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The Truth About Dieting : 10 Common Myths About Dieting
In the ever-evolving world of health and wellness, myths about dieting seem to multiply faster than we can keep up. These misconceptions often lead us down perplexing paths, making it challenging to make informed and healthy choices. Fortunately, in this blog, we’re going to shine a light on 10 of the most common myths about dieting, and we won’t do it with mere opinions or hearsay. We’re here to…
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A Revitalising Reset: My Experience with DetoxAll 17 Supplements
I've always been interested in natural ways to support my overall health and well-being. So, when I came across DetoxAll 17 Supplements, I was intrigued by their promise of a "full body reset" and "advanced formula for optimal health." After using them for the past few months, I'm happy to share my positive experience.
Natural Ingredients for a Gentle Cleanse
DetoxAll 17 boasts a blend of 17 all-natural ingredients, which initially drew me in. I'm wary of harsh detox products, and the focus on natural elements like herbs and plant extracts instilled confidence. Some of the key ingredients include milk thistle for liver health, dandelion root for improved digestion, and green tea for its antioxidant properties. This combination felt well-rounded and aimed at supporting various aspects of well-being.
Easy to Take and Integrate into my Routine
The capsules are a convenient size and easy to swallow. The recommended dosage is two capsules daily, which I found simple to incorporate into my morning routine. There were no unpleasant side effects, and I didn't have to adjust my schedule significantly to take them.
Gradual But Noticeable Improvements
While I wasn't expecting overnight miracles, I did experience a gradual improvement in my energy levels after a few weeks of taking DetoxAll 17. That afternoon slump I used to get lessened, and I found myself tackling tasks with more focus and motivation. I also noticed a positive change in my digestion. Things felt more regular and comfortable, which is always a welcome improvement.
A Holistic Approach to Well-being
Beyond the specific improvements, I felt a renewed sense of well-being while taking DetoxAll 17. It might be due to the combination of ingredients or simply the knowledge that I was actively supporting my body's natural processes. This holistic approach to health resonated with me, and it fit well with my goal of feeling my best from the inside out.
Important Considerations
It's important to remember that everyone's body reacts differently to supplements. Before starting DetoxAll 17, I consulted my doctor, especially as I take other medications. They gave me the green light, but it's always best to check with a healthcare professional before adding anything new to your routine. Additionally, maintaining a healthy diet and regular exercise are crucial for overall well-being. DetoxAll 17 can be a helpful addition, but it's not a replacement for a healthy lifestyle.
Overall, a Positive Experience
Overall, I've had a positive experience with DetoxAll 17 Supplements. The natural ingredients, easy-to-take capsules, and gradual improvements in my energy and digestion all contribute to a sense of well-being. If you're looking for a natural way to support your overall health and kickstart a healthy routine, DetoxAll 17 might be worth considering. Just remember to consult your doctor before starting and focus on a holistic approach to well-being
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An Insight to "LeanBliss" Weight Loss Product
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Protetox Reviews – Is Protetox Scam Or 100% Clinically Certified Ingredients?
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everything you need to make your own personal beauty binder 🎀
disclaimer: this post is heavily inspired by @tomb-of-ligeia and @daphne-dauphinoise, and early 2010s beauty youtubers. it’s always kind to credit your inspo <3
inspired by the lookbooks and makeup charts used by makeup artists designers at high fashion runways shows and childhood bratz coloring and activity books. the law of attraction is at use heavily with this binder (writing down goals and wishlists)!
you should be keeping diy recipes you find in here.
*you don’t need a physical binder. some people function better with digital mediums. i prefer anything physical and concrete. but you can do all this in something like a notion, or your notes app, etc.
why? 🎀
a cute girly hobby (esp for type A, anal retentive, or analytical personalities/extremely creative, hands on people) to keep track of your routines, motivate you to keep yourself maintained, and figure out what works best for you. it’s nothing too serious, just a girly pastime for people that maybe buy too many products, slip up on routines, or don’t what looks best on your features. have fun!
what to record in your binder? 🎀
an intro sheet 10 different topics divided by tabbed sections: your personal features, makeup, body, fashion, skincare, hair, fragrance, nails, treatments/procedures, salons/spas/referrals/contacts 🎀
intro sheet 🎀
here, you should keep your goals, desired look, and how you want to perceive yourself.
your personal features
a chart of your color season. mine is cool winter. you can use color season for whatever, i choose to apply it to my makeup.
your natural body shape. this will help you choose the best clothes to flatter your silhouette.
a close up, unfiltered clear photo of your bare face. note your skin type, color, undertone, and any other things that stand out to you.
note what you wanna enhance and what you wanna improve. this will help throughout your binder.
makeup
put on a light layer of every lipstick/lip gloss/etc. you have and make kiss shaped swatches in your binder. note the shade, brand, and finish. then the mood/occasion in which you’d wear it.
swatch all your lip liners, again leaving the details of the product.
swatch your foundation shades. note the finish, name and brand.
make a sheet dedicated to all your “holy grail”, essential products.
swatch your eyeshadow palettes. i have all my shimmer pigments swatches and it’s the prettiest thing to look at.
do you have any go to makeup looks? your casual look, going out look, no makeup makeup look, etc.? do these looks and take high quality pics. make personalized face charts by printing them out and noting the steps and products you used.
take c*nty pics of your lashes after trying on all your mascaras/falsies. note the effects and when you would be most likely to wear them.
print out any pics of interesting makeup looks and products you wanna try.
try on lip combos and kiss swatch them. i’m doing this because i do amazing lip combos all the time but i forget which products i used, and it’s hard to replicate the look.
body
take a stick figure-esque picture of yourself and print it out. any outfit you want to buy, print and clip it out first and see if it’s something you’d wear and actually like.
are you experiencing any skin issues on your body and trying any products? keep track of the issue and how the products are doing.
if you don’t already have one, brainstorm workout routines and general wellness/fitness goals.
what are your fav body products? what products did you buy, and hate? TRACK THEM!
any detoxes/diets you’re doing should be recorded in this section.
record “beauty enhancing” foods and drinks here. mine include matcha, lemon water and acv shots.
fashion
outfit planning! take pics of pieces you already have and clip them out. (i’m doing this currently and keeping them all in a little pocket in my binder).
make a moodboard of your personal style(s). how do you want your closet to look? try to see what details, colors, additions are consistent throughout. when shopping, these are what you should keep track of.
print out your signature clothing color palette if you want to have one.
dedicate a page to accessories you have/want, and how you’d style them.
*this can be expensive but the fashion girls will prob love this* go to the fabric store and buy little swatches that you like. take note of what the fabric is and why you like it.
dedicate a page to all your signature details. all the little specific things that scream YOU and NO ONE else! that means do not write pink, girly, etc. here. that is not exclusive to you, hun.
skincare
take a current filter free photo (make it glam! tie your hair up in a ballerina bun and put on some cute earrings) of the state of your skin. if your skin is perfect, i’m jealous and how does it feel to be god’s fav? if not what problems are you experiencing?
log your current skincare routines and how they’re working.
make a page for your skin type, how it feels when you wake up and how it feels and looks by the end of the day and research tips to deal with your personal skin type.
skincare wishlist! list any products you wanna try and what they are for. sample them from ulta or sephora if it’s possible.
dedicate a page to the skincare ingredients your skin loves the MOST! mine are retinol, bha, and vitamin c.
i have a page for all the extra cute little skincare devices i want. on it there’s a stainless steel gua sha, an ice pack, facial steamer, and pink foreo.
hair
what’s your hair type, density, porosity and curl pattern?
write down any hair goals you have. mine is frizz free tailbone length caramel brown hair with honey blonde highlights by the end of this year.
what’s your signature hairstyle? do you have a signature? brainstorm here.
clip out hairstyle inspo from pinterest and insta and try to recreate all the looks!
what are your fav hair products? i keep track of the best curling creams and leave in conditioners for my hair personally.
take note of any trending products you wanna try.
fragrance
make a moodboard of how you wanna smell. after this, research notes and how they work together.
now track your fav perfumes, your most complimented, etc.
note what fragrances go with what occasion and how they make you feel.
make your perfume wishlist! my fav part!
nails
swatch all your polishes. label them and their finish.
what’s your signature/go to nail look?
do you have any pics of your fav mani + pedis? print them out and write the details you loved the most.
write down your at home mani and pedi routine and it’s frequency.
write your fav colors and styles to wear on your nails. mine are glittery pink, pale pink, white, cream, french tip and pink frenchie. a hyper girly twist on the classics.
treatments/procedures
take note of any surgeries or procedures you want done and what they do.
anything you leave the house to have done regularly, keep track here.
don’t limit yourself! forget your budget! what are some high maintenance treatments you wanna experience? manifest it.
references
write down the sources of which you find great info for beauty and fashion
keep addresses of your fav salons and spas.
keep business contacts of your fav estheticians, stylists, nail techs, etc.
use my branding yourself guide to assist in your beauty binder! so much inspo and so many good resources! 🎀
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A 7-day detox diet plan is simply a "clean eating" program that entails eating significantly more fresh fruits and vegetables to assist the body in cleansing substances. Toxins can come from the environment as well as what we eat. If you are a beginner, however, it is not advisable to follow a 7-day detox regimen. Start with a 1-day detox to give your body a rest and check for any noticeable adverse effects.
