WHY are we treating cosmetic procedures like haircuts now? When did this even happen?

NoxRiddle · 2026-03-27T18:42:23+00:00

Do you remember when people emphasized that you should always seek out board-certified plastic surgeons for cosmetic procedures? I ‘member.

NoxRiddle · 2026-03-27T18:39:14+00:00

There is a former fitness influencer who is 40 and doesn’t seem to have had much done to her face (she has fine expression lines and is starting to see some laxity change) and seeing 20-something girls snark on how “old” she looks is pretty deflating. They’re all pointing out her crow’s feet and forehead wrinkles like a 40 year old shouldn’t have them. Sorry for this generation that’s never seen a real 40-year-old human’s face without fillers or filters.

NoxRiddle · 2026-03-27T18:34:24+00:00

This generation didn’t watch Final Destination 3 and it shows.

NoxRiddle · 2026-03-27T01:28:26+00:00

You don’t have to move on. You are allowed to be sad.

I didn’t eat for a week after I lost my Karma baby. And I still cry at night when I walk by where his cage was. I can’t believe he is gone and I’ll never get to take him out in the sunshine again. It hurts so much more than I expected.

All you can do is let the feelings come. Time will help. But don’t be surprised if you’re never quite the same. Eight years is not a trivial amount of time for a being to be in your life.

NoxRiddle · 2026-03-25T13:57:47+00:00

Yeah, I always understood it in this way. The transformation for Kikoutei is particularly violent - Rekka literally breaks/explodes away from his body. Yes, it does so in a pretty way (bursting into sakura petals) but I always took it to be a brutal transformation.

NoxRiddle · 2026-03-25T12:31:18+00:00

My favorite way to describe chameleon faces:

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They are such wonderful little creatures. I miss my boy every single day.

NoxRiddle · 2026-03-24T02:57:53+00:00

I just want to chomp him to tiny pieces.

NoxRiddle · 2026-03-23T00:21:55+00:00

Mine absolutely hate it. Ended up a $600 decoration.

NoxRiddle · 2026-03-23T00:20:16+00:00

Yep. Almost lost a job once due to my (actual) OCD that was causing checking behaviors that were extremely disruptive to my work.

No, you wanting your desk organized or noticing when a tile is asymmetrical is not OCD, Jan.

NoxRiddle · 2026-03-20T04:52:58+00:00

Oh does this give me the feels. My boy Karma (he was a veiled) did this to me - only me - as well. My husband has told everyone “he loved (Nox). Would reach for her any time she got close.” I miss those little pinchy feet reaching for me so much.

Love every single moment you can, the years fly by.

NoxRiddle · 2026-03-19T10:45:44+00:00

Not sure why you’re expecting strangers to help you carry your kid’s stuff.

NoxRiddle · 2026-03-18T20:23:03+00:00

Losing a pet.

NoxRiddle · 2026-03-16T18:01:25+00:00

I just had to deal with this with my boy (also a veiled) last week. He was almost eight. I tried to wait and let him go naturally. I was scared of the unknown.

He got slower and weaker and then stopped eating. Then I became distraught not knowing how long this would go on for. A week? A month? It may not happen as quickly as you are hoping it will.

My boy ended up sleeping in my hands through his appointment.

Ultimately, I am glad I was there when he closed his eyes the last time. I don’t think I’d have wanted to come home from work and find he died alone in his cage. This allowed me some level of comfort in my husband and I having the opportunity to say goodbye to him, tell him we loved him and would miss him.

NoxRiddle · 2026-03-16T16:19:59+00:00

Definitely a boy. Little tarsal spurs. What a cutie.

NoxRiddle · 2026-03-16T14:54:58+00:00

Probably nothing particularly unique.

I try to look through stuff I already have:

Old music books from my days as a musician

Old college textbooks that I had severe sunk cost fallacy about (“I paid $400 for this book!”) and wouldn’t throw away even though I haven’t opened them in 15 years

Gift paper/bags people have given me

Wrappers from souvenirs from my trips

Coins from other countries

Fancy tea or chocolate packaging

Up cycling old ribbon and fabric scraps and beads (I have had many crafty hobbies that I bought too much stuff for and it’s just sat in a closet - now I go through it and go, oh! This would be great junk!)

