Glorilian

JUST LURKING AROUND

[replaymp4-deactivated20200927]

okay but like, reply in the tags what fandom you’ve been in with the best quality of fanfiction

[smalltownboymp3]

everyone who said one direction owes me five dollars

[glorilian]

Hard to say... Hmm. Idk if best generally, but the most memorable ones, the works I liked the most are from these fanfoms:

The Hobbit.

Game of Thrones (ASOIAF)

Star Trek

Because my most beloved fics are the most epic, usually very very AU.

Then there is also Harry Potter.

I cannot say which fandom's quality average is the highest, tho. I think... 'Best Quality in average' award would probably go to some much smaller fandom.

[bastardbvby]

rb with your red flags for fanfics like no matter how good the premise is or how many kudos it has, you simply cannot read it based on these factors

[valtsv]

i love the lord of the rings and related works because tolkien only knew how to write one kind of character and that's extremely affectionate gay older men. and by god did he.

[g1sunstreaker]

no actually, he just wrote deep and affectionate friendships between men who understood actual masculinity the likes of which should be considered normal amongst men without always being called romantic.

[valtsv]

no actually they all had gay sex

[glorilian]

Shipping in fanworks is fun. But.

I agree here with @g1sunstreaker. Same as with female-male friendships, it sometimes aggravates? or frustrates me that it is as if often any deeper, meaningful friendship has to be turned into romance. It is just... bah! 😩 As if friendship is not of the same value like romance, as if it could not be entirely satisfying, warm, deep relationship. Etc.

And another thing is... I am not sure how to express it. Hm. I mean... Ascribing certain characteristics to be gay or straight. As if being affectionate amongst friends - male in this case - instantly means those persons are gay... Putting certain behaviours in closed, labelled boxes: this is gay, this is romantic, this is "normal straight guy" etc. (It just feels so... constraining, you know? In reality and especially in art/creative works.)

I believe @gayarsonist posts were told in light, jesting manner. Nothing wrong about that... They amused me but also just tickled my hidden, sleeping grumpiness about all this. I am just bit tired of friends-to-lovers trope in movies/other media (especially when paired with the 2.5 kids and dog kind of end/epilogue)... and also of the fence that ppl sometimes like to build around some behaviours, encarcerating them in Box of Certain Way of Interpretation.

Personally, I am Bagginshield shipper. Hah. 😀😀 But. I am able to look at their relationship from various angles. In movies: it can be deep friendship... or it could be story of unsaid romantic love (and friendship)...

LOTR is full of various kinds of relationships. Limiting this just to various old men being gay (and saying they have to be gay bc... idk why even?) is... 😑

[niseamstories]

I took some historical sword-fighting lessons to make the fights in my novel more realistic - here’s what I learned.

To make the fighting scenes in my low fantasy novel more realistic, I went to see a trainer for historical sword-fighting last week, both to barrage her with questions and to develop realistic choreographies for the fight scenes in the novel. Since I figured some of what she told me might be useful for you too, I put together a small list for you. Big thanks to Gladiatores Munich and Jeanne for making time! (Here are some more pictures if you’re interested.)

Caveat: I’m by no means a sword-fighting expert myself, so take these nuggets with a grain of salt – I might have misremembered or misinterpreted some of the things Jeanne told me. If I did, feel free to tell me.

1.) Weapon choices need to make sense

Let’s start with a truism: always ensure your character’s weapons make sense for a.) their profession, b.) their cultural background and c.) the environment they’re going to fight in. A farmer probably couldn’t afford a sword and might use a knife or threshing flail instead, and someone who doesn’t want to be noticed probably wouldn’t be milling about sporting a glaive or another large weapon. Also, soldiers native to a country with wide open plains would be more likely to carry long-range melee weapons such as spears or large swords, than those from a country consisting of mostly jungle or dense forests. The same applies to situations: if your character is going to be fighting in close quarters (even just a normal house), he’d get little value out of a spear or even a longsword, as there’d be no space to swing it effectively.

