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Today I have selected a little thing I did a while back to share with everyone, Cats of Ulthar a horror story by H. P. Lovecraft. It might look a little weird because I adapted it from an accordion book format, but I think I did a decent job of adapting it.
And also, remember my last mega? Well, I did manage to finish the book, so I'm putting it here for you to download. I made a version for reading digitally, but the main purpose would be for printing, that's why I stuck with A4 size. I can try to make instructions on how to make the printed pages into a neat book in the future if anyone wants it.
Well, if anyone has any suggestions on other short stories, specially horror stories, I'd love to make them into illustrated books, I love doing this and it's super fun for me, so I'd like to keep going.
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Hmmm, I did a full body shave. Now I have prickly hairs and rashes everywhere. It's so bad it feels like I'm covered in sand and itch power.
This is not "being cooked". This is American style deep lard frying.
That's no fun. One thing I can recommend is to use body lotion right after shaving. When I shave my body, I do it while taking a warm shower, and then immediately apply lotion to anywhere that I shaved after ending the shower and drying off.
Perhaps. I did the shaving in the shower, what I forgot to do was the lotion.
Thatβs the rub (heh) you gotta lotion up or it will absolutely suck
I feel you
i shaved my legs cause i couldnt handle the hair anymore. Now im paying for it, and will be for a good while 
Honestly, get an epilator. It might be a little painful the first time you do it, but it's worth it for no itching, no rashes. Well, at least for me it works. But maybe you could try it. Also, moisturize and take care of your skin before and after shaving, thay can make a big difference.
Ive got an eiplator, it just has a bit of a rough process for me cause my hairs are super curly, so i end up with suuuper ingrown hairs. I have big red dots (like, half the diameter of a penny) from epilating 6 months ago. Theyre ingrown hairs that are so far beneath the surface that they cant be squeezed out
but right after epilating everything is very smooth and nice, and it stays that way for a while. Its just the process a month down the line where things start getting bad.
I'm sure this has already occured to you, but you might benefit from shaving products for sensitive skin. Any chance your body hair is dark enough to be lasered? Seems like that would save you a lot of grief.
Yes to both, but laser for legs is iirc not covered by insurance and is like $700/session. And for fancy products, well, tbh im broke af and like maybe 6-12 months from living in my car and cant get a fucking job cause noone is hiring except in jobs that will quite literally destroy my body. The jobs im able to do are all saturated and noones hiring and ugh i hate this shit so bad.
I'm so sorry your skin is irritated like this.
I know this is unsolicited advice, but this makes me recall when used to shave against the grain of my hair everywhere. It could get rashy and dry. Do you want a lotion reccomendation that didn't burn/irritate my skin at all, and prevented itching for days?
In a pinch, when I ran out of lotion and itched terribly, a thin coat of petroleum jelly helped. I made sure to wash and dry my hands first so the salt from my sweat didn't transfer onto my skin.
Both did great at helping my skin heal.
Idk if it was just because I didn't shave it today, or if it was caused I used lotion based on your advice, but I didn't have rashes or itching today. Thanks for the advice either way, I'll use it again.
(Maybe I'll get some petroleum jelly too?)