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Sure. 

http://www.poison.org/articles/2014-jun/essential-oils

http://www.womansday.com/health-fitness/wellness/a54451/dangers-of-essential-oils/

https://naha.org/explore-aromatherapy/safety

http://kaylafioravanti.com/warnings-doterra-young-living-wont-tell-you/

craftingandfandom submitted: A silly idea I had for Mina.  <3

WHAT A GOOD SUBMISSION

WHAT GOOD PUPPIES

4) your favorite character you’ve written

Tony is always my favorite, but just to change it up a little, I’ll say an original character of mine who can “talk” to inanimate objects. (Which I believe is called psychometry)

5) character you were most surprised to end up writing

I did write a Twilight story, so I would say probably the entire character list of the story?

16) are there any characters who haunt you? 

There is a version of Steve from Never for the Dragon that kills me. I won’t give away why in case you haven’t read the story, but anyone who has read it knows why. 

25) copy/paste a few sentences or a short paragraph that you’re particularly proud of

I liked this interaction between Tony and Bruce in Dangerous Kitchen Tools,  because Tony was trying so hard to be Cool in front of his crush, and then as soon as Steve was out of the room: 

The silence lasted until Tony heard Steve’s footsteps on thestairs. He rounded on Bruce, pointing at him with an accusing finger. “Whydidn’t you tell me that you’ve been teaching Steve Rogers how to make spaghetti for the last six months?” hedemanded.

Bruce blinked twice and made a confused gesture toward thedoor. “Steve? Do you know him?” He frowned and shuffled past Tony into thekitchen. “And we haven’t been making spaghetti for six months. What did youteach them?”

He crouched down to open Tony’s bag and pulled out thesiphon. He held it up. “I could be wrong, but I don’t think chicken kiev needsfoam.”

“Everything needs foam,” Tony said dismissively. He grabbedthe siphon and stuck it back in the bag. “Don’t change the subject. You’ve hadSteve Rogers in your kitchen for six months and didn’t even tell me. I feel sobetrayed right now.”

Bruce rubbed his hand across the back of his neck andscratched at his stubble, straightening out of the crouch. “I know he’s yourtype, but you got annoyed when I suggested that you might want to meet him,so…”

Tony cut his hands through the air to halt the reminder ofblowing up at Bruce when he’d suggested one date too many to get him out of the‘increasingly antisocial mood’ he’d been in for years. “Also beside the point.Steve Rogers? Comic book artist?” When Bruce showed no signs of any lightbulbspopping on over his head, Tony groaned. “I have every single comic he’s put outin the last ten years! I made you read them!”

Bruce winced and made a silent ‘o’ with his lips. “I didn’tput that together. Sorry.”

Pacing a tiny, agitated circle, Tony declared, “I thought wewere friends, Bruce. Friends don’t do this to each other.” He pointed atBruce’s nose. “You’re a bad friend.”

Not upset in the least, Bruce just said, “I’ll make sure tomention that at the next board meeting you’re going to make me attend for you.”

Group Get-together Plot Ideas for Tiberius ['hijinks’ set]: Villain type - mild/inept villain sets off weird gas weapon in the bar, so the whole group is in quarantine together; magician spells Bucky’s arm to be semi-sentient - it gets emotionally attached to the arc reactor and needs to stay in the same vicinity (this could be on purpose or an unknown side effect); same scenario for Steve's motorcycle; villain's pet (live or robotic) gets attached to the full group and they share custody.

Group Get-together Plot Ideas for Tiberius ['hijinks’ set]: Non-villain type - Tony gets accidentally dyed bright orange/fushcia/lime green by a problem with R&D fabricators and Tiberius refuses to be seen with him until the dye wears off; everyone makes a drunken bet one night with ridiculous consequences that Tony refuses to back out of or lose (they'll shave his goatee off?); Clint shows off his aim and Tony keeps coming back each week with a new challenge for him to try (he never misses).

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someone must be in the tiberius tag creepin around...

I LOVE YOU.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iD3NsM1wOE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOu0qORSDK0

(N.B.: This got way out of hand and I apologize in advance for the length of this reply. Also, holy parenthetical statements, Batman.)

Oh man, do I ever! There’s the entire rest of the Yugioh franchise, for starters, and while the original (DM) still has the strongest hold on my heart and the characters I hold dearest, I’ve yet to really dislike any of the sequel series. (I’m slowly working my way through the franchise; at the moment I’ve watched roughly half of the six existing series - all of GX, most of Zexal when it was airing, and I’m partway through 5Ds.) I also adore Fullmetal Alchemist (both the 2003 series and Brotherhood), Revolutionary Girl Utena, and Escaflowne. And of course literally everything from Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli is a winner from my perspective. I have an ever-growing list of shows that I want to watch at some point; I got through the first season of Haikyuu! and loved it (volleyball feeeeels) but haven’t finished it yet, and I keep meaning to watch Yuri on Ice but just can’t find or make the time to devote to watching it. Also I should probably finish Gundam SEED one of these days.

There’s also some anime that I personally like but I generally don’t recommend to people for one reason or another. (Utena is actually one of these, just because the way the themes are addressed gets fairly intense in places; it’s a deconstruction of fairytales and gender roles and it gets rather heavy and dark at several points.) I personally really enjoyed Kill la Kill even in all its over-the-top absurdity, and I thought Puella Magi Madoka Magica was a fascinating examination and deconstruction of the magical girl genre, but I would absolutely not recommend them to people blindly, albeit for different reasons. And if we’re being perfectly honest, an enormous part of my enjoyment of those two series is due to the absolute killer soundtracks. I will put up with a lot from any given movie or show, anime or otherwise, if it has a good soundtrack, and both KLK and Madoka are top-notch in that regard. Hit me up if you want song examples, I will happily talk about the soundtracks without reservation.