2.) Boldness often beats skill

In real swordfights, recklessness was often more important than technique. The fighter less afraid of getting injured would often push harder, allowing them to overpower even opponents with better technique.

3.) Even a skilled fighter rarely stands a chance when outnumbered

While a skilled (or lucky) fighter might win a two-versus-one, it’d be extremely unlikely for even a single master swordsman to win against superior numbers, even just three and if they’re below his skill level. The only way to plausibly pull this off would be to split the opponents up, perhaps by luring them into a confined space where you could take them on one by one. The moment you’re surrounded, you’re probably done for – because, unlike in Hollywood, they wouldn’t take turns attacking but come at you all at once.

4.) Dual-wielding was a thing

… at least in some cultures. I often heard people say that people using a weapon in each hand is an invention of fiction. And while my instructor confirmed that she knew of no European schools doing this—if they did, it’s not well-documented—she said it was a thing in other cultures. Example of this include the dual wakizashi in Japan or tomahawk and knife in North America. However, one of the biggest problems with the depiction of dual wielding in novels/movies/games are the “windmill”-type attacks where the fighter swings their weapons independently, hitting in succession rather than simultaneously. Normally you’d always try hitting with both weapons at once, as you’d otherwise lose your advantage.

5.) Longswords were amazing

Longswords might seem boring in comparison to other weapons, but they were incredibly effective, especially in combat situations outside the battlefield. The crossguard allowed for effective blocking of almost any kind of attack (well, maybe not an overhead strike of a Mordaxt, but still), the pommel was also used as a powerful “blunt” weapon of its own that could crack skulls. Though they were somewhat less effective against armored opponents, the long, two-handed hilt allowed for precise thrusts at uncovered body parts that made up for it.

6.)  “Zweihänder” were only used for very specific combat situations

Zweihänder—massive two-handed swords—were only used for specific purposes and usually not in one-on-one combat as is often seen in movies or games. One of these purposes was using their reach to break up enemy formations. In fact, one type of two-handed sword even owed its name to that purpose: Gassenhauer (German, Gasse = alley, Hauer = striker)—the fighters literally used it to strike “alleys” into an enemy formation with wide, powerful swings.

7.) It’s all about distance

While I was subconsciously aware of this, it might be helpful to remember that distance was an incredibly important element in fights. The moment your opponent got past your weapons ideal range, it was common to either switch to a different weapon or just drop your weapon and resort to punching/choking. A good example of this are spears or polearms—very powerful as long as you maintain a certain range between you and your opponent, but the moment they get too close, your weapon is practically useless. That’s also why combatants almost always brought a second weapon into battle to fall back one.

8.) Real fights rarely lasted over a minute

Another truism, but still useful to remember: real fights didn’t last long. Usually, they were over within less than a minute, sometimes only seconds – the moment your opponent landed a hit (or your weapon broke or you were disarmed), you were done for. This is especially true for combatants wearing no or only light armor.

9.) Stop the pirouettes

Unfortunately, the spinning around and pirouetting that makes many fight scenes so enjoyable to watch (or read) is completely asinine. Unless it’s a showfight, fighters would never expose their backs to their opponent or even turn their weapon away from them.

10.)  It still looks amazing

If your concern is that making your fight scenes realistic will make them less aesthetic, don’t worry. Apart from the fact that the blocks, swings and thrusts still look impressive when executed correctly, I personally felt that my fights get a lot more gripping and visceral if I respect the rules. To a certain extent, unrealistic and flashy combat is plot armor. If your characters can spin and somersault to their heart’s content and no one ever shoves a spear into their backs as they would have in real life, who survives and who doesn’t noticeably becomes arbitrary. If, on the other hand, even one slip-up can result in a combatant’s death, the stakes become palpable.

That’s about it! I hope this post is as helpful to some of you as the lessons were to me. Again, if anything I wrote here is bollocks, it’s probably my fault and not Jeanne’s.  I’ll try to post more stuff like this in the future.

