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pastrydragon · 1 year ago

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What do the rogues smell like? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

I know you probably asked this as a joke but I thought deeply about it anyway so here you go!

Riddler:

Lemon and lavender soaps.

Edward's dad was a hoarder and so Edward has a thing about his space being clean.

when he got his first apartment he kept it obsessively clean and as a side effect of this the place always smelled like the lemon and lavender cleaning products he'd scrubbed the place with.

And since this was the first place Edward ever felt safe, he ended up associating those scents with safety.

So all his soap and cleaning products to this day are either lemon or lavender scented, so he inevitably ends up with a near permanent air freshener like scent.

Scarecrow:

Pumpkin pie now but used to smell like chemicals.

Harley got him a basket of pumpkin spice everything as a gift for his birthday one year after he developed a toxin variation that was particularly pungent and he wasn't gonna waste perfectly good hygiene products!

And he has a genuine love for pumpkin taste so he keeps cans of it around to put in his pancakes every morning.

So yeah, The Master Of Halloween smells like thanksgiving.

You can still smell the chemicals if you get close though.

Mad hatter:

“Iris Poudre” by Frederic Malle, he doesn’t care that it’s a women’s perfume, he wants to smell like a sexy flower garden and everyone else can mind their own business.

Under the perfume he smells like whatever tea he drank that day and possibly like whatever sugary treat he baked to go with it.

Unless he's been in his lab all day, then he smells like metals and plastic.

And once in a blue moon when he needs to do some intense testing, cool ranch Doritos.

Except he never brings food down there with him so how....?

Mr. Freeze:

His condition causes him to have a permanent fresh snow smell which he was pleasantly surprised by.

Like the other scientists on this list carries a kind of "laboratory smell" with him.

His suit smells... weird. Like you can smell that a person was there but there's no sweat smell and its honestly a little off-putting. Luckily he cleans it very regularly.

He used to wear “Angel’s share” by Killian because Nora has good taste and wasn’t gonna let her husband smell like detergent and nothing else.

He'll start wearing it again when she wakes up.

Penguin:

“Tobacco Vanille” by Tom Ford mainly. The man wants to ooze class.

He also wears it because he always has a cigar after his lunch and dinner so he needs to wear something he knows won't clash scents with his Arturo's.

And if you're thinking that smell is strong, that's on purpose.

Oswald has a small group of birds in his atrium that he cares for personally out of affection, and because of that if you get right up close to him you’ll smell bird cage. Not great.

He might also smell like seafood after meals but not really in a bad way, more in a "Well fuck, now I'm craving Red Lobster!" way.

TwoFace:

“REPLICA jazz club” Because before he was Twoface he was a snazzy lawyer who wanted to smell like how big band music sounds.

There's also the medicine he puts on his acid burns which smells exactly how you’d expect it to.

The two mixing together isn't unpleasant but it is a bit confusing to get a whiff of if you don't know who it's coming from.

It smells kinda like an expensive hospital room.

He might also smell like Bloody Mary's if he's had a bad day.

Harley:

“Tutti Fruity Candy” by Bath and bodyworks

Unless she’s going to one of Oswald’s fancy parties, Then she wears “Into The Night”…. Also by bath and bodyworks.

She also smells a bit like bubblegum.

She smells like how a slumber party feels I think.

Just smells like fun!

Catwomen:

Has accumulated an impressive collection of expensive perfumes as gifts from various gentleman friends over the years and uses them almost at random so literally no one knows until she shows up.

She also smells a bit like cats.

Poison Ivy:

ROSES

Like a very aggressive rose smell.

Like you aren’t allowed to wear rose scented perfume in Gotham because it makes people try to evacuate the area.

Ivy could smell like any flower she wanted of course.

But who doesn't love roses?

Bane:

Harley strikes again and got him Dr. Squach products because he's Mr. manly man and she thought it was funny.

He shares John's "waste nothing" philosophy and used all of it, then bought more because he liked it.

His favorite scent is alpine sage but he changes it up sometimes.

He also smells like 24 hour fitness, because obviously.

He might also smell like peanut butter protein shakes.

Bookworm:

Musty dusty book smell.

He smells like a socially awkward moth eaten carpet.

He smells like an old arm chair with a cat sitting in it.

He smells like cocoa butter because he is an ashy bitch who needs to be moisturized.

Please buy him some cologne.

Killer Croc:

Waylon's home may be in the sewer but his home also happens to be beachfront property, so he smells like ocean mainly.

With all his free time between heists and such, Waylon often takes on elaborate cooking projects with a focus on BBQ and smoking meat. Which means he smells like a plethora of kitchen spices, smoke and herbs.

Maybe it's the alligator skin, maybe it's the jackets he wears, but he always smells a little like leather.

So the entire effect is "Bar and grill by the ocean with those really nice leather booths"

Please make him into a cologne.

Music Meister:

He avoids scented products to avoid irritating his respiratory system in any way.

So He just smells like a clean human.

Possibly lemon and honey from trying to soothe those vocal cords with weak tea.

Joker:

Is also a basic bath and bodyworks bitch, he wears “Among The Clouds”.

He does class it to the roof for formal events though and switches to "English Promenade 19" By Krigler.

If you catch him without any scent on he smells slightly acidic and some other rogues would describe him as smelling "sickly". He's not physically sick as his doctors can attest, in fact his chemical bath raised the PH across his body so he can't even get most diseases anymore.

Because of this he can tend to overdue it on the scent to hide the sickly and chemical smells.

Like Jervis, Joker often smells like his baking projects. (Except the project is almost exclusively some sort of pie.)

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sohotthateveryonedied · 3 years ago

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Going onto your blog is always such a trip for me because I immediately see the pink. Which reminds me of the bubblegum flavored antibiotics they gave me when I had strep throat months ago. Which then reminds me of how before figuring out that I had strep throat, my doctors thought I had COVID, so they made me take a test and quarantine for like two days. I then remember how I basically spent those two days reading Batfam fanfics, which reminds me of you because your Batfam fics are some of my favorites. And then after thinking of your fics, I remember your blog and I’m basically back where I started. This literally happens in the five seconds after I go to your blog, EVERY SINGLE TIME!

honestly of all the drugs to be associated with, the pink bubblegum kind is pretty top notch?? you could've said i made you think of cocaine or meth or something based on my strange behavior but nope i get to be associated with the forbidden bubblegum milkshake!! the most delicious of all medicines!! i'm honored

#lay it on me papa bob #man i love that stuff #i'd chug the whole bottle in a heartbeat if it didn't mean i'd #yknow #die

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sebastianshaw · 4 years ago

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I'd like a scent for Tessa, Emma, Angelica, Maxime & Manon, Rogue.

EMMA Clear, strong, sophisticated, and just a little off-putting. Nothing too sweet, fruity, or overly floral, but also nothing dark, spicy, or musky. A very “clean” scent, almost chemical. Equal parts suited for a ballroom and a boardroom. More serious than a socialite, more glamorous than a CEO. Has “cool” scents like water and peppermint (yes, “water” is a scent, I don’t know how it works but it does) He very deliberately includes synthetic, non-natural ingredients that will have an astringent chemical STING to the nostrils, just a touch of PAIN when you get too close to smell enough. Very...icy. Top notes: Mint, water, aldehydes (not really a scent in itself, but adds a “sparkling” and “luminous” note to the other scents...no, I don’t know how that works for scent either, perfume people talk funny) Heart notes: Benzyl acetate simulations of white flowers (specifically night-flowering tuberose and jasmine, the kings of their category), camphor (an unusual and very powerful ingredient, more associated with cough medicine in the West but quite popular in Arabic perfumery,;a white, crystal-like powder that in the right hands and right amounts is used to amplify other scents and cut through overly-sweet smells like the tuberose) Base notes: Peppermint oil, white rum, tiniest hint of crisp new leather Also: Christian Dior’s Pure Poison, Chanel’s Cristalle Eau de Toilette, and Omnia Crystallin by Bulgari. Pun-tastic? Sure, doesn’t mean they’re not perfect.

