#and then it occurred to me. Skin

[weirderscience]

my kitten burst oc its name is skin

[captainjade101]

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

am i xkcd comicing about how much people know about . anything to do with writing materials

"the average person probably only knows the definition of 'scribe' and 'manuscript'" "and 'parchment', of course" "of course"

[blujayonthewing]

the main problem I've had with trying to do 'your PC as other races' art is that when other people have done it, including ryoko kui's changeling comparisons, they always keep the character's original palette-- and that ends up being an immediate stumbling block for me when the first place I'd be inclined to start is with Elyss, whose main point of difference from an ordinary human is that she is green

[iridescentmirrorsgenshin]

Chapter One of a heated experiment is out now!

Synopsis:

“I told you. I’m not upset. There’s no need to conceal it now. The fact that our current relationship is based upon you using me for my body heat in the Winter is something I can come to terms with.” “What?” Instant incredulity. It had worked. The results would begin to manifest. Kaveh crossed his arms, perhaps as a sign of defence or just to warm his hands. “You’re not serious. How could you come to such an inane conclusion?” “You’re saying it’s unfounded? From what I can recall, you initiated a romantic relationship at the beginning of winter.” Kaveh was colouring. A promising sign of heightened blood circulation. “Not that it matters. It’s hardly even cold then. Not to such an extent, at least.” “That’s true.” He considered, and then came upon it. “But our physical relationship began a month later.” The red mottling Kaveh’s neck was expedient, mounting his face. “So?” “That month was reported to be the coldest winter in five years.” “You-!” Kaveh said nothing else. (Alhaitham hypothesises an alternative method to Kaveh's ineffectively stealing his body heat during Winter - bickering. It proves successful, before it backfires.)

[nokingsonlyfooles]

Ya know, content warnings are important AP (and Tumblr, this is not particularly graphic, just horrifying)

I scared my whole household by crying out in horror because I read THIS

before my coffee. I did NOT expect to be introduced to the idea that "we throw day-old baby chickens into a blender, where they are humanely macerated by multiple whirling blades - you see, the death is instantaneous, so they don't suffer, it's just upsetting ~<3"

I MEAN, I GUESS? But JESUS!

That's like a fucking Monty Python sketch! "I wanna be an egg farmer! I love cute little chickens!" "Okay! Well, let's get you set up with this bird-blender!" "What?"

I couldn't even bring myself to say, "It's okay! It's not bad!" It's not gonna hurt me or my family right now, but it's pretty bad! Fucking hell, I gotta buy some eggs if I want to make more cookies. I'm considering hitting an old family recipe with a flax or chia egg instead, just 'cos of how I found that out. I am perfectly happy killing and eating animals, but 350 million chicks in a blender is a level of carnage that seems pointless.

Anti-capitalism takeaway: This happens because it's cheaper to puree birds who won't lay eggs, but now that we have a reliable way of sexing the eggs, we can just crush the eggs, which is even cheaper (and less upsetting~<3!). If you weren't raising birds at scale, you wouldn't have a bird blender.

Pro-science/trivia takeaway: Wow. This new egg-sexing machine only works on brown eggs because embryos in brown eggs are different colours based on sex, and that works fine in Europe because most people want brown eggs there. Most Americans want white eggs, so the bird blending will continue for the near future.

snrt: The egg-sexing machine is called "Cheggy."

[godgavemenoname]

:(

I'm high and cant stop thinking about the doctors appointment earlier I feel like I said some embarrassing shit. I was so dissociated it didnt even occur to me to feel anything about what I was saying, let alone shame. God fml

[riotbeankai]

I've only been on this dosage of testosterone gel for what, like, a year? how many times do I have to get it refilled before they figure out HOW MANY TO GIVE ME for a 30 DAY FUCKIN SUPPLY for FUCK'S SAKE

[vixvigil]

oh wow could you explain more about the stigmata if you’re comfortable?

sure! might be a bit disappointing though, it’s pretty mundane

simple answer is i got really sick in my teens and ended up with a load of wounds that wouldn’t heal.

for whatever reason the wounds on my hands and feet were especially persistent. they stayed open for far longer than was practical given their size of them and location. i had to wear gloves for years to avoid making things weird in public — wearing gloves, over bandages covering open wounds, in the middle of humid british summer is so uniquely disgusting it’s unreal 

generally my scars heal white and end up pretty much invisible, the only way you notice most of them is the textural change, but, because they’d been unhealed for so long, when these ones did finally scar over they were brownish-purple, and thus far more noticeable, so, alas, i could not yet fully retire the gloves. though mercifully now sans bandage and wound

couple of years later i ended up losing most of my skin (long story), including the skin on the backs of my hands and tops of my feet, and had another terrible gloves-bandage-wound summer🚬🚬

after a horrible, skinless year, when I finally got medical attention and my skin started to grow back, it kind of overrode a lot of my previous scars, including the ones on my hands, and, albeit to a lesser extent, my feet

with time, what was left of them has faded even further. sometimes you can see shadows of the left one if i tilt my hand in the right direction, but really they’re mostly gone now. the ones on my feet are a little more visible, but nowhere near as bad as they used to be; they’re more visible when i’m cold i think. 

every now and again they do still tingle and itch though, like weird phantom wounds

[incandescentbitch]

I'm sick of modern AUs. These universities and coffee shops are getting old. I want genre AUs. Put the high fantasy characters in a Sci-fi setting and vice-versa. Put them in a Western. Put them in a magical girl anime.

[enjomo-arch]

The studio that makes ace figures I look at ( one day I'll get one .) is making an ace manipulating his fire the way it looks like a fire lasso I'm going to tear the wallpaper off my walls.

[rulesforthedance]

The finger Ronin chewed up back in JULY is finally fully healed and free of the dead tissue that stayed stuck to the end of it for a while. Ronin and I are both glad I no longer have to clean it and put ointment on it twice a day (the joys of wound care for an animal who would eat a bandage and acts like he is dying if you put him in a cone so he can't eat the bandage). But the questions remain: Why did he do that? And how do I make sure he never does it again?

[thecatinthepurplepants]

Gerard Keay, minding his own damn business in pinhole books:

The skin book aparition of Mary deciding he hasn't had enough mom related trauma just yet: white woman jumpscare 🧍🏼‍♀️

[dermafordays]

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[fingertipsmp3]

Save me skincare routine. Save me stupidly expensive skincare routine in tiny bottles

[gilbertscarrot]

I try my best to keep things positive on here, but the hate comments for TLM '23 are ridiculous lol