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Why is it easier and more comfortable to sit in a position that actively damages my joints than it is to just sit with okay posture. Why does my body crave its own destruction

odenkinnie

So I started physical therapy recently. I had a substitute therapist last week and she told me to sit with a rolled up towel behind my back to improve my posture. This caused pain. I went back today and told my main therapist about it. She told me that simply adjusting my posture wouldnt help until I had strengthened related muscles enough on their own and that trying to force good posture wasn't what would work. In fact, trying to change the way a person moves or sits intentionally (especially for long periods of time) will most often cause harm. The safer way is to do isolated exercises until the body wants to move or sit the healthy way on its own.

#i recognize that this is probably rhetorical so feel free to ignore my anecdote #also its easy to say but hard to know what to do #more people should consider PT if its an option for them logistically

pansexual-pied-piper

"Queer space" as in "this space is created with the needs of queer people in mind and you should expect to encounter queerness here", not "you have to be queer enough to be allowed in"

"Queer space" as in "this space centers queerness", not "queers only"

chongoblog

The whole “protect the children” stuff makes a lot more sense when you realize that they treat their children like their possessions, so it’s less “let our children live their best lives” and more “don’t mess with my long term investment”

isuggestrevolution

i have a suggestion

wheelsgoroundincircles

Pierre-Jules Boulanger

Paris fell on a Tuesday. By Wednesday, German officers were already walking the factory floor at Citroën. Their orders were simple: France's greatest automobile manufacturer would now build trucks for the Wehrmacht. Supply vehicles. Military transports. The mechanical backbone of Nazi occupation. Pierre-Jules Boulanger, the 55-year-old chairman who had spent his career building cars for French families, now faced a choice that would define everything. Refuse — and the Germans would shoot him, install someone cooperative, and build the trucks anyway. Comply fully — and he would be personally responsible for vehicles carrying soldiers to kill Allied forces, supplies sustaining the occupation, machinery enabling conquest. He refused both options. Instead, he gathered his engineers late one evening and said something they would never forget: "Production must appear respectable to the eye. But never to the heart."

The vehicle the Germans wanted was the Citroën T45 — a powerful, heavy-duty truck perfectly suited for military logistics. Reliable engine. Solid construction. Exactly what the Wehrmacht needed to keep its war machine rolling across Europe. Boulanger's engineers studied every component, looking for a vulnerability so small it would be invisible at inspection, yet catastrophic enough to matter in the field. They found it in the most ordinary place imaginable. The dipstick. That thin metal rod you pull from an engine to check the oil level — the one with a simple notch marking "full." Every German mechanic, following standard maintenance protocol, would pull it out, check the level, add oil if needed, and move on. Boulanger's engineers made one quiet adjustment. They moved the "full" notch. Not dramatically — that would be caught immediately. Just enough. A small filing. A modest repositioning. When a German mechanic checked the oil and the dipstick read full, the engine would actually be running low. Not catastrophically empty. Not enough to trigger an immediate warning. Just enough to create chronic, invisible stress on the engine's most critical components. Under normal use, nothing obvious would happen. But under sustained military operation — long supply runs, heavy loads, demanding terrain — the engine would begin destroying itself from the inside. Heat. Friction. Accelerating wear on parts designed to float in a film of oil that was never quite there. And then, eventually, on some road far from any factory inspector, the engine would seize. Every truck that left the Citroën facility passed German quality inspection perfectly. Test drives were smooth. Oil levels appeared correct. Vehicles were approved, signed off, shipped to Wehrmacht units across occupied Europe. The German mechanics who serviced them were doing everything right. They checked the oil. They topped it off when the dipstick said to. They followed every protocol. The dipstick told them everything was fine. The dipstick was lying.

Weeks later, reports began filtering back through Wehrmacht supply chains. Citroën trucks were developing unusual engine problems. Vehicles were seizing during operations. Supply convoys were breaking down at inexplicable rates. Commanders blamed driver error, poor roads, excessive loads. No one suspected the dipstick, because every truck from that factory had the same dipstick. There was no correctly calibrated reference to compare it against. The sabotage was, in the most elegant sense, self-concealing. Meanwhile, Boulanger ran a parallel campaign of productive-looking paralysis. Workers were instructed to maintain schedules — but never exceed them. No urgency. No efficiency gains. If a German officer demanded faster output, Boulanger would nod thoughtfully and cite material shortages, equipment maintenance, worker fatigue. Always polite. Always documented. Always just plausible enough. The frustration in German command was visible. Why was Citroën slower than other factories? Why were their trucks underperforming in the field? They suspected resistance. They could never prove it.

In 1944, French Resistance fighters raided Gestapo headquarters in Paris and discovered something chilling — a detailed blacklist of French civilians to be arrested and executed upon Allied invasion. Pierre-Jules Boulanger's name was on it. The Nazis had never found the tampered dipstick. They had never proved deliberate sabotage. But they knew something was wrong at Citroën, and they knew who was responsible. They were right. They were just too late. When Allied forces liberated France that same year, Boulanger didn't seek recognition or medals. He went back to his drafting table. His first post-war project became one of the most beloved vehicles in automotive history — the Citroën 2CV. A simple, honest car for ordinary French families. Cheap to run, impossible to break, designed to carry four people and fifty kilograms of potatoes across rural France on almost no fuel at all. Nearly seven million were built over four decades. The same engineers who had quietly dismantled a military machine with a filed notch on a piece of metal were now building the car that helped rebuild a nation.

