Sesame Seed Bath

The beauty regime that is sure to leave a mark.

For the purpose of this, trigger warnings will be put in place: Trypophobia, Aphenphosmphobia and Gerontophobia. If I’m missing any, don’t be afraid to let me know!

Introduction

Now that the warnings are out of the way, proceed at your own discretion dear reader!

What would you do for a chance to have the best skincare in the world? Considering it is all so important nowadays since the start of the pandemic, and having more time to take care. To what lengths would you go to keep your skin from getting old and the skin from wrinkling?

Anything?

Almost absolutely anything?

Understandably, skin care is important; for staying youthful. Having glowing skin to envy even the goddess of love herself, to mimic celebrities and so on.

What lengths are you willing to go for such perfect skin?

If you answered yes then tonight, my dear reader, you have something in common with the object of our dark affections.

A Bath to Remember.

After a long day and fretting over your skin, you run a hot bath with a new regimen your friend has given you. Black seeds that linger over the water before sinking to the bottom of the bathtub. That should be enough, you think. You get in and soak in the soothing water, the heat allowing for your pores to open up with the steam and body to relax. For 20 – 30 minutes that has gone by without even a notice, save for the light up of the mobile device nearby. This regimen is almost too good to be true.

Ten more minutes, you think. Then your skin starts to burn with a fire you have not known ‘til that very moment.

Climbing out of the tub, you run to the mirror ensuring the towel is covering properly. Little, black spots cover your skin. Digging for a pair of tweezers from the cabinet, you fish one out; despite the blood and the pain. Examining it, its the seeds. The very seeds from the bath you were taking.

after a few hours, there is concern from your parents outside. It has been a long time since you went in. And you still have not come out of the bathroom. You’d only say “just a moment” when someone tried to enter.

Your mother grows suspicious and forces you to open the bathroom door which was locked. Then she saw that an innumerable amount of sesame seeds had attached themselves between every small wrinkle and every pore and had started to grow roots. Her child, you, have lost your mind. Picking and picking frantically trying to remove the seeds with a pair of tweezers.

Blood pooling on the floor and black seeds flooding in the slowly congealing trickling pools.

Originally a Korean urban legend, stemming from the very popular industry of beauty care and plastic surgery to get the perfect features.

The original poster is unknown but, this is also a very old Urban Legend.

Would you take this sesame seed bath? Even if that means absolute pain for beauty? Let your ghoulish host know.

And see you next week.

Happy Hauntings. (:

Thomas Benke: Looking Around In Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott, in the Chapter “Looking Around,” says this: Now, if you ask me, what’s going on is that we’re all up to here in it, and probably the most important thing is that we not yell at one another. Otherwise we’d all just be barking away like Pekingese: “Ah! Stuck in the shit! And it’s your fault, you did this …” Writing involves seeing people suffer and, as Robert Stone once put it, finding some meaning therein. But you can’t do that if you’re not respectful. If you look at people and just see sloppy clothes or rich clothes, you’re going to get them wrong. She goes on to speak about empathy for other people and also, as an extension empathy for yourself. So, in a sense as you try to write believable, relatable characters, you will come to forgive people their trespasses—because no one believes they are the villain of their story, so you have to write “bad,” or “evil” characters from a point of view where they rationalize what they are doing in such a way that it is the right or only way they see is possible. By extrapolation, then, if you begin to forgive and withhold judgment from your less-than-desirable, or annoying characters, perhaps you can extend the same courtesy to yourself and forgive your own trespasses and sins. This, for me, starts to enter the realm of “writing as therapy,” and though I am a firm believer in that—I practice it to this very day—I think I would caution anyone who thinks that simply writing through things is going to lead you to a place of light and love. I am not saying it can’t by any means. What I am saying is I have wrote through my thoughts and my problems and my desperation and depression for decades and I still had enough baggage on my shoulders to supply an army platoon with rations for a year. In any case, when thinking about craft, it is very important to step into the shoes of all of your characters, especially those characters that you see as antagonists and villians. I believe there are very few universal maxims in writing but one thing is virtually certain: every character you write is your version of that human being. Confucius said “everywhere I go, there I am,” and that is never more true than when you are writing. So if you are writing a character that is distasteful to you, it might be effective for you to ask yourself why that is the case. I wrote a blog for Obscura last semester titled, “The Puppy Had It Coming.” The gist of the article was to pose a puzzle to writers. How can you write a scene where an adult human kicks a puppy across the room and the reader at least understands why. I am not saying there is any way to justify the action or for the readers to be on the human’s side unless they are sociopaths. I am saying you need let the reader know how dark the place is in the character’s mind that he is capable of doing that.

#TerrorThursday

Sesame Seed Bath

The beauty regime that is sure to leave a mark.

For the purpose of this, trigger warnings will be put in place: Trypophobia, Aphenphosmphobia and Gerontophobia. If I’m missing any, don’t be afraid to let me know!

Introduction

A Bath to Remember.

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Sesame Seed Bath

The beauty regime that is sure to leave a mark.

For the purpose of this, trigger warnings will be put in place: Trypophobia, Aphenphosmphobia and Gerontophobia. If I’m missing any, don’t be afraid to let me know!

Introduction

A Bath to Remember.

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