#do not want
I grabbed this Apieu Rilakkuma Melting Hand Balm in Sweet Macaroon (Fruit flavor) off Tester Korea because I am all about cute hand lotion in my purse, and this format seemed interesting. The little tin looks like the little duck that hangs out with relax bear, bright yellow and very cheery.
The balm inside is thick and sort of melts with body heat. It was a little difficult to get enough, but I also didn’t want to press too hard when I was just testing it out, so I might have been too gentle.
The problem here is the scent. There is a strong perfume to this which I wasn’t expecting, and I wouldn’t say it smells like fruit. It’s just not good, and the kind of thing that sets off my allergies. :/ I’ll give this to a friend who doesn’t have the same hang-ups about scent as I do, bit if you were looking at this and have anything similar to me, I’d recommend something else instead despite the cuteness.
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I keep making online orders at LUSH and forgetting to add an emotibomb to my cart, but I finally did it! This wasn’t my first pick but the others were sold out so either they’re not making that many or these are very popular.
I managed to grab Sex ‘n’ The Shower, a white oval with a pale violet hand on top. It looks and feels like a bath bomb because it basically is, but for, you know, the shower. It has a very mild ginger and ylang ylang scent but um, I could barely smell it. This dissolves super fast and is immediately and easily over-powered by anything else you use in the shower. For instance, my shampoo.
So sadly, this is pretty disappointing, and I wouldn’t recommend it - you’re not missing out on anything really. You could probably just stick a stardust bathbomb in the shower instead of using it in a bath and get basically the same effect. It’s very forgettable. :/
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Every year for mystery reasons, LUSH tries to reinvent Stardust and every year it is terrible compared to the best one they made a few years ago, which was a double-glitter bath oil. (Okay, it had a different name, but I think we all know these are in the same family of invention here.)
Anyways, I ordered one to see what it was like this year and it was still a big disappointment. It’s basically a very generic white bath bomb, not very big but shaped like a star (with slight shape improvements over last year) and a miniscule amount of blue in the centre. Just blue bath bomb in there. Nothing fancy.
…and yes, I did accidentally drop this on the floor before I could open and photograph it.
Don’t buy this. It’s a very expensive let-down.
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For some of us, motherhood is neither an option nor desire. Autism for me means feeling disconnected from even those closest to me, but with the complications of being cognizant of that gap. I could never love a child the way a child should be loved, and I have no desire to try. I know what it feels like to be unwanted, and to realize that my parent is unable to provide affection or appropriate parental support even if they wanted to try. It isn’t always “different when they’re yours”, and that isn’t a gamble I’m willing to take on someone else’s life.
So to the countless strangers, colleagues, and minor acquaintances who seem obsessed with my uterus, fuck off. My reasons are valid, but they are none of your business. The least you could do is be grateful I’m not contributing to overpopulation or risking increasing the social burden of my physical conditions by sharing my DNA.
Parenthood is difficult enough when you love and want your children. I have so much respect for autistic parents who are out there doing their best to raise beautiful people. I support your decisions, so please - I hope you’ll be respectful of mine.
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Barnes & Noble Being Sued in Virginia Beach Over GENDER QUEER, COURT OF MIST AND FURY
No longer is this about the rights of students to access books. It’s now about the rights of private businesses to sell books. Anderson suggests this is a new avenue for parents to fight.
“We are in a major fight. Suits like this can be filed all over Virginia. There are dozens of books. Hundreds of schools,” he said.
Holy shit this is a BIG FUCKING WARNING SIGN. Challenges to school and public libraries aren’t cool obviously, but they’re not unusual and we have a framework for handling them. This is something new and alarming in a whole new way
Republican “free speech” y'all and don’t you forget it.
This is a direct challenge to the freedom of the press and if it isn’t struck down at the first hurdle we need to make sure it never sees the second one.
On the miniscule off-chance that anyone who sees my reblog might be thinking “oh, it’s just queer books that they’re trying to ban” - A Court of Mist and Fury is a het romance. It is a het romance containing het sex scenes, written by a straight white woman.
People have been warning all along that the right-wing thought police were never going to stop with queer lit or ‘woke’ lit, and that every time they got an inch they were going to take a mile until they’d banned absolutely everything that didn’t conform to their strict right wing fundamentalist Christian views. If you were waiting for proof of that, here it is.