Boulanger died in 1950, before he could see his full legacy take shape. But the story of what he did — or more precisely, what he chose not to fully do — traveled through generations of Citroën workers, whispered on factory floors long after the occupation ended. He didn't have weapons. He didn't lead raids. He didn't blow anything up. He just decided, very quietly, that the line marked "full" didn't have to mean full. And somewhere on a forgotten road in occupied Europe, a Wehrmacht truck's engine seized mid-convoy, stranding its soldiers and disrupting its mission. The German mechanic jumped out, frustrated, and did what he'd been trained to do. He checked the dipstick. It said the oil was fine. He never understood what had happened. That was exactly the point.

hilaritatis

headspace-hotel

while trying to decompress yesterday i ended up looking up a shit ton of stuff about book banning in the USA and wound up falling down this labyrinth of spreadsheets and aggregations that the people behind all this book banning stuff are using to find and challenge books

first of all theres ratedbooks.org which has a lot of different "ratings" of books but also advertises, for a fee of 100 dollars, a "Library transparency package" where you send in a spreadsheet of the inventory of a library and it is automatically cross-referenced against the site's list of no-no books.

There's also "national book rating index" which seems to be like...the same organization, sort of? Like a lot of the stuff on the site is the same.

on this page on "ratedbooks" there is a Google Docs template that i screenshotted

first page is a template for requesting that a parent be notified if a child checks out a book that is listed on the no-no list. From what it sounds like,books can be auto-flagged if they were banned in another school district.

the letter suggests that the parent will "review" the book by looking at its rating on the NRBI. Not by actually Reading The Fucking Book. Please note the additional boxes for "CRT" (Racially Divisive) and "LGBTQ"

The second page is (part of--the list continues) a list of books that the organization apparently recommends parents request that the library buy, which includes, among the stuff I haven't heard of, PragerU materials, "Irreversible Damage" by Abigail Shrier, something called "Transing Our Children," and the Tuttle Twins books.

very, very, very focused on recommending a few highly conservative publishers and specifically anti-trans stuff.

if you go to NRBI's "ratings" tab you find a link to the "standardization table" which explains that the ratings are compiled from multiple reviews from different sites.

Among these, "ratedbooks" is considered to be a source. So I'm confused about the relationship of these two sites.

So is. "Christian Parent Reviews." I looked at their "movie reviews" tab where they also recommend "Plugged In" and clarify that it is created by Focus On the Family. Their top recommended movie resource is something called "Christian Spotlight," which when I click on it actually leads to a site called "Christian Answers" which is. weird.

At this point I have detoured from the book banning quest and am searching in fascination at these people's approach to experiencing storytelling.

They have an "actors" tab where you can search actors and see whether they are Christian and what their "worldview" is. Every gay actor appears to have the worldview "Homosexualism."

I looked at Sebastian Stan for funsies.

Yeah. They have a list of all current and former partners and whether or not said actor reproduced. WHY

Looking at the actual movie ratings, I decided to search for Annihilation (2018). The "moral rating" given to Annihilation is "Extremely Offensive."

In spite of that the reviewer seems to think that the movie was actually very good, though violent. They fixate more than anything on the fact that the movie assumes evolution is real. It's just...strange.

Scrolling down the letter A I find The Avengers (2012). The website thinks this one is "better than average."

The morality rating is fully unrelated to how good the movie is. I have to think on that for a while.

Christian Parent Reviews doesn't really have a whole lot of books rated, though. I visited another website that was used to aggregate the NRBI ratings, "The Good and the Beautiful." Recommendations seem to be locked to members of the site, but I can at least access the site's FAQ where they state their ethos:

Okay this is the most sinister one yet.

ratedreads.com is not explicitly christian nor does it have a focus on "racially divisive" or "lgbtq" content. In fact, it seems excessively focused on swearing.

The link to Compass Book Rating appears to be broken.

So I go back to Rated Books. The rating scale, which you can read here, goes from 0 "all ages" to 5 "deviant." I find "deviant" to be a troubling word to use here.

This is where we enter a confusing network of Google Sheets documents. The first one is the "master list" linked on this page. It contains a bajillion links to Google docs that painstakingly outline every instance of "offensive" content in the book. I found several Google Sheets documents like this somewhere in this maze of links and they don't all have the same content.

I decide to see what Rated Books thinks is "deviant" content. "Bride" by Ali Hazelwood is listed here. I click on the page and click the image slideshow. It contains. Get this. A screenshot of content warnings from the author's website, and then a bunch of fucking Google AI overviews about kinks the book has in it.

Anyways this didn't help me decompress and I don't know why i did this

jayalaw

Headspace, okay to recommend Authors Against Book Bans, an organization that is campaigning against this?