Cheers,

Nicolas

[carry-on-my-wayward-butt]

windows 10 is garbage so every time i boot up the computer i have to run command prompt and enter

net.exe stop “Windows Search”

so that the shitty goddamned search/cortana feature that i never fucking use stops running in the background taking up all my fucking disk space

[carry-on-my-wayward-butt]

before

after

[eclipsebykimlipmp3-deactivated2]

what the fuck is that seriously what the fuck is making my computer be a fucking piece of shit

[internetwes]

@baristaboy try this out dude

[ilikeyoshi]

@lambylin

[amis-amai]

y’all didn’t even add a tutorial of how to do this so imma put one right here 1. type in cmd.exe into your windows search and right click on Command Promt search result and select “Run as Administator”. 2. Type/Copypase in  net.exe stop “Windows Search” and make sure Windows Search is in quotations. It should then respond saying “The Windows Search service is stopping” and then tell you it’s stopped. This is only a temp fix though, if you want it switched off permanently then do THIS: 1.  Press the Windows key + R at the same time and type in services.msc. 2.  Scroll until you find Windows Search and double click it to enter its Properties window. 3.  Change the Startup type to Disabled. Apply this change and you can exit out. VOILA, NO MORE TAKEN UP DISK SPACE

[bluecrysto-blog]

Reblog to save a fucking life, FUCK CORTANA.

[eternal-fractal]

Yo this sick nasty

[glorilian]

Saving for later

[devinellekurtz]

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[asynca]

Learn to Knit With Scales

So you want to make something with scales too? Well you're in the right place!

GUYS I’VE FOUND A VERY IMPORTANT WEBSITE FOR PEOPLE WHO CAN KNIT WITHOUT INJURING THEMSELVES!!!!

[mzminola]

DRAGON KNITTING!!!

[captainofthefallen]

@rannadylin if you’re into that

[red-winters]

@tiny-dragons-castle

[halloweencrafts]

Learn to Knit with Scales

There is also info about where to buy the scales, a video tutorial for visual learners, and a written tutorial with lots of photos. 

She also sells patterns for these:

[aurumacadicus]

!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh!!!!!!!!!!!

[stormbee8]

I’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS EXACT TUTORIAL BUT ALL I COULD FIND WAS FOR CROCHET!!

[rockpapertheodore]

@jumpingjacktrash jesse i feel like you’ve seen this before but i need you to also see it now because i feel like it’s something you’d think is neat

[jumpingjacktrash]

i have, but it’s cool enough to see again. :D

[glorilian]

Oh. 😍

[catchymemes]

Via @iamdylancurran (Twitter)

[hank0331]

I’ll repost this whenever I see it on my dashboard.

[nightowlpatrol]

fuck…

[jellyfishdirigible]

So, one thing you can do is use Firefox instead of Chrome. Another thing you can do is use duck duck go instead of google search. In fact you know what let me get on desktop and make a proper reply, give me about an hour and I’ll hook y’all up with some privacy

[jellyfishdirigible]

ok I took a bit more than an hour, I have time blindness don’t @ me.

Step one, download and install Firefox.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

It will ask if you want to import all your bookmarks and saved passwords from your current browser/s. Do that. It will also ask if you want to make it your default browser. Do that too.

You will be given the option to create an account, but it’s not mandatory. It’s just a convenience service if you want to access your bookmarks and saved passwords on different devices.

Firefox has a load of built-in privacy protections but we’re going to install some addons to make it EVEN BETTER. Don’t worry they’re all free and once you’ve installed them you don’t have to think about them again.

