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Unveiling Radiant Skin: A Holistic Journey to Health and Beauty

Taking care of your skin is not just about looking good, but also about feeling good. Cultivating happy, healthy, and radiant skin requires a combination of mindful skincare practices, nourishing foods, and essential skincare ingredients.

Introduction Taking care of your skin is not just about looking good, but also about feeling good. Your skin is the largest organ in your body and plays a vital role in protecting you from external factors. Cultivating happy, healthy, and radiant skin requires a combination of mindful skincare practices, nourishing foods, and essential skincare ingredients. Photo by Polina Tankilevitch on…

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#anti-aging #essential ingredients #holistic approach #hydration #mindful skincare #nourishing foods #radiant skin #self-care #skin care #sun protection

[nelkcats]

Ghost Blood

Bad things happen to good people

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The Justice League and the Justice League Dark had met to discuss something extremely important and confidential: the end of the world.

While this was something they faced on a weekly basis, this time it was different. It had started when the chaos lords found an ancient ritual to gain power, and multiple villains joined them to complete the requirements. Klarion, who had noticed that the spell was going to end the world sooner or later, informed the heroes.

The problem was that the spell was already underway, and it was a process that could not be stopped. They had a couple of hours left before all the known horrors in the universe would take an interest in Earth.

The Justice League Dark was overworked, all of them looked extremely exhausted. Even Deadman offered to help but there was little he could do. As they discussed how to proceed, Constantine grabbed an old spell book he was leafing through and angrily threw it to the ground, catching everyone's attention.

"Bloody hell" the Brit glared at the ground angrily "so fucking close".

His companions asked him what was going on, to which Constantine informed them that there was a solution to their current problem. Some sort of powerful cancelation spell that would solve their problems. He saw their hopeful faces and sighed, he supposed he should break their hopes sooner than later.

"We can't use it" the Hellbazer said wearily.

"Why not?" Wonder Woman looked at him frustrated "if it's the only option, surely we can-"

"We can't use it because one of the ingredients doesn't exist!" Constantine blurted out, furious. He had analyzed all the options and that was the only one that might work, but the essential ingredient was missing.

"The spell requires ghost blood" John commented after calming down, desperation could be heard in his voice "but ghosts don't have blood, their blood is ectoplasm, it's impossible!"

Deadman had suddenly gone silent.

"There would have to be a hybrid or something but clearly they don't exist, it's too unlikely."

The League, which had previously perked up at the possible solution, sank back in disappointment. Zatanna, however, noticed the ghost's reaction and watched him curiously.

"...What if it's possible?" Deadman's voice was heard in the silence. Constantine had made him visible to the others during the investigation but the ghost was not used to the attention.

"It's not, it's not possible to combine life and death, the balance would have been broken one way or another" Constantine denied.

"John, what if it's possible?" Deadman repeated "what if a hybrid exists?"

What if the hybrid is the balance?

"Are you saying what I think you're saying?" Constantine observed his friend. Ghost blood was a myth, mentioned in many books but never used.

"Don't get too excited" the ghost warned "there is a hybrid with that kind of blood but he's not-, he doesn't trust humans anymore, for a very good reason."

"However, he does exist" Wonder Woman said in disbelief "can you tell us more?"

Deadman looked around at the nearly destroyed dimension and begged the Ancients for forgiveness for what he was about to do.

"He was born by the Realms and for the Realms, he's a good boy" Deadman sighed, revealing the secret he was never supposed to mention "but as you well know, bad things happen to good people."

The ghost thought of the communique that had reached all the ghosts. On how the Ancients had taken in a child, how they had demanded that he needed to be left alone.

"It's not my place to say what happened" and he didn't have many details either, though gossip traveled fast "but he doesn't trust anyone beyond his guardians, he hates adults and he's scared of needles and other medical instruments, I don't think he'll be much help."

"We have to try, there's not much time left" Batman frowned. Something inside him stirred at the mention of an injured child "Can you tell us where he is?"

"The Infinite Realms" Constantine replied instantly, lighting a cigarette, his hands were shaking "But who are his guardians?"

"The Ancients" Deadman replied "and if you want their help, you really must come up with a plan."

It was obvious that only the Justice League Dark had understood the implications of all this, they were pale and looked scared. Even Dr. Fate and Marvel looked like the end of the world had been confirmed.

"I can take you there" the ghost said, nostalgic at the thought of visiting the dimension "time doesn't work the same there, so you won't spend much time even if it takes weeks to get close, but you can't all go, you'll scare him off"

"We'll go" Captain Marvel spoke up, overcoming his fear "if it's the only option, we'll go."

