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@sewingsparky
I think I've unconsciously made some decisions based partially on the feeling that I don't deserve to be happy. I have definitely done things with the awareness of a bull in a china shop, hurting the people around me. I can both be grateful for the people in my life who want me to be happy and also feel that I don't deserve it. That's how I can be in a really good place overall and still know that depression will always be a part of me.
While Kirishima is discovering that he can in fact purr and ear scritches feel FANTASTIC, Bakugou experiences his first Gay Panic.
I refuse to believe this is Bakugouâs FIRST Gay Panic; itâs his third, at the minimum.Â
Yâknow what, you are absolutely right.Â
Watching Hamilton on Disney Plus. Looked up Hamilton portraits. They all like @michaelsheenpt to me. Now I would really love to hear sheen do a few of Lin Manuel's lines.
Dream last night.
Trying to establish a relationship with an energy species that sometimes goes parasitic. Somewhat insulated from everyone else. Trying to find ways to reverse the effects of energy creatures turning parasitic. Visible blue electric arcs happen when creature turns parasitic. They usually don't last more than a fraction of a second. The longer the energy arcs, the worse it is for the person. If not caught, the person experiences a gradual loss of identity, memory loss, no personality to speak of, but capable of performing tasks, reasoning, creative thinking, but increasingly out of touch with everyone.
Then at the end of the dream, a deeply disturbing new development. One of us that had carried a connection with the energy beings longest without incident was found to be hiding a lot of energy arcing. Very short, but ongoing, unceasing. Friend suddenly shuts down like a machine.
"I am gone. I did this willingly to give them a voice to speak with. Please listen." And I woke up.
Some eaiser variations of push ups to help you build the strength to do a traditional one!
I donât generally reblog âfitnessâ stuff but gaddamn could I use some more arm strength.
Push-ups are my worst nightmare. I can only do 44 before I pass out on the floor.
âI can only do 44â hahaha omg I canât even do one.
yes good
I was always frustrated how my P.E. teachers wanted all of us to go âall-or-noneâ and basically hurt ourselves without letting us build up from square-one like in the first gif. Â Then theyâd fuckin yell at us for not doing it right >:|
Knee-pushups is not square-one.
When I got my first personal trainer, she had me doing push ups almost standing upright in the weight lifting bars so that I could do 15 reps and 3 sets of them. Itâs more about the technique of the push up, and if youâre pushing too much weight, you canât exersize the correct muscles within their tolerances. This post is pretty important tto know cause of that.
I was introduced to the knee push-up last year and it was such a fucking game changer. I had NO idea it was possible to work those same muscles just with a slight variation in position.Â
I wanna just verify that these are excellent for building strength, both as someone who took weights class in high school with a good teacher, and as someone whoâs had a lifetime of physical therapy (not for my arms specifically, but Iâve spent a lot of time in sports medicine centers). And again, if the vertical one in the first gif is difficult, you donât even have to lean into it like that. Start standing, and only lean as much as it takes you to lower towards the wall.
And remember, many exercises can be modified in this way! I did an image search for âmodified pull upâ and got exactly what I was looking for right away, which is this:
Doing pull ups on a lower bar, or from the straps with handles that gyms sometimes have (called the TRX - they can also be used to support yourself during squats and some balance exercises) is a lot easier than jumping straight into vertical pullups, and lets you build up that muscle with exercises that are still comfortable and safe for you, so you can do more sets of more reps.
As a general rule, always start with lower-strain exercises and practice good form before you work your way up. You donât want to have to unlearn bad habits that could lead to injury later as the difficulty increases.
@imfemalewarrior Iâm assuming youâve seen this post but in case you havenâtâit seems like your kind of thing
Here are push up and pull up progressions!Â
-FemaleWarrior, She/TheyÂ
Because I have serious issues with core strength and cannot do a sit up or a crunch without using muscles I shouldnât and hurting myself, I looked up core exercises for beginners (because modified sit ups just have me ways to make it harder), and hereâs what I found.
All from here, which also includes sit ups with the idea that you start up and donât go all the way down.
This stuff on the bottom is some of the stuff I do for physical therapy, can vouch for it
The earthy smell of rain is one of the most divine scents Iâve ever beheld.
That smells has a name. It's called Petrichor. Dr. Who taught me that.
do u ever wonder if 99% of ur followers are either bots or super inactive blogs bc ya boy has a few thousand + nobody is sending asks or talkin to me soâŚâŚ. to the maybe 10 or 11 followers reading this, i love u
hey 10 or 11 followers, if u follow my ig: @artdad98 itâll let me know that u see my posts and are legit active đ
I don't have ig and my depression along with my physically demanding job will cause me to inactive for weeks. I do very much appreciate you though @grumpytrans
People over the age of 25 being allowed to exist on Internet spaces and not be shamed for having normal hobbies: good
Minors being able to exist in Internet spaces without being harassed or groomed by creepy assholes twice their age: also good
These are not conflicting viewpoints!