First, Duck Duck Go Privacy Essentials. Firefox does still set your default search engine to Google, we don’t want that. You could manually change it but the Duck Duck Go addon gives you some tracker blocking, encryption, private searching, all set up and ready to go

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/duckduckgo-for-firefox

Next you need an ad blocker. ABP went stupid, so here’s uBlock

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/

Do you use farcebook or any related product like instagram? Facebook Container automatically puts those in a little quarantine pen so they can’t follow you around and spy on what else you’re doing

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-container/

If you have multiple accounts (eg. work/school, family, public, personal, private) you can use Firefox Multi-Account Containers to manage them and keep their footprints separate

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/

Privacy Badger and HTTPS Everywhere are published by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and those people are serious as a heart attack when it comes to online privacy.

Privacy Badger sends a do not track signal, and also breaks link tracking by sites like facebook, twitter, etc.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-badger17

HTTPS Everywhere is… ok there’s a lot to explain here, and we’re already longposting so just, every time you connect to any page it makes it more secure.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/https-everywhere/

If you want to learn a bit about how this works and why it’s good to have, might as well start with the HTTPS page on wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTPS

You could stop here, that’s pretty good. But you can do more. You could install NoScript. A big warning with this one, it can break half the internet. It’s a LOT more user friendly than it used to be but if you can’t figure shit out by fucking around you should probably skip it. It blocks scripts from running without permission, protecting you from drive-by scripts that give your computer herpes, but also sometimes protecting you from script-heavy sites working at all.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/

Lastly an honourable mention for Ghostery. Ghostery has been a solid privacy addon for years, and now has adblocking powers. Honestly I haven’t used it in ages, a long time ago it conflicted with something else I deemed more important so I removed it and I never got around to picking it back up, but it has a great reputation and is trusted by a lot of people who I trust.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ghostery/

Now, this all only covers your browser activity, which is a lot but you will still need to manually adjust privacy settings on your google/gmail/youtube account/s if you have any, your facebook/instagram account/s if you have any, and your actual gotdamn operating system if you use windows. I know it seems like a lot of effort, I’m a lazy bitch too, but it’s very set-and-forget, you only need to do it once, and then just review it a couple of times a year.

Here’s some stuff about Windows 10 privacy settings

https://pixelprivacy.com/resources/windows-privacy-settings/

https://www.cnet.com/how-to/5-privacy-settings-to-change-in-windows-10/

And some stuff about google privacy settings

https://mashable.com/article/google-privacy-setting-you-should-enable-now/

And some stuff about facebook privacy settings

https://www.trustedreviews.com/news/facebook-privacy-settings-2939307

And here’s an honest explanation of what a VPN really does and does not do, why you don’t actually need one, and the few real reasons you might ever want one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVDQEoe6ZWY

And  a bit about password managers

https://www.cnet.com/news/best-password-managers-for-2020/

This is by no means the limit of the steps you can take to secure your online privacy, if you want to go deeper you definitely can. But if you don’t want to or don’t have the time or aren’t very technically minded, this will still put you way ahead of the pack. It won’t make you The Most Private but it will make you Much More Private Than Most, and it should take you less than an hour or two, depending on how many accounts you have on predatory datenkraken sites.

Now go hide your panties from the evil empire.

[anarchopuppy]

You can also use Invidious to use youtube privately, and there are extensions like Privacy Redirect that’ll send youtube links directly to it. The subscription page can be a little unreliable, so I just send my youtube notifications to my email with RSS instead

ProtonMail is a free email service that’s not google (already a good start), but also encrypts all your mail so no one but you and the person you’re emailing can read it

From experience, Tor is a lot more user-friendly than you might think. It does take a little bit of fiddling and getting used to, but the payoff is that all of your traffic becomes extremely hard to track. They have a desktop browser that’s built on Firefox and comes pre-installed with many of the extensions listed above. I recommend trying it on without uninstalling your current browser, just to see how you like it

switching.software and privacytools.io have tons of recommendations for privacy-friendly alternatives to google software and tools that can be used to avoid surveillance. But remember that this isn’t yours or any other user’s fault - we shouldn’t be expecting every single person to load their computer up with encryption to avoid surveillance that private companies shouldn’t be doing in the first place. Lay the blame where it belongs, on google and facebook, and hold them responsible

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

I’ve seen so much bad faith discourse today that could easily be solved by everyone acknowledging that multiple things can be true at once because the world is actually really complex.