Little did they know that from the Infinite Realms the Master of Time was watching them with a raised eyebrow. The Ancient shook his head, knowing he should prepare for visitors before heading to the couch next to his screens. Danny was reclining there, sipping hot chocolate and bundled up in one of his cloaks.

The halfa greeted him looking relaxed but Clockwork wouldn't be fooled by that (he could still see the boy, his boy, with his chest wounded, crying for help), he reached over to stroke his protégé's hair affectionately, thinking of ways to get rid of his visitors. While Danny was likely to want to help, he couldn't care less about what happened to that dimension.

#dpxdc #Revelation goes wrong #bad parents jack and maddie #They found out about Phantom #Danny only escaped thanks to his friends #they closed the portal after that #and Danny stayed with the Ancients #They adopted him #dp x dc #dc x dp #Danny is scared of medical instruments because of what his parents did #The scars are still on his body #DC dimension is going to disappear if they don't get Danny's blood #But before they talk to Danny they need to get over his overprotective parents first #Danny would help if they ask probably #he's still scared of adults though #Ghost Blood is a myth #is an essential ingredient for a lot of rituals #and only Danny has it #Danny is not going to like that piece of knowledge #Danny is JL last hope

[blubujollyrancher]

furina and focalors are both so tragic, focalors for having power and furina for having none. focalors for wanting to be furina and furina for wanting to be focalors. focalors wanted to be human but was chosen to fill the role of a god, while furina was forced to live and suffer endlessly for 500 years with no power to stop it. i want to cup them gentlee in my hands

#4.2 spoilers #genshin impact #focalors #furina #crying #ifk if this is coherent i took 100mg of benadryl #thats not even a joke #i want to sleep #anyway #love em #dies #oh yrah i didnt even mention my thoughts on neuvi amd furina #they also make me insane #imagine the one constant for ur 500 year long life being just a complete lie #and on the other side also imagine ur 500 year long constant essentially betraying u in front of ur entire nation #although obviously i understand why he did it #they are just so tragic my gods #i like to think neuvi definitely visits furina like near daily LMAO #he's like “miss furina after being informed you have only been eating #macaroni for three weeks straight i have thoughtfully prepared you a three-course meal with ingrediants #selectfully chosen to deliver proper nutrition you have been missing since leaving.“ #“monsiuer it is three am.” #“... apologies” #or somethin HELP

[sergle]

also I know ppl hate vetting ingredients, but also want to know what I mean when I say Bad Ingredients, and I’m generally talking about the stuff that’s pretty high on the “might irritate skin” to “I WILL give you cancer and that IS A PROMISE” scale. this is the list I refer to when ingredient checking

Fragrance / Parfum Butylphenyl Methylpropional Butylparaben / Benzylparaben Isobutylparaben / 2-Methylpropyl Methylparaben / Methyl Ester / 4-Hydroxybenzoic Acid Ethylparaben Propylparaben Octinoxate / Ethylhexyl Methoxycinnamate / 2-Ethylhexyl / DEHP DMDM Hydantoin Diazolidinyl Urea / imidazolidinyl urea Almond Fragrancealpha-Isomethyl / Ionone / Laurel Fragrance Oleth-10 Ammonium Chloride Alpha-Isomethyl Ionone Cocamide DEA / Coconut Diethanolamide Selenium Sulfide Ammonium Lauryl Sulfate Laureth-23 / Laureth / Laureth-3 / Laureth-12 / Laureth-10 / Laureth-4 / most of the laureths with a number after them

#I know everyone hates it when I talk about irritants and carcinogens in beauty products. hey. I don't care. It's 3am #and I used to get hives every time I showered and now I don't. explain that atheists #there are one or two on here that are less bad and some that are basically biohazards and I'm amazed that #they get put into products that are meant to go all over your skin #but I try and avoid all of them if I can... #I know fragrance is difficult to avoid but it's the Mystery Boy bc fragrance itself isn't ingredient #so much as it is a catch-all term for a mixture of [redacted] used to make the fragrance #so it automatically is suspicious bc its ingredients are essentially Legally Undisclosed and I don't trust like that #so a lot of the stuff I try to go for is unscented completely #it just takes the guesswork out for me #sergle.txt #you can google these individual ingredients if you want to look more into exactly what risks they bring to the table #but this is just My List

[worstloki]

Thor: Loki, which berries were poisonous, the blue ones or the yellow ones? Loki: The blue ones. Thor: Unrelated to last question, but… Could you help me get to the healers? Loki: Why didn't you ask before you ate them!?