And seriously if youâre under 18 PLEASE donât hesitate to block any adult that gives you the slightest amount of unsolicited attention or makes you uncomfortable. Iâve been on the internet since I was a kid and this is the kind of advice I really could have used early on
Grooming starts with making you happy! They want you to feel very comfortable with them. They want you to feel like you are special to them. Later, when they ask you to do something a little unusual, it doesn't feel like a big deal. By the time it's stuff that makes you uncomfortable, you will feel like you're in too deep to say no.
You. Can. Always. Say. No!!
If they are really your friend, they won't ask again. If they are grooming you, they will wait several days and ask again. Ramp up the things that make you happy and make you feel special, but eventually they will always come back to wanting you to let them cross that boundary.
Know the signs for yourself. Know the signs for your friends. Friends don't ever just leave to make you feel bad. If someone your age is creeped out by an older friend, consider they might have a really good reason.
You can always say no. And if they keep pushing, leave.
Commission for @sewingsparky who asked me to draw Vash the Stampede in Papyrusâs battle body, that was pretty fun to do XâD
ArtŠ @little-noko
Aww yeah!!
For the people who are out there âfighting the good fightâ and âtrying to make fandom a better place,â I have two important questions for you:
1. Is the author dead? x
2. Is your baby in the bathwater? x
What do I mean by those things? Letâs start with #1. The Death of the Author is a type of literary criticism, the extreme cliff notes version of which is that art exists outside of the creatorâs life, personal background, and even intentions. Iâm using it slightly differently than Barthes intended, but thatâs okay, because the author is dead and Iâm interpreting his work through my own lens.
In fandom, the author is dead. In fact, the author was never alive in the first place, not really. The author has only ever been the idea of a person, because unlike published fiction, the only thing we know about a fanfic author is that which they choose to tell us about themselves.
Why is that important?
Because it might not be true. Hell, that happens in real life with published authors, who have SSNâs on file with their publishers, who pay taxes on the works they create and have researchable pasts. If the author of A Million Little Pieces could fake everything, why canât I? Why canât you? Why canât the writer of your favorite fic in the whole wide world?
Stop me if youâve heard this before: âyou can only write about [sensitive subject] if [sensitive subject] has happened to you personally, otherwise youâre a disgusting monster that deserves to die!!â Or maybe âyou can only write [x racial or ethnic group] characters if youâre [x racial or ethnic group] otherwise youâre racist/fetishizing/colonizing!â
You can play this game with any sensitive subject you can come up with. Iâve seen them all before, on a sliding scale of slightly chastising to literal death threats.
Now, I could tell you that Iâm a white-passing Latina whose grandmother was an anchor baby. I could tell you that I speak only English because my family never taught me to speak Spanish, something which Iâve been told is common in the Cuban community, though I only know my own lived experience. I could tell you that Iâm mostly neurotypical. I could tell you that Iâm covered in surgical scars. I could tell you lots of things.
Are any of these true? Maybe! I could tell you that my brother has severe mental development problems, so uncommon that theyâve never been properly diagnosed, and that he will live the rest of his life in a group home with 24-hour care. Is that true? Am I allowed to write about families struggling with Americaâs piss-poor services for the handicapped now?
Am I allowed to write about being Cuban? After all, I did just say that Iâm Cuban. But is it true? Can I instead write a character thatâs Panamanian? Maybe I really am Panamanian, not Cuban. Maybe Iâm both. Maybe Iâm neither. Maybe Iâm really French Canadian. Should we require people to post regular selfies? I canât count the number of times Iâve had someone come up to me speaking Arabic, and Iâve been told that I look Syrian. Whatâs stopping me from making a blog that claims that I am Syrian? Can you even really tell someoneâs race and ethnicity from a photo?
Am I allowed to write about being a teenager? Am I allowed to write about being a college student? Am I allowed to write about being an âadultyâ adult? Can I write a character whoâs 40? 50? 60? How old am I?
All of this is to say: you canât base what someone is or is not âallowedâ to write about on a background that may or may not be real. No matter how good your intentions. And I get it - this usually comes from a place of well-meaning. Youâre trying to protect marginalized groups by stopping privileged people from trampling all over experiences that they havenât suffered. I get that. Itâs a very noble thought. But you canât require a background check for every fic that you donât like.
