

My niece has been getting heavily into skincare. As long as we’re being honest, most of a typical “skincare routine” is placebo, and some of it is actively counter-productive. I know a few women who have a laissez-faire approach to skincare, and their results are almost as good. I believe that the routine is more about the ritual, and psychic need to try to gain some measure of control in a crazy society, than results.
Anthem, in particular. It’s hard to express how much I hate that novella. In my head canon, Gaea dies in childbirth because of the lack of medical knowledge, and Prometheus ends up with a deformed and painful leg after breaking it in a fall and not knowing how to set it. How’s that for individuality, hosers?!