Thor wasn’t supposed to eat them 😔

#I think the untapped potential in Loki collecting ‘magic’ ingredients only for Thor to mess around with them is so cool #Thor eats some berries they were collecting bc he thought they were normal. they are poison #Thor kills an animal Loki had said they’re going to capture. now they’re being hunted by it’s parent #Thor speaks to a fae bc he doesn’t believe Loki’s rumour-stories about them and now they’re both lost #idk just Thor not having context and it causing problems #miscommunication essentially but it’s funny bc Thor has no clue what’s happening #Loki is frustrated at Thor but it’s his fault too for not explaining well and not taking Thor’s assistance seriously #brodinsons yknow #no harm intended

[crazycatsiren]

No, I don't believe in essential oils solving problems or curing illnesses, but there's nothing wrong with liking stuff that just smells good. And good smelling stuff are useful to me.

#mother witch ramblings #witchblr #essential oils #spell ingredients #witch's tools #witchcraft #spellcraft #aromatherapy #magic

[songsintheattic]

I SCREWED IT UP. BADLY.

#completely misread the recipe #left out what turned out to be an essential ingredient #it has never been more over

[innko]

osaka -> chiba move day has been so eventful 

it was peaceful and faster than expected all the way up until we got to tokyo but then the maps took us to this thing 

that massive repeating loop is an entrance for this underground tunnel in tokyo…the loop itself was dizzying and thank God my uncle didn’t crash but the tunnel was super long too, i’m not sure we drove the whole thing but it’s 18 km total. and feels strange and unpleasant in a way that’s different from tunnels cut into mountains since it’s manmade and massive…it’s like a subway for cars 

then we got to our hotel and rested for a bit and went out to eat. the place we went only had obviously foreign staff working and one of them couldn’t understand “without green onion” at all and the other seemed to sort of get it but accidentally charged us ¥100 for it. so we had to go back and get that refunded and they just nodded and wordlessly handed us the money without so much as a “sorry”. short staffing must be so bad in this region if they’re hiring people without the most basic conversation skills…i don’t care if restaurant/shop staff are foreign i just want them to be able to handle basic conversation. and the majority of the foreigners here do not speak english as a first language either, so it’s not like i can just speak english to them…and this low level of language skills is more than just asking someone with an unfamiliar accent to repeat themselves, not understanding a couple words here and there but piecing together the overall conversation…

after that i found someone’s phone left on a chair in the shopping center and went to the info desk to give it to them 

and then back at the hotel, there was some stuff like a toothbrush, individually wrapped q-tips, etc in a box on a shelf just behind and above the toilet and when i looked through it a q-tip fell out and through a space behind the toilet seat…and into the bowl. so then i had to call the front desk to ask for help since i can’t just flush a q-tip not do i want to stick my hand in the toilet - they were nice, came to check, came back with gloves and a new q-tip and took care of it but man i could use a less eventful day 

i’m not the only one though, whoever’s in room 217 in this hotel clearly spilled something in the hall by their door 

#i kinda understand my friend that’s complaining about immigration all the time now #where i lived the past year it wasn’t like that #just one time i had to point to things on the menu when getting oden from 7-11 since the foreign staff didn’t understand #if i said the names aloud #but i brushed it off and thought to be fair oden names are hard #i don’t really care if the shop staff are japanese or what i just want some basic level of competence #knowing enough languages to be able to understand a request to omit an ingredient is sorta essential to food service #innko talks

[zvaigzdelasas]

Geopolitics app is starting to come along pretty nicely - working on standardizing the interface of each widget & preparing it so you can easily customize where the data comes from & what widgets are shown...so like a customizable (& resizeable/rearrangeable) dashboard for whatever specific purpose you want

#im thinking like blenders node interface #or nuke/natron if u happen to b more familiar w those #take data apply a series of transforms and then output them to a specific widget once the transformed shape is right #each transformation is just another node that takes an input & provides an output #might also include a full network tree editor to be able to dynamically specify a given dashboard config #but getting it working hard coded first is the first step before that #this project has rly turned into like 5-6 projects lol....aint that how it always turns out tho #& a lot of these basically up to the dashboard creation i can reuse for a lot of different projects #so rly just building a nice foundation #the geopolitics app essentially turns into dashboard app + wikidata app i think #trying to make the dashboard specification plugin-oriented from the beginning so i can add on for more niche projects #without breaking other ones #also already using the network graph widget for a cooking related project #visualize the steps & processes in a recipe #then i can combine it w my ingredient storage/etc app for a cooking dasboard

