#the weeds are meant to be a substitute for a path but... weeds as pathing is kinda growing on me a lil

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Entrance in progress!! Literally most presentable part of my island atp ⭑

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On a scale of 1-5000, how annoyed do you get when people have the gall to tell you, “Wow! You’re so lucky!” when they find out that you work in entertainment and with celebrities?

Also on a scale of 1-5000, how unimpressed are you with the celebrities you end up working with?

Please share some horror stories so we can commiserate over nightmare clients! 😂

Yeef and also yikes, do I actually want to dive into this particular can of worms? Lmao. 

I thoroughly see spots of red in my vision whenever people try to do the whole “Wow, that’s really cool and lucky for you! How many famous people have you met or worked with? Your life must be so glamorous and exciting!!” Like please, spare me. It isn’t glitz and glitter all the time - in fact, the fun parts are in the minority of how working in this industry goes. Beyond that, I’m not ‘lucky,’ I worked my ass off to pull this off and have never slowed my pace (until this COVID-19 chaos) to ensure my post remains relevant. In accordance to your ranking, I guess I would go with 4999 points annoyed.

Frankly, my rating and impressions of my clients are like a river that flows on and on and yet there is no apparent water to be found. I have a good rapport with most of the ones I am contracted with exclusively, but they're prone to make my feelings change from sentence to the next. Celebrities will forever remain exhaustively effervescent. 

If you really want some dish, I can offer up some from a client I once worked with in my apprenticeship and how much I hate the time I had to spend with her while also retaining a sense of gratitude for helping shape me into someone that can withstand some of the prickly goings-on of the industry. She wasn’t even my client, as I was merely apprenticing and therefore was little more than a ghost that shadowed one of the veterans of our company. I’m highlighting this now before diving into the thick of what was the worst week in my career thus far because it is extremely important to keep in mind that I was under no actual obligation to work with this woman. 

Ahem, so, story time! Let me start off with first making it clear that even now I will only work with actresses and actors when I have no viable means of refusal. This is simply a preference of mine and stems mostly from this woman’s behaviors and treatments of me and some of the crew I worked with at the time. I was quite young when I entered my apprenticeship, like barely more than 20, and I was simultaneously accustomed and starstruck by the world I was entering. Before the apprenticeship, I had already been working off and on via temporary contracts and commissions as a MUA at the time, so I knew the ends and outs of the place and the people that worked my end of it. However, I hadn’t worked with many clients one on one as either a MUA or as an aspiring wardrobe stylist. Due to this I was still very green and awkward and hadn’t yet figured out the line between casual and professional (to this day, for me, this line is nearly nonexistent) and I tended to make a mess whenever I opened my mouth so mostly I kept quiet and melded into my role as an observing trainee with occasionally useful ideas but was mostly just an extra pair of hands. The stylist I was shadowing was, in a word, cumbersome. They weren’t a very great teacher and had a tendency to drop projects into my lap without much proper instruction or insight and would leave me to attempt making sense of what was wanted by means of vision boards and client portfolios. In much a similar fashion, when a scheduling conflict came up involving the actress which will star in this tale and another more major artist; naturally, he had to see to the client he had a more tangible contract with and stuck me with wrangling our golden girl. 

Within the first 4 sentences of our first exchange as stylist and client I hated her immensely. She was the type of client I abhor to work with; overbearing and demanding, thankless and impatient. She was in the midst of her career finally catching some interest which is the most pivotal time in any celebrity’s career and I like to think she was so bitchy and just plain mean due to the stress and pressure she was under but it doesn’t make what happened any more justifiable. Her immediate and first words to me were, “You’re young and clueless enough to be my baby sister. Whatever authority you think you can have in dictating what I wear ended with the sound of the door opening when you stepped in, get that straight now.” I remember this extremely clearly because I went from gobsmacked to incensed within the time it takes to pop the top on a can of soda. But! I knew at least enough to know to keep my mouth shut and temper my immediate dislike of this person and tried to push forward and steer the conversation in the direction of what her ideal style and presentation should be. It went well enough for all of an hour tops before she domed me again by calling me “baby sis” in place of my name. As I am, in fact, the baby sis of my family I am well aware of when a power play is being maneuvered in on me and spotted this for what it was: her trying to remind me that I had no right to be speaking to her, let alone designing her. This was a culmination of her being upset and put out that she wasn’t chosen by my mentoring stylist and was stuck with someone that had basically no merits behind her. 

Calling me this wasn’t really an issue for me, but it did chafe against my skin enough to make me feel uncomfortable and anxious. Still, I let it slide and she continued to call me as such for the duration of our time together. The true horror of this story is what comes next and the escalation from minor verbal insults meant to belittle me fanned into blatant sabotage. She and I had come to a sort of estranged agreement when it came to modeling her vision board - she wanted to retain some traces of her perceived sweet and demure self from when she was cast in her first role, but play up the maturity and grace she held now and have it reinvented into timeless class while holding a touch of being chic. It was a headache to make sense of since, from a the perspective of fashion and trends at that time, this wasn’t the ideal and even seemed counterintuitive to someone in her position and of her age. I went along with it and threw myself into the quest to pull from the brands she mentioned liking most and for days I learned firsthand how exhausting and tedious it is to make acquisitions and swear responsibilities/accountabilities one after the other and put my name and my company on the line. I handpicked every item and steadily managed to pull off forming my second ever ensemble of 4 sets of styles each with 2 or 3 substitution items that could alter the look entirely while still remaining within the realm of what the client had asked for. I worked upward of 13 hours for 4 days and when I finally was able to bring the client to her showroom and present my designs, I was only able to feel relieved for mere minutes before she began to yell and make a scene. She demanded my supervisor and the head of the styling department of our company both come to tend to her and see what a mockery I had made of her ideal image. She went on to use her acting quirks to insinuate that I had gone off half-cocked and overruled her every idea and word and then dared to present her with such low quality fashions. She even managed to produce a vision board that was entirely different from the one she and I had planned together! It was obviously done by herself and lacked the detailed attention any of the stylists housed in our company would have added, but it was convincing enough to appear damning. 

At this point my head was in a weird place, trying to make sense of the perilous world I was throwing myself into and the fact that this was actually happening to me at all and wasn’t just me daydreaming while watching daytime dramas. After I worked through that initial shock, I was more than mad but less than enraged. I was confused as to why this client was being so purposefully obstinate and difficult for me, even briefly wondered what sort of grievance I could have possibly cost her when I had only just met her and had done my utmost to seem cool and pro like all the seasoned stylists I had worked with. I thought I was going to lose my job and have to go back to my family with my tail between my legs and tell them they were right and I never should have strayed from my original course and career path. I only became aware that I was crying, like big fat tears that made a mess of my face and were embarrassing to the point that I wanted to flee, because my supervisor had given me his handkerchief. It was at this point that I teetered and looked deeply at the person accusing me and wasting my time and efforts and realized that it wasn’t about me and was only ever about her. This moment of clarity, though, was like the opening of a gate I had been clinging to all week in hopes of keeping all my spurned senses quietly simmering beneath my skin rather than wreck my name and finish off my chances before they truly begun. I very rudely told my supervisor and the department head that if they needed proof of my hardwork and dedication to the vision of a thoughtless actress caught in the weeds of her own wilting fame then they were free to examine my copy of the original vision board and compare it with the one she had; that they could check through the 15 or so LORs under my name and in her stead (both names are featured for security means). Anyway, she was attempting to spill a stain across our company and specifically the stylist in charge of me for blowing her off. Her idea was that if I failed in a big way it would make him look like a horrible mentor and cost him some of his reputation. I was merely cannon fodder.