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Nini's diet ୧ ‧₊˚ 𓐐⋅ eat like blackpink jennie!
this is a guide on jennie's diet plan with multiple meal + a little workout routine!
content list:
1. diet specifications
2. breakfast
3. lunch
4. dinner
5. extras!
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✸ ꒰ diet specifications + workout ꒱⋆ ࣪.* ࣪.⋆
👒 important: I'm only sharing Jennie's diet, always consult a doctor before doing any diet, stay healthy people >.<
INFO: Jennie's diet plan is simple with meals that consist of good proteins, organic vegetables, fruits, and whole grains. In this guide I will provide 2 meal examples for breakfast, lunch and dinner that I have researched and are part of Jennie's diet.
The calories you will consume doing this diet are around 472 to 1119 depending on what options you choose to eat! [TRY AND ALWAYS STAY IN 800 cal TO 1119 cal DON'T STARVE YOURSELF!!!]
Diet duration: 3days - 7days
WORKOUT: Here is the actual workout Jennie does!
wunda twists (30s per side)
side kick kneeling (30s per side)
break (15s)
downward dog leg lift (30s per side)
downward dog ab cruch (30s per side)
break (15s)
jack knife (30s)
one legged wheel (30s per side)
bow pose (30s)
dancer pose (30s per side)
video ver. -> click me!
you can also do any of the workouts i mentioned on my previous blog!
RULES: try and make these changes in your diet in order to make it more effective!
> drink 8 glasses of water! (example -> 2 while having breakfast, 2 while working out, 2 while having lunch and 2 while eating dinner)
> reduce salt intake!
> reduce sugar intake! (use another sweetener instead, example -> stevia, honey, coconut sugar, etc.)
> have your last meal at around 6pm to 8pm
✸ ꒰ breakfast ꒱⋆ ࣪.* ࣪.⋆
🦎 meal a: simple and light fruit breakfast 202cal
-> 1 banana (~~130g)
-> a glass of soy milk (~~200ml)
🌿 meal b: whole grain toast with boiled egg 138cal
-> 1 egg (~~55g)
-> 1 slice of wholegrain bread (~~25g)
✸ ꒰ lunch ꒱⋆ ࣪.* ࣪.⋆
🥑 meal a: avocado salad 266cal
-> 1/2 avocado (~~120g)
-> 1 cup of cherry tomato (~~150g)
-> 4 pieces of lettuce (~~10g)
-> 1 garlic clove (~~3g)
-> a pinch of salt
-> a pinch of pepper
-> 1tbs of olive oil
🎾 meal b: salmon salad 216cal
-> 1 cup of lettuce mix (~~35g)
-> 1 palm of salmon (~~80g)
-> a handful of blueberries (~~35g)
-> 1/2 boiled egg (~~28g)
-> oriental sauce to your taste!
✸ ꒰ dinner ꒱⋆ ࣪.* ࣪.⋆
🛣 meal a: detox juice 118cal
-> 1 apple (~~160g)
-> 1/4 cup of pineapple (~~43g)
->1 lemmon (juice) (~~15g)
-> 1 and a 1/2 cups of spinach (~~45g)
💶 meal b: porridge 280cal
-> 2 spoons of black beans (~~30g)
-> 30g of mung beans
-> 2 spoons of red beans (~~30g)
-> 1/2 cup of rice (~~100g)
-> 4 cups of water
✸ ꒰ others ꒱⋆ ࣪.* ࣪.⋆
✳️ these are some extras you can eat if you're still hungry or craving snacks!
option 1: detox tea (2cal)
option 2: fat free yoghurt (66cal)
option 3: oatmeal cookies (217cal)
option 4: latte (86cal)
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well anyways i don't really have much to say 🫡
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The Best Workout that Changed My Body (Model Workout)
Growing up, I was a chubby kid. As a teenager, I was “skinny-fat” - I had a tummy but lean arms and legs. I have tried everything to burn that belly fat off; right from detox teas, waist clinchers, sports, Pilates, limiting my calorie intake, weight lifting, strength training, eating only health food for months, lemon water, even K-Pop stars’ diets… you name it and I’ve probably done it.
Then I finally found something that worked out for me. I stumbled across it on Reddit, and I shared it with my friends, not thinking that it would actually work.
Except that it did.
A friend who had gained 10 kgs because of her thyroid lost nearly 8 kgs in a matter of a couple of months. Another friend - who’s quite skinny and petite and struggled with weight gain - saw her body get more toned in just a couple of weeks.
So I decided to try it out as well - and I could actually see a difference in just a week’s time (as crazy as this sounds). A few pants I had that I always felt a little insecure about wearing actually felt LOOSE at the waist! I couldn’t believe it!
Now, for a little disclaimer. The person who created these workouts happens to train models. They are specialised in model training- reducing waist cm, hips is their specialty. HOWEVER. They were accused of filming their clients in their gym bathroom. Their spouse eventually took over the company. But that still doesn’t sit right with me. So that means that I will not be buying any of the company’s products, even though the work outs are really effective and require minimum equipment.
So I did a little bit of sleuthing - and found 5 out of 6 of their workouts for free on Reddit.
I’m going to share the link that I found on Reddit. I am NOT responsible for uploading the files. I have no role to play in it. These have been available on Reddit for literally years. I have no idea who the original distributor is, either. Also, these videos are quite old. I’m sure that the new ones are different from these.
The workouts range from 20-60 minutes (most of them are at 40 minutes though). The best part is that you can do these anywhere.
The only equipment you really need:
- yoga mat
- Slide discs/ wash cloths
- Ankle weights
- 3 pound dumbbells
Here it is (the link)
The nutrition guide:
(I have not come up with this. Do not hold me responsible if you do not agree with what the trainer says).
1. Calorie intake: 1600 calories
2. No juice, rice, pasta, potatoes, bread 2-3 hours before you workout. If you must eat, it has to be low calorie protein or lean (eggs, protein shake, lean protein, salad, vegetables).
3. No carbs after 3 pm.
4. Dinner should be protein and vegetable based.
5. No protein for 1-2 hours after workout. Fruit juice, fruits, vegetables and starchy carbs are fine.
6. Only treadmill for cardio. Slow jogs. No weights for lower body, outside of the program. No lunges, squats or deadlifts. Yoga and Pilates are fine. I personally do 12-3-30.
How I use this routine:
Monday: workout 1
Tuesday: 12-3-30
Wednesday: workout 2
Thursday: 12-3-30
Friday: workout 3
Saturday: workout 4 +12-3-30
Sunday: 12-3-30 / yoga/ rest day
I take 5 days off in a month during my period. These workouts are also not crazy intense (I’m used to playing sports and being active in general) so I’m fine doing it everyday.
What is 12-3-30?
Treadmill workout where:
12- incline
3 - speed
30 - minutes
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Let’s just get one thing straight right away: self-care is important for everyone. Not only do modern Americans (and anywhere else with a similar work week) work more than the average medieval peasant did, but stress is on the rise worldwide.
Stress is designed to give humans a short burst of energy and alertness, but it can also damage our bodies. It can cause sickness, increase chances of a heart attack, increases your appetite, and stress even causes way more than that. More info on stress on the body here.
So, yes, stress is bad for absolutely everyone, however, it is particularly hard on creatives. Yes, the bodily damage stress causes is the same as on every other person, but it is the harm to our work that is affected the most.
Studies show that the higher the stress, the lower the creativity, so your stress could be seriously limiting the quality of work you are putting out.
Don’t know where to start with self-care? I created a list of some ideas, and added plenty of links for people wanting to read more.
Take part in self-care Sunday. Some people need to schedule in a self-care day or they won’t do it. They put it off and put it off, so that it never happens. That’s why a growing number of people have started doing “self-care Sundays.” Simply put, it is one day during the week that is all about prioritizing your health.
Take a tea break. Tea has been noted to lower stress, so go sit in a comfortable spot with your favourite tea, and put your feet up for a while.
Take a phone/internet break. Phones are great in the way that they can give us constant stimulation, but is that a good thing? Not only is there a link between social media and depression, but phones can actually lower your creativity. It is when people are bored that their minds tend to wander and come up with great ideas, but how does that happen now with smartphones? Try a 24h internet detox, and see how you feel the next day. If you feel at all better, then maybe schedule a few days a month that you spend some time away from the digital world.
Go sit in nature. If it is possible for you and the weather is nice, go sit in nature. Not only is it great for stress levels and creativity, but it can even leave you feeling more rested. In japan, they even have a word for this magical effect nature has: shinrin-yoku, or “forest bathing.”
