😏 vampire 🧛 💋 politics 🖤 blogging from Alpha Centauri 🐔 Asha. Dutch (She/her). Like old shit and also memes. And shows sometimes but no guarantees as to which ones.
After my hysto, I was in *intense* abdominal pain that didn't feel like wound pain from the ablation but something different that I couldn't explain, until the gynecologist told me "yep, that'd be your intestines rearranging themselves into the gap left behind by your uterus."
So there's a mental picture for you. Slither slither. Slither slither.
Pleased to report that after a day of this i am not longer craving caper brine and my mouth is not dry as usual. There's some good suggestions in the notes too that I want to try.
-ancient roman posca: water, red or white wine vinegar, honey, salt, herbs (coriander, mint, thyme)
-switchel: water, ginger, vinegar, sweetener, lemon, salt
i feel so defensive and protective of people with ARFID like if i had a disorder that made my brain register 90% of food as poison for no reason and i had a bazillion people on the internet constantly calling me a manchild who needs to just grow up and stop being a picky eater i would start killing people
people with ARFID and people with very few autism safe foods and people with contamination OCD and people in ED recovery and everyone else with a complicated relationship with food that no one takes seriously GET BEHIND ME!!!!!!!
tl;dr: maintain proper posture, have feet shoulder-width apart, and think living thoughts.
actually it's been lovely to start in child's pose then transition into a full ramp plank, making sure to extend my spine with pushing heels and shoulders down. but i've been building my core muscles for a while so on this post, the How steps go through 3 types of planks with a "level up" in difficulty indicated by a ^
Lying on the floor, place your forearms forward so that your elbows are directly under your shoulders
Slowly lift your torso off the floor by pressing into your forearms and knees. Contract your core as you raise up, and maintain a neutral neck and spine. (knee plank)
^Tuck your toes under and lift your knees so that your body forms a straight line. Tighten your abs and squeeze your glutes. (bridge plank)
^Straighten one arm at a time, placing your hands where your elbows were directly under your shoulders, lifting yourself up (ramp plank)
Hold this position for the desired duration*
On completion, lower your hips back to the floor and rest.
*when you feel yourself nearing your falter point, slowly transition back to rest. honestly planks feel worse if you're doing it wrong, so maintain the posture:
Neck. Keep your chin tucked in and your neck long. Your neck should be in line with the rest of your body. Do not tilt your head up, as this strains the neck. Gaze down towards the floor to help keep your neck in a neutral position.
Shoulders. Keep your shoulders down, not hunched up to your ears. Try to keep your neck, shoulders, and jaw relaxed.
Abs. Engage your core – think of drawing your navel in to your spine.
Hips. Do not lift or lower your hips – keep your body straight and level. Your shoulders, hips, knees and feet should form a straight line at all times. Tightening your abs, quads, and glutes helps to keep your body straight. Arching the back or hiking the hips up shifts the weight onto your arms, moves the work away from the core, and stresses the shoulders.
Feet. Start with your feet about hip-width apart. Moving your feet closer together makes the exercise more challenging, while moving your feet further apart provides greater balance and stability making the plank easier.
Breath. Breathe steadily throughout the exercise. It’s a common mistake to hold your breath during the exercise, which can elevate blood pressure.
a horrible truth is that apparently this does get easier the more you build up the muscles. and when you waver, think living thoughts. remember why you want to do this: starting with one every morning has been good for my body awareness/grounding. also it was like the one exercise repeated across so many sites to treat like all back problems, so we need to say Fuck You to school gym memories for the sake of my latest diagnoses.
found the most beautiful neck stretch and i'm yoinking directly:
Sit or stand upright.
Overlap your hands and place them on your breast bone.
Tilt your head upward and slightly to the left until you feel a gentle stretch along the front and side of the neck.
Hold for 10 seconds.
Repeat on the other side, tilting your head up and slightly to the right.
Stretch each side three times.
also helpful for my mild lordosis: glide your head backward so your ears are over your shoulders, or as far as is comfortable (your chin will tuck slightly as you do this). hold for 6 seconds, relax up to 10 seconds, and repeat 2-4 times
for the last one i don’t just mean oh the author inadvertently wrote in gay subtext or whatever i’m talking about media as a cultural artifact which can reveal a ton about societal norms, biases, ideals, etc. it’s all about positionality and an unexamined positionality is often the most revealing of all
fwiw i'm also a weirdo oldhead who refuses to sleeve her cards because they are Just Fucking Game Pieces and I refuse to give an inch to collectability culture
the gamefeel of slightly worn cardboard is more important to me than being able to resell your cards at a premiumn
The dude who wants everyone to play Warhammer in a extremely rigid and unfun way with zero flexibility or ways to change your army or to grow with your army?
literally none of the stuff advocated for here is a bad idea
now obviously the playstyle being aimed for is different for a miniature wargame and a trading card game, but I do think the spirit of "this is my deck, I built it in 2007 and by gum I shall continue playing it" is a worthy one.
this post has been up for five hours and has two notes. i think tumblr shitcanned it because it has pictures of women wearing bras on it. very cool. no censorship message, just vanishing it
AHHHHHH someone put all the info from the now-extremely-hard-to-read, 10+ year old bra post into one nice infograph! THAT POST WAS MY BOOB BIBLE. Yay Boob New Testament!
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