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

Still stewing about this. Like… everybody wants there to be some sort of definitive Maslow’s Hierarchy of Oppression for all situations instead of accepting that different power dynamics can simultaneously exist on multiple axes. And I’m sorry but it just doesn’t work that way. 

Let’s look at my grandfather as an example:

He was an Indian man born under colonial British rule who supported the Indian National Army, an armed force formed by Indian nationalists and Imperial Japan in 1942 in Southeast Asia during World War II. He was studying and working in the US during the war and wasn’t able to return to India in order to fight with them, but I know he wanted to. And on one hand, fighting to end British colonial rule in India was 100% a noble goal. I’m fully down with giving a hearty “fuck you” to British imperialism. 

But on the other hand… the Japanese were an Axis power with their own history of imperialism, and were endeavouring to establish even greater dominion over China and Korea (the latter of which had already been annexed by Japan in 1910). And on top of that, they were allied with, y’know, the Nazis, which… as a Jewish person, I have to just say: Not great, Bob! 

I mean, you had this Indian military force that was fighting against British colonialism, but they were doing it by aligning with another imperialist power, who in turn were aligned with the fucking Nazis, who the British were trying stop. In fact, Subhas Chandra Bose, the leader of the INA, actually lived in Berlin from 1941-1943 during the height of the final solution, and had even met with Hitler and other Nazi officials about forming alliances to defeat Britain, until he finally came to the conclusion that “the new nationalism of Germany is not only narrow and selfish but arrogant.” And yeah, it was definitely fucked up that Bose spent time working on an Indian alliance with Hitler to the point where he was living in Nazi Germany for two fucking years, but on the other hand, he was mostly there because the British threw him in jail for leading mass protests against their own imperialism, and the Germans strategically gave him asylum with the goal of turning British Indian POW against the Allied Powers (they totally would have invaded India later if given the chance but I digress). And meanwhile, Churchill, while fighting off the Nazis—which, again: good—was also enacting policies that contributed to (or at least exacerbated) a major famine in Bengal that killed 3 million people, which didn’t bother him at all because he was a massive anti-Indian racist who said doing anything to help was pointless because we (Indian people) “breed like rabbits.” 

So anyway, back to my grandfather. He was an Indian man who wanted to end the centuries-long occupation of his country by the British by any means necessary, to the point where he considered fighting for an anti-British army that was aligned with the Axis powers. And yet… he was also madly in love with his Jewish wife, and the proud father of a Jewish-Indian son, and he hated the Nazis, because, y’know, people tend not to like regimes who want to murder their family. 

So what do you take from all that? 

I feel like so many of you just want to see things in black and white, and decide if somebody is stanned or cancelled. But there are so many situations where you can’t do that—where things are grey or dualities exist at the same time. 

The whole thing with the INA and the Japanese and the Nazis and British - it’s like a snake eating itself. I can’t fault my grandfather’s desire to join the INA as a way of overthrowing the British, and I also can’t wholly support it. It’s not quite wrong and not quite right, and I’m saying that as somebody with 80 years of history in the rearview mirror, which means at that particular moment in time, it was probably even more unclear and confusing. 

And sure, there are plenty of things in history that are more clear cut. In If you look at the fight between the Brits and Nazis in microcosm, obviously the Brits are in the right, because fucking Nazis. And if you look at the fight between Brits and the people of India, obviously the Brits are the wankers, because fuck colonialism. But a lot of things are much greyer or amorphous than that, and sometimes we either need to accept that we’ve been presented with a Gordian knot or agree that there are situations where multiple things are true at once.

We can hold indentured labourers in the 1800s accountable for their role in colonialism and also empathise with the systemic powerlessness they sang about in work songs, and neither cancel nor absolve them, but instead learn about history and also look at parallels between then and now, where disenfranchised people in the West often benefit from sweat shop labour abuses abroad without necessarily being able to immediately do anything to stop it. 

