Insidious rubbish

aprilstarchild reblogged this fantastic article on her Tumblr a couple days ago. "How stripping off to play Helen of Troy on the London stage changed the way I feel about my body," by Louise Brealey, who plays Molly Hooper in the BBC Sherlock.

We all know the bleached, waxed, sprayed, toned, sliced, photo-shopped people we see every day aren’t real. It’s not how we are. It’s not how we’re meant to be. It’s rubbish. But it’s insidious rubbish. It’s hard not to want to look, well, better.

Truth. And she's very honest about the fact that she didn't get to the place where she felt comfortable with her body through the best of means. A good article. I like it.

And I'm just gonna leave this here, for anyone who wants a(nother) Loki vid: