trying to imagine the toxicity of Paper Street Soap Company soap,

points of consideration:

-the pipes at paper street house are almost certainly corroded. hello lead

-do you suppose they're on city water or a private well? with the second, there's definitely potential groundwater contamination with solvents and heavy metals from the paper mill

-the fat of an animal is where most non-polar contaminants are accumulated — all your chlorinated pesticides, your dioxins and furans, all the POPs (persistent organic pollutants). regardless of the bougieness of the visitors of the liposuction clinic, there's probably some accumulated organic contaminants. however, the process of making tallow may completely remove them — i can't find a good answer, and my gut says it would either completely remove them or hyperconcentrate them

-once they get a garden going, they're actually bioextracting any heavy metals in the soil (of which there are certainly many due to the nearby paper mill. cadmium, arsenic... probably some POPs too but they may break down due to the actions of the plant, bioremediation isn't my speciality) and i believe there's a high likelyhood this would get into the soap, especially if they were adding shredded bits for artsy texture... like with tallow, making essential oils may clear or concentrate these things

-microplastics almost certainly

overall i'd give it a pretty strong: maybe don't rub your hands in it several times a day for an indefinite period of time

plus, if the soap is marketed as moisturizing or deodorizing or "making you smell nice" then it's considered a cosmetic, and as the FDA helpfully says:

"Neither the product nor its ingredients need approval by FDA, except for any color additives it contains. It is your responsibility to make sure your product is safe for consumers when it is used as intended, and to make sure it is properly labeled. You don’t need to register your company or file your product formulations with FDA"

this means if you say your soap is moisturizing or nice smelling, you can avoid it being regulated by the CPSC and having to do lead testing if it will be used by children!

cosmetics (which are often applied to very sensitive skin and right near mucosal membranes) have been shown more and more to have heavy metals, microplastics, and organic contaminants in them, and companies are incentivized to ensure their product is classified as such since it reduces regulation (cost).

so yeah — Tyler Durden's soap is probably bad for you. but just remember, the same rules that would allow him to sell soap made from people and filled with pollutants are those that apply to the very large companies we are forced to implicitly trust our safety with :)

it’s kinda funny to me how that dumb scene in kiwami 1 of majima getting shot and left for dead in the harbor was basically just added as a half-assed way to explain majima not being around for a bit of the plot, but they accidentally(?) just made it seem like start of a chain reaction where majima ended up feeling slighted and heartbroken after being abandoned like that and then lashed out about it via smashing a big truck into the building kiryu was in. and yeah that isn’t inherently a romantic thing as-is but then they go and add the part where majima grabs a hostess and performatively hits on her as in-kiryu’s-face as possible, she says she’s already in love with someone, and majima lets her go immediately, no questions asked, making a big fucking point of it just to say see THAT kiryu? I appreciate when people are HONEST about their FEELINGS. people who won’t just BACKSTAB someone who CARES about them to save themselves. is that so crazy kiryu?? huh??? anyway make it up to me get down here and fight me right fucking now

of course Basil kept calling Aubrey cute when they were kids because he was madly in love with her but also.. hear me out..... Basil knew from a young age that she was a trans girl and she gave Aubrey so many compliments because she secretly wanted to look just like Aubrey and be just like Aubrey

sometimes I wonder what the fuck Genndy was thinking with Jack and his mother’s robes. I don’t even know where he got the idea for plain white kimono, considering that’s not really something in any samurai movies and such. The thing that’s especially amusing to anyone who knows abt traditional Japanese clothing is that. that’s essentially long Johns or a slip. It’s the underwear of the actual kimono and is sometimes a sleep dress. I think I know of one Japanese media where a plain white kimono is used as an actual public presenting outfit, and it’s Okami where Kushi wears one as the sacrificial offering. (hold on, getting to that.) If he wanted it to be an actual training gi, for one it doesn’t make sense that his mother is wearing the exact same thing, and two, it’s not a single layer kimono. anything samurai wore was not a single robe— the kimono shirt was double layered (with the white juban underneath normally) and the hakama pants were pants, not an open robe, despite often looking like a dress to outsiders bc of how flowing and wide they are. A gi looks even less like Jack’s robe— think of the white karate outfits. That’s a gi. For Iaido and Kendo and such the training clothing does tend to be the kimono shirt and hakama, but it’s not white on white, and I don’t know that it would be called a gi like the type worn for judo and such. I just wonder where the hell Genndy got the idea of Jack just essentially wearing underwear all the time lmao. I DO understand why he chose white, he wanted the contrast between Jack and Aku, but choosing a single layer plain white robe, beyond just for the sake of simplicity in animation, is the thing that surprises me. (Not in a negative way, just that I wonder where it came from). I have to wonder what people watching in Japan thought of Jack wearing that. No one seems to feel strongly enough to comment, and I believe part of that is just suspension of disbelief and Samurai Jack being such a simplistic cartoon in its displays that it’s kind of easy to ignore, but there have to be times ppl wonder why he’s wearing that lol. Especially bc Genndy KNOWS the proper attire, evidenced by the clothes he puts on Jack’s father in both the opening scenes and Birth of Evil.

I highly doubt this much thought was put into Jack’s clothing, but I do like to think that the reason Jack wears such a shockingly minimal and unarmored outfit is because of his function as the one meant to defeat Aku. Going back to the mention of Kushi in Okami, she wears those clothes bc she is meant to be the “pure, innocent, sacrificial offering”. The robe is not unlike those worn in Shinto purification rituals, or robes worn by Buddhist priests. Tying that in with Jack, I believe the reason Jack wears what he does is because he is meant to be similar. Jack is an offering from his parents, giving up their son to be the nameless warrior in order to defeat Aku for good. They want him to be the antithesis to everything that Aku is, so Jack wears robes meant for purification and to an extent representing sacrifice, a simple, genderless and unadorned kimono very uncharacteristic of the Emperor’s son, because as long as Aku lives, that title is not his. Jack wears that robe because he is meant to be the pure, innocent, forged and powerful sacrificial challenger to defeat Aku, or die trying.