This got insanely long - let’s put it up to me also being a storyteller and writer as well as very passionate about this encounter. It sparked the timid embers of my uncertain pursuit of my career into a fire that has since gotten me through many other rounds of hard hitting clients and their excessive personalities and entitled arrogance. I love my job a lot, but man is this industry full of bullies.  

[mattzerella-sticks]

Tribute to What Almost Was

Dean/Cas 1.6k fic

(ao3 link)

When Cas died, Dean spread his ashes in a field he believed Cas would have liked.

Here's how that went.

           He doesn’t know why he lit the joint. He can’t explain why, when he caught sight of the dealer half-hidden by gas station shadows, palming a dime bag into their buyer’s hand with a jerky handshake, Dean diverted from his path back to Baby. He didn’t remember flashing his fake badge or barking at the pair to face the wall and place their hands on the wall behind them, but he must have because he stood there, watching panic briefly flitting across their faces, eyes screaming for them to flee and legs that refused to listen, before complying. Dean pushed a plastic bag stuffed with jerky and candy and energy drinks he bought up his arm, then, freeing his hands to search their pockets. He stole their weed – evidence, he gruffly explained – and set them loose with a vague warning. Dean’s latest acquisition joined his other purchases, tucked safely inside. He continued on with his mission, climbing into Baby and driving the rest of the way towards his destination. These events replayed in the smoke off his first drag, joint dangling from Dean’s limp fingers. He still doesn’t know why he lit it.

           Dean glances at his watch, then above to see the sun shining in a clear, blue sky.

           A few more minutes, he reasons, bringing the joint back to his lips for another drag. He shifts the jar in his lap, moving Cas so the bits of ash that fall from him toking won’t mix with the bits of ash he gathered long after Cas’s body burned atop the pyre.

           Dean studies his angel, raising the glass jar to almost eye-level. If he imagines hard enough, Dean can discern features from the cinders and clumps. He tries picturing Cas in his glory, in the moments between battles, in times where Dean’s heart skipped. Visions of the other man, his eyes aglow and jaw unhinged by agony, are what appears. Their freshness overpowers his better memories.

           Sighing, Dean sets Cas aside to appreciate the scenery again.

           His gaze barely lingers on the windmill slowly spinning near the edge of the clearing, already too familiar with its shape. Dean pays closer attention to the surrounding plant life, instead. With the hand not currently holding his quickly dwindling joint, Dean runs his fingers down a blade of the tall, reedy grass. He loops it around his finger and then releases it. He repeats this a few more times until he discovers a new distraction. Dean reaches out, a caricature of the First Man, as he tries meeting the thin branch of a wild, overgrown bramble halfway. A soft, hollow laugh ekes out past Dean’s lips when his fingertip brushes against a leaf. Dean sucks in more smoke as his watery eyes bounce around the treetops, stopping only because he feels the joint’s nub burning him.

           Dean squeezes the ends of the joint, snuffing it. He brought just the one with him.

           He glances at his watch, then above to find the sun’s shuffled further along in its journey.

           Dean’s waited all he can.

           Slowly, Dean rises to his feet. The glass jar is heavy in his hands, like it was when he first grabbed it out of Kelly’s cabinets, except it’s Cas making the bulk of its weight and not the jam he tirelessly scooped out of it.

           He stands, fingers laced together on the jar’s surface. Dean bows his head, looking past the hole and at the remnants of his best friend, and is suddenly struck with the need to speak. He tries but can’t utter a single syllable. Those words stay stuck in his throat, colliding into each other; prevented from becoming real, from being spoken now that it’s too late.

           Where words fail, Dean’s actions act as a substitute. He shrugs free from his jacket, one arm at a time, refusing to let go of Cas. Dean drops his jacket to the side, overshirt joining it as he slides that off, too. He unloops his belt, buckle hitting the piled fabric with a soft thwack. Dean steps on his laces, unlooping them without using his hands and kicking his boots far into the field. His socks find their way onto the growing heap of Dean’s clothes, followed by Dean’s t-shirt, jeans and boxer briefs. Finally unburdened of his clothes, Dean breathes deeply, then sinks to his knees.

           He feels vulnerable, exposed and defenseless. It’s the closest he’s come to recreating the thrill of being caught by Cas’s searching gaze. His angel’s eyes were able to peel away the walls and layers of bullshit Dean had built, defenses Dean thought impenetrable that failed innumerably when set against Cas. Cas saw through all, into Dean’s soul and, somehow, stayed. Cas chose Dean repeatedly, and he’ll never hear how much that meant to him, how much Cas meant to him.

           Dean stripped to avoid voicing his thoughts, since he couldn’t. For some odd reason, he overcomes his impasse. Words begin tumbling out of his mouth, filling the silent emptiness of the field. “Y’know, Cas… I always wanted to do this with you,” he says, “never thought it’d… it’d be like this.” He hiccups with laughter, thick and wet. A tear drips down, heading for his chin but interrupted as Dean shudders for breath. It stains the corner of his mouth, forcing it from the false smile and into a more appropriate, more natural, glower.

           “I’m not just talkin’ bout the being naked thing,” he whispers, “When I first passed this here patch of land, I immediately thought of you, about how you’d like it. How you might look if I brought you here. How I pictured it you’d… you get this wrinkle between your brows,” Dean taps at his forehead, his eyes screwed shut, “and your head’d tilt like it usually does when you’re confused” – he mimics Cas by skewing his head to the side – “and you’d ask me why we’re here. And I’d go on about how it might not be the beach, but it’s a little slice of heaven where we can exist outside of the raging shitstorm our lives were, without enemies, without battles. A place us soldiers can go and… not be that, y’know? Some peace… for the both of us.” Despite his eyes being closed, tears continue to fall. “Then, while you were taking all that in, I’d grab your hand real smooth like, tell you I love…” He chokes on it. Dean pushes against his fear, straining. “Telling you I love you, and how loving you makes life feel like being in this field all the time. That, in spite of our pasts, we can have peace and we can be together – we can be Dean and we can be Cas, together, because I’ve never thought I could love anyone like this until you showed me it was possible, Cas and –“

           He stutters to a halt, grip on the jar slipping. Dean places it over his heart, winding his arms around it. “I’m sorry I never took you here ‘till now,” he says, “I was always too afraid. Because after telling you all that, the next thing I’d see was you pulling your hand out of mine, and your face… you’d smile, but it’d be sadder, because you’d have to explain how you don’t feel the same. Angel stuff that I’d tune out since all I’d hear is the echo of my heart shattering.” Dean cries into his shoulder, muffling his next few sentences. “I held it in. Kept it, and this, from you. And now you won’t know about either…”

           Dean clears his throat, uncurling from his position. He rests on his heels, tilting his face towards the sun to let it dry his tears. The sun warms him, allows him to carry on with his goodbye. “I still want you to have this peace. You deserve it… deserve a lot more than what you got, that’s for sure. You deserved a better life, one clear from all the bullshit that I seem to attract… one where you were with someone who could love you proudly, in the open, the way you deserved.”

           A strong gust of wind cuts through the field, cueing Dean to upend the jar in his hands. Ashes pour out its lip. The wind carries Cas and scatters him, leaving Dean with an empty jar in his hands.

           He’s not done.

           Dean roots around his jacket pocket, uncovering the mixtape he made Cas. He pocketed it, refusing to let it burn with the rest of his angel. However, holding it in his hands then, Dean knew he could never listen to it, nor any of those songs contained within, anymore. He saved the mixtape for this moment. Dean digs a small grave for his ‘Top Traxx’, placing it inside and covering his work with a sweep of his hands.

           “I won’t ever forget you, Cas,” Dean releases his words to the wind, too, “I can’t. I’ll love you until I can join you, and then some.”

           It’s like a weight was lifted off his chest. In doing so, however, Dean reveals a hollowness he doubts will ever be filled.

           He glances at his watch, then above to steal a peek at the sun before he leaves Cas’s field.

           Dean gathers his things methodically; he steps into his boxer briefs and jeans, hooks his belt closed tight, and throws on his tee and overshirt. He drapes his jacket over his arm, tucks his socks into his boots and carries them in the crook of his fingers. Dean ambles barefoot towards Baby, not in much of a rush to be elsewhere.

           He’ll have to go back to the Bunker at some point, Sam probably worried since Dean is out much longer than he promised. But Sam also has other worries he can preoccupy himself for a few more hours.

           Dean does, too. He can finish off the weed he stole. Then, after smoking all of it, he can decide on what to do next.

           It’s not a perfect plan, but it works for him.

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Hi I absolutely adore your writing, please never stop!! Also for prompts if you ever need some ideas; - Katsune Jaskier that follows Geralt like a shadow, which he's aware of but doesn't know who/what it is and it drives him mad until he finally sets a trap to catch him and lo and behold, it's a cute famous bard - THE HANAHAKI DISEASE AU BUT NOT FATAL - just Geralt secretly loving Jaskier's voice and pining for his singing - Feral Antisocial Geralt who's only Soft with Jaskier is my shitok

 AN: I'm so sorry this took so long! The world went to shit and my brain went along with it, but I loved your prompt so much I needed to write it, even so late >.

   It starts small. Geralt thinks it starts with the djinn but it really began much earlier, years earlier when Jaskier burrows past his defenses in a way that he barely even realizes and plants the seed that will turn Geralt’s life upside down. But it does start with the djinn, in a way. 

    The tickle in his throat had been growing for months, in hindsight its progress was likely inhibited by the twisted physiology of witchers, and Geralt ignores it in favor of working towards the next job, the next town, the next good night’s sleep. Until it turns to an itch that he can feel with every breath, keeping him tossing and turning on the spring earth like a dying beetle. He doesn’t sleep easy in the first place, even with swords in reach and Roach nearby, but the faint pressure in the back of his throat leaves him grasping for even the thinnest veil of peace every night. 

    Naturally, his only solution to this dilemma is to find a djinn. The net’s wet cords are unwieldy until he’s thrown it over three dozen times, more beyond that when he loses count until Jaskier’s voice cuts into his frustrated groans. He’d never admit that it might have been the bard’s lucky presence that wins him the amphora after so many hours of fruitless searching but even that thought is quickly tossed away when he sees what the djinn has wrought on Jaskier. 

    The long rides on his search for help are time enough for him to listen to the ragged breaths Jaskier fights to take and Geralt swears under his own at the foolishness his sleep-deprived brain had concocted as a solution. He’d bear the itch in his throat for the rest of his life if it meant Jaskier’s voice wasn’t torn to shreds between wheezes like this. His traitorous mind wonders if the solution to his problem of sleeplessness might have even happened if he’d had Jaskier’s strumming in the evenings to drift off to, that he’d gotten used to and only found he missed when the bard had left for the Countess de Stael. But it doesn’t matter, the hands weakly gripping his waist are what he should be focusing on. 

    He keeps a hand on Jaskier every second until he stands before the mage, the back of his throat scratched with how many times he’s cleared it in the past few hours and the exhaustion bleeds into his voice just slightly as he hears that haunting wheeze whistle from Jaskier’s lips again. 

    “Just a… friend?” Yennefer arches a brow with enough refined subtlety that he barely understands. 

    “Companion.” 

    “Ah.” The unimpressed look on her face doesn’t stand in the way of her offering help however, for a price Geralt would gladly pay many times over. The guilt that gnaws at him seems to crawl up out of his stomach and nestle in his lungs, his usually slow exhalations paced fast enough to almost be a normal human’s. The change would be disquieting if he wasn’t more worried about someone else’s chest rising and falling faster, and easier. 

    He’s standing over Jaskier, watching his eyelids flicker and trying to explain away why he’d rushed through a bath with a mage like Yennefer when she broaches the subject again. 

    “You care so much about what he’d die thinking, what did you say?” 

    Geralt considers not telling her but he could imagine what Jaskier would say. Brave enough to fight monsters as your day job but not enough to admit you cut me with a sharp quip? It would sound far better in Jaskier’s voice; Geralt’s mind had never been good at filling in Jaskier’s side of conversations unlike Jaskier himself was for Geralt’s. And maybe it was the sleepless nights that had brought back his habit of substitution, of trying to fill the hole in the everyday that had once been bursting at the seams. 

    “I insulted his singing.” 

    “He must be the bard then. The ‘humble bard’, no less. Well, I’m sure he’s heard worse.” Yennefer leaned against the post at the corner of the bed, arms wrapped around the wood as she pressed her face to the whorls carved into it. 

    “He shouldn’t—” He can’t finish the words, a cough disrupts his thoughts and forces him to focus on what had grown in the back of his throat. Swallowing hard, he feels something slip down from the force of it, a tightness as that of food eaten too fast. 

    “I’ve healed his ills, do I have to add yours to the bill?” 

    “No. This is nothing.” He braces himself on the post she’d abandoned, seeing the marking drawn on the floor and his mind scrabbles for something other than Jaskier to revolve around. “You’re planning to use him as bait.”

    “He’ll get his last wish, fully healed. What happens after is a matter of circumstance,” Yennefer says, shrugging. 

    “It’ll make everything worse, trying to cage…” Geralt stops, this time from the cloying scent that’s flooded his nose. 

    “That was faster than I’d have thought. You, witcher, are distracted.” She sways towards him as his senses begin to cloud and her glance towards the bed has him jerking to intercept. “Hush. He’s got all of your attention already, I’m just borrowing you for a bit.” 

    The world goes dark and Jaskier returns. But it doesn’t stop Geralt from marching back into the building to save her in the end. She had saved Jaskier, and as much as he’ll deny any conclusions one could jump to about how much he cares, or as Jaskier creatively put “give a monkey’s about”, him, that act deserves some kind of repayment. 

    ———

    Once it starts, it takes far longer for it to end, however. His and Jaskier’s path weave together in the years after that and he sees the bard’s fame continue to grow and his ballads about him growing wilder, if still mostly true, while for him the only change is the tickle that grows into a cough with every sunny step Jaskier’s takes away from him when he leaves even as he tries to hide it. 

    By the time he meets Triss, he’s found out what he swallowed that night. He leaves them strewn around his campsites, when he can afford to simply hack them up and discard them, and keeps his mouth shut otherwise, breathing only thinly until he can weed out the fresh patch that grows over the course of the day. The only reprieve he ever found was in the slip of meditation when his senses dull just slightly and Jaskier’s wandering fingers pluck out tremulous notes of his latest creation. But that only lasts so long. 

    Triss frowns as soon as she sees what Geralt holds in his palm.

    “If you weren’t a witcher, you might have died from this already,” she mutters, spinning the stem between her fingers. 

