joyeux fêtes

More playlist beauty, except this time from Janelle Monae, who is a true badass. Listening to her music is like empowerment in a bottle. I mean she's writing entire albums about being a cyborg on the run. Just A+.

This has been on repeat all week on my PUNK playlist. Loving Julie Ruin and Bikini Kill in general.

Oh look who hasn't been active at all! School, mostly. This is a WIP holiday Blue Topaz for the askblog (go follow and ask! seriously!) As you can see, Tope takes Christmas (or, as she used to know it, the Winter Solstice) VERY seriously. Shoutout to my friend @coffini who's having a hard time with school rn. I feel ya man, finals.

So I haven't really posted personal stuff on here because the only followers I used to have were NSFW blogs. Thanks, spammers. But since midterms, finals, and tests and quizzes of all kinds are upon us, I thought I would share how I wake up the morning of. A morning bath. You can apply this to a shower too. You will need: -a bathtub with hot and cold running water - some sort of device to pour water on you. A bowl works fine. A device with a spout is best. - a loofah/bath pouf - a zippy-scented bath gel or shower jelly (I use LUSH's WHOOSH) You should: Get yourself in the tub. Start with hot water. Lots of nice warm water. Apply the bath gel or shower jelly to the pouf and begin to rub it all over your body. Take a minute to love yourself, thank your body for working so hard for you every day. Tell yourself you got this. Pour warm water all over yourself with the water pouring device and ahh for a while. You know. Ahhhh. Now. Rinse yourself off with cold water. Use the pouring device to pour cold water down your back, chest and over your wrists. Gather your confidence. Towel yourself off and go get em.