#Colloidal silver for skin

[lokh]

bro it should be illegal for big pet stores to sell naturopathic shit 💀

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Look Outside Posting Part 5.5

Something fishy is going on around here. Hold onto your asses, this is going to be my most earth-shattering theory yet.

The blue people are few, but they are present just about everywhere, and they're unmistakable when they're still human. Papineau. Xaria. Jeanne. Possibly Mutt (who's bluer in his overworld sprite). A suspicious number of blue mutants.

I don't think this can be wholly attributed to lighting or artstyle. The lighting is a little bluer in the hallway, for instance, but people who aren't blue are still not blue there when the door is opened. In the overworld, blue party members are still that color. The difference is pretty stark in the scenes where blue and nonblue people are side by side.

Take Claire as an example - she's partially blue, found in the same place as Jean-Pierre, and her not-blue patches are the same tone as him, but he isn't blue in the slightest.

What's more, it can't be a Visitor thing at all. Papineau and Xaria are not witnesses. Everybody finds it totally unremarkable and not worth commenting on - except, crucially, for Roaches, who sees fit to call Papineau "bIG BluE mAN". They can all see it, it's just NORMAL.

Okay. People can just be blue in Look Outside world. Why not? I mean, the astronomers have pretty unusual eye colors. It's just a thing that happens, I guess.

......but like, why?

I'm sure we can figure this out. Let's see now...

Blue skin is not unheard of in the real world, though it's waaay less common than "multiple normalized instances per apartment building".

The first way this has been known to happen is methemoglobinemia, a condition that's famously associated with the Blue Fugates, a Kentucky family from the 1800s who carried multiple copies of the gene for it.

With this condition, you produce a lot of methemoglobin - a faulty version of hemoglobin that incorporates iron ions in a different state than they're supposed to be, making it unable to bind to oxygen and do its job. The blood of someone with high methemoglobin is brownish, and the skin can take on a blue tone. Levels higher than that also cause adverse symptoms like headaches, seizures, and poor coordination.

This is unlikely to be the culprit, though. The last "blue" Fugate ceased to be blue in the 1900s, as by then they weren't as isolated and were getting medical care that cleared up their symptoms. Even if the gene was extremely common in Look Outside, the medication that treats it is readily available. The striking blue skin tone also seems to mostly happen with white people, and it wouldn't look anywhere near as noticeable with the majority POC residents of the apartment.

The other real-world possibility is something like argyria.

Pictured here is Paul Karason, a man best known for his extensive use of colloidal silver, an alternative medicine, in the belief that it treated a variety of health conditions. He's the most famous example of this condition, having taken it for about two decades.

Silver compounds are pretty harmless as far as we know, but taking them long-term causes them to be built up in deposits in the skin, gradually shifting it to a blue-grey.

It being a common individual choice in the setting would make some sense, and the gradual build-up would explain why some like Claire and Papineau aren't totally blue yet. (It might also mean Monty has it too, as he's sort of mildly bluish-grey?) Depending on the cultural context for it, I could see that being something Papineau would do as a traditional thing or for similar "health" reasons, and Xaria and Monty might do as a counterculture thing.

I don't think we have enough to say it's this one specific substance, of course. The shade doesn't really match exactly, Xaria is awfully young to have been taking colloidal silver for years, and I don't think there's any other signs that Look Outside was some kind of alternate timeline prior to the cataclysm.

But I do think the mechanism, normalized use of some substance that builds up in the skin, goes some way toward a possible explanation here.

[reality-detective]

COPPER DEFICIENCY SYMPTOMS

• Aneurysm

• Gray & silver hair

• Crowsfeet, sagging skin

• Varicose veins, hemorrhoids

Would Colloidal Copper help people? 🤔

[glitchy-npc]

Quick picrew redraw of my blue-gene oc Fives. So named because their designation number had a lot of fives (they're not that creative).

The most remarkable thing about them is a complete immunity to the boost drug. Scientists at the Farm don't know if it was some sort of natural immunity or if their boost was the immunity. Either way, despite multiple attempts with different strains and doses they remained unaffected. They were given colloidal silver to change their skin blue like other Re-Genes but since they have no powers they were not tattooed.

After the scientists started considering running further tests on them a waste of time, Fives became largely invisible at the Farm. They were delegated to maintenance duties, given a cursory education but no combat training. That doesn't mean they never picked anything up, you can still learn a lot by observing.