(Unpopular opinion: while I understand how influential Evangelion was to anime in general and shonen/mecha anime in particular, I think it’s incredibly overhyped and not nearly as ~deep~ as some people seem to think, and the series getting rehashed every few years is kind of obnoxious. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )

Fandom is... kind of a weird bird for me, in terms of how I approach it and feel about it. I get overwhelmed in large groups even online, so even if I’m “active” in a fandom I tend to just stick to a small group of people I’m friends with. (This is not helped by the fact that I tend to lurk on social media rather than put myself out there, so getting into a fandom in the first place can be a struggle for me.) I also had a rather sheltered upbringing in a lot of ways, especially when it came to the internet, so there were a lot of things I absolutely loved but never even knew that fandom was a possibility. Like, I practically grew up on the Star Wars Legends EU books, but it never even occurred to me that there might be other fans out there to talk about it with. And some things like Harry Potter that were a cornerstone of so many people’s childhoods, I was never allowed to read, so I came to those fandoms very late and I still feel like I’m playing catch-up in a lot of ways.

(It... didn’t help that I was bullied heavily for my interests when I was young, so I tend to keep them to myself even now.)

There are also some series that I know there has to be a fandom of, but I’ve never felt the need to seek them out for some reason. The Temeraire series was one of these - I adore the books but I just never felt the drive to seek out fic or fandom for it, for whatever reason, even though I love seeing the occasional artwork that I run across now and again. I’m just mostly content with the source material; I don’t begrudge the fandom at all, but I’ve never felt a pull to find or create material to fill in the gaps in that series.

Also, especially in “younger” fandoms, there’s the fact that some people are dicks about things like spoilers and letting people have their own ideas and headcanons, and the fact that every so often a fandom will latch on en masse to an idea or interpretation of a character that drives me absolutely bonkers. (Meaning either the character or the interpretation of them.) I’m not going to try and play fandom police or tell people what they can and can’t like, I’ll just disengage and lurk and keep to my own circles, but if it’s particularly widespread it can really sour me on talking about the series/material with other people.

And when it’s a fandom for a “live”/ongoing thing like, say, Star Wars Rebels, I’ve found that participating in discussions about upcoming material actually really sets off my anxiety for some reason. Not that I think speculating will get anyone in legal trouble or anything, I just... especially in a series where I get really attached to the characters, I almost want to let it end before I watch it, so I can burn through it at my own pace and don’t have the ongoing pressure of trying to figure out what will happen next, or I don’t get attached to a potential plot idea that doesn’t happen in canon. (The last few episodes leading up to the Rebels season 3 finale were really, really bad for me in this regard. There was at least one character that the writers could quite easily have killed off without it being a poor narrative decision, and being on tenterhooks over the course of about a month and literally up until the last few minutes of the final episode was extremely stressful for me. And if I’m being honest I’m really not looking forward to going through that again with the final season.)

ANYWAY. *casually shoves neuroses under the rug*

Right now I’d say I’m most active in the YGO and Star Wars fandoms. (Funnily enough, they’re both massive and ever-expanding franchises, which makes it easy to find a niche that suits you well.) Even in those it’s still the same kind of thing - I tend to lurk and just appreciate what others put out there until I work up the courage to make a friend or two (hi Skuun, hi Kinta, hi Evie, hi Caz, love y’all <3) that I feel okay chatting with, and until I feel comfortable putting myself and/or any material I create out there for others to see. I’d like to be more active in the Welcome to Night Vale fandom but I haven’t taken the time to actually seek that one out as much. I’m really hyped for the Good Omens adaptation that’s coming up, because I'm hoping it’ll lead to more stuff and more people in that fandom.

I was really into the Hetalia fandom back in its heyday on LiveJournal - the fandom was honestly more of a draw for me than the series proper. The source material is... rather silly, and a little cringey at times especially in the early days, but it’s a fertile playground, and the fandom was crammed to the gills with some of the most talented and brilliant people I’ve ever “met”. So it was really fun, in the long stretches of time between strips being uploaded/translated, to poke at the Hetalia ‘verse with other people and discuss interpretations and what-ifs. We had all of history to play with, after all, so there was a lot of untouched material up for grabs. It was also the only fandom I’ve ever put actual fic(s) for online, other than my rambling tag novels. That one I drifted away from for a combination of reasons - college and then my job eating up my time, the slow death of LiveJournal, plus I seem to recall there was some fandom wank that made me stay away from it for a while (unsurprising given the average age and maturity level of the fandom, but I don’t remember specifics at this point). I also fell away from Shingeki no Kyojin/Attack on Titan a while ago, but that was more due to the source material pissing me off than anything else.

@craftingandfandom here’s some writing samples - click to embiggen. I tried to color-correct the photos a little (mostly just brightening them up) so they’re fairly accurate, but the ACBB is still a little more green than the picture lets on. I’m actually frustrated I can’t get a good picture of it, it’s a rather unusual color especially for a “blue-black” ink and one of my favorites.

The Ku-Jaku is a really interesting ink - it goes down almost a sky-blue color, but then shifts to turquoise as it dries. I’ve had this happen with every pen I’ve put this ink in; it’s really cool to watch. The Muft is a bit of a dry writer so the shading really pops with that pen. When I use it in, say, my Jinhao x750 (which a lot of people aptly refer to as a firehose), the writing is much darker and there’s a lot less shading, and on Tomoe River paper the sheen practically overpowers the actual ink color. Just goes to show you how the pen matters just as much as the ink!