyde, he says it himself in his full statement, and he feels no remorse. He didn't create Hyde accidentally, he made Hyde because he wanted to do bad things and get away with it, without damaging his reputation.

Fuck Dr Jekyll, all my homies hate Dr Jekyll.

[bunnyboy-juice]

NO MORE ASSOCIATING THINGS WITH FEMMES ONLY BECAUSE THEY ARE PINK!HYPERFEM FEMMES ARE GREAT AND I LOVE YOU CAMPY FEMMES WHO EMBODY PINK BUT ALSO JESUS CHRIST CAN YOU GUYS NOT GO MORE THAN ONE DAY W/O TRYING TO SHOEHORN FEMMES INTO BEING ONLY PINK UWU BABIES. I AM FEMME AS IN GRASS AS IN DIRT AS IN TREE BARK AS IN WEEDS SPROUTING THROUGH THE SIDEWALK CEMENT. FEMME AS IN GENDER NONCONFORMITY AS IN FUCK YOU MY FEMININITY IS WHAT *I* SAY IT IS. FEMME AS IN DEPTH AND DARKNESS AND WARMTH AND TERROR. FEMME AS IN CAVES. FEMME AS IN LIGHTNING. FEMME AS IN AN AMALGAMATION OF TRAITS THAT I HAVE DECIDED ARE FEMININE REGARDLESS OF WHAT SOCIETY SAYS. FUCK IS IT THAT HARD TO UNDERSTAND?!???

[prokopetz]

Sideblog: A blog used to post content which doesn’t fit the theme of one’s main blog.

Subblog: A blog used to organise content because things have reached the point where tags are not sufficient.

Interblog: A blog used to coordinate activity between blogs.

Parablog: A blog which exists to explain the content of another blog.

Quasiblog: A blog platform used for non-blogging purposes.

Pseudoblog: A non-blogging platform made to serve as a blog.

Infrablog: A sideblog which presents itself as an unaffiliated main blog for plausible deniability reasons.

Unblog: A blog used to not post things.

Blogblog: A blog used to blog about blogging.

Superblog: But they were all of them deceived, for another blog was made.

[mortelum]

Luna Moth

[ pt: Luna Moth /end pt ]

[ id: a rectangular flag with four evenly-sized horizontal stripes in the following colors, from top to bottom: pale green, light green, medium green, and dark teal. In the top left corner there is a drawn silhouette of a luna moth. /end id ]

[ id: a divider made up of mostly pixelated roses of varying sizes. There is an animal skull in the divider as well, sitting amongst the roses. /end id ]

Luna Moth: A presentation flag/term for intersex beings who present/are masculine, and wear traditionally western feminine things, such as makeup, dresses, skirts, ect. but still consider those things to be a part of a masculine presentation. Exclusive to intersex folx.

@presentationflag-archive / @radiomogai

Divider Credit

[faerygardenparty]

Do you see my vision

[stray-tim]

I may have a little problem, but it's fine~

Except for 3 tabs, everything is AO3... and I have a folder inside my browser with more open tabs from other fandoms that I want to read at a later date...

[ember-owlet]

wanted to make a cool ⁠template inspired by @/multi-fandom-agere's post to show off my babies ദ്ദി(˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧

feel free to reblog with your own blorbos, i'd love to see them!! but please do not repost!! ˚ʚ♡ɞ˚

[splattergai]

Mournamaine

PT: Mournamaine /end PT

[ Image ID: A rectangular flag with nine horizontal stripes, in the following colors, from top to bottom: near-black purple, dark purple, medium purplish-pink, mid pink, light yellow, mid pink, medium purplish-pink, dark purple, and near-black purple. The yellow, mid pink, and dark purple stripes are smaller than the other stripes. In the center of the flag is are three light yellow circles overlapping from side-to-side. The middle circle is larger than the other two. In the center of the middle circle is a smaller, mid pink circle. /end ID ]

[ Image ID: a centered divider made up of eight drawn pixelated eyes. The sizes of the eyes are in a pattern of small-big-small-big-small-big-small. The irises of the eyes are a dark red with black pupils, and the scleras are an off-white. Before the first and and after the last eye are two small off-white dots. /end ID ]

An identity related to the way everything feels far away from yourself, so close and yet just out of reach. Everything has changed and yet it feels all the same, a never-ending cycle of waking up and repeating everything you've been doing forever. You've become numb to the cycle. If you could, you would allow yourself to be swallowed by your bedsheets forever. The rot has already seeped into your home, and you cannot be bothered to clean it. It feels like a party you weren't supposed to attend, standing in the corner and waiting for the door to be unblocked. Everyone knows something you don't; a cruel secret that was never meant for your ears. The world has moved on without you, leaving bugs to crawl over your skin and the ever-lasting feeling of being watched. Reality has blurred with yourself, leaving a mess of flesh and blood and confusion. Once there was a distinction between the two. You look in the mirror. You are mourning yourself. Can be a gender, menre, or another non-gender identity. Meant to describe our experiences w/ schizophrenia, but not exclusive to those who are schizospec. Under the obscurian/kenochoric umbrella.

@radiomogai

Eye Dividers Used

[twstddream]

I'm gonna spoil an idea I have for a fic, because it may never actually be written.

This idea works from the theory that Skully is actually from the past and might even be a spirit (or ghost) himself that somehow was sucked into the book either when he was alive and 16, and the contents and world as well as time of the book are anamolous. Or that Skully had died years prior, his soul tied itself to the book, and his conciousness was "awakened" with new visitors being sucked into the book that his soul is presumably trapped in.

I re-watched Anohana recently and have recieved visions of Skully acting in the place of Menma. Skully himself is unaware of how much time as actually passed since his arrival in the world ov TNBC, and upon meeting the others assumes they're all from the same time, namely, his time. It would explain why he uses "wagahai" as a self-refferential pronoun (it is unused in modern day and is considered an archaic way of speaking), why he doesn't recognize Malleus' name or who he is, why he doesn't know of the magic stones that mages use now (since it's been said that magic stones weren't always around and had been introduced fairly late into Twisted Wonderland's history) and why his ideas of Halloween are very survival-based, and less leisurely like it is in modern times. Jack Skellington could very well have existed in Twisted Wonderland, but has been forgotten and lost to time. (Probably because his story and very existence deals with alternate worlds)

Anyway. Yuu and co. eventually realize that Skully is not from the same time that they are. This is where my direection for the fic gets a little wonky:

When completing the story of TNBC and the event is over, Skully still lingers. So now it's up to Yuu to grant his wish so he can go to the afterlife and reincarnate.

It is still during the event that Yuu tries to grant Skully's wish, hoping to placate him out of his plans in the process. So now Yuu, Grim, and Jack (essentially the kidnapped trio) attempt to get him to move on from his plans, celebrate Halloween, and get his soul to leave the book.

[gayraccoonthing]

Is he my favorite character? Yes. Do I love him? Also, yes. Do I need him sobbing on the floor in emotional and physical pain? Absolutely.

[marimbles]

i miss carpisuns sometimes </3

[shtalker]

some of you depression bloggers have to realise youre giving yourself brain damage. its not "aesthetic". cheer up. also its cringe.