That invisibility helped facilitate their escape from the Farm that followed in the chaos of Tegan's second escape.

They took up vigilantism (and petty villainy, whatever gets you paid) because its one of the few careers you can remain fully covered the whole time and no one bats an eye. They rely on tech and distance weapons as they re not a good hand to hand fighter.

They are acquainted with the Handyman and he's probably the closest thing they have to a friend as they are mostly a loner.

[transx-mogai-cafe]

Trace dysphoria really kicking my ass today. And it's like how can I even mitigate it?? The only way I could make my skin turn permanently blue would be like taking colloidal silver or something. Which. Not sure the side effects would be worth the tradeoff. But I guess on especially dysphoric days it does seem tempting doesn't it.

[cuprohastes]

Holy fucking hell do not do this!!

There’s an actual advert on tumblr:

Colloidal gold will do the same thing that colloidal silver will do. It will turn your skin blue, and cause organ inflammation toxicity in your liver and kidneys and skin rashes.

Do not start taking heavy metals as a diet supplement. This is wrong and bad and holy fuck somebody should get fired for allowing this advert.

[nonconstories]

Seriously though, I'm having like Thoughts about the entire CONCEPT of Uccastrog, aka The Fucked Up Island Where Everybody Tortures Everyone Who Comes There. Like they are explicitly stated to do this Because It's Fun. They employ Magic to do this as well as like, Random Creative Bullshit (and sometimes maggots). They fuck with your mind Just Because and they personalize a lot of this shit To You.

This is NOT HELL this is just A PLACE it is on MAPS it has a GOVERNMENT it has an ECONOMY. Fulbra is there because he got LOST like I get lost going to Dunkin fucking Donuts. (Pathetic spoiled cat of a man I wanna ride him until he cries.) Like this is AWESOME I wanna turn this into like 60 thousand words of crazy gay/trans torture porn so bad.

ALSO THE SILVER PLAGUE. The Silver Plague turns your skin metallic just like colloidal silver does (guys don't eat fucking silver you are not a fucking dragon) and kills you in like a matter of fucking minutes sometimes. Even if you survive it by magic it lives in you forever and the moment the magic-whatever breaks it starts spreading again immediately. Like seriously the whole "he's a pathetic little king desperately for love and very suicidal" cinches it for me like this is so weird and so hot and so much fun I REALLY make this into something fucking crazy.

Like, again, this guy was a founding father of cosmic horror. He was one of Lovecraft's FRIENDS they were in a literal WRITING CIRCLE together for YEARS. So like this could very easily be "an island dwelling cult devoted to a sadistic god of pain eventually grew into a rogue mirco-nation of powerful magic workers" and the Silver Plague could very easily be "a contagious curse that is devouring Yoros and all its people and whoops only the crazy powerful Witch King on the Spooky Island of Sexy I Mean Scary Wizards can cure it" and he could be going there to negotiate and whoops the King Of the Evil Torture People takes him hostage and starts you know torturing him to please the Crazy Pain God and like--

Like you see where I'm going with this. Like this writes itself (i'm lying all writing hard save me don't let me do this myself).

[violetsandshrikes]

A lot of people on the Borax post are also shocked to learn that people are taking Colloidal silver as a preventative health treatment as well.

Colloidal silver is really big in the wellness industry for two reasons: one, because we USED to use it OTC and therefore people assume it was removed because of corruption-trying-to-keep-us-ill-reasons and two, because it is often touted as an alternative to antibiotics, and useful to stave off flus and viral illnesses (so topical).

Research currently doesn’t support any medicinal use for colloidal silver, and it’s not considered safe to take orally. Silver deposits in your skin and organ seem rather useless to me.

[red-red-spout]

How do you spot a werewolf hunter?

No, it's not the gear - beekepeers don't walk to the coster in wicker mask and robe, so why should you expect luparii to waltz around with gambeson and rogatina? No, nothing in the stance or gait either - the scars are a good guess, but lycanthropes are hardly the only ones capable of inflicting them.

It's all in the skin - the color of it, that is, stained blue-grey by argyrosis. It's the colloidal silver - they all take it, only thing that can prevent the infection setting in once contact has been made. And god knows they've seen enough bad cases to do all they can to avoid that. It destroys the kidneys, wounds the eyes, but given the alternative…

[arsnof]

Just read the Man of Sin Wikipedia article and now I'm going to join an Apocalypse cult.

