#calming body care

[y2kbeautyandother2000sstuff]

BBW Joyful Gardens Calming Waters Fragrant Body Mist

2003

Found on Ebay, user  teresatexeira5ka7

[beccawise7]

Rest the mind. Feed the soul. ✌️

~beccawise7 💜🖤

[strwbrgirls]

⠀⠀⠀𝓨𝗈𝗎 you're wonderful 🧘🏻‍♀️🪴 ࿐⠀⠀⠀𖥔⠀ ִֶָ ࣪

— Healthy and calm

By : @strwbrgirls 🍃🧘🏻‍♀️

[bumblingbabooshka]

T'Pel is pregnant! [Patreon | Commissions]

[collectiveclams]

Trying my best to figure out what these guys look like in my head before I go look at the fandom’s generalized designs for the characters.

A friend of my twin got us into the show and a week later we’re at season 8!

I definitely need to tweak Cole’s design a lot- I want him to have a more strongman build & revamp his entire face design. But at the very least I’m happy with getting his hair the way I want!

Kinda hard to see, but Zane’s got little screws for earrings! I honestly didn’t account for how much older the faceplate would make him look, I intended him to look way more boyish.

Rambling about my current HCs of the Ninja’s appearances below:

I’ve been having a bit of an trouble deciding what various flavor of Chinese & Japanese these dudes should be based on. Considering the show is based on a 2010s vague idea of “Asia” and carries traits of both Japanese & Chinese influence, I’m just going to use both. I don’t know what sorta general consensus the fandom has of their appearances bc I have barely interacted with the fandom, so if this violently contrasts with that then yippee I have original thoughts, I guess.

-Kai is Japanese. Kai, being vain and caring more about training than Jay for example, has a more aesthetic build that’s definitely form more than function. Like a natty powerlifter who’s not competing. I’m not sure what height he should be, but if he’s taller his muscle definition would appear smaller so I’ll have to keep that in mind.

- Nya has initially a more functional build- far less muscle definition than her brother. Not outwardly buff and doesn’t have pronounced muscles, but can fairly easily haul a 100lb hunk of metal from a scrap pile to her workbench. But after becoming the water ninja, her new training gives her more pronounced muscle definition. Initially shorter than Kai but grows taller as the show goes on.

- Cole is southern Chinese. He’s got a strongman heavy set build. I envision him as fairly short so his muscles can be a little more pronounced. If you stripped his muscle definition from his ninja training away, I still want him to look like one of assholes who haven’t worked out a day in their lives but still somehow looks jacked.

- Zane is what pops up when you look up “Chinese teen male stock photo” because he needs to look like The Most Generic person ever. No muscle definition at all on this dude. He’s a nindroid & so there’s no need to include muscle decision to show that he’s strong. He’s either average height or slightly on the shorter side bc gravity is a bitch and the taller make a humanoid robot, the more balance becomes a bitch to deal with. So average height or short Zane it is.

- Jay is Uyghur so I can get this dude his reddish-brown hair. Minor muscle definition. His isn’t for aesthetics like Kai, he’d rather do ninja training than do the types of sets & pushing to failure needed to achieve more pronounced muscle definition for aesthetic lifting. Jay needs to be shorter than Nya. He’s definitely taller than Cole but I need him to be just an inch shorter than Nya because that’s funny to me personally.

- Lloyd is Japanese. Solely because Oni come from Japan & I got spoilered that Gargamon is an Oni later. Lloyd is a stringy ass kid at first & has no muscle definition at all. During his Green Ninja training before the Travelers Tea, he’d be trained for efficiency & not for aesthetics with the deadline of him fighting his father possibly being around any corner. After Travelers Tea he likely kept his training to function over aesthetics and would share similar muscular definition to Jay & Nya. And he’s tall. His dad is tall as shit with 4 arms. I want this kid to go through the Worst gangly teen era anyones ever seen and only barely fit his form once he finishes growing.

Additional thoughts:

And as a big comic nerd who owns around 800+ comics (might be more around 1000 now?), hoo boy I have so many thoughts on Lloyd and Jay liking Starfarer. I cannot wait to make a fic that’s just Lloyd and Jay ganging up against Kai over some incredibly wrong take of the comic he absentmindedly said and trapping him in a 3 hour long conversation about frequent mischaracterization and mishandling of the characters in Starfarer & how what Kai said was wrong. I just need a fic of Jay and Lloyd talking to each other about their favorite runs of Starfarer and complaining about a tie-in/crossover comic that’s written particularly bad, or complaining how an author completely misunderstood Fitz Donnegan or complaining over an author change & etc. I just need to make a fic of these boys talking about average comic book fan things.