    “It won’t be what kills me directly. One good slash from a bruxa while I’m coughing these up and I’ll be the next piece of roadkill in the night.” 

    “I was talking about the poisoning. Buttercups are toxic, but at the rate your—You say you’re coughing them up so much that you swallow them instead, that might just be making it worse.” 

    “What am I supposed to do about it? What cursed me? Who? If I could solve this, I would have done it already. That’s why I’m asking for your help.”

    “This isn’t something I can heal.” 

    “Then who?”

    “You. Just like how symptoms of a sickness get worse the more you ignore them, so too with this. Except this time, your body isn’t what’s being repressed but rather your emotions.” 

    “That’s what the mutations did. Too late to undo that,” he growled, the soreness in his throat mounting in the now-familiar foretelling of a fit. He doubled over, coughing a shower of drifting yellow petals onto the frosted earth. Buttercups in the dead of winter, like a trail of breadcrumbs leading back to him, giving him away even more thoroughly than Jaskier’s singing usually did. 

    Triss continued once she saw he’d stopped. “This is something you’re deciding to do. Or more likely, something you’re deciding not to do.” 

    “There’s plenty I don’t do. Fight every human who sneers my way or cavort in the streets, for a start.” 

    “But something you want to, but decide not to. That’s your mystery to solve. Not mine.” She smiled. “Unless you really do have a fancy for dancing a jig in the main square, I’d surely watch that.”

    He leaves her disgruntled but with an answer to his problem, even one he doesn’t like. While he racks his mind for what the solution is, the days start to blend together until he finds himself growing used to his condition. The flowers grow rampantly, but clearing his throat helps to at least keep the stems from clogging his breath for the hour it takes for them to grow back. It serves the same purpose as his usual monosyllabic sides in conversations about jobs, with the side effect of earning more than a fair share of stupefied, and disturbed, looks as the petals slip from his lips whenever he does open his mouth. 

    The only one who seems to ask him about it however, is Jaskier. He stumbles into Geralt’s campsite one dusk with a few of the flowers tucked behind his ear. 

    “I hear you’ve been spreading rumors without me! What’s this about the ‘Spring Witcher’? It’s like something from a fairytale, except instead of diamonds you get the burden of flowers dropping from your mouth. Shame it’s only the one kind. Pretty color though!”

    Geralt doesn’t say what he can feel lying on his tongue, that with Jaskier’s sky-blue doublet, the same one from when he’d wished the bard silent and come closer to killing him than anything else, goes so well with the yellow in his hair. Instead, he coughs, leaving a dusting of buttercups on Roach’s back just as he’d finished brushing her down. 

    “The tales don’t tell of that. Is it a curse? Can you still talk? Is it painful?” 

    By the time Geralt clears his tongue of any more bitter stems, Jaskier’s stroking Roach’s nose and looking at him with concern. It takes a second for him to speak, caught in the relief of the weight of those eyes on him, something he hadn’t realized he’d missed. 

    “What are you doing here?” 

    “That answers one of my questions at least,” Jaskier sighs, but acquiesces, “I’m… wandering, for now. I don’t know, I happened to find you. Maybe it was destiny, although I know you don’t like that word. Maybe I can stick around for a bit before I go, help you get rid of those weeds.”

    “You a healer now?” 

    “No, but I’ve taken care of plenty of other things for you.” Jaskier takes hold of Geralt’s wrist, raising it until the scar running to his elbow is shining white in the firelight. “Wouldn’t look as nice if I hadn’t taken that embroidery class all those years ago, you know. And the rash from the—”

    “Yes, I remember the rash, Jaskier,” Geralt cuts in before he can continue down that vein any further. The tightness in his lungs eases just slightly in the moment, and he finds he doesn’t want it to be temporary. “Stay.”

    “Where? Here? I mean I don’t mind holding your hand, Geralt, but I’m also not a dog.” 

    “Just… It helps.” It feels like he’s pulling the words out, slowly and methodically uprooting them from inside and shaking the dirt from them before offering them up. 

    “Does it really?” Jaskier’s eyes widen, his hand tightening slightly on Geralt’s skin and he relishes the warmth of those nimble fingers, but it feels like he still hasn’t finished clearing out the field. 

    “And it’s been too quiet. Roach is good company but…” 

    “She’s not the best conversationist? I’ve noticed that too. She’s all eye-rolls and huffing, with good reason but there’s only so much of that deadpan you can take.” Jaskier smiles, still holding onto his wrist as he talks, stopping only to pat Roach’s flank between sentences. “I’ve missed you too, Geralt. I’ve never met anyone who can brood so expressively. And insult me so bad I almost die.” 

    “Jaskier, I’m—”

    “I kid. I can respect a good repartee as well as any jester. Besides, I flatter myself to think you may have learned such sharp wit from me.” 

    “I somehow doubt it.”

    “See? That was good, but I bet if you spend another decade or so with me, you’ll be killing monsters with just your words.” Focusing back down on the scar that had been the first point to his argument, Jaskier runs the pad of his thumb over the beginning of the raised skin, turning thoughtful. The expression scares Geralt, his mind always returning to the conversation before the djinn, to all the points where he could have stopped what he was doing and spared Jaskier the ensuing pain. To all the hurts that Jaskier bared to him, without him even realizing it. 

    “By then, will you still be using ‘old friend’?” he asks, realizing his words are coming easier, as is his breathing. The dull ache that had sat inside his chest for almost a year had eased, the taste of pollen against his teeth waning with every clear breath. 

    “Maybe something different. I have a few ideas, but I’ll run them by you. See how you react.” He almost doesn’t see Jaskier’s wink, with the darkening sky and the thumb that has traveled from his wrist to his palm, but he catches it. By then, the only buttercups left are those in Jaskier’s hair and even those are knocked loose by his next gesture. 

I’m open for prompts

[clairebeauchampfan]

The Glory of the Garden

Please substitute the words America or Scotland (or indeed, wherever you live, be it Spain, Brasil, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, Germany or from wherever you fan Oultander.) If you have just have a patch of garden, vegetable plot or patio, no matter how small,  you’ll know what Kipling meant: if ever you visit England head for ‘Bateman’s’, Kipling’s home in Sussex, near the lovely village of Burwash. We here are indeed blessed with beautiful gardens, many run by the National Trust. 

How privileged I am though to have visited Canada’s Buchardt Gardens, the gardens of the Huntington Library in California, and the Botanical Gardens of Bogor in Java  and Sydney, New South Wales. But all of  nature is a garden, and we need to work to protect and nurture it. 

OUR England is a garden that is full of stately views,Of borders, beds and shrubberies and lawns and avenues,

With statues on the terraces and peacocks strutting by; But the Glory of the Garden lies in more than meets the eye. For where the old thick laurels grow, along the thin red wall, You'll find the tool- and potting-sheds which are the heart of all The cold-frames and the hot-houses, the dung-pits and the tanks, The rollers, carts, and drain-pipes, with the barrows and the planks. And there you'll see the gardeners, the men and 'prentice boys Told off to do as they are bid and do it without noise ; For, except when seeds are planted and we shout to scare the birds, The Glory of the Garden it abideth not in words. And some can pot begonias and some can bud a rose, And some are hardly fit to trust with anything that grows ; But they can roll and trim the lawns and sift the sand and loam, For the Glory of the Garden occupieth all who come. Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing:-" Oh, how beautiful," and sitting in the shade While better men than we go out and start their working lives At grubbing weeds from gravel-paths with broken dinner-knives. There's not a pair of legs so thin, there's not a head so thick, There's not a hand so weak and white, nor yet a heart so sick But it can find some needful job that's crying to be done, For the Glory of the Garden glorifieth every one. Then seek your job with thankfulness and work till further orders, If it's only netting strawberries or killing slugs on borders; And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden, You will find yourself a partner In the Glory of the Garden. Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray For the Glory of the Garden that it may not pass away! And the Glory of the Garden it shall never pass away !