Sure thing

also, its sister tweet:

dandalfthe-gay-deactivated20251

How could you forget:

galacticism

slushi-chan

Had to add this gem

therobotmonster

Pouring one out for Poison Junior.

kingscrown666

#laugh tag

ao3commentoftheday

Hi hello! I've seen the additional tag "[Blank] imagines" floating around a lot on ao3. Specifically works tagged something like "one direction imagines" or "Percy Jackson imagines". The works don't seem to be super different from most other oneshots/drabbles but I'm super curious if there's specific criteria a work has to meet to be considered "imagines"?

or if it would be appropriate to tag things like drabbles and oneshots as imagines. I want people who would be interested in the things I write to be able to find them easily, but I don't want to mislead anyone or mistag, i thought you could weigh in. Thanks in advance :)

I remember imagines being hugely popular here on tumblr in the 2010-2015 ish era? There were a lot of blogs like @imagineyourotp who would share prompts for AUs or short canon works.

As far as I remember, they were usually oneshots just based on the nature of the prompts, like "Imagine your OTP dancing in the kitchen together" or what-have-you.

Sometimes it was focused on a specific pairing, but it could also be centred around a particular character or even about the full cast.

Another form of imagines were similar to a self-insert kind of fic. Something along the ilnes of, "Imagine you meet Bucky Barnes at a coffee shop and he asks you on a date" etc.

That's how I remember them at least. Blog? Am I wrong or missing anything? And how popular are thee today?

sexydexynurse

According to Fanlore.org:

An imagine is a short fanfic or descriptive passage, popularized on Tumblr, usually written in the second person and often pairing the reader with a fannish BSO. Some imagines are ficlets, but others could be as short as a single sentence. Graphics are often included. Sexually explicit imagines are often called dirty imagines.

I think that depending on the length of the Imagine (and some were short enough to fit old school twitter character restrictions), things that are sometimes seen as prompts were actually intended as microfic Imagines.

druidshollow

HAVE THAT CHARACTER GAIN WEIGHT AS A SIGN OF HEALING: NOW

lgbtcharactertournament

ROUND 6 — Match 1 of 9

Yamato (One Piece)

Identity: Trans man, explicit Notes: Explicitly referred to as a man and with he/him pronouns throughout the source despite being AFAB. Propaganda: 1. “His father is a tyrant violating every human right in the books, but he supports his son in his transition 👍” 2. “He is amazing representation! Dispite not physically transitioning he fully claims his identity as a man and all those around him accept him as one including his abusive dad who doesn’t accept any other parts of who he is. He’s even allowed to go into the men’s bath with the other boys.” 3. “It’s unfortunate that a lot of outside media for One Piece is inconsistent on how it treats Yamato, but at least in the manga, he is 100% treated as a man and there is nothing that goes against that claim, and anyone who still believes Yamato isn’t really trans is at best misinformed and at worst an actual transphobe.”

vs. Harley Quinn (DC)

Identity: Bi/Pansexual, explicit Notes: Previously in a relationship with the Joker (a man), and later enters a relationship with Poison Ivy (a woman). Propaganda: “she’s survived by turning everything into a bit. she’s loud and chaotic and impulsive, yeah - but she’s also smart, and she’s resilient in a way that’s honestly kind of scary. she keeps remaking herself. she keeps trying again. she refuses to stay the version of her that someone else wanted. also: i love how her story is so often about choice. not “redemption” in a clean, saintly way, but choice in the messiest way - choosing herself, choosing freedom, choosing to stop letting other people write her life for her. she can be selfish, she can be reckless, she can be a disaster, and it doesn’t cancel out how satisfying it is when she draws a line and actually sticks to it. and she’s genuinely funny when she’s written well, not in a “forced punchline” way, but in a “this is how she talks when she’s wired and stressed and trying to keep control of a situation by being louder than it” way. anyway. harley quinn. forever. she’s the kind of character who makes “starting over” feel possible even when you’ve done things you regret and when people want to reduce you to your worst choices. and i’m always going to have a soft spot for that.”

Who should advance?

Yamato

Harley Quinn

Voting ended onJun 1

#love you Harley but its gotta go to my man

depsidase

highhappyhog

I made a Zine about this! If anyone ever wants to print and hand it out, please do!

trix-or-treatz

I was gonna post this for her birthday and then I COMPLETELY forgot, WHOOPS

My Easter Halloween Bunny for the @carrotartcollab !!!!!!

carrotartcollab

🐰 Happy Birthday Carrot 🥕

With 101 Carrots we've come to a close! Thank you so much to all the artists who participated!!

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youli147

Testimony of the sixth year

Happy catradora Day!♡

#spop

inkywellington

your-dewey-decimal-number-is

594.56

octopus

prokopetz

If nothing else, you have to give Gooseworx and the Amazing Digital Circus crew credit because they're all very online people and 100% had to know that making a show whose basic premise is "what if a bunch of people who are all fundamentally a bit exhausting to hang out with were forced to hang out with each other at gunpoint" was a fandom discourse bomb waiting to happen, and they did it anyway.

architectben

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