TESSA Very subtle but then very strong once you pick it up, yet indistinct and hard to pin down or divide up into parts. Designed to be barely noticeable in the top notes, chemical but getting more complex in the middle, with an emphasis on artificial scents in both layers, and finally gets extremely powerful and complicated by the time the base notes are reached with exotic, smoky, “dark” scents that are from all-natural sources. Basically, it’s fake and barely-there at first, then after a while it’s very organically slapping you in the face. Top notes: Hedione (a chemical compound that has a soft jasmine aura), Mandarin leaves, white tea Heart notes: Indole (a chemical compound that is floral at low concentrations), Iso E Super ( chemical aroma described as a smooth, woody, amber note with a velvet-like sensation, imparts fullness to the other fragrances), bitter almond Base: Mexican copal bark, cypriol oil, choya laban, clary sage (no pun intended, but it’s a sweet-to-bittersweet-smelling herb) Also: Frost Flowers by LVNEA, Molecule 04 by Escentric Molecules, I Don’t Know What by D.S. & Durga ROGUE Shaw has had three encounters with Rogue that I can remember, and ALL are her just showing up and punching him ineffectively. So all he knows is that she has a Southern accent and she keeps TRYING to hit him despite KNOWING it won’t work. And honestly? “Southern and punches people” is a pretty good summary of Rogue anyway, so that works! So he’s mostly going off things his Yankee ass thinks are “Southern” here mixed with a “tomboy” vibe at the base---starts out with light florals on top that are very cliche-American-South mixed with the less “feminine” green notes family, the middle is basically peach cobbler that’s a little spicier than average, and then at the end you get some raw redneck Southern toughness. Top notes: Honeysuckle, magnolia, green notes (grass, stems) Heart notes: Peach, cinnamon and spice Base notes: Moss, tobacco, old worn leather like that incessant bomber jacket she had through the 90s ANGELICA He remembers Angelia purely as the naive child that Emma manipulated, and really couldn’t tell you anything about her besides “red hair, microwave powers, gullible/weak/etc” (his words, not mine) So that would be the perception he’s working with and what he would base this blend around. So he’d pick scents are “childish” (fruits, candy) and very delicate/”fragile” (light florals) and mix that with spices (red hair, fire) as the middle notes, then finish with a combination of bases that give her a “smoky” scent underneath the sweetness and spice. Top notes: Raspberry, lily of the valley, strawberry, daisy, cotton candy Heart notes: Allspice, cumin, ginger Base notes: Birch tar, amber, labdanum resin MANON & MAXIME He starts with just “outdoors” scents because that’s where he would like for them to STAY, then adds in the sweet little kid act that ISN’T FOOLING HIM YOU SYCOPHANTIC LITTLE SHITS, finishes with a whiskey base because goddammit he needs a drink every time they show up Top notes: Grass and stem scents, water, hints of wildflower blends Heart notes: Sickening sweet candy scents like cotton candy and bubblegum, very artificial, deliberately disgusting Base notes: Black pepper and whiskey

#perfume

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lunarowena · 4 years ago

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OC Aesthetics + Associations

bold what applies feel free to add options and edit! Tagged by @aban-ataashi. Thank you! I took a while to respond, so I’ll just open tag. Calendula Qantu (Pillars of Eternity) COLORS red. brown. orange. yellow. green. blue. purple. pink. black. white. teal. silver. gold. grey. lilac. metallic. matte. royal blue. strawberry red. charcoal grey. forest green. apple red. navy blue. crimson. cream. mint green. cobalt blue.

ELEMENTS fire. ice. water. air. earth. rain. snow. wind. moon. stars. sun. heat. cold. steam. frost. lightning. sunlight. moonlight. dawn. dusk. twilight. midnight. sunrise. sunset. dewdrops. magic. BODY claws. long fingers. fangs. wings. tails. lips. bare feet. freckles. bruises. scars. scratches. wounds. burns. spikes. feathers. webs. sweat. tears. feline. scales. fur. chubby. curvy. short. tall. average height. muscular. lean. piercing. tattoos. lithe. WEAPONS fists. sword. dagger. spear. arrow. hammer. shield. poison. venom. guns. axes. throwing axes. whips. knives. throwing knives. pepper sprays. tasers. machine guns. slingshots. katanas. maces. staffs. wands. powers. magical items. magic. rocks. pyre. teeth/fangs. rifles. words.

MATERIALS gold. silver. platinum. titanium. diamonds. pearls. rubies. sapphires. emeralds. amethyst. metal. iron. rust. steel. glass. wood. porcelain. paper. wool. fur. lace. leather. silk. velvet. denim. linen. cotton. charcoal. clay. stone. asphalt. brick. marble. dust. glitter. blood. dirt. mud. smoke. ash. shadow. carbonate. rubber. synthetics.

NATURE + WEATHER grass. leaves. trees. bark. roses. daisies. tulips. lavender. sunflowers. petals. thorns. seeds. hay. sand. rocks. roots. flowers. ocean. river. meadow. forest. desert. tundra. savanna. rainforest. caves. underwater. coral reef. beach. waves. space. clouds. mountains. poppies. galaxies. stardust. sky. rain. storm. sunny.

ANIMALS + MYTHICAL CREATURES lions. wolves. eagles. owls. falcons. hawks. swans. snakes. turtles + tortoises. bugs. spiders. doves. robins. ducks. vultures. whales. dolphins. fish. octopus. sharks. horses. cats. dogs. rabbits. hares. crows. ravens. mice. lizards. unicorns. pegasus. dragons. rats. livestock. tigers. panthers. deer. foxes. bats. bears. crocodiles + alligators. coyotes. seals + sea lions

FOODS + DRINKS sugar. salt. bitter. candy. bubblegum. wine. champagne. hard liquor. beer. coffee. tea. soda. spices. herbs. apple. orange. lemon. cherry. strawberry. watermelon. vegetables. fruits. meat. fish. pies. desserts. chocolate. cream. caramel. berries. nuts. cinnamon. burgers. burritos. pizza. french fries.

HOBBIES music. art. watercolors. gardening/growing plants. smithing. sculpting. painting. sketching. fighting. writing. composing. cooking. sewing. training. dancing. acting. singing. martial arts. self-defense. electronics. technology. cameras. video cameras. video games.computer. phone. movies. theater.libraries. books. comic books. magazines. cds. records. vinyls. cassettes. piano. violin. guitar. electronic guitar. bass guitar. harmonica. harp. woodwinds. brass. bells. playing cards. poker chips. chess. dice. motorcycle riding. flight. climbing. running. swimming. healing/medicine.

STYLE lingerie. armor. cape. dress. tunic. vest. shirt. sweater. boots. heels. leggings. trousers. jeans. skirt. jewelry. earrings. necklace. bracelet. ring. pendant. hat. crown. circlet. helmet. scarf. brocade. cloaks. corsets. doublet. chest plate. gorget. bracers. belt. sash. coat. jacket. duster. trenchcoat. hood. gloves. socks. masks. cowls. braces. watches. glasses. sunglasses. eye contacts. makeup. ties. uniform.

MISC balloons. bubbles. cityscape. light. dark. candles. war. peace. money. power. clocks. photos. mirrors. pets. kisses. diary. fairy lights. mental health problems. sadness. bittersweet. happiness. optimism. pessimism. loneliness. family. friends. assistants. co-workers. enemies. loyalty. smoking. drugs. kindness. love. hugs. revenge.

#tag meme #oc meme #watcher calendula

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starlightcleric · 4 years ago

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OC Aesthetics + Associations

Rules: bold what applies feel free to add options and edit!

Tagged by @emjs-good-out-here. Thanks! I took a while to respond, so I’ll just open tag.

Let’s talk about my Starfinder character, Zoe-1 the Android Tenchonmacer.

COLORS red. brown. orange. yellow. green. blue. purple. pink. black. white. teal. silver. gold. grey. lilac. metallic. matte. royal blue. strawberry red. charcoal grey. forest green. apple red. navy blue. crimson. cream. mint green. cobalt blue.

ANIMALS + MYTHICAL CREATURES lions. wolves. eagles. owls. falcons. hawks. swans. snakes. turtles. bugs. spiders. doves. robins. ducks. vultures. whales. dolphins. fish. octopus. sharks. horses. cats. dogs. rabbits. hares. crows. ravens. mice. lizards. unicorns. pegasus. dragons. rats. livestock. tigers. panthers. deer. foxes. bats. bears. crocodiles + alligators. coyotes. seals + sea lions

HOBBIES music. art. watercolors. gardening/growing plants. smithing. sculpting. painting. sketching. fighting. writing. composing. cooking. sewing. training. dancing. acting. singing. martial arts. self-defense. electronics. technology. cameras. video cameras. video games. computer. phone. movies. theater. libraries. books. comic books. magazines. cds. records. vinyls. cassettes. piano. violin. guitar. electronic guitar. bass guitar. harmonica. harp. woodwinds. brass. bells. playing cards. poker chips. chess. dice. motorcycle riding. flight. climbing. running. swimming. healing/medicine.

#tag meme #oc meme #zoe-1 #starfinder #zoe 1

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tulipgardens1 · 6 years ago

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A random scene of Elo baby fluff

'Elodea answers a phone call’ scene

Four-year old’s are very perceptive, as was Elodea. The little boy sat in the middle of the den floor humming a tune as he played with his toy cars, which were fueled by the power of chocolate milk, of course. He raced his cars over a mat designed with roads and stop lights and buildings and zoo animals. Elodea drove his little blue car on the road, right through the main entrance of the hospital, and into an elephant’s rear bum. He pulled his car into reverse and crashed into a bank. Of course, this all happened safely on a play mat, in Elodea’s imagination, and no elephants were harmed in the process of him playing.

All except Killua’s ear drums.

Killua moaned as he tossed and turned on the sofa. He pressed a hand against his forehead and it was hot to touch. Was he sick? Was he coming down with a fever? Killua doesn’t get fevers. Sure, he gets tired and sluggish at times from overworking, but it’s nothing a little nap can’t fix. Or food. He pulled back his hand, and it was damp with sweat. His head and ears and stomach ached. Maybe he just had a slight cold.

Killua tensed up and pulled a plastic bag to his mouth and barfed.