If you say âyou can only write about rape if youâre a rape victim,â then one of three things will happen:
Real survivors will have to supply intimate details of their own violations to prevent harassment
Real survivors will refuse to engage and will then have to deal with death threats and people telling them to kill themselves for daring to write about their own experiences
People who arenât survivors will say âyeah sure this happened to meâ just to get people to shut up
Has that helped anyone? I mean really - anyone??
So now letâs get to point #2: is your baby in the bathwater?
If your intention is to protect marginalized people from being trampled upon, stop and assess if your boot is the one thatâs now stamping on their face. Find your baby! Is your baby in the bathwater? Which is to say: find the goal that youâre advocating for. Now assess. Are you making the problem worse for the people youâre trying to protect? Does that rape victim really feel better, now that youâve harassed and stalked them in the name of making rape victims feel safe?
Letâs say you read a fic that contains explicit sex between a 16 year old and a 17 year old. Is this okay? Would it be okay if the writer was 15? 16? 17? Should teenagers be barred from writing about their own lives, and should teenagers be banned from exploring sexuality in a fictional bubble, instead of hookup culture? Is it okay for a 20 year old to write about their experiences as a teenager? Is it okay for a 20 year old to write about being raped at a party as a teenager? Is it okay for a 30 year old? How about a 40 year old? Is it okay so long as it isnât titillating? Is it okay if taking control of the narrative allows the writer to re-conceptualize their trauma as something they have control over? Is it okay if their therapist told them that writing is a safe creative outlet?
Is your author dead?
Is your baby in the bathwater?
Now letâs take a hardline approach: no fanfiction with characters who are under 18 years old. None. Is the 16 year old who really loves Harry Potter and wants to read/write about characters their own age better off? Should they be banned from writing? Should they be forced to exclusively read and write (adult) experiences that they havenât lived? Will they write about teens anyway? Should they have to share it in secret? Should 16 year olds be ashamed of themselves? Should we just throw in with the evangelicals and say that the only answer is abstinence, both real and fictional?
Letâs say that no rape is allowed in fiction, at all. None. What happens to all the hurt/comfort fics where a character is raped and then receives the support and love that they deserve, slowly heal, and by the end have found themselves again? Are you helping rape victims by banning these stories? Are you helping rape victims by stripping their agency away, by telling them that their wants and their consent doesnât matter?
Is your baby in the bathwater?
Fandom is currently being split in two: on one side, the people who want to make fandom a âsaferâ place by any means necessary, even if that means throwing out all of the marginalized groups they say they want to protect - and on the other, people who are saying âif you throw out that bathwater, youâre throwing the baby out too.â
The whole point of fandom is to be able to explore all kinds of ideas from the safety and comfort of a computer screen. You can read/write things that fascinate you, disgust you, titillate you, or make your heart feel warm. This is true of all fiction. People who want to read about rape and incest and extreme violence and torture can go pick up a copy of Game of Thrones from the bookstore whenever they want. Sanitizing fandom just means holding a community of people who are primarily not male, not straight, not cis, or some combination of those three, to higher and stricter standards than straight white cis male authors and creators all over the world.
There is nothing you can find on AO3 that you canât find in a bookstore. Any teenager can go check out Lolita, or ASOIAF, or Flowers in the Attic, or Stephen Kingâs It, or Speak, or hundreds of other books that have adult themes or gratuitous violence or graphic sex. The difference is that AO3 has warnings and tags and allows people to interact only with the types of work that they want to, and allows people to curate their experiences.
Are these themes eligible to be explored, but only in the setting of something produced/published? Books, movies, television, studio art, music - all of these fields have huge barriers to entry, and theyâre largely controlled by wealthy cishet white men. Is it better to say that only those who have the right connections to âmake itâ in these industries should be allowed to explore violence or sexuality or any other so-called âadultâ theme?
Does banning women from writing MLM erotica make fan culture a better place?
Does banning queer people from writing about queer experiences make fan culture a better place?
Is M/M fic okay, but only if the author is male? What if heâs a transman? What if theyâre NB? Who should get to draw those lines? Should TERFs get a vote? What if the author is a woman who feels more comfortable writing from a male characterâs perspective because sheâs grown up with male stories her whole life, or because she identifies more with male characters? What about all the transmen who discovered themselves, in part, by writing fanfiction, and realized that their desires to write male characters stemmed from something they hadnât yet realized about themselves?
How can we ever be sure that the author is who they say they are?
Who is allowed to write these stories? How do we enforce it?
Is it better for none of these stories to ever exist at all?
Have you killed your author?
Have you thrown out your baby with the bathwater?