We can be honest about the fact that American soldiers of all races in the Korean and Vietnam wars aided in unleashing extreme imperialist violence against the people of those nations, but also empathise with the fact that many of them, especially Black soldiers, were only there because of systemic racism at home—and we can also acknowledge that even in spite of all this, many Asians are still horribly anti-Black/contribute to the systemic oppression of Black people, instead of having useless fights over whether a fictional Black soldier in the Korean war should be the protagonist of a show or not.  

And we can acknowledge that sometime two disabled people will have competing needs that can’t necessarily be reconciled, instead of declaring that one of them is being ableist against the other. 

Sometimes nobody is the hero and nobody is the villain, and sometimes we’re both all at once, and the sooner everybody recognises that, the sooner I can stop banging my head against a fucking wall. 

[unbidden-yidden-deactivated20240]

hey. this is a good post.

[glorilian]

It is rare for me to find here stuff like this that is worth reblogging. This definitely is. Such voice of reason in the black-n-white, condescending sea of tunnel-vision moralism/preaching.

[alexandriad]

woman yelling at cat meme but make it ancient greek red figure pottery

[swirling-orbs-of-disorder]

From ancient to abstract, this one sure got around.

Japanese one made no sense to me until I finally saw the “sale sale/sasa lele” version. セール　セール。 But then it’s a meme so it has to be misspelled?  🤷‍♂️

[everyone-loves-purple]

tHERE ARE MEMES IN THOSE HIEROGLYPHICS

[fromsiberia]

Ohhhhhhh…. Chinese and greek are my favourite, but there is more!

[glorilian]

Omg, each time I see this, it is better and better.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Yo, people with acne

These are hydrocolloid bandages. They work wonders at pulling fluid through skin and absorbing all that gunk. 

You can cut them down to size, wear them on your face at night, and in the morning you’ll see a noticeable difference plus the bandage visibly absorbs the goo and it’s gross but weirdly satisfying.

They’re cheaper than most acne products, they work, and 1 pack lasts for ages. They’re sold in the band-aid section of most pharmacies; try them if you can.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

it’s the same stuff they use to make those new acne spot patches, but

medical grade material, absorbs more fluid

much cheaper 

comes in a large size you can trim down. some people use hole punchers to cut out circles to wear during the day. i trim large rectangles to use on problem spots at night

[awheckery]

These are also absolutely game-changing for anybody with a skin-picking problem. This is a judgment-free zone, I’ve Been There, and there are plenty of times I still find myself unable to leave something alone, whether it be a bug bite or a pimple or whathaveyou, because it’s There and I can’t ignore it long enough for it to properly heal.

Hydrocolloids basically act as a scab over the thing you can’t stop bothering, and as Gaud mentions above, they absorb gunk, which makes them bubble up like a little artificial blister. It’s so satisfying, you have something to pokepokepoke at, without actually hecking up the thing healing under the bubble.

These are, hands down, the fastest way to get problem spots under control; you can leave them on for multiple days at a time (up to a week, actually), based on the size, location and severity of your picky spot, so you can slap a hydrocolloid on something minor before it becomes a problem, and four days later or so you peel it off and there is no more problem, just smooth new skin. (They minimize scarring too, in case that’s something anybody else has psychological issues with.)

Basically, these are magical and they’re worth every. single. cent.

[awisekrakens]

well hot damn

have you noticed if they help with old scarring? my picky areas are kind of my entire upper arms, back of neck, and various shoulder regions.

[awheckery]

Yannow what? I have no idea? My instincts say probably not, hydrocolloids help speed up a natural bodily healing process called debridement (DON’T LOOK UP PHOTOS THEY’RE HORRIFYING), so once your body’s finished bombing an area with white blood cells and scar tissue’s formed, I want to say a hydrocolloid won’t do anything.