He just has a cold. Killua kept saying this over and over in his mind to convince his body otherwise.

Elodea turned around, jumped up from his make-believe driving lessons (he just pulled over a giraffe for stealing a car and driving without a license) and rushed to Killua’s side. He put both hands on Killua’s head and checked if his daddy was sick. Because if someone has a hot head it means they are sick. Elodea couldn’t tell how hot a sick head was supposed to be, so he put a hand towards his own and compared. He stuck his tongue out, deeply thinking about the difference. Finally, he pressed his forehead against Killua’s, and oh yes! His daddy’s head was definitely hot like a stove top!

“Daddy, you’re sick.” Dr. Elodea diagnosed. “Do you need medicine to feel better?”

Killua took Elodea’s hand in his and either shook or held or swung it languishly. But his hand just laid there over his chest and he realized that he was very, very tired to move at all. Instead he yawned, “I’m fiiiiiiiiiiine.”

“I can sing you a song!” Elodea suggested. Thinking of the best songs that could help his daddy fall asleep. Elodea didn’t wait for Killua’s answer, he just went right ahead and sang one off the top of his head. Oh! He thought of an excellent one! “Twinkle twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are, up above the world so high.”

“Daddy just needs to take a nap.”

“LIKE A DIAMOND IN THE SKY!” The louder you sing that faster people get better. Elodea didn’t know if that was true, since he just made it up right now. He hoped it was though.

“Quietly.” Killua shushed as he squeezed his eyes shut. Lord have mercy on his soul. His ears were pounding right into his head. All he asks for is five minutes of peace and quiet.

Elodea whispered and put his hands over his mouth, barely. “twinkle twinkle little star how a wonder what you are.” He finished his song and wondered how its magic worked on Killua. Killua still looked squeamish as before. Elodea frowned.

The sight of Elodea’s frown made Killua’s heart ache, so he assigned a special mission to Elodea! One that he only trusted to his dear boy to carry out! This in turn made Elodea very, very excited! That he was the only one in the whole wide world his daddy trusted this mission to fulfill. Elodea stood up on his tippy toes and squealed, oh, he squealed quietly. If there was such a thing as squealing quietly.

Elodea was in charge of keeping the silence! He had to make sure that everything in the house stayed silently quiet. He could play, but silently. He could watch tv, but silently. He could take a nap, silently of course. Elodea has to make sure that not even the house makes a sound.

Elodea’s mouth dropped. What an honor this was! He can most definitely keep the silence!

Elodea kissed Killua’s cheek and wished him a wonderful and silent nap and went to go play with his toy cars. Silently of course. His cars drove at a snail’s pace on the mat road and the police sirens were muffled and his little town of cars and races and animals was perfectly silent. Elodea didn’t even pick up the car with the squeaky wheels. That one was left over the mat’s bottomless lake surrounded by ducks.

A ringing sound broke the silence.

Elodea whipped his head around to the perpetrating sound and it was coming from the kitchen! He looked at Killua, who was fast asleep, Elodea scampered to the kitchen and found Killua’s cell phone on the table. He pulled out a chair and climbed up on it one leg at a time. He sat on his kneels and held the phone to his tummy, so it wouldn’t make so much noise. But the ringing didn’t stop! The caller was calling again!

So, this time, Elodea pressed the green button and pressed the phone against his face and whispered. “Hi.”

“Hello?”

“Who is calling please?”

“My name is Beans and I’m calling on behalf of chairman Cheadle of the Hunter Association---

Elodea shushed the secretary mid-sentence. “Shhhhhhhh. Speak quietly please.”

Beans complied and said softly. “Is Killua available at the moment to speak with? I have an urgent message to give him.”

Elodea looked back at his daddy and saw him resting soundly on the sofa. He fumbled with the phone in his hands. “No.”

“Oh!” beans said in surprise. “Then I will call back later at a more convenient time to leave Cheadle’s message.”

Elodea hummed, running his ringers over the table top. “I’ll take the message.”

“Are you sure?” This surprised Beans.

“Yup!” Elodea rummaged the table top and pulled over a sheet of colored paper, pink like bubblegum, and a blue crayon, blue like Killua’s eyes. So, Beans re-laid the message to Elodea, who feverishly scribbled down the secretary’s words with his crayon. Elodea hummed while Beans spoke. He hummed like he’s seen secretaries hum on tv, ones who work in big offices in big buildings for big bosses who work in even bigger companies. Humming meant you are listening and paying attention to the person who is talking. And the more you hummed the more you were paying attention! Hmm…Elodea was focused on humming so much that he forgot to ask Beans an important question. “How do you spell that?”

Beans’ paused. “Spell what?”

“Beans.” Elodea asked, genuinely. He asked Beans how to spell that one word, like secretaries who ask people to spell their long and windy and incredibly hard to spell last names like Johansson or purpleburgledepenmashire.

“B.”

“B as in boy.” Elodea added.

“E.”

“E as in Elodea.” That’s Elodea’s name by the way, and he knows how to spell it correctly. He practiced spelling it on Killua’s bedroom wall, in pencil of course. Elodea would have used a pen, but pens are only for grownups who know how to spell all kinds of words. More than a hundred billion words! So far, Elodea knows how to spell 22 and he wasn’t sure if he will ever get to use a pen. Killua made Elodea spend 10 minutes staring at a wall into a corner and contemplate why he shouldn’t write on walls. It wasn’t very fun.

"A"

"A as in apple."

“N.”

“N as in…” huh. What N words does Elodea know? Oh! “N as in nose.”

“S.”

“S as in soup.” Elodea wrote the word, gripping the crayon firmly in his hand. The word ‘Beans’ took up a quarter of the page.

That’s how you spell Beans!

When Elodea was finished writing down the message he held the paper away from him and looked at it proudly from the distance.

He drew a puppy!

And it was a very pretty puppy too!

Beans sneezed.

“Bless you.” Elodea chimed sweetly.

“Thank you.” Beans thought Killua’s son to be kind and asked jokingly. “You’ve been a very good secretary for your father.”

“Thank you.”

“How long have you’ve been a secretary?”

Elodea hummed. “Ten years.”

“Ten years?” Beans chuckled. “That’s a very long time.”

“Yes.”

“How old are you?”

“Four.”

“Your father told me that you like dinosaurs. Do you want to be a paleontologist when you grow up?”

“No.” Said Elodea, smiling a toothy grin. A silly grin that Beans could not see. “Because I am already one.”

Elodea began to list every dinosaur name that he knew, but then he realized that he was not so silent and bid Beans farewell.

“Thank you for calling.” Elodea whispered.

“Bye Elodea.”

“Bye-bye.”

“I will call your father again later----”

Elodea ended the conversation mid-sentence. Cutting Beans off, yet again. Elodea descended from the kitchen chair, one leg at a time, and scampered back into the den. He laid the message with the pretty puppy on his daddy’s tummy and went back to playing with his toy cars again.

By the time Killua woke up, he was feeling (slightly) better, and found the picture of the puppy on his tummy. Plus, other scribbles around it like ‘Beans’ and ‘mission.’ Which looked like some cryptic code. So, when Beans called (again) Killua found out that his son was a marvelous little secretary and Beans even praised him upon it! And Elodea was able to spell out his name very well too!

#*sigh*#I miss the earlier chapters where I could have written more cute stuff #oh well #Writing baby Elodea is like a stress reliever haha #among the water weeds #atww #story snippet #my post

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emmaaspris · 5 years ago

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𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒕𝒂𝒈𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒔 & 𝑨𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒈𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒔 - 𝑭𝒖𝒓𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉

Monday 25th November 2019

We must put together two similar slides in keynote (hero/villain) with three visual examples on each. We must print them out and then answer the following questions around the artists we chose.

Describe the visual language (line, texture, tone, colour, shape, form) using descriptive words & sentences.

What does this visual language (the way it looks) communicate about the character’s personality?

In your opinion, what visual characteristics of the artwork make the example partcularly heroic or villainous?

𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒕𝒂𝒈𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒔

[Source: Screenshot from a game for Nintendo Switch called, Forgotten Anne. Illustrated and developed by Valdemar Schultz Andreasen.]

ANNE is a character from a fantasy game who is the Enforcer of this ‘forgotten world’ who keeps everything in order and is presented by minor characters as some sort of one person police force. This is the character the viewer sees the story through the eyes of, as it is the protagonist you play as. The lines used on her are the same in weight and do not carry any heaviness in one part of her design more than the other. It is very even and thin, almost unnoticeable. Andreasen may have chosen to make the lines this way so that it did not distract or make her stand out too much with the painted background. Her nature is mature and serious, this is being shown in her hairstyle in that it looks very pulled back and out of her face and away from flowing around her shoulders. This gives her the aura that she takes her work very seriously. Typically in female characters, if she is a fighter or a worker, then she has her hair tied up in order to perform her work better and so that it does not get in the way. Tone is only faint, with no obvious extremely light values over darker ones. Instead when in different areas or surroundings, there is tone shown in simple rim lighting around her silhouette. This effect is not distracting, but subtle and pretty. Her silhouette is very round, with no obvious or exaggerated harsh lines. This may be to show an underlying softness in her nature which, in the game is only shown to a chosen few characters. There is no obvious texture, but her colour palette is very limited to browns and navy blue. I think this further communicates her mature attitude.

