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Hi! first of all, im extremely high maintenance this is seriously NOT necessary!a year ago i went from not doing anything to my face to being obsessed with skin care so im just very extra atm

Night-time: 

1. i take my makeup off: i use lots of products. my favs are: boscia detoxifying black cleanser, clinique take the day off balm and any kind of micellar water! i use water-proff mascara so i use the neutrogena oil free eye makeup remover for that and it’s the only one that doesnt sting like a mf

2. depending on how my skin is looking i either exfoliate or i put a mask on. my fav exfoliators are: belif mild and effective facial scrub, origins modern friction, and estee lauder advanced night micro cleansing foam. + i use the clinique cleansing face brush! for masks i love anything by origins, khiels, bobbie brown or peter thomas roth! especially his pumpkin enzyme masks. it’s fucking amazing. 

3. for toning my face i either use the Fresh rose hidration facial toner or the origins united state one. i then always apply my milk matcha toner balm! love it

4. always always apply the estee lauder advanced repair serum all over my face

5. i then moisturize with either the boscia cactus water or the clinique moisture surge concentrate. also im trying out the bobbi brown hydrating eye cream but so far i dont see anything different so im open for other recommendations! i also use the khiels lip balm before i go to bed. 

Day-time: after i take a shower i just apply the milk matcha toner and then for moisture before any makeup i use Vichy’s idéal soleil hydra-bronzing self-tanning milk on my face. it gives the most natural tan! also before i leave my house i always put on the kate somerville sunscreen spray

You get your insides ripped open but your friend waves his hands and your flesh just pulls back together, agony and evisceration pulling back to a ‘kinda hurts’ level of pain and you’re physically whole, with the 100% expectation that you’ll get back up and keep fighting whatever it was that struck you down the first time.

You break your arm after falling somewhere and after you’re healed instead of looking for ‘another way around’ everybody just looks at you and goes “okay try again”.

You’ve been fighting for hours, you’re hungry, thirsty, bleeding, crying from exhaustion, and a hand-wave happens and only two of those things go away. you’re still hungry, you’re still weak from thirst, but the handwave means you have ‘no excuse’ to stop.

You act out aggressively maybe punch a wall or gnash your teeth or hit your head on something and it’s hand-waved because it’s ‘such a small injury you probably can’t even feel it anymore’ but the point was that you felt it at all?

Your pain literally means nothing because as long as you’re not bleeding you’re not injured, right? Here drink this potion and who cares about the emotional exhaustion of that butchered village, why are you so reserved in camp don’t you think it’s fun retelling that time you fell through a burning building and with a hand-wave you got back up again and ran out with those two kids and their dog? 

Older warriors who get a shiver around magic-users not because of the whole ‘fireball’ thing but the ‘I don’t know what a normal pain tolerance is anymore’ effect of too much healing. Permanent paralysis and loss of sensation in limbs is pretty much a given in the later years of any fighter’s life. Did I have a stroke or did the mage just heal too hard and now this side of my face doesn’t work? No i’m not dead from the dragon’s claws but I can’t even bend my torso anymore because of how the scar tissue grew out of me like a vine.

Magical healing is great and keeps casualties down.

But man.

So after years of fighting, your skin is still perfect. Unmarred. In fact, you’re actually in better shape than regular people who don’t get magical healing when they fall out of trees or walk into doors or cut themselves while cooking dinner. You’re in such good shape that it’s unnatural.

And the really good healing magic takes away more than just the obvious injuries. You first start noticing it after about ten years when you go home and haha, you look the same age as your younger sibling, that’s funny.

Not so funny ten years later when they look older. Or forty years later, when you bury them still looking like you did at twenty. When do you retire from this gig anyway? How much damage is too much damage?

How many times do you glimpse the afterlife, or worse, how many times don’t you? What do you live through, get used to, show no outward sign of except a perfectly healthy body, too perfect for any person living a real life.

How many times are you sitting in a tavern with your friends and you hear the whispers, because the people around you know. How can they not know? Your weapons shine with enchantments and your armour is better than the best money can buy and there is not a damn scar on you. You hardly seem human to them.

How long before you hardly seem human to yourself?

And you find yourself struggling to remember the places where the scars should have been, phantom pains that wake you screaming, touching all the old injuries and finding nothing there. It’s all in your head. Was it ever anywhere else?

How long before you’re fighting a lich or a vampire or some other undead monster and you wonder…

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but before [Character] could [verb], ACTION!

[Character] was about to [verb] when ACTION!

but no sooner had [something] than ACTION!

but just as [something boring], ACTION!

BANG!/CRASH!/BOOM! ACTION!

“Character dialogue starting some sentence about–” ACTION!

Character’s internal monologue starting some sent– ACTION!

Narrator starting some– ACTION!

… ACTION!

“Well, what could go wrong now?” [Character] said. 

The human eye only has three types of color sensitive cones, which detect red, blue, and green light. Your brain is making up every other color you perceive.