That being said, there’s another option in the ‘stick a gooey bandage on it and ignore it for a while’ field of treatment, and they’re called “silicone scar sheets.” They’ve been used as a treatment for scarring, both new and old, since the 90’s, and while I can’t personally vouch for their efficacy, apparently they do actually work?

I see ‘em at the pharmacy all the time, and I’ve been too put off by the price to have actually noticed that apparently they’re reusable???

I just learned this in the last thirty minutes, so I’m here like “?????” but more critically, scientists are also like “?????” because despite having been in effective use for thirty-some years, they don’t know how or why silicone gel treatments work. This is honestly hilarious to me and has piqued my contrarian nature, so TELL YA WHAT:

I will run a field test for you! If one box of silicone gel sheets actually is the two-month supply it advertises itself to be, they’re cheaper than an equal volume of hydrocolloids, especially if there’s an equivalent store brand. I’ve got a couple largeish, unlovely surgical scars I wouldn’t mind being rid of, so. Yeah.

I’ll pick up some scar sheets this week and try ‘em out, then update you on how that goes. Call me weird, but I won’t recommend something to somebody else unless I have firsthand experience with something, and I have intense opinions about bandaid-type products.

LET’S SEE HOW IT GOES

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

in my experience, silicone sheets are quite helpful for scars!

i’ve seen studies mention that they probably work by keeping the area continually moist (love that awful word. MOIST.) but no one’s really sure

i’ve noticed the most improvement when using them on new scars for 2 or 3 weeks, but you can still get long-term improvement for months afterwards

the one annoyance i’ve had is some brands don’t stick very well, so you may have to tape over them or try another brand. they also make silicone gel, which is applied like a liquid bandage. there’s less research on the effectiveness of gel, so if you use it, i recommend applying a normal silicone sheet over it (buy the sheet + gel pack if you can).

but yeah, silicone will be especially helpful for newer scars, so apply it sooner rather than later. that said, it should improve the appearance of old scar if worn long enough.

note: silicone sheets are more expensive but can be worn for much longer than hydrocolloid bandages. they don’t absorb gunk and can be wiped off, so there’s nothing preventing you from wearing them for weeks at a time. like hydrocolloid bandages, there are plenty of generic options.

[theliteraryarchitect]

Great info! Just wanted to add I did some research about silicone scar sheets because of a nasty dog bite scar a while back and discovered that you can get a roll of silicone scar tape which is the same thing (near as I can tell) to the name-brand “Scar Away” but for way cheaper. This roll is 60 inches long x 1.6 inches wide for $15:

I didn’t end up using it so can’t verify if it works but my mom taught me to bargain hunt, so there ya go.

Also, I don’t know if it’s the same with acne scars, but what helped with my dog bite was (1) time and (2) regularly massaging the scar to break up the keloid and increase blood flow. It’s still more visible than I’d like but after 4 years it is definitely less red/raised than it was. Hope this helps, and thanks op for the info!

[isaacsapphire]

I got conked really bad on the head by an electric pressure cooker lid (hot tip! Either lock the lid on or don’t try to get it off a high shelf by tipping it off towards yourself) and almost went to the emergency room because I was concerned about scarring from the cut I got on my forehead from that.

I did a bunch of research about how to avoid scars and found some medical studies. I ended up using some slightly fancy bandages and a lot of triple antibiotic cream so the wound NEVER dried out and scabbed, and then I bought store brand silicone sheets, trimmed them to fit so I got multiple ones from each “individual” bandage, and then… You wash it once or twice a day at the same time you wash yourself so it keeps sticking to your skin. It was a lot like washing those sticky hand toys or window clings so they get sticky again. Each piece lasted about a week, and because my wound/scar was pretty small, I got multiple weeks worth of use from each piece by cutting it up.

My scar healed completely after a while. People at work were a little baffled why I had a clear thing stuck to my forehead, but it wasn’t super noticable.

My understanding is that the liquid silicone gel is used mostly for facial scars where the user wants to apply makeup over the silicone, so that’s an alternative if you are a makeup kind of person.