Throughout the game, the Anne travels through a beautifully illustrated steampunk fantasy world. Andreasen may have decided to keep her design quite simple in texture and tone so that a complicated character design would not distract the eye from the rest of what is on the screen. This effect is accomplished very well, making the aesthetics very pleasing to look at.

In my opinion, what makes her design look like a hero is the way her colour palette is complimentary. The use of the blue in her dress and the ribbon that decorates her plait symbolizes trust, loyalty, wisdom, confidence, intelligence, as the colour is usually associated with these things. Her red/orange hair may be to show the intense passion her emotions can rise to. As her edges are rounded off and she has no angular lines in her expression, she is seen as a calm character and likely not a villain.

[Source: A screenshot and gif from Adventure Time, a cartoon on Cartoon Network. Her design was developed by Pendleton Ward]

PRINCESS BUBBLEGUM is an example of one of my favourite animated characters. She is one of the major characters of the show who supports Finn on his adventures while also learning how to rule her kingdom. Starting from the typical princess stereotype, she is obsessed with science ans the way things work, as throughout the show she is consantly interested on experimenting with new things that they discover.

Her hair and outfits constantly change depending on where she is that episode and what she is doing. This shows evidence of a very adaptable character who does not conform to wearing a long dress all the time, just because she is female royalty. Despite her very mature nature, her colour palette is limited to pink and purple (which is typically a girly, childish colour), so her personality contradicts her design. This may be to purposefully trick the viewer into assuming her a stereotypical princess upon first sight, but until getting to know her through the show, they are proved wrong. Her very long dress may also be a sign of how grounded she is as a character, her maturity exceeding that o all other characters in the cartoon.

Her texture is smooth to fit in with the simple style of the sow and her have is very rounded off (even her crown has no corners.) This is likely to how her in a kind light, so that when you see her you would immediately think about her as an actively good character, opposing evil. This is what, in my own opinion, makes her design look like that worthy of a hero.

[Source: Screen caps from a Japanese animation called Akagame no Shirayukihime (Snow White with the Red Hair.) Design by Sorata Akizuki]

SHIRAYUKI is a female protagonist in a fantasy/medieval Japanese show. She is a herbalist who works with medicine and is very good at her craft. The theme of the show is personality over beauty and emphasis on outward appearances. It also addresses the issues in how women were treated back in medieval times. Shirayuki is sought after by a wealthy man who wants her as his concubine, just because of the unusual colour of her hair. She rejects this and makes her own path for herself.

Her big eyes make her look soft, kind and approachable and her short hair (which she cuts in the beginning) shows her maturity and little concern for her appearance. Clothes she wears are very modest and conservative, reflecting her personality in that she doesn’t like a lot of attention drawn to herself. Her colour palette is full of pastels and bright, warm colours such as gold, turquoise/navy and white.

The overall mood of her character design is very relaxed and calm. This accurately represents the laid back, slow plot of the narrative she is featured. Her texture looks soft, like she was painted in watercolour (this style is used on the cover of the manga she is on.) This, plus the colour palette creates an image which is very pleasing to look at for the viewer. Throughout the series, she never wears any reds or bright pinks. This may be to bring attention

Honourable Mention:

[Source: Screenshot from a game for Nintendo Switch called, Forgotten Anne. Illustrated and developed by Valdemar Schultz Andreasen.]

When I was looking at the main protagonist, Anne, I remembered Fig and his really interesting character design. Thought to be the villain in the beginning, Fig helps Anne in her quest to save the Forgotlings. He aids her and helps her get past puzzles and terrain which she before couldn’t. I really like the way the designers put his face on the torso, reminding the viewer that though he is similar in shape to Anne, she is the only human in this world. His colours are bright but not colourful, only limited to brown, beige and yellow. This is because he is a personified doll.

His wavy moustache and constant smirk makes the viewer question constantly if he is worth trusting, or if he’s somewhat dangerous and deceiving. `the ponytail hairstyle shows a very regal personality, as he almost comes across as a prince in the things he says and the way he acts. This is further emphasised with his long and thin sword he keeps at his hip. His silhouette is formed quite round, with no harsh corners. This may be to show his charming personality and his kindness/soft spot for Anne.

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SINCE I’M ON A ROLL. Let’s talk about the symbolism behind Daphne’s favorite color, PURPLE, and what it says about her. So, purple is known to be a color of femininity and connotes to good breeding, royalty and grace. That much is a given since Daphne comes from a really rich family, with sisters that are very successful, a beautiful, intelligent mother, and a handsome, hard-working father. It signifies wealth and position, and I can imagine her parents impressing that this was the color you wore to SHINE, you know? But, I genuinely think there’s more to Daphne loving the color purple than just that. See, her bedroom is primarily composed of pinks and some blacks and whites (on the show it’s ALL pink, but even that is just too Princess Bubblegum, anti-nausea medicine for her). She just wears a lot of purple (not forgetting the fact that her eyes are fucking lilac, but anyways), and that’s mostly because it’s a color that speaks of creativity and brings with it a certain sense of spirituality.

And not to mention the most important aspect behind the color symbolism.... The tie ins to feminism!! Around the 1900s green white and purple were the colors chosen to represent strong feminist agitation. Purple symbolized, as mentioned above, the grace and nobility of women, green the vitality and life, and white for hope. However you might be wondering now –– Dani, but Daph doesn’t wear white! In the article I’ll be referencing, it explains white was cast aside because it was a toss up between empowering and not-so-empowering. fter all, white symbolizes purity, aka being virginal. Which explains why Daphne doesn’t wear white. Whether the creators meant it or not, Daphne’s color scheme really does represent feminism to a T. Even her pink tights are kind of interesting in that pink was not always a feminine color. It wasn’t until WW2, I believe, that pink became associated with women in the west. ( source ) Anyways! So she wears a lot of purple, with accents of pink and green –– because you have to break things up, obviously! But, it’s like, don’t think she’s always wearing purple. There will be rare instances where she’ll switch it up. Like, think of the way most of us would just love to wear black on black on black, all day, every day. That’s her. Purple is her black. She feels comfortable, secure, and pretty in it. It reflects on her what black reflects about us. Sometimes it can be a bit monotonous though, so switching things up keeps it interesting. She’ll break up her patterns with maybe a pair of light-wash jeans, or a white dress with a pair of magenta gogo boots, it all really depends on her mood. Her sense of style fluctuates and evolves, but it all depends on feeling fine, fierce and fabulous.

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what i'm interested according to facebook ads topics

Feb 19th

i’ve downloaded my facebook data today and it was very interesting to kind of go back in time while looking at things i’ve done on my digital/social life since i’ve created an account (nov 2006).

These are the ads topics that i’m interested in according to my facebook data:

Youth Lagoon

Athletics at the Summer Olympics

Aventura

Home video game console

Hour

Solidarity

Escape pod

McSweeney's

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Public broadcasting

60 metres

Vivo (telecommunications)

Guto Requena

Parsons School of Design

Artnet

Joan Cornellà

Table tennis at the Summer Olympics

Amazon Student

Vitis

Hammer throw

Exame (magazine)

Humanities

Monologue

TV5Monde

AIESEC in Brazil

ClickBus

jerome jarre

A Mighty Girl

Baroque pop

Fernanda Lima

mofilm

Trama (mycology)

Simon & Garfunkel discography

Miles Davis

Observatório da Imprensa

Kelis

Badminton

Antônio Carlos Jobim

Tiny Furniture

Morgan Library & Museum

Weta Workshop

Motherboard

Torta

Goethe-Institut

Organism

Bamboo

BoA

Le Lis Blanc

Frank Ocean

Amy Poehler's Smart Girls

Quartz

Moringa

Latitude

Sketchbooks

Cutty Sark (whisky)

Flea

Totem

StreetArtGlobe

Independent record label

scarface

Funhouse

Republic

Panda (band)

Aion (Japanese band)

Road

Lisbon

Jinx (DC Comics)

Artforum

Hugo Weaving

The Creators Project

Brilliant.org

Degustation

Hostel (2005 film)

Mystery film

Livery

Planá (Tachov District)

Consortium

Simon & Garfunkel

Launch vehicle

Secret NYC

Exame

Nerds (candy)

childish gambino

Braun (company)

Deception Point

médicos sem fronteiras

H2 (TV network)

Tropicália

Workers' Party (Brazil)

Tisch School of the Arts

Zine

Governors Ball Music Festival

Printed Matter, Inc

WeWork

HuffPost Women

Andre (band)

Smot (chanting)

Decriminalization

Vine (service)

Garance Doré

Meta, Campania

MIT Media Lab

Taste of Cinema

New York University School of Law

Pole vault

Anthology film

Coconut Records (musician)

Frequency

Levant

Sensacionalista

Special effect

Artist-in-residence

Navigation

Bananal, São Paulo

States of Brazil

1900 Summer Olympics

Steering wheel

IEEE Standards Association

revista piauí

Pro Evolution Soccer

romantic comedies

D-A-D

the cool hunter

Flux

Getty Images

HuffPost Brasil

René Aubry

Kizomba

Knot (unit)

Palestine Liberation Organization

King Krule

Room

New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA)

Thread (computing)

Kite

News magazine

Rozendaal

Lincoln Center

SOS

Sigur Rós

Urbanus

Steeplechase (athletics)

Romário

Shaivism

Gilberto Gil

Museum of the Moving Image (New York City)

Olympic medal

Sochi

Formigueiro

2016 Summer Olympics

Landform

Tijuca

Arte

Dream pop

Opala .