I Was Trying To Be Funny But It Came Out as Really Mean: A 5-part documentary starring me.
I Was Trying To Be Loving And Supportive But I Probably Overstepped My Boundaries And Came Off as Creepy: a feature-length film with two sequels and a TV series adaption.
I Was Trying To Tell You I Relate To Your Difficult Situation But It Probably Sounded Like I Was Making It All About Me: a novel saga with several side book adaptions and a movie.
I've Done All Of These So Often, I Avoid Meaningful Relationships And Have Completely Forgotten How To Make Friends Without Screwing It Up: a fully immersive 5D experience daily starting from when I wake up
Hey, unpopular opinion, apparently. But people donât just âhave pain for no reasonâ doctors say this all the time (especially to women and chronically ill people) and the truth is, Thats literally not possible. Even if your pains are psychosomatic (a word I hesitate to even use because of the way its used so often) there is a reason you are having those pains whether its mental illness, abuse, etc. If your doctor consistently tells you that âwell some people just have pain for no reasonâ get a new doctor. Thatâs a doctor who is not going to give a shit what your actual symptoms or experiences are.
I just wanna add to clarify the psychosomatic thing.
That word DOES NOT MEAN youâre making it up. It doesnât mean youâre imagining the symptom. What it means is that the symptom ISNâT DIRECTLY CAUSED BY ANY OF THE THINGS THAT WOULD NORMALLY CAUSE IT.
I fought to get a PCOS diagnosis for 2 and a half years. For the ENTIRE time I was fighting, I was dealing with 3 cysts that were not going away by themselves and eventually required surgery to remove. At one point close to the end of the battle, I suddenly went blind. I was visiting my parents and was standing on the veranda looking out over the tree we had planted in memory of my dog and suddenly I got one of the shooting pains that I was quite frankly used to at that point and my vision started to go dark. It was like the sun was setting while being completely hidden behind storm clouds but it was 2pm in the middle of Summer on a clear day. Within about 30 seconds I couldnât see ANYTHING. I was 27 years old and I was screaming for my mother.
My mum raced me to her doctor (he was a 15 minute drive away as opposed to 45 minutes to the nearest hospital) and he quickly worked out that there was nothing wrong with my eyes and what had happened was totally unrelated to them. Then he said it was psychosomatic and I freaked out, yelling that I was NOT making this up and I definitely wasnât imagining it. Very quickly he calmed me down and said he believed me and I had misunderstood. He explained that whatever was going on with my abdominal pains (he suggested PCOS which I hadnât even heard of at that point) had been ignored for so long that my body was starting to do things other than the normal pain response to try to draw my attention to the problem. My sight going was my body basically jumping around in front of me going âHEY ARE YOU EVEN LISTENING TO ME HELLLOOOOOOO??????â
He gave me some prescription strength painkillers and my sight started to come back as soon as they started to kick in. About 45 minutes after it started I could see well enough to walk around without help and within a day and a half I was back to normal. On top of that I finally had a scan booked to figure out what the hell was causing all the pain.
Psychosomatic symptoms are NOT imagined or fabricated or happening for âno reasonâ. Experiencing them DOES NOT make you a liar. It makes you someone who has been battling with something serious for so long that your own body has started to get impatient with you.
I completely agree. Thank you for sharing this.
Psychosomatic symptoms are literally your body flipping random alarm switches just to get any alarm blaring because youâve been ignoring the regular ones
15 fucking years of randomly vomiting in the night before I got diagnosed with acid reflux. Probably had that all my life because other pain and discomfort that I just accepted as a part of life went away as well.
Preheating an oven is like foreplay for baking. You canât just stick it in, you have to get it all hot and ready first.
And if you think it's optional, you're going to have some bad baking experiences.
okay the picture was already funny but then I hit play and completely lost my shit
Link and Link Jr are having it out.
sorry not sorry (credits to @arianwen44 for the artwork)
WHY
OH MY HEART HURTS
I JUST GOT OVER THIS
That just sorta hit out of no where.
love yourself ok
[id: an image of Bart from The Simpsons aggressively holding up a book that says âall your negativity feeling towards yourself are inaccurate and everyone actually likes you more than you think.â]
I know that!!! I wrote a long long piece about how I absolutely know that my self hate is all lies but there are times it doesn't matter cuz those lies can so damn loud inside my own head.
Maybe there are some people out there who haven't heard this yet but for a while, the fact that "knowing" this didn't make the voices shut up just made the feelings of self hate a little more real.
The feelings are there, and they are real but they are still lies and that is something I will probably have to live with forever.
The Birth of Venus, William-Adolphe Bouguereau
From the book Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes
