#Contortionism

[sightinghounds]

assembly instructions unclear

[straitjackket]

oh fuck i forgot to post here

*breaks your spine* (affectionate)

[kyayamo]

stretching

[whumpster-fire]

"Michael Phelps wins swimming medal after swimming medal by being a freak of nature, the NBA is full of 7+ foot tall dudes, but when I, 'Boneless Joe,' take advantage of my unusual physical abilities in a sporting event..."

(jokes aside I'm guessing the reason for the ban wasn't "only this guy can physically do this so it's unfair to other competitors" so much as "someone who's not quite able to pull this off but tries anyway could be seriously injured so we should not give people an incentive to try it in an Airsoft match")

Weird stories I remember reading online:

A dude starts a story about airsoft with "my great-grandma was a contortionist in a circus. This will be relevant later." And then he starts explaining about this challenge that was played out at his local airsoft field, essentially two-team capture the flag, where both teams could move their flags around their own respective fortresses and hideouts, but with specific rules to make it harder to keep the flag location hidden from the enemy.

And this guy happened to spot the enemy team moving their flag (I think you needed to have 3 players of the team to move your own flag or something), and saw them taking the flag to one large-ish shack with only one entrance. This guy circles the shack several times but can't find any other entrance, only a narrow opening in one wall that's clearly intended to just let in sunlight, and allow people to shoot out of the building or try to shoot in. The enemy team has left this room unguarded, it's upstairs and the flag is held downstairs.

They don't consider it an entrance that should be guarded because no ordinary man could reasonably enter through it. But our hero here is not an ordinary man. He's hyperflexible, and not the first in his family to use their genetic loose joints in their advantage. So this guy reaches in, and carefully puts his gun on the floor. He takes off his coat and belt, and put them inside, too. He even removes his shoes. And then he dislocates his fucking shoulder, in order to squeeze through a hole that people shouldn't fit through.

Once inside, he manages to get his shoulder back on the right way, takes a moment to recover, gets himself geared back up, and sneaks downstairs to fire three unsuspecting enemy teammates in the back, capturing the flag and winning the game. From their point of view, this guy had just manifested out of thin fucking air.

Having been the key to winning this challenge, in a feat that seemed downright impossible, the guy was asked to explain how. So he told them of the squid-like squeezing feat. While everyone was impressed, he was the reason why the field got a new rule: no limb dislocation allowed. Also there's now a bar in the middle of the previous slipping slot, barring any new attempts.

And that's how a circus contortionist's great-grandson got "All team members' ligaments must be kept at their intended locations during the whole game" added to the rule list of an airsoft field.

[ranarh]

I was going to learn the somersault but sprained my ankle, so I draw people doing one. With birds. It's the same character that I drew for an Inktober prompt before, apparently she likes to jump and fly and all that. I think she's nice. "Salto Vivante", ink on paper, A4, sold unframed for 50€ via the artist's Etsy store: https://www.etsy.com/de-en/listing/1086908608/blue-ink-painting-of-a-compass-jellyfish

[spacedace]

Bruce is grateful for the fact that Damian has made friends, he is.

He's happy that his son has met children his own age at school and befriended them. That he is growing from that prickly, unhappy, scarred child he'd first been when he'd come to live with Bruce. That his friends are even normal kids - baring Jon, who is still normal enough despite being the son of Superman and occasionally a super hero himself - with no links to anything strange or dangerous or illegal.

"Oh, sup B."

He just wished that his son's friends were also just a little less...feral.

"Hello Elle."

Elle Nightingale gave him a little wave with the lemon she was holding - or as best as she could considering the space she was working with - and smiled cheekily at him. Bruce felt a headache budding behind his eyes.

"I thought Alfred banned you from the kitchen?" She shifted a bit, nudging a bottle of milk - farm fresh, courtesy of the Kents, passed along via Jon as thanks for looking after him for the weekend. Bruce wished he'd had the foresight to expect that Jonathan Kent staying over for the weekend would mean that Elle, her cousin Billy and their friend BL - the children refused to say the girl’s real name, likely to spite Damian, and thr initials had been a compromise to calling her Box Lunch - would take it as them being permitted to stay over for so long as well. Damian had just given Bruce a an unimpressed look when he'd expressed his surprise at the sudden influx of twelve year olds in his home. As if Bruce was disappointing him at being so foolish as to think his entire pack of hellhounds wouldn't be invading enmass.

"Just getting a snack." He assured her, not wanting her to being the wrath of Alfred down upon his head. The hellions liked doing that, for some reason. "I don't suppose you could tell me what exactly you're doing in my fridge." Bruce tried, looking at the girl curled up in what should have been a deeply uncomfortable position between a few shelves of the large appliance.

Elle grinned. Her canines looked a little too sharp in the odd light of the fridge. Bruce really had to stop thinking of his sons friends as demonic hellions, he was starting to impose impossible features on them when he was sleep deprived.

"We're playing hide and seek." She made direct, unblinking eye contact with him as she brought the whole lemon to her mouth and took a bite out of it like it was an apple. "It’s Day's turn to seek." She added, lemon juice dripping down her chin as she swallowed her bite, rind and all.

Well at least she was getting enough vitimin C.