Orquestra Voadora

Forum for Urban Design

Móveis Coloniais de Acaju

Fair

History of Europe

800 metres

Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger

Illuminated manuscript

Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ciência

Financial Times Global 500

Moog Music Inc.

The Intercept

Democratic Labour Party (Brazil)

Bossa nova

Western Europe

Rio, I Love You

Rama

Freak folk

Epic film

Protest

Psychedelic pop

New York University Graduate School of Arts and Science

Extremis

guardian

Mediterranean Sea

Operating system

El Hormiguero

Swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Araucaria angustifolia

Shot put

Helianthus

Dr. Martens

Extended play

Nectar

Ariel Pink

do bem™

Breakfast at Tiffany's (film)

Plastic

Blake Edwards

2020 Summer Olympics

Laurus nobilis

London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games

Queremos

Carl Linnaeus

Selectism

Megaforce Records

Nike Soccer

Giorgio Moroder

Moog synthesizer

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

400 metres hurdles

Portmanteau

Dance-punk

Prix Ars Electronica

enlace

The Awl

CreativeApplications.Net

DOS

Glossary of musical terminology

Jout Jout Prazer

Sensationalism

Rosin

100 metres

República

Marshmallow

void

Rodrigo Hilbert

Tank (magazine)

Deborah Colker

Fundação Estudar

Música popular brasileira

IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society

AIESEC

Rio (2011 film)

Casablanca

Quentin Tarantino Movies

Cactus

CRESCER E VIVER

Brooklyn Museum

100 metres at the Olympics

Lego The Lord of the Rings (video game)

Beach House (album)

Helianthus annuus

Noisey

Infinitum

Nova (TV series)

Common quail

NOO

Woody Allen

Hudson River

Award

Samba-enredo

fear

The Week

The Proud Family

Bubblegum pop

Drive-through

110 metres hurdles

Guarda, Portugal

2010 Winter Olympics

ARTE Concert

The Party (film)

Mare

Ben Gibbard

AD Parla

Christopher Lee

International System of Units

Darcy Ribeiro

Sport Club Internacional

Brooklyn Academy of Music

Psychosis

GBK

Frank Ocean discography

Mini (marque)

It's Nice That

Study in Germany

Orient

IEEE Communications Society

Victoria Harbour

Acne Studios

Sea of Shoes

eMAG

Pagode

Réunion

Oboe

Fernando Gabeira

Quartz (publication)

Jornal Meia Hora

Líbano, Tolima

Kings of Convenience

NewYorker

EF Brasil - Intercâmbio

Residency Unlimited

Grass

Samba-canção

Sagmeister & Walsh

Araucária

Vertigo

BAMcinématek

Hyperallergic

Academy Award for Best Costume Design

Nowness

Hyperbole

The Tallest Man on Earth

Wednesday

Bachelor of Fine Arts

Dark wave

2014 Winter Olympics

Olaria Atlético Clube

Cachaça

Smaller Earth

Kingston upon Hull

Plastic bag

Space Shuttle

Hyphen

One Million Voices Against FARC

Muda (Japanese term)

Lightning strike

Eunápolis

Sketchbook

Guillermo del Toro

Brazilian science and technology

Phonebloks

Silent film

John Mayer Trio

Paste (food)

Ralph Bakshi

Chevrolet Opala

vox

A&E Networks

Hunna

Levante UD

Brownie (folklore)

Mad Decent Block Party

Etapes

best vines

Hurdling

Piracy

Beautiful/Decay Magazine

Anima Mundi (event)

Trip hop

Long jump

Street

Perestroika

Winter Olympic Games

The Dodos

VFX Solidarity International

Green Party (Brazil)

Mobile, Alabama

Pali

Roman Forum

Party (role-playing games)

List of Sonic the Hedgehog characters

Moog Music

MUBI

Discus throw

Gold medal

Frontier

Ema (Shinto)

Xcaret Park

Sliced bread

Post-punk

Sambass

ClickBus

gus

Xcaret

Death Cab for Cutie

breakfast at tiffanys

Catcher In The Rye

Vuze

D3 road (Croatia)

Buga, Valle del Cauca

Loungerie Intimates

Cut, copy, and paste

Binders full of women

Carnival block

Social class

Médecins Sans Frontières

Local Natives

Maxxie Oliver

The Last King of Scotland (film)

End Homophobia

Dazed & Confused (magazine)

graduate

Individual Olympic Athletes at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Samba

Svetlana Kuznetsova

Toda Criança Pode Aprender

Little Joy

Girls Who Code

Pes

Munchies (film)

Robert Moog

Partido alto

Pictoplasma

New Art Dealers Alliance

Alto

Bois de Boulogne

Control key

Bus

uber

Cereal Magazine

Diego Ribas da Cunha

Dia Art Foundation

Bolt (2008 film)

Agência Pública

MOODs

Human Development Index

Z (Aion album)

MIMO

Power station

Marcelo Freixo

The Antlers (band)

Shiva

spicy food

Rhythm

(Le) Poisson Rouge

Boiler Room

Unidentified flying object

200 metres

Girls (comics)

Print on demand

That '70s Show (Official)

Sociedade Esportiva do Gama

Ondina

Colossal

Mae

Psychological thriller

Artsy

Escola Nacional de Belas Artes

Music Photographers

design-dautore.com

MTV Europe Music Awards

Vuze Bittorrent Client

Biographical film

Poorly Drawn Lines

Piauí (magazine)

Mac DeMarco

Non-governmental organization

Propaganda

StreetArtGlobe

Olympic Games ceremony

Vila-seca

Tijuca Forest

Sarah

Pedro (footballer, born July 1987)

Inhotim

Praia da Vitória

MyFrenchFilmFestival.com

Mandrake the Magician

Vector space

Convenience store

The Beach (film)

Indie folk

Multi-sport event

São Paulo

New York (magazine)

OZY

Midfielder

Action Bronson

Jerry Mouse

Philippines at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Vinicius de Moraes

npr music

Link (knot theory)

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

British rock

Gaia (mythology)

I-D

Fountain

Italo disco

Skins (UK TV series)

James Blake (musician)

Nord (French department)

Token ring

Comparison of BitTorrent clients

Kinescope

Courage

Nõo

Helianthus annuus

e-flux

Cave

Seed

High jump

Cultural diversity

2000 Summer Olympics

Instituto Moreira Salles

2012 Summer Olympics

Alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics

Belgium

Designtaxi

Anima mundi

Academic journal

Military dictatorship

Dumont, New Jersey

Wilfred

Adaptations of The Lord of the Rings

Glass House

Somos tão Jovens

Domestic worker

Units of measurement

Porvir

Ars Electronica Center

Bubble wrap

Summer Olympic Games

Atlantic Records

Bon Iver discography

CCBB Rio de Janeiro

Sovereign state

Oriente (Ecuador)

Ministry of Education (Brazil)

Sigur Rós discography

Condé Nast

Nanotechnology

Emporium (antiquity)

CPI

Céu

Mark magazine

Thought Catalog

Spaceflight

Sanskrit

The City of the Sun

Sense

Temple

Student exchange program

Ciência sem Fronteiras

Grammatical mood

Comic strip

Third Man Records

Collection catalog

Devendra Banhart

Mammal

Tictail

Cell nucleus

Blue-eyed soul

Facebook Lite

Carona, Ticino

Celina, Ohio

Residency (medicine)

MGMT (album)

Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro

Cronus

Heima

La Blogothèque

Public library

Help Kids with Cancer

Russia

Trem Desportivo Clube

Cooper Union

Professional wrestling promotion

Opening ceremony

binders full women

Bar da Praia

República (Nepalese newspaper)

Bento

Ethnic groups

The New School

Chico Buarque

Smile (band)

Institution

The Cure (The Cure album)

List of Girls episodes

Associação Quatro Patinhas

MyFonts

IEEE 1541-2002

Gus Van Sant

Fictional film

400 metres

MIT Technology Review

International Olympic Committee

Port

Computing

Fuerza Bruta Wayra

awl

Design Milk

Studio

Earth, Wind & Fire

Ian Holm

Pingu

Middle-distance running

Foster the People discography

European Union

Parque Lage

Mixcloud

Jah Wobble

Vox (blogging platform)

John Mayer discography

Videos

Hue

Unbreakable

Tempo

Piauí

Archive

Middle Ages

Skill

Academic publishing

Incendies

Nice

Air (French band)

Grizzly bear

Somos Tão Jovens - O Filme

Deckdisc

Urban area

Caetano Veloso

Dirty Projectors

Triple jump

Musical film

Astronaut

Chameleon

Salário digno aos PROFESSORES do Brasil

Code Club

1996 Summer Olympics

O Terno

Ear

Konbini

Rockland County, New York

Apartamento

Public university

FIBA Americas League

Land use

Jinx

Penny

Nothing

Sukha

Bronze medal

Video hosting service

#100daysITP2017 #100daysofidentityperception

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fibropdx · 6 years ago

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6/19

I woke up with super intense nausea this morning, and intestinal cramps. The nausea isn't that strange for me, the cramping is still a little new. The last time I had my nausea meds filled they changed which manufacturers meds they gave me and now it has a completely different taste and I'm convinced they aren't working as well. It's weird how we get used to the flavor of specific things and associate them with what they help relieve. My old meds tasted a little like bubblegum (with a hint of medicine). These ones taste minty and I'm not enjoying it.

