Oh yeah. It can make for some incredibly tiny waists. Stories of rib removal are an urban myth brought about by how extreme the effects of waist training can look.

Right? I'm boob-rib levels of skinny and I can't even imagine what it would take to get my waist below 20 inches. It's squirm inducing to think about wearing a corset that much.

It's waist training. Basically, you take a heavy duty steel boned corset and wear it all the time, slowly tightening the laces. And by "all the time" I mean you even have to get used to sleeping in the thing. Over time, the body adapts, shrinking the waist. It is SUPER BAD FOR YOU. It causes the muscles in the…

That... looks like a lot of waist training. That's super bad for your ab muscles.

They're called "circle contacts" you can get them online (though I wouldn't recommend it). Then they widen their eyes with white eyeliner placed underneath and draw in a fake lower lash line.

I think those sorts of romances appeal to teenagers and people who are equivalently immature. Then again, maybe I'm not giving teenagers enough credit. I remember playing Final Fantasy 8 when it first came out and wonder why on earth those two people were in love when they barely knew each other and didn't have…

"What can change the nature of a man?"

Yeah, me too. In my case I think a big part of it was going off the migraine medication I'd been on that had weight gain as a side effect. I'd always been an underweight, towering, beanpole of a kid until I started my meds, then I got chubby in high school. After I went off them in college I started losing weight,…

But then your sweat will soak into the padding and that's just disgusting.

They're the reason my parents pulled me out of ballet. That, and the fact that I sucked at it.

It's the kefir. I am convinced that if there is a secret to living longer, it's kefir.

...Okay, now where do I find a 28H?

... I read it as costumewhorehouse as well and did a double take.

I really hope no one is wearing costumes that shitty to the renfair.

Don't forget restrictive diets and girdles (to the point of waist training). My grandmother has stories about that shit.

I'm afraid all I know about Ben Vereen is that his name is part of an incantation that may be used to shrink someone to the size of a legume.

But what do they do about screaming babies?

The Book of Words Trilogy by J.V. Jones (The Baker's Boy, A Man Betrayed, Master and Fool). It's fantastic, dark, low fantasy. She really has a talent for making even the villains believable and she does a good job tackling sexism in her male characters. One of the main bad guys has a Madonna-whore complex that…

Huh, I've never seen drag queens look embarrassed before.

Yuuup, I just got my booster this morning. You should get one at 18 and then e very ten years after that.