Let’s have a little fun with that thought. This is the visible spectrum of light.

You will of course note that yellow is on the chart. Yellow has a discreet wavelength, and is therefore a distinct physical color. But we can’t see it.

“Sorry, what the fuck?”

What we call yellow is just what our brain shrugs and spits out when our red and green cones are equally stimulated. We have light receptors that can pick up on the physical spectrum of light we call yellow: that’s why yellow things don’t just look like moving black blocks to us. But your brain has no fucking idea what the color yellow looks like. 

Some animals have eyes that can perceive the color yellow! Goldfish have a yellow cone in their eyes. If they could talk, they could tell us what yellow looks like. But we wouldn’t be able to understand it.

What your brain actually sees of the color spectrum:

We can measure the wavelength of light, so we know that when we see ‘yellow,’ we are seeing light in that 550-ish nanometers range. But we don’t have a cone in our eyes that can pick that up. Your brain just has a very consistent guess about what color that wavelength of light could be. We decided to name that guess ‘yellow.’ We can’t imagine what yellow really looks like any more than a dog can imagine the color red.

Here’s the funny thing: your brain is never perceiving just one photon of light at a time. Something like 2*10⁸ photons per second are hitting your retina under normal conditions. Your brain doesn’t individually process all of them. So it averages them out. It grabs a bunch of photons all coming from the same direction, with the same pattern, and goes, “yeah, that cup is blue, fuck it, next.”

That’s how colors blend in our eyes. So sure, if a photon of light with a wavelength of 550 nanometers bounces into our eyes, we see what we call “yellow.” But if we see two photons at the same time, coming from the same object, one of which is 500 nms and the other of which is 600 nms, your brain will average them out and you will still see yellow even though none of the light you just saw was 550 nms.

So how does magenta factor into this?

Well, as we’ve just established, when your brain sees light from two different slices of the visible light spectrum, it will try to just average them together. Green plus red is yellow, fuck it. If it’s more red than green, we’ll call that ‘orange.’ Literally who gives a shit, we’re trying to forage over here. There are bears out here and it’s so scary.

What happens if you take the average of blue and red light, which we perceive to be magenta? What’s the centerpoint of that line?

Fucking green.

Hey, that’s not gonna work? We live on a planet where EVERYTHING IS GREEN. If something is NOT green, that means it’s either food, or a potential source of danger, and either way your brain wants you to know about it.

So your brain goes, WHOOPS. Okay - this is fine. We already made up yellow, orange, cyan, and violet. We’ll just make up another color. Something that looks really, really different from green. 

And so it made up magenta.

So, physics-wise, is magenta “real?”

No; there’s no single wavelength of light that corresponds to magenta. But you’re rarely seeing only a single wavelength of light anyway. And even when you are, every color other than RGB is a dart thrown on the wall by your meat computer. This is the CIE Chromaticity Diagram:

Explaining this thing is a little more than I want to take on on a Saturday morning, but I’ve included a link above that goes into it a little more. The point is that only the colors that actually touch the ‘outline’ of the shape actually correspond to a specific wavelength of light. All of the other colors are blends of multiple wavelengths. So magenta isn’t special.

Given that color is just a fun trick your brain is playing on you to help you find food and avoid danger, is magenta real?

Yeah, absolutely. Or at least, it’s just as real as most of what we see. It’s what we see when we mix up blue and red. It would be disastrous from a survival standpoint to perceive that color as green, so we don’t. Because it’s not green. Light that’s green has a wavelength of around 510 nm. Stuff that’s magenta bounces back light that is both ~400 and ~700. Your brain knows the difference. So it fills in the gap for you, with the best guess it has, same as it does with your blind spot.

Yall.

I’ve always had trouble buying into shows like The Walking Dead and many other apocalyptic narratives that portray humankind as selfish and violent in the face of disaster. It’s unrealistic.

How did we as a species make it through the era of predatory megafauna? Not by everyone asking, “What’s best for me?” But by cooperating against threats, doing what’s best for the tribe as a whole, and building a better future for the next generation.

Sure, tribal thinking has led to self-destructive things like racism. But we can overcome that by expanding our capacity for sympathy and empathy beyond the immediate people in our lives - and this can be learned.

Another of our greatest strengths is that we can learn from smarter and wiser people - and pass down this expanded knowledge, especially through communication technologies that enable documenting, storing, and distributing information.

Our greatest strength is that we are a social species that shares our communal, ever-expanding knowledge. Each of us wants to help every other member thrive. This is why we, as a species, are more likely to survive than predatory beings who consider only themselves (and maybe their immediate family).

Part One: Beverages. 