Breakfast for today: I found a recipe last week for blueberry oat bars that I liked, but they were super crumbly and wouldn't work well as a bar. Using the basics of the recipe, I've figured out a half assed way of turning it into a quick, low spoon breakfast item for myself. I take a handful and a half of rolled oats, a handful of Cup4Cup Flour, shake in some coconut sugar and cinnamon, add either a slice of butter (melted in microwave) or maple syrup to make everything stick together. Stir to combine. I'm a separate bowl, mash some low FODMAP berries (handful of blueberries or strawberries usually). Take tin foil and make a bowl out of it. Pour half the oat mixture. Add berries on top. Top with the rest of the oat mixture. Bake in toaster oven at 350F for about 6 minutes. It kind of makes a quick and easy cobbler. I can't eat much, so it's a good serving size for me, and it's way more nutritious than my usual toast.

Snack #1: five chunks of pineapple. Also snacked on grapes throughout work.

I bought some ginger and sliced it in the break room at work to make tea since I couldn't find a ginger tea that didn't have questionable FODMAP spices in it (I work at a grocery store. I consider this both lucky and a curse to my health because we sell great, fresh food and I want to eat everything around me). It actually worked rather well and helped with most of my nausea today.

Lunch: leftover BLT salad from dinner last night. I'm still trying to figure out this low FODMAP thing, and I'm pretty sure the maple mustard dressing I made had garlic or onion in the mustard because I spent a long time cramping last night. Although I was fine after lunch today, so who knows.

Snack #2: I actually forgot to eat my snack and I just realized this. No wonder I was starving when I got home.

Dinner: white rice as a base. Roasted carrots, green beans, red bell pepper, and zucchini with olive oil, salt, and pepper, drizzled with a soy sauce, maple syrup, and ginger glaze. Cold chopped cucumber on top. This was amazeballs, holy tasty carrots, and a low spoon meal for me. Hurrah for progress!

Drink with dinner: hibiscus tea in cold water with a lemon wedge. I tend to make these in advance and just let them chill in the fridge. Carbonated beverages tend to upset my intestines so this is a good alternative for me.

Also, Buddha Chocolate makes a Wild Rose & Sea Salt chocolate bar that, based on ingredients, seems to be low FODMAP and is also the most delicious chocolate bar I've ever eaten. So good. I also ate a rice cake after dinner because I can never eat enough. One of the many questions we haven't figured out yet: why I can't put on weight and can't stop dropping it. I'd love to get that one figured out so I can stop feeling like I'm dead.

Pain levels today: probably a 5 this morning, currently at a 4.

#Fibromyalgia #ibs #health #chronic pain #health journal #personal #low FODMAP #journal #symptoms #symptom journal

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cashcounts · 6 years ago

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9 of the Worst Lies About Vaping in the Media

1. Vaping is just as bad as smoking

This is the worst lie of all. There are about 36 million American smokers, and more than a billion worldwide. They don’t deserve to be lied to about a product that could very well save their lives. Burning tobacco produces smoke that contains a lot of proven carcinogenic chemicals, along with combustion products like carbon monoxide that cause cardiovascular damage.

Even if we can’t quite say that vaping is safe, no legitimate scientist believes that e-cigarette vapor is even in the same ballpark as smoking for health risks

“To undermine the public’s appreciation of the severity of smoking’s hazards by comparing real cigarettes to fake ones is doing a huge disservice to the public and to smokers in particular,” writes Dr. Michael Siegel. “There is no legitimate scientific dispute over the fact that vaping is much safer than smoking.”

2. The vape companies are luring your children!

The FDA prohibits e-cigarette manufacturers from claiming their products are safer than smoking, a tool to quit smoking, smoke-free, or even that they don’t contain tobacco. Being prevented from advertising truthfully any of the real benefits of vaping, the few manufacturers that advertise at all to general audiences naturally fall back on tried and true ad techniques: celebrities and glamorous imagery.

And that has earned them accusations of “using the tobacco playbook” to trick teenagers into “a lifetime of nicotine addiction.” The real benefit of these ads is to the worn-out politicians who grab hold of anything they can blame on “Big Tobacco.”

So the know-nothing political hacks blame EVERYTHING on Big Tobacco! Who’s pushing “child-attracting” flavors like cotton candy and gummy bear? Big Tobacco. Who’s behind the epidemic of exploding vapes? Big Tobacco. And whenever an opportunistic pol finds a friendly microphone, the media are there to dutifully report that vapor companies are “using the same tactics and ads used by Big Tobacco that proved so effective.”

3. Vapor is full of formaldehyde and other scary chemicals

The formaldehyde scare came from a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine from the authors of a study at Portland State University in which some cheap top-coil clearomizers were overheated to the point where they burned off the liquid and delivered unvapeable dry hits. Their conclusions have been soundly debunked — including in this recent study by Dr. Konstantinos Farsalinos.

We breathe and eat chemicals every day, but most of them don’t affect us. It’s true that there are a lot of scary-sounding chemicals in vapor, but they’re present in tiny concentrations. Everything we eat, drink, or breathe has chemicals that might be risky to consume in large quantities. But we don’t consume them in large quantities.

The Royal College of Physicians agrees. In its comprehensive review of e-cigarette science, the College concluded, “In normal conditions of use, toxin levels in inhaled e-cigarette vapour are probably well below prescribed threshold limit values for occupational exposure, in which case significant long-term harm is unlikely.”

4. Big Tobacco invented e-cigarettes and owns the vapor industry

E-cigarettes were developed and first sold by a Chinese pharmacist named Hon Lik. The products made it to U.S. shores in 2007. Five years later, in 2012, American cigalike manufacturer Blu was purchased by tobacco company Lorillard. That was the first involvement of the tobacco industry in the sales of vapor products.

Since then, all the Big Tobacco companies have introduced e-cigarettes of their own, and it is true that they have a strong sales presence in convenience stores and gas stations — the traditional source of cigarette sales. However, Wells Fargo tobacco industry analyst Bonnie Herzog estimates that the c-store market accounts for less than 40 percent of the whole vapor products market. The rest of the business is the independent vaping manufacturers that sell their wares online and in dedicated vape shops.

Here’s a secret: adults like sweet, fruity, and dessert flavors just as much as kids do.

And it’s looking like the tobacco industry is looking for other products to compete in the low-risk nicotine marketplace. That’s partly because many of the early vaping patents are owned by Fontem Ventures — a subsidiary of Imperial Brands (formerly known as Imperial Tobacco). Philip Morris International (PMI), British American Tobacco (BAT), and Japan Tobacco International are all pursuing so-called heat-not-burn (HNB) products as alternatives to cigarettes, although so far their introductions have been more hype than anything.

PMI claims its IQOS HNB device is converting Japanese smokers at a rapid rate — but nicotine-containing vapes are illegal in Japan, so it’s not exactly a fair fight. Both IQOS and BAT’s HNB device called Glo are seeking approval from the FDA as Modified Risk Tobacco Products (MRTP). The federal agency has never granted an MRTP approval before.

5. Vaping causes popcorn lung!

Some e-liquid contains diacetyl or acetyl propionyl, buttery flavorings that are thought to have caused a condition called popcorn lung (actual name: bronchiolitis obliterans) in some flavoring factory workers almost two decades ago.

But there has never been a diagnosed case of popcorn lung in a vaper. Furthermore, there doesn’t seem to be any cases of popcorn lung in cigarette smokers either — even though cigarettes contain between 100 and 750 times the diacetyl of e-cigarettes. And as vaping gets more (usually negative) attention in the press, and anti-vaping public health activists watch closely, it seems less and less likely that any real connection between vaping and popcorn lung would be missed.

6. Nicotine is as addictive as heroin

Nicotine may cause dependence, but there is a lot of debate about whether “addictive” is even the correct term for a drug that causes no permanent damage to most users. It’s probably more accurate to say that cigarette smoking is addictive. When you inhale smoke, nicotine is delivered quickly to the bloodstream and the brain, producing a rapid reward that the brain craves again and again. Tobacco smoke also has other constituents like ammonia that increase the smoker’s desire for more. It’s not just the presence of nicotine that makes smoking addictive.

Other kinds of nicotine products deliver it with less of an addictive punch. The FDA says nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) products like gum and patches “do not appear to have significant potential for abuse or dependence.” There’s no reason to assume that vaping is any more addictive than those products.

