#I’m still trying to find a balance

[citrusducky]

portrait Hinata jumpscare (+ various non-fanart studies under the cut)

[zytes]

this manatee looks like it’s in a skyrim loading screen

[donutfloats]

Been playing Cult of the Lamb, it’s fun

I’m definitely normal about it lol

[coincasual]

some rushed darling outfit ideas! 🗡️💕✨

[tariah23]

I rly don’t see how ppl be 20+ shipping kids anymore tbh… like, it’s so rampant and I don’t see the appeal to it anymore being as tho I’m in my late 20’s.

[dumb-doll-lips]

So I have this week off work.

I like knew I’d end up spending some of it sad.

But like I didn’t expect the sads to hit within a couple hours of waking up in the first day off.

[sonofsallyjackson]

Maybe it’s the environmentalist in me that was hit hard by Pan’s death scene, but I’m really interested to see how they handle Grover wanting to search for Pan. They’ve already gotten rid of the Elders debating whether he has earned the right to search since he failed to safely deliver 2 half bloods to camp. (The debate is also unnecessary because the show did not show Percy carrying Grover across the border and Mr D even said that Grover succeeded.) I’m hoping that the reference to his family member at Medusa’s is still left in. Grover’s quest for Pan is central to his character growth and it should come up before we jump into book 2. (Yes I’m delusional and have already assumed we’ll get all 5 seasons) The fact that it hasn’t yet is irrelevant since everything is moving so fast, but I want the slow build to Grover’s destiny.

[tomatoluvr69]

Trader Joe’s theft haul #jacketseason and some incredibly compelling little creatures I would have purchased from goodwill if I wasn’t afraid of accumulating detritus. Sad

[twistedappletree]

Welp, my hand slipped and fell off a cliff and tumbled into a void-like pit with no discernible end and I started writing a mini zhuiling ficlet about baby Jin Ling and Lan Sizhui meeting at a festival in Yunmeng soooo….. expect that ✨🌸

[zoldyckd]

need therapy again.

[scientia-rex]

A lot of younger people have no idea what aging actually looks and feels like, and the reasons behind it. That ignorance is so dangerous. If you don’t want to “be old,” you aren’t talking about a number of years. I have patients in their late 80s who could still handily beat me in a race—one couple still runs marathons together, in their late 80s—and I lost someone who was in her early 60s to COPD last year. What you want is not youth, it is health.

If you want to still be able to enjoy doing things in your 60s and 70s and 80s and even 90s, what you want to do, right now, is quit smoking, get some activity on a regular basis (a couple of walks a week is WAY better for you than nothing; increasing from 1 hour a day of cardio to 1.5 will buy you very little), and eat some plants. That’s it. No magic to it. No secret weird tricks. Don’t poison yourself, move around so your body doesn’t forget how, and eat plants.

If you have trouble moving around now because of mobility limitations, bad news: you still need to move around, not because it’s immoral not to, but because that’s still the best advice we have. I highly recommend looking up the Sit and Be Fit series; it is freely available and has exercises that can be done in a chair, which are suitable for people with limited mobility or poor balance. POTS sufferers, I’m looking at you.

If you have trouble eating plants because of dietary issues (they cause gas, etc.) or just because they’re bitter (super taster with texture issues here!), bad news. You still want to find a way to get some plants into your body on a regular basis. I know. It sucks. The only way I can do it is restaurants—they can make salads taste like food. I can also tolerate some bagged salads. On bad weeks, the OCD with contamination focus gets so bad I just can’t. However, canned beans always seem “safe,” and they taste a bit like candy, so they’re a good fallback.

If you smoke and you have tried quitting a million times and you’re just not ready to, bad news. You still need to quit. Your body needs you to try and keep trying. Your brain needs it, too. Damaging small blood vessels racks up cumulative damage over time that your body can start trying to reverse as soon as you quit. I know it’s insanely, absurdly addictive. You still need to.

You cannot rules lawyer your way past your body’s basic needs. It needs food, sleep, activity, and the absence of poison. Those are both small things and big asks. You cannot sustain a routine based on punishment, so don’t punish your body. Find ways to include these things that are enjoyable and rewarding instead. Experiment. There is no reason not to experiment—you don’t have to know instantly what’s going to work for you and what won’t, you just need to be willing to try things and make changes when things aren’t working for you.

You will still age. Your body will stop making collagen and elastin. Tissues you can see and tissues you can’t see will both sag. Cushioning tissues under your skin will get thinner. You’ll bruise more easily. Skin will tear more easily. Accumulated sun damage will start to show more and more. Joints will begin to show arthritis. Tendons and ligaments will get weaker and get injured more easily, as will muscles. Bones will lose mass and get easier to break. You’ll get tired more easily.

But you know what makes the difference between being dead, or as good as, in your 60s vs your 90s? Activity, plants, and quitting smoking. And don’t do meth. Saw a 58-year-old guy this week who is going to have a heart attack if he doesn’t quit whatever stimulant he’s on. I pretended to believe it was just the cigarettes, and maybe it is, but meth and cocaine will kill you quicker. Stop poisoning yourself.

Baby steps; take it one step at a time; you don’t need to have everything figured out right now. But you do need to be working on figuring things out.

