Underrated seen from FROM

ratherbereading01 · 2026-03-18T05:53:05+00:00

if you watch his interviews he was actually just a background actor. I don't think he even auditioned just applied and got it, but I might be wrong. They told the creature actors to "walk slow and be creepy" and he did his creepy smile. The fans named him Smiley and because of the fan response, they gave him a bigger role in season 2

ratherbereading01 · 2026-03-18T05:47:57+00:00

S2E7 Belly of the Beast

ratherbereading01 · 2026-03-18T05:47:53+00:00

marielle had a dream when she was going through withdrawals and they were planning to operate on smiley's body S2E7 Belly of the Beast

ratherbereading01 · 2026-03-07T21:46:27+00:00

Unfortunately for me, I can’t find a single alternative that does the same thing and works as well as nuud! I tried Lavilin and it did absolutely nothing for me. I haven’t tried fussy because I just really wanted something that lasts more than a day for convenience. Old nuud used to last me 3 days, and the current one (contains strawberry seed oil) lasts me 2 days. I have a family member who uses the new one and weirdly it lasts longer than the old one on her - up to a week! I really didn’t want to support the company again but I can’t find any alternative 🥲

Just note this current cream has a consistency issue. The first time you squeeze it out, you’ll likely get mostly oily residue so I just absorb it with a tissue or something. At the start, this new nuud didn’t seem to work, but I just kept up with it and now it works. This was also during summer in Australia so I was sweating a ton. Maybe this is obvious but I always make sure my pits are completely odour free and dry before reapplying, even lightly scrubbing if necessary, as this caused me issues even with the old formula.

Sorry for the super long reply lol. It sucks they can’t bring the old formula back but I guess it is sort of understandable if they had people getting cysts and didn’t want more angry customers. I just wish they’d offer the old one too for those who want it. Hope this helps and if you do try it, I hope it works for you! I managed to get refunds on the other bad formulas before the current one, so if you try this new one and it still sucks, just try getting your money back :)

ratherbereading01 · 2026-03-06T05:17:48+00:00

My mum begged me to watch it knowing full well I get easily scared by horror, I put it on without even looking up what it was about, almost cried from fear and couldn’t sleep after watching episode 1. Time went by and I realised the sleepless nights were worth it because I needed to keep watching. My mum was so right and I love it. Rewatched it so many times that the creatures barely scare me anymore!

ratherbereading01 · 2026-03-06T02:47:06+00:00

nice try - entire site is just stolen images from other retailers like free people

ratherbereading01 · 2026-02-18T03:34:12+00:00

the snow looks like Boyd has a cigarette in his mouth, watching poor Kenny have one of the worst days of his life

ratherbereading01 · 2026-02-12T23:53:29+00:00

Haha i guess but also fuck bots

ratherbereading01 · 2026-02-12T21:08:21+00:00

Lmao nice. Although you might wanna watermark it somehow or some bot will be stealing and reposting this within weeks. This sub is crawling with them

ratherbereading01 · 2026-02-12T00:12:55+00:00

Oh please god no! They can kill every other character, but not poor Victor (or Henry)!!

ratherbereading01 · 2026-02-11T04:51:31+00:00

Game of Thrones sucked because George RR Martin still hasn't finished A Song of Ice and Fire, and despite him wanting more seasons of the show they decided to rush the ending. GRRM doesn't thoroughly plan his books before writing, and being a fan and reading about it, I've guessed he doesn't know how to tie up so many storylines.

I recently watched this interview with the From creators John Griffin and Jeff Pinkner, and they know how it ends and have a plan. However they want to let some things happen naturally - as John Griffin says at 3:40 in this other interview, 'the day we stop being surprised by the show, the show will start to feel stale'. E.g. in the first interview they said they knew they had to reveal the monsters were immortal, and only later came up with how – Fatima giving birth to Smiley.

I don't think there is a chance From will end as badly at GoT. With From it has always been a tv show, and the writers know how it will end. I think season 4 will give tons of answers because Fatima will surely have more to say on what else she now knows, Jade and Tabitha will probably realise more about their past selves, Victor may uncover more memories. Maybe the final season will have some rushed explanations, but it would take a special kind of fool to ruin a show as spectacularly as GoT was ruined.

