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I’m sorry friends, but “just google it” 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 it’s not ads it’s just sponsored websites filled with listicles, just pages and pages of “TOP FIFTEEN [thing you googled] IMAGINED AS DISNEY PRINCESSES” like… 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.

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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.

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fuck it 10 pm post we like to party

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The Hunter / The Prowler / The Occultist / The Champion

4 character classes from The Hidden Isle.

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Knight Collection by Anato Finnstark

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OK Tumblr Geriatric Ward, let’s talk about your posture-

there are things you should be doing now to prevent yourself from starting to look like 🥀

Why does it matter? Future you would like to avoid the pain, limited motion, and fall risk that goes along with worsening posture.

What’s 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, don’t 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 isn’t 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: Don’t 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

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prompt #6: ring

[ cw: explicit sexuality]

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Elise needs external suffering, is Esen's thesis.

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.

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Sad! your hottest transgender mutual lives in an inaccessible pit at the bottom of a deep ocean trench

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every time i get prae in the roulette i put off starting gaius' questline for another month (i will never start it)

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girls

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scorpio’s groove

@atomicdeke

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that is why we live like heathens stealing from the trees of eden living in the arms of freedom and everything we touch is evil

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i like the part in yakuza kiwami where kiryu dances to show his dominance towards the people fighting him

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Knight of Pentacles. Art by Viv Tanner and Eli Baum, from Sefirot.

“Let not my love be called idolatry, Nor my beloved as an idol show, Since all alike my songs and praises be To one, of one, still such, and ever so.”