What're the chances that there are a good number of zealot republicans who believe Trump is the Antichrist and still support him. Not because they're Secret Satanists, but because JC can't come back until AC shows up and, if you're a real Jesus stan and want to see Him in your lifetime and can't wait, why not build your own to hurry it along?

Not saying it's true, just that it would make a great story.

A boy born into money but, through a tragic backstory, becomes a self important bully who grows into a young real estate guy. He's willing to skirt the rules to make some deals, but he's not cruel.

We follow him as he moves up in the world. The twist is that he keeps running into aggressively nice people who are just a little too interested in him and keep putting him in very obvious right v wrong scenarios and giving him a little push. Weirdest, they are all sporting a distinctive crucifix/American flag emblem in jewelry or lapel pins or tattoos (a cool youth pastor) or clothes.

He gets older and richer and famous and they steer him towards politics and he gains followers and friends and he gets more and more twisted. Eventually he is president and then.. More.

He is an old man in a horrible toupee, blue from colloidal silver and hopped up on bull hormones, he stands on the balcony of his tower that reaches into the heavens and is surrounded by people wearing the emblem on their heavy coats. The tower is so tall that the atmosphere is thin and they wear oxygen masks.

He doesn't, though. Oxygen is a carcinogen and only Omegas breath it. He's not wearing a heavy coat, just an ill fitting blazer and nothing else.

He watches as the sky cracks open and Jesus descends in a brilliant light. The last shot is his close-up. Eyes squinting, hair flying wildly to reveal several trepanation scars, a wry smirk twists his face. "Let's make a deal," he says as his skin blisters, but he doesn't flinch.

[anon-oc-rambling]

I love my Stardew Valley oc so much it's unreal. His skin is grey cuz his parents were part of a colloidal silver cult (womp womp) & he's really tall & lanky & super sun-sensitive (womp womp) so he lives mostly nocturnally. So in the valley after he moves in he's seen as a cryptid sorta figure. & he's very quiet & soft-spoken so the people in the valley who do end up meeting him think he's really sweet but cuz everyone who hasnt met him is somewhat scared of him he's just lonely living in the secluded little farmer's cabin (then he meets Sebastian & they become besties & then someone catches feelings.... I'm glad this is anonymous cuz I'm so embarrassed abt this lol)

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[returnofstiqz]

Could have gone with garlic, but then he'd just be stinky, rather than a hideous grayish blue. This is one from last Spooktober. I liked how it came out but it seemed like a lot of people aren't old enough to remember the colloidal silver health craze. SPOILERS: doesn't do anything except permanently turn your skin blue. At least it's non-toxic

Oh and I doubled checked: Vampires are weak to silver, too. In fact everything "evil" is weak to silver. It's actually all because of silver's antimicrobial properties, and before in invention of modern antibiotics wasn't the worst way to disinfect wounds. Some cranks in the 20th century thought drinking a tincture of the stuff might be good for you, but honestly it's pretty useless unless your goal is to perma-cosplay as a smurf

[groupieculture]

I’m watching Bella hadids in the bag vogue video and she pulled out a colloidal silver mist lmao girls is it cool to have blue silver skin

[godlovesdykes]

From the People’s CDC newsletter today:

“An effective multilayered approach to COVID prevention should include proven measures such as masking with high-quality respirators (N95s, KN96s, KF94s or better), improving indoor air quality with ventilation and filtration, physical distancing, getting the latest vaccines, and using COVID tests appropriately. Unproven methods should not be considered part of a multilayered approach. Topical nasal products such as sprays or ointments may seem tempting but are not proven to prevent COVID infections (none are FDA approved for COVID) and may have risks. For example, Vaseline and petrolatum-based ointments can cause pneumonia if applied to the inside of the nose, as they may be subsequently inhaled where they can damage the lungs. Over-the-counter antibiotic ointments are intended to protect from bacterial infection in minor skin wounds and should not be used inside the nose. Although early research on other uses has been publicized, given the risks of petrolatum-based ointments if used in the nose, it is important to wait for larger scale studies to understand both potential risks and benefits. Colloidal silver, sometimes touted in nasal spray form, is not proven to treat or prevent any medical condition and can cause permanent gray pigmentation of the skin as well as other serious side effects. Research studies shared in the news or on social media should not be used in place of medical advice from an individual healthcare provider you trust.”

Sharing with all the original hyperlinks because I’ve seen a lot of talk on social media about nasal sprays for covid and want to illuminate the discussion.

[cleverhottubmiracle]

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