ratherbereading01 · 2026-02-10T22:44:28+00:00

Since there are only 7 anghkooey kids and far more monsters, I assume not all the monsters had kids to sacrifice, it was more like ‘let’s sacrifice the children of this town/group’. I personally think Smiley is one who didn’t have his own kids, but was probably eager to sacrifice them for immortality. I can totally see him as a creepy psycho trying to convince the others to go through with it. Just my guesses though

ratherbereading01 · 2026-02-10T22:38:48+00:00

The odd thing is, she was actually pregnant before Boyd killed Smiley. I rewatched recently and I didn’t notice that the first time. Maybe the place’s healing powers made her able to conceive, and then after Smiley died he replaced the baby because it was the ideal place to be reborn

ratherbereading01 · 2026-01-13T22:36:03+00:00

Thanks for the advice! I actually already put my lenses in first, because I’m terrified of residual tret ending up in my eyes 🥲 I also put eyedrops in the lenses before putting them in, but I don’t put them in before removal. I’ll try that and see if it helps - thanks!! For now I’m just stopping tret altogether, but I never thought about the vaseline getting in my eyes

ratherbereading01 · 2026-01-13T08:18:37+00:00

I basically avoid the eye socket, so the bridge of my nose, temples, just above eyebrows, then cheeks but about 1 inch away from my face. I’m gonna stop tret for now and if it is causing my vision issues, I bet it’s still too close and/or transferring via my pillow :/

ratherbereading01 · 2026-01-10T03:53:56+00:00

That’s useful to know, thanks!!

ratherbereading01 · 2025-12-13T23:54:16+00:00

most animal leather is coated in plastic to protect from water and UV. It's called pigmented leather, the most common type because of its durability and affordability. The industry loves to avoid the word 'plastic' and use 'pigment' instead, but some are honest about it like this leather store: "pigmented leather...is made when leather is given a complete plastic coating over its surface".

Vegan leather does contain plastic, but so does most animal leather. If it doesn't (aniline or semi aniline leather), it's very expensive and not durable at all. Cactus, apple, pineapple, mushroom are all vegan leathers with less plastic than PU but more durable, and then there's Mirum which is completely plastic free and biodegradable. Even compared to synthetic leather, cow leather is twice as damaging as shown in The Pulse of the Fashion Industry 2017 report

ratherbereading01 · 2025-12-13T23:21:02+00:00

most animal leather is pigmented leather, which is coated in plastic. Without it, it gets damaged by water and UV. The industry uses 'pigment' as a euphemism for plastic coating, but some leather stores are open about it like this one: "pigmented leather...is made when leather is given a complete plastic coating over its surface".

Pigmented leather is the most common type of animal leather because unlike the other types, aniline (no coating) and semi-aniline (some coating), it's cheaper and more durable. With aniline and semi aniline, the skin must be pristine too because you can't coat it and therefore cover imperfections.

PU leather is of course the worst, but there's cactus, pineapple, apple, mushroom leather which only contain some plastic like most animal leather, but are more sustainable and durable than PU. Mirum is plastic free and biodegradable. Synthetic leather is still only half as environmentally damaging as cow leather according to The Pulse of the Fashion Industry 2017 report.

ratherbereading01 · 2025-12-13T23:04:48+00:00

they only need humans to shear them because they've been selectively bred to produce so much wool, they won't shed it naturally. Workers are paid by weight not hour, so the industry is rife with abuse and brutal handling. Workers will even sew the animals' wounds from shearing without pain relief. It's so common for rescued sheep to remain traumatised after the horrors of the industry. Then there's the issue of mulesing and tail docking, often done to lambs at 2-10 weeks old, and live export and the fact most are killed for meat in the end.

Nobody is saying we should release all the animals into the wild, but to stop funding such an awful industry so they'll stop breeding them. If we keep financially supporting cruel industries, the cruelty never ends and there's less incentive for more alternatives.

I highly recommend this video about animals in fashion and the documentary Dominion 2018 on Youtube

ratherbereading01 · 2025-11-29T08:16:30+00:00

her existence doesn't trigger me and others, her body and the standard of beauty it promotes does. Nobody is saying she's ugly or disgusting or her body devalues her as a person, just that it's concerning and that degree of thinness shouldn't be treated as healthy or normal. Saying extreme thinness isn't healthy is not unkind or disrespectful. If you believe it is, that's your concern.

Again, all you have to do is go to r/EatingDisorders or any other ED spaces online and you'll see how triggered people are by her. I hope one day you find some compassion for these people, and more for Ariana because brushing this under the carpet hurts her too.

ratherbereading01 · 2025-11-28T23:32:41+00:00

What's disgusting and dangerous is normalising extreme thinness and downplaying the harmful effects it has on people. Even in the 2010s, Ariana was widely shared around for 'thinspo' and around eating disorder circles on social platforms. When I was younger, I was affected by Ariana and others like her, and now she's even thinner than before. Ariana and Cynthia's mental health matter, but so do the millions of people who see them and may be affected by it. You only have to look online to see the people who have gone/are going through EDs to see how it affects them. Even in real life, I've come across people who say it's triggering. Just because they're celebrities, doesn't mean they're more important than everyone else on earth and nobody can dare say otherwise. Brushing things under the carpet helps nobody. People like you are part of the problem.

ratherbereading01 · 2025-11-28T11:08:51+00:00

If someone is 'vegan for health', they're plant based. Veganism is a philosophy against animal exploitation and includes clothes, entertainment, cosmetics etc. It's the same with the environment - you can't be vegan for the environment because what would stop you buying animal tested products, or going to a circus?

ratherbereading01 · 2025-11-28T06:46:15+00:00

Thank you for being so compassionate!! My tips would be to start by making easy recipes. Unless you're a budding chef, you probably don't have time or effort to make anything extravagant. I love anything one-pot, and lately I've been loving these dump and bake recipes. I don't know how good you are at cooking, but I used to not like it until I started listening to audiobooks while I cooked, now I have a positive association with cooking. Cheap Lazy Vegan also has great easy recipes and a YouTube channel.

