Bookwyrm

Back and Hotter than ever. Lu, 25, Bi--Leo/Scorpio--ENFP/INFP

[never-a-clever-username]

The dilemma of wondering whether you should send your friend an A/B/O fic with bitching bc it’s their fandom but that might be too left field for them

[never-a-clever-username]

Update I’m in said fandom now LOL

[apollos-boyfriend]

the fact that we only have “herculean task” and “sisyphean task” feels so limiting. so here’s a few more tasks for your repertoire

icarian task: when you have a task you know you’re going to fail at anyways, so why not have some fun with it before it all comes crashing down

cassandrean task: when you have to deal with people you KNOW won’t listen to you, despite having accurate information, and having to watch them fumble about when you told them the solution from the start (most often witnessed in customer service)

feel free to chime in i ran out of ideas much faster than i anticipated

[sherbertilluminated]

Promethean task: opposite of a Cassandraean task. You have the right information, and SOMEONE has to share it. But it's all in the delivery and if you're the person to identify the problem you WILL be hated forever.

[thearrogantemu]

Oedipal Task: (1) Attempting to avoid an unspeakably awful outcome and in doing so creating the circumstances that will bring it about. (2) Trying to solve an problem and discovering that you are in fact the problem you are trying to solve.

[theoppositeofprofound]

Odyssean task: you’ll complete it but it’ll take 20 times longer than it should and involve multiple side quests and mini-adventures

[never-a-clever-username]

HOW THE FUCK IS IT THE SEVENTHEENTH OF NOVEMBER ALREADY I HATE THIS FUCKING MONTH EVERY SINGLE DAY I AM FILLED WITH A BURNING RAGE AND HATRED AND I MISS HAVING JOY I AM BURNT OUT AND EVERY SINGLE DECISION MADE BY THE UPPER ESCHELONS OF ANYWHERE FILLS ME WITH SUCH AN INTENSE BURNING AND ITS TOO FUCKING WINDY OUT FUCK THIS

[never-a-clever-username]

The dilemma of wondering whether you should send your friend an A/B/O fic with bitching bc it’s their fandom but that might be too left field for them

[willgrahamscock]

[theebbestboy]

[a-sentient-cup]

[virtualgirladvance]

[never-a-clever-username]

It feels a bit bizarre to have a therapy revelation and then mention it to a friend who says “oh yeah dude I could have told you that” like why am I paying this oracle to read my mind then?!?!

[detectivehole]

"why do you know that" i am curious about the world around me

[never-a-clever-username]

I need help finding a fanfic - it’s a Steddie fic where Steve has been having dreams about someone that comes into his room at night and is very nice to him and he doesn’t know it’s Eddie and he’s a vampire and they bond and that drags Eddie out of the Upside Down BUT it is NOT that one where he falls asleep and wakes up in the upside down. I know this isn’t much to go off of but I swear I had it bookmarked but it’s not coming up.

[hyperfixedbrainrot]

i just think that if billy and Steve had gotten to be friends, Steve would be dizzy about how aggressively billy is on his side. Billy’s not good at having friends instead of lackeys and so he’s too honest, too passionate about it. They didn’t even know each other and billy was telling Steve not to worry about finding someone else because he’s so pretty, yes there was a veneer of dickishness about it but that’s just billy.

Billy compliments Steve on his rich boy cologne, his sick keg stand stance, is the first one to notice when he gets highlights. He’s the first person to ever call Steve smart. Once he yells it at Dustin who is leaping into a ridiculous plan to fight the demodogs. Dustin is mad as hell and snipes “you always take his side!” And billy yells “yeah! Because you idiots don’t have his strategic mind, maybe if you listened to his plan we’d be alright!”

Steve says shit like “um, maybe Vecna was a …clockmaker?” And the kids snigger and billy is like “DO WE KNOW THAT HE WASN’T A CLOCKMAKER? You tiny bastards. You know nothing.”

Just insanely on Steve’s side. And Steve is so fucking loyal in return that they’re basically each other’s greatest defenders. No loyal knight/king dynamics here. They’re both insane. Attack dog 4 attack dog.

Eddie leaps out of the boat and jams a knife into Billy’s neck and Steve is already whaling on him with an oar. Mike is whining about how Billy sucks and Steve is like “you don’t get his sense of humour, it’s not his fault you’re not funny.”

Max is complaining about how fast Billy drives and Steve is like “uhh, skate then? Selfish.”

Robin asks him if Billy wears eyeliner and Steve is like “I don’t know, maybe he’s just that beautiful naturally.” But he does know. He’s just not gonna let anyone assume anything, even his kinda fun new coworker. And maybe it makes Robin’s eyebrows raise but she’s not wondering if Billy’s the kind of guy who wears makeup anymore, she’s wondering about Steve, and that’s fine.

[the-eccentric-eclectic]

Hey kid, look at me.