[alightinthelantern]

I think a lot about the fact that when I was thirteen, I spent twenty minutes helping free an old woman who was a complete stranger to me unjam her car door, after it had frozen in the cold. I was with my social worker du jour and this old woman called out for help from her car window as we were walking down the sidewalk and explained, and I immediately went over and started helping, because someone needed help and I was there. I spent twenty minutes trying the handle, pulling at the stub, all to no avail, and then it finally dawned on me (God knows why it didn’t beforehand) to try pulling the stub and handle at the same time, and that finally unlocked the frozen door, and the woman was able to get out of her car. The woman had even told me at one point “It’s alright, you’ve tried your best” part-way through the endeavor, and said I could go, but I said something like “No, I’ve started this and I’m going to see it through”. Or that was what I was thinking at the time anyway, I remember clearly.

My social worker, a Christian, was so moved by the entire encounter that afterward asked me, with emotion, if she thought God worked through people. “Maybe,” I said, not knowing. She then asked if I thought God worked through me. “No!” I said emphatically, disgusted and horrified. “Maybe through other people, but not through me,” I said, with all the air and self-assurance a too-smart 13yo could muster up. The idea that I was possessed by some other entity horrified me, and I knew on some subconscious level that crediting my actions to some other power was an insult to me. I had acted completely of my own volition and faculties, and knew so quite well.

I was designing ocean liners and warships when I was ten years old, drawing up plans for vessels blueprint-style on sheets of graph paper taped together with Scotch tape. I worked with a pencil and a ruler and copied and recreated the ships I read about in books, like the Queen Mary and the Titanic, the Lusitania and the aborted Oceanic III. Everyone I showed my drawings to growing up with childish pride in my heart were amazed by what I drew. I soaked up information like a sponge, and I learned things quickly. It was obvious to everyone who interacted with me that I was bright beyond my years. The social worker with me on that Winter episode was one of the longest social workers I’d ever worked with, a relationship lasting several years, and she in fact filled in for a semester as a substitute teacher at my school at the time, when the English teacher left on maternity leave. One day, while driving me home after school in her red sedan, she was talking about my classmates in the English class, and how it tired her out interacting with them. I forget the exact construction of her sentences, but it went something like “I have to talk to them differently than I do you. With them, I have to, although it’s a mean thing to say, and I shouldn’t say it, but kind of ‘dumb down’ my language with them. With you I can speak equally, like with adults.”

“Why is that bad?” I asked. “It’s okay”, I said, with childish innocence. Obviously it wasn’t something to be said to their faces, but if it was the truth then how could it be bad to say in confidence? I was probably only flattered by the compliment. By the time I was twelve or thirteen, I could talk on an intellectual level on par with the twenty-somethings in my life. Growing up as a teenager, I was at a loss of how to explain that, but now that I’m in my twenties myself, I realized the answer is simple: people in their twenties are fucking morons, because people in general are stupid, stupid creatures.

When I was thirteen I tried to kill myself, because I couldn’t take the constant abuse my mother and sisters inflicted upon me. I was exhausted and miserable and hated myself and took a knife into my hands. I couldn’t manage the deed, my body refusing to obey me (I still don’t know why), and I was dragged to the hospital, declared insane, and put in a mental hospital for three weeks, and then in a halfway home for two months. All the while my cunt of a mother played the beatific martyr to all heads of authority, and was ready to Welcome Me Home With Open Arms once she and the authorities felt the state system had punished me enough, and I went finally to live with her again. I spent my entire teenage years depressed, abused, degraded, and constantly borderline-suicidal, and only when I moved into my own apartment at age nineteen, living on SSI funds provided by the state, did I begin the slow, years-long process of slowly, so slowly, unlearning the lies they told me, that I wasn’t good enough, that they loved me, that they treated me how I deserved to be.

My sisters lied and stole growing up but because I was a boy and I was Autistic I was Violent and Dangerous and Selfish and Awful in my abusive mother’s eyes. They bullied me and I was the one punished. When they were fourteen they stole $140 dollars from their mother to buy a ferret from Petco, because she wouldn’t buy one for them. Eventually they were caught out and the money returned, and my mother was quick to forgive them, much quicker than she ever was to forgive far minor infractions on my part. One sister is now a tattooed bar rat who smokes cigarettes and weed and gets drunk for fun, and the other is a pathological sociopath, and abusive narcissist like her mother and grandmother before her. She’s an absolute cunt just like our mother and her mother, and I wish death upon them daily.

When I was nineteen or twenty, I saw a woman sitting on a bench crying. I had no idea who she was or what was going on, but I immediately leapt into action, and rushed to the local Ben & Jerry’s a couple blocks away to buy a cone for her. I had to wait in the fucking line that’s always clogging the place up, and didn’t arrive back in my original spot until over fifteen minutes later, at which point the woman had left. Because I’m someone who sees things through when I start something, I ran up and down the entire four blocks of the pedestrian marketplace four times each, stopping every woman who looked like her and asked her “Excuse me, were you sitting on that bench [pointing in direction] over there?” Because my vision is bad and I mentally categorize human beings on physical traits, this meant I stopped thin, tallish woman in her mid-twenties who had long, straight, bleached-blonde hair and was wearing a blue jacket with a black or dark blue shirt underneath. Because most people are dark-haired in my state, this meant I stopped somewhere between eight and thirteen women, I can’t remember now.

All of them answered “No” when posited with my question, and then I apologized, excused myself, wished them good day, and took off to try to find the woman who’d been crying. The one woman who answered differently said “Yes,” when I’d asked if she’d been sitting on a bench and pointing back in the general direction. She was with a group of friends and seemed too happy and clear-faced to have been crying moments before, so I asked her if she’d been crying. She said no. Growing up in an abusive household means you can’t do anything you want without some sort of justification; “Because” is a reasonable reason for parents treating you like shit, but is never enough when you want something yourself. Having been trained by my upbringing to explain my every action to avoid punishment, I quickly explained that I’d seen a woman crying on a park bench and had bought ice cream to cheer her up, but she’d left and I was now trying to find her. The women in the group gasped and one of them said “You’re so sweet!” But I’d already spun around and took off, and didn’t catch their faces. Every moment that I failed to find the woman was another moment the ice cream was melting, and another moment she might be getting away.

I never found the woman, and eventually giving the dripping cone to an obese girl with a cardboard sign saying she was homeless. I asked her if she wanted it, and she said yes with a rush of gratitude and emotion in her voice. I handed it off, furious at my inability to succeed in my mission. Several weeks later, I was walking along a hill high above the lakeshore with another social worker du jour, and I saw the girl and some friends swimming in the water. Their conversation carried up clearly in the moist, overcast weather, and realized they were bathing and naked. “People are so much nicer here,” the girl was saying too-loudly to her friends, much louder than them. “Back in Michigan I didn’t have any friends.” I grew intensely uncomfortable, and whispered urgently to the social worker “Let’s leave”. We hurried along the path, and away from that private scene.