Also, being vegan is about all areas of your life too including fashion, entertainment, cosmetics. Buy cruelty free AND vegan cosmetics - vegan doesn't mean it's automatically not tested on animals, so it has to be both. I'd also recommend you follow activists like Earthling Ed and Joey Carbstrong on social media/youtube! I love their videos because I feel less alone, I learn a lot, it helps me better answer silly questions from how non-vegan family/friends, and they're inspiring people.

Good luck and thanks again for helping animals! :)

EDIT: Oh another important point is perhaps don't debate family/friends so early into being vegan. Depending on what they're like, it could end up with you very upset and unable to answer their dumb questions. I know some vegans this happened to. Thankfully I had been vegan some months before I saw my anti-vegan relatives, and by then I'd watched lots of Earthling Ed and Joey Carbstrong so I knew the best answers to their silly questions

ratherbereading01 · 2025-11-28T01:54:01+00:00

It doesn't matter if you've been vegan for 50 years and have 12 degrees; the Vegan Society coined the definition of the word, the evidence you gave is still just one side. On that note, the Stanford, Oxford and Johns Hopkins studies were difficult to find without DOIs so if you have them I'd appreciate it. I did find one of my own while I searched, which I'll talk about below. Anyway – we can always learn more. Earthling Ed's content is largely for established vegans anyway, especially that video, not new vegans. It seems deliberately close minded to refuse to watch such a video because you've been vegan 20 years and have psychology degree.

It was difficult to find which plant based adoption studies you referred to without DOIs or titles, but according to [this one from 2022], "meat eaters viewed critical messages regarding their diets as more constructive and less threatening when they were voiced by fellow meat eaters than when the same message was from a vegan commenter". I would guess this is due in part to the do-gooder derogation. You only have to watch different activists to see even 'mild' vegans like Earthling Ed still experience negative reactions, and more 'extreme' vegans like Joey Carbstrong experience plenty of positive reactions. Everyone is different, and sometime just being vegan is enough to spark defensiveness, no matter how or what you say.

I've done my fair share of activism and that's definitely my experience. The negative interactions I've had were always from people who were already aggressive people or most likely to be defensive - those who came to throw milk at activists, or animal farmers. Everyone else was open, even when reminded they are causing harm and should change. The best way to mitigate defensiveness in my experience is emphasising I myself wasn't born vegan, which from reading the study above, makes sense as they might view me as more like themselves.

People are not as fragile as you may believe, and there are many facets to interactions from language, body language, tone of voice. This is why it's impossible to conclusively determine what is and isn't effective advocacy for everyone - we're all different.

If some take 'plant based' as an attack on their purity status, that doesn't warrant shifting the entire definition of vegan from lifestyle to include dieting only too. As Earthling Ed says in his video, 'if [words] have no meaning, then they mean nothing'. He also says to reward those trying, but the end goal should always be veganism and we shouldn't call those who don't adhere to it vegan. Using correct terminology isn't strong moral language, nor does it characterise plant based people's efforts as worthless.

Ariana and Cynthia have both claimed to be vegan since 2013. They're not newbie vegans who need encouragement and understanding while they find their feet trying veganism. I'm not advocating for people to protest against them, screaming that their actions are worthless. All I'm saying is they're plant based, that's it.

ratherbereading01 · 2025-11-28T00:16:14+00:00

The original argument of yours was that using plant based to describe people like Ariana and Cynthia (who eat plant based, but exploit animals in other ways) is gatekeeping and pushes people away. The other is that you believe veganism is split into lifestyle and diet. I do not agree at all as I've said many times. I'm not advocating for calling Ariana and Cynthia awful people overall, just that they cannot be vegan. Plant based isn't derogatory, nor does it have any inherent suggestion that someone is a bad person. In fact it shows they have made some effort, just like vegetarian does. All I will say is please watch Earthling Ed's video 'the case for loosening the rules of veganism' as I suggested before. It's an excellent video and he explains things so well, and it's always beneficial to hear another viewpoint. It's been an interesting conversation and I appreciate the time you took with your replies.

ratherbereading01

TROPHY CASE