Workout. I know, I know, some of you are cringing at that, but it really is important. Not only does exercise help with your health and lower stress, but it does also boost creativity. If you are new to working out, start small! Aim for 10 min a day, and do not be afraid to “cheat” (example: modified/kneeling pushups) until you build your strength up.
Go For A Walk. Walking outside is shown to dramatically reduce stress, and boost creativity.
Meditate. This one is hard, but studies do show that meditation dramatically lowers stress, keeps your brain young, and, you guessed it, boosts creativity.
Take a Nap. That’s right, nap time for adults. Did you know some medieval serfs had a scheduled nap time too? When people get the “3PM slump” a nap might really be in order. Studies show it lowers stress and boosts creativity. Do note that the keyword here is “nap.” Do not nap more than 30 min or you will go into too deep of a sleep, making you groggy and potentially mess with your sleep cycle. Instead, aim for 10-30 min.
Play with your pet. Yep, pets lower stress.
Eat Well. Yes, your body does crave carbs and fats when you are stressed, but a balanced diet can help your body manage stress levels, and boost creativity.
Take a Bath. Do I really have to link for this one? I doubt it. Yup, having a bath lowers stress.
Get proper sleep. Not getting enough sleep at night is horrible for your body, creativity, and your stress levels. Link here.
Join a group. For example, a writing group. Not only is chatting good for your mental health, but it can be helpful to chat with creatives who are going through the exact same things you are. Just be sure it is a positive environment.
Listen to happy music. Studies show it can help.
If those are not enough, since the first day of fall is coming up (northern hemisphere) here are some fall-themed ideas. Pick one at random, and enjoy!
🌻 Find some sunflowers to admire
🔥 Have a fire with warm blankets (if its cold) and snacks
🥧 Bake recipe with fall ingredients (like apples or pumpkin)
🥣 Cook some chili
☕ Brew up some hot apple cider
☕ Get a pumpkin themed drink from somewhere
🍏 Pick some apples
🍏 Dip apples in caramel
🥕 Visit a farmers market
🌽 Visit a corn maze or bale maze
🕯 Spend a day antiquing
📖 Read a book with a warm drink and a fall candle
🍂 Decorate for fall
🍂 Read a book outside
🍂 Have a fall picnic
🍂 Go for a fall drive or hike
🍂 Go view some fall leaves
🍂 Watch geese flying south
🎃 Decorate for Halloween
🎃 Listen to a spooky audiobook or podcast
🎃 Read a spooky book
🎃 Visit a pumpkin patch
🎃 Carve or paint a pumpkin
🎃Go on a ghost tour
🎃Take a graveyard tour
🎃 Cozy up with some special snacks and watch a Halloween movie or show; such as Over The Garden Wall.
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A GUIDE TO SURVIVE
All the things I wish someone would I told me before descending in this Hellhole.
🦋 ️ If you were thinking about diving into the EDs World for the first time, go back and think again (this is not worth it, I swear to every God in this universe. Just run as far as you can from it) But if sadly you are, you have to be completely educated.. Do some research about everything it consists of. Literally get as much information as you can (pros and cons, nutrition, exercises, side effects, long/short terms, overuses of anything, etc). There is so much more than diet and food involved, so just don’t be stupid about it.
🦋 ️EDs DON’T HAVE NUMBERS. Someone who is 200+ pounds is as valid as someone who is 100 and under. Stop bullying people because they are heavier or lighter than you are. Society fucks us enough so no need to add more hate. We are all in the same shit anyways… No one has the same body as you. Your number compared to others might not look the same. So yes, your thinspo is all cute but you have to consider all the criterias. Genetics, overall stats, gender.. Weight is just a number among many other things.
🦋 Weighing yourself every single day is NOT the most effective or accurate way to see/track results. The scale can shift up to 5 lbs a day (minus or plus, I know this is insane). Some specialists recommend doing it 1-3 times a week, always on the same day, so that you can see a more accurate graph of the fluctuation. (Keep in mind that you have to account for any hormonal changes/cycles when it comes to your result, I suggest comparing each week of your cycle with one another.)
🦋 You should consider using other methods to track your progress other than weighing yourself like a tape measurement can be really effective for body dysmorphia and if you have access to a gym ask them to check your body fat percentage. You would be surprised to see just how much it can help. Because at some point, the balance between muscle and fat is so small that physical change won’t be as noticeable. But seeing actual results from other means can really boost your mental state.
🦋 Those who will notice “the problem" won't be the ones you want. And those who are really there for you are not always the one you thought would be.. But do not throw away the help if you need it.
🦋 Do not beat yourself too hard if you slip up. It might get you to binge 10x harder, too. Nobody is perfect. We all binge once in a while. The weight did not appear out of thin air. It is a work in progress..
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I know there is this big debate about the famous “body reset” metabolism day. Some say it helps others would disagree. It's the same thing when I come to fasts and detox/cleanse. At this point, you can follow whoever you wish. All of these help to some degree but aren't necessarily what your body needs. You need to have a good understanding of your system before committing to anything. To each their own.. All studies point to a “sort of reset” but there is not a universal way of doing it. So yes, here are your most common options, but this would depend on too many specifics to have a straight answer. There is no on/off switch when it comes to your body, yes it can feel like it “slowed down” but it is just because your body takes more time to use whatever it has to formulate energy. It takes your organism unequal time to synthesize different food - fat compared to carbs or even muscular tissues. This is why it is not just about the starvation aspect of your ED. It is also important to look at what you're feeding yourself with. Not all diets work the same and provide the same amount of energy. Choose your own path, but just be aware of all the knowledge you can put your hands on.
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✨️✨️✨️ There is no magical pill, no tea bullshit and no fucking food miracle to lose weight. Yes there are some meds that can help (laxative, diuretic and appetite suppressant) but it is mostly out of side effect. Ultimately, your body will get used to them so they will feel like they aren't working anymore and you will feel the need to take more. Do not take more than the recommended amount. Be extremely careful if you are using them and please if you see anything out of the ordinary talk to professionals. Medications without the proper follow up can be horribly harmful in the long run. ✨️✨️✨️
🦋 TAKE YOUR FUCKING VITAMINS. I can't stress that enough but you need them just to make sure your body won’t rupture. It can prevent so many side effects to EDs and even trips to the hospital. Look for multivitamin, biotine, B-complex, folic acid (ladies), iron, potassium and magnesium… See to have some blood work done every year just to see where/or if you are lacking anything crucial.
🦋 DRINK YOUR GODDAMN WATER , BITCH. Your body will give up faster if you don't drink enough water compared to food. If you are fasting or anything, this shit is MANDATORY. And no, coffee, coke zero and teas should not count in your water intakes (sorry). It is so important for weight loss, plateaus and in general. The general rule is about 2L a day but you will need more depending on your lifestyle. There is many any calculators online or you can just go with the basic **1500mL - 20(weight in kg-20)= x**. It is the average amount in mL you should aim for.
🦋 Doing the same exercises over and over again will not help you lose weight. In fact, it is quite the contrary. You will have to switch it up, do cardio (even if it sucks), and try weight lifting (nooo it is not gonna make you look bulky.. Lean muscle burns more calories even though it weighs more.), find a sport that you like, yoga and pilates count, and even dancing is a good way to lose weight. You don’t have to spend endless hours in the gym (if you want to, go for it), 4 exercises is a good workout, and 30 mins a day every day is the bare minimum. Walking is quite underestimated but is actually pretty effective. Have fun with it cause it will be easier to stick to it and not dread it.
🦋 Sleep is MANDATORY. Don't think that staying awake all night doing exercises is helping you. In fact, your metabolism will go down 10 to 20 % if you sleep less than 6 hours a night. Get the rest you need.
🦋Food is not the enemy. When it becomes your aly it’s going to be a blessing. At the end of the day, you need the nutrients, So stop working against it and make it a tool for you to reach all your goals. It can get you the body that you want without too much work tbh.
🦋 ️ You guys have to stop with the famous “breakfast is the most important meal of the day”. If you were to look deeper into things you would know that the word originates from “breaking a fast” because it is the first meal after a long period of fast (when you sleep) depending on how long and everything but technically it still applies. So yes, it does help to kick start your metabolism, but there are many other ways to do so. Do what works for your lifestyle. Intuitive eating can really help with the disorder.
🦋Not all diets are going to work for you. Don't get discouraged. Try a few and see what works. Keep in mind to incorporate a little bit of every food group (if possible) to make sure you won't lack any crucial nutrients. Again, do your research.
🦋When reaching your GW or UGW, you may still feel unhappy. Yes, it feels like if you were skinnier, the world would turn around and become a wonderful place to be, but it’s not necessarily the case. It is not a magical way to solve all your problems, so be aware of possible disappointments.
🦋Keep yourself accountable. Stop blaming others or your life for things you have done. At the end of the day, you are the one doing everything. Excuses are not gonna help you achieve anything.