As for Jack’s mother, part of me wonders if she had connections to the monks she stays with in the opening, and therefore from the moment she and the emperor decided on their son being the backup plan in case Aku returned, she was preparing both herself and him in her own way. (That’s the best explanation I can think of bc all things considered his mother should have been wearing some very heavy and ornate court Kimono. Maybe she and the emperor just weren’t into the style lmao.) edit: she DOES wear what looks like a simplified layered kimono in a few scenes, but the ones where she’s with her son, like the opening and I think the scene where she’s making a straw hat, she’s usually wearing a white robe.

Day 10: Dazai has a lot of sensory issues, including sensitive skin. Perfumes, specific dyes, fabric softeners... they irritate & burn. He doesn't realize he has skin sensitivities until a (horrified) Kunikida eventually figures it out.

pics? pics of poetry for the soul?

Here she is, in all her glory: Bhaal's pinkest disappointment

and a bonus: The original doodle I did on a sticky tab before I decided to make the character

out of curiosity, if you put Vash and Akechi in the same room what do you think would happen?

Highly dependent on the context lol. In an escape room situation, I think they'd be a great team. They're both highly analytical and very perceptive. Speed running an escape room in 30 seconds flat. If told to sit and Talk, Vash would probably annoy Akechi so much that he ends up threatening to kill him within Minutes.

Realistically speaking, Vash is everything that Akechi is not, both personality-wise and morally speaking. The only thing they have in common is their intelligence and their dedication to their goals. Considering how contradictory their morals are though, I don't think they'd really get along 😅 not without a Lot of work.

My ward is the respiratory ward, so a good chunk of it is dedicated to caring for people experiencing exacerbations of COPD - that is, lung infections and inflammation spikes in people with lung disease which is usually (but not always) caused by a lifetime of smoking

And with the generation shift with smoking attitudes, maybe we will get to a time where that is not simply the fact of life for the older demographic. There will come a time when it's not just a given that everyone smoked and breathlessness and pneumonia will be the thing that will probably kill you eventually.

Except of course, the general population has been repeatedly exposed to COVID now and will continue to be.

So congrats I guess. The Youth now have a good chance of coming pre-installed with pneumonitis scarring on the lungs. Or getting post covid autoimmune diseases.

(young people are less likely to get pneumonitis that's true. But I I've seen stuff about drug companies hiking the price of remdesivir and paxlovid, so overall there is going to be an increase in more severe outcomes on average)

[please note I haven't researched shit for this post. This is stream of consciousness musing in response to the many posts I've seen recently about long covid]

"I'd like to work in your club as a host."

"Er... We get that you... Are not a woman but-"

"Then I should be able to work as a host!"

The club allows them to work in the end as a test Ann outdoes Hifumi in one night /j

Picrew Link

I should be more productive and will be... But I thought that it would be fun. Been working on character profiles of OCs appearing in the CATZ story at a later point, so I am playing around with a Picrew for... References? I dunno how to call it but I am envisioning something.

Also a oneshot where Ann works as a host alongside Hifumi haa been living in my head rentfree for a few weeks now.

Honestly, if your muse is comfortable with the idea as having to not mind the many various severe injuries / scars their body have, Micah would be often shirtless and probably even pantless ( except for their boxer ) around them because their skin is quite sensitive to begin with that then heightened from their injuries, along with having sensory sensitivity and paresthesia, so having to deal with the material texture, the temperature, the tightness of the clothes, the sweating, and so forth... It's just too much for them, especially during the summer period. They really don't mind the concept of being shirtless around others for their own comfort as they find their scars natural, although, again, if the others aren't truly comfortable with having to see fully Micah's scars and injuries ( which they can understand completely ), then they'd have something to wear before they leave and Micah would most likely get rid of their clothes then.

ok. i don't usually wear hats in pokemon. depending on the game i normally prefer to go hatless/hair accessories, or in s/v i used to just wear the lokix helmet (because there was that "stuck face" bug and i never bothered to take the helmet off even after it got patched because it looked cool).

but no one told me about the eelektross hat. i'm never taking it off and i also want it in real life. tpc please make it real 🥺

Can we see your Ke$ha shirt ૮꒰˵• ﻌ •˵꒱ა

KESHA SHIRT (ft kittybrainz sweatpants xD)

and back :3

looking at the drama in the family group chat and laughing but then realising its going to be taken out on me when my aunt gets home so.

I woke up from a dream just now that I had gone to see a movie with two guys I'd met on the bus, and as they were leaving the theater, I realized I never got their numbers. So, I'm waking up and thinking, "If I hurry, I can still catch them in the lobby. Wait, no. That was a dream. Well, maybe I'll meet up with them later? No. They don't exist at all."

Anyway, it's funny what details your mind fills in and what it leaves out. Neither of those guys have a name, but I know I met them on the 801 bus going north from downtown. Except, I have a car. How did I get downtown? Also, I'm pretty sure the movie we saw was Spider-Man, but I can't tell you anything else about it. Was it live action or animated? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ But I remember someone in the audience mentioned Aunt May. And also there was a time skip in between when I met them and when we went to the movie. Like, I think one or both of them came over to my house, but then one of them had to leave because he had to... go sing at a party?

Anyway, I don't usually remember my dreams at all, so that one stood out.