When I was twenty-one or twenty-two I was walking along a country road enjoying the beautiful summer weather, when I saw a small snake sunning itself on the road. I knew that if it remained there it would get run over, it was far too small for any driver to see, and fetched a twig and started gently prodding it. “Come on,” I said, you have to get off the road.” I knew snakes were deaf, but I spoke anyway. It ignored me at first, but I couldn’t risk giving in and kept going, and then it started darting its tongue out at me repeatedly, looking annoyed. “I know,” I said, “I’m sorry. But you have to get off the road, you’ll get run over!” I made sure never to touch it harder than a nudge, and not to touch it except with the flat of the twig’s stem. I nudged it a few more times, and then it darted off the road and into the grass. I watched it another minute or two, to make sure it wouldn’t go back onto the asphalt, but when I approached it again it scurried further into the grasses. Satisfied, I went my way again, moving along the side of the road at a leisurely pace. Not three minutes later a car whizzed by me, an SUV going entirely too fast for a country road.

When I was twenty-two or -three I was shopping at the grocery store and encountered a young woman stocking items on the shelves, who smiled at me as I passed by. I ended up running into her repeatedly as I went about my shopping, and each time she smiled to me. I knew it was only out of politeness, but people never smile at me, they glare or stare with incredulity and judgment, and I was overcome with emotion. I had to thank her somehow, so I bought a rose along with my other groceries, and after I’d gone through checkout found the young woman and gave the rose to her. “This is for you,” I said, nervously. She stared at me with a blank smile, not moving a millimeter, and other store patrons were turning to stare at me, so I quickly handed it to her, wished her a nice night, and fled the store. When people stare at me it means they’re about to yell at me, and I didn’t feel like being yelled at for trying to repay a good deed.

My entire life I have given my heart away without a second thought, I have loved hard friends who humiliated me, I have honored and loved and begged for kindness from family members who abused me. I have been a shining plot of love in a wasteland of evil and cruelty.

I am better than other people. I am smarter than the average person, and I am kinder than the average person. I’ve been debased and dehumanized my entire life, and it took me forever to realize my own self-worth. It took me forever to realize that I am not worse than other people, I am better. I have done good things, things without thought that I only realized later in life others would never consider doing. I still enjoy being kind and performing goodness, and I do it, and have always done it, for kindness’ sake alone. I’ve never asked for recompense of any kind, I’ve only ever desired a small “thank you” in return.

And if simply acknowledging that makes me an asshole, makes me conceited, like everyone tells me it does, with their glares and their pinched lips and passive-aggressive silences, with their stupid hypocritical derision born of a lack of self-awareness, then so be it. So fucking be it, because I am so fucking done with human beings and what fucking imbeciles they all are.

[poemsinthirdperson]

Honey Cream

I. Honey Cream

There was the girl she had felt the most love for in all her life. Hair lilting in the whir of artificial air. Waves crashing against a sheer wall, falling back as murmurating rain. She was tired. Were it not for the combination of treetop cradled fingernails and an indignantly bowed shoulder, her bag would be laid flat on cracking concrete. Still, here it rains. Here grass can grow through, but, of course, not absolve. She would likely never see her again. There was an unfortunate centrality to that charm.

Diana massaged the hair on her forearm. She’d never gotten used to her bare arms; more so the embodiment of them than anything else. A taciturn honey-cream shirt pushed out of her father’s sleeveless cricket jumper, all tucked neatly in a shaded-rose burgundy skirt. She had used that jumper for its intended purpose a number of times. This morning she flinched when she had looked in the mirror. Like, genuinely recoiled. But mirrors were best viewed at 45˚ angle anyway. Truthfully, Diana had a fairly healthy sense of self-loathing, certainly never manifesting in dialogue. In fact, one could easily make the case that it didn’t even exist. That could be reassuring.

Dancing Queen into Hit ‘Em Up. Sometimes she did appreciate the majesty of her own mind. She had cried, alone in the sound, a few weeks ago. The eye of the universe, A crown of heavy light, angels at the gate, horns in hand. But she’d be fucked if she could recall the reason why now. Say what you want about the rapture (there is no inflection point) at least it produced some good, inert poll-tested liberal reformation.

That was the angle she saw the city, back from the harsh glass of the encroaching settlements. Malignant wailing shards occupied more by creative code interpretations and tax breaks than people. Clawing for the sun, they pull back fire. Reflection, refraction, recursion, somewhere in the sum of those words (a proper one with exponents and substitutions) was the right one. The result was a new eternal flame, burning the heart of the city, spitting ash into the pall. Begging Prometheus to take it away.

Diana stood before the doors of the church. Well, stood, really she walked past three or four times, hoping nobody would notice her, stopping, for what were seconds but felt like minutes, skin flaring red, and contemplating stepping in. Of course she didn’t know exactly know what she was looking for, that comes with the territory, but it was three thirty-four on a Tuesday afternoon, quiet contemplation was the immediate option. Still, there was always the chance she wouldn’t even make it across the threshold. She felt pathetic, like an anxious child. Last week she did the same thing. Reading Margot’s address over and over again, waiting for the perfect imperfect figure that would dispel any notion of paralysis at all. The whole time, she wouldn’t accept a glass of water. All you can truly love is the grass.

II. Anointed in Ice

To flats of concrete. Margot’s shoulders were hoisted up to her salt sea blue earrings as she leant back on the windowsill. Her hands hooked the alcove as she lifted her left foot off the ground and brushed the bridge of the other. She was propped between some cool apricot althaea and a stack of half-read books. Amongst them a was botanist’s handbook, ostensibly created for late 80’s housewives, sheathed in a lush illustration of a flowering garden, rendered in a confident gouache. Its measured intricacy meant it shared more blood with Morris than the untamed wilderness which birthed the gods of old. Margot had never known her mother to have a particularly green thumb as long as she’d been alive.

‘Here, I’ll pose for you.’

Diana cocked her camera with an automatic if mistakenly arrogant precision. ‘I shouldn’t have put it away.’

Margot jumped a little at the sight of the flash. ‘I’ll have to get used to that again.’ She saw Diana peering through the viewfinder like a submariner at the periscope. ‘Why did you?’

‘I don’t know, it just got frustrating. I could never tell if I hated the pictures or just myself.’

‘It could be both.’

Diana didn’t let her finish the sentence, a giggle punctuating her own. ‘It’s probably both.’

A glittering tsunami poured out of the radio, laboured wind barking through the tracks. Margot popped up and sprouted a smile that nearly covered her eyes. She clasped Diana’s wrists, drew her down and pulled her up around her.

She threaded her hand across her back and through the crook of her arm, fingers blossoming before her nose.

She submerged, the blades of her shoulders fastened to the roof of her thigh, her curled fingers capitulating to the first, braced delicately on her ankle.

They fell somnolently, one to the floor, one to the clouds, passing cheek to cheek, their arms locked and immaterial in a spectral prsim.

Blushing buds sprouting through aged soil.

Her hair curled around her arms, spiralling in flowing pools, and crawling down her back.

Then Diana remembered she was.

Warm blood blistering into veins of molten rock. She collapsed to the sofa. But Margot was there, three fingers bathed in ice, dragged from forehead, just above the left eyebrow, to cheek, just below the right jaw.

‘Listen,’ Margot said, ‘My sister’s finally doing it.’

‘No shit, really?’

‘Yeah, well she says it’ll just be easier for forms and stuff, but they’re getting married in Portugal, right near his mum and dad.’

‘Wow.’

‘They’re going to make sure it won’t be anything big, so we’ll get a good few days with nothing to do. I just was wandering if you wanted to come.’