🦋The saddest part about this is that the sense of control is only temporary... If you have any other mental illnesses, it can mess you up so bad.. Mixing everything can be a lot at times, and I know how overwhelming it is to do all that by yourself. But, one way or another, you will have to go up against your demon and fight them or die trying.. Literally.
🦋This is not all rainbows and unicorn illnesses. It is hard to live through and even harder to witness it on someone else. You will cry, you will scream, and you will feel depressed and hopeless at times. Try to get someone you can talk to or vent to. This is why the online community is a huge part of EDs. Don't keep it all inside. It will break you.
🦋If you ever relapse after more than a year of recovery, you have to keep in mind that your body has changed. Especially if it went through puberty or if it is somewhere in your adulthood. If you plan on using the same old tricks you did as a teenager, I am sorry to announce to you that it might not work. Your relapse is like a whole new ED. You have to relearn everything about your body. It has adjusted to your harsh treatment and will definitely not cooperate the way it did before.
🦋If you are not ready mentally for recovery, it will NEVER happen. It cannot be forced. Recovery is the hardest part of the illness, but it is doable. And it takes time. It is not something that can be done overnight. Be patient, and at the end of the day, love yourself. But keep in mind that even fully recovered, the numbers won't magically stop in your mind. It will stay there as an afterthought. Some can live with it, and some can’t. If you need help, go get some.
🦋Calorie Counting🦋
So this is the most controversial topic of all but fuck it. This is my blog anyway I do what I want. Do with this information as you please. I am no doctor, just a bitch with a pharmacy and nutrition background.
🦋If you are to calculate calories, there are two crucial details you have to account for; your BMR (basal metabolic rate) and macronutriments.
🦋For macros, learn what they are and how to use them. It’s not just a question of fat, carbs, and protein. Look into understanding food labels and portion size and the percentages it represents in your daily food.. Especially when it comes to dry and wet food (ex: food labels on pasta and rice are for quantity when it is dry). It can really make a difference at the end of the day to have a good ratio of each group.
Most diets given by your trainers or dieticians are based on your BMR. Depending on how they calculated it, your exercise is already accounted for. So, in that case, you can not add your “active calories burned” from your smartwatch or whatever in your own calculations, thinking you can eat more or lose more. If you do so it’s going to nullify your progress for the day.
First, calculate your BMR (and no I’m not going to get involved in the gender debate, so use what you want).
Men= 66 + (6.23 x weight lbs) + (12.7 x height inch) - (6.8 x age in years)
Women= 655 + (4.35 x weight lbs) + (4.7 x height inch) - (4.7 x age in years)
Then multiplyz it by your activity level, and you will get your calories to maintain your actual weight. (1.2 = nothing, 1.375 = lightly, 1.55 = moderate). **I recommend just sticking with the lowest activity level possible since you want to know the minimum deficit of calories you can consume. So either do the 1.2 or not.
Now look into your goal. How much weight do you want to lose and by when ? The rough estimate is that 1 lbs = 3500 cals.
Let’s say you want to lose 10 lbs in 6 weeks. You will need to burn about 35,000 cal total in 6 weeks = 5,834 cal / week = 834 cal / day. (This is your deficit). Take your BMR again and subtract the last number to see how much your allowance is (ex: a BMR of 1800 means that your diet would be 1800 - 834 = 966 cal a day) It’s only a rough estimate. Because your BMR changes from day to day depending on the amount of stuff you do. If your deficit ends up negative, you need to revise your goal because on paper, it is unachievable and highly dangerous.
✨️✨️ Like I said , everything is just an estimate. Water weight and hormonal cycle are not included in this little math. ✨️✨️
🦋Purging🦋
You have to understand a few things before even thinking about doing it
🦋The biggest thing about purging is the long-lasting consequences. The acid in your stomach is extremely harmful. Think about it. It literally dissolves organic stuff to virtually nothing. There are a lot of medical problems that are linked to purging.
🦋The calorie absorption starts as soon as you begin chewing your food. There is acid that is released through your spit (yes, even if it is less acidic than your stomach, it is still there). So the famous method “chew and spit” is not the best because it is still harmful to your mouth health.
🦋 Purging is not a miracle erase switch. There is no Uno Reverse here. Even if you were to purge the entirety of your stomach, and that only a mere second after finishing eating, your body has already absorbed a portion of the calories ! A general rule is that about 1/3 to 2/3 of the calories will be left behind.
🦋 Now, even after all that you do purge, DO NOT BRUSH YOUR TEETH RIGHT AFTER. I swear to God that this is the worst thing you could do. 🦋
🦋If you were to ask the dentist when is the best time to brush your teeth in the morning, they would all agree that you can do it right after you wake up or 30-60 minutes after consuming food because of the acid mentioned earlier. Imagine how bad it would be after vomiting. So after a purge, you should try to swish some bicarbonate and water to bring the pH down and swallow half a glass to ease up your mouth, esophagus, and stomach. (I do 1 tbsp for 1 cup of water).
🦋Also, DO NOT PURGE if you don't drink enough liquid in your stomach. It is easier to do it when you do not only have solid shit in and less gross. Also it helps to reduce the acidity when it comes out.
🦋 Unfortunately, not all people have a gag reflex. Some studies show that nearly ⅓ of the population claim to feel it. Furthermore, it is shown that people who use any tobacco substance or other smoking substitute may be more prone to experience the lack of it. But it might also be that your body got used to your “mia” methods, thus being more resistant to where and how you are doing it. In that case, specialists point to other factors that can trigger it. So people will have a reaction caused by smell, others would find it with different stimulus points such as the roof of the mouth, back of the throat, tongue and near the tonsils. Moreover it can help to change the “tool” you are using (like going with something with a different texture like a cotton swab or the dental wood stick since it might help to trigger the reaction).
With that being said, if there is one thing you should remember about this whole thing is to be careful and aware.
Stay safe lovies. 🦋
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Too people who want to get "prettier" and have a "glow up" Do NOT expect it to go over night.
Plenty of people believed that you just become pretty with no effort like you see on TV. It's never that easy. It takes steps, processes and Discipline. Always start with the basics like :
Hygeine
Make a skincare routine for your skin
Know your skin type and build you skincare routine from there
body care for the entire body
Scrubs , lotions and body butters are a must
Exfoliate 1-2 times a week
haircare (hair is everything even if u have a hijab hair care is still possible)
Oil train your hair and know you hair porosity to know what products to use
Use a non sulphate or silicon shampoo
Conditioner and a hair oil of your choice based on your hair problem
Hair mask 1 times a week
Know ur hair pattern to be able to use the right products and not damage your hair pattern
Do not straighten your hair everyday!!!
Use Silk pillows and silk scrunchies instead of elastics!!!
Getting a closet and hair cut for you
Find your best colors and body type
Therefore you would know which colors make you shine the most as well as
Find your seasonal color and which fraction ur in (like winter bright , summer light and etc)
Find which type of hair cuts and bangs suit your facial featured and face shape most
I recommend looksmaxing or the Yt channel Dear Peachie to help you including makeup tutorials, which archetype you are and which closet you can do
Look for styles that match your personality and makes you stand out
Build up a hobby
like sports photography, drawing, crocheting, dancing, and etc.
Doesn't have to be time consuming just something to do when ur bored or free even
Also depends on your time to be careful on what you commit to
Try to explore more options without much costs before fully committing to something that isn't for long-term
Exercise ( unless you already do)
Exercise requires discipline for you to be able to do it continuously for progress
If you can't afford a premium membership take a walk/jog/run around the block,street,park
If you feel unsafe you can do a YouTube work outs as they are effective depending on your goal
I recommend channels like :Madfit ,Hinafit, Shirley kim, April Han, ema wong, and Chloe ting
Take time for yourself (not all the time)
If you dont have time for yourself your body and brain will get stressed (from experience)
It can be as simple as drinking your daily detox water, green juice, coffee, tea or reading a book
Get 8 hours of sleep
Make sure not to stress for something so complete a task when given no matter how far the deadline is!!!
Reduce screen time to 3 hours a day (outside of school/work related stuff)
Diet
Never go too extreme like you see those people online do
Unless you are talking to professionals such as dieticians, Nutritionists and etc. (Bc most public figures do have professionals that they seek help too for these types of situations)
stick to a healthy diet like the 80/20 method
Or you can also do keto/greek/high carb or protein just never go extreme as it will slow down your metabolism
Find who you really are and trying to be better
People never really open up to try different things you should try more to find what you like most or which you are most stable with
See the perspectives on how you act im different situations and see what your mistakes are to try to avoid doing them again
Fix your mentality (watch wizard Liz, Song Jia,) and read quotes to inspire you to do better and the most you can
Always Analyze the situation before commenting or doing action unless its an emergency
Do not let people decide for you or get to your head it is their opinion not yours. You opinion is never invalid and justified in your perspective
Confident vs Arrogant vs Egoistic
Confident people never brag nor do they drag people down. They know they are THAT person and will NOT care about your opinion of them.
