Never Stop Writing

she/her/hers 21 yo trans gamer girl. Aspiring writer (just assume I'm always working on some half-fledged novel) and complete geek (born and raised from down in the south)

[afeelgoodblog]

So glad they found each other

[drivingandreading]

ok but

Simon people, we don’t talk enough about how Abraham Louis Greenfeld dragged his BFF to the school play three (3) times, just because his crush had a (NON-SPEAKING) role in it.

Like, I get that you’re really into this guy, but dude, you are a mess. Have some modicum of chill.

[unclefather]

[keeperofseeds]

[allerod]

[one-time-i-dreamt]

As a Croat, seeing a meme about my country for the first time ever on Tumblr is an experience

[221cbakerstreet]

Bosnia and Herzegovina can have a little shoreline. As a treat

[ellenkub-deactivated20231208]

This is how I act when I have to share things with my siblings

[sandandglass]

Keira Knightley talks about Pirates of the Caribbean and her boobs.

[kirstenelizabethh]

Oh I love her

[theinturnetexplorer]

what a deal.

[vulturesinvividcolor]

And then your hip would break because their medical staff is garage and they don’t have the same regulations as over so no you’re back to square one you fucking tool

[ksylofonimandariini]

that is american propaganda used to justify their lack of a working healthcare system. it’s not true and even if it was what good would having slightly better healthcare do if it’s only accessible by the richest members of society?

[carnival-phantasm]

The american middle class thinking they have access to the best medical care in the world is always depressing. For some treatments even the upper middle class would need to spend most of their wealth just to get the same level of healthcare available for free in other developed nations (and some underdeveloped ones). It’s one of the many reasons why life expectancy in the US is ranked on the same level as several third-world countries.

Additionally, american medical research is fantastic, but your works and guidelines are more beneficial to other countries than yourselves due to your fucked up healthcare system.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[annesmiless]

Some eaiser variations of push ups to help you build the strength to do a traditional one!

[moniquill]

I don’t generally reblog ‘fitness’ stuff but gaddamn could I use some more arm strength.

[the-goddamazon-deactivingsoon-d]

Push-ups are my worst nightmare. I can only do 44 before I pass out on the floor.

[maxxiegalaxy-deactivated2022032]

“I can only do 44” hahaha omg I can’t even do one.

[o-lascaux-o]

yes good

I was always frustrated how my P.E. teachers wanted all of us to go “all-or-none” and basically hurt ourselves without letting us build up from square-one like in the first gif.  Then they’d fuckin yell at us for not doing it right >:|

Knee-pushups is not square-one.

[arkilliandragon]

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. It’s more about the technique of the push up, and if you’re pushing too much weight, you can’t exersize the correct muscles within their tolerances. This post is pretty important tto know cause of that.

[jhameia]

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. 

[personal-scientist]

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 who’s had a lifetime of physical therapy (not for my arms specifically, but I’ve spent a lot of time in sports medicine centers). And again, if the vertical one in the first gif is difficult, you don’t 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 “modified pull up” 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 don’t want to have to unlearn bad habits that could lead to injury later as the difficulty increases.

[jecook]

@imfemalewarrior I’m assuming you’ve seen this post but in case you haven’t—it seems like your kind of thing

[imfemalewarrior]

Here are push up and pull up progressions! 

-FemaleWarrior, She/They 

[peppervl]

Because I have serious issues with core strength and cannot do a sit up or a crunch without using muscles I shouldn’t and hurting myself, I looked up core exercises for beginners (because modified sit ups just have me ways to make it harder), and here’s what I found.

All from here, which also includes sit ups with the idea that you start up and don’t go all the way down.

[rosslynpaladin]

This stuff on the bottom is some of the stuff I do for physical therapy, can vouch for it

[aceattorneigh]

[tastefullyoffensive]

[jenny-jinya]

Can we like, not support circuses like that anymore?

[catchymemes]

[white-throated-packrat]

It’s a piece of medical equipment. Of course you actually have to be trained to use it correctly!

[vaguely-problematic]

[thehistorychannel]

imagine loving your anime wife so much you take 4 years and 4 months off your life to make this image in survival mode in Minecraft, that’s right…Minecraft

absolute dedication right there

[coffins-archive-deactivated2019]

you’ve got to be fucking kidding me

[emeraldincandescent]

Sometimes writing is like having an enormous lake in your head, and you want to get it out of your head and into a proper place for a lake so other people can come and go swimming and ride jet skis and stuff, except all you have to move the lake is a teaspoon. So you’re just sitting there frantically flinging water out of the lake with your teaspoon and telling people, “Guys, this lake is going to be so cool when it’s done,” but it will never be done. There is so much lake.

[theadrogna]

Relateable. There is so much lake.

[scruffyturtles]

Three Houses Timeskip designs but with facial hair

[caroldanversenthusiast]

Apparently Mary Elizabeth Winstead in Birds of Prey wielding a crossbow isn’t sexy according to a man ??

it’s almost as if men are used to seeing women in film through a male gaze where they are sexualized and objectified for male pleasure and approval.??

huh anyway MEN are weak and ladies enjoy Mary Elizabeth Winstead looking hot and powerful as Huntress

like THAT ^^^^^^^^^ is sexy men need to grow up

[creed-of-cats]

BoP was funny as fuck, but that one scene where Helena, whose childhood trauma could've made her cruel and hard, gave the thing that got her through her that trauma to Cassandra, and said "you shouldn't be seeing this" because she knows what that does to a kid, and says "you're ok" and gently tells her to close her eyes...like...oh god

[jortbort]

You know why I absolutely loved Birds of Prey? Gotham. So many of the recent movies set in that city have tried to make it all broody and dark, but there are regular people. Living their lives. Sure, their lives are fucking i n s a n e, like carry around a gas mask every day in case someone gases your building i n s a n e, but still. Like, Harley Quinn walking down the street and no one giving a shit? THAT’S WHAT I WANT. People willing going to a supervillain’s club because it’s a good club? YES PLEASE! There’s only so much batshit bullshit you can take until it just becomes normal, and if you want to tell me people in Gotham are still freaked out by Harley Quinn just, being on a public roller derby team? you’re wrong.