I want you to T-pose. Turn your right thumb up and your left thumb doen and look at your right thumb. Move your arms up and down a bit until you feel a nerve running from your armpit to your palm. Now turn your right thumb down and your left thumb up, and look at your left thumb. Keep your chest facing forward and your shoulders back. Move your arms again until you feel that nerve again. Keep alternating between these two for a minute, or look at each thumb thirty times each.

Now sit down. Put your left hand firmly under your left buttock, palm down. Keep your shoulders back and put your right hand over the crown of your head, very gently pulling it to the right. Do this for thirty seconds, then do it again but with your right hand under your right buttock.

These are stretches for the nerves in your arms, and are very good for people who sit behind a computer a lot, or fibre artists, or you name it. Do them daily. They will hurt in the beginning, but keep doing them, even after the pain has gone, or it will return and you'll have to start all over.

[emcapi]

Hey, I know another type of stretch for this!

I had to go to occupational therapy a while back due to pain in my ulnar nerve (same nerve that acts as your 'funny bone'). It was getting compressed from jamming my elbow against hard plastic armrests that were in a too-tall fixed position on my cheap old office chair. I was having burning and tingling pain and numbness radiating from my elbow into my ring and pinky fingers. It sucked. Honestly, I found it worse than carpal tunnel, because a rigid elbow brace makes life way harder than a rigid wrist brace.

Anyways, the main exercise that my occupational therapist had me do was called a nerve glide. The stretches OP describes help improve flexibility, but the nerve gliding exercise helps move the nerve out of the pinched spot so it can move more freely.

Here's the best diagram I can find of it:

It's a little confusing, so have some extra description on the weird parts:

Step 3: thumb side moves down and towards the front.

Step 4: hand rotates out and around, pinky side first.

Step 5: nothing fancy here, just straighten your elbow.

Step 6 (not on diagram, but recommended by therapist): with arm in the same position, tilt your head towards the opposite side for a few second (works as a stretch).

Ulnar nerve compression (aka cubital tunnel) is apparently super common, but I had never heard of it before I started having issues. If you lean forwards on your desk or armrests a lot, I'd suggest giving these a try. It feels kind of weird because you can feel the nerve, but it shouldn't hurt at all.

[curiouswisp]

Adding to this as someone that has been to PT due to my job destroying my neck/shoulders (plus all my hobbies), some other easy things to do at home:

Wall Angels:

And wall shoulder stabilization exercises:

you can start off by doing this with a towel on the wall instead if it's easier or that's all you have available.

[thestuffedalligator]

Collecting books is great until you have to move all of them at once and realize that every one of the little bastards weighs about as much as a brick and collectively have the mass of a neutron star

[doodleoo]

what you learn from hobbies:

consistent practice opens up whole worlds of skill that you couldn't imagine

making mistakes in the process of learning is not only natural, it is also essential

activities that you enjoy can give you more energy back than you spent on them

wow everything is so expensive

[doodleoo]

my hands hurt

[byjove]

I’m responsible enough to have a knight I think. I’ll take good care of it and feed it and take it on walks and everything.

[jame7t]

get out of the summoning circle you stupid little fruit

[wizard-eater]

[pr1nceshawn]

Customer Service Wolf.

[ask-cloud-skipper]

That wolf embodies the thoughts of most in customer service

[nerdyogre]

The amount of times I’ve thought “I would love to bite through this person’s throat” while working in retail is probably too high even when my intrusive thoughts kind of suggest that normally.

Retail doesn’t exactly heal people.

[not-poignant]

Comics by Anne Barnetson, the book Customer Service Wolf, is no longer available (though I have a copy woo!) but you can see the full range of comics here!

[collecting-frogs]

Le Couple Insolite ★ The Unconventional Couple

(inspiree par la chanson Thorn et Ophelie par Fredo Zupi)

I love this series with my whole heart, even the ending everything is perfect 

★ ★

J’adore ce series avec tout ma coeur, meme le final, tout est simplement parfait 

[baba-the-fool]

“Allow me to give that scarf of yours a break.”

In my heart, I like to think Ophelia and Thorn found each other and managed to escape back to the real world. Maybe they’d get themselves a humble little apartment for a time, and enjoy some well deserved peace and solitude :’) Thorn, heartbroken at knowing he had a direct line to how Ophelia lost her fingers, would probably take every opportunity to be of aid to her when needed, and she to him when his leg bothers him.

(I really enjoyed making this piece, but I’ve sat on it for a while bc I haven’t been sure if it’s worth posting fbdbdb. Thot the idea was cute but after drawing it something doesn’t feel right, pls feel free to comment if u spot anything. Maybe it’s bc Ophelia isn’t wearing her glasses? Maybe their dynamic here feels vaguely uncomf to me? Maybe I’ve been looking at it too much. Idk idk I hope yall enjoy it either way 🥹 )