Arrogant people like to Brag about something that they have and thinks their all That. They bring down people for not having the luxury they have. But when someone has more and better than them they always try to avoid them, argue with them or get annoyed by them as They want to show supremacy
Egoistic people tend to make fun of people. Self-centered people that only think about themselves without knowing or thinking that they hurt others. Their too preoccupied with themselves to think of others helps or needs
(Sorry its so long and unorganized I made this at 2:30 am bc idk and these are just some tips)
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Happy STS! What's up with all those freaky 7th station drugs? Any strange effects?
Happy STS!
I haven’t developed this one too much beyond what’s needed for the story but I’m happy to give you what I have :)
So the big one I’ve done some development for is mindsplit, which is the drug Nellie is addicted to at the start of the story and is trying to detox from. Mindsplit is a highly addictive psychedelic drug that causes a very strong dissociative effect. A user feels blissed-out and perceives themself as watching their body from a distance, able to move around independent of it. It also causes visual hallucinatory effects - swirling colours and sparkles, especially in the areas of the scene that the person can’t actually see. The person’s body is extremely limp and pliant during the drug’s influence.
The come-down from mindsplit causes a continued daze and violent jitters. It also causes a sense of anxiety and nausea. Mindsplit withdrawal has similar symptoms but vastly intensified, along with intense cravings and sharpened senses to the point of pain. There is a drug used to help detox from mindsplit, called mindmend, which eases the withdrawal symptoms and cravings, but it’s an imperfect solution.
I’ve also loosely established that there are weight-loss diet pills (like the ones that are not safe) and Belladonna has dabbled in using them. I think she uses appetite-suppressant pills to help her not “overeat”. (By which I mean eat a healthy amount.)
There are also a variety of poisons, including a neurotoxin I haven’t named yet that has a chemical similarity to black mamba venom. It causes immediate numbness and paralysis in the extremities and eventually suffocation and death due to paralysis of the heart and lungs. It has an antidote, but the antidote cannot reverse existing nerve damage.
I hope this is interesting! Thank you for the ask, I enjoyed it :)
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A Hollow Promise [27] chapter vi, part iv
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main tags : loki x original character, post-avengers 2012, canon divergence - post-thor: the dark world, canon-typical violence, mentions of torture
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summary: In the aftermath of the Battle of New York, the Avengers need a few days to build a transport device for the Tesseract. With the Helicarrier damaged and surveillance offline, SHIELD sends an asset to guard Loki in the interim: a young woman who sees the truth in all things, and cannot lie.
Even long presumed dead, her memories lost to her, Loki would know her anywhere.
And this changes things.
Some things last beyond infinity. And the universe is in love with chaos.
(Loki was never looking for redemption. It came as an unexpected side-effect.)
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chapter summary : astrid gathers her allies, and draws the attention of her enemies. loki pays a heavy price for a victory.
recommended listening : what you waiting for?, gwen stefani
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54 weeks and 1 day out
“Sir. We have movement.”
Tony felt the lines of his spine and shoulder blades pull straight, almost reflexively, swivelling into motion at his holographic worktable like a well-oiled gear.
He was going on a self-imposed work diet- an attempt to rebalance, after living in his work for the past few months, building and breaking and remaking in an endless beta-testing phase, a Sisyphean attempt to patch every vulnerability he could imagine- but it had been pushed back, under the circumstances, and he had rationed out enough time for him to deal with the situation, before starting the full detox.
“Where are we, J?” He asked, with a casual upwards flick above the table.
The gesture summoned a hologram above the desk: an architectural scale model of the Tower, crafted in vitrified blue light.
“There is some unusual activity near the roof.”
The area in question turned orange on the three-dimensional map, zooming in for an exploded view of the topmost two-dozen floors.
Tony had remodelled the top of the Tower, after the Battle of New York. Damage had given him the excuse, and the team had provided the reason. Repaired and restructured, several stories added to its height, the broad, smooth curves and open layout modelled after his cliffside home in Malibu were scrapped, the exterior cleaner and sharper- streamlined, from the slanted crown of its roof, through the convex glass-faced layers of the penthouse floors, to the landing pad extending out into the open air.
Locals had taken to calling it Avengers Tower. None of the roster aside from Tony had taken up residence yet, but they all agreed that it was a good base, and Tony kept the personal suites ready for whenever they might need to drop in.
The luminescent A badge shimmered on the side of the building, level with the landing pad. Just below it- within the three floors dedicated to Tony’s private laboratories, workshops, storage, and fabrication facilities- a red diamond marked his current location.
“Surveillance feeds and motion sensor detectors are offline,” JARVIS announced, highlighting the locations in a chain, “as are the door sensors.”
Tony visually tracked the path that it created.
It led from the roof access, into the emergency stairwell, before terminating at the door into Thor’s suite: no more and no less than would be needed to gain access to the building.
It was more than twenty floors above him- a distance that would take several minutes to traverse. He had time.
“You locked out, buddy?” Tony asked quietly, summoning his touch keyboard with a sweep of his palm. “Or are they trying to be subtle?”
“Neither, sir. As with the first occurrence, this appears to be a mechanical failure, not a cyber-attack.”
His gaze narrowed briefly, jaw moving.
Somehow, that was both more and less plausible than JARVIS being hacked.
“Shall I prepare to go into lockdown protocol, sir?” JARVIS proposed. “It should be possible to isolate intruders to one of the penthouse floors, once they are inside.”
Tony contemplated the offer for only a heartbeat.
“No. Clear the way down for her, J,” he decided breezily. “Let’s hear what she has to say.”
There was a brief, audibly judgemental pause in the response time.
“As you wish, sir.” Tony could hear the mild disapproval and concern behind his AI’s cool, crisp tones. “Shall I at least stand by with security protocols?”
“Doubt we’ll be needing them, but- feels like this one’s got a few fireworks up her sleeve.” He conceded blithely, pre-empting the reproach about putting himself at unjustifiable risk. “Alright. Safety off, but finger off the trigger.”
Tony turned in his chair, scanning the room. The workshop was cluttered with a rich confusion of half-finished projects, both metal and digital, strewn across screens and surfaces between discarded coffee cups and various tools.
“And clear the decks, J. Window Dressing Protocol.”
At the command, the screens cleared.
Detailed blueprints and test data were replaced with generic schematics and randomised code, like cellophane pasted on a device fresh out of the box. They reflected in the wall of glass that faced the length of the room- diluted against the dark hallway beyond.
With a gentle swipe, Tony dismissed the render of the Tower.
Rising to his feet, he slid the rolling chair aside, summoned a program and began typing, looking to all the world like the very image of productivity and genius at work.
He wasn’t kept waiting for long.
A gentle rap of knuckles sounded on the reinforced, shatter-proof glass.
Tony’s head snapped up.
The girl whose real name definitely wasn’t Alethia waited just outside, painted like day in the light spilling from the workshop.
She was dressed for the winter night, a New York romance in a soft black sweater and jeans the colour of dried roses, champagne hair pinned in in a braided coil, emphasising a pretty set of cheekbones and long eyelashes. Backs of her knuckles still raised to the glass, snow-dusted and pleasantly windswept, she tipped chin down slightly in greeting.
She looked better, Tony observed. Her skin was clearer, her eyes brighter, expression smoother- less tension-soured, less angry, and more like the person that she had sounded like, aboard the Helicarrier.
Without looking, he tapped a command into the control panel.
The electronic lock switched open with a heavy snap.
Alethia turned the handle, stepping inside, flawless and measured.
“Dr Stark.”
There was a low thrum in her voice, as though cautiously pleased to see him.
“Not-agent.”
Tony’s reply was blandly jovial. Shunting the lines of code aside, he stepped away from the workbench, one hand tucked into his pocket. He had remained outfitted in dark sweats and a gym shirt, standard gear for the workshop, but his posture was that of when he was in a three-piece suit and a boardroom- eyes fixed on her face, chin tilted up slightly, sizing her up with an air of casual challenge.
To her credit, Alethia remained unaffectedly at ease.
It had reminded him a little of Pepper- but not by much.
Virginia Potts was like a ceramic knife. There was a deliberate poise to her, born of a consciousness of her disadvantages in the industry, a refusal to be anything less than a worthy player of the game; she was everything prim and correct and refusing to be intimidated, the result of thousands of observations and lessons learned and choices made, constructed into a statuesque, pleasantly intimidating facade.
Alethia reminded him far more of someone else.
Tony had realised it when she was leaning over the Tesseract transport device, her voice focused and softly mirthful.
Relax. I have steady hands.
For a moment, he had been hurled back in time. He had tasted metal, and dust, lung tissue still burning from the water with each breath, the heat of the forge at his back and the dim cold of the caves at his front, the weight of a car battery slung over his shoulder, and a pair of lean hands- Yinsen, sure and calm and steady, mild-mannered yet ruthlessly insightful, guarded and tired and yet earnest- pouring molten palladium into its cast.