[appleciders]

begging my male coworkers to develop coping mechanisms that aren't exercise

[dreamscapescribe]

If you love a slow-burn with morally gray characters and Beth Greene being a badass, you might like this (or hate it, idk)

Started writing this after watching Dead City and trying to decide how wild it would be to ship Negan and Maggie. Then I spent a lot of time pondering something even more unhinged that I ended up finding very fun. And, so, here we are.

The Edge of Redemption:

Beth Greene didn’t think she’d live this long. After losing her home and everyone she loved, she wasn’t sure she had anything left to live for. But at the Sanctuary, she found something she never expected – the strength to begin again.

Some see her as an outsider. Others, a rising force. But Negan? He sees her as something else entirely.

As Beth fights to keep hope alive in a world ruled by violence, lines blur, alliances shift, and survival is no longer enough.

But war is coming. And when the fight reaches her doorstep, she’ll be forced to confront the past she thought left her behind – and the question that haunts her: what kind of future is she really fighting for?

[y2kbeautyandother2000sstuff]

Avon mark. Self Sanctuary Spa Sea Water Dry Oil Mist

2005

Found on Poshmark, user cbhannum

[nights-at-crystarium]

wolqotd

How does your WoL handle being alone after a mundanely shitty day? What's their go-to comforting memory, dream, or a relaxing routine? Something else that restores peace of mind?

[zebratoys]

12 עוגנים לאיזון השקטה ושלווה 1. מודעות לנשימה ותרגילי נשימה, מדיטציה. 2. הודיה, הערכה על הטוב הקיים, מיקוד ב"יש" בחוזקות במה שעובד. 3. לשים כוונה, לשאת תפילה, להתמקד ברצונות ותשוקות, בעשייה תכליתית. 4. תזונה בריאה ומאוזנת. 5. שהייה בטבע, לטבול בים בנחל ביער ובחורשה. 6. לעשות דברים שאוהבים עם עצמך או עם אחרים. 7. להציע עזרה, להתנדב ולתת. 8. לעסוק באמנות, ליצור, לקרוא, ללמוד משהו חדש, לשמוע מוזיקה. 9. קרקוע אדמה, הליכה, ישיבה, שכיבה על החול. 10. תנועה, לרקוד, להתמתח, להרים משקולות, לרוץ. 11. תשומת לב לצבעים, טעמים, צלילים, מרקמים וניחוחות. 12. לחייך, לצחוק, לחבק מישהו שאוהבים, שיחה טובה עם חבר/ה.

אורית בן שפר לזכות בתקווה חדשה מלווה אותך לבחירה בחיים מעצימים ומשמעותיים.

אורית ג��טמכר לוי הַלְלוּיָהּ www.zebratoys.etsy.com

#שליפיםלחייםטובים

[bumblingbabooshka]

Something real to me immediately post-Voyager is that both Tuvok and Janeway are looking around at their crew like “God...these poor folks are not dealing with this transition well...” in an earnest but also slightly condescending way (as they are prone towards thinking of themselves as examples to be followed and somewhat superior to others, even if that isn’t the language they’d use/how they’d understand themselves) but in reality they are also dealing with it extremely and visibly poorly and are thus unable to help literally anyone and everyone who sees them is like “You guys don’t seem to be doing well” but this flies over their heads or they think to themselves, shaking their heads sadly, ‘this poor bastard...trying to say that I need help when they’re obviously the ones suffering...thank God I don’t have any problems.’

[kyofsonder]

Physically, I'm already lying down.

Emotionally, I feel like I need to find a soft spot and crumple dramatically to the ground and lay down for a few weeks.

[y2kbeautyandother2000sstuff]

Bath and Body Works Joyful Garden Calming Waters Luxurious Foam Bath

1999-2003ish

Found on Ebay, user dark_discordia

[arolesbianism]

Anyways incorporating new saint hcs into my semi au Sliver lore means that now saint gets to continuously experience ascending Sliver forever 👍

[nabaath-areng]

It's funny how my psychiatrist and psych nurses are all so supportive about my as of yet undiagnosed physical issues and do their best to keep those in mind when we discuss my care. Meanwhile GP and qualified doctors either tell me to "not compare my googling to their medical degree" or go all "yeah EDS sounds quite likely actually but there's no point diagnosing that since it cannot be cured anyway"