Coffees are ideal for the work of busybodies—–  people who are often running errands, working the floor as a sales associate, doing manual labor, or traveling! If your job requires you to be on your feet, a cup of coffee will help you stay active!  Ideally, home-brewed coffee is best, but if you don’t have time and would prefer to buy it from a cafe or coffee shop, don’t be afraid to be specific about your order:  black is best, with a healthy amount of sugar and cream (or substitute with honey and coconut milk as a healthier choice), tailored to your preference. Avoid lattes, over-the-top frappes with whipped cream toppings, etc.. Try to avoid coffees in cans or from franchise cafes, as they have excess sugar (especially American brands coughstarbuckscough; Asian brands are usually better about their sugar doses). 

Sugar rushes are no substitute for real, genuine caffeine and the benefits of black coffee. 

If you work in an office, coffees (especially with high sugar content) are usually unhelpful. When your work typically requires you to sit in a cubicle or office for long hours, coffee will make you crash. You will feel tired faster. It is best to avoid coffee, and focus on teas—–   especially green tea, which has a healthy amount of caffeine (but not as much as coffee) on top of the long list of health benefits.  Here are some of the benefits of green tea:

 Antioxidants found in green tea can help prevent cancer.

Contains high concentrates of EGCG, which promotes brain health and defends against Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s Disease.

Green tea acts as an antimicrobial agent. Its properties can reduce bacteria spores in the body.

Polyphenols found in green tea can reduce cholesterol, which is the main factor of heart disease. Polyphenols in green tea can also help improve liver health. It lowers lipid levels in the body and reduces the risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

Catechins in green tea can help reduce your risk for Type II Diabetes by improving insulin sensitivity.

 It protects against inflammation.

Drinking green tea can help you lose weight by increasing metabolism and helping the human body burn fat faster.

Try to include teas into your diet just for the health benefits alone! Black teas such as Earl Gray and Assam have more caffeine than green teas, and taste great with homogenized milk and honey. Check out this article for more information: Switching From Coffee To Teas.  Naturally, coffee addicts should be mindful of the inevitable withdrawal symptoms when switching to teas or quitting caffeine altogether: Ways to Wean Off Coffee. 

Now we know the beverages that will keep you awake and active for work! But what about beverages that will help you sleep?  Chamomile tea is ideal for people who have trouble sleeping at night, and is proven to give you more energy in the day as you consistently drink it!  Here is more information about chamomile tea:

According to USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, chamomile tea contains negligible amounts of many vitamins and minerals like: potassium, magnesium, calcium, sodium, thiamin, riboflavin, and vitamin A. Other nutrients include folate, iron, and zinc. One cup (237 ml) of brewed chamomile tea provides 2 kcal of energy, 0.47 g of carbohydrates.

 Chamomile tea can be used as an overall SLEEP AID, particularly for people who struggle with SLEEP APNEA and restless sleep or insomnia.

 It relieves STOMACH ACHES: if you are suffering from stomach irritation, ranging anywhere from mild bloating to irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) symptoms, chamomile tea’s anti-inflammatory properties can be a major help. It also alleviates stomach ulcer pains and spasms. This makes chamomile tea ideal for people who have monthly cramps/a menstrual cycle! 

Dos and don'ts on designing for accessibility

Karwai Pun, GOV.UK:

The dos and don’ts of designing for accessibility are general guidelines, best design practices for making services accessible in government. Currently, there are six different posters in the series that cater to users from these areas: low vision, D/deaf and hard of hearing, dyslexia, motor disabilities, users on the autistic spectrum and users of screen readers.

[…] Another aim of the posters is that they’re meant to be general guidance as opposed to being overly prescriptive. Using bright contrast was advised for some (such as those with low vision) although some users on the autistic spectrum would prefer differently. Where advice seems contradictory, it’s always worth testing your designs with users to find the right balance, making compromises that best suit the users’ needs.

Greet the people you meet on the streets! They will remember you and you want to leave a good impression.

Want to explore the forest behind your house? Take a friend with you! It's safer and if you're lucky the forest will have a different target than you :)

You don't have to lock your doors. The things that want to get inside can't be stopped with door locks anyway

If you have a garden, you could use it to grow your own vegetables and herbs! :)

Don't decline the invitation to dinner from your neighbors! Get to know them and don't point out the rotten taste of their mushroom soup. You city people just aren't used to homegrown stuff :)

Never enter the forest without leaving an offering. If you don't, they will think you are the offering

Don't go out if the sky turns red when the sun sets. Blood will be shed that night

Don't walk through the fields. Don't talk about them. It's a little bit of a sensitive topic for the farmers and they don't like nosy people haha :)

so don't ask about the reddish brown splatters on the leaves or the screams you hear at night echoing through the cornfields

be aware of birch trees. they are the eyes of the forest. they saw what you did. there's no use denying it. they are always watching

be careful where you take your next step. you never know what is buried under your feet. and some things should better not be woken up

there you download zclient and zlorigin. the faq has instructions on each page.

zclient with authenticate you and once logged in you can boot up zlorigin as if it were the normal origin client. from then on you just download the sims 4 and any dlc you want.