[gothhabiba]

btw if you're invested in making vegan or otherwise eggless meatballs of any kind you have GOT to try besan (chickpea flour). toast it in a pan until golden brown to give it a little extra push if you want. STOP messing around with wheat flour + tapioca flour + ground flaxseed or whatever mess that will have your meatballs falling apart under the gentlest simmer. I used chickpea flour once in a meatball on a whim bc it was a cuisine (maybe Nepali?) that frequently used besan, and those things STUCK together. game changer

also! making bánh xèo made me realise that chickpea flour + coconut milk + turmeric + kala namak = an excellent egg substitute for omelettes, fillings &c. it's what I mix my chatamari topping with to replace the raw egg

#this is what I mean when I say that knowledge of a wide variety of ingredients is essential as someone #trying to replace things to cater to a dietary restriction #also if you regularly use besan in your national cuisine I apologise for how cringe this post probably reads #personal

[bogkeep]

there's many foods and drinks i miss from norway but i will say the swedes have a Very good selection of (non-alcoholic!!!) gløgg. you have of course, the classic gløgg, but also orange gløgg, or pear gløgg, or even flavours like mojito gløgg, or raspberry and liquorice gløgg? delicious thank you

#swedenquest #i LOVE a funky drink. i just don't drink alcohol and i don't like energy drinks so my selections always seem so narrow #they don't even have julebrus here. what the fuck is julmust #also wistful sigh that eggnog isn't a thing in scandinavia at all #i had it Once in canada and now i must live enburdened by the knowledge of how tasty eggnog is #I TRIED MAKING MY OWN LAST YEAR i was moderately successful #i just haven't bothered to get all the ingredients this time... #but gløgg is here for me. essential winter drink

[ubepan]

bingyuan sweat and soap au where binghe just sniffs his superior shen yuan for funsies

#the key phrase here is shen yuan being binghe's superior #thats right baby #weird power dynamics: an essential ingredient #svsss #maybe ill flesh this out some other time this is just a mind fart rn

[anglerflsh]

What were the specifics of these social mind games which you used to avoid paying for food ?

it's not even social mind games I just get lunch paid in exchange of unofficial tutoring (which half the time means I talk to people about like. Descartes or Dante's Inferno)

#I'm paying my lunch in infodumps about great literature or philosphers essentially. It only works when a test is coming up though #I used to do the same with architecture* hw because Im very good at blueprints and would do my class's own hw for 2 euros a drawing #which was enough for a focaccia at the school bar #[.asks] #anonymous #im not in any like. need of money but my parents refuse to ever pay for my lunches that aren't made with at-home ingredients #so. you know. At times I'd rather have udon than a moldy vegetable pie -> tutoring paid with lunch #I'll have to figure it out next year because the convent monastery thing im going to just covers dinner so #either I get a secret job to pay for my uni lunches and breakfasts or. Idk get friends that pay for my food?

[blood-and-foam]

my kitchen job has really trained me how to read a recipe for maximum effectiveness and i feel like that's a skill i don't appreciate often enough

#working on this season's menu and like. oh yeah i can pull up 2 solid-looking shepherd's pie recipes and break them down into building block #s #and tell which ingredients are essential vs which ones we can leave out/substitute for something else for budget reasons #it's not something i was ever consciously aware of developing but i'm glad i can do it #random ramblings

[malglories]

realizing more and more how much of writing—or creation of any kind—is just bravery and humility. it takes guts to accept that you may be mediocre, even bad, and create anyway. i don't know when i lost it, but it's courage i don't have. yet, at least. but i want to write badly if it means i'm writing. i really do.

#i'm trying to write things with absolutely no goal in mind except exploration and completion #things like fanfic i'll never let anyone read. and still! STILL! i can't get past the feeling of dejection #one thing i've been beating myself up for is this feeling that...others are so much more creative and driven than me #i've felt like i'm missing some essential human ingredient everyone else seems to have #but it's not laziness it's literally fear

[ofglories]

...He has absolutely eaten poisonous and poisoned foods before. And then complained about the seasoning. Instead of feeling anything from the poison. In fact the few times he's really been poisoned was with poisons found more in magical creatures or made by expert alchemists using extremely rare materials, and even then he mostly was just stuck in bed for a week or two with a high fever each time.

#the heart of a fallen star; emrys pendragon #an endless tale; headcanon #essentially if it's a poison found naturally in mortal world or made without basically magical means like those ingredients #his blessing from cernnunos/the fae makes him immune to it #and it mostly keeps him safe from dying to supernatural ones