And, in fact, a 2014 study from two well-known nicotine researchers concluded that, “E-cigarettes may be as or less addictive than nicotine gums, which themselves are not very addictive.” So…not only not as addictive as heroin, but not as addictive as nicotine gum — which the FDA says isn’t addictive at all.

7. Exploding vapes…everyone panic!

Having failed to prove any serious health risks, “vape explosions” have become the fear industry’s story of choice lately. The news stories, as always, are regularly helped along by the inane jabbering of cooperative politicians like Sen. Chuck Schumer.

The truth is that there have been very few fires or explosions from vapor products. And most of those have been caused by user error, including many from mishandling of batteries. Almost all of these accidents could have been avoided with a little education on battery safety.

By contrast, fires caused by cigarettes and other smoking cause tremendous damage and death. The National Fire Protection Association estimated that in 2011 alone 90,000 fires were caused by smoking, resulting in more than 500 deaths, 1,600 injuries, and $621 million in property damage. Of course, comparing that level of damage to vape accidents is never done. It just wouldn’t suit the anti-vaping narrative.

8. Vaping is a gateway to smoking

The claim that vaping will lead teenagers to smoke is widely repeated and completely unproven. The studies that claim to show a gateway often turn out to be poorly constructed, rely on tiny samples, or use Rube Goldberg methodology. Mostly though they ignore a concept — well known to social researchers — called common liability.

Common liability says that the teenagers that try vaping are likely to also be the ones that try smoking, or marijuana, or drinking — or any risky behavior.

Clive Bates, in his excellent guide to navigating gateway studies, concluded, “When you look at the full picture the data far more consistent with the vaping gateway being an ‘exit’ from smoking than an entrance.” He’s right. With fewer teens and adults smoking than anytime since we began counting them, even if vaping isn’t responsible for all the kids not smoking, it’s clearly not causing a massive uptake in cigarette use.

9. Flavors are a marketing trick to hook kids

It’s all about bubblegum and cotton candy. Those are the e-liquid flavors that drip from every politician’s lips when they denounce the vapor industry for trying to “addict a new generation.” But those sorts of flavors are only sold by companies that don’t advertise to the general public, and they really aren’t available anywhere children can (legally) get them. We also know from government-funded surveys that the majority of vaping teens are using nicotine-free e-liquid.

Now I ask you, what sort of genius businessperson would build a sales strategy around selling the non-addictive version of an unadvertised product illegally to underage purchasers?

Here’s a secret: adults like sweet, fruity, and dessert flavors just as much as kids do. Further, ex-smokers find that those flavors help distance them from the experience of combustible tobacco. I don’t know any vaper that doesn’t use “kid flavors.” I also don’t know any adult — vaper or not — who doesn’t like candy, fruit, or pastry. The floor of the U.S. Senate — the very place many of these claims originate from — has a desk full of candy, which the very, very adult senators share.

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nancygduarteus · 7 years ago

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The Tastiest Medicine

Until about middle school, I got an annual ear infection, as well as a bout of strep throat about once every two years. For these ailments, I would inevitably be prescribed what was referred to in my home as “the pink stuff.” It was the antibiotic amoxicillin, in its pediatric liquid form, and it was a bright, chemical pink. It was delicious.

My recurrent infections may have given me more experience with amoxicillin than the average child, but the flavor was beloved enough that the internet nostalgia factory has picked up on it. A subreddit dedicated to nostalgia has a couple posts about it, one with more than 13,000 likes. There are rhapsodic tweets, and pins on Pinterest, and the pink stuff even made a cameo on a Buzzfeed list of ’90s childhood memorabilia. (Although amoxicillin has been on the market since 1972.)

What does it taste like, to inspire such devotion and meme-ing? That’s harder to answer than it seems like it should be. The flavor is often described as bubblegum, but that’s not how I remember it. I remember something fruitier, an artificial strawberry-adjacent taste.

“In my recollection it’s like a chalky, not-very-sweet strawberry, or other anonymous fruit,” says Nadia Berenstein, a Ph.D. student at the University of Pennsylvania who studies the history of flavor science. “I remember a sort of anonymous fruitiness. But definitely the chalkiness.”

An informal office poll that I sprang on my co-workers who remembered taking the drug in their youth yielded mixed results. A couple votes for bubble gum, a couple for “chalk.” My colleague Vann Newkirk provided the most evocative description: “cheap strawberry syrup, but with an aftertaste somewhere between chewing rubber gloves and aspartame.”

If I concentrate, I can summon the sense memory of the taste like a ghost to the back of my throat, and I believe I’m remembering it correctly, but I can’t quite describe it accurately. So I went on a quest to figure out just what this flavor is, where it came from, and maybe, just maybe, to taste it again.

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The original formulation of amoxicillin was created by Beecham Laboratories, which later, through an elaborate series of mergers, became GlaxoSmithKline. I contacted Glaxo to see if anyone there could shed some light on where the flavor came from. “What I have been told is that the pink bubble-gum flavor which I think you are referring to was developed specifically for the U.S. market at a former GSK site in Bristol, Tennessee, and the reason for this was that the penicillin molecule has an inherently bitter taste,” a spokesperson for the company told me in an email. (Amoxicillin is in the penicillin family.) The artificial sweetener aspartame is sometimes described as bitter—so my colleague Vann was really onto something there.

But amoxicillin has been available as a generic drug since shortly after it went on the market in the 1970s, which means the version of the drug that I and my fellow ’90s babies had was probably not usually the one manufactured by GSK. “Amoxicillin is one the first drugs that developed a robust generic market,” says Jeremy Greene, a professor of the history of medicine at Johns Hopkins University. A further impediment to trying to pinpoint the precise flavor I remember is that apparently many pharmacies now offer a variety of flavors that can be added to any children’s medicine.

I bothered a pharmacist at my local CVS to help clear this up. Though most of the amoxicillin he had in stock was in pill form, he also showed me a jar of powder, which he would mix with water to create the pink liquid suspension, should a child be prescribed some. “I can smell it, you know, when I prepare [it],” he told me. “It has a flavor.” It’s fruity, he said, “somewhere between strawberry and cherry.” This particular CVS gets its amoxicillin from Teva, one of the biggest manufacturers of generic drugs, the pharmacist said.

Here’s where it gets interesting. On Teva’s website, two of the four strengths of liquid amoxicillin the company offers are listed as being “Mixed Berry Flavored.” The other two are described as “Pink, Fruit-Gum Flavored.” Now, Teva is not the only generic manufacturer of amoxicillin by any stretch (one made by Sandoz that I found contains raspberry and strawberry flavors). But the existence of these two similar-but-different flavors might explain why some people remember the pink stuff as tasting like bubble gum, while others remember fruitiness.

Another potential explanation is that human memory is endlessly fallible, but I like the idea that favors my detective skills more.

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Taste is a factor in children’s medicine in a way that it’s just not for adults, who are prescribed pills for most things. And children often need the extra enticement of a familiar flavor to be coaxed into taking their medicine. But flavor used to be considered a more integral part of medicine for all ages—more than just something added to make it palatable.

Under the humoral theory of medicine, Berenstein says, “tastes themselves were correlated with the body’s humors.” So if someone’s four humors—black bile, yellow bile, blood, and phlegm—were seen to be out of balance, they’d likely be advised to avoid certain tastes, and eat more of others. A melancholic person, for example, might want to avoid vinegar (sour—just like them), and eat more sugar to balance themselves out. “It wasn’t about a spoonful of sugar making the medicine go down,” Berenstein says. “A spoonful of sugar was the medicine.”

And for bitter herbal preparations that served as medicine, Greene adds, the bitter taste was “proof of efficacy”: If it tastes gross, it must be working. But in the 20th and 21st centuries, the Western understanding of medicine came to focus on active ingredients. What Greene calls “the sensuous dimensions of medicine” got “systematically written out of the stories we tell ourselves about pharmaceuticals and the way they work.” But medicines “nonetheless have physical properties,” he says, “and those physical properties certainly influence our experience of them.”

Making children’s medicines tasty makes the experience of being sick less stressful for kids, and helps doctors and parents get kids to take them peacefully. But there is also the danger, if they are too tasty, that kids will consume them in secret, and overdose.

Children’s aspirin is a stark example of that. St. Joseph Aspirin for Children was released in 1947. It was orange-colored and orange-flavored and often advertised as “candy aspirin.” And “within a few years of its introduction, the incidence of aspirin poisoning in young children increased dramatically, almost five hundred percent,” writes Cynthia Connolly, a professor of nursing at the University of Pennsylvania who studies the history of pediatric health care.

“I, myself, am a former aspirin-poisoned child,” Connolly told me. It happened in 1961 or 1962, when she was 3 or 4 years old, she says. “My parents kept it up high because they knew I loved it. It had a wonderful granular taste; it tastes like a Sweet Tart. One time when they weren’t looking, I got up there and got the St. Joseph Aspirin for Children, took almost the whole bottle, and then fell off the counter and broke my arm. While still holding the medicine by the way.” Her parents found her when she screamed, and she had to go to the hospital and get her stomach pumped—and her arm set.