‘Yeah?’ Diana scratched at the back corner of her camera.

‘Yeah, It’ll be fun.’ Margot nearly lost her eyes again.

‘I really don’t know if I’ll have time.’

‘I haven’t told you when it is yet.’

‘But it’ll be soonish? Like this year?’

‘Yeah, it’ll be this year.’

‘I just… I really have to do something. I’m so sorry, Margot, it’s really got nothing to with you. But if I don’t do something now, I’m going to be stuck, and I don’t even know if that’s really that bad but—’

‘It’s okay, I’m not cross.’ And she wasn’t angry, she really wasn’t angry, but the words still meant more than their definition. ‘I know who you are.’

III. No Deer

Diana shifted into first gear, released to handbrake, and lifted of the clutch. ‘So you know the way, Khâleh Agatha?’

‘Do you have a A to Z?’ Agatha replied.

‘Uh, I don’t really… Yeah it should be in the glovebox.’

Diana couldn’t work out how her mother had become friends with this lady, probably some innate charm from the motherland, though her father was always good at this sort of thing, and it certainly had passed down to her, but anyway, here she was, going to pick up a used desk.

Agatha took the book and ruffled through the pages like a fan. ‘It’s hot out isn’t it.’

‘Yeah, it’s nice. You can open the window if you want.’ She leant over and turned the winder a little. ‘Like that.’

Agatha was dressed head to toe like she had just stepped out of the 1970s, a rice paper thin shawl and bulbous black sunglasses completed the look. It wasn’t in some vain grab for the halcyon days of her youth, in truth the period would had been outside a liberal parameters for the definition of ‘youth’ let alone ‘halcyon,’ but she had truly adored the clothes and you really stop growing after a while.

‘So you work down at the council?’ said Agatha.

‘Yeah, I work at the civic centre. Assistant in the department of City Enviroment.’

‘Do you enjoy it?’

Diana closed the car door. They were in a little parking area off the road. The tarmac, with no reinforcements in sight, was fighting a losing battle against the allied armies of moss and weed. Whether subterfuge or treachery, the green had made crippling inroads into the highest seats of power. A panting greyhound jumped down from the only other car boot in the vicinity, the owner latching a leash to its collar.

‘It’s alright,’ replied Diana, ‘quite boring really.’

‘Right.’

‘There’s nothing more important to people than when the bins are collected. Which I can’t really decide whether that’s good or bad.’

The sun streamed through the trees. Wooden posts lined the left side of the dirt path they were walking along. One post was on the floor. Some delicate twigs. had just about managed to tangle themselves in it before the fall. The sun caught them before they fell, twirling back up into their own support.

‘Do you know where we’re going?’ Diana tried so hard to avoid hostility and condescension she really didn’t know where she ended up.

‘Yes.’ Agatha moved on before Diana could get a read on that reaction. ‘There’s deer around here you know.’

‘Really? Do you think we’ll see any?’

‘No, I suspect not.’

A crystal clear stream bisected their path. Diana slipped out her shoes and socks and planted herself firmly in the water. It was perfectly cool. She raised her hands and Agatha held on to her forearms as she stepped over.

‘Thank you.’

They were out in the open, in a meadow of sorts. There were flowers all around them, parting at their waists. (Agatha more than Diana) By themselves the miniature jewels of faded colour courted no grace, they were roses by no names, but together, spread out before them like that, there was something beautiful.

‘Khâleh Agatha, when…’

‘Ah, here we are.’

They came to a small house, though it did have its own verandah, with a woman outside the open front door, staring up, with her hands cupped over her eyes.

‘You must be here for the vanity,’ said the woman.

‘Yes,’ replied Agatha.

‘Give us a second, bloody thing’s stuck.’ The woman went inside and came out carrying a broom. ‘Wouldn’t fit through the door you see.’

‘Oh, that’s alright.’

‘You ready?’ A muffled yeah eked past the curtains swaying in the second floor double window. The woman took the end of the broom and prodded up at the vanity, suspended in the branches of a tree. She knocked it loose, a few errant leaves with it, and the rope that shot out the window started moving, lowering it to the ground.

Agatha looked it over for any unexpected blemishes or scratches (it was immaculate) and handed over the money to the woman.

‘Have a nice day.’

‘How are we going to carry this all the way back?’ Asked Diana.

‘The cars right there.’ Agatha gestured to the car park a few metres behind the house.

‘Oh.’

The greyhound was sleeping on the roof of its car, the owner was sat cross legged next to them.

‘That was nice,’ said Agatha

‘Yeah, it’s nice to get out,’ replied Diana.

‘Still, you know what they say,’ (she didn’t) ‘They’ve got coca-cola everywhere.’

[paleorecipecookbook]

8 Reasons Why Soy Isn’t A Health Food

Soy products are popular in many different diets, but Paleo excludes it entirely. Why is soy considered healthy from numerous viewpoints but not Paleo?

What Is Soy, Exactly?

Soy is a bean that belongs to the leguminous family of plants that produce one or several edible seeds in a pod. In addition to soybeans, other popular legumes include common beans, peanuts, peas, and lentils.

So, soy is a legume. Legumes are not Paleo. Why? Because they contain anti-nutrients such as phytates, saponins, and toxic lectins that can cause digestive distress and inflammation.

Soy further distinguishes itself with detrimental protease inhibitors and phytoestrogens. In other words, soy is loaded with potentially harmful substances.

That said, some folks tolerate legumes, including soy, better than other folks and fermenting soy diminishes the anti-nutrients and provides enrichment. Miso, tempeh, and natto contain probiotics and natto has the added health benefit of being a great food source of vitamin K2.

People in Asian countries still eat plenty of traditionally prepared soy foods, but westerners consume their soy most commonly as a plethora of modified foods and food additives. In the United States, almost the entire soy crop has been genetically modified to withstand heavy doses of Roundup herbicide.

It is very likely that the widespread use of soy products in the food supply is part of what adds to the poor state of our collective health both on personal and environmental levels. These things make soy a “leguma” non grata.

Soy Foods

Soy isn’t always labeled as such, and can be referred to by many different names and preparations.

Traditional Soy

Edamame

Tofu

Natto

Tempeh

Miso

Processed Soy

Soybean oil

Soy flour

Soy meal

Textured vegetable protein (TVP)

Isolated soy protein

Concentrated soy protein

Soy lecithin

Soy food alternatives such as milk, cheese, ice cream, yogurt, pasta, hamburgers, hotdogs, etc.

Many food preparations can contain soy and/or its derivatives. These are just a few examples:

Baked goods

Cereal

Deli meats

Infant formula

Mayonnaise

Protein powders

Soups

Candy

Peanut Butter

Chocolate

Vegetarian meat substitutes

The History of Soy

In her expose, The Whole Soy Story, Kaayla T. Daniel chronicles the path of soy from its humble beginnings as a fertilizer in ancient China, to its transition to a food source throughout Asia, and onward to its current appropriation as a myriad of super-industrialized ingredients at the heart of the processed food juggernaut.

The ancient Chinese designated the soybean as one of the “Five Sacred Grains” along with rice, millet, barley, and wheat. However, unlike these grains, soy was not eaten. In fact, soy was considered inedible (likely due to the distress it caused the eater).

Although our ancestors didn’t understand the chemistry (soy “fixes” or enriches soil with nitrogen), they knew that soy was a great fertilizer. It wasn’t until Chinese cooks began fermenting soybeans around 2,500 years ago into a paste called chiang that it was incorporated into the diet.