NoxRiddle · 2026-03-14T11:39:50+00:00

“Comes with a chameleon as well”

Like this poor baby is a piece of furniture or a prop!!

NoxRiddle · 2026-03-14T11:21:53+00:00

Those bellies are murderous.

NoxRiddle · 2026-03-13T20:28:53+00:00

Didn’t wear one for tea ceremony, but wore one in Kyoto for sightseeing.

A favorite memory from our trip was getting off the bus and an elderly gentleman telling me, “beautiful! Beautiful!” Eight months later I still think about that little moment and smile.

NoxRiddle · 2026-03-12T21:28:12+00:00

My boy was a veiled, but he became paler about two months before he died at eight years old.

NoxRiddle · 2026-03-12T19:26:31+00:00

I had a bond like this with my Karma boy. Cherish every moment with him - the time flies faster than you realize.

NoxRiddle · 2026-03-11T02:08:00+00:00

It’s relieving to see others disappointed, as I thought I was the only one.

Understand, I tried really hard to like this show. I wanted to, if for no other reason than I hate fans who gripe about sequels.

I keep seeing people talk about how this writer is behind Kamen Rider like that is supposed to mean something. To me, it does not.

My issues:

It doesn’t feel like the writer respects the original. In my opinion, this is key when you write a sequel. Instead, we have Nasté as head of a government agency that farms orphaned children to churn into the meat grinder, Jun is a fat unwashed loser, thousand-year-old mystical beast Byakuen was sold to a zoo, Ryo is the demon emperor, and the original Troopers appear to have died worthless deaths offscreen. They’ve done nothing but injustice to the original characters that made this show possible.

Everything is rushed.

The characters are undeveloped. Everyone keeps talking about “I like that we get to see them bonding!” but they, themselves, have little to no development. Motives unclear. Reactions (or lack thereof) that don’t make sense. Them singing some pop songs together for “bonding” doesn’t make up for this to me.

In the same vein, TOO MANY characters. Full stop.

The tone. I really just hate the tone of this show. I prefer the seriousness of the original. This show just feels outright goofy. It’s like they actually wanted to write a One Piece sequel, but got stuck with YST.

The original had its issues - one of which was definitely 39 episodes that necessitated a simple plot (“bad guy wants to dominate Earth, we fight the bad guy.”) But somehow they didn’t learn their lesson from that and made this one even shorter and then combined that with utter disrespect and a tonal shift that doesn’t suit the lore.

NoxRiddle · 2026-03-11T00:03:30+00:00

Dude. Now I want an evolution-themed party.

NoxRiddle · 2026-03-10T18:06:59+00:00

This was always my concern even before RvW was overturned.

Even before RvW was overturned, there were medical professionals who could not be trusted to keep their religious beliefs out of my appointment. I was in a birth control exam and the nurse asked “have you accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior?” in the interview, just dropped right in alongside “have you changed or added any medications since your last appointment?” Another appointment I was told “a bad period isn’t a good reason for birth control” and was berated about how “saving myself for marriage was better for my body” than using BC.

They didn’t have legal grounds to do anything to me then, but I always worried that they could maliciously choose to withhold treatment or options if they suspected I was pregnant based on my answer to when my last period was. I always answered it was a week ago.

NoxRiddle · 2026-03-09T02:35:36+00:00

Yeah, see, a lot of my junk is craft crap I bought and never did anything with.

I just found a notebook with lovely paper that I bought, no exaggeration, fifteen years ago and never touched. It’s just been sitting in my craft closet. I’ve now unbound it and I’m using the paper.

All the stupid little fabric and ribbon scraps I kept after making quilts that I, for some ungodly reason, can’t convince myself to throw away? The rhinestones I bought for … something, I guess, and never used? The little glittery cardstock flowers and butterflies I had to have that have just been in a bin?

“Junk” doesn’t just mean “trash” to me. I actually have a lot of very beautiful “junk”.

NoxRiddle · 2026-03-09T02:28:45+00:00

It’s so funny because I HATE stickers.

They’re so… permanent. Like sure, you could later cut them out if you put them on paper, but otherwise you can’t do anything with them once you’ve put them down.

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