[falconfate]

Oh I had a bit of an idea for why the Leverage crew might go after Bruce just last week: Jason comes back, and instead of Crime Lord Red Hooding it up (at least at first) he decides to fuck with Bruce and set this crew of Robing Hood-esque thieves on him because Bruce matches their usual target profile to a goddamn T. He’d probably go to them himself, in some manner of disguised, just so they see the Very Real Emotions he’s got around Bruce, just lying about what the reason is—probably with a bit of truth to it, maybe painting himself as a pre-adoption friend of “the street kid adopted by Wayne,” convinced Bruce had something sinister to do with the kid’s death—hence the necessity of a disguise, since he’d probably be showing them pictures.

So they take the job (Nate of course having a small crisis about the possibility of a father having something to do with a kid’s death) and they’re investigating him and the problem is that Bruce is just TOO squeaky clean. All the money he gives to charity goes to that charity and gets used; he funds infrastructure, public services, grants and scholarships; he keeps cutting his own salary to ribbons and paying his employees FAR above minimum wage; but for all of that, SOME of his cash is making untraceable vanishing acts. Just gone. Poof. And Hardison is having the damnedest time trying to even find its trail, and it’s clearly the work of another hacker, but he can’t even pin down evidence of that. Meanwhile, Sophie and Parker both get recognized by Selina and invited to brunch, which turns into a girls’ day out, and then a girls’ night out; Eliot, who went out to restock Hardison’s soda (complaining the whole time), ends up stopping three muggings, a carjack, and then going toe-to-tow with Bane, who thinks he’s just found Batman’s secret identity—excellent fighter, too resilient for his own good, refuses to use guns—and promptly forgets his “discovery” when Eliot knocks him out cold. Nate, left to his own devices, somehow stumbles onto the Court of Owls without realizing it and is halfway to dismantling their entire operation before anyone notices, and that is when The Batman introduces himself and asks what the hell these people want with Bruce Wayne if they’re going after the Court.

The most important thing is that everyone independently gets one or two tidbits of evidence that Bruce Wayne is Batman and only when they’re all back at headquarters, debriefing, do they actually put it together; and it’s Parker who makes the observation that, hey, the guy who hired us looked a LOT like the dead kid he was “avenging”. The rest of the gang has no idea what she’s talking about until she says it wasn’t a physical resemblance—but she’d clocked both the client and the picture of Jason as “street kid thief” in the exact same way—and not in a “they ran the same street at the same time” way, but in a “they had the exact same experiences on the street down to the second” way. Also, uh, where is the client?

(The client is blowing up a drug shipment of Black Mask’s while reciting a monologue from The Tempest.)

@zahnie i am kind of mad tbh bc now i keep thinking about that leverage/batman crossover and it’s ridiculous. they’re using a charity gala as a way to get into the manor. eliot immediately pegs alfred for former mi6, but he can’t figure out what the fuck bruce’s deal is. something about the way he stands or the way he watches the room or his shoulders or something. “is it not distinctive enough?” “oh, it’s distinctive as hell, i just don’t know what it is”. let’s say it’s older bruce so hardison has to get into a hacker fight with tim. sophie can’t grift bc there are too many rich people who’d recognize her in attendance. parker can’t infiltrate the catering service because they run that shit tighter than the white house (WHY is he so paranoid about his CATERERS what the HELL i’ve seen BANKS less lax about tracking employees than this) so she has to pretend to be a model. that backfires so fast because bruce is so nice and wants to know if she’s okay bc she seems uncomfortable. parker is thrilled when she discovers the house is full of secret passages but that also ends poorly when she turns a corner and bruce is standing there like “hey there, you seem lost”. he’s still wearing the tux and drinking his champagne. he helpfully guides her to the bathroom since she is having such trouble finding it. eliot has a tense standoff with alfred bc this is wayne manor alfred and that means he is like an older, british eliot who’ll shoot a motherfucker. hardison and tim get distracted playing wow together and it isn’t clear exactly how that happened. there has to be at least one scene where eliot and bruce are fighting and the rest of the team just watches instead of doing anything useful because it’s actually kind of really hot. they don’t even really hurt each other so it’s fine. probably fine. just let them keep pinning each other to the floor for a while, it’s fine. bruce has a lot of helpful critiques for nate’s plan that nate does not appreciate. the obvious thing is that they figure out he’s batman but it’s kind of funnier if they don’t and just think bruce wayne is an inexplicable bamf. they’ve all learned a valuable lesson about judging people based on appearances. bruce flirts with sophie and nate pretends not to be bitter about it but he gazes out at the gotham skyline and broods. it’s just what happens when you’re in gotham. it’s a very broodworthy skyline. make fun of batman all you want but you look out at that skyline and try not to brood. you can’t. even superman broods. i mean, he looks like he’s brooding. he’s usually trying to remember if he left the oven on because every time he decides to make himself a nice dinner a supervillain attacks and four hours later his baked ziti is charcoal. it still counts as brooding. nate never stood a chance.

[bookwyrrm]

I’m currently on Pinterest staring really hard at matcha drinks and imagining the taste. to try and trick my brain into believing that we’ve ingested caffeine in the last 6 hours

[kiss2012]

i want to be open to love not desperate for it

[ectoplasmer]

finished (or at least got through part of the epilogue party in) bg3 today and ough. i’m going to be tormented by thoughts of post canon inula and astarion aren’t i

[fourgottencoast]

After they introduced those floating ads that stay at the top of the screen when you scroll, i deleted the app entirely and now i pnly use the mobile browser version on firefox where i can deploy my adblocker :) takes a little getting used to, but worth it for the ad free experience

No yeah I do the same and definitely prefer using the desktop version but when I’m out and about and have to use mobile it’s a pain 😭 I’ve been trying to redirect to tumblr instead of going on twitter so much when I’m out and have nothing to do lol