The dangers of candy aspirin led to the development of the safety cap, Connolly writes. And the pharmaceutical industry came to realize that it probably wasn’t a great idea to sell medicine as “candy.”

“You may recall the public service announcements from the ’80s,” Greene says, “of pills singing a chorus that went, ‘We’re not candy, even though we look so fine and dandy. Too much of us is dangerous.’ It’s a great song.”

* * *

It has been suggested to me by a couple well-meaning dream-crushers that perhaps if I tasted amoxicillin again today, it wouldn’t be the same, either because the formulation had changed, or because my palate had. Or, perhaps it was never really as delicious as I remember.

“Our memories, especially memories of being patients, are so wrapped up in moments and experience and become invested over time with additional meaning,” Greene says. “Either your vulnerability at that moment and the ability of the medicine to help you feel better, or perhaps a certain childhood relishing of this sick role, of remembering those days in which you get to stay home and watch television. I think it’s likely that you’re both encountering nostalgia for flavor and the way that particularly significant memories are oftentimes associated with smells and flavors.”

I was thwarted many times in my attempts to taste amoxicillin again. Greene initially offered to let me do a taste test, then retracted that offer after thinking it through. I asked colleagues to let me know if their kids got prescribed the drug. One person had just thrown some away, and the only other person who got some while I was reporting—my colleague Ian Bogost—lives in Georgia. Ian and I talked about finding a way to get the amoxicillin to DC, but ultimately we were too worried about the legality of transporting his child’s prescription across state lines, just so I could taste it (even if it would be a very small taste).

But while I was reporting on amoxicillin’s flavor, several people mentioned to me that the flavor they most associated with childhood illness was that of grape Dimetapp cough syrup. Greene was one of those people—but he says he recently got it for his kids and tasted it, and “it does not live up to the nostalgia that I have generated for it in my head.”

As it became clearer and clearer that I was not going to get to taste amoxicillin again, I thought that at least my colleagues could revisit their childhood memories. Unlike the flavor I was seeking, Dimetapp can be purchased over the counter. So—not that I encourage anyone else to do this—I purchased some cough syrup and fed it recreationally to myself and my colleagues. We had a Dimetapp taste test at my desk, taking very small sips of the bright purple liquid off of plastic spoons from the kitchen.

It’s not something I ever had as a kid. My adult assessment is that it tastes pretty good. Like a melted grape Jolly Rancher, but slightly more acrid. It did not disappoint my boss Ross Andersen, who grew up with it, though. “That’s like the Proustian madeleine,” he said, after tasting a couple drops. It took him right back to his temps perdu. Vann Newkirk similarly found it “classic” but perhaps a little more medicinal than he remembered.

But my madeleine moment was not to be. Regarding his daughter’s amoxicillin, Ian assured me, “It tastes just like you think it does,” which is both small consolation, and an impossible thing for him to know with any authority.

“I’m trying to think of what the analogy is here,” Greene says. “Not the forbidden fruit, but somehow this is almost like a sort of ambrosia that you have no access to.”

Part of the nostalgic aura that surrounds amoxicillin’s flavor may well be because there isn’t a great way for adults to taste it again, unless you have kids who get prescribed it. It’s easier to romanticize something that can never be recaptured again—much like youth itself.

from Health News And Updates https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/07/the-tastiest-medicine/533937/?utm_source=feed

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ionecoffman · 7 years ago

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The Tastiest Medicine

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Another potential explanation is that human memory is endlessly fallible, but I like the idea that favors my detective skills more.

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“I’m trying to think of what the analogy is here,” Greene says. “Not the forbidden fruit, but somehow this is almost like a sort of ambrosia that you have no access to.”

Article source here:The Atlantic

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elajoloterosa · 7 years ago

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Brushing Teeth with industrial Waste?

These days, it's hard to find any toothpaste I that doesn't contain fluoride. Most brands contain fluoride compounds (stannous fluoride, sodium monfluorophosphate) as the main active ingredient. Most brands limit the amount of fluoride compounds to .15 percent (weight by volume of fluoride ion) and caution parents not to use these cleaners on children younger than 6 years.

Fluoride toothpaste is considered a poison. Small type on all brands now warns that if children under six swallow as much as "a pea-sized amount" of fluoridated paste, parents should contact the nearest "poison

Some brands that are clearly marketed for children (with brightly colored boxes, friendly looking cartoon figures, and "bubblegum" flavors) contain .72 percent fluoride -nearly five times higher than adult brands.

http://www.nofluoride.com/food_and_water.cfm

Story at a glance

Fluoride is a toxic industrial waste product, which may also be contaminated with lead, arsenic, radionucleotides, aluminum and other industrial contaminants. The fluoride added to municipal water supplies is not pharmaceutical grade.

Twenty-three studies from four countries indicate that even moderate exposure to fluoride lowers IQ.

The daily dose of fluoride recommended by the American Dental Association results in the same level of fluoride in your blood shown to cause an 8-point drop in IQ.

Poison control should be called if you swallow a quarter milligram of fluoride from toothpaste. Meanwhile just ONE glass of water can contain this amount of fluoride.

To remain within "safe" limits, you'd have to use such a small amount of fluoridated toothpaste that one tube would last you several years.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/10/11/dr-bill-osmunson-on-fluoride.aspx

Alternatives to fluoride Tootpaste

1- Toothpaste made of clay. Earthpaste toothpaste contains no fluoride or glycerin, no foaming agent or artificial coloring. Definitely a great choice of commercial pasta that you can use the whole family. http://www.earthpaste.com/

2- Baking soda This is one of the most popular alternatives to toothpaste (as curiosity, so brush your teeth Julia Roberts "smile America"). You can moisten your toothbrush, dip it in a baking soda jar and brush as usual. Many people use baking soda as the basis for a toothpaste or homemade tooth powder.

3- Sea salt Can you be more natural than brushing your teeth with salt from the sea? Some people use it in the same way as baking soda. Are you worried that it is too abrasive? Me too. You can dissolve it in water before using it and wet the brush on it.

4- Coconut oil Coconut oil is another great natural alternative to toothpaste. Its fungicidal and bactericidal properties are very useful for oral cleaning. Coconut oil can be used alone or in combination with other ingredients in this list (such as baking soda and essential oils). Nutiva is a very good brand of coconut oil, both for its consumption and for its use in hygiene and beauty. http://nutiva.com/

5- Herbal dental powders These herbal powders can be used instead of toothpaste. Clean well and herbal ingredients can help relieve inflammation, pain and infection in the mouth.

6- Dry Brushing Easier, impossible! Are you tired of looking for a natural alternative to toothpaste? According to some people, it is not necessary to use absolutely nothing; Dry brushing is sufficient. But, although it works, it does not bring any flavor and may seem a bit strange.

7- Brushed with water If dry brushing does not convince you, you can try it with water.

8- Tooth soap Yes, you can brush your teeth with soap! This brand offers dental soap based on extra virgin olive oil, coconut oil, Himalayan salt, water and essential oils.

https://www.iherb.com/search?kw=toothsoap&x=0&y=0#p=1&rcode=edu847

Translated from this spanish blog

9- Dentie Powder Ingredients: Japanese charred eggplant and sea salt.

Traditionally, the Japanese, like many other cultures, used vegetable and mineral powders to look after their teeth. Mitoku Dentie Powder is a 100% natural toothpowder made from charred eggplant and sea salt only. Use a pinch on your toothbrush regularly to keep your mouth feeling super clean and fresh, while reducing tarter build-up. It also stimulates good circulation in the gums, maintaining optimal dental health. This magical powder is excellent for serious tooth problems and promotes a healthy alkaline condition in the mouth. Can also be used on bee stings and to stop the bleeding of minor cuts. A handy remedy to have in your medicine cabinet.

#toothpaste #fluoride #fluor #health #brush teeth #dentie #baking soda #earthpaste

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cashcounts · 7 years ago

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9 of the worst lies about vaping in the media

1. Vaping is just as bad as smoking

Even if we can’t quite say that vaping is safe, no legitimate scientist believes that e-cigarette vapor is even in the same ballpark as smoking for health risks

2. The vape companies are luring your children!

3. Vapor is full of formaldehyde and other scary chemicals

4. Big Tobacco invented e-cigarettes and owns the vapor industry

Since then, all the Big Tobacco companies have introduced e-cigarettes of their own, and it is true that they dominate sales in convenience stores and gas stations — the traditional source of cigarette sales. However, Wells Fargo tobacco industry analyst Bonnie Herzog estimates that the Big Tobacco companies account for less that 40 percent of the whole vapor products market. The rest of the business is the independent manufacturers and sellers that vapers know and love.

Here’s a secret: adults like sweet, fruity, and dessert flavors just as much as kids do.

5. Vaping causes popcorn lung!

6. Nicotine is as addictive as heroin

7. Exploding vapes…everyone panic!

8. Vaping is a gateway to smoking

Common liability says that the teenagers that try vaping are likely to also be the ones that try smoking, or marijuana, or drinking — or any risky behavior.

9. Flavors are a marketing trick to hook kids

Now I ask you, what sort of genius businessperson would build a sales strategy around selling the non-addictive version of an unadvertised product illegally to underage purchasers?

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