I feel like doctors and nurses should really be telling people this stuff when they’re having surgeries, and helping out with it.

[pixigirl]

Change a single letter and change the word game

I decided this would be fun. So reblog with a new word and see how long we can make it.

The starting word is...

Lady

[thatsheepwithagun]

Lads

[missing-a-coffee-mug-deactivate]

Dads

[deephasoceanmagic-deactivated20]

Days

[love-in-the-time-of-waffles]

Gays

[fleur-de-jasmin-fdj]

Rays

[fantasy-pens]

Raps

[queerthalia]

Yaps

[holi-holy]

saps

[chronicallylatetotheparty]

maps

[khunned]

mass

[amiraculousplatypus]

moss

[pawsitivelymiraculous]

Boss

[moonlitceleste]

toss

[rhubarberpie]

loss

[vroomtaka]

lost

[lilcoffeegirl123]

list

[mayoiayasep]

fist

[microwaveabl]

fast

[the-racoon-in-your-back-garden]

vast

[pitrsattabhaadmeinjaa]

mast

[stargazing-at-the-moon-deactiva]

mist

[karleyn]

Most

[iris-collects]

Host

[stitch-n-time]

Hose

[sonneillonv-deactivated20220218]

Rose

[repost-this-image]

Dose

[gomer21xx]

Dote

[musicalhell]

Dove

[blackholesandlions]

Move

[thejewishphd]

More

[roman-noodlezz]

Mare

[vikinglumberjack-moved-deactiva]

Make

[cinnella]

Take

[arcxus-of-altihex]

Cake

[cubedcoffeecake]

Lake

[liasangria]

Bake

[glorilian]

Wake

[thesheergumption]

Reblog if you’ve ever read fan-fiction that actually set the bar higher.

[sheliesshattered]

#yup#it’s so hard to read published fiction now#so much of it is just sooo baaad#but like#part of the gate keeper effect to publishing#is that they don’t get inundated with all these stories using similar tropes#tropes don’t get refined like they do in fanfiction#published fiction ends up feeling cliche and clunky and incredibly slow#where fanfiction works through every possible iteration of a trope or a technique in a matter of months#and then comes back and turns old beloved tropes on their heads#while published fiction is still floundering with the basics of something that fanfiction explored in depth years ago#it’s like when someone shows you a ‘cool new funny meme’ from fb#and you’re like#that was on tumblr in 2007#and it’s not even a particularly good example of the meme#it’s a mediocre example at best#from before the meme really got going and people got really imaginative#that’s how published fiction feels to me these days#in comparison to fanfiction#anyway#tag talking#fanfiction#reading (via)

[cowboy-garfield]

[glorilian]

It could be only better if it would be 'blue balls'... 😁😁😁

[sunshine-readings]

A lil powerpoint of book recs!!!

Part Two | Part Three

[glorilian]

Hmm, something for when the boredom at work hits extra hard?

[nezumivi]

A little tutorial about drawing hair for celebration 1000 followers on instagram 🎉

You can see it here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CHaj85-F40s/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

[glorilian]

To check later

[angstymdzsthoughts]

The Blood Pool within the heart of the burial mounds is a living entity. It creates Wei Ying and sends its precious little child into the world. Imagine how excited it was, when it's little prince returns home. It welcomes Wei Ying home with open arms, whispering the secrets to the burial mounds.

The child is born from the Burial Mounds, covered in the blood from the dead. It was alone with only the echoing voice of its creator in his mind. It is loved. The Burial Mounds are proud of the very first life it has ever created. It instructs him to go.

It finds out quickly that the world isnt kind to creatures and so it takes the form of a child, one it found dead on the streets. It lives on the streets, feeding off people's malcontent and resentment. It's easy to do in a place like Yilling.

Then one day a man in rich violete robes finds him and it's easy to claim the name 'Wei Ying'.

[glorilian]

Wha- Wait- But... WHERE IS THE REST? You can't leave it at just this, come oooon. Give me more!