"Right." He nodded, deciding that it wasn't cowardice that led him not wanting to get involved. No, it was just...good parenting. Letting the kids be kids. It was a sleepover, and Damian was actually playing a game! That was something to be encouraged! Bruce wasn't fleeing from this particular group of children's brand of chaos at all. "...could you hand me one of the fruit cups Alfred made earlier?"

Elle obliged on the condition Bruce didn't tell Damian about her hiding spot and returned to happily eating her...whole lemon...as he shut the fridge door on her.

As he returned to his office he glanced out one of the manor's large windows long enough to see Billy stick his head out from the top of the twelve foot tall topiaries out on the front lawn, checking to see if Damian was about. Bruce shook his head, kids and their ability to climb impossible structures never ceased to amaze him. Billy should be careful not to keep trying to peak for Damian though, he was going to end up getting found that way.

[alvie-pines]

aaugh [chewing on the bars of my enclosure] seeing dick do static trap in fanart makes me want to do it again SO BADLY

THAT COULD BE ME UP THERE

I MISS THE CIRCUS SO FUCKING MUCH

[phoenixiancrystallist]

Month 11, day 26

Pretty lady!

The pose she was in originally had her eyes and ass almost facing the same way, so I fixed it! Which was fun because that was the first time I played with Blender's armature and pose mode! :D

And then we added lights with pretty colors, continuing the "learning how to light scenes" course n_n

[kifu]

He's a freak, but he's mine.

[moonyistired]

really like to think of jevil as a shapeshifter because it opens up so many more opportunities for mischief

[cxpperhead]

🍈 - How do they calm down when they are upset? Would they act differently trying to calm down in a group setting versus all alone?

Random Headcanons

Meditation is one method Copperhead usually finds himself falling back on whenever he wishes to calm down? Settling himself into a comfortable position, contorting his body in ways other people would think must hurt is what works for him, maintaining complicated positions while letting his mind drift. His breathing slows to a crawl, heart beating just a few times a minute for as long as he's in this state and it goes a long way in helping him regain control, especially after a bad lapse or stressful period where he feels control slipping. In a group setting, this would be much harder. In such a situation, Copperhead would sooner pull away, find a dark corner in which to to brood for a while. He's not the type to open up and talk about his feelings, preferring very much to remain solitary and it's hard for anybody to know whether or not he's upset, his face showing so little expression compared to most other people. The only outward signs of being upset Copperhead might show is his hood flaring, the tip of his tail ratting so hard his scales make audible sound. If Copperhead can, he'll disassociate from the situation altogether, soothing himself with gestures such as digging his claws into his palms or coiling up into himself.

[thebookofcircus]

Recently got my ears pierced a second time (second lobe piercing in ear side) and I have to keep earrings in 100% of the time for it to heal. Unfortunately for me, a side sleeper, even with flat back earrings so it’s more comfortable to sleep in, it is still too uncomfortable for me to sleep in my belly or side, so I am being forced to become a back sleeper 🙃

[karmaphone]

is it body horror or are they just disabled

[richardsphere]

Man, i cant believe i found something i hate more then Corporations trying to "look human" through memes and shitposts

But yeah, Religious Cultleaders trying to do it are infinitely worse. At least the corpo's are only trying to sell you a one-time purchase, rather then a lifelong subscription to "Outdated values, Patriarchy and Destined Return to the Holy Land"-weekly

at least the Corpo's are only trying to get my money.

[rashoumon-homo]

How useful would their Ability be in bed? (BSD)

Author’s Note: I’m back with another headcanons list! I was thinking about this in relation to bnha characters while falling asleep the other night and it got me thinking about bsd as well.

NSFW CONTENT AHEAD - PROCEED WITH CAUTION

(Organized from most to least useful)

Nikolai

► especially interesting for masturbation

► but also lots of possibilities for partnered/group sex

► just think: any body part, any location. It’s like extreme contortionism

► I actually wrote a fic where he uses his ability to eat out Fyodor while being able to watch his expression

Chuuya

► anti-gravity sex????

► imagine having sex in the air

► imagine him using his ability to use toys on you hands-free

► or subtly using his ability to fuck you with just the right amount of force

► also thinking of this art (NSFW at link!)

Akutagawa

► two words. rashoumon. bondage.

► best ability ever for bondage stuff

Atsushi

► primal-kink-havers rejoice!

► 100% his dick gets bigger when he half-transforms during sex

Poe

► can create a novel to have any kind of location

► there are a lot of possibilities for his ability tbh

Kunikida

► I guess he could make stuff?

► it feels more wasteful than just idk buying toys and stuff ahead of time

► overall not super useful

Tachihara

► I could see it being useful if you have like metal toys or something

► but I don’t really see a lot of ways he could use his ability in bed tbh

Tanizaki

► basically like Poe’s ability but it’s an illusion

► he can make you see anything

► but there’s not a lot of reason to do that, especially since he can’t make anything solid

Dazai

► unless you have an ability that would benefit from being neutralized, his power is pointless in bed

Sigma

► information exchange… during sex?

► genuinely can’t see how this would work out

Yosano

► maybe if you’re like an EXTREME masochist

► taking “la petite mort” to a literal level lmao

► but otherwise not useful

Fyodor

► actively unhelpful

► I think if his power activates during sex, you have bigger problems than how pleasurable it is

Ranpo

► no ability, so I’m not counting him

► though his super deduction would mean it’s impossible to surprise him so that sucks

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[chaostheparrot]

I want Doug Jones and Javier Botet to sandwich me.