#the parcel

[book-warehouse-broadway]

Time for some Canadian Pride?

[booksandtreesplease]

#19 The Parcel by Anosh Irani

"Nobody will listen. Still I will speak."

A haunting book about the lives of the transgender people, sex workers, and residents of Kamathipura.

[booksandtreesplease]

Lunchtime reading with a sleepy Cassy. My heart ❤️

[safrona-shadowsun]

{A continuation from Rp started here.}

“To Safrona.

Director Kat is currently unavailable as she is away on mission. I however will be able to meet with you about this package for her. Do let me know what time would work best for you so I may come take it off your hands. Anytime after 7 bells works for myself, aside from Saturdays.

Signed Chief of Staff, Xylia Reid.”

Safrona clicked her teeth together in minute disappointment on opening the envelope. If she only had opened the letter at the time of reception instead of allowing herself her distractions, the meeting may not have to be put off for another day. Just after assuring she hadn’t lost the mysterious parcel somewhere in the abyss of Void Storage, she assigned it to an ethereal cell that would be remembered and set to writing another letter in response.

Ms. Reid,

Please feel free to come by Empyrean Star Trades here in Stormwind tomorrow after 7 bells, I will see to it that my schedule is free for the remainder of that night.

~Courier Safrona

Sealing the short letter in a fresh, simple envelope, it was tucked between the pages of a large thin ledger book, and after signing within it the name and address of the destination, what seemed to be a simple leather bound book begin to glow with a set of runes and...levitate, delivering itself to the assigned address.

The Inscription techniques Safrona re-touched on in former years were starting to pay off.

{ @library-of-the-forgotten / @kat-hawke }

[lipstickforlosers]

Marie Claire The Parcel Autumn 2016 - Unboxing/Review

Ehhhhhhhhhhhh.

My last parcel was phenomenal, so it was kind of inevitable that this one would be a letdown. Well, okay. It wasn’t that bad. It wasn’t great, though, but it’s one of the more expensive subscription services, so thankfully it wasn’t a complete write off.

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Meet my new dog! His name is Buddy, he’s a pomeranian-chihuahua rescue dog with anxiety and a lot of issues but he’s also my tiny angel and he wanted to be in this photo.

Oh right, the box. It’s fine and sturdy and the pictures are okay I guess.

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So you open the box and you are SMACKED in the face with overpowering floral intensity. Honestly, a little nauseating. More on that shortly, I guess.

Gilded Cage Unleashed Lipstick in 107 (valued at allegedly $40??? good god) I have never heard of this brand, whose lipstick I received in a weird frosty rose colour. At first, I responded positively to the nice packaging, but once I got past that and tried this on...Look, the packaging is nice, but I will never in my life where this lipstick. The colour goes on sheer and takes way more building than I like, and then it feels slippy and waxy. If you want me to consider spending more money than I would on a Mac or Kat Von D lipstick, I’m expecting quality and a killer first impression. This will get offered to a friend, or my mother.

Estee Lauder New Dimension Shape + Fill Expert Serum (30mL is $140) - Imagine a world where I spend $140 on a serum. That said, I like getting to try these out to really suss out that level of spending. The proposed pro-collagen complex and shaping technology sounds a little bit, you know, iffy, but I’ll test out claims of most kinds. This is one of the okay items in the box.

Crop Natural Pure Macadamia Oil ($18) - I’m cool with the inclusion of this in the box, because we’re going into winter and I dig oils. I like the multipurpose nature - this will probably end up being used either to oil cleanse or as a general moisturiser, depending on how I like it, but I enjoy the lack of scent. I do have a facial oil I currently use and adore (I have already spoken about how much I goddamn love the body shop facial oil and I’m so annoyed that I’m going to have to keep buying it because I’m totally hooked), but it’s nice to have options.

Garnier Micellar Cleansing Water (125mL, $6.95) - I have officially reached Micellar water oversaturation. I don’t mind the Garnier version, although I much prefer Bioderma (the Garnier one burns my eyes a little), but I already have the full size and the lovely travel size. This has gone straight to my mum.

OPI Nail Polish in Suzi’s Hungary Again ($19.95) - This is a lovely coral pink colour, but I seldom wear nail polish. This will probably get passed on to my mother as well.

MOR Emporium Classics Triple-Milled Soap in Blood Orange ($19.95) - Get this away from me. I love a good scent but MOR products, generally speaking, are just WAY too strong. This has such a ridiculous radius and it’s going to end up as a downstairs communal bathroom handsoap because I can’t handle it alone.

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I like the oil and I’m okay with the serum. The micellar water would be fine if it stopped getting sent to me, and I’d love the nail polish if I wore nail polish. The lipstick and the soap were total duds, for me.

Underwhelming, I’ve got to say.

I have high hopes, Marie Claire. This subscription has a year to allow my opinions to form, so there are still two boxes and a lot can happen in that time.

[liveforfilms]

Cool Short: The Parcel

Cool Short: The Parcel

A haunting tale of a suburban man’s encounter with a mysterious parcel. After collecting the parcel from his local post office he is confronted with an unsettling force that embeds itself into his reality.

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A haunting tale of a suburban man's encounter with a mysterious parcel. After collecting the parcel from his local post office he is confronted with an unsettling force that embeds itself into his reality.