My own tumblr; full of OOC and aesthetic things and RP-related writings and screenshots. The avatar art is done by Akira Raikou (@akira-raikou)! NSFW will be tagged accordingly. There is some NSFW.
Iām sorry friends, but ājust google itā is no longer viable advice. What are we even telling people to do anymore, go try to google useful info and the first three pages are just ads for products that might be the exact opposite of what the person is trying to find but The Algorithm thinks the words are related enough? And if itās not ads itās just sponsored websites filled with listicles, just pages and pages of āTOP FIFTEEN [thing you googled] IMAGINED AS DISNEY PRINCESSESā likeā¦ what are we even doing anymore, google? I can no longer use you as shorthand for people doing real and actual helpful research on their own.
ā https://searchmysite.net/
Search engine for the indie web, personal websites, digital gardens. You can also find them in websites like Neocities, Indieweb, Blogarama, and write.as. There is also a big list of personal websites.
ā https://search.marginalia.nu/
Search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and promotes websites that arenāt usually at the top of the list.
ā https://www.worldcat.org/
Search engine for items in libraries (books, but also maps, articles, sound recordings, theses, etc.)
ā https://scholar.google.com/
Search engine for scientific papers, reviews, etc. Itās still google, but a lot better than the normal search engine counterpart.
ā https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines
A list of search engines sorted by subject, area, and more. If youāre searching on a specific area, it might be worth checking if there is one focused on that area.
ā https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_databases_and_search_engines
A list of academic databases and search engines.
ā https://tineye.com/
Reverse image search alternative to Googleās.
Also, P.S.: Please stop using Google, and start using more privacy focused search engines, like DuckDuckGo or SearchX (opensource; personally havenāt used it yet, but it looks promising for privacy-focused users)
i looooove characters who are sacrificial lamb coded. characters who have never lived for themselves. characters born to be a tool, a weapon, a sacrifice, all of the above. a character raised by the heroes to save the world, at any expense, even their own health, even their own life. a character raised by the villains to end the world, at any expense, even their own health, even their own life. characters who are denied personhood so they can be used as tools instead. characters who never even had a chance to be people because they were shaped into something else from the moment they were born. characters who were born to die.
OK Tumblr Geriatric Ward, letās talk about your posture-
there are things you should be doing now to prevent yourself from starting to look like š„
Why does it matter? Future you would like to avoid the pain, limited motion, and fall risk that goes along with worsening posture.
Whatās the focus?
1. Keep the flexibility in your spine
2. Stretch the muscles in the front
3. Strengthen the muscle in the back
Here are some simple things you can do daily while sitting and when you get up to go into the bathroom or the kitchen
Keep the flexibility by doing these repeated movements: 10 repetitions several times a day
The goal is to give yourself a double or triple chin. Keep your nose pointing forward, donāt let it tip up or down
Thoracic extension- use a chair with a seat back that comes up to the level of your shoulder blades. Try to bend back over the top of the chair without arching away from the seat back and without extending your neck. If the pressure from the top of the chair is uncomfortable you can place a towel there
Stretch the muscles in the front by using a door frame. This one will feel good afterwards
If this isnāt enough of a stretch you can do one side at a time. If you have the right arm up step forward with the right foot and turn slightly to the left. Then do it on the other side.
Strengthen the muscles in the back by squeezing your shoulder blades together for a count of 10 and then repeating 10 times. You can do this several times a day Hint: Donāt lift your shoulder blades up
There are lots more exercises for strengthening your back muscles but this is a good starting point and easy to do. I like doing it while driving
Tips:
Do the best you can
If it hurts stop
Envision future you saying thank you each time you do one of the exercises
NOTE: I can do most of these with the cerebral palsy. In fact, a lot of these little exercises are automatically part of my physical therapy. My problem is I already have hyperlordosis, spine arthritis, and cervicogenic headache. These have helped me at least try to have a posture.
Because without it the knight swells in despairing edemas that only swords can lance; the channels through which self-loathing purges have atrophied long ago. She cannot dwell beyond the monstrous. It is a dour, hopeless way to look at one's partner, but the shadow mirror Esen chokes often into mist tells her this is permanent - these sad, jagged edges. And she has conquered medicine, with scalpels of glass and crystal between the beg of hips. It is altruist's pride; it is artisanal joy.
The hand and the word suffice for gentle desperation. That is not enough for the Xaela after suns beneath the sun, bare mountains and bare skin bearing Azim's stolen rage. She returns from the east ravenous for the bells apart and makes the knight pathetic, wild-eyed and teased and armorless. Beautiful, in the heady incense that serenades spiced smoke.
(Floral aromas smell burnt around Esen after awhile, they've finally fucking learned. Though she's sure Ayla enjoys the free boxes of once-used aromatherapy, their trial and error made the candlemistress too rich. Better to mimic earth, leaves and brambles and things that catch fire.)
Have faith, to listening ears when the innocuous ring binds, a nondescript clasp of metal. Endure torment sweeter than the scourge of justice, boil in a misery of nerves. Give screams a purpose. Perish on the altar of endurance, one denied end at a time.
And it's -
- uneven torment but torment the other way around, every nerve awake in its flesh, meditation Rhalgr (that god, oh, that god) would reject. Every motion uniform, unceasing, her jitters raked in the crimson trenches of Elise's shoulders - the sweat-blind of aurum eyes that rivals the Bounty for salt. The fourth, the fifth, the sixth, wet sin-sounds between, and witness borne to the euphoria of the saved.
I often think about how fucking bad XIV bungled an attempt at a Gaius redemption arc. personally I donāt find it necessary but I wasnāt opposed to the attempt. but hereās the fuckin thing
they could have taken the time to have Gaius see his actions for what they were--cruel, violent, supremacist, self-serving, and ultimately incapable of delivering him to his goal of eliminating Primal summoning-- and they could have given him moments of genuine clarity and full understanding that even if he had been doing the right thing (which he was not) it would not have made a difference because the Garlean Empireās violent fascism did not allow for compassion towards anyone. Sorrows of Werlyt could have been an interesting character study resulting in Gaius, an unrepentant fascist, realizing how much he has to atone for and that he must want to atone in order to be redeemed at all.
instead of any of that they created a new villain so cartoonishly evil and morally repugnant that by comparison Gaius looked pretty reasonable and this gave the player no choice but to say āwell, Gaius does suck shit but look at this dude over there, heās way worseā and it ends with this place he completely fucked up asking him to come be a leader there and forcibly draws the WoL to the conclusion that Gaius is actually not so bad which. GIRL YES HE IS. I REMEMBER WHAT HE DID. SUCH DEVASTATION WAS IN FACT HIS INTENTION. I DONāT RESPECT YOU GAIUS
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