Relax, he had chided Tony gently, tilting the long handles of the tongs, inclining the lip of the crucible over the mould. I have steady hands. Why do you think you are alive, ah?
After removing it from his chest for the second time, Tony had quietly returned the first miniaturised arc reactor to the display mount that Pepper had commissioned, sealing it back in glass.
It was still powered by that delicate ring of palladium, poured by steady hands under a mountain in Afghanistan.
With a steady sweep of her lashes, Alethia looked past Tony’s shoulder, at the screen display where he had been typing.
Her head tilted.
“Was there any particular reason that you were translating the lyrics of ABBA’s Dancing Queen into base64?”
Huh. Well.
Tony had more or less expected that she would see straight through the chains of randomised letters and numbers, like an awl punching through leather, but- the casual quickness was a little disorientating. It was like expecting a card trick, and getting shoved into a swimming pool instead.
“Everybody needs a hobby,” he said, bald-faced and shameless.
“Mm.” Hazel eyes flicked to his, warm as vanilla and laughter. “I’ve heard worse.”
They trailed into silence.
“Ran a trace, on the phone number you left,” Tony admitted boldly. “Before I called.”
Alethia smiled slightly.
“Ah. Were you disappointed?”
“I think I’d be disappointed if it was that easy.” Tony decided, circling the desks, feigning distraction. Alethia was missing a coat that would make sense for the cold. Her nails were trimmed neat, without polish. The only traces of makeup were a swipe of soft black kohl at the corners of her eyes and the sheen of lip balm. Practical, yet impractical. “Complete no sell, though. Impressive. That SHIELD tech?”
The corner of her mouth pulled up further.
“No.”
“You still with them?”
“If I ever was, I’m not now.”
“So you’re a free agent?”
“Free not-agent.”
“How long?”
“Is this an interrogation?”
“I mean, I’d call it due diligence, but I’ve got a pair of cuffs somewhere, if it’d make you more comfortable.”
Alethia’s smile bloomed into a brilliant grin.
“Didn’t think you’d be into that, Dr Stark.”
She sobered slightly, clear as glass.
“Ask me what you want to know. I wouldn’t have left a way for you to contact me, if I wasn’t willing to talk.”
Tony held her gaze for a long moment.
He tapped at the keypad.
Several pages opened across the screens.
Pages of instructions, formulas, tables, calculations, and skeletal molecular structures illuminated the digital glass.
Alethia kept her gaze on Tony.
“What is this?” Tony asked, quiet and direct.
She breathed a slow exhale, hip cocking.
“The formulas, chemical synthesis processes, and medical procedures for stabilising the biological effects of the experimental serum known as Extremis,” she announced clinically, “when introduced to the human body intravenously, subcutaneously, or intramuscularly.” Alethia paused, pointedly. “I did include an abstract.”
“And you broke into my building to leave it here.”
“I apologise for the necessity.” Alethia replied evenly. “It was safer, than a courier.”
“You couldn’t think of another way?”
She arched an eyebrow.
“So- a package, delivered to this building, or a file sent to the general inquires inbox for Stark Industries, addressed directly to you, from an unknown sender- wouldn’t have been lost in the system?”
Despite the lingering irritation, he could admit that she had a point.
And at least she hadn’t tried to hack JARVIS, or threatened to taser him, or ripped the arc reactor out of his chest, or thrown him through a window.
All in all, this break-in was probably in his top three.
Tony flicked his hands into a shrug, keeping his expression blank and blithe.
“Alright. Let’s say I buy that.” He did buy it, but she didn’t need to know that yet. “You wanna tell me what this really is?”
He saw the subtle shift in her eyes, becoming a little shrewder, a touch sharper- and a little pleased.
She pulled up one shoulder.
“A gift? Or a bribe, perhaps. Gratitude. Diplomacy. A resumé.”
“What, you’re in the market for a job?”
The quip was as pithy as he intended, but in the split second that followed- huh.
Actually.
That wasn’t a terrible idea.
Tony acknowledged that he needed to step back from Iron Man- at least until he could reorganise his head and redraw the lines so that it wasn’t the all-consuming furnace of fear and duty and penance and freedom-safety that it had become- but the work wouldn’t wait. The planet was on a deadline, and Tony had more resources than most to pull the necessary defences together. Having good people on board, who could keep his projects ticking over while he reorientated, was essential.
And Alethia knew. She had recognised the monsters lurking in the dark between the stars, and had looked for someone to warn when she decided that Fury couldn’t be trusted to listen.
And then there was the truth in all things, and cannot lie aspect. That was a hell of an ace up Earth’s collective sleeve- if, if, if-
“I don’t need a job, Dr Stark. What I need is an ally.” Alethia spoke as clear and calm as daybreak upon the mountains. “We both do. As many as we can get.”
Tony swallowed, carefully.
He turned his head to look at the screens, grappling down the swoop of intermingled terror and relief.
“So this is your pitch.”
“I was working on other areas, but- I saw the news,” Alethia said mildly. “The bombings. Malibu.”
She hesitated.
“I was worried.”
Tony flicked a slightly surprised glance back at her.
Alethia’s gaze was on the screens, inscrutable.
There was a note of quiet sincerity in her voice that rattled something within him, like marbles in a jar.
“Well.” Tony began, turning back towards the illuminated text. “I’ve come back from the dead before.”
“Even so.” She demurred. “You were- you were kind to me. I didn’t forget that. So I was glad to find that you were alright. Then I found out about AIM, and Extremis, and I- thought you could use the assistance.”
Tony didn’t know what to say.
He still couldn’t decide, even after a moment to reboot.
Instead, he deflected.
“I knew you weren’t an engineer.”
“Hm?”
Tony flicked a practiced, flippant gesture at the screens- a quick upturn of his palm, fingers loosely curled- turning away.
“Back then. The instructions you provided for the Tesseract device- I mean, we talked about it at the time. Hot garbage, right? Intentional hot garbage, but still. There was a solid working understanding of the physics and the mechanics, but it wasn’t written by someone au fait with the field. There are things that you only learn if you’ve studied it, read the books, learned how to speak the language. It’s all in the common practice- the jargon, the shorthand. That was missing, from your papers. There were a few pieces, but not enough. You’re not an engineer.”
Tony turned to face her, expression a flat, inscrutable mask.
“You are a doctor, though.”
Alethia didn’t flinch.
He would expect nothing less, from someone who had kept secrets from Nicholas Fury and was still walking around, doing as she pleased.
“This,” Tony raised a finger to his shoulder-line, indicating the screens behind him. “Is perfect. Flawless. You could send this for peer review and get it published in The Lancet.”
A chink appeared in Alethia’s expression- something that she had allowed to break through, intense as sunlight striking on a shard of glass.
Pride.
It was earned. As far as Tony could tell, she had whipped up the antiserum formula within a matter of days; any sane research institute or private company on the planet, including the medical subsidiaries of Stark Industries, would be putting a bounty on her corporate headhunt if they knew.
Blasé as he could afford to be with money, however, Tony rarely made a purchase without knowing the price.
“So. What are you?” He paced back towards her, gathering a slow momentum like the wind of a crank, closing in. “Biochem? Cellular biology? Genetics? What’s your speciality?”
Alethia smiled.
“Neurosurgery.”
Tony’s brow twitched at the admission, taken aback.
He wasn’t actually expecting a straight answer. He wasn’t expecting that answer.
And he wasn’t expecting its wistfulness.
“You’re a brain surgeon?”
She let out a short laugh.
“I should probably introduce myself.” An incandescent, media-ready smile lit up her features, relaxed and confident. “Dr Astrid North, MD.”
Tony stilled.
That was her name, he could tell. Not an alias.
Tony quickly calculated the risk, that she was taking.
“Date of birth recorded as the twenty-ninth of February, 1988,” she continued, as though this time she was actually reciting and submitting her résumé for consideration. “Graduated from Columbia in the class of ’03, summa cum laude, completed my neurosurgical residency in 2010. I also worked under the surnames Stephenson and Stephensdottir- spelt like the doctorate, not like the super-soldier. There should be records of me available here in New York, as well as the UK, Italy, Switzerland, Sweden, Singapore, and Brazil.”
Tony could feel the staccato of his heart, stuttering behind the arc reactor, a thrum of anticipation.
“Hm. SHIELD know any of this?”
Alethia’s- Astrid’s- lip curled with a hint of contempt.
“No.”
“Then why are you telling me?”
She lifted her shoulder. “I thought you’d want an insurance policy.”
“And what have I done to earn that?”
“You listened.”
“I passed the test,” Tony inferred. “That’s why you’re here?”
“I’m here because I would like to trust you,” Astrid said coolly, “and because I think there’s a more than fair probability that I can. And- because I would like you to trust me. Even if only enough to work together.”
Tony observed her for a few dragging seconds.
“What’s your endgame?” He challenged. “You told me back then that you’re not an altruist.”
“Oh, I’m not.”
