#it puts the lotion on its skin

[beardedmrbean]

[melodicfix]

[benthesoldiersjeanshorts]

[soulofkole]

Me weird.

[deelovesbooks]

so i asked for new moisturizer for christmas (did u guys know moisturizer expires??) and every day without fail once I'm walking into work I remember this moisturizer i should be using that's still in the box and tell myself that tomorrow I'll remember it

who wants to bet on how many days it's gonna take me to a) remove it from it's packaging and 2nd) actually remember to put it on

[tendisneren]

i need to climb a tree SO BAD right now. exfoliate my skin tree…

[jackals-ships]

cleansed only bc i have Doc Appt Tomorrow,,i am also. Damp

[natjennie]

just took an indulgent shower and god damn that shit is tiring. my back hurts. why can't my body just be normal.

[wee-toe]

[soullessjack]

never stop with the jack posts but also . there’s something so funny about lotionposting

I never plan to but now I’m scared of what lotionposting means

[onboardsorasora]

Sequels are hard folks. Don't do drugs (listen to your readers)

We're halfway and my outline is staring at me in betrayal.

[un-bean-lievable]

I maxed out on tags 😭. Anyways I also just find purses annoying to wear and inconvenient. Also if your going about and buying things especially do you just carry around all that stuff?

@ people who carry bags everywhere what do you put in them what is there to bring other than chapstick, keys, phone and maybe a tampon why are you packing a suitcase to be outside for 5 hours

[theendofmybody]

ive literally gotten the worst of both of my parents skin genes. this sucks

[wanderrealms]

Adventures in make up:

Tried to combine white eyeshadow with hot pink eyeshadow to get a lighter color. The white eyeshadow is quite powdery and now my eyelashes are colorless and a little clumpy. Also the hot pink eyeshadow is actually blush.

The colorless eyelashes looks kind of cool. If I ever do an ice maiden outfit for halloween I'll look for white mascara.

[night-creeps]

Experiment with soaps!

Try different smells of soap. Try different brands of shampoo and conditioner. Find a different flavoured toothpaste. Try a different hardness of bristle on your tooth brush. Try a different laundry soap. A different dishsoap. A different anything!

That's one of the biggest things I found about growing up. I'm allowed to get different things.

Struggle to do dishes? Try a different material of dish!

Don't like brushing your hair? Try a different size or style of comb/brush!

Forget about your laundry in the washer all the time? Try making a day of it and go to a local laundromat, set aside the time to do it and bring something along with you to pass the time!

There are an endless amount of things we forget we can do differently once we move out. Even if you don't mind the current way you do things, you never know when changing things up opens your eyes. There's an endless list of possibilities in how to live your life. Bed sheets, blankets, clothes, tissues, toilet papers, silverware, snack brands, flavours of tea, fruits you've never been allowed to buy, socks, shoes, lightbulbs, stationary, I could go on!

If you can justify it or if it's something you know you can't live without, like special foods or clothes or other sensory/dietary/allergy contributors, try a different kind once a month. Even if it's as small as trying a different kind of toothbrush or toothpaste (this was a big one for me) it can help you find ways to make life enjoyable and not just tolerable.

For any followers of mine still living with parents, guardians, family, or even just with roommates and who've never lived alone and/or fully on your own terms (whether ye be 16 or 60), I have TWO pieces of wisdom for you for when you eventually do:

You WILL discover that you were wrong about some shit you felt pretty strongly about before. Maybe you never realized how often your mom ACTUALLY cleans the bathroom and it turns out she asked for help really rarely. Maybe, much as it grates to admit, putting $50 into a different savings account every paycheck really IS the ONLY way to save any fucking money. Maybe that big rolling trashcan you resented your roommate putting in the kitchen, and got in that big fight about, really WAS super convenient and now you have to buy one for yourself after they move out and take it with them. Maybe blanching vegetables so they retain their color when cooked actually DOES enhance a meal, pretty food slaps actually, and the reason you didn't think it was worth the effort is because you were depressed.