Chiang was used as a medium to preserve animal foods such as fish and meat. Tofu and Japanese miso were developed shortly after and it wasn’t until much later, somewhere around 1000 AD, that natto was invented. Tempeh entered the Asian food scene even later in the 17th century. (Incidentally, tofu is not fermented as commonly believed. It is coagulated from soy milk and pressed into curds.)

Traditional forms of soy are still widely consumed in Asian countries, but less so than we might expect. Soy has always been eaten as more of a condiment to grains and protein and not as the center of the meal. It is very common to find tofu incorporated into soups and stews not as the main feature, but as a complementary ingredient.

There are significant regional differences today. Asians generally consume between 6-25 grams of soy protein a day. (1) To put that into perspective, a one-half cup of firm tofu contains 10 grams of soy protein.

In the United States, soy is now a staple in processed foods, including baby formula, and as a result, Americans are eating a lot of it. Soy consumption in the U.S. has increased astronomically from $300 million in 1992 to over 5 billion today. (2) Such astronomical growth is the result of relentless promotion by an increasingly powerful soy industry and the FDA health claim linking soy with heart disease reduction. The FDA health claim for soy recommends a total of at least 25 grams of soy protein each day to decrease risk of heart disease. (3)

The pro-soy campaign is working: (4)

31% of Americans consume soy foods or soy beverages once a week or more, compared to 24% back in 2010.

45% of consumers, up from 31% in 2010, seek out products specifically because they contain soy.

Soy milk remains the most frequently consumed soy food, followed by edamame, energy bars, and tofu.

More than 75% of consumers perceive soy products as healthy.

8 Major Problems with Soy

While many problems exist from such a high intake of soy, there are eight main reasons why soy is not a health food.

1. Soy is not heart healthy

An influential meta-analysis in 1995 of 38 controlled clinical trials showed that eating approximately 50 grams of soy protein a day in place of animal protein reduced LDL cholesterol by almost 13 percent. Let’s keep in mind that 50 grams of soy is equivalent to eight 8-oz glasses of soy milk a day or a lot of tofu! In 2000, the nutrition committee of the American Heart Association (AHA) published an update showing that 50 grams of soy a day lowers LDL only about three percent and has since retracted its health claim for soy. (5) Of course, all these studies obscure the real issue that cholesterol is not a reliable indicator of heart disease risk in the first place!

2. Phytoestrogens

Like the thorns of a rose, phytoestrogens are produced by certain plants to protect themselves from predators. Plants use phytoestrogens as a weapon to attack insects and animals that eat them by sterilizing them to decrease their numbers and prevent further attacks.

Phytoestrogens can also impact humans who eat them and the hormonal effect is the subject of ongoing research and debate. The most common phytoestrogens in our diet are three soy isoflavones: genistein, daidzein, and glycitein.

Due to their estrogenic effects, soy isoflavones have been extensively studied in relation to fertility, growth, and the incidence of hormone sensitive cancers, especially breast cancer. In regards to breast cancer, there is still no clear consensus on whether soy isoflavones are helpful or harmful. Some studies show a benefit to soy isoflavone intake, some show no association, and other studies show that soy isoflavones may stimulate cancer growth. (6)

In addition to breast cancer, phytoestrogens are associated with:

Infertility and reproductive problems, including cancers (in animals)

Hypospadias, or genital irregularities, in boys whose mothers are vegetarians

Reduced testosterone in men

Hypothyroidism

Dementia

Excessive phytoestrogen levels in infants fed soy formula

The phytoestrogen load in infant formula is of particular concern as it may negatively affect infant health and have residual effects throughout the life cycle. Twenty five percent of infants, or 1 million each year, are now raised on soy formula. Adjusted for body weight, these infants are getting seven times the concentration of isoflavones recommended by the FDA or that are consumed by Asians following a traditional soy-based diet.

To put this in better perspective: infants on soy formula have circulating phytoestrogen concentrations approximately 13,000 to 22,000 times higher than their own endogenous estrogen levels or the equivalent of at least four birth control pills a day! (7)

What effects might all this extra estrogen have on babies? It has been observed that soy-formula fed infants are more likely to develop thyroid disease and use allergy medications in childhood, and girls are more likely to have longer bleeding and more discomfort during menstruation. (8) Clearly, infant soy formula should only be considered when no other feeding options exist.

Babies are just not meant to be fed processed soy formula. All we have to do is look at the differences in the ways Asians and westerners consume soy across the lifecycle and the wisdom of tradition reveals this. Asians eat relatively large amounts of soy across the lifespan, but they don’t feed it to their babies. Westerners who feed their infants soy formula provide a tremendous amount of soy in the first year of life compared to relatively little the rest of the lifecycle. (9)

Phytates

Phytates are present in all parts of plants including leaves and stems, although they’re highly concentrated in the hull and bran of grains, and the outer layers of nuts, seeds, and legumes—including soy.

When eaten in moderation, there are beneficial aspects to phytates. However, when eaten in excess, phytates can decrease the bioavailability of minerals such as magnesium, zinc, iron, copper, and calcium by binding to them and preventing their absorption.

Excess dietary phytate may impede the function of pancreatic enzymes, interfere with digestion, and contribute to bacterial overgrowth and leaky gut. Fermentation diminishes the phytate content in soy.

Trypsin Inhibitors

Trypsin inhibitors in raw soy interfere with trypsin, the enzyme that breaks down protein during digestion. This can result in poor protein digestion, gastric distress, an overworked pancreas, and damage to the gut barrier. Fermenting soy foods deactivates trypsin inhibitors.

GMOs

Over 90 percent of the soy crop has been genetically modified to be “Roundup Ready” to withstand Monsanto’s Roundup glyphosate herbicide. Roundup kills weeds that grow in soy fields but not the soy itself. However, over time, weeds developed resistance and now farmers have to use heavier applications of Roundup as well as additional herbicides.

Heavy herbicide use takes a tremendous environmental toll and there is a growing mountain of evidence that Monsanto’s agricultural practices for Roundup Ready soy is devastating not only the environment but also the lives of the people who work and live in those areas. The scope of the effects of genetically modified foods and glyphosate on the general population is still unknown and the subject of intense debate. (10)

Lectins

Soy contains a class of toxic lectins known as agglutinins which are difficult to digest and can induce red blood cells to clump together. Soybean agglutinins can also increase gut permeability and stimulate the immune system. Soaking, heating, and fermenting reduces the amount of agglutinins in soy.

An Inferior Source of Protein

Soy is touted as being a complete source of plant protein, but it’s deficient in the essential amino acid methionine. Processing soy also destroys lysine, another amino acid.

Saponins

Soy contains another type of anti-nutrient known as saponins. Saponins can be described as “soap-like” because they have properties that enable them to rearrange cell membranes so that they can slip through. Once leaked into your bloodstream, saponins are capable of initiating an immune response and systemic inflammation.

Bottom Line: Why Soy Is Not Paleo

Paleo is about choosing from a nutritional framework that places a premium on foods with the highest nutritional value and the lowest toxic loads; an approach that mimics the nutritional habits our hunter-gatherer ancestors evolved to thrive on during the 2.5 million years of the Paleolithic.

If you are going to eat soy, look to the past and apply the knowledge of what we know today: eat fermented varieties occasionally. If you have autoimmune disease, or are at risk for an estrogen-related cancer you may not want to consume soy at all.

Vegetarian women who are pregnant should be mindful of the amount of soy they consume since it can have a significant impact on the developing fetus.

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