“Then why? What’s in it for you?”
Her brow tensed slightly.
“Enlightened self-interest? Or, is I don’t want the planet I currently live on to be destroyed insufficient for you?”
“Eh, plenty of people don’t find it compelling. Look at climate change.”
Astrid’s lips parted to reply- before she grimaced, glancing aside in admission.
“Alright, fair point.”
“Uh-huh.”
“But maybe I’m just more circumspect.”
“Or you have another reason.”
She lifted her eyes to the ceiling with a slow blink.
“You are being very obstinate about this.”
“You know, I don’t actually care, what your actual reason is,” Tony blurted out, sharp and caustic as battery acid, a sudden flare of anger and impatience shoving him forwards, “because you’re right. We need allies. Including each other. So I’m willing to work with your reason why. But only if I know what it is.”
The moment that Tony stopped speaking, he became aware of how Astrid was looking at him.
Tony felt like he was being taken apart, disassembled, the cover plate pulled off to check the hardware.
Truth in all things.
She hummed, soft in the back of her throat. It was the kind that he could feel in his sternum, even with most of it carved away for the arc reactor.
“Alright,” she said softly. “Fair’s fair.”
She straightened, looking away.
“There is- someone.” She said carefully. “Someone that I love.”
Tony blinked.
It was like the twist of a kaleidoscope, patterns reforming, in four simple words.
“And the one responsible for- that-” Astrid snapped a finger heavenwards, her entire being smouldering with a leashed, soul-deep hatred, “took them, at their most vulnerable. Captured them. Tortured them. For months. Years. Twisted their memories, tainted their emotions, and manipulated their pain until they no longer knew where they ended, and the sceptre began. They barely kept enough of themselves to ruin it all, and break free of the control.”
Tony felt a muscle in his bicep and jaw twitch, flicking an appraising, calculating look across her.
Interesting.
“The one that I love will be hunted as a traitor. Or, as a failure- I don’t think it matters, and I don’t care. It all has the same end. What matters is that the one I love will never be safe, until and unless that is no longer a threat.”
Astrid dropped her hand, meeting his eyes addressing him with a tone of complete, terrifying certainty.
“I have decided that it is not going to be a threat.”
The floor of Tony’s stomach dropped out, the room seeming to tilt.
He was suddenly struck with a strange thought- like some survival instinct coded into his evolutionary ancestry, tapping at his nerve endings, lingering like a chill in the vertebrae of his neck. It was the feeling that he was looking at something ancient, and angered- half-mad and unhinged and doing an admirable job of containing itself to its human skin.
He realised, in a split second, that Astrid was probably something not entirely human.
And she was baring her teeth at whatever was threatening to swallow Earth whole.
Fuck it. He could work with this.
“All of the sake of love?” Tony asked.
He took pride in the fact that his cadence was even-keeled, despite the stagger of his pulse.
A humourless, self-deprecating smile wrung through her features.
“You can laugh,” Astrid told him, rueful and without rancour. “I know how I must sound.”
Tony forced himself to shrug, nonchalantly. “I’ve heard worse.”
And he had. Tony had been worse. He had cut deals with worse, because he was a realist, and anyone pursuing utopia had to be willing to drag themselves through purgatory first.
After a long moment, Tony inhaled sharply, pulling his shoulders back.
“Okay,” he said powerfully. “If this is a bluff? I’m calling it. Cards on the table.”
A spark ignited behind Astrid’s eyes, like a struck match.
“Pepper’s been injected with Extremis,” he continued brusquely, “I need to get her stable, along with any other test subjects that AIM decided to turn into literal walking time bombs. That’s why you gave me these papers, right? You thought I could use it, and I can. So let’s get to it. You in?”
Astrid looked startled- before her entire demeanour snapped into a honed, clinical focus.
“Wh- are you monitoring cortisol levels? Internal temperature, heartrate, WBC-?”
“Per doctor’s orders.” Tony flicked his head towards the reams of detailed medical instructions, listed out on the glass. “Followed your procedures to the letter. We’re tracking down anyone else who might have taken part in clinical trials, but it looks like there were a limited number, at least.”
Astrid tugged up her sleeves with an efficient pinch of fabric, pulling the soft knit clear of her wrists and forearms. “How many potential patients?”
“Caps out at a dozen, maybe.”
“The antiserum? You’ve started synthesising it?”
“As we speak, lab’s running on auto.”
“How much?”
“About two hundred and fifty milligrams, in the first batch.”
“Not enough. Triple it. And quintuple it for the others, per patient. I don’t want to be caught out with less than we need. Have you started on the round of pre-antiserum IV fluids?”
“About three hours ago.”
“And no adverse effects, contraindications?”
“Nada. Smooth sailing, all in line with where you said we should be by now.”
“Good, but keep Miss Potts closely monitored. And we’ll still need to test the antiserum on a live tissue sample, if possible.”
“I’ll get on it.”
Tony swiped two fingers down through the air, dismissing the pages on the screens, the room dimming slightly as they slid away.
“If this works,” he said, his enunciation crisp, “we can talk.” In one fluid motion, Tony plucked a StarkPad from amongst the chaos of the workbenches, flipping it in his grip to hold it, outstretched, within her reach. “Sound good, doctor?”
Astrid smiled, light and wild, and Tony felt his decision settle in his chest with a feeling of rightness.
This could work.
She took the tablet.
“Lead the way, doctor.”
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Astrid made an addition to her list.
Flour.
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50 weeks and 3 days out
Brunnhilde would be the first to admit that she was not made for subterfuge.
She was a woman of brash, blunt action, more inclined to punch her way straight through her problems that to deconstruct them. As such, her vocation suited her. The Valkyrie were the vanguard, the cavalry, the elite corps, revered shieldmaidens who cleared the field with a swift, graceful brutality that was immortalised in legend and song and carving.
They had been thralls, once. Slaves.
Most of Asgard had forgotten that.
As war raged across the Nine, they had been appropriated by the throne- a form of tax levy, on the wealthy of Asgard- and dispatched to the battlefield in the wake of Asgard’s armies, to collect corpses from the slurry. Choosers of the slain, the golden-plated Einherjar snickered into their cups, leering over the rims.
Then there was a shortage of disposable warm bodies. It had seen weapons pressed into their hands, shoved to the front lines to fill out the ranks.
Against all expectation, the Valkyrie had fought. The fought, and lived, and bought victory to Asgard.
In recognition of their deeds, Bor had purchased their freedom. The Valkyrie became the pride of Asgard, a symbol of its might, arrayed in battle armour of bright, sun-catching pearl-white and star-silver.
Their origins were probably why the Valkyrie could be found working, even in peacetime- conducting funerary rites, serving at great state occasions, maintaining Folkvang- while the Einherjar regressed into nothing more than decorative doorstops scattered throughout Gladsheim.
Brunnhilde had once remarked as such to Loki. Months later, he had presented her with a gilded doorstop for her nameday, crafted into the shape of an Einherjar in full regalia.
It had sent Brunnhilde into a fit of delighted, undignified cackles.
I’m calling him Sigurd, she declared with a feral grin.
Ah, he’s not going to last a week, Loki had commented, clicking his tongue with a convincing veneer of faux-pity.
Even now, few if any of Brunnhilde’s sisters were of noble blood or wealthy backgrounds. Most of them came from labouring families, apprenticed in a trade before they turned old enough to apply to the corps, and they bought their skills to Folkvang. The Valkyrie’s halls, sheltered in a chilled, fertile basin in the mountains, was almost entirely self-sufficient thanks to their collective knowledge. They raised fields of wheat and flax, milled their own flour and spun their own linen, wove and baked and built, felled timber and hunted and fished, tanned leather and cured meat, cut stone and dug wells, even kept bees and pressed oil and fermented wine and made candles.
And then there was the lace.
A few girls who knew how to weave had taken it up, transforming thread into pretty swatches of aerated cloth. They had begun teaching the craft to a few others, when they showed interest. Then the pastime became an additional source of income, to supplement the stipend provided by the crown.
And within a few centuries, Valkyrie lace was considered amongst the most exquisite craftsmanship in all the Nine. A single spool of inch-wide trim commanded a small fortune. When a Valkyrie was wed, it was customary for her sisters to spend the year and a day between engagement and marriage- or longer, if they saw the union coming- making as many yards of lace as they could manage, as her dowry.
Brunnhilde loved her sisters, admired their work, and hated lacemaking with a virulence that she usually reserved for bilgesnipe and strutting lordlings who thought that bedding a Valkyrie was a notch in their gilded belt.
Fortunately, she also had absolutely no talent for it. The others had quickly banished her from their tatting pillows and needles and bobbins, gently shoving her off towards work that actually made sense to her.
And Brunnhilde was content to have nothing to do with it. She honestly couldn’t understand what the others envisioned in the countless threads, or why crossing one here or knotting another there would somehow create a magnificently intricate motif several thousand more motions later, even if she was capable of appreciating the result.