You WILL also discover new shit that works SO much better for you than everything you'd been taught. Maybe you'll discover that dropping trash off at a recycling center at your convenience works way better for your brain than getting it picked up on a set day. Maybe you'll realize you don't actually hate tofu, you just hate how your family cooks tofu. Maybe you'll love being able to walk around the house naked whenever you want. Maybe you'll find you thrive in a space with giant framed nude photography, or taxidermy animals, or fandom themed Everything. Maybe you'll realize that keeping the thermostat set like 5 degrees colder (or hotter) than is typical makes you sleep better than you ever have before in your whole life.

The point of this wisdom is: Stay humble, but also, stay excited. There's no point pretending you weren't wrong about shit you were wrong about, just eat the crow and move on. But also, there's so much to look forward to about your own space-- even more than you could ever imagine when you don't have it yet.

[cultkinkcoven]

Super easy and cheap devotional acts for beginners.

A nice cup and some clean, fresh, water on the altar can often be all you need for daily offerings

Grow a plant on your altar, use your weekly watering as a devotional act. Hermes is currently helping my peace lily grow :)

Draw their sigil on your nails and then paint over them with nail polish that matches their color correspondences.

If you can’t acquire alcohol for your deities (wine, vodka etc) because you’re too young, white vinegar also works. The quality we’re looking for is the purification aspect. White vinegar is natural, antibacterial and never goes bad. You can leave it on your altar until it evaporates if you want.

If you work with a deity involved with self love like Aphrodite, investing a little more time into your skin care and scent can be very rewarding. Nothing super boujie, it can be as simple as getting some nice smelling lotion at the dollar store.

Food and water offerings don’t have to be external, especially if you’re in the broom closet and don’t have an altar. Reserve the first bite of your meal for your deity. Savour its taste while you think about them. Pour yourself a crisp glass of cold water and guzzle it as a devotional act.

Use a washable or dry erase marker to draw sigils on your shower wall for bath rituals. It’ll come right off when you’re done.

Tea bags are just bags of dried herbs. You can use these as offerings or draw sigils on them and burn them for witchcraft. No one is ever suspicious about a little tea. Adding a tea bag to your water offerings also gives them an extra kick.

A couple dollars at the thrift store will take you a long way. I love thrifting items because they’re usually well loved. I especially like thrifting spirituality books that past practitioners have written in. Sometimes my deities communicate with me through the books that are available on any given day. If I was just talking to Leviathan about the power of water and I see a book about Hydromancy, I know that he’s sending me a sign. Like, 90% of the books Lucifer has sent me popped up at the thrift store. Most expensive one was $7.99. (and I tag swapped it for 2.99 😊 thanks, Hermes-

and on this note, literally steal. Not from small local thrift stores, but I mean this with my whole chest, steal from Value Village. If you can sneakily swap a tag and get something for cheaper literally do it. Value Village gets all their inventory for free I literally do not care. Corporate thrift stores don’t deserve rights. I steal from Value Village as a devotional act to Hermes 😊 lmao )

If you don’t have money to spend on really nice paintings and posters of your deities for your altar, start buying books about them. It’s a double win. A book about Greek religion will certainly have multiple beautiful sculptures and paintings of Aphrodite that I can cut out and put on my wall. A book about angels might have a cool painting of Lucifer. Books about Goddesses, ancient religions, anthropology, astrology etc. You get the opportunity to learn, and if it’s a book you don’t particularly care too much for, you can take it apart for imagery. People ask me all the time where I got all of my paintings and pictures from. BOOKS.

Does your deity have a kind of complicated sigil that you love but you also kinda hate redrawing every other day? Sorry Cerberus (Naberius) I love you but that sigil is so complicated babe.

Learn how to block print! It’s very simple. You get a block of linoleum (usually pretty cheap, I think mine were like $5) , some ink (~$10), and a carving tool (varies depending), and make a sigil stamp! All you gotta do is draw your sigil and carve it out nicely one time. You can still bless it and imbue it with your energy, and you can easily put it on prayers, talismans etc.

Chalk is your best friend. Use it to draw sigils on the floor or wall that can easily be wiped away. You can imbue special chalk and use it for casting circles if you don’t like the mess of salt.