In that sense, subterfuge reminded her of lacework.
She couldn’t see all of the threads, where they were leading, or how they locked together into a single bolt of woven fibre and air- but Loki so clearly knew exactly how each and every loop and twist and knot would build outwards, and took quiet satisfaction in seeing each one tighten into place, like a miniature noose.
There was an aching patience to it, each miniscule snag changing the fall of the delicate mesh, and Brunnhilde was often caught by the impulse to just hack her way through it.
She didn’t.
Instead, she did exactly as he asked.
Asgard underestimates him, a memory whispered- that of a warm voice, accompanied by a smile that darkened the eyes above it into amber. Or thinks it sees him, or thinks it knows what it’s looking at. A trick of the light. A shadow on glass. It is a mistake, you know.
The darkened eyes had begun to glow, instead, when they saw that Brunnhilde was paying attention.
I think he might be the most real person that I have ever met.
“I was surprised,” Loki admitted, on a low, distracted hum, “that you didn’t ask.”
The dungeons were quiet, at least in the wing where Loki was being held. It felt like an archive, a place for lost and forgotten things to be kept, shelved and stored out of sight until they were needed- the air settled as silt on the bottom of a riverbed, barely stirring with the sparse rounds of the guards.
Brunnhilde had counted eleven weaknesses that she could exploit, if it came to it.
She would have counted three dozen more in a fraction of the time.
She felt her heart clench strangely. It was the feeling of old scar tissue, untouched for so long, flexing and moving once more.
She and Loki were seated at the front of his cell, arranged parallel against the golden barrier on either side. Swathed in worn, nondescript suedes, Brunnhilde slouched on the stone steps, bare shoulder shoved against the forcefield; the air felt thicker the closer she came to the curtain of spellwork, like magnetic resistance, but she found herself leaning her weight into it, defiant and testing, like pressing her thumb down on a new bruise.
On the other side, Loki was sorting through several sheaves of handwritten notes, stacks surrounding him like panes in a half-rose window. His black hair was braided back at his crown, dressed in soft leathers and deep green linens and lightweight boots, finely made with immaculate quality, but far simpler than would be expected of an Asgardian prince- at least outside of the privacy of the residential wings of the palace.
Brunnhilde knew that he could have dressed himself in illusions, if he wished.
The choice not to was- interesting. In a way that she refused to think about.
There were a lot of things she refused to think about, with regards to Loki.
Not when it made her feel all those mollusc-soft sentiments that she had decided to kill years ago, for her own survival, after the gold plating of Asgard had begun to flake in her eyes.
In that, at least, she knew they were both in good company.
“I asked about this,” Brunnhilde countered his comment, tapping a nail against the arm ring that sat flush against the curve of her bicep. It was a deceptively simple band of brass, seeming to blend in against her, unremarkable regardless of lighting. Between it, and Loki’s magic, they were shielded from the Gatekeeper’s watch- Loki as a glaring lacuna in the script, a blank space, and Brunnhilde as though from behind a fine, misting rain, the specifics blurred out of focus.
Loki rolled his eyes, in that prissy, superior manner that left Brunnhilde more amused than irritated, these days.
“Yes, about whether it would turn your skin orange or set you spitting toads, of all things.”
“It was a valid concern, knowing you.”
“Hm.” There was a slight upturn at the corner of Loki’s mouth- the closest thing to agreement that she would probably wrest out of him.
Brunnhilde slipped loose a smirk.
“I didn’t bother asking,” she admitted, in a crisp-consonant drawl, “because I knew that I probably wouldn’t understand it anyway. It would be like asking to read a contract before I sign, when I don’t know the language it’s written in.”
Loki’s eyes sliced up from the papers, without lifting his head, fixing her with a serpentine gaze.
“You do yourself a disservice, Brunn.”
Brunnhilde paused, a little surprised by his quiet vehemence.
She shrugged it away.
“This is just not something I’m suited for. Politics and subterfuge and spywork. Moving the pieces by moving entirely different ones, lightyears away. It’s like my sisters, and their lacework,” she admitted blithely. “I understand the theory. But even if you had told me where this was going, I wouldn’t know enough to tell if you were lying.”
But.
Brunnhilde wasn’t entirely ignorant to Loki’s plans. She had made certain of it.
She had heard the gossip, on dozens of planets across the Nine. The arm ring not only shielded her from Heimdall’s sight, but also from the perils of using the secret passageways that were specked across Asgard- allowing her to move freely between worlds, at Loki’s direction.
Steadily, disparate pieces and seemingly unconnected incidents were coalescing, into a clear picture.
Muspelheim had struck an unexpected trade deal with Ria. When the revival of the disused trade route had attracted Marauders and Ravagers, a new defence coalition had formed, stationed at crucial waypoints to prevent piracy and smuggling.
The Crown Prince of Vanaheim had headed a diplomatic envoy to Alfheim. By the time he had arrived, Niflheim’s queen just so happened to be also be visiting her fellow monarch. The triumvirate meeting occurred without a single Asgardian dignitary present.
A few weeks later, the realm of the light elves had also hosted several representatives of dwarven guilds.
The Nova-Kree War was turning cold. The Nine had become neutral ground. The Nova Corps had offered aid to those on the outskirts and most affected by raids, and had sent engineers to retrofit their older, short-haul vessels with swifter engines and stronger defences. The Kree were in tentative talks with Nidarvellir, to have the dwarves invest in maintaining local jump points, in exchange for Kree arms to protect their merchant fleets.
The realms were moving, like the interlocking turn of dials and gears. And for the first time in millennia, Asgard was excluded from its workings.
And it was Loki’s doing.
At his instruction, Brunnhilde had bribed and baited Ravagers to harass Nidarvellir trade routes. She had placed bets at various ports, on the likelihood of a Kree civil war. She had sold information on Knowhere, changed figures on shipping manifestos, stirred up bar fights and complained about the export tax on goods out of Ria, destroyed shipments and switched documents and delayed correspondence, paid off and blackmailed and persuaded civil servants and stewards and aides into suggesting or omitting a minor detail from a report, or handing a project to a different department.
Brunnhilde was the stage hand in a great, orchestrated play. The Nine were being gently herded into a strengthening current- one that was looking outwards, into a galaxy where the balance of power was shifting.
It was a coup.
And Loki hadn’t even left his cell.
Brunnhilde refused to be impressed.
After a moment, she realised that Loki was looking at her with a glinting amusement.
It wasn’t the kind that was intended to mock, but rather the prelude to bringing her in on the joke.
“Of course you can’t see where this is going, Brunn,” he said softly. “You’re the needle.”
A memory clicked into place, flickering in like guttering lamplight.
There was a bolster pillow in her lap, a lace pad template pinned atop it, embroidery needle gripped uncertain and rigid between her forefinger and thumb. The chatter and bickering and teasing of her sisters was a cloud of ambient sound that seemed to glow like nimbus, in the apple-golden autumn afternoon.
A warm shoulder brushed near her own.
Gently, Brunn! A voice laughed. Treat your needle with respect. Relax your hand. The needle can feel where it needs to go- you’re just guiding it.
This is a terrible idea, Brunnhilde had muttered. We all remember what happened when Svanhit tried to teach me.
Stay away from my bobbins, Brunn! Came a sharp call from across the hall, to a few snickers. Olrun, Hervor, keep her away!
Brunnhilde had made to wave a vulgar gesture at her, and almost stabbed herself with the needle.
Needlepoint lace is more straightforward, a clear voice interjected. Brunnhilde had looked over to her- the glint of her needle moving in brisk freehand stitches, looping and tightening, all deft skill and focus, one moving part, one thread. You don’t have to keep track of seventy different bobbins, and the order you need to cross or twist them in.
Your prince prefers bobbin lace, doesn’t he? Brunnhilde asked, smirkingly.
Brunnhilde received a gentle, reproachful elbow to the ribs.
A flush, through golden skin, head dipping and pearl-white hair slipping forwards.
Prince Loki has a mind for it, she replied, deliberately and damningly neutral. The dance of it, the complexity- it suits him.
Well, what do you prefer?
She had paused, head cocked.
I like both, I suppose, she hedged. Bobbin lace is essentially weaving- looping the strands together, pulling them into place against each other. It tends to be- lighter, more of a fabric with motifs created inside of it. Layers of opacity. Needle lace is often studier. Like- scaffolding. The pattern is all that there is. And the needle has to work back and back and back to bring it into existence, to make sure it holds in place, knotting back where it has already been.
Her eyes sharpened.
No- I think I prefer bobbin lace. Needle lace is- putting a great deal of trust on just one thing.
Brunnhilde blinked back into the present.
Oh.
Loki had learned some lacemaking. He would have likely received that same explanation, heard the same comparison.
After a moment, she scowled, looking away.
“I still hate lacemaking.”
Loki laughed.
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Worlds away, Astrid made a cautious addition to her list, framed in brackets.
(Lace).
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- 1 cup of fresh mint leaves
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